acting substitution syndrome

The woman's face was calm and her voice was extremely gentle, but it miraculously soothed Robrie.

"First, let's do an experiment to verify my idea. Come on, dear, close your eyes."

The people on the stage backed away spontaneously, watching Robrie sit on the ground under her guidance, and closed their eyes.

Susie hummed a few soft tunes slowly, and soon the shape of her mouth changed slightly, actually simulating the sound of breeze, rain, and even the sound of a stream, such sounds from nature.

Robery's brows finally relaxed slightly.

"Very good, get rid of distracting thoughts and listen to my instructions. Now feel your own existence, feel the space beside you, yes, raise your hands, you can feel that your space is very wide."

Robery's hands fumbled beside him.

I heard Susie say: "Now this space has been squeezed to a certain extent. Now put your legs together, bend your knees, hug your calves, and the space around you has changed..."

"You are a seed that was thrown into the soil."

"You are surrounded by pitch-black soil, damp and impenetrable."

As if he really felt the compression, Robery arched his back, trying to use his back to open the surrounding soil.

His left hand touched his right hand, and they stretched upwards together, as if the seeds were sprouting and breaking the soil.

"Very well, you have become a seedling and are feeling the external environment."

Just listen to Su Qian's guidance: "There is a breeze blowing from the outside..."

Robli's body shook slightly, as if it was really blown by the breeze.

"A ray of sunlight hits your hand. Gradually, the sunlight becomes hotter and hotter. You feel very hot, unbearably hot. You are... burnt."

Robry's arms were waving in the air, and his brows were frowned, as if an invisible light really hit his hand.

So much so... Under the staring eyes of everyone, that small piece of skin turned red visibly to the naked eye.

Luo Li covered her mouth in surprise.

She saw with her own eyes the changes in Robli's skin.

How can a person control the changes in his skin?

Only Xia Zhongsheng had realized something.

He murmured: "He believes that he is a seedling, a burnt seedling."

So much so that... the skin really produced burn marks.

Teacher Su Qian's eyes showed excitement.

Later, she exposed the young Robli to heavy rain and hail.

The spring breeze blows...the seedlings finally grow into big trees.

Robli's hands were raised again, stretched out to the fullest, with the knuckles unfolding one by one, like wicker swaying in the wind, with a lovely posture.

"Okay, our seed training is here. I'm pretty sure what I think. That's right. The reason why this actor can't perform correctly is because from the beginning, the way you trained him was wrong."

Teacher Su Qian made a final decision.

Dancers are not drama actors, and the two are not a set of training systems, so I don't understand what she said, but Xia Zhongsheng, a professor at the serious acting school, understands what she is talking about very well.

"Method school, method school..."

Teacher Xia Zhongsheng uttered the word with a trembling voice.

……

"For a long time, there have been three major performance systems in the performance industry, namely the experience school, the expression school and the method school."

The experience school, the most orthodox performance school, has a complete set of systems, far surpassing other schools in terms of scientificity, completeness, and even practicability. Its status in ancient Chinese feudal society was average.

Unshakable.

In the three major colleges, all the professors are experiential, that is, the Steiner system.

Experience school, the word is like uprising, is to let the actors live in the scene of the character, so as to enter the inner world of the character.

For example, when Wu Peilun played the lame man, he tied up his legs and sat in a wheelchair.

For example, if you play a policeman, the actor will go out to the police and arrest the real policemen together.

……

As for expressionism, to put it simply, it is a bit like the key extraction book done before the exam.

In terms of application, it's like extracting the experience of the older generation of actors into a booklet, formulating some practical standards, and then the actors imitate according to this booklet, that's the feeling.

……

As for the method school, this performance system is somewhat special.

It was also born out of the Steiner system, but in the hands of Americans, especially Strasberg, who founded the New York Actors Studio, it became an independent performance system.

But the difference is that they pay more attention to the mobilization and replacement of emotions.

