Before the launch of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", it was once regarded as the new king of the second season of the Mist Theater, which had the strongest cast of cards, in front of the stage was a powerful actor led by Duan Yihong, behind the scenes was the team of the big director Wang Xiaoshuai.
It has the best time to go online, the first quarter of the Mist Theater laid a super high word-of-mouth foundation, as the return of the second season, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is destined to attract a lot of attention, with a natural "explosion".
However, this work, which was defaulted to by the whole network as a explosive potential stock, was killed by the "milk" of the whole network.
In the case of the Mist Theater filter, the Douban score of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" only hovers above and below the passing line, which is very different from the scores of the first season of Wang Bang's works "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth".
Although the first season of the Misty Theater also had a misplay of "Very Witness" and "In the End", these two works, whether actors or behind-the-scenes team, are not in the same order of magnitude as "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog".
The data of the work is also not satisfactory, the popularity of the two episodes after the rapid decline, and even by Chen Xingxu, Gai Yuexi two young actors starring in the "Truth" to surpass, it can be seen that most of the old fog fans can not stick to it.
Why does the "King Fried" reserve work with the best chip be in a dudd state?
Objectively speaking, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is not without merit, and the audience who looks into it will still indulge in guessing puzzles and appreciating the mysteries of Jiangnan smoke and rain, but its attraction is too limited, and the "paste" is not wronged at all.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > the sense of character atmosphere is insufficient, and the suspense impact is lacking</h1>
"Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" revolves around the Xuan family, "Octagon" is to find eight family members, a family story spanning 19 years and inner secrets, involving two homicide cases of different eras.
In this story, the little girl Xuan Nianmei is a "drama eye" character, the victim Xuan Zhen who touched the heartstrings of the family 19 years ago is Xuan Nianmei's aunt, and the victim 19 years later is Xuan Nianmei's suitor.
The two look exactly like each other, both are dazzling school flower beauties, and they are also the core characters of the case, and behind their beauty there is an unknown side or story, and the whole plot revolves around them.
However, as a suspense drama "drama eye" character, Xuan Nianmei is difficult to let the audience enter the play, and many viewers said that they were dissuaded by this role in the first episode, on the grounds that "the appearance does not conform to the big beauty design".
In fact, the appearance of Mira, a newcomer who plays Xuan Nianmei, does not drag her feet, and the school flowers in the student era do have this type, and the reason why the audience will not be able to enter the play is not that the actors are not beautiful enough, but that she lacks a sense of suspense.
This sense of atmosphere is very mysterious, there is no specific performance, but most of them will make the audience feel scalp tingling or feel that the characters are not simple impact, such as the little girl Pop in "The Hidden Corner".
A retrospective shot of the young actor Wang Shengdi filled the sense of suspense atmosphere, and the characters with the same sense of suspense atmosphere also had Ning Li in "The Silent Truth", and his opening performance made the audience nervous.
Relatively speaking, Xuan Nianmei, the eye-catching character of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Mist", is more like a rebellious daughter in a family life drama, which not only does not convey a suspenseful atmosphere, but also has a little more secondary sense that is incompatible with the theme, which is quite contrary.
This kind of problem is not exclusive to newcomers, and the tone of powerful actors Zu Feng, Duan Yihong, Wen Zhengrong and others is also biased towards life dramas, but they are more sophisticated than newcomers and will not be so contrary.
80% of the characters in the whole play did not leave the audience with a suspenseful special atmosphere appeal, but Hao Lei's role aura, as well as the little police officer Liu Xinli and Mu Ge interrogated the play slightly, and the perception was obviously different.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > details cannot stand up to scrutiny and affect the audience's entry into the play</h1>
With the increase in the number of dramas, the public's requirements for the logic of film and television drama details are becoming more and more stringent, especially suspense dramas based on reasoning, in this regard, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" made a fatal mistake.
Its plot details are designed too dramatically, ignoring logical rationality.
For example, the opening idiot boy riding a motorcycle to chase after the female student, was tracked and harassed at the school gate where people gathered, and the first reaction of the high school student Xuan Nianmei was not to ask the teacher and security guard for help but to escape, and the behavior was very confusing.
Her escape path with her classmates is where Muge is less than where people run, which also makes the audience stunned, and the screenwriter completely abandons the basic reaction logic of ordinary people in order to create dramatic conflicts and oppressive chases.
The role of Xuan Nianmei is not pleasing, to a certain extent, it is also affected by the logic of behavior, and the audience can understand the rebellious emotions generated by her overprotected by her father, and also understand the inferiority and sensitivity of ordinary high school students.
