As the first batch of episodes of Youku's White Night Theater, the information poor crime drama "New Life" will be broadcast exclusively on Youku. On April 28th, "New Life" held a viewing party in Beijing, and the director bid for the Olympics said that unlike the previous films, filming dramas can communicate with the audience eloquently and imperceptibly, providing creators with sufficient space for expression, "You can cut off wonderful scenes without being long, and I am really happy!"
"New Life" is produced by Youku, co-produced by Banshan Culture, directed by the Olympic bid, and starring Jing Boran and Zhou Yiyi. The play is the first work after the Olympic bid transformed from a film director to a drama series, and it is also the second time that the Olympic bid has paid attention to the social issue of "anti-fraud" after the screenwriter and director of "All or Nothing".
"New Life" opens with the death of the protagonist Fei Ke, and the five "scam victims" at the memorial service tell the story of Fei Ke's life in a jigsaw puzzle way, telling a Rashomon story about human nature. Fei can travel around different people in multiple settings, he is Chen Shufa's young and promising son-in-law, Cheng Hao's sincere and reliable junior in the industry, and Su Qian's handsome and romantic intimate lover. At the scene of the film viewing party, the audience was amazed and admired from time to time for Fei Ke's skillful play with human nature loopholes and the exquisite arrangement of the letter to implement the interest rate spread scam.
Fei Ke will perceive the weaknesses of others, grasp the desires and demands of others, and finally manipulate the emotions of others, relying on the accurate grasp of information to grasp and control others. Producers Gao Boyang and Zheng Lin said at the film viewing meeting that unlike the previous anti-fraud themes, "New Life" not only vividly portrays the multi-faceted nature of "scammers", but also tries to present the human weaknesses of "scam victims", so as to call on the audience to return to the basics and truly face themselves.
The Olympic bid admitted frankly that the whole filming process was very brain-burning, which brought great difficulties to the performances of actors such as Jing Boran, Zhou Yiyi, and Zhang Yifan. "The story presented in the script has truth, lies, and intersections in time, which leads to many actors being confused at the moment of performance, and they actually don't quite know whether they are acting in reality or fiction. The Olympic bid said.
In addition, the Olympic bid also revealed that the creator also buried a lot of passwords in the play, hoping that the audience can brush it twice or three times if they are interested, and they can freeze it and chew and play it repeatedly.
Youku Suspense Theater has recently been upgraded to White Night Theater. According to reports, "White Night" means "the long night will end, and the truth will be revealed", and the audience will solve the mystery in the cocoon. On the basis of the genre lens language, the White Night Theater will explore more profound social issues, show deeper human care, and provide a more immersive viewing experience, arousing the audience's empathy and empathy, thereby expanding a new path and new space for the quality of Chinese dramas.
Xie Ying, vice president of Youku, said that the audience's requirements for the rhythm of the story are getting higher and higher, and the creators should make the series more exquisite, more compact, and better-looking, and the work "New Life", which was born after more than two years of preparation and filming, is just "full of surprises and expectations".