"Jade Bone Haruka": Caught in the dilemma of ancient puppets, but also made up for the shortcomings of ancient puppets

The "war" of the small screen in the summer file will always belong to S+ ancient dolls, and the goose factory, which was crushed by "Secretly Can't Hide" and "Changfeng Du" in the early stage, chose to save the scene with the costume fantasy "Jade Bone Yao" starring Xiao Zhan and Ren Min.

The top stream with small flowers, the effect is obviously not bad.

"Jade Bone Haruka" has been rising in popularity since its launch, not only the war report has tired the artists, but the topic discussion has also dominated the hot search of film and television, but from the first round of word-of-mouth feedback, it still has not escaped the "polarization" curse of S+ dramas.

Some viewers were on top of the plot of "Jade Bone Haruka", and some netizens were dissuaded by some problems, among which the female director Min's styling problem caused the most controversy, and many netizens felt that her image did not fit with the role and did not look and feel good.

Both supporters and doubters, according to the law of past S+ dramas, after the topic explodes, it is still necessary to return to the plot itself, putting aside the controversy such as actors and special effects, just watching the plot of "Jade Bone Haruka", there are surprises and regrets.

The expectations for "Jade Bone Haruka" in the early days of Episode 7 are actually not high.

This expectation is not high, and has nothing to do with the actors and themes, purely because I feel that the risk taken by the producer in terms of IP selection is quite large, because the style and characteristics of the original novel have long passed the best remake time.

At the same time, audiences who are familiar with the popular trend of remakes and romance novels can find that romance stories often have a popular timeliness, the core routine may remain unchanged for ten years, and the style and plot creativity want to be favored, but they must be constantly updated.

For example, the popular "Three Lives and Three Lives" trend in the early days of the fairy tale theme, when "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" came out, this kind of setting could surprise the audience and pursue it, but now it will become a set drama when shooting the popular style of the same period.

It is not that there is a problem with the work itself, but that the market aesthetics and demands are constantly changing.

This is also the key reason why the ancient dolls that have exploded in the past two years are remade from relatively new IPs, such as the rather popular Nine Herons Non-Xiangxian Xian Xian series, and her time to achieve the peak results of novels is not long from the present.

Although the original work "Zhu Yan" of "Jade Bone Haruka" came out late, the story style and world view structure are in line with the popular IP mirror series ten years ago, and are the prequel to the pinnacle of the series "Mirror Twin Cities".

"Mirror Twin Cities" was also remade into an S+ ancient puppet earlier, which is also a top stream with small flowers, but the results are difficult to say.

For the loyal readers of the mirror series, "Zhu Yan" can no longer return to the peak work effect of the series, and for readers and audiences who have entered a new stage, it is difficult to imagine that they want to win with the previous explosive style.

In this regard, even if there is an S+ camp, the early stage of the seventh episode is not optimistic about "Jade Bone Haruka".

But after the main film was broadcast, I felt surprised, this drama not only has the inherent shackles of the current large-scale production of ancient dolls, but also breaks a problem of ancient puppets that makes many audiences headache, and it is a work that can make people's eyes shine.

Let's start with the merits of the work.

The problem of the habitual opening of the ancient puppet drama in the clouds and fog has finally been cured.

Ancient puppet lovers will find a rule in recent years, 80% of new dramas have the problem of "waiting until the Nth episode to watch well", the reason for the formation, in addition to objective factors such as serving, is mostly due to the messy opening plot and unclear logic.

Especially the group portrait IP drama with a huge world view.

Many works do not handle the narrative rhythm well, and often the early introduction is unclear about the relationship between the characters and the background setting, resulting in many audiences being confused, either need to be combined with the original work to understand, or cannot find the focus.

In the clouds and fog at the beginning, waiting until the N episode can make the audience clear their heads, which has become the norm in new dramas at present.

The most surprising thing about "Jade Bone Haruka" is that it breaks this common problem, its first four episodes of the plot are easy for the audience to substitute into, the character relationships and contradictions are clear and clear, and the logic is progressively smooth.

The male protagonist Shiying (played by Xiao Zhan) was originally the son of Kong Sang's amazing talent, but his father was absurd, blindly listening to the concubine Qiushui, and the other party made him lose control of his emotions and wanted to kill his wife and murderer, which was disgusting.

Faced with such a father who is indiscriminate between right and wrong, Shiying had to cheat to survive, and concentrated on practicing spells in Jiuxi Mountain, hoping to help himself and his mother clear their grievances, but Shi did not wait for anyone, and his mother hanged herself to protect herself.

The hatred of his mother's tragic death and the hatred of being erased have become the obsession of Time Shadow, but the narration at the beginning of "Jade Bone Haruka" has revealed that the battle of the male protagonist's life is not for personal vendetta, but for the world.

What he wants to take is a more difficult path to killing God.

This is a beautiful and tragic male protagonist's revenge, or it may also be a great priest's guardian blood road, the revenge and transformation of the characters, laid a solid foundation in the first four episodes, and successfully gave the audience a small hook, hook people continue to track.

The heroine Zhu Yan (played by Ren Min) is the daughter of the Red King, with an innocent personality, she was married to Shiying when she was a child, and the integrity and clarity of the son of the world made Xiao Zhu Yan admire and admire, and Xiao Zhuyan's purity also impressed Shiying.

At the same time, Zhu Yan is also the catalyst for the outbreak of contradictions between Time Shadow and Lady Qiushui, which makes Zhu Yan full of guilt about the "death of the son of the world", and has been looking for a way to resurrect to save the son of the world, which has become a rare warmth in the tragic life of Time Shadow.

