On the evening of October 31, the TV series "Ask the Sky" was launched on Youku. This TV series is starred by actors such as Xuan Lu, Xing Zhaolin, and Suga Shuzi, and the main theme is fantasy content. Only from the trailer and plot synopsis of the play, it is the separation of the three realms, and it is also a demon-slaying, which has some mysterious drama atmosphere. However, after several consecutive episodes of chasing the drama, I think it is not appropriate to classify this "Ask the Sky" as a bad drama too early, on the contrary, it is still relatively good in filming, but the story is outdated. The play itself also conveys a more simple emotion, and even has the flavor of children's drama.
Let's start by saying that "Ask the Sky" has a children's drama flavor. In this TV series work, the male protagonist team played by Xing Zhaolin was sent by heaven to the human world to kill demons and exorcise demons. In the demon world, it is the Blood Demon Team, which wants to endanger the human world. In the human world, there are two gangs that are incompatible. The male protagonist's Celestial Team, in order to help the human world defeat the blood demon, needs two people in the human world to appear in the human world, use double swords, and kill the blood demon.
In the plot content, the two martial arts sects that are intolerable to water and fire happen to be male, and the young gang leader of one sect is male, and the young gang leader of one sect is female. Therefore, the key to killing the demons and exorcising the demons in the "Asking Heavenly Record" is that the two gate sects will write off the enmity of that year, and then, the men and women of the two gate sects will begin to "grace and love" before they can defeat the blood demons. This theme of "valuing harmony" is actually a children's drama. Put into the "Ask the Sky", so that this TV series presents a very obvious children's thinking mode.
Then talk about the filming of this TV series. The main theme of the fantasy drama is a variety of fights, and various special effects are used to complete the content of the fight. In this "Asking The Sky", in the fight scene, at least the opening scenes of the multi-scene did not fool the audience. Audiences who like to watch special effects flying all over the sky can find what they want to see in "Ask the Sky". In terms of production, this fantasy drama can basically be equal to some of the larger domestic fantasy drama works. Of course, Yagen doesn't like fantasy dramas, and naturally in this work, he can't see any goodness.
In terms of storytelling, this TV series with the separation of the three realms and the slaying of demons and demons was placed ten years ago, which really made a group of viewers feel fresh. However, in the present, perhaps a large number of audiences are too familiar with this way, fantasy dramas, are like this, there is no other new meaning to speak of. I say that the story of this TV series is outdated, and it is based on this. The reason why fantasy film and television drama works are in the position of sunset is because they have no innovation in content.
For the current "QingTianlu", it adopts the method of fantasy and martial arts. Slaying demons and exorcising demons is naturally a mysterious content. The dispute between the two factions is a typical martial arts drama model. Whether it is fantasy or martial arts, they all work in the established routine. TV drama is a form of entertainment art for storytelling, if the story makes the audience feel that it is not fresh, it is easy to have problems, and it is easy for the audience to lose the motivation to chase the drama. Therefore, we have always said that TV series creation should be innovative. Although the shooting of "Ask the Sky" is not rough, the story is really not good.
Finally, a brief talk about the performances of the actors. I don't know why, many young actors, especially traffic-type actors, are afraid of being talked about acting. The old editors have done a lot of drama review articles, and they are more reluctant to talk about the acting skills of traffic stars. Why? Because no matter how you talk, there is always a fan group that is "messing around". So, a few brief conversations. For this "Asking Heaven", I think that the actor does not need acting skills, which is determined by the attributes of the work of the fantasy theme. Including the mysterious dramas starring those little flowers in the past, there is no need for acting skills at all.
Acting and speed are similar, there are references, only. Speed can only be formed by having a reference. Acting, too. Fantasy film and television drama works do not have a reference for real roles, so how the actors act is right. They even act out with a blank face and a wooden face, and they can say that this is right. Fantasy works, it is precisely because of this complete lack of story logic, character depth and performance level, so that many aesthetically advanced audiences disdain.
Specific to this "Asking The Heavens", I think that the performances of several young actors belong to the inevitable operation of the assembly line of the fantasy drama. Relatively speaking, actresses are much better than male actors. Young male actors, mostly take the traffic route, resulting in a lack of better polishing in acting skills. In fact, it is not that fantasy dramas necessarily do not need acting skills, but many excellent actors with acting skills are disdainful of fantasy dramas. Overall, I think it might be better to watch this "Ask the Sky" as a simple children's drama. (Text/Ma Qingyun)