Chapter 157 The important pillar of the landscape of the mountain and river sitcom
"Spicy Next Door" is a web drama. What can I say about its style? It's full of laughter, curses and shit. The style is very nonsensical.
Those who like it will be able to read it, but those who are not used to this style will probably click to quit after just 5 minutes of watching.
Especially the first season, which is itself a promotional video for the game, the script is very rough and almost just randomly acted with jokes and jokes.
After the second season, the main creative team obviously made some rectifications, and the quality of the scripts has skyrocketed. Some relatively eye-catching plots no longer appear, and the main focus is on the daily life themes of college students.
Although there are still some flaws, overall it is a relatively good online comedy.
Zuo Le's Golden Finger video player has the original version of the first three seasons of the show. When Zuo Le first watched the first season, he thought there was a virus in the video player. Later, he slowly got used to it in the second and third seasons.
Although the shortcomings of the web drama "Spicy Next Door" are very obvious, it also has many outstanding advantages, such as the relatively realistic portrayal of college life.
For most students, the so-called college plots in many TV series and movies are too fake.
The two protagonists love each other to the death, it is unforgettable, the heroine has an abortion, the hero is fired, and there is always a roommate, a best friend makes sacrifices to the gods, so that the misunderstanding of the hero and heroine wakes up or breaks up.
Well, this kind of reality is not unheard of, but it is too niche, and many people's college life is very dull.
There are many people who have not been in love for four years in college, and it is common for them to break up after falling in love. There are many people who are in trouble because of falling out of love, but it usually calms down in a few days and becomes normal.
As for those who don't want to go to extremes, there are tens of millions of college students across the country, and there are only a few hundred cases every year, or even less.
Distributed to so many colleges and universities across the country, some schools have not encountered such "sensational" big news for many years.
As for many movies and TV shows about college entrepreneurship, they are even more ridiculous.
I started a business in my second year of college, and spent two years working day and night, super old king chasing two horses, and reborn business articles on the Internet would not dare to write such a playful thing.
Of course, some people often use the real experiences of some big guys to prove that awesome people do exist in reality.
But such a one-in-a-million person is too far away for ordinary college students.
Nearly 90% of college students' resonance with college life is ordinary things like studying, falling in love (the ordinary kind), playing games, skipping classes and failing exams, and bragging with roommates.
You make this kind of film and television drama, and you say it reflects college life. In fact, ordinary college students have no sense of involvement at all. It is better to directly promote it as a personal biography or YY film and television.
In Zuo Le's opinion, "Spicy Next Door" is very suitable to be turned into a sitcom about daily life.
As long as the screenwriter and script give some strength, even if it doesn't become a hit, the results will definitely not be worse than "The Story of the Health Team".
So, Zuo Le extracted part of the script outline and character settings from the original version of "Spicy Next Door", threw them to the Shanhe Screenwriting Department, and came up with "The Story of a College Student".
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The setting of the script is roughly like this. In the Chinese Department of Quancheng University, there are four sophomores living in dormitory 222.
That's right, Zuo Le moved the background of the story to his alma mater. It was not entirely for his own personal gain, but mainly because Zuo Le had a good relationship with his alma mater.
After Zuo Le became a well-known director, he has become a well-known alumnus of Quancheng University and has a good relationship with the school leaders.
When filming "The Story of a College Student", we definitely had to borrow scenes from the university. Zuo Le had a connection with Quancheng University, so he didn't need to use it in vain.
The four students in dormitory 222 are Lin Dachong, Li Fanda, Lu Pangpang (Lu Shuai), and Liu Xiaodao (Liu Jian).
Lin Dachong is the principal of the dormitory. He is handsome, has good grades, likes to hook up with little sisters, is a typical humanoid self-propelled gun, and because he often goes out to work part-time, he has a wide network of contacts and is the strategist of the dormitory.
Li Fanda is a smart and coquettish character, while Manaozi is all about thinking about falling in love, but has been frustrated repeatedly. He is a completely unlucky guy and speaks authentic Tangshan dialect, which is the main point of laughter in the play.
Lu Pangpang is a rough northerner with a bad temper. He is addicted to games, lazy and greedy. He is a buffoon.
Liu Xiaodao, a chronic otaku, is in sharp contrast to Lu Pangpang. The setting is that the languid person is lucky, and he is the first one except Neptune King Lin Dachong to have an official girlfriend.
There are four students, three are bad students, and one is a top student. Of course, they are either the ultimate bad students like the original who skipped classes every day, or they are slightly worse than ordinary students. Among them, Lu Pangpang can be more outstanding.
There is no way, you can't write too badly about the students, otherwise it will not only promote your alma mater, but directly become a smear, and you will have some trouble with the broadcast on satellite TV.
In another dormitory, the three top students are somewhat homogeneous, so why not make a slight distinction.
The same is true for the original version of "Spicy Next Door" in the third season. Except Lu Pangpang is still sinking, Liu Xiaodao and Li Fanda have made certain progress. Liu even became a bit of a good student because of the influence of his girlfriend.
For this "Story of a College Student", Zuo Le is a bit ambitious.
"Wulin Gaiden" will not make a sequel, "The Story of the Cooking Class" has been completed, and Shanhe's sitcom territory is currently only supported by the series "Family with Children".
Although "The Story of the Health Team" is still considered for now, because it is difficult to assemble the main creators, and the quality of the TV series itself is mediocre, and it has to share dividends with Kongwen, the final profit fed back to the company is not high.
Shanhe has been used to eating big fish and meat in the past two years, so he is a little disdainful of such clear soup side dishes.
It's not that Zuo Lepiao is crazy, it's just that he has too many good scripts and doesn't want to waste time on such an ordinary project.
Therefore, Zuo Le plans to give the IP "The Story of the Health Team" to Kongwen for filming and production, and Shanhe will only participate in investment and script creation.
Of course, this matter has not yet been finalized. How it will be implemented depends on the specific results of "Story of the Health Team 2" after it is broadcast.
If it becomes popular, Zuo Le will definitely not give up the fat in his mouth to others, but if it is the same as the first one or worse, then it should be discontinued and the energy and resources should be drawn out to create a new IP and fill in the gap.
Shanhe sitcom territory.
For example, "The Story of a College Student".
Zuo Le is planning to make it into a short series. It is initially planned to be three parts, one per year, for sophomore year, third year and senior year. The three parts will be completed after graduation.
However, if your grades are good, you may not rule out adding some water and converting one class per year into one class per semester.
But these are things for later, the first thing is to finish the first part first.
Shanhe Screenwriting Department has already finished the script based on Zuo Le's outline and character settings. The number of episodes is not many, only 30, but the quality is guaranteed and the laughs are very dense. It is even better than "Family with Children"
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However, "Family with Children" mainly follows the warm and humorous route, and being funny is not the first purpose.
As for "Story of College Students", because the audience is targeted at the young market, the overall style is more silly and funny.
At the same time, in order to let some of the plot of "The Story of a College Student" be free like the original version, Zuo Le specially asked Xue Jun to be the director.
Lao Xue is older, has a stable personality, and has an unobtrusive directing style. He is suitable for this kind of comedy drama. He can control the scene and grasp the rhythm of the plot without going out of style.
Zuo Le's ideal "Story of a College Student" retains the advantages of the original "Spicy Next Door" and discards most of its flaws.
At the same time, the production is more mature and popular, and will gain more recognition from the audience, instead of being like the original version, where those who like it like it and those who don't like it are extremely disgusted.
Only this kind of "Story of a College Student" can become an important pillar of the sitcom landscape of Sunward Pictures in the future.
