Chapter 1702： The sword goes sideways

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Screenwriter Vince Gilligan, who just turned 40 in February this year, is a different kind of hapless in Hollywood. m

Vince Gilligan, who has neat long brown hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and an air of literary youth, entered New York University in the 1980s for a bachelor of arts degree. , he wrote the script "Love Rush", which was picked up by Warner Bros. as early as 1989 and bought away. This script was made into a movie in 1998, by Drew Barrymore and Starring Luke Wilson. Although it took nine years for this script to be brought to the big screen after it was acquired, and the film did not achieve the expected good results after its release, his first script was taken by the film company—and it was Warner Bros. This undoubtedly made Vince -Gilligan strengthened his confidence in taking the path of screenwriting.

After graduation, Vince Gilligan wrote a script called "Flame Rush", starring Dennis Quaid and Deborah Wenger. Unfortunately, the film failed to achieve the expected results. That's when Vince Gilligan got the chance he'd only dreamed of: becoming a writer on the illustrious series "The X-Files."

Vince Gilligan looks gentle and has some literati temperament, but he has a stubbornness in his bones that ordinary people can't see. He has always had a special liking for the "X-Files" that was popular all over the world at the time, after winning the opportunity to write the script for this series. Vince Gilligan took advantage.

Vince Gilligan not only wrote over forty episodes of the script for "The X-Files," but also served as executive producer for over forty episodes, and was on the "X-Files" crew from 1995 to 2002. During this period, he also participated in the production of a short-lived drama "Lone Gunman".

It can be said that in the "X-Files" crew, Vince Gilligan brought the crazy and weird style hidden in his orthodox routine to the extreme, and he has become a new star in the screenwriting world.

But actually. Rising stars like Vince Gilligan are too common in the entertainment industry. From models, actors, to screenwriters, directors, and producers, countless newcomers emerge every year, but they can really continue the brilliance of the newcomer period. Go down and become a person with real weight, but not everyone can do it. Vince Gilligan didn't do it. This "hurt Zhongyong" situation. It happens every day in Hollywood, even more often than overnight miracles.

After leaving the "X-Files" crew, Vince Gilligan has actually released works intermittently, but he has never been able to achieve glory again, and the reputation accumulated during the previous "X-Files" period has gradually been wiped out. This situation lasted for nearly five years, and Sony Columbia Pictures invited him to write a script called "Superman Hancock". The script Sony Columbia Pictures invited Will Smith to play the role, and was partnered by Charlize Theron, who won the Oscar after relying on "The Devil". During the preparation period, it won countless attention.

Vince Gilligan originally thought that "Hancock, the Superman for All" would be his comeback, but he didn't expect it. A writers strike thwarted his efforts. Vince Gilligan had to stop writing two-thirds of the "Hancock for All" script, obey the Writers Guild of America's decision, and join the strike, which also led to "Hancock for All" Preparations stopped immediately.

Vince Gilligan, who had just found hope, was thrown into **** again. In this case, Vince Gilligan, who was in a midlife crisis, created a character called Walter White in his mind. Although Vince Gilligan was still polishing the character, his mind There is already a vague frame in .

Walter White should be a taciturn, self-disciplined, ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. But it was such a small person who encountered the biggest crisis in his life. He was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Faced with the sudden failure, his first thought was the future vitality of his family. He had a wife, and he might have just become pregnant; he had a child, and he might have some inconvenience, and he was the only source of income for the family. . As you can imagine, if he was killed by lung cancer, the family would have collapsed.

Today's American economy is getting worse and worse, and the decline in income is accompanied by the increase in consumption, which makes the life of the middle class more and more stressful. Walter White calculated that his family would need at least $800,000 to be able to survive after he left. And this amount of money for an ordinary family is tantamount to an astronomical amount.

Walter White is actually a representative of ordinary American middle-aged men, including Vince Gilligan. They have been useless all their lives, and they have worked diligently to move forward on the thorny road of life according to the existing steps, and even in order to have a good and good life. I gave up my dream to live, but in the end I was always overwhelmed by the pressure of life. While Vince Gilligan wasn't as terrifying as his character Walter White's crisis, the writers' strike completely exploded his sense of crisis.

