In Beverly Hills, Zhang Ran walked into a bright cafe wearing sunglasses.

There were not many customers in the cafe. Zhang Ran walked into the store and saw Aziva Gossman sitting by the window wearing a black coat. He was steaming and fragrant coffee in front of him. Aziva Gossman is the screenwriter of many well-known movies, including "I Am a Legend", "The Da Vinci Code", "Angel and the Devil". In 2003, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie "Beautiful Mind". Now he is the screenwriter of "The Future Apocalypse".

Zhang Ran smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Gossman, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

At the beginning of this year, Aziva and Zhang Ran met in Los Angeles. Afterwards, they went through many phone calls about the script and shook hands with Zhang Ran politely: "I've just arrived, sit down and talk!"

After sitting down, Zhang Ran looked around, then looked at the time, and said, "Mat Damon hasn't arrived yet, but he should be here!"

Seeing Aziva was a little surprised, Zhang Ran explained that when he was talking about roles with Matt Damon yesterday, he found that Matt Damon had a lot of ideas, so he suggested that Matt Damon participate in the script discussion together; and Matt Damon readily agreed.

Aziva nodded. This play was difficult to write, and Zhang Ran had very high requirements for the script. So far, he has written three scripts, but Zhang Ran was not satisfied. Matt Damon won the Oscar for Best Screenwriter. With him participating in the discussion, he might be able to solve the script problem as soon as possible.

The two chatted for a while, the cafe gate was pushed open, and a man wearing a baseball cap walked in. He looked up and walked straight to Zhang Ran and the others' location: "Sorry, I'm late!"

Zhang Ran stood up and introduced to Matt Damon: "This is Aziva Gosman, this is..."

Matt Damon and Aziva smiled at each other: "We know, we are all members of the screenwriters' union!"

Zhang Ran was stunned and laughed: "So that's it, then sit down and chat!"

The three of them knew each other and had nothing to be polite, so they sat down and started chatting.

"The Colonel's Saber" is a novella. The story takes place in the third year after the robot launched a war against humanity, "The Great Change Festival", on the European battlefield, Major Adams of the First Cavalry Division and his troops met the Russians who were sent to join, Colonel Gurov wearing the Chaksey Saber. Adams was very wary of Gu because Ai created a group of simulated people to act as spies. However, as the story progressed, Adams quickly dispelled his suspicion. Gu's behavior and behavior did not look like robots. Adams quickly paid the price for his judgment. He and his troops were brought into the encirclement by Gu, and were wiped out. He became a prisoner and sent to a prison in the Antarctic.

A few months later, Gu suddenly found Adams and told him a shocking news that due to the unfavorable war, Ai did not intend to get entangled with humans. Ai's leader planned to directly build a purely silicon-based intelligent society. However, Gu felt that this was wrong and planned to assassinate Norton during Ai's high-level meeting to stop this crazy plan.

On the day of the meeting, no members of the meeting were allowed to wear weapons, but Gu appeared in the conference room with a saber. No one thought that the Chasik saber on his body was a weapon, but he thought it was a work of art, and then Gu resolutely drew his sword.

"The Colonel's Saber" is a novella, with relatively short content. The content alone cannot support a movie. To adapt it into a movie, a large amount of content must be added.

Zhang Ran and the others' current script is a standard three-act play. The first act mainly shows the future world through Adams and his wife, and shows the entire process of robot rebellion; the second act is the encounter between Adams and Gu on the battlefield three years after the great rebellion; the third act is Adams' life in prison and his influence on Gu. It is under his influence that Gu has a deeper understanding of people and life, which leads to the assassination of Norton.

Zhang Ran talked with Aziva many times, but did not explain his views on the whole drama to Matt Damon. Therefore, he first explained his philosophy from the director's perspective: "The story of conflict between humans and robots is not new. Since the Czech playwright Karel Cappek proposed the concept of robots in his science fiction drama "Russum Universal Robot" in 1920, huge concerns that humans may be destroyed by robots have come. For more than 80 years, robots have challenged humans to even destroy humans in the future, and have replaced them with a lot of science fiction works.

I don’t want to just make a visual blockbuster of war between humans and robots. I hope to go further on the basis of the traditional thinking of this type of movie, ‘If technology gains subjective consciousness, will people fall into the crisis of destruction’, and think about what human beings are and what human nature is?

In addition, this story is a story between humans and robots on the surface, but it has very practical significance. Now the whole world is constantly warring, religious and racial problems are becoming more and more serious. To a certain extent, the conflict between humans and robots is also a racial conflict. Therefore, I hope everyone can see the reality from the movie, and hope it can make the audience think differently."

Matt Damon nodded and said, "Mr. Coppola once said that good war movies are anti-war, and "The Future Apocalypse" did a very good job in anti-war, which is very warning and would be a very meaningful film!"

