Chapter 148 The Victory of Length and Distance
Since the beginning of July, when Tianjian warmed up in Beijing, Xu Kun and Liu Haibo were like ants on a hot pot, restless all day long, never having a moment of peace. .
Not to mention Xu Kun's guest appearances on other crews, he even put the decoration aside.
The reason for being so anxious is mainly because of the soundtrack, which has caused a lot of controversy.
The outside world is not criticizing the quality of the songs. After all, they were bought according to the martial arts hit list. It can be regarded as the culmination of ten years of singing. The episode even uses half of "A Laugh in the Sea". In terms of the quality of the songs alone, it completely surpasses Fairy Sword.
But if you use all classic and old songs, it will seem easy to make people laugh, and it will appear very insincere - besides, if all movies and TV dramas want to follow this tune, then who will our composers sell our new songs to?
So even if Xu Kun and Liu Haibo released news that they spent their money wisely and used old songs as a last resort, there were still endless criticisms.
This also made Xu Kun and Liu Haibo feel more anxious. Fortunately, the investors were all Xu Kun's "connected households", otherwise they would have been beaten into pig heads by the investors.
Fortunately, after the TV series was officially aired, the ratings were quite good. Although the so-called "old songs are replaced by dramas" still exists, it is only the perception of a very small number of people.
The idea that a bad drama has a divine song is not unfounded - if you really see the plot, who would be distracted and listen to the song carefully?
Even if you want to listen to music, you can only listen to it alone after the TV series becomes popular.
If we put aside the plot alone, even 20 years later in 2024, these golden songs used by Tianjian will still be the most popular songs on KTV.
Having just passed this hurdle, Tianjian soon faced the second hurdle.
After the ratings for the first three days were released, they were generally pretty good, temporarily ranking second in the same episode count on Beijing Satellite TV.
"Who's number one?"
After Chen Xuebin saw the statistics table, he immediately asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.
The Beijing and Taiwan staff replied: "The first one is "Plum Blossom Files"."
Uh~
That's normal. At the beginning of the year, "Plum Blossom Files" was a huge stunt. It was said to be filmed with real corpses in an autopsy room. Once it was broadcast, it caused a storm of public opinion in the capital.
As a result, it was banned by radio and television after only a few episodes.
But it was precisely because of the "reverse propaganda" of the radio and television that the ratings of "Plum Blossom Files" exploded before its death - no one was angry after being overwhelmed by such an unconventional TV series.
What really worries Xu Kun and others is that in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the ratings of Tianjian and Xianjian are going hand in hand. Tianjian beats Xianjian in Beijing and Hebei, while Xianjian leads the way in Tianjin.
This is actually a loss.
After all, Tianjian has a platform advantage. A tie or a narrow win means that Tianjian failed to beat Xianjian in the early stage.
This made Xu Kun and Liu Haibo fall into anxiety again.
Fortunately, Beijing Satellite TV is quite satisfied with this. No matter how good Fairy Sword is, it cannot be broadcast on stars. Among the new dramas they have premiered on stars, Heavenly Sword is already the best one - "Sword of Heaven" was banned just after it was aired. Except for Plum Blossom Files.
Because there had been a fight between the two swords before, after the broadcast on the same day, the situation where the two swords were neck and neck in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei naturally attracted the attention of the media.
Many tabloids and magazines have launched comparative analyzes of the two dramas from various angles.
The first is, of course, a soundtrack that has sparked criticism.
Soundtrack quality: Tianjian 9.6, Fairy Sword 8.6.
Sincerity of soundtrack: Sword of Heaven 1, Sword of Heaven 9.8.
There is little controversy about this, at least not until the younger generation grows up.
In terms of plot, because Xiao Ting has not yet revealed the identity of King Abelo, the general evaluation is that the routines are old and not as innovative as Fairy Sword.
Plot: Tianjian 6.6 points, Fairy Sword 7.9 points.
As for characterization, the highest score for the male actor was Xiao Ting [Xu Kun] with a score of 7.8; for the actress, Zhao Ling'er [Liu Yifei] received the highest score of 9.7.
Xiao Ting slightly edged out the PC-loving Li Xiaoyao, while Zhao Linger led all the actresses by a cliff.
In terms of serving the Tao, due to Xu Kun's butterfly wings, there was not much difference in the scores between the two sides.
Hair style: Heavenly Sword 8.6, Fairy Sword 8.2.
Service transformation: Tianjian 8.3, Immortal Sword 8.4.
Props: Heavenly Sword 7.8, Fairy Sword 8.1.
Scenario: Sword of Heaven 7.1, Sword of Heaven 8.3. These days, most martial arts dramas follow the cheap and cheap style of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and both dramas have broken away from this cramped framework, so the evaluation is naturally not much lower.
