S/S+ means nothing in terms of production values. Most of the budget goes to pay the actors. Yang Yang is pretty…
Pct is short for percent %. And my mistake I meant RMB 1mm/episode. Based on my understanding of the guidelines, YY at most got paid RMB 30mm/~$4mm for this. There is also a single actor pay cap of 10pct of the budget but since we don't know the budget its hard to use that. If I had to guess the budget was probably in the RMB200-300mm range, in which case at the low end he made RMB 20mm. This is a huge pay cut for lead roles - in the past they used to make US$10-15mm per drama but now after all the controls its only US$3-5mm. The less well known actors make a lot less than that and the main difference in whether a drama is S/S+ or less is mostly just the lead actor pay.
Different actors have different asking pay rates. Zhang Ruoyun for example is well known to always ask for very reasonable pay, especially if he likes the script bc he wants to act across other good actors. So his dramas have many veteran actors in the cast and the cast acting is on a different level. Yang Zi I believe is also known to be very reasonable so she is also often teamed up with strong casts. Unfortunately there are many very greedy very popular idol actors who always ask for the maximum they can get. I won't name them bc I don't have time to deal with hate spam. But if you look at their dramas and you will see they always get paired with super cheap (and bad) newbie actors. That is bc they ask for a lot so there is not enough budget left for good actors in the co-lead and supporting roles. In general, the more serious actors don't go for the maximum bc they know they by themselves cannot make a drama good.
Dilraba is someone that only does dramas to stay relevant - bc when she has series airing she trends hard. But she makes so much more money from endorsements (she has so many) that the dramas are a waste of time for her.
Please can someone explain? In most series the protagonist is obviously struggling to develop, but ultimately…
This is not like Journey to the West which is about Buddhist philosophy and morality although they are not incompatible. They are just different paths to immortality. In the Daoist path, being righteous or good is not necessary nor is it about morality, it is survival of the fittest. This is because the Heavens or the universe itself is neutral - it doesn't care about good or evil and karma is a weak force - so bad deads rarely lead to heavenly punishment. I didn't read the novel but I believe it embraces the 倧η Daoist concept where the cultivators "steal" spiritual energy, lifespan etc from nature and others. All the heavenly tribulations are a test of power, not morality. Thus you have hypocritical "righteous" sects (although so far the sects don't pretend to be righteous, they seem like cultivation schools) and being morally gray is what helps Han Li ascend. In this universe, immortals are not saints or paragons of virtue. They are simply those who out compete and out live the the others. They also ultimately have finite lifetimes although much longer than ordinary mortals. That's why its so much like an RPG.π π
Hmmm.. i dont understand the supposed righteousness of the righteousness sects... stealing from.one another killing…
Well I didn't read the books but it doesn't seem to me that righteousness is an important mantra for any of them. It seems like they are just different schools that assist cultivators in attaining immortality - kind of like whether you get into to Stanford, Harvard or Trump University.
S/S+ means nothing in terms of production values. Most of the budget goes to pay the actors. Yang Yang is pretty…
The cap is the lesser of 40pct of the budget or RMb 1/episode for lead actors and 70pct for total actor pay. Quite sure Yang Yang got most of it in this drama. That is still huge chunk of the budget going to pay although not as excessive as past dramas (Legend of Fei) where it was 90pct. For something high fantasy like this there is not that much left for CGI and it shows.
No idea what Yang Yang's pay rate is vs Dilraba but if I had to guess, it is more. Dilraba has been in too many flops at this point that it would be insane to pay her much. She is rarely in dramas nowadays bc she makes reportedly over CNY 600mm in ads and endorsements every year. For her, the occasional drama is a loss leader to stay relevant/in the public eye. That's why I personally have no time to waste on her dramas. No hate, I think she is exquisite and a lovely person. Her acting however does not work for me, I am happy just to flip through her magazine shots.
With regards to Yang Yang, I think we're lucky that his acting has improved a lot from his Martial Universe days.…
A dramatic tear filled moment would have been out of place. But so is practically nothing. I think what is missing is something in between. And that's where he struggles - with the nuances. I think the casting is very good bc Yang Yang's look is already very aloof, immaculate and unattainable - super immortal like. The hard part of this role for him is the young years, where he should be less immaculate, less detached, more mortal. From ep 1 he already gave me strong immortal vibes. That made me surprised to find out later that he has low innate talent for cultivation, that the journey or struggle for him should be harder. But so far, I don't really see a hard struggle.
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Different actors have different asking pay rates. Zhang Ruoyun for example is well known to always ask for very reasonable pay, especially if he likes the script bc he wants to act across other good actors. So his dramas have many veteran actors in the cast and the cast acting is on a different level. Yang Zi I believe is also known to be very reasonable so she is also often teamed up with strong casts. Unfortunately there are many very greedy very popular idol actors who always ask for the maximum they can get. I won't name them bc I don't have time to deal with hate spam. But if you look at their dramas and you will see they always get paired with super cheap (and bad) newbie actors. That is bc they ask for a lot so there is not enough budget left for good actors in the co-lead and supporting roles. In general, the more serious actors don't go for the maximum bc they know they by themselves cannot make a drama good.
Dilraba is someone that only does dramas to stay relevant - bc when she has series airing she trends hard. But she makes so much more money from endorsements (she has so many) that the dramas are a waste of time for her.
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No idea what Yang Yang's pay rate is vs Dilraba but if I had to guess, it is more. Dilraba has been in too many flops at this point that it would be insane to pay her much. She is rarely in dramas nowadays bc she makes reportedly over CNY 600mm in ads and endorsements every year. For her, the occasional drama is a loss leader to stay relevant/in the public eye. That's why I personally have no time to waste on her dramas. No hate, I think she is exquisite and a lovely person. Her acting however does not work for me, I am happy just to flip through her magazine shots.