The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 174 When Shashua Culture rear-end martial arts (two in one)

"Director Wang Wei's audition is really weird!"

This is Zhou Qiming’s first and only feeling.

At this time, Zhou Qiming was in a very spacious rehearsal room in Dunhuang, with two people sitting behind the table, both of whom were the bosses in his eyes.

One is Xu Daoxing, the deputy director who is not famous outside the circle but is known as Wang Wei's left and right arm, and the other is Wang Wei who is here to audition in person.

It was exactly Wang Wei's request that almost torture Zhou Qiming crazy.

If you don’t give a plot, it’s often a simple requirement.

For example, laugh.

There is no previous love, no consequences, and only requires "from laughing to laughing sadly".

That's fine, but the problem is that Wang Wei is like an addiction. A "laugh" has been performed by Zhou Qiming more than ten times in different ways.

When the sand sculpture culture of young people rear-ends the traditional martial arts culture, those who witnessed the "serious martial arts heroes' growth path" are still there, but the world is not the same world.

The nonsense of anti-logic, anti-elite, and anti-sublime are naturally the nutrients of sand sculpture culture.

Wang Wei's "Southern" style tends to be nonsensical spoofs that European and American counterparts have developed more maturely.

Judging from the current situation, it would be great that martial arts dramas can have a glorious period of five years.

Zhou Qiming once thought Wang Wei was torturing him for fun.

Film and television companies of all sizes have stepped up the establishment of martial arts film and television projects.

Until the book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" appeared.

Orders from all over the country flew like snow!

Dunhuang and related publishing houses were so happy that they couldn't stop, but the audience who got the book cursed—

It's so difficult for me!

In the eyes of sand sculptures, authority and seriousness can be deconstructed, everything can be presented in an interesting and joking way, and then a sand sculpture culture is formed.

The mainstream style of Chinese comedy now - Wang Wei personally called "Northern School" - originated from dramas and sketches, tends to "story" and "jokes", relying on the control of the plot and character characteristics, and is full of a sense of black humor.

It is difficult to say that, as a comedy performance style, the concept of nonsense has not been officially refined.

So, he nodded without hesitation: "I do."

Lao Xu is right.

There are also "fake crying", "swearing", and even asking to sing rap!

During this period, a TV series took away all the limelight-

If he just debuted, Zhou Qiming may need to think about it for a while.

Wang Wei also felt that he had enough comprehension and should be expected next.

Wang Wei did not think they were reluctant to say it, but their success did not come from their familiarity with theories and concepts, but was due to experience, instinct and talent.

Now, compared to the embarrassment and blows that were kept away by the crew, these are trivial matters.

Because the novel is said to have been created collectively, everyone has immediately turned their attention to director Tang Yigong, the shaping martial arts trend.

The characters in the play, from Guo Jing and Huang Rong to the old naughty boy Huang Yaoshi Hong Qigong, have quickly become popular.

This level of popularity naturally brings a lot of money.

You should know that there are more and more entertainment projects nowadays, and TV ratings are declining every year. In previous years, the ratings of TV series exceeded 10 were already phenomenal.

This martial arts drama is so attractive that it shows.

He is preparing to continue to collaborate with Dunhuang to produce two martial arts dramas!

“…”

The ratings only count the number of viewers, while another survey calculated indicator, the target audience, can better illustrate its popularity-

In a mahjong hall in a certain place, the number of people playing mahjong was almost cut in half during the period of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"; in order to bring people back, the boss moved the TV to the museum to play "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Unexpectedly, the rest of the people were also trapped, and they could not watch TV at home, and the mahjong hall became deserted...

However, Wang Weina was too cunning. Before he could speak out, he took out two new novels - "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

This time the character should not be gone, and there may even be more characters to give him in the future. Well, it should be a comedy character.

For example - What exactly is nonsensical style?

What impressed him was that in another time and space, as a representative figure of nonsense, Stephen Chow and his partner Uncle Da said in different interviews, "I still don't fully understand what nonsense means."

A news that proves this very well-

Shen Yan is the representative of this sect.

It is easy to understand the performance class, but what the hell is reading a lot of movies?

The novel is actually published in volumes, and the content currently published is the content that has been played. It’s so TM!

