9 points of suspense reversal drama collapse! Are audiences tired of reversal dramas?
Good evening everyone, I'm ten years.
Based on the golden partner "Fat" Steve Pemberton and "Book Two" Reece Shersmith based on the label of self-writing and self-acting, he is definitely worthy of a pair of ghost talents who are both excellent in choreography, focusing on suspenseful horror and black humor style, and jointly gave birth to weird, satirical and fun thriller comedies such as "Crazy City" and "Gentlemen's League",
Among them, "Secret No. 9" since 2014 is even more widely loved by the audience, at that time, it was in the booming period of film and television self-media, with short and concise, episode by episode of the characteristics of the drama, with the plot of good chasing and watching, God unfolding, and God turning, every year when the new season returns, it is inevitable that we film and television public editors push (battalion) to raise (sell) as a brain hole drama, reverse drama, and repeatedly recommend,
But more than nine years have passed, and the audience readers who have long been immune to the words "reverse the masterpiece" in the title of the WeChat public account will also directly reflect back to the play that brings us growth and joy due to the situation of well-informed and corresponding aesthetic elevation and aesthetic fatigue -
To put it bluntly, the reputation of the eighth season of "Secret No. 9", which is now back, has collapsed!
Although there is a comprehensive review of 8.2 points on Douban, compared with the high rating of no less than 9 points in the previous seven seasons, it is a humiliating series and a big step backwards!
One, two, three, four, six seasons, all above nine points
However, aside from the problem that fans and audiences are used to and the threshold has become high, in the personal opinion of the old editor, the current season of the story is king does not seem to have a too serious level decline in terms of screenwriting, and even broke through a new form of narrative,
And tonight, let's taste together, this season's multiple stories and past classic stories, what surprises are in common and adaptable——
"Secret No. 9 Season 8"
Inside No. 9 Season 8
The advantage of self-writing and acting is that the main creator completely starts from himself to write and act, and the old fans of this show have long been familiar with the ever-changing characters and shapes of the fat and two-volume good friends in each episode of the story.
The second volume in "Gentlemen's League", one person challenged 35 character styling lists, old fans said that their plays, save actor money, tired stylists,
However, in tandem for lacking heart, this season ushered in the most special episode in the history of the series (49 episodes aired so far, 8 episodes per season, plus one Halloween special) Then in the S805 "Threesome" episode of the story, I didn't see the fat and the second volume appear throughout the whole process, and even strange and abnormal to the point that the audience thought that they were watching the wrong stage and getting the wrong resources——
This episode is a sci-fi horror story that goes against the sky in the form of a TV quiz column that has become popular all over the world in the millennium, and it opens with a focus on three groups of three participants (3 by 3) competing for the championship in the quiz scene.
Among them, the protagonist is a family of three, seemingly the parents of high-level intellectuals and their daughters who have never been to school and have only received family learning since childhood, and this character background has been laid in reverse.
Dad replied that we are actually a "family of four", and there is an old grandmother watching the live broadcast at home, and the grandmother's name is Rosemary, which pays tribute to one of the best horror films in film history "Rosemary's Baby", which is also called "The Devil's Holy Child", which paves the way for her daughter's abnormal life
However, the protagonist family, which seems to be inevitable, encountered entertainment culture questions in each set of mandatory answers, and the couple who were ridiculed as "scientists" could not answer and entered the pending area.
Fortunately, the daughter answered the question correctly, so that the whole army would not be wiped out, and the daughter who had a resurrection card chose to resurrect her mother in the eye contact between her parents.
Next is to rush to answer the question, the daughter who lagged behind in the previous link played bravely, fast and fast-mouthed, crazy score, so that the other two groups of angry stamps, but also let the program group marvel, because some question hosts have not finished the question, the daughter rushed to answer the answer, the degree of exaggeration is almost shady, or the kind of shady that the two sides do not cooperate well.
