How to treat film and television adaptation rationally?

Shen Yan believes that the "Genius Basic Law" is a bold and hard -working creation. Although it is very difficult to adapt, he is willing to make such an attempt.

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This is a story about mathematical genius, and it is also a fantasy life that shuttles in two parallel space -time.

The Genius Basic Law ushered in the finale last weekend. Many viewers did not clarify the timeline in the story until this moment, and all the suspense was finally solved.

The play is adapted from the high popularity of the same name "Genius Basic Law" with high popularity and reputation of Jinjiang. After the broadcast, the "Book Fan" believes that the setting and the original work are large, and there is a suspicion of "magic reform"; "drama fan" feels that the entire plot festival is smooth and logical. Essence

It seems that every popular IP film and television adaptation will have the argument between the original party and the drama party, which trigger a collision of different perspectives. For director Shen Yan, the controversy caused by the Basic Law of Genius is expected, and he is willing to accept all criticism.

In fact, the style of high concepts such as parallel time and space in the Basic Law of Genius, and the characteristics of the character through the character, and the social urban emotional drama that Shen Yan is good at. Looking at his previous creative resumes, real -themed dramas such as "Chinese -style Divorce", "The Youth we are nowhere to be placed", "Mobile Phone", "My First Half Life" are all works with popularity and reputation.

However, Shen Yan believes that the Basic Law of Genius is a bold and hard -working creation. Although it is very difficult to adapt, he is willing to make such an attempt. What he hopes to express is that under this non -reality setting, the more realistic expression presents -no matter which time and space, affection and friendship are the most important emotions of human beings.

"The life of walking is actually a cheating life." How to face yourself in this process is the core.

Strawberry Forest and Lao Lao Lin are together

Mathematics can be very sexy

In 2018, Tencent Pictures and director Shen Yan contacted the film and television adaptation of the "Basic Law of Genius".

Many years ago, Shen Yan had watched a movie "When Happiness Knocks". He told "Blog World" that this is the movie he loves. He thought about it for many years, hoping to make a Chinese version of "When Happiness Knocks", but he has not been able to get such a script until he saw the Basic Law of Genius. This idea was resurrected again in his heart.

Even though this novel is different from the "play" of Shen Yan's past, it still has practical significance in his eyes.

The Basic Law of Genius is full of living physical texture and romantic fantasy symbols. It is a romantic realist story. Portal, parallel time and space, and mathematics are just layers of coats. Each choice is different directions, in the kernel, in the kernel, in the kernel They are all beating and burning stories, which is the emotional direction of everyone.

At the beginning of the "Genius Basic Law", a suspense hook was buried. With the advancement of the plot, Lin Daixi (Zhang Zifeng) encountered a fantasy life experience. Because of a photo, in 2006, a parallel time and space that was called her cheese world, and her original world was called Strawberry World.

Lin Daixi received a strange picture before walking through

In the cheese world, not only did she get younger, but her life became unknowing. She grew up in an orphanage, and Lin Zhaosheng (Lei Jiayin) was no longer her father. The only same variable was mathematics. Although Lao Lin left long hair and became a rock youth, she still loves mathematics; her first love Pei Zhi (Zhang Xincheng) is still the genius of mathematics. Mathematics has also become a key factor that she can return to the world of strawberries.

The play did not make a lot of articles from through the through, but incorporated every travel into emotional bonds. This is the love and concern of Lao Lin for Lao Lin, and the different growth between strawberry forests and cheese Lin Daixi; it is Pei Zhi's nostalgia for his father, and it is also a different choice between Lin Daixi and Pei Zhi.

Perhaps this is the color that belongs to the "Basic Law of Genius": countless people's choices create the world, and past experiences to form an individual encounter. In the face of the courage of setbacks, life is always upward, and people will be loved by love. Take the truth to your own time zone.

For any creator, the Genius Basic Law is not a relaxed project. In 2018, there are few high -concepts on the market. Parallel space -time is a new species in domestic dramas. It will be confirmed by the market to the concept of time cycle at the beginning of this year.

"New" means "difficulty". Shen Yan is going to take risks to do this. It is faced with the pressure of content and the test of the market. It does not have the traffic password of the film and television drama of sugar, CP, and grassroots. Instead, it is necessary to allow all characters and stories to land in a bunch of complex mathematical symbols. At the same time, all the logical chains in the play are strict.

"New" also means that crossing the river by touching the stones means that every day's overthrow, verification ... cycle of work. The screenwriter Nie Chengshuai and Shen Yan took 3 years to carve the world in the novel.