However, the condemnation of the "unprofit businessman" does not affect the book's continued sales - it is good to revisit it again, and there are more details in the book.

There are two billion-level movies in Dunhuang this year, and it goes without saying that the protagonists and directors are all very popular.

The martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" filmed by Dunhuang and director Yigong of Tang was finally completed and premiered on China TV.

Anyway, even the Wang and Shen family were trapped.

It can be seen from the audience of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" this time - almost half of the audience are middle-aged people born in the golden age of martial arts. To a certain extent, they watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Little did you know that Tang Yigong was also distressed—

On the other hand, that's even more interesting. The era of the Internet is coming!

"You can choose so many people, are you afraid that you can't choose the right one?"

Hearing this request, Lao Xu smiled even more relaxedly: "I dare not say anything else, but we are going to choose actors in Dunhuang, and there are really queues in the circle to come to us. We have made too many people famous this year!"

Zhou Qiming was stunned when he heard this.

Gradually, the feeling of being restrained was gone, and he seemed to understand that Wang Wei was not torturing him, but looking for a performance style.

——You can imagine how many actors there are in the circle now, and I want to fight to compete for a role in Dunhuang.

In short, starting from June, a martial arts storm has risen again, making this summer even hotter.

"This is called talent!" Wang Wei couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw this.

When it first started, because of the signature of Tang Yigong + martial arts drama, the ratings exceeded 5 - this is the standard for popular dramas.

"At the same time, you are a non-professional student, right? Let's make up for the performance class. Don't worry about the cost, the crew will arrange it for you."

Especially the actor who plays Huang Rong, who is just a newcomer, has become a well-known young actress in the country!

but--

So, will this style make domestic audiences accept incompetence?

At least Wang Wei’s answer is, no!

On the one hand, judging from the information collected, some nonsensical comedy films have good box office performances; they are still at a relatively basic stage, and all of them are small productions, and no one analyzes or defines them.

Wang Wei's eyes couldn't help but fall on Zhou Qiming and smiled meaningfully.

Of course, there are also a group of main and supporting roles who benefited from it.

He first felt that the other party looked down on him too much - a little supporting role like me, but he still played whatever role he gave, and where did he feel willing?

However, then he understood what the other party said really meant-

Well, the old man is in his sixties after all, and it may be a kind of wisdom that everyone can understand.

"Do it another way."

Then, she took the "sample" from the company, and the whole family watched all the remaining episodes in one go, making it so exciting.

To be honest, he couldn't see the other party's confusion.

Many famous martial arts masters from the past have said that "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has led the martial arts culture to a new peak.

Wang Wei then smiled and continued, "Okay, then sign a contract with the crew first, and then, well, you need to read a lot of movies, and the crew will help prepare the information."

Everyone watched an episode on TV. They felt unhappy, so Shen Zhenyi ran to Dunhuang to "urge updates".

Even the company that invited him couldn't help but curse - this TM is called retirement? Just Dunhuang is a nursing home, right?

Wang Wei did not give a specific explanation, only one sentence, "You can understand it by watching the movie yourself!"

When Guo Jing returned to the Central Plains and met Huang Rong, the real-time rating peak that day exceeded 10.

——Well, is my Gong Yigong Tang the kind of person who has a beginning and no end to do things? Since he has "created" this world and prevented this world from collapsing, it is naturally my responsibility.

Zhou Qiming continued to be stunned.

When a stunning martial arts fan like Tang Yigong saw that when I went, it was actually a follow-up to the world of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and the level of excitement was beyond words.

But Wang Wei was also a little distressed.

However, before everyone could send their blessings, he "repents" again-

“Do it again.”

But Wang Wei said: "It's too cruel for him to bind the old man for ten years."

Not because of being unable to retire, but-

This is not the one who makes the most famous.

However, in this time and space, there is no "all over the world, all crazy" environment in Hong Kong, which is both Chinese and Western, so this style has not been explored to the extreme in a very short period of time.

Especially, as the older generation of famous artists faded, there is no more martial arts novels that are hard to find.

Zhou Qiming: “…”

But martial arts dramas cannot always rely on "living their parents" to maintain their glory.

