Choose a day to become famous

"Lu Yanhe wrote another script!"

"After writing a script in one night, I finally understand why Lu Yanhe's output is so high."

"He did what a screenwriter does for a year in one night."

"I don't know if it's a movie script or a TV series script."

"Upstairs, even a personal code machine cannot write a TV series script in one night."

"Lu Yanhe is really the star of internal entertainment. If I scold this damn internal entertainment in the future, I really can't beat him to death with a stick."

…

Lu Yanhe fell into a drowsy sleep. When he woke up, he felt as if he was about to die suddenly. His head was as heavy as lead, and he didn't have the satisfaction of stretching in front of the sun after a full sleep.

He lay on the bed like a dead fish, and it took him almost ten minutes to regain consciousness. Only then did he regain some strength and get up from the bed.

What does it mean to be a walking dead? Lu Yanhe doesn't even need to look in the mirror, he can just say that he is the real walking dead now.

"Hey, are you awake?" Li Zhibai was sitting on the coffee table in the living room eating, he was the only one.

Lu Yanhe felt that his eyes were swollen.

"Where's Yan Liang?"

"Zhou Pingan went to the company to find him." Li Zhibai said, "However, I think it is an excuse."

"What's wrong?" Lu Yanhe didn't know what was going on, "Is there something wrong?"

He let out a long yawn as he spoke.

Li Zhibai said calmly: "Go to Weibo and take a look."

Lu Yanhe woke up in shock.

"What happened to Yan Liang that was trending? Your reaction is quite scary. What's wrong?"

Li Zhibai glanced at him and smiled.

Lu Yanhe was even more confused.

Because he saw a bit of ridicule in the smile on Li Zhibai's face just now.

Lu Yanhe didn't even bother to go to the toilet now. He turned around and went back to the room to get his phone. When he looked at it, he saw a photo of himself unconscious while sleeping.

"..."

Of course, many people are praising him, feeling sorry for him, and saying all kinds of nice things.

But Lu Yanhe saw that the first high-profile comment in the comment area was from Li Zhibai: You made him look too much like a sleeping pig.

The accompanying picture is a comparison picture of Lu Yanhe sleeping and a pink-skinned piglet sleeping, and he even found an exact sleeping position...

Lu Yanhe: "..."

He threw the phone on the bed and fell down again.

He muttered, "No one is a good bird!"

Li Zhibai came over.

"Are you going to sleep again?" He stood at the door, holding the door panel with one hand and asked.

Lu Yanhe said feebly: "Get out of here, otherwise I will throw the slippers on your feet directly in your face."

Li Zhibai: "Yan Liang said he came back from the company and will arrive in about twenty minutes. He asked if you were up. If so, let's go have dinner together."

Lu Yanhe: "You haven't had lunch yet?"

"Brother, it's already four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's time to have dinner soon." Li Zhibai said speechlessly.

Lu Yanhe sat up in disbelief.

"What?" He then noticed the time, "I slept for so long!"

Nearly nine hours.

Li Zhibai: "Don't stay up late."

Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh, "I'm so tired."

Li Zhibai folded his hands and said, "Stop fucking, get up quickly, brush your teeth and wash your face, Yan Liang will be here soon."

"Doesn't he still have twenty minutes?" Lu Yanhe lay down again.

Li Zhibai: "How can you go out without washing your bird's nest?"

"Put on a hat. I'll sleep for another ten minutes before you call me again." Lu Yanhe felt really sleepy and tired.

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Forty minutes later, the three of them were sitting in a private room of a restaurant specializing in fish by the river. They were on the third floor, facing the window and facing the river. The outside was filled with solemn white and black.

There is no sunset, and the night is almost falling.

Lu Yanhe really didn't have much experience in life that it would be dark soon after opening his eyes.

He took off his hat, holding a head of bird feathers on his head, still looking dazed.

"You haven't recovered in the past half day. Are you sick?" Li Zhibai asked.

Lu Yanhe: "No, I didn't feel uncomfortable. Maybe it was because I finished writing the script in one go last night, which drained my energy and energy."

Li Zhibai clicked his tongue twice, "It's empty."

Yan Liang smiled and said, "You are exaggerating. You wrote a script in one night."

"The story has been thought of for a long time, but I just haven't written it yet." Lu Yanhe said.

Li Zhibai asked: "Are there any roles we can play?"

