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Recently, the Korean drama "Squid Game" on the first list of foreign drama hits on Netflix, there is no Netflix in China but it is widely circulated on the Internet, and then the strange thing is that the entire Chinese Internet is full of propaganda for this drama, you don't want to see it.
In this way, many netizens who did not like it began to criticize this drama, coupled with the originality of this drama is too little, and the coincidence with other similar dramas is also too much, so it has been criticized by many netizens as a plagiarized "stitching monster".
Because there is a suspenseful love Chinese drama in these two days, it has also given the audience such a sense of vision.
If it is just an ordinary domestic idol drama, it is not enough, after all, it is normal for domestic idol dramas to learn to imitate foreign dramas, but the team of this drama is not small, that is, the latest TV series of the 2020 annual domestic drama top "Meet You" team.
Directed by Hong Zipeng and starring Zeng Zhiqiao, Fu Mengbai, Yan Yulin, Ke Jiahui, Zheng Yuanchang, etc., "No Rain in the Godless Land".
This drama has just exploded a latest trailer, the trailer has a strong Sense of Vision of korean drama "Ghost" + Japanese animation "Weather Child", so how high is the probability of this drama being a hit?
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="8" > "Want to See You" is really good, it is the embodiment of the revival of Taiwanese opera in recent years</h1>
In 2020, the annual top ranking of domestic dramas, but I believe that several suspense dramas on both sides of the strait and three places can be listed, the mainland drama "The Silent Truth" and "The Hidden Corner", the Hong Kong drama "Bridge of Sighs", and the Taiwan drama "Want to See You", which is also in line with the rise of suspense dramas in the two sides of the strait and three places in recent years.
If you analyze the next Taiwan drama "Want to See You" alone, the plot of this drama is not much to analyze, because this drama has long been broadcast, so why did the Taiwan drama "Want to See You" become a hit?
In addition to the excellent quality of the drama itself, a big reason is that "Meet You" is a representative work of the transition period from the decline of Taiwanese idol dramas to the strong competition of mainland film and television dramas, and then to the revival of new Taiwanese dramas with realistic, suspense and horror themes after exploration.
Here is a general description of the development of Taiwanese drama in recent years.
The peak era of Taiwanese opera in the 80s and 90s is not to be said, after 2000 is the peak era of Taiwanese idol drama set off by "Meteor Garden", the classic Taiwanese idol drama of this era is endless, but the Taiwan idol in 2011 Chen Bailin, Ariel Lin starring "I May Not Love You" declined.
The reason for this is also very simple, the economic advantages of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 80s and 90s. After the signing of the WTO in 2001, the mainland's rapidly growing economy has no advantage, and after 2012, the mainland film and television market has also begun to rise rapidly. Although it plunged headlong into the quagmire of the "flow economy", it opened an industrial production model.
The so-called big wave of sand, even if it is all sand can dig out a few grains of gold a year, it is stronger than the Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas that can not find gold without sand.
For example, the mainland dramas in those years were quite collapsed as a whole, and The dramas such as "Step by Step", "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "Langya List" and so on were filmed by Er, and everyone carefully recalled whether they often saw the news that these mainland dramas occupied the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets?
The reason is that Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television capital is too weak in the face of mainland film and television capital, and at the same time, the rise of the mainland market is easier to make money, which has led to the collective departure of Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television capital and elite talents from the mainland market, which has led to the emptiness of the local film and television industry and the inability to produce any excellent works.
It can be said that the development of Taiwan opera at that time was probably like this.
The peak era of Taiwanese idol drama: 2001 "Meteor Garden" - 2011 "I May Not Love You".
The transition period after the decline of Taiwanese idol dramas: 2011 "I May Not Love You" - 2019's "The Distance Between Us and Evil". In those years, the Taiwan drama can also be mentioned as "Hero of the Leper", but Zhao Youting broke out and then entered the mainland market in the blink of an eye, and then there was the local drama "Dragonfly", which was almost gone.
In recent years, after the departure of film and television capital and elite talents, the continuous exploration of local directions, and the combination of economic development and social and humanistic development, Taiwan drama has finally stepped out of the direction of new Taiwan drama with realistic, suspenseful and horror themes, and this benchmark work is undoubtedly "The Distance Between Us and Evil".
Because the mainland rarely has a blockbuster theme in the audit, the mainland is of course not successful without official introduction. However, due to word-of-mouth and theme, the entire Chinese drama is definitely a blockbuster drama, which has a greater demonstration significance.
Since then, the new Taiwan drama can not be said to be revived, but it has indeed found its own way.
The second hit is "Want to See You", then "The Dreamer", "Who is the Victim", and then this year's suspenseful crime-solving dramas such as "Reverse Game", but there is still a lack of super hits, just like there are some suspense horror dramas in it.
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This "Want to See You" team new drama Let's first look at the director team and cast. But in terms of Internet hot words, the "Want to See You" team seems to have returned, and it seems that not all of them have returned.
The director of "Want to See You" is Huang Tianren, and his resume is to shoot the new Taiwan drama "荼蘼", then came to the mainland to shoot the idol drama "Warm Strings", then returned to Taiwan to shoot "Want to See You", and then came to the mainland to shoot "Strange Lovers" starring Ou Hao and Song Qian.
The director of "No Rain in the Godless Land" is Hong Zipeng, who has previously filmed some supernatural dramas, such as "No. 76 Horror Bookstore" and "No. 11 Lingyi Street", and the Douban score is about 7 points.
Screenwriter Jian Qifeng has returned, and the publicity of the return of the whole team is also greater than that of director Huang Tianren's new drama shot in the mainland.
