It's really lively, just one day later, two "Fairy Sword" series of film and television works have been broadcast one after another.
In the hearts of countless people, the word "fairy sword" is of great significance.
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" produced by Daewoo Information is a stand-alone series of games based on the ancient Chinese legends of fairies, demons, gods and ghosts, with martial arts and Xianxia as the theme.
Since the release of its first game in 1995, it has won numerous awards for its excellent game production.
It is praised by many players as a "masterpiece of the world", and it is definitely one of the best domestic RPG games.
And what really made "Sword and Fairy" a public sentiment was the 2005 TV series of the same name adapted from the game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1".
Needless to say, how classic this drama is, the originator of domestic Xianxia dramas.
Later, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" made this IP a big hit.
The leading actors of these two dramas are still occupying a place in domestic entertainment, such as Hu Ge, Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, Tang Yan, Liu Shishi, Huo Jianhua, etc.
Although everyone understands that "no Hu Ge, no fairy sword", such a good IP big IP, domestic film and television dramas naturally can't let go.
Wanda took the lead and launched the film and television plan of "Fairy Sword 4", followed by Mountain Shadow also prepared for the filming of "Fairy Sword 6".
Two works of the same IP, these two are destined to have a "life and death battle", not to mention that the two works are now on the air almost at the same time.
Here, let's talk about "Sword and Fairy 4", which seized the opportunity and started broadcasting half a day in advance.
Such a drama that has been full of controversy since the start of filming, what is the effect after it is broadcast?
After brushing 6 episodes in one go, Qingshi can only be evaluated in 4 words:
It's hard to put into words.
In order to facilitate the more intuitive feeling of the official master, Qingshi decided to talk to everyone about this "Fairy Sword 4" in the form of stars.
01. Role suitability: ★★
As we all know, all adaptations, because there is a setting there, the adaptability of the actors is very important.
It's like a work adaptation of a novel, with a specific description of the character's appearance and personality.
And the film and television drama adapted from the game, because of the more intuitive foundation of game modeling, it becomes more important to choose the right actor to play the role.
To this day, such stories are still circulating in the "Sword and Fairy" series.
When the filming of "Fairy Sword 3" started, the candidates for Yukimi had not been decided, and the filmmakers solicited candidates for Yukimi on the Internet.
Among the many candidates provided by netizens, Yang Mi is the most popular.
and is also the actor who got the highest vote in 2 votes of game fans, and it was also stipulated that it was not allowed to scold Yang Mi's Xuejian.
It turns out that netizens back then really had something, and after the series was filmed, the adaptability of Yang Mi and Xuejian could be said to be almost 100%, and even some small actions were exactly the same as in the game.
However, such amazing casting is hard to come by.
At least in "Sword and Fairy 4", the adaptability of casting is not very good.
The male protagonist Yun Tianhe, the first male protagonist in the game.
Because he has lived alone in Qingluan Peak since he was a child, his appearance and dress are more "primitive", and when Han Lingsha first met him, he called him a "savage".
In the game, according to Tianhe's growth environment and identity, he designed the fur on both shoulders, arm guards and gloves for archery with his right hand, and the pattern of the belt, etc., and the hairstyle was rough, so he was described as a bird's nest by the little second brother of Taiping Village.
In fact, at first glance in the play, there is nothing wrong with the costume styling.
The beast pattern suit with the fur element, the bow and arrow on the back are all consistent with the character's characteristics.
Although the hairstyle is not extensive enough, changing the short hair to a short ponytail can be regarded as a tribute to Li Xiaoyao.
In terms of appearance alone, actor Chen Zheyuan looks like he is "old and young", but fortunately, the character setting is not a peerless beauty, and it doesn't matter.
Because his facial features are relatively large, it is also suitable for clear characters.
Later, he met up with his father's former friend and replaced his usual "savage" look.
Seeing him after changing his clothes, Qingshi just wanted to say: Please, quickly put the "savage suit" back.
Directly changed from a young man with a good mental head to a spiritual guy, this kind of gentlemanly dress is too unsuitable for Yun Tianhe.
The heroine Han Lingsha, one of the heroines in the game.
In the game, considering the identity setting, her clothes are dark, with red and yellow trim to refresh her spirit.
The hairstyle is also very different from other game heroines.
There was a good image restoration in "Sword and Fairy Inn" before.
Ju Jingyi's Han Lingsha in the play basically has nothing to do with the game characters in terms of appearance.
The common hair in ordinary ancient dolls, bangs that have not changed for thousands of years, and makeup that is almost welded to the face.
In this role, she can be Han Lingsha, or any role before Ju Jingyi.
At least in terms of the character's costume and hairstyle, there is nothing special about this character.
