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“Shanhe Ling” recently ushered in the finale. On Douban, more than 200,000 people gave a high score of 8.6. The first commentary said: “This is definitely not a change, but a beauty.”
The term Tanmei originally came from Japan. It initially referred to aestheticism. It began to evolve slowly in the 1960s and finally referred to male homosexual love.
The earliest novels depicting gay men in mainland China are often serialized on forums and post bars. Some of them are more realistic and may be the author’s real experience, such as Nankang Baiqi’s “I’m Waiting for You to Be 35”(The author is rumored to have committed suicide in 2008). Others were created by female authors, focusing on the love story between two men, with any background and different themes.
In 1999, Hong Kong director Guan Jinpeng made a gay online novel “Beijing Story” into the movie “Lan Yu”, which is the most well-known gay film in mainland China.
Twenty years later, “comrade films” declined, and “dangai dramas” became popular. People in the past could not imagine that such a small and secret theme would develop into a national entertainment and mass carnival.
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In 1999, producer Zhang Yongning read a novel on the Internet called “Beijing Story”. The protagonist of the story was two men, one named Chen Handong and the other named Lan Yu. The novel describes the story of Chen Handong, the son of a senior cadre, slowly falling in love with Lan Yu after he bought college student Lan Yu. The process of “Beijing Story” was tortuous, and the ending was tragic. The two finally broke through the obstacles, but in the end they couldn’t be together.
After reading it, Zhang Yongning couldn’t calm down for a long time. He went to Hong Kong several times to find Guan Jinpeng and persuaded him to adapt this online novel into a movie.
After reading two or three chapters, Guan Jinpeng couldn’t stand it anymore, and said: “Are you asking me to take pornography?”
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Zhang Yongning insisted that Guan Jinpeng come to shoot, because in Hong Kong at that time, he was the only well-known director who had come out publicly.
“If you don’t shoot, who will do it?”
After reading the whole novel, Guan Jinpeng was moved and decided to take the movie. He and Zhang Yongning found the screenwriter Wei Shaoen and started to change the script.
The original novel is a first-person oral narration by Chen Handong, which is more like a memoir. There are 31 chapters in the full text, and almost every chapter has a large-scale description. When changing the script, the screenwriter Wei Shaoen retained the first-person tone. The first sentence of the opening is Chen Handong’s monologue:
“After you left that morning, I have been hanging my heart for you, always feeling that you are still by my side, do you know?”
The lights are dim, and Hu Jun and Liu Ye appear successively.
When Guan Jinpeng selected actors, it was Hu Jun first. Hu Jun had already acted in “East Palace and West Palace” at that time and had experience in acting in gay movies. After seeing the book of “Lan Yu”, I felt very touched, and took it down without thinking too much.
Next is to find Lan Yu’s actor. By chance, Guan Jinpeng saw Liu Ye’s 17-year-old photo taken at the home of an associate director of the Beijing Film Studio. He felt very similar to Lan Yu: “There is a kind of weakness in his eyes.” Plus Liu Ye and Lan Yu’s identity background in the story. Same, it’s the East who came to Beijing to studyIn the role, during the filming, everyone drank at night, and Hu Jun cried while drinking. Liu Ye was not there that night and went to Shanghai. He went deeper into the show than Hu Jun. Screenwriter Wei Shaoen said that he couldn’t tell which scene was with Lan Yu and which scene was with Liu Ye.
The scene that Liu Ye moved the most was in the villa Chen Handong gave Lan Yu. Chen Handong wanted to break up with Lan Yu. A long shot, with Liu Ye in front and Hu Jun behind, the camera zoomed in, and Liu Ye shed tears with his back to Hu Jun. Liu Ye cried exhausted that day. After the filming, Liu Ye didn’t dare to look at it. Every time he saw this shot, he was very sad.
The ending of the movie was not good. Just as Chen Handong realized his true thoughts, Lan Yu died when he wanted to be with Lan Yu.
