Let me talk about the overall evaluation. I like it very much for three reasons.
The first is the inheritance of the old "Blade Runner". There are many tributes and connections in the film. Since it is not a sophisticated school, I will not expand it in detail; the second is the audiovisual language and tone of the entire film is very unique, reminiscent of more Wonderful and interesting movies; the third one is of research value from the perspective of screenwriters. Blade Runner 2049 applies a lot of personalized processing to the script, which makes the whole script stand out from the work, not only opens the mind, but also has the value of learning and discussion from the perspective of the screenwriter.
So try to pull the tab and disassemble it. Because it was only brushed once, some details may have memory deviations, and there may even be errors in the order of a few sessions, but I try my best to recall. In this article, I will talk about the script creation of the movie "Blade Runner 2049" from the perspective of the screenwriter. Ways to deal with and discuss the advantages and disadvantages. Also with the purpose of learning, I hope everyone can be fault-tolerant and make a fortune.
Macroscopically, there are two major points worth paying attention to. The first is the integration of story capacity and creative core.
The film is nearly 3 hours in length, and the front is more exciting than the back. If you disassemble the story into creative points, you will find that a movie has cleverly integrated five common story cores. a Mysterious detective finds out that he is in trouble, b is the self-growth of the chosen son of God, c I fall in love with a virtual lover, d I turn out to be my stand-in, and e If the memory can be transplanted. Each story core is pulled out separately, and there are also excellent movie works. These ideas are not unfamiliar to science fiction audiences. Surprisingly, "Blade Runner 2049" turned into a five-in-one. It is still a tribute to the old "Blade Runner", which itself is a difficult problem for screenwriters and a great achievement.
The second point I am concerned about is the particularity of the film structure.
"Blade Runner 2049" is different from the common 90-120 minutes standard length movie. It does not adopt the most common standard three-act drama structure. It has its own special treatment in many places, such as 90-minute standard movies, we say There will be a common midpoint in the middle of the story, which is the failure of false desires and the point where the protagonist’s true desires are revealed. But in Blade Runner, there are actually two such points. Moreover, in each plot, the event line and the emotional line are intertwined with each other, and different levels of suspense and doubts are constantly being set and resolved. The whole story situation is a dynamic development. What's amazing is that the story has been able to fully shape the characters through a high-pressure, limited narrative time, without affecting the compactness of the event and the inheritance of the worldview of the previous work. It is really very powerful.
[There are also some issues worth discussing]
Of course, the story of "Blade Runner 2049" is not without problems, I will throw a few points to share with you.
One question is whether the core event of cloning a child is a bit imaginary? Regarding the idea of the story, perhaps Westerners believe in Christ and feel more empathetic to the miracle of the coming of the Son? Although we can all understand the setting of this plot from a rational point of view, perceptually, after all, wearing a sci-fi film, bypassing technology and directly talking about ethics, "Blade Runner 2049" focuses on the perspective of copying the children of life. I think It's still a bit of a drama.
The second problem is that due to the overall film’s literary and artistic style, science fiction and literary art themselves show twists and incoordinations, making the story unfathomable in some places, and in some places too simple, crude and straightforward. For example, the motivations of some characters appear Mentally handicapped, out of play with one's own settings. In the simplest example, as a policeman, the male protagonist has no sense of anti-investigation at all.
In addition, limited by the film’s tone and style, as well as the perceptible guidance of the creator’s subjective thinking, the plot appears conservative and restrained in some places, and as the story is told to the end, because the whole story is a closed story, there are previous Love, many plots have been predestined before the movie, so that the space for the development of the story at the end is relatively limited. The climax of the story is not pushed up, a little anticlimactic.
Some specific issues and thoughts will be discussed in the sequence of pull films below.
[Disassemble the plot, pull the film, and don’t blame it for roughness]
1. The beginning of the story: A hunt is
used as a prelude, first of all, the opening blade runner K chases and kills the defected medic copy.
In this process, the appearance of the big world view was completed, such as the male protagonist's car and equipment, which replicated the strong, but elegant personality traits, and also set the tone of the whole story, mysterious and sad. The military doctor's "You Haven't Witnessed a Miracle" actually pointed out the theme of the story—religion. We will check this point at the end of the story.
2. The main plot appears: the
hero of the chosen son of God returns to the company to accept the test, undertake the previous work, and at the same time lay the groundwork for the hero's transformation to establish a reference for the hero's transformation.
