Chapter 400: Three plays
After the Masters, Kei Fujiwara and Madosuke Kato went to a nearby Chinese restaurant for dinner, along with the director of the TTV Production Bureau.
TTV's production bureau director couldn't help but smile when he saw Kei Fujiwara, although he didn't succeed in poaching him under his command, but it was also a good thing for them to break away from Fukuyamadai and start their own independent production company, at least there was a chance to cooperate.
And Fujiwara Kei did show his willingness to cooperate, and talked about the new project, Fujiwara Kei said that he has three scripts in his hands, namely medical-themed workplace dramas, female-themed inspirational dramas, and tragic idol trend dramas, Fujiwara Kei has a certain degree of confidence in these three dramas, and asked the director of the production bureau of TTV which one he plans to shoot.
After listening to this, the director of the production bureau asked what the general plot of these three dramas was? Atsuaki Hidaka and other TTV producers instantly straightened their ears and listened quietly.
However, Kei Fujiwara's mouth is tighter than the door of the safe, and he just doesn't talk about his core plot, but just roughly talks about the genre.
As soon as Kei Fujiwara writes a script, he immediately registers with the Screenwriters Guild, so he doesn't have to worry about being plagiarized. But nowadays, the phenomenon of following Fujiwara dramas in the industry is too serious.
In the past, it was Fujiwara Kei who filmed dramas with a certain theme, but after it became popular, TV series with similar themes would appear in less than two and a half months. For example, after "Naoki Hanzawa" became popular, a bunch of TV series with bank employees as the protagonists appeared; After "Housekeeping Woman Sanda" became popular, various housekeeping women's dramas emerged one after another.
Later, the phenomenon of "following the trend in advance" even developed, and some production agencies would use various means to inquire or use money to buy off Kei Fujiwara's crew and employees, wanting to know what the general story of the drama that Kei Fujiwara was currently filming, and then urgently revise their own scripts.
Because Kei Fujiwara's drama can set off a wave of social popularity in 80% of cases, so before this wind blows, plant your own flag.
"Spicy Teacher" written by Kei Fujiwara encountered such a problem before, and there were two dramas in a similar period that were both plots of the rampant people as teachers. Although the specific plots are very different, the core setting is the same.
So this show also suffered a small setback when it first started, but after all, it is a series adapted from popular comics, and the rationality and interest of the plot are not to be said, and the quality of the plot is much higher than that of those plots that were thought up in a hurry, and finally won the ratings victory in the same period.
However, after this battle, Fujiwara Kei also learned to be smart. Therefore, the number of people participating in the core project has been further reduced, and the confidentiality work has been strictly carried out. The planning room is equipped with silencing cotton, and no one outside the main creative team is allowed to observe the planning meeting.
Naturally, Kei Fujiwara will not easily say the core ideas and settings of his next works on any occasion. It's really disgusting to be deliberately hit on the shirt.
And the theory of who is ugly and who is embarrassed is not valid in the broadcasting industry. Especially some small production teams, they are not confident that they can make any popular dramas, the budget is insufficient, the script is improvised, and there are no big names to join, so they can only think of crooked ideas to achieve the effect of winning the first place.
Seeing that Fujiwara Kei was so guarded, Hidaka Junming and the others secretly said in their hearts: hateful, they also felt bored, and continued to drink.
Seeing that Kei Fujiwara was reluctant to elaborate on the details, the director of the production bureau of TTV did not continue to ask, nor did he agree to cooperate with Kei Fujiwara until he came up with a detailed plan and script creativity like Matsuhi Films. Different from his newcomer status in the film industry, Kei Fujiwara's prestige in the broadcasting industry is now unquestionable, after all, a situation like him, which has made more than a dozen dramas in two years and all the hits without fail, has never appeared in the history of broadcasting. TTV doesn't cooperate, and some people are willing to cooperate.
At the suggestion of Ensuke Kato, the drama that the TTV Production Bureau chose to cooperate with Mizuami Productions was the one that Kei Fujiwara said, a workplace drama with a medical theme.
After repeated inquiries, the two parties began to discuss the details of cooperation.
And the day after chatting with the people at TTV about the cooperation, Kei Fujiwara took Yui Mizuhara to the Starry Terrace again.
Like the TTV side, Starry Station also behaved extremely politely to Kei Fujiwara. And after some pleasantries, the topic came to the right
Title. Shuibo Production will also reach a cooperation agreement with Fanxingtai to shoot a TV drama work in the future.
