Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 100: Immortal Sword on Fire
The publicity from the stars was still useful. The ratings on the first day were 3%. 2% was acceptable on Shonan TV, and 3% on the first day was considered to have the potential to become a big hit.

But it is just potential. The ratings on the first day were a bit inflated, and people in the industry are watching how "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" will perform next.

3.5% on the second day, 4% on the third day, 5% on the fourth day...

This trend makes everyone understand that as long as the plot after "Chinese Paladin 1" is guaranteed, this drama will definitely become one of the most popular dramas this year.

However, the rapidly rising ratings did not make the company's people feel at ease. Instead, they became quite nervous. In contrast to the ratings, the evaluation of "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" was also negative.

On the first day, "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" received rave reviews. As time went on, more and more negative reviews appeared online, and eventually even Shi Lei was alarmed.

Shi Lei logged into Feixun Space, major forums, and Tieba to check out the reviews of "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1".

The reviews online are all negative.

He once again felt the power of the original party.

The internet is full of gamers criticizing "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1".

Shi Lei sighed, the changes were too big, it was normal to be criticized, he felt helpless, but he couldn't let game players control the comments, he immediately asked the company's screenwriter to write a rather long apology letter.

Since "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" is a TV series, the script he provided only had the general outline of the story, and the script was filled in by the company's screenwriter department. The script of a TV series may have hundreds of thousands of words. He is not a tentacle monster.

He also doesn't have the habit of claiming to be the screenwriter for TV dramas, so he was not the screenwriter for The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1.

As soon as the apology letter came out, the growth rate of negative reviews online slowed down.

The screenwriter came out to apologize, and the anger of the original fans subsided a lot.

In fact, the popularity of "Chinese Paladin 06" was not due to the fans of the original novel, but rather to the popularity among passers-by. In , home computers were not so popular, and compared to watching TV series, games were more attractive to fans of the original novel.

Even if fans of the original novel want to watch "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1", they won't watch it in front of the TV. They will most likely watch it on pirated websites online.

Of course, now that we have the official website Feixun Video, we don't have to go to pirated websites to watch blurry videos. Although the Feixun website is two episodes slower than the TV station, it has high clarity and no annoying pop-up ads.

As someone who has been through this, Shi Lei certainly knows what is the most annoying thing about watching videos. Currently, Feixun Video Network is still in the stage of competing for users. Except for the promotion of Taolin Film and Television's TV series and movies at the end of the film, Feixun Video Network does not have any advertisements at all.

The broadcast on the Internet has an impact on the ratings of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1", but the impact is not significant.

In 05, home computers were not yet popular, and there was a huge group of people watching TV dramas, which was the basic base for ratings.

Of course, we still need to control the reviews on the Internet, and we can’t let the ratings of TV series be too low.

Just like in the previous life, more and more people are watching "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1", and the ratings get higher as it gets closer to the end.

There are many reasons why "Chinese Paladin 1" became so popular:
The first is the love between Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger. Li Xiaoyao can be described as a loser’s counterattack, which makes many boys feel involved in the story.

[Li Xiaoyao was originally a nasty little hoodlum in Yuhang Town. In real life, he fought, gambled, and flirted with girls. He also dreamed of becoming a hero every day.

Everyone may be laughing at Li Xiaoyao for overestimating his own abilities, but there is actually a girl who thinks he is a hero.

This girl, whom he had never met but always called him Brother Xiaoyao, held his hand and walked through the peach blossom forest of Xianling Island, and "teased" him in the closet with the most innocent expression.

Faced with such a beautiful, innocent, lively and lovely girl, he showed unconditional trust and kindness.

Which man can resist a girl who treats him so well?
Love at first sight becomes a matter of course.

But by some strange coincidence, the Forget-Me-Not Gu made Li Xiaoyao forget everything on the Fairy Island, including the girl with whom he had married.

This increases the sense of anticipation, making the audience look forward to Li Xiaoyao recovering his memory.

Of course, Li Xiaoyao did not disappoint before his memory was restored.

Even though his memory has not been restored, this sloppy little gangster still always speaks softly to Ling'er, cares for her gently, and protects her as if it is his birth mission.

Ling'er disappeared and it was rumored that she was taken away by a snake demon. He was anxious and immediately hurried on his way.

Ling'er was found unconscious in a villager's home. Just because Ling'er murmured "red dandelion" in her dream, a dream that did not exist was created for her.

Memories fade away, but love remains.

If we meet again, I will still fall in love with your romance, which is unique in The Legend of Sword and Fairy.

But the story looks different from Ling'er's perspective.

Ling'er's days on Xianling Island were carefree and worry-free.

