Chapter 463 Three Body?
In mid-May, with the united efforts of the whole country, the trend of influenza in China was initially curbed.
In view of this, the authorities finally ordered the cancellation of the nationwide state of emergency and the gradual restoration of normal life and work order.
After staying at home for such a long time, many people feel suffocated. Although they still cannot go far, they can also take a short trip around their own city.
For the film and television entertainment industry, the impact is not very large. Public places continue to be strictly controlled, and cross-regional mobility is troublesome. The best way for everyone to entertain is still online.
Qiyi TV's hit variety show "Youth With You 2" ushered in the last episode. Relying on the special node of "Group Night", it briefly surpassed "Sister Lang" and won the championship of the Internet variety show popularity list that day.
However, in just one day, with the establishment of the new group "THE9", the popularity of the show quickly fell back, and the top spot returned to "Sister Lang".
As for Tencent Video's "Creation Camp 2020", it was hard to send one away, but a new one came, and it could only continue to be depressed below.
For the program team and the thirty "sisters", the most important thing is the popularity of the program itself, and they hope that it can be as high as possible.
However, for Meng Bai and Chen Zhixi, the popularity of the program itself is one aspect, and the most important thing is how many new users the program can bring to the Heng Video platform.
Facts have proved that talent shows are indeed a very effective plan for attracting new users. Just half a month after the program was launched, Heng Video has gained nearly one million paying users.
And there is another point. The "one dollar to buy three months of membership" activity promoted by the platform before has now expired or is about to expire for most users. If you want to continue to buy it, the price will return to the normal original price.
Monthly membership is 28 yuan, half a year is 160 yuan, and the annual fee is 308.
Compared with the common monthly fee prices of other platforms, Heng Video's charges are more expensive. However, in the past six months, many users who have become accustomed to no ads and clean pages throughout the process feel that the extra few yuan seems to be acceptable.
And if you compare it carefully, in fact, the paid membership rights of Heng Video are actually benchmarked against the "svip" in several other platforms. At this price, it's basically the same.
The only problem now is that Heng Video still has too few exclusive resources. Except for the users who were originally on Tencent Video, the audiences of the other two are still hesitating.
"Twinkle Twinkle Star" made the platform visible for the first time, and "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" attracted super high popularity for the platform.
The foundation is already there, and the next priority is to increase the number of its own works.
It just so happens that it has been initially released, and major film and television cities can also start business. The projects and crews that were previously suspended due to influenza can continue to shoot, which can be supplemented.
The other two parts of the "Retrospective Series", "The Beginning" will have to wait for a while because the heroine Zhao Jinmai is preparing for the college entrance examination and the college re-examination recently, but the other "Want to See You" will start shooting soon. Similar
to "Twinkle Twinkle Star", "Want to See You" is also based on the heroine's perspective.
The 27-year-old Huang Yuxuan is a department head of a large Internet company in 2019. She is independent, capable and very capable. She has a boyfriend, Wang Quansheng, whom she has known since college. They have been in love for many years and are about to get married, but he disappeared in a plane crash.
The heartbroken Huang Yuxuan accidentally found a photo with herself and her boyfriend, but the photo was taken before they met. She collected clues and searched all the way, and finally found out that the person in the photo was not herself, but another girl, Chen Yunru, who looked almost the same as herself.
At this time, Huang Yuxuan received an anonymous express delivery, which contained an old Walkman and a tape. Plug in the headphones, listen to the familiar melody inside, she fell asleep, and then woke up in a medical room, and then found herself to be Chen Yunru in 1998.
In front of her was Li Ziwei, a male high school student who looked exactly like her boyfriend.
The main plot of "Want to See You" is actually similar to "Bright Star", in which the heroine interweaves the timeline to find answers and save herself and the hero.
But the difference is that the time travel in "Bright Star" is a parallel world, and the two timelines do not interfere with each other.
The two lines of "Want to See You" take place in the same world, and every change in the past affects the future. At the same time, the actions taken by the heroine to change the "future" will indirectly promote the arrival of the "future".
Compared with the two, the complexity of the plot of "Want to See You" has obviously risen by several levels, and it is already a bit similar to the suspense film nature of "Horror Cruise".
"...Huang Yuxuan's consciousness traveled to the past and met Li Ziwei through Chen Yunru's body. At that time, Huang Yuxuan was just a child in kindergarten."
"After that, Li Ziwei had an accident, and his consciousness awakened to Wang Quansheng, who jumped into the sea to commit suicide 10 years ago, and he and Huang Yuxuan, who had grown up, were admitted to the same university."
"After that, the two fell in love normally until Wang Quansheng encountered an airplane accident, which then triggered Huang Yuxuan's consciousness to travel.
" "In essence, the whole story is a circle that keeps repeating. The past triggers the future, and the future shapes the past..."
