Chapter 252 The best TV series?!
"Paul, I'm not sure if I want to make Prison Break Season 2."
The sky was sunset, and the dusk sunlight spread all over the garden. In the garden where the fallen leaves of the sycamore tree drifted in the wind, a white Labrador retriever sniffed on the lawn. Jessica sat on the rattan sun lounger and looked at a bride magazine "Modernbride" on the table in a daze. The corners of her mouth were raised from time to time, and she smiled expectantly, and then looked at Wang Yang who was chatting on her phone.
Hearing his words, Paul Jones, who was far away in New York, was shocked. Isn’t the production very sure? What a joke! Less than two days have passed since the hot air! He asked hurriedly: "What does it mean?" He only heard Wang Yang's chuckle with a little confused: "After Michael Schofield and others escaped from prison, the story seemed to be meaningless." Paul Jones said distressedly: "Oh no, you can't! You can't think so, absolutely not."
Who is the most important member behind a TV series? A good movie is the director, and a good TV series is the chief screenwriter. Nowadays, this person is the main creator and the highest person in charge (such as Jos Whedon), and sometimes he will personally serve as the director for several episodes. The chief screenwriter leads the entire screenwriter team to complete the script. In addition to "Prison Break", there are 6 screenwriters, each with different tasks and division of labor and cooperation.
Some people are responsible for designing the plot details of the story; some are responsible for designing characters, including personality background and dialogue; some are writing outlines of the segmentation, and some are writing scripts for the segmentation. In order to be more professional and not make loopholes, the team will also invite experts from relevant parties to serve as consultants and script doctors. In the end, this complete script written according to the chief screenwriter's ideas will be uniformly modified and polished by the chief screenwriter.
The script of "Prison Break" was a nearly complete prototype. He saw magical and serious demands and inspire the screenwriters on the spot: "We can't have any moisture! Any 'almost' idea, we have to occupy the audience's brains! Follow me to change their thinking structure!" Then he pointed out that an episode is divided into 6 minutes per unit, each unit is separated by apart, and a crisis occurs (suspense). There must be an exciting detail that allows the audience to switch channels between advertisements and will never forget to exchange them.
The facts proved that the team did it, and then a perfect script began to shoot. During the shooting period, Shenqiyang not only played the responsibilities of the highest producer, but also had to take care of the set remotely. All the screenwriters do this. The TV series has different movies. If the director wants to change a script line or a detail in each episode, he has to call the screenwriter to ask the screenwriter, and the screenwriter can only change it.
So no matter how many days "Prison Break" is filmed, Shenqiyang's mobile phone will ring about 10 times a day to solve the director's questions and determine the intention of each scene and each shot.
This genius screenwriter is the most important member! His extraordinary analysis and grasp of the script story, and his strong communication and inspiration skills are the key to supporting the success of "Prison Break". Now he suddenly said he would not do it!? Take the initiative to apply for a halving? Hell! If Shenqiyang insists on withdrawing from the second season of "Prison Break", he has not signed a long-term contract, so NBC has no choice but to do anything to him.
Even if NBC insists on ordering the new season of "Prison Break" from Flame Company, it loses its meaning. If the screenwriter and the highest person in charge are changed, how much quality will there be in the second season? What do you say during the promotion? What will the audience think about it? If there is no season 2 of "Prison Break"? What else can you talk about lobbying Fantasy Yang to produce a new sitcom?
However, in this case, everyone's relationship has deteriorated, but is Shenqi Yang short of his next home? CBS, ABC and other TV stations took the opportunity to dig him over. If Shenqi Yang secretly attacked NBC with the reason of "different creative ideas" as the reason for withdrawal, most of the audience would only scold NBC, not Shenqi Yang; at that time, NBC would clarify that "It is Shenqi Yang who withdrew by himself", which would turn into a soap opera.
Of course there is a high probability that NBC will endure it and continue to produce the second season of "Prison Break" but maintain a good relationship with Shen Qiyang, and be scolded by the audience with him; lobbying him for opening a new drama, provided that the contract has terms for at least three seasons.
But no matter what, the big surprises of the previous two days would turn into big troubles, and he, the producer, was in big trouble. Thinking of this, Paul Jones suddenly burst into a cold sweat, his breathing was a little anxious, and his urgent request was almost a little begging: "Yang, you can't do this, "Prison Break" needs you! You should be kidding me, right?"
"Yes, it's just a joke! But I hope the second season is called "Prison Break: Escape"." Wang Yang laughed and walked towards Danny's side with yellow leaves. In fact, he did have this consideration a few days ago. The theme of "Prison Break" will inevitably change after it is out of prison. Why is it called "Prison Break" called "Prison Break"? How to maintain its charm? But I immediately thought, if you give up when you encounter difficulties, what's the point? How can you get to this day? The first season is over.
