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

Chapter 495 This host is not very honest

In a simply decorated studio, everyone was doing the final checks.

Just looking at the size of the studio, it is hard to imagine that this is the recording location for Princess Tang Tang's show. Judging from the venue conditions alone, it even feels worse than the interview chat rooms of some small platforms.

But even so, Zhou Hao did not dare to slack off at all. Even if the recording location was in a garbage dump, she was still the Sixth Princess.

After checking all the work, the intellectual and beautiful female host Liu Dan put on the invisible headset and made an OK gesture to the director's desk.

As the order to start recording was given, everyone started to get busy.

"Hello, everyone. Welcome to the new episode of Light and Shadow Podcast. I am your old friend Liu Dan."

Liu Dan's opening remarks were simple and clear, without any fancy clichés, and went straight to the point.

"…Recently, the film market has been in the off-season. Everyone is preparing for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday season, so there haven't been any particularly outstanding films in theaters. However, a big online movie has recently caused quite a stir."

"I think everyone has guessed it, it is the movie 'You Are the Apple of My Eye'. Welcome to our guest today, young director Zhou Hao."

The camera switched over, and Zhou Hao quickly raised his hand to say hello, "Hello everyone, I'm Zhou Hao, and I'm very happy to come to "Light and Shadow New Podcast" and meet you all."

"Your identity is a bit complicated." Liu Dan counted on his fingers and smiled, "You were a volunteer teacher, a novelist, a musician, a screenwriter, a director, and a guest actor... I don't know what to call you, Teacher Zhou or Director Zhou?"

Zhou Hao waved his hands, "No, no, no, just call me Xiao Zhou."

Liu Dan smiled and said, "So among these identities, which one do you like best?"

"My favorite?" Zhou Hao was secretly alert in his heart. This host was not very honest. He set a trap right away.

None of these answers are appropriate and may easily offend people.

What do you mean? You like writing songs and making movies, right? So we who read novels are second-class citizens?

What? You became famous as a volunteer teacher, but now you don’t care about that anymore, right?

Driven by the desire to survive, Zhou Hao thought quickly for a moment, "Actually, my favorite identity is my other identity, that is, my parents' son."

"What do you mean?" Liu Dan was a little surprised.

"Because that means I haven't grown up yet." Zhou Hao smiled and said, "When I was a child, I lived a simple life. I was carefree and happy. When I grew up, I lost a lot of simple happiness."

Chicken thief.

Liu Dan secretly complained, "So now people on the Internet say that Those Years is a very innocent film. Is it because of your own innocence when you were a student?"

Okay, okay, you’re still digging a hole, right?

Zhou Hao immediately replied: "In fact, in my era, the channels for obtaining Internet information were relatively closed, so most of the students of my generation were very simple. It was different from now on, where you can obtain a vast amount of information with just a mobile phone and an APP."

Liu Dan nodded. "But some directors' student days may be more innocent than yours, but they can't make a pure youth film like Those Years?" "I think there are many reasons."

"for example?"

"Before the advent of the Internet, the threshold for becoming a director was actually quite high." Zhou Hao said tactfully: "People who are qualified to do this have been exposed to much more things during their school years than ordinary children."

"For a child like me who led a relatively simple life, I might not be able to reach the threshold of film and television drama creation after graduation. It was the Internet entertainment that lowered this threshold and gave me the possibility to move up... So everything has its pros and cons, and the Internet is no exception."

Liu Dan smiled and decisively ended the topic because she knew that continuing might be risky.

"Let's talk about the movie itself. Why did you suddenly want to create such a movie?"

Zhou Hao spread his hands and said, "After finding a new partner, the work plan is to shoot a low-budget online movie. After comprehensive consideration, this movie is the most suitable."

"Ask a question that everyone is very interested in." Liu Dan said with a smile: "Is this film adapted from your true story? Is there a prototype for Shen Jiayi in the film?"

Damn, this is the nth pitfall?
"It is indeed adapted from a true story, but it is not about me." Zhou Hao decisively clarified: "The story is based on a good friend of my age."

Making friends out of nothing?

Liu Dan smiled and did not continue to ask. After all, he already had a girlfriend. If he really wanted to find out something...

"Are you satisfied with the final box office of the film?"

"Very satisfied, more satisfied than I could have imagined." Zhou Hao clasped his fists and bowed to the camera. "I really want to thank all the audience friends for their support. Many of you even watched it twice or three times to show your support. I am really grateful."

The six-yuan ticket price brought in more than 60 million yuan in box office revenue. Even if there were repeat customers who watched the movie a second or third time, this box office result is already terrifying.

Anyway, at least in the field of online movies, this is already a very impressive figure.

"I remember when this film was first released, the word-of-mouth response didn't seem very ideal, and there were even a lot of negative comments." Liu Dan continued to dig holes, "What do you think was the reason that made the film a successful comeback in the end?"

"Nothing else, just because it's pure." Zhou Hao replied without hesitation: "Many film critics and media people were not optimistic about this film at the beginning because their judgments were based on a set of standardized judging systems."

"In this system, the film must have contradictions and conflicts, and it must use the shortest possible length to capture the audience's interest. There must also be a reversal later, and it may even be so concrete that the audience must laugh and cry several times..."

Liu Dan was amused by what he heard. "You think this set of standards is not good?"

"It depends on the person." Zhou Hao shrugged and said, "Creating within this framework is like writing eight-part essays. Talented people can dance in shackles and write colorful parallel prose, but most mediocre people can only struggle painfully in it and write a bunch of nonsense."

"However, in the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, the most brilliant and dazzling poets have never been those who danced in chains and followed the rules, but those who were imaginative and unrestrained, and what they wrote was natural and without any artificiality."

“Although Those Years is far from that level, its greatest feature is that it is pure and natural. It does not deliberately pile up contradictions or provoke conflicts. The plot develops as it should, restoring the true nature of youth… Most people’s youth does not have so many melodramatic conflicts, right?”

Liu Dan nodded, feeling happy.

Just based on this passage, this episode is bound to cause quite a bit of controversy!
(End of this chapter)