Jiang Yan's new drama will premiere soon.

This attracted the attention of film and television practitioners across the United States.

Different from music, Jiang Yan's ability in music is already recognized as strong. After all, the "Son of the Wind" is full of divinity and his legendary color cannot be erased.

But Jiang Yan's influence in film and television is still much weaker.

Even if Jiang Yan's "Kill Bill 1" was a hit, "The Man from Earth" was also a hit before, "The Departed" also won an Oscar, and "The Lord of the Rings" was heavily invested and then turned around amidst the slump.

It's full of money, but in fact, in the eyes of old and American film and television practitioners, the relationship between these films and Joey is not that big.

After all, investment behavior and personal participation in production are two different things.

"Prison Break" boasts that Joey personally wrote the screenplay, personally selected the actors, personally edited and scored the movie, and only shot it with the camera himself, but this also shows that this is basically Joey's personal work.

Well, for Joey's first work in North America, it is certain that everyone has expectations, but they will definitely not be too high.

So many media are discussing:

"I believe the theme song Joey said will be great, but as for the TV series itself, I reserve my opinion."

"Joey may have made a lot of preparations in related aspects, but Asian culture is still very different from ours. Joey may need to stumble a few times before he can truly understand it."

"Joey is the strongest cross-lingual singer I have ever seen. He knows more than ten foreign languages ​​and is proficient in multiculturalism. The novel "Prison Break" is also very suitable for our taste, so I think "Prison Break" will do well."

"This is different. It doesn't matter whether the novel was written by him, and how can novels and film and television dramas be equated? These two are completely different arts..."

There are those who support it, and there are those who are bearish, and most of them are bearish.

This is normal. In the United States, unless you are a senior practitioner who has succeeded many times, you are Cameron, and your first work will be poorly received.

Of course, another reason is naturally competition, so the promotion of "Prison Break" in traditional media was not very smooth.

So much so that many people feel that Joey has overestimated his fame? Is he really not prepared to spend money on publicity, and is he relying solely on the Grammys?

But what these people don't know is that Jiang Yan has already implemented saturation attacks on other propaganda channels!

At Caltech, Hank returned to his dormitory after class and immediately turned on his computer and opened YouTube.

YouTube has completed its first round of financing a few days ago. The website has been greatly upgraded. Specifically, the interface and correlation coefficient have been optimized to make video playback more adaptable to the current low network speed. In addition, there is a registration function. After registration

Users can like and comment on the video. In terms of video content, YouTube is not only Joey's own personal channel now, but also has videos from other institutions and individuals. There are not many videos at the moment, but I believe it will definitely become more popular in the future.

Becoming more and more abundant.

Seeing such changes, Hank felt very satisfied and at the same time a little more anxious, because these optimizations coincided with his own ideas, and he also had many other ideas, so his reply to the YouTube team was also

Looking forward to it even more.

He felt that if YouTube officials did not reply to his application letter after this week, he would reveal the identity of his new shareholder's son and shock Joey himself!

But we’ll talk about that later. Now Hank is here to support Joey.

These days, the arrogant traditional media in the United States continue to belittle the American TV series "Prison Break" written by Joey, saying that he is not good at making American TV series. This is a statement that Hank despises.

Who do you think Joey is? He is the "Son of the Wind"! He is a genius! He is the greatest cross-language singer in the world! His understanding of global culture is beyond what you rookies can achieve? Joey's "Kill Bill" is great

Success is the best proof!

So "Prison Break" will definitely work this time!

With this in mind, Hank clicked on Joey's personal channel and directly found the trailer for the "Prison Break" series.

It was the second trailer after the "Kung Fu Panda" trailer, titled "Prison Break, written by Joey, premiering this Saturday night with a bang."

Hank clicked in without any nonsense and watched it again, and then there was a wonderful clip of more than two minutes.

Along with the theme song of "Prison Break" that can be engraved into DNA, there are flashes of various characters and evocative lines.

Looking at the protagonist Mi Shuai's captivating eyes and the tattoos on his back, a tense and suspenseful atmosphere instantly jumped out of the screen.

In addition to the official trailer, YouTube also contains more than ten behind-the-scenes story videos, including simple interviews with the protagonists and some short stories about the creative team. Each video is only about one minute long, but it can still arouse the audience.

Not a small interest.

After reading it again, Hank was still very excited. The novel "Prison Break" had been published a long time ago. As a big fan of Joey, Hank had already bought it and read it, so he didn't support Joey purely out of passion.

, so now that he saw the casting, music, scenes and lines revealed in the trailer, he felt that he could make a conclusion based on these. This was definitely the most sincere restoration of the original work! Because when he read the novel

, that’s what I’m thinking about!

So just looking at these, Hank feels that even if "Prison Break" doesn't become a hit, its quality will definitely not be a problem!

There are countless netizens who have the same idea as him. At this time, there are hundreds of thousands of comments under the trailer of "Prison Break".

Hank looked over one by one, and most of them were Joey fans like him who came to support.

Although there are also many people who are dissatisfied, it doesn't matter. After all, this is just a trailer. When the show starts airing, I believe these people will definitely change their attitudes!

