On March 12th, the twenty-first episode of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" was broadcast, and the national ratings of this episode reached 30.3%, which surprised the crew, and the dinner was celebrated a little that night, but unfortunately with the new opponent, the successor drama "OnAir" of "No Sweat Party" gradually made efforts, the ratings of "Fast Knife Hong Jitong" gradually declined, and the ratings of the 22nd and 23rd episodes broadcast on March 19 and 20 were 28.3% and 27.1% respectively, even after the finale was broadcast on the 26th, It was only 26.9 per cent.

Fortunately, this TV series has been fully broadcast, otherwise maybe the ratings will continue to decline until it returns to the previous situation of competing with competitors.

The reason for this is not only because "OnAir" tells the story of the entertainment industry that ordinary people want to know very much, so that it has attracted many non-loyal viewers of "Fast Knife Hong Jitong", but also because the story of "Fast Knife Hong Jitong" has developed and people feel that its ending has a tendency to be tragic. Perhaps out of the psychology of not wanting to see the tragedy, a small number of viewers chose not to watch it.

In fact, Zhang Chengyuan was also very dissatisfied with the ending of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong". Although the screenwriter Hong sisters have always told him that the ending is open-ended and allows the audience to imagine freely, no matter how he looks at it, he also thinks that the ending of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" is a tragedy, and he thinks why can't he end with a comedy directly, instead of ending with this seemingly tragic open-ended ending?

In Zhang Chengyuan's view, the idea of this script is a light comedy, in this case, why shoot a suspiciously tragic ending? And historically. Hong Jitong did not die early. It is said that he lived to be 70 years old. In this case, isn't it more acceptable to make a happy ending? Zhang Chengyuan guessed that the Hong sisters may have deliberately written such a controversial and reverie ending because they wanted the audience to remember the script they wrote.

However, this kind of question, he didn't want to ask the Hong sisters in person, because he felt a little rude, so he simply didn't ask.

On the evening of March 20, "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" was officially completed, and most of the crew members packed up and left. However, eight or nine main actors, including director Lee Jung-sub and Jang Sung-won, stayed, because the next day a certain program team of KBS TV was going to the set - the Living Poor Party Cottage to produce a special episode of "Quick Knife Hong Ji Tong".

The so-called special is to introduce the filming footage of this TV series, behind-the-scenes stories, and so on. The reason why this special is filmed is not only because of the TV station's own program scheduling considerations, but also because the current popularity of "Fast Knife Hong Jitong" is extremely high, and the filming of the special can still attract many viewers to watch.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of the 21st, the program team of KBS TV rushed to the scene, and after greeting each other, they discussed the process and content of today's program, and then started filming. The filming of this special feature was conducted in the form of interviews and inquiries. Then, in post-editing, add some TV footage or tidbits that were previously filmed.

There are three presenters today, two men and one man. It's called Jung Hyung-don, Jeon Hyun-moo, and Choi Song-hyun.

Zhang Chengyuan is quite unfamiliar with these three people, only knowing that Zheng Hengdun is an MC in the variety show "Infinite Challenge" hosted by Yoo Jae-seok, and the other two are the first time he has seen them, thinking that there should be no intersection with these three in the future, so he is too lazy to pay more attention to them.

At the beginning of filming, the three hosts wearing costumes in the play discussed the costumes in "Quick Knife Hong Jitong", talked a lot, talked happily, and seemed to like it very much. But Jang Sung-won was bored, because he didn't like the costumes in this TV series, and it was difficult to understand why there were many Korean audiences who were interested in the costumes in the play, and finally he had to attribute the reason to his lack of belonging to traditional Korean culture.

After chatting about the costumes and making a few jokes, the three hosts finally got to the point, introducing to the audience the reason for filming this episode of the special and the main content of this episode to the camera, and then asked Zhang Chengyuan, the male lead, to say a few words on behalf of the crew.

This part of letting Zhang Chengyuan say the opening remarks was actually arranged in advance by the program team, and even the lines were prepared for him, and Zhang Chengyuan only needed to recite the lines at this time. At the moment, he didn't put on a big star shelf, showed a gentle smile, and recited honestly: "Hello everyone, I'm Hong Jitong Zhang Chengyuan, yesterday "Fast Knife Hong Jitong" ended, thank you very much for your long-term attention and support. We discussed how to repay the audience, and finally thought of shooting this special series, in this special issue, we will show you a lot of unknown pictures, I hope you can enjoy watching it. ”

In fact, it was only on the 21st, and the finale of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" has not yet been broadcast, and it will not be broadcast until the evening of the 26th. However, this special was broadcast on the evening of the 27th, so Zhang Chengyuan said, "Yesterday's "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" ended.

In addition, Jang Sung-won is hoping that as soon as the filming of this drama ends, he will be able to return to Seoul immediately, where will he discuss with the actors how to repay the audience? It's impossible to make this special! It's just that he doesn't have to worry about the program team of KBS TV for this little thing, so he memorizes how the manuscript is written, and there is nothing he shouldn't say anyway.

Next, the three hosts began to ask directors Lee Jung-sub, Sung You-ri, Jang Geun-seok and others, and everyone present, each of them would take turns to ask about the past, first mentioning the impression of their roles in the play to the audience, and then chatting about one or two related interesting topics, and the actors also cooperated to try to make their answers more interesting.