The two shed a lot of tears for this drama. Acting also uses clumsy methods. Hu Jun said: “I put myself in the position to consider Chen Handong. I think of myself as Chen Handong.” Liu Ye said, “The feeling of acting is impossible to tell. It is from the heart. A feeling. That feeling must be true. Acting must believe in yourself.”
At 3:30 pm on February 10, 2001, “Lan Yu” finished work. Hu Jun felt that he was still in the play for a long time: “Because I didn’t fully turn around.” A few months later, the best actor of the Golden Horse Awards was announced. The winner was Liu Ye. Hu Jun took the stage with him to win the award. Liu Ye said: “This movie is for two people. Without my brother Hu Jun, I wouldn’t get this award.”
The filming of “Lan Yu” in Beijing was very low-key, and it couldn’t be released in the mainland after the filming, but it was very famous among college students, and even the theme song “Why Are You Sorrowful” was once popular.
This “underground movie” is so influential. It was once rumored that the two protagonists were actually doing fake plays. Hu Jun later expressed in public that if gender was not considered, he would definitely choose Lan Yu. After “Lan Yu” was over, Guan Jinpeng asked them to film “Painting Soul”. After more than ten years, both Hu Jun and Liu Ye stopped cooperating in filming.
“Beijing Story” was originally just an online novel. After being changed into the movie “Lan Yu”, the novel hasEnglish version. The introduction said: “The significance of “Beijing Story” is that in 1998, the same-sex group was weak, and suddenly there was a novel that let people know that there is another orientation that exists in the world and is close by.”
In the year “Lan Yu” was released in Hong Kong, mainland China hardly talked about the word “comrade” publicly. People could not imagine that a new type of drama, “Danchang Opera”, would happen more than a decade later. Born.
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After “Lan Yu”, some directors in mainland China made some gay films, including gays and lesbians, such as Lou Ye’s “A Night in the Spring Breeze” and Li Yu’s “This Summer”, but most of them are similar to “Lan Yu”. “Like, there is no chance to be released on the mainland.
Taiwan and Hong Kong shoot more, especially Taiwan, where gay plots are often embedded in youth films, such as “Summer Light Year” and “Blue Gate”. In terms of TV dramas, Taiwan TV also took Bai Xianyong’s “Niezi” “Adapted into a series of the same name.
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But these are not mainstream.
The gay movie has slowly developed into a Danmei culture, and it has benefited from the Internet from an extremely niche subject to the masses.
In 2006, an ID called “Nankang Baiqi” typed the first line of words on the Tianya forum. At the beginning, he wrote: “I went to the furniture store some time ago and I found a group of brown sofas. Large and comfortable, it can almost trap half a person in it.”
The full text consists of 30 chapters, conducted in the first person, and looks like a personal diary. The full name of the post is “I’m Waiting for You to Be 35”, and it begins with a plain beginning, but the more you write it, the sadder it gets.
My boyfriend who has been dating for seven years wants to get married and start a family, and “I” is also a boy, So I had to break up with him. The whole story is less than 10,000 words. Around her boyfriend’s marriage, she wrote some very trivial but sincere daily life.
“I’m waiting for you to be 35 years old”, some people say it is hype, and some people think it is true. Regardless of whether it is true or not, in the era when online literature was just beginning to develop, this gay story was madly reprinted on Baidu Tieba and major forums.
Internet rumors say that Nan Kang Baiqi, the author of “I’m Waiting for You Until 35,” committed suicide in 2008, adding a sentimental color to the story.(and the spread of heat). Fifteen years later, someone wrote an evaluation on Douban: “This is the most heartbreaking story I have ever seen.” “I can’t bear to read it a second time.”
In the past, gay literature was secretive and niche, but in the Internet age, people have easy access to such information.
In the year when Nankang Baiqi wrote “I’m Waiting for You Until I’m 35”, Jinjiang Literature City also opened a brand new section-Danmei(later renamed Pure Love).
Tanmei literature originally originated in Japan, and Keiko Takemiya’s “The Poem of Wind and Wood” is considered to be the earliest Danmei manga. These comics were spread to the mainland via the Internet.
