Film Crew Chronicle No. 8, Script Dispute

Script Disputes – Film Crew Chronicle No. 8

During his stay in Rugao, the production director received a phone call from the station director, saying that the tv station had received a letter of complaint from an author in Jiangsu, reflecting that the script of the TV series "Pirates" had copied a book he had published, "Pearl of the Yellow Sea", and asked our crew to investigate and understand the matter nearby and report the situation to the station as soon as possible.

The script script, the script of a play, if there is something wrong with the script, then the whole TV film is a tower on the sand. The director is particularly anxious, worried about what trouble he will cause in the future after the film he has paid a lot of hard work.

It is said that the person who wrote the complaint letter was originally a cadre of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and is now located in Qidong County. The director consulted with the production director and decided to let me go to Qidong for a visit to find out the situation.

Therefore, I shouldered the instructions of the stage leaders and the crew, and the wind and dust servants went on the road. Qidong County is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, opposite Shanghai Chongming Island, by long-distance bus, against the cold wind on the Yangtze River, after a arduous trek, to qidong county, and it took a lot of effort to find the devolved cadre who filed the complaint, he said that he was originally a cadre of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, who had published a book in the sixties reflecting the New Fourth Army's collection of pirates in the Yellow Sea, and showed me the "Pearl of the Yellow Sea." I talked to him a lot about the situation and took "Pearl of the Yellow Sea" back to the guest house to read it carefully. As an editor and literary author, I quickly made a judgment that although "Pearl of the Yellow Sea" and "Pirate" are both stories about the new Fourth Army's absorption of pirates, the former is only a simple memoir, while the latter is a novel that has been fully fictionalized and processed, and it is not valid to say that "Pirate" copied "Pearl of the Yellow Sea".

However, the situation reflected by the old author when criticizing the novel "Pirates" caught my attention, and both the novel and the TV series "Pirates" wrote about a very bad big landlord and traitor Zhang XX, but this person was not a traitor during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but an anti-Japanese patriot, an important united front object of the Communist Party, who had great support and help for the New Fourth Army's resistance to Japan, had a good relationship with the New Fourth Army, Su Yu and other leaders of the New Fourth Army also lived in his home, and later was shot and killed in collusion with the homecoming group during the Liberation War, but he never became a traitor. The use of real place names, real names, the content of the performance is contrary to historical facts, which is a major mistake in the creation of the script, if the script is dubbed and produced, the problem of "real people and fake things" will lead to very bad effects.

After returning to the film crew, I reported the situation I had investigated and suggested that the real place names and real names in the script should be changed to fake place names and fake names to prevent disputes in the future.

The leader of the station adopted my suggestion, and was particularly happy that the director, a stone in his heart landed, and said to me happily, you edited the group this time, it is really appropriate, and solved a problem for the crew.