Why did you choose to watch a drama? Did you click on it randomly? Look at Douban word of mouth? Or recommended by a friend? Do you have a favorite artist starring in it?
The first three reasons are that most of the viewers who watch a drama are undistracted and Buddhist. If the movie-watching experience is good, continue, if not, give up. And those fans who started to follow the show purely because of the artists will inevitably bring with them prejudices and obsessions when watching.
【一】It has been torn apart before it even started airing, and it’s a piece of cake
Recently, many film and television works have become popular before they have aired. But the reason for the "fire" is not because of the excellent production, but because they all fell into a turmoil. And it was torn violently and bloody.
The first is Peter Chan's eye-catching "Jiangyuan Lane". The subject matter was originally very interesting, but the subsequent casting and the controversy between Yang Mi and Zhao Liying, two 85-year-olds, have completely overshadowed the discussion of the subject matter.
Subsequently, "Sword and Sword IV" also fell into a controversy, with negative reviews leading the positive reviews. This violent tearing behavior reminds me of "The Journey of the Hairpin" a few years ago.
This drama is adapted from the popular novel "The Legend of Hairpin". The original work tells the story of the heroine who uses the goddess detective Huang Zixia to solve the case. The producers of
announced that they would be filming in 2015. From casting to the start of filming, there were almost countless actors and actresses with names. Every suspected starring role would provoke fans to start fighting.
Unexpectedly, after it was confirmed that the male protagonist Wu Moufan and the female protagonist Yang Zi would be the leading actors, the battle between fans of both sides officially kicked off.
I won’t go into details about the process. The two sides argued that the public was right and the mother-in-law was right, just to fight for their own idols, and it also triggered a "melee caused by a poster":
6, 2020 On March 3, the crew of "The Journey of the Hairpin", which had been filming for nearly eight months and had many twists and turns throughout the casting process, finally released a promotional poster.
What's magical is that fans from both sides started a "fight" over this ordinary poster, which made passersby unbelievable.
Wu Moufan's fans believed that their brother was in the middle of the poster and deserved to be in the c position, which was a real statement. However, Yang Zi's fans were very dissatisfied. They felt that the woman's name in the poster was higher than Wu Moufan's, and Yang Zi was the one who deserved it.
Regardless of the height of the characters in the poster, the placement of the names, the placement of the two actors' last names in the field, the order of rankings, etc., fans dug it out, just to prove it. My brother/sister is the "Ichiban".
What kind of "elementary school chicken-style" argument is this? Is it because the school has not started, or is Grandpa Yuan letting you eat too much?
In short, fans from both sides started a series of activities: tearing each other apart, criticizing, scolding, massacre, digging up history, slandering each other's appearance/acting skills, and causing a bloody storm. It is said that there are also tricks such as flying pages, magic modification, using two different yin and yang scripts to fool the leading actors respectively.
even "exploded" the lead actor Yang Zi, who expressed this, "I am an actor, and the most important task is to create. I will leave the disputes outside the play to the staff to deal with. I believe that the film studio will also abide by the spirit of the contract and properly Deal with the follow-up."
"The Journey of the Hairpin" has become so controversial that even CCTV's Six Princesses' "Today's Film Critic" has paid attention to this matter. The well-known film critic Tan Fei commented, "As absurd as it goes, it becomes absurd."
Both parties have repeatedly made hot searches, making the Internet environment a mess. I don’t know if these fans get the pleasure of venting their emotions from it, but for ordinary netizens, it is extremely boring, and their expectations for this drama have almost been wiped out. "Stop arguing, I won’t watch, thank you."
However, I have one thing to say, let me put my attitude first. First, it is meaningless to fight purely for ranking. It is better to fight for acting skills than to fight for positions. Second, if there is any deception such as Yin Yang contract, we support both parties to take legal channels and reasonably protect their rights.
[2] The harder the fight, the worse the drama will be.
Although in the film and television drama market, there has always been a practice of "fighting for position".For example, in "Painted Skin", Zhao Gege and Zhou Xun competed for the title of "double heroines"; Jet Li and Jackie Chan also competed for the title of male protagonist.
But there is a reason why seniors can become seniors. Even if there is a farce of competing for the title, the quality of the movie has not been compromised; but the new traffic with a unstable foundation and few works, the bigger the drama, the bigger the drama. The worse it gets.
" Little Wish " released earlier, Peng Yuchang and Wang Dalu all claimed that when they signed the contract, the contract indicated that they were "male number one". However, during the promotion period, there was also a problem with the order of names. , almost got into a fight, and it was very ugly.
Peng Yuchang's team publicly announced the termination of the contract in order to fight for it; the producers of the subsequent films also took a gamble and removed Peng Yuchang's name from the publicity. Although there are quite a lot of problems between the crew and the film crew in this bit-fighting incident, the fight will only lead to difficulties in the production of the work, the box office will plummet, and the film will lose its popularity.
Tracing back to its origins, the term "rip-off" comes from Japan. However, in the Japanese film and television drama market, being an actor requires performance pressure such as ratings and responsibility to advertisers. If a starring drama fails, the actor himself may even need to hold a press conference to apologize in public.