Soon, there were writers of Danmei in mainland China, and they quickly became famous in the era of lack of information. In 2008, Jinjiang already had the most popular authors Tianlai Zhiyuan, Fengnong, Lanlin, Gale Blow, etc. As long as the girls who have read online novels, they have basically heard the names of these “great gods”.
The first batch of Danmei novel authors have dominated the list for a long time, almost dominating Jinjiang. Especially the Tianlai Paper Kite, which was ranked first among all Jinjiang authors from 2006 to 2014. Her Danmei novels such as “Hua Rong Tian Xia” “Tian Shen Right Wing” and other works are also ranked first on the website all the year round.
The first group of ancient gods created the era of “danmei novels”, but they hardly got any dividends from it. The former No.1 Tianlai Zhiyuan in the Tanmei section of Jinjiang announced in 2012 that he would no longer write Tanmei, and changed his pen name “Junzi Yize”, only writing romance. Although it is often the first place in the romance section, his works The popularity is not as good as before.
Different from authors who write romance novels, it is difficult for Danmei novel authors to obtain film and television adaptations, and it is difficult for their IP to be transformed. Therefore, Danmei is always spread among small groups in the form of words.
Until 2015, an author named Chai Dan had a whim. She invested 400,000 yuan in filming her own Tanmei novel “Counterattack”. This move opened a new IP era, and the drama was coming.
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In 2015, Chaiqiang graduated as a graduate student. In the two and a half years of graduate school, she wrote her famous “Trilogy of Tanmei”, “Counter Attack”, “Addiction” and “Unstoppable”. As far as the popularity of the works is concerned, Chai Dan is not as good as the Danmei gods in Jinjiang, but in terms of marketing skills, Chai Dan is stronger than those above.
In 2015, Chai Dan went to work on Beijing Satellite TV. After contacting some resources in the film and television industry, she paid 400,000 yuan out of her pocket, became a producer herself, and filmed and filmed her novel “Counterattack”. Dio Si counterattacks the story of her ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend after she becomes rich and handsome. Chai Dan did not have any grand ideas when filming. It was purely to “satisfy my hobby as a rotten girl.” When looking for actors, I can’t afford to hire well-known actors, almost all newcomers.
Chai Dan asked actor Wang Yu to find the protagonist who is galloping. Wang Yu called his brother to come. Wang Qing thought he was coming to the crew as a driver, and he readily agreed. As a result, he became the leading actor somehow after he came, and he had to act as a couple with another actor Feng Jianyu.
This happened again a year later.
Gong Junzheng, who just graduated from the Department of Acting of Donghua University, was looking for work everywhere to support himself. He heard that there was a drama with a double male lead, and he took it without even thinking about it. As a result, the drama was the “Tan Mei Trilogy”. “The other “Sheng Shi” in.
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5 years later, Gong Jun will star in another popular drama “Shanhe Ling”, but he will not be popular in 2016.
This year, Chai Dan put all his savings out to film online dramas, and borrowed money from the bank, and finally made all three of his works into movies. It was originally to satisfy my own interest, but I didn’t expect that one of them, “Addiction”, became popular all over the Internet.
“Addiction” was aired on the whole network on January 29, 2016. It was taken offline in less than a month due to its too hot and sensitive subject matter. In 360pedia, the introduction of this drama is simple and straightforward: “Addiction” tells the youthful and inspirational love story of Bai Luoyin and Gu Hai’s cross-gender love. Different from the later drama, the two male protagonists are not friends, confidants, or socialist brotherhood. “Addiction” straightforwardly said it was love as soon as it came up.
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This drama has attracted investment, but the production cost is only 5 million. The shooting time is only 23 days and the online time is less than a month. However, the two actors have become a big hit. The starring Huang Jingyu and Xu Weizhou directly jumped into the front line, and Huang Jingyu starred. Before “Addiction”, he had no acting experience. After “Addiction” was broadcast, he went to an airport and thousands of fans followed.
“Addiction” officially fired the first shot of Tanmei’s adaptation, and it was so well-known that Andy Lau was chasing it.
