Chapter 127 The Most Tragic Crew in History (Asking for Monthly Tickets)

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Honestly.

Sheng Yixia wanted to turn around and leave at that moment.

Just kidding, he just wanted to get a big IP, a big investment movie, and play a role quickly.

He really didn't want to get involved in this shit.

But Director Xu saw that Sheng Yixia's face seemed a little excited, and he didn't know what he thought of. He patted his shoulder and said with emotion: "Yixia, don't get too excited first, especially don't expose our intentions. After the filming starts, we will tamper with the plot little by little. By then, it will be a done deal, and the investors and producers will have no way to deal with us."

As a director, especially a famous director, what's wrong with "minor" changes to the script during the filming? Even if the changes are made more and more, it's because the script is unreasonable~~

By then, the filming will be finished, can it be scrapped and remade?

Moreover, the investors value the results more than the process. As long as the film is well shot and the final film is good-looking, the investors can explain it.

So although this matter is risky, it is still worth a try.

Sheng Yixia took a deep breath, calmed down his excitement, and looked at Director Xu and Han Ming with a slightly complicated look: "Director Xu, Brother Han, I really didn't expect it~~"

Yes, he really didn't expect it.

Director Xu was wearing a satin shirt, cloth shoes, and Buddhist beads on his hands. He looked like an immortal, while Han Ming was a regular professional with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Who would have thought that the two of them had secretly joined hands to prepare to usurp the throne and subvert the entire work!

"Alas, I have been suffering from female dramas for a long time." Director Xu looked helpless, "Yixia, you also know that I am a martial arts and action drama, but now do you know how difficult it is for me to take on a serious martial arts or fairy drama?"

"No, I haven't taken it at all."

"No, to be precise, even if there is, it will be greatly modified by the investors, producers, and platforms on the grounds that it does not meet the market demand. The passionate fighting has become a sweet love, the adventure treasure hunt has become a couple's play, the descent to the earth to experience disasters has become a man and a woman's entanglement, and even the cruel war has become a rage for the beauty."

"Talking about love, the whole screen is talking about love, I am not Li Jianmin, who can only shoot romance dramas."

Speaking of this, Director Xu became a little indignant, and pointed the finger at the domineering director Li.

Uh...

Sheng Yixia secretly felt lucky that the domineering director Li was not there, otherwise the two of you would have fought again?

However

Mr. Xu's words touched Sheng Yixia's heart. In fact, he likes to watch TV series such as Xianxia and Xuanhuan. Some old TV series were shot quite well in the past. There were also love stories between men and women, but they were only part of the overall content.

It's just that as the platform gradually became popular and gradually occupied a dominant position, the platform found through big data that the TV drama market is dominated by female audiences. Ancient female dramas are relatively more likely to become popular, and can also attract a large number of female audiences to recharge, pre-order, and even sell peripherals.

There are some special reasons, which I won't elaborate on.

Capital is profit-seeking, so it will naturally tend to do these things, especially once a female drama becomes popular, it will cause a large number of follow-up works, and gradually the screen will be full of love.

Even if serious male Xianxia and Xuanhuan are to be filmed, they will be subverted and modified, greatly weakening elements such as combat and adventure, and adding a large number of love elements.

This has resulted in a large number of male viewers being unable to find the content they want to watch, and then choosing games, novels, comics and other content...

The loss of male data has also made the platform more convinced that the female market is easier to do, and continue to increase the output of female-oriented content.

Over time, the traditional fairy tales and fantasy will have even less room to survive.

Thinking of this, Sheng Yixia looked at Director Xu with some curiosity and said, "Director Xu, our Fairyland Romance: The Three Realms War God Falls in Love with Me is essentially a female-oriented work, right? How do you plan to change it?"

"Add a worldview framework, improve the settings of each world, balance the combat power of each world, and transform the conflicts between the worlds from the conflict of love between men and women to the irreconcilable conflicts such as the competition for survival resources, so that the wars between the worlds are more reasonable and tenable." Director Xu had obviously thought about this problem a long time ago, and he was a bit eloquent as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Reset and improve the main storyline structure, strengthen the racial conflicts in all realms, redesign the distribution of combat power, make the combat power relatively rational, redesign the economic system, resource system in all realms, and species pyramid system in all realms, so that the war is more comprehensive, not limited to destroying the enemy's vitality."

"..."

