Chapter 468: Web Drama

Yesterday the chapter number was wrong, sorry sorry!

In the small room, there were middle-aged men and women sitting around for several years, everyone was dressed appropriately, many of them wore thin-rimmed glasses to look like cultural people, and where everyone's eyes gathered, a middle-aged man with short dark curly hair was leaning on the back of the sofa and talking: "And Alistarch earlier, I had the opportunity to sail with Columbus, but I don't like to take risks." I'm pretty sure the earth is round. But at that time, I still thought it was possible for him to fall off the edge somewhere. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and this resigned colleague brought you too many doubts today.

The middle-aged handsome man who had just spoken was not surprised by the "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I just don't believe it" on everyone's faces, and only heard him say lightly: "But when he took the letters written by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to the emperors of China and India in the East, and led three sailing ships to sail west, I also appeared in the crowd of people seeing off at Baros Port......"

With the man's narration-like words, the picture on the screen turned, from a slightly dim indoor environment quickly became a bright outdoor, the blue sea and blue sky, the mast like a forest, the white sails like clouds, a group of seagulls and other seabirds are flying around the sailboats, they are naturally not for the long-distance travelers, a pair of small eyes pay attention to the object is actually the white wake dragged behind the wooden boat, there are not only beautiful foam, but also delicious sea fish.

According to historical records, Columbus's three ships needed to drift at sea for more than two months before they finally saw the land of the Bahamas in the Caribbean, but now what is playing on the screen is only a TV series after all, and it is naturally impossible for the audience to watch how the sailors become sloppy ghosts for two months, and then eat rat-biting and insect-eaten biscuits while drinking wine, this scene is explained in a few shots on the screen in less than a minute.

When the lookout shouted "Land, land!" and countless people looked west and cheered, the sailors and captains who appeared in the picture seemed to be a different person, and the clothes and pants they wore when they set off now do not know where they were lost, most of them only wore shorts that could only hide their shame, and there were only short stubbles on their bald heads, and their scalps were tanned and red like the skin on their shoulders and arms, in short, these were the "discoveries" The ocean-going sailors of the New World are nowhere near as handsome as those in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Of course, there were no Caribbean pirates at this point in time, or even if there were, those Indian pirates who rowed canoes would soon be defeated and adopted by professionals from Europe, and there would be later Caribbean pirates.

However, after Columbus's fleet returned to Spain, more and more European colonists would come to the Caribbean, and when sugarcane and tobacco plantations were built, the galleon trade in the Pacific Ocean rose, tobacco, rum, mahogany, gold and silver, and even silk, porcelain, tea, and spices from the Far East, these valuable goods were transported to Spain by ships, gathering a river of wealth in the Caribbean, and pirate gangs that lived by plunder would come into being, and pirate masters who had no money would not go!

Because of his poor math, the great Captain Columbus underestimated the circumference of the earth, and in addition to naming the American island he saw at first sight as San Salvador, he also named this archipelago the Indies.

In fact, not only Columbus recognized the wrong person, but also the Western European countries at that time thought so, the Portuguese originally jumped out to correct the mistake, after all, they had the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope to communicate Europe and India, but they did not do so, maybe they still thought about the plan to let the Spaniards next door toss on the wrong route for a few more years.

Soon they couldn't laugh, and the Spaniards discovered Mexico, which had corn and peppers, as well as vast amounts of gold and silver that could be easily mined!

When the Portuguese kings and nobles finally realized this problem and began to act, Central America, the richest and most livable Central America on the American continent, had been firmly controlled by the Spaniards, and they had to make a detour, and finally the Portuguese went to South America to cut wood.

As for the later world empires, the current Kingdom of England has not yet had time to set its sights on the American continent, and it will take a hundred years for the English Puritans to go to North America if they can't stay at home, and the famous "Mayflower Convention" will not be signed until 1620.

This convention is praised by historians as establishing the American spirit and the foundation of the American Constitution, and her birth ceremony, as the protagonist of the "Historical Soy Sauce Party", John Oldman (Johnoldman) is of course impossible to miss, not only to mix with the Mayflower to show his face, but also to the Philadelphia Conference that signed the Declaration of Independence......

John Oldman is the protagonist of "This Man Is from Earth," a 2007 sci-fi film with a production cost of only $20,000 (and $10,000 and $200,000, but it's very little), and the actors even had to bring their own costumes, but it achieved world popularity that was not commensurate with his investment, and had many fans around the world.

The story is about John, a university history professor, who chose to resign and move after ten years of work, and his university colleagues came to see him off, and everyone inquired about John's resignation, only to find out a shocking gossip, Professor John Oldman claimed to be a caveman 14,000 years ago, he studied with the Buddha, he spread Christianity and was crucified by the Romans, he had an oil painting signed by Van Gogh and given to him, and he bought ATAMP; amp; T (American Telegraph and Telephone Company) was only 5 cents......

How many people have dreamed countless times that they would be able to obtain such abilities.

In this movie, the immune system is unusually precise and strong, so that it can obtain easy healing, no scarring, and the most important benefit of never aging, but the protagonist is unhappy, he spent 170 years to get ten college degrees, but the rapid development of natural science in modern times has made them quickly obsolete, he never ages and remains young, but his lovers, wives, children, relatives and friends cannot escape the wash of time.

