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Three elements of a story: people, events and themes. The three elements are subdivided into eight small elements, among which the characters are subdivided into three small elements. . . Why does the theme divide positive value into negative value? Because there is a wrestling process of positive and negative values in the story, negative values will appear, but in the end, positive values overcome negative values and reflect positive energy.

Then the three elements are subdivided into eight small elements.

What kind of person (identity) has what kind of thoughts and desires, what can be done to realize this idea (action), and whether it can be realized (core issue) is difficult enough (resistance is a lot, and resistance determines the key to the wonderful degree of the story to a certain extent. The greater the resistance, the more wonderful the story is, and finally a result is obtained, which embodies the positive value, overcomes the negative value and promotes the positive energy.

This is the principle and theory in the book.

The tadpole looks for his mother.

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Identity: Tadpole

Desire: looking for mom

Action: swim, swim and look everywhere.

Event: Looking for Mom

Core question: Can you find it?

Resistance: I found the wrong one again and again, holding this thigh and calling for my mother. The tortoise said, "I'm not your mother."

Result: I found it and it grew up by itself.

Theme: mother-child affection, mother-child heart-to-heart, mother-child affection.

But the eight elements are principles, and the story may not be complete after wearing them. Only Bao Zheng's story is complete.

Today I will talk about the practical application of the eight elements.

Example: make up a story yourself. Writing the story of a certain character, the story of the police and bandits, and the police catching bad guys are the biggest themes in the world of TV dramas at present, just like the arrival of ancient monsters, disaster movies, and so-and-so going over mountains to find treasures. Treasure hunting movies and disaster movies are the first major themes of the ancients, and they are loved to listen. The first major theme in modern times is disaster movies, where the police catch bad guys and the police catch thieves.

China police catch thieves with such a small theme? Think for yourself. Chen Si wanted to speak Chinese with actors in China, and filmed detective films in China, but went to Chinatown in Thailand.

Personality application? Real fighting

identity

The police add negative attributes to your character. A policeman who desperately wants to die.

desire

Justice (upholding justice, punishing evil and promoting good, pursuing justice) is told to monkeys, and primitive (hunger, love, revenge, superior protection of daughters)

behaviour

Catch bad guys, catch things and kill things.

event

core problem

There is a particularly difficult case, and detective films usually produce several small cases, which shows that the police are smart, witty, kind and brave, and also shows that he has any extraordinary ability to establish the image of the police. Then came a very important case, Sherlock. He solved several trivial cases when he came up, which made him look smart. Watson was shocked. He immediately performed a series of suicides, which became the biggest problem. Can you seize the suspense and not die, it is time to die and hinder (resistance, gully)?

Bad guys are too bad and teammates are not strong. At this time, God can play tricks on you. He is struggling with the divorce lawsuit. Solving a case is not easy at home (full of resistance, all kinds of resistance) Environment, opponents, and yourself?

As a result, the desire was bypassed and realized. 1 black boy, kill two birds with one stone, cool film.

positive value

Evil is invincible, and positive pressure is evil, that is, justice, maternal love, kindness, redemption, truth to live better and protect more daughters.

Negative value?

Full story: the police pursue justice and then catch the bad guys. Can you hold it? The bad guys were so bad and really cunning, but they were caught in the end. What does it show? Good triumphs over evil.

What's so interesting about this story? A policeman pursues justice and wants to catch bad guys. Bad guys are not easy to catch. It takes some effort to catch them. Let you watch this film for two hours, tickets are free, and you don't even watch popcorn.

So the eight elements can only guarantee the continuity and integrity of the story. It is not enough to tell a wonderful story. If you only recited eight elements, you would have done it long ago. This lesson is worthless.

Identity is the first thing to describe. A simple way to test a character's identity is to tell friends around him, "I'll tell you a story about what kind of person." He just wants to hear it. If he doesn't want to hear it, he has to reconsider. You say to your friend, "I'll tell you a story about the police." He won't look up. "I'll tell you a story about a brave policeman pursuing justice." Ninety-five percent won't look up.

Formula:

Give your character a negative definition. What is the original definition of negative value? Evil. Then move the negative value-I'll tell you a story about an evil policeman. It's just that friends have a half chance to look up and say, "What evil law?" Isn't that the effect? But isn't it contradictory for evil police to pursue justice? Evil policemen can also pursue justice. You can pursue self-justice, or partial justice, or partial justice. Is not to delay his pursuit of justice. And evil is not necessarily all he has. It's actually reverse thinking.