“Addiction” also opened a new “code of wealth”-real actor CP. The CP “Whale and Zhoumiao” starring Huang Jingyu and Xu Weizhou has been the number one hot spot on the Sina CP list for a long time. The second year of “Soul Soul”, which went online in the second year, has been in the entertainment industry for ten years. Zhu Yilong, who is not yet popular, became famous in one fell swoop. At the same time, Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu’s CP have been searched many times.
It was also this year that the word “CP” began to flourish.
However, no one thought that the prosperous enthusiasm of the drama and the fans’ behavior of “CP” would bring another “rebellious storm”.
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In the year when Chaiqiang shot the Danmei online drama “Counterattack”, Jinjiang Literature Network suddenly appeared a new author named Moxiang Tongchou. She wrote a Danmei novel called “The Master of the Demon Dao”. In the year when the novel ended, “The Master of the Demon Dao” ranked first in the Jinjiang website in terms of points.
The film and television copyright of the novel was bought by Tencent, and the online drama “Chen Qing Ling”, which was adapted three years later, went live.
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In 2019, “Chen Qing Ling” was the most viewed online drama on the entire network (9.15 billion times), it is also the episode with the most ratings on Douban (1.568 million). At the same time as “Chen Qing Ling” was released, “The Twelve Hours in Chang’an” was also on the air. Before the series went live, the protagonist Yi Yang Qianxi was far more famous than Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, but in the hot search statistics of Sina at that time In the episode, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo’s cumulative search volume, discussion volume, and reading volume are higher than the former during the broadcast period.
The drama of Dangai once again showed its greatest power-to create top stream in a short period of time.
“Chen Qingling” is a modified drama of “The Master of the Demon Dao”. In the play, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are confidantes who share weal and woe. Outside the play, fans pull a CP for the two real actors. It is also because of this CP. , Leading to the outbreak of the “2.27 Incident”. In the story version circulating on the Internet, it was Xiao Zhan’s fans who reported the fanwen written by CP fans, which caused the overseas website AO3 to be walled.
This was originally a dispute in a small circle, but it quickly fermented during the epidemic. Fans were fighting in their own right, starting a scolding battle after another.
In addition to fans, this dispute also affected the actors themselves and the capital. When the trouble was the most serious, a reporter named Lu Shihan posted an article “Behind Xiao Zhan: Tencent’s Last Stand” (this article has now been deleted)< /span>, refers directly to the predicament that capital is facing and the “immoral” choices made. The actor Xiao Zhan, who was at the center of public opinion, chose not to respond at first. This kind of negative face was miserably criticized.
After a year, things calmed down a bit. He posted an apology on Weibo, saying: “From the moment I didn’t express my attitude, I had missed the window of rational communication with everyone. From the beginning, I was wrong. Up.”
The “227 Incident” has been in trouble for a whole year, and the disputes surrounding “Chen Qing Ling” and the two protagonists have not stopped, but the speed of the drama’s launch is still unstoppable. 20In February 21, “Shanhe Order” was launched. As of yesterday, more than 200,000 people had rated the show 8.6. In just one month, “Shanhe Order” created two new traffic stars Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun.
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But similar to “Chen Qing Ling”, “Shan He Ling” can not escape fans’ individual carnival and mutual tearing.
On the day when the finale was broadcast on March 23, Zhang Zhehan, the actor who played Zhou Zishu in “Shanhe Ling”, posted a farewell role on Weibo, while the other starring, Gong Jun, who played Wen Kexing, was just because he was with actress Zhou Ye. He has more interactions than with actor Zhang Zhehan, and was criticized by some fans for “disrespect for the role” and “not value the story”.
As for love, no matter how touching the story tells about love, people can also find reasons to attack each other, either against the actors or the screenwriters. On the second day of the on-demand finale, Ma Xiao, the producer of “Shanhe Ling” posted a Weibo Replied to some irrational fans: “Please let go of our screenwriter, a fledgling screenwriter, written in this way is already very good, please don’t raise the Internet violent family, you can scold me if you want to scold me!”
Someone still scolds below.
A story, a feeling, as long as it becomes a pastime and entertainment for the masses, no one remembers or cares about anything sincere at the end.