Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 329: A Tricky and Vicious Interview

The small size of "The Beginning" is not only reflected in the scale of production, but the small number of episodes is also one of the reasons.

When Zhou Hao was invited to Pearl Channel for an exclusive interview, "The Beginning" was already nearing its finale.

As expected, the decline in quality in the later episodes attracted a lot of complaints and controversy, but because the foundation in the previous episodes was too solid, it did not lead to a large-scale collapse in reputation, and it was still quite good overall.

The small number of these controversial complaints was even beyond Zhou Hao's expectations.

I was already prepared for a new round of storms, but... this is it?
Having said that, I have to thank my colleagues. It is thanks to them that they have been tirelessly feeding the audience shit year after year, which has greatly lowered their tolerance limit.

Therefore, facing this relatively minor "anticlimax" is completely within their acceptable range.

The score on Huaban.com has indeed dropped, to 8.6 compared to when the scores were first published, but it is still a very good score.

Although "The Beginning" has not yet had an ending, its overall success as both a critical and commercial success has become unshakable.

There is no doubt that this is another classic web drama.

The one that suffered the most was the neighboring "No Man's Land", which had been clamoring to compete with "The Beginning" every day, but was defeated in just a few days.

No matter how you inflate the data, no matter how much money you spend on marketing, you can't take away the popularity of "The Beginning".

The whole network is discussing the plot clues of "The Beginning" and Aunt Guo's acting skills. Who cares about your rotten pork injected with water?
In this situation, continuing to commit fraud would seem a bit clownish, and one can only silently admit defeat.

It’s not that our army is incompetent, it’s just that the enemy is too strong!
They’ve even invited the national team judges to come out to help keep things under control, how can we still fight?
In the end, only a few stubborn and fanatical fans were still there to discuss the film on a small scale. Apart from them, no one discussed "No Man's Land" and "The Beginning" side by side anymore.

When the gap is too huge, forcing them to be "twin beauties" will only become a joke.

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In the studio of Mingzhu Satellite TV, the intelligent and beautiful female host gestured to the director's desk and then turned on the portable microphone hanging on her collar.

"Welcome to 'Celebrity Face to Face'. The two protagonists from the recently popular 'Beginning' who have come to our studio today... Come on, both of you introduce yourselves."

The camera first turned to Lin Xina, who was wearing light makeup and a moon-white Chinese dress. At first glance, she looked as pure as a ray of white moonlight, making the young and old men in the audience stare at her in amazement.

Beautiful, so beautiful!
"Hello everyone, I'm Lin Xina, and I play Li Shiqing in "The Beginning"."

There was thunderous applause.

The camera turned and focused on Zhou Hao, who was wearing a sports sweatshirt.

"Hello everyone, I'm Zhou Hao, and I play Xiao Heyun in "The Beginning"."

There was another round of applause, but the level of applause was obviously not as enthusiastic as before.

There is no way, appearance is justice.

"Let me add something." The female host smiled and said, "Zhou Hao not only plays Xiao Heyun, but is also the screenwriter and director of this drama. He has many roles, which is amazing."

"No, no." Zhou Hao waved his hand modestly. "I'm lucky to have met a group of good actors who are willing to practice acting with me, otherwise this project would have failed long ago."

The female host smiled politely, "The ratings of 'Beginning' are currently very good. Do you two have anything to say? Nana first?"

"Well... you're very happy, right?" Lin Xina looked a little nervous. "After all, this is my first work as the female lead. It's a great encouragement to me to be recognized by everyone." "Where's Zhou Hao?"

"It's about the same as hers." Zhou Hao shrugged. "Because I've never played a leading man before, and I've never been a director, so I've been very tormented these days, fearing that I'd mess up this play. Now that I can achieve this result, I can feel relieved. I really want to thank all the audience for their support..."

After a few simple warm-up rounds, the female host's questions gradually became more pointed.

"Zhou Hao, let's talk about the director. I think this is what many viewers want to know." The female host asked with a smile: "What went wrong at the time that caused the turmoil of changing the director?"

Upon hearing this question, all the audience members immediately perked up and looked straight at Zhou Hao.

That's right. It would be more interesting if we had more questions like this!

This question was indeed a bit sharp. Fortunately, Zhou Hao had already prepared before coming. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "First of all, I want to make it clear that Director Xu and I have no personal grudges. The whole thing was caused by work from beginning to end. To put it bluntly... maybe we just have differences in our concepts."

"Can you be more specific?" the female host asked further.

"In Director Xu's production philosophy, the marketing part plays a very important role, even to the point where it affects normal filming."

Zhou Hao paused and pointed at Lin Xina beside him, "When we first started filming, the rumors about her and me were all over the internet. At that time, all kinds of short stories were made up, and they even helped to think of the name of our child in the future..."

Before she finished speaking, the whole audience burst into laughter, and Lin Xina herself covered her mouth and laughed so hard that she was shaking.

"So you don't like this kind of marketing hype?" the female host asked again.

Zhou Hao’s eyelids twitched. This question... was full of ulterior motives!

If you answer carelessly, you may offend a large number of people!
After thinking for a while, he said, "It's not that I don't like it. After all, marketing hype is also part of the film and television production process. What I dislike is that the proportion is too high."

"I always feel that film and television production should always focus on the work itself, and marketing hype should only be a supplementary icing on the cake. If you put the cart before the horse, it will not be beautiful."

The female host smiled and nodded, then asked further, "So can I understand it this way - many viewers are complaining that TV dramas are getting worse and worse, is the problem here, focusing more on marketing than on creation?"

Zhou Hao's heart skipped a beat. Oh my god! This is a deadly trap for me!
Each question is more offensive than the last!

Even Lin Xina sensed the danger inside and secretly gave Zhou Hao a hint with her eyes.

Uncle, take it easy!
After thinking for a while, Zhou Hao started practicing Tai Chi. "I think this is the result of a combination of multiple factors, and the imbalance in marketing proportion may be just one of them."

"Then what other reasons do you think there are?"

"I don't know." Zhou Hao spread his hands. "I've only been in the industry for a year, and I don't know a lot of things in it comprehensively or deeply. As the saying goes, if you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak, so I don't want to make empty statements here. That would be very irresponsible."

cunning!

The female host complained in her heart.

But she didn't intend to let Zhou Hao go just like that.

We paid a lot of money to invite him here, so of course we have to dig up some explosive information!

(End of this chapter)