The first problem is mathematics, and it is also one of the headaches of the main creators. "Who loves watching the drama of mathematics?" Shen Yan smiled bitterly. He revealed his "science is a mess", and now let him answer some of the mathematical questions in the play, he can't. There are many large and small mathematics content in the Basic Law of Genius

Fortunately, the screenwriter Nie Chengshuai was "self -proclaimed that mathematics is good". During the creative stage, he found a lot of interesting mathematical stories and mathematics questions to connect the plot.

In the play, the most important mathematical formula, P = NP, is a mathematical problem that Lao Lin spends most of his life, and is one of the dark lines of the Basic Law of Genius. In real life, it is a problem in the field of computer, that is, whether P is equal to NP.

In May 2000, the Institute of Crey Mathematics listed this issue as one of the seven millennial issues in mathematics, and has not yet been confirmed. For the first time, Lin Daixi walked to the cheese world and played a "bean" game with the young Zhang Liang (Guo Ziming), which is the "Bashboyi" in the theory of mathematics. Even the "crossing formula" calculated by Pei Zhi in the play is also composed of anchor, conditions, and events.

During the official shooting, Shen Yan specially invited a professional mathematics teacher and group. Group preparation. "

Although mathematics is a "nightmare" that many people have arrived from childhood, mathematics is not an obstacle in the play. Shen Yan hopes to pass the formulas, symbols, and data, so that those flowing feelings under the water can be seen by the audience, and the sound and life encounters of those individuals are worthy of stopping.

In the Basic Law of Genius, mathematics is romantic and sincere

Actor Zhang Zifeng told the media that the complicated mathematical formulas and philosophical lines also had a headache, but after arriving at the scene, it was found that it was not that difficult, because emotion was all the fulcrum.

The values ​​of the Genius Basic Law fall on everyone's shoulders. Wang Xiao). It penetrate mathematics and explores individuals.

Growing two worlds

The setting of the two worlds in the Basic Law of Genius also brings a lot of challenges to shooting. Different time and space, family, and environment make different characters. To grow the characters in the world of cheese and strawberries, the actors have their own ways.

Zhang Zifeng is a feeling of actor. She feels that Lin Daixi in the two worlds gives people a different feeling. Strawberry forests have a gentle power. Cheese Lin Daixi always has a energy. "It is a kind of touches on her own, but it also forces her to move forward, which is more delicate and more sensitive." She didn't think about it How to distinguish between the two, but to find the sincerity of the character.

Zhang Zifeng plays Lin Dayi

Lei Jiayin and Shen Yan have cooperated many times. The last time was "Merit", and Yu Min played Yu Min is also a genius. However, Yu Min's personality is serious and is a scientist who contributes to the country. Lin Zhaosheng is different. He is a genius falling into the world and becoming an ordinary person. Shen Yan said that most of Lin Zhaosheng's narratives in the "Basic Law of Genius" are on the line of affection. Observing the part of his genius in a dozen episodes later, he himself guilty.

Lao Lin is very different in the two worlds. Shen Yan told the media that Lei Jiayin's method is to design some designs for characters. Even if the order of disruption, he can switch seamlessly. "

For Shen Yan, there is another layer of challenge. The drama of the first 10 episodes of the script is mainly concentrated on the small actor. The pressure not only comes from external voices, but also how to adjust this group of lively and active children. At that time, the planning team and the platform were a little worried, and I felt that it was a crazy move. "The first 10 episodes let the audience watch the children's play, can you do it?"

But Shen Yan still took his teeth and persisted. On the one hand, the plot of the child is the main, the core of the original novel he thinks, which supports all the subsequent character stories; on the other hand, some works also prove that the audience cares more about the plot more than the actors.

During the casting, Shen Yan wanted to find some fresh faces. The casting team found a lot of children to audition. He spent a long time to meet the children, but later discovered that Wang Shengdi (playing the young Lin Daixi), Lin Ziyi, Lin Ziyi, (Playing young people Pei Zhi), Fu Pohan (playing Juvenile Ji Jiang), this group of young actors with screen experience are indeed more suitable.

Shooting Lin Daixi and Ji Jiang through the drama of the cheese world, Shen Yan, who was sitting in front of the monitor, always reminded Wang Shengdi and Fu Pohan, "You are not children now, you are adults."

"Genius Basic Law" is the most directed play in Shen Yan

Children have their own ideas, and they can often give Shen Yan some unexpected surprises. The first time the cheese world ended the scene, Lin Daixi was going back on the script, reminding Wang Shengdi to cry. Wang Shengdi said to Shen Yan, "I might not cry in the director." As a result, the machine was good, and Wang Shengdi's tears came.

