Chapter 125 Bao Qingtian


    Chen Qi sorted out the work at hand:


    First there is the script for the comic strip "Romance in Lushan", which is the easiest and can be done in one day; then there is the script for a TV series; then there is the new script for the movie and the follow-up tasks for "Tai Chi".


    He decided to finish the TV series first.


    Nowadays, there are very few themes in domestic TV dramas. You don’t know where the taboos will be found, but you can play it safe. What is safety? Revolutionary themes are the safest, followed by classics, scars, real-life citizens, and classical novels.


    Chen Qi thought about revolution for a moment and then dismissed it. His mind was filled with classic dramas from later generations. And those "revolutionary dramas" of later generations are all "counterrevolutionary" now.


    You know, the old revolutionaries who fought on the battlefield and engaged in espionage operations are still alive and occupy high positions.


    You really made the Eighth Route Army officers look like bandits. The Kuomintang agents were all affectionate and righteous. Our party’s intelligence officers were struggling with human nature. They were engaged in revolution and at the same time fell in love... Why not be killed in a hurry!


    Ideological emancipation does not happen overnight, and times are different.


    He simply omitted the famous book. He didn’t want to write about the scars. Are you a real citizen? Eh? Chen Qi''s eyes lit up, let''s do "Love in the Courtyard" and let Zhu Lin play Qin Huairu. Isn''t it necessary for future fan fiction to explode? !


    Tsk tsk!


    He suppressed his thoughts that were about to start, and with a stroke of his pen, he clicked on the final classical novel.


    The Biography of Yue Fei, Generals of the Yang Family, Generals of the Hu Family, and Di Gong''s Case were also released relatively early, because they preached loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, honest officials, punishing traitors and eradicating evil, and their themes were correct.


    "What to write?"


    "He asked me to write Level 3, so I wrote Level 3. Am I such an obedient person?"


    Chen Qi thought for a while, and with his thoughts welling up again and his inspiration like urination, he started writing again and again.


    "Bao Qingtian"!


    …


    Chen Qi wants to write a unit drama. A big case is a unit, and the plot is relatively independent.


    The production conditions for TV dramas these days are poor, and they really can''t be filmed for too long. He plans to write six episodes. The first case will of course be the famous guillotine case! The guillotine case has been circulating for a long time, and in order to make Wang Fulin willingly receive royalties, he added something more to it.


    TV dramas of this era were different from those of later generations, in that they were lacking in contentment and rhythm.


    "Journey to the West" felt like it was so long when I was a kid, and I couldn''t finish watching it. Later I found out that it was only 25 episodes long. For example, Episode 8 "Three Difficulties on the Road" tells three things in one episode: fighting against the yellow wind monster, collecting the sand monks, and several Bodhisattvas teasing Zhu Bajie... It has been 20 episodes now!


    Therefore, in these six episodes of "Bao Qingtian", Chen Qi can pack a lot of content.


    He wrote it very smoothly, basically one episode took three days, and it was completed in ten days. When he contacted Wang Fulin, he was shocked and rushed to the guest house.


    "Bao Qingtian?"


    Wang Fulin looked at the subject and was noncommittal. Then he looked at the beginning: "Qin Xianglian?"


    He frowned, how could this young man get free royalties from classical novels? Qin Xianglian''s love story was sung in operas, who doesn''t know? ?


    But he remained silent and continued to read without saying a word.


    Qin Xianglian took her two children to Beijing to find her husband. Chen Shimei had become the consort and disowned them. When Qin Xianglian heard that Bao Zheng was selfless, she went to file a complaint and listed Chen Shimei''s five major crimes.


    Bao Zheng confirmed her identity and said that if the evidence was conclusive, Chen Shimei would eventually be guillotined.


    But she just wanted her husband back and didn''t want his family to die, so she stopped suing and settled in a nearby town with her two children. By chance, a strange case occurred in this small town, and Kaifeng Mansion was responsible for the matter.


    This case was taken by Chen Qi from "Young Bao Qingtian", the mystery of the mummy in the Hermitage Village - the childhood shadow of many friends.


    The general meaning is: there are six corpses, part of each corpse is intercepted, and then pieced together to form the seventh corpse, making people mistakenly think that seven people are dead... This technique comes from the Japanese anime "Kindaichi Boy''s Incident Book".