Then the male protagonist discovered the first suspicious point of the story, a small flower offering sacrifices. From the small flower, he investigated the dead tree and found the bones, and then the main points of the story were drawn from the bones. It is a miracle to copy the human son. Through the mouth of the female boss, he explained the degree of crisis of this matter. At this time, the biggest suspense of the whole story has been thrown. Who is the son of the clone and where is he? What can he change the world?
3. Worldview explanation: The
male lead investigated the copying manufacturer's company and learned that the materials had been destroyed. During the period, he told more about the worldview, such as the blackout and what happened in the past. If you are interested, you can combine the three short films.
At this time, because the male protagonist is working on business, the male protagonist also revealed part of the information about the case to the manufacturing company.
4. The bad guys appear directly:
As a designer of the company and a capable female assistant, he lives at the top of the pyramid as a designer, a false god in the story. Straightforwardly expressed his own significance for the evolution and revolution of copying children. Extreme rationality is cruel in the end.
In the story, more "bad guys" are borne by the female assistants, but in the plot where the female assistant steals the mysterious female corpse and skull, the cold-blooded state is simply and directly shown, and the designer has treated the clones cruelly twice in the story. People, the "simple and rude" of this kind of villain is a feature of the story, and it is also a very bold treatment. For the average movie, it is obvious that the villain missed it a bit early. But this actually shows the tone of the whole story. The focus is not a story of confrontation between pros and cons, but a story in which the protagonist finds existence and meaning by himself.
5. The protagonist’s emotional line: My virtual lover
begins to enter the protagonist’s emotional world along with the protagonist’s daily life. The main emotional clue surrounding the actor is his virtual girlfriend. Here, the virtual girlfriend is upgraded through the protagonist. The loneliness and heart of the hero. And the spirituality of the virtual girlfriend's blooming, the heroine's hands in the rain, are all related to the presentation of a set of keywords such as existentialism, reality and illusion, and freedom.
6. Behind
the scenes: Although there are few scenes of compensated dating girls, compensated dating girls are a key node every time they appear, and they are built early at the beginning of the story. But in fact, although the image of the compensated dating girl is a bit like one of the female copiers of the previous work, the appearance of this role is still quite daunting. (I even think this line is probably added after the script is written.)
7. The completion of the construction and the start of motivation: the protagonist’s memory appears
Ok. For the protagonist, when investigating the scene again, he discovered that there is something hidden in the piano This socks confirms the credibility of the duplicating child, and the strange coding of the trees on the trunk, which arouses the personal memory of the male protagonist.
Obviously, due to the curiosity of memory, the male protagonist began to deviate from his original life track and began to investigate privately. At the same time, it is also his emotional germination and recognizing himself.
(You see that the homicide is not the motivation of the story, but just an introduction. In the following plot, you think that the death of your girlfriend is the most mourning, but it is actually just the beginning of the mourning. The progressive stimulation of the whole movie is very interesting)
8. Argument:
The virtual girlfriend also played a role in fueling the flames. In fact, in the early stage of this story, the virtual girlfriend is basically a visualization of the status of the characters.
9. Investigation sequence: The continuous unraveling of suspense and the establishment of the
next investigation is nothing new, and there is even a bit of "swift abduction" suspicion. All this is coincidental or too smooth.
Search through birthdays and compare databases. I found that the orphanage had the same information in a certain year, one boy and one girl with two children. This is handled very well, and the plot itself plays a dual role. The short-term view is to lead the male protagonist to the orphanage, and the long-term ambush the mystery of the later protagonist’s life experience.
10. The dream is confirmed: Trojan found
The male protagonist arrives at the garbage dump, and the female assistant's remote murder once again confesses the bad guy's cold-bloodedness.
(When the male
protagonist saw this, he drove a police car behind him and swayed, his professionalism was worrying.) The male protagonist found the child from the garbage dump, talked to the boss, and found the wooden horse.
(I remember there was a torn record and a bunch of cigarette butts. I didn’t want to be thorough here. Is it a copy of the army? That is, the male protagonist’s awakening was designed? It doesn’t seem to be the same. Leave a pit)
Male The protagonist’s dreams have been repeated over and over again. Seeing is believing for the audience, and the audience’s emotions at this time are attracted to seeing is believing, and seem to have forgotten the previous puzzle of a man and a woman, which can be said to be audiovisual. Language helps the screenwriter, unify the audience and the protagonist, and change the perspective from rational to emotional. Let the male protagonist and the audience think that he is unique, maybe the male protagonist is the son of God.
