Wen | Ling Fox Bo Guang
If the domestic drama in 2021 is a chaotic year, the Korean drama is a year of attack in the world. At the beginning of the year, the dog blood urban drama "Penthouse" was a hit in China, and the "Squid Game" in the middle of the year was a fire in the world. The nervous "Hell's Messenger" caught fire. At this time, it is said that it is the first science fiction drama in South Korea to be online.
That is Kong Liu, Pei Douna starring in the "Silent Sea", the overall quality of this drama is not very good, there is no fire, but among Korean drama fans, it is naturally not comparable to domestic dramas (severe restrictions). However, I think that in addition to the dog blood urban drama "Penthouse", which has some Local Korean flavor. "Squid Games", "Hell's Messenger", "Silent Sea" is supported by us streaming giant Netflix. Now the attack of Korean dramas in the world is very obvious, but it also exposes the huge problems of Korean dramas themselves.
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The storyline of this drama is not complicated to say, on the contrary, it is relatively simple. Probably in 2075, the earth's water resources are scarce, as for the reasons, it is not said, people's water resources must be divided into grades. Dr. Song, the heroine played by Pei Doona, knew from the beginning that her sister had died in the "Bohai Sea Base" of the Moon, and from the relics given by her sister, there were some secrets hidden in the Bohai Sea Base of the Moon.
Dr. Song was summoned to the moon by the Korea Space Agency to go to the moon and went to the "Bohai Sea Base" with Captain Han, played by Kong Liu, to get some important experimental samples. There were also doctors, several warriors and other members of the team, and everyone followed them to the moon. The first episode lost a member of the team who had been to the moon during the fall.
After they entered the "Bohai Sea Base", they learned in advance that the closure of the base was a nuclear leak, but they detected that the radiation value was normal. Entering the base, I saw a lot of people who died of dehydration, and the entire base of people were dehydrated and died, and the samples were empty, one of the foreign company spies who found a sample of something was also killed and robbed by a mysterious creature, and the whole movie story was probably divided into two paragraphs.
The first half basically revolves around how the researchers at the base died and what the samples were. Until one of the team members was also infected and vomited water and died shocking everyone, the secret was then revealed by the doctor and Dr. Song. Probably the earth is not a lack of water into a desert, Dr. Song's sister found a thing called "moon water" on the moon, this thing can increase indefinitely, if you can control the water shortage desertification of the earth will be saved.
The problem is that this "moon water" can not be controlled, living people and even blood touching the moon water will increase indefinitely, until the host will not stop proliferating, all the researchers in the Bohai Sea base are so dead, as to why all died buried a pit, and finally said, there are two side lines in the middle is communication has not been passed, the other dark line is the ambush of foreign spies.
In the second half, after they study the secret of "Moonwater", they discover that the creature that killed the spy is a little girl. And because the setting is close to Dr. Song (Dr. Song turned from space to study animals when he was on Earth), the protagonist discovered that the little girl is a clone according to the investigation, and it is Dr. Song's sister and the Korean government who constantly use clones to do biological experiments in order to control the moon water.
Finally, the hidden spy went on a killing spree, trying to seize the remaining moon water and snatch the little girl at the same time. During the rebellion of the protagonist group, the spy is hit by moon water, and the secret is revealed before death. Anyway, it was a conspiracy of the South Korean government, which wanted to cover up the secret and kill everyone at the base, and the spy took a team member before he died.
At this time, the moon water has flooded the base, and the male protagonist, the female heroine, the female doctor and the little girl are going to escape. As a result, the male protagonist at the door let them go in order to close the door to save people, the heroine, the female doctor and the little girl escaped, the little girl was not afraid of the cold and did not need to breathe directly on the moon, and finally the spaceship was dropped.
