Structure, rhythm, advancement, excitation, turning
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Title: "The Cook's Play"
Year: 2013
Duration: 104 minutes
Director: Guan Hu
Era: During the War of Resistance Against Japan
City: China/Beiping
Venue: Japanese-style hotel/secret base for Chinese underground workers
The special historical context of the re-creation of non-fiction adaptations
Japan's 731 unit developed a biochemical virus, smeared Peiping, due to the mutation of the virus, resulting in a large number of Japanese troops in Beiping is also about to suffer infection, once the virus mutates on a large scale, it will lead to the chinese and Japanese military and civilians jointly into the virus outbreak.
Unit 731 biochemical virus expert Ogasawara Daisa, disguised as a Chinese businessman, came from the Northeast 731 base to Beiping, carrying the mutated virus stock solution, as well as Ogasawara's newly developed detoxification vaccine formula, hoping to develop an antidote vaccine as soon as possible before the virus mutates in large quantities.
Between the anti-virus vaccine formula developed by Ogasawara has not yet been clinically tested, and it is not certain whether it is effective, Ogasawara is in a hurry.
Passing through a Japanese-style hotel, he was robbed by a scoundrel (Huang Bo), injured by a car, and was captured in the hotel. Due to the curfew, the restaurant was closed, and there were only three people in the restaurant: the boss cook (Liu Ye) and the wife fool (Liang Jing), and the drama (Zhang Hanyu).
Four Chinese, two Japanese, are about to stage a good play in a relatively independent and confined space. It's the script kill mode.
Venue: Multiple spaces, including hidden spaces
Storyline
1. China Line/Main Line
At the time of the survival of the nation, the Chinese needed the virus vaccine and formula even more, so the state sent four state-level elites to take out the secret stronghold that had been operating for many years, waiting for the rabbit, waiting for the Japanese virus expert Ogasawara to disguise himself. The four are alumni of Yenching University and worship brothers.
1, the leper: the second, virus expert
2, the drama: the boss, interdisciplinary science bully
3. Cook: restaurant owner, third oldest, language expert, proficient in Japanese and German
4, fools: hotel owner lady, three brothers and sisters, code experts
2. Japan Line/Push
1. Leader: Unit 731, virus expert, Ogasawara
2. Funny Person in Charge: Koga Ninja (very early on was asked to go crazy)
3. Japanese negotiator: A beautiful alumnus of Yenching University who is really a beautiful alumnus of Yenching University, and she once had a deep friendship with the drama
3. Seizure team/spare tire
Three people, from the beginning to the end, have two meanings of existence
1, funny, reverse, push the plot
2. Finally, do it as a substitute ghost
Mainline structure
Throughout the film, the whole process is repeated/spaced in the narrative advancement mode of 234/21 - 567/54 - 789/76, starting with suspense/puzzle/conflict, advancing with flashbacks/interludes, using time and space, backtracking the hidden main line of the story, and so on and
With each advance, important clues missing in the past are added first, and the suspense/puzzle/conflict of the next round is given.
Each set of event chains has its own independent driving theme, which promotes each other, and the causality is extremely strong and the intensity is very strong, which is enough to play the script.
Each set of event chains includes several independent small events, each with a time range of 1-3 minutes, of which a very small number of important scenes last 5-7 minutes. It is usually a combination of long and short, short and long, fast and slow, slow and slow, and misplaced stitching.
Phase I
Around 15 minutes, an important plot reversal signal (Fresh 1.0 + Stimulus 1.0)
Around 25 minutes, start rendering repeatedly, ready to meet the plot push 1.0
Around 30 minutes, ice-breaking into a new round of the story (Fresh 2.0 + Thrill 2.0)
About 45 minutes, fast propulsion, repeated rendering, ready for plot push 2.0
About 57 minutes, repeated renderings ready for climax 1.0
Phase II
After 60 minutes, continue to accelerate 2.0, enter the main melody, and rise to the momentum stage
About 75 minutes, an important plot reversal signal, quickly combing through the closed-loop preparation
About 20 minutes before the end, render repeatedly, ready for climax 2.0
A few minutes before the end, the ice-breaking style enters the final wave
Opening
Leader: Leper leads
Opening: Horse thieves rob the road
Prologue: Accidental car crash and faint, and the lepers hold 2 merchants hostage to enter the Japanese restaurant.
Coinciding with the Plague in Peiping, during the curfew, there were only three people in the hotel, the cook boss, the foolish boss lady, and the drama. The leper forcibly broke into the store and tied up the two rich merchants who had been robbed.
The merchant had only a sealed bucket with him, and the crowd snatched each other, and the leper and the other three were about to fight, one of the kidnapped one angrily cursed in Japanese, and the crowd was frightened, and the merchant was actually two Japanese disguised.
The boss was timid and afraid of things, he wanted to release the Japanese, the drama was patriotic in the Japanese, and when the stalemate could not be reached, the inspection team knocked on the door to check, and the crowd hid the 2 Japanese, confused through the customs, grabbed the barrel, and passed the customs in confusion.
Although the hostess could not speak, but the strength was incomparable, accidentally opened the barrel, and inside was a frightening virus, scaring everyone into not knowing how to be good. After that, the 4 people reached a consensus, asked the Japanese for the recipe, and sold the recipe for money.
The stakes are high, and the Japanese virus expert Ogasawara has always been silent, showing no traces, and his men are strong men with flowers and arms, and their temper is short-tempered and irritable. The four of them tortured the 2 Japanese with various tricks that drove people crazy, forcing them to say the vaccine formula, and finally lost medicine + a large knife, directly driving the Japanese under their hands crazy, calling themselves Koga ninjas, flying high, no one can catch him, he does not go or run, he is haunted.
The 3 members of the investigation team did not let go of the suspicious place, discovered the particularity of the barrel, and used the telescope to investigate from afar, ready to sneak into the store to steal the treasure.
Through the spatial link of the secret room, the scene is transferred, showing the hidden mechanism equipment;
Then through the hidden scenes, reveal the hidden character relationships, point questions, four people are a group;
Through the form of important organ props, retrospective time, flashbacks/interludes, it is explained that the opening horse thief robbery is a conspiracy that was arranged in advance.
In the second layer of space-time narrative, continue to stay for a long time, complete the advancement of the second space-time flashback, and enter the third layer of space-time narrative, the earlier story, that is, the backstory of the positive sequence, the hidden main line plot information.
Through the conversation scene, through the important organ props, back and forth in time and space.
A bit of an interesting clue
1. The existence of the investigation team: funny, chaotic, accidental help, eventually become a substitute ghost, and silently become a national hero after death. Successfully, the Japanese army thought that the three people in the store were dead, and did not start a hunt to ensure the safety of the protagonist's delivery of vaccine formulas.
2. Koga ninja: He was fed medicine and tortured to turn into red skin, became a madman, and finally mistakenly hit the pufferfish poison and became blue. Funny.
3, the Japanese female intelligence officer, is infernal affairs, and finally helped the protagonist to win an extra hour of evacuation time, a very random stroke, but it is a matter of life and death, the survival of the nation.
This film, iQiyi 8.3 points, good to look at is good, after all, guan Hu teacher's 2013 film, in personal view, gorgeous and more than enough, is a play of the big work, and horizontal comparison, "Old Cannon" "Eight Hundred" narrative, more quiet, relaxed, really put non-fiction into the bone marrow, unforgettable, shocking, a few years of difference, can not be the same day.
I really like Mr. Guan Hu's creative style
Basically a model that I can benchmark to learn
Thank you Teacher Guan Hu.
Let me find the first solid big navigation mark on the way to screenwriting.