Text/ Golden Wrong Knife Channel Zhang Yichi
In 2006, CCTV launched an 80-episode drama.
There are no traffic stars, several leading actors are dragon sets in the dragon set, and the ratings on the first day of broadcasting are extremely dismal.
Unexpectedly, the next day it had climbed to 4.26%, and after ten days of broadcasting, the ratings soared all the way, reaching a maximum of 9.49%.
The finale was broadcast on the same day as the Spring Festival Gala, and there was no worry about ratings.
This divine drama plays the gimmick of a martial arts drama, but in fact it has nothing to do with the martial arts of the linger.
The whole town is not a thief, not even a quarrel.
The famous pirate saint Bai Zhan Tang will only sunflower point acupuncture hands, and the only light skill that can be taken is to climb over the wall.
Qianjin of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau, the wife of the head of Hengshan, who has a series of scary titles - Tong Xiangyu, will not do a single move and a half.
The most cruel thing is that the Lord of the Five Mountains Alliance, mo Xiaobei, the chief of the Eight Sects, is actually a small fart child who can be handled by a sugar gourd.
But in the question of "how to evaluate the "Tale of Wulin", the one with the most likes is:
One of the two greatest peaks in the history of Chinese sitcoms, the other is the first 40 episodes of "I Love My Home".
How powerful is this show?
After 15 years of reunion at the Spring Festival Gala on Oriental Satellite TV, when it was broadcast less than two hours, it landed on the first place in Weibo's hot search.
After 15 years, how come the audience still can't forget "The Legend of Wulin"?
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China's Poorest Crew:
Big scenes, all by blowing
15 years ago, the crew that filmed "The Legend of Wulin" was synonymous with one word - poor.
Look at the investment in other TV series, "The Legend of Wu Meiniang" 300 million, "Magic City" 300 million, "Ruyi Chuan" only spent 170 million yuan on actor salaries, "Wulin Waichuan" filmed 80 episodes, investing more than 10 million, like a joke.
Big scenes, basically by blowing.
The 80-episode TV series does not add up to more than 10 shooting locations.
The Tongfu Inn, which has the highest usage rate, is actually a small broken shed, not even a ceiling, and the wind is ventilated everywhere. It all depends on natural light, the weather is good to shoot, the weather is not good to withdraw.
The studio has a net height of 12 meters, a total of 1,500 square meters, and there is also a pilot studio.
The story is varied, but in order to save money, the scenes are pitifully small:
The lobby, kitchen, backyard, hutong entrance, Xiao Guo's room, Dazui Xiucai room, Tong Treasurer's room and a guest room of TongFu Inn, even if the roof is added, there are only 9 venues.
The biggest event in town is the Chicken King Tournament.
The interior can be saved, and the exterior scene depends on one mouth.
As for what Huashan, dart board, six doors blown every day, all of them are not, money treasurer pawnshop... Forever just a legend.
Can't afford to set up the scene, "Wulin Wai Biao" can't afford to invite traffic stars.
In order to save money, Yan Ni, Sha Yi, Jiang Chao, Hong Jiantao and most of the main creators came from the colleagues of the Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe, who was born of director Shang Jing, and hundreds of people were closed at the top of Pinggu Mountain for a whole year.
There was a beggar millet at the door of the Tongfu Inn, who did not work every fifteenth day of the first month.
But in fact, in addition to the beggar, he also played an important role, that is, the assistant director of the martial arts story.
In addition to a few starring actors, the most common words in the play are - friendship starring.
Wang Xuexi, Lin Yongjian, Hong Jiantao, can use acquaintances and never spend money to invite people, and the director is eager to break the money in half.
This play is basically no tidbits, it is said that the director deleted all the useless tidbits in order to give the film a provincial belt.
Even the screenwriter Ning Caishen was so poor that year.
In the 77 episodes of "The Tale of Wulin", there is a headhunter played by the sketch actor Period, named Xie Budong.
Yes, it's called writing... Because Ning Caishen really can't write anymore!
Screenwriter Ning Caishen recalled that originally Wulin Waichuan only planned to write forty episodes, but at that time he had just bought a house, and he gritted his teeth to write 80 episodes in order to pay off the mortgage.
By the last twenty episodes of Fortuna could not be written for a while, and the crew had to stop work for a whole month, waiting for him to continue editing.
Can this kind of strange crew make a good drama?
It really can.
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China's Craziest Crew:
Dare to grab the ratings with the Spring Festival Gala
The most likable thing about Wulin Waichuan is the kind of sitcom that is small and big and unpretentious.
1. Anti-chicken soup – sustained high-energy golden sentence output
Although "The Tale of Wulin" was filmed 15 years ago, the entire painting style is very advanced.
The continuous high-energy golden sentence output still seems to be very practical.
For example, when you meet a company that talks to you about dreams and responsibilities, but overtime money is not giving money, you can be intimidated like this:
When someone creates age anxiety and tells you about people who can't marry at the age of 25,
You could say something like this:
When someone forcibly convinces you with so-called life experience, you can say:
2, anti-martial arts - every sentence is the most positive three views
Although "The Tale of Wulin" is a comedy, a large number of lines are absolutely carefully polished.
