Chapter 1138: This story is purely fictional

To have complete control over a project, one cannot rely on others.

Therefore, Miss Luo Quan never takes the initiative to invite any star; instead, she lets them come for auditions. If they want to come, they come; if they don't, she doesn't force it. In any case, her main principle is not to owe anyone any favors.

Of course, the actors are secondary; the most important thing is that she absolutely refuses any invitations for partnerships.

She has sufficient funds, and every penny spent on filming the movie doesn't need help from outsiders, so she doesn't need outsiders to point fingers either.

Of course, she can still take on some advertisements.

The advertisers' requirements are very low; it's fine as long as their products can appear in the movie. It would be even more perfect if they could get a close-up of the trademark.

However, period mythological dramas are slightly more troublesome; the trademarks need to be arranged more cleverly, otherwise, it would be too ridiculous if it breaks the immersion.

For example, in some period dramas, things like sneakers, watches, or Moutai liquor appear—isn't that just absurd?

After completely settling the crew, the filming of the movie proceeded smoothly according to Miss Luo Quan's ideas.

However, since there were quite a few big names collaborating this time, they were more daring in offering suggestions for character shaping than the newcomers or second- or third-tier actors from before.

Of course, these big names have reached their current level because they have the skill, so the opinions they put forward weren't just random; many actually helped the movie.

Therefore, as long as it didn't have a particularly large impact on the subsequent plot, Miss Luo Quan basically adopted these opinions.

This gentle filming style also made Miss Luo Quan's collaboration with a group of big-name stars very pleasant, and so far, no conflicts have erupted.

"Actually, I used to think you were a tyrant of a director on set," Wang Xiaoning said with a smile to Miss Luo Quan after finishing today's scenes. "I was quite worried before I came, wondering what I would do if you were really as fierce as the rumors said. Now it seems I was just overthinking it."

"Is that the image I have in the film industry?" Miss Luo Quan widened her eyes in surprise. "I always thought my reputation would be quite good. Being approachable should be my label, right?"

"Xiao Yang said before that you were quite approachable on the day of the wrap-up," Cheng Kun laughed. "But it's clear that you are two different people on and off the set. Sometimes you are terrifyingly serious, and sometimes you are as kind as a sister."

Miss Luo Quan scratched her head in embarrassment: "That might be because I was too immersed in filming, so I didn't notice my tone or anything. Since you've brought it up, I'll pay more attention in the future."

"No, no, no!" Wang Xiaoning and Cheng Kun waved their hands hurriedly. "We actually like it when you're serious and earnest during filming."

Wang Xiaoning sighed as she spoke: "In the past, to return favors, I took on too many terrible films featuring young, inexperienced actors. Those sets were really like playing house; from the director to the actors, everyone was slack and unprofessional. It was infuriating to watch, yet you still had to hold your nose and finish filming those scenes."

"You could have just not taken them," Cheng Kun glanced at Wang Xiaoning and joked with a smile: "Wouldn't you have avoided this frustration if you hadn't taken them?"

"I already said I had to return favors," Wang Xiaoning spread his hands helplessly: "The martial arts world isn't just about fighting and killing; the film industry is about human relationships."

Perhaps thinking of Mr. Ni nearby, Wang Xiaoning deliberately quoted a classic line of his from "Young Marshal."

Sure enough, Mr. Ni Xuejian walked over after hearing it and asked with a smile what the three of them were chatting about.

Miss Luo Quan said they were discussing the question of whether the director is too fierce when filming.

Ni Xuejian thought for a few seconds and said loudly: "Aren't you the director?"

Miss Luo Quan couldn't help but nod: "Yes, am I too fierce when I film?"

"That means the actors aren't serious," Ni Xuejian immediately backed Miss Luo Quan up: "How can you make a good movie if you aren't serious? The biggest taboo when creating is being sloppy. Without a rigorous mindset, it's impossible to create good works."

Once the senior arrived, the atmosphere on set immediately became serious. Whether it was Wang Xiaoning, Cheng Kun, or Miss Luo Quan, they all stood with their hands behind their backs, nodding repeatedly, as obedient as students being lectured by their head teacher.

Cheng Daoning drank goji berry water on the side, smiling quite contentedly.

They say having an elder in the house is like having a treasure.

