After Zhou Fangyuan came to Director Shang Jin's side, he sat down, then turned his head and looked at Shang Jin with a smile.

"Director Shang, I suddenly have an idea, let's discuss ......"

"Mr. Zhou," Shang Jin immediately sat up straight, he still valued this gold lord very much, "Mr. Zhou, what good ideas do you have? ”

"That's what I think, Director Shang, what do you think of martial arts?"

Zhou Fangyuan asked with a smile.

"Martial arts?"

Shang Jin was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted, "Martial arts TV series? To be honest, Mr. Zhou, this is an area that I am not familiar with, if you want to make me afraid of martial arts TV series, I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can shoot it well, mainly because I don't like to watch martial arts ......."

"Haha, where does Director Shang want to go, the martial arts I'm talking about are not the kind of martial arts of Master Jin Yong. Actually, I have an idea, you see, all the TV series on the market now that have something to do with martial arts are all about how heroes act chivalrous and righteous, although heroes are very handsome, but the common people have watched too much, and it is inevitable that there will be some aesthetic fatigue, why don't we do the opposite?

"Well, this, Mr. Zhou, I don't understand ...... much"

"It's okay if you don't understand, you don't understand, I can tell you a good story, in fact, the name has been thought of, the new TV series I prepared is called Wulin Gaiden!"

Wulin Gaiden is a TV series that was filmed in 06 years of the previous life, and the story revolves around a female shopkeeper Tong Xiangyu and several of her buddies in the "Tongfu Inn" in the small town of Guanzhong in the Wanli period in the virtual Ming Dynasty. This group of young people performed classic funny scenes under the same roof, and accompanied the audience to grow up together in laughter and tears. The play attacks the "martial arts culture" that promotes violence, and imitates, satirizes and criticizes the social phenomena of the time.

This TV series is a group drama, comedy is the core, but there are many life philosophies in it.

The whole drama is led by Tong Xiangyu, the shopkeeper, an inn team, including Bai Zhantang who runs the hall, Guo Furong who does chores, Li Dazui, a cook who can settle accounts, Zhu Wushuang who stays at the inn, a naughty girl Mo Xiaobei, and two fast catchers, an old Xing, a little six, who dreams of solving big cases every day, is upright but has no ability, but he doesn't know that the real thief is beside him......

These characters are also very distinctive, such as Tong Xiangyu, who is a female shopkeeper who picks the door to the extreme, with all kinds of amorous but kind-hearted, and her mother-in-law and mother are very chicken thieves.

Bai Zhantang can be said to be the number one male, he can point points, has martial arts, is a thief, wants to reform himself, but is actually as timid as a mouse.

Guo Furong is the daughter of Guo Juxia, the boss of the six doors, she believes that she has martial arts, breaks into the rivers and lakes, likes to move her hands and feet, although she is the daughter of a hero, in fact, her martial arts are not good, she is a standard barbaric girlfriend.

Li Dazui is an ordinary cook, but he fantasizes about learning martial arts and being a hero all day long, but he is not good at cooking.

Lu Xiucai's words, his ancestors have been a great character, but he himself is a poor and sour talent, often he never leaves his mouth, in fact, he is a useless scholar, but he has no power to tie the chicken, but he is crooked and mixed with the title of "Guanzhong Hero".

Although Zhu Wushuang is a martial arts master of the Sunflower Sect, she is actually a weak woman who is often bullied, but she is beautiful but has no love to patronize.

As for the last Mo Xiaobei, it is rumored that she is a female devil, but she is actually a little girl who loves to skip school and just wants to eat sugar gourds.

In this drama, tradition and modernity, East and West, humor and warmth, postmodern style deconstruction and realism teachings, irony of martial arts and promotion of chivalrous spirit are all wonderfully mixed, and also mixed with Internet language, popular songs, advertising paragraphs, variety shows, current affairs news, fashion information, etc., is one of the two pinnacles in the history of Chinese sitcoms.

