Chapter 517: The Magical Chinese Version of 'The Big Bang Theory'
Empress Dowager Ming Yizhen was a taboo, her father was far away, and she was an official in the Ministry of Personnel.
In the twelfth year of Qianyuan's reign, the concubine Fufu and all the family members were selected to enter the palace. The concubine's beauty was absolutely different from others, and everyone was shocked.
He entered the palace in the same year and became a nobleman of Wan at first, at the age of seventeen.
Gongsu was careful, followed the rules, took care of the queen, worked hard day and night, took care of his colleagues, always restrained himself, and even though the palace servants were slaves, they were all favored.
When the concubine entered the palace for the first time, she was not favored due to illness. The emperor went to the imperial garden, responded to the imperial concubine's orders, was pleased with her, and fortunately, she entered the concubine, and then gradually became the concubine of the concubine.
On the sixth day of October in the sixteenth year of Qianyuan, the emperor's third daughter, Princess Longyue, was born, and she asked herself to leave the palace to practice spiritual practice.
In the 20th year of Qianyuan's reign, Emperor Xianzong visited Ganlu Temple and was delighted to see her. He summoned her back to the palace and made her the concubine Wan on the same day. She was named the third son of Emperor Yudie and favored her in the Sixth Palace.
In August of the 21st year of Qianyuan, the emperor's fifth son, King Zhao, was born, and the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Lingxi, was promoted to the imperial concubine Wan.
In the 22nd year of Qianyuan, Empress Wenyu was imprisoned, and the concubine took charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace. In May of the 27th year, she became the imperial concubine, with the same position as deputy empress.
In the 30th year of Qianyuan's reign, Emperor Xianzong was in power. The emperor's third son was promoted to the throne, with the title of Zhengzhang. His concubine was named Emperor Kao Mingyi and the Empress Dowager, and she lived in Yining Palace.
In the 22nd year of Zhengzhang, the emperor collapsed. The emperor ordered the princes and officials to serve for a hundred days. She was posthumously named Empress Dowager Mingyi Cizhuang Keshen. In October, she was promoted to the Imperial Ancestral Temple and buried in Taidong Tomb...
The above are the life stories of the ancient characters written by some drama fans based on the plot after the finale of "The Legend of Zhen Huan". This is just an outline, and there are special descriptions of specific plot events.
It ranges from a few dozen to hundreds, and a "Biography of Empress Dowager Mingyi of the Great Zhou Dynasty" was created out of the blue.
Later, some people followed this model and wrote a large number of biographies of related characters in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
For example, "The Biography of Empress Dowager Wenyu of the Great Zhou Dynasty": Zhu family, taboo Yi Xiu, the concubine of Empress Chunyuan.
Later, he was good at calligraphy and could write plum blossom small seal script with both hands. His characters were as majestic as a swimming dragon. He was good at medicine and was good at mixing incense.
In the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Qianyuan, his crime was exposed, and he was banned from the Zhaoyang Hall of Fengyi Palace. The emperor said: "We will not see each other in life or death, and we will only serve him as the last person to change clothes."
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In the 30th year of Qianyuan's reign, the emperor passed away. He was overcome with grief and soon passed away. He was buried as a noble concubine without a posthumous title and without any sacrifices. Emperor Zhengzhang succeeded to the throne and was given the posthumous title of Empress Wenyu.
There is also "The Biography of Imperial Concubine Huiyi of the Great Zhou Dynasty": the Shen family was the daughter of Shen Zishan, the governor of Jeju.
The young concubine was intelligent, good at writing, beautiful in appearance, filial in appearance, and knowledgeable in general matters. She was humble and affectionate in her superiors and subordinates, and was not proud of herself. She died in August of the 22nd year, and was given as a posthumous gift to the imperial concubine Huiyi.
In addition, "Da Zhou·Biography of Emperor Xiaosu (Hua Fei)", "Da Zhou·Biography of Queen Chunyuan", "Da Zhou·Biography of Emperor Qianyuan", "Da Zhou·Biography of Concubine Ori", "Da Zhou·Biography of Queen Nanjun"
"Biographies" and so on, are also widely circulated on the Internet and become popular for a while.
There are also some who use some backgrounds in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" to restore the fictional Zhou Dynasty, especially the Qian and Yuan dynasties, and almost come up with a chronicle.
Even the director Zuo Le is convinced that he is so obsessed with watching dramas. What kind of magical audience are these...
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The ratings exceeded 4, the Douhua score was 9.2, and the online broadcast volume is expected to exceed the 10 billion mark.
The achievements of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" exceed those of ordinary phenomenon-level TV series, and some of the data are even comparable to national-level TV series.
No one thought that Zuo Le, who was filming a palace battle drama between women, could achieve such great results.
For a time, all the major film and television companies have launched projects to feature female protagonists in palace battles. There are endless dramas such as "Jia Fang Ji", "Da Zhao Gong Ci" and "Legend of the Concubine in the Harem".
