Unexpectedly, I escaped the pit of serialization in the past, and now I have not escaped the pit of the new drama.
After chasing eight episodes in one night, it is basically a state of life without love, sitting and waiting for updates.
Yes, I am talking about this series of the same name that has been serialized for nearly a decade and has a total of more than four million words of the novel "Knife Line in the Snow".
It has already started broadcasting on Tencent Video this week.
Pai can't wait and get a sneak peek.
From more than 4 million words of fiction to 38 episodes of the TV series (I heard that there is a second season), the huge gap in the volume of content is doomed to fail to restore every detail at a glance, but needs to delete the complex and simplified adaptation.
Go to what and leave what?
This drama intercepts the core starling from the original work, focuses on the growth of Xu Fengnian (Zhang Ruoyun), the son of the Northern Starling, and lets the core characters appear between the rivers and lakes and the temple, and jointly complete the character growth of Xu Fengnian.
The male frequency Shuangwen that starts with a million words generally has a commonality, the background of the story is magnificent and magnificent, spanning thousands of miles, and the protagonist is in it. "Cool feeling" is the strongest reading experience.
After eight episodes, although the background of the story has not yet been fully unfolded, the North Starling led by Xu Xiao is already in front of you.
The protagonist also completed the identity conversion from "Broken Settlement" to "True Shizi" in two episodes, just as Zhang Ruoyun's line out of the circle said, "I am still quite expensive when I wash it."
The series largely retains the original "cool feeling" of the story.
However, from the novel to the screen, only the "cool feeling" stimulation is obviously not enough, if most viewers want to be fascinated, we must consider the rationality of the character's actions, give the real character motivation and psychological logic.
In the first few episodes, "The Knife In the Snow" has thrown out a very strong character motivation - Xu Fengnian wants to find out who is behind the assassination of himself.
At the beginning, we gave sufficient reasons and motivations, and we started his "fishing game" with Xu Fengnian...
After watching the eight episodes, you must sigh, "There is an inner taste"! The expected coolness and texture are all online, and there are many new breakthroughs in the overall presentation of the style of the series and the martial arts concept.
In the current episodes, the most pleasing is Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian's father and son CP. Although in "Qing Yu Nian", "Little Fan Lord has four fathers", in "The Sword Line in the Snow", Xu Fengnian's father does not say that it is okay to be one as a hundred, but to be ten as one.
According to rumors, Xu Xiao was the only king with a different surname, and the entire Northern Starling emperor was the emperor of the earth, whose power was tilted toward the opposition and killed people like hemp.
In reality, Xu Xiao was indeed extraordinary, commanding the Northern Starling Horse, and had the prestige of the prince.
But in front of his son Xu Fengnian, Xu Xiao became a small white rabbit (big white rabbit?) who pretended to be cute and cute. Old White Rabbit? To be the most kind and lovely old father in the eyes of his son.
Iron Fist King? Kind old father? The earth-shattering contrast between the two fills the sense of joy, and the real relationship between father and son also buries a question mark.
Look at his son Xu Fengnian again. A second ago, he was still stealing sweet potatoes and chickens with Lao Huang in the wild mountains, and he was chased by his fellow villagers and ran all over the mountains.
In front of his father Xu Xiao, he became an arrogant petite bully with teeth and claws, calling "Xu Xiao" by his name, not even a "father".
In the face of the smiling father, Cool threw out a sentence of "You are waiting for me outside, I will change clothes", and shut the father out of the door.
The contrast between the self-reliant mountain boy and the chaos demon king is not Xiao's descendants, which is not only The different survival masks of Xu Fengnian in different environments, but also reflects the real love between him and his father, but also a little bit of a little temper and a little awkward father-son relationship.
Only a beloved child will unscrupulously lie in front of his parents.
The father-son relationship between Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao seems awkward, but in fact it is just another form of fatherly love.
Wait a minute. Don't think that just the Father's love is like a mountain.
Xu Xiao's father's love is like a mountain, which is the mountain that landslides at any time.
Xu Fengnian struggled to find the spy who gave his portrait to the enemy, checked and checked, hey, guess what. This traitor was none other than his own father, Xu Xiao.
Xu Fengnian looked at the portraits on the table, and Xu Xiao asked with a loving face: How, I deliberately chose the one that is most similar!
What？ Is this a daddy? Love is true love, and pits are also true pits. Let's call it a new type of paternity in love.
This group of CPs has almost 360 degrees of spurring and motivating Xu Fengnian's character growth, which can be described as doing everything.
I have never seen a father set up a bureau to protect his son, and I have never seen a father design to assassinate his son.
Other fathers treat their sons as persuasion and education, and Xu Xiao treats Xu Fengnian as a series of schemes and steps by step.
Father and son set a set, a decryption, a move like a chess game, and in the game with the master, Xu Fengnian is also constantly increasing his chess eyesight and mental strength.