"Uh..." Lu Yanhe thought for a while, "There is only one eunuch role suitable for your age."

Li Zhibai immediately glanced at Lu Yanhe and said, "You can act it yourself."

Yan Liang asked in surprise: "You actually wrote a costume drama?"

Before this, the only costume drama written by Lu Yanhe was "Wulin Gaiden", and this drama is actually not a costume drama in the traditional sense. It is mainly positioned as a comedy.

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "It's a martial arts film."

"Huh? A martial arts movie?" Yan Liang was a little surprised, "You actually wrote it."

"Yes, I told you, I do have a lot of martial arts stories I want to write." Lu Yanhe said.

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For Chinese people, almost everyone has a martial arts dream when they were young.

Even if there are no Jin Yong and Gu Long in this world, martial arts movies and TV series are still not absent from everyone's childhood.

In this world, the meaning of the word "wuxia" is no less than that of the time and space where Jin and Gu lived.

Just like that world, after entering the new century, martial arts stories - not just film and television dramas, are slowly declining.

It is no longer mainstream.

It seems that fewer and fewer people are interested in this subject.

But still, every one or two years, like a literary and artistic revival, one or two martial arts works that make everyone's eyes shine emerge and cause widespread discussion.

Just like "Nine Yin" directed by Ning Zhiyuan, which achieved a box office of 700 million.

Just like the world before Lu Yanhe traveled through, "Sword Rain" in 2010, "Dragon Gate Flying Dagger" in 2011, "The Grandmaster" in 2013, "Embroidered Spring Blade" and "One Man's Martial Arts" in 2014, and "Hidden Man" in 2018.

Whether it is a big director, a famous director or an unknown small director, everyone has a martial arts dream in their hearts.

Of course, decline is decline.

Lu Yanhe has been an actor for so long that he has already reached the top position at his age. In a year, he hardly receives one or two scripts for martial arts films.

"However, there are indeed very few martial arts-themed TV series now." Yan Liang said, "Yanhe, maybe after your "Wulin Wai Zhuan" is broadcast, everyone will turn their attention to the theme of martial arts again."

Lu Yanhe shook his head and said, "It's not certain. "Wulin Wai Zhuan" is mainly a comedy. The audience who likes it may overlap with the audience who like "Friends". It also tells the story of a group of people living in one place, using many unit stories to draw analogies from the past. Martial arts is just a shell."

He said, "However, no matter whether people in this industry will turn their attention to the theme of martial arts again, I will keep writing anyway."

Yan Liang: "Then when will you write something we can act?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Wait until I find the feeling, and there will be."

He was waiting for a moment like last night, as if he had divine help.

A story lingers in your mind for a long time. It is not your own story. You just know it. If you want to write it, there are thousands of ways to write it.

If you can't really grasp the feeling of that moment, and just force it to write, the story is of course still very good, but it is still a little bit lacking in meaning.

Martial arts is never about swords and shadows, but the love, hatred, and vengeance in the rivers and lakes of swords and shadows, fate, and all kinds of people in the rivers and lakes, the "serving the country and the people, the greatest heroes" in the face of foreign enemies, and the "I will force it" in the face of feelings. The people in it are passionate and chivalrous, and they will say: "Azhu is Azhu. There is only one Azhu in the world of four seas and countries, for thousands of years." Therefore, martial arts has never been just martial arts, it is the rivers and lakes of millions of people, and it is also the world in the hearts of millions of people in another world.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "The main reason is that we are too young now. Let's wait until we are a few years older. We will shoot "Legend of Sword and Fairy" first."

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"Have you heard? Lu Yanhe wrote a script for a martial arts movie."

This news spread all over the entertainment industry.

"He really likes the theme of martial arts." Someone said, "After filming "Wulin Wai Zhuan", he wrote another script."

"Isn't it true that few people watch martial arts now?"

"Have you forgotten "Jiuyin"? It took 700 million box office last summer!"

"That was only 700 million. Look at how high the ceiling of movie box office is now."

"I don't know what to say. 700 million box office is just a jackpot in your mouth."

...

The news of Lu Yanhe's new script has attracted much attention.

Many people came to him.

Because there were so many people who came to him, Lu Yanhe had to post a circle of friends, saying that this movie script was only a first draft, and it had not been finalized yet, and it would not be made public for the time being.

Chen Ziyan was one of the very few people who saw the script.

