The drama that Wen Bao mentioned is called "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood", which is a main-theme TV series about the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and spy warfare in the Republic of China. It tells the story of how during the Anti-Japanese War, countless heroes and martyrs fought and negotiated on the front lines and behind enemy lines under extremely difficult and harsh conditions, and built the Great Wall with their flesh and blood to resist the invaders.
Although the plot summary is dry and seems particularly old-fashioned, orthodox and glorious, in terms of character image, "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" boldly adopts richer descriptive methods, whether it is the male and female protagonists or the supporting roles. The protagonists are no longer the same old great and glorious ones, talking about the Party Constitution and disciplines all the time, and the supporting roles are no longer the same old stupid and thin ones. For example, the role that the other director wanted Tao Mu to audition for was Su Dingbang, a top student studying abroad. Su Dingbang was exposed to advanced ideas and knowledge during his study abroad. After returning to China, he saw the devastated motherland and the invaders who were rampant in China, so he wanted to join the revolution and serve his motherland.
Unlike Wen Bao's image of a traitor who was suppressed at first but then rose to prominence, the role that Tao Mu was about to audition for was a progressive young man with a particularly positive image when he first appeared. He is handsome, well-mannered, has an extraordinary family background, is knowledgeable, has ideals and passion, and is always ready to sacrifice for his ideals. After returning to China, he even organized several student demonstrations to protest the Nationalist government's inaction during the war. Because his father was the president of the Shanghai Commercial Bank, Su Dingyuan used his father's connections to secretly deliver medicines and supplies to the underground party several times. He even provided cover for the underground party several times.
It was also for this reason that Su Dingyuan later met the second male lead in the play and became his subordinate.
Up to this point, Su Dingyuan's image was very positive. It was not until the R countrymen, while investigating the underground party, accidentally discovered that the Su family's transportation channels had once supplied medicine for the underground party. The R people began to doubt Su Dingbang. But they did not take any action and continued to investigate the Su family's actions. Finally, they captured everyone when Su Dingbang was arranging for the underground party to evacuate.
Su Dingbang was imprisoned in the enemy's base camp. There, Su Dingbang witnessed with his own eyes how the brutal R people treated the underground party. Three of the originally strong comrades were killed in less than half a day under the severe torture by the R people.
When it's Su Dingbang's turn. Su Dingbang was scared. The passion and enthusiasm that had once been devoted to the revolution was wiped out under the enemy's torture. What's more, the R countryman is threatening Su Dingbang with the lives of the entire Su family.
Su Dingbang finally rebelled. Under the instructions of the R countryman, he sent a piece of information to the second male lead who was still unaware of the situation. Trick the second male lead into coming out for the meeting. The meeting place had been heavily ambushed by the R people. As long as the second male lead brings the male lead to a date, they will be surrounded by enemies.
In order to rescue the second male lead and the male protagonist, the cowardly chief of a police station in Shanghai, the little traitor played by Wen Bao, wants to tip off the male protagonist and the second male lead before the R people. But it was discovered by the people of R country. Died tragically at the hands of the R people.
Thanks to Wen Bao's tip-off, the male protagonist and the second male lead escaped successfully. However, half of the brothers they brought with them were either killed by the guns of the R people or captured by them.
The male lead and the second male lead vowed to avenge their brothers. We must kill the traitor Su Dingbang.
They made a detailed and thorough plan to sneak into the R country's base camp and find the traitor Su Dingbang. But they were shocked to find that the once elegant and handsome top student had a disfigured face and all ten fingers were disabled.
Su Dingbang knelt under the male protagonist's gun, crying and saying that he did not want to betray, but he really couldn't bear it anymore. He didn't want to die, and he didn't want the entire Su family to be buried with him.
However, he didn't know that the R country people had used this as an excuse to search and seize the entire Su family the moment he was arrested. All the male members of the Su family were killed and the female members were taken to the military camp. The Su family, once famous across the Huangpu River, has disappeared.
Su Dingbang was suddenly stunned and wailed heartbreakingly. In the end, she was killed tragically by the protagonist's gun.
He remained a traitor till his death.
"...When I wrote this character, I wanted to express human nature and the cruelty of war." When Tao Mu went to meet the director and screenwriter of "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" under Wen Bao's lobbying, the director took Tao Mu's hand and said, "Su Dingbang, a student studying abroad with progressive ideas and noble morals. If he were to stay now, he would still be a college hunk in his prime. His qualities are actually precious. But in that era, what he had to endure and face was far more cruel than it is now."
"Unless the eggs in a collapsed nest remain intact. In that precarious era, countless heroic ancestors sacrificed their lives for our stability today. Some of them were revolutionary martyrs and remained heroes until their death. But some people betrayed the country for various reasons." The director said here: "I wrote such a character not to whitewash anyone. I just want everyone to know the cruelty of war. An ordinary person may be weak when facing war and brutal invaders. But his weakness can only bring a more tragic ending. Because the invaders are not human. They are beasts. They don't think about problems with human thinking. The weaker you are, the more brutal they are. So the only way to save us is to take up arms and fight. This shows the value of heroes."
“Heroes are valuable, but the compromise and cowardice of ordinary people in the face of threats from powerful forces can better reflect the complexity of human nature.”
