On October 25, the TV series "The Legend of the New White Snake" was launched on Tencent Video. The TV series starred Sun Xiaoxiao, Lu Hong, Zhang Tianyang and other young actors. Because the popularity of the starring side is relatively general, plus the earlier TV series has withdrawn from the schedule, released trailers and other content, the color is also relatively general, so many viewers think that this is a bad drama. However, after watching a few episodes, my personal opinion is that after lowering the expectations of "The Legend of the New White Snake", this drama can still be watched, not as bad as imagined, on the contrary, it can even see "some good".
Compared with the classic version of Zhao Yazhi and other actors, this time", "The Legend of the New White Snake" is biased towards a youthful narrative, especially in some of the content, there are some mysterious content that young people like. These mysterious sections, for people of the age of the old editor, feel a bit of a tooth. It should be more appropriate for young audiences. While some scenes are mysterious narratives, the main actors of "The Legend of the New White Snake" are also biased towards youth.
First of all, Bai Suzhen's actors and performances are relatively young. In "The Legend of the New White Snake", the sense of age shown by the heroine is relatively low, and it is indeed a little bit like a little girl in her early twenties. This feeling is most evident, especially in the opening part of the play. Bai Suzhen's performance really does not look like a "woman" who has been cultivating for thousands of years. In terms of this kind of youthful shooting, the content of the actor version such as Zhao Yazhi is different. At that time, in Zhao Yazhi's version, the white snake appeared graceful and noble, with its own immortal qi.
In "The Legend of the New White Snake", the actor who plays Bai Suzhen may also face the audience's pickiness in appearance. Compared with the classic version of Zhao Yazhi's version of Bai Suzhen, the white snake in this version, my personal aesthetic opinion is that it is really not as good as the old version. Of course, in the way of beauty heroes, in the drama review, it is obviously inappropriate. In this version, the heroine's realization of the role of Bai Suzhen is still relatively good, and there are not too many flaws in acting.
In this version, the place that follows the original version is the story of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian. In particular, this state of love that can live and die, the narrative theme of the most dramatic work, still does not deviate from this ancient Chinese legend story. For the sake of drama, in this version, in the plot that has been broadcast, there are some mysterious characters, who are enemies of Xu Xian, enemies with Bai Suzhen, and have bad relations with Fahai, and so on. These adaptations are very young. It can be seen that this is due to the need for dramatic conflict.
In the shaping of Xu Xian, Xu Xian in "The Legend of the New White Snake", similar to everyone's established impression, is still a weak scholar, and has a kind heart, not drunk on obtaining a meritorious name, but wants to open a medical hall to treat diseases and save people. This image should be the most in line with the appearance of Xu Xian in the established legend story. Of course, compared with the classic version, the audience who may be older will still think that the ye tong version is better.
The new version of Fahai may become a role that some viewers laugh at. Because this role is the most different from everyone's established impression. This time, Fahai became a young monk. Moreover, in the plot that has been broadcast, Fahai even has some so-called CP-style plot content with the "female goblin". This way of creating to increase the emotional role of Fahai itself is easy to cause the audience to criticize. And the audience's established impression is that Fahai should be an old monk.
Of course, in the film works about the "Legend of the White Snake", Fahai does not appear as an old monk. Especially in many Hong Kong films, it is easy to artificially add drama to the role of Fahai, especially paying attention to Fahai's personal emotional scenes and so on. This time, in the TV series "The Legend of the New White Snake", Fahai has a lot of scenes, and arranges a lot of emotional opponent scenes for Fahai, which may also be out of some references to previous film versions. This kind of borrowing, whether it is good or bad, needs to be left to the audience to comment on for themselves. The opinion of each audience is not expected to be the same.
In "The Legend of the New White Snake", Xiao Qing's opening story is not very good. However, the kind of eccentricity in this character is fully displayed. Perhaps for some viewers, this time Xiaoqing, in terms of appearance, can not be compared with the previous film and television drama versions. This small-cost TV drama work is indeed easy to present its own shortcomings in many aspects.
Therefore, for this new version of "The Legend of the New White Snake", if you look at it with the mentality of "bad drama", you can see some of its benefits, because it is really not bad enough to watch, especially the young narrative, which may be more friendly to some young audiences. Of course, if this work is a good quality TV series, it is not fair enough, because it presents its own problems in many ways. (Text/Ma Qingyun)