"Lu Yanhe wrote another script!""After finishing a script in one night, I finally understood why Lu Yanhe's output was so high."
"He did in one night what a screenwriter would have done in a year."
“I don’t know if it’s a movie script or a TV drama script.”
"Upstairs, even a human-shaped code machine can't write a TV script in one night."
"Lu Yanhe is truly a shining star in the domestic entertainment industry. From now on, I can't just criticize this damn domestic entertainment industry."
……
Lu Yanhe slept in a deep sleep. After waking up, he felt as if he was about to die suddenly. His head felt heavy as lead. He did not have the satisfaction of stretching in the sun after a good sleep.
He lay on the bed like a dead fish. It took him nearly ten minutes to come back to life. Only then did he regain some strength and climb out of bed.
What does a walking corpse mean? Lu Yanhe doesn’t even need to look in the mirror to say that he is a walking corpse now.
"Oh, you're awake?" Li Zhibai was sitting at the coffee table in the living room eating alone.
Lu Yanhe felt his eyes were swollen.
"Where's Yan Liang?"
"Zhou Ping'an went to the company to look for him." Li Zhibai said, "But I think it's an excuse."
"What's wrong?" Lu Yanhe was confused. "Is there any problem?"
As he said this he gave a long yawn.
Li Zhibai said calmly, "Go check Weibo."
Lu Yanhe woke up in shock.
"What happened to Yan Liang that became a hot topic? Your reaction is quite scary, what happened?"
Li Zhibai glanced at him and smiled.
Lu Yanhe became even more confused.
Because he saw a hint of mockery in the smile on Li Zhibai's face just now.
Lu Yanhe didn't even bother to go to the toilet. He turned around and went back to his room to get his cell phone. When he looked at it, he saw a photo of himself sleeping unconscious.
"..."
Of course, many people praised him, felt sorry for him, and said all kinds of nice things.
But the first comment that Lu Yanhe saw in the comment section with the highest praise was from Li Zhibai: You made him look too much like a sleepy pig in the photo.
The accompanying picture is a comparison of Lu Yanhe sleeping and a pink pig sleeping, and they even specially found an identical sleeping posture...
Lu Yanhe: "..."
He threw his phone onto the bed and fell back down.
He muttered, "None of them are good!"
Li Zhibai walked over.
"Are you going to sleep again?" He asked, standing at the door, supporting it with one hand.
Lu Yanhe said weakly: "Get out of here quickly, or I'll throw the slippers on my feet right into your face."
Li Zhibai: "Yan Liang said he is back from the company and will be here in about 20 minutes. He asked if you are awake. If you are, let's go eat together."
Lu Yanhe: "You haven't had lunch yet?"
"Brother, it's already four o'clock in the afternoon and we'll have dinner soon." Li Zhibai said speechlessly.
Lu Yanhe sat up in disbelief.
"What?" He just noticed the time. "I slept for so long!"
Nearly nine hours.
Li Zhibai: "Stop staying up late."
Lu Yanhe sighed, "I'm so tired."
Li Zhibai folded his hands, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up, brush your teeth and wash your face, Yan Liang will be here soon."
"Won't he need another twenty minutes?" Lu Yanhe lay down again.
Li Zhibai: "How can you go out without cleaning this bird's nest?"
"Put on a hat. I'll sleep for another ten minutes. Call me later." Lu Yanhe really felt very sleepy and tired.
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Forty minutes later, the three of them were sitting in a private room at a riverside fish restaurant, on the third floor, with windows facing the river, and outside it was a stark white and black.
There is no sunset and night is about to fall.
Lu Yanhe really doesn't have much experience in life where it gets dark soon after he opens his eyes.
He took off his hat, revealing a head of bird feathers, and his expression was still dazed.
"You haven't recovered for half a day. Are you sick?" Li Zhibai asked.
Lu Yanhe: "No, I don't feel uncomfortable. It may be that I finished writing the script in one go last night, which drained all my energy."
Li Zhibai clicked his tongue twice, "It's fake."
Yan Liang smiled and said, "You are exaggerating. You wrote a script in one night."
"I've thought of the story a long time ago, but I just haven't written it yet," said Lu Yanhe.
Li Zhibai asked, "Is there a role we can play?"
"Uh..." Lu Yanhe thought for a moment, "The only role suitable for your age is that of a eunuch."
Li Zhibai immediately glanced at Lu Yanhe and said, "Go and act on your own."
Yan Liang asked in surprise: "You actually wrote a costume drama?"
Before this, the only costume drama written by Lu Yanhe was "Wulin Waijia", and this drama was actually not a costume drama in the traditional sense. Its main positioning was a comedy.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "It's a martial arts film."
"Huh? A martial arts film?" 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," said Lu Yanhe.
