Chapter 487: Sweeping away gangsters and eliminating evil, no upper limit
In early 2018, the state issued a notice to launch a special campaign to eliminate gangsters and eliminate evil nationwide for a total of three years. As of now, the special campaign is nearing its end and has entered the final summary stage.
It was in this context that the Political and Legal Committee decided to shoot a film and television work describing the work of "sweeping away gangsters and eliminating evil" based on real cases during the special campaign.
After all, most ordinary people find it difficult to watch work reports, and it is not as good as making them into dramas.
Because this subject is more serious and the quality requirements are also higher, the Political and Legal Committee has been selecting suitable producers.
As the top head team in the industry in recent years, Arc Light has always cooperated with the Public Security Bureau and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, so it is naturally at the forefront of the candidate list.
Just in time for the recent hit of "Guarding Blue Shanxi", the Political and Legal Committee found that Arc Light can not only shoot "criminal investigation dramas" with strong stories, but also has made great achievements in this kind of documentary works based on "authenticity".
In this way, there is naturally nothing to hesitate, and the Political and Legal Committee contacted Arc Light through the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Meng Bai did not refuse Zhu Dong's invitation. Since Arclight is a suspense drama, it will inevitably need to rely on relevant departments in the future. By building good relationships through project cooperation, it will also be convenient for them to "pull the tiger's skin and pull the flag" in the future.
After confirming the preliminary cooperation agreement, he went directly to the Political and Legal Committee Building outside the East Gate of the Forbidden City the next day.
"Thank you for your cooperation, President Meng." Zhu Dong said with a smile: "During the preparation period of the next project, you
can let us know if you have any needs." Meng Bai said: "Director Zhu, you are too polite. We really need your help. We outsiders don't have a deep understanding of the content of 'Sweeping Away Gangs and Eliminating Evil', so it is best to find professionals to provide us with guidance from script writing to filming." "
That's easy. We will set up a special project team to be responsible for connecting with Arc Light. If you have any questions, we can communicate directly."
"Then I'll be relieved."
Meng Bai chuckled, then said with a little hesitation: "Director Zhu, there is another question, it would be best to determine it before we start preparing for the project."
Zhu Dong raised his hand: "President Meng, please feel free to say it."
"You also know that topics such as sweeping away gangs and corruption are often very sensitive in terms of content standards and review scales. So I want to ask, what is the highest limit that our plot can involve?"
For the producer Arc Light, the "content scale" must be clarified in advance. Otherwise, if they shoot according to the volume of 40 episodes in the early stage, and then cut off 10 or 8 episodes after the later review, no one can bear it.
Hearing Meng Bai's words, Zhu Dong was not surprised. Obviously, he had anticipated this problem a long time ago. He did not rush to answer, but got up and took Meng Bai to the archives room.
"Buzz--"
A slight electric sound sounded, and the closed room was illuminated by yellow-white light. Meng Bai looked into the room and saw rows of bookshelves and tables neatly arranged with thick file bags.
"Director Zhu, these are..."
"Since the beginning of 2018, as of the end of April this year..." Zhu Dong said: "All the information on related cases is here."
After that, he looked at Meng Bai: "All these case materials, as long as you need them, we will open them all and you can choose to adapt them at will. As for the scale of the content involved, we only have four words, no upper limit."
"No upper limit..."
Meng Bai repeated it, savoring these four words in his heart.
It can be seen that the Political and Legal Committee's support for this film and television project is indeed very strong. If they can really let go and produce it, the final results and effects of this project will definitely not be bad.
But then again, the scale of "anti-gang" can indeed be relaxed a little.
After all, no matter how much the latter climbs up, it is still limited to the local area. In comparison, the former has "no upper limit.
" Meng Bai glanced at the rows of bookshelves, and then looked at a batch of file bags on a table near the door: "Are these cases special?"
Zhu Dong explained: "Oh, this part is selected by us. It is more influential and representative in the special operation. If you adapt it, you can give priority to choosing from these."
Meng Bai walked over and took a look at them one by one. Sure enough, they were all cases that had caused heated discussions on the Internet before.
Reaching out and tapping the file bag a few times, he looked up and said, "We shouldn't have this situation in the movie "In the Name of People" a few years ago, right?"
