All-rounder Artist

Chapter 340: Chapter 319: Hachiko_1

Writing from scratch is actually easier than adapting a work.

At Lin Yuan’s speed, it wouldn’t take more than a few days to finish “Murder on the Orient Express”.

However, he is not in a hurry to publish, so he is not rushing to wrap it up either.

Isn’t there a rule in many films?

The rule is called ‘the one who moves first, loses’!

Since Leng Guang challenged him to a Literary Duel, Lin Yuan would wait for Leng Guang to make the first move, and then chuck “Murder on the Orient Express” into the ring.

This is what you call a defensive counterattack strategy.

Because he is not in a rush, Lin Yuan’s life rhythm is leisurely and unhurried.

During his breaks from writing, he even managed to squeeze in a meal with Sun Yaohuo.

The location was a new restaurant that Sun Yaohuo had just opened.

Apparently, because his hot pot businesses were booming, Sun Yaohuo had started dabbling in other types of cuisines.

The place where he had invited Lin Yuan to dinner today was his newly opened Qi-style restaurant.

Lin Yuan used to live in Qi Province, so its flavors were not foreign to him.

But after returning to Qin land, he hasn’t tasted anything similar in a while and somewhat missed it.

Today, eating the flavors of Qi at Sun Yaohuo’s restaurant, Lin Yuan was very happy.

It seems that Senior Yao Huo is opening more and more restaurants.

There were a few others with them, namely Jiang Kui, Xue Liang, and Feng Shuo.

So this meal could be considered as Jiang Kui and Sun Yaohuo inviting Lin Yuan and his apprentices.

It’s just that Sun Yaohuo happened to have opened a new restaurant, so they chose this place.

The purpose, of course, was to thank Lin Yuan and his apprentices for writing songs for them.

The meal for five was lively.

Everyone was young so they didn’t hold back, becoming well-acquainted very quickly, conversing animatedly.

“Now that I have this Qi-style restaurant, I plan to open a Chu-style one next. Now that Qin, Qi, and Chu are unified, everyone has a keen interest in each other’s culinary styles. That’s the market for you. As interactions increase in the future, I think restaurants offering different styles of cuisines will attract more customers.”

Sun Yaohuo enthusiastically discussed his plans for the food industry.

Always a man of few words, Lin Yuan picked out his favorite dishes and tucked in.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan’s hand trembled.

While eating a lobster, his hand got pricked by a sharp part of the lobster, and it started to bleed slightly.

“Are you okay?”

Concerned, Sun Yaohuo got up: “Junior, do you need to go to the hospital?”

Xue Liang and Feng Shuo were stunned.

Not because Lin Yuan got hurt, but because of Sun Yaohuo’s words.

They need to go to the hospital?

So that a doctor can put a Band-Aid on it?

Would a doctor get excited and remark, “Lucky you brought him in time, otherwise, the wound might have healed itself?”

Jiang Kui, however, was not surprised.

This was typical of Sun Yaohuo.

Of course, Lin Yuan wasn’t so delicate to need hospital care. He casually replied that it wasn’t necessary, sucked on his injured finger a bit, then continued to tackle the almost glowing red lobster in front of him.

“As long as you’re okay…”

It seemed like Sun Yaohuo sighed in relief, and remarked: “Junior, you sure are a tough guy!!”

Tough…tough guy?

This time not only were Xue Liang and Feng Shuo dumbfounded, even Jiang Kui looked rather impressed. It was indeed fascinating.

A little finger injury and now he’s a tough guy? Or was this just an excuse to suck up?

…

This was just an anecdote from everyday life.

In less than a week, Lin Yuan completed “Murder on the Orient Express”. But since Leng Guang hadn’t made a move yet, he didn’t rush to publish it.

If the enemy doesn’t move, I don’t move.

But he should do something, right?

Perhaps because Lin Yuan had been quite idle lately, he took the initiative to add more burdens to himself. And then, he thought about filming a new movie–

Not “Life of Pi”.

The preparation for this movie takes too long, it can only be shot next year.

So, according to Lin Yuan’s previous plan, in fact, when he drew “Life of Pi”, he had already made a decision:

First, choose a less tricky film to shoot.

“System, I want to customize a healing movie.”

Healing films mostly have a warm tone and are relatively easy to shoot.

System: “Customizing for you now, will the host confirm the customization of the movie ‘Hachiko’…”

Lin Yuan paused for a moment: “You call this a healing movie?”

Taking advantage of my poor memory?

Even if my memory is not good, I know this movie is extremely sad!

The system explained: “It is a depressing film customized according to the host’s request.”

Lin Yuan: “???”

Does the system think it is funny?

He rolled his eyes, wanting to switch to another customization, but the system suddenly reminded Lin Yuan:

“It has been detected that the host has exceeded the time limit for the discipleship task. The character card for Yang Zhongming should be confiscated. However, considering the host’s good progress in completing the task and it’s the first time to exceed the time limit, the host can get a chance to remedy this. This opportunity is to shoot ‘Hachiko’…”

Lin Yuan was startled.

The discipleship task really did exceed the time limit, huh?

He thought he could muddle through this, but he didn’t expect the system to exchange the task remedy for making him shoot “Hachiko”.

The character card for Yang Zhongming is too important.

Lin Yuan definitely can’t bear to give it up.

Since it’s already come to this, why not give it a try?

Lin Yuan suddenly felt the guidance of this system was quite interesting.

The first film Lin Yuan made was the nonsensical “Flirting Scholar”, which was a film that could make people laugh out loud.

Now, the system has customized “Hachiko” for Lin Yuan. The goal is obvious:

It wants to make the audience cry!

It can make you laugh, it can make you cry…

The demonstration of screenwriting skills is probably here, it’s just that the system also has a bit of a wicked sense of humor.

It made people laugh, and now it wants to make them cry.

Yes.

If there is a movie that can make the audience sob after watching, “Hachiko” definitely tops the list!

Even those who haven’t seen this movie have heard how tear-jerking “Hachiko” is!

“Customize it.”

Lin Yuan decided not to haggle anymore.

The system’s voice was as steady as usual: “The script for ‘Hachiko’ has been customized.”

This story has two versions.

The Neon version came first, because the script of this movie was adapted from Neon’s real story and received good reviews.

The American version came later and also received good reviews.

Lin Yuan prefers the American version of the script because it’s more human.

It’s probably because in the American version, it’s not a person adopting a dog, but fate bringing them together.

The thing about someone gifting the dog in the Japanese version was somewhat lacking.

For instance, the Japanese version mentions multiple times that Hachiko is a purebred.

While the American version only mentions once what breed the dog is, and doesn’t say whether it’s purebred or not.

It seems like the Japanese version places importance on Hachiko being a purebred dog, seeing it as noble and therefore worth raising.

But the American version doesn’t care about the dog’s background at all, which is pretty nice.

There are many such minor differences between the two versions.

If you have to describe them, you could say the Neon version is more realistic, while the American version is more like a fairy tale.

People probably prefer fairy tales, even though this fairy tale is destined to be sad.

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ps: Sorry, I had to see the doctor today. It turns out I have wisdom teeth growing in, so I might have a toothache for a few days. I, Polluted White, am currently taking medication, so my updates for the next few days might not be very consistent. I can only guarantee 4000 words because the pain makes it hard to concentrate. If I force myself to write, the quality would really suffer. Once my tooth gets better, I will make up for the updates I owe.