"Oh my God! What a magical Yang!" Paul Jones felt like riding a roller coaster, between hell and heaven! Now it is heaven. Maybe no one can fry egg rolls without breaking the eggs. The fifth season of "Law and Order: Special Victims" which started airing yesterday on Tuesday only had 12.72 million viewers, and the 9/12 ratings fell by more than 2 million viewers compared to last season. Now NBC is counting on "Prison Break".
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and felt some dissatisfied complaints, and said with a smile: "Yang, you have been making too many jokes recently. I am a scary person. I almost fainted just now. You know how much we attach to "Prison Break", it is so charming!"
Wang Yang laughed, snapped his fingers at Danny, patted his thigh and made a "accompaniment" command gesture. Danny glanced at him and continued to hunt for treasure without paying attention. He said to his phone: "Yes, I know and thank you very much. Don't worry, Paul, I will try my best to make the second season of "Prison Break".
He had figured out what to do. Although the plot context and details of the first season of the two "Prison Break" are not the same; compared with the original version, the current version almost only retains the personality background of the prisoner, T-bag, because T-bag is the most convincing criminal character in the original "Prison Break". Robert Knep, who played two versions of T-bag, also performed very well, while other prisoners are close to reasonableness and persuasiveness.
But the problem faced in the second season is the same. The whole story scene is no longer a prison. The original version chose to play the family card, touching cards and inject water, trying to "reverse" each prisoner. However, the lack of connection between the characters caused the plot to be dispersed, and too much deliberate family affection eliminated the tension and excitement. While filming and broadcasting until the end of the third season, he ran back to a Panama prison. The plot did not advance but retreated, and the ratings naturally did not advance but retreated.
The current first season has reduced the number of people involved in escape from prison. One of the reasons is that the plot of the second season is not dispersed. Wang Yang understands "tensive suspense" and "smart and cool" are the biggest charm and core of series like "Prison Break".
Just unite the characters and carefully design the escape itself, don’t make the mistake of playing family cards and infilling water again, add more new genius characters to fight persuasive wits with Michael Schofield, whether it’s the “villain” FBI police like “Alexander Ma Hong” or the new recruits who are outside the prison for the escape team…
Only by maintaining a breathtaking rhythm can the vigorous vitality of "Prison Break". This is one of the creative ideas he wants to convey to the screenwriter team in the second season.
"Thank you for saying that, I'm relieved!" Paul Jones smiled in relief, and asked tentatively, "that's what you said just now to create a set of sitcoms? Are you interested?"
"Paul, I need some time to think about it." Wang Yang did not refuse immediately, otherwise he seemed too insincere. He was really considering the invitation. After chatting a few more words, the two ended the call. Wang Yang walked towards Jessica. Before he could take a few steps, his phone rang again. He muttered, "Tel-by-Tel Life!" and took the call: "Harrow, this is Yang."
Rachel's anxious voice came from the phone: "Yang, I can't help it! I have many questions about "Prison Break", but I just want you to answer me one, toe!"
This question is too important, not just suspense; if Michael Schofield is cut off his toes, he needs to be healed, and the gangster prisoners may be punished; if it is not cut off, who will come out to stop it? What will happen? Different results will make the whole plot go differently! Rachel repeated again in a quick voice: "Toes! One chance! Toes!"
Uh! Wang Yang had a weird expression on his face. Has her addiction to drama attacked? He laughed and said, "This is not OK, Rachel, I signed a confidentiality agreement." Rachel's tone was very brutal: "Please! I won't say it out. It has been entangled in my brain these two days, so annoying! Tell me quickly that I want to have a stable sleep. Well, well, well! I'm addicted, I just can't stand this kind of TV series. Maybe this is part of the fun!"
"Haha!" Rachel was crazy and laughed softly, and she asked in a negotiated tone: "You can hint, just think it was my guess. How about giving me a line in a movie?"
"Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what the next one is." Wang Yang blurted out and gave her a movie line, and Rachel suddenly made a "whip" sound like a trapped beast. Wang Yang joked and said, "Let the suspense be kept, it's not much. I don't know if I want to do the second season." Rachel over there was shocked and said, "What, do you want to die? I will kill you." Wang Yang shrugged and said, "It's just a joke, but the plot really cannot be revealed, you can't make an exception. There will be a second time when there is a first time. Let the toes go! Do you understand?"
Let the toes go? Rachel suddenly smiled and said, "Oh, i-see, i-see! Thank you, see-you!" Hearing her laughter and the beeping sound of her phone, Wang Yangfa frowned in a daze. What did she misunderstand? The toes are still there! Maybe "let the toes leave" can be understood as another meaning.