Looking at Director Xu's high-sounding speech, and seeing his face flushed with excitement, Sheng Yixia's eyes and mouth couldn't help but slightly widen.

No, Director Xu, aren't you too ambitious? Aren't you completely changing other people's works?

"I also know that changing other people's works is not good." Director Xu calmed down a little, and said helplessly, "But I have no choice, right?"

"Director Xu, I understand you." Han Ming said seriously, "Other production teams can change male-oriented works, why can't we change female-oriented works?"

Han Ming's words made Sheng Yixia think of something.

I remember that Han Ming once took on a male fantasy IP work and acted in it with great enthusiasm, but he found that the film was changed terribly... In the end, he was brutally attacked by fans of the original novel.

Until now, he is still silently enduring the occasional online violence from the fans of the original work.

If this film is remade again, will Han Ming once again be attacked by the fans of the original female IP?

In fact, after they said that.

Sheng Yixia was still somewhat tempted. After all, the investment in this film is large enough. If he can really shoot the role he wants or the one that suits his aesthetics and ideas, it may not be a bad thing.

But the problem is that this film will take a long time.

In addition, his "bad reputation" as a drama tyrant has spread. If there is another film like this, wouldn't it completely confirm that Sheng Yixia is a drama tyrant? Wherever you go, you will change the plot and add more plots...

"Yixia, don't worry too much." Director Xu saw that Sheng Yixia seemed a little entangled, so he persuaded, "This matter may not have a lot of resistance. In fact, I have had in-depth discussions with the senior management of the platform."

"The dividends of female frequency have actually reached their limit. The competition for female audiences among various stations has completely entered the red ocean stage. Now, it is the male-oriented fairy tale fantasy content that belongs to the blue ocean market."

"As long as a male-oriented fairy tale production is released, once it becomes popular, it will add a lot of data to the platform. According to my analysis, the major platforms will greatly increase their investment in male-oriented works in the future. If we want to do it, we must be a pioneer!"

Director Xu's analysis also made Sheng Yixia quite agree.

After all, male audiences are not dead, they just have nothing to watch. He himself has a deep understanding of this aspect.

The most important thing is.

Sheng Yixia's card upgrade has reached a bottleneck. He feels that it is not particularly difficult to upgrade the card to the Golden Legend level with the help of online movies, but it is very difficult to upgrade it one or two steps further.

Take the card [Science Inspiration] as an example. It has been upgraded to the Golden Legend level a long time ago, but now the Bionic Girlfriend has received 50 million in revenue sharing, but it still has not been upgraded one step further.

Obviously, the card upgrade becomes more and more difficult as time goes by.

Sheng Yixia does not know how much revenue sharing he needs to get before Science Inspiration can reach a higher level and a new entry will appear, but it is foreseeable that the size of online movies is too small after all. Even if a hit is released, it can only be a Bionic Girlfriend or a big star.

The future path still depends on hit online dramas and theater movies.

After all, once these two hit, the former will have a phenomenal work, and the latter will have a box office of billions or even more, and even have a strong long-tail effect, which makes it easier for the characters played to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Simply put, the current size of online games cannot support the "national popularity" of characters. It is more suitable for quickly accumulating card pools in the early and middle stages to make your tactics more diversified.

If you want to really get cards of mythical quality, you still have to rely on popular online dramas and popular theater movies, preferably ones that can be popular all over the world.

And now.

"Fairyland" is the entry point in front of him.

The most important thing is that the director and the male lead of this film... seem to be like-minded people! ? ?

Sheng Yixia thought for a moment and said, "But I don't think we can completely abandon the emotional drama. Now the market for pure sweet pet dramas has begun to shrink. We might as well make the heroine high-IQ, lurking, forbearing, and even playing games with various forces for her own purposes, and write her as a heroine."

"When the hero and the heroine fight each other openly and secretly, and fall in love with each other, finally test their feelings with justice and racial survival."

Just kidding, although he thinks he wants to make a TV series that men also like to watch, it doesn't mean he has to give up female audiences. You know, most of his current fans are women.

The most important thing is that women can also hold up half the sky.

Without them, how can Sheng Yixia make the cards have better potential for upgrading?

Even if it is just for the quality of the cards, he has to go the way of killing both male and female audiences!

Director Xu and Han Ming looked at each other, both showing a smile of relief and as expected.

When Sheng Yixia heard the news, she pretended to be shocked, unbelievable, and even wanted to run away. This was clearly acting, testing the firmness of their will and their determination to make a real change.

