Chapter 245: Same Plot, Same Classics
Wait a minute! ”
The more Roland listened, the more confused he became.
"Isn't the House of Cards a bestseller written by Thatcher's chief of staff and Conservative Party vice-chairman Michael Daubers? Isn't Andrew Davis the director who created "Spicy Raptors", "Above the Law", "Hidden Dragons", and "The Outlaws"? ”
"When did they get together? Also filmed a BBC miniseries "House of Cards"? ”
“What?”
Hearing Roland's inquiry, Kate, who wanted to introduce the BBC miniseries to the other party, was also a little confused, and the two stared at each other for a few seconds, and both found that their brain circuits and the other party were not on the same channel at all.
"Okay, wait a minute." Like a cat, Kate got up from the couch, spread out her left hand, and gave her right thumb up, and said: "First of all, the "House of Cards" I am talking about is indeed a BBC miniseries based on the best-selling adaptation written by Michael Daubs. Then, she tapped her index finger again and said, "Secondly, the Andrew Davis I am talking about is not a Hollywood director Andrew Davis, but a well-known screenwriter in our Britain." ”
"Didn't I shoot Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility in '95?"
In the same year, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was also made into a miniseries by the BBC, and the screenwriter was Andrew Davis.
"The actor is Colin Firth, do you know him?"
"It's the Colin Firth who matched my uncle Kenneth in '87 in "Mrs. Rose."
"Oh...... Colin Firth? Roland, whose thoughts were like a complicated thread, reacted, "I remember......"
Isn't Colin Firth, who matched Kenneth Branagh, the guy who won the actor in the future with "The King's Speech"?
Special code.,This turned out to be a pot with the same name!
Just like every time Professor Luo takes a class, there will be a guy named Zhang San jumping on the edge of the law, there are too many guys with the same name and surname in this world, if there is no reference, just casually say, it is really easy to confuse thinking.
When he first heard the name Andrew Davis, Roland's mind came to mind about the director who had worked with Harrison Ford, after all, for him, Harrison Ford was his own person.
And after Kate's explanation, Roland also recalled Andrew Davis in her mouth, which is a super well-known screenwriter.
His representative works include the "BJ Single Diary" series and "Nancy's Love History" in films, and the BBC miniseries "Bleak Hills", "Little Dury", "Sense and Sensibility", "War and Peace" and "Les Miserables" in TV dramas.
Yes, Roland has watched a lot of film and television dramas written by the other party, as for what Kate said, "House of Cards" adapted by him......
Well, he also got an impression -
The BBC version of "House of Cards", Roland has not actually seen it.
The reason is very simple, the age is too old, high-definition resources can't be found, as a British drama produced in the 90s, use the computer screen coder more than ten years later to watch the original version, the picture quality is a scumbag beep.
In addition, this "House of Cards" is a little less popular than soul dramas like "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister", so in the first few batches of BBC resetting the old version of the TV series and refurbishing it to 1080P, there was no name on the list of technical modifications, and when the list finally arrived, the American version of "House of Cards" was already popular all over the world, and after watching Kevin Spacey's performance, Roland was too lazy to find the resources of the old version of "House of Cards".
He didn't think it was necessary.
Even if the American version of "House of Cards" is a remake of the British version of "House of Cards", Roland does not think that the British version is a divine drama, if it is really very bright, then it will be like Kubrick's "Road of Glory", "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "The Shining", which will be renovated by only known money-making capitalists as quickly as possible.
To put it mildly, a work is not popular.
What I look at is not what the box office reputation is, but the means of realization of the capitalists.
The crazier the capitalists, the more fans are willing to pay for this work.
However, it doesn't matter if he hasn't watched this drama in his previous life, in this life, he can take advantage of the matching equipment and bitrate to make up for this drama, so, in Kate's eyes, Roland's behavior is to find out the source of the BBC miniseries "House of Cards", so he told his assistant to buy a saucer.
Putting it into action, Kate felt that Roland took this visit very seriously.
Well, she thinks Roland is quite good.