They have many ways to discover the actors' hearts, such as seed training, such as hide-and-seek training. The word "methodology" originally originated from psychology.

It is also very simple to say, for example, if an actor is asked to play a gay man, the actor really has no choice. If the pure straight man is based on the method of experience, he really has to go to a gay bar to sell himself. Isn't this a disaster for actors?

However, according to the methodology, they allow actors to replace their affection for women with the same feelings, and use their perception of the opposite sex to express their love for the same sex.

This is Methodism.

……

"Different performance systems are all for one result, which is to let the actor get closer to the role and have a 'sense of faith' in the role," Su Qian said: "Mr. Xia, you think this actor lacks a sense of faith. In my opinion On the contrary, he can play a lifelike swan, and his sense of belief is much stronger than that of ordinary actors."

Just like the actors in her New York theater, when she did the 'seed training' for the first time, she couldn't feel like Robbie at all.

"When my actors first started seed training, no one believed that they were seeds," Susie recalled: "They thought it was ridiculous to believe that they were seeds, and they laughed when they were acting."

But Robli, the first time he did it, he brought it in, and even his skin could have burn marks because of a word.

"...a genius actor with a huge treasure in his arms, but he couldn't find the key to the entrance," Susie said in a mysterious voice, "You have been trying to open his door with the key of the experience school, but you don't know... ...his door can only be opened by the Methodist key."

Xia Zhongsheng was struck by lightning.

……

Why, Robbie has been acting badly.

Why, in the eyes of the teacher, he is like a wooden stake.

……

Not his problem.

It turned out that the teacher had taught him wrong all along.

……

And Robrie is like a robot that automatically corrects system errors.

In my junior year, through physical performance, that is, animal simulation, I found what actors most wanted to find...

sense of faith.

……

"Teacher, when I'm performing, I will, I will hear a voice, which reminds me to use... use some scenes I have experienced to replace the performance in front of me."

Lobri spoke bluntly and gestured, afraid that she would not believe him.

He never told others that such a thing would happen to him.

"Ding Dong, I searched your memory bank and found a scene that can replace acting—"

There's constipation, lollipops being taken away, and bragging in front of folks.

Remind him to substitute acting.

Secretary Xiao Feng was rejected by every household and squatted under a tree.

Robli sat at the second ring interchange.

……

"Oh, that's right, my dear, this is the most important thing in the method school, emotional memory and emotional replacement," Susie said softly: "We train actors so that they can learn to discover from their own memories similar to characters. Emotion, so as to enter this role, this is the most valuable skill of the method school."

Robbie whimpered.

He finally understood.

not the system.

It was he who suggested to himself, carried out emotional memory, and replaced emotion.

"You are, a born method actor."

……

A talented actor who found his own way to perform.

Like a Sharp, being led into a quagmire and getting stuck in it.

Everyone disliked it and gave up on it.

It is said that there is a problem with its foot brake, its oil is not enough, and it should be replaced.

But it worked hard by itself, pulled itself out of the mire, reversed along the rut that drove in the wrong direction, found an opposite road, and drove onto the highway.

……

Teacher Xia shed tears involuntarily.

……

New York theater backstage.

All the ballerinas, as well as Mr. Xia Zhongsheng, formed a circle, and inside the circle were Mrs. Robrie and Susie who were training.

Seeing Teacher Su Qian throwing a badminton, she swung the racket and hit the ball.

Standing on the opposite side, Robli stared at the flying ball, leaped his body dexterously, and when the badminton fell, he met the ball and hit back with a beat.

Teacher Su Qian over there reacted very quickly, and immediately ran towards the trajectory of the ball.

"Snapped--"

In the nick of time, Teacher Su Qian saved the ball.

The actors all stared wide-eyed——

Because, there is no badminton at all.

No racket either.

Teacher Susie and Robry are acting as players... as if they really have a ball and a racket in their hands.

Even spectators can actually see the trajectory of the shuttlecock in the air according to their performance.

No physical performance?

No.

