In the network novel, it is quite a bit of a sword and is loved by some people to die, in fact, the series adapted from the original plot has been filmed as early as 2018. However, due to various reasons, the show has been in a state of sealing and has not met the audience for a long time. It was not until November 2020, when "The Thing in the Palm" was renamed "Under the Sun" and declared a successful review, that it resurfaced.
Therefore, this time there is no early publicity to suddenly release, that is, it is equivalent to direct airborne landing!
The original novel "Under the Sun" "The Thing in the Palm of the Hand" has a huge fan base, and the male protagonist Fu Shenxing is also quite high in the "Paper Man" circle because of his evil personality and crowned appearance.
This original novel is a typical subculture of sadomasochism wrapped in criminal content. The whole plot has both a crime story and a sadomasochistic subculture, especially the emotional story between the hero and heroine as the main line, and it is in this sadomasochistic relationship that the possibility of a way of survival and love between control and anti-control is shown.
The novel is not about the story of handsome men and women falling in love like ordinary idol dramas, and even the feelings between the male and female protagonists are similar to an act of revenge in an emotional and real life - the female protagonist sends the male protagonist to prison, and the male protagonist threatens her with the female protagonist's relatives and lovers and friends, forces her to beat up her children, and has no shame, dragging her into hell with one hand, and between the two is revenge in addition to revenge.
As far as the human setting is concerned, it is because the male protagonist Fu Shenxing is very unconventional not a positive character, but a villain who does not do evil, and he kidnaps an innocent woman who does not love him physically and mentally in the name of love. Such a deviant basic setting, in the accustomed to seeing the stable love themes of men and women, felt different, and began to pursue.
But in essence, in terms of literary level and story structure ability, "The Thing in the Palm" is placed in the novel content of sadistic subculture, and it is just a very ordinary work. It's just that because our cultural environment limits the reader's reading horizons, children with simple ideas feel strange and amazing because they have never seen it.
The adapted version of the TV series "Under the Sun" starred Cai Wenjing, Liu Kai and Peng Guanying, and co-starred Wang Jinsong, Yue Yang, Li Dongheng, Ma Quan, Li Yan, Dobjie, Feng Lei, Sarina and Sun Zhihong.
After changing the name from "The Thing in the Palm" to "Under the Sun", the scale of the play was much smaller, not to mention, even the male and female protagonists changed their names and surnames, Fu Shenxing changed to Feng Xiaosheng, and He Yan changed to Ke Ying. Many netizens are dissatisfied, believing that the name changed is not only soil but also makes people have no sense of substitution. But the audience's one thing is generally ignored, so the Fu Shenxing that the public originally expected will never appear.
The plot of the first two episodes of the TV series is actually very simple, from a single line in the original book to a bilinear narrative intertwined with two threads -
The first line is the heroine Ke Ying.
The opening plot is that an outlaw named Shen Shijie robbed Ke Ying who was driving by with 2 of his men on the way to escape, and under Ke Ying's resistance to death, Shen Shijie and one of his subordinates were injured, and the other subordinate was hit by a car and was too badly injured and simply died, which also made Shen Shijie and Ke Ying form the initial conflict.
In order to avoid the pursuit of the police, Shen Shijie and Feng Xiaosheng, the president of the Feng Group, exchanged identities, spent 7 months to transform into the appearance of Feng Xiaosheng, and finally killed him and successfully replaced his position, single-handedly creating the illusion that Shen Shijie had fallen off a cliff and died.
The transformed Feng Xiaosheng reappeared in Ke Ying's world, and gradually became the nightmare of Ke Ying's life.
At this point in the story, it can basically correspond to the plot in the novel, but perhaps the screenwriter takes into account the audience's viewing experience, perhaps for the ambush pen, or perhaps to cope with the censorship scale, deliberately deleting some large-scale scenes, so that the plot becomes relatively relaxed in the situation.
The second clue comes from the superficial food delivery man and courier brother who is equivalent to the dragon set in the original work, but is actually Xiao Wu, who is undercover in the police. Moreover, in the plot of the first few episodes, Xiao Wu is indeed an undercover face, wandering in the state of affairs - the first battle to help the brothers to gamble, sometimes bluffing, sometimes pretending to be provocative, the screenwriter did give a lot of display space and length, and according to the cast list ranking of the drama side, Xiao Wu's show time is destined to be the protagonist of "Under the Sun", he will unveil the mystery of Feng Xiaosheng with Ke Ying as an undercover and will cooperate with the relevant departments to bring him to justice.
