Chapter 772: Huaxia's Great River Drama
If you ask who is the first drama in Chinese history, then there is no doubt that "CCTV version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has not run.
And this TV series was released nationwide in 1994.
Released from October 94, one episode a day is broadcast, five episodes are broadcast a week, and it instantly occupied the TV of all the ordinary people in China, before the ratings of Ultraman Tiga were quickly crushed, and then "CCTV version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was the highest in the country, and it actually reached 97% of the ratings, and the horror can be imagined.
And this TV series, in March 1995, just ended the first round of broadcast across the country.
But it doesn't matter, major TV stations quickly followed up, and ordered the domestic copyright of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" one after another, and then you fought for it to rebroadcast it.
Boss Jia doesn't have a TV station in China, so naturally he won't grab the domestic TV copyright, but Boss Jia is interested in the overseas copyright of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
So in March, when the national broadcast of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ended, he took the initiative to find director Wang Fulin and CCTV, hoping to buy a full set of permanent exclusive overseas copyrights of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
"How much are you going to pay?" Wang Fulin and CCTV were shocked by the words "a full set of permanent exclusive overseas", and couldn't help asking.
"A very reasonable price!" Boss Jia smiled slightly and said, "Since it is an overseas copyright, then it is calculated according to foreign capital, then use the general dollar, I calculated it, a total of 84 episodes, calculated according to 100,000 US dollars per episode, it is 8.4 million US dollars in copyright fees, what do you think?" ”
"100,000...... 100,000 ...... Dollar episode ...... "Wang Fulin and CCTV were shocked by my mother."
Although CCTV is a unit that is accustomed to money, it is basically built in RMB, such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the final total investment is as high as about 110 million yuan, which is much higher than the price of 8.4 million US dollars.
But no matter how high the RMB is, it is difficult to exchange it for US dollars in this era, and CCTV has never created foreign exchange for the country, which is an eternal pain in the hearts of CCTV leaders.
So when Boss Jia proposed to use $8.4 million to buy a full set of overseas permanent copyrights for the 84-level CCTV version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the CCTV leaders present knew that CCTV would never be able to refuse this proposal, which was a great credit!
As a result, although Director Wang Fulin vaguely felt that it would be a bit of a loss to sell the permanent overseas copyright in the future for 8.4 million, he might be able to fight for a higher price, or just a time period of overseas copyright.
But with the promotion of CCTV leaders, Wang Fulin, the director, does not have much right to speak, after all, the money is invested by CCTV, and all the cast and crew are also CCTV's?
So at the beginning of April this year, Daqian successfully signed a cooperation agreement with CCTV to get the permanent overseas copyright of the CCTV version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the first country that Boss Jia wants to do is undoubtedly Fusang.
Boss Jia remembered that in 96 years, the leader of NHK TV was on a business trip in China, and accidentally saw the replay episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms from the TV, and I was shocked, I spent 10,000 US dollars to buy the Fusang copyright of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and then found someone to dub it, and finally got Fusang to broadcast it, which instantly detonated the entire Fusang market.
After all, even if Fusang and Huaxia love and kill each other, but they also have the same origin in culture, and the culture of the Three Kingdoms has a very crazy heat in Fusang, all kinds of Three Kingdoms comics, games, and even animations, which are endless, it makes people wonder which country this is.
To a certain extent, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in 94, the popularity of the Three Kingdoms in China was even inferior to that of Fusang, which has an extremely terrifying Three Kingdoms market.
And Boss Jia got the overseas copyright of the Three Kingdoms, and the first thing he did was to find a way to use computer technology to improve a certain degree of clarity, and then hire professionals to find a large number of voice actors from Fusang who have similar voices to the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and dubbed the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Don't look at it, this seems to be a lot of work, but because Fusang has long been accustomed to the weekly broadcast mode and only broadcasts one episode a week, the progress can still keep up.
However, when Boss Jia took the first episode, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that had been optimized by the computer and re-dubbed by Fuso voice actors, to find NHK TV, and when it was to be broadcast in the prime time of NHK TV, it was very contradictory for the TV station.
When they watched the sample of the first episode, they knew that compared with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Dahe drama they produced was not even a scumbag, if the two TV series were broadcast on the TV station, wouldn't their own Dahe drama be completely shown to the point of autism.
Just when NHK TV station was a little hesitant, Daqian said that if NHK had no intention of broadcasting, then Daqian didn't mind getting it to other TV stations to broadcast, NHK completely gave up struggling.
Anyway, this is not the first big river drama to hit the street, but the ratings are the most critical, if you can ensure the ratings of NHK while hitting the street while the ace big river drama, that is the decision that smart people will make.
So after discussing with NHK, when the second episode of "The Legend of the 8th General Yoshimune" had just aired, and the ratings had already hit the streets, a brand new TV series was broadcast in prime time on the afternoon of the second day.
"What is this? Why is NHK broadcasting a TV series again? And looking at the opening style, how can it still be the style of Dahe drama! Tonight, many viewers who were in front of the TV said to themselves with a confused face after seeing the beginning of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
And when the opening special effects ended, revealing 4 huge titles, the audience exclaimed, "It's the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!" NHK TV is really going to surprise people! ”
From here, it can be seen that Fuso's high awareness of the culture of the Three Kingdoms, their first reaction is not what the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is, why should the good Fusang TV broadcast Chinese cultural programs, but as a surprise to NHK TV, thinking that this is NHK TV's own TV!
Because in the eyes of the Fusang people, it is not an amazing operation or thing for their own TV station to make a Romance of the Three Kingdoms to broadcast!
And with the continuous broadcast of TV and the continuous deduction of the plot of the first episode, some Fuso people feel that the taste is a little wrong, because none of the actors in this TV series know each other, and they have obvious dubbing traces, which are not the actors' original sounds at all.
If it were in normal times, there would definitely be many people who chose to delve into this issue.
But it's a pity that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is so good-looking, so I can see that those who are puzzled don't have time to question the problem anymore and completely immerse themselves in the perfect world of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!