Actor: Thank you.

"Hahaha!"

Big Dog's hearty laughter came through the phone receiver.

"5.4%!"

"The premiere episode already had a 5.4% rating!"

"We're fucking awesome this time!"

Big Dog Bro remains as straightforward as ever, and often swears when he gets excited.

But his excitement is understandable.

The show "My Brother is Called Shunliu," which has been airing on CCTV for three days, has already turned around its performance.

According to data from CSM Media Research, the TV series achieved a viewership rating of 5.4% on its first day.

This is CCTV-1!
It's not a local station, nor is it an ordinary satellite TV station; it's CCTV-1, the most powerful station in the country.

With this result, the film breaking even is a certainty.

As long as he doesn't die a violent death, he still has a chance to compete for awards in the television drama industry.

Even more terrifying is that the ratings for the second day, the third episode, soared to 8.2%!

This is great; CCTV is happy, and the advertisers are pleased.

All are happy.

Both he and Big Dog Brother have connections at CCTV, so their film was "guaranteed" a spot.

"Congratulations to you too." Zhang Yuan also wanted to beam with joy.

Because if this movie is good, it really is good, and Big Dog Brother won't default on his payments like Hua Yi did.

The work itself has a strong foundation; the original author is Zhu Sujin, who is also the screenwriter of "Kangxi Dynasty" and "Zhu Yuanzhang".

They're really good at writing TV drama scripts.

In addition, the cast is strong.

In the TV series "Soldiers Sortie," Wang Baoqiang and Zhang Guoqiang, known as the "Steel Seventh Company Combination," reunite on screen.

The two actors' performances in "Soldiers Sortie" were already quite good.

In "My Brother is Called Shunliu", the same superior-subordinate relationship is also present.

In recent years, among the most popular characters in military dramas, besides Li Yunlong, it has been Xu Sanduo.

When the script for this film was written, Wang Baoqiang's character was still a grassroots genius.

He was also a sharpshooter.

It basically combines two of his well-known roles in recent years: Xu Sanduo in "Soldiers Sortie" and Jiang Maocai, the sniper in "Assembly".

Zhang Guoqiang was promoted from company commander to commander. In addition to the strong and righteous spirit of loving his soldiers like his own children in "Soldiers Sortie", he also had a bit of the "bandit spirit" of Li Yunlong.

It's like she's perfected the art of persona.

It's a hodgepodge made to suit the audience's tastes.

Calling it a hodgepodge isn't quite right, because this film has its own unique characteristics.

At first glance, it seems like a comedy, but it turns out to be a tragedy in the end!
In particular, Shunliu could only hide in the haystack to complete the mission, watching helplessly as Hao Lei, who played her older sister, was violated by the Japanese devils.

The dramatic tension is immense, but not everyone can accept this kind of plot.

Overall, it is a very good war drama.

The characters are well-developed, the actors' performances are nuanced, and the plot is relatively reasonable.

"This is just great."

"After we sell the second and third rounds and collect the money, I'll treat you to drinks."

"must!"

"However..." Big Dog Brother suddenly became serious as he said this.

“The TV series ‘My Chief and My Regiment’ at Huayi has just finished airing and is already being sold for the second or third time.”

"I heard they offended some TV stations?" Dog asked tentatively.

"Don't ask me, I'm not a high-ranking executive at Huayi," Zhang Yuan said, pretending not to know.

"In any case, their play is similar in subject matter to ours, so we are in competition with each other."

"We're probably at a disadvantage."

"Don't be smug, we're not bad either, and we shouldn't boost the morale of others."

"and……"

"What's wrong?" Dog Brother asked, seeing that he seemed hesitant to speak.

There's something I've always kept in mind.

"I'll go and find out first, and get back to you."

"It may affect the film's post-production sales."

"Okay, I'll wait for your message."

Although I don't know what Zhang Yuan was talking about so mysteriously.

But Big Dog knew he had some connections at the top, so he wouldn't make baseless accusations.

