The fifth season of "Black Mirror" came out, directly with Douban 6.6 and IMDb 7.0 to set a record low, pulling down the average score of the series.
"Black Mirror" is not the most unfortunate.
The most unfortunate thing is that the same brain-opening, but older than it, the world's wonderful story. This 29-year-old Japanese drama, which has aired 504 episodes, has dropped from Douban 9.2 in the first season to 6.0.
What makes a generation of gods hover on the passing line is "The Special Chapter of Rain".
"Special Chapter of Rain", Douban 6.0, Yahoo Pictures has not yet been scored
How did the Rain Special get demoted to the altar?
That also starts from how "The Wonderful Story of the World" was canonized.
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The predecessor of "World Of Wonders" was the late-night drama "Fantastic Events".
"Fantastic Events" began broadcasting in October 1989, and the content is mainly based on urban legends. As a prototype, Fantastic Events has laid the overall structure and tone for The Wonderful Story of the World. Slightly different, Fantastic Events specializes in horror stories and only tells one story per episode.
Late-night show "Wonderful Event"
The budget of this drama is very small, the crew is young people with no film and television experience, and even the screenwriters are from the "mysterious study group" on the university campus, completely amateur.
Such a program produced by the "society" is unexpectedly quite popular.
The narrator of "Wonderful Events" is Shigeru Saiki.
Compared with the later Tian Sen, this one's reputation is not so loud. But he starred in a film that became famous— the famous Japanese guinea pig series [The Mermaid of the Sewers], and he was the painter in the film who used a paintbrush to record the decay of the mermaid.
One of the "World's Top Ten Forbidden Films": [Mermaid in the Sewers]
A painter played by Shigeru Saiki
In April 1990, the original golden program was withdrawn, and "Wonderful Event" was arranged to be vacant. With a slight adjustment, the series was renamed "The Wonderful Story of the World", the narrator changed from Shigeru Saiki to Tamori, and one story in each episode became a small compilation.
Young Tamori (formerly known as Kazuyoshi Morita)
Since its prime-time broadcast on Fuji tv on April 19, 1990, "World of Wonders" has inherited the popularity of "Wonderful Events", and its ratings have climbed all the way to a maximum of 25.3%.
Although this number is not too conspicuous in the ratings list, the suspense/horror/fantasy genre and short story collective cut of "World Of Wonders" are far less popular than urban love/workplace series.
Under this restriction, it is rare to reach more than 20%.
Heisei's 30-year highest-rated episode list, the first place "Naoki Hanzawa" finale, the second place "Beautiful Life" finale, the third place "Housewife Mita" grand finale, the fourth place "Under the Same Roof" episode 11, the fifth place "GOOD LUCK!! "Grand finale", the sixth "Homeless Child" finale, the seventh "HERO" finale, the ninth place "101st marriage proposal" finale; "Long Holiday" finale, the theme is mainly based on urban life
After three seasons, "World of Wonders" was changed to a special chapter for spring, autumn and winter in 1995, a special chapter for spring and autumn in 1997, and a Special for Christmas and Anniversary from time to time. In 2004, South Korea's SBS bought the copyright and remade four episodes, the splash is not large, and in recent years, the "Chinese version" related news has often appeared.
"The Wonderful Story of the World" has become a generation of classics.
More than a decade ago, "World Wonder Story" first became popular in a small scale in China, and in that era when the adjective "careful thinking is extremely frightening" had not yet been invented by netizens, "World Wonder Story" itself almost included this heavy meaning.
Many people's first impression of the extreme fear of careful thinking comes from this Japanese drama - in the small details of ordinary life, implanted in the oversized brain hole, with a length of about twenty minutes to make your back chills. I know that there are many "brain hole stories that make people feel cold all over the body" and "stories of extreme fear", and the source is this Japanese drama.
For example, this one shared by friends is very essential.
