Basic Law of Genius： Truth and Love Not Only Mathematics ｜ Interview with the Master ｜

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The "Basic Law of Genius" ended, and only the world of cheese Pei was reached.

The joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same. In the strawberry world, Lin Zhaori is an ordinary person who needs to be adjusted for postgraduate entrance examination. His father has Alzheimer’s disease, and his talented boyfriend once gave up mathematics and became a boxer.

In the cheese world, they all made a name for themselves. Lin Zhaosheng and Pei Zhi solved the problem of P=NP together. Lin took his younger brother’s flower roll to the entertainment circle and became a young and promising boss of a brokerage company.

Which world would you choose?

"The best part of all time-travel novels and time-travel dramas is to change the world with cheating." As a director, Shen Yan understands the cool point of the audience.

However, he also knows that the core of crossing is to cherish the present. Everyone is not as fragile as they think. After experiencing difficulties and setbacks, more people choose to face their lives like Lin Zhaori.

After the broadcast of the Basic Law of Genius, public opinion seems to have formed two worlds:

Some viewers think that the drama series "magic change" deviates from the theme and characters of the novel;

Another part of the audience was pleasantly surprised by the understanding and expression of truth and love in Mobius’ ring-like fantasy story.

Lin Zhaoxi’s journey has come to an end for the time being, and the adventures of domestic drama creators have just begun.

The director of "scum" became attached to mathematics.

More than ten years ago, Shen Yan was deeply moved by the film The Pursuit of Happyness. The down-and-out salesman staged a counterattack feeling of Jedi counterattack, which instantly hit Shen Yan, and the idea of making a Chinese-style The Pursuit of Happyness was born. The inspirational story presented in the novel The Basic Law of Genius brought the possibility of Shen Yan’s conception to the ground.

Niu Jixin, the chief producer, expressed his intention to adapt the novel after reading it for a few days. Niu Jixin told me, "Although we couldn’t imagine what the Basic Law of Genius would be made at that time, according to our screening criteria, we are more concerned about the novelty of the project, the professional ability of the creative staff, and the understanding and insight of the audience. These are the selection factors closer to success."

The novel of "The Basic Law of Genius" has a large number of books. The creative team wants to adapt such a work that combines elements such as crossing, parallel time and space, mathematics and suspense. The difficulty can be imagined. If there is a little magic change, it will be easily spit out. Shen Yan is very aware of the risks. "I don’t have a CP combination with screenwriter Nie Chengshuai," Nie Shenzhong is guilty "(laughs).

Lin Zhaori and Ji Jiang’s double crossing is the first step made by the main creative team. Shen Yan thinks that double crossing is opportunistic, which can not only avoid Lin Zhaori’s difficulty in communicating with people in the cheese world, but also pave the way for the relationship between the characters behind.

In addition to adaptation, actors will also re-create their lines during filming, and improvisation is also the best part of creation.

The most impressive fragment of Shen Yan is that Lin Zhaoxi and Hua Juan feel that they can’t go back anymore and want to be brothers and sisters. Hua Juan’s face is full of words, "Why can’t I be your brother?" Lin stared at him in the morning and evening. "Look at your height." Hua Juan replied without weakness, "Look at the size of your strawberry world."

Seeing the ingenuity of these little actors, Shen Yan laughed at the monitor. A 9-year-old child could say such precise words in the characters.

When balancing various elements, Shen Yan put family ties in the first place, followed by love, and finally mathematics. The affection between father and son and father and daughter shown in the Basic Law of Genius is Shen Yan’s obsession. "As a father, I want to have a dialogue with my children through this drama."

Speaking of which, Shen Yan choked instantly and calmed down for a while before continuing to talk to you. As the creator of many national emotional dramas, Shen Yan is very good at dealing with subtle emotions between people, thinking that he is a particularly emotional person.

There is such a fragment in the play. Lin told Lin Zhaosheng the story of a fox in the morning and evening. Once upon a time, there was a little fox and his father lived alone. One day, his father was ill. At this time, the little fox shuttled to the parallel world and met his healthy father. How should the little fox choose?

Lao Lin told Lin Zhaori, "People have to face up to their own difficulties. Isn’t the parallel world a bit evasive?"

But Pei Zhi, a strawberry who lacks her father’s love, wants to stay in the cheese world and live with her father. After all, in the cheese world, my father can talk with him, fight with him, and support his mathematical ideal. The two emotions of attachment to family and giving up love hit strawberry Peizhi at the same time.

When they decided to return to the strawberry world, they had to hug and say goodbye to their respective fathers reluctantly, and the family ties were even more touching on the screen.

When talking about mathematics, Shen Yan made no secret of it. "I’m really a pure academic scum, and science is a mess. When we were filming, a math teacher joined the group, and I couldn’t solve many math problems in the play (laughs)."

