Today, I want to talk about this drama, how much I look forward to it before the broadcast, and how disappointed I am after the broadcast.
Holding the domestic golden signboard, gathering the strength of the mainland's first-line directors and actors, but in the end, they lost on the classic issue:
Domestic dramas, can you still tell the story well?
Let's talk about the "head cannon" of this year's "Mist Theater" -
The beginning of the episode really startled Ten O'Clock Jun.
Eerie jungle, young girls in red school uniforms, running in panic...
Behind her, what was chasing her?
The frame-pumping shot, the second hand ticking, vividly renders the atmosphere into a ghost film.
Wait, cherish this 1 minute.
The most suspenseful segment of the film is this minute.
The positive film has to start from nineteen years later.
The story revolves around a family shrouded in fog, the Xuan family.
The Xuan family has long lived in the local area, and the head of the family, Xuan Liang (Zu Feng), and his wife open a breakfast shop to sell buns for a living.
The Xuan family originally had 4 children, and now the old mother is old, the eldest son Xuan Liang and his wife have only one daughter, Nian Mei, and the eldest aunt in the family is married to the local criminal police captain Yuan Fei, and comes back from time to time to see.
Others look like an ordinary family, but behind it is hidden the pain of being sealed in the dust.
19 years ago, Xuan Zhen, the youngest sister of the Xuan family, was killed and thrown to the river.
The calm Jiangnan water town exploded, however, 19 years later, Xuan Zhen's case has never been able to find the murderer.
The Xuan family covered up the pain and continued to live, but Xuan Liang fell ill with it.
He looked at his daughter very closely, even if he went to high school, he would pick him up every day.
Nian Mei, who has reached the age of eighteen, is particularly dissatisfied with this, and from time to time she has a big fight with her father.
Xuan Liang defended day and night, but he couldn't stop his heart disease and snooping eyes.
He always felt that the longer Nian Mei grew, the more like his sister Xuanzhen, who had been lost that year.
Zhu Shenghui, a local rich second-generation gangster, took a fancy to Nian Mei and tracked and harassed.
One day after class, Zhu Shenghui pestered at the school gate again, and Nian Mei was overwhelmed with annoyance, and fled with his classmate Mu Ge to the nearby Kun Opera Troupe.
Zhu Shenghui, who followed them, told them that the troupe had his father's investment and also used his hands and feet on Nian Mei.
Xuan Liang, who happened to arrive, kicked Zhu Shenghui down and beat him severely.
The contradiction between the two families of Xuanzhu was buried.
But the war between father and daughter was not over, and not long after, Xuan Liang dropped his daughter's mobile phone, and in a fit of anger, ran away from home.
Good friend Muge took her to Bundy, but she didn't expect to meet Zhu Shenghui again in the disco.
Nian Mei was in a hurry and ran away again, and on the way home, the black figure followed her.
She shouted loudly for shadow to stop following her.
Facing Nian Mei, who had collapsed to the ground, and Xuan Liang, who had already rushed over, the black shadow stopped and hurried away...
At this time, Xuan Liang and Nian Mei did not know that the life of the little bastard Zhu Shenghui had already been indulged in the water town river.
Zhu Shenghui's body was found, and many old things surfaced.
For example, the Zhu family and the Xuan family actually had a long grudge.
When Xuanzhen had an accident that year, Zhu Wensheng, the director of the Yellow Distillery, fired Xuanliang for obscure reasons.
Now that Zhu Wensheng's son Zhu Shenghui has been killed, he has even bitten Xuan Liang to death as the murderer.
Find a small to smash the breakfast restaurant, and harass Nian Mei, stirring up the Xuan family can not live in peace.
The old mother of the Xuan family fell ill because of this, and Xuan Zhu, another daughter of the Xuan family who worked hard in Shenzhen, also returned to her hometown.
She was the same age as the deceased Xuanzhen, but after Xuanzhen's death, she ran away and disappeared for many years.
Why did she come back?
Yuan Fei, the only son-in-law of the Xuan family, tracked down Xuan Zhen's case many years ago, and now encountered the death of Zhu Shenghui.
Everything seems to revolve around two newly adult girls:
Xuan Zhen 19 years ago, Xuan Nian Mei 19 years later.
Even the suspects that Yuan Fei tracked down were suspected of being women.
Is it really the same person, and the ghost is not scattered? Or is there another shadow behind human life?
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and Hua Zhen, written by Yang Yishu and Wang Xiaoshuai, and starring Duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Wu Yue, etc., "The Mystery fog of the Octagonal Pavilion" is the most blockbuster drama of iQiyi's "Mist Theater" this year.
