The TV series "Tang Dynasty Legends: Westward Journey" has made a strong comeback, successfully attracting the audience's attention with a strong sense of history, confusing myths and legends and wonderful reasoning stories. Just as the show was announced to be broadcast on iQiyi, Tencent launched a short drama "Persona of the Tang Dynasty" with a very similar name. What's even more interesting is that the launch time of the show was deliberately set on the same day as "Tang Dynasty Legends: Westward Journey", and it was also a few hours before it.
"Persona of the Tang Dynasty" cleverly took advantage of the popularity of "Tang Dynasty Strange Tales: Westward Journey" and quickly increased its own discussion. Both are based on the background of the Tang Dynasty, the story of solving the case and the weird fantasy style, obviously with the help of iQiyi's traffic, the real business war is so unpretentious, but from a propaganda point of view, it can be regarded as a successful strategy.
"Persona of the Tang Dynasty" short drama
"Persona of the Tang Dynasty" is performed by Guan Li, He Boyuan, Jiang Shen, Yang Zihua, Huang Fei, Shen Xuewei, etc., and will be broadcast on July 18, 2024.
The plot is set in the Tang Dynasty Baoli years, and the shadows in Chang'an City are hidden and strange things happen frequently. Gu Qianling, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, teamed up with Duan Chao and the guard Yuhua to continuously investigate various bizarre and strange cases such as ghost drama cases, ghost marriage cases, paper wife cases, and living dead cases. However, behind the case lies a treacherous truth, and the two teenagers are not afraid of hardships and dangers in the wind and rain, and forge ahead.
Similar to "Tang Dynasty Legends", "Persona of the Tang Dynasty" also adopts the form of unit dramas, which are respectively "The Case of Murderous Opera", "The Case of the Marriage of the Living", "The Case of the Decapitation", "The Case of Borrowing Paper to Return the Soul", "The Case of Resurrection from the Dead" and other unit dramas, but the plot is more thrilling and terrifying, integrating more Chinese folk horror elements. At the beginning of each episode, the audience will be reminded: "This film contains some thrilling images, people with heart disease, high blood pressure and other related diseases and minors should watch with caution." ”
Thriller and horror are the core selling points of this show. "Persona of the Tang Dynasty" has a total of 20 episodes, each episode is about 10 minutes long, and after removing the opening and ending 3 minutes, the effective content is only 7 minutes, and there is a big case every 3 episodes. The whole drama adds up to about 140 minutes, which is the same size as a theatrical movie.
"Persona of the Tang Dynasty" quickly attracted the attention of the audience with its unique "short, flat and fast" style. The length of each episode is short, the narrative rhythm is fast, and some reasonable plot ups and downs and story tension have been lost, but this fast-paced and efficient narrative may be more in line with the fragmented viewing habits of modern people.
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