New Age Artists

Chapter 70 The American Reality Basis of "Happy Death Day"
"The original version will not be accepted by domestic audiences. It has no social foundation."

After Shen Santong sorted out the original plot, he had to face a reality.

Apart from the brainwave and story structure, almost all plot elements have to be changed.

Literary and artistic works are based on social environment.

Movies have been commodities since their birth, but the ways of making a profit vary depending on their types.

Cinema movies are particularly special.

To put it bluntly, the audience buys a ticket to the cinema, and for an hour and a half, or two hours, or three hours, they enter a world created by the director.

So, there are two important messages.

First, buy a ticket to enter.

Movies cost money, which is completely different from the ecosystem of TV series.

TV dramas can be very tragic, with repetitive twists and turns and the pulling back and forth of several threads, but movies can't do that.

Audiences spend money to consume. They are busy with work and go to the cinema simply to relax.

You have to be worthy of the audience’s movie tickets. Otherwise, you may cheat once but not a second time.

The most fundamental reason why Shen Santong chose "Happy Death Day" among "Tu Tu Apartment", "Horror Cruise" and "Happy Death Day" was the audience's preference.

More than 80% of the audience expect his next film to have comedy elements.

This shows that the audience doesn’t care about imagination or creativity, that is the story behind the movie.

Shen Santong has no entanglement on this point. It has nothing to do with artistic concepts. It is just the most basic professional ethics.

Wanting to empty the audience's pockets, make money from the audience, and make movies that the audience likes is the most basic and bottom-line professional requirement.

Second, film is a small world.

To immerse the audience in the world of the film, realism is very important.

Currently, most audiences are cautious about domestic films. This is not only because the audiences are biased, but also because of the domestic directors themselves.

Audiences are very cautious when watching domestic films.

I’m really afraid of the director suddenly expressing himself, especially when it’s very inexplicable.

Shen Santong was slightly better, as the success of Supermarket earned him a lot of favor from the audience.

With the confidence that Supermarket gives to the audience, most of the audience enter the cinema willing to immerse themselves in the world he creates.

Only a small part is extracted.

They are often film critics or colleagues.

They don't watch the surface of the movie, but want to explore the story behind the movie.

It is difficult for such people to feel the joy of watching movies.

There are also a very small number of people who are willing to spend money to go to the cinema to fight against the world created by the director.

What Shen Santong has to consider is the issue of empathy for most of the audience.

"Happy Death Day" is a foreign film, and the audience will definitely not be able to empathize with the film if it is copied verbatim.

The heroine of "Happy Death Day" is set to be a female Aquaman who abuses drugs and has sex while in college.

After the bombing, you can appear in anyone's bed at will.

It's a piece of junk that anyone can use by default.

She and her mother have the same birthday, and her mother has passed away, so she doesn't want to celebrate her birthday and treats people around her in a mean way.

To be honest, from the Chinese perspective, the heroine is a complete piece of trash.

The original version of "Happy Death Day" was created on an American campus, so it is completely understandable that there are such characters.

It is hard to say that an American has never encountered robbery or theft since childhood.

Most will also encounter murder.

While eating outside, a car drove up, rolled down the window, and shot someone to death. It was a serious homicide.

Because murders with clear targets are often committed by gangs.

The goal is clear and has nothing to do with others.

Of course, because no one reports the crime, it is often not included in the U.S. homicide statistics.

The more horrific murders are not committed by gangs, but random killings.

Concerts and random events on campus.

Shen Santong thought about it. Happy Death Day was released in 17, so this play should have been created and filmed around 16. At this point, American education had completely rotted.

Various enhancers are rampant on campus.

It is a common phenomenon for girls to be molested at parties, or to put it bluntly, raped, but usually no one reports it.

Statistics are just statistics.

Thirty percent of American teenagers have thought about suicide, and nearly 20 percent have engaged in compulsive sexual behavior.

Beyond the statistics, this number will only be more exaggerated.

Considering that education has become so corrupt that one cannot learn anything in primary and secondary schools, if one wants to learn anything, one must go to university.

College tuition is very expensive, and the interest rate on student loans is over eleven points.

As a result, American college graduates must find a job within one month after graduation that can cover their student loans.

If not, it can easily snowball and completely ruin your life.

Therefore, many American university graduates who fail to find jobs after graduation will sell their pets and various souvenirs.

It is normal for men to sell blood and women to sell their bodies.

In order to repay their loans, some people even made their own enhancement drugs in college, grew poisonous mushrooms, or participated in the sale of enhancement drugs.

It is very lucky and happy to find a sugar daddy.

Someone may ask, what about family?
Each generation has its own student loans, and parents also have their own student loans.

Shen Santong further thought that the above was only from an individual perspective and did not consider the grand narrative.

After the hollowing out of industry, in order to stimulate consumption, savings were institutionally eliminated. I won’t go into the big issues.

Especially after 08, many middle-class Americans have to rely on selling blood to make a living.

By the way, the United States is the world's number one producer of blood products.

In a world where it is difficult to ensure one's own safety, there is no way to guarantee that one will not be robbed when going out;

If you don't join the party, you may be bullied, and if you join, you may be raped;

You can’t learn anything without going to college, and you will have to take out huge loans if you go to college.

It is very normal for college students who grow up and live in this kind of environment to live a life of drunkenness and dreams and enjoy every day.

long?

Not long term.

Who knows which will come first, tomorrow or an accident? This is not a pretentious vent by a literary youth.

In the United States, it is real life.

A good student who doesn't touch any bad things and studies hard.

Suddenly one day, an American policeman entered the wrong room, emptied his magazine, and shot someone to death.

In such an environment, rather than not knowing when the end will come, most people choose to have fun. This is the survival wisdom of the common people.

That is to say, in the United States, except for one percent of the ruling population, people can view life from a five- to ten-year perspective.

Most people can only live in five or ten day cycles.

Shen Santong summed it up and said that this was the social reality in which "Happy Death Day" was born.

The impact of LGBTQIAPKDXUC+ has not yet been considered.

The original movie was very successful at the box office, which shows that American audiences felt very involved in the film, or at least thought it was reasonable.

It caters to the rhythm of life where people live one day at a time.

Shen Santong wanted to shoot "Happy Death Day", so he obviously couldn't just copy it directly.

There is no such magical environment for the old Chinese.

Even in 05, the public security was not as good as in later times, and there was no such crazy feeling of being insecure at any time.

Moreover, due to the influence of their education, domestic audiences tend to look at foreign films from the perspective of seeing their strengths.

When watching foreign films, we look at their advantages, but when watching domestic films, we can’t say we find faults, but we are not particularly tolerant either, and we have a very high requirement for a sense of immersion.

Even the tolerance towards films from Hong Kong and Taiwan is far greater than that towards local films.

Shen Santong's version of "Happy Death Day" must conform to the actual situation of the elderly Chinese so that the audience can feel involved.

(End of this chapter)