The costume drama "Mirror Twin Cities" can be described as "unaired first fire", first of all, this drama is adapted from Cangyueda's novel of the same name, and many readers are looking forward to this drama being able to hatch into a film and television drama; secondly, the process of the release of the drama is too tortuous, experiencing various events such as casting storms, shooting interruptions and so on.
After the final release, the first broadcast was very popular, and it ushered in 100 million hits on the first day of launch!
However, after a few days of broadcasting, the popularity subsided, but ushered in the embarrassing situation of "bad reviews".
From the number of broadcasts, it can also be seen that the drama's cleaning up of the "street" has received a "reaction" of bad reviews. On the first day, the number of plays broke 100 million, but by the sixth night, the number of plays did not break 300 million, only 267 million plays.
Good word-of-mouth drama may have a very general number of clicks at the beginning, but with the good word of mouth that everyone hears, the ratings will show an upward growth curve, if you have a curve in your mind, then the rating curve of "Mirror Twin Cities" should be declining at this time.
Where did Mirror Twin Cities lose?
First, the script was not seriously polished, and the scenes were too shoddy
The first is that the screenwriter did not seriously analyze the script and understand where the pain points of the novel "Mirror Twin Cities" attract readers are. Sumo's character is a very impressive point: blind man, puppet manipulator. But these two points are ignored in the TV series, and we see a sumo with a cold face as a "domineering president", not the ghostly, cold-blooded Sumo.
But to tell the truth, when encountering such a "soft and cute" expression of the male protagonist, the cute temperament is even worse.
If it is a cold and domineering president-style Su Mo, there is also a part of the audience can be accepted, but I don't know how the stylist of this drama thinks, what age it is, but also to paint the male protagonist with a very exaggerated red eyeshadow, the eyeliner is also feminine enough, but unfortunately the eyebrows are not slender, otherwise the male protagonist dressed in this way can directly cross to play the role of killing Stranger in the "Flowers and Bones" drama.
As a costume fairy drama, the special effects and scene arrangement will be a very big attraction for the audience. Of course, genres like "The Promotion of the Princess Princess" are very interesting and fascinating in the plot, so that the audience can ignore some shortcomings in the service of morality, and even these "rough" service morality can also drive more topics and arouse higher attention.
However, for the "Mirror Twin Cities" itself plot setting is very loose, let people often have a "boring, can not watch" feeling when watching the play, the layout of the scene in the play is very important, after all, the plot is not good, I look at the scenery is not GOOD?
But if this scenery is also very rough, it is no wonder that the audience has to complain.
Look at one of the scenes created here, the rockery is like a temporary bubble, a small peach blossom tree behind it is also fake, and even the undulating mountains behind are simple background walls. The heavy dark clouds in the back look like the background of P. And the heroine is lying directly on a very modern coffee table, yes, it is a coffee table, not a desk, not an antique table, it is a tea table like marble texture, covered with a piece of cloud gauze, a small teapot, a book... This kind of set is also too lively, right?
In the case that the plot can't keep up with the audience's thinking, the scene is still so "lively", which is like fast food, let people watch it again, and never want to look back. Compared with the same Xian Xia drama", "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost", the set framing screen is very exquisite, so that every time you watch it, you have to marvel at how careful the crew's costume is.
Second, the plot progresses rapidly, and the male and female protagonists act in the crotch
If you have not seen the original book, you may wonder why the heroine has to jump off the tower of mirrors in the fifth episode, and feel inexplicable that the two people have established such a deep relationship in a few episodes - just love to death?
It seems that the screenwriter does not think too much about the problem of the speed of the plot progress, and I don't know if the screenwriter has thought about this question: is the male and female protagonists high enough to provide a material that allows the audience to be able to make up for themselves in their minds? This may have been possible in the past, but with the gradual improvement of the audience's film and television appreciation level, such a hollow plot and rough costume idol dramas have been difficult to meet the growing demand of the audience: we need more carefully polished scripts and more exquisite acting performances and more exquisite scene picture experiences.
Especially in the situation where the male and female protagonists' acting skills are difficult to satisfy the audience's imagination of the character settings in the play, every deficiency in the play has been magnified. The audience saw the acting skills of the male and female protagonists and complained: "The acting skills are more wooden than one!" ”
When the male protagonist faced the female protagonist drunkenly leaning on himself, his eyes were empty and he did not know what he was thinking. Even when a loved one jumped off the tower, he just shouted loudly and frowned.
The heroine seems to have been spat on is the acting skills, this kind of spit in the "Moon On the Fire" reached its peak, and now there is "Mirror Twin Cities", the heroine has been advised to "go to talk about a love!" Let's practice and practice acting again! The eyes are hollow like blind people."
When she found that the male protagonist peeked at herself to change clothes, she did not become angry, but just stared at the eyes; in the face of the throbbing in her heart, when love sprouted, she was only expressionless, and her eyes widened to look at each other... If the heroine is the kind of person who can speak with her eyes and express everything with her eyes, the key is that it is difficult for everyone to read what the heroine wants to express in the big eyes of the water spirit.
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I hope that before the ancient puppet drama wants to circle the circle of money, it will spend more effort to polish the script, and I also hope that the stars will know more about the character settings in the original work before playing the characters, rather than relying on their own understanding to play some cookie-cutter roles.