The birth of a legend
First broadcast date: September 7, 2018 Recommendation index: ★★★★
Li Zongwei: The loser is king
First broadcast date: September 7, 2018 Recommendation index: ★★★★
I recently watched two sports/biographical movies and learned to write scripts after watching them. Don't be surprised, if you know this routine, you can also write scripts for blockbuster movies.
The two movies I am talking about are "The Birth of a Legend" and "Li Chongwei: Loser is King". Although one is an American movie and the other is a Malaysian movie, the scripts and routines of these two movies are exactly the same, as if written by the same person. of.
The routine of these two movies is: both contain 8 elements. If you master these 8 elements, change the type of sport and the name of the person, you can write the script of the sport/biographical movie.
1. The beginning of the story: genius emerges from poor mountains and evil waters
The protagonist of the story was born in a poor area and loves the sport very much. At the same time, there is a former professional athlete among his parents .
Pele was born in a slum in Brazil. When he was a child, he and his friends were barefoot and kicking balls made of rags. His father was a professional football player.
Li Zongwei was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia. When he was a child, he played badminton in a pan with his friends. His father Li Yacai was also an excellent badminton player.
2. Juvenile geniuses enter the professional team
His parents opposed him to play this sport at first, because both parents were hurt by this sport. But in the end, in the name of love, they agreed with their son to be a professional athlete, and there must be a kind and responsible scout in the middle.
Pele's mother strongly opposed Pele's play at first and asked him to study hard, but then the Santos scouts discovered Pele's talents and persuaded Pele's mother with all his heart, and Pele embarked on a career path.
Li Zongwei’s father, Li Yacai, did not let Li Zongwei play at first, so that he could make more money after studying well and being educated. In the end, a local badminton club owner discovered Li Zongwei and persuaded Li Zongwei’s mother with heart and soul, and Li Zongwei embarked on a career path.
Li Zongwei's Enlightenment Coach
Li Zongwei in the national team coach Misborne
3. Encountering growth troubles: own athletic ability, teammates bullying
Pele has just entered the Santos professional team. Renjia’s best style of play is not recognized by the coach. Because Brazil lost the championship in the 1950 World Cup finals, the Brazilians reflected that Renjia’s play was not as efficient as European football’s. Practical, so the national team rejects any additional play.
When Li Zongwei first entered the Kuala Lumpur Badminton School, he was weak and often injured, and he was not taken seriously because he started to practice badminton late and his family conditions were poor and nutrition could not keep up.
Li Zongwei developed late and was not selected for the national junior team because of his height.
When Bailey entered the Santos team, he was bullied by his teammates. One of the bullies was a young man in the house where his mother worked in his youth, and the old players even asked him to buy coffee to run errands; Li Zongwei just entered the badminton academy and was ridiculed. He came from the mountains and was teased by others to wash clothes for others.
Rich second generation mocks Bailey
4. After hardships and finally metamorphosis
Pele even wanted to give up football and return to his hometown. The Santos coach stopped him in time. He continued to walk in the professional arena, and eventually defeated outside criticism and demons, and led Brazilian football to the top with Renjia playing.
Li Zongwei was defeated by the national team for the first time, and he thought about giving up. His enlightenment coach dissuaded him, and eventually he returned to Kuala Lumpur to continue fighting for badminton.
5. The key battle must be ignited
In the 1958 World Cup, the 17-year-old Pele played in the World Cup in Switzerland to fight for the country. At that time, many members of the Brazilian team were injured and lacking major generals, and the pressure of the away game was also great, but in the end Pele found himself and led Brazil to victory with any plus play, cheering for Pele both on and off the court.
In 2005, at the Malaysian Open, Li Chongwei was experiencing a low point in his life. He previously lost to the powerful Lin Dan. At the beginning of the game, he was also behind by a large score, but in the end he gradually regained his confidence and struggled to win the game. Li Chongwei was on and off the court. cheer.
6. The protagonist himself must be a guest star
In Bailey’s biographical film, the actor who played Bailey during the World Cup in Switzerland. During the scene at the Sportsman Hotel, the fake Bailey accidentally hit the real Bailey’s table in the hotel and knocked over the sugar jar; Li Zongwei’s biography film Here, head and tail, Dato Lee Chong Wei is teaching a kid to play.
Zhen Bailey guest starred in his biographical film
7. There must be a plot outside the arena
In "The Birth of a Legend", Pele is particularly good at playing Renjia, because Renjia is in the blood of the Brazilian black natives. Renjia is their ancestor who fled in order to survive before Brazil's colonial independence from Spain in 1822. The fighting technique created in the jungle, so it is passed down by blood.
And Li Zongwei also met Miaozhu in the badminton school, and she was kind and loving with her. Although Ren Jia was not born so tragically, it also added color to the straightforward plot. What's even more amazing is that Li Zongwei and Huang Miaozhu have been living together since then, becoming a model couple.
8. Someone must die because of this sport
Ball king Bailey and his friends stole potatoes delivered by transport workers in order to buy sneakers to participate in a juvenile competition. They were chased by these workers. Bailey and his friends hid in a cave by the river, but the cave collapsed and the little partner was crushed. Pele almost gave up football because of this.
