Chapter 193 The much-anticipated broadcast is officially launched
CCTV’s annual drama also has a super luxurious cast, and there is no need for the actors to actively participate in publicity before the broadcast.
From the beginning of the project last year, through casting and auditions, joining the team for filming, until the broadcast is about to begin, the media's promotional offensive has not stopped during this period.
On the one hand, the crew took the initiative to create momentum.
Also, because many of the actors in the play are top-notch actors in the industry.
Whenever there is an action, when the media reports it, they will usually casually mention the current progress of "Empire of the Tang Dynasty" in which the actor participated.
The most typical one is Chen Linfeng, who has been unable to stop in the past year. For example, he bought a house in the headlines of various entertainment, film and television news media, and has never left it.
The Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, the popularity of "The Lotus Lantern", the neon Akutagawa Prize for Literature, and the recent Oscar, these are heavyweights, and the media can at least win them every time One month.
There are countless other similar news such as being adapted into six major Hollywood movies, cooperating with CCTV to film dramas, and about to officially become a director.
The Oscar is the most powerful. After all, it is a recent event and it is a breakthrough award.
In the past half month or so, public opinion has continued to spread. In addition, the "Korean-White War" has not yet ended, and it is still increasing in popularity.
This is just the publicity effect brought by the male protagonist.
The heroine Liu Qianqian, Zhao Ling'er has numerous fans in "Legend of Sword and Fairy" aired last year;
Little Dragon Girl has received great acclaim in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" just aired.
The popularity is currently at an explosive level.
The fan base of these two people is huge, attracting a large number of viewers who don't like to watch historical dramas.
In addition, there are Nie Yuan, Lu Yi, Shu Chang, etc., who are all celebrities with many young fans today.
Not to mention Tang Guoqiang and Chen Baoguo, they are like quality stabilizers. As long as they appear in a drama, they will naturally create trust in the audience.
These older generation famous actors have a larger potential audience.
In addition to the actor factor, some people are also looking forward to Chen Linfeng's script. After all, it has just won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Everyone is very interested in his achievements in historical dramas.
Then there is the media promotion. The large cast, exquisite costumes, etc. all make the audience think this drama is very interesting.
Various factors have led to high public expectations for "Datang Empire".
As early as a few days before the broadcast, the show frequently appeared in chats between family members and school classmates.
Now that the TV series is about to start airing, the ratings of other TV stations have declined slightly.
However, these TV stations have long foreseen that the dramas broadcast this month will be low-cost dramas, and Chun Chun will be cannon fodder.
Even advertisers are very keen and have reduced their advertising investment on local stations this month.
Big brands are targeting CCTV’s advertising space, and prime time advertising prices have soared.
Hua Central Station is making a lot of money with tears and hard work. There are too many advertisers and they can't be accommodated. For this reason, the time of the Golden Theater has been pushed back a few minutes.
Everyone is very optimistic about the ratings of "Empire of the Tang Dynasty". It is no exaggeration to say that it is highly anticipated.
Shen Hai.
Zhang Yuanzheng was sitting on the sofa, holding his two-year-old daughter in his arms, teasing her while waiting for CCTV's Golden Theater to start broadcasting.
As a long-time fan, of course he will not miss Chen Linfeng's new drama, especially since it is a historical drama, which is most attractive to a thirty-year-old man like him.
I also watched the trailer of "Empire of the Tang Dynasty" before. Not to mention, Chen Linfeng's serious hairstyle looks quite pleasing to the eye. At least for a man, I think he is quite handsome.
Needless to say, Liu Qianqian's ancient costumes are top-notch, but he never says that he likes Liu Qianqian, so he still has to take care of his wife's face.
The background music in the trailer is also very nice. I don’t know if it is the soundtrack in the drama. You can pay attention to it later.
At the same time, Lu Tianming and Lu Chuan are also waiting to catch up on the drama.