And Kei Fujiwara also asked the star station to choose between the remaining two dramas in the TTV, and in the end, the star station felt that the bitter trend drama in Fujiwara Kei's mouth might be a good choice. Fanxingtai is good at shooting women's dramas such as trend dramas and idol dramas, and its audience is also more female, so I think this kind of drama is more suitable for them.
As of this time, Kei Fujiwara has reached a cooperation agreement with three TV stations, and these three dramas will be broadcast at the same time within a similar time.
Although it is broadcast in the same season, there will be no competition between the three dramas, resulting in the left and right hands of the water wave production. First of all, the cooperation with NHK is a morning drama, which is a morning period and two other dramas in the morning and one night, and it is not possible to go together at all, needless to say.
and the medical-themed workplace drama in cooperation with TTV, and the bitter trend drama in cooperation with Fanxing TV, Kei Fujiwara will also arrange these two dramas at different times in the same week, the two dramas themselves are very different types, and the audience groups are uneven, plus one is scheduled on Wednesday and the other is scheduled on Saturday, which will not have any impact on each other.
This is also thanks to the broadcast mode of one episode a week of Japanese dramas, if it is in accordance with the Chinese form of one-time broadcasting, dozens of episodes of a drama, and two episodes a day, I am afraid that there will be no multi-line cooperation like this.
After signing formal contracts with the two TV stations, Kei Fujiwara handed over a project and the first two episodes of the TV series to the two TV stations.
That's right, it's the contract that is signed first, and then the plan and script are given. This also means that the TV station has extraordinary trust in Kei Fujiwara, as long as it is your drama, no matter what it is, we will shoot it, invest money and personnel.
Even their production committee will not review and evaluate the script submitted by Kei Fujiwara, because no one dares to say: I am not very optimistic about this drama, and I ask the production committee to consider it before filming this project.
Because according to historical experience, the chance of being slapped in the face for questioning Kei Fujiwara's works is too great, and it seems that he does not have the ability to distinguish good works, so it is better not to express his opinion lightly. When people hand in the plan, they don't need to look at it, they just pass it directly.
And Kei Fujiwara and TTV collaborated on TV series with Starry Channel, respectively, "White Tower" and "Blue Life and Death Love".
Needless to say, "The White Tower", people who have a little understanding of Japanese dramas will not have heard of this "drama king", and his compulsion and status in the Japanese drama industry can compete with "Naoki Hanzawa", and the theme and the mapping and portrayal of real life are even more profound and real than "Naoki Hanzawa".
Although both are workplace dramas, compared with the blood and somewhat idealized story of "Hanzawa Naoki", the story of "White Tower" is more cold and hard, like a scalpel, extremely sharp, and when the knife goes down, what flows out is the blood and pus of the society, which makes people can't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"The White Tower" is not so much a medical drama, in fact, it is more of a workplace drama dressed as a medical drama, and there are two protagonists in the play, one is Goro Caizen, who represents egoism and realism: for fame and fortune, for status can do whatever it takes.
Dignity, morality, and fame and status are also two commodities placed on the supermarket shelves in his eyes, but there is a difference in the price between the goods, and in the case of only one thing, he will definitely choose the more expensive thing in his heart.
Goro Chozen chose his bright future as a distinguished surgeon. In his eyes, patients are divided into three or six or nine classes, with the presidents and politicians of large conglomerates being the first class, and the medical representatives and convenience store owners being the other class.
And the other protagonist in the play, Shuji Satomi, represents another type of person, represents idealism, and is a good doctor in every sense. He is a skilled physician and considers his patients in all aspects, and is the kind of person who truly fulfills the Hippocratic oath. In his eyes, a patient is a patient, and there is no difference.
The constant conflicts, contradictions and interactions between the two protagonists in the play because of conceptual problems are one of the highlights of the play.
And the biggest attraction in the play is to clean up the seemingly spotless, serious and holy place of the hospital.
exposed the unbearable inside and showed it to the audience.
The male protagonist Choi Mae Goro, in order to get help from his father-in-law's family in terms of money, chose to join the family, and although his father-in-law is rich, his social status is not high because he is only a clinic doctor, and he hopes that his son-in-law can become a professor in a big hospital. Even the wife just wants to be a professor's wife, and even has a nonchalant attitude towards the fact that her husband has a lover. In order to become a professor, he did not hesitate to pay bribes......
And Goro Chozen's mentor is afraid of this student with super talents, and he is worried that he will not be able to control him, and he does not want his student to get the position of professor. even did not hesitate to let an unmasked person become a professor, and in the end, the bamboo basket was empty......
After the whole play, you will find that the doctors in the play almost do not put their minds on the patients, and most of the time they are hollowing out their minds to engage in personnel struggles.
And this is actually the charm of this show, which is real, cold and dirty enough.