    "Young Bao Qingtian" was also copied.


    Chen Qi moved this content over and used it as a small case among the big cases to show that Bao Zheng was like a **** in solving cases. Otherwise, if he just killed Chen Shimei, he could only be said to be upright and unafraid of power, without any wisdom.


    This grandson only gave Wang Fulin three episode scripts.


    Director Wang was enjoying the excitement. He had just seen Bao Zheng solve the mystery of the mummy and was about to reveal the secret. Click, it’s gone!


    oops!


    The 49-year-old director Wang was about to have a heart attack. He said anxiously: "Where''s the back?" "It''s gone!"


    "How could it be gone?"


    "There are only so many scripts for three episodes, so just write whatever you want!"


    "You, this, this is not okay!"


    Wang Fulin thought for a while and realized what he was doing. He said helplessly: "As long as the story is good, we can definitely discuss it, but you can''t stop it! You take it out first and let me take a look."


    “…”


    Chen Qi curled his lips and took out three more episodes like a grandson.


    Wang Fulin was just like reading an online article and seeing a climax, which suddenly stopped and then suddenly resumed. It was full of ups and downs. Waiting to see how Bao Zheng reveals the secret and how six corpses turned into seven, he couldn''t help but marvel.


    "Wonderful! Wonderful!"


    He kept patting the table and praised: "I said we should find young people. They are really different from us old guys. How did you come up with it?"


    After solving the case, Chen Shimei happened to send someone to the town to kill Qin Xianglian, but she was rescued by Zhan Zhao, and Bao Zheng took her back to Kaifeng Mansion. Seeing that her husband was so cruel that he even wanted to kill his children, Qin Xianglian decided to continue the lawsuit.


    Following the princess, various vicious female protagonists jumped out, but Chen Shimei was still detained in the lobby.


    The princess invited the Queen Mother out, and the Queen Mother personally told Qin Xianglian that Qin Xianglian had no choice but to give in. Unexpectedly, the princess went one step further and did not allow the other party''s child to be named Chen. This angered Bao Zheng and insisted on beating Chen Shimei.


    What is the climax of "Bao Qingtian"?


    Even though powerful people from all walks of life tried their best to obstruct it, Bao Zheng took off his black gauze hat, summoned Shang Fang''s sword, and roared: "Open - guillotine -!"


    "good!"


    Wang Fulin jumped up again, which was so satisfying to see.


    But after feeling satisfied, he hesitated again and said, "Xiao Chen, is this way of writing too entertaining?"


    "Then if you were asked to film Bao Zheng by yourself, how would you film it?"


    "Of course I am collecting information and trying to be as realistic as possible. There are many records about Bao Zheng in ancient times."


    "If you make movies based on historical data, then I have nothing to say. If you look for movies like "The Case of Bao Gong" and "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses", they are originally popular novels. In other words, they are actually entertainment novels.


    You film based on entertainment novels, and then you want to be realistic? Isn''t this contradictory? "


    Chen Qi paused and said: "I think realism can be placed on the costumes, props and scenes. There is no need to stuff it into the theme and outline it. It is a popular work in the first place."


    “…”


    Wang Fulin pondered for a moment and said: "I want this book. We want it regardless of whether it is filmed or not. I will go back and discuss it with the studio, and I will tell you after I make a decision."


    "That''s fine."


    Chen Qi sent Wang Fulin away, stretched himself hard, and got six hundred yuan!


    TV dramas don’t have much influence now, and the Golden Eagle Awards haven’t even been established yet, there is only the Feitian Award. It had to wait until the mid-1980s to gain momentum. In the early 1990s, it became popular all over the country because there were more televisions at that time.


    At that time, movies were in decline, and the contrast was very sharp. Movie stars began to be unable to compete with TV stars.


    Then there is the story of the coal boss...


    Chen Qi is not very interested in the TV series at this stage, it is just to earn some royalties, and he does not want Gong Xue to film it, which will cause him to lose his status.


    "He Qing, Tao Huimin, and He Saifei can all come and try, as well as Gong Xue''s sister Gong Ying. Her sister later became an actress..."


    Chen Qi touched his chin and suddenly raised his eyebrows: Damn, her sister seems to be older than me!


    (End of chapter)