However, most people's rebellion in adolescence is based on the inability to understand the behavior of their parents, but this is not the case with Xuan Nianmei in the play, and her father is overprotective because she is worried about being hurt, but she is indeed followed.
In the episode that has been broadcast, Xuan Nian Mei is publicly harassed by Fu Er Dai and followed by mysterious people and teachers, and these three parties mali have two parties whose behavior Xuan Nian Mei knows, in this case, she is also disgusted by her father's protection?
Ordinary people can't wait to be protected just by encountering long-term harassment of the opposite sex, but Xuan Nianmei is disgusted with protection, taking the least number of people's roads and going to the bars that are most likely to be harassed by small.
Similar details are very dense, the father left his daughter alone in the park late at night to chase the "mysterious person", the company front desk directly told the visitors that the boss's son was killed, etc., all of which constantly challenged the audience's thinking and cognition.
In fact, these details can be digested by the audience individually, as long as the dramatic charm is enough, small bugs have no impact on the quality of the work, but if they appear too densely, they will constantly disturb the audience's emotions.
Details can sometimes determine success or failure, and when a suspense work always brings material that "when everyone comes to find fault", it is difficult for the audience to immerse themselves in the play, the shortcomings will be magnified, and the advantages will be easier to cover up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="53" > theme is too cheesy, and the high-grade texture is full of dog blood</h1>
The sense of atmosphere of the actors and the logic of the details are the key factors in reducing the score of the work, but if the story is exciting enough, empathizing with the audience through the core of the suspense story can dilute other flaws to a certain extent.
Unfortunately, the story of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is more of a flashy genre, the appearance is full of high-grade texture, the literary and artistic tone is very sufficient, but the inside is not out of the cliché, with realistic suspense as the skin, talking about the problem of dog blood and hypocrisy.
The screenwriter wants to have too much, but there is no empathy for what can be portrayed.
The older generation of the Xuan family involves topics such as sibling conflicts, layoffs, stage contradictions, infidelity, psychological shadows, and personality, and the young Xuan Nian is related to youth rebellion, school violence, and distorted teacher-student relationships.
Perhaps the screenwriter originally wanted to show a family relationship map by borrowing everyone's unknown story, borrowing the eight people of the Xuan family to refract the contradictions of reality, but the content that can be given has a sense of pretense.
Some viewers complained that "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is a suspenseful version of "Children of the Joe Family", which shows that there are many contradictions in the dog blood of the play, and the pain points of each character are difficult for the audience to empathize.
The death of his sister Xuanzhu left a great deal of psychology for the middle-aged male protagonist Xuan Liang, unraveling the source of Xuan Liang's self-blame, you will find that he was dating his girlfriend and forgot to pick up his 18-year-old sister, so he felt guilty for many years.
Seeing his impact-sensitive personality, and then looking at his pain points, the audience often does not understand his pain for the first time, but is full of question marks: 18-year-old high school students, do they still need parents to pick up?
Xuan Min and his wife have long been verbally accused by their brother Xuan Liang, because they have not found the real culprit who killed their sister, so they can't bear children on their backs as a "crime" of retribution, on the grounds that their brother-in-law Yuan Fei was a newcomer little police officer.
Just because of this?
The story repeatedly breaks the story behind the Xuan family and the family contradiction, the brain-burning part of the case is unclear, the content of the dog blood contradiction is very dense, the suspense power is insufficient, and the ethical emotions are lacking.
Whenever the screenwriter deeply unveils a layer, the audience will have a perception of "whether the Xuan family is seriously ill", and it is difficult to imagine how the screenwriter can use the remaining half of the plot to overthrow the dog blood clichés he has sprinkled and give sublimation.
Overall, the root of the problem of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is actually aesthetic.
Screenwriter and director Wang Xiaoshuai is not a fooling audience filmmaker, his strength has long been proved by the harvesting of international awards by works such as "Long Day", and the smoke and rain characteristics of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" are also very eye-catching.
It can be seen that the team wants to make a good work for the audience, but the production team obviously has "old-school" traces in the creation of suspense dramas, too much old-fashioned thinking, and does not understand the aesthetics of the current audience.
From Xuan Nianmei's big beauty and suspenseful atmosphere creation, to the logical scrutiny of details, to the existing theme core and emotional contradictions of this drama, none of them stepped on the current audience's aesthetics, let alone create a new suspense breakthrough.
Perhaps, old directors need to go more into the public, understand the audience's demands, look more at the social pain points that modern people often face, and find inspiration for literary and artistic creation from more grounded pain points in order to give continuous amazing output.