After hanging up the phone with Dog Brother, Zhang Yuan was about to pick up his phone when the director shouted "Get ready!" on the other end.

He quickly handed his phone to his assistant, had the makeup artist check his makeup, and then came in front of the camera.

“You look so happy again.” Xun Ge, now dressed in “wounded makeup,” shook her head as she looked at his expression.

"Yes, projects done in collaboration with others are good; they can make money."

"Why are all you men like this?" Zhou Xun muttered. "Don't you know that happiness derived from money is not true happiness?"

"That's why you don't donate money..." Zhang Yuan gave a difficult-to-comment expression.

You don't want the people in the disaster area to experience the joy of money, do you?

"My boss is the same. He seems to have made some money recently, and he's always beaming with joy."

"You men are so childish, happy when you make money and sullen when you lose money," Xun Ge commented.

Zhang Yuan didn't bother to refute her. Perhaps she had been immersed in the characters for too long and had recently "detached herself from low-level interests."

It refers to thoughts, not actions.

She still indulges in low-level hobbies like smoking and drinking.

But the character Gu Xiaomeng is a noble person who is willing to sacrifice her life for her ideals and career, and perhaps she was also inspired by her.

However, Xiao Wang is happy... probably because "My Chief and My Regiment" made money.

Hmph, I'm happy at first, but I'm afraid his happiness won't last long.

"Come on, stop talking nonsense and let's rehearse our lines."

Soon, the camera started rolling.

Zhang Yuan looked at Zhou Xun, who was locked in a chair and had joined the "crotch-covering faction," with a stern expression.

The scene that followed was the one where she had just finished being tortured.

Theoretically, she should be truly ripped off by now.

"How long have you been lurking in the workplace?"

"Is he Old Gun's direct subordinate?" Zhang Yuan asked in a colonel's accent.

Whenever he's in one-on-one interrogation scenes like this, he always feels like he's about to blurt out...

There is an old saying in China.

"Xixi misunderstood him as Junjie."

"I believe that the various instruments of torture available now will be able to pry open your mouth."

I feel uncomfortable if I don't talk about it; it's like having phlegm stuck in my chest.

But I didn't dare say that to the director.

It tastes just right with that.

"As long as you cooperate, I will guarantee your personal safety."

"It's not just yours, it's also the safety of your family."

"I can guarantee all of that."

Zhang Yuan spoke with absolute certainty and confidence, his gaze unwavering.

Seeing his expression, Gao Qunshu felt that she was almost starting to believe him.

OK!

He has an extremely strong sense of conviction and is completely immersed in the character.

"Hehehe..." But Xun Ge let out a laugh with a hint of contempt.

"At a high-level military meeting, you seriously injured your superior."

"I'm about to be demoted back to my homeland, how can you guarantee my personal safety?"

At this moment, Gu Xiaomeng finally pointed out the real purpose behind Wu Tian's "Werewolf" game at Qiu Manor.

"Your background, your family, your inner cowardice."

"After the Reform Movement, your grandfather became a lieutenant general."

"Your father also benefited from this and became a naval lieutenant commander."

"When the Russo-Japanese War was halfway through, your grandfather suddenly committed suicide on the front lines."

"You always feel that your colleagues are looking at you strangely."

This is the core of the character Takeda!

This is also why Zhang Yuan gave him a "perfect appearance".

The more empty one feels inside, the more one needs external forces to establish oneself.

This self is for others to see, and also for oneself to see.

He doesn't pretend, and he even finds it hard to accept his background.

It's like an office worker earning a few thousand yuan a month but wanting to buy a bag worth tens of thousands of yuan to squeeze onto the bus.

The saleswomen are just sales clerks, but they often look down on customers whose income is much higher than theirs with a snobbish gaze.

This is using external forces to disguise oneself.

This is used to cultivate a public persona and fulfill the self-image they imagine.

Moreover, most people start to believe it themselves as they act.

What happens when parents or friends shatter the illusion at this point?
She can become hysterical and go crazy.

Because this imagined self has been shattered.