The most noteworthy is, of course, duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, the three leading actors.
Duan Yihong has always been a professional police soldier, counting, the 8th time to play the police.
The recent "Double Detective" to "Chosin Lake" is also from the astute criminal police captain to the fierce professional soldier.
No wonder that as soon as the lineup of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" came out, everyone could only exclaim.
"Rhinoceros in Love" Road and Mingming are actually in the same frame again!
However, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" currently has a rating of 6.0, hovering on the verge of failing, which is obviously far below the audience's expectations.
Before watching the play, the important words of the ten o'clock jun must be said three times:
Low release expectation, low release expectation, low release expectation.
Don't think of it as a suspense genre.
Even with the blessing of the golden lineup, the show is still full of hard injuries.
The whole play, as the opening film says, the only thing that really has a sense of suspense is only the opening minute.
Then it falls into the quagmire of plot and memory, boring, procrastinating, like a needle felt.
Obviously, there are only 12 episodes, and by the sixth episode, the suspense after 19 years is still hanging.
19 years ago is still endless memories, memories, memories...
Several actors still have respect for the performance and script, but they are not enough to support the whole play, and the logic collapses as soon as it is made.
Yuan Fei, played by Duan Yihong, is obviously the male protagonist, but is actually a tool person who runs before and after running.
Something happened to the Xuan family, and he rushed to the scene.
Something happened to the Zhu family, and he also rushed to the scene.
The truth is not clear, and even the hidden pain of not having children for many years cannot be solved.
Xuan Liang, played by Zu Feng, only in front of Nian Mei, the persona who overprotected his daughter was still established.
Obviously is a breakfast shop owner, do not have to get up early to steam buns, there is time to pick up and drop off daughters, run east and west, three times a day to the criminal police team...
The daughter was followed, and could only look for trouble everywhere, and when something happened, she had to be settled by her brother-in-law.
And Xuan Zhu, played by Hao Lei, has only been inexplicable since his appearance.
The opening scene cheats with the boss and breaks up with the boyfriend.
Just want to ask, is this related to the deceased sister? Or is it related to the past of the entire Xuan family?
From the beginning, the screenwriter dug a huge pit, full of mysteries, and everyone has secrets.
Not to mention some plot details that are doubtful to take place in the People's Republic of China:
The front desk said to the visitor: Our chairman's son has been killed!
The male teacher said to the female students: Come to my dormitory after class...
I also want to say that I know that the screenwriter you can't make up, but don't throw "I can't come back" in everyone's face.
The gorgeous lineup, and the name of "Mist Theater", can be called "tricking the audience in and killing again".
In recent years, the lineup of domestic suspense has been upgraded and upgraded.
Movie big names, one after another, god-level directors, reloaded.
It seems that a good drama, as long as a few powerful factions are brought out, and the atmosphere is in place, it can achieve a good drama.
Taking last year's "The Hidden Corner" as an example, the audience first ran to Qin Hao, Wang Jingchun, Zhang Songwen...
But what really attracts the audience to watch it all the time is Zhu Chaoyang, Yan Liang, and Pupu children in the play.
Suspense, hanging is the appearance, doubt is the process.
And the real inside, or the subtle sin, or the deep humanity.
All are indispensable to the complete chain of logic, the layers of in-depth characters, and the final amazing ending blow.
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But "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" seems to be no longer satisfied with the classic suspense mode.
Even the chief producer said:
"If you're a standard suspense fan, you can guess the real culprit behind the scenes when you see episodes three or four."
"After that, everyone pays more attention to the internal driving factors behind the characters' series of behaviors, which is the charm of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog"."
I don't know why, ten o'clock Jun listened to this sentence, it was a bit familiar.
"After watching two episodes, fans said that they would comment on only two episodes."
"After watching five episodes, fans said that the plot line has not yet unfolded."
"After watching ten episodes, fans said that the plot is slow and hot, first depressed and then rising."
"After watching fifteen episodes, the fans said, come and go, let's see."
"After watching twenty episodes, fans came to me and asked me: After watching twenty episodes, I am still scolding, why don't I give up the drama early if I don't like to watch it?"
Mist Theater, you're going to go down this old road too?
I hope all directors and screenwriters keep in mind:
The story is always the core of the play and the movie, and all the metaphors and motives are not enough to change the core.
If the audience does not feel that the story is good, it can be said that this audience is not good.
If the screenwriter didn't want to create a "good-looking" story at all, who should carry this pot?