Li Zongwei's father, Li Yacai, was also an excellent badminton player, but because he was chased by casino players during a gambling, and another companion was hit and killed by a car during the chase, Li Ya gave up playing badminton, and his son was not allowed to touch badminton again.
Li Zongwei and his father Li Yacai
There is no proof for nothing, now do it
Write a sports/biographical movie script to NBA legend Alan Iverson.
In 1975, Allen Iverson was born in Hampton, Virginia, a remote town in the south. His mother, Ann Iverson, gave birth to unmarried children.
Because of pregnancy, 15-year-old Ann was expelled from the high school women's basketball team. After that, Ann took Iverson to Bruton, where his father was. Bruton was violent and drugs rampant. Ann quickly left, met her new boyfriend, and lived in a low-cost apartment. Iverson’s childhood was spent in such poverty and bumps.
When Allen Iverson was 9 years old, his mother took him to the basketball court to practice. He didn't like basketball at first, but later he practiced hard to change his family's destiny. On the court, the 9-year-old Iverson showed extraordinary talent (a genius comes out of poverty).
And his adoptive father is a habitual offender who goes in and out of prison, and doesn't like him playing basketball, and hopes that he will make money early. But in the end, I was still moved by Iverson's love for basketball. In 1990, Iverson entered Bayzer High School and became the absolute core of the school's football and basketball teams (juvenile geniuses entered the professional team).
Although Iverson has a talent for sports, a double genius in football and basketball, he has also encountered growing problems: on the basketball court full of tall people, he is not tall, only one meter seven in high school, and even after he stopped growing Only 1.83 meters.
Moreover, in the football game dominated by white quarterbacks, he, a poor black boy, is always excluded. More importantly, he is a single parent and has never known who his biological father is (his athletic ability and teammate bullying).
Even so, Allen Iverson never gave up, he trained frantically. But in 1990, Clark, a good friend who always encouraged and cared about Iverson, was murdered by his girlfriend. Iverson always felt that he didn't invite Clark to the football stadium training hall to accompany him to train. That's why he blamed himself (someone must die because of this sport).
On February 14, 1993, Iverson and three friends had a dispute with a group of white teenagers at the "Circle Line" bowling alley, and it quickly escalated into a fight involving more than 50 people. More than 20 people were seriously injured in this fierce battle. After that, they were arrested. In this scene of the court trial, Iverson went out of the country to watch the black boy as a member of the jury (the protagonist himself must act in a cameo).
Iverson graduated from Holy Land High School in 1994, after which he joined the Georgetown University basketball team. From 1994 to 1996, Iverson studied at Georgetown University, led the university to compete in the NCAA, and won excellent results.
Until the 1996 NBA Draft, Allen Iverson was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the first pick in the first round. He became the shortest draft pick in NBA history and signed with the team for $9 million in 3 years. Contracts. Since then, he has been shining in the NBA, the world's basketball hall, attracting the attention of the world (after hardships and finally metamorphosis).
At this moment, Iverson was determined: poor black boys who are not tall can also be successful. When the Philadelphia 76ers got their first salary, he visited his mother at the home of his childhood friend Clark and gave them a sum of money. At this moment, he determined basketball as the direction of his life, and at the same time let go of his childhood knots. In the following decades, he has been funding the Clark family (it must be a little off-field plot).
In the 2001 Eastern Conference finals of the playoffs, Iverson returned from injury, dragging the series into the 7th final. Iverson scored 44 points in the final game, leading the 76ers to the Eastern Conference championship and reaching the finals. In this game, he blocked and killed the Buddha, and the god blocked and killed the god. It was incomprehensible (the key battle must be ignited).
Sports/biographical movies have a particularly strong sense of routine. Using these 8 elements, not only can you write many biographical movie scripts of sports stars, but you can also deconstruct many biographical movies of celebrities. You will find that many sports movies can be analyzed by this company.
Of course, most movie scripts have a set of routines and processes, but the routines and processes of sports star biographies are more fixed. This is not to say that the two films "The Birth of a Legend" and "Li Zongwei: Loser is King" are not good. Many people watch sports/biographies to see the life of their idol legend.
However, when you want to watch these two movies, you must pay attention: "The Birth of a Legend" must never be watched in Mandarin dubbed version. I have 30 minutes to adapt to this voice, and the publisher's brain is very funny.
You told me that this is Lin Dan, is it bullying the audience that they have never watched TV and can’t surf the Internet, right?
In the movie "Li Zongwei: Loser is King", you have to prepare mentally in advance. The actors in this movie are very similar. The children Li Zongwei and the teenager Li Zongwei are very similar, but when you find Ling Dan, you have a look. Kind of like, I am embarrassed to have a cancer attack. I don't know if I was interested in black lindane.
At this point, I am even more looking forward to Chen Kexin's "Li Na". The latest news is that this movie is still in preparation. What do you think? Let's also talk about sports/biographical movies.
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