With the "Mist Theater" and "Suspense Theater" being broadcast, there is also a news that has not been noticed by many people: the "Zodiac Mystery Case" that shocked the United States in the late 1960s was solved! The self-proclaimed zodiac killer not only committed serial crimes and murderous methods, but also liked to show off to the media and the police and leave puzzles, and after 50 years, the mystery that had plagued the police for half a century was finally solved. And suspenseful crime dramas with such themes have also arrived in late autumn. On the days of waiting for the "fog" update, check out these dramas!
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nautilus
Industry advantages of industrial production
Episode 12 of the first chapter of "Reverse Game" came to an abrupt end at the most critical moment. Of course, this is the routine of the producer "seducing" you to see the second chapter, but fortunately, the second chapter was released not long after all, and it was still four episodes at a time. As soon as the suspense drama discusses the specific plot, it seems meaningless, so this article will not spoil, only talk about the general direction of this suspense crime drama. Why should a novel by a mainland writer be taken to Taiwan to be filmed? And is it iQIYI International's self-made pioneering work?
Of course, doing crime dramas is significantly one of the most likely types to gather popularity and traffic. Doing crime dramas is also a relatively easy genre for film and television production companies in Taiwan. In addition to Hollywood blockbusters, medium and even low-cost horror suspense films around the world have amazing box offices in Taiwan.
In recent years, local production in Taiwan has also "spread" from Cheng Weihao's folk horror films ("The Little Girl in Red" universe) to the field of TELEVISION dramas, such as "The Dreamer", "Who is the Victim", etc., like the two directors of "Reverse Game", which is the team of "Who is the Victim". Among them, Zhuang Xuanwei is also the director of "Mermaid: The Legend of the Little Girl in Red" in the universe of "Little Girl in Red". Therefore, from the production level, the suspense crime drama in Taiwan already has the advantage of industrial production.
The international streaming media giants have flocked to Taiwan, also because there is no scale limit on the production of Taiwan, which is why the corpses, sexual assault and other shots in "Reverse Game" are so realistic and bold. The reason why iQiyi took the suspense novels of mainland writers to Taiwan to shoot is also to consider the scale problem. After all, if a suspenseful horror crime drama has too many restrictions, it must not be good to shoot. Therefore, iQiyi filmed "Reverse Game" in Taiwan this time, and the market's consideration basically gave up the mainland market.
So, this "Reverse Game" alone in terms of the first chapter, how is the color? Douban's score is now 8.7, which is obviously on the high side. In fact, Douban's high rating of TV dramas in Taiwan is already well known to passers-by, and it is recommended to automatically drop 1 point if it is true.
But even if it drops by 1 point, the score of "Reverse Game" is still very high. Yes, the production of this show is indeed quite serious and elaborate. Moreover, even the problem of the content of the content of suspense crime dramas in Taiwan is not so obvious. However, careful analysis is the reason why the original "Pursuer" of the City of a Thousand Feathers itself is very solid and brain-opening.
The original work of "The Pursuer" is a fictional Donglin City, so the TV series version is filmed, and it is also set up in Donglin City according to the original work. This is rare in Taiwanese dramas, and the urban settings in Taiwanese dramas are generally very real rather than virtual, so it still looks a bit strange.
Let's talk about the performance of this play. At present, although the actors invited by "Reverse Game" are very powerful, they are not very brilliant, including Zhou Yumin, the actor of the soul character Liang Yandong. It's all shows that aren't bad enough, but there's no shows that are good enough. The same is true of Wu Xingguo, an actor who also has a god-level actor in the middle. Thinking about it, in the end, it is the director's skill problem, always paying a lot of attention to advancing the plot, but it is impossible to integrate the acting skills of so many good actors into a high level of mutual perfection. To put it bluntly, it is two directors who do not have deep skills, and they cannot control a group of good actors, so they will act their own.
