To this day, many people still believe that a movie or TV series, as long as it has a big-name star, can have a good box office and ratings.
However, the facts show that they think this way......
It still makes sense.
Even after the advent of the era of popular traffic, it is nothing more than replacing the stars with small fresh meat with traffic that attracts more fans.
Therefore, after the character trailer of "The Darkling" came out, many people in the industry were not very optimistic about it.
Forget if there are no big-name stars, after all, it's an online drama, but why don't you find a few actors who are familiar to everyone.
Now this group of leading actors, basically no one knows each other, do you expect this to open up the market for online dramas?
Trouble.
These people have obviously forgotten that any work, in the final analysis, is king for quality.
As a platform, Penguin Video does not have too many publicity efforts and resources for "The Darkling", after all, everyone has just entered the online drama area, and no one knows how much the input-output ratio can be.
Just like at the beginning of the year, Penguin Video also launched a "Soul Exploration File" with the same theme of suspense and reasoning, and the publicity was quite strong, and the leading actor also found Mr.
Guanxi, but there was still no splash in the end.
So this time, Penguin decided to invest some resources to see the effect first, and if the results were good, then increase the publicity.
However, the attention is not too bad, after all, there is the popularity bonus of the original work, and Mu Ming herself helps to promote it, so there are still many viewers looking forward to it.
On June 13, just before the start of the World Cup, "The Darkling" was officially launched.
Fingerprint is a lover of criminal mystery works, of course, fingerprint is not his real name, but a pen name he used when he published his first and currently only novel, Redemption on the Blade.
Prior to that, he was a lawyer with more than 10 years of judicial experience.
And ordinary people like such as Agatha?
Christie, Conan?
Doyle, Ellery?
Quinn, who is different from these mainstream reasoning gurus, prefers Dashiel?
Hammett, Raymond?
Chandler is the author of these "cold hard" reasoning.
The so-called "cold hard" is very different from the conventional classical puzzle-solving novels that focus on intellectual interest, and it is also different from the "easy chair-style" side-to-side detective novels.
It has the courage to face the dark and boundless reality, telling the story of a cold-faced tough guy and a femme fatale.
However, this kind of work is not mainstream, as far as China is concerned, one of his more admired works is Zhou Haohui's "Death Notice" series.
Therefore, after hearing that this series was adapted into a film and television drama, he was both a little surprised and a little surprised.
I am surprised that this kind of work can pass the review in China, and surprisingly, it is naturally the same reason.
Of course, I later heard that it was the reason for the lax review of online dramas, as a middle-aged man with a comfortable personality, he didn't know much about online dramas and TV dramas, but it was a good thing to be able to see it.
Therefore, at the first moment when "The Darkling" was launched, he clicked on this, well, online drama.
"After the overture, the day finally came.
I couldn't contain the excitement in my heart, and my blood was burning.
I can imagine your look when you see this letter, I can already smell your longing. …… A terrible opponent can bring a real, wonderful time. ” Fingerprint nodded, and the opening paragraph is a very classic narration of Eumenides in the original book.
Of course, Fingerprint looked at the signature slip that appeared on the screen, and it should have been renamed Darker by now.
"That's a low name."
Fingerprint muttered.
However, it is much simpler than Eumenides called.
Fingerprint frowned, although I haven't watched the next plot yet, but from this point, it can be seen that there should be a lot of changes to the original book.
The plot of the first episode of "Darker" is mainly divided into two parts, one part is the first case at the beginning, which leads to the global main line of Darker; The other part is the introduction of the personnel of the task force.
As he thought, the online drama has changed greatly compared with the original book.
In addition to the plot, the characters also have subversive changes.
For example, Luo Fei, the introverted and calm protagonist in the original book, has become a comic here; and Mu Jianyun, who has a gentle personality, has become a tsundere.
Even, there is an original "gothic loli" style forensic doctor.
The point is, I don't care what style you have, but the original book was 09 years.
At that time, many third- and fourth-tier prefecture-level cities did not necessarily have forensic doctors, so how could it be possible to assign an exclusive forensic doctor to your task force.
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Fingerprint frowned, this change is too big, it completely turns the original cautious and cautious reasoning style into a comedy, this drama must not be scolded to death?
However, when he looked at the comments, he was surprised to find that they were basically one-sided praise.
"Hahahaha, you are really Emperor Yan Yi, hahahahaha "A bunch of slots; CP confusion; The acting skills of a supporting actor are exaggerated, and his face is slashed; The plot is weak and the reasoning is weak.
But I really can't stop!!
” "I was scared half to death in the first episode, and I was outrageously timid, but after adapting to the rhythm, I finally dared to chase down.
Also, why are there only three episodes, fall!
” “……” Unlike fingerprints, which focus on reasoning, most of the general audience has little interest in serious reasoning.
Even the popular "Sherlock", a large part of the popularity comes from the relationship between Sherlock and Watson, as well as Sherlock's own common sense stupidity.
To put it bluntly, the current audience's viewing level is still relatively superficial, and if you don't add comedy elements, the works will be much niche.
Therefore, although this version has fixed a lot of plots and bugs that may have been complained about under Mu Ming's suggestion.
For example, the forensic doctor never wears equipment, and the police captain grows a beard.
In addition, sufficient funds were given to the styling and makeup of the members of the task force, as well as the internal equipment of the task force at the provincial level.
However, the extremes of the characters' personalities and the comedy of the plot still maintain the style of the original.
Because only in this way can we attract the most audiences in this completely reckless time in the online drama market.
Fingerprinting through the comments, naturally I know this.
But he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, couldn't a reasoning drama without these elements really not succeed?
His mind flashed through an idea, and he looked at the third episode that prompted him to be a member to watch, and closed the page with a mouse movement.
"As long as the story is good, everything else is just irrelevant."
Fingerprint secretly said in his heart, he decided to follow the inspiration he just had just now, and complete a completely "cold hard" suspenseful reasoning story.
When the time comes, hand over the story to the producers of this "Darkling".
It's not that he's angry, it's just that he wants to prove that reasoning can be won by the story itself.