……

Seeing that Robery's eyes widened suddenly, he stretched out his finger to indicate a pause.

Obviously, he felt that the ball just now was controversial.

Over there, teacher Su Qian spread her hands and refused to accept that her ball was controversial.

The two seemed to have a fire, medicine, and smell, and they could hear crackling sounds as they made eye contact.

Robrey sneered, and walked out of the arena, where there was an old actor sitting on the steps.

A black actor.

Robrey walked over and made gestures. The old black actor spread his hands, as if explaining something. Obviously, he was on Teacher Susie's side.

……

The show is over.

From beginning to end, the three actors did not speak.

This is not called acting without substance.

It's called... a no-communication show.

In other words, this kind of performance does not have direct verbal communication, but relies on movements and eye contact.

Robbie gave a look, and Mrs. Susie already knew what he was going to do.

Similarly, when Teacher Susie made a move, Robrie fully understood what she was going to do.

……

Non-communicative performances are used in Chinese opera to cultivate tacit understanding between actors.

Because many big dramas require the cooperation of many students. For example, "Richard III" in the sophomore graduation exam has dozens of characters, so the cooperation between actors is particularly important, and it is necessary to understand each other's signs .

This thing is really necessary, otherwise in the actual performance, all kinds of unexpected situations such as rushing words and interjection will emerge in endlessly.

However, in the teaching of the method school, non-communicative performance is an important way for the method school to build actors' acting skills.

……

No communication, no script, no lines, whatever you want, as long as the actors do what fits the character.

It is enough to fit the role positioning, the thinking of the role, and the person.

For example, if you play a convenience store owner, you can act however you want. You can play this boss who likes to watch football games, and you can play this boss who likes pornography and accents.

You can even play, this boss gets robbed.

As long as the actor you play with can understand how you want to act through eye contact.

As Mr. Susie said, Robery is a method actor by nature, he can easily expand the role, easily know what will happen in this role, and travel freely within the limits of this role.

Xia Zhongsheng recalled the day he met Luo Bri.

He is a teacher of the acting department of Chinese opera, and that is the admissions site of Chinese opera.

Robrey plays a blind man as the situation dictates.

Other performers played the role of blind people carefully avoiding roadblocks.

Robbie, acting like a sighted person.

There is no problem with the eyes at all.

The other teachers once felt that he had read the wrong topic.

No, and then angrily scolded Robrie, is this acting like a blind man?

Robli didn't refute it at that time. He probably felt that he came to participate in the re-examination just for fun, and his main purpose was the audition program opposite the Chinese opera.

It was just a chance by mistake. After the performance, Xia Zhongsheng met Robrie in the toilet.

He asked casually, "How did you play the blind man like this?"

Robery also told him in passing: "I'm playing a blind man exploring the world."

……

Others are playing blind people avoiding the world.

Robrey plays the blind man actively exploring the world.

……

It was because of this that Xia Zhongsheng's brain became hot, and he insisted on recruiting Luo Buli into the Chinese opera.

……

It's not that Xia Zhongsheng has no regrets, especially when Robery was in Chinese opera for four years in college, because he couldn't act and was hailed as a "shame of Chinese opera", Xia Zhongsheng recalled that scene many times and doubted his choice countless times. correct.

……

The improvisation classes of Chinese opera do not welcome Robry either.

The teacher in the acting class thought that Robery was acting blindly, and the acting was so thunderous that he didn't know what it meant.

For example, other students acted to see the dead bodies of their loved ones.

Most people cry.

Only Robli went up and lifted the white cloth, and laughed out loud.

For a time, Robrie also felt that his brain circuit was different from others.

Until, he met "This is the actor".

……

This stage gave Robrie a chance to 'act blindly'.

There were several impromptu performances, such as the family who got the concert tickets, and Robbie's last performance that snatched the tickets without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, a big success.

Unexpectedly, attracted attention.

In the eyes of the experientialists, this is a blind act beyond the prescribed situation. It is absolutely not expected. Others have reasons, but you don’t, and you still snatch the fruits of victory.