In the courtyard villa in Beijing North, Meng Bai projected the mind map on the computer onto the TV and explained the logic of the whole play to Li Qin who was sitting opposite.
Li Qin sat upright in front of the small table, with a notebook in front of her, looking like she was studying hard.
After another teaching session, Meng Bai tapped the screen: "Did you understand this time?"
"Yeah, don't worry, I really understood this time." Li Qin nodded hard.
However, having said that, Meng Bai looked at the still confused eyes of the girl and couldn't help but sigh.
Alas, I finally understand how teachers felt when facing poor students when I was in school.
Fortunately, although this "student" is a little stupid, his emotional value is still maximized.
Seeing Meng Bai sitting down to rest, Li Qin hurriedly got up and took a glass of water and handed it to him: "Teacher Meng, thank you for your hard work. Come, drink a glass of water to moisten your throat."
After that, she stood behind him and helped the "teacher" massage his shoulders.
Meng Bai drank a sip of water, feeling the warm touch on his neck, and said: "Do you really understand?"
"...Of course, it's very simple."
"Then answer me, who was missing in the plane accident, Wang Quansheng or Li Ziwei?"
"This..."
Li Qin paused, and her eyes began to blink rapidly.
After a long while, she asked in a speculative tone: "Li Ziwei?"
"Really?"
"That's Wang Quansheng."
"Are you sure?"
"...Anyway, it must be one of the two."
"..."
Meng Bai didn't say anything, turned around, looked at Li Qin with a smile on her face, and smiled back. Just when the other party relaxed, he suddenly raised his hand and pulled the girl into his arms, and laid her horizontally on his knees.
Then, Meng Bai raised his hand and patted her little butt without hesitation as the woman cried for help.
"I've told you a thousand times, Li Ziwei and Wang Quansheng are the same person! I've been listening for so long, but what have you heard!"
"They are the same person... Then you want me to choose between the two of them!"
"This is not a multiple choice question, it's a fill-in-the-blank question."
"Then I'm wrong, put me down... Help!"
"Hehe, just scream as hard as you can. The nearest yard is about thirty to fifty meters away from us, let me see who can hear you."
Although his tone was very harsh, Meng Bai didn't hit him hard.
Li Qin had been struggling not because of the pain, but more because she felt a little embarrassed.
She was not a child, and being spanked was really too humiliating.
Fortunately, there was no one else in the room, otherwise she would have died of shame by now.
After a burst of "pa pa pa", Meng Bai finally let go. Li Qin hurriedly stood up, rubbed her little butt with one hand, and stared at Meng Bai with a "vicious" expression.
It's a pity that with her blushing face now, there was no sense of deterrence at all, but a little more cute and lovely.
Meng Bai found it funny and waved at her: "Come here."
"What for?" Li Qin looked at him suspiciously and couldn't help but take a step back.
Meng Bai smiled: "I'll help you rub it, what are you afraid of."
"Ha, who's afraid?"
Li Qin said something, and then approached carefully. Seeing that her boyfriend really had no intention of "pa pa pa" anymore, she sat on his lap with confidence.
Meng Bai hugged his girlfriend with his backhand, and moved down along her slender waist to the raised position.
"Hmph~"
Li Qin snorted and patted him: "Where is your hand?"
"Of course it's where it should be." Meng Bai reached out and unbuttoned her pajamas. "We are already an old couple, and you are still shy."
"Bah! You are an old man, and I haven't celebrated my birthday yet. I am only 29 years old now, and I am still a girl." Li Qin said firmly.
But she was only tough for a few seconds. After so many years of living together day and night, Meng Bai knew every detail of her.
After a while, the girl became full of spring water, clenched her teeth and tried not to make a sound.
Twenty minutes later.
"Ah--um!"
With a long moan, the movement in the room finally calmed down.
"Are you going out later?"
Li Qin lay in Meng Bai's arms and asked with her head tilted up.
"Yes, I made an appointment with Director Guo and the others to talk about "The Wandering Earth 2". Did the uncle and aunt go back?"
"Yes, they said they were worried about their family and wanted to go back to see them. At most, they can stay at home for a few more days."
Li Qin rubbed her head on his shoulder: "Will you come back in the evening?"
"Probably. If there is nothing else, I will come back after having dinner with them."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you."
Meng Bai lowered his head, propped up her face, and teased: "Why, you haven't eaten enough just now?"
"This is enough for everyone." Li Qin licked her lips lightly and looked at him tenderly: "Wait for you to come back in the evening and have a big meal together!"
"Haha, you are talking so happily now, but don't run away after two rounds."
""
——Since
"The Wandering Earth" became a big hit, Guo Fan moved his studio to another place.
The current location is closer to Arclight Films, and it is also convenient to run back and forth.
