After watching "The Legend of Yunque", Sang Shaolong actually doesn't have much hope for this so-called campus youth drama "The Best of Us".
He only hopes that directors who can produce works like "Goodbye, Jinhua Station" will not repeat the bloody plots of those youth dramas that are common in the market today.
Stop fussing a little bit.
With this idea in mind, Sang Shaolong opened the first episode.
As soon as the picture begins, it is revealed that the time of the story is more than ten years ago in 2004.
Sang Shaolong is not surprised by this, because this is basically a very common setting in this type of drama.
In order to let some viewers find resonance.
"Flashback?"
In the beginning of this plot, Sang Shaohua heard about the division of arts and sciences.
Then there is the plot of Geng Geng, a poor student played by She Yue, who happens to be admitted to Zhenhua, a key high school.
Although the heroine is not particularly beautiful, she also has a little baby fat.
And I haven’t seen him before, he seems to be a new actor.
I don’t know what Xu Ji’s considerations were when he chose the actor.
Sang Shaohua commented in his heart.
The next plot is that the male and female protagonists who went to high school to report met unexpectedly and found that each other's names were actually connected together, which was Geng Geng Yuhuai (Geng Geng Yuhuai), and they were also classmates.
Although it is quite cliché, the acting skills of the male and female protagonists are very natural and did not make Sang Shaohua feel uncomfortable.
After that, there will be normal freshman reports and military training.
Sang Shaohua's first feeling at this time was that it was so real.
Unknowingly, the first episode ended like this?
Sang Shaohua didn't react until he saw the end of the film.
The plot of this episode seems very bland, but it doesn't make people feel bored and makes them subconsciously watch it.
This drama... seems to be a little different!
Sang Shaohua couldn't help but speak.
He feels that this "The Best of Us" is different from the youth campus dramas he has watched before.
There are not so many bloody plots, and there is no fuss at all.
It seems like I am seriously taking photos of those nostalgic campus daily routines.
Sang Shaohua subconsciously clicked on the second episode, followed by the third and fourth episodes.
It’s gone?
Sang Shaohua frowned.
"Why only four more episodes?"
"My neighbor's "The Legend of Yunque" has updated six episodes."
At this time, all his previous prejudices against this drama were gone.
I originally heard that it was about youth and campus, but subconsciously I thought it must be a bad drama.
It was only then that I suddenly realized that youth campus dramas can be so interesting even without those messy and bloody plots.
The actors also performed very well. Not only the male and female protagonists, the combination of a top student and a bad student, but also other characters such as Lu Xinghe and Director Pan also left a deep impression on Sang Shaohua.
And except for the actor Ji Yiyang, who plays the male protagonist Yu Huai, everyone else seems to be a newcomer.
Before, he thought that the actress who played the heroine had some baby fat, so there was something wrong with the casting.
After watching the next four episodes, Sang Shaolong suddenly felt, holy shit, this heroine is so cute, and the more he watched, the more he liked her.
Moreover, in terms of serving Hua Dao, the high school campus of more than ten years ago has been restored very well.
Didn’t it say that there was only an investment of more than 10 million?
To achieve this level of service, it seems that a lot of effort and willingness to spend money have been put into it!
How do you do it with so little money and the production looks so sophisticated?
The male protagonist Ji Yiyang’s salary alone probably accounts for half of it, right?
Sang Shaolong suddenly felt confused.
At the same time, although he likes "The Best of Us" very much, he feels that it meets his definition of a youth school drama.
But can a drama like this without such a strong dramatic conflict really be popular?
Sang Shaolong began to worry again.
For example, the last movie "Goodbye, Jinhua Station" directed by Xu Ji, not many people paid attention to it at the beginning.
If he hadn’t taken the initiative to post updates and make video recommendations, the pearl would have almost fallen into dust.
The material is here, let’s make a video!
......
"How many views have you had?"
Phoenix Entertainment, Fan Wenquan asked.
The assistant has been paying attention to the playback data of "The Legend of Yunque" on Penguin Video.
"Director Fan, it's already 70 million!"
After Fan Wenquan heard this, he couldn't help but smile.
Only four hours have passed, and the number of views has already reached 70 million.
He feels that he can break the previous record of the popular online drama "Pocalypse", which was the fastest to reach 100 million views.
"What about the online drama on Station G that was launched at the same time as ours?"
When the assistant heard Fan Wenquan's question, he opened the official website that counts the playback volume of all video platforms on the entire network, and then said:
"Six million two hundred thousand."
"Because only two of our new dramas are online, the number of views today ranks second."
Fan Wenquan looked exactly as I expected.
In his opinion, this G station drama is simply not qualified to challenge his "The Legend of Yunque".
"But Director Fan, there are a lot of bad reviews in the comment section below our "The Legend of Skylark"."
Fan Wenquan didn’t care after hearing it.
"It doesn't matter, don't pay attention to those navy soldiers."
"Time will prove that the navy's methods are useless."
The assistant originally wanted to say that there were too many bad reviews and it didn’t look like a troll.
But seeing Fan Wenquan being so confident, he hesitated for a while but didn't speak.
......
""The Legend of Yunque" has been played 70 million times."
"Ours is only more than four million."
"I just said don't broadcast it at the same time!"
At twelve o'clock in the evening, Youman, who had been paying attention to the number of views, couldn't help but send a message to Xu Ji.
After a while, Xu Ji replied:
"Don't worry."
"Let the bullets fly for a while."
"Sleep."
Youman: "?"
"What bullet?"
But after waiting for a while, I still didn't get any response.
Apparently Xu Ji actually went to sleep.
Youman angrily threw the phone towards the bed.
"How can this person sleep even if he doesn't care about his own drama?!!"
.....
"Legend of Yunque" was unexpectedly on the hot search list the day after it was released on Penguin Video.
However, a strange phenomenon appeared in this hot search.
The top-searched entry is #《芸鸟传》with over 100 million views in 12 hours#
The second most searched item is #《芸传》, a bad drama#
It feels a bit incomprehensible.
Although "The Legend of Yunque" is indeed very popular.
Many people also went to watch the premiere.
But it seems that Sang Shaolong is not the only one who finds "The Legend of Yunque" ugly.
Netizens have started complaining mode.
"I vomited. I've been looking forward to it for so long, and Fan Wenquan actually shot something like this."
"Really, after watching the first three episodes, I was confused the whole time."
"The fighting scenes in this drama are really bad, especially the heroine Lu Xuehong, I feel like she can't even hold a sword steady."
......
Fan Wenquan looked at these comments on the Internet at this time, and still felt that someone was deliberately buying trolls to blackmail himself and "The Legend of Yunque".
"These black men should all be banned!"
But as the most authoritative Huaban.com opened in twenty-four hours, he suddenly froze.
"5.6 points?"
"You don't even have a passing score of 6 points?"
At this time, the voices criticizing "The Legend of Yunque" on the Internet are still continuing.
And it has affected many passers-by who have not seen it yet.
"If you haven't seen it, I advise you to run away."
"Don't waste your precious time"
"Don't look, lest you be disgusted."
......
In a certain group of movie and TV drama lovers, when everyone was discussing how bad "The Legend of Yunque" was, someone suddenly appeared.
"Have any of you watched "The Best of Us" on Station G?"
"When you hear the name, it sounds like a bloody drama. Who would watch that?"
"But why do I think the rating on Huaban.com is so high?"
Netizens who just said it was a bloody drama were stunned for a moment, and then they saw the screenshot of Huaban.com that someone sent.