The dramatic tension is pulled to the full grid in the father-son's passing moves, and the comedic effect is also in the father-son relationship. Never seen such an interesting father and son.
This unprecedented way of getting along between father and son is simply addictive, how can such a fresh father-son CP not be!
In addition to this strange father and son CP, characters such as Lao Huang, White Fox Face, Ginger Mud, and Lao Kui at the bottom of the lake also have distinct personalities that are unforgettable.
In traditional martial arts dramas, the jianghu characters follow the law of black and white, happiness and revenge, and the characters in the hall take the path of conspiracy and deception.
Temples and rivers and lakes are two worlds with distinct boundaries. Between people in different worlds, there is prejudice and arrogance, and there is little possibility of integration.
However, in this drama, the original martial arts stereotype is broken, the black and white rivers and lakes and the temple of deception are integrated, the characters shuttle between the two worlds, and the identities of the jianghu people and temple guests overlap. Minor characters also have more complexity.
For example, Jiang Ni, she assassinated Xu Fengnian again and again, but she dived into the water at a critical moment to save him. This mixture of love and hate is a struggle between human primitive emotions and social identity.
It is difficult for us to define whether Jiang Ni belongs to the temple or to the jianghu, but it is precisely under this complex and tangled multiple identity that the characters have a deep and subtle mood. Another example is Lao Huang, who has contributed countless laughs.
At the beginning, he was a slippery groom who left the young master to eat alone, and he was also a friend of suffering who lived with Xu Fengnian as an equal. But gradually, his chivalrous identity was revealed, and he was the famous sword jiuhuang.
The reversal of Lao Huang's identity made this character suddenly rich.
In front of Lao Kui at the bottom of the lake, Lao Huang is not lao Huang who steals chickens, he is the Jianghu Excalibur Sword Nine Yellow, and he is practicing the laws of the jianghu and using force to see the superiority.
As soon as the sword box is opened, count the swords and swords, and if you don't obey, you will fight until you serve.
But in front of Xu Fengnian, Lao Huang will always be the old Huang who stole chickens and fish with the young master, giving the young master the love and care of family affection like friendship. You can eat alone and bully the young master, but others don't want to move a hair of the young master.
This multi-faceted character image makes Lao Huang look particularly cute and even touching.
Because of this, we say that this drama integrates the jianghu and the temple, it does not talk about the characters in black and white, nor does it care at all what is the jianghu road and what is the temple road, but the home of the martial arts falls on each character.
In Shuangwen's path, almost all supporting characters are tools for the protagonist's growth. But in this drama, it has nothing to do with the temple and is not worried about the jianghu, even the small characters have the temperament and brilliance of martial arts.
Let the martial arts belong to the characters, which is the most valuable place in the whole drama.
We experience the "coolness" that transcends reality from the moves and styles of the martial arts world, but in the end, what really breaks through our emotional defense line is the "sense of reality" on the characters.
Before they become a martial arts character, they first become a real person, with a person's emotions and psychological logic. This inner logic may be complex and deep, but it ultimately leads to common human emotions.
That's why we are moved to tears by Lao Huang's departure. It will also be impressed by Xu Fengnian's innocent look at Jiang Ni by chance.
Along the emotional changes and growth of the characters, we gradually approached each character in the near future, felt their love and hatred, and slowly understood the uniqueness of Xu Fengnian.com.
In order to ensure Xu Fengnian's support in the Northern Starlings, his father Xu Xiao urged his son to find an excuse to kill Ning Emei, just because Ning Emei supported the little prince Huang Man'er more.
Chen Zhibao, known as the Northern Starling Needle of the Sea God, in order to stabilize the hearts of the Northern Starling Army, urged Xu Fengnian to kill the stabbing Hua Kui Yu Yu Wei.
Human life is what they see as something they can sacrifice for the sake of the big picture.
But Xu Fengnian, whether he is kind or gentle, he refuses to exchange human life for the so-called stability of the overall situation. Essentially, it's a value pattern far ahead of his time, or rather, it's a choice that most people in front of the screen would agree with.
In the martial arts world, everyone can kill and decide, but kindness and protection are not everyone can do.
The reason why the protagonist becomes the protagonist, of course, is that there must be a good time and place, but the last bit of manship depends on our emotional substitution and recognition of him.
In this set of plays, our identification with Xu Fengnian is indeed because of his intelligence, kindness and cuteness, but in the final analysis, it comes from the advancement of his values. In the face of human life, sacrifice, and war, he made the same value judgments as us, and met our highest emotional expectations.
That's what really makes us fall in love with this character.
As a martial arts drama, it really seeks breakthroughs and attempts in all aspects, whether it is father-son CP, character highlights or its breakthrough and reshaping in the martial arts pattern, which allows us to see its sincerity.
It's almost the end of the year, and this drama should be the grand finale of this year's martial arts drama. After talking so much, you can probably see that I am really in a hurry.
Let's go check it out, I'll wait a little longer to catch up with the update.