Text | Ling Hu Boguang
"Long Moon Ember Ming" has ended, but this drama has been controversial since it was broadcast, some time ago CCTV 6 princess also came out to criticize, now with the broadcast of the fairy drama "Heart Protection", about the core depth of the fairy drama, various discussions between fairy and xia are also endless.
This we now talk about fairy tale dramas and basically compare "Immortal Sword", but some viewers will say that it's just that "Long Moon Ember Ming" is rotten, and the "Starfall into Sugar" broadcast this year and last year's "Canglan Recipe" are good works, obviously there are good, but compare with bad works.
I think "Immortal Sword" cannot be compared with dramas such as "Long Moon Ember Ming" and "Canglan Tips".
Because the two sides were born in different eras, the expression and aspects of the work are also very different, "Fairy Sword Series" is adapted from the game, the positioning of this game is pure fairy, not female frequency fairy romance, its game has no specific gender audience positioning, and as an early single-player game, in fact, there are a large number of male players.
The main focus of the game is "Li Xiaoyao", a male character who is also the object of the player's introduction. Novels such as "Long" and "Cang" are romance novels from Jinjiang female frequency, which were originally "female readers" and "female novels", and their content positioning is "love stories that take place in various era backgrounds".
If you want to take the fairy sword for horizontal comparison, at least it is the adaptation of male frequency works such as "Qing Yu Nian".
The male protagonist appears as the object of empathy for the audience/reader, and the readership of the novel does not strictly distinguish between gender (both men and women will go to Qingyu Nian, but there are more men overall). The relationship between the male protagonist and the female characters in the story is fast, and it does not take a lot of emphasis to emphasize, and most of the time it is following the plot line.
So what if we have to compare "Immortal Sword" and "Canglan Recipe"?
The same is the "top stream", on one side is Wang Hedi Yu Shuxin, on the other side is Hu Ge Liu Yifei, who do you choose?
This comparison should also be divided into various categories, first of all, there is no need to compare the production levels of the art, service Tao, and special effects representatives of the two dramas. Because of the difference of 17 years, this film and television industry technology is completely different, and the real one is Guan Gong and Qin Qiong.
To say that the most obvious gap is that the soundtrack and music of ancient puppet dramas are relatively poor, reflecting the deep-seated problems in the Chinese pop music scene, there are too many popular songs in the "Immortal Sword" series, and after more than ten years, we can often see it in various Erchuang videos. The soundtrack of "Canglan Tips" is not bad for A Kun , but the hit song out of the circle is not.
Secondly, in terms of actors on both sides, this kind of fairy tale drama still belongs to ancient puppets. The "Immortal Sword" series of that year was an ancient puppet drama, and the actors participating in it were all young handsome guys and beauties, and if you compare the actors on both sides, the answer is self-evident.
"Immortal Sword 1" protagonists Hu Ge, Liu Yifei, An Yixuan, Liu Pinyan, Peng Yuyan, Xu Jinjiang, Xie Junhao, Sun Li, Jiang Xin, Tan Yaowen, Li Lizhen, Zheng Peipei, Deng Jiajia and so on.
At that time, the environment was Hong Kong and Taiwan powerful, and there were older generation actors with the new generation of actors from the mainland and Hong Kong and Taiwan. The cast of the older generation of this drama is very strong, "Canglan Tips" is not a middle-aged school, and the kind of costume drama with a very strong supporting cast of the elderly school is really not comparable.
And young actors, "Immortal Sword" in addition to the female second An Yixuan, the female third Liu Pinyan and "A Qi" Wang Lujiang can not develop. To put it bluntly, other young actors are now the mainstay of young Chinese actors.
Hu Ge, Liu Yifei, although the film industry is almost bad, but also China's top young directors. Peng Yuyan is now the three pillars of Taiwan's Mesozoic actors, Zhang Zhen, Peng Yuyan and Zhao Youting (Ruan Jingtian is one gear); The two pillars of the movie, Zhang Zhen and Peng Yuyan. And Jiang Xin and Deng Jiajia are also powerful middle-generation actors, with continuous resources for top TV series.
And "Canglan Tips" became famous because of the actor and still belongs to the idol school, and there is a clear time difference in between.
However, when we compare Wang Hedi, Yu Shuxin, Zhang Linghe, Xu Haiqiao, Guo Xiaoting, Li Yitong, etc. with Hu Ge, Liu Yifei, Peng Yuyan, Jiang Xin, Deng Jiajia, etc., this is really not a step on one, there are obvious gaps in all aspects.
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The biggest problem of the two dramas is the story plot and character shaping, and then from the core expression extended here, "Immortal Sword" from the game to the TV series is said to be a Chinese fairy, in fact, the vision is very broad, it is an adventure work in a broad sense, it is to experience the world, think about the world, and finally affect the world, so we must deepen the shaping of the world.
It should benchmark excellent adventure works at home and abroad, and actively absorb nutrients from these works, which can also bring more information to the creation of works, so that the world view is thick and the pattern is broad.
These modern fairy tale dramas inherit the genre of personal confrontation and personal domination of the world that is the most different from the mainstream works at that time when the web novel was born at the beginning of the century, focusing on extreme individualism, and the protagonist and the world outside their little brother are just a set for them to perform, a treasury for them to plunder, and a foil for them to fill a cup.
