On the evening of December 15, the martial arts drama "Knife Line in the Snow", co-starring Zhang Ruoyun, Li Gengxi, Hu Jun and Zhang Tianai, was officially launched, which was the grand finale drama under the banners of "Qing Yu Nian Core Team", "Top Production" and "Real Wuxia Drama" from the beginning of the project, which can be said to have filled the audience's expectations.
But it may be that the greater the expectation, so the greater the disappointment, after the release of the premiere content of "The Knife In the Snow", the popularity soared first on the whole network, and the word of mouth was a bad review.
"Sword In the Snow" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous online novelist Beacon Theatre Princes, with a large number of original fans, the story tells the story of Xu Fengnian (Zhang Ruoyun), a family son who originally aspired to be "the first in the world", in order to avoid the marriage with the princess, he was willing to do a cloth to hide in the rivers and lakes, and he also understood his father's hard heart after going through hardships, and finally grew up to become a qualified Starling King.
A story that far exceeds the passing line, coupled with the cooperation between Zhang Ruoyun and gold-medal screenwriter Wang Tian, as well as the blessing of the top domestic post-special effects company Mojing Trina (the representative works "The Wandering Earth", "Assassination of a Novelist", "The Legend of Wukong"), it is reasonable to say that it is absolutely stable, but I did not expect that this drama fell below the audience's psychological expectations as soon as it began broadcasting. So let's talk about it today, why "Knife Row in the Snow" has received so many bad reviews:
One: the rhythm is slow, and the play abuses slow motion
The most disappointing thing about the premiere content of "Knife In the Snow" is definitely that the plot rhythm is too slow.
The first episode of the opening chapter starts from the background of the story, in order to escape the marriage with the princess, Xu Fengnian, the son of the Northern Starling, has been crawling and fighting in the rivers and lakes for three years, and finally on the day of return, after encountering danger on the road, he is fortunately saved by the martial arts nangong servant (Zhang Tianai).
Obviously such a short plot, but hard to drag a whole episode of content, just the background introduction wasted nearly ten minutes, and then the male protagonist Xu Fengnian opened the rush mode, even the plot of stealing sweet potatoes is also to be hunted down and killed to lead out the role of the Nangong servant, basically there is no important information point, so that many viewers can't help but click on the double speed playback mode.
And "Snow in the Knife Line" has always claimed to be a sophisticated martial arts drama, but when shooting martial arts shots, it uses a variety of slow motion perfunctory things, especially after the Nangong servant played by Zhang Tianai shoots out of the field, it is simply the world of slow motion and close-up shots, trying to use a few slow motions to highlight the character's superb force value. The Nangong servant played by Zhang Tianai has been fiddling with her own clothes, touching the streamers for a while, and opening the hem for a while, perhaps the director is to highlight her temperament as a martial arts master, but in the eyes of the audience, she only feels confused.
Two: the filter "dies" and the makeup is not powerful
Since the release of the trailer for "Knife In the Snow", the controversy related to filters has not been broken.
Probably in order to restore the greenish tone of the classic martial arts old drama, the sword of "The Knife Line in the Snow" is biased, not only using a low-saturated tone, but also putting a green filter on the later color grading link, resulting in the entire picture being gloomy, and there is no so-called sense of high-grade, but green enough to make the audience panic.
If the first episode is green because xu Fengnian appears to be green in the environment after his appearance, the green of the picture is not reduced by half a point because he returns to the North Starling, and under such a "death" filter, almost every character's face is glowing with glaucoma.
In addition to the filters, the makeup of "The Knife Line in the Snow" also has a great impact on the perception, whether it is the Nangong servant shooting a white coat, or Xu Fengnian combing his hair with a hair sticker, or Jiang Ni (Li Gengxi) wearing a transparent black veil mask to assassinate Xu Fengnian, all of which are so ugly that the audience is speechless, not only did not play the advantages of the actors, but because of the inappropriate modeling, it highlighted the shortcomings of the role.
Click on the bad reviews, about a small part of the spit character modeling ugly not to stick to the face.
Three: The actor's acting skills are controversial
Before the launch of "Knife Line in the Snow", when Zhang Ruoyun's acting skills were mentioned, basically everyone praised it.
Although Li Gengxi, the actor of the heroine Jiang Ni, looks not "classical" enough, her acting skills are also obvious to all in "Little Joy".
However, I never expected that the acting skills of these two people after their debut disappointed the audience.
Originally in the setting of "The Knife In the Snow", Xu Fengnian, played by Zhang Ruoyun, the shizi of the Starling King, is a beautiful teenager with a high appearance, although his appearance may not be quite in line with it, but because the audience has a "Qing Yu Nian" filter for Zhang Ruoyun, he is expected to be able to use his acting skills to control the role and make up for the gap in appearance.
However, this time, Zhang Ruoyun's acting skills in the play made the audience feel a significant regression, not only with a pompous expression, but also from time to time with his eyes wide open to show a look of planning, especially when he restored his identity as a son of the world, he also showed a bit of greasy feeling.
Jiang Ni, played by Li Gengxi, was scolded by the original fans on the hot search, obviously a princess who laughed and fell into the city, but between her hands and feet, she was like a little girl who had never seen the world, and as a princess, there was no sense of nobility at all, and the most speechless thing for the audience was the change of character personality.
Jiang Ni is a princess of the fallen country who carries hatred in the original work, her brother died because of the North Starling, so she has hatred for Xu Fengnian, but in the play, it is changed to Jiang Ni Although she has hatred for Xu Fengnian, she also thanks him for leaving a whole corpse for her father, so she will fall in love with each other while being a maid to the other party, which is really incomprehensible to the audience.
In short, after the launch of this "Knife Line in the Snow", there are many slots, and the ratings have also fallen by "jumping off a cliff", if the later plot cannot be adjusted in time to save the audience, it will be difficult to become a year-end blockbuster drama.