Chapter 260： The Birth of the Big Bang (1/2)
Chapter 260 The Birth of the Big Bang
Wang Yang invited two of the founding members of ”The Big Bang Theory”. One is Graham Reinham. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 22, 1968. He is a well-known TV screenwriter and director in the British television industry. The sitcom ”Father Ted”, which he created and wrote, won the baftas award (British Academy Television Award) for the best comedy (program or series) in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and was nominated in 1997.
”Father Ted” also won the 1996 ”British Screenwriters Union” ”TV-Situational Comedy” award; in addition, the first season of his ”Black Bookstore” also won the baftas 1 year sitcom award.
For TV viewers in North America, most people know that the producer of ”Brotherhood” is Steven Spielberg, and that there is Wang Yang in ”Prison Break”, which is naturally due to the effect of publicity; also There will be dramas mí, attention to subtitles, viewers who watch entertainment news, TV magazines, etc. The main creators of ”Friends” are David Cran and Marta Kaufman. The producers of ”” and ”: Miami” have Gold producer Jerry Bruckheimer ...
But to ask Graham Reinham, a powerful character in the British drama circle, everyone has almost no clue ,?
Earlier, Wang Yang's invitation received Graham's confusion. British and American dramas are like two worlds. The American drama pays attention to ”you learned this through this ...” It pays to ridicule each other, and there will be audiences at the shooting site, recording their laughter, reaching more than one episode in one season; six episodes of one season in the British drama, focusing on scenes and role conflicts to form laugh fruit The degree of dramatic exaggeration can be completely separated from reality, and the plot is often used to spoof a certain aspect of reality.
If you go to the United States, you must create according to the American drama style. Graham has no longing for Hollywood and industrial assembly lines; there is no objection, there are higher treatment, more job opportunities and better future prospects. Especially the person who invited him now is Wang Yang, Miracle Yang.
If someone else said he might have refused, but on the phone, he questioned: ”I'm not sure I can adapt to American sitcoms, what do you think?”
”You are a person with a lot of detail and imagination. The use of scenes and props has a wonderful humor. I need them.” Wang Yang answered him this way, which is exactly the idea in his heart. The cultural difference between British and American dramas Not so big, according to the information in my mind, the ”Office” that debuted in 1 year will also be intentionally adapted to the ”It Madman” American drama in o5.
Not to mention the ”Big Bang” made from scratch, Wang Yang told Graham: ”Because this series of characters is more exaggerated than other dramas, but they can exist.” Graham Mu understands this meaning, which is also a characteristic of American dramas. Even if it is absurd, it will not abandon reality, at most it is a group of weirdos.
Wang Yang also said: ”The focus of the story is not irony or education, but characterization. We arrange some events for them. Their faces are faced with these situations and they should behave as they please, naturally funny.” Of course, this is also the reason why American sitcoms are closer to life, and at the same time they are easily modeled. There are too few unexpected places.
”Your main work in the team is not the design of the characters and the main bridge of the story, but the design of the details of the story. It adds some surprises to the scene shots and props without the sound of lines, but you know that all the roads lead An end point. ”
Wang Yang attaches great importance to these. Compared to the usual mutual loss lines, ”moving” is more prone to laugh and impress. Small scientific details such as Leonard rotating olives in a glass, explaining to Pennie what centripetal force is , Shelton and Leonard pushed a big box up the stairs, the two argued about what angle of incline can be pushed up; the use of props also reached the peak in the third season of the peak, the green light of the kite and Green Lantern , The Lord of the Rings ...
No matter the props on science, comics and other geeks, there will be a lot of them in this series. He hopes that the person in charge of this team is Graham Reinham, because this kind of detail is exactly the British drama. The advantage is good, ”Black Bookstore”, ”It Madman” have a lot of memorable arrangements.
”What I value is your ability to handle details, and I know that you are an active user of a blog. You have a fairly good understanding of it and computers. This is one of the key points of our series, of course, and science.” Wang Yang That being said, everyone knows that everyone who joins the team must make full preparations and research on the materials, especially the Irish need to work hard to understand these ”specialties” in the United States.
Graham suggested that he should consider it carefully before replying. If he went to Los Angeles and was able to integrate into the team, it was another world. He might follow the ”Big Bang” for five or ten years. Know where to go.
After more than a week, Graham, who was supported by his family and now has no job, agreed to come to Los Angeles to change the environment and make a new attempt.
The invitation of another creator is much simpler. He is exactly one of the two original creators of the ”Big Bang”, Bill Prady, and the second original creator, Chuck Lorry, is now ”two heroes.” The editor-in-chief of Half ”is naturally not in the invited list.
And Bill Prady, like Graham, is idle without work. He was born on June 7th, and is a well-known sitcom writer and TV producer in Hollywood. His ”Wife and Wife Not Right”, which was written by him and ended in five seasons last year, was in 1998. ”Favorite TV Comedy Series” that won the People's Choice Award.
He was not surprised by the invitation of Miracle Yang. He was more excited and agreed in a single breath.
Prady is mainly responsible for the design of the plots and lines of the plot; Wang Yang controls everything, leading the role, plot, lines ... and other episodes; plus Graham Reinham and script consultant David Sa Erzbauer, the determined ”Big Bang” creative team is very strong.
”Guys, remember to move everything! The character must be cute, you know it ’s not a beauty, it ’s a baby, it ’s puppy-g! The kind of feeling that makes you feel the urge to pinch him, not the butt, give them some cute Things, especially this 'Sheldon-Cooper'. ”
In the bright office, 35-year-old Graham, 36-year-old David Salzburg and 43-year-old Bill Prady sat at the steel-wood round table. They had all signed confidentiality contracts and preliminary contracts. Although, with Wang Yang's words from time to time smiling, but all listened very carefully.
The round table is full of paper, and the English and pictures on the paper are some of the episode settings and selected bridges that have been made. These character settings and style settings are all mature products that have been explored by the original ”Big Bang” and ”It Madman” teams, and there is no need to go the wrong way now. But there is something called ”texture” and ”three-dimensional sense”. Even if there are pictures and texts, and there are stories and lines to refine the characters, Wang Yang still has to explain how ”cute” is cute. What an abomination is.
The sound of ”Dada Da” sounded, and the letters on the whiteboard erected in front of the round table were increasing. Wang Yang took the whiteboard pen and wrote next to ”Sheldon Cooper”: ”Lovely.”
Turned around and looked at three middle-aged men again, all three were easy to get along with. David Salzburg was an indisputable scholar, he would not have any objections, but only provided team science and physics professors In terms of knowledge requirements; Graham Reinhan is in the running-in period, the main task is a small idea; so the main explorers are Bill Prady and Wang Yang.
It is worth mentioning that Prady likes Chinese food very much, and also has a certain interest in Chinese culture. Probably this is the reason for the pile of Chinese elements in the original ”Big Bang”, but apparently neither cbs nor he has the intention of adding Chinese characters. Only let two ”Sichuan boys” show their faces. Therefore, Bill Prady has his own ideas about the Chinese elements and Chinese characters set by Wang Yang.