Just watch "Flower of the High Mountain" starring Ishihara Satomi and it was a huge hit in the ratings, and you will know it when she cried in front of the camera.
However, good people don’t learn from bad people. After the Japanese word "fan bit" was introduced to China, in the wolf-like operation of the rice circle, it became a top-notch certification, and Beier has face. ; The other actors in the series are all younger brothers, and they have a strange impression that they were crushed to pieces.
As for how the final work performed, how was the box office? No one cares. As a result, it has evolved into the current weird image in the entertainment industry. Actors only strive for glory and do not memorize KPIs. Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Liao Fan once had such a poignant comment on the matter of tearing up the title. To struggle over this matter proves that these people have nothing serious to do. It seems that they have not seen much of the world at first glance.
【三】The soul screenwriter, the one who became the scapegoat for the ratings
Behind the vigorous farce of tearing up spots is just a microcosm of the interference of fans and traffic in the creation of film and television dramas.
Technically speaking, under the fan economy, it is the first time that the weight of fans is so high. It has become a common practice in the industry for fans to interfere in the casting of idols, create public opinion to force capital and production crews, and arbitrarily change settings based on traffic.
My favorite actors want the most beautiful angles, the best positions, and the best configuration. If they are not given the best configuration, fans will mess around and completely ignore the quality and completion that a film and television work should have.
From a capital perspective, in recent years, the quality of film and television productions has been uneven. There are many large-scale productions that claim to have spent 100 million or 300 million, but most of the money has been spent on actors' remuneration.
To give you an example, Cutout Baby’s acting skills were rarely seen in “The Love of Love”, and all the scenes were cut out with a green screen. He also earned a salary of 80 million yuan, and after being exposed, it did not affect his career. To develop, you can still earn a lot of money from variety shows.
However, in the film and television drama market controlled by traffic and capital, screenwriters and directors have gradually been reduced to supporting roles and evolved into "tool men" controlled by capital and traffic. Everyone is qualified to point fingers at screenwriters, and low wages are no different than building bricks in an office building.
As an audience, we have complained all the time that current domestic dramas are like old ladies’ foot wraps that are “long and smelly”, with confusing main and branch plots and magical editing. When a drama failed, everyone said, half jokingly and half threatening, "I'm going to send razors to the screenwriter."
But from an industry perspective, the screenwriter really can't afford to take the blame. Zhang Yuan'ang, the screenwriter of " Sweet Ashes Like Frost", was scolded by netizens and responded, admitting that the series was indeed filled with water.
Originally, according to the signed contract, the writing team produced 36 episodes of scripts. However, the film studio informed that the film would be shot in 50 episodes. The writing team considered that excessively extending the episodes would destroy the story structure. After discussion, they submitted a 43-episode script.As a result, when it was finished and aired, it was discovered that through various cuts, it had been "watered" down to 63 episodes.
Moreover, the screenwriter signature and the position of chief screenwriter in the opening film were seized by the producer, and the real creative team of screenwriters became a small name in the list of n screenwriters. After the incident was exposed, the two sides were at odds with each other.
But this one drama is enough to show the humbleness of screenwriters in the domestic drama market. The screenwriter is obviously the soul of the drama, but he is ignored.
Previously, there was such a hot search, "How important is a good screenwriter?"
quoted the views of famous directors and actors such as Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and Jiang Wen on screenwriters under the topic. Director Zhang Yimou said, "What China lacks most is good screenwriters. In the final analysis, the problem of Chinese movies is because of scripts. Immature scripts are an innate problem."
However, the contempt for screenwriters in the film and television drama market has determined that if directors and producers If you don't give investors a say, no matter how good the screenwriter is, it's useless.
is exhausted from dealing with the interference of actors, capital and fans. It is simply difficult for screenwriters and other practitioners to present their works, let alone have higher-level artistic pursuits.
In the final analysis, for a work to have a good reputation and score high, it is inseparable from the efforts of all staff including the director and screenwriter, starring and supporting actors, materials, lighting, layout, costumes and makeup, post-production special effects publicity and marketing, etc.
Only when everyone strives for "quality" to complete this work can it be possible to receive an evaluation that is acceptable to the audience. Relying on your position, chasing, intercepting, and brainwashing passers-by, and stalking netizens to make them change their opinions will only drive away the audience and ruin your popularity with passers-by.
Dear traffic and fans, please wake up. Status in the world cannot be won by traffic and number of fans.
Some netizens commented like this, actors focus on acting, is it not shameful to lose their talent? Let the industry watch the joke, will the audience not know whether it works or not? If you can win a fight, then you will have a fight? The evaluation was so accurate that I almost wanted to applaud.
Zhang Ziyi's role in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not considered "Ichiban", but it is still one of her masterpieces. Lu Han's "Sea Bunker" is indeed a masterpiece. It has been ridiculed by the entire Internet. Who can stop it?
Traffic fresh meat and flowers change every year on average, and fans even change idols for each drama. The so-called traffic is just a moment of glory, fleeting. To put it bluntly, even if a weak actor wins the show, a bad drama will still be a bad drama.
