After "Crazy", who can take over?
According to the data, there is no king bombing for the time being.
From Zhang Ruoyun's "Daming under the Microscope" to Fan Wei's "Ligong", the reputation is good but slightly niche, and the popularity is not high.
The rating-leading "Our Day" and "Nine Bends of Love" have a slightly dull reputation.
To put it bluntly, everyone's enthusiasm for chasing dramas is a little disconnected.
At the critical moment, it's time to get on the dark horse.
In recent years, costume detective dramas can be called the dark horse professionals of national dramas.
"Under the Brocade", "The Great Song Youth" and "The Imperial Gift" are all broken through as dark horses when they are not favored.
Last year, iQiyi launched "Tang Dynasty Mystery". Even more in the case of not being favored at all and having no traffic actors, he scored 7.9 points by word of mouth, and forced a second season.
Tonight, iQiyi is the essence of food, and this trick again?
The costume detective drama "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm" appeared.
To be honest, I really thought that Li Yitong's new drama was general, after all, the starring actors are young actors, and Li Yitong's performance in "Crazy" is also average.
But who would have thought that the series would have soared to the top of the list in less than two hours after it was launched.
After watching 6 episodes, I was fascinated, in a word, what a fragrance!
As soon as the story begins, the suspense effect has been full, and the new combination mode of light comedy + detective + fantasy + love costume detective drama is on top.
One sentence can be summarized: the starring acting skills do not pull the crotch, the plot rhythm is as fast as lightning, all kinds of suspense are tense and exciting, and the light comedy and comedy are deep in my heart.
In recent years, the first cannon of costume detective dramas, will it be fired?
See for yourself.
1, 3 people died in one episode, the bureau in the middle, the case within the case, the taste of suspense detective case in seconds through "Tang Dynasty Mystery"
In recent years, although there are dark horses in costume detective dramas, there are often ancient puppet dramas under the banner of detective dramas that frequently hit the street, data relies on fans, scenes rely on special effects, and service roads rely on wholesale, which makes people unable to watch it.
And the detective unit drama model, a few episodes of a new story, if the beginning is not attractive, it is difficult to make the audience's immersion continue.
Look at "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm" again, a seemingly ordinary online drama before it started.
Starring Li Yitong + Bi Wenjun, a young actor with good looks but no sense of pressure.
No top traffic, no gimmicks, what to catch the audience in the early stage?
In my opinion, four words: surprisingly win.
The play tells the story of Su Jiuer, a female predator of Qianguo's "fear of cold", who encountered the cold and fierce young master of the Qi clan's "inner heat", and by chance, joined hands to break through the fog of conspiracy, find the truth behind the case and resolve the crisis in her home country.
I was able to write six episodes in a row, of course, because of the most basic attraction: the fast pace.
How fast?
Not procrastinating is just basic sincerity.
Fast comes with its own style, which is the killer app.
Open the intuitive impression of the episode: Evil.
Evil in temperament.
The story begins with the corpse of Li Zhinian, director of the Qian clan prison camp in Jiuxiao City, found in the canal in the south of the city, his right hand is missing, and the wound has traces of being torn and bitten, and it is not like the work of ordinary beasts, but more like the incarnated Qi people.
Thus, the first murder case with a strange atmosphere in the whole play kicked off: "Nursery Rhyme Case".
Three people were killed in a row, and the killing process was all written into nursery rhymes in advance.
Qi Ren nursery rhymes, predicting murder?
Fantasy setting, weird power chaos?
All kinds of suspense are mixed, making people wear "Tang tricks" in seconds.
Evil in the background.
The story uses the Qianqi and Qi ethnic groups as the overhead background. The Qian tribe is close to humans, and once the Qi tribe reveals its beast form, it immediately has infinite strength coming and going like the wind, and its lifespan and five senses far exceed that of Qian people.
With fantasy weather as the curtain, but smeared with dark and gloomy strokes: broken corpses and severed hands, solving cases and catching murderers, people's hearts are mysterious...
Shortly after the opening, a strange post-mortem scene was used to reveal part of the mystery: the body of the deceased seemed to be dry, but it was far older than that of humans, and it was clearly a Qi person,
What's even weirder is that the young master of the Qi tribe and the mask man who committed the crime have three scars, is this some big conspiracy of the Qi clan?
In order to prove his innocence, Han Wei took the initiative to enter the game, and unknowingly formed a strange investigation case combination with Su Jiuer, a female predator who was determined to catch the murderer within a week, and gradually moved from saber rattling to mutually beneficial cooperation.
But the more it is investigated, the more mysterious the case becomes, and the perpetrator seems to be the young master of the Qi tribe who has disappeared for a long time, and he is still close friends with the male protagonist.
