March 12, 2023 | Total Issue 3173
Less than two days after its launch, the number of Douban ratings exceeded 70,000; Continuously "exploded" the servers of Korean drama TV, Renren Video, Duoduo Video and other platforms... "Dark Glory 2", which began on March 10, is spreading wildly Chinese the Internet.
The editorial department decided to take it as the second work in the "Upgraded New Drama Evaluation" column, respectively, from the triple perspectives of data analysis, audience feedback, and critic interpretation, to provide an all-round interpretation of "Dark Glory 2".
"Dark Glory 2" is directed by Ahn Ji-ho, written by Kim Eun-suk, starring Song Hye Kyo and Lee Ji-hyun. The story immediately follows the end of the first part, the heroine Wen Dongen (played by Song Huiqiao) carefully planned revenge plan as promised, how will she lay out the abuser? What crises will she encounter when she is thoughtful? You may wish to follow us and find out.
data analysis
Popularity hangs "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family"
The second season of "Dark Glory" was finalized on January 5, the first preamble trailer and poster were released on February 9, and it was officially launched on streaming Netflix at 16:00 on March 10. Since January 5 is still the residual heat of the first quarter, the relevant hot searches of the second quarter are officially calculated from February 9, taking Weibo hot search as an example. (Note: Since the Weibo rising list and the Weibo hot search list cannot be on the list at the same time, it is only counted as the highest position of Weibo hot search)
In the pre-broadcast stage (2.9~3.9), there were 29 hot searches on Weibo related to "Dark Glory 2", including 11 Weibo hot search lists, 14 Weibo entertainment lists, and 3 Weibo rising lists; The top hot searches are #Only do one thing tomorrow at 4pm# (TOP1), #Yeonjina# (TOP4), #Song Huiqiao event news student picture# (TOP6).
On the day of launch (3.10), there were 48 hot searches on related Weibo, including 15 on the Weibo hot search list, 21 on the Weibo entertainment list, and 32 on the Weibo rising list; #Dark Glory 2# #Dark Glory Season 3# For the top hot search, nearly half of the discussion is based on the plot.
On the second day of launch (3.11), there were 64 hot searches on related Weibo, including 25 on the Weibo hot search list, 30 on the Weibo entertainment list, and 19 on the Weibo rising list; Most of the topic content is mainly based on plot discussion and character ending, which is more detailed than the plot discussion on the first day of launch, and characters such as supporting role bullying groups, landlord grandmothers, and male protagonists' mothers rush to the hot search, achieving continuous fermentation of popularity and word of mouth.
"Dark Glory 2" was launched less than 8 hours, with a score of 9.3 and 06,000 scorers; as of now, the rating has risen to 9.4, with 85,000 scorers.
Baidu index shows that the highest search index of "Dark Glory 2" is 251483 (3.10); in the audience portrait, the largest viewing group is 20-40 years old; the viewing ratio of female viewers to male viewers is 8:2.
Recently, a Korean revenge drama of the same type that caused large-scale discussion "The Little Son of the Chaebol" (premiered at 11.18), Douban opened with a score of 8.5, then dropped to 7.2, and the number of people currently rated is stable at 109,000. Baidu index shows that the highest search index of "The Little Son of a Chaebol" is 207785 (12.5); the proportion of male and female viewing is basically the same.
Considering that "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family" is a TV drama and the update is slow, compared with the data of "Dark Glory 2", which released all episodes at one time, the data is slow to top, but from the perspective of Douban score quality and speed, Baidu index peak, "Dark Glory 2" has been comprehensively surpassed in popularity and word of mouth.
Since "Dark Glory 2" has been online on Netflix for less than two days, the results of the list on the site are not obvious for the time being, so it is not included in the scope of this discussion.
Summary: "Dark Glory 2" has quickly become the most popular Korean drama in China in recent times, with excellent market popularity and word of mouth, and has a great influence in the rice circle and young audiences, and has shown a trend of "breaking the circle".