In the eyes of Methodists, this is the release of the actor's genius aura.

……

At the end of the performance here, the black actor glanced at Robrie and said something to Susie in a low voice.

Susie smiled and nodded.

I heard Susie say to Robrey: "Dawson said that he liked this performance very much. You are the actor he has seen before. You are a very spiritual actor. You are very similar to a person when he was young."

Robbie: "Who?"

Susie paused: "Louis Liu."

……

Contemporary, 21st century recognized, the greatest actor.

none of them.

During his 38-year acting career, he was nominated for six Oscars and won three times.

Best Actor.

In 04, 12 and the most recent three polls of the "greatest actor" in the world, it ranked third, keeping pace with those well-known actors in the last century and those actors who have left their names in film history.

Likewise, Susie told Robrie one more thing.

"Louis Liu once fell into a strange confusion during a theater performance."

He also seemed to be bound by his hands and feet, standing on the stage, but unable to perform or make a sound.

Obviously have been acting for so long.

But he won't act anymore.

Exactly the same symptoms as Robbie.

"why?"

Robbie wanted very, very much to know why.

Teacher Su Qian paused, and said meaningfully: "Because he had a problem uncontrollably."

Am I playing someone else, or myself?

……

There are countless method actors who have become famous in Hollywood. Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn are such talented actors.

Also includes Louis Liu.

Louis Liu's acting skills are undoubtedly superb, and his methodical skills have also been used by him to perfection.

But the most important skills of the method school, emotional memory and emotional replacement, made him have such a problem.

Am I really playing a role?

Am I not playing myself?

……

For example, when Louis Liu played a student, he used his memory as a student to replace the character's actions.

Playing an industry employee who often works overtime, he found in his memory the days when he used to live in Broadway theaters day and night.

Playing a father, he brings in the interaction between himself and his daughter.

Any character... can make him find a replacement scene in his memory.

So, who is he playing?

……

Robrie froze.

Teacher Su Qian looked at him, "You must also encounter such a question, my dear, this is a question that cannot really be answered, maybe one day, you can ask him in person."

"Who?"

"Louis Liu, believe me...you and him will stand on the same stage one day."

Teacher Su Qian rarely showed a mischievous look: "I am very sure of a woman's intuition."

……

Maybe.

But that must be something that will happen in the future. With the help of Susie, the current Robry has completed many trainings of the method school.

The familiar Robbie, the Robbie who can complete 41 acts by himself...is back.

……

stage.

Robry was wearing red lambskin boots, a bright white white velvet cape, and the crown on his head shone with the brilliance of gemstones.

He is a prince.

Be the real prince.

He sat in the courtyard, feasting happily.

"Come on, raise your glass to this happy day, to this beautiful day! The great philosopher tells us that today's time will never come again, so while you are young and have a lot of good days in your hands, enjoy Go! Fall! Forget everything!"

He drank the wine in one gulp, and the music played like a feast for the king of the gods.

……

In this scene, Robery has a single backflip and spin, and he has to spin in the air to show the prince's indulgence.

This movement did not bother Robrie, and he was seen rising into the air like a light feather, stretching his arms and calves in the air, and landed firmly on the stage.

But Luo Li, who was watching his action behind the scenes, knew that this action was not simple.

This is a technical action with intermediate and advanced difficulty.

Generally, those who have never been in contact with it will need to train for at least two months.

In this way, there is no guarantee that the results will be eye-catching.

Although this scene is incomparable to Luo Li's 'Whip and Whip' when she played the black swan later on—

To explain, the "Black Swan" played by Luo Li needs to do 32 single-footed strengthening rotation movements called "whip whip rotation" in one breath in the solo dance variation, which is the touchstone for measuring a real ballet dancer.

Of course, the difficulty of Robli's volley was completely incomparable to that of Luo Li.

But Luo Li is a professional ballet dancer.

Robrie, on the other hand, is a theater actor who has never touched ballet before.

