Thanks to Zhang Xin's "inside information", coupled with the timely operation of Zhengyi Group as the largest capital, "Lanzhou Ji" almost became the first batch of original online dramas to qualify for star status at the fastest speed.
The partner this time is the old friend Orange Satellite TV. They have always been the "people who dare to eat crabs". After confirming the qualification of "Lanzhou Ji", they immediately sent people to discuss cooperation matters. Orange Satellite TV is basically the platform with the best exposure rate in the country other than CCTV, and the main creators of "Lanzhou Tale" never thought about CCTV at all. Twenty days later, it will be aired on Orange Satellite TV at 10:00 p.m., with two episodes per night, broadcast exclusively nationwide.
Even though the schedule is scheduled to be 20 days later, and it will be broadcast in non-golden theaters after 10 o'clock, but you must know that the program arrangement of Orange TV is definitely "everything is expensive". Even if the schedule is 20 days later, it will still be broadcast. I got it after I finished this hit drama on Chengzi Channel and squeezed out the self-produced drama that was originally scheduled to follow. And twenty days later, during the winter vacation and New Year holidays for most people, another peak viewing season will be ushered in. Orange TV dares to bet such a theater second only to the prime time on an online drama with an uncertain future. It can already be called quite astonishing courage.
"I don't know how popular this subject is." Xia Rong said to Su Chi worriedly, "It seems to be different from the idol dramas and mother-in-law dramas that aunts like to watch?"
"Lanzhou Tale" is about an oriental fantasy story. The original work is a fantasy epic portrayal of group portraits. In the hands of the screenwriter, the perspective is concentrated, and the main role of the play is concentrated on the character Yun Yi.
Yun Yi is a member of the royal family of the Lanzhou Dynasty. Because of his mother's humble background, he was abandoned in the fierce imperial power struggle and was exiled to the desert wilderness. In the extreme northern desert, he met Chu Tianhe and Bai Xishuang who were also down in the world. The three young people cherished each other and formed a life-and-death friendship.
During the adventure, Yun Yi and Chu Tianhe fell in love with Bai Xishuang almost at the same time, but because of the brotherhood, neither of them confessed. After the three struggled out of the desert, they helped Yun Yi fight all the way back to the capital of Lanzhou, fought among the royal families of the dynasty, and helped Yun Yi ascend to the throne of emperor.
But in the process of supporting Yun Yi's ascension to the throne, various suspicions and disagreements erupted among the three, so that on the day of Yun Yi's enthronement ceremony, Yun Yi and Chu Tianhe turned against each other, Bai Xishuang died on the spot, and Chu Tianhe resolutely rebelled against Lanzhou . With the further development of the plot, Yun Yi met his future true destiny girl, Ji Zuifu; Chu Tianhe was also gradually healed by the smart and lovely Jiang Feifei, and regained the hope of life.
After that, Chu Tianhe also established his own Chu Dynasty, together with many ambitious small countries, confronted Yunyi's Dynasty across the Momo Grassland. In the end, both Yun Yi and Chu Tianhe were wounded, they sat back to back on the battlefield, looked up to the sky and laughed, and died together. All the feudal lords vying for the throne and the tragic wars are all submerged in the rolling dust of history.
"It's history and war, and it's still a tragedy in the end." Xia Rong said, "Will it be a disaster?"
"Don't worry too much. Those idol dramas and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas are not that aunts have to watch, but that they don't have more choices. Aunts also have aesthetics." Su Chi comforted him, "Even if you don't talk about aesthetics, say Cool and explosive—in terms of big scenes and visual impact, "Lanzhou Ji" is better than "Barbara Little Devil", right?"
"It makes sense!"
"On the field of Shura, a good brother fell in love with the same woman, and turned against each other because of her. On the day of enthronement, he cut off his robe and judged his righteousness. Isn't this bloody and exciting?"
"Dog blood, exciting!"
"In terms of counterattacking Tom Su, Yun Yi counterattacked from a troubled poor boy to a generation of emperor, and slapped everyone who bullied him in the face. Isn't that enough fuel for Su?"
"Enough is enough!"
"In terms of beauty and beauty, which one of our crew is not beautiful and pleasing to the eye?"
"It's all... No." Xia Rong's nod was temporarily stuck in pecking rice mode, and he was a little unhappy, "We, the crew, everyone, everyone?"
"Only you, only you." Su Chi's desire to survive is obviously very strong, "His Royal Highness Yun Yi is beautiful and prosperous, and will rule the world forever."
"That's about the same." Xia Rong was slightly satisfied, "Is there any more?" Fans have been crazy about his classic sentences recently, which made him automatically associate them.
"Also." Su Chi seemed to have been secretly observing Xia Rong's fans' nympho words. He smiled slightly and continued, "Rongrong, marry me. I will steal His Royal Highness Yunyi's cat food to support you."
"Is there something wrong?" Xia Rong said, "Is the order of the names reversed? And how could Yunyi have cat food?"
"..." Su Chi sighed deeply, and said, "The most wrong thing is that you missed the key point at all..."