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The first thing that deserves to be affirmed in this Korean science fiction drama is definitely the level of the film and television industry. Whether it is the apocalyptic scenes of the big scenes, the disaster of the spacecraft landing on the moon, the lunar base, the internal modeling of the base, etc., or the art, editing, narrative and decryption of key hidden points, etc., although it is not as good as the United States, it is indeed the first level in Asia. There are a few points that are still relatively cleverly handled, but this science fiction drama has more disadvantages than advantages.
1. Narrative and rhythmic processing are in the study of American dramas, but obviously the learning is not in place. As a result, many viewers felt that the pace was slow.
The sense of suspense of the rhythm and narrative, to be honest, two or three or four episodes is still good, the first episode is too procrastinating and there is not much content, the apocalyptic reasons for science fiction are not discussed, and the space agency structure and complex character relationships are not. In the end, the login disaster is used to reflect the disaster, which is not bad, but it can only be said to be decent.
The story plot of the two or three or four episodes is OK, entering the base to see a large number of strange corpses, a troubled heroine, a male protagonist who obviously has secrets, a mysterious creature hiding in the shadows, and then a spy who does not know which side, and even the communication is broken and cannot be passed out. It all peaked when his teammates were hit by the death of Moonwater, and the sense of suspense, thriller, character relationships, dramatic conflict, and atmosphere creation were all good.
The narrative and rhythmic processing of the next few episodes are not very good, and the most intense sense of drama impact is only the little girl Luna is a clone experiment, with the female doctor seeing countless clones of the dead treatment, but this mystery has been guessed when she sees that the little girl is Luna 73.
Other plot settings have this sense of routine, the identity of the little girl is exposed prematurely, and the identity of the spy is exposed prematurely. Then the little girl was caught for half a day, and the spy died for half a day, which made the rhythm seem to drag on, and many viewers may be difficult to watch the second half.
2, the character building of this play is quite a failure, and the audience has no way to empathize and understand at all.
At the beginning, the cannon fodder was killed by the middle moon, the spy who was killed by the little girl was cannon fodder, and later the little girl was killed by the cannon fodder in the secret room full of plants, and the soldier who was killed by the spy was still cannon fodder. These characters are only npc-capable, and I'm sure the audience won't even remember the names.
Of course, the biggest role of this kind of character is to reflect the setting and the promotion of the narrative. The first is moon water, the second is the little girl who leads out the mysterious creature, the third is the combination of corpse blood and moon water that causes the flood of the base to erupt, and the last one is the exposure of the ultimate spy.
But the remaining three important supporting characters also only use identity and expression to show personality, and there is no shaping of their past and emotions, which leads to the audience's lack of empathy when they die. For example, the team members with broken mouths and fear were killed by spies, the calm and powerful team leader was obviously killed by the script, and the female doctor survived to the end.
It's hard for viewers to say they like these characters, and it's hard to be touched when they die. The space bureau chief on the ground and other people are very common facial characters in Korean film and television dramas, and they almost carved "all done by the South Korean government" on the door of their heads.
The shaping of the two protagonists is not very good, and the emotional connection is still very poor, pay attention to the fact that there is no love. Dr. Song's emotional shaping is a bit excessive, not just the relationship with his sister and the truth behind it, saving the earth and being a scientist's conscience; the male protagonist is for his daughter's future and his military responsibilities. Character building is very routine, and the two do not have any emotional connection.
Except for the male and female protagonists who were intimidated a few times in the early stages, there was not much emotional interaction in the whole process. In the end, the male protagonist is willing to sacrifice himself to make the female protagonist look too abrupt, or even incomprehensible. These two problems are the problems of the plot itself, but they are not the most important problems of the show.
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Like Victory, Silent Sea is Korea's first large-scale science fiction work, and it has never been done before. And they are all logged on to Netflix in the United States, but "Victory" cannot be released and sold to Netflix because of the epidemic, and "Silent Sea" is obviously the investment and layout of Netflix since the success of "Kingdom", "Squid Game" and "Hell's Messenger" are such works.