Although there is more than one set of costumes in the play, it is a pity that it is far from the game setting.
If you say it's pasted, it may be that the color is heavy, not the light color in the previous Xianxia drama.
In fact, compared to other characters, the problems of the two leading actors are not too big, and the next thing to talk about is critical hits.
Liu Mengli, one of the heroines of the game.
The setting is a rare beauty, and it is also a rare girl with both temperament and appearance.
Her standing drawings are one of the reasons why many fans of the game started playing this game.
The high-waisted and floor-sweeping long skirt, elegant big sleeves, and flowing gauze curtains, who can not be confused when they see it.
In the play, Liu Mengli has become like this.
Liu Mengli played by Mao Xiaohui is difficult to be satisfied with both her own conditions and her clothing.
The face is small but the neck is not slender enough, and there are conspicuous trapezius muscles, and this dress is completely fairy, not to mention this perfunctory hairstyle.
At some angles, the light is not well laid, and she looks like a lifeless puppet.
And this clothing + styling, the daughter of the Liu family doesn't look very rich.
It is worth mentioning that Mao Xiaohui has played many beautiful images, and has also played a new version of Little Dragon Girl, but it has not been broadcast so far.
No wonder netizens commented:
Where did this girl get the courage to play Liu Mengli?
and the second male protagonist in the game, Murong Ziying.
This character should be the most beautiful in the Sword and Fairy series, and the official setting says that he not only has a handsome appearance, but also a cold personality that reveals a trace of handsomeness.
The clothing design is also mainly blue and white, and the clothes have a strong sense of hierarchy and elegant fairy spirit.
Murong Ziying in the play is like this, I just want to sigh, if only Mao Zijun played 10 years ago.
There is also Xuanxiao that Qingshi doesn't want to mention, do you dare to believe that Xuanxiao like this in Lihua has become like this in the play.
With such a degree of casting adaptability, everyone should not watch this drama.
02, plot watchability: ★★★ ☆
Although it is unfavorable, is there any merit in "Fairy Sword 4" from a plot point of view?
For a long time, the plot of "Sword and Fairy 4" has been called the best in the series by game fans.
There are also many game fans who were shocked by the plot after clearing the customs and couldn't calm down for a long time.
In "Fairy Sword 4", Yun Tianhe, who said "My life is up to me, not by the sky", went against the sky and couldn't change his life, Han Lingsha knew that he couldn't do it, and Liu Mengli and Murong Ziying struggled and contradicted their identities......
"It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, life is a big dream of vanity, Shaohua is white, but in a blink of an eye! ”
A hundred years later, the blind Yuntianhe and the returning Liu Mengli looked at each other at Qingluan Peak, which became one of the most classic pictures.
After the film and television, the watchability of the plot is actually still there.
Nineteen years ago, the Qionghua faction used Wangshu and Xihe to bind the demon world with a double sword net, seizing spiritual power from it, triggering a war between the demons and demons, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
In this process, Yun Tianqing and Shuyu, disciples of the Qionghua faction, left Qionghua and came to Qingluan Peak due to differences over the concept of cultivating immortals of the Qionghua faction.
The story has come to the present, Yun Tianqing and Shuyu died early, leaving behind a son, Yun Tianhe.
One day, the girl Han Lingsha climbed Qingluan Peak, because she broke into the tomb of Yun Tianqing and his wife, and let Wangshu Jian reappear in the world.
The appearance of the Wangshu sword made people from all walks of life who wanted to compete for this sword come to grab the sword.
In several joint battles, the two became friends.
In order to understand his father's past, Yun Tianhe and Han Lingsha went down the mountain together and embarked on the road of changing their lives against the sky and saving the world.
Judging from the previous episodes, "Sword and Fairy 4" focuses on a cheerful atmosphere.
For example, Yun Tianhe's "wonderful" character design contributed to the early laughter and highlights.
He and the pig demon come and go, and he and Han Lingsha met for the first time.
And because Tianhe has been living in the mountains, no one has taught him a little sophistication, he just went down the mountain with Han Lingsha, just like a "second fool".
It's new to see everything, and there are a lot of conversations that aren't on the same channel.
It's like eating watermelon directly;
standing in the middle of the road and "fighting alone" with the flow of people;
The "face-slapping conversation" between him and his father's friend was simple but effective.
Even if he and Han Lingsha called each other "woman" and "savage" in the early stage, they were still a little embarrassed.
Another example is the secret of Han Lingsha.
Who is she?Why does she want to want to be skilled?Why does she contact Xuanying?
The story about her has yet to be unraveled one by one, and this has become an important suspense to drive the plot.
In addition, the plot of "Sword and Fairy 4" advances quickly.