Xia Rong:
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Ever since it was announced that "Lanzhou Tale" will be aired on the stars, the fans are also full of joy, and it has been scheduled for a national exclusive broadcast. Although it will lose part of the exposure rate, the vigorous publicity of Orange TV in the prime time has already More than enough to make up for these.
It's a pity that Xia Rong couldn't wait for "Lanzhou Ji" to land on the stars. After the crew rested for a few days, Li Yan looked at the recent Antarctic weather forecast and announced that they would return to the vast ice field immediately.
When he set foot on the Antarctic land again, Xia Rong actually had a rather cordial sense of familiarity, and asked the rest of the crew to do the same, probably by taking pictures, showing feelings and a sense of belonging.
Although I have a sense of belonging, I can still live without distinction between day and night, because the purpose of this time is to shoot night scenes, and everyone in the crew doesn't care about which time zone they use. They work at sunset and rest at sunrise. As the night got longer and longer, it gradually became more regular.
As the vernal equinox approaches, the severe cold, dryness, and strong winds in Antarctica are becoming more and more obvious. In this extreme climate, a lot of energy in the human body is lost, and most people are tense and depressed. In addition to filming, they usually save money when talking. When work is over, many people wash up and get into sleeping bags, and sleep soundly until the next day when they start work.
Until the crew basically finished filming the scenes in the script, they still haven't waited for the aurora they wanted.
For this aurora, the description in the script is "extremely gorgeous and soul-stirring". It disappears without a trace in a few seconds or a few minutes; or it looks like just a group of white flocculent clouds, frozen, which is very different from the aurora in the impression of ordinary viewers.
Finally, once, several arcs of yellow and green mixed in the sky appeared, and they lasted for a long time, which looked more like "Aurora". People feel thrilled. He insisted on not using post-production special effects and shooting on location, but it is said that the magnificent aurora that can shock the soul as envisaged in the script can only be seen once in a few years or even decades.
So they just had to wait. As if waiting for a miracle.
Like Ran Yi and Yan Jun in the movie, the crew agreed to wait until the vernal equinox and when the cold season came, they would leave, but if they didn’t capture a suitable aurora before leaving, they would come back next year.
Therefore, this year's Lunar New Year, the entire crew spent in Antarctica. Li Yan is a foreign Chinese, and his feelings for the Lunar New Year are very weak, and his team is similar to him. At the time of Christmas, they celebrated a lot, but when it comes to the traditional Lunar New Year in China, there are only a few people like Xia Rong. Still thinking about it.
Seeing that the time was approaching zero in China, Xia Rong and Zhang Xin each took a satellite phone, walked out of the camp, and went to an open place to call their family members. Zhang Xin was talking endlessly over there, but Xia Rong's parents were on vacation in France. Hearing this, he laughed and consoled his hard-working son, and hung up the phone happily.
Well, my parents don't like to celebrate the Spring Festival either. Xia Rong glanced back at Zhang Xin, who was having a hot chat, and started dialing Su Chi.
beep-beep-
Listening to the blind tone on the phone, Xia Rong realized that he has been isolated from the world recently, and he forgot to ask Su Chi if he has any arrangements for today... It is very likely that Su Chi is currently attending the New Year's Gala of some TV station, dressed in red and beaming Happy New Year to audiences across the country...
Xia Rong shook his head, trying to cross out the funny image that popped up in his mind.
Really, it's been a long time since I saw you, even Su Chi's appearance is a bit blurry...
Su Chi didn't answer the phone until he automatically hung up. Xia Rong looked at the satellite phone with some wistfulness. Before he could sigh, he heard someone screaming from behind: "Aurora! Aurora! We want Aurora!!!"
He suddenly turned his head, and the extremely brilliant light poured down from the sky.
The moment the whole crew reacted, they started working almost instinctively. The photography team moved the fastest, and immediately started to set up the machine to prepare for shooting; the props team quickly set up the scene and laid the props, Li Yan and Tao Yi walked out of the tent, Xia Rong and Zhang Xin stopped making calls, and turned on the satellite phone As soon as it was collected, he turned around and rushed to the crew camp.
When he arrived at the camp, Li Yan was admonishing the staff who had just shouted: "What are you shouting for? Do you want to cause an avalanche?" He turned around and saw Xia Rong and Zhang Xin, who were panting and holding their knees, and smiled: "The condition is still there. Is it ok?"
Xia Rong and Zhang Xin answered with one voice and forcefully: "OK!"
The few remaining scenes were shot very smoothly.
Perhaps it was accompanied by the real, gorgeous and moving aurora, Xia Rong felt that all the emotions about Ran Yi seemed to come from the heart purely at this moment, without stagnation, I speak with my hands, and I speak with my heart.
When Li Yan yelled the last "Pao—", it represented "Waiting for the Aurora", and it was basically finished.
When taking the last one, Xia Rong shed a lot of tears, and now there are still tears on his eyelashes, and his nose is a little sore. Zhang Xin came over and handed him a tissue. He buried his face in his knees and said in a low voice, "... stay away from me."