Hank thought so, he was confident.

Of course, Hank will naturally have a little bit of worry, after all, he is not a blindly optimistic person.

So in the end he just left a message: "Just wait, Joey will shake the world!"

After posting his comment, Hank looked at the time. There were still three hours until tonight's broadcast. It's almost, it's almost...

"The number of comments on a single YouTube video has exceeded 550,000!"

In Shanghai, a happy report from the person in charge of YouTube came from Jiang Yan's mobile phone. He was very satisfied.

There is currently only one online video website in the world, and there is only one video website in the world that has the social attribute function of comments, and Jiang Yan is the only "Internet celebrity" in the world.

So if Jiang Yan adds a "follow" function now, he can have millions of fans every minute.

The most cruel thing is that when he decided to put the trailer on YouTube, YouTube became the only film and television drama promotion platform on the Internet in the world!

In other words, the current Internet promotion function of "Prison Break" is unique! As long as netizens go online to watch videos, they will enter the YouTube website, and then they can see the trailer of "Prison Break".

This can be seen from the fact that a video on YouTube can easily receive tens of thousands of comments.

According to the background display, the views of "Prison Break" have exceeded 3 million per day! And the closer to Saturday, the higher the views.

So if "Prison Break" becomes a big hit next, it will not only benefit the TV station and Jiang Yan who broadcast it, but also YouTube!

The higher the discussion of "Prison Break", the more YouTube users there will be, and the greater the publicity dividend it will bring to various projects of Star Ocean North America Division. How cost-effective this account is, I believe that when the time comes, people watching Hollywood

You can tell by the anxious look on a bunch of guys.

So the next step is to see how "Prison Break" performs.

So, will "Prison Break" become a hit after being driven by the popularity of the Grammys and the unique promotion of YouTube?

In fact, Jiang Yan himself didn't have much confidence in this issue at the beginning.

The filming of "Prison Break" started in November 2001 and ended in early January 2002. It took two and a half months to complete.

The original version of "Prison Break" only had 13 episodes in the beginning, but later the ratings exceeded expectations, so it was hastily increased to 22 episodes.

Jiang Yan's version of "Prison Break Season 1" only has 16 episodes. This version retains the original flavor of the original "Prison Break" and eliminates some useless plots added in the original version for the sake of the plot.

So now the show overall looks better than the original version.

However, the show encountered some resistance when it was initially approached to be sold by TV stations.

The main reason is that the United States has little confidence in TV series produced by Chinese people, even if you are "Son of the Wind".

There is actually some reason for this idea. In December last year, the 12-episode edited version of Jiang Yan's "The Swordsman" was released in the United States. As a result, the cultural shock was unaccustomed, and all the people watching were Chinese and some Jiang Hus.

Fans of Yan, and other European and American people are also watching, but in terms of actual viewing audience, it is a bit miserable.

Of course, this data is compared with the ratings of domestic TV series in the United States, but if you include imported films from overseas, especially imported films from East Asia, the ratings of "The Swordsman" are actually record-breaking.

But this won't help something like "Prison Break". After all, "Prison Break" is billed as a purely American drama, but you "Son of the Wind" didn't star in it, and the fan base doesn't have much hope. The key is that it was written by you, a Chinese.

, is this possible?

Is it possible? If you try out one or two episodes first, you can actually change the attitude of all the TV stations.

But there is still a fact that Jiang Yan cannot ignore, that is, the popularity of the original "Prison Break Season 1" when it was broadcast in the United States was not as high as expected.

The original "Prison Break" ranked only 51st in the 2006-2007 American TV series ratings list, and the highest number of viewers for a single episode in North America was less than 10 million. You must know that for an American TV series to be ranked among the top five in North America, the number of viewers must be at least

There are 20 million!

Some people have also analyzed the main reason why the show was not very popular in North America, that is, in 2006, there were too many crime dramas in the United States, and the subject matter of "Prison Break" determined that it could not use differentiation to become an instant success.

But there is a reason why "Prison Break" has been able to film so many seasons.

The reason is that it is not popular at home, but it is popular abroad, especially in China.

The popularity of "Prison Break" in China in 2006 was phenomenal, especially among college students at the time.

Because of the rise of the Internet sharing era, resource download websites are also booming. I am tired of watching martial arts dramas and lingering romantic dramas. "Prison Break" has novel themes, tense rhythm, and costs millions of dollars to produce one episode.

The excellent drama series was very attractive to the Chinese moviegoers at that time.

It has opened the eyes of many young people, even middle-aged people, and children. It turns out that in addition to blockbuster movies produced by Hollywood, American TV series are also so powerful and beautiful.

And this subject matter is quite attractive. The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" touched the hearts of countless people, and Mi Shuai's performance in "Prison Break" also received different responses. His wisdom, calmness and composure are a perfect example of a good man.

The tense plot, stylish actors, and vivid music create a brilliant TV series.

But Jiang Yan also knows that he is filming "Prison Break" in Lao America, and the results in Lao America are the key.
To be continued...