After a round, the host Zheng Hengdun suddenly said: "After eight months of preparation and filming, I think "Fast Knife Hong Jitong" must have a special meaning in your hearts. Mr. Jang Sung-won, what is this TV series to you? Please describe it in one word! ”

Zhang Chengyuan thought for a moment and replied, "It's an opportunity for me." In this drama, I am not only an actor, but also a behind-the-scenes staff member, taking on the position of martial arts instructor, and I think this is a springboard and an opportunity for me to become a future director. ”

Zheng Hengdun continued with interest: "So, you plan to become a director?" So aren't you ready to be an actor? Or as both an actor and a director? ”

Zhang Chengyuan said seriously: "I will not give up the profession of actor for the time being." Because at the moment I still have to rely on it for food. Other than that. The role of director is still a little too far away for me at the moment. This is unlikely to be a reality, at least in the next few years. Well, I think I should accumulate more experience, so in the future, while continuing to act, I will also find other opportunities to take on some behind-the-scenes positions in film and television dramas. ”

Zheng Hengdun smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang Chengyuan, you usually speak so strictly...... Is it rigorous, like a news interview! ”

It is said that it is rigorous, but it is better to say that it is serious and solemn, but Zheng Hengdun feels that using "serious" to describe Zhang Chengyuan may make Zhang Chengyuan unhappy. I changed it to a slightly nicer word.

The surrounding actors all laughed softly when they heard this, they all felt the same way, and Jang Keun Suk suddenly said: "Jang Sung-won's predecessors have always been like this, he is very serious about many things, and he almost never jokes. ”

It's not that Jang Sung-won doesn't know how to joke, it's just that Jang Geun-seok and others have never seen it, because Jang Sung-won has always only joked with his close sisters.

After listening to Zhang Genshuo's words, Zhang Chengyuan nodded casually and said, "Well, yes, I really don't know how to laugh." He didn't feel the need to argue against such inconsequential remarks.

Next. Zheng Hengdun also stopped asking questions, and replaced it with another host to ask Cheng Youli. The question is still the same old question: "Miss Cheng Youli, what is this TV series to you?" Please describe it in one word. ”

Cheng Youli thought for a while and replied: "It's a birthday cake, just like a birthday cake on a special day, "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" is really a very special TV series for me. As she spoke, she glanced at Zhang Chengyuan beside her, and she didn't know if she remembered the situation when Zhang Chengyuan celebrated her birthday half a month ago.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but praise loudly, and I have to say that her answer is still quite exciting, at least more ingenious and more meaningful than Zhang Chengyuan's previous old-fashioned answer. After hearing everyone's appreciation, Cheng Youli made a big "V" gesture like Xu Lilu she played, and smiled at each other with a smile, at this time she didn't seem to be completely out of the role of Xu Lilu, and her personality was very cheerful and refreshing.

Then the host asked Park Sang-wook and Moon Se-yun the same questions one after another, and the answers they got were "crazy" and "burlesque". These two answers are obviously much more interesting than what Zhang Chengyuan and Cheng Youli said, and as soon as the two of them spoke, they immediately attracted laughter, and the atmosphere was suddenly much more lively.

And when it came to "burlesque performances", the host Jung Hyung-dun suddenly led the topic to the actors' "personal skills" and asked Jang Keun Suk and several other actors to perform personal skills. Among them, Jang Keun Suk performed a tone imitation of Hong Gil-tong, that is, an imitation of Jang Sung-won.

To be honest, his imitation ability is not bad, and he imitates the tone of Zhang Chengyuan's speech in the play, but it is only similar in shape, and it is impossible to look like him, because he and Zhang Chengyuan basically do not belong to the same type, and it is difficult to have Zhang Chengyuan's masculine and sonorous momentum. But it also won a round of applause.

After the parody show, the next part of the show is called "BBS Talk", which is where the actors answer some of the questions that the audience has asked on the online forum.

The first question was asked by Zhang Chengyuan: "Most of the actors in the play have never acted in action scenes in this drama, how did you get the actors to work together to shoot so many wonderful martial arts scenes in a short period of time?" ”

In the eyes of the audience, the media, industry insiders, and even the actors of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong", they all felt very incredible, thinking that it would be impossible to change to others, so they were very curious.

It's just that Zhang Chengyuan obviously felt that there was no need to explain the reason to the world in detail, so he said succinctly: "Strict training, plus a series of support from the director and crew members, and the full cooperation of the actors." ”

Seeing that Zhang Chengyuan refused to elaborate on the key points, Zheng Hengdun nodded with some regret, and then asked: "I heard that the training plan you specified for the actors is really quite strict, and you have to practice at high intensity for eight or nine hours a day, which makes many actors feel scared when they see you until now, is there such a thing?" ”

Zhang Chengyuan said calmly: "Well, there is such a thing. ”

Hearing this, the actors next to them couldn't help but nod their heads slightly, and indeed until now, they are quite stunned. However, at the same time, they are also quite grateful to Jang Sung-won.

It is precisely because of Zhang Chengyuan's high-intensity training for them some time ago that their physique has increased a lot, and under Zhang Chengyuan's teaching, they have also learned a lot of good things. Not only did I learn how to strengthen my body extremely effectively, but I also learned how to shoot action scenes faster and better. In addition, they have also been appreciated by the audience and industry insiders through this play. There are so many benefits! Therefore, although they did not get along with Zhang Chengyuan, it did not prevent them from being grateful to Zhang Chengyuan. (To be continued......)