As early as ten years ago, the circle was popular with the argument that "Hong Kong drama is dead".
Is Hong Kong drama dead?
It was as if it was dead, and there was none. For example, 3 years ago, a dark horse of a Hong Kong drama heated up the entire Hong Kong drama field.
Ten small units, ten small stories - each shot, are soaked in the smell of old Hong Kong films.
Ratings, unexpected explosion in the unpopular period, word of mouth, the whole Hong Kong pursuit, Douban score of 8.4, a good review.
TVB choreographers use strength to prove that Hong Kong-made horror dramas are still alone and irreplaceable. Hong Kong drama, not dead.
But is the Hong Kong drama still alive? A big hot Hong Kong drama, according to the reason, should be hot to hit the sequel, in fact, TVB is really in full swing.
However, an old song by Chen Baiqiang many years ago and the theme song of the first part, "How Precious Tonight Is", has been played on a loop among fans for 3 years since then.
How many more must be cherished this evening, and this Hong Kong drama king explosion sequel can come out?
Tonight, the answer was finally revealed, it was still the original team of Li Shiwei and Chen Shancong, still the Golden Night Mansion, still the song "How Precious Tonight Is", the black cat and his master, came back——
"Golden Night Mansion 2" is broadcast tonight on TVB and Buried.
This time, there are still only 20 episodes and 10 units. Other national dramas are long, netizens spit out a noisy sound, but this drama fans shouted in unison: 20 episodes, which is enough to watch? At least 40 episodes.
Just the name of the unit has made my heart pound—
"Toppling", "Pisces", "Sister", "Seventh Floor and a Half", "Walled Hero GO!", "Wedding Dress", "Origin", "Visitor", "Eat Broadcast", "OPPA".
Looking at the poster again, is it not, there is already a Hong Kong drama flavor?
Wang Bomb sequel, of course, to say, but to tell the story, you have to start from the beginning - once upon a time, there was an old building called the Golden Night Building.
1, the first part of the finale, how much to leave is difficult to reconcile
Remember the story of last season?
Rather than being a fantasy suspense drama, it is defined as a "parallel time and space horror drama".
There are also very few dramas that have been finalizing for three years, and fans are still arguing about whether the story of the last season happened in the past, the present two time and space, or the three parallel time and space in the past, the present and the future.
The whole series begins with an old song.
It is said that when screenwriter Luo Peiqing conceived the story, he remembered an old song, "Waiting for You to Come Back".
In an old TVB drama "Big Trouble Guangchanglong", Xiao Furong (Zhou Haimei), who is looking for the former third young master (Lin Jiadong), appears 25 years later and sings this love song.
So Luo Peiqing also added an old song throughout his story - "How Precious Tonight Is".
I would like to thank TVB for a pair of eyes, I didn't see the huge potential of this drama at all, and directly put the series into the cannon fodder file.
The choreographer thought that he would play to the fullest, and only then did he have this Hong Kong-style smorgasbord that integrated urban legends, fantasy, horror and suspense.
There are basically no high-end scenes in the whole show, because there is no budget.
Then it is constantly passing through the old estates, the dim taoist halls, and one after another stuffed with debris on the ground floor- the Golden Night Building.
20 episodes, 10 units. The past and present lives of the two protagonists, Chen Shancong and Li Shiwei, connect the stories of various tenants.
Chen Shancong played by the male protagonist Ah Xiao, has been living half dream and half awake, always fascinated by illusions, to get mental atrophy in the morning and upside down, what work can not be long, by chance by Liu Jiang played by Teacher Lin recruited to work in the Golden Night Building, here met the girl who has always appeared in his dream, that is, the beautiful flight attendant Alex played by Li Shiwei.
But Alex actually lived for half a season before he died in a plane accident.
So the heroine starts from the third story and becomes - the afterimage. The real heroine's name of this drama is the past life played by Li Shiwei - Sister Coco.
It is also from the beginning that the mystery of the past and present lives of the hero and heroine is thrown in front of the audience's eyes, and the mystery is interspersed in each unit.
Looking back, half of the plot of "Golden Night Building" takes place in Coco's sister's prophetic dream of the future.
The other half of the plot takes place in Ah Xiao's cross-over dream of returning to the past.
The choreographer combines traditional Hong Kong-style horror with sci-fi parallel time and space back to the future, wonderful and beautiful urban legends and exciting parallel crossings to save, making the audience addicted.
A "Baby".
He Tai, a resident on the 7th floor of the building, is a single mother with a black stroller cover that has never been opened. In the end, the dove occupied the magpie's nest and sent the hostess to a mental hospital, becoming the hostess herself.
A "Crow Crow".
It tells the story of the precocious Dongdong who finds that no matter how hard he tries, he can't fight for the money of his classmates' families, and finally gives up growing up and willingly follows Crow Crow to the fantasy world she created.
The passage in the finale that was erased from this world still makes me have mixed feelings.
The story is wonderful and it is not worrying.
The second story alone made many people popular to the point of explosion, saying that if they did not give Xu Tai a reversal in the end, they would send a blade to TVB.
As a result, to the finale, on the surface, all the staff HE.
