Reborn in Hong Kong’s Entertainment World: I Turn Movies into Myths
重生港娱：我把电影拍成了神话
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The entire Maoshan gang is here.
Just look at the introduction, I'm not really a fan of foreigners, but is Taoist Si Mu too high-minded?
Excellent, excellent, truly excellent! The adaptation of the Maoshan system is well done, and the movie plot is brilliantly conceived. The responsibility of reviving spiritual energy and saving the world rests on your shoulders.
The author has questionable taste. Instead of dating actresses like Michelle Reis and Joey Wong at their peak, he spends all his time having ambiguous relationships with a few erotic stars. What kind of fetish is that?
This opening reduced the number of potential readers.
I don't know if you want to write about Hollywood blockbusters crushing Hong Kong films, or about a revival of spirituality. This "spiritual revival" writing style has already driven away many who wanted to read the director's script. You chose it yourself, idol.
It's well written, but your updates aren't very good.
The protagonist's actions are very clear; he's constantly working towards the main storyline of the movie. The female leads he chooses are all there to serve the film. If the author listened to others and deviated from the main plot, having the protagonist mess around with other women, that would be met with criticism.
It would be best to also explain the resurgence of the supernatural in other domestic cultural representatives.
You managed to create the true form of Master Four Eyes with a movie that grossed less than 20 million at the box office. Even the Japanese Taiga dramas can embody the true spirit of samurai. Why can't a true form be solidified in "Journey to the West"? Is there any dissatisfaction with my 89.4% Viewership rating during the Spring Festival, my Guinness World Record for "most rebroadcast TV series in the world," and my status as a representative Chinese IP that has influenced generations?
A-grade background, C-grade character descriptions, E-grade plot points
The setting is novel and refreshing, and the character descriptions are delicate and insightful. However, the plot is absurd, completely contradicting the grand setting. The more expansive the setting, the more mundane and trivial the plot becomes. It's disjointed to have a burly northern man writing the setting and a melodramatic, sentimental woman writing the plot.
Western pantheons? With so many countries in the West, so many different mythologies, main branches and sub-branches, polytheism, monotheism, and also Hindu mythology, Native American mythology, and so on—there are countless examples!
And all that talk about ghost immortals, beginner, advanced, and half-step human immortals—it sounds awful and doesn't fit the atmosphere of zombie movies. Taoist priests, sorcerers, immortals, and celestial masters would be much better.