Chapter 337
The devil Ling Suisui who sucked the market dry is back
Before the show premiered, someone once said that Antenna gave Ru Meng Ling the best treatment, the biggest marketing push, Ling Sui was still the lead actor, and so many veteran actors were invited - so this long show that aims to be a big hit, must have grossed at least 50 million on the first day, right? If it is the average of each episode during the popular period, wouldn’t it be at least 200 million?
After all, Ling Sui's first TV drama has a viewership of 100 million. If "Ru Meng Ling" fails to meet this standard, it would be a huge failure.
The above rhetoric is clearly a double standard for Ling Sui. Not to mention the fans, many viewers couldn't stand it. Since Ling Suisui focused on making movies, it has been several years since a domestic drama produced a hit drama with an average viewership of over 100 million per episode?
With such a strong impact on short dramas, 50 million yuan for a long drama is a very good result. Most works are fighting to defend 20 million yuan. I am afraid that even Antenna dare not dream of such a beautiful dream if "Ru Meng Ling" is required to break 200 million yuan right away.
But, but——what if “Ru Meng Ling” really works?
With four episodes aired at 7pm yesterday evening and only one episode available for free viewing, while all three episodes required VIP or even SVIP membership, Ru Meng Ling did have a first-day cloud subscription of 50 million, and the popularity on the Antenna Video site soared to 33,506, setting a new first-day record.
It exploded to this extent, and the antenna video was so exciting that it lifted the top of my head. The first day had four episodes and there were so many calls today that I couldn’t answer them all. Even though the relevant departments were mentally prepared for Ling Sui’s grand occasion of broadcasting a drama on New Year’s Eve, I still couldn’t help but sigh, she is worthy of being the New Year’s Eve queen!
In the entertainment industry, calling someone xhuang or xdi always carries a hint of ridicule or mockery, but the title "Suihuang" is the only one that no one can discredit, and it is what she deserves.
Apart from her, who else can turn flattery into a prophecy?
Throughout the morning, Ling Suisui was replying to congratulations from friends on the list. Antenna couldn't wait to release the first day's battle report, but the leading actors remained calm and only congratulated each other in a small group, without making any public statements on social platforms.
After all, "Ru Meng Ling" was only aired for one day, and its subsequent direction is still unknown. Even if we wanted to pop champagne at halftime, it was a little early now.
Ling Sui has always been very popular and is used to this extremely popular status. However, the popularity of several of his predecessors has skyrocketed and they are about to become new hot topics on the Internet.
Ling Suisui is happy to see this happen. People in their fifties and sixties are at the right age to make breakthroughs, so it's good for them to roll up their sleeves with some young actors.
She looked at the battle report on Antenna and found that from last night to before this Weibo post was published, "Ru Meng Ling" had been on more than 100 hot searches. Although this is a statistics for the entire platform and also includes rising hot spots, the number of hot searches is still staggering.
However, compared with the quantity, Ling Suisui is more concerned about the content of the topic.
She took a quick look and confirmed that discussions about the plot accounted for more than 50% of the hot searches, and she felt quite satisfied.
There are many types of hot searches for film and television works. Whether these hot searches are centered around the plot or the leading actors themselves can reflect the audience's preferences.
Judging from Ling Sui's personal traffic, the attention her fans and haters pay to her, and the fact that topics discussing the plot account for more than half of the hot searches, it proves how exciting last night's plot was and how much it appealed to the audience.
The most popular topic is #Ru Meng Ling War Drama#, because the promotional videos of "Ru Meng Ling" have always been mainly about literary battles, and many people's impression of Yun Zheng is that of a politician in the court. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the story, she was still a general leading troops to fight!
The war scenes in the first episode alone have made the audience feel the sincerity of the crew, and the following episodes, when Yun Zheng put on her armor and bravely killed the enemies, were even more amazing and exciting.
Although Yun Zheng fought for the dual reputation of avenging her father and her husband, and occupied the moral high ground in that era, and basically no one would question the legitimacy of her leading the troops, but if she wanted to boost the morale of an army that had just suffered a defeat, this alone was far from enough.
How could she make the soldiers believe that she could really lead them to defend Pingcheng and protect their country?
Identity, lineage, reputation...these are nothing in front of the enemy's iron hoof.
She could only secure her position by braving the arrows and stones and fighting for her life.
For this drama, Ling Suisui, who already had a foundation in war scenes, practiced for several more months. Not in reality, she can't spare so much time in reality, it can only be the system's space.
So she couldn't market this matter, and couldn't send out hundreds or thousands of press releases saying how hard she worked and how many injuries she had suffered during training.