Audience feedback
March 10 is the day of the start of the second season of "Dark Glory", also known as "Dark Glory" Day by netizens, this day the show dominated the Weibo hot search list, causing heated discussions on major platforms, within one day, nearly 70,000 viewers chased 8 episodes in one go, and scored 9.4 points for the second season on Douban, rare in recent years, and cool, redemption, cure have become high-frequency sentimental words.
There is no doubt that the second season of "Dark Glory" did not collapse or end, but the look and feel is still different from the first season, and the following is the audience's highlights, praise and controversy analysis:
Highlights and praise
1. There are no two criteria for rotten:
a. Whether the finale's reckoning of the bad guys is complete determines whether the show is rotten and broken.
At the end of the show, the bullying five received the punishment they deserved. Among them, Son Myung-woo was killed by Park Yeon-jin (played by Lim Ji-yeon) and Kim Kyung-lan, Lee Sarah (played by Kim Hera) was discredited due to drug addiction and stabbed Choi Hye-ting (played by Cha Joo-young) in prison, Jeon Jae-joon (played by Park Sung-hyun) was killed by Ha Do-young (played by Jung Sung-il), Park Yeon-jin was arrested and sent to prison, and Choi Hye-jeong was injured in her throat and lost the ability to speak.
And the evil people who play the role of perpetrators in the bullying social system are also punished one by one, including the crazy mother of the heroine, the lewd teacher who is a pedophile and a sneaky maniac, and the aunt's domestic violence husband.
b. A good ending.
We thought that the heroine could live a happy life after the end of revenge, but it was not. The heroine wanted to commit suicide after completing revenge, as she did 18 years ago, revenge only delayed her death, but 18 years of pain and planning still made her feel physically and mentally exhausted, when the male protagonist's mother appeared and gave her a reason to live, "I want to save you no matter what, please save my son from hell and finally survive."
2. Showing the cutaway of women to the fullest, salvation and healing are gentle landing points.
a. The female protagonist Wen Dongen and the male protagonist Zhou Ruzheng (played by Li Zhixi) have two-way redemption, a "white night walking" character relationship, one wants revenge, and the other is willing to "be an executioner".
B. The portrayal of female characters such as Aunt, Grandma Landlord, Wen Dongen's teacher, Zhou Ruzheng's mother is very successful, raising the texture of the entire drama, they have encountered difficulties but are still very powerful, and the heroine supports each other.
3. Widely discussed famous scenes and golden lines.
a. Wen Dongen's mother pestered the heroine, and the heroine sent her to a psychiatric hospital; Jiyeon's mother and daughter forced the heroine to withdraw from school, and the heroine is now treating her body in another way. These two plots combine the revelation of the dark side of human nature, the use of strategy and tactics, and the callback effect in art, which is terrifying and exciting.
B. Li Sarah died of drug use in front of the church Eden picture, and the use of the imagery of a poisonous snake and an apple, coupled with the actor's performance, is very amazing.
c. The male protagonist's explanation of why he supports the female protagonist's revenge is a point. Why "Dark Glory"? Because only with revenge can Wen Dongen regain the dignity and glory of his birthplace, return to the origin of 19 years old, and truly start his own life.
4. The most out-of-the-loop character in the second season: Sarah Li
Unexpectedly, Li Sarah has become the favorite character of Weibo and Xiaohongshu netizens.
Li Sarah's profession is a painter, belonging to the category of "evil women", life is rotten every day and looks unloveable, because of drug addiction mental state is rotten and irritable, crazy people talk frequently, 30 years old can't read Korean phonics, coquettish and splash and don't forget to "do hip bridge"... was commented by netizens as "evil and crazy" and "rotten rose".
She is not the core of the bullying five, but her aesthetic value, comedy point and mental state are the most relevant to the tastes of contemporary young people.
