Chapter 415: Legend of the White Snake is online
Cheng Guohua didn't notice Lin Fan's complaints at all, because he was completely immersed in the story of "The Legend of White Snake".
The story of the Legend of the White Snake was mainly passed down orally in the early days, so different versions and details were derived. Some of the original stories ended with Bai Suzhen being suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, some versions had the plot of the White Snake giving birth to a child, and some versions had a happy ending with the White Snake's son becoming the top scholar and offering sacrifices to the pagoda to save his mother.
Lin Fan chose the plot of a 1992 TV series as the blueprint. It tells the story of the White Snake, who has achieved success in her cultivation and went down the mountain to repay her gratitude, until she finally completes her merits and attains immortality.
This version of the TV series set a record of 30% viewership when it was first aired! In 2004, even when it was rebroadcast on multiple channels, it still remained the top-rated series, with a viewership rate of around 30%!
Lin Fan remembered it clearly. At that time, the whole street was watching the drama. Some children had no TV at home, so they could only lie on other people's windows and stand for half a day without feeling tired.
Lin Fan himself was one of the children lying on the windows of other people's houses.
Since its debut in 1992, "New White Snake" has become one of the most popular TV series in summer vacation. Not only that, this TV series is also one of the most replayed TV series in recent decades, almost every year, and even in 2009, six satellite TV stations took turns to replay it.
Even during the summer vacation of 2013, one satellite TV station rebroadcast the program three times, and other provincial satellite TV stations also broadcast the program as expected, and their ratings remained strong.
It is a miracle that 20 years later, a TV series still has such a wide influence and appeal.
More importantly, regardless of gender, age or status, "New White Snake" has influenced the values, aesthetics and even mate selection concepts of several generations, leaving many fond memories for people of that era and is an indispensable part of the beautiful memories of childhood.
If "A Chinese Ghost Story" is the movie that Lin Fan must recreate, then "New White Snake" is the TV series that Lin Fan will never give up.
These two works have extraordinary significance to Lin Fan.
For the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", Lin Fan chose to shoot and produce it himself, and even performed the role himself, but for "New White Snake", Lin Fan had no choice.
"Legend of the White Snake" is just as its name suggests, it is a TV series with the White Snake as the absolute protagonist, there are very few male roles in it, and none of them are suitable for Lin Fan to play. Especially the male protagonist, this role requires a gentle and elegant, slightly pedantic scholar, and in the end he is so cowardly and incompetent that he can't even protect his wife. Even if Lin Fan can play it, Yang Hongxia will not agree to let Lin Fan play it.
Because this character is really unlikable.
Lin Fan is currently in the rising period of his career. He has already played a similar role as Ning Caichen. If he plays Xu Xian again, it will easily leave a stereotype in the public's mind, making them think that Lin Fan can only play such a role, which will be detrimental to Lin Fan's future development.
Unless Lin Fan modifies Xu Xian's character, but that would ruin the classic.
Of course, it’s too early to talk about this now. The comic of "Legend of White Snake" has just been launched and the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has not yet been completed. It’s a bit too early to consider these things.
It’s just that Lin Fan himself thinks it’s too early, but others don’t think it’s too early.
Magic City Movies.
"Sister Hua! Lin Fan has published a new work on Penguin Comics!"
The assistant knocked on Hu Yuhua's office door with her phone in her hand and handed the phone to Hu Yuhua, "Sister Hua, take a look. The comics Lin Fan uploaded this time are quite interesting."
Hu Yuhua is waiting for Lin Fan to upload new works. Since the phone call with Liu Zhengyan, Hu Yuhua even asked his assistant to pay close attention to Lin Fan's dynamics and tell him the first time once the new work is released.
As expected, Lin Fan was not affected by the outside world, but released the new comics online step by step. Hu Yuhua admired his calm mentality very much.
"Let me see."
Hu Yuhua took the phone and looked at the page that had been opened on the screen. "The Legend of the White Snake? This name is interesting. Before it was Love Between a Ghost and a Human, then Liang Zhu Turned into Butterflies, and now there's another white snake. How come Lin Fan has so many weird love stories in his mind?"
The key is that each story is so beautiful and moving that readers can easily empathize with the characters.
This ability is truly invaluable.
Why are the ratings of modern TV dramas getting lower and lower? Is it because there are too many choices? Or do audiences no longer like watching TV dramas? In fact, it is not the case. It is because modern new dramas have become increasingly out of touch with reality, just like the popular TV drama "Sky Survey", which is said to be a big production with an investment of 300 million yuan. It was so impressive during the promotion, but once it was broadcast, it started high and ended low. The more people expected it at the beginning, the more people are criticized now.
Hu Yuhua studied the drama "Painter of the Sky" carefully and found that the drama was actually above the standard. After all, so much money was spent on it, it couldn't be that bad.
But the plot is really lame. The hero and heroine are unprecedented in terms of their origin, family background, appearance and personal strength. It is as if they have been standing at the end of everyone's dreams since they were born. The plot of the whole drama revolves around the love-hate entanglement between the hero and heroine. The justice of the country and the family, and saving the people are not as important as falling in love.
It is very enjoyable and satisfying to watch one or two dramas of this type, but after watching three, four, or even thirty or forty dramas of the same type, the audience will naturally become aesthetically fatigued.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Not to mention the plot settings that are neither thoughtful nor down-to-earth, such as noble birth, stereotyped villains, and love being the most important thing.
The plot is out of touch with reality, it's all the same routine, it's just another play with a different vest. Naturally, it's difficult to arouse the audience's interest, let alone empathy. Nowadays, the ratings of many TV dramas are supported by black fans. Hu Yuhua doesn't even need to investigate, just click on the barrage to see how many abusive comments there are.
This is also the original intention of Hu Yuhua to pay attention to Lin Fan's comic works.
Whether it is Lin Fan’s songs or comic stories, they all have one thing in common, which is that they can arouse empathy from the public.
Whether it is the down-and-out scholar Ning Caichen or Liang Shanbo, who was born in poverty but fell in love with a rich lady, they are the most numerous ordinary people in society, but the entire society is supported by these millions of ordinary people. Their joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, their ups and downs, converge into the tide of the entire era.
Their stories are what everyone wants to see, the extraordinary of ordinary people.
Hu Yuhua began to appreciate "The Legend of White Snake" with full anticipation.
But soon, Hu Yuhua discovered that this comic seemed to be a little different from Lin Fan's previous two works. The protagonists of the first two works were obviously Ning Caichen and Liang Shanbo. The female protagonist was of course very important, but the focus was indeed on the male protagonist. But this "Legend of the White Snake" is obviously not the case. Its focus is indeed on the white snake.
And the male lead's presence is not even as strong as the second male lead! What is Lin Fan trying to do?
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