Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 273 Codename "Q"

When Wang Taling joined the crew, "Psychological Crime 2" had already started filming for more than a week.

Compared to the four cases in the first part, "Psychological Crime 2" has fewer units, only two chapters.

The first chapter is titled "Dark River", which tells the story of how all the people in a village make money collectively by engaging in the business of "trading in human beings".

Apart from the shocking case itself, this chapter has little to do with the main storyline.

However, a new character named Minan will appear in this plot, and she will also be the heroine in the subsequent movie version.

In contrast, the second chapter, "The Education Field," is the core of the entire second part.

It can even be said that it is the source of the entire "Green Ivy Detective Universe" villain organization.

The so-called "education field" is based on a psychological experiment called "Skinner Box" proposed by American psychologist Skinner.

Simply put, it is to manipulate the conditioned reflexes of organisms to achieve the purpose of targeted "cultivation".

In other words, people's preferences, fears, and preferences can all be artificially created, which is somewhat similar to Pavlov's dog, but with more sociality.

In the plot, the "education field" is a social psychology experiment proposed in the last century. Its original purpose was to explore how to make people grow better.

However, as the experiment progressed, the organizers gradually discovered that it was causing great psychological harm to the subjects, so the person in charge decisively stopped and sealed the experiment.

The experiment was terminated, but the damage suffered by the subjects still existed. Under the "guidance" of some people on the experiment side, they became avengers.

After solving several "murderers" in succession, they were finally spotted by the police. In order to avoid being caught, several key members fled to the United States.

As the saying goes, "He who slays a dragon becomes a dragon." In the process of revenge, the "subjects" gradually came to like the feeling of manipulating other people's lives.

After conducting some experiments, they were not satisfied with targeting ordinary people, but turned their attention to those high IQ geniuses.

These "new dragons" and their followers gathered together to form a secret organization.

Code name "Q".

Their goal is to become the ones who control the direction of human civilization and thus judge the world.

It has to be said that the villains in most legendary stories always have great ambitions and firm beliefs.

The Q organization will "train" the selected candidate through various unexpected events.

This is a challenge as well as a test.

If the subject passes the test, he will be accepted into the Q organization.

Such as the "re-education camp case" against Fang Mu, the "family annihilation case" against Guan Hongfeng, and the "molar frame-up case" against Qin Ming.

In the subsequent "Detective Chinatown", similar experiments will be conducted on Qin Feng.

Of course, these plots will unfold in their respective subsequent stories, and each will have its own explanation.

This time, "Psychological Crime 2" just throws out this setting.

Because this is a sequel, and the director is Five Hundred, the most experienced person in the Arclight Alliance, so after the script is written, there is basically no need for Meng Bai, the producer, to do anything.

"The second part of the story goes to 2006, and then ten years later in the "Day and Night Chase" storyline, Tai Wei is there, but Fang Mu is not..."

Wu Bai sighed: "Although I don't know what plot you are going to dig in the movie version next year, I always feel that Fang Mu's ending will not be good."

Meng Bai smiled and said, "Stories are different from life. Many times the ending is predetermined from the beginning."

"Tsk, I thought you were the kind of creator who liked happy endings."

"As a viewer, I like happy endings; but as a creator, tragedy is more impressive." Meng Bai spread his hands.

This is true, most of the classics that have been sung for many years often have a tragic ending. I don't know if these creators do it on purpose, they always like to build happiness on the audience's pain.

"When will the film version be launched?" Wu Bai asked.

"Next year." Meng Bai said: "By the way, I remember that your project "Painting Rivers and Lakes" also started airing some time ago? I haven't had time to look at the data yet, how is the result?"

At the beginning of the year, Wubai joined forces with members of the Arclight Alliance to film a comic adaptation called "The Bad Guys".

This project was mainly controlled by Wu Bai. Apart from investing, Meng Bai did not intervene in the entire process.

The original animation is of very high quality and is considered one of the top-ranked works in Chinese animation.

To be honest, this drama is pretty miserable. It was finished filming in February, but was not aired until October.

For a small-scale web drama, this speed is very slow.

But there was nothing to be done. Wubai and his team had originally agreed with Qiyi TV that the show would be broadcast in August, but it ended up colliding with "The Lost Tomb".

Considering the influence of the latter, I thought about moving it back a month, but it ended up being compared to "The Lost Tomb".

In the end, there was no choice but to continue delaying, which resulted in an additional two months of delay.

In fact, with the rapid development of the online drama market, there is basically no chance for a drama to occupy a monopoly time slot like in the past two years.

Take this year for example, the five major video platforms have a total of more than 400 online drama projects throughout the year, and they can’t even schedule one in a day.

Therefore, in the future, collisions between multiple popular online dramas will occur more frequently.

Back to the present, when Wu Bai heard Meng Bai mention his project, his expression suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"Alas, we originally thought that we could leverage the popularity of the original anime, but in the end, there was no reflection of it in the data." Wu Bai sighed.

To be honest, the quality of their drama is actually not bad.

As we all know, live-action adaptations of comics have always been a high-incidence area for criticism from fans of the original works.

Many plots and settings are suitable in the two-dimensional world, but will become awkward after being upgraded to a higher dimension.

The same applies to producers. If there are too few adaptations, the viewing experience will be poor; if there are too many adaptations, then just wait to be attacked by fans of the original work.

In comparison, Wu Bai and his friends' remake of "The Bad Guys" is already very good.

The Douban score is 8.3. Whether fans or passers-by, there is not much objection except for complaining that the character design is a bit childish.

But even though the quality of the remake is so high, the final data results can only be considered mediocre.

One month after its launch, the total number of views has just exceeded 4 million, and this is because many viewers were attracted by the name of Arc Light.

A year ago, this figure was actually quite good. But at a time when everyone is aiming for "20 billion" or "30 billion", it is a bit underwhelming.

This drama is a two-season series. According to the current trend, the final total number of views will probably be around 7-8 million.

In fact, it is not bad. At least it can guarantee that Qiyi TV is willing to pay the balance and will not lose money.

But Wu Bai was still very depressed. After all, the team was Arc Light's team, the director was himself, and the platform was Qiyi TV.

As a result, the project he collaborated with Meng Bai on was a huge hit, and if he did it himself, he could only guarantee not to lose money.

There is really no excuse for this control variable method.

　There was a change in the previous part. Regarding Taiyang Chuanhe, ArcLight, as a cornerstone partner, holds a 20% stake and is the third largest shareholder.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)