At one o'clock in the morning, Fang Bo prepared to go to bed.
Originally, his normal bedtime was 3 o'clock, but because he recently discovered that he had signs of receding hairline at the age of 25, he decided to start adjusting his schedule.
You will definitely not be able to fall asleep if you go straight to sleep like this, just like some people listen to music, ASMR, or math classes before going to bed (). Fang Bo has his own unique hypnotic habit, which is to watch some obviously boring and bad dramas before going to bed.
Wearing a not-too-heavy helmet-type holographic device, Fang Bo lay on the bed and covered himself with a quilt.
The design of holographic receivers is ergonomic, and lying down will not affect comfort. Just like people in the past liked to lie down and watch TV, most young people also use holographic receivers while lying down.
After entering the holographic space, Fang Bo scanned the holographic channels of the six major stations with familiarity.
The so-called six major TV stations are also backed by the six major industry giants in the federal film and television industry.
As one of the six giants, Wei Pictures' holographic channel, Morningstar TV, once topped the ratings list. Later, faced with strong competition from other capitals at the time, it never fell out of the top three. In the past five years, it has slowly fallen to fourth. Now, due to the failed investment in "Starship Troopers", the channel's new movies and TV series have been greatly reduced, and it has been ranked sixth, and is very close to the new channel ranked seventh, and its position is precarious.
Fang Bo was originally looking for a boring and bad drama, and happened to see a wave of new dramas launched on Venus TV, so he switched to this channel.
The largest cover on the homepage was an urban suspense drama that Wei was currently promoting. Of course, it was impossible to watch a suspense drama before going to bed, so Fang Bo's eyes dropped.
Then I saw "Swordsman 4" on the right side of the second row.
Look at the old-fashioned warm yellow background, the costumes that are several generations behind in aesthetics, and the standard "mountain"-shaped group portrait of the leading actors on the poster. It is simply a nostalgic masterpiece that has gathered all the elements of martial arts dramas from seven or eight years ago.
Apart from the title of the drama written in red running script on the poster, the slogan is very simple - a different world.
A different world? Just by looking at the cover, Fang Bo could guess how boring it would be.
No need to say more, let’s go.
The unit drama model in the holographic era is divided into two viewing modes. One is free viewing. There will be a mandatory 3-minute advertisement every 10 minutes, and you can only see the director's perspective. You cannot record the screen or take screenshots. The next two episodes will be unlocked after waiting for a week each. The other is paid viewing, which costs 5 yuan to buy out directly. There are no advertisements, but you can take screenshots and convert dynamic images within 15 seconds. You can choose various perspectives, and the next two episodes can be watched in advance every three days.
Fang Bo chose to watch it for free. He felt that judging from the poster, he would fall asleep after the first wave of ads.
Everything went dark before my eyes, and I entered the world of the play.
At the beginning, Fang Bo was shocked.
A somewhat loud BGM sounded, accompanied by a rough background commentary.
"In the third year of Yong'an, forty years ago, Xia Feng, the world's number one martial arts master, integrated his life's martial arts essence and created his own secret book "Heavenly Destiny Mysterious Secret Art" which was circulated in the martial arts world. The Central Plains martial arts world, which had been peaceful for ten years, was once again in turmoil..."
Although the sound was not small, it was controlled to a certain degree and did not make people uncomfortable. Fang Bo just felt that it had a strong flavor of old-fashioned martial arts dramas and did not have the idea of quitting.
Following the director's perspective across the mountain forest path, a man on horseback appeared on the path.
From far to near, the composition is smooth.
Then the scene switches to the back of the protagonist Lu Anning, who leads a horse into a small inn.
He handed the horse over to the groom, went into the inn, and asked the waiter to serve the beef.
Although the scenes are different, similar plots seem to have been seen thousands of times in various costume martial arts dramas.
However, the overall color scheme and perspective of the drama were very comfortable, which kept Fang Bo's attention at a good level and he did not fall asleep as expected.
"Sir, what did you say you wanted? Could you please say it again?"
Huh?
Fang Bo was slightly surprised by the waiter's reaction.
Then he heard the yamen runners running over scolding Lu An Ning, who was obviously the protagonist: "You actually said you wanted to eat beef. You broke the law knowingly. Your crime is even more serious!"
