只要识字的 就觉得自己能给剧本改意见
“anyone who can read thinks they're qualified to give suggestions.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们有朋友做编剧的 才干几年就已经癫了 听他说
“We have a friend who works as a screenwriter. He already lost his mind after just a few years. He says”
只要识字的 就 觉得 自己 能给剧本 改意见
“anyone who can read thinks they're qualified to give suggestions.”
“We're earning pretty well at Tengda. Why would we put ourselves through that kind of suffering?”
“Everyone thinks screenwriting is easy just because they can read, which makes doing this job a total nightmare.”
Screenwriters in the Chinese creative industry frequently suffer from excessive, unqualified feedback by producers, investors, and executives who assume literacy equates to storytelling craft.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as long as... then...
A common conditional structure used here hyperbolically to emphasize an absurd oversimplification.
literate; able to read
Used in spoken contexts to indicate basic literacy, here employed dismissively.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do you understand the script?”
“Didn't I alter your script too?”
“have a lot of issues with the script?”
“If others tell you to change it and you obey, then what are you even writing for?”
“I thought I held the script,”
“Wait until he shows you the script, then you'll know.”