Chapter 806: Better at Pretending than Me

"What are you reading?"

During the self-study time of the cram school, Pu Tong and Ding Lingling, as the only two "tutors", can take a rare break.

Pu Tong sorted out his notes, and when he turned around, he found that Ding Lingling was writing and drawing in a book, as if he was reading and making annotations.

"This..."

Ding Lingling closed the book and picked up the title page to show him, "The Art of Screenwriting", a work by Robert Field.

She was naturally reading a book about screenwriting. Since Pu Tong gave her this opportunity, she also wanted to write a good story. The value of a screenwriter must be reflected by a good script.

She is a complete layman in this field, and she must spend more time to strengthen her professional skills.

"You still have to take a look, otherwise how can you become a good screenwriter?"

"Very good..."

Pu Tong turned his head away awkwardly. Although he had already produced a lot of scripts, he really didn't know much about the professional knowledge of these screenwriters.

In fact, many people who can make great achievements in professional fields are non-professionals, and they have reached the peak simply by relying on talent and amateur research.

Just like many literature award winners are not born in the humanities, they are dentists, doctors, or even electricians...

Perhaps sometimes, the more routines you learn, the more you will be restricted, lose your spirituality, and fall into the quagmire of rules and experience.

"It feels boring to look at it this way." Pu Tong paused, "How about I give you an idea, you try to think about it."

The story is the core element of the script, even if it is useless in terms of technical writing, as long as it is a good story, it is a good script.

To be a good screenwriter, you need more unrestrained imagination and keen sense of smell, rather than rich professional knowledge.

Pu Tong hopes that Ding Lingling will think more and give her a good idea. She needs to expand her mind and expand it into a wonderful story.

"Of course!"

Ding Lingling's eyes lit up when she heard this. To be honest, the reason why she started reading this kind of book is more or less "unwilling".

Last time, Pu Tong gave her the beginning of a script, but the result she presented was not satisfactory, which was a bit regrettable.

Although she had been in poor health since she was a child, she never fell behind in anything, and she had never suffered a setback. She was ambitious and had always wanted to wait for an opportunity to prove herself.

"There was a talented man named Tang Bohu who fell in love with Qiuxiang, a maid in the mansion of Master Hua, at first sight. He used his talent and martial arts to help Huafu overcome crisis after crisis..."

"A talented man?"

Ding Lingling was very interested in this subject. After all, she was also very interested in poetry and songs. If she wrote a talented protagonist, she could also bring in more private work.

Pu Tong nodded. A few days ago, teacher Jiang Sixie called him late at night, but it turned out that Yu Wanwan answered the phone, and the teacher misunderstood that he was a "talented man".

Because of this title, he immediately thought of "Tang Bohu Points to Autumn Fragrance", a classic movie by Stephen Chow.

He had promised the director before that if he could maintain the number of views of "Never Expected", he would give him a chance to shoot a nonsensical comedy movie.

When it comes to nonsensical comedies, Stephen Chow is the mountain that cannot be bypassed. I must bring out one of his works to be convincing.

Then the idea of ​​"romantic talent" came up appropriately, and Pu Tong immediately decided on this "Flirting Scholar".

There are countless laughs in the whole movie. Although more than 20 years have passed, the clips in the movie can still make people laugh, just like the repeated use of "What a pity, he got ahead of me!" "Don't learn to paint if you don't have talent!" and other stalks on the Internet, just seeing them can make people laugh out loud. And Tang Bohu in the film is quite distinctive, full and moving, which is very impressive.

Stephen Chow's nonsensical comedy is different from other nonsensical comedies. Many nonsensical comedies only focus on funny elements, and nonsensical comedy seems to reveal a sense of lack of connotation.

But this "Flirting Scholar" is not the case. In this movie, Pu Tong tasted a lot of thinking hidden beyond the funny.

At the very beginning, the movie outlines Tang Bohu's talented and exquisite shell, but buried under the exquisite shell is rotten flesh. It is rumored that Tang Bohu has eight virtuous and beautiful wives, but these wives are addicted to mahjong and drinking all day long and ignore family affairs.

Compared with fame, wealth and material, what touches the literati more is the silent resonance, the appreciation in silence, and the hot tears that fall in the passages. The so-called thousands of gold are easy to find a confidant, which is nothing more than this.

Is his sigh a sigh for the false reputation of his virtuous wife widely circulated in the world? It is more like the pain of his uneasy soul.

Fortunately, he met Qiuxiang not long after. He was attracted by Qiuxiang's beauty and moved by Qiuxiang's kindness and finally decided to pursue Qiuxiang with all his heart.

Everyone says that Tang Bohu is romantic and philandering, but Qiuxiang can tell from the lines that Tang Bohu is deeply in love with her. Standing aside, pretending to be a servant, Tang Bohu sighs and says, "If Tang Bohu can have a confidante like you, he will die without regrets."

At this moment, Tang Bohu, played by Stephen Chow, finds his confidante, and this is probably the most touching form of love.

But how does the story end?

After Tang Bohu finally gets together with Qiuxiang, Qiuxiang suddenly stops him and asks him if he knows how to play rock-paper-scissors, mahjong, and dice.

At that time, Pu Tong thought that this ending was just for the comedy effect, but after thinking about it carefully, the so-called confidant was just his beautiful wish. The one he regarded as a confidant was nothing more than getting drunk with those once virtuous wives.

"The core of comedy is tragedy."

In order to make Ding Lingling write more in line with the original work, Pu Tong specially told her a lot of clues and hints. These things did not affect her creation. As long as she could string things together, she could write this story.

Ding Lingling nodded, not quite understanding, and she also had some of her own experience in her heart.

In fact, Stephen Chow used a comedy to tell us the essence of life. A funny movie is indeed full of lamentations about life.

There is no such thing as a happy reunion in the world. Each one is just engraved with joys and sorrows.

"Wait..."

Seeing Ding Lingling start to think, Pu Tong suddenly realized a big problem. Lin Yuran came to the cram school for tutoring because of the high school entrance examination, because she was in the third grade of junior high school.

But Ding Lingling is in the third year of high school this year.

There are more than 20 days left before the college entrance examination. She actually still has the mind to write a script?

"Don't worry." Ding Lingling smiled, as if she had guessed what Pu Tong was thinking, "For me, it's easy..."

Pu Tong was a little confused. This person is even more pretentious than me? And he really has the ability.

"Then you continue."

Don't bother with the academic god's business.