Although under the unremitting "psychological counseling", he is not so in a trance and unable to extricate himself when he is filming now, but it is really difficult for him to distinguish between the object of you and me just now, and then get together again so quickly. .
"The director wants to talk to you, you go over there, I'll do it here." It was Tao Yi's voice, Zhang Xin went to Li Yan as he said, and he squatted down and handed the tissue to Xia Rong, "Are you ok?"
"It's okay." Xia Rong wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, "I don't need paper. In such a cold day, it will be frozen into ice balls in a blink of an eye. The paper can't be wiped off."
He raised his head and saw that Tao Yi's eyes were also slightly red, as if he had just cried, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, it's just that you acted so well, it reminded me of many things." Tao Yi said.
Xia Rong thought that when Li Yan prepared this movie, there were shadows of Li Yan himself and An Yiran, and now Tao Yi, who is An Yiran who was reborn, saw something here that Xia Rong didn't know, but it was enough to make him laugh. It's normal for him to feel touched.
Thinking of this, he turned to comfort Tao Yi and said: "Those are all in the past, now you are all well, and the most important thing is to live well now."
"I know." Tao Yi laughed and said, "Xia Rong, there is one more thing."
Ever since he met Tao Yi, he has always had a gentle smile on his face, as if he was a peaceful and quiet person by nature. Until now, the corners of his mouth were raised, and he could vaguely see the demeanor of reaching the pinnacle of the draft era and being hailed as the most shining shooting star, "Li Yan and I are going to prepare a public welfare music movie with an anti-war theme. Not interested in participating?"
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This answer requires little thought.
However, before Xia Rong could have a further conversation with Tao Yi, a staff member handed him his satellite phone from behind: "Xia Rong." His Chinese is not very proficient, "There is a man named Su Chi looking for you. "
Xia Rong was stunned for a second, and immediately realized the missed call just now, he quickly jumped up and took it, pointed to the phone for Tao Yi, Tao Yi immediately nodded with a smile, and gave him a slight wink Eye.
Xia Rong didn't know why, but it was important to call back now. He found an open place, didn't look carefully, and called back according to the latest record. Before Su Chi could speak, he expressed his excitement like a machine gun: "Su Chi, we are waiting for the aurora! The filming is also finished, and it went very smoothly, I will be able to go back to see you soon!"
Su Chi seemed to have paused for a moment before smiling and saying, "That's great."
Under the sky, a gorgeous band of light fell straight down, brightening the surrounding ice and snow, and also brightening people's faces. Zhang Xin started to shake the antenna again, talking to his family; Li Yan and Tao Yi leaned together, cuddling each other to warm their hands... Xia Rong felt that the sequelae of crying just now were not healed, staring at Aurora in a daze, nose Called Su Chi sourly: "Su Chi."
"Um?"
"I love you."
"..."
"… Hey?"
"what?"
"What are you?!"
Su Chi said: "Can you say it again? I didn't catch it just now!"
"..." If it weren't for standing on the snow now, Xia Rong would feel like he was about to jump up in anger, "I said I love you! How dare you 'ah?' You try one!"
"Don't dare." Su Chi's laughter was panting slightly, wrapped in the wind and snow, as if it was right next to his ear.
"However, I love your words..." Su Chi stepped on the ice and snow, and slowly walked up the slope behind him. The bright aurora all over the sky illuminated his smile, "—is it better to say it in person?"
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Regarding the matter of "Xia Rong's boyfriend actually came to Antarctica to visit the set", Xia Rong was still booed by the crew.
Most of the film crew are foreigners, and they shoot gay movies, all of them are very open-minded. The remaining few Chinese people are either gay themselves, or they are also very keen on teasing them—
For example, Zhang Xin: "Holy shit, you two are so in love, it's too scary. Hey, do you want the director to give up the only big tent, or if you two squeeze into a small tent, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep enough?"
Of course, there are extra sleeping bags for Su Chi in the crew, and Su Chi also greeted Li Yan and the others before he came. However, in the temporary camp of the film crew, many people are in separate small tents, which can only accommodate one person. Only the tent at Li Yan's place can accommodate two. The meaning of Zhang Xin's words is obviously teasing that the two of them will "fight with goblins" at night, and the small tent and small sleeping bag can't "carry" their enthusiasm.
When he said this, many staff members who speak Chinese better laughed in unison.
"Why not enough sleep!" Xia Rong blushed unexpectedly, but said his words very confidently, "The two of us have a sleeping bag, which is definitely enough to sleep, and we can even roll around in it!"
"That's awesome." This "rolling around" obviously aroused everyone's reverie to a greater extent, and they all said with wretched smiles, "Then you 'roll around' quickly, we will definitely not disturb you!"
Su Chi: "..."
Amidst the tacit laughter of the crowd, he had a bad premonition.
Ten minutes later, he got into the sleeping bag and saw an orange kitten squatting inside, patting the sleeping bag triumphantly with its paw pads: "I said I can sleep well, and you can roll around meow! Stupid human beings , they know a P!"
In an instant, Su Chi wanted to pinch the kitten's fleshy face and force him to change back, so as to know what "P" is...
The author has something to say: Su Chi: What else is love:)