Chapter 497 The first shot of the 'Ghost Blowing the Lamp' series was successfully fired
That night, Cheng Ji was not the only one whose dreams were shattered.
In just two days, "fighting spirit turns into a horse" became a buzzword on the Internet, and it quickly became popular all over the Internet. Especially in the Internet literary circle, eight out of ten authors made fun of it.
It is both a form of ridicule and a subtle expression of dissatisfaction with the bad phenomenon of film and television producers randomly editing and modifying the original works on the Internet.
Although the author of the original work did speak for the crew due to contract pressure, he only praised the male lead once and didn't mention anything else.
The meaning behind it is self-evident...
And according to rumors, the original author made a lot of complaints among the great people, but because there is no screenshot evidence, it is just a rumor, and it has never been able to achieve solid results.
In fact, the author of the original work is fine. After all, he received a decent amount of royalties, which is somewhat of a financial comfort.
The film and television production of "The Man Who Played with Fire" was not satisfactory, and those who were most hurt were the book fans. How much they were looking forward to it before, but now they are so angry.
In fact, there has always been a phenomenon that makes people speechless when it comes to dramas adapted from online novels, especially male ones.
The works they choose to adapt are often well-known and influential Internet articles, but they ignore that behind the high popularity, the Internet article may not be adapted into a film or television.
Since we have chosen the fame of the IP, the best audience for the adapted drama must be fans of the original work. If we change the direction, we must also move closer to the original work and retain the advantages of the original work as much as possible.
However, in actual operation, many film studios ask screenwriters to re-adapt the plot, and the plot is far from the original work.
It is well-known as removing the bad and retaining the essence. In fact, it is to push the fans of the original book to the outside.
So this operation is very confusing.
Pursue the popularity and influence of a certain online article, but ignore the largest audience group of the IP itself, and start a new one with a shell.
So why spend so much money to buy the copyright of an online novel? You can't just find a screenwriter and write it yourself.
Taking off your pants and farting is unnecessary.
Therefore, the public's suspicion of money laundering in the entertainment industry is not unfounded. It is actually this kind of confusing operation that makes people suspect that the money of film and television companies is blown by the strong wind, and they are prodigal.
And "The Man Who Played with Fire" is the master of the above-mentioned routines.
Except for the fact that the characters have the same names and the background of the Dou Qi Continent, the actual plot development has a shockingly low similarity to the original work.
To use a complaint from a fan of the original book, this drama is not afraid of spoilers for fans of the original work, because fans of the original work have never seen these plots and there is nothing to reveal.
Many people really don’t understand, what’s the point of adapting it like this?
Fans of the original book "The Man Who Played with Fire", who felt they had been fooled, gave the show a bombardment of negative reviews and ridicule on major platforms.
[Line collapse, actor collapse, director collapse, special effects collapse, script collapse, production collapse, design collapse, character collapse, referred to as "eight-level collapse"]
[I can’t watch half of the episode, it’s a waste of emotion]
[I actually opened a membership for this crappy show, damn, Kiwi will refund my money]
[It is completely an insult to the original work, no, to say insult is to praise it]
[The special effects of just three cents are not as good as those of the Internet. They dare to brag about hundreds of millions of investments, and the marketing account dares to say that they are comparable to Hollywood. Let’s save some face]
[The male protagonist and the female protagonist are too young, and their acting skills are average. They can usually play supporting roles, but they still can't hold up when they take on the leading role]
[In the fighting spirit fantasy version of Heaven and Dragon Sword, the part where the male protagonist’s mother commits suicide almost made me burst into tears]
[Remembering the famous saying from netizens: plagiarized dramas will turn into ashes and everyone will recognize them, but no one will recognize the copyrighted dramas that have been adapted to such a bad way]
[I am a great fighting master, and there is a fighting emperor chasing me behind me, but I am not panic at all, because my horse is faster than his, so drive~]
[The two armies were fighting, and the male protagonist yelled: Soul Emperor, do you dare to dismount and fight]
[Hahaha, Xiuer, please stop showing off]
[Don’t laugh at the bad adaptation of this drama, even if it is an original drama, it will inevitably be bad]
[Fuck, I can’t take back the 40-meter sword, just bury it]
【Bury friendly troops with care】
【……】
Douhua's score opened at 4.6, and dropped to 4.4 on the third day. It looks like it will continue to drop in the future.
As for the number of views, the first 6 episodes, plus the 4 episodes released in the past two days, total 10 episodes, and the total number of views is just 200 million.
This data is acceptable for ordinary web dramas, but if you calculate the IP influence, popularity of the lead actor, publicity investment, etc. of "The Man Who Played with Fire", this result is simply astonishing.
At this time, the playback volume of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern - Jingjue Ancient City" has exceeded 2 billion, and it is expected to hit the 3.5 billion mark before the finale.
