I want to appeal for this film. The original selling point of "Magic Land and Wizardry" is visual. The story is also derived from fairy tales. It follows a route suitable for all ages. It is not originally a feature film. Why do you want to die again?
Is it because watching "Thailand" is about to die without a love scene? Watching "Resident Evil 5", but not enough jokes? Watching "News Network", the male and female anchors did not succeed in holding hands?
Closer to home, this three Hollywood screenwriters "jointly" created a script that is absolutely stable and has no shortcomings, but you don't expect to have a longboard with a sharp sword.
As a filmmaker, I will set up a few characters. Interpret the script of the iron barrel formation,
if there is something unclear , please don't make a brick. This is the first time that the younger brother has sent a virgin post.
The opening actress, assistant, a little girl in a wheelchair, and a confession woman.
Any plot element information in the movie is not played at will, but has a purpose and effect. The entire black-and-white opening chapter is to "lay the groundwork and shape" to make the protagonist's character stand up.
For example, using an actress to express Oz’s lust, using an assistant to express ignorance of friendship and greed, and using a little girl to express his lack of love. Of course, the confessor is expressing his indifference to love. The
heroic act of a big man is no longer the main theme. Counterattack, sublimation into a noble knight to complete the heroic feat, it makes the audience more enjoyable.
Another important screenwriting skill is to open up the protagonist’s "needs".
When the blonde woman confessed to Oz, Oz and Pan revealed his great ideal, which is his always "need". Don't underestimate it. The story goes from the whole to the scene to the sequence. Arriving to the beat, playing is the demand.
Meet the first western witch.
The most common problem for screenwriters is to drag the audience out of the story without entering the story for a long time. With only a few lines from the Western Witch, the conflicts and tasks of the protagonist in the whole story are instantly opened up, and this is what the audience wants.
Anyone’s mouth can open the story. Why should this character be set? Opposite play, full number, gray character.
The sister of the Emerald City can't talk to herself alone. When the fat sister comes to play, she shows her sister's sinisterness, and the villain's image also stands up.
A movie has at least 6 or 7 main characters. If there is no fat girl, the movie will be the hero, the monkey, the porcelain baby, the villain witch, the good witch, and no one is there. This kind of big production cannot be done here.
In addition, a fairy tale that is either black or white, and a gray character who is also righteous and evil, can satisfy the adults a little, and make it easy.
The terrifying flying beast that screamed right away.
The ability of a movie to catch the audience often depends on the horrible villains.
If the villain you write can scare the audience, then it’s half of the success. If you write a super constrictor as the villain, but it can’t scare the audience, then stop
. At the beginning, the audience was frightened, sharp claws, loud roar, high-speed movement, and shocking sound effects. . . It's scary and successful. A few missing treetop shots, through the unknown, increased the horror of the flying beasts, and it clicked in seconds.
Take a closer look at the cute villains in domestic films and the terrorist villains in Hollywood masterpieces! This is one of the forces that keep the audience on the chair.
Monkey, porcelain baby
monkey is the beginning of the corresponding hero's assistant, porcelain doll little girl is beginning lame, they symbolize friendship and love, the hero of the film is to transform into large character transformation from little people from several aspects of love, friendship love,
the hero of the total It takes an assistant to play the role. It is indispensable to live up to the ugliness of life.
In addition, the confrontation between Oz and the ultimate villain is not long, only 1.5 rounds, and the fat girl transforms and strikes, which can only be counted as half. The whole story has a very long and lengthy middle paragraph. I think the screenwriters of the film may have considered this and had to add more personal things to enrich the lengthy middle belly.
Why set up the good sisters from the beginning to be the ultimate villains?
If the story is as it seems at the beginning, Oz helps the Fat Witch Sisters defeat the Dark Witch and finally gets the King. Isn’t it very vulgar? If the plot is predicted by the audience from the beginning, it is really a disaster for the screenwriter,
so this setting can make the story at least look variable, hierarchical and unpredictable.
In addition, the fat girl has completed the character transformation in the transformation of the pros and the villains, and she is alive, with flesh and blood, love and hate, which shows how important the "character transformation" in the play is.
In this kind of peaceful and stable script, the protagonist naturally has character changes, that is, from the beginning of selfishness, cowardice, greed, to selflessness, bravery and responsibility, but obviously it is not as impactful as the transformation of fat girls, because the emotional motivation of the transformation of fat girls is strong. The change of the protagonist seems to be groaning without illness. Obviously, the protagonist’s foreshadowing is not well managed, and there is no deep digging. It can not be said that the fat girl is stealing the show. It can only be said that the development of the protagonist is not well managed.
In fact, the deterioration of the fat girl is also necessary. The purpose is to strengthen the power of the villain and allow the protagonist to fight against the powerful force that cannot be resisted.
The subjects of the kind witch
inexplicably introduced the abilities of these people, which disappointed the protagonist. In the end, these abilities played a decisive role. It is a typical foreshadowing. Don’t underestimate the foreshadowing. It is an important method in the play.
Why do some movies do? Let the audience fall into it for a long time? Because he makes the audience deeply involved. The reason for deep investment is to fully mobilize the audience's emotions, minds, and thinking at all times! How to mobilize it? Foreshadowing is one of the important methods. If you suddenly think of the front and make you unconsciously piece together the plot, isn't it mobilizing your mind?
In addition, an otherwise boring statement can be made interesting through foreshadowing.
Well, I admit, I am a screenwriter.
This film analyzes the director's skills. It is much more interesting than the boring analysis of the screenwriter. Let's start with which lens to see the director's skills. . . . to be continued.
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