Every day, I am either busy watering and fertilizing the small seeds left by Brother Xiaoyao, or completing the homework left by Brother Xiaoyao: “Be happy every day.”

Even without a real person around her, Zhao Linger's life was filled with the name Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao is Zhao Linger's great hero and knight.

When that person really appeared in front of me, he seemed a little different from what I had imagined.

He sleeps badly, is lazy and gluttonous, and has many female confidants.

Even this person forgot the fact that he and he were married.

Ling'er tried to cast a spell to make him gentle and polite, and to know when to act, so that he would gently call her "wife".

The wish came true, Xiaoyao became what Ling'er wanted, but the word "Ling" in Xiaoyao's palm, which proved that he loved Ling'er, could not be changed back.

Such a tactful and polite Li Xiaoyao seemed too fake to Ling'er. This was not his brother Xiaoyao.

But when grandma's urn was smashed and the last bit of her belongings were blown away by the wind, Ling'er blamed herself for not protecting her grandma and cried bitterly. Li Xiaoyao grabbed the last bit of her belongings that Ling'er was protecting tightly in her arms and flew them farther, comforting Ling'er with the fallacy that "grandma wanted to ride the wind to return to Nanzhao Kingdom as soon as possible."

Ling'er still believed that his brother Xiaoyao was always reliable.

When we meet again, my hero is not as perfect as in my memory, but I still love your romance, which is unique to The Legend of Sword and Fairy.

Meeting twice, knowing each other twice, Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger, a perfect couple.

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Beautiful love always attracts people. "Titanic" tells a love story, but it has attracted countless people to watch it repeatedly.

As long as the love story is well told, the film or TV series will not be bad. Obviously, the love story in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" is told very well.

What’s more, it’s not just the love story that attracts people in “The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1”.

[Love is an unavoidable topic in the Chinese Paladin series, but the theme that Chinese Paladin 1 wants to explore the most is the word fate.

After the disaster in the Demon Locking Tower, Ling'er was in a coma and Yueru was missing. For Li Xiaoyao, the sky really fell.

He wished that none of this had happened, and the opportunity just happened to be right in front of him.

Nuwa sent Li Xiaoyao back to the day ten years ago when the Witch Queen was executed as a monster. Her original intention was to let Xiaoyao see the origin of what happened ten years ago, but it also gave him a chance to change everything.

The Moon Worshiper did not hesitate to summon water monsters to persecute the people in order to force out the witch queen's true form of a human body with a snake tail.

The witch queen is not afraid of life or death. If her death can bring peace of mind to the people, she will feel that her death is worthy. But her daughter Ling'er also needs to be entrusted to a reliable person.

At this moment, Xiaoyao finally realized that he was really the brother Xiaoyao who escorted Ling'er to Xianling Island when they were young.

Since there is a chance to change everything, in order to prevent the disaster from happening again, Li Xiaoyao wants to change everything from the source.

I met Ling'er on Xianling Island. Since Xianling Island is in the east, I let the phoenix mount fly west. I can go as far west as I want.

He repeatedly reminded Drunken Swordsman not to teach martial arts to a boy named Li Xiaoyao in Yuhang Town.

In this way, Ling'er can live happily on an unknown island until old age, Li Xiaoyao will live a life of idleness and wait for death in Yuhang Town, Yueru can live a life of a rich lady, and nothing will have to happen. This is great.
However, when they returned to reality, nothing had changed. Ling'er was still in a coma, and Yueru could not come back.

It turned out that the Phoenix flew westward for too long and circled the earth, and finally returned to the Fairy Island.

It turned out that the reminder to the Drunken Swordsman had the opposite effect. Instead, the Drunken Swordsman taught Li Xiaoyao martial arts out of spite.

After going around in circles, everything is back to the starting point.

Perhaps this is the inevitable fate, everything is already predetermined.

Humans and demons eventually go their separate ways, and Caiyi's devotion to Jinyuan will not be rewarded in any way;
The descendants of Nuwa always have to contribute to the world, and Qing'er and Ling'er both sacrificed their lives for the people of Nanzhao;
The Shushan swordsman is always blocked by love disasters on his way, and the Drunken Swordsman cannot escape no matter how unbridled he is.

There's no escape.

Cause and effect and fate are the foundation of the complete world structure of Xianjian.

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The last thing that adds to the score is that "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" is a group portrait drama, and the characters in it are all fleshed out and attractive.

[“The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1”, the first half is hilarious and exciting, the six young men making a ten-year promise under the fireworks is still vivid in our memory.

The second half is tragic and helpless. Yueru, Ling'er and Aqi die, Anu and Tang Yu turn into blue birds, and only Xiaoyao is left with his infant daughter.

