At the beginning of 2023, film and television dramas have been released frequently, making the audience addicted.
"The Three-Body Problem", which takes the sci-fi route, has a high score of 8.4, which has feasted the eyes of many sci-fi fans, and with the success of the movie "The Wandering Earth 2", Chinese audiences have seen the rise of Chinese sci-fi.
The main drama side also performed wonderfully, "Crazy" soared all the way, won the ratings championship, became the first dark horse in the opening year, led a lot of powerful actors, Zhang Songwen, Gao Ye and other "treasures" were finally excavated.
Ma Boyong's work "Daming under the Microscope" on the costume side was also broadcast, although the splash is not large, but it is well-made, logical and has the texture of a movie.
Overall, it's all good.
However, just when the audience thought that domestic film and television dramas finally got rid of the status quo of frequent bad films and traffic, and moved towards "spring", a fairy puppet drama "Heavy Purple" gave people a head-on, telling the audience: It's not that simple.
"Heavy Purple" starring Xu Zhengxi and Yang Chao, and is a typical master-apprentice love, the heroine is a small white flower in the early stage, and she is enchanted in the later stage, and the popular drama "Flower Thousand Bones" 8 years ago is also very similar in story line and character setting.
After the broadcast, "Heavy Purple" and "Flower Thousand Bones" were on the hot search, and many netizens compared these two dramas at the same time, compared with Zhao Liying, who was full of spirit in the early years, Yang Chao, who debuted in idou, was much inferior.
Although Yang transcends the smooth face and is called "modeling face", such a beautiful face has become "wood" in front of the camera, with dull eyes, exaggerated expressions, habits of staking, and a lot of loss of beauty.
At first, Huo Jianhua's "Baizi painting" was ridiculed for having a dull facial expression, but now, it is "glamorous" Xu Zhengxi, the male protagonist of "Heavy Purple".
The plot is rotten on the street, the casting of the actors "backwards" is not the most deadly, randomly cut a frame of the scene, you will find that the details are quite perfunctory, when the heroine is hanged, the arm is actually bent.
This carelessness is reflected in all aspects: the story setting is old-fashioned, the service is the same, the special effects are false, the play is soft, and the thunder point is almost stepped on, and this is actually an S-class production level.
(There is no real location, even the special effects make people dream back to 10 years ago)
(This kind of scene has become the "standard" in fairy puppet dramas)
It is precisely because of this perfunctory that "Heavy Purple" received a lot of scolding after it was broadcast, and many netizens were very puzzled: In the 8 years since the broadcast of "Flower Thousand Bones", the story has not progressed, why have it regressed so much!
Some netizens bluntly said that after watching "Crazy" all the acting skills, look at this again, obviously "hanged" ah!
In fact, not only "Heavy Purple", these years of fairy puppet dramas, is simply a bad film "concentration camp", but also has become a "fig leaf" for many traffic stars.
First, the theme is single, the content is perfunctory, and the fairy puppet drama is a crude industrial product produced by the assembly line
After the fire of "Flower Thousand Bones" that year, it gave a good start to fairy puppet dramas, and since then, fairy puppet dramas such as "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost", and "Liuli" have successively caught fire, providing investors with "explosive templates" and making this theme more and more "rotten street".
Over the years, I have opened a fairy puppet drama casually, either master-apprentice sadomasochism, or love love between gods, or a terrier of reincarnation, copy some elements from this drama, you can paste it on another work at will, and after filming a work, it is too simple.
The plot is perfunctory, the scenes, costumes can also be "shared", the previous dramas, each of the costume road has its own characteristics, whether exquisite or thunderous, it is memorable, and it will definitely not confuse who is who.
The stylist designs different clothing and hairstyles according to the different personalities of the two heroines, and even the makeup is exquisite.
The seven fairies of "Seven Fairies of Joy" each have their own different clothing colors, which are the childhood memories of many people.
Even a drama with a thunderous shape such as "Stormy World" can also give the audience a different visual experience, it can be said that the beauty has its own style, and the ugliness is also strangely ugly, as for the similarity, it is almost nothing.
