The movie "Wolf Warrior 2" is a classic in the hearts of fans, and it still ranks second in the total box office of domestic films with a box office of 5.69 billion, and the new works of one of the screenwriters of the film and the pioneer writer of military literature, Yumai Youji, have also been highly anticipated. Recently, the dancing demon Ji, who has been working hard for three years, returned with a new blockbuster "Bullet Marks" series sister article - "Bullet Rain: Game of Life and Death".
Dance Demon Ji, real name Dong Qun, is still a newcomer in the screenwriting industry, his first screenwriting work is "Wolf Warrior", before that, more people know that he wrote more than ten years of military theme network novels, the most famous of which is the novel "Bullet Marks", and now, The Dance Demon Ji with the "Bullet Marks" series of sister articles - "Bullet Rain: Game of Life and Death" returned again, this time, he set the protagonist as a woman, telling a story about loving peace, defending the country, and fighting terrorist crimes. The book was jointly published and distributed by Zhongnan Boji Tianjuan and Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, and recently, the dancing demon Ji accepted an exclusive interview with reporters to talk about the new work and the story of the "Wolf Warrior" series that cooperated with Wu Jing.
Talk about the new work "Bullet Rain"
The "Bullet Marks" series of sister articles, the same style, different stories
"Bullet Rain" is a female version of "Wolf Warrior" created by the Dancing Demon Ji over a period of three years. In the book, female star Xie Chengcheng led the team to Iraq to shoot anti-war propaganda films, but was unexpectedly plotted by competitors and kidnapped. The kidnappers, with their impressive strength and astonishing armament, are a fearsome local gang. To everyone's surprise, an inconspicuous female bodyguard next to Xie Chengcheng actually severely injured the kidnappers with her own strength, helping everyone to overcome the danger. She is the protagonist of this book, Long Lei, the sister of "Fangs" Long Jianhui, the last bloodline of the Dragon Family, and the successor of the Silver Eagle Medal. She grew up in the wilderness jungle and in a training camp dominated by men. She is the female version of Leng Feng who draws the sword for the country, and she is also the contemporary Mulan who fights for her home!
The story focuses on the protagonist's personal growth experience, supplemented by a variety of conflict situations, the process is as usual, the military details are full, let people get close to the anti-terrorist operations in the new era, and make people adrenaline soar! Such a righteous and passionate work makes people can't help but sigh: even in peacetime, my generation should have an iron-blooded spirit!
Speaking of setting the protagonist as a woman this time, The Dancing Demon Ji told reporters that there are two main considerations, from the writing level of a professional author, it is a challenge and breakthrough, "In fact, I personally agree with the phrase 'war lets women go away', but at the same time, I also created the phrase 'the blade has to fight in the bone, and the backwater is invincible or dead'." A young girl who, in peacetime, should not have gone to war, was forced to pick up a gun because of some kind of strong pressure, and this intense dramatic conflict will make the work look better." In addition, from the level of consciousness, the dancing demon Ji believes that with the rapid development of China's economy and culture, a considerable number of women have worked hard through serious study, showed their talents in various positions, and won public recognition, "I want to write such Chinese women, strong, brave, independent, I hope that such women can become a model for Chinese women."
Dancing Demon Ji told reporters that the story began in Iraq, where there are ruins left by the war everywhere, silently telling every visitor about the country's decades of ups and downs, disasters and difficulties, and then the protagonist Long Lei's military life opened the prelude to the disciplined and rigorous military life for the reader, and her military life, emotional life, and how to meet with female stars by mistake to become friends, all pulled the work into reality, so that the military works are no longer tough and empty.
It can be said that the protagonist Long Lei has no less calm and courageous than the cold front of the wolf, and at the same time has a touch of delicacy unique to women, full of charm, the story contains a huge organizational system, clear functions, but also mysterious. The elements of military exercises, counter-terrorism, and espionage are shocking and exciting, and rifles, fighters, bombers, and even more modern crawler robots can make people feel the charm of science and technology, and endless weapons and equipment can make the reading experience reach its peak.