After they both opened their hearts and spoke frankly, Sheng Yixia immediately stopped acting and began to show her true face as a drama tyrant, and started to figure out the plot and rhythm.

Like-minded!

After Director Xu was happy, he said with some concern: "What you said makes sense, but I am not good at directing emotional dramas, especially the kind of emotional dramas you mentioned."

"Director Li is good at it." Sheng Yixia immediately suggested, "Director Li has rich experience in dramas with big female protagonists, and can complement Director Xu very well. Besides, his "The Great Detective Yan Xiayi" is almost finished, so he can free up his hands."

"Li Jianmin?"

When this name was mentioned, Director Xu's face turned black.

In fact, the two of them had a good relationship, but they had different ideas about directing. In addition, they were both stubborn, which led to them making sarcastic remarks to each other every time they met.

Han Ming was also a little worried: "It's not that there is no precedent for two directors, but Director Xu and Director Li don't get along well."

Director Xu's face twitched, and he was obviously full of resistance to Sheng Yixia's proposal.

Sheng Yixia didn't care about this.

Don't you want to be a drama tyrant? How can you be a drama tyrant without paying a price?

Sheng Yixia felt that he still had some talent when it came to convincing people with reason in the crew. He immediately coughed twice and said seriously: "Director Xu, Brother Han, what we are going to do is no less than what we are doing here." revolution."

"You are all big names in the industry now. I believe you are definitely not doing it for fame or money, but because you feel that the online drama industry has reached a point where it is hard to turn back. You want to break the constraints of capital and truly serve the audience and even the industry. Do something about development.”

Director Xu and Han Ming's expressions became much more relaxed, and their eyes became a little brighter.

Sheng Yixia's words spoke to their hearts. They already had fame and money, so the reason why they were fighting against capital was because they wanted to do something?

Maybe you will become a pioneer, maybe you will become a martyr, but someone has to stand up and do this kind of thing.

"We all strive for ideals, so why can't we put aside sectarian prejudice? Unite more people to do the right thing?" Sheng Yixia said coaxingly, "Director Xu, you have to admit that Director Li is a An excellent director, right?”

Director Xu thought for a while, and although he was reluctant to admit it, he still nodded: "Actually, Li Jianmin still has something, but his personality is a little too arrogant, a little domineering, a little self-centered, the little family is a little angry, a little arrogant... …”

"That's it." Sheng Yixia said solemnly, "If we find a yes-man director to cooperate with Director Xu, what's the point? The collision and blending of different ideas can make us The work is even better.”

Director Xu thought for half a minute, and finally nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, and if you bring this guy into our group, no, our team... has a much greater say in fighting against the will of capital and the platform. I can Make sacrifices for a great cause~"

"Well, as expected of Director Xu, you are so generous." Sheng Yixia gave him a thumbs up and praised him repeatedly. Since he has decided to team up with Director Xu, Han Ming and others to start a career, then he Sheng Yixia will Gotta get it done.

Otherwise, after spending several months in vain, it will produce a bad drama that is not good at drawing cards and lacks the ability to upgrade, so it is really better to star in a few more online dramas.

"That old guy has been unable to get through his phone recently. Their team said that he was so frightened at the dinner that day that he went to a nursing home to recuperate his body and mind." Director Xu said.

"I'll look for him later." Of course Sheng Yixia knew what was going on.

If the National African Affairs Bureau wants to cultivate some preparatory extraordinary people, it will still take them to a training camp. For no other reason than to exercise their discipline, unify their ideological consciousness, and understand the basic knowledge of the extraordinary world, and then let them Digest and digest the first wave of evolution potions.

They can't just eat the evolution potion all at once. They have to do it step by step. As for those who are affected by extraordinary events and naturally awaken, they are only a few. They have to be very lucky. It can never be used as a regular cultivation method.

After the three people here reached an agreement, they felt that they could not hold small meetings here all the time, so they walked out of the corner again.

There was nothing wrong with the three of them when they went in, but when they came out they were all radiant and spring-like. They announced to everyone that Sheng Yixia had been confirmed to play the role of Chao Qianjue, the young master of the demon world.

After confirming this matter.

Mr. Xu and Han Ming also felt a big stone falling in their hearts. Having Sheng Yixia, a great drama player, join the team would be a huge help. Just like Liu Bang got Han Xin, Liu Bei got Wolong, great things can be accomplished.