Regardless of whether the second season of "Prison Break" is done or not, it is a future thing. Now, while the first season of "Prison Break" has received a lot of praise, it has also received numerous praises.
There are not many users who score TV series on ImDB, and generally only have tens of thousands of votes, but they are almost all veteran drama fans. "Prison Break" which broadcasted two episodes, got a 9.3 score (8,651 users), and rushed to the top ten of the ImDB American drama rankings, and "Freak and Flying Astronomy Metacritic's comprehensive score is 90 points, and the user has a 9.5 positive review (out of 10). It temporarily includes 12 comments from TV film critics, 12 positives, and 0 mixed and negatives.
Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe scored 100 points, commenting: "If it can keep the excitement of the premiere, it will become an irresistible new monster in prime time on the screen." Maureen Ryan, a senior female reporter of the Chicago Tribune, also scored 100 points, and she wrote in the column: "Super novelty, unique, thrilling! This is the perfect series that won't disappoint you at all."
"I had to watch only one episode of Prison Break every week, and it was too early to evaluate it. But if it was a special two-hour premiere, it was the principle of grabbing your attention from the first scene and keeping the stunning suspense until it ended." - 95 points, Robert Bianco, USA Today; "There are many good and good things about Prison Break, but the best thing is that we have never seen such an episode before." - 95 points, Heather Havrilesky, Salon.
"Forget the little ridiculousness of the plot, it is extremely easy to do; enjoy suspense and tension, and you will have a lot of fun." - 90 points, Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal; "The only unfortunate thing is that Wang Yang's profound humor is not played here, lacking wonderful lines; but his intelligence is full of brilliance." - 85 points, Aaron Burn Hart, The Kansas City Star...
Among the more than 100 user rating comments, the audience was more excited and direct, expressing their emotions strongly, and also showing the great potential of "Prison Break" to become the "Most Popular New TV Series Award" of the People's Choice Award in 2003.
At a glance, almost all of the 10-point users of the Green Circle, danm said: "From now on, it's the best show on TV!" acs said: "I can't describe it in words, it's the best TV show ever on air!" cerio said: "This show is amazing! It's thrilling and fun! My favorite character now is t-bag!" fraserc said: "This is no better show on TV (episode)! Everyone should watch it!"
michelle said: "I love this show!! I love Miracle Yang!! You not only have a big guy [hunk, slang: strong, handsome and sexy man] (Wentworth Miller) to watch, but like a great book, it's a great show! I keep trembling in my chair!" grahamf said: "Once you watch an episode, you get hooked. [hooked, hooked, addicted, fascinated]"
Kyliea said: "I didn't miss a second, it's definitely my favorite show. (24, sorry.) Yes, it's incredible. There are some fake settings, but this should be like a superhero comic book, not a reality, please don't complain about Superman's incredible flying ability. You just accept it and enjoy it, these extremely entertaining and thrilling plots! Thank you Young, but "24" is still my second favorite show."
"Prison Break is the best TV show I've seen in about 10 years." - buckt; "My only complaint is why we have to wait for the next episode to be sooooooooooo?" - deborahh; "I think "Prison Break" is the most unmissable meal, it will make you obsessed. If you don't have a TV, you have to buy a TV." - timb; "The best TV show since the invention of the car!" - romuloj...
But there are also some 4-5-point yellow circles that lowered the score. Brandonb, who scored 4 points, said: "If you have basic knowledge of prison, then you know how terrible it is. It is impossible for prisoners to move freely like that! If this is reality, that chick [chick] was caught long ago." Nateg, who scored 1 points, said: "I hate this show, I hope they will end the filming season and help criminals escape from prison? How could anyone like it? Wang Yang did a stupid thing." Ralphgorgious, who scored 5 points, said: "Its suspense is surprising and uncontrollable. But when the show stopped, its mistakes made me unable to let go, love it, be hurt by it, and have a bad feeling of being played with."...
"Prison Break" seems to set off a new viewing storm with its debut two episodes. Countless viewers across the United States are crazy about this "unprecedented" drama. Multiple TV forums are full of discussions about it, discussing plot details, discussing Wang Yang, discussing Wentworth Miller, Evangeline Lily... "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Two and Half-My Man" that were broadcast on the same day are inevitably neglected.
In mainland China, the "Young Subtitle Group" first released resources. On the afternoon of the 17th Beijing time, a perfect subtitle version of Chinese and English bilingual subtitles was released. The netizens who were already impatient for a while, and fans downloaded and watched it one after another. Then it seemed like they had entered a new world. Damn, there are such TV series!?
"Task download, 1%, 20%...30%..."
As the task was 100% completed, the computer speaker made a crisp "ding" sound, and immediately, the speaker sounded "bang bang bang" gunshots.
“Previously-on-prison-break.”
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Chapter completed!