Almost overnight, the wave of palace fighting swept the entire film and television industry, and many first-line actresses were eager to participate in it, hoping to become the second Shui Miaomiao.
The aforementioned Liu Yan'er, who has a different relationship with Shui Miaomiao, is the most positive one among them.
The "Jia Fang Ji" she is currently starring in is a large-scale production jointly produced by several companies. The crew invested more money than "The Legend of Zhen Huan". The male protagonist and female supporting cast also hired many stars, and the lineup
Eye-catching.
However, the establishment of these film and television drama projects did not attract the attention of the outside world.
The reason is simple, everyone is annoyed.
In recent years, there has been a phenomenon in the film and television industry, which is to follow the trend of the Shanhe drama. When the Shanhe drama became popular, a group of follow-up film and television projects were immediately launched.
When Zuo Le filmed "Wulin Gaiden" and "Family with Children", the sitcom craze started in the industry. When the two-part "Seven Swords" became popular, it set off a martial arts craze.
"Lotus Lantern" is popular for myths, "Bright Sword" is popular for anti-war, "Detective Di Renjie" is popular for costume detectives, "Mao Liar" is popular for online dramas, "Insidious" is popular for spy wars...
If you follow the trend, you will follow the trend. This is the case in domestic and foreign film and television circles. It can be regarded as a kind of abnormal development and no one can control it.
If we really come up with something good, it doesn't matter to everyone. The audience won't lose anyway, but the key point is that these people can't follow the trend well.
Of the things produced, 70% are bad dramas, 20% are mediocre works, the remaining 7% are considered good, and only about 3% can be considered high-quality.
Let’s not go too far, let’s take the previous “Ghost Blowing Lamp” as an example. After Shanhe was approved as a project, a group of people immediately came over to take advantage of the popularity.
There are four serious online dramas related to tomb robbing, and major online movies with low overall investment requirements have exceeded double digits.
More than a dozen works have been produced, and the grand project was launched at the beginning, which can be called a prosperous scene in the film and television industry.
However, later, only one-third of the works were able to be launched as scheduled.
Of the remaining two-thirds, half of the projects were not even started and were stillborn.
In the other half, although the film was successfully launched, there were a lot of problems and various twists and turns. Either the sponsor ran away, or the crew made mistakes, or the funds were broken, or the review failed, and the filming ended up being lonely.
However, only one third of the online ones, namely "Tomb Raiders: Sand Sea" produced by Kiwi, is somewhat interesting, and the rest are of poor quality.
Especially for major online movies, many are made by grass-roots teams with no professional shooting experience at all, and the works they produce can really be described as horrific.
All these things have long since made outside audiences give up on these Shanhe follow-up dramas. No matter how much they publicize and toss, everyone is still focused on it.
Anyway, someone will definitely check it out by then. If the word-of-mouth feedback is really good, it won’t be too late to check it out.
But they will definitely not be the first to eat crabs. They will just eat sweets and eat shit, which will cause serious physical and mental damage.
In fact, everyone really had the foresight this time, and when these follow-up dramas came online, it turned out to be as expected... bad.
The heroine is silly and sweet, the villain is vicious and stupid, and the emperor and the male lead are both love-minded.
What thrilling palace battles, scheming plots, Mary Sue just pushed her all the way...
In particular, "Jia Fang Ji" played by Liu Yan'er is even suspected of deliberately borrowing from "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
However, painting a tiger cannot be compared to a dog. Whether it is the depth of the plot, the character of the characters, or the rhythm of the story, they were all crushed by "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
The performance of "Jia Fang Ji" has been poor all the way, with a Douhua score of only 3.5, and in the end it was almost even canceled by the TV station.
Liu Yan'er was also badly hurt by this drama. Not only her reputation and popularity declined to a certain extent, but most importantly, her own status in the hearts of producers and directors in the film and television industry was damaged.
In the future, it will be much more difficult to obtain good film and television resources than before.
Finally, there was a big V who commented on this farce
The greatest contribution of the existence of these follow-up palace fighting dramas is that they allow us to see how valuable and rare "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is.
Thanks to these directors and actors, they used their own strength and selfless sentiment to turn "The Legend of Zhen Huan" into a classic of palace battles.
It also makes us understand that they are all directors, and they all share the same subject matter. Some people have made masterpieces, while others have made crap.
Finally, Director Zuo is awesome!
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Of course, those are all things that happened later. At present, dramas such as "Jia Fang Ji" have just been launched.
However, Zuo Le did not pay attention to these. In his opinion, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has become a thing of the past, and the subsequent sales of rebroadcast rights will be handled by professionals.
His current focus should be on new dramas...
As mentioned before, after "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Zuo Le's next key project is "Fission", the first part of the "Qin Empire" series.
However, since "Fission" requires a long period of preparation in the early stage, production will not start until April or May next year, leaving a lot of free time in between.
Zuo Le, who was accustomed to being diligent, couldn't take any time off, so he simply took advantage of this time to make a sitcom.