But it doesn’t matter, as long as your one minute on stage is dazzling enough, the audience will naturally know that you have put in ten years of hard work.
The war scenes in these episodes were particularly exciting, and Ling Sui also unlocked a new weapon, the spear.
In the play, Yun Zheng fully demonstrated the weapon characteristic of the spear: "the longer the inch, the stronger it is." Every time she attacked, she thrust the spear out in a straight line steadily, accurately and ruthlessly, and then quickly retracted it. Not only was her attack swift, but it was also difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.
As long as they kept their distance, her spear was a powerful weapon for harvesting heads on the battlefield. If short weapons wanted to restrain the spear, they could only seize the gap between the spear's thrust and its retraction. However, Yun Zheng's attacks and retractions were very accurate and swift, leaving the enemy no chance. [1]
Ling Suisui remembers that this scene took three days to shoot. The original plan was to finish the filming within one day, but the director sat in front of the monitor for a day, looking at the screen and then at the shooting scene, and always felt that she fought too well, while his own filming was average.
Although the director does not have as much say as the screenwriter on the set, it does not mean that he has no artistic pursuits. He held his breath and insisted on shooting for two more days, and figured out the best camera angles and shooting methods.
——Luckily, the investor of this drama is Fengshou Media, and with Ling Suisui’s tacit approval, the producer did not fall out with the director. The cost of this war drama is almost catching up with the speed of movies!
But the money was definitely well spent. The key words for the hotly searched topic of this fight scene were "movie texture", and many viewers said that they must turn on the projection screen, as the bigger the screen, the more enjoyable it is to watch.
You can always trust Ling Sui's fighting scenes. Not everyone can perform such exciting fight scenes that are exactly the same in the main film and the behind-the-scenes footage. The famous scene in which the damaged version of Yun Zheng held on with one breath and took away the enemy general with a spear has received more than 10 million likes on Douzi, and it’s only been one night!
Her body was shaking and she was gasping for breath, looking like she was at the end of her strength, but her eyes were full of oppression. When the camera gives her a close-up, there are barrage prompts, allowing the audience in front of the screen to breathe.
The popular fighting scenes did indeed attract a lot of traffic to "Ru Meng Ling", because she fought so well that some bloggers even made analysis videos to interpret her movements frame by frame. Although it has not been widely circulated because it was just produced, but judging from the speed at which its playback volume is increasing, it has the potential to become a hit.
Ling Suisui was a little surprised. She thought Yun Zheng would try to convince people with reason, but physics is also reason, so it makes sense.
The war scenes in the first four episodes are still in the stage of defending the city. Yun Zheng’s primary goal is to stabilize the morale of the army and establish personal prestige, so the emphasis is on combat capability. When the war enters a new stage, both sides will have to test their brains and military strategies.
The audience gave unanimous praise to the war scenes in Ru Meng Ling, but there is more to the first four episodes than just that. Netizens are arguing over other topics.
In the second episode, Yun Zheng staged a feigned surrender, luring enemy troops outside the city into the city for street fighting, hoping to use the crowded and narrow streets to limit the cavalry's performance to the greatest extent.
There is nothing wrong with this tactic, and if she pretends to surrender at this time, it will put the Zhong family in a very embarrassing situation. On the one hand, there is a contrast in morality and reputation, and on the other hand, the enemy may not easily accept the Zhong family's surrender and offering of the city. As long as they have conflicts, Yun Zheng will have more room for maneuver.
But the problem was that Yun Zheng had not yet fully taken control of the army. Not only did she fail to guard against the traitor, but her subordinates also made mistakes in the overall planning and execution. If she had not discovered it in time and taken immediate remedial measures, the feigned surrender would have almost turned into a real surrender.
The number of enemies killed in this feigned surrender was less than expected, and the losses were also somewhat heavy. Some viewers can understand her. After all, if this is done well, it can kill two birds with one stone. If you want to stop the Zhong family, you have to be quick. Yun Zheng also urgently needs a victory to establish her authority.
Another part of the audience felt that she was too eager for quick success and that the losses in Pingcheng were not just numbers on paper, but real lives. It’s a good thing that Yun Zheng wants to serve the country, but if she doesn’t have the ability, why does she have to rush in?
This point alone is already a big argument, but this is only the second episode, and four episodes were aired last night. The content of the last two episodes was what really caused netizens to argue.
The audience watched and argued, and their peers trembled in fear.
It seems that during the broadcast of "Ru Meng Ling", the attention of domestic entertainment will be attracted by it. Ling Sui, the big devil who sucked the market dry, is back again!
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[1] Related information comes from Chinese Cold Weapon Atlas, by Jiang Fengwei, Sichuan People’s Publishing House
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