In the last ten minutes of the 20 episodes, Mrs. Ho no longer pestered the child's early death. The stroller is no longer sneaky, but a pet teddy dog carrying its own emotions.
The boss lady played by Kang Hua is no longer addicted to the use of forbidden techniques. Instead, he became blind and finally let go of his obsession with appearance.
In short, it seems that all the people trapped in the Golden Curtain Building have finally walked out of the magic barrier-like Golden Curtain Building.
Greed and anger are dissolved.
The protagonists, Ashio and Alex, are also redeemed and meet on the rooftop of the finale.
But all this is just like.
Notice the final scene of the finale, where Boss Sun Lin appears in the same time and space, holding Liang Bao, and witnessing this encounter on the roof of the opposite building.
The question is, is this really the only big ending?
Executive producer Ye Zhenhui and screenwriter Luo Peiqing explained in the interview that all stories are a cycle.
After Ah Xiao returned to the 60s, some things changed to a certain extent, and in different time and space, there will be different things that will change.
Can it be understood that this heart-warming finale seen by the audience is only the best possibility of the parallel time and space produced by Ah Xiao after traveling to the past countless times and rewriting his fate.
The question is, are there still many parallel space-time finales that have not been exposed?
In those parallel time and space, is it more likely that all the characters are still trapped in the tonight mansion, leaving all the difficulties?
Although the screenwriters had promised that the finale would not be perfunctory with "a dream".
But in fact, the whole drama carries the feeling of Zhuang Zhou Mengdi.
So how can this dream be completed?
2, the male and female protagonists and the return of the black cat, ten units, male and female protagonists in the parallel universe story continues?
"Golden Night Mansion 2" is the sequel to this dream.
Look at the trailer, the thick old Hong Kong film genre elements, the proper Hong Kong-style horror film legacy.
Characters, full of the continuation of the characters of the first season.
It was also the screenwriter Luo Peiqing, who sent reassurance to fans in an interview, saying that "Ah Xiao" and "Alex" would not be broken up, but would play new roles.
Note that the following screenwriter's words should be the biggest key to interpreting "Golden Night Building 2" - "parallel time and space".
What do you mean? The screenwriter's original words - "There will be two golden supper buildings." Two worlds. Two Ashaw. ”
In other words, it can be said that this is the story of another parallel world. The male protagonist changed from a security guard to a barista, and the female protagonist was his customer.
But, don't forget, "The Golden Night Building" is like a mirror floating out of the water, and the mirror reflects the parallel world next door.
So the question is - what if Ah Xiao in the world opposite the mirror accidentally walks into this world, and ah Xiao in this world accidentally arrives at the opposite world?
Perhaps this is why, after the male protagonist of the second season accidentally got lost in the Golden Night Building, he reappeared and changed into a person, from a flower heart man to a warm and warm man.
Ah Shaw was replaced? Wrong, Ah Xiao is still Ah Xiao, but it is no longer the Ah Xiao of this world.
As soon as the second season opens, this core suspense should be thrown out, but to solve the suspense, most of them will be more than ten episodes later.
And this time the 10 unit stories, it is obvious that the choreographer played more hilariously.
In addition to the male and female protagonists, TVB also equipped the series with a lineup of 13 Hong Kong stars, Zhao Xiluo, Zhang Yanbo, Hu Hongjun, Tang Luowen, Ding Zilang, Zheng Zicheng, Wei Jiaxiong, Lin Zishan, Guo Zihao, Lian Shiya, etc., of course, and Wu Yongwei, a Wu girl who returned to wireless drama five years later.
Tell me a few of the stories that appealed to me the most.
It should be placed in the first two stories at the beginning - "Pisces".
The two heroines, one is Wu Yongwei, who plays a somewhat neurotic mother, a typical tragic role.
A daughter with scary burn marks, starring Su Hao'er, the new generation of WENqing goddess of TVB.
I am really beautiful.
Obviously, it is the mother-daughter relationship that needs to be said. Mother's love has changed from an umbrella to a shackle, and pisces must live and die together?
At the peak of the acting skills in the second season, I pressed this unit.
There is also the most fun unit "Walled Hero Go".
Starring, Lin Zishan and Wei Jiaxiong.
The two gold medal supporting roles directly crossed into the world of the blockbuster Hong Kong drama "Walled Heroes".
In this game called "Walled Hero Go", you must play through the level together to return to the real world.
Noticing that several roles around the two male protagonists are not, is Chen Zhanpeng Yuan Weihao's style ready to come out? Sorry I laughed first.
Probably the unit with the strongest horror atmosphere - "The Imitator". Notice the extra hand in the poster.
Zhao Songru returned to TVB to shoot a drama, playing a single mother who was abandoned by a negative hearted man and depended on her daughter for her life, and after encountering a mysterious "visitor", a series of accidents occurred.
Pay attention to the unit name - imitation guest, why is it called to visit? Look at the poster again, mother and son, standing in the eerie corridor.
Is there something that wants to take its place? Well, it's a bit of a reverse version of "Baby".
At present, the most discussed unit in Hong Kong and the most popular unit in the lineup - "Wedding Dress".