In order to circumvent the censorship that too many subcultural circles of culture in the original "The Thing in the Hand" may be censored and the moral dilemma of the general audience, the screenwriter has intensified the line of criminal investigation, making the story of "Under the Sun" closer to a traditional suspense criminal investigation type drama than the original sadomasochistic crime drama.
But the problem is that the most popular part of "The Thing in the Palm" is the sadomasochism in it, once this controversial point is stripped away, the level of literature and plot construction of the original work, it really even chokes the level of the general suspense criminal investigation theme!
To this end, the screenwriter has made great efforts in the process of enriching the original script - in order to add positive energy to the original dark theme, he also added a soft strategy in the political correctness of the rise of women's consciousness to the plot, with "the heroine Ke Ying relies on her own wisdom and efforts to defend the justice in her heart when she encounters many crises and is not trusted by the people around her."
In this process, it is also necessary to fight the hard course of the devil" to enhance the positive effect of the overall core, and then add a narrative angle of "the perspective of ordinary people and the circumvention of evil forces is also rarely seen in previously broadcast film and television dramas" close to the "grounded" narrative angle of the real audience, looking forward to closer to the audience and increasing the audience's sense of substitution for the plot.
However, everyone understands that because of the consistent urine nature of the production and playback platform, "Under the Sun", which could have made business wars, criminal investigations, and suspense dramas, has largely limited the further improvement of the theme in the execution process!
First of all, the overall quality is not high, and the production is shoddily made, like a popular french unit drama.
It may be that it is to cater to the censorship conditions of the criminal investigation theme and not to pursue the visual effect too much, and the overall texture of "Under the Sun" pursues the lighting and shooting methods of the realistic school. As a result, stripping away the visual effect of the soft light whitening big dermabrasion that the audience is accustomed to, the overall feeling is cold, and even the actors who have always been beautiful and beautiful, the appearance value has dropped a level!
And because of this lighting and tone, in terms of framing, many of the landscapes from the bottom of the plot are more obscure and dilapidated under the dark tones, and the overall texture will be between reality and special effects, and the perception will have a certain discount. Further extended, the state and costumes of the actors will form a difference from the natural landscape that is not in line with the actual logic, further expanding a shoddy visual drawback.
Secondly, there is no order in the editing and advancement, and the overall situation is chaotic and complicated!
The narrative of the opening episode is very scattered, the first episode wants to introduce all the characters in one brain, so Ke Ying has a car accident and meets Shen Shijie, the basic contradiction between the two people is constructed, and then, the police tracking shen Shijie's gang to the seemingly Shen Shijie jumped off a cliff to commit suicide, the whole case advanced rapidly, but the whole process lacked coordination, and the whole process was extremely chaotic.
The editor used the continuous cutting and splicing of three clues to build the initial basic construction, and when introducing the two lines of Ke Ying and Shen Shijie in a straight direction, the audience could not grasp the main line at all, and also had to forcibly add Xiao Wu's clues, so it was equivalent to the collection of the subjective vision of Ke Ying, Shen Shijie, Xiao Wu, and the criminal police team in a short period of time, making a simple thing complicated, and the result was that the clarity of the narrative was greatly reduced.
The pre-construction is fast enough, but the follow-up will definitely slow down, once the rhythm is broken, the entire plot may be examined by the audience from the logic, and sometimes such a review is fatal!
Third, it is difficult to promote the construction of follow-up feelings.
"Under the Sun" after the name change, the core is very clear, with the method of criminal investigation suspense, the story is changed out of the "evil is not good", the weak woman finally defeated the bad guy who hurt herself to achieve the positive side of the final victory of the event, and this change, there is a moral dilemma that must be allowed to convince the audience - Ke Ying actually remembers Shen Shijie's eyes, and how she reasonably develops the emotional connection with Feng Xiaosheng, and overrides this emotional connection to return to the moral righteousness, This requires a strong enough practical reason.
The plot is to construct a huge situation, Feng Xiaosheng has a huge economic strength, and the group company he controls has a huge influence on the economic and political aspects of the entire city. The screenwriter is creating a situation in which Shen Shijie uses everything that Feng Xiaosheng threatens the peace and stability of the entire city, but as an independent professional female character, how can Ke Ying, who is born in the middle and low levels, step onto the top level of the city like Feng Xiaosheng, there is no other way but marriage.
Therefore, Ke Ying still has to advance the plot by marrying a person he hates, and then, two people who do not love each other fight each other in the marriage, plus Xiao Wu's various activities in the periphery, and the problems of the Ke Ying family that will inevitably join the situation... Yes, this drama is destined to be a standard version of the popular law column drama caused by the marriage problem of the giants!