Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 584 Dark Version of Siheyuan
"A Courtyard Full of Birds", a TV series full of "love".

The main plot can be described in one sentence:

A story about a widow with three vampire kids, a burdensome old woman, and three selfish old guys, who deceives a kind-hearted fool and a naive woman throughout the whole process.

The love scenes include but are not limited to:
The widow was generous with other people's money to fatten her own pocket, using the innocent money to raise her own children, using other people's chickens to lay eggs, and taking all other people's things for herself.

The mother took full advantage of the kind-hearted fool. In order to make safe arrangements for her own child, she forced the fool to stay with her for eight years, eating and using the fool's things, but she just wouldn't agree to the fool's request to have a child.

In the end, each of the three burdensome people got a house.

In addition to this, a bunch of old guys also sucked blood from the idiot and the silly white sweet, relying on each other to improve their own level, but never thought about repaying them, and always felt that it was not enough.

In daily life, we always say: "People should not be too selfish."

Of course, the birth behavior of Xu Damao is also a part that cannot be ignored.

In order to highlight the sufferings of certain times, the director frequently abuses the protagonist and portrays everyone around the protagonist as vampires, parasites, and selfish people. After eating up the protagonist, he fattens himself.

This condition had a special name in ancient times:
Eat to death.

It was just such a TV series, which was just aired last year, that was hailed by a group of people as a representative work of "great love", and countless media cheered for it.

From the perspective of future generations, this kind of plot direction and character design should not have received this level of publicity and attention.

It shouldn't even be popular.

But to be honest, the market is not entirely like this.

Many people, especially middle-aged and elderly people, really like this.

"The Courtyard Full of Birds" is a typical example, and it's not even the only one.

There are actually quite a few similar TV series with a similar background in that era.

Home Cooking by Huang Zhizhong and Zuo Xiaoqing.

"Nine Phoenixes in the Family" by Jiang Wu and Zhu Yuanyuan.

The configuration inside is basically that the male protagonist is kind-hearted. After marrying the woman, he devotes himself to her, does not have children but only raises her, and is willing to burn himself out and then support the other party.

It’s just that compared to "Home Cooking" and "Nine Phoenixes in the House", the configuration of Sha Zhu in "Siheyuan" is better.

The chef's skills, plus the property under his name, and Xiao'e's support.

In addition, there is "Under the Gate of Zhengyang", which is the typical Su Meng and Han Chunming, and the plot is also quite outrageous -

Han Chun was clearly tricked by a large group of people, but I just didn't want to leave you. Not only did I not leave, I even kept getting closer to you.

If for no other reason than to help you in times of crisis.

"Take Bus 88 Home", the protagonist's eldest brother died, and his sister-in-law ran away, leaving behind three children. The protagonist resolutely gave up the opportunity to become an officer and raised the three children. When the three children grew up, the eldest sister-in-law came back.

And the final outcome is obvious:

Of course I forgive you!
It is worth mentioning that whether it is "Under the Zhengyang Gate", "Qinman Siheyuan", or the future "Sesame Hutong".

The directors of these three "legendary", "classic" and "masterpieces" are all well-known directors in the Beijing circle.

Liu Jiacheng.

The fact that Liu Jiacheng has been filming TV series with similar configurations over and over again after 10 shows that there are really people who watch this stuff.

As for who is watching,
However, although TV series like "Birds in the Courtyard" have a real audience base.

But at the same time, the plot also made many viewers unhappy with the direction of the plot.

Very unhappy.

According to Zhou Mo, after the TV series "Siheyuan" was broadcast, there was a wave of drastic changes to the plot of "Siheyuan" on domestic online literature platforms and some secondary creation platforms.

These secondary works basically all meet one characteristic.

If the protagonist is still Shazhu, then he will stay with Xiao'e, and the others will line up to clean up.

If the protagonist is not Shazhu, then Shazhu will be dealt with as well.

According to Rough International, there are tens of thousands of secondary creative works related to "Siheyuan" on major text creation platforms, which is more than the total number of novels in the cooler sections of some novel websites.

This shows how much the audience hates this kind of TV series.

There are people who like it, but there are even more people who don’t like it.

Especially this kind of TV series, basically have one characteristic:
By the end of the TV series, no matter how deep the resentment left in the early stages, or how painful the harm caused to the protagonist, it can all be forgiven, understood, and reconciled.

There is a special term on the Internet to describe this type of plot development.

Make dumplings.

As for the meaning, those who understand will understand.

Zhou Mo doesn't like making dumplings, and he believes that many viewers don't like it either.

He even knows that many viewers even have a kind of PTSD feeling about "Making Dumplings".

