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In 2013, House of Cards caught fire from the US and mesmerized a lot of Chinese viewers. A few days ago, John Mankiewicz, one of the writers of House of Cards, attended a TV festival Magnolia Forum themed on text creation in the internet era as a judge for the Overseas TV Drama section of this year's Shanghai TV Festival.

At the event, Chinese TV people first asked Mankiewicz the question that everyone is curious about: is House of Cards calculated by big data or not?

Because at the time, there was this saying that when the decision was made to make this TV series, Netflix, the famous US broadcasting platform, was analyzing data to find out that viewers who liked to watch the BBC version of House of Cards, which aired in 1990, were also fans of director David Fincher, and mostly loved Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey. .

So Netflix invested in a US version of House of Cards by combining all three elements. The snappy answer Mankiewicz gave on the subject was "The use of big data is overstated, and House of Cards, at least from the scriptwriting part of the process, doesn't focus on online data. "House of Cards became a huge hit in 2013, putting all those power plays on the table, and with all those heartfelt lines, people couldn't help but manually praise the show.

At the time, it was also reported that Netflix was able to use its powerful database monitoring system to gauge where viewers were watching House of Cards and where they were pausing, which allowed it to incorporate the laws of the marketplace into its subsequent creations. For is big data shaped the brilliant argument, Mankiewicz does not recognize "a TV series popularity, about the director, the actors , more about the creative depth of the story and storytelling techniques, but the market itself is full of serendipity, is not the data can be calculated."

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