Anyway, eliminate the heroine and mother of the other two groups and enter the Grand Prix Challenge, this link is more difficult, the mother and daughter who need to sit separately must answer the same question correctly, which is the cunning of the program group is also the highlight of the show, because just like the truth that we are destined to be different from our parents, the questions in this link are either too popular (such as what is the real name of a hip-hop artist) or too orthodox (such as social history questions).
As a result, what is surprising is that the mother and daughter can be called comfortable, heart-to-heart, and synchronous answers, and the real reflection of the program group proves that they are not shady, because the grand prize is about to be taken away by the mother and daughter.
Mother and daughter are separated
Before the question, the host specially interviewed the mother and daughter how to use the prize if they really won the prize, and the mother replied to transform and upgrade her daughter's learning environment, and the daughter who seemed to be the beneficiary was disappointed, hoping to dream of a foreign vacation with her mother.
As a result, in the last question, the answers of the mother and daughter were inconsistent, and the host also specially emphasized that only one of the mother and daughter answered correctly, and the bonus could only be halved to the party who answered correctly.
Before waiting for the host and the audience to reflect what was going on, the mother's head was really literally blown up, definitely not gas bombing, and this bloody and terrifying scene has been broadcast live, and the entire column group fled in fear!
Notice that the mom in the back exploded
However, in the daughter's weird smile, the audience can suddenly realize that all this is the blackening of the daughter with a special function on the spot, and secretly inflicts trial revenge on the control freak mother-
In fact, from beginning to end, the daughter who is the main answerer uses her mind to spy on the correct answer in the hands of the host, and after the father, who has always played a balancing role, was eliminated from the scene, the daughter was left with only the oppression of her mother, which also echoed her life history of being confined by her parents to study at home since she was a child.
In the end, in the split answering session, the mother's vision of "planning to upgrade the learning environment with bonuses" made her daughter's disgust and rebellion reach its peak, so she deliberately gave the wrong answer brain to her mother, so that she could experience anger and failure, angrily smashed the field equipment, and the seemingly faulty device door headshot...
I have to say that this is very much a hilarious plan in the phenomenal hit drama "Stranger Things", where children are taken to genetic modification tests.
But the super reversal revealed in the last minute of this play is still darker, more playful, and has realistic satirical value than "Stranger Things", which is about super adventures throughout the show, and this story is obviously a metaphor criticizing the morbid parent-child relationship in which the original family is a scourge and parents exclusively suck their daughter's blood.
The entertainment, sense of form, big reversal, and anti-genre fusion of this episode are all too exciting, and they can rank in the top few in the entire series.
Stranger Things is a child who is genetically modified
Of course, the clever use and setting of the medium of this episode also makes old fans can't help but recall the episode of "Christmas Special" broadcast at the end of 2018.
A few days before the start of the broadcast, the episode was specially put on the official push in reality, and it was released that it would bring fans an episode of "live story" on Halloween.
But as a result, the fans who watched in front of the TV on time, just watched it for less than a minute, witnessed the so-called "live broadcast accident", and the screen was directly marked with an apology report,
At the same time, the TV station can only immediately broadcast the highly acclaimed episode of the classic "Silent Night",
But after a few minutes of serious broadcasting, the live broadcast line was "repaired" again, but the actor's strange behavior seemed to be an evil on the scene.
The official can only replace the previous rehearsal version of the video, disguised as a live broadcast, and this story that was originally planned to be live broadcast directly is another disturbing story full of bloody pictures, and the drama within the play is weird and weaving.
At the same time, the story of "Silent Night" was frequently inserted in the live broadcast like garbled characters, but the audience who left an impression of this episode scene could recognize that it was different from the previous version watched, and ghost shots appeared in the picture... This brings about a third terrifying effect.
The original episode "Silent Night" tells the story of two stupid thieves who sneak into the mansion at night to steal
The play of "Silent Night" is haunted
In the end, all this can only be explained by the ghost visiting the TV station on Halloween Day, and all the viewers who stayed in front of the TV on time to watch the live broadcast witnessed the whole process of ushering in ushered in, and the audience of the online performance was killed on the spot...
