Zuo Le is busy filming "Bright Sword" in Shanxi Province, and here in Quancheng Shanhe, he is starting to prepare "Serious Case Group 2" to be broadcast after "Family with Children 4".
Premiering on the third day of the first lunar month, "Family with Children 4" lasted for more than 20 days and is about to reach its finale.
At this time, the ratings of "Family with Children 4" have reached 2.21. With two days left until the finale, there is no hope of breaking the highest ratings of the third part.
However, the ratings of "Family with Children" series for four consecutive episodes have all exceeded 2, which has caused quite a stir in the industry.
There are many Chinese series, but not many can be filmed for more than four series. Generally speaking, the biggest reason is that the performance of the sequels has seriously declined, and the showrunners have no choice but to reluctantly give up.
There are too few IPs that are as popular as "Family with Children" and show no sign of decline.
Its stable ratings can be regarded as unique in the entire history of Chinese TV dramas. From now on, when it comes to domestic film and television series, "Family with Children" will never be avoided.
This has also caused many film and television companies to be envious and jealous of Shanhe. They are jealous that Shanhe has the golden rooster of "Family with Children" that continuously lays golden eggs.
And what's even more annoying is that there is more than just "Family with Children" in Shanhe.
"Six Crimes", "The Story of a College Student" and even "Seven Swords" may become the second "Family with Children".
This is so much like a chicken farm, how can Shanhe not be hated by people...
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Compared with the previous films, the biggest change in "Family with Children 4" is the substantial increase in youth elements.
The main line of the first part of "Family with Children" is children's parent-child education, the second part is more focused on educational discussions, and from the third part, an appropriate amount of youth elements are added.
The main plot no longer only revolves around the Xia family, Liu Xing, and Xiaoxue, but also begins to be set by children, and gradually shifts to a youth mode.
Well, a vigorous, healthy and positive youth model...
After the preparation for the third part, in "Family with Children 4", Liu Xing and Xiaoxue completely shed their children's personas, and their roles began to be upgraded and transformed.
Later in the plot of the play, Xiaoxue was admitted to [Shanhe Middle School] as she wished, and was the first to open the high school dungeon.
Since Liu Xing has been promoted to the leading male lead, his roles are more complicated than those in other roles, including school culture classes, physical education, preparing for the high school entrance examination, battling wits and courage with his mother Liu Mei at home, and by the way, he also has to deal with the new Zuo Yang
Yang fights for favor.
It is no exaggeration to say that Liu Xing single-handedly supported one-third of the scenes in "Family with Children 4".
Even though Xiaoxue made a strong comeback after having only a few scenes in the third film, and the popular handsome boy Zuo Yangyang joined the cast, it did not shake Liu Xing's status. On the contrary, Liu Xing became more stable and his popularity became more and more popular.
If the screenwriter and Gao Xinjian hadn't deliberately suppressed it, "A Family with Children" would have almost turned into "A Family with Liu Xing".
However, this does not mean that Liu Xing can sit firmly on Diaoyutai. After "Family with Children 4", Xia Donghai's TV series "Happy Planet" was broadcast, and Zuo Yangyang became popular immediately as the male protagonist.
With the aura of stardom, Zuo Yangyang can do a lot. Even if he can't compare with Liu Xing, he still has a great chance to compete with him.
If it doesn't work out, Gao Xinjian still has a killer move, which is to make Zuo Yangyang and Xiaoxue become childhood sweethearts and work together to deal with Liu Xing.
The reason for suppressing Liu Xing is not that Gao Xinjian dislikes Zhang Shan, but mainly because of the overall interests of "Family with Children".
"Family with Children" is a sitcom and a group drama. The protagonists are the five members of the Xia family. Liu Xing can stand out, but he cannot steal all the halo.
Otherwise, after a long time, the audience will only want to watch Liu Xing, and the drama team will film it?
If you don’t shoot, the audience won’t watch.
After filming, the other characters became useless.
It is very likely to anger these actors, and there may even be a risk of the protagonists breaking up.
This is not unfounded. There are many examples in the industry. In order to increase ratings, the drama studio will significantly increase the role of a popular character in the sequel. There are only so many roles in one drama. If a certain character is added to the role, other characters will be squeezed out.
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Think about it, you were both the protagonists and had similar roles, but for the sake of performance, the crew of the sequel cut a lot of your roles and gave them to others.
Once or twice is enough, no one can bear it for a long time.
Especially for a series like "Family with Children" that has been filmed for many parts and everyone has become famous, even the showrunners have to respect the wishes of the actors.
Fortunately for Gao Xinjian, he is the director, so it doesn’t matter how many roles he plays. Xiaoyu is used to being transparent, it doesn’t matter whether it’s big or small.
But Xiaoxue and Liu Mei are different. One is a rising star who is on the rise at a rapid pace, and the other is a big shot in the industry. If they delete a lot of their scenes, they deliberately make enemies with them.
Even if people miss old friendships and don't argue with the show about deleting scenes, what should I do if they don't want to act because such a small number of scenes does little to benefit the career.
The original cast is short of major generals, so the filming of this scene is difficult...
Therefore, for long-term development, Gao Xingjian must suppress Liu Xing, at least not let him be too popular than other characters.
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In addition to the youth element, another major attraction of "Family with Children 4" is Xia Donghai's career line, which is the children's drama "Happy Planet" he filmed in the show.
The play "Happy Planet" originated from a script outline written by Zuo Le based on Goldfinger.
At that time, after he handed it over to the scriptwriting department of Shanhe, the scriptwriting department felt that the drama was too child-oriented and the plot was a bit childish, so it was unnecessary to shoot it alone.
It just so happened that Xia Donghai needed to film a children's drama in "Family with Children 4", so the editorial department immediately slapped their heads on it, and after consulting Zuo Le, they directly incorporated the drama into it, creating a drama-within-a-drama.
In "Family with Children 4", not only did Xia Donghai and Zuo Yangyang film "Happy Planet" scenes, but there were also several short clips of the finished product, including ice lemons, lotus paste buns, polyhedrons and even the old naughty grandfather.
Maybe it's because the drama within the drama is relatively new, but many viewers have good reviews of "Happy Planet", and some people actually suggested that Shanhe film this drama.
However, Shanhe is not very interested. The audience only watched a few highlights. Of course they think this drama is good, but in fact, most of the plots of the "Happy Planet" script are a bit too young. Children can watch it, but adults may not be able to stand it.
If you make a children's drama and sell it to a children's channel, you won't be able to sell it at a high price. There is no shortage of high-quality projects in Shanhe. If you have that kind of time, you might as well make a serious TV series.
So in the end, Shanhe sold the script to an animation company, and they produced the animation of "Happy Planet", which can be regarded as a derivative of "Family with Children".
As for the live-action version of "Happy Planet", it will be placed in the main drama of "Family with Children", with occasional short clips being filmed as extras.
