Chapter 154
"Game on Fire" breaks Netflix's annual weekly streaming record
The set of "Peach Blossoms".
Ling Suisui and Li Mingxu sat around the dining table. When the director called for the start of filming, they picked up their chopsticks to pick up the food.
According to the script, they are now filming breakfast at the palace. Different from the modern breakfast of light porridge and side dishes, this breakfast includes fried lamb and pork, steamed pig's trotters, fried fish, green leafy vegetables and bean soup.
The nutrition is quite balanced, but a bit greasy. In these details, the crew loves to "restore history".
Since they were filming a meal at a table, the two actors had to really eat.
Before joining the group, Ling Sui specially found a teacher to teach her the daily etiquette of ancient noble ladies. In her understanding, no matter how eccentric Xu Fangfei is, the education she received since childhood will leave marks on her. Details often reveal a person's class best.
Li Mingxu was a little lacking in this aspect. Previously, when Ling Suisui was filming a meal scene with him, she complained that he "doesn't look like a prince even if he wears a dragon robe", which dealt a heavy blow to Li Mingxu.
He worked hard to improve himself and found an etiquette teacher. After a few days of hard practice, he finally managed to improve in this area.
It's impossible for him to completely change into a new person in such a short period of time - but Zhou Cishuo himself is not a very rule-abiding guy, and being half-baked is more in line with the character setting.
The two actors ate and chatted, their backs straight. When Li Mingxu recited the last line, Ling Suisui picked up the pork dripping with starch, tilted his head slightly, and put it to the side of his mouth.
The cameramen nearby all wanted to give her a thumbs up. Originally, this scene was planned for her alone, but Ling Suisui managed it so smoothly by herself without having to stop in the middle.
Li Mingxu saw the marks at the corners of her mouth, he raised his eyebrows, and a maid handed him a handkerchief.
Without thinking much, he immediately stood up and tried to wipe Ling Sui's face, but the latter leaned back warily.
"What do you want to do?" Ling Suisui still held the chopsticks in his hand, as if he was ready to use them as a weapon at any time. "Zhou Cishuo, we just agreed yesterday that we will never tease each other again!"
Well, this is a line that contains a lot of information... It's hard to say whether this young couple loves each other, but they are very passionate about killing each other.
“…”
Li Mingxu rolled his eyes when his good intentions were misunderstood. "In the whole capital, which girl would address her husband by his first name like you? Don't worry, a man's words are as good as his words. I don't bother to argue with a little girl like you."
Compared with the tit-for-tat in the previous plot, Zhou Cishuo's words are still hard, but his attitude has softened a lot. This kind of harsh words, which are carefully measured, are completely in the comfort zone of Li Mingxu's true character.
However, Xu Fangfei would not let him. The two quarreled for several rounds, and it ended with her pinching his ears and Zhou Cishuo begging for mercy.
The two actors sat back in their seats and continued eating while secretly glancing at each other.
In the effect presented in the feature film, it should be that they just avoided looking at each other every time, but during the actual shooting, they were both looking at the camera.
The director stared at the two split screens on the monitor, focusing on Li Mingxu.
It’s not that he doesn’t value Ling Suisui, but because he is too confident in her, he doesn’t even need to look at her. Her performance in the idol drama directly raised the tone of the drama, and rekindled the professionalism of the director, who initially thought it was just another industrial assembly line product and just wanted to do it perfunctorily.
Sure enough, Ling Suisui's movements of picking up food and eating were still as elegant, but his eyes would secretly glance in the direction of the camera. When she looked away, she adjusted her posture a little nervously, and a blush crept up her cheeks.
This precise control of action details and emotional reactions made the director, a middle-aged man, feel soft-hearted. I can’t help but imagine how much the idol drama’s core audience would like it after seeing it.
On the other hand, Li Mingxu... Never mind, I can only say that being next to Ling Suisui is his best medical beauty.
Judging from his movements, he looked just like a student talking or passing notes in class, but his eyes were very moving.
Because the camera taking his close-up was right next to Ling Suisui, the feeling of wanting to see but not daring to see was revealed from the inside out. Sincerity was the greatest killer move, which made up for the lack of skills.
During this period of collaboration, the director has basically understood Li Mingxu's abilities. Any scenes he plays against Ling Sui are basically the limit of his acting skills.
The director was quite satisfied and saved one more take before ending the scene.
The next scene to be filmed was right next door, so they could sit there and wait for the transition.
Li Mingxu couldn't wait to ask Ling Suisui: "Sister Sui, what do you think of my performance today?"
"There is still room for improvement." Ling Suisui still started with this sentence, and then pointed out a series of problems.
As for where the "ceiling" in her heart is...it must be the road of acting, which is endless.
Not to mention Li Mingxu, even Ling Suisui himself had never received the evaluation of "already perfect" from Tang Bing.
Li Mingxu took out the memo and carefully wrote down what she said - he learned this from Xu Han.