Having a few such veteran actors in the crew indeed brings quite a lot of benefits.

For example, if you encounter any problems with acting, you can get guidance.

You can also use the veteran actors' connections to solve some troubles.

But sometimes there are downsides, which is that this atmosphere can easily become serious for no reason.

Fortunately, Mr. Ni knew his limits and didn't lecture everyone for too long.

After all, Miss Luo Quan and the other two are also people of status in the entertainment industry. This patriarchal style can be tolerated once or twice, but if it happens every day, who knows if they will give you face in the future.

In fact, this was the first time Ni Xuejian had been this serious since joining the crew; he had been quite amiable and approachable before, without any airs of a senior.

Therefore, Miss Luo Quan and the others didn't feel any resentment; instead, it provided material for the marketer on the side.

Once the video is shot, they can just come up with a title later, saying Mr. Ni seriously discussed the importance of maintaining seriousness in artistic creation, and Miss Luo Quan, Wang Xiaoning, and Cheng Kun humbly accepted the teaching.

How harmonious this scene is. After it's released, netizens will definitely praise it wildly again.

As for how they will praise it, that's unknown, but fans can always find an angle. The marketer doesn't need to worry about that.

Seeing that the KPI for this week was about to be completed, the marketer couldn't help but become happy and took a few more shots.

After listening to Mr. Ni's lecture, Miss Luo Quan also called everyone to pack up and prepare to return to the hotel to rest.

Because most of the scenes were completed against a green screen, there were no night scenes that needed to be shot; they could just be finished with post-production special effects.

Therefore, once it was time to get off work, Miss Luo Quan basically wouldn't let everyone work overtime.

Before the special effects were done, Miss Luo Quan couldn't edit the movie, so compared to when she was filming before, she was even more relaxed this time.

After returning to the dormitory, there was nothing to do, so she continued to let the AI generate sketches, then she modified the pictures, and finally obtained character images that fit the mythological image.

Currently, most of the immortals on the Investiture of the Gods list have been completed, and the next thing to do is Journey to the West.

Compared to Investiture of the Gods, the demons and ghosts in Journey to the West are not as severely homogenized. After all, there are too many demons appearing in Journey to the West, and there are almost no repeats.

If it were the old version of Journey to the West, the final styling might be too close to humans, and the demon images Miss Luo Quan wanted would be more grotesque.

Female demons can be very beautiful while also being very ugly.

For example, when in human form, they are about the same as humans, but when they revert to their original form, they have a beautiful head and an animal body; the visual impact brought by that should be very strong.

However, this might be accused by the original fans of Journey to the West of not respecting the original work, after all, dramatization is not nonsense, and adaptation is not random editing.

However, this might be accused by the original fans of Journey to the West of not respecting the original work, after all, dramatization is not nonsense, and adaptation is not random editing.

Of course, even though she hasn't adapted Journey to the West yet, the voices of accusation were already attacking her overwhelmingly.

"Is Chinese mythology like this?"

"Bullshit Primordial Mythology, it's just a hodgepodge with no nutrition, and it doesn't respect history at all!"

"King Wu's conquest of Zhou actually relied on gods and Buddhas all over the sky; isn't this historical nihilism?"

"Setting the goddess Nüwa, who created the human race, as a snake demon, is there any justice left?"

"Donghuang Taiyi has also become a demon; the coffin lid of the Chu people can almost no longer be pressed down."

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This is the latest rhetoric on the internet attacking "Primordial," mainly using mythology itself as an attack point, accusing Miss Luo Quan of making things up.

This kind of reason sounds very outrageous.

After all, mythology itself is fictional, and then fictionalizing it again on top of what the ancients fictionalized becomes disrespect for history.

How can mythology become history?

Is there really someone who takes the story of Investiture of the Gods as history?

That's right, when Miss Luo Quan had doubts in her heart, there were really smart people on the internet who did this.

They even believe that there are Yang Jian, Nezha, and Lei Zhenzi in King Wu's team, but they don't believe these people are immortals.

This belongs to not even knowing what is true and what is false themselves.

And then these people really dared to jump out and attack "Primordial." It can only be said that the threshold of the internet is really too low; anyone can come out and speak, and they don't need to bear responsibility.

