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It was actually three scripts that Yin Lian bought the idea from the beginning.The three scripts are Tong Tong's "Reform of the Underworld", Luo Gu's "Evil is Hidden", and Liu Zhi'er's "Liar's Game".

These three stories are relatively complete scripts. Although they cannot be said to be perfect, they have excellent creativity, and the stories themselves have relatively complete and logical plot lines, which can already be made into short plays.

But Yin Lian saw more possibilities in it.

The frames of these scripts are very complete, and they basically aggregate the dramatized adaptations of more than three real-life news events.In this case, Yin Lian discovered its potential possibility - if three events can be accommodated, then more events can be accommodated.

And from the very beginning, Yin Lian's purpose in preparing these materials was not to shoot short plays, and even writing and rehearsing were just incidental things, it was an experimental experiment conducted on children in the process of popularizing this aspect of the curriculum. Work.

But if these children can be used to shoot these contents into a promotional short film, by the way, as the first step for young actors to return to the stage, it will undoubtedly kill two birds with one stone.

Yin Lian is an activist.In other words, her current strength and capital are fully capable of supporting her to take action whenever she thinks about it, because this level of activities is completely a daily matter for her like drinking water and eating, so she has a brain. , began to put into action.

When she was looking for a screenwriting teacher, she emphasized one point: "These three short play scripts, you can use them as three framework templates. "Reform of the Underworld" can be linked from a real legal perspective, and I will provide some shortly. Corresponding real-life cases are used as a reference. For "Evil is invisible", you can take a deduction or supernatural route. The main focus is that evil comes with evil, and it can be adapted for some events that are beyond morality but cannot be taken into account by current legislation. It can be a little fantasy or lyrical, but don't be too romantic, and the core must conform to public values. The last "Liar's Game" focuses on 'technology', which is the 'deception' of modern public opinion control, mainly The popularization of some methods and characteristics of falsifying public opinion will make it easier for people who have watched the show to identify these methods in the future, and will no longer be caught by the rhythm."

At Yin Lian's request, the screenwriter teacher determined the styles of the three series. "Reform of the Underworld" is in the style of absurd reflection, "Evil" is in the style of sensational drama, and "Liar's Game" is in the style of popular science reasoning.

Three series of scripts require three different styles, and the pressure is undoubtedly great if we really want to create.Fortunately, Yin Lian essentially does not need the screenwriter teacher to create from scratch, but just hopes that he can adapt a large number of real events, plus two assistants with outstanding literary literacy to help control and fill in the lines and plots, So actually creating it is not as difficult as it seems.

And because the material is rich and has been classified and organized, the creation of this series of stories can be said to be extremely smooth, and the completed story is much deeper than some commercial scripts in the past. At least the screenwriter himself feels very satisfied of.

Generally speaking, during the creation process of a unit drama, there must always be a small unit theme and a major theme that runs through the whole drama, but Yin Lian made it clear during their creation process that this thing is not needed. Yes, they can design some interrelated large units based on related plots, but they don't insist that the whole drama be consistent from beginning to end, and the reason is simple.

Yin Lian asked, "What do you think is the charm of these short stories?"

The screenwriter thought for a while and replied, "Close to reality?" Although he is a well-known and capable screenwriter, he also knows that the success of these scripts is not due to himself, but to the absurdity of reality.

Yin Lian smiled and said, "That's right. And the reality doesn't need a story line, so neither do we."

It makes sense for Yin Lian to say this - in the past few years, there have actually been many criminal investigation dramas that have changed reality. They were wonderful because they were real, but they received bad reviews because of the adaptation.Of course, adaptations are necessary for TV dramas on real news, and even limited adaptations are a bonus item, which will make it easier for the audience to watch and better satisfy the audience's simple and kind values.

But it is unnecessary to add the main line.

It is true that the traditional three-act movie structure is classic, but classics often also represent routines.Although art is higher than reality, reality is beyond art, so art adaptation is possible, but art framework is not necessary.

In the end, they decided on three structures for the three dramas.

"Reform of the Underworld" retains the original main line content, although it has been expanded to a certain extent, but the original main plot-"the urgency of reform caused by the conflict between tongue-pulling hell and freedom of speech that is gradually splitting from the mainstream values ​​of modern society" , "A review of the stories of several cases that were reformed as references and the conflicts between freedom of speech and falsified public opinion involved", "People's awareness of the power and harm of words, and the revelation of the truth of various cases", and the final decision, "Reform of tongue-pulling hell and language laws"—still intact. 33 Novel Network

The screenwriter teacher also added some content in it to enrich the whole story, and conducted in-depth digging on the whole theme, including some historical events, expressing words such as "three people become tigers", "pointing at a deer as a horse", "defending the people's mouth". , better than Fangchuan" and other reasons, also from a historical perspective, demonstrated the duality of public opinion.