The first chapter is over, the second chapter is over, Liang Yandong, who has been suspected of various crimes, is released from prison, and the new role of policewoman Yang Yulu (played by Zhang Rongrong) and Lu Qi (played by Zeng Jinghua), who may be the biggest villain, come to the fore. The 12 episodes of the second chapter can be filmed to the highest level of suspense crime in the drama and even in the Chinese drama? I'm skeptical, but hopefully it doesn't end badly.
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lamb
But all delicate evil is childish
After Matsumoto Kiyoharu, the most representative of Japanese social speculative novelists are the male Keigo Higashino and the female Miyuki Miyabe. The flourishing of socialist reasoning in the past decade is also related to the fact that pure characters are becoming more and more difficult to write. After all, a group of old-school Benge writers such as Takao Tsuchiya, the classic train watch killing mode, including the tempest mode of secret room reasoning, can no longer be realized in the face of scientific and technological progress. Even Shoji Shimada, who founded Shinbunge, has produced very limited good works in recent years. So mainland filmmakers have figured out a shortcut: take the classic bridge sections of Kyogoku Natsuhiko, Ayatsuji, Adatian, John Dixon and Ellery Quinn, and put on an original label to the Republic of China, so in ancient times - anyway, there are always audiences who have not read these things!
Social reasoning suspense is relatively easy to operate, and its biggest foundation and advantage - lyrical evil, in order to call for goodwill and refine human nature. This thing is "universally applicable", only need to be slightly modified according to the national conditions, and the output is still stable.
The first recommended episode is WOWOW's autumn new Japanese drama "Solomon's Perjury" (currently broadcasting two episodes), the last season of Xiao W produced Keigo Higashino's "Wandering Blade" to make people shine, and then continue to change this tome classic of Aunt Miyabe, which is full of expectations from the news. In particular, the screenwriter of the play, Shinozaki Eriko, is good at adaptation, not only changing "The Proud Wife", but also completing a personal favorite work "Home on the Slope".
Miyuki Miyabe is different from Miyuki Miyamoto, who likes to write small and beautiful (the classic work "Confession"), she has always belonged to the genre of tossing and turning not only to embarrass herself but also to play dead readers. The Book of Solomon's Perjury is more than 1.4 million words and more than 1,800 pages (the three brick-like majors that could have killed a man), and it takes an extremely pious attitude towards the social faction to read it. "Solomon's perjury" means that a man of wisdom and power lied, or that a man who holds the truth lied. The whole story revolves around a case of tragic death of a teenager, and depicts a group of young boys and girls who persistently seek a truth in the form of court trials with extremely delicate brushstrokes.
This work also wants to focus on because it represents the genre of social works that is most likely to gain favor in adapting TV dramas - but all delicate evils are childish. Is this sentence familiar? Yes, the work "The Hidden Corner", based on ZiJin Chen's "Bad Boy", can succeed, and its theatrical core is exactly the same as "Solomon's Perjury". "Solomon's Perjury" had been revised before this short play with a version of the film and a one-act play divided into two parts. South Korea also released a 12-episode adaptation of JTBC in 2016 (the heroine is the young actor Kim Hyun-so in the movie "The Melting Pot"). Because the match was played against tvN's "Ghosts", the drama was completely covered by the sound of the two Agassi. But this work is quite successfully adapted, the acting skills of young people hang most of the country, and the audience who are blinded by the "fog" can turn this old drama out to see.
Now that the two episodes broadcast by Xiao W, the adaptation and the output of the drama core are considered to be stable successes, and what I am most looking forward to seeing at present is that the TV series can restore the evil flower of human nature in the novel to a few points?
The textured suspense crime drama of "Little Forest"
I've always wanted to use any words to describe this suspenseful crime drama because its look and feel is so unique — it actually captures the texture of "Little Forest". After one episode was broadcast, Douban opened with a score of 8.7. Why? Director Ayuko Tsukahara alone is enough. Even if you don't know her, you must have seen her works, "Unnatural Death" (9.4 points), "Tokyo Hotel" (8.8 points), "For N" (8.7 points), "Reprinted" (9.2 points), "Personal Preferences" in 2020, "Mobile Search Team 404" (9.0 points). Yes, this female director is a cattle man who has tried countless genres to shoot a distinct personal character.
