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After Li Xiaole handled the handover work, he handed over the company personnel to the experienced Wagner, and he sat on the bench of the president's office and looked out the window to take a deep breath, and the bustling streets of New York that came into view outside the window, from here you can even see the famous electronic billboards in Times Square, which is the center of Shijie Finance, the center of traditional media in the United States, and the center of culture, and anyone who comes here will be fascinated by this prosperous and beautiful city.

In fact, Li Xiaole was also very nervous when he faced the people who made trouble just now...... The first time he faced this kind of scene alone, it was in the United States, and it was of course a lie to say that he was not flustered, after all, he was only a director, and there were few employees in small companies like Second Studio and Luen Mei who needed him to take care of, and he had no experience in managing large collectives.

Although he clearly knows what the employees think, but how to deal with it, in fact, he is also a little confused, he asked Tom Cruise and Wagner to go out first, just to calm down and think about what to do, but fortunately, he remembers that in a domestic drama called "Ups and Downs", there is a clip of a state-owned enterprise worker, in which he remembers the lines and behavior patterns of the Wang factory director who shocked the workers.

After he digested the lines of the TV series by himself, he performed it with his own acting skills, so that he had this effect, and finally passed this difficulty, thinking of this, Li Xiaole couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly, he still thinks about some things too idealistically, running a group company is indeed not his strength, he is only suitable for the chairman to make decisions in the general direction, this kind of effort to manage the enterprise is really a little powerless.

Fortunately, now with the assistance of Wagner, a hard-liner strong woman, more than 1,000 people will be able to throw their hands to her in the future, and she only needs to be responsible for the shooting.

Li Xiaole sat in front of his desk, looking at the blank document on the computer screen, frowning and thinking, what is he going to shoot in the next TV series?

Looking at the rainy sky of New York, I feel that it is completely different from the bright vision of California all year round, there are many huge differences between the East Coast and the West Coast, the West Coast has a pleasant climate, people like to go out to the cinema to watch movies, and more importantly, the West Coast has a large number of Latino and Asian immigrants, they all like to join in the fun, all the West Coast states are the most important cities in the American movie box office, accounting for almost 50% of the American box office.

On the East Coast, on the contrary, it is rainy and rainy here, the industry is developed, most of them are white immigrants from Europe, people have unfamiliar relations with each other, advocate culture and art, and usually do not like to go out, most of the people here would rather stay at home and watch TV dramas, so the headquarters of several major TV stations in the United States are set up in New York...... The East Coast is a battleground for TV stations.

There are generally two major types of TV dramas that audiences on the East Coast like to watch, one is a sitcom with humorous language, such as an indoor classic drama like "Friends", and the second is a drama with a unique style and a unique story.

And there are only these two paths in front of Li Xiaole, comedy is of course what he is good at, and the scripts in his head include "The Big Bang Theory" and "Bankruptcy Sisters" These future stories......

The advantage of these TV series is that the cost is small, the shooting difficulty is low, and the actors are easy to find, but the problem is that he is good at "action comedy", which is similar to "Life Remote Control", which is a variety of funny plot foreshadowing, and "The Big Bang Theory", "Bankruptcy Sisters" These comedy TV series are "language comedy", and he can't grasp the unique humorous atmosphere of American oral language, after all, he is not a native American, not to mention that Xie Er has so many interesting lines, he doesn't remember much at all......

wants to shoot an effect that is better than the original and an instant hit, Li Xiaole himself feels that it is unlikely...... Exclude this option.

Then the rest is a feature film, and there are many options for this, he has a large number of youth themes to film, "Gossip Girl", "Vampire Diaries", "Nikita", "Homeland", "House of Cards" and so on...... He studied these dramas carefully as textbooks back then, and he also wrote a script outline on the screenwriter's republic and registered it, which can be completely reproduced on his own TV station......

These episodes are good, what he has to do now is to choose a series that can be a "blockbuster", this series should be impressive, so that the audience can't press the remote control in their hands at a glance, and meet this condition...... When Li Xiaole thought of this, a name popped up in his mind, but a picture.

A shot of a police officer wearing a hat, riding a horse in a desolate big city......

Yes, The Walking Dead, the first orthodox zombie series on Shijie......