"Lao Fan and I went to the Beijing Film Academy's final performance yesterday. We were fortunate to see Mr. Tao's performance. We felt at the time that Mr. Tao's image of Wang Junqing was actually very consistent with what we wanted Su Dingbang to be."
Hearing this, Tao Mu's face darkened. What does it mean? One can see the image of a traitor in the sexy, handsome and hormone-filled Wang Junqing... Is this a satire on his poor acting skills, or is it to say that his image and temperament are too bad? Like a traitor?
There are simply too many complaints to mention.
"No, no, no, Mr. Tao, please don't misunderstand." Screenwriter Fan, who had been sitting next to him without saying much, noticed Tao Mu's little mood and quickly said, "Old Zhou didn't mean that. He just wanted to say that Wang Junqing, played by Mr. Tao, has a kind of youthful and vigorous demeanor, which is very consistent with the impression that the character of Su Dingbang gave people at the beginning."
"The so-called art is to break the most beautiful things into pieces and show them to people. The better the initial impression, the more sorrowful the final tragedy will be. Su Dingbang is a key character in our script who opposes the war. The success or failure of this character can directly affect the intention of the script..." Screenwriter Fan was fooling people without asking for money. I tried hard to make Tao Mu understand how important Su Dingbang, a small cannon fodder who appeared in less than three episodes, was.
Director Zhou also kept echoing. Tao Mu was a little surprised by their overly serious attitude.
"I think I understand. After listening to what screenwriter Fan said, the role of Su Dingbang is indeed very important." Tao Mu blinked and tried calmly, "I think Zhou Tao and screenwriter Fan should call me Tao Mu. I feel embarrassed to call me Mr. Tao all the time."
"Mr. Tao, you are so polite. You are the CEO based on your own ability. There is nothing to be embarrassed about." Director Zhou smiled dryly, looked at screenwriter Fan, and then asked tentatively: "Mr. Tao, you just read the script. What do you think of our script?"
"This script is very good." Tao Mu said without hesitation. Tao Mu, who had the memories of his previous life, understood even better than the two people in front of him what kind of response this TV series would cause in the TV circle after it was released.
"Then..." Director Zhou and screenwriter Fan looked at each other again and asked cautiously, "I wonder if Mr. Tao is interested in investing?"
ah?
Tao Mu was stunned for a moment. Suddenly I thought of my previous life. This classic anti-Japanese war drama had a peak viewership of over 15% on its first broadcast, and even its rebroadcast viewership exceeded 10%. A few years later, after N rounds of rebroadcasts, its viewership still exceeded 1%. It seems that there was indeed a rumor about insufficient funds when it was filming. The crew was particularly poor during the filming period. At one point, they were so poor that they only had two horses for the cavalry company. There was not enough funds for the later stage of filming, and the male lead was given no salary and was directly given to the crew to maintain the filming.
so……
Tao Mu's dark and clear eyes fell thoughtfully on Director Zhou and Screenwriter Fan.
Not only did these two people want to trick him into playing a traitor role with less than three episodes appearance, they also wanted to defraud him of his money to invest in the crew?
What a talent!
Noticing Tao Mu's admiring expression, Director Zhou and Screenwriter Fan looked at each other again with a little embarrassment. Director Zhou rubbed his hands and explained very embarrassedly: "Our script is not very popular because the character image is different from the previous anti-Japanese war drama. It is not easy to attract investment in anti-Japanese war dramas. Now those coal boss investors would rather invest in idol dramas than anti-Japanese war dramas, thinking that the plot is old-fashioned and no one will watch it. It can't be promoted. But I really want to make this drama well. Lao Fan and I have been thinking about this script for seven or eight years. Really, I just want to seriously make a good anti-Japanese war story in my mind. All the characters are flesh and blood, human, and struggle..."
"Of course, Mr. Tao, you may not be optimistic about this kind of subject matter..."
"How much?"
"...but I really hope you can consider it...ah?" Director Zhou was talking, and suddenly he felt that Tao Mu seemed to have said something just now, and he raised his head in confusion.
"I mean, I'm very optimistic about this drama. I also think the script is very well written." Tao Mu also looked a little strange. I never thought that money could come to me just by sitting at home.
"Tell me, how much investment do you want?"
Before Director Zhou could come to his senses, screenwriter Fan was afraid that Tao Mu would regret it the next moment, so he said quickly: "Old Zhou and I have calculated it. The cost of one episode is 300,000. We plan to shoot 30 episodes, which is less than 9 million. Now we have raised 5 million investment. Mr. Tao, you only need-"
"I'll invest nine million in you!" Tao Mu interrupted screenwriter Fan directly: "But I have a request. After the TV series is finished, my Danmu website wants the exclusive online broadcast rights--"
"No problem!" Director Zhou took over the conversation before Tao Mu finished speaking. Because I spoke so quickly, I couldn't help but burp.
Tao Mu blinked: "Deal."
Wen Bao, who was sitting next to him, watched the whole thing from beginning to end with a confused look on his face: What’s going on? Aren't you here for an audition?
#My roommate who auditioned with me suddenly became the biggest investor in our crew. What should I do? Waiting online! Very urgent#
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