Talk about the "Wolf Warrior" past
"We can come together because we all share a common faith"
"In 2013, Wu Jing looked for 9 screenwriters before looking for me, and he was helpless to find me. Because I've never been a screenwriter before. The dancing demon Ji and the reporter talked about the past of working with Wu Jing in the past, "There is a big difference between writing a script and writing a novel. Writing a novel can be cathartic, but I write a script that is highly stressful because the script is much more demanding logically than the novel. "Dancing Demon Ji recalled that when Wu Jinggang found himself in 2013, the network atmosphere was very bad, "After the release of "Wolf Warrior 1", some film critics said 'I look so ashamed', and before the release of "Wolf Warrior 2", there were thousands of people on Douban who gave 1 star. There are still a lot of Internet trolls, but now more and more comments have pulled the Douban score back. Generally, movies are expected to have high scores, but in fact, the score after screening is reduced, and we are considered to be counterattacking. ”
"In fact, we can come together, first of all, we all share a common belief. We love our country and believe in our military. "Dancing Demon Ji told reporters that when filming "Wolf Warrior 1" at that time, no one in the industry was optimistic about this kind of movie, and the investment was small." We can only spend money on one scenario, which is jungle sniper warfare. Now people often compare the two Wolf Warriors and say that 2 is much better than 1. It's much better, because 2 bets are five times more than 1. ”
"But the first "Wolf Warrior" made a movie with a very small amount of money to make everyone laugh, with more than half a billion box office revenue, which is a small opening of this genre. When filming "Wolf Warrior 2", the investment was in place, the martial arts instructors and music directors we were looking for were All Hollywood, and the whole process had the style of Hollywood heavy industry films, and then maintained our insistence and focus on details in "Wolf Warrior". However, the dancing demon Ji also admitted that military-themed movies are still greatly restricted, "mainly due to the shortage of professional talents, such as the shortage of screenwriters, and for example, in order to shoot good roles, there are too few Chinese action actors who have really gone to the special operations brigade for 18 months."
Talk about oolong "plagiarism"
I want to use the most feminine pen name to write the most masculine story
In 2017, the dancing demon Ji blew herself up on Weibo and some enthusiastic netizens left a private message saying that she had copied the online novel "Bullet Marks", scolding him for plagiarism and coming to him to ask for guilt. In fact, he is the screenwriter Dong Qun of "Wolf Warrior" and the author of the novel "Bullet Marks". He takes "Dancing Demon Ji" as his pen name, and also authors "The Pirate King of the Fifth Force", "The Law of Survival", "Tricky Thorn", "The Fifth Force", "Special Kind: We Were Special Soldiers" and other works, but when writing the novel "Bullet Marks", he used the pen name of "Dancing Demon Ji", and on the list of screenwriters of "Wolf Warrior 2", he used his real name, so netizens treated one person as two people, so they made a joke.
For the plagiarism, "Dancing Demon Ji" then sent a Weibo joke herself, "This, I am already seriously preparing, intending to sue Dong Qun, asking him to compensate me for personal mental losses of 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Talking about this oolong plagiarism incident again, the dancing demon Ji confessed to reporters why she wanted to take this name, initially, just not accustomed to the social atmosphere, men are getting more and more feminine, men have lost their male masculinity, women in order to protect themselves, naturally more and more men, have a feeling, they have a pen name of "Dancing Demon Ji"; now the explanation is that I want to use the most feminine pen name to write the most masculine story.
For the current era of online text, the dancing demon Ji said bluntly, "The replacement of online text is too fast. More than a decade ago, when we couldn't make money on the Internet, we began to write, that is, real lovers of literature, even if they can't use the word 'faith', at least they have pursuits. Now that online literature has formed an industry, it has also spawned the phenomenon of plagiarism, which is already a common problem. However, for her achievements and position in the history of military-themed online novels, the dancing demon Ji is still confident, "I firmly believe in some things, and the things written by people with faith are different." If it is not something that one believes in, words have less soul. Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
Source: Purple Cow News