Chapter 519: Demonic reformation and sinicization must be in line with national conditions
As mentioned before, two of the seven leading actors in "The Big Bang Theory" appeared in later seasons, and there were only five leading actors in the first season.
The three leading actors have been introduced. Sherdor is in charge of the weirdo. Lai Dai and Penny are "tortured" by him in various ways, creating the main conflicts in the plot.
The other two, Howard and Raj, are friends of Sheldon and Ladai, and are responsible for providing support, enriching the humor, and supplementing the plot.
After all, a sitcom has a single scene, and only three leading actors are not enough. According to most sitcom laws, 5 to 10 leading actors are considered the optimal choice.
If there is less, the plot will not have enough conflict points.
If there are too many, the character lines will easily become scattered.
5 to 10 people are just the number of people in most families or a small group, and daily plots can be developed around these people.
"Wulin Gaiden", "Family with Children" and "The Story of the Cooking Class" are all in this model.
And a relatively special sitcom like "Underground Traffic Station" is divided into confrontations between good and bad guys, and there are many scenes.
Although it seems that there are many permanent characters, in fact, the film crew will focus the plot mainly on a few people. Although other people often appear, they are supporting roles and background panels.
In the first season of "The Big Bang Theory", the scenes between Howard and Raj revolved around the male protagonists Xie and Lai.
Later, perhaps because of the rising popularity of the characters, or because the screenwriter wanted to expand the plot, the importance of the two characters continued to increase, and they gradually became sub-plots in addition to the male and female protagonists.
Two characters, let’s talk about Howard first.
In the original series, this character is second only to Sheldon in terms of funniness. He is Jewish, has his own ethnic background, and has a weird mother. Just watching him interact with his mother is particularly interesting.
In addition, Howard's character is particularly vulgar, he has an unusual hunger for "sex", he talks dirty jokes, and he always uses outdated and embarrassing methods when flirting with girls, and he is embarrassed without even realizing it.
In the eyes of many female viewers, Howard during this period was particularly disliked, and even many male viewers found him disgusting.
But in fact, the setting of this character is not that bad. He is responsible for the atmosphere among the four Sheldon people, and he has a particularly good temper. Many times when faced with Sheldon's "hurt", he just laughs it off.
Of course, the same goes for the other two, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten together and become friends with Sheldon.
Moreover, Howard is the king of crooked talents in the four-person group. He has invented many clever ideas and black technologies, which is a bit like a simplified version of Bald Qiang.
However, his academic qualifications are only a master's degree. Apart from Penny, he is the worst among all the leading actors and is often ridiculed.
Overall, Howard is a kind, humorous and excellent person.
The initial wretchedness and hunger were mainly due to my figure and appearance. I had not received much attention from girls for a long time, and I grew up in a deformed single-parent family with such a weird mother.
Therefore, all this makes him long for a normal female partner.
After being paired with Guan Du in the later period, his character quickly matured, and he was one of the leading actors whose character grew and changed the most.
Zuo Le personally likes this character very much, second only to Sheldo, so he also pays special attention to his Chinese version.
When it comes to reforming the character of Howard, a very important point is to weaken the obscene and obscene nature of this character.
The original version was too exaggerated. He would make dirty jokes when he opened his mouth, and he would not hesitate to talk in front of a girl. In China, it would be weird if he didn't get beaten to death directly.
Domestic audiences can tolerate geniuses and weirdos, but they cannot tolerate geniuses.
Therefore, Howard's vulgarity must be changed, and his hunger for women can be changed into a desire for love.
As a virgin who has been single for more than 20 years, I want to find a girl to fall in love with. I am so eager to get out of the singles, so it makes sense to act a little exaggerated and excited.
At the same time, when facing those women, you can't act like a gangster like the original version. You can completely change it to earthy love words or sweet flirtations.
The original female character's disgust at sexual harassment can now turn into speechlessness at his frivolous methods of flirting with girls.
An older virgin who desperately wanted to be single, flirted with each other, but his methods were very crude, so he repeatedly hit the wall, and then continued to fail again and again.
Perhaps the impact of this modification is not as strong as the original version, but it is more in line with the appetite of domestic audiences and will not make female audiences uncomfortable.
After all, it is Chinese culture, it must conform to the national conditions...
In addition to being hungry for love and loving sex, he is also an out-and-out otaku with some mommy-like attributes.
These reasons were also the important reasons why he fell into hanging out with Sheldor and others.
Zuo Le also specially made the character background into Chinese based on the original Jewish character.