The film "The Favourite" threw a hook to the audience with a perfect structure - the first love 15 years ago was the person who arrested you to cooperate with the investigation 15 years later, and you became a suspect in a serial murder case. In the first episode, all the characters and suspense arrangements were successfully completed, only to slowly unfold the story later. The director's entire shot scheduling is full of bright colors, and the number of suspenseful reasoning crime films is stunned.
The show stars Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hikaru Utada, who has not been seen for a long time, singing the theme song, and the entire music production is Katsuya Yokoyama, from the front of the stage to the backstage team all add points.
If you only want to choose a suspenseful mystery film this season, then watch this "Favorite", you can always trust this director, she has never disappointed once.
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bat
"It's your turn"
Yasushi Akimoto, a famous Japanese lyricist, screenwriter, director, writer, film and television drama planner, producer, vice president of the University of the Arts, and a fan of the heavy werewolf killing game, this man with the most titles has taken a shot at Japanese dramas again.
The suspense drama "Real Criminal Label" (Real Criminal Flag), which was planned by this man and planned by this man, was divided into two parts: October 2021 and January 2022. This serious reasoning drama and "Your Turn" not only have the same planners, the screenwriter also created the special episode of "Your Turn" Takano Suiden, although he is a young screenwriter in his 20s, he already has many plays in hand, and there is a great momentum. Coupled with the same poster as "Your Turn" and the setting that everyone can be a suspect, many viewers sighed "there is an inner taste again", and when it is your turn to ptsd, it is really looking forward to and afraid of being hurt!
Seiryo Sosuke, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima, has a stable career and a harmonious family, and has even begun to buy a single-family property. But suddenly one day, his wife Maho (Riki Miyazawa) and his two children suddenly disappear, like evaporation in the world. He was reminded by friends that it is now the Internet era of information explosion, everyone can be a detective, it is better to go online for help, and as a result, the electronic gossip weekly published a title titled "The Mystery of the Rice Cooker!" Happy family, mother and son three suddenly disappeared, leaving the husband alone to pour out grief" after the help text, from all over the place do not distinguish the true and false news and intelligence avalanche to the male protagonist, with the fermentation of the incident, public opinion overnight reversed the direction of the wind - although the people around the interview said Ling Jie's family relationship is very good and other kind words, but part of the speech was cut off, "family collapse", "DV husband", "husband psychosis" and other malicious speculation spread on the Internet. He changed from a "tragic husband" to a "suspect husband", and the disappearance of his wife and children is considered to be Ling Jie's self-directed and self-acting, and his personal privacy and work address have also been exposed. Ling Jie was also looked at by the residents of the community with blank eyes, and the mailbox was full of harassing leaflets...
The first episode of the show begins with the topic of the case, "The Death of Santa Claus with Apricot Abalone Mushrooms" has become a hot topic on the Internet, related products have become "Internet celebrities", and the cause of death has been adapted into a game mode by children - that is, while shouting "Apricot Abalone Mushroom Santa Claus Jump" while jumping from the steps, if the jump is not good, it is judged to be "dead". At this time, the male protagonist was still relishing the cases of others, and the reasoner generally said light-hearted and playful words: "Don't you think that people who look suspicious are not necessarily criminals?" ”。
Yes, right away "it's your turn".
Empty warm little home, 12 hours of warm rice is still in the pot, the wife seems to have lied to him, saying that Friday is the night shift result is the morning shift, gaunt middle-aged man, with a very hades background music, did not use any horror techniques, but let the audience panic a batch, this is the atmosphere thriller it! In addition to the indifferent ridicule of the case itself from the Bafang passers-by, which has become a talking point of concern for current affairs, the male protagonist has just started to report the case, and the police have a look of indifference and feel that the male protagonist is making a big fuss. Japan disappears 85,000 people a year, and it's easy to see and irritate.