The reason is simple. The forced happy ending is not just uncomfortable to watch, but disgusting.

Very disgusting.

Life is hard enough. Everyone just wants to watch a TV show to have fun, but ends up having to be forced by the director, crew, and publicity staff to admit that xx is good.

Who isn't disgusting?

So, it is no surprise that when the dark version of "Siheyuan" was broadcast on the paid section of the station, it immediately received a lot of praise and subscriptions.

"Let me take a look at the data reported to me by the company... Oh, I found it. As for "Siheyuan", the total number of subscribers has exceeded 20 million, and the total number of subscribed episodes has exceeded 300 million." Zhou Mo whispered to Da Tiantian to introduce the situation.

According to the management of paid online dramas on the website, the dark version of "Siheyuan" is still priced at one yuan per episode, with a total of 36 episodes.

The first six episodes are free, and the next thirty episodes are paid.

In other words, the cost of watching a TV series is not as much as that of a movie ticket.

Da Tiantian was also quite shocked when she heard this number.

"Is it really that much? I thought at first that if it could exceed 100 million, the situation should be about right."

Zhou Mo curled his lips: "That can't be helped, the fact is this. All we can say is that the original version of "Siheyuan" hurt the audience too deeply, so the audience came to us to cleanse their souls.

It can be said that if the original version of "Siheyuan" was not too abstract, we might not have achieved such good results."

Speaking of which, the dark version of "Siheyuan" has achieved its current success after going through almost two stages.

In the first stage, after Lizhan finished filming the TV series, its promotion was basically targeted at "Siheyuan".

The new version will change the disgusting plot just like the original version.

Be as cool as you want.

As a result, the dark version of "Siheyuan" immediately gained millions of subscribers and tens of millions of subscribed episodes on the first day of its broadcast.

And these users who subscribed at the first time, after watching the web drama and gaining psychological satisfaction, turned into tap water and began to promote the advantages of the dark version of "Siheyuan" on various platforms.

The existence of these tap waters has successfully helped the online drama attract a larger group of passers-by audiences.

These people may not have watched the original version of "Siheyuan". Many of them just heard about a very good online drama, so they started subscribing.

For them, whether the original version of "Siheyuan" is beastly or not, they don't understand and don't really care.

They don't have time to understand their past and present lives for a drama.

Therefore, for these new subscribers, the only thing that can attract them is the quality of the dark version of "Siheyuan" itself.

The quality of the dark version of "Siheyuan" will undoubtedly satisfy the audience.

After taking a quick look, I found it really good, so I quickly subscribed to the subsequent episodes.

So, now, more than a month after the web drama was broadcast, Zhou Mo received the above data.

Seeing Zhou Mo's reaction, Da Tiantian covered her mouth and chuckled: "Then according to what you said, we have achieved good results, shouldn't we thank the original crew of "Siheyuan"?"

Zhou Mo nodded: "Of course we should thank them."

Da Tiantian’s eyes suddenly widened.

“You really should thank them.”

"Of course, not to mention the original members who were called over by me to film the drama, I also specifically asked the company to express their gratitude to the original crew during the interview."

Da Tiantian didn’t know what to say.

what is this.

Lead the current offender?

"Are you really not afraid of making an enemy of Director Liu?"

"how come?!"

Zhou Mo shook his head: "In fact, when the dark version of "Siheyuan" was being promoted, Director Liu personally promoted it for us and said that our filming was very good."

Da Tiantian was stunned and was about to say that Liu Jiacheng is not a masochist, so how could he help you promote a drama that is a slap in the face, but she reacted in a flash.

"Did you pay?"

"Yes, eight figures. We own the copyright of Siheyuan. We are a formal company, so the adaptation will definitely cost money."

Da Tiantian pursed her lips, not knowing what to say next.

You say this guy doesn't understand the rules of the industry.

He also paid for the adaptation rights.

You say this guy understands the rules of the industry.

He doesn't deserve others' help in publicity, and he should thank them personally.

Shrimp and pork heart?

After a while, Da Tiantian asked, "What's the ending of your version of 'Siheyuan'?"

"Anyway, those who were supposed to die, basically all died. Some were sent to prison, some died of anger, and some were directly shot."

"I really don't eat dumplings at all."

"Of course not. Or rather, only the protagonist eats it, and everyone else can go wherever they want."

“Has anyone reported this during this period?”

"Of course there are, but it's meaningless. This is a paid channel, and pirated videos basically don't exist. No matter how many reports are made against me, it's useless."

Da Tiantian was not surprised when she heard that Zhou Mo had arranged everything.

Given his personality, it would be strange if he hadn't made arrangements.

"So what did the other platforms do when they saw our situation?"

"Of course."

(End of this chapter)