Chapter 407： Adapt the screenplay

Last year, Evan-Bell appeared as an actor with a "Death Illusion". At the beginning, this movie was regarded as a high-IQ movie, and many people were confused after watching it: this year, Evan-Bell once again Appeared in another high-IQ movie ""Adapted from the screenplay,". In fact, ""The adaptation of the script, is not strictly a high-IQ movie, but more like a script full of philosophical Zen.

There is a long-standing story in China. Once upon a time, there was a mountain. There was a temple in the mountain. There was an old monk in the temple. The old monk was telling stories to the younger monks. The content of the story is, once upon a time there was a mountain... an infinite loop. ""The adaptation of the script, in a sense, is also such a work.

When the film critics analyzed "Death Illusion", they divided the film into countless scenes, forty-seven paragraphs and one hundred and ten scenes, which were connected by many seemingly meaningless scenes. Together, it builds a confusingly high IQ movie. Relatively speaking, ""The adaptation of the script, which is carried out in accordance with the traditional narrative style, is much easier to understand.

This is the third time in a row that Neil Darcy has watched the "adapted screenplay," the film, as "The New York Times," a well-known film critic in recent years, Neil Darcy naturally has two brushes. First heard of "the adaptation of the screenplay, from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and he became John Malkovich in "", and then again with director Spike Jones, Neil Darcy ignited As he became interested, he knew that Charlie-Kaufman films were always worth digging into. Combined with the combination of Nicolas-Cage, Meryl-Streep and Evan-Bell, Neil-Darcy had a great The movie has a lot of expectations.

On December 6, "The adaptation of the screenplay, held on point screenings, was shown in only seven movie theaters in the United States, three in New York, four in Los Angeles, and that's it.

It stands to reason that there are not a few literary and artistic dramas released during the awards season. "The adaptation of the script, judging from the previous publicity, was not tepid, and the attention it received was not much higher. But it seems that everyone has ignored the appeal of Evan Bell after the slander incident in July. It's no surprise that the "" adaptation of the screenplay, released in cinemas, has sold out.

Fortunately, Neil Darcy, as a film critic, got a movie ticket through the "New York Times" relationship. This is how you can enjoy the movie for the first time.

After watching it for the first time, Neil Darcy thought about it and seemed to understand, but he seemed to be a little confused. He was going to write a film review, so naturally he couldn't understand a little bit: so he watched it a second time, and this time, it was even more I was a little confused, so Neil Darcy was about to see Chaoyang on the 7th regardless of the time, and went into the cinema to watch it for the third time in a row.

"The adaptation, which tells the story is actually quite simple, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman tried to adapt "The Orchid Thief," the novel into a movie, and then a series of stories happened.

Such stories seem to be staged in Hollywood every day, and hundreds of scripts are published in the hands of screenwriters every day, but only a handful of them can actually be put on the screen and succeeded.

Therefore, this film is more like a discussion on the status quo of Hollywood screenwriters.

Neil Darcy knew that in the field of writing, the world-renowned philosopher, literary critic, novelist, and historian Umberto Eco once put forward a theory about the author. Umberto-Eco believes that there are three concepts in writing: model author, empirical author, and narrator.

In simple terms, the narrator is the first party in the novel, the usual "I, ,: the exemplary author is the one who tells the story behind the text, for example" "The Complete Detectives of Sherlock Holmes, Watson in charge of the narration : The author of experience is the novelist himself, the one who signed, say, "Conan Doyle, author of The Complete Detective Works of Sherlock Holmes.

In many novels, the positions of model author, empirical author, and narrator are often disrupted, overlapping and independent of each other, making the novel very wonderful. For example, in the Chinese novel about a monk telling a story in a temple, the monk is a model author and narrator at the same time, and can even be understood as an empirical author in a sense. This is the magic of Umberto-Eco theory.

""The adaptation, , is also a work exhibited at Umberto Eco.

But the point is that Charlie Kaufman used a very clever method to constantly change the positions of the role model author, experience author, and narrator, so that the professional Neil Darcy was also bypassed and had to sit in the cinema one after another. Read carefully.

The story begins with a big monologue, and then comes the set of a movie called "Becoming John Malkovich." Neil Darcy couldn't help laughing, "Being John Malkovich is the work of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jones in reality. This beginning is actually a foreshadowing of Charlie Kaufman's intentional confusion of the audience's sight. . The name of the protagonist in the movie is also called Charlie Kaufman, which is the second means of the screenwriter to tease the audience.

