文/马庆云
On May 13th, the media person "TV Entertainment World" teacher broke the news through his own media platform: Huanrui's costumed web drama "Apocalypse of the Gods" was returned by Tencent Video, Huanrui lost money Nearly more than 100 million. As supporting material, there is also a picture of a "bad bill".
This picture shows that Tencent has prepared a book copyright fee of 189 million yuan for the TV series "Apocalypse of the God", but the confirmed bad debt fee is 98.28 million yuan. The "reason for provisioning" given by the platform is: the TV series "Apocalypse of the Gods" cannot be broadcasted after sale due to policy reasons. Customers have the right to choose to withdraw the film. The company calculates and confirms bad debts based on the probability of withdrawal and broadcast. The ratio is 52%.
Regular news media reports show that this "Apocalypse of the Gods" was completed in February 2018. If you look at the average post-production speed in the industry, the show has the scripting capability at the beginning of 2019, and it will be broadcast after the review. However, to this day, it has been more than two years, "The Apocalypse of the Conferred God" has not had any launch message, and no trailer has been released. This TV series seems to have faced the difficulty of launching.
In April 2019, after the TV series "Feng Shen Yanyi" starring Luo Jin, Wang Likun and Deng Lun was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, this "Feng Shen Zhi Qi" was once It may be broadcast later. However, this "Fengshen Yanyi" has a very poor reputation, with a Douban score of only 3.2. Especially the random tampering of the content of classical novels has caused dissatisfaction among the audience. In this way, the theme of Fengshen also faces stricter pre-launch review standards.
"Apocalypse of the Conferred God" cannot be broadcast normally. The biggest reason may be that the subject matter is too similar to the above mentioned "The Romance of Conferred God", lacking the basic spirit of the original work, excessive magic changes, and excessive love. The content is processed. This "Apocalypse of the Gods" is starring Zhang Rui, Li Man, Liu Xueyi and others, and it tells the story of the "four corners love" between Ji Fa, Lingyao, Yin Jiao and Su Daji. At present, the official plot outline of this TV series is as follows:
At the end of Shang Dynasty, the prince Yin Jiao and Proton Ji Fa became life and death brothers because of a beast rescue. The Shang emperor Xin appreciated Ji Fa's bravery, but was even worried about Yin Jiao's weakness. The two brothers accidentally rescued the princess Lingyao of the Nine Tribes during the attack on the Nine Tribes with Emperor Xin, but faced with the various actions of Ling Yao who wanted to avenge Emperor Xin and regain the treasures of the Nine Tribes, the two brothers gradually moved away .
Ji Fa’s childhood sweetheart, Daji, was accidentally sent to the palace as a concubine, but she was possessed by the nine-tailed fox by accident, and gradually turned against Ji Fa. In order to rescue Daji and his imprisoned father Ji Chang, Ji Fa has repeatedly committed dangers, and Yin Jiao has become increasingly difficult to choose between his father and his brother. In the end, Ji Fa ventured out of the court with Lingyao, who was beloved by Yin Jiao, and made a living for the people of the world, and eventually became a generation of kings.
Obviously, this kind of plot adaptation does not conform to the original story content of the classical novel "Feng Shen Yan Yi". Lingyao, the heroine, is not in the original novel. As for the brotherhood between Ji Fa and Yin Jiao, it was added by this TV series itself, not in the original novel. It's really wrong that a novel about the change of Shang and Zhou Dynasties was finally modified and "lovely adapted" to look like this.
The classic novel "Fengshen Yanyi" is indeed the subject matter of many film and television dramas. But people often only make magic changes, but they are unwilling to follow the original content for serious shooting. Behind the magic change, it is nothing more than making up this classical novel according to the content of the popular Internet magic novel, using the characters with "super powers" in the novel to create a love story between them. The ultimate goal of this type of novel is still a vulgar love farce. In this type of work, the love relationship between the characters appears unprecedented in history or in the original classic novels.
In fact, even if it is not for policy reasons, even if this "Apocalypse of the Gods" is broadcast, the reputation will not be good. Similar to a foolish conferred godThe subject matter is too much, and the audience does not need this kind of demonic vulgar drama under the banner of "Feng Shen". In the classic novel "The Romance of the Gods", the magical powers of the characters who go to heaven and earth, judging from the year, are indeed extremely imaginative. These are all important ideas for current film and television dramas. But it seems a bit wrong to wrap these heaven and earth into some vulgar love dramas.
When adapting classical novels to film and television dramas, we should still follow the principle of the original. Otherwise, under the banner of the original, selling the dog meat of your own magical drama, it is really better to find a bad online fantasy novel to shoot.