Self-denial is the most painful.

At this moment, what Gu Xiaomeng did to Takeda was to destroy his self-perception by revealing the facts, so as to break his defenses.

Because Gu Xiaomeng's plan at this time was to find a reasonable way to die.

Once his body was transported out, the Morse code spun on his clothes with needle and thread could be deciphered by his colleagues, causing them to cancel the operation and prevent their comrades from being ambushed.

After listening, Zhang Yuan's breathing became several degrees heavier. He braced his hands on the table and stared intently at the other person.

Xun Ge, on the other hand, wore a nonchalant, self-destructive expression.

"Card!"

"Very good, it basically meets the requirements." Gao Qunshu clapped his hands, quite pleased.

Both actors delivered solid performances; only minor adjustments are needed to improve.

“There are two questions,” Zhang Yuan said, raising his hand.

Gao Qunshu covered her face helplessly.

This kid's going to take me seriously again.

Okay, okay, it's all for the sake of the work.

"Go ahead," Director Gao waved his hand.

Zhou Xun, on the other hand, walked over to the side and drank some water, looking completely unconcerned.

"The most pressing issue is her."

Xun Ge didn't expect that Zhang Yuan would point at her first.

"What's wrong with me?" Zhou Xun retorted.

My performance was pretty good just now; the director said there was no problem.

"Your acting was flawless, but you don't accept roles."

Zhang Yuan looked at Zhou Xun's costume.

Bloodstains were made with red dye on the hem of the white tank top and the crotch of the pants.

"Gu Xiaomeng was just subjected to rope torture by Wang Tianxiang."

"Although Wang Tianxiang had a crush on her, he was only tortured once or twice." "But would someone who had just been severely tortured have the strength to passionately confront a Japanese officer?"

"Everyone would be weak for half a day."

When you're in real pain, it's hard to even concentrate.

The spirit of revolutionary martyrs was almost superhuman, but they were still mortal beings.

Zhou Xun's state just now was illogical.

“That makes sense,” Chen Guofu chimed in. “However, in order to highlight the momentum of this scene where the secrets are revealed, Gu Xiaomeng can’t be weak and listless; she must be assertive.”

"Then we'll just have to add more scenes."

"According to historical records..."

Zhang Yuan recounted how, during Zhao Yiman's torture, the Japanese soldiers injected her with "enhanced Red Bull" to keep her conscious.

"That's not bad," Chen Guofu nodded.

"Adding this setting explains why Gu Xiaomeng spoke with strength after being tortured."

"And it also conforms to historical facts."

"We need to add a shot of her regaining her energy after giving her the injection."

“Okay, I understand. I’ll look into it when I get back tonight,” Director Chen replied earnestly.

"Okay, then there's no problem."

“No, there’s a problem.” Zhang Yuan didn’t let the two directors off the hook: “The problem is huge.”

“And this time it’s my fault.” Zhang Yuan pointed to himself again.

“In my previous script, I only wrote that Takeda’s grandfather was a lieutenant general and his father was a lieutenant colonel.”

"So he is the son of an official."

"Now, listening to her words, I realize that her grandfather was a lieutenant general in the army and her father was a lieutenant colonel in the navy."

"Yes, what's the problem?" Chen Guofu pushed up his glasses.

"This is a huge problem!" Zhang Yuan exclaimed in disbelief.

"The father is in the army, and the son is in the navy."

"Won't those two start fighting?"

The island nation's military is notorious for its naval and land forces turning against each other.

The Satsuma Domain, a major power during the Meiji Restoration, became the foundation of the navy in the future.

The Choshu Domain later became the base of the army.

These two domains have been bickering with each other since the Edo period, and are basically sworn enemies.

Therefore, when the island nation later established a modern army, the two major forces in the military were at odds with each other, deliberately going in opposite directions, and acting only for their own interests.

The navy advocates moving south to Southeast Asia to control strategic resources such as rubber and oil.

The army advocated a northward offensive to join forces with its Axis ally, Germany, to attack the Soviet Union from both sides.

