Some insights into cultural entertainment (that is, small talk).
A few days ago, the author mentioned something to the group: an old man at home was hospitalized.
In fact, it's not a big deal, I just want to have someone to accompany me when I'm older.
But the elders all have to go to work, so I happen to be homeless, and my updates have slowed down recently due to physical problems. My family thinks I have nothing to do, so they ask me to accompany them.
But that means coming every other night and not during the day.
Then everyone in the ward fell asleep, and I went to the roadside outside the hospital to sit and smoke alone.
As soon as I sat down, I started thinking wildly.
When I think about it, I think of entertainment.
How should I put it, since the first chapter of "Why Did I Become Popular" was released on June 13 last year, it can be regarded as a year of writing entertainment?
Although I wrote nothing in the first half of this year, and not even a penny of royalties was recorded.
Now I can't make much money from this book update, so I can just make ends meet.
Writing this book is an attempt to see if it can work without writing the traditional pretense routine.
Facts have proved that it is still possible, although now I have started to write in a pretentious way of dumping data.
There is no way, this kind of thing really attracts many people.
I started saying last year that I hate the entertainment industry.
It can’t be said that I hate it. Anyway, I enjoy eating all kinds of melons, but I haven’t watched many dramas recently.
I've only heard of it.
But I still checked the information that needed to be checked.
Film reviews, box office, ratings, etc., at least what I write are all very true.
At the very least, I would find a movie or TV series that has a similar reputation in real life, and then check their box office ratings, which can be considered a template.
But the more we check the data, the more problems we find.
The first is the issue of cultural and entertainment works.
Let’s talk about the matter of literary copying. It’s actually not very glorious to talk about, but one of the highlights of cultural entertainment is actually copying.
This can also be regarded as a trick to show off.
In fact, it is similar to the routines of fantasy and historical literature.
It is a kind of self-confidence in one's own culture and the world. Through advanced ideas and culture, it can crush other worlds/ancient worlds/indigenous people, and then let readers in this world have a sense of superiority to achieve the point of creation.
purpose.
For example, if you travel through ancient times, you can use advanced systems, the culture of poetry, poetry, and poetry accumulated over thousands of years in this world, as well as industrial products such as glass soap to crush the ancient times.
So is fantasy.
For example, the anime adaptation of "Yuanlong" has become very popular recently. Are you good at martial arts? I will shoot you down with one shot!
Times have changed!
This is actually the case for entertainment literature, otherwise why would it be forcibly set into a parallel world?
(Okay, actually it’s also because it’s easy to write 404 about China Entertainment).
However, the kind of Chinese entertainment in the past was similar to traveling through ancient times, that is, traveling to the past and then using the knowledge of the future to crush the past.
The fun part of the rebirth novel is actually similar.
That's too far.
After knowing this, it’s time to decide which works to copy.
Then this is my question.
I don’t like the entertainment industry, so I haven’t watched much recent stuff.
Then if you copy the text, you can only copy the previous one.
But I was too lazy to copy it from episode to episode, so I simply modified the original version.
Then I discovered a problem.
A very serious problem.
That's the sense of identity.
If it is original or modified, many people will question it.
(Of course, the original quality is indeed not that good).
But more importantly, it is a matter of identity.
Because the original scripts based on the magic adaptation have never achieved success in reality, everyone subconsciously thinks it won’t work.
But in reality, those screenwriters do have big bosses.
There are also a lot of corpses and vegetarians.
The success of "Yuan Long" and "Qing Yu Nian" at least shows that fantasy dramas/animations adapted from male channel IP are not destined to fail.
To put it bluntly, it is still not serious and the level is poor.
You must know that the author of online articles relies on words to make a living, and does not have the blessing of music/sound/images, etc.
Internet articles that can make money must have their own advantages.
Let’s not talk about this anymore, it’s off topic again.
Since the original magic-adapted script doesn’t work, let’s talk about copying.
There is also an interesting point in the transcript.
That is Hollywood movie transcripts, which are definitely better than domestic movie transcripts.
If you write and copy domestic works, and then win various awards, there will be a lot of people who will criticize and question you.
But if you write foreign works and then win various awards, there will be very few people who question you.
Even though these awards are actually domestic awards.
Why is this?
So I started to look up information.
Then I saw an introductory video about the movie "The Great Wall".
After watching it, I found this movie to be really disgusting.
The Great Wall has such a good IP, but it ends up writing a rubbish story.
Inexplicably resisting the invasion, in the end it was the white people who saved the world?
This again involves the issue of cultural discourse rights.
I don't want to stir up ethnic conflicts, but it is true that many young and old people in the capital city got into the entertainment and cultural circles.
Everyone knows more about Qing palace dramas than I do, so I won’t go into details.
In Europe and the United States, there has always been no Chinese presence in Asian films.
Most of them are Japanese movies from N years ago, and later Indian movies and Korean movies.
Domestic directors also want them to agree, but they can't understand our culture.
So what to do?
Take some of our traditional culture and magically modify it to cater to the psychology of Europeans and Americans.
And find some dark corners of our country and write about them with greater efforts, so as to cater to the curiosity of Europe and America.
"The Great Wall" is such a movie.
Including "The Promise" and some films by a certain director named Jia.
Of course, this is also the case with Korean movies.
The reality there is more interesting than the movie, so I won’t go into details.
In short, the days when European and American directors were influenced by script directors and Hong Kong films are gone forever.
Bring back the topic.
Those who copied the content of European and American movies rarely had many people question it.
Or you can say that Europe and the United States have high standards.
