Chapter 9 Convinced
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Seeing Wei Zheng staring at him with a broken faith, Jiang Hongfei asked Fan Bing: "Who is this?"
Fan Bing introduced Wei Zhengdao to Jiang Hongfei: "This is Wei Zheng, director of Oriental Film Channel and director of the "Wisdom Fortune" program of the American Paravi Media Company."
Jiang Hongfei stretched out his hand and shook hands with Wei Zheng, saying, "Hello." Then he asked Fan Bing: "Brother Wei is the executive director that Sister Bing found for me?"
Fan Bing was speechless for a moment, and she thought to herself: "I haven't said I'm going to let you do this movie yet. You haven't even been twenty years old. The director has never learned it on a day, let alone done it. Who dares to let you direct a movie?"
But Fan Bing couldn't say this. Jiang Hongfei's resume was like a blank paper. But she saw with her own eyes that Jiang Hongfei created a storyboard script that impressed Li Hong and Wei Zheng, two professionals. The key is that Wei Zheng was confident that it would be impossible to write such a script without ten years of directing or camera skills. This made her unable to tell the depth of Jiang Hongfei for a while.
Wei Zheng took a deep breath and said, "Mr. Jiang, I like your "My Heart Maze" very much."
Jiang Hongfei smiled and said, "I'm honored."
After hesitating for a while, Wei Zheng said again: "I have a few questions, I wonder if I can ask you for advice?"
Wei Zheng's words made Fan Bing and Yang Zhen happy. They also wanted to test Jiang Hongfei's depth, but they were not at this level. Now that Wei Zheng wants to test Jiang Hongfei on their behalf, they naturally want to.
Therefore, Fan Bing and Yang Zhen chose not to speak, waiting to see how Jiang Hongfei responded to Wei Zheng's question, and then to see how much Jiang Hongfei was?
Jiang Hongfei knew that this was a must.
In 2005, four million is definitely not a small number. Who would hand over such a large sum of money to a person who doesn’t know the details?
So, Jiang Hongfei smiled and said, "I dare not take it if I ask you, we can learn from each other."
Wei Zheng really didn't believe that the script "The Maze of Heart" was created by Jiang Hongfei. Therefore, when Jiang Hongfei agreed to communicate with him, he immediately said: "Mr. Jiang, Hillis Miller proposed the concept of "narrative lines" in his book "Interpretation of Narrative". In Miller's view, narrative is like a line, closely connected in front and back.
The traditional "linear narrative" refers to the entire event consisting of a structure like "start-development-climax-end", which forms a line, and the techniques of flashback and flashback also follow lines, but give the story more turbulent and twists and turns, and are displayed in the form of a "curve".
The opposite is "nonlinear narrative".
Nonlinear narratives are often composed of multiple lines, and the structure is usually divided into scattered, buckled, and polyphonic, and often double or multi-line parallel. The film uses nonlinear narrative techniques to make the story of the movie more powerful and bring a more fulfilling story experience to the audience.
Your "My Heart Maze" can be said to have used "nonlinear narrative" to perfection. I wonder how you did it?"
After hearing this, Jiang Hongfei asked Yang Zhen to write a character map, and then pointed to the character map and said: "In "The Maze of Heart", the three story lines were interpreted in a scattered manner in parallel. At the same time, each story line was intersected and linked, fully demonstrating the confusion of the story. At the same time, it paved the way through repeated montages and metaphorical montages, which staged this Rashomon-style human nature drama..."
Jiang Hongfei's character map is drawn concisely and clearly. Not to mention Wei Zheng, a professional director, even people like Fan Bing and Yang Zhen who don't know much about shooting can understand the complex relationship between them. Coupled with Jiang Hongfei's explanation, this story is presented to Wei Zheng, Fan Bing and Yang Zhen.
“…Ordinary paper tape has two sides, one front and one reverse, and the two sides can be painted in different colors;
After twisting a strip of paper 180°, the two ends are bonded together to make a ring of paper tape. It is found that such a ring has magical properties - such a strip has only one side, and a small insect can crawl across the entire curved surface without having to cross its edge.
Such paper tape is called the Mobius belt, and such a ring is the Mobius ring.
The Mobius ring symbolizes cycle, eternity, infinity.
The narrative structure of "The Maze of Heart" is like the Mobius ring. The three story lines were originally parallel to each other, but because of each person's own interests, they broke the parallel, making each story line interlocked. Each coincidence cycle affects the occurrence of the next story, causing things to develop along different trajectories:
In order to keep Xiao Zongyao, Huang Huan lied in the woods, which led to the extortion of money- shortage of white tigers, and was killed by accident;
Huang Huan and Xiao Zongyao elope, resulting in the first time the body was mistaken for Huang Huan;
Baihu stole Chen Zili's wallet, resulting in the discovery of Chen Zili's ID card in the body. The body was mistaken for the second time as Chen Zili;
The village chief who knew the truth of the body called Chen Zili, which caused Chen Zili to fall off the cliff and die when answering the phone;
At the convenience store, Huang Huan and Wang Baoshan walked towards the woods one after another, causing Dazhuang to report that Wang Baoshan killed Huang Huan, and Wang Baoshan revealed the affair in order to escape from the crime..."
As the saying goes, experts will know if there is any one.
With Jiang Hongfei's analysis of the script of "The Maze of Heart", Wei Zheng confirmed that the script of "The Maze of Heart" must have been created by Jiang Hongfei, and Jiang Hongfei does have super screenwriter skills and super directing skills that he does not have at his age.
Wei Zheng lowered his posture and said, "The charm of such a link-to-the-routine method is that although each character is independent, they do not know each other's secrets and truth. Under the influence of each link, the audience's original understanding of the truth is reversed again and pushed down. Until the end, you will never guess what the truth is. This narrative effect is very exciting and it is also the attractive charm of "The Maze of Heart". Mr. Jiang is really a master. I am convinced and convinced."
Wei Zheng said again: "I guess the ending of "The Maze of Heart" must be beyond everyone's expectations, right?"
Jiang Hongfei smiled and said, "Let me keep a little, after all, I haven't received the money yet."
Wei Zheng laughed and said sincerely: "If Mr. Jiang directed this movie, I would be willing to be Mr. Jiang's executive director and deputy director. If it really doesn't work, I will remember it on the spot. It doesn't matter whether the money is or not. I mainly want to learn something from Mr. Jiang."
When Jiang Hongfei heard this, he was amused. He thought to himself, "Did you think this is a shock to the king's aura? Is there a younger brother coming to vote?"
However, Jiang Hongfei said, "I have sold this book to Sister Bing, she is the producer..."
Jiang Hongfei's meaning is very clear, that is: "I, the director, have not yet settled. How can you decide whether you are an executive director or an assistant director? It depends on Fan Bing's meaning."
In other words, Jiang Hongfei kicked the ball to Fan Bing...
Chapter completed!