To what extent did their internal conflict escalate?
The army builds cargo ships and submarines, while the navy builds tanks and land-based artillery.

To create even more conflict, the Navy and Army use bolts with opposite patterns, just so they can't be used interchangeably!

They refused to share technology with each other, and their production lines were all separate.

This characteristic was later inherited by Sony, with each department building its own systems while keeping an eye on other business groups within the company.

In the later stages of the army, they could only eat cow blood, sawdust, and canned food made from a mixture of rice bran; the taste was quite touching.

Meanwhile, the navy officers at the same time could eat fine rice, and the officers even had steak and ice cream.

In this situation, how could the father be in the army and the son in the navy?

They are not from the same caste.

This setting is ridiculous.

"Either all of them are in the navy, or all of them are in the army."

"According to the plot, it should all be the army."

"Furthermore, Takeda's character is due to his disagreement with his superiors at a high-level meeting."

"The other party deliberately humiliated him by revealing the fact that his grandfather had committed suicide out of fear of war during the Russo-Japanese War."

"This is a disgrace to the family of a soldier from an island nation."

"That's why he was so eager to capture Old Ghost and Old Gun and make a name for himself."

"Besides making amends for my mistake of assaulting my superior, it was also to wash away the shame of my family."

“Since my grandfather committed suicide during the Russo-Japanese War, he should be an army soldier.”

How did the Japanese become increasingly insane, to the point that they actually believed their military fortunes were inescapable and dared to challenge the United States, whose industrial capacity was hundreds of times greater than their own?

It was the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 that brought down the two big brothers who had bullied him for thousands of years.

This caused the Japanese to become extremely confident.

Especially after the First Sino-Japanese War, they extorted an exorbitant indemnity from the Qing court, allowing the Japanese to make a fortune.

After the Russo-Japanese War, they tried to use the same tactics against Tsarist Russia to demand reparations.

Tsarist Russia said, "Come and take it if you dare," but the Japanese were out of the question.

In short, the Japanese soldiers felt that as long as they didn't leave the gambling table and kept gambling, they had a chance to win.

So I always go all in.

But if he goes all in, he can only lose once, and then he will be doomed.

At that time, the United States was the world's leading industrial nation, with an abundance of resources, so much so that going all in every round wouldn't cause any serious harm.

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army suffered greatly, with extremely high casualties.

Therefore, it is possible that the lieutenant general committed suicide out of fear of battle.

But the Japanese navy had defeated the Russian navy and returned victorious; how could they possibly commit suicide?

The navy continued to mock the army for its poor performance during the Russo-Japanese War.

Finally, in 39, the army launched the Nomonhan Incident against the Russians, hoping to avenge the previous defeat and tear a piece of flesh from the Russians.

Unfortunately, the Russians of that time were no longer the Tsarist Russia of the Russo-Japanese War, but the Soviet Union!

The Japanese sent an army group to launch a counterattack.

Among them is the very famous "Sendai Screaming Legion".

They were a bunch of Japanese devils from Sendai who liked to fight with bayonets and loved to shout and scare people when they charged.

A typical example of a "surprise attack" is an overdose of methamphetamine.

Before launching the attack, the army group commander gave instructions to his subordinates.

The Soviet army is no different from the Tsar's; we will surely be able to recreate the glory of many years ago.

Moreover, the opposing team's commander this time is an "unknown nobody".

The "nameless rat" mentioned by the Japanese army group commander was Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.

That is, the legendary SSR general, one of the ten famous generals of World War II, and the Soviet Red Army god Zhukov.

As a result, Zhukov, this "nameless rat," started by firing 10,000 tons of artillery shells at the vanguard of the Japanese army, which killed exactly 10,000 Japanese soldiers.

General Zhukov was very generous and treated each of them to a ton of artillery shells.

Seeing this, the Japanese began to resort to underhanded tactics, bringing in cholera and plague viruses from China and spreading them in the nearby river.

But Zhukov had already received intelligence and connected the front lines to running water.