They were defeated in a debate with Han Han some time ago. They were angry for a long time and couldn't fight with each other. Now they are trying to figure out whether they can use a roundabout way.
Although Chen Linfeng did not participate in the war, Han Han had been using him as a weapon, which caused the father and son to have a very bad sense of him.
Now that I see the historical drama written by him being aired, I want to see what level he is at.
Historical evidence is the easiest to make mistakes. If Xiao Chen has obvious problems at any point in the script, haha, then don't blame them and show no mercy.
Han Han regards Xiao Chen as a winning weapon, so if something goes wrong with this weapon, I don't think Han Han has anything to say.
The father and son also divided the work. One compared the history books to see if there were any errors in the historical data, while the other focused on the script structure and plot design, and found faults there.
The TV series starts.
The opening theme sounds very epic, but neither of them pays attention to that.
Looking at the big words "Screenwriter Chen Linfeng" on the TV, the father and son were full of fighting will.
It started with the incident when Yang Guang was surrounded by Turks at Yanmen Pass.
When Li Shimin first appeared on the scene, he successfully frightened off the Turkic army by using various strategies to disguise large reinforcements with a small number of troops.
This part of the plot is not much written, but at this time Li Shimin is full of high spirits as a young man. Combined with his youthful face, he still portrays the feeling of being very energetic and hopeful for the country and the future very well.
Lu Tianming made a check at the beginning, and there is no problem here when he first appears.
Then the plot is divided into two parts. One is a description of Yang Guang's dissolute life. Regarding the peasant uprisings that were already happening one after another, he covered his ears and pretended not to know anything.
On the other side, Li Shimin felt disillusioned when he saw the suffering of the people on his way home.
Is it still meaningful to serve the imperial court?
The ambition and reality in Li Shimin's mind conflicted fiercely.
He didn't know what to do, so he went home in a daze.
Fortunately, the frustration of career was temporarily covered up by love.
Li Shimin met Guanyin for the first time, and the two fell in love at first sight, and then made a marriage contract under the auspices of their respective families.
After marriage, under the guidance of Guanyin, Li Shimin regained his strength and initially established his ambition.
The king is a boat and the people are water. When the people's resentment boils and they have to revolt and overthrow the court in order to survive, then the monarch has lost the justice of his existence. The first act of the whole play, the determination, is the end.
Lu Chuan, who was reading the book and watching the drama, shouted excitedly, "Dad, there is a mistake here."
"Oh?" Lu Tianming was very happy, "It's only been two episodes and there's a problem. Tell me?"
"The Changsun family and the Li family had made a marriage contract early, and they were surrounded by Yanmen Pass. Li Shimin married her before. This time was wrong. "
What did I think it was.
Lu Tianming said disappointedly, "This is obviously intentional, trying to shape the emotions between the male and female protagonists and show Li Shimin's change of mentality.
It is considered to be using less important historical materials. , to make concessions for the effects of literary and artistic creation, this is actually a practice worth advocating.”
He taught his son, "Chen Linfeng did a good job in this. You can learn and learn, and the artistic effect is the most important."
Lu Chuan nodded solemnly, for the sake of artistic creation, you can ignore history, okay, I wrote it down.
The TV series in the following days used several more episodes to describe the establishment of Li Tang and the process of conquering Luoyang.
The perspective is relatively wide, and it does not focus on Li Shimin. All aspects of the characters are displayed, but Li Shimin's ability is too high, so he is naturally very conspicuous.
His two brothers are very jealous of this and have shown obvious rejection.
Li Shimin was helpless, even a little sad, and Guanyin often came to comfort him.
The whole process was quite satisfactory and there were no historical errors.
On the contrary, it shows the exquisiteness of costumes and props, which is in sharp contrast to previous historical dramas.
Even the etiquette and daily behavior of each actor are extremely sophisticated, and their dialogues are antique and charming.
Lu Chuan almost tore through the book, but he didn’t find any big mistakes.
Historical dramas are like this, the first priority is details.