Penguin Video estimates its potential to be more than 5 billion, and with each sequel of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" released in the future, the data will grow to a certain extent.
The potential of a single drama is 5 billion, but if the entire "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series is put together, no one knows what kind of results it will achieve.
The rhetoric about the challenge between Kiwi and Penguin Video is still ringing in my ears, but now the data comparison results of the two online dramas are out.
How arrogant Kiwi Guo was at the beginning, and now his face hurts from being slapped.
It is said that the website executive who pushed hard for the confrontation between "The Man Who Played with Fire" and "Jingjue Ancient City" has now taken a back seat.
In the future, I will either have to leave Kiwi and find another job, or I will have to sit on the bench for a while longer.
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The previously aggressive "The Man Who Played with Fire" was crushed when it debuted, and "The Ancient City", which had already swept the summer season, had no rivals this time.
On July 27, the first episode of "Jingjue Ancient City" was released online.
The plot continues from the above. Hu Bayi explores an animal skin stone gate. He comes with the archaeological team the next day. After entering the stone gate, he finds a large number of corpses, which are suspected of being buried by living slaves.
After some investigation, Hu Bayi and others discovered a piece of good news and a piece of bad news.
The bad news is that this tomb is not the exquisite ancient city they were expecting, but the tomb of a Prince Gumo.
The good news is that they learned a lot of clues about the ancient city from the information in Prince Gumo's tomb, and they are getting closer to their destination.
Moreover, the archaeological team also learned that Prince Gumo poisoned Queen Jingjue. If they are lucky this time, they hope to see the tomb of this generation of Queen Jingjue.
The archaeological team set out again. Based on the information in the tomb of Prince Gumo and the diary of the English explorer Walter, although they experienced some twists and turns, they finally determined the location of the ancient city of Jingjue.
However, when they came to a valley, they found several relatively fresh corpses. Based on the equipment and some items on the corpses, everyone concluded that they might be a group of tomb robbers.
Moreover, they discovered that the death of this group of people was rather strange. When they were preparing for further investigation, a snake with a poisonous tumor on its head and a glowing red light attacked a professor of the archaeological team.
With one quick glance, Hu Ba chopped off the poisonous snake.
But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the snake's head, which was broken into two parts, struggled for its life and bit the professor.
This red light poisonous snake is extremely venomous. It only took a second for the professor to be poisoned to death.
The professor died suddenly, and the archaeological team was in a panic. At this time, several similar red-light poisonous snakes attacked everyone, but Shirley Yang used a flash to repel them.
It turns out that she had seen an introduction to this kind of snake in a magazine. This snake is highly venomous and fast, but is afraid of strong light.
The poisonous snakes receded, but the death of the professor greatly reduced the morale of the archaeological team. On the one hand, they felt sad, and on the other hand, seeing their companions sacrificed, everyone inevitably felt a little fear in their hearts.
Fortunately, Professor Chen was still the backbone, and Hu Bayi was by his side to encourage morale, and everyone was finally in a good mood.
After all, they have suffered so much and are now almost at the door of Jingjue Ancient City. No one is willing to give up for nothing.
Not long after, everyone finally saw Jingjue Ancient City, which was mostly submerged in the desert. Except for An Liman, who insisted on waiting outside, everyone followed some remaining entrances and entered the ruins of Jingjue Ancient City.
At this time, with the explanations and supplements by Professor Chen and Shirley Yang, the deeds of Jingjue Ancient City were slowly revealed.
Jingjue Kingdom was a relatively small city-state in the west during the Western Han Dynasty, located on an oasis on the banks of the Niya River.
The residents of Jingjue Country come from underground, so they are also called the Ghost Cave Clan. The Guidong Clan believe in "ghost eyes" and use their eyeballs as totems.
In the culture of the Guidong tribe, Queen Jingjue is the "messenger of ghost-eyed psychosis" and the supreme ruler of the Jingjue Kingdom.
According to legend, the last Queen Jingjue had supreme magical power. Her eyes could connect to the passage of the underworld. If she looked at her enemy, she would disappear out of thin air and never come back.
With this magical power, Queen Jingjue became the overlord of many nearby countries. However, Queen Jingjue did not care about the people's livelihood and adopted a high-pressure policy towards neighboring countries, collecting large amounts of taxes and brutally executing those who dared to resist.
This behavior made many people dissatisfied with her, but due to Queen Jingjue's magic eyes, they could not successfully resist.
Until Prince Gumo poisoned her, news spread that Queen Jingjue died soon after.
Of course, this is the information revealed in the tomb of Prince Gumo. The previous official statement was that Queen Jingjue harmed the people, arousing the anger of God, and was cast a spell to make her suffer from strange diseases and eventually died.
