The cover of the cover 丨 "The Covenant" hit the original author Zheng Zhi: Become a screenwriter to make up for the regret of writing novels

Author:Cover news Time:2022.08.22

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Zheng Zhi, writer, screenwriter.

Novel works include "Shengyao", "Fairy", "Floating", "I Wait at the End of Time", "Don't Go to that Town", "I only care about you", etc.; Screenwriter works "I wait for you at the end of time", "Copy Ghost" "hedgehog".

In 2018, he won the first prize of the 2018 "Carp · Anonymous Writer Program" with the short stories "Xian Di"; in 2019, he won the Star Literature Award of the "Zhongshan" Award "Youth Masterpiece Award" with "Xian Di"; "Future writer" award.

At present, the TV series "Copy Ghost" adapted from its best -selling work "Sheng Xian" is currently on the air.

Cover Journalist Xun Chao Intern Liu Xingyu

At present, the TV series "The Copy Ghost" starring Zheng Zhi, directed by Zhang Xiaobo, Ou Hao, Wang Yanhui, Wang Yuwen, Zhou still, Hou Wenyuan and other starring TV series is currently on the air. This youthful suspense drama adapted from Zheng Zhi's original novel "Swallow", with two murder scenes that spans ten years and "exactly the same", unveiled a period of youth and suffering, intertwined friendship and betrayal, and betrayal, and betrayal. Full of regret and sad past. Recently, Zheng Zhi, who is also the original author and screenwriter, was interviewed by the cover journalist to talk about the transformation of two identities and his views on film and television adaptation.

Make up for the regret of creation

Continue to write "the story of emotional flow"

The novel "Summary", which includes elements such as crime, youth, and suspense, is hailed as "Chinese version of" White Night Walk ". On the surface, "Sheng Xian" set a case of a community of society, but inside the shell, but the youthful and cruel words of several young people. Zheng Zhi's writing, along the two perspectives and two clues: one is the clue of the character "Feng Guojin", from a omni -knowledge perspective, and shows the coolness of the Northeast through the cordonal perspective. This line focuses on the plot of the plot. , Calling the rhythm is fast; the other clue is the clue of the character "Wang Yan", from the perspective of "I" to reveal the sadness of Wang Yan, Huang Yan, Qin Li and others from the perspective of "I". Peace is a small age. By 2003, the protagonist graduated from middle school.

"Either write novels or scripts," talk about desire "is always the first driving force." When the film and television company found Zheng Zhi talk about the film and television adaptation of the novel, he recommended himself to become the screenwriter of "The Covenant". "In the novel, I I feel that because of the objective restrictions, I have not told this story according to what I feel. "In Zheng Zhi's view, there are space limitations and rhythm restrictions on the serialization of the novel, coupled with the reader's expectations and the sense of oppression of the renewal, and the sense of oppression of the reconciliation. He had to speed up the rhythm of the novel and gave up many original writing plans.

"Copy Ghost" stills

Zheng Zhi frankly: "The part I am most regrettable and wants to make up is the story of emotional flow between these four young boys and girls, the relationship between them. Compared with the suspense part, the rhythm is slow. It is better. But at the time, it was serialized or paper publishing books, and none of them really made up. In the "Copy Ghost" episode, I am the most enjoyable, the most, and the most satisfied. Give me enough time to compensate, and slowly tell the story of these four young people. "

When Zheng Zhi is in creation, he will never frame himself in a specific type of "suspense" or "youth". Life and death, life and death are a proposition. As a novelist and screenwriter, tell a story, telling the feelings of good people is the top priority. "He always believes that people who like these works will see himself from the story. "In the screenwriter" Copy Ghost ", Zheng Zhi also focused on the multi -line narrative in the original." I always think that a multi -time narrative, giving people a sense of memory, layering, contrast, and stacking. The temperament that the script that has always wanted to retain from novels to "Bald Ghost" is also a respect for the original readers. But this temperament is hard to retain, it takes a little adventure spirit and some skills. "

Cross -border script creation from novels

"Screenwriter is a job of cooperation"

As the screenwriter and the original author of "The Golden Ghost", Zheng Zhi participated in the creative process of the entire episode. You have to go to the toilet in the middle and drink a water, it is best to follow the suspension of the drama. "Although some netizens questioned the slow rhythm, Zheng Zhi had great confidence in the quality of the play. A drama of the audience believes that after a period of time, "Covenant" will definitely find more audiences that belong to it. They will know each other and know each other, just like the friendship of four young people and their life journey. "

Walking between the two identities of the screenwriter and the author, Zheng Zhi also summarized the different creative experiences between the two types of work: "Play a simple metaphor, write a novel, you are the king of a person country. You only need to be responsible for yourself; the screenwriter creates the script, the movie and the TV series are a kind of cooperative work. Everything must be based on cooperation. Finally, the script must be filmed, actor performances, and later production to see if it can achieve the original effect. The success or failure of the script, the success of a drama, and the success of a movie are not a single element from the beginning. "

Ou Hao played "Qin Li" in the TV series "Copy Ghost" and saw his work successfully on the screen. The length of the episode is longer than the present, and I watched it in the director's studio. After watching it for two consecutive days, I cried so weak and crashed to collapse. "Talking about the propaganda of" don't be the courageous ghost ", he explained:" People must face their fear and cowardice in order to understand the true meaning of bravery. The part of the sadness in this story is because we are not brave enough when we should be brave. It is what we are really worthy of reflection after we are adults. "

In the interview, Zheng Zhi also affirmed the performance of several actors in the play. "Ou Hao's eyes always have a very clean youthful temperament, especially the state of presented after makeup, which makes me feel completely in line with 'Qin Li'. It is also very recognized. "He also revealed that the script was finalized in the image of the four actors. "These four young actors have their own personality and personality, including the way they perform, and the understanding of the script and story is very interesting. Under a reasonable situation, let the original actors adjust the actors to adjust before It is a powerful screenwriter to do. "

Photo according to the TV series "Copy Ghost" film

Poster of "Copy Ghost"