His name is Howard, and this name is also a major reason for his self-confidence. There are many complaints about this name in the script. He has a king's name, but he does not have the destiny of a king.
The setting is that he is from the capital, his ancestor is a bannerman, and he claims to be a direct branch of the family. It’s not that the Qing Dynasty has fallen, but even now, he might still be a Baylor Lord or something.
Faced with Howard, who considered himself to be of noble blood and was prone to "feudal restoration", Sheldo and others often made group complaints against him, and by the way, they blackballed the Qing Dynasty.
Howard's parents were both from Beijing, but due to work and other reasons, they came to settle in Shanghai after getting married.
Therefore, Howard himself is a native of Shanghai, but because of his parents, he does not consider himself a native of the old capital.
After I went to the capital to study in college, I even learned a lot about suburban Beijing movies. My catchphrase was, "Look at how aggressive you are. You always use Beijing curses."
However, if you are really anxious, the words you speak will be in the authentic dialect of the indigenous people of the Magic City.
A spiritual Beijing native who grew up in the magical city!
The two largest cities in China collided in one person, coupled with the royal bloodline of the Qing Dynasty bannermen.
It's enough to fill in the original Jewish jokes and make Howard's character full of joy...
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After talking about "Lord Baylor" Howard, let's talk about Tianzhu Asanraj.
In fact, in the beginning, this character was completely the product of the innocent black Tianzhu of those Americans.
He is narcissistic, sissy, weird, has a strange mind, can't speak to women when he meets her, and is also a bit slutty, but his performance is not as exaggerated as Howard's.
The biggest highlights of this character in the early stage are that one is that he doesn't speak to women and is extremely depressed inside, and the other is that he is crazy about Ah San as a Tianzhu native.
Later, maybe I felt that the character design was too thin, so I added a lot of materials, and the character slowly became more three-dimensional.
He changed his problem of not being able to talk to women, and turned into a wealthy man, throwing money at him every day, and visiting the Palace of Versailles.
Later, he evolved into a sentimental romantic scumbag, falling in love with various beauties, hoping to find a long-lasting love, but he often only lasted three minutes.
In the end, he became the last single person besides the three official couples in "The Big Bang Theory".
Of course, the film crew also left an open-ended suspense, but no one knows whether it will succeed or not.
For this character, Zuo Le has changed the least. After all, there is no need for Chinese translation. Just keep the original background and change it a little bit.
The character's name is still Raj. He was born into a wealthy family in Tianzhu. He likes Chinese culture and taught himself Chinese in high school. He is a true Chinese master.
While studying at Harvard University, Raj came to China many times as an exchange student and completely fell in love with the country. After graduating from Ph.D., he directly joined Aurora University to work and met the three of them.
Zuo Le did not change the attributes of the crazy black Tianzhu in the original version. He just eliminated some of the prejudices of the original version and put some of Tianzhu's real conditions into the play.
Of course, in a sense, interpreting the most realistic situation in Tianzhu can also be regarded as "hacking" them.
Here I have to mention that universal joke.
[The Chinese have slandered the great Tianzhu!]
【How was it slandered?】
[They told the truth...]
Because of this, Zuo Le once felt that this role was difficult to find. He needed to be proficient in Chinese, have acting talent or experience, and at the same time be able to overcome his own patriotic emotions and face the plot rationally.
To be honest, Zuo Le even put his mind to the actors of Batie.
After all, they are neighbors in Tianzhu, with similar races, and Batie is deeply involved in the country, so many people understand Chinese.
The most important thing is that they will greatly appreciate this kind of black Ah San plot...
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In addition to the five leading actors, "The Big Bang Theory" also has some supporting characters, such as comic shop owner Stewart, a super otaku who is proficient in various comic plots. His character is a resentful wife, and he can complain freely.
There is also Sheldon's college colleague, who is also his nemesis. He is a bitch and his favorite thing is to make Sheldon angry.
And Raj’s parents are both from Tianzhu, but there is no need to speak Chinese, just use English. Just find two Tianzhu actors with acting experience.
There is also Howard's weird mother, who never showed her face in the original version and only had a loud, rough voice. She is also a very unique character.
She had a "sweet" interaction with Howard and his son, yelling at each other at the top of their lungs, which was full of laughter.
Shanhe's version of "The Big Bang Theory" plans to continue to use this routine.
It's just that the character's characteristics are closer to those of a loud-voiced and irritable mother, who speaks more verbosely and chokes people, and stabs her son's heart with a knife, which makes people's blood pressure rise unconsciously.
