Have you ever seen a director who was scolded for a bad ending, and his work can still score 8 points? What Zhang Yimou did not do, director Liu Chang did. No one falls twice in the same pit, but he can make people fall four times in a row and finally get a high score.
That's right, the new play of "Chess Soul" director Liu Chang is double-tailed!
You may not be familiar with the name "Liu Chang", but you should have seen the youth dramas he directed: "The Best of Us" with 8.9 points, "Chess Soul" with 8.7 points, these are not the ceiling of youth dramas, but also high-rise rooms. But when you enter the pit of these dramas and wait for it to slowly "fine decoration", you will find that each one has not escaped the "rotten tail construction".
Last month, Liu Chang's new drama "Departure: When the Wind Rises" was launched, starring the national brother Wu Lei and supporting key projects of the national radio and television.
However, due to the theme and insufficient publicity, the playback volume of this drama has been "low", and it has become a small paste drama with an average episode playback of less than 30 million.
At first, the playback was not high, in fact, there were reasons why everyone was ready to wait and see a wave because of the bad tradition of the production company. However, director Liu Chang swore that this time it would never end badly, and many viewers believed his lies and clicked on the play.
Speaking of conscience, at the beginning, "Departure" is indeed of good quality. The costumes, soundtrack, and plot of this drama are quite cinematic, and two weeks after the start of the broadcast, the opening score of "Departure" reached a high score of 8.5 points. This opening score, in the film and television dramas that will start in 2021, can be ranked in the top ten.
In the final acceptance link, everyone found that they were deceived by the director again! "Departure" has a sloppy finale, and strictly speaking, it is really not a bad ending, because it does not even have a tail!
In the last two episodes, the male protagonist played by Wu Lei is uncertain because he was chased by debt and fell into Jiang's life. The male and female protagonists searched for two episodes, but the male protagonist only made a hasty appearance at the end to prove that he was not dead. In the whole two episodes, the male protagonist only has two minutes of scenes.
Look for two hours, show up for two minutes. The male protagonist's career, supporting role story line, etc., nothing has been explained clearly, and it will end? The screen slowly typed a "stay tuned", even if it ended the show, and the audience put a question mark and an ellipsis in their hearts. Then start "consoling" the director and "consoling" the screenwriter.
The last time I was so speechless, or the last time... When watching the finale of "Chess Soul". Really, never expect anything from the little sugar man, because it will be unfortunate. From "The Best of Us" to "Chess Soul" and "When the Wind Rises", his family's dramas always use the first half to trick the audience in, and then the ending "kills" people.
At that time, "Chess Soul" went from a small paste drama that no one promoted to a large number of tap water Amway, relying on the elaborate production and actor interpretation in front. The score also rose all the way, from 7.2 points at the beginning to 8.8 points at the highest, which is a counterattack.
If you get stuck to 30 episodes and finalize, maybe this score can still go up. After the main character Chu Ying left, 31 episodes began to drag out, and the plot collapsed. First of all, the best Honghe ending was set up by people, and the tragedy was forced, and the opportunity for the protagonist to enter the Beidou Cup was actually made up by supporting roles.
In the next few episodes, the two male protagonists forcibly sent sugar, which was suspected of wheat bran. The drama that mainly plays Go and the blood of teenagers ends hastily in the finale, and the Beidou Cup game in the original book has a lot of highlight plots, but the director did not shoot.
"Gemini" time Yu Liang, grew up under their own influence, but in the play a chess game was not well filmed. The protagonist Hu Xianxu is in the tidbits, in order to shoot the scene against Yu Liang, he got up at 5 o'clock to memorize the chess game. However, director Liu Chang said that he would not shoot, only an empty mirror, and once again failed to live up to the audience's expectations.
There is also "The Best of Us" broadcast in 2017, which made Liu Chang famous in a battle, directly praising Liu Haoran and Tan Songyun, but also making the audience hold a stomach fire at the end. In the later stage, the male protagonist played by Liu Haoran went directly offline, and the screenwriter created his own role Lu Xinghe (male second) to add crazy drama.
All the end, everyone just wants to see the broken mirror of the male and female protagonists, tell each other their hearts, use deep feelings, and the feelings between the two people plus what a third person. And what the male protagonist has experienced, why not contact, has not been laid out. After the reunion, the female protagonist easily forgives, and with the male protagonist, the ending is unclear.
However, Lu Xinghe, a self-created role, is still liked by many non-original parties. The director and editor may have also tasted the sweetness, just in the next play "Exclusive Memory", the second time, the drama is broken.
The first 20 episodes of "Exclusive Memory" are crazy and delicate, and after 20 episodes, the director adds dramas to a group of portrait plays. The male second Liu Qi is only a cannon fodder character in the original work, and the sense of existence in this drama is extremely high, and the last five episodes of the main male protagonist, Teacher Mu, directly checked this person.
The portrayal of the male protagonist in the plot is not in-depth, the work and experiments are not explained, and the female protagonist does not show any obsession and resentment. There is also a feeling of sudden reunion, hasty marriage proposal, and forced he.
After the final episodes of "Exclusive Memory", the rating also fell from 8.1 to 7.2.
Speaking of director Liu Chang, he directed a total of 4 dramas, and as a result, each drama "did not forget the original heart", and the end of the mess was also considered a talent. He also admitted in the comments that the tail is too difficult to knot.
Although the department is in a bad end, Liu Chang still has two brushes to shoot youth dramas. From other aspects of the play: styling, casting, scenes, editing, soundtrack... These qualities are quite reliable.
It is precisely because of these reliable that the audience will increase their love and expectation, and as a result, they did not see the expected plot at the end and were splashed with a basin of cold water. The true feeling of chasing the drama can also easily turn into the anger of being "deceived".
But the play itself is still brilliant, coupled with the audience's accumulated feelings for the play and the characters in the early stage, the score will fall after the end, but it will not fall much. Therefore, the average score of the drama directed by Liu Chang is stable at 8.3 points, which is a very good result.
From the rating point of view, Liu Chang's results are reasonable, but from the audience's impression, his reputation in everyone's heart is getting lower and lower. The sloppy ending of the new drama has aroused the anger of the crowd. Director Liu Chang, listen to the audience's advice, get rid of the bad habits, hello me, hello everyone.