Needless to say, this episode of the story uses the narrative form of a pseudo-documentary, combined with the real publicity, which enlightens the audience and the actors - because the audience who has an extraordinary interactive viewing experience, after suddenly realizing, can ridicule this is the "posthumous work" of the two main creators
Of course, one episode of the story is not enough to support a season's reputation, compared to the brilliant S805 "Threesome", the story of the other episodes is not enough to be called amazing, but it is also dark to make new and old fans praise.
For example, the story setting of the episode "Mother's Legacy" in S802 tells the story of Fat and a pair of brothers played in the second book, who infiltrated the old house of their hometown that had been purchased by neighbors, in a vain attempt to use witchcraft to summon the ghost of their mother who died violently and ask about the whereabouts of the inheritance.
The key to this spiritualism is that the deceased must sacrifice the beloved things of the deceased.
And sadly, after the brothers' mother's pet parrot, which the brothers had planned to use for sacrifice, accidentally flew away, the evil brother tried to stab the blade at the younger brother, after all, the younger brother has been favored by his mother since childhood, so the brother's madness also implies resentment towards his mother and younger brother.
However, when their lives were at stake, the male neighbor and his wife who bought their mother's old house turned home, encountered a scene of fratricidal life, and took down the two brothers on the spot, under pressure, the male neighbor and his wife learned of the brothers' spiritualism plan, and normal people would only laugh at this as feudal superstition, but the greed common to human nature made the couple decide to give it a try.
But as a result, just as the couple were about to slaughter their brother, the brother, who had found his conscience, decided to redeem himself and claimed, "Self-sacrifice is better, you cut off one of my feet and leave my brother alive."
The couple who did it unceremoniously unloaded his calf, and ghost traces followed, and the brother immediately began to change his voice as if possessed by his mother's revenant, but the explanation was not where the inheritance was hidden, but the accusation of the male neighbor's affair with his own before his death, and as a result, the angry male neighbor's wife directly slaughtered the male neighbor and ran away with his savings...
Is it really the mother undead who has arrived? Non-also, non-also.
In fact, this is just the acting skills of the witty brother to save himself and his younger brother, but judging from the nervous look and defense of the male neighbor, the mother seems to have really committed adultery with him before his death, which also explains why the mother promised to sell the house to the male neighbor at a low price before the violent death.
At the same time, the ultimate reversal followed, and the pet parrot who flew away at the beginning of the mother's opening chapter actually flew back on his own, and asked the brothers: Do you want to know where my inheritance is hidden?!
Lying groove, this not only verifies the true effect of spiritism, but also absurdly proves that the mother's favorite thing is not the younger son, but the old friend (the wife of the male neighbor killed the husband and unintentionally made a sacrifice) There is nothing more crooked than this!
However, the clever screenwriter makes good use of the open-ended ending, when the brothers excitedly answer "Yes, Mom, we want to know" to the parrot, the screen goes black and the story ends, such a handling technique, leaving enough room for imagination, because the parrot's "lines" are entirely likely to be taught parrots by the old lady before her death, in order to tease the two sons or old lovers who arbitrarily covet their property, maybe she did not descend to the scene at all, but is sneering in hell at the moment!
S803 "Friday Phobia" episode story focuses on a concept of psychological illness, that is: survivor's guilt, it refers to the traumatic event accident patients psychologically feel guilty for surviving the disease, the male protagonist of this episode because of childhood, sick day, avoided the school bus accident, and felt guilty for all the students who died, that day happened to be the most taboo Friday of the 13th for Westerners.
Therefore, every overlapping day, he will lock himself at home and will not see anyone, but after bidding farewell to his wife to the door, the male protagonist welcomes all kinds of blind guests one after another, one is a passerby who rings the doorbell to borrow a toilet, one is a decorator who is looking for the wrong home, and the other is a community aunt to urge the property fee... In short, good people can be tossed enough, not to mention the male protagonist who is sick.
