Chapter 207 Why should I kneel
That night.
Capital.
Li Dongsheng dragged his tired body back home. After eating something casually, he sat behind his desk, holding his head and began to think hard.
He is a creator. At this moment, he is experiencing the most difficult and painful period for creators-the bottleneck period.
The works can't come out, everything goes wrong, the outside world comments that he has run out of ideas and self-doubt.
All this is tormenting him.
And he has no solution yet.
It's painful.
"... Eh."
After sitting for a while with his head in his arms.
Li Dongsheng sighed, slowly let go of his head, and knew that his ostrich state could not help him get out of the predicament.
He stood up, took a book from the shelf, and prepared to read the book for some inspiration.
But when people are irritable.
Reading is not possible.
Soon.
After finding that he couldn't read it at all, Li Dongsheng threw the book directly and sighed again with his head in his arms.
He is a director.
A well-known director.
But with the dismal ending of several of his works in recent years, he is about to be driven crazy.
There is no inspiration for people like him.
It was terrifying.
His works failed one after another, investors questioned him, and his studio's financial situation was bleak.
He couldn't afford to fail again.
He wanted to find a script that satisfied him, and then make an amazing movie to prove himself again.
But he relied on his connections and looked for well-known screenwriters in the industry, but he couldn't find a good script.
And ordinary scripts.
He didn't dare to try.
Because if he failed again, he might go bankrupt.
He was full of confidence in the last movie, and he also participated in the investment, but it still ended dismally, which put his own studio in a serious financial crisis. If it happened again, he couldn't bear it.
But the problem is that if he didn't shoot, he would be finished.
Because the so-called financial crisis is debt.
The last movie he was full of confidence in failed, and the investment money was lost, and a large part of the money was borrowed by him.
So he is now in a dilemma.
If he makes a new movie, there is no script, it's a pill.
If he doesn't shoot, he will die.
"Does it mean... I really have to make a bad movie to pay off my debts?"
Li Dongsheng slapped his head hard, a little desperate.
At this time, his cell phone rang.
Li Dongsheng barely pulled himself together and looked at the caller. It was his younger brother, so he picked up the phone immediately.
"Hello?"
"Brother, are you still looking for a script?"
"Yes, have you written the script? Come on, show it to me." Li Dongsheng was shocked.
His younger brother is a screenwriter, and the two have collaborated on two films, which did well at the box office.
This is his life-saving straw.
"No, I didn't write it, but when I was eating, I saw a video of a horror game. I think it would be very interesting to adapt it into a movie! Should we work together again? I'll be the screenwriter, and you'll shoot it and adapt this horror game."
"...Horror game? Are you kidding?"
Li Dongsheng was stunned for a moment, then said unhappily.
A little angry.
I want a script, and you're telling me about a horror game? And adaptation?
"No kidding, believe me, it's really worth doing, and the most important thing is that the cost of filming is not high. It's hard for you to get investment now, right? Believe me once, brother, I'll send it to you, it's really interesting."
The younger brother said very seriously.
Then, he sent Li Dongsheng a video link.
Li Dongsheng hung up the phone, looked at the link his brother sent, sighed, and felt helpless, thinking that his brother was just being stupid. He
had no interest at all.
He was an insulator
of games. He had played only a handful of games since he was a child.
His memory of games was still at the stage of pixel-style games.
So he instinctively thought that his brother was talking about this kind of horror game.
How scary can it be?
Adapt a ghost.
Pay copyright fees to others.
It’s better to write it yourself!
However, he has no inspiration for the time being. Although he is not interested and thinks his brother is joking with him.
But he finally clicked on the video to kill time.
What if... I get inspiration while watching it?
With this mentality, Li Dongsheng clicked on the link sent by his brother.
But soon, he was amused by his own idea and shook his head gently.
The webpage jumped.
The video page appeared.
Li Dongsheng clicked to play.
Then, not long after the video was played, Li Dongsheng realized that something was wrong.
The picture of the game now... has it changed so much?
Li Dongsheng frowned slightly, looking at the scene that was comparable to reality, and
was a little surprised.
As the character controlled by Mou Feng began to move, he was even more surprised.
He went from being careless at the beginning to being serious.
In the end, he straightened his back and stared at the screen motionlessly.
Soon,
the first scary moment came.
The rolling ball and the human head.
When the ball turned into a human head,
Li Dongsheng trembled all over and was startled.
But his eyes suddenly lit up.
Then in the game, every time the protagonist recalled some memories, the scene changed and evolved in an increasingly weird direction, which made him unable to help but lean forward slightly and stare at the screen.
The boy in the closet, the wife crawling upside down.
As the protagonist remembered more and more memories,
he became more and more scared.
Li Dongsheng swallowed softly and his palms began to sweat.
And see the end.
Seeing the protagonist walked out of the horror house crazily and walked into the city shrouded in fog, and the scene in reality appeared, he was sitting in the cell, looking out the window stupidly.
Li Dongsheng stood up from his chair, his face slightly red, and pointed at the computer screen with excitement, opening his mouth and remaining silent for a long time.
"The game ends here. I have to say that this is a very good game. When I played it, I felt like I was watching a horror short film."
"Linmu Studio is very smart. They didn't dwell on the length of the game, but told a complete story. The puzzle elements in it, although the process of playing is like torturing the players, combined with the plot of the game, this is actually a punishment for the male protagonist."
"These tortures make the male protagonist go from being a victim at the beginning to a perpetrator who deserves the punishment at the end, which is very tense."
"And the stage that Linmu Studio chose first is also very interesting. It is a house, which greatly guarantees that there will be no bugs that affect the atmosphere..."
Mou Feng finally began to evaluate the game.
Li Dongsheng listened to the other party's evaluation. He didn't understand the game, but he agreed with some of the views.
That is, the game is like a short film!
And the male protagonist went from being a victim at the beginning to a perpetrator who deserves the punishment at the end, which is very tense!
It's really suitable!
Very suitable!
This is the script I'm looking for!
Li Dongsheng's expression was still very excited.
He suddenly realized.
His inspiration seemed to have suddenly returned.
His mind was full of how to shoot this game if it was made into a movie.
Ideas kept coming.
"Copyright... yes, authorization."
Li Dongsheng stood there, inspiration surging out, and then at a certain moment, he suddenly thought of something, suddenly picked up the phone on the table, and called the staff of his studio.
"Hello, Director Li? What's wrong so late?"
"You should contact a game company called Linmu Studio right away and talk to them about the authorization of the game "Shadow", right away! Right away!"
"...Ah?"
The employee on the other end of the phone was confused.
Game company?
What the hell?
"Don't worry about it, go quickly, if possible, it's best to meet tomorrow, I'll go with you."
Li Dongsheng said, then immediately hung up and called his brother.
The call was quickly connected.
"Hey? Brother, how's it going?"
"Awesome, I've decided to make this movie! Tomorrow you will go with me to meet the copyright holder. If the other party doesn't agree, you have to kneel down! Even if you have to kneel down! You have to kneel down to get the adaptation rights!"
"......?"
The younger brother slowly typed a question mark.
Why should I kneel down?
(End of this chapter)
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