As long as you can create a sense of atmosphere and make the audience believe that what they see may be something that happened in history, then half the battle is won.
Historical dramas that can reach this stage cannot have low ratings. At least it can earn a reputation like those historical dramas that were not very popular in the last century.
A typical book is like "The Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty". It may seem a bit boring, and non-history buffs may not be able to read it, but its audience will highly respect it.
The remaining half depends on further content such as narrative rhythm, shot arrangement, actor acting skills, etc.
Those that can complete this half are like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Yongzheng Dynasty". They are not only exquisite in details, but also good-looking, and most people will enjoy watching them.
I'm going too far. The plot has now progressed to the point where Li Tang is going to attack Wang Shichong of Luoyang.
Both Lu Tianming and his son were a little anxious. The climax was about to come. Judging from the level shown in the previous part of the play, it was difficult to shoot poorly.
How can you find fault with this?
However, there is joy in being anxious.
It has been many days since the premiere. Zhang Yuan has been following the plot from the previous episode to the present, and feels that it is very in line with his taste.
The background music I focused on before is indeed from the play, or the opening song.
Therefore, he paid extra attention to the soundtrack in the play. The quality was simply terrible. Looking at the credits at the end of the film, the scorer was still Chen Linfeng.
This crew won an Oscar for Best Screenplay, and also hired a Hollywood movie-level scorer?
What a win.
Regardless of the soundtrack, the plot is also fast-paced. Although it follows history, it is detailed and does not seem draggy at all.
Zhang Yuan doesn't know the more detailed things like Fuhua Dao, nor does he understand high-end vocabulary such as creating a sense of atmosphere.
He just thought it was good to watch. Every time he finished one episode, he wanted to watch the next one. After finishing two episodes every day, he wanted to immediately transition to the next day.
When I work in the company, I always think about what I watched yesterday. The topic of everyone’s talk in the past few days has been this drama, regardless of gender.
Yesterday, I saw Li Shimin describing Li Yuan's strategy and suggesting attacking Wang Shichong first. Then he knew the next plot.
The battle before Hulao Pass to capture the two kings was Li Shimin's classic battle. He was looking forward to how it would be played in the TV series.
Liu Yangyang, leaning against her husband, was also waiting to watch a TV series. She didn't like watching historical dramas before, but after watching it this time, she thought it was pretty good.
Although the war and political plots are a little less interesting to me, they are okay, simple and easy to understand, and not too obscure.
Mainly Li Shimin, played by Chen Linfeng, and Guanyin Maid, played by Liu Qianqian, are so good. The handsome men and beautiful women fall in love, which is really eye-catching.
She lives her life based on this plot.
The TV series will start soon.
The plot does not directly show the war scenes, but first foreshadows the plans of both sides' respective camps, as well as various problems in Wang Shichong's camp.
The two sides then started a confrontation.
There is a small episode in the middle.
Li Shimin had the habit of leading a small number of troops to conduct reconnaissance near the enemy's garrison.
If you walk a lot at night, you will always encounter ghosts.
This time, he was discovered by the enemy's troops. The place where he was discovered was unfortunate. It happened to be in a narrow terrain, making it inconvenient for the troops to retreat.
The Tang army was very frightened, so Li Shimin ordered his men to withdraw first while he cut off the rear.
The situation was very dangerous. Wang Shichong's general Shan Xiongxin led hundreds of cavalry to attack through the passage, scrambling to attack first.
Li Shimin opened his bow and arrows and shot at the enemies left and right. The enemies all fell down in response and no longer dared to advance easily. Before he left, he even captured Wang Shichong's general Yan Qi.
Liu Yangyang was a little surprised, "Is this true? Is Li Shimin so powerful?"
This is because after watching the previous episode, the atmosphere of a historical drama was very strong, which made her believe that the crew would not make up random things. , otherwise we must insist that this is fake.
Assuming I haven’t watched "The Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties"?
Li Shimin is not that powerful at all!
(End of this chapter)