Zhang Ran began to talk about his dissatisfaction with the script: "This script has richer details, but I think it is a bit rigid and rigid, lacking the natural feeling, and the characters' emotions are not prominent! In addition, the third act is still weak and the play is not enough. The biggest problem is that Gu's final choice to assassinate the logic is not enough. When I talked to Robert De Niro in New York a few days ago, he also had the same view, thinking that Gu's transformation was a bit stiff."

Aziva Gosman and Matt Damon both nodded slightly. Gushi is Ai. He betrayed his own race and must have enough preparations and sufficient reasons to support his behavior, otherwise the whole story will appear false.

Avoiding this question, Central Adams asked: "Why do you betray your own race? Why do you do this? Do you think Ai should not replace humans? Do you have no self-awareness of Ai?"

The ancient answer was: "I don't know, I only know that I can't use nuclear weapons, that's the bottom line. I don't think I'm too considering myself. Intelligence cannot be used to reason with logic like self-consciousness. In fact, I think that self-consciousness is just a high-level reaction produced in long-term survival competition. It is not pure intelligence. Intelligence will have some more complex, more vague and uncertain things, and some things that I can't explain clearly but do exist."

This passage is OK, but not in the movie. Such a statement cannot convince the audience. Everyone will think that Colonel Gu’s actions are illogical. If everyone thinks that the characters’ actions are illogical, they will think that the whole story is false.

Take "The Flowers of War" for example. It has a prelude to Bale's transformation movie, but after watching it, many people still think that Bale has changed too quickly and has become a hero from a bastard.

Transforming from a bastard to a hero will attract such great doubts. There is no reason to be strong enough to convince the audience.

In fact, many Hollywood blockbusters have logical flaws. For example, in "Independence Day", the one who defeats aliens depends on computer viruses. Do aliens also use binary computer programs? Do aliens do not have antivirus software? But there is no way to do it. If you don't lower the IQ of aliens and don't cheat on humans, how can you beat aliens with human power?

Because many movies have various logical flaws, Hollywood blockbusters often have low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and MTC, and are often scolded by critics. Of course, for Hollywood blockbusters, the purpose is to make money, and the critics have low ratings, which is not important at all.

However, Zhang Ran didn't want to make a simple special effects blockbuster, and he wouldn't think that it would be enough to sell at the box office.

Aziva's solution to this is to let Adams save Gurov once in prison and was seriously injured. Gu asked Adams, are we not enemies? Why do you risk your life to save me? Adams said, this is the difference between us and you! Gu said, I don't understand. Adams said, actually I don't know. If I think you are Ai and the enemy of mankind, then I will definitely not save you. But I didn't think so much at that time, but instinctively felt that someone was in danger and I had to save him. Instinct, do you understand? Kindness is a kind of instinct of human beings. I think your electronic brain will not understand what kind of kindness is.

Zhang Ran thinks this modification is good, but it is not good enough, and the plot is not convincing enough.

While Zhang Ran communicated with Aziva, Matt Damon kept listening quietly, not interrupting, nodding from time to time, and bowing his head from time to time to time to ponder.

Zhang Ran Lamat Damon came over to make suggestions, so he naturally wouldn't let him stay idle, so he said, "Do you have any suggestions?"

Matt Damon pondered and said, "Many movies will arrange for important characters to die at this time, so that Gu can watch him die slowly, and watch the light in his eyes slowly dim, causing Gu's heart to be impacted, and then he asked Adams why?"

Aziva applauded and said, "My second draft is to let Adams meet his wife again in prison. Adams's wife has been in prison for three years. She hates Ai very much and hates Gu very much. But at a critical moment, she died to save Gu, so Gu was hit in a lot of shock. However, Robin felt that it was too deliberate and too sensational. He wanted a sense of loneliness, so he refused to let Adams meet his wife again!"

Zhang Ran saw Matt Damon looking at him in surprise and spread his hands and explained: "I hope to show a sense of loneliness. I think each of us is actually lonely inside, human beings are lonely, and robots are lonely. Many choices each of us make, even human exploration and progress, are essentially trying to get rid of loneliness! The development of technology seems to make communication easier for people, but in fact it has aggravated the barriers between people and is even more lonely. Therefore, I hope the future world I show is cold and lacks the softness of human nature."

Aziva advised: "Adams' reunion with his wife will not affect this expression. What's more important is that we have no other solution now. If we don't do this, there will be huge logical flaws. If the whole story doesn't make sense and the story is not credible, then everything else is meaningless. I think we can follow this path first. If we have a better idea in the future, then we will change it!"

Zhang Ran pondered for a while, looked at Matt Damon, and asked, "What do you think!"

Matt Damon shrugged and said, "I agree, and a movie would be bad if there is no female drama. From a business perspective, I think Adams and his wife should meet again in prison." He squeezed his eyes at Zhang Ran and said, "Scarlett is a stunner, and the audience must hope that I will have a ** relationship with her!"

Zhang Ran laughed and said, "The audience hopes to have a ** bed scene with Scarlett!" He snapped his fingers and said, "I agree with your suggestions, okay, let's discuss the next issue!" 8)
Chapter completed!