At first glance, it sounds wordy, but now I take it out to taste it, but I find that every sentence is the true meaning of life, covering friendship, life, love and all aspects.
For example, when Guo Furong discovered Bai Zhantang's identity as a "thief saint", she admired him with a face, believing that he was a "thief and a tao" and a real hero.
Bai Zhantang said this:
What is the way of theft? It's all nonsense, a thief is a thief, there is no distinction between a good thief and a bad thief, just steal something and grab something to give to people, is it called chivalry?
After Li Dazui lost everything to Bai Zhantang, he invited his mother to cut off Xuanyuan to "avenge" him.
After a night of gambling with Xuanyuan, Lao Bai lost so much that he didn't even have clothes.
When Bai Zhantang tried to turn the tables over with the excuse of small gambling pleasure, Xuanyuan said:
You always say, small bets are pleasant, big bets hurt the body, I think gambling is gambling, there is no size, because if you win, you still want to win, and if you lose, you want to flop, once you gamble, you can't take care of anything.
As long as you are on the gambling table, no matter how high or low the gambling skills are, the size of the body, do not play to the end of the family, no one wants to close, so it is called long gambling will lose.
Tong Treasurer's education of lazy Little Guo this paragraph, now it seems, also three views are very positive:
You can learn it, no one laughs at you, and you have to do things by hand rather than by mouth.
Talking about the sky, the big truth is set one by one, doing things will not come to anything, for a long time, who will trust you, promote you, who will give you the opportunity to prove themselves?
Humorous and deep, warm but not pretentious.
Cloaked in the cloak of comedy, to promote the most correct three views.
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The shoddy production of the TV series,
Can't just blame "audience garbage"
But now, more and more money is being spent, and the flow of actors is getting bigger and bigger, but there are fewer and fewer dramas that can be filmed that are worth remembering.
Or insult the audience's IQ with an anti-Japanese script.
Take this year's "Thunder Warrior", for example, with an investment of more than 80 million yuan, it actually filmed a bad drama in which the life is hanging in the balance, and the general can leisurely smoke cigars and drink coffee.
Or take the classic script and start a random magic change.
Feng Xiaogang said publicly that year: "The garbage audience has created a garbage movie."
But Brother Dao feels that the shoddy production of TV dramas cannot only blame the garbage audience.
In that era, the poorest crew single-handedly punched a lot of shoddy money-smashing TV series, and it cannot be said that the audience at that time had a higher aesthetic.
This comes from their reverence for the industry.
"The Tale of Wulin" took a whole year to create the script, including revisions and changes, and 80 episodes were selected from 300 stories:
Ning Caishen said that in the process of writing, replace the bad stories and choose new ones. There are more than 300 stories before and after, and a large part of them are not written.
After the script was completed, it entered filming in November 2004 and was only recorded in July 2005.
For example, in this tunnel-digging plot, the laugh points are very dense.
Before filming began, Yu Entai was asked by the director to read ancient books, not only bought the original version of the Analects, but also bought Li Zehou's commentary version, a special thick one, and took it up the mountain to read.
As a result, as soon as the scene began to shoot, the director directly told him that what you watched was useless.
Xiu cai's feeling of not meeting with talent came out at once.
Comes from respect for originality.
The reason why "The Tale of Wulin" is classic is to rub the complexity of human nature into the play, and each character cannot be simply defined.
They are the saints of thieves, the gods of food, the heroes of Guanzhong, and the runners, cooks and accountants in the Tongfu Inn.
Bai Zhantang is a well-known thief saint, but in fact he is a coward, and the heroine Guo Furong, who broke into the rivers and lakes, owes the inn a lot of silver.
Each character has a dark side, but there is also their own cuteness.
As the pinnacle of domestic sitcoms, the magic of "Wulin Wai Biao" is that whenever you start watching any episode, you can watch it in one breath.
He said he didn't want to shove the canned laughter of foreign sitcoms, and could only try to guide the audience with really funny content.
Conclusion:
The market needs big IP and traffic, but as an audience, what is needed more is a good story.
In 1993, before the filming of "I Love My Home", Indah held the script, and no one wanted to invest money in them.
But later, "I Love My Home" influenced generations.
In 2003, "Bright Sword" was filmed in Hebei, and the funds were very scarce, almost all the filming process was saving money, and even the drivers of the crew were pulled to play Japanese officers.
Word-of-mouth hanging investment of 80 million remake.
In 2007, when "Daming Dynasty 1566" was first broadcast, the rating was less than 0.5.
Relying on word-of-mouth counterattack, it was scored 9.7 by 130,000 netizens on Douban, ranking first in the score, and is recognized as a god work in Chinese historical dramas.
Content is king, acting skills are excellent, no cutouts, no marketing, from actors to directors, everyone has paid their best.
They are what domestic TV dramas should look like.