For example, suppose the protagonist is a teacher. "I'll tell you a story about a teacher." Friends don't look up.

Then I want to be negative. What are the positive values of teachers? Smart, knowledgeable, caring, kind, like an angel, gentle, these are the positive values of traditional teachers. Wrong number. "I tell you a math teacher who doesn't know anything about math. I'll tell you about a math teacher who can't even add, subtract, multiply and divide. Your friend immediately looked up and said, "How did he teach it? "Isn't he interested?

"I tell you a teacher who hates to see children and wants to fight when he sees them. Don't friends look up? Add a negative attribute to your character identity in your theme. How to test whether your desires are interesting enough?

The formula of desire:

Tell a monkey your wish. If the monkey looks up, desire becomes. Seeing a monkey, I walked over and squatted next to it. Do monkeys like catching lice from each other? You help someone catch a monkey and tell him your wish. "Let's do justice." Can monkeys look up? No, justice is not desire, or justice is not qualified to be desired.

So what kind of justice can make monkeys look up? Primitive, where is this? A lot. You squat down next to it. There are bananas on that tree. Let's go. It will go for you right away. It's called hunger. Squat down, "Xiaohei, look at that female monkey." Where is it? Where is it? It looked up again. This is love. The pursuit of love. The pursuit of love

"I heard that last week, you wanted to be the Monkey King? I had a fight with my boss. Look, if you let him catch you, you're still hurt. Scrape it today, and I'll help you. " The monkey looked up and thought that one dozen and two were all right. Go, look up again.

Why? Revenge, superior. Find someone who is eager to be us, and justice will be almost the same. What are the requirements of the action? Transitivity. Action must be a transitive verb. Arrest-okay, arrest who, followed by a noun. Catch who? Kill who? Must be a transitive verb.

event

This question, this question. What do you mean, can you? The core question of an event is whether it can be done or not. What is the core question? Another way of understanding, suspense. It allows you, it supports you, completes the play and arouses your imagination about the play, whether it works or not. So this suspense can't be broken. You can change it, but you cannot break it. Can change, can also be two suspense overlap, but can not be broken, try to ensure that its intensity is getting stronger and stronger, in the story.

Resistance should be large, combined, set small resistance for large resistance, and combine primary resistance with secondary resistance.

So, how to achieve it? Divide the resistance into three parts, write your other resistance later and use your imagination. There are three kinds of resistance:

Resistance from the environment

Resistance from opponents

Self-imposed resistance. Generally speaking, the order of the three resistances is as follows.

For example, writing a story about a policeman catching a bad guy usually comes from the environment.

So why is this kind of film so difficult to judge? What is the police environment like? In fact, it is your working environment and your police station. Others don't want to arrest him, or others want to protect him, they all take his money. At this time, when the resistance comes up, it will be tied behind your back, and the environmental resistance. What environment? For the police, it is his working environment. For example, the police station has an umbrella for a mole or a bad guy. Or the whole police station was bought by the bad guys, you alone. This is the environmental resistance.

The opponent, obviously, is the person you defeated, and that is your opponent. How bad they are and how difficult your task is.

The last kind of resistance comes from itself. In all kinds of dramas with rich levels of resistance, the protagonist actually needs to overcome himself in the end. His own interests, his own greed and the struggle for justice were his last resistance. Of course, there are also particularly just ones. With this role, I am just, I have not wavered, but I will also resist myself. For example, a child was kidnapped and the child fell into the wrong hands. That is actually whether to pursue justice or protect children's lives. This is what children do to themselves. To some extent, he is fighting himself ideologically, because your protagonist is so right. So the resistance is divided into three groups, and the main force of this problem is solved.

As a result, how to achieve wonderful? How to be wonderful in actual combat?

Didn't he just want to catch the bad guys when he realized it and finally caught them? The action was to catch the bad guys and finally caught them. Isn't this the result? This is the most wrong place. All wet.

As a result, what results do we want?

The formula of the result: bypass the action and realize the desire.

This is the best result. Is that you bypass your own behavior and realize your own desires. For example, I am a starving person. What is my desire? Desire is survival. You must talk to the monkey. I'm starving. Of course I want to live, not die. The action is: there is a chef selling cakes, and I want to steal cakes. Is that I am a very hungry person. My action is to steal cakes to eat.