Zhu Dong was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood and said with a smile, "Don't worry, President Meng, things are different now. If you have any questions, you can just come to us directly."
At this point, he paused and continued, "In addition, regarding the person mentioned just now, President Meng can pay more attention to the news recently, and maybe you can see some of his recent situation."
"Really?" Meng Bai smiled, "Then I have to pay more attention to it, maybe I can get some material."
"Haha, it's a pity that our project is time-sensitive, and we may not be able to wait for the summary of the information, otherwise we can add it to the story together."
"It's okay, you can keep it as a character background."
"Okay, then we look forward to President Meng's script."
...
According to Zhu Dong's introduction, the special operation will start in early 2018 and end in early 2021, for a total of three years.
Since this project in cooperation with Arc Light is to show the results of the first round of operations, the broadcast time naturally cannot be too late. The Political and Legal Committee hopes to start broadcasting in the summer of next year.
As a result, the time left for the preparation, shooting and production of Arc Light is less than a year, which is still very tight.
Therefore, after confirming some cooperation requirements with Zhu Dong, Meng Bai did not delay and pulled the screenwriter team out for a meeting when he returned to Arc Light.
After so many years of running-in, he now has a tacit understanding with his own screenwriter team.
Every time there is a new project, he usually comes up with an overall plot framework, including the story content and character settings, and then the screenwriter team fills in the details and completes the specific episode script.
This time was no exception. Meng Bai and the screenwriter team first integrated the information provided by the Political and Legal Committee and selected the content suitable for adaptation.
With the support of sufficient real case information from the Political and Legal Committee, this work was not difficult. The only trouble was that these materials could not be taken away and could only be browsed internally.
Fortunately, the filming of "The Beginning" in Landao was also coming to an end, and it would be completed before the end of the month, so Meng Bai did not have to worry too much.
Only Zhao Jinmai was not very happy. She finally had a "boyfriend" for only a year, but he disappeared after being together for only a few days.
Meng Bai comforted her on the phone, saying that after the crew finished filming, she would return to Beijing to go to school. By then, she would be close and have many opportunities to meet, so it would not matter if she spent ten days or half a month. The
girl thought about it and felt that it made sense. Her mood became sunny after the rain, and she began to look forward to finishing the filming as soon as possible.
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late October, the last of the three major domestic TV drama awards, the Golden Eagle Award, opened in Changsha.
The previous Golden Eagle Award led to doubts about the authority of the entire award, and the Internet even directly called it a "third-rate award."
Of course, this is essentially due to the unreasonable selection criteria of the Golden Eagle Awards, which caused the functions of the "Most Popular Actor" and "Most Popular Actor" awards to overlap.
So this year's Golden Eagle Awards simply separated the two awards and changed them directly to "Best Actor" and "Audience Favorite Actor". The former highlights professionalism, and the latter highlights traffic, which can be regarded as taking care of the needs of all parties.
In order to avoid the situation of fans swiping votes, the organizers deliberately launched a wave of dehydration for the online voting of the "Audience Favorite Actor" award a few days before the opening of the award. Twelve male and female nominated artists cleared a total of more than 1.5 million votes.
Unfortunately, even so, the comments on the Golden Eagle Awards on the Internet are still full of distrust. It can only be said that if you want to reshape the authority of the award, it will be difficult to recover without ten or eight sessions.
Compared with the attention of fans to the actor awards, the industry pays more attention to the work awards. Particularly eye-catching is "The Secret Corner".
A few months ago, no one could have imagined that a web drama could show such a strong dominance and won the Magnolia and Feitian trophies in succession.
If the Golden Eagle Awards wins another award like "Best TV Series" or "Excellent TV Series", it will be equivalent to completing the "Grand Slam" of the three major awards.
Although it is easier for a work to win the "Grand Slam" than for an actor, after all, there are many winners of the Feitian Awards and the Golden Eagle Awards. But to be honest, works that can win this honor do not appear every year.
The last work that won the Grand Slam of the three major awards was "White Deer Plain" in 2017.
After three years, a new "Grand Slam" work appeared in a web drama, and this year is the first time that web dramas are allowed to participate in the registration, which has a huge driving effect on the entire industry.
Now, it depends on whether the Golden Eagle Award jury will go with the flow or go their own way.