As for this cast, it is a combination of new and old, and the stars of "Want to See You" are Ke Jiayi, Xu Guanghan, Shi Baiyu and so on. "No Rain in the Godless Land" stars Zeng Zhiqiao, Fu Mengbai, Yan Yulin, Ke Jiayi, Zheng Yuanchang and so on.
For the current mainland audience, in addition to Zheng Yuanchang in "No Rain in the Godless Land", there is now one more Ke Jiahui (what about Zeng Zhiqiao?). ), the other actors may not know one. Most of the audience in "Want to See You" may not have known one at the beginning, so the actor's problem is not the most important, unless the actor's acting skills are bad enough to affect the perception.
So, is this "No Rain in a Godless Land" a stitching monster? What is the probability that it will explode?
Now this drama has not yet started, and everything can only be analyzed by means of previews and expectations. Although I don't want to say so, I have to admit that the trailer of this drama does have a "stitching monster" flavor? That is, the taste of the Korean drama "Ghost" + the Japanese animation "Weather Child".
The story of this drama is set because of the problem of the environment, the gods no longer bless the land, and they have left the human world they love. Before the last rain of doom falls, all the gods will leave, only to have the plan disrupted by an ordinary human girl.
The girl found that the opportunity to reverse her fate was tied to herself and the patron saint-
Propaganda says that it is taken from the Ami animism myth native to Taiwan Province, and there are similarities in the world's myths. But because people did this theme first, such as the rain god to stop the rain and the end of the world will no longer rain (there is rain that does not stop), there will definitely be unknown netizens arguing about the "plagiarism" of the set.
In addition, the sense of vision of Korean dramas such as "Ghosts" is stronger, and the protagonist of the trailer is a god wearing a suit and walking in the rain with a black umbrella. The heroine is dead and looks at her own corpse, and then the sense of atmosphere created by the art, color grading, and costumes of the whole play is particularly similar to the Korean drama "Lonely and Brilliant God." Ghosts".
This is not the "origin of all things in Korean drama". After 2010, the theme of idol drama, Korean idol drama has indeed become the benchmark of East Asian idol drama, like "Ghost" is the benchmark of this kind of supernatural idol drama, this drama learns this production mode is very normal, before the domestic drama is also learning.
So, will this "Godless Land No Rain" burst into flames?
I personally think that the probability of exploding to the extent of "Meet You" is small, mainly because compared with other new Taiwan dramas, its advantages are indeed not so obvious, for probably two reasons.
First, in the new Taiwan dramas in these years, there is no explosion in the supernatural idol dramas.
In recent years, the new Taiwan drama is good at two or three themes, realist themes like "The Distance Between Us and Evil", coupled with the workplace's "Vulcan Tears", suspense Taiwan dramas from "The Dreamer" to "Who is the Victim" are high and low, until the current "Reverse Game" has no signs of explosion (I hope not to rot).
"Want to See You" looks very special on the surface, in fact, it is a combination of youth idol drama + suspense drama that Taiwan drama is good at.
At this time, the problem comes, there is no spiritual drama with good reputation quality in the new Taiwan drama, and in recent years, it seems that there has not been a drama that has reached the level of the Hong Kong drama "Golden Night Building", this kind of spiritual drama + idol drama model, the new Taiwan drama has no successful experience.
For example, in recent years, there has been a director Li Muge in mainland idol dramas, and people have handed over two good works of "East Palace" and "Si Teng", and his experience and expectations for the next idol drama are naturally high. The new Taiwan drama does not have this experience, so the experience value of the expectation value will naturally decrease.
Second, there is no successful experience of similar dramas, and the visual sense of foreign dramas is too strong, which will reduce competitiveness.
The trailer of this drama, this art style and other modes have a strong sense of visual and "Ghost". In fact, similarity is not a problem, the problem is that too strong sense of déjà vu will definitely lead to word-of-mouth controversy, word-of-mouth controversy will affect the drama out of the circle.
Of course, it has the probability of being filmed well, but at present, for the exploration of the genre of Taiwan dramas, the probability of audience word-of-mouth controversy will be higher.
Probably the situation is that it was launched because of the excellent production, the high concept setting of the series, and the feelings of the previous "Want to See You" and so on. On the one hand, there are praises that help the audience score full marks (by the way, belittling Polish mainland dramas), and on the other hand, there are bad reviews that feel that the visual sense of foreign works is too strong (that is, scolding the stitching monster).
In the end, the show will still be hot enough in the market, but the audience will argue non-stop.
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In recent years, Netflix has invested in a lot of Korean dramas and the results are not bad, such as the recent "Squid Game", on the contrary, domestic video websites have been scolded a lot because of vvip and so on, and the wind review is not good.
The problem is that the investor of this drama is Tao, who not only contributed to works such as "Undocumented Crime", "The Hidden Corner", "The Silent Truth" and so on, but also began to lay out internationally in the past two years, and this year handed over "The Legend of the South Sea of the Soul Ferry" (word of mouth fluttering street), as well as the "Reverse Game" that is being updated, and then there is the suspense idol drama "No Rain in the Godless Land" of the original team of "Want to See You".
For mainland audiences, whether investing in Southeast Asia, it is certainly a good thing for Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas to go global.
This big emotion definitely still hopes that the entire Chinese drama series will rise first, at least first do korean dramas and then argue about who is better in mainland dramas and Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas, such as the recent "Squid Game" in the domestic Internet is really noisy, but also too arrogant.
Finally, I hope that domestic dramas are getting better and better!