Yes, eating beef was illegal in ancient times. He learned this little piece of knowledge when he read the "Top Ten Unreasonable Plots in Martial Arts Dramas" posted by a marketing account last time.
Quite interesting.
No matter how much people complain about it, others would just choose not to shoot it, but this director actually shot it and made fun of himself.
Fang Bo became interested and watched this conflict end in a rare situation where the protagonist suffered a setback.
The waiter sighed: "Sir, times have changed!"
"Pfft!" Fang Bo laughed out loud.
This sentence seems quite ordinary, but it is inexplicably funny in this context. He even feels that he can't forget this sentence.
As the plot progresses, it is rumored that a peerless secret manual has been published. The great hero Lu Anning accepts the entrustment of his good friend and takes the other's naughty and useless son Hou Lesheng to Jiangnan to live with his relatives.
As a result, halfway through the journey, by chance, Lu An Ning discovered that the peerless secret book that everyone in the world was looking for was actually in Hou Lesheng's possession.
The reason was that Lu Anning found some words on the inside of Hou Lesheng's underwear. When he wanted to continue studying it, Hou Lesheng, who had just finished taking a shower, took it away and put it on.
It is worth mentioning that holographic movies have actor privacy protection. In some special plots containing nudity and bloody scenes, only the director's perspective can be seen, so the actor who plays Hou Lesheng does not face the risk of exposure.
"What's in your underwear?" Lu An Ning asked puzzledly.
Hou Lesheng, who was only wearing a pair of underwear, was startled, and then his face turned red with anger: "What else? Is there nothing in your underwear?"
Lu An Ning subconsciously retorted: "Of course there's nothing in my underwear."
Hou Lesheng lowered his gaze and looked between Lu Anning's legs.
The director's perspective at this time was very clever, cutting to Lu An Ning's back. Looking up from the feet, Lu An Ning was standing with his legs spread wide apart. Hou Lesheng was sitting right next to the bathtub, with half of his body showing from the "人" shaped blank space on Lu An Ning's lower body.
The slightly plump Hou Lesheng was full of surprise, and his eyes fell on the top of the word "人" in his field of vision...
"You don't have it?" His voice was out of tune with the last word 'yes'.
"Hahaha..." Fang Bo laughed out loud again.
The character of the hero Lu Anning is certainly trustworthy, so he is determined to protect Hou Lesheng and the secret book and escort them both to Jiangnan safely.
On the way, a common plot in martial arts dramas occurred, and Lu An Ning rescued a beautiful woman of unknown origin.
"My dear hero, I don't know how to repay you for saving my life." The woman who was saved by Lu An Ning looked at him pitifully.
“Ah…” Lu An Ning sighed with regret: “It’s a pity that you are a girl, otherwise I would become your sworn brother.”
"Hahahaha..." After watching for ten minutes, Fang Bo had laughed out loud for the fourth time.
Suddenly, the world in front of me went dark.
A movie and TV star who had been popular for many years appeared in front of Fang Bo wearing a suit of green armor.
"If you are a brother, come and kill me! I'll be waiting for you at Legend of Blue Moon!"
"grass!"
Fang Bo was shocked and unhappily exited the free viewing mode, then directly spent 5 yuan to pay for the show on demand.
At this time, he had forgotten his original purpose of finding a bad drama to watch to sleep, and he just hoped that the drama would maintain its quality and be interesting enough later on.
In the era of holographic movies, there is no problem of piracy, but the new payment model has also spawned some "drama scams".
The so-called "drama scam" is that some movies and TV series put some eye-catching highlights and large-scale scenes in the first ten minutes in order to attract audiences to buy out. However, in fact, the essence is only in those ten minutes. The rest of the plot is basically anticlimactic due to lack of control or insufficient investment.
This kind of "drama scam" is obviously for the purpose of making quick money, and they often leave after making enough money, but the audience reviews will be particularly bad.
Now Fang Bo has become interested and has expectations. If this drama is also a "drama scam" that puts all the interesting content in the front and makes the latter part boring, then he will definitely not hesitate to give a bad review.
Not everyone can rate holographic films and TV series. In order to eliminate online scams, in addition to paid viewers, free viewers must have watched the entire series before they can rate it.
If the water army wants to give free ratings, they have to endure advertisements every ten minutes and updates once a week.