It seems that nursery rhymes are deliberately spread, what is the purpose?
And the heroine's body cold is obviously secretly related to the Qian people.
And the hostility of the Qian people in Jiuxiao City to the Qi people has also reached the level of incompatibility, and the contradictions between the two ethnic groups are on the verge of breaking out.
Boy...... At three o'clock, the puzzle emerged.
The true purpose of the murderer is obvious.
Borrowing a knife to kill.
At this time, the "nursery rhyme case" is revealed: several dead in a row are just a pawn in the endless cycle of feuds between the two races to provoke a fight.
And this pawn can be anyone.
In order for the two races to fight each other, the killing is only to cover up the true purpose.
The perpetrators enjoy the pleasure of revenge and secret layout, but they can't see the small people.
And the reason why the male and female protagonists can form partners across races, and even use them as bait to lure murderers to appear, is also because they both value life and will not regard human life as grass.
To some extent, "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm" is a proper cool drama.
Especially the layout and the rhythm of the counterattack. Quite skillful.
Under the appearance of the unit drama, the case is not completely separated, but there is a main line connected, that is, the contradiction between Qianqi.
The audience follows the protagonist deep into danger, like plucking an onion, layer by layer to uncover the truth.
The human heart, the world, the fabrication of crimes, the magic fighting method... Only by finding the real murderer of the Three Scars can you unravel the circle of hatred in Jiuxiao City.
The invisible web of hatred and power entanglement gradually emerged.
Looking down, it is under the fantasy curtain, with group portraits of sentient beings, strange emotions.
The fantasy setting is actually clear, but it is twisted into a rope by itself.
So far, suspense, detective, emotion, the opening 6 episodes, all the elements have been included, making me instantly into the pit.
But after investigating, the taste of the story changed again.
2. The plot is high-energy, light comedy seasoning, funny suspense does not delay each other, interesting and reasonable
Although this "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm", although it can be classified into the category of suspense detective dramas, it can be subdivided into the category of suspense detective light comedy.
Because the plot of this drama is suspense in funny and funny in suspense.
To put it bluntly, rely on suspense brain holes to preemptively catch the eyeballs.
That alone is not enough to keep the audience chasing down.
What is really immersive is the second layer - the fusion of various old routines with fine proportions to play a miracle.
For example, the two magic weapons of domestic online dramas: sand sculpture and high sweetness.
Let's start with sand sculptures.
I consider myself a person with a high laugh point.
Often because it is not happy enough, it is incompatible with most online dramas on the market.
But look at this, it really sprays.
To name a few plots.
Su Jiuer, who was suffering from cold, was comfortable as soon as she got close to the cold of body heat, and couldn't help but touch the procedures all the way, and the more she touched it, the more she became addicted.
The straight man pinched his neck and asked why he was chasing him, Zhang Yitong: Just let me be for your beauty.
Yes?
What's even more humiliating is that Su Jiu'er wrapped in garlic and held a cold hand when she had a cold attack and began to be crazy: If I can get him home and hold him every day, I can live a long life.
Chill: Is this woman sick in her brain?
Even if he was complained about by the male protagonist, he had to be caught by the male protagonist guard Ling Lan played by the great beauty He Ruixian and questioned on the spot: It looks like a beauty? Why are you pestering my family?
Li Yitong: I thank you for my beauty.
It can be seen that although these light funny sand sculptures, they have also put a lot of effort into it.
Not a sudden tickling awkward laugh. It is not deviating from the basic logical setting and plot direction, there is foreshadowing, there is reversal, and finally use laughter to break the work.
Let's talk about high sweetness.
The daily meeting of male and female protagonists is like a schoolboy with a mouth.
Su Jiu'er opened her mouth, complaining that she was cold and mindless, and where the murderous finger was, he would go, "Are you the murderer's good son?" ”
So angry that his face was cold, and his back teeth were about to be crushed.
But every time there is a moment of life and death, it is she who saves Su Jiuer.
Su Jiu'er was trapped, and it was he who took her out of danger and took her to fly.
So, the sugar was caught off guard. I didn't wait for you to blush.
With the birth of the male second Jun Wang Ye to partner with the female protagonist, the cold and vinegar were shocked to realize that there were ripples of love in his heart - ah, is this the feeling of jealousy?
Sure enough, the sudden, and inexplicable high-sweet moment was the deadliest.
Compared with the one-trick of the flood of sweet pet dramas on the market, it carefully guards the balance between suspense detective and high sweet and funny.
The interlocking suspense is mixed with funny elements.
Sweet, not greasy.