A mother was seriously injured in a car accident and was forced to have both kidneys removed. Kidney transplantation is needed to maintain life, but the kidney source cannot wait, and can only rely on relative donations. Other relatives died early, with only one son. But after the son came to the hospital, he was very indifferent, not only refusing to donate, but also ignoring his mother. His mother cried, the doctor tried his best to persuade him, and with his wife's encouragement, he finally let go and offered to donate. Before the operation, the son was pushed into the operating room and the mother waited peacefully. A tube bed nurse next to him picked up his son's CT and said in surprise, "Huh? How could he have a kidney? The mother smiled and looked out the window expressionlessly: "Ah, I failed in my business when he was young..." From "The Wonderful Story of the World": Classmate Chen
It turned out that the mother had taken one of her sons' kidneys when he was young
Compared with "Black Mirror", which focuses on the reflection on the ethics of science and technology, "The Wonderful Story of the World" is much more extensive, with murders, strange gods, urban legends, and folklore.
The only thing these stories have in common is that they are whimsical and short and superb.
It's not necessarily all horror. For example, in the "2007 Autumn Special Chapter: Future Classmates Association" starring Rimi Ishihara, the young girl Haruka participated in the graduation three-year alumni association, and the students who came as a result were all uncles and aunts.
After several confirmations, yes.
"2007 Autumn Special", Douban 8.1
What the hell is going on? Did she really cross?
The truth is that this is not a classmate association, but a psychic society — Haruka died unexpectedly at the classmates' meeting three years after graduation.
This is probably the warmest ghost story in the world.
In 2019, there is no spring special, only "Rain Special".
The problem with "The Special Chapter of Rain" is that it turns the whimsical idea into an inexplicable idea.
The early plot of "The Wonderful Story of the World" was simple and unexpected, full of design, and in "Rain Special", the plot became complicated and complex, and the sense of design was weakened.
Leaving aside The Tamori line, only the first of the five stories, "Sonata for the Handstand Girl", gives people a sense of surprise, the fourth story, "Radish Samurai", is fresh, and the rest are playing the emotional card.
The first story is stunning, and the picture has a strange beauty
The story starring Miwa Hamabe has a sand sculpture style
It can be seen that "Rain Special" is in line with the times, and the topic of AI is involved in "Heroes Forever".
However, "World of Wonders" has always been the one that leads the trend, as early as 2004, in the [Beauty Jar], there was a "artificial beauty", 9 years earlier than the AI boyfriend in the second season of "Black Mirror" in 2013.
"Hero" played by Yumi Go
"Forever Hero" is more clearly "AI", and the plot also has a signature reversal, but it is still almost meaningless. AI stories are a trump card, very suitable for the "World of Wonders" type of drama telling, why not tell it well?
This is a common problem of "Rain Special", and the narrative is too full.
Compared with the deep and serious scientific and technological ethics story of "Black Mirror", the ingenuity of "The Wonderful Story of the World" lies precisely in its short length, leaving room for narrative, giving people room for "careful thinking and extreme fear", and having a "thought-provoking" charm. And this kind of ingenuity of "words are endless and meanings are infinite" is gone in the "Special Chapter of Rain".
Of course, 20 minutes is not enough to support the "deep" excavation, so it is emotional to fill in.
The "father-daughter love" in "Forever Heroes", the "mother-child love" in "Unknown Forest", the "mother-daughter love" in "Seeds of Happiness", one is more sensational than the other, until you cry with a headache.
The last story starring Fumino Kimura
但excuse me？
Who watched The Wonderful Story of the World for "sensationalism"?
In "The Special Chapter of Rain", the whimsy is gone, the aftertaste of "intention is beyond words" is gone, and the "plot design" has become an embellishment to match the sensational story. It is equivalent to saying that not only does it reduce the business ability, but also gets the bells and whistles to fool people.
The collapse of the divine drama has actually been foreshadowed.
2008 "Spring Special" was on Yahoo Pictures in Japan (Yahoo!). The website received a rating of 1.23 out of 5 points, comparable to [Dream Showbiz].
On the contrary, in China, the evaluation of this work is not bad, Douban 7.6. It wasn't until "The Special Chapter of rain" that it fell particularly ugly.
When reflecting on the ethics of science and technology and thinking carefully about the extreme fear of becoming a trend and the emergence of British and American mythological dramas, they did not stick to the inherent advantages of "short and superb", and fell from the altar to the ordinary, and eventually went to vulgarity. The collapse of The Wonderful Story of the World has become inevitable.
Now, the introduction of this series can only be Japan's "longest-lived program".