Chapter 32 There Is a Phenomenon Called 'Love at Harvard'
Speaking of Korean dramas, there are three treasures, which are 'car accidents, cancer, can't be cured'.
Man is a tangled creature, always want to break the perfect thing for everyone to see, Lu Xun once said: 'Tragedy is to break the beautiful thing in front of people's eyes!' ’。 For example, Venus with broken arms, if her arms were intact, might be just an ordinary sculpture on the streets of Greece.
The greasy soap operas broadcast by the three major TV stations, from the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war to the chaotic family relationship, although they are still popular, there are already many viewers who are bored watching them. Not to mention that almost ten TV series will have four plots of male protagonists, heroines or male and female protagonists 'cancer'.
From 'leukemia' to 'pancreatic cancer', from 'stomach cancer' to 'brain tumor', and even 'Alzheimer', which the audience has never heard of before, the heroes and heroines of Korean dramas who have died have taken a course on 'lethal diseases' for free for the people watching in front of the TV.
In fact, not only the people in the countries that introduced the copyright of Korean dramas have complained about the tragedies in Japanese and Korean TV dramas, but even the young people in South Korea themselves have begun to complain about their own country's TV dramas on the Internet.
In fact, the screenwriters are also aware of the remarks on the Internet, but they have never planned to modify the ending, after all, it is still the women who occupy the remote control at home in South Korea, and the trivialities, parents-in-law and daughter-in-law, life and death, and brothers and sisters whose boyfriends and girlfriends have been separated for many years are what they want to see. Since there are ratings, the screenwriters naturally won't easily change the setting.
Why do people love tragedy?
It should be said that people do not like tragedy, but because tragedy is actually a carrier of dreams and ideals!
The tragedy originated in ancient Greece, where Dionysus was the god of wine worshipped by the Thracians of ancient Greece. As the illegitimate son of Zeus, the prince of Dali, he is regarded as a thorn in the side of the phoenix Hera, and he can't be wronged. She sent the South Sea crocodile god Titan to kill and destroy the newborn Bacchus, but Zeus rescued his heart and reincarnated his soul in Semilli's body.
When Dionysus came of age, the queen of heaven refused to let him go, causing him to go crazy and wander everywhere. During his wanderings in the land, he taught the peasants to make wine, and thus became the god of wine, and one of the favorite gods of the ancient Greek peasants, commemorating him with an annual sacrifice to the god of wine, and thus developing the tragedy of ancient Greece.
Aristotle once devoted himself to the meaning of tragedy in his Poetics. He believed that the purpose of tragedy was to purify the emotions by arousing the audience's pity for the characters and fear of the vagaries of fate. The conflicts depicted in tragedies are often irreconcilable and fatalistic.
'Car accidents, amnesia, sibling love'
'Debt, forbearance, ex-girlfriend'
The brilliance of any drama lies in how to raise contradictions, and the realm of contradictions determines the height of the drama.
Professor Lin's family is harmonious and beautiful, his wife is beautiful and virtuous, his son is obedient and sensible, and the youngest daughter is even more lovely, after the story has developed hundreds of episodes, Professor Lin and his wife have passed away one after another, and their son and daughter have also started a family, and finally the story ends happily!
What do you mean by that? If you are happy all the time, where are the contradictions and conflicts?
I have a lot of trivial things in my family, I wanted to watch a TV series for recreation, but what I saw was the happiness and beauty of other people's families, screenwriter, you should die!
So what if you change it like this?
Professor Lin is busy with work on weekdays, neglecting his family and wife, his wolf-like wife cheats, and the son of the family also fools around with young people in society every day because of poor discipline. Professor Lin returned home to discipline his son, which led to a conflict between father and son, and the son broke his mother and love. human adultery and so on
In this way, there are contradictions and conflicts, and a good screenwriter can follow this, and even hundreds of episodes are not a problem, it all depends on the screenwriter's skills.
What if it's a more skilled screenwriter to write a screenplay? He may write about how Happy Professor Lin's family is in the early stage, and more than half of the plot slides down from the apex like a roller coaster, attracting the sympathetic eyes of the audience, and then writes about the difficulties of family reconstruction, so that the audience can't help but cheer up in their hearts, and finally happy ending!
There is a reunion in the play, and the audience is also happy!
Of course, more screenwriters will still follow what Lu Xun said, tragedy is the destruction of valuable things to human beings!
From the middle of the night to the next day, the topic of 'Jeonwoo' on the Internet directly burned all over the Internet, and a small flame ignited from the Sungkyunkwan University Forum, after many heated discussions among netizens, coupled with the impetus of Xiongjin Publishing House, directly led to the book "Love at Harvard" on Naver's daily search list, firmly occupying the first position.