But actually...how high can it go?
There are indeed really good ones, but many of the best-selling ones are nothing more than assembly-line popcorn movies.
It’s an interview I saw when I was doing some research.
A mature Hollywood assembly-line screenwriter will divide a 120-minute movie into several stages.
Then it is clear what content to write at each stage.
There will be a climax in the first ten minutes, and then the theme will be introduced to introduce the protagonist group.
Then when an incident occurs, the protagonist shows off his power.
Then there was a setback.
Then come to self-salvation or awakening, and finally defeat the opponent.
Specific links can be accurate to the minute.
That's not art, that's called assembly line merchandise.
(As an aside, there are also many well-known directors and screenwriters in Hollywood who have been working on the DISS Marvel assembly line).
But, this is everyone’s own choice, isn’t it?
I am 27 years old.
Experience what the network environment was like ten years ago.
At that time, hatred of the Kuomintang was very popular.
If you want to say something good or bad about the country, a group of people will catch you and spray you to death.
You must know that "five cents" is not a good word.
The Internet forums of those days were basically one or two fifty-cent parties fighting for ninety-eight five cents.
It probably lasted until 13 to 15 years.
The network environment has gradually reversed.
From 19 open, to 55 open, and now it has become 64 open or 73 open.
What does it mean? It means that the younger generation of children living in a good environment have grown up.
After all, those born in 2000 are already in their twenties.
(I was born in 1992 as a gentle and considerate elder brother. Are there any young ladies born in the 2000s who are willing to fall in love? The kind who are rushing to get married)
Ahem.
This can actually be seen from the industry.
Ten years ago, as long as they were written above, they were basically villains.
In the city, if you have a super power, the higher-ups will pull you into slices.
As long as it is written officially, there are basically no good people.
That was the way the Internet was in those days.
And the main thing is that everyone has great suffering and deep hatred.
Why?
Because at that time, people were basically born after 1985 to before 1995.
In reality, everyone understands the international situation during that period, including some practical matters, which are painful for everyone.
So I need to vent.
This is the peculiarity of the times.
But starting from 2015 or 2016, most of the protagonists of this type began to cooperate with the government.
Officials are starting to be good people too.
In addition to 404 warnings, there are also reasons for the new generation of readers to grow up.
(I used to work in data, and I am quite sensitive to data. I have conducted a detailed investigation and found that the mainstream readers of Qidian are 16 to 25 years old, and this group of readers accounts for about 70 to 80% of the entire Qidian readers).
But in fact, many subtle things are still engraved in our bones and need to be slowly changed.
For example, the movies and TV series I mentioned above.
There is also traditional culture in reality.
Black medicine in traditional Chinese medicine is very popular, but what is the result? Japan uses it, Europe and the United States use it, and South Korea uses it.
Questioning martial arts.
I laughed when I said this.
Is there any actual combat in Taekwondo, Karate, and Kendo?
As a result, these training classes were held everywhere in the streets and alleys.
In Europe and the United States, ninja culture, karate, taekwondo, etc. are also popular.
In Conan and the like, all the karate masters become Saiyans.
In anime and manga, there is often some beautiful kendo girl fighting against each other.
No one questioned it.
Including "Tearing Off the Devil with Swallows and Two Eagles" etc. In fact, if you watch it as a special feature film, is there any problem?
Just don't promote it as true history.
A book friend of mine really likes watching anti-Japanese dramas. People watch them with gusto and say they watch them as special feature films.
Also, I wrote about Yan Shuangying in my last book, and then someone else inspired me to come up with the concept of a superhero.
At that time, many people criticized me, saying how could dramas like Yan Shuangying be compared with superheroes?
Or that they are not worthy of being superheroes.
Hahaha~~~~
What about "Captain America"?
My magically modified script at that time was directly named "Captain China"!
But we are still questioning it.
There are also those who question traditional clothing such as Hanfu.
But the kimono and yukata in this book are usually worn by many people, and they are also worn during festivals and other events.
Even in the news two days ago, when it came to promoting traditional culture, government departments over there started wearing yukata at work.
While we question our own traditional culture, we start to be picky and demand perfection in everything.
Then he lamented that he had been invaded by culture and could not reverse the invasion.
In fact, it was really invaded by culture.
It's just subtle that no one cares.
Many people even began to question Bruce Lee's character and Jeet Kune Do.
This is really scary.
It feels like there are two extremes recently.
Either they are extremely patriotic, or they will rebel against China. It feels a bit like returning to the trend of the Internet ten years ago.
It's just that this time the Five Cents are more subtle, and more young people have woken up.
After talking for a long time, these are my insights.
To sum up:
Because there is a huge gap between the entertainment I know in reality and the entertainment in fiction, I always feel a strong sense of tearing when writing.
At the same time, I am a veteran little pink 50-year-old who has been fighting since I was in junior high school more than ten years ago, so I feel very unhappy when encountering this kind of situation.
(Actually, sometimes I myself am also affected by this subtle influence, but most of the time I complain about Europe and the United States, and everyone should be able to see that.
The script for my first movie in Hollywood should be interesting, provided I can write it without getting 404).
So Carvin.
In addition, my body really needs to rest recently, and there are a lot of things at home.
So please be patient.
It’s okay not to worry. I haven’t watched the backend for more than a month, and I guess the subscriptions are almost gone.
There is no way, after all, the body is the capital.
I'm finishing this book slowly, and I won't write about entertainment in the next one anyway, unless I have some particularly good ideas.
Well, that's it, I've finished all three cigarettes and I'm going back to the hospital. Good night~