11. Obtained confirmation: Interview with the dream maker in
order to convince the audience that the current plot is more ridiculous, the hero still suspects that his memory may be false, so he found the memory designer of this company, a person with a weak immune system Girl, the tone here is almost the only bright spot in the film. (And it was mentioned that the girl was locked here since she was a child. In fact, smart viewers will probably remember it, which also reveals that the whole story is not so successful for suspense stories.) The
girl expressed that this is true by reading the memory. Memory, and tears burst into tears. This is also the story setting of the pun mentioned above, where the audience will take it for granted that the girl is shocked by the oppression of the male protagonist, because the story of the last orphanage is indeed very thrilling, so it is too late to doubt the identity of the girl. .
12. The first big turning point.
Regardless of the length or plot, it seems that this is the midpoint of a general movie. The hero will change his state a lot. The midpoint of the common 90-minute mark is not used here to express it, because later The sudden change of identity is so exciting that there are actually two major turning points in the story. This is the very interesting part of the story structure.
13. The male protagonist was arrested and his behavior was out of control
The male protagonist was arranged for a test because of his abnormal behavior, and the female boss took care of him. It should be said that the male protagonist is still a relatively happy guy. Although he is a copy, he has a good relationship with women. The sexual suggestion and temptation of the female boss drinking in the previous shows that the seemingly indifferent female boss is actually full of love for the male protagonist. . The female boss doesn't have many dramas but stands well.
14. The perfection of human nature: the love
hero returns home, and his girlfriend finds a compensated dating girl in order to have sex with him. To the hero, the relationship between him and his girlfriend seems to be a step closer and synchronized The previous scene. The girlfriend seems to have become a true soul lover from his good partner to fill the loneliness. At this time, the male protagonist has a name, has trust, has a woman, has an identity, and has hope. What a wonderful life! (Look, the first false victory)
15. Crisis with unknown motives: The tracker
aided dating girl hid the locator before she left. Although it has actually been explained before that the compensated dating girl is on the side of the copy, and should not be the same as the female assistant, but because the audience's vision is on the male protagonist, it should be emotional at this time after the sex. But as mentioned earlier, the overall treatment of compensated dating girls is a bit rough.
In fact, the place where this movie goes is that all the actions of the bad guys are directly given to the audience to see from the perspective of God. In fact, it also shows that the real bad guys in the story are the invisible "destiny"
16. The road to escape: the girlfriend deletes the backup The
male protagonist knows that he is going to be hunted down, the virtual girlfriend asks to delete his backup, wandering around the world with the male protagonist, and set up a huge poisonous milk for himself. The emotional line of the whole story is bold or interesting. If you don’t consider the cognition, trust and emotional connection that this relationship brings to the male owner’s value itself, just from the case, it is this emotional side line. Basically traveled on the main line of the story. (Of course, a special kind of compensated dating sex can leave the tracker, so that the male protagonist will be rescued in a crisis, and it will act as a link to the main line. But is this really a copy of "her"?)
17. The bad guys are approaching : Female assistant kills female boss
The poor female boss used her life in exchange for the protagonist’s escape, and the audience discovered that this female assistant was really difficult to deal with. After all, before the story, the female assistant and the male protagonist had no direct contact, and it was almost time for a conflict.
18. Finding "daddy" through wood is
just like finding snakes in the previous game. The male protagonist relied on consulting the wood origin on the black market to come to a radiation area that had been bombed by a nuclear bomb and found his "daddy", Harrison Ford.
19. The hero's life is perfect again. The
father and son had a warm drink. Although Harrison Ford looked a little cold, he was a tough guy, understandable. The protagonist looks even more powerful, got rid of the trouble, eloped with the girl, found his father, and knew his mother's name, and could live in seclusion with the father. (Look, the second false victory)
20. The second big turning point: at the same time
how the story began to collapse , here is the second turning point of the story. This position and the following plot also made the protagonist once again undergo a huge change in identity and circumstances, much like the midpoint of a movie. The two false victories and the two midpoints of the story are what makes this story special.
It should be said that if the following story follows the previous narrative level, I will give this movie the title of God, but unfortunately, for the next hour, the story started to collapse a bit.
21. The murderous disaster appeared.
Then, the female assistant found the hiding place of the male lead and the old Deco by tracking the male lead. It began to reveal that the protagonist's IQ was offline, at least not as good as the old Blade Runner. As a detective and hunter, he knew that he was fleeing but didn't change his car. If I pick up a bank card and go to the bank, I still know how to wear a hoodie. At the same time, whether it is subjective restraint or shortcoming of ability, it also exposed the important problem of this movie, that is, the action scenes are not exciting enough.