The abused beautiful and tragic male protagonist, the sunny little sun female protagonist, the male protagonist's revenge growth line is infectious, and the love intersection of the two people is also handled quite logically, basically there is no big logic BUG, both clear and bait.

Looking at it in one breath, audiences who don't like this style can clearly understand the story and remember the group portraits of the characters, and the audience who like them can easily "go up", there is no unclear so, let alone the so-called.

This is originally the narrative effect that film and television dramas should have, but it is also a rare narrative effect of current domestic idol dramas, a clear and smooth beginning, so important, but so rare.

In this regard, many screenwriters can really learn the opening processing logic of "Jade Bone Haruka", if the starting point is not neat and attractive, how can the work retain the audience? A good start is half the battle.

Don't always expect viewers to "wait until episode N".

Time is precious, fast-paced society, what should be given to the audience is to "look good" from the beginning, not "the beginning is a little messy, but endure, the back will look good", not all audiences will accept this PUA.

After talking about the advantages, let's talk about the regrets of "Jade Bone Haruka".

There is nothing wrong with the romance alone, but the setting is not surprisingly cliché again.

Objectively speaking, the romance line of "Jade Bone Yao" is not considered to be collapsed in ancient puppets or even current idol dramas, and even the logical processing is very careful, and the traces of forced hard push are relatively few, but there is not much freshness.

It adopts the tone of the sunny girl entering the heart of the injured male protagonist.

Zhu Yan's obsession and admiration for the son of the world makes up for the emotional world of Time Shadow being constantly slandered by the scumbag, and the former is lively and clear, and let a little erode Time Shadow's heart that was about to fall into the magic barrier.

This kind of love is not rare in film and television, but if you deal with the character setting and the collision of sparks, it can still be very outstanding, but unfortunately, the screenwriter of "Jade Bone Haruka" is bound by old problems in terms of romance line and heroine shaping.

It has two typical problems: thin personality and single interpretation of love.

The thinness lies in the heroine's current character, which is pure and sunny in youth dramas, and in sadistic ancient puppet dramas, there is the smell of a reckless girl on the rampage, swinging between silly white sweetness and agility.

Perhaps the screenwriter feels that this setting and the beautiful and tragic character of Time Shadow can create a healing contrast, but for the audience, it is really a bit earthy and tacky, lacking in freshness and failing to play the heroine's charm.

On the other hand, it is also a big pity that love interpretation is single and old-fashioned.

The main line of ancient puppets is always love, which is undeniable, after all, this is an idol drama rather than a revenge drama, and the audience cannot take the appeal of the main drama to demand the plot setting of the idol drama.

But fans who love to eat melons, I don't know if they have found a new phenomenon, there are more and more idol drama works that fall into the pattern of the protagonist and the three views, and the hit "Long Moon Ember Ming" in the early stage is a typical representative.

The higher the popularity of the play, the more controversy there will be about the three views, and there is no cheerfulness for the audience to watch the ancient puppet "" in the past, and the audience is watching it with real feelings, and they are arguing with real feelings.

At the root of this, being too obsessed with giving sugar to the love line and sprinkling dog food is a key reason.

For example, the heroine's front foot division door was destroyed, according to the plot setting, she thought that the male protagonist did it, but after crossing into the male protagonist's previous life, the female protagonist thought in her heart that this was the devil, but in action, she quickly opened a love route with the male protagonist.

I can understand the screenwriter's attitude of wanting to give sugar to the audience, but sometimes, if there is too much sugar, it may not be enjoyable.

In some plots, the more interaction between the male and female protagonists, the more people are on the head, and the more sultry their love is, but some plot settings, often restrained love, appropriate distance, will be more exciting than dense candy.

Just like the bus love between Andy Lau and Meng Jiahui in "Dark War", it is too late to give out sugar, and it has become a pen of God.

And the current idol dramas are too single to interpret love, always clinging to the proportion of love lines, thinking that the male and female protagonists are good to look at if they play more, but they don't know, it may have the opposite effect.

The hot search "Changfeng Du" at the same time has this problem, and the adaptation allows the male and female protagonists to interact more in advance of the encounter timeline, which not only has a logical bug, but also reduces the tension of the scene where the two face off for the first time in the original work.

"Jade Bone Haruka" has not been able to get out of the shackles, the male protagonist is still brewing a revenge line here, and the love line over there is frequently smashed in, even if the screenwriter tries to handle the logic well, it can't cover up the perception of deliberately letting the two meet and send sugar.

In this way, the audience caught in the male protagonist's revenge line is easily dissatisfied: what kind of love, is it bad to take revenge honestly? Or the heroine don't come to make trouble, hurry up and let him develop revenge and abuse scum.

However, this perception is neither a problem of love nor a problem of the heroine, it is purely a problem of love interpretation, stubbornly believing that good-looking love requires the protagonist to interact more, send more sugar, and communicate more.

Thus ignoring that love is also diverse, just as beauty is displayed.

Some beauty is passionate, some is restrained and gentle, some beauty is hazy and mysterious, and the same is true of love.

There is nothing wrong with the love of sugar, it has its charm, but it should not be abused, when can domestic dramas break the single interpretation of love = sugar, when can our romance dramas return to the real gods.

Returning to "Jade Bone Haruka" itself, the current regret is that the love line is not new, and the excitement lies in the clear opening plot and the revenge line is easy to go, which is a relatively outstanding existence in the current work and is worth watching.