Whether it is free or paid, the cost of trying to increase ratings on holographic channels is too high.
After subscribing, Fang Bo once again entered the world of "Sword".
After discovering that Hou Lesheng was carrying the secret book, Lu Anning pretended to be ignorant during the day and concealed it well, but he did not dare to leave Hou Lesheng for a single step, and even had to sleep in the same room with him at night.
Hou Lesheng was miserable about this, but he didn't expect that Lu An Ning would dream about "The Mysterious Secret of Heaven's Fate" in his dream at night, and Hou Lesheng heard it.
Only then did Hou Lesheng realize that he was carrying a peerless secret book that everyone in the world wanted to fight for. His eyes turned and he made up his mind.
The woman rescued by Lu An Ning is called Xiaoyu. She admires strong men and pesters Lu An Ning all day long. She is rude to Hou Lesheng, the young man who admires her.
Hou Lesheng learned about the secret book and thought that he could become a martial arts master if he practiced it. However, he was uneducated and couldn't even recognize all the characters. So he secretly found Xiaoyu and asked her to teach him and get close to him.
Xiaoyu is also a man of the world and knows the existence of "The Mysterious Secret of Heaven's Fate", but when it is taken out by someone like Hou Lesheng, how could she believe it is true?
The victim who had been cheated by Xiaoyu caught up with him. Xiaoyu saw that the situation was not good and knew that Lu Anning would not help her after understanding the cause and effect, so she stole Hou Lesheng's things and ran away.
And it just so happened that there was the "Mysterious Secret of Destiny" taken out by Hou Lesheng.
The first episode ends here, leaving the suspense.
Fang Bo's appetite was whetted after watching the show, and he was still not satisfied. He gave the first episode of the show a five-star rating and left the first comment:
'I laughed my ass off, unexpectedly wonderful! Come and watch, everyone, I look forward to the rest of the story! '
Fang Bo took off the holocron, with a smile still on his face. He took out his phone with an unsatisfied look and opened his Weibo account to edit the text:
"The new drama "Swordsman 4" is so interesting, you guys should go and watch it, it's not for fun, there's no insider, so don't worry!"
Fang Bo searched online and only found a poster he had seen before. Originally, he wanted to capture some of the highlights of the show, but because the show had just been released and there hadn't been much publicity, and now that he was getting ready for bed, he was too lazy to put on the holographic device to take a screenshot again, so he just used the poster picture.
In just two seconds, Fang Bo's Weibo account "A Little White Fish" received dozens of comments, and the number kept increasing, reaching hundreds in a few seconds.
That’s right, Fang Bo is a big V on Weibo with millions of followers. His job is to write on Weibo, which is commonly known as self-media.
In addition to advertisements, the content he usually posts is sharing food and pets. Apart from discussing popular dramas with everyone, he rarely actively recommends unpopular movies and niche TV series.
Once shared this time, many fans quickly responded with many witty jokes:
"This poster... Xiaoyu, are you serious?"
'It's great, I've watched it a hundred million times.'
"There is no traitor, rest assured."
"Is it really good? I'm just running out of dramas to watch."
Fang Bo frowned after reading the comments twice. Why don’t anyone believe it even though I strongly recommend it?
Selected two to reply:
'It's really not a meal.'
"It's very nice. Trust me, you won't regret it."
After replying to Fang Bo, I went to sleep. If any fans go to see it tomorrow, they will naturally know that he is not accepting promotion.
In fact, most fans know that this is not an advertisement, they are just joking out of habit, because old fans know that Fang Bo rarely recommends TV series and movies, so fans who are bored and out of dramas will go and watch them on the spot.
When Fang Bo woke up at noon the next day, he saw that there were nearly 600 comments under his previous Weibo post, so he searched for the topic of "Swordsman 4" on Weibo.
In one night, there were more than fifty discussions, with many screenshots and animated images attached.
Fang Bo then smiled with satisfaction and re-edited a Weibo post with the topic.
'#刀剑江湖4# It's been a long time since I've seen such an interesting drama. It would be a shame if it doesn't become popular. I look forward to the second episode tomorrow.'
Soon, Fang Bo received a lot of approving comments, most of which were from fans who recommended him on Weibo last night.
This spontaneous recommendation quickly spread in a fan-like manner, and the number of topics began to gradually increase.
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