Lu Yanhe asked Chen Ziyan: "What do you think?"

Chen Ziyan smiled, shook her head, and said: "Every time I read the script you wrote, I am very annoyed by one thing."

"What is it?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Ziyan said: "Why are there few roles suitable for you in the scripts you wrote? Moreover, they are all roles older than you. I am not wrong at all. There is an old soul living in your body, young and mature."

Lu Yanhe thought to himself, no, it is not that there is an old soul living in his body. If so, there are many old souls living in his body.

However, Lu Yanhe also understood what Chen Ziyan meant.

Indeed, many good scripts may be played by him in eight or nine years, but he is too unsuitable now in terms of age.

Just like he gave up playing "Rouge" at that time, it was for the same reason.

An actor must always meet some basic conditions to play a character.

Chen Ziyan said: "However, when I read this script, I really couldn't find actors in the entertainment industry who could play these characters for a while."

These characters have filters in Lu Yanhe's mind.

So, when Lu Yanhe wrote, he also poured a lot of his own preferences into them.

Especially Jin Xiangyu.

This is Lu Yanhe's favorite character in the story of "Dragon Gate Inn", and it is also one of the most representative characters in the martial arts world in Lu Yanhe's mind.

Subsequently, many inn proprietresses in the world have made reference to this character.

Lu Yanhe said: "Put the script here first, and let the actors find it slowly."

He believes that the right actor will be found. This thing requires fate.

"Actors and actresses are really different." Chen Ziyan said, "The best time for male actors is after they are thirty years old, because the best roles are concentrated in the age group of thirty to fifty. But the best roles for an actress are before the age of thirty-five. If you can’t appear before the age of thirty-five, it will basically be difficult.”

"Why are you feeling so emotional all of a sudden?" Lu Yanhe asked, "Did something happen to Wen Minglan?"

"No." Chen Ziyan shook her head, "I just recently looked at the company's list of artists to be signed, and this is very prominent."

Lu Yanhe thought for a while, "The main reason is that in the market, most of the absolute leading female protagonists are in TV series. There are not many heroines with real weight in movies. Except for Sister Bi Ge, she can get a real award every time she acts. As for the heroine, in fact, other actresses, including Sister Yuqian, the movie "The Queen in Gold" she took on was also a drama with a male protagonist. I read an article before that talked about the heroines in domestic movies. The rimmed heroine is very descriptive.”

"Yeah." Chen Ziyan nodded, "So, I quite like watching the plays you write. Your plays have great ensemble casts, even in "Squid Game" and "Rouge Button" where the male protagonist and the main character are obviously In the heroine’s play, the role of the other protagonist is equally important, not a side character.”

Lu Yanhe: "Except for some specific themes, I really like to write dramas between different people. Only different people can produce different stories and create sparks."

Chen Ziyan: "That's you. It's impossible for many screenwriters in China to write scripts according to their own ideas. You don't know how many people will want to get involved. In the end, what started as a good story turned into a different story."

Lu Yanhe nodded, "Many people have told me. In fact, Bai Jingnian also told me before that I wrote the script of "Six People", and at that time this drama was used as an experiment by Beijing and Taiwan, so There were basically no people from Beijing and Taiwan involved in the script of the first season. How I wrote it was how it was shot later. When it came to the second season, I was no longer around. I don’t know how many people had opinions on the script, but he couldn’t make the final decision. I feel very surprised, if a director can’t make the decision, then who can.”

Chen Ziyan smiled.

"The current situation is that anyone can make the decision."

Lu Yanhe: "It's so weird."

Chen Ziyan nodded, "If it wasn't weird, there wouldn't be so many bad dramas. However, fortunately, the situation is getting better now, especially since the several dramas you created as a screenwriter were all hits, which made many people see the importance of a good script. Sex. Probably due to your influence, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang have publicly mentioned several times that when choosing projects, the script always comes first. This trend of public opinion has made everyone pay attention to the script. It still played a big role.”

"Can a few of us talk about it and make a big difference?" Lu Yanhe was surprised.

"In this industry, whoever succeeds will listen to whoever speaks." Chen Ziyan also laughed, "I am particularly superstitious about success. Of course, everyone actually knows that the script is very important. The scary thing is not that no one knows that the script is important. The scary thing is that everyone You all feel that your opinions can make the script better. You have said in many interviews that you will never make any comments on the script casually, or you will reject it. If you accept it, you will definitely approve it. It’s great. Especially your description of the four different things is deeply rooted in people’s hearts. Many people say that your description is spot on.”