And Roland......
is all focused on the miniseries.
"Wow! Is it okay to start with the first sentence - 'There is no eternal thing in the world, and any party that has been in power for a long time will eventually die'? Such a spicy beginning? The scale can be ......."
"Ian Richardson, this old man plays awesome, elegant, calm, and dignified, this is what a gentleman is called?"
"Hmm...... The signature narration monologue gives Ian a dual personality, when communicating with other characters in the play, he always wears a mask and never reveals his heart, but when facing the camera, pride, pride, determination, and dissatisfaction, these subjective expressions all emerge, distinguishing a living person from both rational and emotional aspects......
The BBC version of "House of Cards" has only twelve episodes in three seasons, each episode is fifty minutes, and it can be completed in ten hours.
After Roland finished making up this TV series, he found out that if the British version of "House of Cards" can be described as short and concise, then the American version of "House of Cards" can be called a mountain of water.
The overall plot is similar in both versions, but the real difference is actually the limitations brought about by the development of the times.
That's right, no matter what cultural work, the moment it meets the public, it will carry shackles -
In the British version of "House of Cards", there are very few female characters, while in the American version of "House of Cards", the party whip is about to be killed by women.
The difference in the roles created by this different gender roles has a lot to do with the development of feminism.
In addition, the protagonist of the British version, Mr. Urquhart, gives people the feeling that he is a good old man, or a smiling tiger, while the protagonist of the American version, Underwood, has the word bastard engraved on his face.
It's really a cultural difference.
Although the United States and Britain are both capitalist countries, Britain is an old empire after all, and they know how to maintain their face, or rather, wearing the skin of a gentleman and doing dirty things, which is what they like to do the most.
But the old beauty-
Isn't there a saying that if the United States is strong, in the eyes of Europe, it is the countryside, and when the Americans are rich, in the eyes of Europeans, it is the poor and only have money left.
This kind of discrimination is even more vividly reflected in cultural works.
The third difference is public opinion.
The reporter in the British version is more naïve than the American version.
There is no way, who let the British media be controlled by those two or three capitalists?
Compared with the United States, which has five generations and ten countries, British journalists can only be naïve, not because they have no performance pressure, but because there are many things, and reporters themselves can't break the news, but the United States is different, fighting, making public opinion more democratic.
In other words, it's not that everyone has the right to speak freely, but that your opinion can be a means for me to attack my opponents.
It is in this environment that the reporters in the American edition are more spicy when asking questions, while the reporters in the British edition are obviously invisible.
But even so, if Roland were asked to rate these two dramas, he would give nine points at the same time.
Because from the perspective of audiences with different audiences, these two dramas are excellent.
"Does your dad want to go into politics? How do you like watching this kind of thing? ”
After watching the play, Roland, who was full of surprise, pulled Kate's hair.
Nesting on the sofa and sitting down to make up for ten hours of drama at once, as long as it is a person, it will be unbearable.
Therefore, in the process of making up the drama, Roland's hands were not honest, first grabbed Kate into his arms, and then-
It's a long tug-of-war that lasts for hours.
"He wants to go into politics? Are you kidding? Although she changed her position a lot, after watching ten hours of TV series, even if Kate had Hannah's iron-clad spirit, she still felt sleepy.
Ignoring Roland's childish behavior of playing with his hair, he stretched his waist sleepily, yawned, and said in a tired tone: "He just likes this kind of drama......"
"In his words, politicians are the dirtiest actors in the world, compared to them, the entertainment industry is as clean as a blank sheet of paper, and the filth here is far less than one-ten-thousandth of theirs, but they still like to use gentlemanly behavior to flaunt their position, and spread news that is only beneficial to themselves to the people who are full of hope for them......"
Ooh!
It turns out that my husband looks at these episodes with a critical eye!
Roland thought that the old man who liked to watch dramas such as "Yes, Minister", "Yes, Prime Minister", and "House of Cards" was an expert in key politics who liked thick black studies, but he didn't expect that people watched these dramas just to better criticize the parliament?
