The author of this article is @Dumb of the Xiaowan family
The ugly star chaser dog is here
After five years, Jeon Ji-hyun returned to the small screen again after "The Legend of the Blue Sea".
On the day of the broadcast of the new drama "Zhiyi Mountain", the goddess brushed the screen at home and abroad with her appearance, and the topic of #Quan Zhixian's new drama state is beautiful on Weibo also rushed out of 280 million views.
It's just that this special project drama for the 15th anniversary of tvN, which brings together a luxurious team with a total investment of 32 billion won (about 170 million yuan), has a huge momentum and has ended up with only the beauty of the whole goddess out of the circle, which is really disappointing.
"Zhiyi Mountain" almost gathers the strongest card division of tvN:
Director Li Yingfu has directed "Mr. Sunshine" with a Douban score of 9.0, and the more well-known work for the audience is "Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghosts" with a score of 8.8;
Screenwriter Jin Yinji won the god with the Douban 9.2 points of "Signal", and the costume zombie drama "Kingdom" series cooperated with Netflix is also a blockbuster drama in recent years;
Starring Quan Jixian and actor Zhu Jixun and screenwriter Jin Yinji cooperated for the second time after "Kingdom", and this "Kingdom 3" crew string stage" not only brought the audience's expectations to the peak.
On October 23, the first episode of "Zhiyi Mountain" was broadcast and won the first place in the ratings of the same period, and also became the runner-up in the ratings of the first broadcast of tvN, second only to the second season of "Witty Doctor Life".
But high ratings are not the whole story. At the end of the first two episodes, the Douban score quickly fell from 8.4 to 7.1, and the diving jump was a bit "fierce".
Even Bai Zonglie, the director of the movie "Inner Beauty", couldn't help but openly complain on the social platform, "Is it the director's problem?" It's also magic to be able to make an actor look like he's acting bad. ”
So what's the problem with this show?
"Jiyi Mountain" is set in the famous Korean mountain Jiyi Mountain, telling the story of rangers who rescue trapped people and guard the mountain in extreme weather.
Although the position is called ranger, the work of the protagonists is actually more like what we call the rescue team, and the heroine Xu Yijiang, played by Quan Jixian, is the most outstanding ranger in Zhiyishan National Park.
Because he grew up at the foot of the mountain, Xu Yijiang is familiar with every corner of Zhiyi Mountain, is good at coping with various unexpected situations, and is a good hand at rock climbing and downhill.
Crushing the whole team of male colleagues, the character setting of the whole sister this time sounds very sassy.
For Quan Zhixian, it is not difficult to interpret this beautiful and strong role, and this time it is difficult for "Zhiyi Mountain" to pull the crotch in all directions at the software and hardware level.
Screenwriter Jin Yinji is known as "Agatha of South Korea", and watching "Signal", she knows that she is good at writing non-linear narrative + suspenseful atmosphere of the script.
From the first two episodes, "Zhiyi Mountain" is also the same as "Signal", using a parallel approach of unit case + main line story, each episode of a rescue story brings new clues, and the main story of the male and female protagonists will also be unveiled layer by layer.
The first episode is about school violence
This time, the screenwriter routinely laid out a huge backstory for each independent unit, such as the school bullying of a 14-year-old boy in the first episode and the pine tree theft case of the garden designer in the second episode.
Unfortunately, because of the length of the story, each story is scribbled and then abruptly stopped, scratching the itch of the boot.
So where is the length of an 80-minute episode of "Zhiyi Mountain"?
The answer is to constantly shoot the aerial mirror to show the beauty of Zhiyi Mountain, and to shoot the inexplicable pink interaction between the powerful Jeon Ji-hyun and the weak male protagonist.
Zhiyi Mountain is beautiful, but there are empty mirrors that have nothing to do with the theme ten times and eight times in an episode, and the audience is tired to watch.
Not to mention that in just two episodes, the male protagonist in the first episode has superpowers, and the male protagonist in the second episode has become a god like a male ghost of Zhiyi Mountain to develop the plot.
In a word, the first two episodes of "Zhiyi Mountain" are a chaotic, adventure + thriller + fantasy a pot of stew, the beauty of Zhiyi Mountain and the beauty of Quan Zhixian can not be saved.
But that's not the most outrageous.
To what extent is the director Li Yingfu and the later stage not confident in the whole play?
Not only do they not believe in Quan Jixian's acting skills, they don't even have confidence in Quan Zhixian's appearance.
MingMing crew publicity is "Quan ZhiXian Su Yan starred + Zhi Yi Shan live shooting", but the whole drama was shrouded in soft light filters, and the iconic moles on the nose of the whole sister in the later stage were almost gone.
Quan Jixian, who has been debuting for 23 years, has long become a representative of Youyan and can act, and it is by no means an empty vase.
In 1998, at the age of 17, Jeon Ji-hyun starred in the Korean drama "My Heart Flutters" and became an actor, and three years later soared with the movie "My Savage Girlfriend".
That year, she became the best actress at the 39th Grand Bell Awards for her domineering and cute girlfriend role.
Then there's the quiet and introverted "Daisy", then the popular "You from the Stars" that swept Asia...
Jeon Ji-hyun's beauty and cuteness seem to have become an unbreakable myth along with these explosive film and television dramas.
Therefore, "Zhiyi Mountain" will choose to use "the appearance of the 40-year-old goddess does not change" as a topic breakthrough, right?
Even if she is already the mother of two babies, the moment the car window rolls down in "Zhiyi Mountain", Quan Jixian's beauty and aura are still second-to-beat the whole scene.
It is precisely because of this that the challenges that Jeon Ji-hyun has made in terms of role diversity and performance difficulty for more than two decades of his debut have always been ignored.
In fact, after the fame of "My Savage Girlfriend", the young Jeon Ji-hyun immediately challenged the horror film, playing A-Yan, a girl with yin and yang eyes in "The Table of Four".
Although this small-budget horror film has a poor reputation, Jeon Ji-hyun interprets the sadness and despair of ah yan very well.
In another thriller action film, The Last Vampire, she also played a vampire and human hybrid child, the girl hunter Fujimoto Konoya. Looking at it now, this character setting is very similar to Professor Du in "You from the Stars"...
She also played the thief ("The League of Treasure"), the ancient Chinese woman ("Snowflake Secret Fan"), the translator ("Berlin") and so on.
In fact, the most amazing thing is The performance of Jeon Ji-hyun in the last movie "Assassination".
In this story set against the backdrop of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Jeon Ji-hyun plays two roles, playing a pair of twin sisters who have been separated since childhood.
Sister Tsumiko is a traitor to the family of thieves, dressed in gold and jade, pampered and treated well, a little arrogant and very simple;
His younger sister, Ahn Wo Yoon, was trained to become the ace sniper of the Korean Independence Army, and his eyes were cold when he saw life and death.
The two characters are very different, but Jeon Ji-hyun accurately conveys the subtle differences with micro-expressions and eyes, and the scene of killing the four parties in the wedding dress has become the highlight of the whole movie.
This film was released in the mainland in 2015, and I believe that audiences who have seen it will recognize that actor Quan Jixian is not only beautiful.
This is probably where the disappointment of "Zhiyi Mountain" is, and Quan Zhixian, who has been in the film for five years and has more mature acting skills, has handed over a vulgar answer sheet that only knows how to highlight the appearance.
Wait for the third season of "Kingdom" and look forward to the new image of Jeon Ji-hyun.
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