Disputes and Unreasonableness
1. Compared with the first season, the second season Ha Daoying is greatly less attractive, and the relationship with the heroine loses tension.
After all, in the first season, Ha Daoying was called "the man on page GQ17", a complex ruthless person, because of playing Go and several scenes with the heroine Wen Dongen were full of tension, and became popular actor Zheng Sung-il.
Almost half of the audience in the second season came to Ha Daoying, unfortunately, between him and the heroine, there was no much-anticipated emotional drama to promote, and Ha Daoying faced his wife's cheating and other events, more showed shock and forbearance, and the expectations of the stormy scene were taken lightly.
2. The male and female protagonists in the revenge drama love the scenes, some people feel cured, and some want to fast forward.
3. Cui Huiting's nude footage caused controversy.
Some viewers feel no need to gaze at women naked, and it is especially uncomfortable to appear in an anti-bullying drama. This is not the first time this year that the nudity of female characters has caused controversy, and the role of Yaoqin in "Manjiang Hong" has also caused controversy. Film and television dramas deal with related plots, which obviously need new ideas.
Unreasonable plot: Ha Do-young and Jeon Jae-joon are daughter slaves, which are considered "unrealistic" by the audience.
Small composition
Shi one
30 years of senior drama critic, 27 years away
"Take revenge to the hearts of the people"
"Dark Glory" is not a simple revenge drama.
Ordinary revenge cool drama, the routine is not complicated: it can let the villain collectively reduce his intelligence, and the protagonist can easily crush all the way; It can also allow the protagonist to climb a higher class than all villains, reduce the dimensionality of the blow, and continue the exploitation of the strong against the weak.
But in this drama, the reason why the bullying five-person group fell into the hell created by the heroine Wen Dongen is not because Dongen laid down the net, but because they took the blame.
The empty-eyed Park Yeon-jin commits another crime in order to cover up her black history; The drug-addicted Li Sarah is crazy and hurts people, and her reputation is ruined; Cui Huiting, who was bent on taking advantage of marriage to ascend to the throne, did whatever it took to come, and in the end, he ran out of money and money; The money-greedy and lecherous Sun Mingwu was trampled to death like an ant.
In addition, the domestic violence husband was hit and killed by a car for greed; The mother, who destroyed Don'en's life with her own hands, was sent to a mental hospital by her daughter's own hands; The old policeman who worked for the tiger was hammered to death by the criminals; The most mysterious thing is that the wizard who uses fortune telling to pimp, seems to be "covered by evil spirits"...
Taking advantage of human weaknesses and desires to let the wicked kill each other and die together is the basic logic of the heroine's revenge.
Step by step, one move to kill. It not only provides a sense of delayed gratification revenge, but also makes the story more grounded. The last time I experienced a similar refreshing feeling was when Ming Lan defeated Lin Xiaoniang in "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Thin". In a way, this kind of revenge is happier than the brainless soothing of the protagonist's full finger.
However, under the refreshment, it should be difficult for the audience to forget why the whole story began. The core of comedy is tragedy, what about the core of coolness?
"Dark Glory" brings the audience a much greater pain than a refreshing feeling.
The first season of the series has fully revealed the inhuman torture suffered by the heroine Wen Dongen when she was a student. On the flesh, he was burned all over his body by the straight hair stick, and molested by the wicked male classmates; Spiritually, he is despised by the school teacher who represents fairness, despised by the police who represent justice, looked down on by the upper class who represents power, and abandoned by the native family that represents warmth.
Whether it is the male protagonist who was mentally abused by the murdered father and enemy, or the aunt who was subjected to perennial domestic violence, or another bullying victim who assisted the heroine at the last moment to obtain evidence of Yeonjin's murder, the reason why he chose to walk side by side with the heroine was not only because of kindness, but also because of pain.
The perpetrators of the female protagonist are from the rich class, and the perpetrators of the male protagonist and the aunt are from the poor class. The road to revenge is extremely difficult, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.
