Chapter 273 Codename "Q"

When Wang Longzheng joined the crew, "Psychological Crime 2" had been in production for more than a week.

Compared with the four cases in the first part, "Psychological Crime 2" has fewer units, only two chapters.

The first chapter is called "Dark River", which tells the story of all the people in a village who collectively make money by "trading in human beings".

This chapter is not very related to the main plot except that the case itself is quite shocking.

However, a new character named Minan will appear in this plot, and she will also be the heroine in the subsequent movie version.

In contrast, the second chapter "Reformation Field" is the core of the entire second part.

It can even be said that it is the source of the entire "Green Ivy Detective Universe" villain organization.

The so-called "reformation field" is a prototype of a psychological experiment called "Skinner Box", proposed by American psychologist Skinner.

Simply put, it is to manipulate the conditioned reflexes of organisms to achieve the purpose of directional "cultivation".

In other words, people's preferences, fears, and preferences can all be artificially created. It is somewhat similar to Pavlov's dog, but with more sociality.

In the plot, the "education field" is a social psychology experiment proposed in the last century. Its original purpose was to explore how to make people grow better.

However, as the experiment progressed, the organizers gradually discovered that it caused great damage to the psychology of the subjects, so the person in charge decisively stopped and sealed the experiment.

The experiment was terminated, but the damage to the subjects still existed. Under the "guidance" of some interested people on the experimenter's side, they became avengers.

After solving several "murderers" in succession, they were finally targeted by the police. In order to avoid being hunted down, several main members fled to the United States.

As the saying goes, "dragon slayers eventually become evil dragons." In the process of revenge, the "experimented people" gradually liked the feeling of manipulating other people's lives.

After implementing some experiments, they were not satisfied with targeting ordinary people, but set their sights on those high-IQ geniuses.

These "new evil dragons" and their followers gathered together to form a secret organization.

Codename "Q".

Their goal is to become people who master the direction of human civilization and thus judge the world.

It has to be said that the villains in most legendary stories are always ambitious and firm in their beliefs.

The Q organization will "train" the selected candidates through various unexpected events.

This is a challenge and also an assessment.

If the subject can pass the test, he will be absorbed into the Q organization.

Like the "education camp case" against Fang Mu, the "family annihilation case" against Guan Hongfeng, and the "molar frame-up case" against Qin Ming.

And in the subsequent "Detective Chinatown", similar experiments will be conducted on Qin Feng.

Of course, these plots will unfold in their respective subsequent stories, and each will have its own explanation.

This time, "Psychological Crime 2" just throws out this setting first.

Because it is a sequel, and the director is Five Hundred, the most experienced director of the Arclight Alliance, so after the script is written, there is basically no need for Meng Bai, the producer, to do anything.

"The second part of the story goes to 2006, and ten years later, in the "White Night Chase" line, there is Tai Wei, but no Fang Mu..."

Wu Bai sighed: "Although I don't know what plot you are going to dig in the movie version next year, I always feel that Fang Mu's ending will not be good."

Meng Bai smiled: "Stories are different from life. Many times the ending is destined from the beginning."

"Tsk, I thought you were the kind of creator who likes happy endings."

"As a viewer, I like happy endings; but as a creator, tragedy is more impressive." Meng Bai spread his hands.

This is indeed true. Most of the classics that have been sung for many years often have a tragic ending.

I don't know if these creators are doing this on purpose, they always like to build joy on the pain of the audience.

"When will the movie version start the project?" Wu Bai asked.

"Next year." Meng Bai said: "By the way, I remember that your "Painting Rivers and Lakes" project was also launched some time ago, right? I haven't had time to see the data yet, how is the result?"

At the beginning of the year, Wu Bai and members of the Arc Light Alliance filmed a comic adaptation called "Painting Rivers and Lakes: The Bad Man".

This project was controlled by Wu Bai, and Meng Bai did not intervene in the whole process except for investment.

The original animation quality is quite high, and it is also a top-ranked work in Chinese comics.

To be honest, this drama is also quite miserable. It was filmed in February and was not broadcast until October.

For a small-scale web drama, this speed can be said to be very slow.

But there is no way. Wu Bai and his team initially agreed with Qiyi TV to start broadcasting in August, but it collided with "The Mystic Nine".

Considering the influence of the latter, they thought about moving it back a month, but it ended up colliding with "The Lost Tomb".

Finally, there was no choice but to continue to delay, resulting in an extra two months.

In fact, with the rapid development of the online drama market, the opportunity for a drama to occupy a schedule like in the past two years is basically gone.

Take this year for example, the five major video platforms have more than 400 online drama projects throughout the year, and they can't even schedule one a day.

So in the future, multiple popular online dramas will collide with each other more frequently.

Back to the present, when Wu Bai heard Meng Bai mention his project, his expression suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"Alas, we originally thought that we could complement each other with the popularity of the original anime, but in the end, there was no reflection in the data." Wu Bai sighed.

To be honest, the quality of their drama is not bad.

As we all know, comic-adapted live-action dramas have always been a high-incidence area for the original fans to criticize.

Many plots and settings are suitable in the second dimension, but they will become very embarrassing after the upgrade.

This is the same for the producers. If there are too few adaptations, it will lead to a poor viewing experience; if there are too many adaptations, then just wait to be rushed by the fans of the original.

In comparison, the remake of "Painting Rivers and Lakes: The Bad Guys" by Wu Bai is already very good.

Douban scored 8.3. Whether fans or passers-by, apart from complaining that the character modeling is a bit second-year, there is no big objection.

But even with such a high quality of the remake, the final data results can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

One month after the broadcast, the cumulative total broadcast volume barely exceeded 400 million, and this is because many viewers were attracted by the name of Arclight.

A year ago, this data was actually quite good. But when everyone is rushing to "2 billion" and "3 billion", it is a bit not enough.

This drama is a two-season simulcast. According to the current trend, the final total broadcast volume is about 700-800 million.

In fact, it is not bad, at least it can guarantee that Qiyi TV is willing to pay the balance and will not lose money.

But Wu Bai is still very depressed. After all, the team is the team of Arclight, the director is himself, and the platform is also Qiyi TV.

As a result, the project cooperated with Meng Bai is a big hit, and he can only guarantee that he will not lose money.

This is the control variable method, and there is really no excuse.

There is a change in the previous part. Regarding Taiyang Chuanhe, Arclight holds 20% of the shares as a cornerstone partner and is the third largest shareholder.

(End of this chapter)