The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 1776: Niche screen

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Netflix achieved great success through the "House of Cards", and then really opened the situation with "Stranger Things", which formally established its leading position in the industry.

"Stranger Things" tells a story full of suspense. In the 1980s, a boy in a small town mysteriously disappeared. His friends, family and local police/surveyors began to look for answers, and the little boy’s friends met again A girl with superpowers, a mysterious event about secret experiments and supernatural powers are revealed little by little.

Compared with high-concept sci-fi drama series, the setting of "Stranger Things" is closer to the horror and suspense part, while sci-fi relies on the shell of the whole story. The success of the whole series is relatively special, and it is packaged in the retro style of the 1980s. A science fiction story, the core is about family and growth.

The most important thing is that the screenwriter and director Duffy brothers (Duffer) gave the movie a wonderful texture of classic horror suspense movies: John-Carpenter's "Weird Shape", Steven Spielberg The atmosphere reflected in his works such as "Alien ET" and Stephen King's "Along with Me".

In fact, "Stranger Things" has many similarities with the "Walk with Me" that Lan Li personally likes very much. The latter tells the story of four fourteen-year-old teenagers looking for a corpse. The corpse symbolizes a fork in the road. The companions who were in the same way went to different forks in the process of growing up, and finally scattered on the horizon; The former is a story of a group of friends looking for their missing friends.

The Duffy brothers gave such a growth story a unique taste and texture, which is why "Stranger Things" is so popular-of course, the excellent quality of the series is also the foundation.

In fact, before "Stranger Things", the Duffy brothers had written and produced the drama "Black Pine Town", and also co-wrote and directed the movie "Hidden", but neither of the two works were able to arouse much response. The side also proved that the story of "Stranger Things" gave the Duffy brothers more room to play, allowing them to find their own strengths.

After that, the story of "Clown Back to the Soul" also has many similarities with "Stranger Things": it is also a story of a group of children searching for their missing friends, but the context, framework and core of the story are still different. The works are distinguished from each other, but the similar texture of 80s horror movies has made "Clown Back to Soul" win more market favors.

It can be said that if it were not for "Stranger Things," the Duffy brothers might still fail to succeed; but conversely, if it were not for the Duffy brothers, "Stranger Things" might also fail.

In Lanli's view, this is a targeted cooperation project, and both parties are indispensable.

From an objective standpoint, this is actually not a good thing for drama series, because "stage plays are the art of actors, television is the art of screenwriters, and movies are the art of directors." The core that really determines the success of a series should be the screenwriter-although the Duffy brothers are the screenwriters of "Stranger Things", there are more special factors that influence the success of the series.

In addition to "Stranger Things", other episodes have returned to the script.

In the way of twists and turns, a murder case that has no clue to spy on the cultural and political changes under the background of the entire era, "Sin Night Rush" truly managed to keep the audience's attention interlockingly, especially It is the beginning of the story for the actor to enter a party and wake up to find that his party partner has died and then is exhausted. It is a bit similar to the opening of a "24 Hours" or "Prison Break" movie, which guarantees the quality of the drama.

Focusing on the rebuilt England after the end of World War II, it finally showed the profound meaning of "crown" that "who wants to wear a crown must bear its weight". Compared with other historical dramas, the success of this series is based on linear narrative. Instead of letting the characters become name symbols in the annals of history, they gave the individual emotional struggles and ups and downs behind the incident, telling the ups and downs of history in a heavy but delicate way. The energy of the screenwriter has been maximized!

The "handmaid's story", which reflects the predicament of contemporary women’s status, explores such a severe and heavy topic in a doomsday situation, but further explores the relationship between power and class, and then breaks away from the "female" one. The limitation of the topic gives the series more potential potential, absurd but realistic, absurd but cruel, and undoubtedly found a new way to open the mainstream topic, far more profound and broader than the big screen of the movie.

In contrast, "The Great Mrs. Maisel" also talked about the plight of women, but abandoned the heavy and profound, and presented a comedic-like ridicule effect with an elegant and retro style, somewhat similar to " "Advertising madman" has a sense of age, but it is lighter and more relaxed, and it is more acceptable to ordinary audiences. The stand-up comedy part is undoubtedly a severe test for the scriptwriting skills and the level of the script, and the drama is successful in this regard!