A more direct manifestation is that on this day, bookstores of all sizes "Love at Harvard" have been out of stock, and from time to time, shopkeepers from all over the country call in to ask for the distribution of goods, and printing houses are working overtime to print, ready to meet the next wave of netizens buying.
The beginning of "Love at Harvard" is different from the cookie-cutter story of the noble son and Cinderella in Korean dramas, the heroine Li Shuren, a freshman at Harvard, is like an ordinary girl around her, and her sunny and cheerful personality can't help but like her at the first sight of the reader.
The fresh campus love story makes the readers' appetite instantly enlivened by various soap operas, just like eating big fish and meat and suddenly seeing a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, so happy!
In the story, the two also have conflicts and misunderstandings, which are resolved under the magic of love, and life seems to open its wings to the two of them called 'happiness', to embrace them into their arms.
The story doesn't end like this, Jason grabs Anna, who donated bone marrow to Lee Shu-in, to threaten the male protagonist Hyun-woo and ask him to give up the lawsuit. Thinking of Shu-in, who was tormented by pain, Hyun-woo finally gave up the lawsuit in order to save Shu-in, but accidentally found Jason and Anna together.
For the sake of conscience, Hyunwoo still re-sued, and Jason was arrested for this, and the lawsuit continued. Shuren missed the best bone marrow surgery due to time delays, leaving the male protagonist Kim Hyun Woo to sobble alone and live a lonely life.
Isn't this a cheat!
After reading the full text, female netizens with red eyes posted and complained one by one, and the happyending they thought was changed to Badending by the author, and they naturally disagreed with such an ending one by one.
Some netizens posted on the Internet looking for 'Quanyu', which triggered this online search for 'Quanyu', and many netizens even called Xiongjin Publishing House, hoping that they could release the information of 'Quanyu', which was originally a behind-the-scenes hype, and they naturally would not be stupid enough to announce Jung Hyuk-jae's information.
As a result, the movement on the Internet became more and more noisy, and many netizens even jointly asked Xiongjin Publishing House and the author of "Love at Harvard" to negotiate the issue of revising the ending.
The audience of "Love at Harvard" is mostly for college students, who are enthusiastic and energetic, and the result is that the popularity of the "Love at Harvard" entry has not been in the top three on the search list for many days.
More and more netizens have read the book "Love at Harvard", and more and more netizens have joined this grand gathering of national complaints.
"'Quanyu', don't let me know your home address, or be careful to walk at night!"
"Be careful when walking at night, don't accidentally fall into the pit!"
"You dare to write our cute Li Shuren to death, Quanyu, you are dead! Don't let me know you! Such posts keep replying.
"Did you really decide not to change the ending?" Kwon Yourim and Jung Hyuk-jae sat in the corner of a café and took a sip of coffee before asking.
"Don't change!"
It's not that Jung Hyuk-jae didn't pay attention to the resentment and complaints of netizens on the Internet, but he thinks that this is the ending he wants to present to everyone in his heart, and it can also be said that he has a bad taste!
"Don't you think that such an ending is far more impressive than the ending in which the prince and princess live happily ever after?"
"But" Quan Youlin tried to find a sentence to refute, but found that she rummaged around in her empty stomach and couldn't find the right words to argue with him.
When I think of some romance novels I've read recently, I seem to be most impressed by this book.
Deciding not to discuss this topic anymore, discussing these issues with a writer is naturally self-defeating, and Kwon Youlin issued a report to introduce him to the sales of new books in the first week.
Because of the impetus of Xiongjin Publishing House, "Love at Harvard" on the Internet is constantly popular, and in reality, the sales of the book "Love at Harvard" are even more gratifying, ranking first in the list of new book sales in the first quarter, overpowering many new books by long-established authors, with sales reaching 250,000 copies.
"Oh, really?" Jung Hyuk-jae took a sip of coffee and let out an 'oh' with little interest, which made Kwon Youlin's eyelids jump, is this an expression of dissatisfaction with sales?
"Does Jung Hyuk-jae have any questions about sales?" Quan Youlin said through gritted teeth.
"No, it's just what I expected!" Jung Hyuk-jae waved his hand, and he was very annoying with a light breeze and no intention of taking it to heart.
Kwon Youlin tried her best to calm her mood, a good day can't be ruined by the person in front of her, "Then I don't know if this news is expected by Jung Hyuk Jae?" ”
"What's the news?" Jung Hyuk-jae followed her words and asked.
"There are TV stations interested in the TV adaptation of this book!" As she spoke, Kwon Youlin stared at him carefully, not missing any expression on his face, only to see Jung Hyuk-jae pick up the coffee again and let out a faint 'oh'.
"I see!"
Kwon Youlin overturned the table named 'Jung Hyuk-jae' in her heart, your sister, you can't say anything else!