Back in the movies, "Becoming John Malkovich," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman was ejected from the set. Appearing in front of the audience, is the corner of Charlie Kaufman played by Nicolas Cage. Next, it was Charlie trying to convince a Hollywood producer to make a movie about a book called "The Orchid Thief."

The picture changed and came to New York three years ago, ""The Orchid Thief, author of The New Yorker columnist Susan-Olin wrote in front of the computer ""The Orchid Thief,, this book, recalls the book's origin. Neil Darcy, who watched the movie for the third time, realized at this time that this was the third foreshadowing of Charlie Kaufman to confuse the audience. In reality, there is indeed "The Orchid Thief", and the author of this book is indeed Susan-Olin, everything in reality has been moved into the movie, making it impossible to immediately tell which part is the movie and which part is the reality.

In the film, along with Susan-Olin's memories, the screen jumps to the reason why Susan and the orchid collector John-La Roche met two years ago: John was picking rare species "" ghost orchid, and be accused.

When the vicissitudes of life Evan Bell appeared in the image of John La Roche, the confidence and unrestrainedness on his face, the casual swearing, and the passion for orchids made all the audience stunned. Originally thought, "" "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night," will be Evan-Bell's biggest breakthrough: originally thought, ""Sniper the phone booth," in Stu let everyone see Evan-Bell's publicity Delicate acting skills, but Evan Bell, who appeared on the big screen at this time, easily broke everyone's bottom line, and once again made people jaw-dropping.

Although Neil Darcy is watching the film for the third time, every time I see John-La Roche, played by Evan Bell, I am still shocked. It is said that Evan Bell is very handsome, but no one can predict Evan Bell's next move. He can always break people's fixed concepts and sigh of praise with a positive and beautiful attitude!

Different from the sequence in which Charlie Kaufman tried to adapt the original novel into a movie at the beginning, this is a flashback clue and the second clue of the movie.

Then the movie returns to the current trajectory of Charlie's life. Viewers discovered that Charlie also has a twin brother, Donald. While Charlie plans to adapt "The Orchid Thief," Donald also decides to become a screenwriter and attend a screenwriting class run by a well-known screenwriter. And Charlie was very disdainful of it.

Since then, the film has been divided into two parallel lines: one is Charlie's adaptation of the novel "The Orchid Thief," which is the process of the script, and there is also a sub-line, that is, Donald moved into Charlie's house and prepared to follow the Hollywood-style template. The script for a **** horror movie.

The second is the process of author Susan interviewing John to create "The Orchid Thief,". Also included here is a sideline that recalls the story of John and three other Indians stealing the cloned ghost orchid.

The main line of the movie is still the process of Charlie's adaptation of the script, as well as all kinds of trivial things that Charlie encounters in his life, as well as his conflicts with his younger brother Donald in the writing of the script.

Charlie was deeply moved in the process of reading "The Orchid Thief", so he wanted to make up the literary tone contained in the original book, but this ran counter to the laws of Hollywood. The script written by Donald contained typical Hollywood clichés. , but was well received.

On the one hand, it is the pursuit of an ideal artistic sense, and on the other hand, it is a compromise to the stereotyped model of reality in Hollywood. Charlie Mí is lost in the middle and at a loss.

So far, the two clues have been at peace.

It wasn't until Charlie started recording his ideas for the script with a tape recorder that the two threads began to intersect, and sparks collided, bringing the film into another rhythm.

Charlie recorded his entire script with a tape recorder, but it was obviously too bland. And Susan's experience has not had any ups and downs. That's when Donald barges in and talks about the famous Hollywood screenwriter's views on genre films, which has an impact on Charlie. And Susan's clues were filled with drama. John's family was hit by a car and his wife left him. Obviously, John is also a man with a story.

This is where Charlie's clues and Susan's clues meet. Different from Susan's clue just now, it has always been "Orchid Thief" three years ago. In the time and space in which this novel was created, Susan appeared at the banquet where Charlie was adapting the script. At the invitation of the producer at the beginning of the film, he agreed to make his work into a film.

Then came the turning point!

Neil Darcy couldn't help straightening his back, frowning slightly and watching the big movie screen tightly. On the screen, Charlie was typing the script in front of the typewriter. The content he described was exactly the same as the development of Susan's line before!

In other words, what Susan told before the movie is actually what Charlie is writing on the big screen of the movie at this moment!

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