The best ending of the story is to bypass the action and realize the wish. That is, although you didn't steal the cake, or someone caught you stealing it at the last minute. You didn't steal the cake, or you gave up, but you realized your wish. The cake seller gave you a cake and said, "Don't steal it. Tell me when you are hungry. We want this ending, okay? "

Positive value, negative value, what is the trick of justice to overcome evil?

If you don't tell stories, just talk about the contest between positive and negative values, and tell your theme again, others will feel a little embarrassed, that is, the most vulgar words are the best themes: justice, maternal love, kindness, redemption and truth. None of these words are well displayed. For people when they are young. For example, if people ask you, what story are you writing ...

You will feel that you should stop writing. Young people are always a little rebellious and always want to write an evil story. Why do you want to write a true story? The theme and positive value must be these. The words of justice have never wavered. All the basics have been removed. The first column is the eight elements in the book, and the second column is a complete story based on the eight elements in the book, but it is not wonderful now.

In actual combat, each of us has a pair of methods to modify the eight elements. An example was given earlier, but it was too inertia and too straightforward. Is there any added value? A timid policeman, this is also a negative value, so it is inconvenient for him to perform various tasks. A timid criminal police officer, major crimes unit, and then he began to point to some negative things. Where did these things come from, or accumulated.

Best attribute: a policeman who desperately wants to die in the line of duty. This attribute is no longer the negative value of the police, but the negative value of people. Tell a friend, "hey, buddy, I'll tell you one. I think a policeman wants to die every day because of his duty." I immediately asked: Why? Sacrifice? Isn't it simple to sacrifice? Being killed by a car on the road immediately aroused his interest.

Wanting to die is a negative value, survival is a basic value, and wanting to die is a negative value of people. Very attractive. The first task was accomplished beautifully.

But to solve the problem of rationality. If you just want to attract the attention of others, there is no end. "I'll tell you the story of a policeman with wings. He is two meters 36 and weighs more than four hundred kilograms. His upper body is human and his lower body is dog. Your friend will definitely look up, but he may hit you. You can't make the previous law too bizarre just to make others look up to it. Then it loses credibility.

If you lose credibility, you lose feelings. The decomposition of the protagonist's shoulders, but don't forget the role of the protagonist. The protagonist is a perspective figure who takes you through the whole story, and his first priority is * * * love. You can't just remember my protagonist, add an attribute in front of it, and it will be unconstrained. That won't do either. We should add an attribute within a reasonable range.

A policeman who longs for death needs to rationalize him. What kind of policeman wants to die? We have to find someone for him ... He needs love now, because most people don't want to die, and we want to live. So what kind of people have to sacrifice? It can be assumed that he lost someone and he was very sad. Who did you lose? There must be close relatives. There are three close relatives, mother, wife and daughter. There are few sons. According to the truth, the son and daughter are exactly the same, but in the play, you go to see the hero. In the play, every man is a tough guy and a hero. He saved his daughter but could not save his son. This is a shameless little rule. It's like shopping in the supermarket. 9.9, 99.9, 29.9. Don't you know that's 30? But 19.90 dollars will make you very comfortable. This is a shameless trick. Use it when you need it. Who did you lose? For example, losing a daughter is definitely the strongest, and feeling * * * is the best. A policeman who lost his daughter.

So losing his daughter made him sad enough to want to sacrifice? Rationalize it.

As a policeman, his duty is protection, and his attribute is protection. He protected many people, but one day his daughter went to high school and went to cram school. It's late at night. It's time for her to pick up her daughter. He probably didn't go because of his job, and then her daughter was raped and killed. As a father, he failed in his duty. He didn't protect his daughter well, so his daughter is dead now. Moreover, the first few minutes of the story will be illustrated by some details. My daughter was a very good child, very obedient, just like an angel. Then he will feel that his daughter is in heaven. He wants to continue to protect his daughter, because he has not done his duty in his life, so he wants to protect her. So you said he could kill himself? Suicide can't go to heaven, suicide will go to hell. As a policeman, he wants to see his daughter as soon as possible. The only thing he can do is to die in the line of duty. He must make sacrifices. We can also explain the history of police. He may not have been a particularly good policeman before, so now he must die in the line of duty to ensure that his daughter can protect her. Now the image of this policeman is complete and reasonable, including negative attributes. Let your friend look up and want to hear it.