Zhang Qing didn't know what agreement the three men had secretly reached, but since Ichika was going to act, it was up to him. Next, she would go to negotiate the agreement and argue with the producer. Can't be less.

However, Sheng Yixia's current traffic volume is high, and Zhang Qing knows that Sheng Yixia has the habit of changing the drama as he plays. What if he changes the script and changes his death from five episodes to six episodes, seven episodes, etc. Woolen cloth?

Therefore, Zhang Qing felt that she could not sign the contract to death, so she went to argue with Mr. Zhang of Xikun Entertainment.

Mr. Zhang thought that there were very few scenes in Sheng Yixia, and he only appeared in five episodes from beginning to end, but the total price could not be reduced, otherwise Zhang Qing would not do it, so he thought about it and decided to give it one thousand. Wan is more appropriate.

Check out the correct version one by one!

This is also worthy of Sheng Yixia's current appeal and traffic. After all, Sheng Yixia's strength is limited to the circle of Internet majors. How many people are used to watching Internet majors?

But Zhang Qing refused to pay the price.

She secretly estimated that according to Ichika's habit, she would probably have about twice as many scenes, and she would probably last until the tenth episode.

Therefore, she proposed to change the salary to two million per episode as long as Yixia appeared in the episode. The producer would pay ten million in advance and make up the money for additional scenes in the future.

Mr. Zhang secretly thought that this midsummer was worthy of being known as a great drama star.

However, their fairy world is a big IP, the story frame and structure are complete, and it is not just an Internet giant that invests millions. You Sheng Yixia can change it however you want?

He is just a third-tier supporting character, but Director Xu is a very strong person. He was so desperate that he allowed you to add more scenes to the seventh and eighth episodes of Sheng Yixia.

After thinking about it, Mr. Zhang felt that the total price of around 15 million was still acceptable, so he and Zhang Qing finalized the contract. The two parties drafted the contract and signed it on the spot. The most important clause of the contract was that as long as Sheng Yixia was on a certain date, There are scenes in the episode, even if the scenes are small, the pay is two million per episode.

This contract is different from the contract of the male lead Han Ming. Han Ming's salary is 1.2 million per episode, but the total salary for the entire 40 episodes is 48 million, while the total salary of the female lead Song Baowen is about 30 million.

Sheng Yixia's salary is theoretically ranked third in the entire crew.

Because the total salary given to the male lead Zhang Yixu by Mr. Zhang will probably be around 9 million.

As for other actors, it is completely different from this level. A few hundred thousand or one or two million are considered good.

Overall, it seems very high.

But in fact, in this kind of production with an investment of several hundred million, the total salary expenditure of more than 100 million is relatively low, mainly because this drama is a top IP drama and a favorite drama of Station A, and many people want to squeeze in without paying.

Han Ming and Song Baowen also got some discounts on their salaries.

Then

After auditions, the other three great generals under Zhang Qing also got a supporting role. Although they are now famous, they are far from being comparable to Sheng Yixia in terms of box office appeal.

Moreover, the roles of these supporting roles are average, so their pay is not high, which is only about three million in total.

Overall.

Today, all the four great generals under Zhang Qing got roles, which can be regarded as a complete success.

After the audition.

After Sheng Yixia and the main creative team of the crew had a meal, they left first, ready to go home to rest for a while, and then rush to shoot the Taoist Demon Record.

But he never thought that when he got home, he habitually opened the Extraordinary Home APP and took a look, and found that Rei Ayanami sent him a message, saying that she came to H City, and asked him to pick him up at the airport, ready to meet offline, and also ready to show him something good.

This was too sudden.

Sheng Yixia was not mentally prepared at all, and hurriedly checked the time and found that Rei Ayanami's flight had left for half an hour.

Calculating the time, there is still plenty of time to go to the airport to pick someone up.

He thought about it and called his assistant You Jiaman to come over, preparing to ask her to drive Lao Deng's S600 to take him to the airport to pick someone up. The main considerations for hiring a designated driver are that he can rest on the way and chat with Rei Ayanami in the car.

Of course, the most important thing is that Sheng Yixia doesn't like driving, especially when the traffic in H City is congested, he thinks it is a waste of time.

You Jiaman is busy in the studio now. The office is not far from Jingchen Hua Ting. After receiving the call, she quickly rushed to Jingchen and drove the S600 out of the garage with some trepidation and drove towards the airport.