In today's fairy puppet shows, this creativity seems to have disappeared. The hair style of Rotten Street, the uniform plain clothing, it is impossible to tell who is who.
Even the poster can be copied and pasted in one pose, which is simply a crude industrial product produced by the assembly line.
Second, no need for appearance, no need for acting skills, fairy puppet drama has become the last "refuge" for traffic stars and idols
If you want to choose a film and television drama type that does not need the test the least, it must be an idol drama, and in idol dramas, fairy puppet dramas are easy to make actors brilliant because of the theme filter, and many stars have eaten the dividends of fairy puppet dramas.
Among the male stars, Ren Jialun and Cheng Yi's appearance is medium, their appearance is light, they are "mediocre" in formal dramas and modern dramas, but as soon as they enter the fairy puppet drama, with the blessing of makeup and filters, their appearance is much higher.
However, what is excessive is that in the past two years, many "ugly men" have poured into ancient puppet and fairy puppet dramas, and even the advantage of appearance has almost disappeared.
The same is true of acting skills, a large number of actors without acting skills are "hidden" in fairy puppet dramas, which has become a "shelter" for the new generation of actors.
And actors with acting skills, addicted to the stereotypical performance in fairy puppet dramas, is also harmful and not beneficial. Yang Zi's acting skills were good, and the performance of "Battle Changsha" and "Ode to Joy" was eye-catching, and later he joined the army of idol dramas, and his popularity rose vigorously, and he became a popular little flower.
"Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" is on fire, but unfortunately 2022's "Agarwood Like Crumbs" almost overturned Yang Zi's word of mouth, and Yang Mi has a similar fate, her "Mrs. Huzhu" is such an example, although there is still influence for the ratings, but the reputation has fallen.
It's not that the latter is really much worse than the former, but the times have changed, the model of fairy puppet dramas has not changed, this lazy practice, it's strange not to be complained about.
In fairy puppet dramas, the actor's acting skills will not be tested too much, and the actors will cry and laugh and will be praised to the sky, and over time, the actors' acting skills will stagnate, and over time, the audience will get tired of watching them.
Compared with the main drama, the role of the idol drama is flatter, and it is easier to shape, which has become the "Eden" of many actors with crotch pulling skills, in these fairy puppet dramas, they do not need to endure hardships to hone their acting skills, just need to stand there, the play can be perfunctory, tired with a stand-in, the background has cutouts, quite comfortable.
This also led to the fairy puppet show presented in front of the audience, and the quality was really crotch-pulling.
In the first 10 years, the film and television industry was blown by the wind of traffic, and many "fake" actors without acting skills were popular, and they were held to high positions that did not belong to her/them.
Now that the wind of traffic no longer works, the audience is less and less likely to buy this kind of "bastard" actors who can only market and can't act, and the actors who have transformed into idou have appeared in their original form, and actors like Song Qian, Yang Ying, and Lu Han who are not professional enough are getting narrower and narrower.
There is no novelty in the plot, the actors' acting skills are not brilliant, the fairy puppet drama can be said to be "rotten" to the root, to solve it, only with ulterior motives, only innovation.
"Canglan Tips" in the summer of 2022 is such an example, before the broadcast, no one was optimistic, the two starring Wang Hedi and Yu Shuxin, one was named "Ancient Puppet Ugly Man", the other is the controversial idol, but because of the novel story and character character, a small fire, the coffee position of the two leading actors, also rose a lot.
But the "progress" of fairy puppet dramas is still too small compared to other types of dramas. In the past two years, many dramas have given the audience a big surprise and captured the audience's heart with a sincere attitude.
From last year's "The World", "The Beginning", "Tang Dynasty Tricky Record" to this year's "Crazy", this is enough to prove that the influence of traffic is becoming more and more useless, and the days of forcibly "kidnapping" the audience's aesthetics have gradually drifted away, and the real powerful actors "see the light of day".
If the creation of fairy puppet dramas is still stuck in the thinking of the traffic era in previous years, and only wants to quickly produce one work after another, it is almost inevitable to be "abandoned" by the audience.