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Chapter 335: Script Discussion

"The Road of Life" is the first draft of "I'm Not the God of Medicine"...

The daughter of the Han family is Shen Changlin's junior sister and a level 11 director at Nortel.

It’s still pretty much that, I didn’t start out as a director right away, I started out as a screenwriter!

However, she did plan to film "The Road of Life" herself at the beginning - otherwise, there would be no need to obtain the adaptation rights.

After saying hello, Shen Changlin started reading "The Road of Life"...

"The Road of Life" is purely in the direction of a documentary. The protagonist Lu Yong is in a good initial state. He should be middle class, but he is ill. The main relationship is arranged as the protagonist's family relationship, and the focus is family affection;

"The Sword Comes"

The main reason why he helps with purchasing is because many patients do not know how to buy medicine across borders, do not understand English, and do not even know how to use a computer...all in all, it is very difficult.

Of course he has selfish motives: the more people he organizes to buy medicines, the better business the Indian pharmaceutical factory will have, and then it will have the confidence to continue producing generic second-generation and third-generation drugs.

Shen Changlin shook his head: "This treatment is not popular enough and it is difficult to resonate!"

"...Brother, please give me some advice..."

"Our character is a medicine man... If he himself is sick, it will be difficult for the audience to believe his motives. Is it self-help or rescue?"

"The hero of "Dallas Buyers Club" saves himself + saves himself!"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "No, the protagonist played by Matthew McConaughey himself is suffering from AIDS... The background of the story is the 1980s... let alone the last century. Even now, everyone is discriminatory towards AIDS carriers. , not only because of the disease itself, but also because of the reasons for carrying HIV. The hostility between the two protagonists of "Dallas Buyers Club" is far from just the FDA, big pharmaceutical companies, and legal regulations, but also the mainstream views of society! They have no friends, so they can only hug each other for warmth!"

"Lu Yong is different. Lu Yong is a medicine man. More than a thousand people have asked for his life... So who is the villain in our case? Lu Yong's only enemies are pharmaceutical companies. Regardless of whether he has profited from it or not, he will It is a just act that is recognized and supported by patients and the public!"

"Then the prosecutor's office..."

"We are a socialist system in which the people are the masters of the country. Feelings are definitely greater than the law..."

Married Han nodded...

Shen Changlin continued: "Draw down the protagonist's class and become a poor proletarian citizen, a healthy person... The main relationship is arranged as a combination of five people, and the other four correspond to courage, faith, endurance, and sacrifice; these attributes inspire the protagonist Awakening to become better, giving rise to the ‘Growth’ theme.”

"The class change broadens the arc of the character, brings it closer to the current situation of most people, makes it down-to-earth, strengthens the audience's sympathy for the protagonist, and pave the way for the final apotheosis. At the same time, it can shape the protagonist's initial goal - to make money, to make a lot of money.

Health changes solve two problems of superficial desires. If the protagonist is a patient and needs to save himself and others, it will cause several major problems such as complex motives, illogical logic, and weak action.

From the logic of the script, the main problem with these two external goals is that they conflict with each other and are difficult to achieve at the same time, making the rescue not noble enough.

The theme of "self-rescue + rescue" is not as good as the theme of "rescue"...

In this case, the touching effect of "giving without expecting anything in return" in the second half will be stronger.

With such a change in the basic settings, the two magic weapon themes of "rescue" and "growth" are revealed, and the character arc is also lengthened to the heroic path of a mortal becoming a god."

When Junior Sister Han heard this, she already roughly understood it, and asked with a smile: "Brother, are you interested?"

Shen Changlin glanced at Ning Hao, then nodded: "Indeed, I am quite interested in this subject!"

"Then you will be a director?"

"Okay..." Nodding, Shen Changlin thought of "Burning": "This is a script I wrote, and my junior sister will give me some advice!"

"...How am I qualified to teach Senior Brother...to learn something?"

Taking the script from Shen Changlin, he flipped through it...



In fact, in the original version of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", I was a little confused about the role of the policeman played by Yiwei Yi.

His ex-wife immigrated and wanted to take his son away, the custody battle and his father's lack of money to live in a nursing home were a blow to Cheng, and they were enough reasons for him to make money. Why did he set up the police to be his brother-in-law?

Perhaps, this setting is to increase the police's personal emotional line towards Cheng Yong, so that the police, as a bystander of the whole incident, treats Cheng Yong from "disgust and disgust" to later "understand him and talk calmly"...

Does it reflect the greatness of Cheng Yong?

Really...no need!

Just assume that a policeman who doesn’t know Cheng Yong at all...

For the unknown, it's official business, then you slowly investigate, you become more and more emotionally involved, and you give up on the matter.

In this way, the police can serve as bystanders who stand on the same side as the audience...

Also, Zhou Yiwei's performance was really bad. He also said, "Several of my police friends are like this!" Why are the police... so greasy and pretending?

Pull it back...

And the ending!

Taking the "not guilty" verdict as the climax - patients came to the court from all over to support Cheng Yong and stood outside the court waiting for the outcome of the trial.

The former aunt can say: God will never wrong a good person;

The patients shouted to the judge and the plaintiff's lawyer: Cheng Yong is not guilty.

Judicial officials warned the crowd not to interfere with the judicial process. The crowd stopped shouting and asked people to buy small flags. Each person held one, and waved the flag when they saw the judge.

In the end, the court ruled that Cheng Yong was acquitted. The patients inside rushed to the corridor window and shouted to the patients outside:

"Not guilty"!

This "not guilty" is also hope, justice, justice, and good will be rewarded.

The last shot shows a close-up of the court's national emblem and national flag, and then adds - We are a socialist democratic society in which the people are the masters!

Of course, it is also very touching to send the medicine god to the ten-mile long street...

But it is still a bit weak - those who work for everyone should not be allowed to freeze to death in the snow; those who open the way for freedom should not be trapped in thorns...

Forget it, I’ll shoot two endings when the time comes and let the audience choose when it’s screened!

Just as I was thinking about it, Junior Sister Han had already finished watching "Burning": "This script is really good!"

"Do you want to take a photo?"

"...I...I might not be able to..."

"What's wrong? You're not studying directing... In this way, I will be the producer, you will shoot, and you will choose the actors!"

"real?"

"...Is this true or false..." Shen Changlin decided to provoke her: "Why, Liu Zhenyun's daughter graduated from the New York Film Academy. After returning to China, she can film "One Sentence is Worth a Thousand Sentences". Our orthodox Nortel directing graduate student

Can’t graduate directors make movies?”

"Or do you think the top students at the New York Film Academy are better than our directing department at Nortel?"

""One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" is her father's original work..."

"The original work of "Burning" is Haruki Murakami's "Barnburning"!"

At this time, even Ning Hao was shocked: "Haruki Murakami?"

"...Didn't I tell you? This is "Burning the Barn" from Haruki Murakami's original work "Hotata, Burning the Barn and Others"..."

"...Brother, let me take a call..."

Junior Sister Han took out her mobile phone, chatted for a while, and then said: "My dad is coming over..."
Chapter completed!
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