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For Chinese people, almost everyone has a martial arts dream when they were young.
Even if there were no Jin Yong and Gu Long in this world, martial arts films and TV dramas would still be present in everyone's childhood.
In this world, the meaning of the word "martial arts" is no less important than the time and space where Jin and Gu are.
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 resurgence, one or two martial arts works emerge that brighten everyone's eyes and spark widespread discussion.
Just like "Nine Yins" directed by Ning Zhiyuan, which grossed 700 million yuan.
Just like the world before Lu Yanhe traveled through, "Sword Rain" in 2010, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" in 2011, "The Grandmaster" in 2013, "Blade Strikes" and "A Man's Martial Arts" in 2014, and "Hidden Man" in 2018.
No matter whether it is a big director, a famous director or an unknown small director, everyone has a martial arts dream in his heart.
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. However, he hardly receives one or two martial arts film scripts in a year.
"But there are indeed very few TV dramas with martial arts themes now." Yan Liang said, "Yan He, 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, "That's not necessarily true. '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, regardless of whether people in this industry will turn their attention back to the theme of martial arts, I will continue to write anyway."
Yan Liang: "Then when will you write something we can perform?"
Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Wait until I get the hang of it, then I'll get it."
He was waiting for a moment like last night, when he would be blessed by God.
A story lingers in your mind for a long time. It is not a story you created yourself. You just know it. If you want to write it down, there are hundreds of ways to write it.
If you can't really grasp the feeling of that moment and just force it to be written, the story will certainly still be good, but it will still be lacking in meaning.
Martial arts is never about swords and sabers, but about the love, hatred and vengeance in the rivers and lakes, about fate, about the various people in the rivers and lakes, about "serving the country and the people, the greatest heroes" in the face of foreign enemies, and about "I will do it reluctantly" in the face of feelings. The people in the rivers and lakes are full of love and affection, and they will say: "Azhu is Azhu. There is only one Azhu in the world of four seas and 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 "The 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."
"Aren't there few people who read martial arts novels now?"
"Have you forgotten 'Nine Yins'? It made 700 million at the box office last summer!"
"That's only 700 million. Look at how high the ceiling of movie box office is now."
"I don't know what to say. You think 700 million box office is just a ton of money."
……
Lu Yanhe's new script has attracted much attention.
Many people came to see me.
Because so many people came to him, Lu Yanhe had to post a message on his Moments, saying that this movie script was only a rough draft and had not been finalized, so 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 annoyed by one thing."
"What's the matter?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Chen Ziyan said: "Why are there few roles suitable for you in the scripts you wrote? Moreover, they are all characters older than you. I was absolutely right. There is an old soul living in your body, mature despite your youth." Lu Yanhe thought to himself, no, it’s not that there is an old soul living in his body. If that’s the case, there are many old souls living in his body.
However, Lu Yanhe also understood what Chen Ziyan meant.
Indeed, there are many good scripts that he may be able to play in eight or nine years, but his age is not suitable for him now.
Just like the reason why he gave up acting in "Rouge" at that time, it was also for the same reason.
For an actor to play a character, he always has to meet some basic conditions.
Chen Ziyan said: "However, when I read the script, I really couldn't find actors in the entertainment industry who could play these characters for the time being."
These characters have filters in Lu Yanhe's mind.
Therefore, when Lu Yanhe started writing, he also poured a lot of his own preferences into it.
Especially gold inlaid with jade.
This is Lu Yanhe's favorite character in the story of "Dragon Inn", and also one of the most representative characters in the world of martial arts in Lu Yanhe's mind.
Many innkeepers in the martial arts world later on used this character as a reference.
Lu Yanhe said, "Put the script here first, and then we can slowly find the actors."
He believed that he would find the right actor. This thing requires fate.
"Male actors and female actors are really different." Chen Ziyan said, "Male actors are at their best after the age of 30, because the best roles are concentrated in the age group of 30 to 50, but the best roles for female actors are before the age of 35. If you can't emerge before the age of 35, it's basically difficult."
"Why are you so emotional all of a sudden?" Lu Yanhe asked, "Did something happen to Wen Minglan?"
"No." Chen Ziyan shook her head, "I was just looking at the company's list of artists that are planning to sign contracts recently, and this point was very prominent."
Lu Yanhe thought for a moment, "It's mainly because in the market, the absolute heroine-led dramas are mostly TV dramas, and there aren't many real heroines in movies. Apart from Sister Bi Ge who can always get the real heroine role every time she acts, other actresses, including Sister Yu Qian, also took on the movie "The Queen of the Golden Clothes", which is still a male-led drama. I read an article before, which said that most of the heroines in domestic movies are supporting actresses, and the description is very accurate."