At the same time, he also likes to play the trick of a drama queen. He is usually a irritable and loud voice, but at critical moments, he pretends to be pitiful. However, his filial son falls into this trap. The mother and son fall in love with each other.
These supporting characters all appeared in the first season and are distinctive long-term supporting characters. Zuo Le did not underestimate them just because they were supporting characters.
Because "The Big Bang Theory" is a series, these supporting characters have to be watched all at once. Over time, the importance of the scenes is no less important than that of the protagonists of ordinary TV series, so we have to be cautious.
Stewart was directly changed to Situ, and Zuo Le found Fan Min to play the role. There were not many scenes for this role, and the filming was completed in ten days and a half every year.
Fan Min has gotten older in the past few years. Due to his limited image, he usually can't get the leading role in good scripts, and he doesn't want to play the leading role in bad scripts, so his career progress is slow.
Arranging a permanent role for Fan Min in "The Big Bang Theory" is also for the purpose of consolidating his popularity.
For the other characters, we either had to find veteran actors or excellent voice actors. Although it wasn't easy, it wasn't particularly difficult either.
The real difficulty in casting "The Big Bang Theory" lies in the five leading actors.
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When the script first came out, several senior executives at Shanhe read it and agreed that the role of Sherdor was the most difficult to cast.
But Zuo Le was the first to cast this role.
That is the current No. 1 brother of Shanhe—Yu Entai.
The character of Sheldon, to put it bluntly, is actually a pedantic, stubborn and unhumane nerd, and the rest of the weird and quirky characters are all detailed branches added based on this foundation.
The former is the essence of the character, and the latter is the supplementary character branch that can be performed.
Therefore, when looking for an actor, one should look for the former rather than focusing on the detailed character. And for such a role, in the whole country, who is more suitable than Yu Entai, who has played Lu Xiucai.
I think back when Zuo Le was filming "Story of the Cooking Class 2", Yu Entai had a guest role in it as a college soldier.
This character is very bookish and does not understand the ways of the world. Fortunately, he is a teacher. He originally wanted to help, but his expression was stiff and somewhat self-righteous, which made him unhappy with the cooking class.
Later, after Zuo Le watched "The Big Bang Theory" on Goldfinger, he suddenly remembered this character and thought that there was a shadow of Sheldon in him.
It was also from that moment on that Zuo Le felt that Yu Entai was suitable to play Ser Duo.
After the Shanhe version of "The Big Bang Theory" script came out, Zuo Le specifically talked to Yu Entai several times about the role, and he became more and more determined in his original idea.
Yu Entai has a suitable image, good acting skills, comedy experience, and is proficient in English. For many plots in the play, Sheldon needs to read his lines in English. For him, it is extremely easy.
Moreover, Yu Entai himself is also a highly educated person with a doctorate in acting and directing.
When a doctor plays a doctor, it becomes a good story.
Zuo Le really couldn't think of a more suitable candidate than Yu Entai to play this genius weirdo.
Sherdor (√)
Casting the role of Lai Dai was not difficult, and there are no particularly outstanding character traits.
After careful consideration, Zuo Le chose Shanhe artist Lei Jiayin.
Lei Dai has a big head, looks naive and cowardly, wears glasses, and has a bit of an intellectual feel, which is very suitable for Lai Dai's gentle and honest style.
Moreover, Lei Jiayin has been involved in Shanhe for a long time and has never been a major player.
Shen Teng and Guo Jinfei, who joined Shanhe together with him, the former is already a 5 billion box office star and is currently popular in the film industry, while the latter has also starred in popular online dramas such as "Mao Liar" and "Unkillable". His popularity has soared and he is expected to join the ranks.
One line.
Only Lei Jiayin, although doing well, is a bit stretched compared to the two good brothers.
Therefore, Zuo Le also gave Lei Jiayin an opportunity this time.
The character of Lai Dai in "The Big Bang Theory" is not as outstanding as Sheldon, but he is still one of the two male protagonists.
The most important thing is that this is a long-running series. Its popularity has been accumulated for a long time, and it is not impossible to break into the front line with this one role.
Did you know that Zhang Yishan from "Family with Children" has become more famous than some ordinary first-line artists just because of his role as Liu Xing.
Of course, playing a role for a long time may also impose restrictions on actors. Some actors may even be unable to get rid of the shadow of the role throughout their lives. This can be said to have advantages and disadvantages.
But for Lei Jiayin, the top priority now is to become popular, and role restrictions will be a matter of the future.
Zuo Le directed the male lead of the sitcom himself, and A-list celebrities would go crazy if he presented it to him. He couldn't think of any reason to refuse.