With the investment support and promotion of American capital, the Korean film and television industry has ushered in a new round of outbreak due to the relaxed environment and the maturity of the film and television industry. However, if you often watch Korean film and television dramas, you will find a problem, that is, in recent years, the expansion of Korean film and television has been too fast, or the cultural heritage is seriously insufficient.
For example, after the zombies of "Busan Trip" and "Kingdom" became popular, zombie works with a little local culture grafted on the back emerged in an endless stream. At the same time, there are also exorcism themes after "Crying" and "Kunchiyan", which are also Western themes grafting points oriental and Korean local cultural elements.
Other politics, police bandits, workplaces, suspense dramas, etc., many Korean remakes from Japanese dramas and British and American dramas, some indicate that they bought the copyright of the remake, but some have done localization adaptations directly as originals, "Squid Game" and "Hell Messenger" are examples. Other themes are very frequent, but the more mature audiences are not clear. However, science fiction Korea and China are the same as the starting point, and this take-ism is very harsh.
The science fiction ideas of "Victory", the science fiction concept copied from the American science fiction movie "Elysium Space", the Japanese science fiction "Starry Sky Cleaner", "Dream", "COWBOY BEBOP", "Mobile Suit Gundam: Counterattack Xiaya" and so on.
The main sci-fi idea of "Silent Sea" is "Doctor Who", the little girl of "Alien" among other little girls, even if there are little girls in "Victory", and various space thriller routines abound. At this time, many people who support Korean dramas may say that the sci-fi ideas of "The Wandering Earth" to promote earth are copied from "Demon Star Godzilla"——
I also think it is difficult to define plagiarism and non-plagiarism, but the biggest problem with Victory and Silent Sea is the narrative structure, rhythm arrangement, various preparations and reversals that extend from the science fiction idea below the science fiction idea, the science fiction concept, and even the entire idea.
unbelief? We replaced "Silent Sea" with a frivolous white man (single father), the heroine with a wise and fiery white heroine (she loves animals), the taciturn military leader is a black man, the brother who is killed is of Indian descent or Mexican descent (active atmosphere), the female doctor is a technical white man (preferably Lara), and the identity of the villain spy brother depends on the science fiction background.
You will find that "Victory" and "Silent Sea" are indistinguishable from a medium-cost American science fiction film and television drama from the science fiction concept, story structure, character conflict and even the landing of science fiction aesthetics, and it is also a very routine kind, except for nationality and skin color.
"The Wandering Earth" is not enough in both the film and television industry and the degree of completion, but China has Liu Cixin, a big country cultural heritage and scientific process. Even if you say that the sci-fi idea of the planetary engine pushing the earth collided, but the centenary spirit of this idea extended by a hundred generations of foolish mountain-moving, saturation-style rescue, and even the heavy industry infrastructure aesthetics of the rise of great powers, which makes countless Western, Japanese classic science fiction films and televisions into the most sci-fi fans are eye-catching.
Because "The Wandering Earth" is completely different from Western science fiction, even Japanese science fiction.
For another example, the Chinese science fiction animation "Spirit Cage" is very similar to "Silent Sea" until the final chapter, full of learning and imitation of western and Japanese apocalyptic science fiction + monster fantasy. The expression of oriental ideas brought about by the appearance of the local oriental squad suddenly raised the level of this animation to a higher level.
Korean science fiction does not have Liu Cixin, there is no science fiction four kings, and there is no cultural thinking brought about by the cultural heritage of big countries. South Korean film and television dramas have expanded wildly with the help of American Netflix, but more and more works show the collage brought about by this lack of cultural heritage and pattern.
It is really popular with its platform and capital, and even spread all over the world. The problem is that something without itself may be like wearing the "Korean Wave", hot in the short term but lacking in depth, and whether it can eventually have the same sustained influence as Japanese pop culture and even Hong Kong pop culture.
As for the development of the domestic film and television drama industry, it is another problem.