The second wave of attacks came so fast and so brainlessly. Although Miss Luo Quan was unhappy, she wasn't afraid.

Instead, she posted a video on Weibo and Douyin, the two platforms where the voices attacking her were the loudest.

In the video, she clicked on the screen of when she was telling the story.

At that time, before she told the Primordial mythology, she said a disclaimer:

"The content I am about to tell is entirely based on the two classics "Investiture of the Gods" and "Journey to the West" as a secondary creation, which can be considered fan fiction of these two classics.

Moreover, the content created in the secondary creation is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with orthodox Chinese mythology. If you think the content is too ridiculous after listening, then you are right, because this was originally ridiculous content, so please don't project it into reality.

This is a video for fun, not a serious academic paper to clarify the source of Chinese mythology. For all disputes caused by the video, please focus on orthodox Chinese mythology.

However, because I didn't find a collection of orthodox Chinese mythology, I don't know which documents to refer to specifically. You can find them yourselves. Anyway, the following content is all made up by me.

Finally, any similarity is purely coincidental, please don't overinterpret!"

To be reasonable, before Miss Luo Quan told this mythology, she had already layered this disclaimer very thickly, almost printing the words "this is purely my nonsense" on her head.

Unfortunately, when others reposted it, for the sake of immersion and realism, they didn't include this statement.

The effect of the video was indeed very good, making many people really think this was the content of Chinese mythology.

And the consequences were also obvious, which was giving those people an opportunity to overinterpret.

After posting the video, Miss Luo Quan then commented below the video: "I know that the filming of "Primordial" has touched the cake of many people, so from the beginning of the project, a bunch of people wanted to smear it and didn't want it to be released smoothly.

The first time I endured it, I thought you would know when to retreat after failure. I didn't expect that after you failed, you actually learned to summarize experience, and then updated the rhetoric to smear me.

Perhaps I was too kind, making you mistakenly think that doing such things doesn't require paying a price.

There is one thing I must remind you: maliciously buying internet trolls to smear competitors is an illegal act. If this happens again in the future, don't blame me for flipping the table. At that time, I will make sure you don't even have rotten money to eat."

High-end business wars often use the simplest and most plain methods.

The business war that the public thinks of is manipulating the stock market, hacker intrusion, buying off employees, internal affairs, and then the boss sitting in the office planning and controlling the overall situation, making it like a movie.

Real business wars are actually the boss leading the charge, even personally participating in theft, scolding wars, beating, etc.

The above examples all have news reports, and among them are many billionaires with a net worth of over one billion.

A recent example, aren't the bosses of Twitter and Facebook going to have a physical business war? A direct showdown in the octagon, the kind that requires signing a life-and-death contract.

Although there hasn't been much movement recently, both sides have been releasing training videos, clearly not intending to end this duel just like that.

Now, a new case of real business war has appeared.

That is, Bilibili President Miss Luo Quan directly scolded on the internet, telling competitors that if they don't restrain themselves, she will flip the table.

There is no ambiguous statement or letting the studio speak on her behalf; it is a personal threat.

Although she didn't name names, just look at the movies to be released around the National Day holiday, and you will know who the competitors of "Primordial" are.

And then picking a few companies with the worst reputation from them to hit is definitely not wrong.

Netizens don't care whether they wronged good people or not. Anyway, as long as they used little fresh meat or companies that made lousy money, they were all pulled out and bombarded by them.

Miss Luo Quan didn't name names, but instead gave everyone room to play.

And her fans, upon seeing that their idol had been subjected to such great indignity, were naturally incredibly diligent, directly flooding the comment sections of all these potential behind-the-scenes manipulators with one hundred thousand abusive comments.

Because the movement caused was too big, Weibo also had to perform operations to delete comments and lower the heat.

After such a stabilizer was stuck down, the brainless haters on the internet instantly decreased by 99%.

And those netizens who were bewitched by public opinion suddenly realized that it wasn't that everyone couldn't stand Chinese mythology being made up, it was just internet trolls hired by capital, and they were all used.

When they realized they were used as guns, netizens became even angrier than before, but unfortunately, they couldn't find a way to vent for the time being.

If Miss Luo Quan really flipped the table, then these behind-the-scenes black hands would probably be in big trouble.

And "Primordial," relying on this battle, may become the biggest winner.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1139 =====