In addition to still taking the route of suspecting all the members, "The Label of True Murderers" also focuses on the topic of the online violence of the protagonist Sagara Lingsuke who is labeled, which is very suitable for current life. As an orthodox Benge reasoning drama, the protagonist and the audience stand on the same reasoning starting line and obtain the same reasoning clues. For this reason, the film side also specially cooperated with the broadcast rhythm of the series, arranged the voting game, and voted on the characters in the play every week on the official website, after the first episode was broadcast, the top three votes of everyone were the characters with a smile on their faces after hearing the disappearance of the male protagonist's wife in the play - because the male protagonist's ridicule "Maybe the real murderer is laughing at all this!" ”
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Snowy Owl
The two heroines love and kill each other
The first is attracted by the poster, the dark and cold picture frame locks two women hugging each other tightly, the red and green form a sharp contrast, a scratch is thrown at the two fiercely, indicating the tearing of some relationship. The first one who did not recognize Gao Xianzhen hugging was Shin Hyun-bin, so that the two heroines of love and killing each other, the banner of revenge and suspense, the director of "LIFE" Lin Xianxu and the screenwriter of "Secret" Liu Baola pressed the front, the sales can be said to be quite good.
The beginning of the nonsense straight to the suspense point is the consistent method of Korean dramas, and the picture in the scene of Zheng Xizhu's black wind and high night struggle to "throw the corpse" played by Gao Hyun-jeong is also quite straight. After cutting into the main film, although the melodious background music sets off the quiet of the years, it is not difficult to find through the painting that the opening is not a previous history but a flashback, so as the plot deepens, "the person I love died for me" becomes more and more confusing. The appearance of Gu Haiyuan, played by Shin Hyun-bin, breaks all the calm. Looking at "Dr. Zhang" (yes, it is Zhang Dongla in "Witty") waving the book and throwing it at the face of Zheng Xizhu's daughter, I know that this time Dr. Zhang is going to stage a "change of face". Sure enough, she begins to haunt all of Jeong Hee-joo's close associates, including her daughter, son, and brother, including her husband (Choi Won-young) on another seemingly unrelated line.
The plot progresses quickly, the two women completed their acquaintance in two episodes, and the suspense point shifted from a little bit of the relationship between the two women to The mist but shifted to Zheng Xizhu's husband. By the end of the second episode that has been broadcast, the appearance of Hae-won's fiancé (Kim Jae-young), the "secret relationship" between the two men has become more curious. In view of the drama of the two heroines, no matter what the relationship between the two "supporting role men", will trigger a big war between the two women, as for how to fight, visual inspection can still be squatted.
From the first two episodes, the plot setting can be described as safe, and liu Paula, a screenwriter who is good at "heart-wrenching", digs a pit step by step, so the expectations of revenge in her heart are also constantly being raised. However, there is also a hint of worry, originally sitting on the squat double heroine high-level beautiful love and killing, follow-up if there is no other ingenuity or fall into the two women to fight for husband or helpless cheating cliché, then the audience loss should also be a matter of minutes.
Gao Xianzhen, whose acting skills have always been very stable, played by the heroine this time, turned out to be somewhat similar to her own experience, married into a rich family but not welcomed by the in-laws, seems to have everything, but it seems that there is nothing, although there is a son and a daughter in the play, the relationship is tense, and after the divorce in real life, she also lost the custody of a pair of children. Her late drama is sometimes very strong, and the temperament aura is both online, and it can be watched continuously. It is a little strange that this time she often has a smile on her face, and sometimes it feels a little mismatched with the situation at that time, and she will feel a little confused, I don't know if it is a special design for this role.
Because I just finished chasing "Witty Doctor's Life 2", I still brought in the shadow of Zhang Dong to Shen Xianbin, in addition to the fierce style of appearance, I still have some "winter-style wooden" when I see Gu Haiyuan. But you will also see the warmth of the sunshine girl she brought in your memories, and you will be shocked by her eyes that will pretend to cry for forgiveness and then firmly threaten. Also, her green coat is also amazing, looking at it, I understand why she is always green from the poster to the play.