As for the scenes, in fact, it would be biased to look at the early stage alone. Liu Haibo invested all the money he saved into the two scenes of the martial arts competition and the cliff battle.
But both of them are mid- to late-stage plots, so in terms of early evaluation, Tianjian suffered a loss.
In the end, the overall evaluation of Tianjian was only 6.6 points, while Xianjian received an evaluation of 7.7 points because it had not started messing around in the early stage.
This 7.7-point rating is not low.
In fact, even if we put aside the "anger" of the game party, there were not many adults at that time who would think that Fairy Sword was some kind of invincible drama.
And because it was not initially broadcast on stars, even if it was broadcast from the beginning of 2005 to the end of the year, the overall ratings of "Sword of Sword" were not among the top ten that year.
Even if it is limited to the subdivision of costume dramas, Fairy Sword only ranks fourth in overall ratings.
At that time, there was only one true god of costume TV dramas, and that was "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" starring Huang Haibing, Nie Yuan and others.
This TV series, which premiered at the end of 2003, ranked first in the total ratings of costume dramas for two consecutive years in 2004 and 2005.
"Dragon", which was also popular from the end of 2003 to 2004, could only rank second in 2004.
By 2005, "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" still dominated the list, and the second place was replaced by "The Beauty of the Supreme" starring Jia Jingwen [also premiered in 2003], the third place was "The Tiger General of the Yang Family" starring Su Youpeng, and the fourth place was The name is "Legend of Sword and Fairy".
It wasn't until the popularity of "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" ran out in 2006 that Liu Yifei's pinnacle work "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" took over.
Back to the topic.
Xu Kun naturally read all the reviews in these magazines and newspapers, but after reading them, he felt much more at ease. After all, the plot that was criticized as cliche was actually the real trump card of Tianjian.
There has never been such a male protagonist in the current costume film and television dramas. When the "mystery" is revealed in the middle and later stages, who will dare to say that the plot of Tianjian is old-fashioned and uninnovative?
On the contrary, it’s the character...
Xu Kun is not sure about this, and he doesn't know whether the audience's impression of Xiao Ting will drop after he reveals his true face.
But what he didn't expect was that the battle between the two swords would take a turn before the subsequent plot twist.
On the sixth day of the Fairy Sword broadcast, when Tang Yu Xiaobao competed with Li Xiaoyao for the first time, the situation gradually began to change.
There was no obvious fluctuation in the ratings of Fairy Sword. Although a considerable part of the game party had rebelled at this time, the game party was only a small group of people after all and could not affect the overall situation.
But Skyward Sword's ratings began to rise significantly.
This is because the plot gradually unfolds, Xiao Ting's "sweet" way of chasing his wife, and his domineering strength when facing the enemy, attracting more people to fall into the trap.
This section actually had a bit of a domineering feel to it, which was quite damaging to the female audience at the time.
But Changmao Camera insists that this is a victory for the chest muscles!
What he said is naturally based on evidence. The number of times Xu Kun exposed his chest has indeed increased in these episodes.
However, the real first time Tianjian came out of the circle was when Tang Ruoxuan sucked out the venom for Xiao Ting.
This scene sparked heated discussions online and offline at the same time. The main hot discussion online was: based on visual inspection and reference objects around you, can you calculate the distance from Tang Ruoxuan's knees to Xiao Ting's root?
Taking advantage of this trend, the Fairy Sword Post Bar and major game forums also set off a wave of support and disapproval.
But the main argument at this time is: Li Xiaoyao was ruined by the drama version. The fake Xiaoyao who visited a brothel for his sister Qi Ling'er is not as good as the domineering and leaky Xiao Ting!
Of course, the slogan "Tang Yu Xiaobao fucks" is indispensable - after all, there are many people in the game party who like Anu. Seeing Tang Yu Xiaobao and Anu flirting, it is almost like Husband XX feels just as aggrieved.
That’s why Zhang Bo had endless posts to delete during this period.
The first thing offline audiences began to pay attention to was Xiao Ting's chest muscles with special effects.
Especially the housewives who accounted for the majority of the audience. When many people watched this scene, they wished they could replace Tang Ruoxuan.
After reading it, I couldn't help but discuss it with my friends - if there was no one with the same name around me, I would openly or covertly recommend it to my best friends.
In this sharing and discussion, the topic of 'distance and length' gradually penetrated into it, adding new 'specialties' to many female viewers' fantasies about Xiao Ting.
As a result, Xiao Ting's reputation rose rapidly, completely leaving Li Xiaoyao behind in terms of popularity, leading as much as Zhao Ling'er - the former was limited to female audiences, and the latter was limited to male audiences.
It was also from this day on that Tianjian's ratings completely surpassed that of Xianjian in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and it was firmly ahead.
(End of chapter)