Although he has been imitating her since joining the group and has never surpassed her, he firmly believes that one day he will be able to surpass her!
After Li·Scholarly·Mingxu finished taking notes, he said, "It just occurred to me that every time we quarrel, it seems that Zhou Cishuo is the first to slide down and apologize."
"Yeah." Ling Suisui nodded, "Loving the heroine is the hero's greatest source of charm."
Li Mingxu thought so too, isn’t that what all idol dramas are like?
He congratulated Ling Suisui: "I saw the game trending yesterday. Congratulations, Sister Sui, you are amazing."
When talking about this good thing, the smile on Ling Suisui's face became more sincere.
"The Game Is Online" has long passed its domestic popularity period. Li Mingxu congratulated it on the achievements it made after it was launched on Netflix.
When it was first aired, the game's influence was only on the list in East Asia, Southeast Asia and other countries. After a few days, the game's special effects and fighting scenes became popular on the Internet, directly attracting many foreign audiences to watch the series on Netflix.
In the second week after the game was launched, the English dubbed version took second place in Netflix's weekly viewing volume, and in the third week it broke the annual record for weekly viewing volume. If this trend continues, it is certain to enter the top ten of the overall ranking in the second half of the year.
In recent years, many TV series and movies have been exported overseas and launched on Netflix, but when you ask about their performance, they are all outside the thousand top in the overall list. The content discussing the plot can be captured in one picture. Even so, they dare to boast that "the whole world is chasing xx". They have no shame at all.
"The Game is Online", a miracle work that is keen on breaking domestic entertainment records.
It has successively dispelled the brainwashing myths such as "dramas with strong female protagonists have no market", "dramas without CP promotion are bound to fail", "actors who are familiar to the audience cannot become popular", "Hua pollen is inferior to raw pollen in all aspects", etc., and now it has used unprecedented overseas performance to rub the faces of the previous "global hit dramas" into the ground.
So in the past few days, the price of Ling Suisui's photos taken by others has gone up again... Fans want to buy them to enjoy, and black fans want to find her bad photos. They can't eat or sleep well because they can't see Ling Suisui in bad condition. If there is any sign of trouble with Ling Suisui, they will jump three feet high.
But even the anti-fans who were furious and helpless online knew that the game’s huge success was unstoppable. It was Bray Shaw who called him long distance to remind him to open Ling Sui's Instagram account. He easily gained a million followers within a week, and his interaction data once again topped the list of domestic entertainment artists.
According to the convention that whenever Ling Suisui ranks first on a list, some people will deny the authority of that list, Suisi has no choice but to apologize to everyone.
I'm really sorry, the game was broadcast so well and there were too many overseas fans, so now all the data on Instagram can't be viewed! (Manual dog head)
Ai Tianming felt like he had won the lottery twice. He was so excited that he was almost speechless when he called Ling Suisui.
Ling Suisui could also understand that this meant that the IP he had purchased had greater development value, and at the same time, the Ai family's trust in her had also reached a higher level. Atm (crossed out), the scope of friendly cooperation expanded from Ai Tianming himself to the entire Ai family.
Although she probably won't need Ai Tianming in her next two dramas...but she still has a long way to go in the entertainment industry. If she wants to expand her career, there will always be a time when she will need investors.
Ling Suisui had everything planned out. She would divide her company's original shares with Tong Xiaoman first, and then bring Ai Tianming in when it was time to raise funds to expand the scale.
After unearthing the treasure of "The Game Is Online", Bray Shaw, who had previously negotiated with them for the copyright, was promoted as she wished. Ling Suisui also congratulated her, but she would never give her a second chance to "pick up a bargain at a low price".
Look at the number of views of the game. I wonder how many times the profit Netflix has made from the membership subscriptions it has driven! Fortunately, Ms. Bradshaw was very savvy and helped a lot in the process of exporting game peripheral products, allowing the game investors to make more money.
The top executives of Aoqi who failed to buy the overseas copyrights were so angry that they wanted to roll on the floor. Peach Blossom had only been filmed halfway when they hastily arranged for overseas production.
Of course, the main actors of Peach Blossom knew about this.
Although Li Mingxu didn't say it explicitly, Ling Suisui understood his expectations from his eyes.
With the support of the God of Year as well, does Taohua have a chance to replicate the miracles of the game?
Ling Suisui smiled. She couldn't destroy her own prestige before the filming was finished, but to be honest it was quite difficult.
If you want to export works with ancient backgrounds, the first hurdle is the cultural barrier. So when the game was first launched on Netflix, it was not very popular. It was only after the fighting scenes became popular that the number of views soared.
In September, Bradshaw came to China again.
This time, she wanted to discuss two things with Ling Suisui - the first was about "Zhao Jiang". She heard that Ling Suisui's fighting scenes in this yet-to-be-released movie were no less impressive than those in the game, so she was willing to help her contact overseas distributors.
The second thing is that she came with real sincerity this time and wanted Ling Suisui to play the heroine in Netflix's self-produced drama.
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