What the whole drama really wants to say is not martial arts, and what I want to talk about is not about the rivers and lakes, it is in the form of costume comedy, dressed in the coat of "martial arts drama" and "sitcom", in a whimsical world, it enhances the contrast with life, avoids the fetters of reality, and under the ideological domination of the "main theme", it satirizes reality without scruples, and stages the trivial life and joys and sorrows of modern people, forming a strong comedy tension. The use of "postmodernism" packaging has also shortened the emotional distance between the works and many young audiences, and provided many cultural researchers with new topics to talk about.

The reason why the jokes of Wulin Gaiden have successfully ascended to the Hall of Elegance lies in the accuracy of the "joke degree". It deconstructs and satirizes martial arts without subverting the chivalrous spirit, and imitates life weightlessly without being negative and lost. In terms of form, the style of Wulin Gaiden is indeed very avant-garde and fashionable, and the expression techniques used are also collage, irony and parody, which are not limited by time and space, regardless of the classification of the subject matter, dialects, jokes, games, advertising terms, film and television culture, pop music, etc., have a strong postmodernist tendency. However, the play has carefully grasped the "degree of parody", clicked on the various states of contemporary life in the playful irony, and vividly paroded a life state after ideal weightlessness.

It is precisely because of all kinds of advantages that this TV series has just been released, and it has caused a sensation across the country, and of course, there has never been less controversy around this drama.

But this is normal, there are arguments to have ratings, there are ratings to become popular stars, and the most important thing is that this drama is really excellent, even in the days before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth more than ten years later, there are still people who keep revisiting this drama on the Internet. Others don't say it, just say Zhou Fangyuan, and he has watched this drama at least ten times, and he knows many of the classic lines in it very well.

For example, "Forehead drop god", "I'm very optimistic about you", "Sunflower point acupuncture!", "Mountains and seas......", "Zi once said", "Help me take care of my seventh uncle and grandfather", etc., are all familiar lines.

It is precisely because this drama has a deep impression and high status in Zhou Fangyuan's heart that he will not let go of this TV series no matter what. also because he has watched it many times, and many of the plots in it are memorized, so he is ready to be the screenwriter of this drama himself, and he can't give this drama to others no matter what. As for the original screenwriter of this show...... Zhou Fangyuan can only say that he is sorry, but with the other party's excellent screenwriting ability, even if he snatches a work, he should be able to write a new work.

Zhou Fangyuan thought so, and briefly said his "thoughts" to Shang Jin.

Shang Jin's eyes lit up as he listened.

"Mr. Zhou, I really convinced you, how did you come up with this idea?"

Shang Jin originally thought that Zhou Fangyuan was just talking casually, but now Zhou Fangyuan took out the crude plot, although it was only a few words, but it made his eyes shine, he is a director, and he is very proficient in filming sitcoms, Zhou Fangyuan said it simply, he had a picture in his heart, and then after thinking about it a little, he felt that this TV series might really be a great success.

"Haha, it's just a casual thought, and to be honest, don't you think that there are a few of us who are very suitable for the role now?"

"What are we now?"

Shang Jin was slightly stunned when he heard this.

"Yes, what do you think, what if you let Lao Fan play Xing Zhutou?"

"Well, Lao Fan's words are indeed a good candidate......"

"Yes, I also hope that Xiao Sha will play Bai Zhantang, and Xiao Jiang will play Li Dazui, as for the female number one Tong Xiangyu, I feel that Yanni is good. ”

"Mr. Zhou, I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about......"

"The best actress in last year's All-Army Sketch Competition, imagine it, she also played the female village chief in Director Gao's movie, think about it. ”

"Uh, you mean that Yanni?"

"That's right, it's her, how do you feel?"

"Well, to be honest, I'm not sure ...... right now."

"It's okay if you're not sure, anyway, Director Shang, I have this idea now, how do you feel about my idea?"

"The idea is a good idea, a very genius idea, I have never thought of filming a martial arts drama like this before, once it is filmed, I think it will be very interesting, and it will definitely be an instant hit!"

"Haha, I think so too, then Director Shang, let's settle this matter first, and when this TV series is finished, we can start a new TV series, and if you have any good ideas, you can say it, if it is suitable, I can invest in you, as long as the script is suitable, money is not a problem. ”

Zhou Fangyuan patted his chest and said.