Finally, Another mention, Korean dramas have always used details well, this drama is also everywhere can find some of the screenwriter's careful subtle design, some for comparison, some implied metaphors, the end of the second episode of the female and male micro-expressions also indicate what, you taste.
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Orange cat
The devil came with chestnuts
Early autumn is cold, warm chestnuts are fragrant, it is a good time to eat sugar and stir-fry chestnuts ~ but watching "Cold Chestnut", it simply has a shadow on the sweet and sticky chestnuts! What does it mean to say "warm chestnut"? Greetings and care from family members, ironing and comfort in autumn and winter? This drama makes you "shudder". Netflix's global drama model, in addition to the well-known British, American, Japanese and Korean dramas, but also let more countries of film and television dramas into our field of vision, only the suspense crime theme, Mexico's "Drug Lord", Spain's "The Most Innocent", India's "Delhi Crime" have their own strengths, this "Chill" is from Denmark.
The series is adapted from the novel of the same name by Sauron Swaistep, which has been rated as the benchmark of Nordic suspense crime novels, the author's own screenwriting identity and experience make his novels with a unique sense of rhythm and atmosphere, the degree of bloodiness and curiosity is also a must, the TV series shooting adaptation has weakened a lot of bloody scenes, but you need to be mentally prepared when watching.
30 years ago, a murder case on the outskirts of Copenhagen was full of doubts, and now it is close to Halloween, and the cold and warm contrast of the late autumn in Northern Europe is paved with pictures, the body of a young woman is found, one hand is cut alive and disappeared, leaving a chestnut man (a doll made of chestnuts and small branches) that resembles a corpse, and the fingerprints on the chestnut man belong to the daughter of the previous female politician who disappeared and was identified as dead. The heroine Turin, a capable policewoman full of justice and action, is also a single mother who takes her daughter alone and is anxious, in order to spend more time with her daughter, she has to make a choice to prepare for the transfer, but the murder on the eve of the transfer will pull Turin into the dangerous situation of the "chestnut man killer", at the same time, another colleague hess who is not welcomed by the police station to transfer has become her temporary partner, and the female politician who has not yet come out of the grief of losing her daughter has fallen into the dark moment of life again because of the appearance of fingerprints.
"Come and be a chestnut man ~" The chestnuts of the autumn harvest are accompanied by innocent nursery rhymes, as if the devil blows the flute, and one woman after another is killed, the tragic situation is not the same, cutting hands, cutting feet, gouging eyes, and are in a living state, each state of death has a corresponding chestnut person at the scene, showing the perpetrator's great hatred for the victim. What every woman has in common is that all women have been reported as incompetent mothers...
The murderer's desire for maternal love and trial become more and more evident in the clues that have been discovered. For the murderer, the father can be absent from the child's growth, the mother is the child's last line of defense, all incompetent mothers should be punished, and the chestnut man who made the traditional parent-child entertainment project became the symbol of his trial. The heinous offender and the victim of the year, he used extreme homicide to ridicule and retaliate against the regulatory loopholes in social welfare policies: there is a government subsidy for the adoption of orphans, and all adopted families are out of love?
The victims of a lifetime of expecting maternal love and home are deeply hurt by "mothers". When the police station people looked at the video of the orphan being abused by their adoptive father, they were angry: "Does the child's mother (adoptive mother) know!? "The video was recorded by mom", shuddering ... The other kind of evil is the so-called ignorance of youth. The lonely twin siblings enter a new adoptive family, but lose their chances because of the jealous lies of another adopted orphan, and fall into a tormented evil family. The liar never reflected that she didn't want the love of her adoptive parents to be shared, and that jealousy was enough to doom everyone else. Age is not a pretext, such a vicious lie is closer to the original evil.
Reflection on the family is one of the themes of the play, the desire for maternal love and the sin caused by childhood encounters can not be the reason for the murderer's crime, the heroine Turin has also lost her family and suffered, but because she remembers the kindness of others, she strives to grow up and choose the career path of the police. While pursuing the real murderer, the dark line is more lamentable than the way life is written, and between a thought, the world is different, creating a completely different life trajectory.
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