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Is the urban drama completely hopeless?
From the beginning of the year to the present, whether it is a traffic starring actor or a powerful faction joining, almost every work that is positioned as an urban emotional theme has overturned seriously.
Yang Zi's "To Love for a Long Time" and "Cheng Huan Ji" both performed dismally.
"I Live Elsewhere", which has just been broadcast, seems to be showing different choices in life, but the workplace drama and emotional line are full of the flavor of the literature of the boss in the early years.
The audience waited and waited, and finally waited for the new drama "Another Blue" starring Song Qian to be launched, but the effect after this broadcast is really unbearable to look at directly.
Thin workplace line, bloody plot line
"Another Blue" tells the story of a worker, the heroine Chen Xiaoman works hard and saves money, but even so, she is still frequently unemployed, and she has no choice but to return to her hometown in the end.
And Chen Xiaoman's boss Ke Yan (played by Zhou Yumin) also encountered a career crisis, and went to Chen Xiaoman's hometown to ask for help from the reclusive legend of the investment industry, but met Chen Xiaoman again, and gradually became each other's spiritual support in the stumbles.
Let's talk about this plot, it reveals a realistic and magical temperament, suspended and very down-to-earth.
Not only that, but the main story of "Another Blue" is not well told, but it tries to create group characters.
The heroine's two best friends are more in love than the other, and the audience wants to watch urban dramas with independent personalities, but they are deceived by scumbags.
Good news, urban dramas have finally arranged brains for female characters.
The bad news is that the love brain.
One was a scumbag PUA looking for a short time, and the other was obsessed, and he was threatened and thought about his boyfriend every day.
The most desperate thing is that judging from the direction of the plot, the heroine Chen Xiaoman can't get rid of the fate of being emotionally distressed.
Let's just say, can't women in urban dramas have their own careers? When the screenwriter is creating an independent, strong, kind, and sincere heroine, does he have to arrange some strange things to fall in love with them?
In the past, the audience would feel that the heroine was pitiful and would empathize with the female characters, but now the audience has learned to respect the fate of others, and the bloody emotional disputes will only make people more and more angry.
If you click on the Douban comment area of "Another Blue", you will find that the audience is generally dissatisfied with this drama, and some netizens bluntly said that "the plot is old-fashioned and very templated, and it is too homogeneous with other domestic TV series with similar themes, and there is no new idea".
In short, the boring plot is enough to end everything, but the handsome men and women that the audience is looking forward to the most are all collapsed.
The actor is not in good condition, the post-filter is full, and the aesthetic degradation is not visible
I don't know when this gust of wind blew, no matter what the theme of the TV series began to pursue white and thin, just let the pure sweet drama get some exposure, and the adult TV series have to paste layer after layer of filters for the actors.
And the audience, in fact, just wants to see the real picture, the lens with a grainy texture. But the drama "Another Blue" happened to overturn in the later stage of the hypocritical filter.
Song Qian, who is already 30+, has passed the age of white and thin, for her at this stage, a mature sense of age is her personal charm, but in the picture, Song Qian's skin is so smooth that it can be called cream skin, not to mention the slightest pore on her face, and the three-dimensionality of her facial features is smoothed.
And this kind of cheek filter only changes Song Qian's skin feeling, but it can't change the traces of aging, the sagging state of the face forms a strong contrast with the delicate skin, this effect of wanting to cover up once again reminds the audience that "Song Qian is old, and the girl's skin has left her".
Not only that, but Zhou Yumin, as the male lead, is the same. The 42-year-old Zhou Yumin has already entered middle age, and the sense of screen CP between her and Song Qian is really a bit like the effect of "Love Around the Corner".
In "Another Blue", Zhou Yumin's body management can barely be seen, but the filter that also drags his feet makes him seem to be a different person, even if it is a close-up, the audience has a kind of dizziness and the illusion that Zhou Yumin's facial features can't be seen clearly.
You said that the burden of the protagonist's idol is heavier, so let's treat everyone equally, and it is not so abrupt, but in "Another Blue", only the protagonist's filter is directly full, and when it comes to the supporting role, the picture is divided like two dramas.
The male supporting actor in the play can clearly see the details of his facial features, and the bones and three-dimensional sense on his face are all there, although the male supporting actor does not have the appearance conditions of God like Zhou Yumin chasing after him to eat, but the real texture is comfortable to look at.
As for the female supporting role, Bu Guanjin's physiognomy has always changed significantly, compared with her early appearance, her facial features are now more exquisite, and although her nose is a little stiff, her beauty is still there. And in "Another Blue", the audience can also clearly see the occasional tiredness on Bu Guanjin's face.
This state is not perfect, but it is very in line with the setting of migrant workers in urban dramas, aside from the plot and character design, Bu Guanjin is at least in line with the role positioning, and his appearance and image are comfortable.
As for Zhang Jianing, she is ugly to a new height in this drama, she does not have the spirituality of Lin Beixing's period, and she does not even have the temperament of a strong woman during the period of "Ode to Joy 3", the bangs like a pot helmet make her whole face a little more bitter, and in the later stage of serious eccentricity, she did not spend too much energy on her lens.
But even so, Zhang Jianing's state is much more comfortable than Song Qian, all in all, being able to shoot Song Qian's natural choice to make Tianshan Tong's grandmother feel can only be said to be a common aesthetic deformity of the artist and the drama party.
In addition, the 42-year-old Zhou Yumin and the 37-year-old Song Qian are really not suitable for romance and love in urban dramas, the urban themes they create should focus on the shaping of career and independent personality, watching Song Qian with the girl Qi bangs, her eyes enlarged and staring at the acting, the audience is really unable to enter the play.
And after so many years, Song Qian's acting skills are still so crotch-pulling, the lines are always vague, and the highlight scenes of the heroine are full of affection, but as soon as she opens her mouth, it is like opening a voice like changing her voice, and the audience can't bear it.
Although "Another Blue" has just been launched, it is obvious that this drama is destined to not broadcast the expected results. There is no highlight in the plot, the emotional line is indecisive, and the emotional pull of the adults is made, but it is bitter and hateful, like ink in a literary film.
As for the texture of the filter, the beauty filter that only targets the protagonist will only make the male and female protagonists more abrupt, and it is no wonder that this drama is full of bad reviews as soon as it is launched.
Finally, what do you think of the TV series Another Blue? What do you think of this drama that only grinds the skin of the male and female protagonists in the later stage, and blindly pursues the late-stage aesthetics of white and thin? Join the discussion in the comments section and share your opinions.