The Russians were unharmed, and the Japanese kept it a secret. As a result, their troops, unaware of the situation, went into the river to catch fish and poisoned several thousand of their own men.

The reason Zhukov was able to connect to the water pipes was because the intelligence was obtained and sent out by the underground Communist Party in China at the time.

In the end, all the captured Japanese soldiers went to "Siberian Farmhouse".

The Russians treated Japanese prisoners of war quite "politely".

Anyway, the mortality rate is over 3%.

Injury and illness rates are not included in the statistics.

Later, the West also accused the Soviet Union of inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.

At this moment, Zhukov uttered a famous warning.

"No one can guarantee that island nations will not start another war in the future."

“If they are not made to suffer physically, they will never know how to repent.”

Why was he able to become a marshal and a candidate for the greatest general of World War II?

Not only were they good at fighting, but they also saw through the true nature of the Japanese.

Even today, the island nation still fears the Russians, thanks to the Red Army generals led by Zhukov.

The Japanese were unwilling to submit to China because of the fact that the bald man was not up to par and failed to completely subdue the enemy militarily.

Barbarians fear power but not virtue; killing them is the only solution.

Once you've killed enough, they'll submit on their own.

Moreover, given the Japanese's personality, if you kill them severely, they will not only submit, but will also kneel on the ground and call you "father."

Because that's how they treated them—they were given two "fried eggs" and also ate American barbecue from Li Mei.

"The Message" is a serious spy film.

Since it's a feature film, and a blockbuster at that, there can't be any obvious historical inaccuracies.

Only those things that can withstand scrutiny can stand the test of time.

Zhang Yuan had high hopes for this drama, so he had very high standards.

A director can make mistakes, but he cannot ignore them when he sees them.

You have no idea how meticulous those history buffs will be with the words, even using cheat sheets to file complaints with the film bureau.

You can't be sure of the audience's psychological and mental state.

We must strive for perfection.

Upon hearing Zhang Yuan's explanation, the two directors exchanged bewildered glances.

It was both gratifying and terrifying.

This kid has done his homework thoroughly and is extremely serious about his roles, to the point of being demanding.

I think this kid has the makings of an Oscar winner… The two directors exchanged glances.

But what's scary is that he seems to have more than just the qualities of a movie star.

I feel that sometimes the pressure I feel when facing him is no less than when I see Xiao Wang.

Once a boss gets used to it, he exudes an aura of dominance when he gets serious.

We have to change it now; there's no other way but to change it.

Otherwise, if the audience finds fault with us later, they will definitely blame us.

The dialogue needed to be changed, and more scenes needed to be added, so the two directors held a quick meeting to discuss it.

"You're very busy."

Seeing that he took advantage of this time to beckon his assistant over and take out his phone, Xun Ge said with a smile.

Zhou Xun was like that.

As long as she can't overpower you, whether in terms of status or influence, she'll automatically shut down the "quarrel module."

This is a great time to make friends and have drinks together.

But once you're on the same level, or even slightly lower in status than her, the "feud module" automatically kicks in.

She couldn't put any pressure on Zhang Yuan, so she automatically switched to a friendly mode.

And it's not an act; they genuinely have a good relationship.

She's different from those manipulative, green tea bitches; she's the all-natural type.

"Yes, I have something to take care of."

He then continued his unfinished work by making phone calls to inquire.

Who to call?
Editor-in-Chief Liu of CCTV.

"Boss, how have you been lately?"

"Don't call me 'leader.' It gives me goosebumps every time you do that." The other person always felt that his politeness was ill-intentioned.

"Get to the point. You've been doing well lately, your TV dramas are getting good ratings, the whole station knows about it."

"You've invested in only the best films; you have excellent taste."

"You're too kind. It's all thanks to the audience's support. I just voted casually." Zhang Yuan boasted a little.

"I won't stand on ceremony with you."

"I've come to you to ask about something," Zhang Yuan said cautiously, clicking his tongue slightly.

"Something about the new policy on television dramas..." (End of this chapter)