Income has been erratic for the past few years, and this time it's unlikely that the "Hancock for All" script will get it until it's finished, and Vince Gilligan has been caught in a situation where he could go bankrupt at any time. In a way, Walter White is Vince Gilligan's dramatic version of himself.

So, what should we do in the face of such a life crisis? Vince Gilligan couldn't help but start thinking about Walter White's every move. The irresistibility of late stage lung cancer left Walter White with little choice. He had to break the boat and risk everything to see a glimmer of hope. Otherwise, the waves of life will devour him, his wife, and children, leaving no bones behind.

However, Vince Gilligan knew that the character of Walter White he conceived was not perfect. Almost every screenwriter could come up with such an idea. The key point is what method Walter White chooses to break through Later, because of the unpredictable changes that the butterfly effect will have on his life, this is the key point that makes a drama exciting.

In fact, with the development of American TV dramas for so many years, the subject matter will be more or less repeated. Simply take detective dramas as an example. For the time being, let’s put aside the long history of detective dramas that have re-emerged in recent years: “Crime Scene Investigation”, “Navy Crimes” "Investigative Office", "Irregular Evidence", "Bone Tracking", "Criminal School Detective", "Criminal End", "Criminal Minds"... In fact, the subject matter is the same, which is basically a core vocabulary: solving a case. No matter who the core is, it revolves around the case. Then, how to develop new ideas, highlight key points, and attract audiences in the same detective drama depends on the ability of each screenwriter.

Therefore, Vince Gilligan knows that role positioning is not the focus, and American dramas similar to mid-life crisis are emerging one after another. , including "Desperate Housewives" is actually one of the themes of midlife crisis. So what can Vince Gilligan carve out?

It happened that the screenwriters went on strike during this period, which gave Vince Gilligan enough time to collide with ideas. He accidentally saw the "single poisonous mother", and the heroine Nancy seemed to be the daughter of Walter White he constructed. Version. However, the difference in the roles of men and women in society leads to different ways of dealing with mid-life crises. Of course, gender differences will also lead to different problems in life, and women will face heavier pressures; Secondly, the crises faced by the two characters Nancy and Walter are also different, and the situations of the two people are also different.

Vince Gilligan couldn't help thinking that if Walter White was a chemistry teacher, he had enough chemistry knowledge, and then when faced with a wreck, he chose to use his wealth of chemistry knowledge to create drugs. What happens when you become a big drug lord and embark on a criminal road of no return?

Although the inspiration came from "Single Poison Mom", the difference in Vince Gilligan's character setting for Walter White is destined to take a completely different path in the development direction of the whole theme, and "Single Poison Mom" "It's a comedy with dark humor, but Vince Gilligan is more inclined to write a dark drama, pushing Walter White to the extreme step by step, and then watching the character in a desperate situation. Unlimited potential burst out again and again.

I have to say that under the appearance of Vince Gilliganswen, the arrogance of the sword is indeed hidden. It appeared in the "X-Files" at the beginning. UU reading and now facing his own During the midlife crisis, another eruption occurred in Walter White.

Vince Gilligan began to flesh out the character of Walter White little by little, and the thread of the whole story, trying to build the synopsis of the first season in his head.

Regarding the name of this series, Vince Gilligan made a bold and direct choice, "Breaking Bad... The name directly means "beyond sin", and it can also be seen that Walter White is in extreme situations. You have made the choice to commit a crime, but the law is inexorable. No one will care what you are doing to commit a crime. Breaking the law is breaking the law. What’s more, the moral issues involved in drugs are even more serious. Serious - this is much more serious than the marijuana in "single drug mothers". So, an honest teacher like Walter White, hovering at the extreme ends of morality, at the black tip of sin Running barefoot above.

However, before Vince Gilligan came up with a complete and clear idea, Thomas Lansing actually expressed his willingness to make this script, Thomas Lansing from Eleven Studio, which surprised Vince Gilligan .

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