From the very beginning, Qingluan Peak met, and the Wangshu Sword was unexpectedly born, and soon several waves of people came to fight.
and then lead out of the main line, Tianhe went down the mountain to explore the story of his parents.
Go to the battle in Yunjia Village, solve misunderstandings, make friends, move to Xindi, and encounter problems again.
It's just 6 episodes, but the plot is rich and the story is very full, and you won't feel that there is a plot dragging on during the process of watching, and you even feel like you're being pushed by the plot.
At the same time, it also exposed another problem, the director's rhythm control is really not good.
Many times, it's just to push the plot.
Sudden character dialogue, sudden scene transformation, sudden character transformation, sudden fight, sudden blackening.
watched the lively fights and fights a few times, but there was actually no content, at least it didn't seem to have anything to do with the main story.
And after Tianhe and Han Lingsha encountered so many things, they still only kept their original intentions.
In short, so everything is to push the plot. The director is not telling a story, he is acting out a story.
Just take an example, Yunjia Village solved the misunderstanding.
The villagers went from thinking that Yun Tianqing was a villain, and even choreographed a bad scene for him, to forgiving everything in an instant, just because of a fight.
didn't even make it clear why they hated Yun Tianqing, and Tianhe saved people, what does it have to do with whether his father is a wicked person?
If you only pay attention to the line of the protagonist, and ignore the portrayal of other characters and the development of other branches, this story will not be plump or good-looking.
03. Others (acting, special effects, picture): ★★
After talking about the actors and the plot, let's talk about other places worth talking about in this drama.
For example, special effects screens.
Before the start of filming, the information released by the filmmaker showed that the investment cost of this drama would be as high as 312 million yuan.
This investment is placed in a domestic TV series, and there is no doubt that it is a big deal.
In this regard, the producer of "Sword and Fairy 4" also said:
"Fairy Sword 4" will restore the 1:5 god, break the traditional b2c model, and will adopt the C2b model - a cross-dimensional hit based on the Internet.
Emmmm, bluestone can only say that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
The picture effect presented in the play basically has nothing to do with the "cross-dimensional hit".
After watching 6 episodes, Qingshi found it hard to believe that this was a work that cost 312 million to shoot.
The special effects of "Fairy Sword 4" are completely fine to describe as "lightning strike on the screen".
Yun Tianhe's first appearance with the pig demon on Qingluan Peak, did the director consider the audience's feelings?
Such an aesthetically unaesthetically pleasing big pig demon, and a little pig demon that is more naïve than a children's film, is really difficult for people to stick to.
The treasure hall of the Qionghua school is full of plastic, whether it is a large long view or a close view, it can't save the cheap feeling that overflows the screen.
There's also the spellcasting site that is comparable to light pollution;
Illusion effects that look like they're worth up to 5 cents;
Then there's the picture presentation.
Yes, "Sword and Fairy 4" has improved the filter, and it is no longer the filter that most Xianxia dramas are so white that you can't see anything clearly.
But this is not the appearance of the underworld filter, and it is really unfriendly.
Everyone's face is like earth, and each scene makes it impossible to tell whether it is day or night, and it is really uninteresting to watch.
The presentation of this tide lake and the description of the lines, does the filmmaker think it is really credible?
The biggest victim of this part is definitely Wang Duo, who plays two roles by one person.
His shadow looks weak and swollen, which directly lowers the actor's appearance by a few notches.
Finally, let's talk about the acting skills of the actors.
This drama was officially announced on the day it was broadcast, and it turned out that there was a farce like the actor tearing up, which is really more lively outside the play than in the play.
But one thing to say, the acting skills of the male and female protagonists really can't hold up.
Not only that, but there is not even an actor who can hold up in the whole play.
Whether it is the various elders of the Qionghua faction, or passerby A and passerby B, everyone's acting skills are superficial, and they can't be brought into the plot at all.
Most of the acting skills of the male protagonist Chen Zheyuan are realized by dubbing.
The best thing to play is this picture of sleeping with a sword, at least the aesthetic sense of perception is preserved.
Once he needs to make some expressions, it is easy to act as "stupid", especially the sentence "murderous" that expresses his innate spiritual power, judging from his expression, "thick and straight" is far greater than "aura".
The heroine Ju Jingyi, her acting skills are still at the level of ancient puppets as always, which is actually enough in this drama.
It's just that in order to show Han Lingsha's liveliness and cleverness, she often deliberately arranges her actions.
At the same time, in order to perform a "chatterbox" look, there are too many small movements in the mouth, which will still affect the audience's entry into the play.
Of course, "Sword and Fairy 4" is not without good points.
At least in terms of feelings, it still plays the ultimate, and it uses the music of the game!!!
And this, at present, seems to be the only advantage of this show.
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