The "big and small lies" that use female group portraits to unfold contemporary life are deeper and darker than the soap opera "Desperate Housewives", but the real core is to use this group of women to pry into the true meaning of marriage, and then open the Pandora's magic of middle-class life. Box, the scars behind the glamorous life are so full that only oneself knows that the power revealed by this drama is enough to penetrate the back of the paper. The role control of the screenwriter is undoubtedly crucial, and of course the actors also contribute.

The "mourning" culture that was born under the background of the entire fast food era gave birth to dramas such as "London Life" and "Bojack on Horse", while "Go to the World of X" is a drama that reflects the funeral culture of teenagers. It is still a discussion of growth puzzles, and an in-depth discussion of the many influences of family culture and social environment on the thinking of young people. The screenwriter didn't dig deep, but he was able to impress the audience with comedic effects, "I didn't know until that day that silent silence is really noisy."

"Mind Hunter" is another kind of suspense drama. David Fincher's guidance has given the whole series a unique cold and dark temperament. It is not so much a crime-solving drama, but a psychological discussion, following the "Seven Deadly Sins" Afterwards, David Fincher tried again to interpret the psychological distortions behind the murderers, but went further than the "criminal psychology". The atmosphere of audiovisual effects gave the drama a cinematic texture, and the script presented it. His social observations are even more reflective.

For all his calculations, Lan Li has only selected eight works at present. The number of episodes is far lower than the number of movies. But from another perspective, film projects need to consider cost, production, distribution, and revenue. ; But you only need to start preparing for the series immediately after you have fancy it. This is much simpler and faster. The only problem is: the movie can be produced in the theater, but where should the production of the series be? How about playing?

Compared with movies, the directivity of the series is more distinct.

For example, "Stranger Things" means that the Duffy brothers are looking for investment; another example, "Mind Hunter" is a project that David Fincher has been brewing for a long time. Although "House of Cards" is also a work directed by him, it is actually big The number of episodes directed by Wei-Finch is very limited, and he focuses more on "Mind Hunter".

For another example, "Running in the Night" was written by the gold medal screenwriter Stephen Zelian, who wrote "Schindler's List", "New York Gangs", "Mission Impossible", and "Girl with Dragon Tattoo". Waiting for the screenwriter of the work, he also came to the small screen for the first time, hoping to find a new situation in his career, he is currently discussing the project with HBO.

In other words, after the script is released, these episodes have a general outline, the whole context and framework are clearer and more direct, and they can be directly put into production at any time.

Because the directivity of the series is relatively clear, Lan Li has made a simple summary of the plot below each series. In fact, it is only one or two sentences, at least not to be blinded-because the script of the TV series is definitely more than that. One book. When Andy and Andre made the second selection, they couldn't read them one by one. It was too time-consuming. Now Lan Li has put together a simple weather vane.

When Andy was reading the list ~lightnovelpub.net~ the amount of information came directly into his mind.

He really felt that these eight episodes were not suitable for production, and felt that he was shot every minute. So he cast his sights on Lan Li, "...Are there any special instructions? For example, if it is true. If we can go into production, which work should we make first?"

"Part of the list of episodes, I handwritten notes, and Matthew completed the final sorting." Because the content of the episodes' notes is too much and too complicated, Lan Li originally planned to give Andy all his brains—compared to the movie. In other words, the competitiveness of the series is also much smaller, and the six major film companies are not interested, naturally, there is no need to make a password; but in the end, Matthew still looks at it and simply organizes it.

Matthew thought about it seriously, "It depends on Andre’s financial planning. If you have enough funds, "Stranger Things" and "Mind Hunter" can take the lead in shooting; but if there is a shortage of funds, "Go to the world of X." You can start with'Sin Night Rush' first; and if you want to open up your connections, then'lies'."

"Network situation? What do you mean?" Andre asked.

Matthew simply explained, "Firstly, it is a series about women as the protagonist, which promotes the rise of women; secondly, the series includes three main characters. You can go to Hollywood for a walk, and now you are willing to take up this kind of series. The big-name actress of, should easily surpass the number of two hands. It will work very fast."

Andre and Andy both understood in an instant.

Andre pondered for a moment, and then cast his sights on Lan Li, "The problem is here, what should we do with our capital chain? If Lan Li is willing, after Oscar, we will go back to London. Remember? I said before, we need more funds."