Text/Ma Qingyun
On March 5, the Thai version of the TV series "Fight Bar Ghost God" can already be watched on the video platform. The drama is based on the Korean drama of the same name. Judging from the content that has been broadcast so far, the difference between the Thai version of "Fight Bar Ghost God" and the Korean version is not big, but more Thai life elements have been added. The whole story is structured, and the two works are the same. The Korean version of "Fight Bar Ghost God" was launched in 2016, and the Douban audience scored 7.3 points, which is not bad. In the Korean version, it starred young idol actors such as Kim So-hyun and Yuzawa.
The Thai drama "Fight Bar Ghost God" is starring Huang Mingming and Pachanan Jajirachot and others. Audiences unfamiliar with the Thai entertainment market asked, why is there a male protagonist with our Chinese name in the Thai drama? In fact, Huang Mingming is his stage name in the Chinese entertainment industry. His Thai name is Supapong Yudo Kanzana. The actor's agency is from Hong Kong, China, so he has a Chinese name. It is worth noting that many Thai artists have Chinese names, and being able to come to China to develop is one of their important artistic pursuits.
Speaking of this Thai version of "Fight Bar Ghost God". In terms of story content, the play is obviously very interesting, especially the content of "strange power and chaos", which can meet the interesting requirements of young audiences. In this TV series work, the handsome male protagonist played by Huang Mingming has a pair of eyes that can see ghosts and gods since he was a child. The uncle of the male protagonist is also a down-and-out demon catcher. To say that he is downcast is actually to hide his merits and fame deeply, and there is no dispute with the world. And the handsome male protagonist, because he has had these eyes since he was a child, finally turned his back on his uncle's warning and embarked on the road of catching demons.
However, the male protagonist worked part-time to catch demons during his schooling, not to make a lot of money, but to earn enough money to do eye surgery, so that he would not see those gods and ghosts again. As the saying goes, the eyes are not bothered. And the story takes place in the process of the male protagonist making money and catching demons.
The heroine of the play is a schoolgirl who died mysteriously. At first, she had forgotten her own life, so she could not get the opportunity to be reincarnated. Therefore, the heroine is deposited in a girls' school. With the encounter with the male protagonist, she began to seek the help of the male protagonist, because as long as she kissed the male protagonist, she could get more memories of her past life. The design of this bridge stem is actually just to pave the way for the love drama.
In this way, the male and female protagonists have a reason to "go on the road together". For this "Fight Bar Ghost God", the superficial gimmick is that the male protagonist catches demons and catches ghosts, and the deep point of view is actually the secret love between the male and female protagonists realized in the process of "doing business". All love dramas need to be based on a common plot point, that is, the male and female protagonists must "do business" together. This "career" involves going to school together, working together, realizing higher ideals of life together, and so on. Only when the male and female protagonists are together can they finally ferment the love content that makes the audience empathize.
See this clearly, and then come back to watch "Fight Bar Ghost God", the thing of catching demons and ghosts is just a reason for "doing business" together. The core content that this TV series wants to provide to the audience is still the love story between the handsome male and female protagonists. It's just that this kind of "human ghost love" is uncommon in previous normal TV drama works. To say that it is uncommon is not to say that it is original. Similar love stories of human ghost love, in fact, there are not many. A large number of elements in the Korean version of "Fight Bar Ghost God" are actually borrowed from early Hong Kong film and television dramas.
This ghost content system is actually a part of Chinese civilization. We have a complete system of ghosts and gods, and we have influenced the whole east Asian region. TV series such as "Fight Bar Ghost God" filmed in South Korea and Thailand, reincarnation and other story memes are actually all chinese. Obviously, a large number of countries and regions in East Asia are deeply influenced and nourished by Chinese civilization.
However, for our natives, in fact, we have always put the content of the ghost god system in the small way. There is a good place for Chinese civilization, that is, to divide its own civilization ecology into avenues and trails. In terms of avenues, it is the Qi family that governs the country and the world. In terms of trails, various systems, ghost content, are also part of it. Call it a trail, and there's some disdain in it. A long time ago, the Chinese people were also dismissive of such a literary and artistic form as a novel. The advanced ones are poetry and songs, novels, but hearsay of the trail. Of course, the content of ghosts and gods has always been an important theme of the novel.
In the present, among our TV drama works, it is considered to be the best and realistic work, which reflects reality and can be thought-provoking. For example, "Loading the Stage". Another example is "Mountains and Seas". These are all high-quality works that the audience has just seen recently. Content like ghosts and gods is not advocated in our film and television drama works. Of course, this kind of content does have a market among young audiences.
"Fight" is viewed with our values, and the desirable side is that although its content is feudal and superstitious, its narrative attitude is ridiculous, comedic, and disintegrative. This is actually a disintegration way, telling the story of a person's ghostly love. This comedic attitude, in the end, is that the audience laughs at the ghost content. Not promoting feudal superstition is the basic consensus of peers in the East Asian TV drama market. We do, Korean dramas, Thai dramas.