Anyway, after the death of Queen Jingjue, the enslaved neighboring countries formed a coalition and entered the country of Jingjue.
During the war, a super sandstorm buried everyone in the ancient city of Jingjue into the yellow sand, and the country of Jingjue became a legend.
In fact, Shirley Yang did not tell the whole truth. The Ghost Cave tribe is actually also called the Zagrama tribe. According to legend, they have a curse on their bodies and died at the age of forty-five because their blood coagulated.
Shirley Yang is a descendant of the Guidong tribe, and her father is looking for the ancient city of Jingjue in order to lift the curse on her.
Of course, this "curse" is just a mysterious term. To put it more scientifically, it should be said that this curse is a virus. After the Guidong people are infected, it is passed down from generation to generation. When they reach a certain age, their blood will eventually coagulate and die.
It can be said that the Guidong clan has been fighting this "curse/virus" for generations.
Later, it was discovered that the Muchen Bead was the antidote, so the Zagrama tribe sent people to the Central Plains to search for the whereabouts of the Muchen Bead.
Because they often had to explore ancient ruins and tombs, they gradually evolved into the four major sects of tomb robbers, the Banshan Taoist lineage.
Of course, these are all things for later. The plot in the TV series has not yet begun to explain this. Everyone’s purpose is to conduct archeology in the ancient city.
Even if Hu Bayi discovered that Shirley Yang had an ulterior motive, he still didn't know her true thoughts.
Let’s get back to the plot. When they entered the ancient city of Jingjue, Fatty’s recklessness caused them to be attacked by red-light poisonous snakes. While escaping, they accidentally hit a trap.
Then the regular plot of each season of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" began, with Hu Bayi pretending to be cool based on his own book "The Secret Technique of Feng Shui in Sixteen Characters".
And as Hu Bayi has a secret technique to unlock the mechanism, episode 12 also comes to an end.
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As the climax of the main plot of Jingjue Ancient City slowly unfolds, the popularity of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp - Jingjue Ancient City" is rising steadily, and there are many discussions online and offline.
On July 28, the new series of "Jingjue Ancient City" was launched, and the number of views of the entire series has reached 2.3 billion.
Penguin Video's senior executives found that their previous prediction of the playback volume of "Jingjue Ancient City" was still a bit conservative, and they will continue to develop according to this trend.
On the day of the finale of "The Ancient City", the 3.5 billion mark was nothing to it.
Perhaps, 4 billion is the test for it!
The subsequent performance of "Jingjue Ancient City" did not disappoint the top management of Penguin Video.
In the third episode, the archaeological team discovered the treasure of Queen Jingjue, and then discovered a coffin made of Kunlun sacred wood.
The Kunlun Sacred Tree is the top coffin material. It can protect the body from decay for thousands of years when buried with it. There is a coffin made of the Kunlun Sacred Tree, and it is very likely that the mysterious Queen Jingjue is lying inside.
Everyone was looking forward to seeing the queen's remains, but when they got closer, they discovered that there was a strange corpse-scented konjac growing on the Kunlun coffin.
Professor Chen, who can be called a database of human flesh, introduced that the corpse-scented konjac is a very rare and precious plant. It is said that it is very dangerous when it blooms, but Professor Chen Chen does not know the details.
Corpse-scented konjac also has the effect of keeping corpses from decaying. It also smells very fragrant and can cover up the bad smell of some corpses.
The Kunlun sacred tree and the corpse-scented konjac are two top-quality burial objects. It is almost certain that this is where Queen Jingjue lives.
Everyone came forward curiously, and then episode 14 ended.
That night, bib broke out the most powerful complaints and protests since the broadcast of "Jingjue Ancient City".
However, the number of views that has exceeded 2.7 billion tells Penguin Video that the complaints are just superficial and the audience's support rate for this drama is extremely high.
July 29th and July 30th were originally weekends. Logically speaking, "Jingjue Ancient City" should stop updating, but the overwhelming feedback from the audience made Penguin Video understand.
If the show is stopped on weekends, all these viewers might get upset.
In addition, they did not want to interrupt the momentum that "Jingjue Ancient City" had finally accumulated, so they added temporary updates.
Two days on the weekend, one episode per day will be updated continuously.
As for the last two episodes of "Jingjue Ancient City", they will all be released online on July 31, which is the last day of this month.
On July 29, Saturday, the 17th episode of "Jingjue Ancient City" will be online.
On the same day, the total views of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern - Jingjue Ancient City" exceeded the 3 billion mark, making it the only online drama this year to reach 3 billion views during its broadcast period.
The first shot of the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series was launched successfully.
ps: The extra story is online. It tells the story of Zuo Le traveling through the real-life entertainment industry. Interested book friends can read it.