The site of the new studio is more than twice as large as before, enough to accommodate hundreds of people. But despite this, when Meng Bai entered, the room was still packed.
Needless to say, these are all the models, props, and drawings needed for "The Wandering Earth 2".
However, unlike when preparing for "The Wandering Earth 1", these things are no longer piled up in a disorderly manner. Each piece is neatly arranged, but there are more of them.
"How is it?" Meng Bai looked at Guo Fan and asked, "Has the script not been finalized yet?"
"The main plot and framework are ready, but some details of the plot are still being revised." Guo Fan sighed.
After the release of "The Wandering Earth" last year, Guo Fan took a break for a while and participated in various interviews and activities.
As one of the souls of the whole movie, his popularity is higher than that of the two leading actors Qu Chuxiao and Zhao Jinmai. Meng Bai once teased him that he might as well transform into an idol director in the future.
Of course, this is just a joke. Being in the circle, many activities and cocktail parties are mandatory.
Fortunately, it was only a month or two, and Guo Fan put his energy on the next "The Wandering Earth 2".
According to the plan, the second part is the prequel to the first part, which is about Liu Peiqiang's youth.
In this way, Master Wu, who died in the previous film, can appear in this one again.
Until the flu outbreak during the Spring Festival this year, the entire project team had determined the overall direction of the second film. Compared with the first film, which was a disaster film in the guise of science fiction, this one is more hardcore and more science fiction.
However, in this case, the requirements for the details of the plot and the scientific concepts that appear must be very accurate.
In order to ensure scientificity, Guo Fan contacted the Science Popularization Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With the help of the other party, he invited more than 20 researchers including the Institute of Computer Science, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Mechanics and the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to form a special scientific advisory department.
The biggest role of these experts is to discuss with each other how to achieve what they want to do in the film plot through scientific means as much as possible. They
are all experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and everyone is the most cutting-edge explorer in their respective fields. They all think that there are bugs in the content listed by each other.
So the daily routine of the group is that Guo Fan first proposes a plot concept for the crew, and then a group of big guys start to discuss, and finally overturn the crew's design, and then give a new thing.
"I was just talking to them about how the Earth was originally designed to get rid of the Moon's gravity. The original plan was to install a cannon on the space elevator and fire projectiles at the Moon to accelerate its rotation, causing the Moon to automatically disintegrate."
"Yeah, that sounds pretty reliable." Meng Bai, a liberal arts student, nodded in a perfunctory manner.
"Yes, everyone thought it was possible at the beginning. But just now, Mr. Gou from the observatory sent over a long calculation, saying that the energy required for this plan is too large and cannot be supplied at all."
"Then what should we do?"
"He said that he had discussed it with several people from the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Computer Science, and they thought that it would be better to use the phased array to detonate the nuclear bomb to cause changes in the inner core of the moon, and then self-disintegrate."
"Wow--"
"Did you understand?"
"No. I have heard of the Bagua Formation and the Zhuxian Formation, but who knows what a phased array is." Meng Bai spread his hands, "But formations that are called something are generally very powerful."
"Oh, that's great." Guo Fan patted Meng Bai on the shoulder and said with great pleasure: "I finally feel that I am not the one with the lowest IQ in this room."
"Fuck!"
Meng Bai cursed with a smile: "What should we do now?"
"Change it. It's not the first time anyway. The art team will probably go crazy again. The last time I saw them, they seemed to have almost designed the cannon shape of the space elevator."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"I guess I'm tired but happy." Guo Fan said, "Fortunately, the structure of "The Wandering Earth" itself is relatively simple. I dare not imagine how much suffering I would have to endure if the project I received was "The Three-Body Problem."
"Not necessarily. The first part of "The Three-Body Problem", until the "Sword Bearer Project", was actually quite easy to shoot." Meng Bai said, "The first part didn't have too many science fiction concepts. Instead, it was more like an urban suspense."
Guo Fan glanced at him, "From your tone, it seems you have really thought about it."
"I thought about it when I was writing the script for "The Wandering Earth 1"." Meng Bai said, "What a pity, our teacher Liu sold the copyright too early."
"Didn't the copyright owner make a movie?"
"It was filmed, and then it was blocked after the internal review."
"It sounds bad." Guo Fan said, "When Teacher Liu talked to me before, he said that if he had known Arc Light earlier, he would definitely give you the film and television adaptation rights for "The Three-Body Problem."
"Yeah, what a pity."
"Well, if you really want to shoot it, you can ask the copyright holder. With Arclight's reputation, if they want to make a film, they generally won't refuse."
"This..."
Meng Bai touched his chin.
It must be said that what Guo Fan said made sense.
Thinking of this, he opened his phone and searched the current copyright holder of "The Three-Body Problem".
Shanghai Youzu Network, founder Lin Qi, and his wholly-owned holding company - Three-Body Universe.
(End of this chapter)
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