22. You think this is hell, but it's just the door to hell
An overwhelmingly outnumbered battle, it's normal if it's not very exciting, and it's normal for a literary film to converge. But the male protagonist's virtual girlfriend's IQ was also offline. A virtual girl ran out and shouted to stop. She was meaninglessly crushed by one foot, and her girlfriend was also annihilated. Then the female assistant also had the same IQ offline, she was in a sense of superiority, for some reason she left the male lead.
Here I’m thinking. Let’s say that an old Harrison Ford is a chicken thief. There is something like an escape pod. It’s okay for his girlfriend to sacrifice himself to distract himself. Now it’s handled like this. The two female characters can only be silly, white and sweet. Superiority to explain.
23. Misery worsened: the real identity of the male protagonist was exposed.
Fortunately, the next scene saved the disappointment a little. The compensated dating girl was found according to the signal device and brought an army of replicators such as the mother of revolution. The revolutionary teacher told the hero that you are not the chosen son of God, you are just a scheming tactic. This miserable plot has exhausted the men's and women's unpredictable cases, which makes people feel that the protagonist should have nothing.
At the same time, the revolutionary mentor also assigned a task, you have to kill Harrison Ford.
24. The plan of the bad guys: perfect human beings
. The following plot is basically very simple. The designer of the company and the old Blade Runner sat together and chatted about life, because the content of the chat was too metaphysical.
25. The bad guys are going to find out the real son of God. The
designer helped to clone a second-generation wife. Harrison Ford refused, and was transferred to a colony outside the law to get information about who is the real miracle. In the treatment of this episode, apart from the tribute to the previous generation, I personally feel that there is really nothing to write about. It seems that the story has returned to the suspense type again. And the field of vision is limited, and we know that all the characters on the field are used up. The only female characters left are female assistants and dream makers. I don’t know if the author has the same considerations as me. At present, I can only make everyone think that there is something wrong with the female assistant, and quickly end the story with a fight that does not procrastinate.
26. A redemption to the end
The male protagonist walked on the street and saw the virtual girlfriend of the same style. This is the real funeral. The host realized that even his personal girlfriend is nothing. You think it's your soul meeting, but it's actually a procedural occasion. Although the play is short, the hero is completely lost.
So the hero decided to perform the task? Save people? revenge? Looking at the back, we know that the character has completed the final transformation and has become a real free will, so he did not follow the orders of the Clone Alliance to assassinate, but chose to save people. But because of the short duration of this scene, there is no sensationalism and discussion of the three vulgars, and the effect is actually not so intuitive.
27. Climax: a little improvised
climax is not exciting, it may be because the 3D is too dark, you look at the scenes of the stills, laugh.
For a 160-minute movie with a complex structure, the hero’s salvation seems very indifferent, probably only with the "old nowhere"-style "anti-plot" setting, because for this In terms of the story, in fact, the real emotional climax has also been disassembled into many parts, which have been used up before.
In short, the female assistant just died and sank in the water, just like fighting in the rain in the previous game, tears disappeared in the rain. Then the two generations of Blade Runner struggled forward in the wave. This scene is really not very beautiful. Does the director want to create a sense of mystery with the eyes of the old Blade Runner?
28. Epilogue:
Okay, in the last scene, the two came to the dream girl’s residence. It turns out that she is the miracle. Well, in terms of tone, the story has been hinted before. The white snow fell from the gloomy sky. For the hero and the smarter audience, this mystery has long been revealed, and the hero actually knew it a long time ago.
The male protagonist has nothing to do with all of this, so the male protagonist knows everything, and finally lies in the snow, detached from everything.
29. Pit: Let's talk
about the lower part. As for some unreasonable plots, I will probably wait for the lower part to talk about it. . . .
Overall, "Blade Runner 2049" is still a great work, not only because of the foundation of the old Blade Runner. If there is no Blade Runner, just take this movie out and make small changes, this is still a sci-fi masterpiece that hits the hearts of the people. For reference, "Alien Contract", even if it has an alien foundation, still doesn't look good. And it's much better than "Ghost in the Shell". Of course, I personally feel that the combination of stylization, structure, cost and many other factors is still not as good as "Ghost in the Shell Innocence" in my ranking. Science fiction may be one of the most immature genres of Chinese movies. We will study and practice together, and we will be able to see good science fiction films of our own nation during the lifetime of the unit.
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