Chapter 288: The contempt chain in the entertainment industry, let’s take a look (ask for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)
The apparent purpose of Liu Zhengyan's visit was to meet with the producer in person to produce the theme song for a TV series produced by Magic City Film. But in fact, Lin Fan felt that Liu Zhengyan was here to meet his old lover.
Seeing Liu Zhengyan and Hu Yuhua chatting enthusiastically, Lin Fan finally experienced the feeling of being shown affection in front of others.
Fortunately, Hu Yuhua was much more reserved than Liu Zhengyan. She did not just reminisce about the past, but instead brought the topic back to the main topic.
"Lao Liu, you have to help me this time."
Hu Yuhua suddenly said seriously, "This martial arts drama is approaching the deadline, but the theme song submitted by the cooperating music studio still does not meet my standards.
I really don’t understand what the current composers are thinking. I clearly requested a classical martial arts theme song in the order, but someone actually wrote a rap for me in the theme song! ”
Hu Yuhua still feels angry when talking about this: "Do they want our heroes to freestyle during the duel?"
Lin Fan listened for a long time before he understood. It turned out that Shanghai Film Studios was planning to shoot a martial arts drama. The style was traditional classical martial arts drama. In addition to using wires and necessary props, the fighting scenes were all performed by the actors with real swords and guns. It was different from those pure special effects that involved flying into the sky and waving sleeves across half the screen, and creating all kinds of lightning and thunder.
In Hu Yuhua's opinion, it is not a martial arts drama, but a fairy tale drama.
"It took us half a year to train the actors for this drama, and most of the filming was done on location. I dare say that this is the most authentic martial arts drama in the past decade."
Hu Yuhua was full of confidence. "But we finally got through the most difficult part of the shoot. Who could have thought that we would fail so badly in the theme song?"
Hu Yuhua sent back the theme songs they submitted again and again, asking them to redo them, but until now, they have not been able to produce one that satisfies Hu Yuhua.
Seeing that the drama was about to enter the promotion period, but the theme song had not yet been decided, Hu Yuhua had to ask Liu Zhengyan for help.
Liu Zhengyan had already received the information sent by Hu Yuhua before and knew the requirements of Shanghai Film Studio for this theme song, but he still asked Hu Yuhua to play the sample film. This would help Liu Zhengyan grasp the core information and write a song that better fits the theme.
Lin Fan also took advantage of it and enjoyed the super VIP treatment!
The main plot of this martial arts drama is also very simple. It tells the story of a young man with many flaws but a kind nature who accidentally gets involved in a dispute in the martial arts world, becomes a martial arts master, and eventually punishes evil and promotes good, wielding a sword in the martial arts world.
Of course, there is definitely the element of love between the young men and women of the world falling in love for the first time and working together.
Therefore, Hu Yuhua had very clear requirements for the theme song, which was that it had to have a strong martial arts flavor, and even the love element could be discarded, but it had to be authentic.
This stumped the composers.
Because not everyone can grasp the spirit of the underworld accurately. Especially the young composers nowadays, who have not experienced the era when martial arts dramas dominated the screen and have been exposed to many new things, are even more unable to understand what the original flavor of Hu Yuhua wants.
Liu Zhengyan watched the sample three times, and Hu Yuhua asked cautiously: "Old Liu, how is it? Do you have any inspiration?"
Lin Fan didn't know whether Liu Zhengyan had any inspiration or not. Anyway, he had no idea how many theme songs of martial arts dramas were floating through his head.
When Lin Fan was a child in his previous life, martial arts dramas dominated the screen on Earth. At that time, what made Lin Fan happiest was the old TV in the cafeteria, which would play martial arts dramas on time every day.
Every day, everyone in the orphanage would sit in a row in front of the TV, watching the black and white images on the TV eagerly.
Then at night, everyone would drape the sheets over their shoulders and pretend that they were the heroes on TV, fighting with other children.
Liu Zhengyan nodded: "I have some idea. When will you want the theme song?"
"The sooner the better! At the latest, it'd be best if it doesn't exceed a week."
