Unboxing, Director!

Chapter 101

I answered some questions briefly, and the main theme was still humility and not being proud or complacent. Let's not cause trouble at this critical juncture.

Of course, things still need to be done, but we have to wait until it is broadcast in mainland China.

After finishing the interview and returning home, Lu Jiang went straight to Anhui TV the next day.

After a day of negotiations.

In the end, the first five episodes of "Meteor Garden" were sold at a sky-high price of 3200 million for the five-minute advertising time in the middle of the broadcast!
According to the contract, Lu Jiang took half, earning 1600 million!
It is very expensive, setting a record for current TV drama advertisements, even higher than those on CCTV.

But worth it!
The ratings for the first five episodes, or the first three days, will definitely not be bad.

After all, it is extremely popular now, and it is broadcast exclusively during the winter vacation.

It will probably return to rationality in the next few days.

But according to Lu Jiang's judgment, the ratings will not be low, so he can reap the rewards several times.

However, compared with the revenue from the opening credits of the first five episodes of Anhui TV, it is nothing.

The specific amount is unknown, but the director of Anhui TV has already booked Lu Jiang's next work in advance with a quote of at least 100 million per episode. If there is no higher bid at that time, they will still be the exclusive broadcaster, and the number of episodes can be no more than 60.

At the same time, it also promised to invest at least 2000 million in the next work.

Damn, how much did Anhui TV earn!!!

Shaking his head, Lu Jiang continued to negotiate for investment in in-film advertising, as this was the real income for the film company.

The next day, the first batch of revenue from the first five episodes of in-program advertising was released.

There are 6 opening and ending credits, each priced at 200 million!
I don't know if it broke the record.

Fan Xiaotian, the producer of "Spring Pig", who only knew how to help in the negotiations, exclaimed on the spot: It's too brutal!

Even such a senior TV drama producer was like this, Lu Jiang felt much more balanced. He had originally thought that it was not enough.
During this period, on January 1, the "Meteor Shower" album was released simultaneously in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau.

Within a week, the album sales exceeded 20!
Due to the fact that the album was released two months ago in Southeast Asia and other places, pirated albums have actually spread to both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and the situation is quite serious.

But even so, it still achieved sales of 20, which is enough to show that the popularity of "Meteor Garden" is indeed explosive.

At the same time, CDs of "Meteor Garden" in various languages ​​also spread to the north.

But fortunately it's not serious.

After all, the restrictions on the use of pirated TV discs are much better than those on music.

Because the requirements for equipment are quite high.

In addition, "Meteor Garden" is also about to be broadcast, so it is not a big problem.

On the 5th, the first day of winter vacation, "Meteor Garden" was finally released to the audience on Anhui TV with extremely high popularity.

That night, countless viewers sat in front of their TVs, tuning into Anhui TV.

At 8 o'clock, the TV starts.

After the opening song "Love is Not a Choice", F4 made a brilliant appearance
There is really nothing much to say about the plot of "Meteor Garden".

The origin of idol drama, it is fresh to watch.

Plus the current popularity is extremely high.

So after three days, the ratings continued to rise, even reaching a high of 60%, almost breaking the record of "Return of the Condor Heroes".

The industry was extremely shocked by this.

The most direct impact of "Asian phenomenal idol drama" is that it will squeeze out the market of its peers, just like "Return of the Condor Heroes" did in the past.

But this is only temporary.

Compared to this.

Everyone values ​​Lu Jiang's abilities more.

According to current understanding, everyone already knows that in this drama, Lu Jiang is responsible for four actors and actresses, and they have created four stars who are popular in East Asia and Southeast Asia!
With this kind of star-making ability, I really don't know how Hong Kong and Taiwan will respond.
Among these new "superstars", the one that everyone is most concerned about is naturally Fan Binbin, who has disappeared for almost a year!
At this time, the atmosphere in Qiong Yao's company was extremely low.

Fan Binbin, this "maid", actually turned things around!
And turned over in such a strange way.

The more popular she became, the more Qiong Yao's statement in front of the media that year that she would "always be a maid" became untenable.

Not only that, Qiong Yao's reputation in mainland China is likely to face another wave of controversy.

Fortunately, after the show started airing, everyone discovered that there seemed to be a lot of problems with this show!
So within three days of the show airing, Lu Jiang received a notice.

It is said that many "parents" reported it.

The reasons are still the same as in the original time and space: school violence, showing off wealth, premature love, etc.

However, Lu Jiang was not at all panicked about this.

After all, can you report a positive campus inspirational drama?

This revision is still very useful.
Although the plot is simple, the performance is not bad.

It is true that showing off wealth and engaging in school violence are wrong, but everything was resolved in the end.

If it were put in the future, it would naturally be labeled as "An idol drama actually has to conform to mainstream values, how funny!"

But now, there have been no similar idol dramas before this. To put it bluntly, they just eat whatever they are given.

But the problem is, eating whatever you are given doesn’t mean you have to feed them shit, right?

It’s true that Mr. Lu is shooting an idol drama, which is low, but he also knows that he has social responsibilities!

Idol dramas are about creating dreams.

The life of the elite class, given.

The handsome guy and the beautiful girl fell in love with each other, and got it.

The domineering president and Cinderella were also given.

With these, the drama is already attractive enough.

But this will indeed attract criticism.

But, in addition to these, you also have to see Shancai's rational thinking about love and her insistence on independence outside the main plot.