However, after the basic law of genius was broadcast, Shen Yan’s daughter told him, "wake me up early tomorrow morning, and I want to study math." Friends also secretly believed in Shen Yan and wanted to enroll their children in the Olympic math class, which made Shen Yan feel gratified.

For Shen Yan, filming the Basic Law of Genius means doing something difficult and correct, but correctness is always relative. "The so-called correctness is based on the road of my co-creation with the screenwriter, and we need to follow our own ideas. If all aspects are considered, the play may not be done."

Two-way projection of genius and ordinary people

In the novel of the Basic Law of Genius, Pei Zhi is known as "Pei Shen" and is regarded as a god in everyone’s eyes.

However, the drama version of the Basic Law of Genius has pulled Pei Zhi off the altar and dragged him to the position of man. Shen Yan said frankly, "How can God write a film and television drama? Can you let the actors stand there forever like God without talking?"

The story of Pei’s refusal to go back in the cheese world is the deduction of Pei’s points by the creative team, which naturally offended many bookworms.

However, from the perspective of life, even if Pei is a genius, he will face the game of human nature and expose the weakness and dark side of human nature. "We have finally shaped an ordinary person."

Lin Zhaosheng, who is also a genius, has become an ordinary person, and the fate of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease may be embarrassing, but at this time, there seems to be no boundary between genius and ordinary people.

In Niu Jixin’s view, the idea of the Basic Law of Genius is to discuss genius and commonness from the incision of genius. "We don’t want to be a pure genius legend, but want to present the common life proposition of all people. The Basic Law of Genius is actually the basic law of life, how one should face life and how to make a choice."

In traditional film and television dramas, the talent’s personality is relatively solid and single, but the Basic Law of Genius has achieved a two-way perspective projection. While ordinary people look up to the genius, they show their own endeavor, while the genius is trapped in the situation of the small world and explores the break of the living space.

Pei zhi can make the paper into a hundred points in 10 minutes, which looks very open, but for himself, this is a normal part of life. Like everyone else, he needs to find his own life proposition. What makes Niu Jixin feel gratified is that many viewers deeply discuss the situation of genius through this drama, instead of simply labeling genius.

Although the protagonist of "The Basic Law of Genius" failed to get the anti-heaven skill of opening the golden finger, it brought a high sense of excitement to the audience in the process of leading ordinary children with average talent to win the championship. In the final analysis, all propositions in the strawberry world are discussions on social phenomena.

Most people in life are ordinary people, and their environment limits their vision, so there is no way to provide them with more choices. Whether it is sea tactics or burying their heads in endorsement, everything they do is admirable.

In this sense, the counterattack story presented in the Basic Law of Genius has brought psychological healing to this group, as Niu Jixin said: "No matter how the times change, the process of hard work is worthy of respect and recognition."

Whether studying mathematics or making movies and TV plays, everyone is working hard towards the goal they want to pursue. Aren’t these a part of ordinary people’s lives?

How to increase the Basic Law of Genius?

When revisiting the experience of the explosion of the Basic Law of Genius, Niu Jixin bluntly said: "Although this story type is more risky in the category of TV dramas, the first thing is to always seek novelty."

When observing the genre changes of TV series, Niu Jixin found a very interesting phenomenon. More themes in the market are the repeated regression of successful types. After a successful case appears, as long as it follows this path, the high probability will not be too bad.

However, if a certain drama reaches a certain height in subdivision type, it will form a basic disc, and it will be difficult for works to surpass it in a few years. If you want to create a new peak, innovation is inevitable.

In addition to innovation, incremental content in film and television works is equally important. In past interviews, Niu Jixin mentioned that the content layout strategy of the studio is half comedy and half incremental.

At that time, he just joined Iqiyi, and the platform has seen many explosions in the field of webcasting content and homemade content.

"My wish at that time was that my arrival would bring increments to the platform. However, this is an ideal setting. How to find increments is very challenging."

But hard work will pay off.

Since last year, Sesame Pod Studio has launched the Little Funny Theater, which covers such works as Washe Jianghu, Doctor is Doctor Two is Two, and Broken Elite. The genre involves themes such as ancient style and city, which broadens the comedy track.

The Basic Law of Genius and other works belong to the incremental content of the innovation track. In Niu Jixin’s view, the starting point of this drama is very anti-routine, and the key is to seek differences. Both the theme and narrative order are very different from the past dramas. "We adopted a brand-new story structure and did not rely on past experience, but walked out of the safety zone."

In the second half of this year, Niu Jixin’s Sesame Pod Studio intends to continue to promote the return of the iQiyi Little Funny Theater. At the same time, there is also a project in the field of ancient costumes, "Ning ‘an Dream", which will meet the audience soon, and the incremental part of the content will gradually become apparent with the advancement of the project.

In the last scene of the Basic Law of Genius, Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi stood by the sea and decided to prove P=NP together. She said to Pei Zhi, "Persistent efforts, unremitting life, the end is there. Let’s just walk there." In fact, no matter in which world, facing life bravely is an eternal theme.

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