He was able to act like this, which already surprised Luo Li.

……

Unexpectedly, this scene caused another burst of exclamation among the foreign actors and audience watching.

Let's put it this way, if it is said that foreign actors' acting skills are better than Chinese actors, then this statement is still open to debate. You say that foreign actor has high gold content, and domestic actor can't compare with others, this cannot be generalized.

But if you want to say which one is better physically, foreign actors or Chinese actors, it must be that foreign actors have better physical fitness.

Because the skeleton of Asians is not as good as that of Europeans and Americans, and their muscle mass is not as good as others. What does this lead to? Many movements on stage, European and American actors do better and more naturally.

For example, if you take this rotating action, the European and American actors who showed Robli can easily rotate.

But to do it, Robrie needs to work harder.

And often speaking, doubling the force will lead to unsmooth and unnatural movements.

Unexpectedly, Robli could do it so lightly and dexterously.

……

This is due to the high-intensity training given to him by Brother Zheng Fei when he was filming "Assassins".

Zheng Jiaban is the pinnacle of martial arts in Xiangjiang, the epitome of technology, and the special training for Robry made him very comfortable in controlling his body.

On the stage, the relaxed and indulgent feeling of the prince came out all at once.

……

Soon, the actor who played the queen came up, and as the mother, angrily reprimanded the prince for wanton carnival not long after his father died.

The music stopped suddenly, and the prince woke up from his fall, full of shame.

This is the battle between the two personalities of the prince.

One is enjoying himself wantonly and advocating corruption.

One is observing morality and clear rules.

This scene is the continuation of the prince looking in the mirror at the very beginning of the first scene.

……

In the first act, the prince played by Robrie appeared in front of the audience from the very beginning, just looking in the mirror.

The prince, and the prince in the mirror.

Under the control of the lighting engineer, the white shawl on Robry's body was shining.

But Robli in the mirror is wrapped in black, which symbolizes the disunity of personality.

……

The queen was advising him: "You are the prince of a country, and you will soon become the king. You must shoulder the faith of all peoples and be worthy of their cheers for you..."

But the devil is tempting him: "Why, you want to live like a Puritan under the arrangement of others. Look at the wine glass, shouldn't you raise it up to celebrate? Why do you let the red blood in the glass flow in vain?"

When Robery faced the queen, he was a noble, self-disciplined, and simple prince.

Facing the devil, he became the spokesperson of indulgence and extravagance.

……

On the Broadway stage, there are actually quite a few dramas showing split personalities, because Europeans and Americans just like this. Freud's exploration of the origin of the spirit has made this theme popular in Europe and the United States.

It's not that there are no actors who have played schizophrenia, and there are even quite a few actors who have become famous for successfully playing schizophrenia.

But no one, like "Swan Lakeside", requires the protagonist to complete the seamless switch between the two personalities in the rapidly switching stage scenes.

That is to say, one second, Robery was still a melancholy and passionate prince, and the next second, without warning, he would become a manic man who was indulging in drinking and sex, and had been depressed for a long time.

In Act 41, there are nineteen such transitions.

The most important thing is that the prince has only one person from the beginning to the end, and that is Robrie. He has no substitute, and he cannot be like in TV dramas and movies. Although a pair of twins are played by one person, there are special effects to put them together, and there are Obvious differences in clothing and makeup.

Robrey needs to stand up to two completely different personalities, just relying on his acting skills and body language.

……

By the Swan Lake, there are no white swans or black swans.

The so-called white swan and black swan are silhouettes in the prince's heart.

Yes, only the White Prince and the Black Prince.

Luckily, Robrie played both personalities.

The audience can easily distinguish which one is the White Prince.

Which is the Black Prince.

But seeing the pure and melancholy eyes of Prince Bai, the dark eyes are full of sorrow for the future and full of lack of confidence in himself. Anyone who sees him wants to hold him in his arms and stroke his eyebrows for him. between sorrows.