In the Internet era, what is the most common on the Internet?

Wang Wei, who has experienced the baptism of the Internet, knows that it is not a handsome little brother or a erotic young lady, nor is it a public intellectual 50-cent licking dog pink, but a sand sculpture netizen transformed by countless people. Sand sculpture is the dominant species that occupies the entire Internet and is the lowest gene of the Internet.

...

It’s easy because Zhou Qiming has been getting started after all. What he needs to do now is to completely change his mind, see that layer of window paper, and then poke it out!

Lao Xu, who is also a TV producer, applauded Wang Wei's "fishing technique" - "Binding Tang Yigong, Dunhuang can maintain its glory for at least ten years in the vertical category of martial arts dramas."

Since then, the ratings have been rising all the way, playing to one-third, and the average ratings have exceeded 15, tying the highest average ratings of domestic TV series in the past decade.

Compared with the late 1970s and early 1980s when martial arts reached its peak, the total number is definitely smaller.

"I can't rely on him alone. I also need a group of supporting roles who can play a ridiculous and funny spirit."

There was a scene just now - he sang a rap, and the level of the sound was so broken that it stinged his soul. Xu Daoxing felt goosebumps all over the floor, but he looked intoxicated and finally acted to thank the air, as if thousands of people were cheering for him, and the boss was well-known.

So, despite being like a cloud of mist, he still acted patiently over and over again.

This is easy to say, and it is difficult to say.

And he finally nodded, "Well, okay, let's do it now!"

To be honest, the other party’s time is much more valuable than his time; torture him for fun, I don’t know who lost it.

In this way, the old man delayed his retirement plan.

And there is north, there is south.

So Wang Wei has always had an unreasonable guess - unfortunately, Stephen Chow, at the peak of his creative power, was in an era that was not the Internet. Otherwise, he would definitely be the most popular "Internet celebrity" or "walking emoticon pack" among the silly netizens.

While they were unable to bear the ads that had been twenty minutes between the two episodes - the advertisers screamed in ads - they were impatient with the subsequent plot.

But I quickly denied it myself.

Hey, it seems that I can verify it now.

As mentioned earlier, the Internet era has arrived. In this era of "rampant" sand sculptures, the young audience facing TV dramas have changed greatly compared to before.

Some things are hard to explain by saying them.

Of course, not refining does not mean that it has not appeared.

So, he knew what style this movie wanted, but he could not guide Zhou Qiming in how to act, but he had to rely on himself to understand it.

Then, they were surprised to find that the series actually published a book.

Then he refused!

The reason is to retire.

Wang Wei even believes that if you really act according to the so-called theory and definition, you will not be able to play a truly nonsensical style.

However, other viewers are not that happy.

“Repeat.”

After all, when an actor is fantasized about becoming a big star, even if he is not a professional, he is influenced by the "orthodox filmmaker" and feels that the comedian is not very good-looking.

He was really planning to retire.

This year's new drama king "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be regarded as a hit among the hits.

Then he suddenly asked: "If I let you transform into a comedian in the future, would you like?"

This state of "no matter how embarrassed I am, I can perform freely" is really in line with this spoof movie that ignores tradition, abandons established ideas, and reaches a certain state of freedom.

Among the viewing families, nearly 80% of the male hosts who are usually busy with work or social engagements and do not watch TV have sat back in front of the TV because of this TV series.

The TV series has not been played for half of the time, and other TV stations that purchased the second round of screening rights have come to visit; while Huaxia TV wants to buy all the domestic broadcasting rights in packages, but Lao Wang’s offer price…

As improvisation performance became more and more relaxed, Zhou Qiming also vaguely figured out what style the other party wanted - it seemed to be an exaggerated or even indulgent funny style.

The audition requirements are strange, the signing requirements are strange, and even the director's eyes are strange... Is this crew really reliable?

When Zhou Qiming was taken out and Xu Daoxing, who noticed that the other party was a little broken, couldn't help laughing: "I understand a little why you like him."

What young people like to watch may be the anti-routine and the "hero growth path" of sand sculpture.

It’s not just martial arts dramas, but many traditional themes require the pain of being deconstructed.

After all, times are changing too fast!

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(End of this chapter)