Sheng Yixia changed her mobile phone and checked the message of the magician ID. She found that the task settlement of the National Non-Government Bureau regarding the dinner incident had been issued.

As the main force in killing DR007 Scarlet Spider, the Magician saved a large number of people and successfully resolved the crisis. The reward for this mission was a silver medal and 600 points, which brought his total points to 980 points, two silver medals.

However, this score was still more than 300 points away from the points required to exchange for the Magic Doll, which made Sheng Yixia frown slightly.

With a change of mind, he suddenly thought of something and checked the Magician's account again.

It was also the settlement of the dinner storm mission. The Magician got a bronze medal and 200 points. Similarly, the bronze medals in his account had reached four, and the points reached 630 points.

Sheng Yixia thought about it and transferred 330 points to the Magician's account, which was counted as the Magician's loan to the Magician.

In this way, the points in the Magician's account reached 1310 points.

He immediately exchanged for the [Illusion Doll] that he had been thinking about for a long time. This thing is worth 1288 points, plus a silver medal. It is the most expensive piece of equipment that Sheng Yixia has exchanged so far.

But this illusion doll has its own illusion, which can be mistaken for the real thing and has various wonderful uses. It is very suitable for the role of a magician.

With it, you can play many tactics, and even at critical moments, you can use it to pretend to be your real self, so as not to be absent every time the vest appears, which will arouse suspicion from others.

After exchanging the treasure.

Sheng Yixia took a short rest in the car, and the car arrived at the airport. He asked You Jiaman to park and wait in the parking lot, and he went directly to pick up the plane.

At this time.

At the luggage carousel.

A man in his fifties, wearing a suit, quite energetic, and a young man in his twenties were picking up their luggage.

The mature man looked a little excited: "I'm going to see the mechanical instructor soon. I'm really looking forward to it~ I don't know who this guy is."

This mature man is obviously "I love Rei Ayanami".

"Boss, I feel that the mechanical instructor is not the one we knew before."

"I feel the same way. This guy is very capable, has a very quick mind, and his suggestions are also unpredictable and unpredictable. He is indeed not one of the familiar old Dengs." Rei Ayanami also agreed, "It may be a fellow countryman called back from overseas by the Super Research Institute. He must be a big shot in the industry, or even an authority in the industry. When you meet him, you must be polite and don't show a drooling expression~"

"Boss, don't worry." The young man patted his chest to show that he understood.

While talking, the two had already got their luggage.

The two dragged the huge suitcases to the exit and looked around.

Soon.

The young man locked onto a handsome young man. The young man looked familiar and held a handwritten sign in his hand: "I love Rei Ayanami."

It was obvious that the other party was here to pick them up.

After all, who else would give such a name except his mentor?

The young man greeted his mentor, dragged his luggage and walked over to meet him. He smiled and said, "Hello, are you here to pick up my mentor?"

He pointed at the sign.

Sheng Yixia glanced at the two of them and knew what they were. He put away the sign and then focused his eyes on the mature man. He smiled and stretched out his hand: "You are Rei Ayanami, hello, hello."

Rei Ayanami was stunned at first, then looked around, and still stretched out her hand with a strange look and shook hands with Sheng Yixia: "Young man, where is your mentor?"

Mentor?

My Gao Laodeng?

Oh~that's not right... Rei Ayanami's tone, he couldn't be referring to the mechanical mentor, right?

And at this time

Rei Ayanami seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He adjusted the frame of his glasses, looked at Sheng Yixia carefully, and whispered: "You are not that, that... yes, the one who simulated his girlfriend...?"

"Dr. Wu, yes, you are Dr. Wu?"

The young man also noticed this and was surprised and happy: "Dr. Wu, I didn't expect to meet you."

"Fate~ Hehe, by the way, you are not the apprentice of the mechanical instructor, Lao Deng, are you? Why are you still an actor?" Rei Ayanami said excitedly, "Where is your instructor? Did he become autistic because of my criticism and dare not come to see me?"

"..."

Sheng Yixia was silent for a few seconds before saying: "I am the mechanical instructor."

"..."

The two people opposite were silent for a moment.

At the same time.

Gao Laodeng's voice suddenly sounded behind Sheng Yixia: "Yixia, why are you at the airport too?"

Sheng Yixia turned around and saw Gao Laodeng, who was surprised, and fell silent.

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(Double, monthly ticket requested)