Chapter 73 lemming mode

Lemmings living in the Arctic tundra region have a unique behavior pattern. When their number expands rapidly and exceeds the capacity of one place, they begin to spontaneously migrate collectively, rush to the seaside, and jump into the sea one after another.Some experts believe that this is a kind of self-sacrifice to control the number of groups, while others believe that they just think they can swim across the sea and find new living territories. The well-known American screenwriter Pamela Douglas believes that the operation method of the TV network is "operating according to the model of lemmings-all rushing to the cliff at the same time, and most of them fall down".

What she was referring to was that all TV people would rush to New York to pitch scripts in May, because most of the TV shows are made there, and May is the solicitation time for series.The TV network will select 100 pilot scripts from 500 promotional dramas, and then make 20 pilot dramas from them, and then sell five decent series, and finally one new drama will be successful and won replay.That is to say, once it is successful, there are at least one hundred bones of scripts behind every popular TV series, such as "Desperate Housewives" and "Prison Break". But in our film and TV field, there is another kind of lemming action-lemmings generally flock to the same subject matter, lemmings generally flock to the same hot spot, and then wait for the majority to fall, and a small part to stay.

For a while, the target of Operation Lemmings was old Shanghai themes.From "Red Rose and White Rose" to "Jasmine Blossoms", from "Twilight of a Date", from "Love in the Rain" to "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward", the theme of old Shanghai has become the old three of the new era , specializes in accumulating obsolete signs and symbols, the director only needs to find a few narrow and dark alleys, gorgeous and dead houses, paint a few walls with dark flowers, and put up a few coquettish neon lights, and hire a few surviving old tailors to sew A few cheongsams, a few songs by Zhou Xuan and Bai Guang (either "Night Shanghai" or "Rose is Blooming Everywhere") are babbling in the background, and a few actresses are hired to stretch their legs slowly from the rickshaw, Stretch it down again, or lean up towards the suave-looking actor (to show caution, I have to keep repeating at the new film conference that the suits at that time did not have sides), and leaning up again, brewing Shanghai legend.

The identity of the protagonist is also very single, but there are singers, dancers, courtesans, female stars, female secret agents, and aunts. It seems that there are only these jobs left in Shanghai. Shanghai, full of singers, dancers and aunts, dimmed under the lights of the mahjong table and the ballroom, and gradually became a ghost town independent of the times. In the shrill singing of the old record player, weird and unrealistic scenes were staged. In the legend, a few cannons were occasionally fired outside the window, which is regarded as a little explanation for that great era. For another period of time, the lemmings all flocked to costume martial arts dramas, then military themes, then marriage and love themes, and now they are flocking to spy movies in neat steps.As a result, as long as you turn on the TV, a hero with dyed yellow hair and a chivalrous woman with chicken feathers walking on the streets of Hengdian on a certain channel, you can imagine that there must be a hero in a bamboo forest on the next channel. Li gritted his teeth and worked hard. If a female spy was sending a telegram on one channel, there would be telegraph operators pretending to be serious in all channels, receiving telegrams from Chongqing.

The lemming mode is actually a biological instinct, following the actions of most people is the most worry-free and safest, but the worst thing is that the ending is often "most fall down", our most elite TV people Heyingren also strictly followed this model, rushing to the cliff together, using the destruction of the majority to set off the success of the very few.