"Yeah." Chen Ziyan nodded. "So, I quite like watching the plays you write. The ensemble characters in your plays are very impressive. Even in plays like Squidward and Rouge, which are obviously about a male and female protagonist, the other protagonist's role is also important and not a side character."
Lu Yanhe: "In addition to some specific themes, I like to write about the scenes between different people. Only different people can produce different stories and create sparks."
Chen Ziyan: "That's you. Many screenwriters in China simply cannot write scripts according to their own ideas. You don't know how many people will want to interfere. In the end, a good story turns into a mess."
Lu Yanhe nodded, "Many people have told me this. In fact, Bai Jingnian told me before that I wrote the script for Friends, and the show was used as an experiment by Beijing and Taiwan at the time, so the script for the first season was basically not participated in by anyone from Beijing and Taiwan. It was filmed the way I wrote it. When it came to the second season, I was gone, and I don't know how many people gave suggestions on the script, but he couldn't make the decision. I was very surprised. If a director can't make the decision, then who can make the decision?"
Chen Ziyan smiled.
"The current situation is that anyone can make the decision."
Lu Yanhe: "It's so weird."
Chen Ziyan nodded. "If it weren't weird, there wouldn't be so many bad dramas. Fortunately, the situation is getting better now, especially since the dramas you wrote as a screenwriter were all big hits, making many people realize the importance of a good script. Probably influenced by you, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang have publicly mentioned several times that when they choose a project, the script is always the first priority. This trend of public opinion has played a big role in everyone's attention to the script."
"Can just a few of us talking have a big impact?" Lu Yanhe was surprised.
"In this industry, whoever succeeds will be listened to." Chen Ziyan also laughed, "We are superstitious about success. Of course, in fact, everyone knows that the script is important. The scary thing is not that no one knows the importance of the script, but that everyone thinks that their opinions can make the script better. You have said in many interviews that you will never make random suggestions for revisions to the script. You either refuse to accept it, or accept it, which means you definitely recognize its goodness. Especially your saying of "four different animals", it is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Many people say that your description is very sharp."
“I thought that was the consensus.”
"Consensus is consensus, but being a good person and not causing trouble for others is also a consensus." Chen Ziyan said, "Don't think that consensus is the rules that everyone will abide by. Consensus is just a consensus. There is a god above us, and no one will think of the god if they want to commit crimes."
"..."
Chen Ziyan's language art sometimes has her own strong personal style.
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On the twelfth day, "Squid Game" ushered in its grand finale, and at the same time, it also ushered in its broadcast day on the Maxine platform.
Maxine gave it enough space, with a large picture directly on the homepage of the website for promotion, and also, through their connections, found a large group of celebrity artists in various Asian countries to do the promotion.
vigorous.
This kind of arrangement has never been seen in a Chinese drama before.
The reason is simple. The three words "Lu Yanhe" that appear in the center of the promotional picture are the reason why Maxine gives it such a prominent position.
After all, "Friends" 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 the screenwriter Lu Yanhe of "Friends".
The reports of this drama by major media outlets are somewhat different from those in China. They habitually list Lu Yanhe's past representative works as a screenwriter and the honors he has won.
So, finally, in addition to his identity as an actor, Lu Yanhe's screenwriting works received large-scale and concentrated publicity.
The sitcom "Friends" is the most popular sitcom in Asia in the past three years.
The movie "Rouge" won the Audience Choice Award at the Jose-La Mancha Film Festival, one of the four major international film festivals. South Korea and Thailand have decided to remake it.
The movie "Lost on Journey" has grossed over million . dollars worldwide.
This time, his new screenplay "Squid Game" has broken many 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.
Talking about his identity as a screenwriter, he said: "I will keep writing. In fact, I have several screenwriter works in progress. I can give you a preview. The film "Love Letter" written and directed by me has completed the summer part of the shooting, and will start the winter part of the shooting soon. In addition, the film "Phone" will be starred by Jiang Yuqian and Wang Jing, two actresses of "Squid Game", and is now in the early preparation. The script of the martial arts film "Dragon Gate Inn" has been completed and is being revised. There is also a fairy-tale TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy" starring me, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang. The script has been completed for eleven episodes. Oh, by the way, there are several completed scripts, but they are not public for the time being because they are looking for partners."
After Lu Yanhe finished talking about his projects one by one, Cai Na, the Thai actress who was specially invited by Maxine to be the host, had shining eyes.
"Although I know I shouldn't introduce myself to you today because I'm the host today, I still want to say that I'm also an actor." Cai Na said with a smile, "I'm also very popular in Thailand."
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "I know, Miss Cai Na, you are also very popular in China, and many people like you very much."
He was not complimenting Cai Na.
Cai Na is indeed one of the few well-known Thai actors in China.