What we see in them is not only sincere love, but also the courage to sacrifice for their friends, their country, and their courage to do what they know is impossible.

Jin Yuan was born in the Shangshu Mansion and was also the emperor's assistant, aiming to support the Tang Dynasty for the current emperor.

At the beginning, Jin Yuan was not convinced by Li Xiaoyao.

He couldn't understand why his cousin Yueru would fall in love with such a gangster-like guy.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

Jin Yuan decided to take Xiaoyao as his teacher, but in the process of getting along with Xiaoyao, he was attracted by Xiaoyao's unrestrained and cheerful personality.

Even though there are conflicts in love, Jin Yuan is kind-hearted and still regards Xiaoyao as his close friend.

Because he was unwilling to betray Xiaoyao and Ling'er to the Moon Worship Sect, he was taken back to Nanzhao by the Moon Worship Sect leader and became a slave, with the Moon Worship Sect's totem tattooed on his face.

Although he was in the enemy camp, being beaten and bullied, he still wanted to do something for his confidant and his dead cousin.

He took advantage of the immortal calamity, pretended to kill Li Xiaoyao, and took back the Five Spirit Pearls.

He finally gained the trust of Moon Worshiper and read through ancient books before finding a way to defeat him.

The price paid is life.

Although Jin Yuan does not have peerless martial arts skills, he is also a chivalrous man.

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Others also had their own performances.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Saving the common people is a common plot in fantasy dramas.

The reason why the story of saving the world in the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series is so touching is that what we see is a group of small people, ordinary people struggling, fighting, and sacrificing.

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What is most difficult to accept is that even the villain in "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" does not seem like a villain. Everything the Moon Worshiper did was to let people know the truth that the earth is round.

This truth seems to be heresy in everyone's eyes, but the audience knows that the Moon Worshiper is right.

A fairy tale drama with an ensemble cast, pure love, the struggles, fights and sacrifices of the little people, the helplessness of the villains, the theme of saving the world, unique special effects, all of these make "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" a success.

When "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 22" came to an end, the ratings of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 10.3" reached %, and finally closed with an average ratings of %.

The premiere has ended, but the discussion about "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" has not stopped. Instead, it has increased, and the popularity has shown a trend of increasing instead of decreasing.

Visionary TV stations saw the business opportunity, and this is another TV series that can be rebroadcast repeatedly.

Several TV stations that had purchased the second-round broadcasting rights immediately took over from Shonan TV and began broadcasting "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1". Two TV stations even stopped broadcasting the TV series they were currently broadcasting and went straight to "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1".

If the second round of broadcasting was still limited to a few TV stations, the third round of broadcasting would spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and profits would drop significantly.

Therefore, the TV station that obtains the second-round broadcasting rights will naturally broadcast it as soon as possible.

The success of "Chinese Paladin 1" made people in the industry jealous, but not many wanted to follow suit. That kind of special effects and that level of costumes and makeup were bound to be costly to produce, and few film and television companies had the courage to afford such a high cost.

However, if it is a TV station that takes the lead, it is worth considering. Some TV dramas in mainland China only start filming after finding a purchasing TV station.

If the TV station takes the lead in organizing the event, the film and television companies will certainly be willing to shoot.

Unfortunately, all the TV stations willing to organize the event have gone to Taolin Film and Television.

At Taolin Film and Television, Shi Lei sat in his office, listening to Liu Yan's report, and frowned slightly: "Except for Xiangnan TV, all other TV stations should be declined!"

"Chinese Paladin III gave Shonan TV 20% of the share, but the prerequisite was that Shonan TV paid the final payment."

According to the tiered contract, Shonan TV needs to pay the first round of copyright fees of RMB 8160 million.

240 million per episode is a sky-high price in this era. This sky-high price for a TV series will not make Shonan TV lose money. On the contrary, the hit series makes Shonan TV earn more. But 8160 million yuan is a huge sum of money. Such a large amount of money will make payment slow. After all, this money will earn interest in the bank at several million a month.

It is normal to make payments in batches over several months.

This is still the case if things go well. If things don’t go well, it may take you several years.

"Zhao Liying has received many invitations to variety shows and commercial performances. Zhao Liying's agent wants to accept them all, but so many invitations to events may affect her studies." Liu Yan continued to report.

After "Chinese Paladin", the round-faced Zhao Liying and the handsome Hu Ge have become famous all over the country.

Zhao Linger's tragic life, coupled with Zhao Liying's cute round face, aroused the desire to protect her among people all over the country. When Zhao Linger died, the screenwriter was once again scolded badly. This time it was not the original fans who scolded her, but all the viewers who would go online.

(End of this chapter)