Chapter 38 'Hello, Intern' premiered, full of scolding
8 o'clock that night
Zuo Le, Fatty Chen, Fang Weimin and Mo Dashan, who came after hearing the news, sat in a private room of the five-star hotel next to the TV station building, eating and watching the premiere of "Hello, Intern".
The plot of this TV series adapted from the popular online novel of the same name is actually not that complicated.
The male protagonist "Lin Zhen" played by Ma Yibo is a real estate agent who has just entered the industry. After joining the company, with his tenacious character and honest work attitude, he impressed difficult customers one after another and won many orders.
An intern slowly becomes an ace in the industry.
However, this is the plot of the original novel...
The overall plot of the original novel mainly revolves around working hard in the workplace and "conflicting" with customers. It relies on customers and projects with distinctive personalities to create conflicts and conflicts, allowing the protagonist to continuously overcome obstacles and then upgrade all the way in the workplace, gaining both power and wealth.
Constantly slapping colleagues and competitors who are at odds with the protagonist, the whole process is fast-paced and full of fun.
However, according to various media outlets and fans of the original novel, Fang Tianyao, the producer of "Hello, Intern", felt that it was too thin to only film the male protagonist's career upgrade, so he developed a romance route based on the original plot.
The heroine, who originally had little presence in the novel, has a much larger role, and the screenwriter has created an additional character to be the second female lead. In addition, the second male lead, who was originally just a colleague with the male lead, has also been given a lot of emotional drama, and is suspected of having some entanglements with the female lead.
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It may sound a bit silly, but because the screenwriter is the original author and several well-known screenwriters, plus Zhou Yan is a top TV drama director, everyone is generally optimistic.
Besides, novels and film and television dramas are expressed in different ways, so it is normal for the plot to be changed.
Zuo Le thought the same way before. As a screenwriter, he understands the difficulties of adapting novels for film and television.
So before that, Zuo Le read the original novel "Hello, Intern" and wanted to learn from several industry leaders how to adapt the novel into a script suitable for film and television shooting.
However, Zuo Le watched the premiere of "Hello, Intern" today, and within ten minutes, he even frowned several times.
"This plot seems to have nothing to do with the original work..."
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However, Zuo Le did not make a final conclusion about "Hello, Intern".
After all, the TV series has just begun, so it is reasonable for the screenwriter to lay some groundwork or create some original settings that are not found in the novel.
But the facts soon woke Zuo Le up. The two episodes lasted nearly 80 minutes, and the plot related to the original work only lasted 10 minutes in total.
The rest is all about the misunderstandings between the male protagonist and the female protagonist, as well as explaining the identities, backgrounds and appearances of the second male and female protagonist.
Of course, such a plot is not impossible to film, but the key point is that director Zhou Yan did not grasp the sense of proportion. The pace of the plot was dragging and dilly-dally, and the character portrayal was also very unpleasant.
The male protagonist is okay, after all, there is a basis for the original work, but there is not much writing in the novel, and now the female protagonist, who has played more roles in TV series, seems to have changed.
Unreasonable, harsh words, willful, selfish...
If it weren't for the confirmation of the cast, Zuo Le would have thought that this was a bit player specially created to create plot conflicts.
Another point that left Zuo Le scratching his head was that the acting skills of several of the leading actors in "Hello, Intern" were terrible.
I don’t know how Tianyao Company chose them. The male protagonist Ma Yibo is a singer, the female protagonist Song Xueyuan is the lead dancer of a well-known talent show girl group, and the second male is a model. The second female is actually an actress since her debut, but she is a vase who sells her face.
None of the four leading actors has a professional background and has not even participated in formal acting training.
Now Zuo Le understands why Miss Tian Yan, with her acting skills, dares to say that she wants to make a career in the film and television industry.
These four can be the leading male and female lead in a multi-billion-dollar production, so Tian Yan, whose acting skills are similar to theirs, will naturally have the same confidence.
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The plot seriously deviates from the original work, the characters are unlikable, the overall pacing is draggy, and the acting of the lead actors is mediocre.
There is no need for Zuo Le to look for other shortcomings. These four are enough to judge that the future of "Hello, Intern" is bleak.
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There was silence in the private room.
Several of the people here are professionals engaged in film and television work, and their ability to appreciate TV dramas is obvious here. What Zuo Le can see is similar to that of others.
"What does Wang Xia do for food? You can buy such a thing for only 100 million?"
