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Gilles's Screenwriting and Marketing Strategies has a chapter about: Give your protagonist a tough time, an extremely tough time. The second half of this sentence is actually an emphatic sentence, just like the important words are said three times.
"Goodbye Wang LaoWu" is a comedy film directed by Er Dongsheng and starring Zhong Zhentao and Maggie Cheung. The play fully embodies the meaning of the chapter "Give your protagonist a difficult time".
First difficulty: the child came quietly
Zi Nan and Xiao Yu fell in love and dated well for several years, and suddenly Xiao Yu's usual punctual menstrual leave did not come, and Xiao Yu thought she was pregnant. The two quarreled. Zi Nan thought that the money was not enough and hoped to have better material conditions to get married again, but the child could not wait and had to decide to get married.
The second difficulty: the money is quietly gone
They saved more than 60,000 yuan of marriage money, and Zi Nan and Xiao Yu discussed not moving this money. However, Zi Nan secretly took it to speculate in stocks, and the result was all lost, Zi Nan did not dare to tell Xiao Yu, but it costs money to get married. Zi Nan and Xiao Yu were not ready to serve wine at first, and planned to travel to get married. But Xiao Yu listened to her friend's words and decided to spend money on wedding photos and get married with wine. Zi Nan agreed while worrying.
The third difficulty: the two mothers disagree
The marriage of the two requires the consent of the parents. Zi Nan's mother did not talk to Xiao Yu's mother, because Xiao Yu's mother had to give high gift money and open multiple tables. Zi Nan and Xiao Yu wanted to persuade their parents separately, and the two began to quarrel while persuading their parents. After they got married, they wanted to live by themselves, but Zi Nan's mother did not agree, crying and making trouble, and Zi Nan's father helped to persuade them.
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The fourth difficulty: desperate to borrow usury
It costs money to take wedding photos, hold banquets, buy rings, rent houses, buy furniture, etc., and the desperate Zinan decided to follow the advice of his friend Pi Dan to borrow 80,000 yuan of usurious loans, and the problem of money was temporarily solved. Zi Nanding's banquet was very simple, which caused Xiao Yu's mother to be angry, and Zi Nan had to change to a more expensive banquet.
The fifth difficulty: the child is gone
There were still a few days to put on the wine, Xiao Yu found that he had come to menstruation, and it turned out that there were no children at all. She wanted to confess, but she was afraid that Zi Nan would be angry. Xiao Yu bought a watch for Zi Nan, who thought it was fake. In order to make Xiaoyu happy, Zi Nan bought a fake diamond ring. Xiao Yu was very touched and told Zi Nan that she did not have children. Zi Nan was angry, and also told the ring to be fake and borrowed usurious things and disks. After Xiao Yu had a big fight with him, he angrily told him that he only put wine and did not not notarize.
The sixth difficulty: the loan shark suddenly comes to collect the debt
Zi Nan's friends gave him a bachelor party, and they had a night of hi- The big brother who woke up early to find the loan shark came to ask for money, saying that the big brother ran away, and he ran away to ask for money. Zi Nan's money was spent, and even the money for the banquet was paid by the gift money of the next day. The eldest brother said that he would go to his wedding site to receive the gift money before giving up.
The seventh difficulty: fake fundraising to repay usury
Zi Nan's brothers helped to think of ideas, but this effort saved the money for the banquet, including smoking to be bought by the guests themselves, tipping 20% more, not drinking before the banquet, making the drinks themselves, and driving some guests away. The big brother of the usury came to collect the gift money, and it was not enough to collect it, so he took out a knife to intimidate Zi Nan. Pi Dan had to make a clever move at the banquet to collect donations from the guests in the form of charity, and finally gathered the money to repay the loan shark.
The eighth difficulty: the robbers stole the money
Who knew that as soon as the big brother of the usury got the money, he was snatched away by a robber. A group of people work together to catch the robbers, making a mess at the banquet. Later, everyone rushed to catch up, and Zi nan also called the police. After a vicious fight, the robbers surrendered, the police came, and the money was finally recovered.
The ninth difficulty: no money to pay for the banquet
After the police have taken the record, they must take the money and return it after they appear in court. The hotel owner chased after the banquet money. Xiao Yu and Zi Nan's friends had to pool their money together. The parents of both sides returned, and Zi Nan's father said that he had come to pay for the banquet. After this fight, the two decided to go to the notary the next day and decided to live their own life.
This is actually like the hero growth record of Campbell's "Hero Journey". Wave after wave of unevenness rises again, until the hero experiences various difficulties and deals with various problems, in order to obtain growth, change and new life. At the end, Zi Nan and Xiaoyu finally decided not to live for their parents and others, but to decide their own lives. This is the growth of the protagonist, who has to go through difficult times to achieve this story and also to achieve himself.