Chapter 23
When taking on this drama, Rong Xu took the initial version of the script.
At that time, his role was very simple, just a violent young man who was cold-hearted and infatuated with the heroine. Later, when Han Yanghao happened, the role changed slightly, adding more plots that showed Huo Xi's inner heart, and also made him look gentler.
Now, this latest version of the script has completely changed the ending!
In the original ending, the heroine Liang Linghui was influenced by Bai Mingde and joined a new party and became a member of the underground party. In the end, the revolution was victorious, and she married Bai Mingde and lived a happy life like all fairy tales.
But in the current ending, Liang Linghui chose to leave Bai Mingde.
Ninety-nine percent of TV series on the market must comply with some basic principles, such as the protagonist must be just, and the best ending is perfect. There are also TV series with tragic endings, but they are only a few. Most TV series have happy endings, making the audience feel comfortable.
The male and female protagonists are not together, which can be said to be a tragedy in some sense.
When he saw this script, Luo Zhentao was surprised. He said in surprise: "Are you not afraid of the audience's objection to this change? The male and female protagonists are not together. The audience is likely to be very angry and even boycott the crew. I remember the "Qingcheng Sword" that was completed a few weeks ago. The male protagonist died in the penultimate episode, but he didn't survive the finale, but was swearing by the audience."
Rong Xu carefully looked through the script, he thought for a moment and replied, "This ending is not impossible. Brother Luo, I remember that there was a very famous hot drama three years ago. The male and female protagonists finally divorced and boarded the train heading in the opposite direction. From then on, there was really no involvement."
Luo Zhentao was still a little hesitant: "This is a change...it's really okay?"
Who is most resisting the new script?
Of course it is Han Yanghao!
Han Yanghao asked Director Zheng for an explanation, but who knew that Director Zheng readily threw away his market research and said concisely and clearly: "60% of the audience hope that Liang Linghui can stick to the principles. Whether she loves Huo Xi or not, she is already Huo Xi's wife and should not commit any cheating. Moreover, Director Wang of Tomato TV also said that although the plot of cheating in marriage is interesting, it can be deleted if it is not necessary. Liang Linghui was not with Bai Mingde in the end. Is there any problem? She remarried as soon as her husband died, which will make the audience even more repulsive."
Hearing this, Han Yanghao was about to spit out an old mouthful of blood: "Liang Linghui and Huo Xi are fake couples, okay? They have never had any substantial relationship. Huo Xi died because he committed suicide, and Liang Linghui did not force him. Liang Linghui changed this way to make Huo Xi not be with Bai Mingde, so you changed this way... change this way..." If you changed this way, who is the male protagonist!
Han Yanghao didn't say the following sentence, but Director Zheng had long understood what he meant. Han Yanghao cared about what Liang Linghui liked and whom he married. What he cared about was: Who is the male protagonist!
However, the smart director deliberately pretended to be stupid and said, "This is the hope of the audience. They also hope that Liang Linghui will fall in love with Huo Xi. Then tell me, how do you want us to change it, huh?"
Han Yanghao suddenly became silent.
If Liang Linghui was not with Bai Mingde, it can be said that Bai Mingde was the protagonist. But Liang Linghui was finally with Huo Xi... What's the matter?!
The person who is with the heroine is actually the second male lead?
There will be no such plot in a hundred TV series!
The one who is with the heroine must be the hero. So according to this common sense, Huo Xi is the hero?
Han Yanghao and Director Zheng had a big fight and ended up in vain. The crew continued to shoot and needed to reshoot the previous plots. In order to understand the audience's ideas, the crew of "Ambushes" launched a popular vote on their official blog to collect their favorite characters from netizens.
So in City B, thousands of miles away, Xu Jin had just taken the information back to the private lounge when he saw a man sitting in front of the computer with a serious look on his face, not knowing what he was doing.
Xu Jin walked directly to Qin Cheng and said casually: "What are you doing? Mr. Liu, Director Chu, and Director Zhao have sent you scripts these days. Which one do you like? The three big directors are all making an appointment with you for next year's movie schedule, and we will have to reply to them this week."
As he was talking, Xu Jin walked to the computer and was about to see the picture on the computer. But at the moment he was about to see it, Qin Cheng calmly pressed the close button, and all the pictures returned to the desktop. Xu Jin had only time to see the four words "Weibo Registration", and the picture flashed by and could no longer see clearly.
Xu Jin asked subconsciously: "Hey, what are you doing? Did I just see the registered Weibo account..."
"Old Liu's new drama is good." The low magnetic male voice suddenly rang out, interrupting Xu Jin's words.
Xu Jin nodded immediately and said, "Well, I think Mr. Liu's new drama is good, that's Mr. Liu's? You decided very quickly, I thought you didn't watch it..."
The topic quickly continued on Mr. Liu's new drama. Xu Jin had completely forgotten what he had just seen and just thought that he had read it wrong. However, in fact, the web page that someone closed just now was indeed, and it was really written with four big words.
Weibo, blog, register!
Xu Jin had no idea that this was the 43rd time a man opened this page today, and the 43th time he registered a Weibo account. Throughout the afternoon, Qin Cheng was silently staring at the computer screen, silently registering an account, silently following a crew official blog... and then silently cast a vote.
But even so, Han Yanghao is still the first place in the popularity list of the official blog of the crew of "Ambush".