Mo Dashan's face was very ugly. Although he supported the production center and did not like the purchasing department, it did not mean that he would take pleasure in seeing something go wrong in the purchasing department's work.
After all, Mo Dashan is the deputy director of Dongshan Station. He looks at the problem from an overall perspective. The station has suffered heavy losses, and he is more angry and worried.
The anger was because Wang Xia did not do things well and spent a lot of money to buy something that was of no use.
The worry is that "Hello, Intern" will hit the market, and Taiwan will lose a lot of money to purchase the drama. I'm afraid the advertisers who signed contracts for this drama will also cause trouble. The other disadvantage is the chain reaction.
Compared with this, the Laofang pattern is obviously slightly lower.
In the past two years, the purchasing department and the production center have been fighting openly and secretly, and they are almost losing their minds.
The center was weak, and the director, Lao Fang, was constantly angry with Wang Xia, and he was already feeling angry.
Now he was watching the Purchasing Department reveal the truth, pointing out that Fang Weimin was considering the overall situation and worrying about the Purchasing Department. He didn't even believe what he said, and he even added fuel to the fire in a weird way.
"Mo Tai, you are not the one who talks behind our backs for the people. Wang Xia is from an administrative background, and her film and television appreciation is basically a double sword.
In the past, I relied on good luck and spent money to get a few good dramas, which seemed to make the purchasing department prosperous, but in fact they were all a blind attempt to kill a mouse.
I have studied her carefully. When Wang Xia buys dramas, she only looks at the production team and traffic popularity, but doesn’t care much about the quality of the dramas themselves.
She also suffered a few small losses in the previous series, but because the losses were not big and Deputy Director Wu was protecting her, she finally let it go, but she did not learn any lessons from it.
When I watched "Hello, Intern" this time, it was Wang Xia who was dazzled by the popularity of traffic promoted by Tianyao Company, greedy for credit, and ended up getting screwed."
Mo Dashan's face became more and more gloomy. It was not until the fifth episode of "Underground Traffic Station" was broadcast more than ten minutes later that he recovered a little.
Taking advantage of this time, Zuo Le also searched for information about "Hello, Intern" online.
It didn't surprise him that there were a lot of scoldings and bad reviews on the Internet, especially the original work party, which had begun to publicly boycott the TV series. Similar news has been linked to several trending searches on scarves.
Director Zhou Yan, starring Ma Yibo, Song Xue and others were all silent, but the official of Tianyao Company was very stubborn and argued with netizens for a while.
But because they were outnumbered, they were forced to close the comment area within half an hour.
Although it is only the first day of premiere, anyone with a discerning eye can see that "Hello, Intern" is probably going to be a hit...
But who can blame this?
If "Hello, Intern" is released and broadcast normally, although the quality is rough, except for fans of the original novel who are dissatisfied, the rest of the people will not be too angry.
At most, I feel that there is another example of failure in the adaptation of online novels. I sigh with emotion, turn around and forget about it.
However, the current situation is caused only by the excessive ambition of Tianyao Company and the crew.
From the time the crew set up the project, they have been constantly publishing drafts all over the Internet, buying fake news, and promoting "Hello, Intern" as a national drama, causing the audience and fans of the original work to look forward to it.
Now that the finished product is released, everyone with high expectations has discovered that the quality of the TV series itself is completely different from what was said in the promotion, heaven and earth.
Can the audience and fans not be angry after being deceived?
Immediately, the keyboard warrior took over and started blacklisting "Hello, Intern" on the entire Internet.
However, in Zuo Le's view, no matter how much netizens and fans scold him, it will not cause much damage to Tianyao Company.
They have sold most of the copyrights of "Hello, Intern" long ago, and the rest are just a small amount. Even if the income is not as expected, the previous large income is enough for Tianyao Company to make a lot of money.
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On the contrary, the directors, screenwriters, and starring actors of the "Hello, Intern" crew have such a dark history, which will definitely have a big impact on their future career development.
But having said that, the quality of "Hello, Intern" is so bad, they have an unshirkable responsibility, and they deserve to suffer the consequences now.
Therefore, what should really be pitiful is that several platforms actually spent a lot of money to buy the copyright of "Hello Intern".
Fortunately, Dongshantai had a gambling agreement, so the losses were relatively small.
But Xiangnan TV and Kiwi are different, especially Kiwi. In order to win the exclusive online broadcast rights of "Hello, Intern", they spent more than 200 million. If this matter is not handled well, Kiwi's stock price
