If you ask me what I'm most looking forward to this year's show, I'll definitely answer "Knife In the Snow" (hereinafter referred to as "Snow in the Snow").
Wang Tian wrote the screenplay, starring Zhang Ruoyun, the costume power plot drama "Qing Yu Nian" that the two cooperated two years ago was a great success, and now that they are working together again, it should not be bad.
In addition, the TV series has the original book as the basis, Hu Jun, Yang Haoyu, Yu Rongguang, Liu Peiqi and other old drama bones sit in the seat, and from the various news on the Internet before the start of the broadcast, it will be a well-made drama.
Therefore, I have high expectations for "In the Snow", and I hope that it can create a double harvest of ratings and word-of-mouth like "Celebrating the Rest of the Year".
However, how high the expectations are, how great the disappointment is, there are many hard injuries in "In the Snow", and the quality is completely incomparable with "Qing Yu Nian", which is disappointing.
Let's talk about where "In the Snow" doesn't work.
"In the Snow" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Internet writer Beacon Theatre Princes, telling the story of Xu Fengnian (Zhang Ruoyun), the son of the Starling King of the Northern Starlings, who is unwilling to follow the path arranged by his father Xu Xiao (Hu Jun), the King of the Northern Starlings, and constantly gathers the jianghu forces during the jianghu training, and finally takes over the northern starlings.
Obviously, this is a martial arts drama with the color of power and scheming.
However, the martial arts part of the play is quite stretched, each fight scene has a lot of slow motion, and the action is simple as if it is in a family, completely without the tension and excitement that a martial arts drama should have, which makes people awkward to the ground.
At the beginning of the TV series, Xu Fengnian was chased and killed by the Remnants of Western Chu on the way back from three years of traveling in the rivers and lakes, but the Remnants of Western Chu did not know what Xu Feng's age was, and thought that the Nangong servants (played by Zhang Tianai) who passed by were Xu Fengnian, so they went forward to kill him.
Scenes like this kind of siege and blocking should be very exciting, but the whole fight scene is almost all slow motion, and the remnants of Western Chu surrounding the Nangong servants do not know the siege, only one by one slowly, and there is only one "slash" move.
What's more, the Nangong servants either flashed in slow motion or in slow motion, and finally waved their hands casually twice, and a special effect that looked very good appeared, and then the remnants of the Western Chu soldiers all fell to the ground.
After watching this clip, my mind was full of thoughts: Just this? That's it? That's it? Is this really a slapstick scene?
If a fight scene is like this, then it is enough, but the play is like this, all made of slow motion, almost no decent moves, it looks mysterious, but in fact, it is weak.
For example, after Lao Kui (Tao Hai) came out of the lake, he fought with Jian Jiu Huang (Yang Haoyu).
Both of them are masters of a pint, the weapon of the lake bottom lao Kui is a chain knife wrapped around the hand, and the weapon of the sword jiuhuang is a sword box containing six famous swords, these two weapons are not common, the move should be full of grids, very interesting, but the final effect is very speechless.
There was almost no scene of the two fighting head-on in the whole scene, it was always the lake bottom lao kui running while throwing the chain knife, and the sword Jiu Huang commanded the sword in the sword box to chase, and then used three swords to subdue the lake bottom lao kui.
I don't know why the lake bottom boss, as a master of a pint, keeps running, and will only throw the chain knife a move, and every time he throws the chain knife, he throws a lonely one.
After watching the play, I really doubt that "In the Snow" did not ask for martial fingers, and the fight scenes were all filmed casually, otherwise why would it be filmed like this?
In addition to the drama pulling down, the rhythm of the play also has great problems.
The first six episodes tell that Xu Fengnian was assassinated three times just after returning to Beilin, the first time was pursued and killed by the Remnants of Western Chu, the second time was the assassination of Qinglou Hua Kuiyu Youwei (Jia Ze), and the third time was Lin Tanhua (Zhang Tianyang) who came to the palace to assassinate.
In the end, Xu Fengnian discovered that the mastermind behind the three assassinations was Zhao Heng (Yu Yang), the king of Jing'an in Qingzhou, who deliberately set up this bureau in order to monopolize the power of Qingzhou and wanted to get rid of the Lin family, who held the financial power of Qingzhou, and Xu Fengnian and his father Xu Xiao also had a layout in it, in order to let Xu Fengnian take over the Northern Starling.
This plot is both sinister and has the right to plot layout, just thinking about it feels wonderful.
But the director is obviously not skilled enough, not only the pace is slow, but also seems to be unable to grasp the point, the power part is all dependent on the lines, the martial arts part is very crotch, completely did not show the tension and stimulation that this scene should have, so that it looks a little boring.
In addition, the heroine Jiang Ni's ancient costume appearance is also very discouraged.
Jiang Ni's actor is Xiaohua Li Gengxi, to be honest, I like her role in "Little Joy", but the costume in "Snow" is really not good.
Li Gengxi's appearance is relatively young and modern, and the effect of acting in modern dramas is very good, but it is really not suitable for ancient costumes, and dressed up in ancient costumes is like a mediocre little girl.
Although Jiang Ni's identity in the play is Xu Fengnian's maid, she also has another layer of identity - the princess of the Western Chu Dynasty, but in Li Gengxi's version of Jiang Ni, I can't see the slightest princess temperament.
Taking a step back, even if Jiang Ni does not have the identity of a princess, only the setting of the lady, but she is the heroine, how can the heroine really look like an ordinary lady! Any female character in the play can pull out to suppress her, how can people watch it?
And Li Gengxi looks like a high school student, playing a couple with Zhang Ruoyun, there is no sense of CP, which is also a problem.
In addition to the hard injuries mentioned above, "In the Snow" also has the problem of filtering too green, which is also the place where many netizens complain, and I will not elaborate here.
Counted so many shortcomings of "In the Snow", but in fact, it is not completely without highlights, like character shaping is good, each character has a distinct personality, not a one-sided tool person.
Xu Fengnian was superficially lustful, but in fact he was smart and had the ability to take over the North Starling, but because he could not bear to sacrifice others to achieve his own achievements, he strongly refused his father to arrange the path he took.
Xu Xiao held heavy power in his hands, and he was scheming and wanted to pass the throne of Beilin to his son, who knew that he did not appreciate it, so he tried to arrange for him to take over The Northern Starling.
Jian Jiu Huang looks delicious and lustful, but in fact, it is hidden deeply, because he escaped thirty years ago when he fought Wang Xianzhi (Yu Rongguang), he always has a knot in his heart, and it is Xu Fengnian who gives him the courage to go back to Wang Xianzhi for a duel.
In addition, Nangong servants shoot Gao Lengwu, Chen Zhibao (gao Weiguang) has courage and strategy, Lin Tanhua is righteous and angry... The characters are very impressive.
However, although there are highlights in "In the Snow", because there are too many hard injuries, so that after last night's broadcast, there were bad reviews, and many netizens commented that they were very disappointed.
At present, the reputation of "In the Snow" is most likely to be pounced, and if the drama party does not want to make up for it, such as changing the slow motion of the play, it is likely to lose more audiences.