And the reversal of the story is that these people are actually performance lovers of amateur drama clubs, invited by the male protagonist's wife to help the male protagonist rebuild with poison and poison psychology, and as a result, under the enlightenment of this group of enthusiastic people, the wife was moved by good intentions, and the male protagonist felt that he had come out of the shadows.
As a result, a transition, the male protagonist woke up early in the morning and found that the bedside calendar number was still stuck on Friday the thirteenth, and the desperate exclamation turned out to be just a beautiful dream.
But his wife told him that the calendar was broken, that it was not a dream, and that yesterday you really experienced a healing.
The male protagonist who was in a false alarm regained his smile, but his wife suffered a car accident as soon as she went out, and the male protagonist was unaware of his wife's call for help because of wearing noise-canceling headphones, and this time his fear day became "Saturday on the 14th", and the most desperate thing was that he lost his love to save his wife. Really dark!
Pay attention to the background
The story of the episode "Only Love Strangers" of S804 can be called a sexual conversion sex hunt - we may have heard in the past that antisocial elements will meet and even dismember through online dating // cannon, call-up // service person to meet, visit the door, murder or even dismember, but the heroine in the story of this episode is the hunting side!
But the anti-routine, or respect for the facts, is that the heroine is not the kind of beautiful girl who makes people obsessed and wary, but an aunt who looks like an old virgin, who will show a kind, submissive, unconfident, and blind posture to be married in the online matching chat.
It can be said that when the independent female trend swept the Internet public opinion position, "traditional" women such as the heroine are exactly the fatherly men who can't find an object in reality, and even have an affair behind their wives, and dream of, because the goddess is good but needs to kneel and lick, and the taste of showing off her might in front of women is more tempting.
As a result, it is these men who feel that the conditions are completely superior to the heroine and can stand high in front of it, and they are fished and killed by the murderous heroine.
Because ironically, she is a witch who does not demand male external conditions, but pathologically pursues inner resonance (this is also the crazy realm of her extreme inferiority in her heart) and slaughters scumbags on the spot when she is slightly disillusioned, which can be said to be very playful and subtle, with gender political thinking in it.
According to unwritten tradition, the season finale of "Secret No. 9" is usually a revenge story, and the revenge story of S806 "The Last Weekend" is not smarter than before, and the only thing worthy of praise is probably the determination and perseverance of the avengers-
It tells the story of the fat and the sunset red guy companion played by the second book who has been in love for 6 years, came to the country cottage for a vacation, and as soon as he arrived, the latter began to complain about the mosquitoes and bees, portraying his hypocritical character, while the former spoiled him to go to the bath and devotional, a little calm.
As a result, when he woke up again, the second volume found that he was mummified by the whole tank of cement, it turned out that ah, the fat daughter was raped and committed suicide by the famous second book in the music industry six years ago, and the fat sacrificial hue of the straight man was close to the second volume, full of secrets to destroy the tepid career of the second volume, so that it had no job offer.
In the end, Chubby, who felt that the time had come, carried out an ancient punishment he saw in the book, that is, smearing the face of the inmate with honey, so that the opponent who could not move was gnawed by various insects, nested and reproduced under the skin of blood and flesh, and was frightened and tortured before death... It's really vicious enough (echoing the beginning, the holiday home flew into a lot of insects, which were all attracted by putting sugar in advance)
And the terrifying image of insects gnawing people to build nests is actually a metaphor for online violence like this capital punishment, maggot-like net violence swarming to eat away at the victims... A very modern, critical social allegory.
All in all, when netizens follow the trend to criticize literary and artistic works with "form is greater than content", "No. 9 Secret" firmly practices form is the purpose of the greatest charm of drama, when the spirit of truth, goodness and beauty is superficially presented by the film and television industry, "No. 9 Secret" dares to show the charm of bad taste, subtlety and even evil, it is valuable because of the independence, alternative aesthetics of the two main creators, and is a rare project in the film and television industry.