Pet, not pretentious.
Full screen barrage, nine out of ten are "hahahaha" "The male protagonist is so miserable, but I want to laugh".
This tastes right.
3, Li Yitong played correctly this time, and the powerful acting skills added to lay the ceiling of the costume detective drama in 2023
Of course, "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm" is not without shortcomings.
did not get rid of the temperament of small-cost online dramas, the plot has bugs, and several plot advances are slightly deliberate and blunt.
However, "Nine Skies Cold Night Warm" is still an online drama with a shining point greater than a slot.
In addition to the ones mentioned above.
The biggest shining point, in my opinion, is to create a pair of vivid and pleasing investigation combinations -
Li Yitong's previous acting skills in "Crazy" have been questioned a lot, both because of the acting factors and an important reason, which is that the heroine role is not as brilliance as the sister-in-law played by Gao Ye.
And this drama in terms of character, the main contrast freshness and fun, Su Jiuer is to treat cold illness, the early stage is the image of "little color fan" who eats cold tofu, but solving the case is often clever, it can be said that Li Yitong finally found his own drama path.
This time, her performance is not too much, but it can be seen with the naked eye that she has recovered a little of the aura in the new "Condor ", which is better than without baggage and natural enough. In the dark and weird mystery, like a warm sun in the dark.
The male protagonist is from the idol draft, but the cold acting skills of playing deep and silent are just enough.
In costume detective dramas, there are mostly CPs who look like each other.
This is the opposite of CP, they are "detached". It didn't seem to match, but it turned out to be quite cooperative.
It is the details of the foreshadowing of the characters that make the two sprinkle sugar so that it will not be stiff.
And the supporting roles of the play can be said to have no crotch-pulling.
Wang Maolei, who became popular with Yuan Chunwang in "Yanxi Raiders", seems to be unreliable in the nonsense played by Hu Badao, but in fact, he is left and right, pretending to be confused.
Qin Xiangyi, played by Deng Ying, is simple and can hardly hide the true colors of classical beauty.
He Ruixian's Linglan is beautiful and sassy, and only she is qualified to say to the heroine played by Li Yitong: You (appearance) is not like a beauty meter.
Fu Seoul's A Hua also brings her own sense of joy.
In addition to some minor flaws, in the scheduling of some large scenes, this drama is also willing to spend energy, and the action scenes presented are impossible to take their eyes off.
As a detective drama full of fantasy colors, the creation of a sense of atmosphere is more important, and this part of the drama is not lost.
In terms of clothing styling, Qianguo dresses fresh and simple, and the Qi tribe highlights the coldness and ruggedness of foreign races with accessories such as fangs and necklaces, and Su Jiu'er will wear small leather gloves before the autopsy.
Of course, in contrast, at the beginning of this century, the achievements of costume detective dramas once reached the point of being proud.
"Young Bao Qingtian" series, "Detective Di Renjie" series, and "Great Song Ti Criminal Officer" are all classics in domestic costume dramas.
Many "childhood shadows" with cult elements, looking back, have strange settings behind them, and earlier allegorized the distortion of reality and the unpredictability of human nature.
The "rainstorm pear flower needle" of "Young Bao Qingtian", "dry corpse of the hidden village" or the "headless general" who shocked Li Yuanfang in "Detective Di Renjie" are stories of real characters adapted dramatically.
Behind the fantasy detective is the deep-rooted desires and obsessions in each of us who are ashamed to admit.
All are desirable by people.
In contrast, not only "Nine Skies Cold Night Warmth" is difficult to match, even the "Tang Dynasty Mystery" at the top of the new costume detective drama is still far from the classic.
However, from genre fusion, to laughter calculation, to character building.
At least none of the links in this drama are lazy and perfunctory.
In a detective drama that focuses on strange cases and someone takes a bento at every turn, the audience is suddenly sprinkled with a and is made to laugh at his aunt, which is also another feeling of chasing dramas.
It can be seen that behind the drama is the mature craft of costume detective dramas.
And domestic costume detective dramas to return to the peak, what is needed is to regain this craft.
Costume detective is not absolutely king, and sweet pet sand sculpture is not shameful.
Because there is no type that despises the bottom of the chain, only creators who do not put the audience at ease.
As the popularity rises, costume detective dramas will be a field that is becoming more and more "rolled".
But the responsibility of the creator is to keep the craft and break through the past, because no audience wants to see the same bridge repeatedly.
Whether it can break through depends on whether the creators can seek differences in the cold night of an ancient puppet drama, and clear a solid new path from the old and old-fashioned ancient puppet pile with the core.
Let the story give birth to a warmth.
If you can do it, it is a hit.