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Whether "Desire" is "highbrow" or "lowbrow" caused heated discussion among the public for a while.

Some support the former, some support the latter, and some believe it is both.

Minister Ai knocked on the table, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then turned his gaze to Fang Yan:

"So what do you think it is?"

"'Desire' is naturally both 'highbrow' and 'lowbrow'."

Fang Yan said seriously: "And this is exactly why the TV series has been successful."

As he spoke, he glanced around the audience and said, "Most of the characters in the play have a desire for sincerity and a better life. They perfect themselves in the contest between truth and falsehood, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and encourage the audience to think about and understand real life. This is the social art level."

"In addition, the portrayal of the real life of the masses can make the audience accept and even like "Desire" to the greatest extent."

“This is due to the real life aspect!”

"That makes a lot of sense."

Everyone at the symposium thought about it carefully and agreed that the dialect made sense.

"And it's not just Desire. The same is true for I Love My Family, which we previously collaborated with the Television Art Center."

Fang Yan said seriously, "Although the genres of Desire and I Love My Family are different, I Love My Family is a situation comedy, but the styles are exactly the same. They are both social realism TV series, and such TV series generally follow three basic principles."

Everyone, including Minister Ai, was curious.

After all, the concept of "new realism" came from Fangyan, and it successfully created two classic masterpieces, "I Love My Family" and "Desire", which have both huge ratings and influence. In terms of "social realism TV series", it has absolute persuasiveness and credibility.

"That is 'close to the people, close to life, close to reality'."

The dialects were spoken one by one.

In an instant, the whole room was in an uproar and looked at each other in confusion.

The corners of the dialect mouth rose slightly. These three basic principles are naturally commonplace in the 21st century, but in today's world, they are no different from "positive energy", "main melody" and "eight honors and eight shames", which cause strong shock, not to mention in the field of creation.

"hiss!"

The director of Yanjing Station took a deep breath, then was overjoyed and eagerly copied the twelve-word guideline into his notebook.

There are many people like him who have such a high level of awareness. Leaders of radio, television, propaganda, culture and other departments have not only taken note of it, but have also begun to think in their minds about in what occasions and places to appropriately use this "three closeness".

“Works that are popular among the people must conform to these three principles.”

Fang Yan said: "Everyone should pay attention that I am not only referring to TV dramas, but also movies, literature, dramas and other literary works."

"It makes sense."

Minister Ai nodded with satisfaction, saying that the fact that Desire was loved by the vast number of audiences across the country showed that the people had a strong demand for social reality TV series such as I Love My Family and Desire, and pointed out a path for future TV series creation. Then, leaders of other departments also began to comment:
“I have said before that all literary and artistic works must have the function of entertainment. The educational function, aesthetic function and cognitive function are all contained in the entertainment function.

If he turns on the TV and doesn't like it after one look, and turns it off, what else can you say about its functions? If he likes to watch it, then he is being educated in a subtle way!

What I mean is not to deny or ignore the other functions of literature and art, but to emphasize the characteristics of literature and art.

"Desire" did a great job..."

Of course, when talking about the good aspects of "Desire", it is inevitable that some people will nitpick and criticize its shortcomings.

Just like "Wolf Warrior 2", it is obviously a very good military action film, and its commercialization, industrialization and entertainment level are obvious to all, but there are still people who insist on taking it up, saying "individual heroism is unrealistic" and "one person can't defeat a dozen mercenaries"...

Is it normal and reasonable that Stallone destroyed an entire division by himself and shot down a helicopter with a bow and arrow?

However, the experts present still had some dignity and their comments were not that outrageous. They just pointed out that the biggest flaw of "Desire" was that it was written as a long novel. If the number of episodes of the TV series was locked at 30, the ratings would be better.

Zheng Xiaolong, Lu Xiaowei and others were speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer, and all looked at Fang Yan, the backbone.

Fang Yan coughed. "From a global perspective, there are medium-length and short TV series, long-length large-scale TV series, and even serial TV series. In China, most of the TV stations broadcast short and medium-length TV series with 12 to 30 episodes. There are even mini-series with 4 or 8 episodes. However, there has always been a lack of experience in shooting and producing large-scale serial TV series with more than 30 episodes..."

"That's right!"

Zheng Xiaolong was startled and immediately joined in, saying that the reason why "Desire" was shot into 50 episodes was entirely to find a way for the modern and efficient production of large-scale domestic TV series, which of course also included the previous "I Love My Family" and "The Inspector General of Song Dynasty".

"If that's the case, when will Teacher Fang give us Lu Dongtai a chance?"

As the director of Ludong TV, Chen Richen said with a burning gaze: "It's an opportunity to learn how to produce a large-scale TV series!"

As soon as this was said, representatives from Tianjin TV, Shanxi West TV, Southern Henan TV, Northern Hebei TV and many other TV stations also rushed to request cooperation with dialects.

After all, which TV station in the country doesn’t envy a large-scale long-running TV series like "Desire"!
As a result, everyone started shouting “Me too” and at the same time, they were arguing over dialects, and no one was willing to give in.

Thanks to the presence of Minister Ai and other leaders, this farce of snatching people did not end up happening and only became a small episode in the symposium.

But when the meeting was over, representatives from TV stations across the country rushed forward and surrounded Fang Yan, Yu Hua and others.

Fangyan did not refuse outright. These were all the studio's future big clients. In the 90s and even in the 21st century, only units holding TV drama production licenses would be qualified to shoot TV dramas, and these TV stations would also be big buyers of TV dramas in the future.

It was not until the era of Internet video traffic that video websites such as Youku, iQiyi, Penguin, and LeTV became the main force in purchasing.

So they would not offend them easily, but instead arranged for Yu Hua, Wang Shuo, Lu Haiyan and others to receive them to see if they could get an order for the studio.

However, all this fell into the eyes of the people at Yanjing TV and its Television Art Center, and they could no longer sit still.

Really brave!
How dare you openly compete for Fang Yan, Shi Tiesheng and others in front of me? These are all the beloved ones of Yanjingtai! I will fight with you! (End of this chapter)