In order to prevent his children from dying of old age in front of him, John moved every ten years, leaving behind his old family and social relations to start anew, and as a result, there happened to be a psychology professor Gruber among the people present who was his child, and he was a Harvard book under the pseudonym Jthomaspartee. But unfortunately, as soon as the father and son met, Professor Gruber died suddenly because of his emotions, which also dyed this ultra-low-budget science fiction film with a touch of tragedy.

The video that appears on the projection screen now is not the original movie, but the TV feature film re-adapted and re-shot after Bee Films bought the film and television adaptation rights from the late science fiction writer and screenwriter of the film, and the son of Jerome Besby.

To be precise, it should be a long-form online drama, after all, Bee Shadow did not follow the set of TV dramas for approval, but took the route of online dramas.

In fact, with the scale of investment in this drama, it can be made into a TV series seriously, and there is no problem with the content, although there is a provision that "animals are not allowed to become sperm after the founding of the People's Republic of China", but the cave people who have lived for 14,000 years are not goblins, this "human spirit" protagonist is just a more accurate and stable metabolism, strong anti-interference ability, theoretically when humans solve the aging puzzle, everyone can reach such a state......

The reason why it is not made into a regular TV series or a regular movie is mainly because the script review team of Bee is not sure that this story can be loved by domestic film and television drama audiences, and there is no "hand-torn devil" is not suitable for logging into TV stations at all, not a comedy and not suitable for landing on domestic screens, as for foreign distribution, it is even more scoreless, and the water of overseas distribution is too deep for bees to play with technology like this.

And there is also an advantage to making it into an online drama, that is, to provide a source for its own bee film and television and love to complain about videos, the topicality of this drama is absolutely enough, and when the time comes, no matter whether netizens are spraying or praising it, there is no need to worry about the activity of the platform.

Of course, if you want to change it into an online drama, you have to do major surgery on the script.

The original movie version had a high idea, but the shooting was very low-cost, there were only two scenes inside and outside the door, and the dialogue of several actors was completely used to promote the plot, which made the plot of the film seem thin and bland, although there must have been many wonderful plots in the life of the protagonist John 10,000 back then, and he also told some of them, but these were not shown in the movie.

This makes the film much less attractive to the general audience, after all, not many people are interested in running to the cinema to spend money on tickets to watch a middle-aged man brag. And the film's producers and distributors are also well aware that this is not a suitable film for the big screen, so this well-known film has not actually been released, but has been released on DVD directly in several countries. At the same time, more viewers will download the film for free through the BT network, and the filmmakers even thanked the P2P network for its contribution to expanding the popularity of the film, after all, with their little budget, there is no distribution capacity.

First of all, the title of the film "themanfromearth" is high-end and high-grade at first glance, and the cover photo is also very sci-fi, it is a black humanoid silhouette standing in the light, with an earth pattern at the feet, many netizens may just choose to download it after simply looking at the title and cover photo, and they will find out that they have been fooled after opening it.

Although the plot is thin and not exciting enough, this drama is undoubtedly very suitable for sitting comfortably with a drink in hand, watching and thinking at the same time, so it quickly became popular on the Internet. When watching this drama on the computer, you can pause at any time to search for what the pre-Magdelin period means, and then continue watching it after reading the introduction of the website with the impression of "European Paleolithic".

The adapted version of Bee Film and Television still retains the most famous name of the film, and does not have names such as "Cave Elder Guest" and "Earth Undead". The original main plot remained unchanged, but a large number of memories of the protagonist John Oldman were added, and the reminiscence scenes "dominated the crowd" became the bulk of the content of each episode, but the debate between the professors that happened in Professor John's living room became the introduction to the whole play. In this way, the plot has been greatly expanded, coupled with the 20-minute time setting of the online drama without pee, this weekly drama can be filmed forever, anyway, the ending of the dead son in the original plot is not interesting at all, it is better to be like those "xx Journey to the West ol", so that the ending will never come.

The injection of water to lengthen the plot, frequent memories to cut off the wonderful debate and wit plot, and the special effects of a dollar everywhere made this show find a group of senior fans as soon as it was launched, but Bee Film and Television, as an investor and distributor, is completely inappropriate, anyway, it is good that the user activity has increased.

In fact, the original main plot has already been filmed, and those foreign actors have already taken the money and left, because of the relationship between making a living and making money in China, they may already know that the dramas they participated in were sprayed and sprayed on the Internet, but whocare (who cares)?

But when it will be put to the finale, it's uncertain. In order to better play the role of connecting the plot, the production team specially lengthened the original plot, and completely turned the protagonist John Oldman into a "historical soy sauce party", he tried his best to participate in major events in world history, and he had to see famous scenes and scenery in history.

Anyway, for the special effects technology provider Yikuai Special Effects, it is not difficult to produce these special effects pictures that travel around the world through history, after all, they are not producing TV series or movies, but free online weekly dramas. The online audience can even accept the "text special effects" that they never expected, and they think it is quite funny, so they can naturally be able to use the special effects of this show.

Besides, their technology is not so bad, after all, the times are developing, technology is advancing, and the special effects that appear in the plot are no problem with domestic TV series more than two or three years ago, at least when "Knife Breaks the Living" appears, it will definitely be more real than "Anti-Japanese Heroes" and "Journey to the West Sequel".

Although the focus of development has shifted to the outsourcing of film special effects, but the TV series and the emerging online drama market can not be given up in vain, this drama is actually a billboard for Yikuai special effects, in order to fully display the virtual stage technology that they call the "third generation of green screen", it can only trouble the immortal John protagonist to travel all over the world http://m.piaotian.net!