He said this very wildly, but he had a crazy reason, after all, investing in a TV series is really not a big deal for him. What's more, he remembers very well that among the TV series that Shang Jin knows, there are a few that are really classic.

Last year's idler, Sister Ma, will not talk about it, followed by him, he will also shoot classic sitcoms such as Health Express, Urban Men and Women, and the cooking class trilogy, which reached the real peak when he was in Wulin Gaiden, it can be said that he is really talented in sitcoms, and there are too many classics filmed.

And Zhou Fangyuan knows that there are many classic sitcoms, such as having children at home, love apartments, etc., these TV series can be filmed by him, and Zhou Fangyuan believes that with Shang Jin's strength, it is not difficult to shoot these TV series, and it is very simple to make them classics.

These are all in Zhou Fangyuan's plan, and it is a series of plans.

Why did he sign Sha Yi, not only because Sha Yi is very good, but also to lay the foundation for this series of sitcoms, with a fixed team, he can show his strength in the genre of sitcoms.

The advantage of sitcoms is that the investment is small, the effect is good, the ratings are high, and the occupation of the crew is not high. Why didn't he do such a lucrative business?

However, sitcoms haven't been popular for many years.

Zhou Fangyuan knows very well that in the future, the sitcom that was very popular will come to an abrupt end after the love apartment, as for the reason, it is not difficult to understand the movements of the big names.

In the previous life, after Shang Jin was in the martial arts story, he first directed the comedy part of "Three Guns" for Director Zhang, and then gathered the original cast of "Wulin" to shoot the big movie of the same name. As the screenwriter of "Sister Ma", Bai Mei has already formed a golden partner with Deng Chao and has overcome obstacles in the field of comedy films. Seeing that the online drama has turned to a big production like "Tomb Robbery", Pengzi, who created "Dick Silk Man", is no longer making a fuss in the field of online short dramas, and "Pancakes", which he wrote, directed and acted, was a big hit, and Pengzi also turned to become a movie café.

The famous director Ying Zuo once said, "If there is another Liang Zuo, I believe I can surpass "I Love My Home" or reach that level." ”

However, the reality is a constant loss of sitcom talent.

During the filming of "I Love My Home", Liang Zuo, who is also a literary teacher and screenwriter, was the highest paid in the entire crew, two or three times more than Song Dandan, who had become popular through the Spring Festival Gala. But in the face of the future film and television environment, it is difficult for ordinary TV series to retain a good screenwriter, let alone a sitcom with low production costs and high creative requirements.

Limited production budgets make it difficult for sitcoms, directors and screenwriters can't cope with it, and big-name actors don't even think about it.

Director Lu of "A Family in the Northeast" said that although the money was pitiful during filming at that time, the price of actors was low at that time, and stars could still be invited.

But in the future, the second part of "Wulin Gaiden" will gather the original team, Yao Cheng, Yanni, and Sha Yi may not be able to invite them at a friendly price. And the update season of "Love Apartment", which has been in preparation, is so difficult to deliver, the main reason is that several leading actors can't get together, Chen Chichi can easily get millions of dollars when he participates in one season of "Run", and other leading actors are also blooming in different film and television works. Without big-name stars, the broadcast platform will not buy the account of the sitcom, and this will be a vicious circle in the long run.

After all, the price at which TV stations buy sitcoms is too low, but everyone pays more than other TV series, but the return is very small, which makes the sitcom go into decline.

However, before the sitcom completely declined, it was still okay for Cao Yan to take a bite of fat. And to be honest, it is the most correct way to use new talents in sitcoms, just like in the most glorious era, aren't those actors also newcomers? As long as the script is good and the newcomers' acting skills are online, sitcoms can't be evergreen.

But this is a long-term effort, for the time being, Zhou Fangyuan still hopes to get a piece of the pie in the emerging sitcom.

However, if we look at the American dramas "The Big Bang Theory" and "Broken Sisters", which are currently popular in China, we may not be too pessimistic about the prospects of sitcoms. The audience's love is the biggest market, and they are looking forward to a hilarious drama with the remote control and clicks in hand. The sequels of "Family with Children" and "Wulin Gaiden" have been announced one after another, hoping that the sitcom will have a new life in the near future.