But this whole story, from the controversy to the practice, is not the complete main line of the whole series, but just the beginning.Just like the first episode of a fan drama that was used to test the water for more than an hour, this story is just an introduction to lead to more stories later.

After the tongue-pulling method is revised, the story really begins.The screenwriter will adapt many real events that cannot fit in Chapter 1 (the original main story) into small cases and short plays one by one, continuing after the first unit.According to Yin Lian, after the accumulation of small units reaches a certain level, another meeting can be held, just like the second and third phases of the National People's Congress, where cases have already been accumulated to reflect on the law.

After all, there will never be a perfect law, so it needs to be revised and reflected all the time.

Seeing her long-term plan, the screenwriter couldn't help but want to ask: "Miss Yin, how long do you want to make this series?"

Yin Lian said: "I can't afford to spend this money, or this society no longer needs to carry out this kind of propaganda, until people can clearly distinguish false public opinion."

The screenwriter opened his mouth slightly, and closed it again after a while.

He felt that Yin Lian was too ideal, and maybe this little girl would get tired of this game soon, or because she grew up, she would gradually understand the importance of money and the pressure of reality, and she would no longer be such a virgin, but just at this moment, she The idea is wonderful.

The screenwriter had no reason to make the donor unhappy, so he nodded to express his understanding, and praised her ambition and sense of social responsibility.

Compared with the reform of the underworld, "Evil is invisible" has a more emotional style, and its cases and descriptions are also more sensational and emotional.It discusses more about some social events - slander, rumors, cyber violence, the supernatural events set in Luo Gu's original version, but since Yin Lian wants to change it into a series, the setting of supernatural events seems inappropriate. So logical and able to link different units closely.

Imagine that a victim of Internet public opinion may become a ghost because of anger. It is impossible for every victim of Internet public opinion to become a ghost because of anger, right?However, "Visible Evil" is aimed at similar cases. If there is no main line connecting them, it will appear that the core logic of the whole story is a bit blunt.

In this regard, Yin Lian gave the screenwriter a surprising but reasonable hypothesis.

It's a mental virus.

At this time, the concept of spiritual power is slowly spreading, and it is very fashionable.In reality, although no real spiritual virus has been discovered, and it may not be discovered in the future, this concept has appeared in a very famous supernatural work before the emergence of spiritual power.

That's right, "Midnight Ring".

Although this virus is not exactly the same concept as Yin Lian's "mental power virus", there are indeed similarities.

In the setting of Luo Gu's original work, this point was spread through forwarding and commenting, which actually subtly echoed this setting.

In this series, according to the nature of the story itself, Yin Lian and the screenwriter decided to tell each case one case after another. Each case can be used as an independent microfilm story, and the next case is also a sequel rather than the previous story. Continuation, and the connection is this "rumor virus".

The logical loop of each story itself must be closed, and the story can be formed independently.For each new story, the screenwriter will have to start from the beginning instead of continuing to write the original story. The only setting that needs to be inherited is "rumor virus-the mental damage suffered by the victim will inevitably cause physical damage. fall on the perpetrator".

This has an advantage, that is, the independence of the story is guaranteed, so that the screenwriter does not have to be too rigid about the framework, and can create independent and complete creations every time, with more freedom in material selection and more sensationalism.

And "Liar's Game" is completely different from the first two.The protagonist is accidentally forced to join a certain game because of a certain behavior of his own.The participants in this game are a group of "liars", that is, the controllers of public opinion.They all once murdered people they hated or hated by manipulating public opinion.

The protagonist got involved by accident at the beginning. Unlike most other people who control public opinion to kill, when he uses public opinion to kill, it is not because of profit or personal feelings, but out of a sense of justice. That is to say, the target of his murder, He is a truly evil man who deserves death.

After being involved in this game, the game requires all participants to find each other's true identities according to the clues provided by the game, and then kill each other not by physical means, but by public opinion. The last survivor is the winner. Able to gain power beyond ordinary people.

The protagonist is not interested in power beyond ordinary people, and he also rejects killing people because of the game, until he accidentally discovers the identity of another contestant, and the evil deeds committed by the other party that exceed the bottom line of human morality.

The moral string in his mind snapped again.

So he picked up the card assigned to him by the game marked "Judger" and officially joined the game.