"I thought that was the consensus."

"Consensus is consensus, so being a good person and not causing trouble to others is still consensus." Chen Ziyan said, "Don't think that consensus is the rules that everyone will abide by. Consensus is just consensus. Keep your heads above water. There are gods, and no one would think of the gods if they should commit crimes.”

"..."

Chen Ziyan's language art sometimes has her strong personal style.

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On the twelfth day, "Squid Game" ushered in its finale, and at the same time, it also ushered in its broadcast day on the Maxine platform.

Maxine provided enough space to promote it directly on the homepage of the website with a large picture, and through their relationship, they found a large number of celebrity artists in various Asian countries to promote it.

vigorous.

This kind of arrangement has never been seen in Chinese dramas.

There is no other reason. The three words "Lu Yanhe" that appear in the center of the promotional picture are the reason why it was given such a ranking by Maxine.

After all, "Six People" written by Lu Yanhe is one of the dramas with the strongest long-tail effect in Maxine.

Overseas, the promotional keyword of "Squid Game" is also another masterpiece of screenwriting by "Six People" screenwriter Lu Yanhe.

The major media reports on this drama are different from those in China. They habitually list Lu Yanhe's past screenwriting masterpieces and the honors he has received.

So, finally, in addition to his status as an actor, Lu Yanhe's screenwriting works received a large-scale concentrated publicity.

The sitcom "Party of Six" is Asia's most popular sitcom in the past three years.

The movie "Rouge" won the Audience Choice Award at the Hollywood Film Festival, one of the four major international film festivals. South Korea and Thailand have confirmed that they will remake it.

The global box office of the movie "Unfortunately" exceeded US$130 million.

This time, his screenwriter's new work "Squid Game" has broken multiple viewing records in mainland China and is one of the most popular dramas in mainland China this year.

Lu Yanhe accepted Maxine’s exclusive interview with him.

Talking about his identity as a screenwriter, he said: "I will continue to create. In fact, I still have several screenwriters' works in progress. I can tell you that the movie "Love Letter" that I wrote and directed has been The filming of the summer part will be completed and the winter part of the filming will begin soon. In addition, the movie "Telephone" will star Jiang Yuqian and Wang Jing, the two actresses of "Squid Game", and is currently in the early stages of preparation for the martial arts-themed movie ". The script of "Dragon Gate Inn" has been completed and is being revised. There is also a fairy-themed TV series "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" starring myself, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang. The script has been completed for eleven episodes. By the way, there are also several completed scripts that have not been made public for the time being because we are looking for partners.”

When Lu Yanhe finished talking about his projects one by one, the eyes of Thai actress Caina, who was specially invited by Maxine to be the host, were shining.

"Although I know I shouldn't introduce myself to you today because I am the host today, I still want to say that I am also an actor." Caina said with a smile, "I am also very popular in Thailand."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "I know, Miss Caina, you are also very popular in China, and many people like you very much."

He wasn't complimenting Caina.

Caina is indeed one of the few well-known Thai actors in China.

She is a bit like the Thai actress from another time and space who was called "Xiao Shui" by Chinese fans and became popular because of "A Little Thing About First Love". Caina also became popular in Asia because of a Thai youth love movie. However, her international road has been quite bumpy. Although she has stabilized her popularity in Thailand with a series of Thai dramas, she has never produced another work that has become popular in Asia.

As for the interview, although Caina is the host, Lu Yanhe is the interviewee. But on this occasion, it's definitely not a bad thing for businesses to give each other some credit.

Sure enough, Caina's eyes were shining, and she gently covered her shy smile with her hands, "Really? Do I also have many fans in China?"

"Of course." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Cai Na: "I really hope that one day I will have the opportunity to act in a work written by you, and I even hope to act with you."

For Caina, Lu Yanhe's current international reputation and status are far beyond what Caina, who debuted earlier, can match. She also lowered her posture and kept supporting Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe actually likes Caina quite a bit. Unlike many actresses, she actually has a girl-next-door beauty. This trait is too rare in the entertainment industry. Even Zhang Ruozhi, who he found out from his amateur state, didn't have this neighborly feeling.

Maybe add a Thai female character to "Squid Game"?