It is difficult to broaden the horizon under this line of thinking, after all, the ultimate explanation of this world is only to make the protagonist happy, and the upper limit is there.
Although they are both called fairy tales, the basis of the two ideas is not the same. But if you have to compare the story plot, character shaping, and the so-called core, the layout of "Canglan Recipe" is definitely not as good as "Immortal Sword 1", because "Canglan Recipe" is the same as most other "fairy puppet dramas".
The main content is the protagonist's love story, love is an eternal topic but life is far more than love, this is not the difference between "theme size", it is the richness and lack of content, and the difference between the narrative perspective, "Immortal Sword 1" accounts for a very small proportion of the description of the love line, in addition to love there are friendship, fate, life, compassion and Tao, growth, sacrifice -
And almost all the supporting roles are distinct, full, with story lines and growth lines, not only "Canglan Tips", it can be said that no other fairy tale/fairy puppet drama can surpass "Xian Jian 1" in terms of character shaping, group portrait, core, and plot, and the facts also prove this result.
"Canglan Recipe" can stand out because the theme of novel character + CP anti-routine + "love and respect" is well done, plus the special effects are also very good, and the remaining fairy puppet dramas have common problems "Canglan Recipe", such as the supporting roles are very flat, there are many logical bugs, and the depictions outside the love line are few and rough.
"Canglan Tips" is a TV series with double excellent reputation + performance in recent years, and many audiences like it, but if it is to be seriously compared, it must be objectively analyzed in multiple dimensions.
Is "Canglan Recipe" comparable to "Immortal Sword"? The ceiling of the new era fairy tale drama, it really does not deserve
I think "Canglan Recipe" and "Immortal Sword" are not comparable, but it does not mean that they have completely lost. This is not to curry favor with the other part of the group Duan Water and Thin Mud, who stipulates that an ancient puppet must have a grand pattern? And as I said at the beginning, the positioning of the two dramas is not the same type on the core.
First of all, "Canglan Recipe" is a fantasy drama, and the official has not promoted it as a fairy tale drama, on the contrary, it has promoted oriental fantasy.
Secondly, the theme of "Canglan Tips" is "love and peace", which also includes topics such as equal respect for love. Dongfang Qingcang is not a villain, but his position is different from Shui Yuntian's and is described as a villain by Shui Yuntian. Dongfang Qingcang was pulled out because of the war, although Dongfang Qingcang has no love silk, but not without brains, there are no emotions, there should be brains.
Dongfang Qingcang's seven love tree was awakened in the first episode, and the whole story is the process of Dongfang Qingcang from a person without seven emotions to a normal person with family and friendship love, and finally willing to sacrifice himself to save one's life in order to save someone, which is the ultimate self-interest to the ultimate altruism, and is the anti-hegemonic general routine.
Finally, it makes sense that "Canglan Recipe" will become popular, love is not a burden, love is armor, love makes the cowardly brave, love makes the proud bow down. I never feel that personal love is lower than the so-called "great love", and that life and individuals are not a problem of choosing one or the other, "I love life and love one"
Therefore, the outstanding place of this drama has never been its setting, it does not have a chivalrous setting, and there is no need to compare with fairy tales. The chivalrous and righteous courage in the fairy, the soul of the people who conquer the sky, you let an oriental fantasy, love fairy tale tell you? The sense of fatalism of "Canglan Recipe", the concept of love is its highlight.
The unity of character and plot forms a perfect closed loop, and the storyline is interconnected and fascinating. Canglan and his wife interpret respect, self-love, belief, and understanding in love very well, but how much is the CP lacking in the play? "Canglan Recipe" also has the advantage that it is a little bit more life-flowing in the early stage, and the protagonist is breeding feelings in daily life.
It still respects the logic of love as a whole, and the female protagonist has an independent personality, and the male protagonist later grew into a loving and capable setting. The details of two specific people meeting, acquaintance, and love and the process of growing up together are quite healing, and they are also very in line with the aesthetics of young audiences, especially young female audiences.
We regret the decline of Xianxia, but other excellent works should not be deliberately belittled.
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I like both "Immortal Sword" and "Canglan Recipe", but I feel that "Canglan Recipe" and "Immortal Sword" cannot be directly compared at all, because "Canglan Recipe" is not a work that flaunts fairy tales, and there are no so-called chivalric and Taoist elements in the worldview of this story.
The gap between "Canglan Recipe" and "Immortal Sword" I think it's more that the story of the supporting characters is not full enough, the story plot bugs and ending turns are a little stiffer, like "Immortal Sword" The story of Wine Sword Immortal and Jiang Ming and the butterfly demon can be recalled repeatedly, and there are also interesting supporting roles in "Canglan Recipe", such as Dan Yin and Jieli and the father's line, which could have been filmed brilliantly, but it was cut messily, and the acting skills were a little unable to keep up.
Finally, these two each represent the pinnacle of the domestic "ancient puppet" theme at that time, "Immortal Sword" was a new school of fairy romance at that time, and "Canglan Recipe" was an "oriental fantasy" costume romance drama, and the two were not comparable at all.
Now the real problem is that we can no longer make a pure fairy drama like "Immortal Sword", and the market does not have excellent works that meet the audience's desire to see such works. "Canglan Recipe" is the ceiling of the new school of ancient dolls, and other similar works in the market are too bad.
We hope to make excellent works such as "Immortal Sword" and "Canglan Tips" again, rather than bad dramas.