In today's film and television drama market, the number of martial arts dramas is getting smaller and smaller, and the quality is also declining. However, under the cold winter of film and television, many people have begun to pay attention to the quality of the work, in the first half of this year, there were two high-quality martial arts dramas, one for the "Youth Tour One Inch Acacia", one for the small-cost web drama "Detective Jane Does Not Know".
Although the ratings of "Youth Tour" are average, this drama also makes some martial arts fans see hope. This time, Tencent not only officially announced the lineup of the female romance martial arts drama "And Try the World", but also spent 200 million yuan to produce Wen Ruian's ancient martial arts - "Say Hero, Who is the Hero".
This drama started in early November and will be completed in March next year, just looking at the poster issued by Tencent, it can be seen that "Say Heroes, Who are Heroes" will be one of the main episodes promoted by the platform in 2021.
Why do I say that? Mainly because Wen Rui'an's martial arts novel is the martial arts enlightenment of many people, this novel is obviously so famous, but it has not been filmed and televisionized, and without pearl jade in front, the pressure of the crew is naturally a lot smaller.
In the field of martial arts, Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels have been remade the most, among them, the version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" is the most, and the martial arts drama that Wen Ruian is known to the audience should be the "Four Famous Catches" series, such as "Against the Cold Water" and "Four Famous Catches in Kanto".
There are a total of 10 works in "Say Heroes Who Are Heroes", and the author Wen Ruian constantly digs pits, but he has never been able to fill them.
However, the most brilliant place of this series of novels is not the tight plot, but the protagonists, especially the three characters of Wang Xiaoshi, Su Mengqiu, and Bai Zaofei, one is an approachable strange hero, one is a sick landlord with a deep mind, and the other is a jianghu ranger who is both right and evil and paranoid in personality.
The three of them accidentally became friends and became good brothers, but, as Zhou Gong said, both Shengyu and He Shengliang, they were born as confidants, but they also inevitably became enemies, Wen Ruian borrowed Wang Xiaoshi's mouth, and said the main purpose of the whole book, "Keep the heavens and save the people, I am the one who keeps them."
Wen Ruian is good at writing men, whether it is the stunning, intriguing Su Meng pillow like poetry, or the conceited, running wildly to a road, are Wen Ryan's "mystery", and even in the end, Su Meng pillow is alive or dead, the author has left a long suspense.
To be precise, Wen Rui'an's style is close to Gu Long, his writing is not suitable for being put on the screen, poetic language and poetic themes, all add difficulty to the remake work, but if the director can shoot part of the essence of the work, then "Who is the Hero" will certainly have a good result.
To say that the most popular TV series directors in the past two years, there is nothing more than Yin Tao and Li Muge, one handed over "Liu Li", "Under the Golden Dress", one with the drama version of "East Palace" quickly out of the circle, Li Muge himself has become the behind-the-scenes operator of many hot dramas, such as "Half Demon Siteng", "Tangerine Sheng Huainan" did not broadcast the first fire.
Tencent saw Li Muge's ability, which invited him to direct the martial arts drama "Who is the Hero", but the TV series he had filmed before, mostly romance, whether he could shoot a good big scene and martial arts scene is still unknown.
In addition, in order to restore the classics as much as possible, the crew spent a lot of money on the art set, the industry's famous art director Zhao Hai was invited over, he has been responsible for the "Golden Age", "Daming Dynasty 1566" and other high-profile films or episodes, looking at his previous style, it can be seen that he generally takes a simple and simple route, which is similar to the "human fireworks" required by martial arts dramas.
Zhong Jiani, who cooperates with Zhao Hai, is a veteran stylist in the circle, and she has previously participated in the design of "Beauty's Heart", "The King's Feast", and "The Man in the Bureau", which can be said to have basically not missed a hand.
After serving the guarantee, let's talk about the script of "Say Hero Who is a Hero", after all, the script is the core of a play, and the official claim is that the screenwriter Frost City has written "Apostle Walker" and "Kyushu Muyi".
However, the author consulted the screenplay column of "Acts of the Apostles" and did not find the word Frost City, she may just be a bearer screenwriter of a certain part, and "Kyushu Muyi" does not have her name.
A newcomer screenwriter, was arranged to adapt the classic martial arts novel, which always makes people worried, and then check the production company, found that it is the writer Jiangnan shareholding of the Linglong culture, the company in recent years to produce most of the film and television dramas on the street, there are known as bad films "Shanghai Fortress", there are also high and low "Kyushu Muyi", Jiangnan as the original author, the result of his team to adapt the work, but not satisfactory.
It can be seen that the film and television adaptation of "Say Heroes Who Are Heroes" will not necessarily satisfy the original party.
Moreover, this drama has a very serious casting problem, and several of the leading actors are not from the class.
Before, the lineup of "Say Hero Who is a Hero" has been passed down for a long time, some people say that Dou Xiao and Liu Yuning will star in this drama, and Yang Chaochao and Zeng Shunxi's crew dinner, undoubtedly revealed the actor candidates, if there is no accident, these two people will be the male and female protagonists of this drama, one is the young hero Wang Xiaoshi, and the other is the temperamental, brutal and willful gentleness.
Zeng Shunxi has acted in Jin Yong's martial arts drama "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", but his performance has not conquered the original fans, on the one hand, the temperament is inconsistent with Zhang Wujie, on the other hand, the acting skills are not outstanding, only decent.
This time, he came to challenge Wang Xiaoshi, who has a clean and bright appearance, and the original fans are naturally not very optimistic, although his acting skills have improved, but the martial arts drama is more interested in the temperament of the actors, and the chivalrous guests are not everyone can play.
Secondly, the emergence of Yang Chaoyue will make people mistakenly think that this drama is another traffic drama, the reason is that Yang Chaochao does not have a representative work for the time being, and several female protagonists are only well-known in the fixed circle, and for strict martial arts fans, acting skills and temperament are indispensable.
How to say it? The other roles of "Say Hero Who is a Hero" have not yet been determined, but from tencent's conventional routine, the actors of this drama should be stars who are closely related to Tencent, which can be compared with the popular "And Listen to Fengming" some time ago.
In the author's view, TV drama is the art of screenwriting, actors, directors are auxiliaries, "Say Heroes Who is a Hero" if you want to fire, it is necessary to polish the script well, if the script is not good, the actor is not suitable, then the best director or fu Hua Dao can not save.
Hopefully, Tencent really wants to make martial arts dramas, rather than borrowing the name of martial arts dramas to praise people, otherwise, the enthusiasm of martial arts fans will really be exhausted.