Anyway, in a world view like "Squid Game", the appearance of a foreigner will not be out of the ordinary, just like the Indian guy in the first season.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "There must be a chance."

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Lu Yanhe really wants to see what kind of results "Squid Game" can achieve on the Maxine platform, and whether it can replicate the global success of the original version.

The advantage of a streaming media platform like Maxine is that you can see its data at any time.

No need to wait.

How many people watch this show and how many people are interested are all quantified into numbers at the front desk.

Within an hour of being online, the number of on-demand users of "Squid Game" (watching time of more than 2 minutes) exceeded one million.

At this time, the influence of "Squid Game" on social media was slowly spreading.

After watching the first episode, the first batch of viewers, who are used to sharing everything on the Internet, all posted their thoughts on the show.

In addition to the audience, Lu Yanhe also has a group of media practitioners and film critics who are very concerned about him.

Lu Yanhe's other works may have to be released in mainland China for a period of time before going overseas. They may not be released globally at the same time. Different countries and regions may have time differences due to different publishers.

But "Squid Game" is on Maxine and launched globally at the same time.

This allows everyone to watch the show at the same time.

What kind of drama did Lu Yanhe write?

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The fact that "Squid Game" was reported by media from various countries broke many people's expectations.

Even Maxine herself did not expect that the media exposure of this drama would be so great.

Why does any drama need to be popular?

Because film and television dramas have been developing for so many years, major companies have understood the truth. No matter how famous a person is, how many fans, and how high the stickiness is, it is far less than the popularity of passers-by.

In such an era, there will never be as many people who are star-chasing as there are people who are not star-chasing.

However, because most people don't speak up, many people mistakenly believe that data can represent everything.

How many movies that have failed at the box office and big dramas that have gone bankrupt? However, despite this, it must be admitted that no drama will not use stars if it can use them. Because this is not an era where "good wine needs no bush", any work needs to be seen first before it can be seen by more people.

You want to be an orchid in the valley, waiting for people to discover it -

Then maybe when your orchid in the valley withers, no one will come to you.

Therefore, popularity means the opportunity to be known and seen by more people, which means that it can cover a wider range of passers-by and increase the audience base of this work.

The media, in essence, is the same for a film and television drama.

It affects the popularity of a film and television drama.

No matter how many people scold film critics for being paid to speak, or how few people care, or say something sarcastic like "how many people still read those media magazines now", people in this industry know that the direct audience of film critics and media magazines may be small, but in the context of the Internet, where people spread the word, how much power can these people who can initiate a discussion topic have.

What you like, what you scold, what you satirize, what you look down on... everything you see in this era is actually made by one person.

The same is true for topics on the Internet. You think you don't read those media magazines anymore, but the question is, how many of those discussions about film and television dramas, whether topics or opinions, are really generated naturally, rather than coming from those traditional media magazine circles?

The first wave of momentum that "Squid Game" set off on social media came from the first wave of audiences and media circles.

The world's largest and most influential rating websites, media ratings, opened scores one day after going online, and all received mostly positive reviews.

Some media commented that the plot of this drama is simple and not worth thinking about. Compared with works like Rouge, it is a bit superficial, and it is not as resonant among young people as Friends.

However, more media simply commented on the viewing effect as "good-looking, exciting, and cool".

When you walk past a restaurant, you may just walk past it. But when you walk past a restaurant, you hear someone say "This restaurant is rated delicious by XXX", maybe you will stop and go in to try it.

Media reviews play such a role.

If more people go there and say it is delicious, then it goes from being "delicious" in the mouth of a professional to being "delicious" by word of mouth.

"Squid Game" became popular layer by layer in this way.

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Please give me a monthly ticket and recommend the old book "I Became the Heroine of Scandal Overnight".

Because I have been writing "Choose a Day to Become Famous", after writing so many words in a story, I often fall into a kind of fatigue and anxiety of self-repetition, but I can't solve it. So, in order to change my mood for writing, I wrote the beginning of a story. I originally wanted to serialize it in the official account (without affecting the update of "Select a Day to Become Famous"), called "He Wants to Become the God of Love".

As a result, probably because of the popularity of "Black Myth: Wukong", Qidian suddenly held a myth writing contest today - well, my story is just next to it, which makes me feel a little eager to submit my manuscript.

You may want to take a look, and I would also like to hear your suggestions. (End of this chapter)