In 2024, domestic dramas seem to have opened the second pulse of Ren Du, and there are many good dramas.
In just 8 months, there are more than 10 masterpieces, with an average of more than 2 films a month.
The most rare thing is that these hit dramas cover different themes.
This year, the "first shot" was fired by the rarest period drama.
A "Flowers" completely set up a new ceiling for domestic period dramas.
The performances of Hu Ge and other actors directly made this drama the king of the year.
Immediately afterwards, a "Wind Chaser" ignited the craze of spy war dramas.
Compared with dramas such as "Kite", although there are still some gaps, the performance is remarkable, and the reputation is not bad.
Even the "People's Daily" praised it in an article, this is a spy war drama with a sense of age and a sense of life in parallel.
And that's not the end of it.
There are also "My Altay", "The Boy Who Can't See the Shadow", "The Disappearing Elephant", "The Executive Judge", etc., and there are many surprises in other themes.
However, among these popular dramas, there is only one theme missing, which is fantasy dramas.
Fortunately, Tencent Video made a move at the critical moment.
Most of the current fantasy dramas are Xianxia costume themes.
As a Republic of China fantasy drama, "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" is under a lot of pressure to break through.
"The Ballad of Ice and Snow" is adapted from Nile's original book "Like the Moon".
Although the background is set in the Republic of China, it is set in the history and tells about "another world".
After watching 4 episodes, Seventh Brother found that this drama is indeed different from all previous fantasy dramas.
Compared with other fantasy dramas, this "difference" comes from two aspects.
First, there is a sense of suspense.
Shen Zhiheng (played by Gao Weiguang) is a celebrity in Haidong City who has the world in mind and sticks to the bottom line.
was chased and killed because he refused to be encircled by the Haidong Army, and in the process of escaping, after being shot dozens of times, he met the blind girl Mi Lan (played by Ouyang Nana).
Before he died, Shen Zhiheng asked Mi Lan for help and asked her to help him find someone.
At this time, the people of the Haidong Army were looking for Shen Zhiheng everywhere.
In the end, according to Shen Zhiheng, Mi Lan went to the hospital to find his best friend Situ Weilian, and was successfully rescued.
Afterwards, Shen Zhiheng found the Haidong Army to settle accounts and became enemies with the Overseers.
Many people wonder how a celebrity can go against the Overseers.
Actually, this has to mention one thing.
It turned out that a hundred years ago, my aunt turned Shen Zhiheng into an immortal body, and afterwards disappeared with his younger brother.
Over the years, Shen Zhiheng has traveled all over the world looking for traces of his younger brother.
Why exactly?
Who is this aunt?
Why did the younger brother choose to disappear?
Around the immortal body, a great secret will be revealed.
Second, there is a sense of substitution.
Compared with other fantasy dramas, the biggest source of the sense of substitution in "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" lies in the world where the story takes place.
On the surface, it seems that history has been alternated, but in fact, he is no different from the real world.
At the beginning of the whole story, a suspense is thrown - the immortal body.
According to the previous shooting routine, it is easy to shoot this drama very suspended.
In order to have a more sense of substitution, the play puts the protagonist in the background of the Republic of China, pointing directly to the truth.
The Republic of China is a chaotic era, and all kinds of chaos in the world make sense of using demons and monsters as shadows.
Look at the people around Shen Zhiheng, there are tyrannical warlords and poor people.
And the whole story follows the timeline, and you can see a lot of people and things with real historical backgrounds in the play.
As a work adapted from a novel, "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" is difficult to film.
If the adaptation is excessive, old fans will inevitably be dissatisfied, and if the original work is copied, new audiences may not be able to understand it.
This places higher demands on screenwriters.
However, in my opinion, in terms of the scale control of the adaptation, the degree of "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" has been handled just right.
On the one hand, it shows the pictures in the text very well, highlighting many high-energy famous scenes.
On the other hand, it has made film and television changes to some plots, such as the mystery of Shen Zhiheng's identity, which is very well structured.
Of course, "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" is not perfect, and it has also left a lot of regrets.
As an audience, Seventh Brother only hopes that the follow-up plot can be steady and steady, as long as there is the quality of the first 4 episodes.
In general, the fantasy drama "The Ballad of Ice and Snow" still brought surprises to everyone, and it is worth chasing.