And the appearance of the Black Prince makes people love and hate. He is like a poor little person who is tempted by others and tries to try all the forbidden fruits. He has a pitiful and sad temperament. The kind that people can't help shaking their heads and sighing.

……

He wondered, searched, and lost.

He moved, sighed, and melancholy.

He seems to have realized something.

He was confused.

He was sober for a while, but confused for a while.

……

There are obvious hints on the stage, implying that the existence of the white swan and black swan that the prince saw is basically a fantasy in his mind.

For example, whenever he finished his tryst with the black swan and asked where the black swan came from.

The black swan always whispers softly: "Mind..."

Not from a place called Mander.

Rather, it comes from your heart.

……

In the end, the prince played by Robrie finally understands everything.

In the entanglement and embrace of the white swan and the black swan, he struggled to break the mirror.

Blood flowed.

"Whoa-"

The white swan and the black swan flew away.

The mirror is shattered.

Ego and id, complete unity.

……

The climax and the tide have not dissipated. In the soft aftertaste, the 4771 audience members in the whole theater let out a shocking cry.

"so perfect!"

"It's really art, art!"

"Best Swan Lake adaptation, damn it, I've forgotten what the original was!"

"An unexpected work, I'm actually very glad that I didn't exchange this ticket for "A Doll's House" today... My wife and daughter went to see that show, and it is conceivable that it would never bring me Such a novelty," Seeing the seat in the front row, a man commented to his companion: "This is really... the reappearance of the former glory of Broadway."

Another man takes off his sunglasses.

Yes, even in the dimly lit theater, the old man wore dark glasses all the time.

Maverick.

The old man clicked his tongue: "The glory of Broadway actually depends on a Chinese actor to reproduce... But, Hussey, I want to tell you, I know that actor, and I didn't expect to meet him here at all. "

Backstage, as soon as Robry entered, he slumped on a chair.

Tired as a dog.

A performance lasts for 4 hours, 4 hours. Since last night, Robbie has not been able to drink water until now.

The intensity of drama, and the requirements that drama places on actors are different.

The skill of a drama actor is better than that of many film actors and TV drama actors.

So there is a saying that drama actors can act in movies easily, but film actors cannot seriously act in a drama.

Why, because a drama is just a drama, there is no reaction, the other actors laugh, it’s okay to do it again, at most it will cost some videotapes and film.

As a drama actor, the fault tolerance rate is very low.

If you get stuck in a small pause, or even forget a word, it will affect the subsequent performances, your partners, and all the audience at the scene.

So you can't go wrong.

The performance must be coherent and come down in one breath.

Moreover, the professionalism of theater actors is also reflected in the fact that in such a large theater, you have to ensure that your voice can be heard by the audience sitting in the farthest seats.

You can't use speakers.

This is respect for the stage.

Xia Zhongsheng looked at his student's faceless appearance, and didn't know whether to praise or criticize first.

I heard Robbury say: "... Teacher, I was wrong. I really know that I was wrong. When I was in school, you loved me so much. I didn't know until now."

Xia Zhongsheng: "?"

Robery burst into tears: "Give me three and a half lines... Now that I think about it, what a happy thing it is!"

In the rehearsal of "Richard III", the role of Robery only had three and a half lines.

Compared with "Swan Lake", it is not too happy.

……

"Robbie, get up, there are flowers!"

Luo Li dragged the muddy Robbie up.

The backstage door opened, and two men walked in side by side, holding flowers in their hands, looking like audiences moved by the performance.

"To you, esteemed actor, you and your theater team have contributed a wonderful performance."

Robli took the flowers and said modestly as usual: "Thank you for your liking, this is all thanks to my companions..."

Where he didn't notice, Qian Xing's eyes widened.

So what... Not only can Robry understand the other party's words, but he can also answer them unexpectedly fluently.

……

The two people over there have already started introducing themselves.

"This is my business card," the man in a casual jacket pursed his lips and said with a smile, "I'm the person in charge of Netflix, and my name is Hughesy Metz."

