On January 11, the time-loop short drama "Beginning", hosted by Noonday Sunshine and starring Bai Jingting and Zhao Jinmai, was officially broadcast on Tencent Video.
As of press time, the drama Douban scored 8.2 points, more than 140,000 netizens scored, of which the number of people who scored four-star and five-star praise accounted for more than 80%, the reputation is very good, and it has truly become a new beginning of the domestic online drama market in the new year.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Prayer Jun, the drama tells the story of game architect Xiao Heyun and college student Li Shiqing who "came back from the dead" after encountering a bus explosion, and constantly experienced the time loop during the time period of the bus accident, trying to stop the explosion and find the truth.
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"Cannon" becomes a new generation of "Yama King Summoning Song"
At the beginning of the story, game architect Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting) and college student Li Shiqing (Zhao Jinmai) are sitting on a moving No. 45 bus. Suddenly, the bus suddenly collided with a tanker truck, "Boom! "All the people are gone...
Then, the camera turns, or the No. 45 bus that is moving. Accompanied by a ringtone of "Cannon", the male and female protagonists played by Bai Jingting and Zhao Jinmai suddenly woke up.
Just when the male and female protagonists thought that they had just been dreaming, "Cannon" before the car exploded in the dream rang again. Then there was a "bang" and the car exploded again!
Yes, you read that right, the protagonist dies twice in the opening scene. As for what happened later, we won't spoil too much.
In short, before the many explosions in the play, they will hear a clip of "Cannon" mobile phone ringing. This setting also makes many netizens have a "psychological shadow".
"Khanom" is a pure music that everyone is familiar with, and in the play, it seems to have become music with life-threatening magic. Especially with the blessing of the plot, it even has a somewhat terrifying effect.
"Khanom" is not really a piece of music, it is a polyphonic music; the tune of one voice is chased by another from beginning to end, repeating and looping; until the last bar, the last chord, merges together.
Just like the "loop" in the story, one after another, waiting for the final truth to be born.
In fact, as early as 2021, in the TV series "Sweeping The Black Storm", there was also a piece of music comparable to "Cannon".
In the first episode of "Sweeping The Black Storm", a black van drove past the airport line in Luteng City, Zhongjiang Province, and sat on the car a number of big leaders of Zhongjiang Province, as well as members of the central supervision group who had just entered Luteng.
On the other hand, Xue Mei, a citizen of Luteng, took the video of the report and prepared to stop the vehicle of the supervision group to report it in real name, seeking justice for her husband Mai Zili who hid his body after being killed 14 years ago.
Just as she was kneeling in the middle of the road and holding up her camera, a sprinkler truck slowly drove up behind her.
As soon as the camera turned, the person was gone, leaving only the sanitation workers scrubbing the blood on the tires in front of the sanitation office, and the music of "Wish You Peace" sung by Sun Yue played by the sanitation cleaning vehicle that caused the accident. Compared with the two compartments inside and outside the car, the boldness and arrogance of the criminal and evil forces have been expressed to the extreme.
Earlier, the classic children's song "Little White Boat" in the 2020 high-scoring suspense web drama "The Hidden Corner", with a thriller plot, immediately transformed into a "horror nursery rhyme", which is also chilling.
However, the reason why "Little White Boat" is impressive is not only because of the rhythm, tone, and the atmosphere rendered, but also because "Little White Boat" was originally a beautiful nursery rhyme in the primary school music textbook, which is a symbol that everyone recalls very warmly.
The nursery rhyme "Little White Boat" appears several times in "The Hidden Corner", and every time the music sounds, there must be a murder.
Therefore, when "Kanon" appeared in "Beginning", some netizens directly called, "Congratulations to "Cannon" for becoming a new round of Yan Wangye summoning tracks after "Little White Boat" and "Wish You Peace"" ".
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Music, one of the indispensable elements of film and television dramas
In recent years, due to film and television dramas, there have been many soundtracks, in addition to the above-mentioned "Little White Boat" and "Wish You Peace", there are also "Farewell" in the web drama "Very Witnessed", "Bugs Flying" in the movie "I Am a Witness" and so on.
However, the above film and television dramas, either the suspense elements account for a relatively large proportion, or the dramatic conflict is very strong. In fact, suspense films have a long history of attaching importance to the soundtrack.
For example, "suspense master" Hitchcock is good at using music and acoustic effects to create suspense. In the classic "Bathroom Murder" clip in "Horror Story", the music suddenly cuts in at the climax of the story, mixed with screams, although there is no bloody picture, but it is doubly frightening.
Unlike other types of film and television works, suspense dramas have won the love of the audience with their plot ups and downs and unexpected plots. The addition of music, the most prominent thing is to fill the suspense atmosphere value.
In addition, under the use of the director, the music in suspense film and television works often has a high correlation with the plot twist, so as to be discovered beyond the original text.
For example, "Little White Boat", because it always appears at the time of murder, it becomes a "dangerous signal" and becomes terrifying. When "Little White Boat" and the murder plot are repeated, the audience inevitably forms a psychological "stress" response and worries about the fate of the characters in the play.
The same is true in The Beginning. It's not that "Cannon" itself is scary, but that it's a bit "uncomfortable" in "Beginnings". Of course, the "Cannon" in the play is not just the background music, it also has the function of promoting the plot, which will be reflected in the subsequent plot.
In addition, in the Internet era, the entertaining "hot memes" of "Little White Boat" and "Cannon" have become one of the ways to revitalize the classics again.
Some simple "classics" may be more difficult to spread at the mass level, but "familiar and unfamiliar reinterpretations" are more obsessive. This not only allows netizens to actively participate in the interaction, but also has a significant boosting effect on the dissemination of the work itself.
Of course, everything needs to be built on the quality of the work itself. When the script and the actor's performance are superior, the audience can have a better sense of substitution and experience. Otherwise, no matter how good the music is, it is difficult to have an effect.