Chapter 43 0043: I Want Both

Jiang Yong saw his son holding a bowl and grinning, and asked curiously: "Xiao Ge, is the soup delicious today? You are drinking it so happily?"

Jiang Ge smiled even more, and drank the remaining soup in the bowl in one gulp, saying: "It's delicious, very delicious."

Wu Xiuyun saw this and scolded with a smile: "You kid, no matter how delicious it is, you have to drink it slowly, what if you choke later."

Jiang Ge was just a little kid, and didn't respond. He put down the bowl and chopsticks and said: "I'm going back to the room, you guys eat slowly."

Halfway up the stairs, Mo Lan caught up and said: "Xiao Ge, can you help me move my luggage tomorrow?"

Jiang Ge's smile disappeared, and he said: "Sister Mo Lan, did you find a house so quickly?"

Mo Lan nodded gently and said: "It just so happens that there is a house for rent in the company's area. I went to see it this morning. Everything is pretty good, so I rented it."

Jiang Ge didn't try to keep her. With Mo Lan's personality, she would definitely move out if she found a house.

He grinned and said, "Okay, I'll help you move your luggage tomorrow and go to get to know the place."

"Thank you." Mo Lan smiled lightly, walked up two steps and walked side by side with him, and said, "Just now when we were having dinner, the final results of this year's Shining Stars were announced. Xiaolin and Shiyue won the first and second place in the popularity list and the rating list."

Jiang Ge nodded and said, "I see."

Mo Lan glanced at him and asked curiously, "What's wrong? You don't seem very happy?"

Jiang Ge turned to face her, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Because this result is expected. For Xiaolin and Shiyue, it is indeed a happy thing, but for the company, this is far from enough."

Mo Lan lifted the hair beside her ear and said gently, "It's developing in a good direction, isn't it?"

Jiang Ge scratched his eyebrows, what he said was right.

You can't eat a fat man in one bite. Things in Huafeng Media must be done slowly and not in a hurry.

Mo Lan stopped at the door of his room and said, "This month I will follow up on Xiaolin and Shiyue's various resources, hoping to be able to appear on some popular variety shows."

Jiang Ge has analyzed the Blue Star variety show market. It is currently showing a growing trend and has gradually become a battlefield for "traffic". Everyone wants to get a piece of the pie and use variety shows to make a presence in the audience, so as to attract the attention of fans.

This is a shortcut for old artists to turn over and become popular again, and it is also a shortcut for new artists to gain a lot of attention without works.

He thinks that it is understandable for stars to expose themselves through variety shows, but it is not a long-term solution to use variety shows as their representative works but have no works worth boasting in the field of their debut, and only frequently rely on variety shows to stir up heat and bring topics.

In the entertainment industry, competition is very fierce. If you want to avoid being a flash in the pan, want to truly gain the recognition of the audience, and have a long-lasting popularity, you still have to rely on your personal strength, at least to have certain achievements in the field of your debut. This achievement does not necessarily mean winning some awards, but having works that can be mentioned.

So, he mentioned to Mo Lan: "Variety shows are fine in moderation. Remember to remind Xiaolin and Shiyue that they must not slack off in their main job of singing."

"Yeah, I know." Mo Lan turned around and wanted to go back to the room, but then she remembered something and said, "At the end of this month, Gong Li and Gu Yao's play will be finished. How is your script prepared?"

She was still worried that something would go wrong with this matter, because she would have to pay a lot of money, which was not something Huafeng Media could afford at the moment. She said, "I have a classmate who is working as a screenwriter. If it doesn't work, I can ask him for help."

Jiang Ge patted his chest and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I have already finished the script. When Gong Li and Gu Yao come back, we will talk about it together."

Mo Lan looked at him for a long time, and it didn't seem like he was joking, so she had to say, "Okay, go to bed early."

"Good night, Sister Mo Lan." Back in the room, Jiang Ge got down to business.

Martial arts culture is a kind of popular culture unique to China, and martial arts novels, martial arts film and television dramas are also one of the most beloved works of Chinese people and Chinese people around the world.

On Earth, martial arts dramas used to be the "dream factory" for dream-making.

In that chivalrous world, there were Qiao Feng in the north and Murong in the south, Li Xunhuan and Lin Shiyin, as well as Jin Shiyi and Li Shengnan...

Unfortunately, many years later, the world has been stained by fresh meat, and the heroes are gone.

The situation on Blue Star is even worse. After 2000, martial arts dramas gradually began to disappear and decline.

There are many reasons. Jiang Ge summarized two points from relevant materials and TV dramas shot in different time periods.

1. Martial arts is no longer the mainstream. From 2000 to 2010, anti-Japanese dramas and romantic dramas were the main ones; after the popularity of "traffic" in 2010, fantasy fairy dramas became the dominant one; and from 2020 to the present, fanfiction dramas have become the mainstream.

2. The most important "chivalrous spirit" is lost. The costumes, props and makeup have become gorgeous, and the computer special effects have improved, but the core required by martial arts is missing. There is no gushing love, hatred, and vengeance, the righteous family and country feelings, the flesh and blood that break free from the shackles, and the ultimate romance of the sea of ​​​​smiles.

I can only say: What a pity!

Jiang Ge watched several of the most popular martial arts dramas in the past two years. What are they all about?

It's just a love drama dressed up as a martial arts drama, with only the male and female protagonists with high looks in a sadistic or desperate love. The rivers and lakes depicted have no sense of fascination at all. It's just dog blood, dog blood.

The word "martial arts" lies in "martial arts" and "chivalry". These are the bones of martial arts. Love is just its skin. Today's martial arts have long lost the spirit of craftsmanship. They focus on appearance but not on substance. There is no chivalrous tenderness, no love and hate, no integrity, no pleasing to the eye, no smoothness, but only the charm and vulgarity of being cute and coquettish.

It is precisely because of this that the next urgent matter of Huafeng Media [delivery and start of filming of the TV series "Jianghu" script] is very important. For Jiang Ge, opportunities and challenges coexist.

The script selection is a problem because there are too many.

The first thing is to open the system to check the information and confirm how much [superstar value] can be used.

[Superstar Cultivation System]

[Host: Jiang Ge]

[Skills: proficient level·music theory knowledge, entry-level·director knowledge]

[Superstar value: 32547]

[Bound stars: Lin Yu, Qin Shiyue]

32547, no more, no less.

Jiang Ge then entered the system mall and made a preliminary screening in the [TV series area]

After a series of operations, a series of martial arts dramas were displayed.

It was dazzling.

Many of them I had never seen or heard of.

"Hmm~"

Jiang Ge held his chin with his hand, looking at the martial arts dramas one by one, and was in a dilemma of choosing.

The Return of the Condor Heroes?

The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils?

The Smiling, Proud Wanderer?

...

The more I watched, the harder it was to choose.

This one was good, that one was good too, anyway, I wanted them all.