Robbie was taken aback.

The boss of Netflix?

Not really.

Are the bosses of foreign film and television companies so idle?

Still have time to watch drama?

Look at Mr. Gu, he is so busy that he doesn't even have a minute to spare.

I saw another gray-haired man showing his true face.

"Who are you, let me think about it, I have definitely seen it, you are—"

Robry slapped his head: "My family!"

Robert!

The biggest monster in the fashion industry, Yu Chaoying was about to introduce him during the Milan show, but then something humiliating happened, at most, he had seen this old man from afar.

Robli subconsciously glanced at Luo Li beside him.

Good guy, three surnamed Luo.

Do radishes have a meeting?

……

Robert smiled: "I haven't seen you for a year and a half, you little guy is as funny as ever."

"You are very plastic, just like you showed in the drama performance just now, you have a kind of dreamy magic, you can easily fix the eyes of others..." He thought for a while, "I think, you may be suitable my thoughts."

It sounds like this strange old man in his 60s who still prefers cardigans, insists on wearing a nylon scarf around his neck, and has eight rings on his ten fingers, seems to have some ingenious ideas.

……

Beijing.

Xi Lan had just arranged the announcements for the other two young artists under her command for the next month, and within two hours of sleep, she was awakened by a transnational phone call.

She thought something had happened to Robrie.

After all, only Robrie is abroad at this time.

In the end, I apologized first, saying that I forgot the time difference between the United States and China, and then explained the purpose of coming.

It's actually...

A phone call from Netflix, asking about the copyright of the TV series "An Official Came to the Village".

……

Donghuang was a little startled.

The issue of overseas copyrights is not that they have never been sold. Many TV series and movies produced by Donghuang have sold overseas copyrights.

Especially TV dramas, such as popular costume dramas, are very popular in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam and Thailand, and they can also be broadcast for several rounds on Chunghwa TV in South Korea.

Movies also cooperate with the Big Six in the United States. Generally speaking, it is a buyout of 200 to 500 million US dollars.

Don't think it's too small. Chinese movies are not acclimatized overseas, and they don't have much box office.

Unless director Zhang Mingyi made a commercial transformation many years ago, it was the first Chinese film to win the North American weekly box office championship, a work that brought the aesthetics of the lens to the extreme, and won a total box office of 1.7 million.

This kind of movie is also rare.

Having said that, it is rare for Netflix to buy the copyright of "Village Official".

It's just... so rare.

Why?

Because Netflix...has never bought Chinese TV dramas before.

In addition to buying TV series, Netflix also produces a lot of TV series itself, and they are all exquisite.

Foreign dramas, such as American dramas and British dramas, pursue bright plots and smooth main lines. Most dramas end around 7-12 episodes, and even BBC dramas only have 3 episodes in a season, which is definitely not like domestic dramas, because they are The money is sold according to the number of episodes, so the directors try their best to delay the episodes. A mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama can shoot 80 episodes.

Do you think our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama can be compared with other people's "House of Cards"?

This is why Netflix has never looked down on domestic dramas.

In fact, there are also some relatively good domestic dramas in China that have gone abroad. Disney has bought several domestic dramas. Regardless of the ratings abroad, they have at least fulfilled the requirements of the radio, television, general, and bureaus to go abroad. ' Call it.

But Netflix has never bought domestic dramas, so this time it proposed to buy the online broadcast rights of "Village Official", which really shocked Donghuang and even the industry.

……

The person in charge of Netflix over there, Hussey, even made a video call with Donghuang.

It is stated that the company is definitely not a whim, but really intends to reach a cooperation with Donghuang in this TV series.

He also specifically explained his intention: "...Before, some of my Chinese friends recommended this TV series to me. He said that he hoped that I would watch this TV series carefully. This is definitely an unusual TV series. I agreed. I thought about it, but I turned around and thought, leave it to the people in the purchasing department. My job is not to appraise a TV series. My job is to ensure that all Netflix users can protect Netflix.