After all, he was once popular, with more than 5 million Weibo fans. And because of this drama, Han Yanghao's acting career gradually improved a bit. So his fans voting wildly, even Rong Xu's fans were trying hard to vote - for example, fans of Qin who registered for 43 small entries to vote were not as good as Han Yanghao.
Han Yanghao has more than 5 million fans, but Rong Xu only has more than 1 million. The difference in base numbers is too big, not the same level at all. Even when the crew released this vote, there was speculation that Han Yanghao must be the first place, Rong Xu should be the second place, and Zhang Tongtong should be the third place. Moreover, the gap between the first place and the two behind must be very large.
But a week later, when the voting was about to end, Luo Zhentao opened Weibo and looked at the vote, and suddenly found out: "Hey, Xiaoxu, your votes are only one thousand less than Han Yanghao!"
Bai Mingde: 13514 votes.
Huo Xi: 12,053 votes.
Rong Xu also glanced at Luo Zhentao's mobile phone screen. He thought for a moment and said, "It's probably because of yesterday's plot."
Luo Zhentao thought: "Well, there were indeed many people discussing yesterday's plot."
In the fourth week of the broadcast of "Ambushes", the national ratings were 1.2!
Compared with the previous episode, this viewership has not decreased at all, nor has it been as the loyal fans of "The Real Summer" said. It was just a flash in the pan, but it rose to 0.1! Because of the increase in ratings, Director Zheng smiled all day today, which strengthened his determination to change the script.
In this fourth episode, the plot of Bai Mingde being designed by Huo Xi and almost died was broadcast.
As soon as this plot appeared, the conflict between the male protagonist and the second male lead rose to the extreme. Bai Mingde tried every means to make Huo Xi no longer doubt himself and hide his spy identity. Moreover, he also heard some abnormalities from Liang Linghui's mouth, and then he noticed Huo Xi's actions, which led to his underground party identity not being discovered.
This episode is not a romantic flow, but a pure plot flow. The intense and tense plot makes the audience excited. Many viewers even said that they dare not miss any second, because there are shocking changes in every second.
And at the end of this episode, an underground party was caught by Huo Xi's subordinates. Huo Xi came to interrogate the other party in person, and the man's spirit was about to collapse. The end of this episode ended with a sentence from the underground party-
"I said! I said everything!"
The audience was extremely nervous and completely held their breath. Just as they were waiting for each other to say the name "Bai Mingde", suddenly! The picture turned dark, the ending song sounded, and the cast and crew list slowly flipped up.
Audience: "…"
What are you doing! Do you dare not to be so enticing!
Rong Xu's analysis is indeed good. This fourth episode mainly tells the love story between Bai Mingde and Liang Linghui, but instead uses a lot of writing to describe the battle between Huo Xi and Bai Mingde. So in this episode, Huo Xi has quite a lot of scenes.
Originally, the audience only knew in their hearts that "Shanghai Shuai should be a cruel and violent person", but they had no real feelings. However, in this episode, they completely saw a decisive and cold-blooded and cruel Young Marshal Huo.
Then their unanimous reaction was: "Damn it! So handsome!"
Therefore, Huo Xi's votes suddenly increased significantly, with more than 3,000 votes rising rapidly.
Luo Zhentao sighed in a low voice: "The voting is over today, maybe you can surpass Han Yanghao."
Hearing this, Rong Xu raised his eyebrows slightly and said nothing. Soon, a staff member asked him to go to the set to prepare for filming.
There are only three days left before the filming of the entire drama "Ambushes". Today's scene is Rong Xu's last scene. All his scenes have been filmed. After filming this last scene, he can get his own shock-squeezing red envelope and officially leave Xiangshan Film and Television City.
Perhaps because they knew that Rong Xu was about to finish the filming, many staff would greet him with a smile when they met him. Han Yanghao's incident made the crew more united, and also made them like Rong Xu, a newcomer who was bullied by Han Yanghao, who was a big shot.
When Rong Xu walked to the set, Director Zheng was still talking to Zhang Tongtong, Deputy Director Li came over and said with a smile: "Do you remember the boy who went to the airport to pick you up two months ago?"
The boy was slightly stunned, thought for a moment, and asked, "I remember... his name is Xiao Li?"
Deputy Director Li laughed: "I didn't expect you to remember him, he would be very happy. He is actually my son, and he has a good impression of you. He should have been internship in our crew as a venue, but unfortunately, on the fourth day of Han Yanghao's arrival, my son made a cup of coffee for him, but he didn't find the mocha that Han Yanghao liked. He used a latte, and he scolded my son so much that he was worthless. My wife heard about this and refused to let her baby son get angry here, so he left."
Rong Xu was a little impressed with this incident, but he didn't notice that the business that voluntarily resigned was actually Xiao Li.
Deputy Director Li looked at Rong Xu solemnly, and the smile on his face gradually calmed down. He said seriously: "Thank you, please continue to cheer."
Rong Xu slowly curled the corners of his lips and nodded with a smile.
So, why did he encourage Deputy Director Li so easily, making the other party willing to risk being fired by Director Zheng and use the crew’s official blog to publish the news privately? Everything has a cause and a result. The cause of Han Yanghao’s original crime caused the result of his later downfall and everyone pushed him.
But how long will Rong Xu's last scene officially begin?
Looking at the temporary prison setting, the boy took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes had become calm and indifferent. Even though he was wearing rough and simple prison clothes, his hair was messy, and there was an unhealed wound on his forehead, he did not put down his pride.
Rong Xu took a step and walked to the wall to sit down.
Chapter completed!