This......
It's kind of interesting.
"I know it's time to give your dad something."
"Huh?" Kate, who got up and wanted to go back to the room to sleep, looked at Roland suspiciously, the blanket wrapped around her body was half-pulled and hung around her waist, even though she had been watching it for a year and a half, Roland was still very interested.
"Don't you tell me you want to buy a set of House of Cards, The Drama, The Final Chapter, and then get Michael Daubers to sign it?"
"I'm telling you, my dad isn't interested in these things."
"He watches these TV series with realistic significance, just so that he can talk to his friends at the party."
"If you don't want to talk to him about these things, then when you see him, don't talk about current affairs."
If Kate's parents heard these words, it would definitely be black.
Is this special thing about the elbow turning out?
Back then, when Kate wanted to learn acting, they didn't agree with their daughter's idea when they knew the darkness in the circle, or Kate's grandmother couldn't resist her granddaughter, so she secretly helped her granddaughter register, and then, the family who learned about it also accepted their fate.
Although Kate has not encountered any popular projects along the way, she has also helped to pull resources and relationships, otherwise, even if she is talented, she will not be able to win the highest college award in the UK for Best Supporting Actress at the age of nineteen.
Now, your family has done so much for you, but now you feel that your man doesn't like topics that your family likes, so you open a back door and tell him how to avoid things you don't like?
It's not for you to take advantage of the benefits at home, and even the topic of chat is so maintained, this is really ......
Of course, Kate wouldn't tell her dad about these things, and Roland, who was thinking about "House of Cards" all about it now, didn't notice these details at all, "How can I send autographed books?" ”
"When you bought gifts for David and Garetti, they were generous, and I can't be bad when I go over, right?"
"What's more, after watching these twelve episodes of the miniseries, I was quite interested in 'House of Cards'."
"Why don't I buy the North American rights to 'House of Cards' and then wait a few years to make it into a TV series?"
"At that point, bring your dad in as a producer."
"There's no point in talking in front of your friends, is it? How can it be cool to make a satirical drama by yourself? ”
"When your dad goes out in the future, it's not 'I know about this, Ian Richardson played in 'House of Cards', nor 'Yes, Prime Minister' satirized the current situation, and what is said in it is exactly the same as what we are going through now, we can only watch those politicians perform like clowns', but 'I filmed this'......"
Since he talked about "House of Cards" that Roland never remembered, how could he miss it?
Although "House of Cards" is broadcast on Milk Fei's streaming platform, and because of the money burning in streaming, Milk Fei has never announced the net income of the show "House of Cards", but-
It doesn't matter, does it?
As long as Roland knows that it is a boutique drama, this is enough!
Roland has never disliked the copyright, and he is not worried that he has no money to shoot.
After all, he's a big believer in the Disney effect.
Although he has not experienced Disney's 1.0 and 2.0 stages, this does not prevent him from learning Disney and directly entering the 3.0 stage.
And the 3.0 link, isn't it just copyright scraping......
As for whether the original author sells or not?
This Roland is not worried.
Anyway, the original author is also afraid of the ability to make money.
But when he waved his big hand, imitating the white-haired old man in the emoji in the later generations to slash at the sky and comment on the future, Kate, who was half-wrapped in a blanket, was stunned at first, and after a dull expression stayed on Roland's face for a few seconds, she shook her head with a wry smile.
"Oh, I can't imagine how excited my dad would have been when he heard the news."
"He's going to love the gift, absolutely ......"
"Do you like that?" Roland asked with a smile.
"Me?" Kate raised her eyebrows, released the blanket with her left hand, and stroked Roland's cheek, "That's a question, let's go back to the bedroom." ”
Hearing this, Roland's face turned dark, "That...... That's enough for today......"
"From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., it's been a day of play, let's take a shower and go out to eat."
It's a pity that Kate, who was excited, didn't want to let him go now, grabbed Roland's arm, and dragged him to the bedroom with a smile.
"Trust me, you'll soon just want to sleep and not eat."