"I understand. I will make the theme song for you as soon as possible." Liu Zhengyan said this in a very affirmative tone, which calmed Hu Yuhua's anxiety very well.
Hu Yuhua smiled and said, "Then I will wait for your good news."
Hu Yuhua also wanted to invite Liu Zhengyan and Lin Fan to have dinner together, but Liu Zhengyan declined on the grounds that he was in a hurry to go back to write songs.
On the way back, Liu Zhengyan asked Lin Fan with a smile: "How do you feel? Are you interested in writing some film and television songs?"
Lin Fan glanced at Liu Zhengyan and said, "It seems quite interesting, but I'd better forget about writing it."
Liu Zhengyan obviously wanted to take this opportunity to get in touch with Hu Yuhua more, and Lin Fan was not so tactless as to ruin Liu Zhengyan's good deeds.
However, Liu Zhengyan seemed to have misunderstood Lin Fan's meaning: "If you are interested in this, I will introduce you to a few more producers. There is still a great demand for film and television songs in China. There are many film and television works online every year. This will be very helpful in improving your popularity."
Lin Fan is very popular now, but his popularity is average, because the audience for his music is always narrower than that for his film and television works.
Especially in China, there is a big gap between popular artists who have film and television works and those who don’t, which is mainly reflected in their popularity.
Let me put it this way, there is a chain of contempt in the entertainment industry: drama actors > movie stars > TV drama stars > online drama stars > variety show stars > idols > internet celebrities. It is extremely difficult to move up one level at a time.
Of course, in recent years, strange phenomena have frequently occurred in the entertainment industry, and this chain of contempt is occasionally interrupted. For example, the existence of some top stars spans multiple levels and jumps around at will, causing some drama, movie, and TV drama stars to have to come out to mix in variety shows and play people-friendly games.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Although top variety shows have also created some new popular stars, such as a variety show star who is good at head-changing. She is so busy filming variety shows that she can only use head stickers for her own movies. Although there are constant controversies, it still does not affect her popularity. However, her status in the circle is just so-so, and she can only rely on rumors of marriage and divorce with her arrogant husband to hype her popularity.
However, the original chain of contempt still continues to exist in the entertainment industry based on the competition of strength. After all, no matter how popular and profitable a variety show star is, it ultimately depends on his works. Without works, no matter how popular he is, he is still inferior to others.
Making money is indeed important, but the work is more important.
A star without any works is like a rootless duckweed, unable to withstand the wind and rain.
Singers are counted separately, but it is even more difficult for singers to transform into actors. For example, if you ask Xiao Zhangwei, Han Hong, and Deng Ziqi to act in a TV series or movie, will it be out of place?
Lin Fan is currently lacking in popularity and has a weak mass base. However, Liu Zhengyan does not want Lin Fan to divert his attention to filming to improve his popularity, especially when he does not know how good Lin Fan's acting skills are.
That's why Liu Zhengyan suggested that Lin Fan could take on the production of some film and television songs. Although the effect would be worse than directly filming a movie, it could also improve his popularity.
Lin Fan saw that Liu Zhengyan had obviously misunderstood his meaning, but he still appreciated the other party's kindness: "Thank you, Teacher Liu, but I don't have any plans for this now, let's talk about it later."
"Okay, let's finish the game first."
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Back in the hotel room, Lin Fan lay on the bed, watched Miss Sister's videos, read a book, and tossed and turned for a few hours. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and called Li Xiaodong: "Where are you?"
Li Xiaodong was also surprised when he received Lin Fan's call: "Brother Fan, why did you think of calling me? I'm in the company. I'm very idle recently and don't have anything to announce. Are you on the island or in Shanghai? If you are in Shanghai, I'll go drink with you!"
"I'm in the Magic City. By the way, is Lu Bingyang with you?"
"No, Brother Lu is currently filming a drama. It's the web drama I told you about last time. The one that shocked everyone."
"I was just about to tell you about this. I met Lu Bingyang today."
(End of this chapter)