What is the wish of such a policeman who desperately wants to die? Desire is to protect his daughter, and he also wants to protect his daughter. Let's test it. How come? How to test desire? Looking for a monkey, you said to protect your daughter, can he understand? Why don't you try touching his daughter? There is a monkey holding its baby in the zoo. Try to move it. It won't scratch you. There is nothing wrong with the monkey's thirst for knowledge.

Action, how to protect your daughter? Begging for death. The action has changed. The question is, can you die, when, and who will die?

This role has completed one of the first three steps. A policeman eager to sacrifice himself, in order to go to heaven as soon as possible and see his daughter, he went everywhere to die and wanted to die in the line of duty. So, he may be an ordinary film policeman here. Listen to the other person say, "Oh, there is a man with a bomb tied to him. What should we do? Which subway station is it? This has nothing to do with him. He went. Everyone arranged there, and the public security bureau and the director also came, holding big speakers: Oh, where's the sniper? Everyone is in command there. He was wearing a police uniform and a yellow vest, so he went up naked. When he walked up to the gangster, he stunned other policemen. Where the hell is this department? The negotiator is still there: I'll help you, and then he went up. Tonggu Tonggu that gangster, Tonggu Tonggu that gangster, that gangster was completely stunned by him. What do you think the police are doing so close? The gangster surrendered. Looking for death everywhere, the core question is whether he will die, that is, when and how.

How to strengthen the core issue is a constant suspense. The theme of this story has almost come out A policeman who desperately wants to die, in order to protect his daughter, went to heaven, so its core question is when she will die, how he will die and whether he can die. So this suspense can't be broken. In fact, by this time, the theme is almost out.

What will be the theme? The best theme is to be alive, or to be alive. Your daughter might want to see you alive. It is your daughter's greatest comfort that you are alive to help more people. You can be a good policeman in society, and you can save more daughters. You lost your daughter alone, so don't let everyone lose their daughter. The theme is basically like this. Very positive energy, the theme is vulgar, that is, people are more valuable alive. As a policeman, you should guard more daughters than your dead daughter. What positive energy this is. This theme can be announced in advance, that is, it is better to have more daughters and protect more daughters. After this theme comes out, suspense can't be broken, and suspense can be divided into two.

In the first half, he wants to die, and in the second half, he wants to live. In the process of his progress, he changed. He found a serial rape case. How did her daughter die? Raped and killed, too In the case of serial rape, many little girls the same age as their daughters were killed, and three, four and five occurred one after another. This incident strongly stimulated him. He wouldn't kill himself in front of such a thing. Or he won't want to die, he will at least die with this gangster. So here, he is involved in the case, but the murderer is extremely cruel and the opponent is extremely cruel. He wants to live again, so the suspense of whether he will die cannot be broken. Doesn't mean he's motivated here and always wants to die in front. Here, I want to explore the case, and I become a policeman again. I observe the evidence every day, analyze it, and then analyze it with my brain. Well, it's almost solved. No, the core issue is still a matter of life and death, that is, it is too deep in front of him. For example, he always wanted to die, not to die. He confiscated his gun last time. At this time, he already wanted to live, but he didn't have a gun. Instead, he was passive, that is, he always wanted to die in front of him and was cursed. It affected him and began to want to live. This story goes here. Resistance: environmental resistance, opponent resistance and self-resistance. Of course, the environment has resistance. When he wanted to die, the environment wouldn't let him die, and he also made various contributions. A policeman who wants to die every day is in the police force. As long as he doesn't die, he is a man of the hour, making contributions every day, so the environment is very unfriendly to him. It is unfriendly to him to want to die, and it is in line with our review. Maybe he can pass. At first, his opponent was a colleague, watching him every day, not letting him go on a mission, and not telling him that he had a mission. Later, he became those gangsters. At first, some punks knew that he was not desperate. The crime rate in his neighborhood is rising, zero crime rate, zero crime. Finally, the bad guy, his opponent, is his own opponent, which is easy to do in such a divided role. Whether he is alive or dead, he feels guilty about his daughter's thoughts. He felt unworthy of being a father, a policeman and living in the world. His struggle with himself is very great, so this man's resistance is very great. As a result, he bypassed the action and realized his wish. Action is to kill yourself, and desire is to protect your daughter. Living can protect more daughters.