Starring, the popular xiaosheng Hu Hongjun and Lian Shiya, who is still so beautiful.
It tells the story of the owner of the cheongsam shop played by Hu Hongjun, who secretly has a crush on the female secretary of the company played by Lian Shiya. After the female secretary did not listen to persuasion and had to wear the family treasure cheongsam, a series of twists and turns began.
Of course, the unit I am most looking forward to is definitely the tenth unit - "Origin".
What a story, not announced.
Recall the final story of the first season, Sleepwalking.
Everything is clear, and it is obvious that Luo Peiqing wants to blow up the king of the male and female protagonist stories and put it at the end.
And the so-called origin is likely to let the male and female protagonists return to the origin of the story - which is it? Of course, it is the first season, the Golden Night Building.
3. Hong Kong-style horror drama style, pure Hong Kong flavor is back?
It is not difficult to see that only the plot summary and poster of the second season have made people feel the most special and hong Kong-made horror movies that only have the taste of "Golden Night Building".
Undoubtedly, a commendable part of the drama lies in the restoration of hong Kong flavor, which will also unlock the cool feeling of countless Hong Kong drama fans.
The first layer of coolness lies in the collection of Hong Kong film story elements.
The stories of countless classic Hong Kong-style horror films have been stitched together by the screenwriter with the fine brushstrokes of embroidery needles, and what connects everything is still the Golden Night Building.
The biggest difference between Hong Kong-made horror films and Japanese, Korean and Hollywood horror films is that they are essentially close to the people.
It is happy to tell the story of small people, and likes to express the sadness and joy of the low-level characters.
There is no absolute good and evil in the story, only the ancient Eastern way of good and evil.
Because of this, we can empathize with the protagonists in the play.
The second layer of coolness comes from the most intuitive picture impact, that is, various Hong Kong-style horror films.
Just looking at the poster, it has revealed a strong atmosphere of old Hong Kong films.
Looking at the trailer again, the adrenaline of the fans of the drama has also been brought up.
There is a stimulating soul shifter.
There is nervousness.
In the mixed mansions, alleys, and tube buildings, such and such urban weirdness and scalp-tingling midnight legends.
The continuous screams foreshadow the fierceness of the showdown between good and evil, and also vaguely lead us to dream back to the peak of the port film.
Looking back, why did the first season stand out in word of mouth? A big reason, Hong Kong flavor lens language.
In terms of horror atmosphere creation, it is not advanced, at least absolutely rich.
It is just the picture of the male protagonist Ah Xiao patrolling in the dark Golden Night Building: the subjective perspective of various "people", close-up shots, and the trailing perspective of "black cats", surveillance-style fixed shots...
This goes round down. There wasn't a single scream, not a single fright, and it was enough to hold your breath the whole time and be covered in cold sweat.
In contrast, how are today's Chinese horror films?
See through not say broken.
There are still any Chinese horror films, and the rest are only terrible films and strange films.
Even if the Taiwanese film industry is still producing such films, they often emphasize scenes and weak characters, so that the audience is tired.
Everyone may be shocked by the horror scene, but they can't continue to empathize.
Therefore, there are not many works out of the circle.
In contrast, "Golden Night Building" not only creates a strong atmosphere of terror, but also the cold and warm feelings in this building, the refraction of reality, and the essence of the story.
So, will the second season fall under the sequel spell? Anyway, I have confidence in the two creators. Although sequels are commonplace, I still trust TVB to say that the quality of the sequels can best be maintained.
As for regret, it is this time that we can no longer see the old Teacher Lin in "Golden Night Building", only Teacher Kobayashi, carrying the black cat alone, because the old drama bone Liu Jiang has announced his departure from the nest in January this year.
When interviewed by reporters, he said: "I don't know, I'm not in TVB! ”
As for the reason for leaving the nest, it is still too little salary! He once told the outside world that after several salary cuts, he had reduced his salary by 7500 yuan, which he could not accept.
So, will Hong Kong dramas die?
I don't have an answer. I only know that for Hong Kong dramas, the audience's favorite is actually a Hong Kong flavor.
It comes from the Hong Kong style carved out of the fine details, and also from every old drama bone. If the old drama bone is less, this Hong Kong flavor will be less flavored.
As a fan of Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, I certainly hope that Hong Kong dramas can regain their former glory, at least, they can hold a breath of true anger, but who can predict the future story like the coco sister in the play.
So finally, let's reminisce about the song "How Precious Tonight Is".
The opening and ending songs of the first season are the Chinese and Cantonese versions of this song, respectively, the Chinese version is warm and moving, and the Cantonese version is poignant and confusing, and I prefer the latter.
"Sadness to see the red dance, reminiscences of the first time at the bottom of the flower, difficulty, can't help but cry, this time the moon is hazy, how to control oneself, how to mourn, the same sympathy, if you can communicate with each other, you don't have to send each other."
"Let go of your worries, please cherish more tonight, see you again that day, only to be afraid of seeing each other in a hurry."
Then, don't ask what the future of Hong Kong dramas is, just ask for more treasures this evening.
People who love Hong Kong dramas, this evening, please cherish "Golden Night".