"Lao Zhang!"
At the Golden Eagle Awards ceremony, Meng Bai looked at Zhang Ruoyun not far away and raised his hand to greet him.
"Where did you come from?" Zhang Ruoyun walked over and asked curiously, "Didn't I see you walking on the red carpet?"
"I came here alone from the crew. I was too lazy to walk and just walked in." Meng Bai teased, "Sure, I heard that you are also nominated for the 'Audience Favorite Actor' tonight. Do you have the confidence to win it?"
"You didn't even read the selection rules at all." Zhang Ruoyun complained, "This award is completely based on the number of online votes. I'm only ranked third. How could it be my turn?"
"I really didn't pay attention to this. By the way, your popularity this year is so high, you are only ranked third, who are the first two?"
"The first is Wang Yibo, and the second is Yi Yang Qianxi."
Meng Bai immediately understood after hearing this. If it was just the actor voting, with Zhang Ruoyun's "Celebrating Yu Nian" becoming a big hit at the beginning of the year, there would be few people who could surpass his popularity this year. But with these two idols, we can only move on.
There is no way, they are playing with traffic popularity, which is a professional match.
"Then do you have any other nominations?" Meng Bai asked.
"No."
"Why did you come and stay all night if you can't win an award?"
"I'm too lazy to come, but I'm the publicity ambassador of the Golden Eagle Awards this year, and I'm also responsible for presenting the awards, so I really can't refuse." Zhang Ruoyun spread his hands, "Let's not talk about me, what about you? The Grand Slam is right in front of you, don't let me down at the last minute."
"No." Meng Bai said without any worry, "The Golden Eagle Awards this year lacked popularity, and it's rare to have a gimmick that can be brought up. Even for the sake of award attention, they have to give the award to "The Bad Kids." "
After that, he chuckled and said, "Besides, I'm here, they dare not not give me the Golden Eagle Award."
"Fuck, I let you pretend."
"This is called confidence, okay." Meng Bai said, "By the way, I remember that Teacher Tang's due date is approaching, right?"
When it comes to this topic, Zhang Ruoyun's eyes softened instantly, "Soon, the doctor said it should be within ten days or half a month."
"Then it will be done soon." Meng Bai put his arm around his shoulders and said with a smile, "Congratulations, I remember it's a girl, right? Let me know when the baby is born, and I'll go see my future daughter-in-law."
"Fuck you, who will be your daughter-in-law."
Zhang Ruoyun laughed and scolded, "You don't even have a clue, so you're sure it's a son?"
"Make an appointment in advance. What if the son is an honest man like his father and can't even talk to a girl?"
"How dare you say such a thing?"
Looking at his friend's shameless look, Zhang Ruoyun shook his head, "If you really have a son in the future, I will definitely tell my daughter to hide early to avoid being cheated."
Meng Bai chuckled, then touched his chin, "But in this case, you should have to take care of Teacher Tang for the next year, so you shouldn't have much time, right?"
"What are you going to do?"
"There was a new drama that wanted to find you, so I think I'd better contact Lao Bai."
"Hey, Mr. Meng, what you said is far-fetched. If it was a project of another company, I would definitely turn it down, but given our relationship, I must support my brother!"
After saying that, Zhang Ruoyun said, "Alas, now that I have a daughter, I have to start earning money for her milk powder."
"Fuck, how dare you say that? Your income this year is probably higher than mine."
"You, a capitalist, want to compare your income with mine? You really should be hung on a street lamp!" Zhang Ruoyun complained, "By the way, what movie are you going to ask me to film?"
Meng Bai said, "You saw the Weibo I posted a few days ago, about that project."
"No, this project is not new. You don't even have a script now, but you know I'm suitable for it?"
"The script and project plan have been in place for a long time, but I just happened to take this opportunity to bring it up and get some attention."
"...Sure enough, it has to be you." Zhang Ruoyun raised his thumb and gestured, "I have to take care of Yi Xin for a while before the end of the year, and I'll be able to make time after the Chinese New Year."
"That's perfect. We were planning to start filming next year."
"Thank you very much." Zhang Ruoyun patted his friend's shoulder, "What's the name of the new project?"
"Police Honor."
(End of this chapter)
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