The zombie theme, like the Chinese kung fu theme, is a unique cultural theme in Europe and the United States, this kind of horror theme, once in the United States in the 50s when the horror was all the rage, and after the 70s, it entered a period of shrinkage.

However, in the past 10 years, there has been a trend of recovery, "Shaun of Zombies", "Dawn of the Living Dead", "28 Days of Shock" and other movie masterpieces have been released frequently, and the reputation and box office are quite good.

However, on the contrary, this theme is not popular in TV dramas, and in 2000, CBS and American television networks respectively launched "Critical Point Jihua" and "Master of Horror" two zombie type films, and the ratings are not ideal.

Weishenme zombie films are not popular when they are moved to TV? There are two main reasons for this.

First of all, horror movies are a fixed model, from the beginning of the horror to scary, relying on a story logic description, the most terrifying point is only those few routines, TV series can also scare people and attract people to watch, but after a long time, no matter how terrifying the zombies are, everyone will be "afraid of fatigue", so they can't be interested in watching it.

Secondly, and most importantly, the scale of TV dramas in the United States is far more open than that of movies, so all kinds of themes are very rich, and all kinds of supermen, monsters, and special functions fill the TV screen, causing zombies to be too old-fashioned to look like monsters.

The prevailing view now is that only the fast-moving, Liliang-like giant zombie monster in Resident Evil is appealing and terrifying......

However, in Li Xiaole's view, the fundamental reason for these two problems is that these TV people are completely wrong in the direction, they just blindly want to win high ratings, and try to make the TV series more terrifying.

In fact, this is also normal, because TV stations are different from production companies, the reports they watch are not box office, but ratings, and the ratings are indeed a data of current events, and the audience can change the channel at any time, which also leads to the ups and downs of the 40-minute ratings of an episode of TV series. It is only natural that the management will ask the director and producer to increase the proportion of scary and scary shots.

Over time, due to the deliberate stacking of horror scenes, the overall storyline and rhythm will slowly become chaotic, and the quality of the episodes will plummet, without the story as a skeleton, no matter how terrifying the picture in the camera is, others will not watch it again.

This is the result of the deliberate emphasis on ratings, which is also a common problem of the television system, mainly because the management of TV stations rarely understands the logic of the story, they look at the data in their eyes, in their words: "Any artistic analysis is subjective, only the data does not deceive." ”

This kind of situation is more serious in the mainland now, for example, in family TV dramas, the scene of quarrel is the highest point of ratings, you can see a strange phenomenon, a 50-episode TV series, 40 episodes are all in conflict at home, and even trivial things, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can't wait to slap each other......

Let's take a look at how the real Haode zombie movies are revived, such as the 2002 classic "28 Days of Shock", the 2004 Academy Award for 3 nominations for "Shaun the Zombies", and the critically acclaimed "Dawn of the Living Dead" that Li Xiaole saw at the Cannes Film Festival.

These zombie movies all have a common feature, they are not simple horror movies, their attraction lies in the plot itself, in the content conveyed by the story itself.

Whether it is "Dawn of the Living Dead" or "28 Days of Shock", zombies are just a carrier, aside from this carrier, what is explored is human nature in the last days, and the opposite in it is always people and people, not people and zombies.

"The Walking Dead" is such a series, and what attracts him is the expression of humanity in the plot, rather than the horror brought by simple zombies.

Is this truth profound? Don't other TV producers understand? Of course they do, but they don't dare to shoot like that......

The biggest reason is that this kind of zombie film that seems to be a horror film has nothing to do with horror in essence, but a zombie film based on the plot, which not only tests the director's skills very much, but also has a great investment, because all this has the most critical premise - the end of the world.

Eschatological...... It's a word that everyone TV producer shy away from when they see it...... The story of the horror movie for more than an hour almost always takes place in a small closed environment, which is just a corner of the apocalypse...... But the TV series is different, at least more than ten episodes, so the story will be in different places, how much does it cost to shape in such a grand environment as the end times?

Hundreds of extras play zombies, dozens of makeup artists, and hundreds of costumes, props, and set designers...... Just by calculating these various expenses, making a TV series is no less than a movie......

Why bother, let's make a small horror film about teenagers going to a haunted house in the countryside.

But because no one dared to shoot or take risks, once it succeeded, it would explode into an unparalleled craze, and even swept the hearts of audiences around the world~~~