She is a bit like the Thai actress in another time and space who was called "Xiao Shui" by Chinese fans. She became famous because of "A Little Thing Called First Love". Cai Na also became popular in Asia because of a Thai youth love movie. However, her international road is also relatively bumpy. Although she has stabilized her popularity in Thailand with a series of Thai dramas, she has never produced another work that is popular in Asia.
In an interview, although Cai Na was the host and Lu Yanhe was the interviewee, it was definitely not a bad thing to praise each other for business in such an occasion.
As expected, Cai Na's eyes were shining, and she gently covered her shy smile with her hands, "Really? Do I have a lot of fans in China too?"
"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 hope to act with you even more."
To Cai Na, Lu Yanhe's current international fame and status are far beyond what Cai Na, who debuted earlier, can match. She also keeps a low profile and always praises Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe actually likes Cai Na. She is different from many actresses. She has a kind of girl-next-door beauty. This trait is too rare in the entertainment industry. Even Zhang Ruozhi, who he found from an amateur, does not have this girl-next-door feeling.
Maybe add a Thai female character to Squidward?
Anyway, in the world view of "Squidward Gaming", the appearance of a foreigner would not be abrupt at all, just like the Indian guy in the first season.
Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "There will definitely be a chance."
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Lu Yanhe really wanted to see what kind of results "Squid Game" could achieve on the Maxine platform, and whether it could replicate the global success of the original version.
The advantage of a streaming platform like Maxine is that you can see its data at any time.
No need to wait.
How many people watched the show and how many people were interested in it are all quantified into numbers on the front page.
Within one hour of its launch, the number of on-demand users of "Squid Game" (watching time longer 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 were already accustomed to sharing everything on the Internet, posted their impressions of the show one after another.
In addition to the audience, Lu Yanhe also has a group of media practitioners and film critics who pay close attention to him.
Lu Yanhe's other works may have to be launched in mainland China for a period of time before going overseas. They may not be released simultaneously around the world. Different countries and regions may have different release times due to different publishers.
But Squidward Games is on Maxine and is launched at the same time around the world.
This allows everyone to watch the show at the same time.
What kind of drama did Lu Yanhe write?
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The coverage of "Squid Game" by media from various countries broke many people's expectations.
Even Maxine herself didn't expect that the drama would receive such huge media exposure.
Why does any play need popularity?
Because the film and television industry has been developing for so many years, all major companies have understood one thing: no matter how famous a person is, how many fans he has, or how high his stickiness is, it is still far less than that of a passerby.
In such an era, there are always fewer people who chase stars than those who do not.
However, because most people don’t speak out, many people mistakenly believe that data can represent everything.
How many movies that flopped at the box office, how many dramas that went bankrupt? However, despite this, we must admit that no drama would not use stars if it could. 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 a valley, waiting to be discovered.
Then maybe until you, this orchid in the valley, wither, 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 expand the audience base of this work.
The same is true for media, essentially, and for a film or TV series.
It affects the popularity of a film or TV series.
No matter how many people scold film critics for being paid to speak, or how few people care, or how many people make sarcastic remarks like "how many people read those media magazines nowadays", people who work 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 word of mouth spreads from person to person, how much power can be created by those who can initiate a topic of discussion?
What you like, what you curse, what you satirize, what you look down upon... everything you see in this era is actually made by an individual.
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 the discussions about movies and TV series, whether topics or opinions, are really generated naturally, rather than coming from those traditional media magazine circles?
The first wave of momentum for "Squidward Gaming" on social media came from the first wave of viewers and media circles.
The world's largest and most influential ratings websites began publishing media ratings one day after they went online, and all of them 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 even able to resonate as greatly among young people as "Friends".
However, more media simply evaluated the film based on the viewing experience, saying it was "good-looking, exciting, and fun."
When you walk past a restaurant, you may just walk past it. But when you walk past a restaurant and hear someone say "This restaurant is rated delicious by XXX", you may stop and walk in to try it.
This is the role that media commentary plays.
If more people go there and say that the restaurant is delicious, then it will change from being "delicious" in the eyes of a professional to being "delicious" passed down by word of mouth.
"Squid Game" became popular layer by layer in this way.
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Please vote for me and recommend the old book "I Became the Scandal Heroine Overnight".
Because I have been writing "Select a Day to Become Famous", after writing so many words for 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 adjust the mood of typing, I wrote the beginning of a story. I originally serialized it casually on the official account (without affecting the update of "Select a Day to Become Famous"), called "He Wants to Become the God of Love".
Probably because of the huge popularity of "Black Myth: Wukong", suddenly held a mythology essay contest today - well, my story is just around the corner, so I'm a little excited to try and submit my manuscript.
You may want to take a look. I would also like to hear your suggestions. (End of this chapter)