This is not an inspirational article of a bottom-level counterattack, but a letter of unjust blood for victims to unite against the perpetrator.
But what pulls the audience out of the pain?
It is the sympathy of those who suffer, the kindness that shines in the dark, and the transmission of warmth that has lasted for eighteen years.
Eighteen years ago, Don'en, who wanted to commit suicide, met the landlord's grandmother, "The water is too cold, let's die in the spring." Eighteen years later, the desperate male protagonist's mother asks Don Eun to save his son who is on the way to self-destruction.
Film and television creation, in essence, satisfies a kind of people's will. Dark Glory did not disappoint.
Lunch is endless
Professional sleeping, amateur drama chasing
"Words are not ruthless, standing firmly"
Human emotions are cheap. When people put themselves into situations encountered by others, they always trigger the same or similar emotional responses, which are called emotional resonance in psychology. People who watch dramas are prone to this symptom, especially when watching "Dark Glory".
"Cruel words" have become the strongest bridge connecting emotional channels. Wen Dongen put all the people who had hurt him on the chessboard, and then killed them one by one through a superb layout, and did not forget to happily compare the prey with a "yes" when hunting: This is what I prepared with my heart, is it okay?
If you see it, the fall should be light, the technique should be ruthless, the end should be miserable, and the cruel words should be ... Insipid.
The more bland it is, the more out of the loop. Jia Bing's phrase in "Crazy" "It's useless to talk, let others mourn" is still popular, Gao Qiqiang's sentence "Tell Lao Mo, I want to eat fish" is still in his ears, and the second season of "Dark Glory" quickly dominated the hot search list with a simple sentence "Yeonjina", which all began with Wen Dongen's declaration of revenge: "Yeonjin, welcome to my hell." ”
The first half is like a cordial greeting, the second half is a complete chill, and the lines in this style run through the second season. If the accurate topic, well-made, and large-scale style laid a good cornerstone for "Dark Glory", then the alternative "cruel words" made it the darling of public opinion.
When he was young, Wen Dongen was so desperate after being bullied that he wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea, and the landlady who had died her son hugged her in the sea and cried: "The water is too cold, let's wait until spring to die." ”
The little puppy who desperately broke into Wen Dongen's world said to her in the first season, "I can accompany you to drink beer in the snow, and I can also accompany you to dance the executioner dance on the blade." In this episode, he cuts open the body bag with a knife in the cold storage where the body is stored, and Wen Dongen says next to him, "This is the executioner dance you danced for me." ”
Wen Don-eun's "vampire mother" is haunted and attempts to kidnap her daughter by blood, interfering with her revenge plans. Wen Dongen was disappointed and sent her to a mental hospital: You use family affection to make me doomed, and I use family affection to take away your freedom.
Wen Dongen, who finally completed his revenge, ignored Yeonjin's personal threat, and instead stepped forward, "Yeonjin, kill me, I'll come myself." ”
The screenwriter must have done a careful design, arranging ruthless words that fit the situation for each climactic passage; Song Huiqiao must have practiced carefully, and the tone was always just right, which contributed to people's coolness.
Of course, the brilliance of ruthless words also left sequelae, and the shaping of positive characters was forceful, but the villain was almost left with hysteria. The high score of 9.4 on Douban should still be emotional separation, Wen Dongen played the role of screenwriter in the play, as soon as she pulled the silk thread, others had to dance.
Looking around, bullies and powerful people are all weak chickens, and the only Ha Daoying who was equal to Wen Dongen in the first season, failed to have a close confrontation in the second season, but became a booster for the heroine's revenge, which wasted this role.
But in view of the joy that "Dark Glory" brings to people, I am still willing to defend these shortcomings a little, to paraphrase a popular golden phrase on the Internet: Why do you think that your hasty response can be compared to my revenge scheme for more than ten years?
【Text/Five Finger Mountain】