IP adaptation is still a "majority", but the costumes are reduced; suspense themes become new popular
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The summer quarter of the third quarter has been a frequent period of explosions in webcasts. The "Yanxi Raiders" in 2018 and the "Chen Qingling" in 2019 were all broadcast in the summer season. Will there be any good dramas this year?
The Beijing News has sorted out 13 episodes that are expected to be launched on the video platform this summer, and found that the IP adaptation is still "majority", including "Yanyuntai" and "Lili Beauty", etc.; the suspense theme becomes the new " The protagonist, including "White Moonlight" and "Silent Truth". Let's see if there will be any explosions in webcasts like "Yanxi Raiders" and "Chen Qingling" during this summer.
IP adaptations are still popular, but there are fewer costume plays
Since 2017, the popular webcasts of the summer season are basically IP-based costume dramas, such as "The Eternal Love" in 2017, "Yanxi Raiders" in 2018 and "Chen Qingling" in 2019 .
In this summer's webcast, the IP adaptation is still the majority. It has 9 seats in the 13 dramas included in the statistics, including Zhu Yilong, Mao Xiaotong and other "Restarting the Extreme Sea Listening Thunder" "Grave Robbery Notes Restart"), "Liu Li Sha" starring Cheng Yi, Yuan Bingyan, etc., "Duo Luo Continent" starring Xiao Zhan and Wu Xuanyi (Tang Family Three Young Novels of the Same Name), etc.
It is worth mentioning that, of the 9 IP adaptation plays, the proportion of costume plays is not high, only 4. On the contrary, modern themes account for the majority, including 5 titles: "Crossing Fire" adapted from the game of the same name; "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy" (Li Zelin's novel of the same name) co-directed by Zhang Yibai and others; "The Truth of Silence" adapted from "Hard to Know"; "The rest of your life, please advise" from the novel of the same name by the Berliner Mason.
Suspense theme becomes new favorite, strong cast
The suspense theme has become the "new darling" of this year's summer webcast. Not only is there a large number of plays, but the cast is also quite strong. Of the 13 webcasts to be launched, there are as many as six suspense themes, close to half. If you count the "Ten Day Game" and "Hidden Corner" that came online in June, the number of suspense topics will be even more impressive. The sudden rise of suspense is related to the new video lists of "Misty Theater" and "Suspense Theater" launched by the two video platforms of iQiyi and Youku in June. "White Moonlight" and "Restarting the Extreme Sea Listening to Thunder" are the scripts in Youku's "Suspense Theater" movie list. "Under Escape", "Silent Truth", "Very Eyewitness" and "Fatal Desire" belong to the "Mist Theater".
Compared with the costume IP adaptation dramas of the same period, the cast of these suspense-themed dramas is not inferior, and even more powerful. There are powerful actors in the Mesozoic generation, and there are also many flow entertainers. For example, in the urban emotional suspense series "White Moonlight" directed by Liu Ziwei, Song Jia, Yu Entai, Huang Jue, and Liu Mintao all starred in power; "Hong Kong Fire" directed by Xu Hongyu was led by two popular actors, Lu Han and Wu Lei. Starring in the role; "Silent Truth" directed by Chen Yifu, selected the Best Actor Golden Bear Award winner Liao Fan at the Berlin Film Festival, and played a new generation of actor Bai Yu.
Writer/Reporter Yang Lianjie from Beijing News