Many subtle performances are not deliberate guidance, but the natural natural response of children. Xiao Jijiang said that Xiaolin's line "You see the world of strawberry world" was played by Fu Pohan himself.

Sitting behind the monitor, Shen Yan was shocked. A 9 -year -old boy could say such accurate words in the character scene and let him admire. There is nothing in the script, the little actors come to the characters, and naturally they are revealed. Shen Yan feels that this is exactly the beautiful part of creation.

The claim behind the genius

The first day after accepting the media's "torture", Shen Yan had just learned that he and the screenwriter Nie Chengshuai had a new combination called "Sin Nie Zhongzhong". After the "Genius Basic Law" was broadcast, the audience responded to the polarization. Some "book fans" expressed different opinions. Shen Yan felt that he had to say a few words.

One of the concepts in the Basic Law of Genius is: "Each choice of one person is different, and it will create a different world." In the play, because the different choices of Lin Daixi and Pei Zhi directly or indirectly affect the trajectory of the character's fate. In order to build the world of "Basic Law of Genius" in mind, Shen Yan has also experienced the choice again and again.

As a book fan, when looking for a story fulcrum, Shen Yan's first intuition was "affection." On the one hand, when he was reading, he was first moved by the father and daughter between Lao Lin and Lin Daixi; on the other hand, it was also related to his own life situation. The Genius Basic Law is his first story of talking to the child. As a father, his child is growing up slowly. He has reached a life stage that he wants to express a family relationship.

In the play, the "Genius Basic Law" portrays two main lines, one is Lin Zhaosheng and Lin Daixi; the other is Pei Donglai (Geng Le) and Pei Zhi. In the two parallel space -time, people's encounters will change, and the time will change when they encounter the opportunity, but Lao Lin will love mathematics in the garlic of life, and his love for his daughter will remain unchanged. Pei Zhi learned boxing and desperately wanted to stay in the world of cheese in his father. It was also a strong emotional family drama.

Lei Jiayin and Zhang Zifeng played their father and daughter in the play

Shen Yan felt that "Lao Lin is really cute", he has a sense of youth. "As a child, if my parents are such a young parents, I will be particularly happy. I hope that in my child's minds, there is a sense of youth, that is, it can be really naive. Two o'clock, I think such parents are cute. "

In the logic setting of through, there are three walking through the original work, all of which are completed by Lin Daixi alone. However, during the adaptation, the screenwriter Nie Chengshuai proposed to set the "single wear" to "double wear", and the story adds the walking through Pei Zhi and Ji Jiang, which makes him feel very novel. As a director's keen intuition, such a setting can make the plot of the TV series, and the fetters between characters are more solid and landing.

In fact, such two settings also made Pei Zhi's action clear. Pei Zhi, who lost his father in the strawberry world, chose his father's initial road -boxing; after walking to the cheese world, Pei Zhi was hesitant to face Lin Daixi's determination to go back because he didn't want to lose his father again. Want to stay in a world of a healthy life and a happy life of a family. The struggle and fetters of the characters eventually exposed the letter to Pei Zhi to reveal his identity, and reached a high point when he personally placed on the table on Pei Donglai.

As Shen Yan said, Pei Zhi is Pei Shen in the original book, but in film and television creation, God will go to the altar and fall into the world. "Even if he is a mathematical genius, he is a particularly cold person, but he He is the most common person in terms of human nature. He has the simplest needs of human nature. He wants to see his father. At this time, maybe something else has stepped back. "

A strong emotional drama between Zhang Xincheng and Geng Le, the two played the father and son in the play

The Genius Basic Law also has a more realistic expression, that is, "the life is actually a cheating life". People always face reality, and people are always stronger than they think. In Shen Yan's eyes, Lin Daixi was him and any ordinary person, representing most people in the sentient beings, she was not a genius.

When watching "When Happiness Comes to Knock", Shen Yan was impressed by the words that the protagonist Chris Gardner told the child. Rhythm. In the Basic Law of Genius, Lin Daixi is such a person.

She has her own goal and will not be affected by anyone. This one who is always working hard will be "defeated" by the talents around her, and she has experienced life setbacks and growth in the adventure. She has the courage to face life. All her choices are from herself and deep in her heart, and she is not afraid.

This is also the original intention of Shen Yan to insist on filming the show. Just like a paragraph that the main creators say: "There is a shining star, there are people who look up at the stars. But ordinary people can see the beauty of that moment from the stars, and they can hold a silent life in peace. Sending the light that shines for the future of human beings, and the glitter of human and geniuses, at the same time, trying to get close to these shining light, it is also very good. This is the fate of Lin Danxi, Lao Lin and Pei Zhi, and also our destiny. "

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