Is this story forced in an instant?

A policeman who wants to be killed in the line of duty, because his daughter was killed, quietly wants to be killed, and wants to protect his daughter from death. But because of his excessive courage, he was promoted in the police circle and then transferred to the criminal police. From an ordinary traffic policeman to a criminal police team, he can start to contact criminal cases. Contact with criminal cases, I thought it was easier to die here. In death, he got closer, and his goal was almost achieved. However, when I looked through the answers of situational cases, I found that there were many little girls who were killed in their youth like his daughter. He will think of his daughter. He is not only a father, but also a policeman. And now he is still a criminal policeman. So it seems that he was moved, either by the little girl who just died or by her parents. Case solved. He's not afraid of death anyway. Then he was in the criminal police. Then he will solve the case. But in the process of solving the case, when he really wants to be a good policeman. He is not the man he used to be. He is not the man who is not afraid of death. Instead, he has a hard life. He used to want to die, but now he wants to live a hard life and his life is threatened. Finally, the theme is better to live and protect more daughters. The story caught fire at once. But also has a certain popularity. You don't have to change it. Now it's more than enough to write it down and shoot a big screen. Making a movie is hard to say.

Some students said that one like this is now a practical exercise, and eight elements are put together. But this story has no ending. So what happened in the end? He died? Or is he still alive? What was his final outcome? The ending, just like this story, when it comes to this, the theme has been realized, but the ending is a gift. The ending doesn't really matter.

Pretend a few endings now.

It's the same COP.

1 Tell the most vulgar story first. He solved the serial rape case. When he saw these little girls taking revenge, he also saved the lives of the little girls behind. Very happy ending. At the same time, he also found that his daughter died at the hands of this man. This is an ending. He got rid of the murderer, who was both his opponent and the murderer of his daughter. This is the end of killing two birds with one stone. It's cool. Finally, the bad guys are brought to justice. Moreover, this bad guy, of course, was not the last one to be found. He can find half of it, but don't find it too early. It's best if he decides to help these girls and finds out that it's his fault that my daughter is in the process. That's worse, equal to his own motivation, and his change is active. It's equal to killing two birds with one stone and picking it up for nothing. This kind of film is cool, equivalent to business. Commercial films are not derogatory terms, the ending is not important, they are pure gifts. People can give you anything to make you happy and relax. My daughter also got revenge. Take a deep breath, cool movie.

Caught the murderer, the murderer is the murderer, has nothing to do with his daughter, this is a normal ending.

The murderer was caught and rescued. Didn't the murderer rape and kill a little girl in her prime? It is equivalent to having one in her hand, that is, when he caught the murderer, he saved the last little girl in the murderer's family who was going to be killed. It means he gave him the little girl's life. Saved a little girl, and then the little girl had a single mother. Why has he been looking for death before? More reasons are actually loneliness. If he hadn't brought up his daughter himself, I believe he wouldn't have done so if he had a wife. So he is actually suffering more from loneliness.

So this little girl has a mother. Is equal to the little girl is equivalent to her daughter's body body double, the little girl's mother with eyes or something, of course, can't say, at the end of the two people hug and kiss, there is no such film. For example, his mother shyly invited him to dinner at home, and the audience understood. The little girl's mother is equal to

His ultimate goal of redemption was achieved. This kind of film is called bad film. It's not impossible to be a little melodramatic This is another kind of cool movie. Saved the girl and her mother, completed the police, completed his life and filled his emptiness.

He caught the last vicious murderer and died together. This kind of film is called black humor, which is a bit ironic, that is, you can't die if you want to, or you can die if you don't want to. Or die a fair death.

More extreme black humor mutually assured destruction, that is, the biggest murderer killed, won, no problem, and he also made meritorious deeds, and finally felt that he had done a personnel thing, a thing that a person should do, a thing that a father should do, and a thing that a policeman should do. But before him, he wanted to die several times, offended a hooligan, a very humble little beggar, and finally killed him. It's called black humor made up by a pervert screenwriter, and it's not impossible. In other words, didn't you want to die at first? Here you are.

The ending in this film doesn't affect the overall theme, so just install one, depending on your preference. This is a gift. But if you extract the main body of the story, it will be enough.

Remember the methods and formulas for increasing the strength of each element.