You also have to understand why Shancai still didn't end up with Daomingsi. Because this is not a pure love drama, it is a campus inspirational growth drama for boys and girls.

Shancai resists power and would rather break than bend, and fight against injustice even if it means her death.

Faced with Daomingsi's pursuit, she will remain true to herself and look at it rationally, knowing that women cannot rely on love and that love is not everything.

At the same time, Daomingsi also brought himself down to earth, no longer the old bourgeois who was out of touch with the real world and relied on his innate advantages to bully others. Instead, he understood that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. He learned to respect all classes and how to use his advantages to create a better future for the disadvantaged.
So, was this film able to pass the review really due to Situ Zhaodun’s connections?
Did Lu Jiang dare to make such a big fuss about this drama just because he was impulsive and didn't care about the consequences at all?

Sure enough, there was no further communication after the other party notified me.

What should be broadcast will still be broadcast.

The controversy in society seems to be growing.

But it wasn't until the fifth day, the ninth and tenth episodes.

Daomingsi and others use a birthday party to discipline Shancai.

Shancai makes a domineering appearance, with famous scenes such as talking nonsense to Daomingsi's face and beating him up.

After the broadcast, the discussion subsided.

Daomingsi then began to fall in love with Shancai, launched a financial offensive, and even went to Shancai's home with a huge sum of money.

But Shancai sneered back, "You dare to give me 10 million?"
Daomingsi thinks Shancai is crazy. For poor people like you, ten million is not enough?

Shancai then took him to the home of a friend whom he had bullied.

I told him that a set of school uniform cost one thousand yuan and it was he who damaged it.

Daomingsi naturally thought it was only a thousand, so he gave it to him casually.

But Shancai said that for their family of three, a thousand yuan was not enough to save a few thousand yuan in a year after they lived frugally and took care of tuition and living expenses.

Then ask in return: If someone causes your family to lose most of its income and then calmly says it’s nothing, what would you do?
Daomingsi was a little stunned.

Shancai continued: In your eyes, we can all be measured by money. We are objects, not people like you. Now you want to fall in love with me. Do you think that people are sincere when they fall in love with animals?

Daomingsi was angry, but speechless.

Afterwards, although Daomingsi was angry, he discussed and reflected on this topic with F3, and began to take the initiative to "get down to earth" and began to understand the lower-class people whom he had looked down upon before.

A lot of ridiculous things happened during this period, such as not knowing how to swipe a card to get on the bus, but things are indeed changing step by step.

Shancai is not just talking big. When she sees him changing, she will also provide guidance.

Daomingsi's mother, however, felt that the two were too close and thought that Shancai wanted to marry into a wealthy family, so she forcibly broke them up.

Shancai starts talking nonsense again.

The shining personality charm also made Huaze Rui determined to pursue her.

A love triangle begins.

But the way they compete with each other is by "doing good deeds". Of course, this is only a small part, and most of it is still a bit bloody. However, it does not prevent Daomingsi from completely transforming from a young master into a more mature young man in the "competition".

The ending is also a kidnapping incident, similar to the original version, and the kidnapping incident also completely ends the emotional entanglement between the three parties.

But in the end, Shancai did not say "I like you" like in the original version, but left a letter.

Shancai said that she wanted to become a better self and hoped to see her again in a better future.

Daomingsi smiled, closed the envelope, looked at the plane flying in the sky, and said to himself, "Yes!"

The whole play is over.

In the end, although there were controversies, mainland professional industry insiders could clearly feel a sense of "audit".

There is a sense of forcing oneself to conform to values.

In this case, what else can I say? I can only criticize that the plot of this drama is too exaggerated and completely unbecoming of Lu Jiang, who won the Golden Lion Award.

But Lu Jiang had already said that this was just a practice play, what else can you do?

But for ordinary audiences, the view is very simple.

Put aside the depth of the plot.

Just tell me whether the man is handsome or not, and whether the woman is pretty or not!
There are also sports cars and luxury goods, isn’t it eye-opening!

Isn’t the scenery of Macau very “capitalist” and very desirable?

Then let’s look at the heroine Shancai.

She did resist, and she succeeded!

It's not really about leading children astray.

It is even teaching people how to fight against school violence, put an end to premature love, reject the temptation of money, have their own independent thinking ability and realistic dreams and work hard for them.

It's already like this, what else can you say.

Of course, if you really want to say how good this drama is, then it’s definitely not.

But who can blame it for being the originator of idol dramas?

Just eat whatever you are given!
If you really think it's not good enough, just take a better one yourself.

Now that "Meteor Garden" is popular, it's the perfect time to jump on the bandwagon and make some money.

Some people say that Meteor Garden can be popular, you say it is because it is at the forefront of the times, and nowadays everyone is more materialistic.
Then why didn't you stand up?

In short, "Meteor Garden" has avoided the risk of being banned in mainland China.

The desired popularity was also successfully harvested.

Then began the extended bonus harvest and topic discussion.

Among them, the old grudge between Fan Binbin and Qiong Yao was brought up again and became the focus of the topic.

A few months ago, Qiong Yao said that Fan Binbin could only play a maid and would never be able to perform on stage.

Now she is a famous actress in Asia.

It still relies on dramas with resistance themes.

The person being alluded to might be you, Qiong Yao!
So, what do you think?
(End of this chapter)