Sitcoms are Zuo Le's specialty and one of his personal favorites. He is even known as the "King of Sitcoms" in the industry, and countless sitcom fans regard his works as a model.
However, it is a pity for many sitcom fans that since Zuo Le became a god in the field of sitcoms with "Wulin Gaiden" in 2019, he has only filmed one "The Story of Cooking Class 2" to repay his debt.
In the following years, Zuo Le made movies and TV series, and produced numerous works and achievements, but he never touched a sitcom again.
The sitcom wave that Zuo Le personally set off back then has returned to calm over the years.
Nowadays, except for the annual "Family with Children" series, even new sitcoms are rare, let alone high-quality ones.
Therefore, many people hope that Zuo Le can come back and film a new sitcom. There is never a lack of topic in the comment area under each of his scarves.
[Please, make a sitcom, watch old dramas every day, I’m so greedy]
Fans, reporters and even talk shows have asked Zuo Le more than once whether he will make sitcoms in the future, and Zuo Le always takes the trouble to explain.
Can shoot!
Now, he has come to fulfill his promise, and it is not just a small taste, but a long-running sitcom series, which is initially scheduled to last for more than 10 seasons.
And the name of this sitcom is "The Big Bang Theory."
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"The Big Bang Theory" is an urban sitcom, and unlike Zuo Le's previous "borrowed" sitcoms, this drama is a foreign work.
The plot introduction is very simple, there are probably two genius scientists, their IQs are superior to others, but in daily life, they often make a lot of jokes.
On this day, a beautiful woman came to the door of the apartment where they lived, and a friendship and love story broke out between the nerdy eccentric scientist and the beautiful woman.
To put it bluntly, this drama is about the daily life of young people.
However, it is very special that the protagonist is replaced by a scientist with a flawed personality.
Geniuses and normal people, scientists and ordinary professionals, all kinds of collisions are one of the biggest highlights of "The Big Bang Theory".
Zuo Le saw "The Big Bang Theory" on Goldfinger very early. He didn't think about this drama at first. After all, it is a foreign drama and cannot be filmed.
Later, as the number of seasons of "The Big Bang Theory" increased, Zuo Le became obsessed with watching it and felt that the show was really good, so he came up with the idea of translating it into Chinese and bringing it to reality.
This idea once made Zuo Le feel stressed for a long time.
You should know that as his screenwriting skills have increased, his ability to "copy" has also become stronger and stronger. Common small-scale adaptations can almost be done easily, and he has no idea of the difficulty at all.
But "The Big Bang Theory" is different. It is not easy to convert the character plot and background into Chinese. More importantly, this drama involves a lot of scientific discussion.
It's unfortunate that he, a liberal arts student, can't understand those physical quantum theories at all.
They were all Chinese characters and letters he knew, but when they were put together, he was completely confused.
For this reason, Zuo Le made a special trip to the Physics Department of Beijing University to prepare for further studies. However, after listening to two lectures, he didn't understand anything and his blood pressure rose by 20%, so he gave up decisively.
Fortunately, Zuo Le found a way to contact two Physics Ph.D.s and paid a lot of money to hire them as his screenwriting assistants, specifically responsible for writing related plots.
At the same time, he also used many connections and invited many top physics professors in the country to serve as consultants. They personally checked the relevant knowledge points in the script.
It is no exaggeration to say that the scientific arguments of Shanhe's version of "The Big Bang Theory" are completely devoid of any water, and even a master with a microscope cannot find any faults.
With the scientific argument settled, Zuo Le finally cracked the hardest bone, leaving the character and background behind, which made it easier to deal with.
"The Big Bang Theory" doesn't have many starring actors, especially in the first season, which only has five leading actors, plus a few supporting characters who have appeared many times.
The five leading actors are theoretical physicist Sheldon, experimental physicist Leonard, Indian astronomer Raj, applied physics engineer Howard, and hottie sweet girl Leni.
In the original version, these are all scientists from the California Institute of Technology. Their status is not low, barely equivalent to professors, and they are even well-known in a small circle of academia.
After Zuo Le was transformed into Chinese, the background was set in the magical city of Aurora University, and the status of several protagonists was also lowered accordingly.
I got a doctorate degree, worked in a university, led an academic group, and prepared to be rated as an associate professor, but it didn't go well due to personality reasons.
Of course, this is just the background of the first season. The career line will definitely grow in the later period. The reason why the status of the protagonist will be lowered is mainly to be more harmonious with the heroine.
I don’t know if the original version is deliberately anti-intellectual, smearing and suppressing scientists, or promoting so-called free love. It’s really unreasonable to let a scientist fall in love with a waiter.
At least Zuo Le feels that if this model is translated into Chinese and adapted to China, some measures should be taken to smooth out the gap between men and women as much as possible.
When the two met, lowering the status of the male protagonist was only one of them. There were other treatments later, all in order to make the male and female protagonists match as well as possible and not cause the audience to question...
