Wenhao 1979, starting with contributing to Story Club

Chapter 14 A New Version of The Truman Show

It's not surprising at all that Li Xiaoli would be interested in "The Truman Show".

She suggested that Yu Zhen expand the short story into a novella or even a full-length novel, naturally hoping that the fictional world in the story could reveal more of the evil deep within human nature.

Such as the revision suggestions she gave to Yu Zhen.

This allows the story to showcase the kind of collective conspiracy where everyone's behavior is excessively guided by collective morality, which is tantamount to a magical reality where the collective has no morality.

Yu Zhen is well aware of his weaknesses.

For example, without solid writing skills, one cannot reach the point of being concise and economical with words.

Furthermore, the most awkward aspect of his ability in this area is that it is simply impossible for him to make any qualitative leap in his writing skills in a very short period of time.

Fortunately, he has the basic skill of telling a story fluently.

Therefore, the real focus of the subsequent adaptation will undoubtedly be to fully leverage strengths and avoid weaknesses, making the "Truman Show" in my writing more realistic and textured.

After seeing it, people will firmly believe that such a world will "naturally" emerge once the conditions in real society are ripe.

He decided to use the concept of "global village" and almost completely copied another time and space. After the Internet age arrived, concepts such as virtual communities, online games, and electronic pets, as well as entertainment, permeated people's real lives. Because of the ultra-modern development of Internet high technology, every natural person lived out two faces: one in reality and one in the virtual world.

He wanted to give the adapted story a futuristic, sci-fi veneer.

"Truman was the first child to grow up healthy after humanity mastered biological gene cloning technology. All of humanity closely watched his growth process. In order to satisfy people's curiosity and to better study the great biological gene cloning technology, the scientific research team, under the leadership and coordination of relevant international organizations, built a full-island studio on an island in the deep Pacific Ocean, specifically for global television broadcasts..."

At the beginning of the story, Yu Zhen gives a very convincing reason for the birth of "The Truman Show," cleverly concealing the origin of the moral evil of the social group under a grand and righteous moral fig leaf.

At the very beginning of the story, Truman's childhood was filled with all the beauty of the world.

Truman was growing up happily in his own world.

Soon, as global television broadcasts became increasingly popular, this live program became a super platform for global businesses to promote their commercial secrets. Any item Truman came into contact with in his daily life could be quickly transformed into a superstar product that would capture the attention of consumers worldwide.

People soon realized that "The Truman Show," originally conceived as a great scientific experiment, was gradually degenerating. Under the frenzied pursuit and adoration of greedy businessmen and capitalists around the world, it was evolving into a third kind of wealth measure that could be used globally, with a value comparable to oil and gold, and was created by all mankind.

Thus began an even more blatant and naked form of group moral manipulation.

Every day, every moment, what Truman should do next has completely become a competition among external capital. Ugly politicians, shameless capitalists, and dirty schemers, as long as they are willing to spend money to reward him and use money to call on the audience to vote, can directly set Truman's hobbies and a completely new future.

They even directly bribed some key extras on the island to indirectly demonstrate their influence.

In short, what was originally a pristine island quickly became a playground and arena for those around the world who sought to exert influence and showcase their power.

At the same time, Truman's independent personality begins to grow and awaken, and the extras on the island find it increasingly difficult to exert their role value in front of Truman.

The biggest difference from the original series lies in the setting.

In Yu Zhen's writing, Truman possesses the most extraordinary learning talent and a physique that can be described as abnormal.

And most importantly, Truman also possesses a leveling-up and growth model similar to that of a male protagonist in a web novel.

Realizing that the world he inhabits is strange and fake, Truman chooses to pretend he doesn't know while secretly accumulating the power he can perfectly control.

It is enough power for him to violently break the cage of the world.

While Truman was building up his individual armed forces, Yu Zhen designed a series of mini-plots involving "leveling up, fighting monsters, and getting equipment".

In short, the more exaggerated the better, the more Truman is kept on the verge of being crushed and killed by the manipulators behind the scenes.

The climax of the story is that Yu Zhen designed it so that Truman would use his own handmade powerful weapons to drive an armed warship and destroy the film studio system that covered the island in one fell swoop. He would also bloodily kill a group of behind-the-scenes forces who tried to continue to imprison him, kill the so-called biological gene research team, and kill the original live broadcast photography and editing team.

And in the final chapter of the story, Truman, in a madman-like and cruel tone, declares to the world that he is also a living, breathing human being, not a freak who has been treated as a plaything of all mankind since birth.

In the end, Truman, piloting his hand-built armed warship, begins a free voyage and hunt across the world, launching his holy war of revenge against all enemies who had maliciously manipulated him.

Truman's vengeful spirit leaves rivers of blood in his wake wherever he goes.

However, his so-called freedom of navigation, every move he makes, still appears in every corner of the world with a network signal. Seven billion people in the world, almost more than half of the population, are using a high-tech product called "smartphone" to refresh the latest battle situation of "The Truman Show" anytime, anywhere.

After outlining the new story framework.

Yu Zhen then began writing the manuscript with great enthusiasm.

On the first day, he completed a first draft of 15,000 words in one go. When the senior editors in the publishing house heard the news, they were all shocked. Especially after reading the revised version, everyone was even more impressed and admired him to the point of prostration.

Everyone has read the first edition of "The Truman Show".

The original story is concise and ingenious, with a concept that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It designs an island as a huge television studio, allowing the entire population to participate in a child's growth through live television cameras. Then, after witnessing the child grow into adulthood, the protagonist exposes the false world and false love, and everyone suffers the pangs of conscience afterward from the conflict between hypocritical morality and commercial interests.

The psychological impact of such a short story is truly remarkable.

But who could have imagined that Yu Zhen, based on such a story background, could come up with an even more amazing new trick?

For three days, Yu Zhen worked day and night to finish a new manuscript of 5 words.

The moment I saw the ending of the newly adapted story.

The entire editorial department was in an uproar!

In the future world, human technology is becoming more and more advanced, and communication between people is becoming more and more convenient. Earth has become an ordinary village on the edge of the universe. A genius like Truman is destined to live his whole life under the live broadcast camera that others have already set up.

Even if he had the power to build armed warships and destroy an island, thinking he had broken free from the cage that bound him, the truth was that he had risen from the cage of an island to the cage of an entire sea.

God!

The moral of this story is terrifying...