Chinanews client, Beijing, August 11 (Yuan Xiuyue) In the past Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards, web dramas became the biggest winners. "Celebrating the New Year", "Chang'an Twelve Hours" and "Ice Breaker" all won important awards . From shoddy to high-quality, web dramas are gaining more and more audiences. Recently, major video websites have successively announced the latest online drama list. In addition to the number of dramas and the increase in celebrity actors, they also revealed several new trends in online dramas.
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Trend 1: Costume dramas warm up
Since the fires of "The Name of the People" and "My First Half of My Life" in 2017, TV dramas have entered a transition period, realism themes have become the mainstream, and costume dramas have entered a low ebb. In 2019, the number of records and episodes of costume dramas dropped sharply. The theme of costumes is cold, and the large-scale costume dramas of this summer archive are rarely absent.
On the other hand, the network platform has become the "main battlefield" of costume dramas, and many costume dramas have changed from the previous "Taiwan network linkage" model to only broadcast on the network platform.
Judging from the releases of Tencent, iQiyi, and Youku, costume dramas will still occupy an important market in the future. The popular female lead roles have also returned again, such as "You Fei" starring Zhao Liying and Wang Yibo, "Madam Huzhu" starring Yang Mi and William Chan, "Yanyuntai" starring Tang Yan and Dou Xiao, starring Yang Zi and Wu Yifan "The Journey of the Green Hairpin", "The Bright Moon in the Tang Dynasty" starring Gu Li Nazha and Xu Weizhou.
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The heroine's main role is "The Fight of the Knife in the Snow", which is also Zhang Ruoyun's second performance in the costume drama after "Celebrating More Than Years", written by "Celebrating More Years" screenwriter Wang Juan. Xianxia's fantasy themes include "Eternal Jue Chen" starring Zhou Dongyu and Xu Kai, and "Mirror Two Cities" starring Li Yifeng. In addition, "The Legend of the Demon Cat" will be a drama version, and Ma Boyong's novels "Bianjing", "Whale Riding in the Four Seas" and "Wind Up Luoyang" will all be remakes. Among them, "Wind Up Luoyang" will be starred by Huang Xuan, Wang Yibo and Song Qian.
Costume drama poster
In terms of content, costume dramas adapted from online texts still dominate the mainstream, and stories about legends and martial arts are more popular. From the perspective of the cast, costume dramas are not only the first choice of post-85 actors, but also the "circle fan" and "solid powder" weapon of young actors. This also reflects the popularity of costume dramas among ordinary audiences.
Trend 2: Female dramas continue to explode
Recently, "Thirty Only" and "Twenty Do Not Confused" ushered in the finale. These two TV dramas reflecting the lives of women of different ages have attracted attention since they were broadcast. The problems faced by women in the workplace, emotions, and marriages have aroused popularity among netizens. Discussion. Female TV dramas became popular, and according to the "Aiyou Teng" film list, this theme will continue to explode in the future.
"He Doesn't Love You That" Poster
Similar to "Thirty Only", "He Actually Doesn't Love You That So" also tells the distress and growth faced by several women at the age of 30. The play is starring Song Qian, Zheng Kai, Lu Jingshan, Zhang Jianing, Li Chun, etc. .
"Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" and "Beijing Nanyuan" poster
Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong's new drama will also focus on women. Feng Xiaogang's "Beijing Nanyuan" tells the story of five women's growth and love during the process of founding the "Beijing Nanyuan" restaurant. This is also the second TV series directed by Feng Xiaogang after 25 years. "Happiness to Ten Thousands" directed by Zheng Xiaolong is adapted from "The Legend of Autumn Jurassic". It was recently announced that Zhao Liying would take the lead. Zhao Liying challenged the village women for the first time and became a highlight of the play.
"The Golden Years" poster
The TV series "The Golden Years" adapted from Yi Shu's novel has also attracted the attention of netizens, not only because it was created by the original cast of "My First Half Life", but also because of the combination of Liu Shishi and Ni Ni's dual heroines, which some netizens called " Fairy casting". The play describes the friendship supported by Jiang Nansun and Zhu Suosuo along the way, with Chen Daoming, Dong Zijian, Tian Yu, Yang Youning, and Yang Jue participating.
"Ideal City" poster
In the first half of the year, Sun Li's "An Jia" set a record for ratings. She played a "wolf-like" real estate agency in the play. Recently, she has chosen to play a role as a cost engineer in "Ideal City", which is directed by Liu Jin. Also for women in the workplace is "True Youth", starring Wu Jinyan, Yin Tao, He Rundong, Zuo Xiaoqing, Liu Mintao and others.
Judging from the above repertoire, although female-themed dramas are ushering in an explosion, the genre is still relatively single, and the phenomenon of homogeneity is prominent. Women in the workplace and urban women are the mainstream, and they lack richness.
Trend Three: Blowout of Group Shows
From the realistic theme drama "In the Name of the People" to the urban drama "Ode to Joy", to the costume drama "Zhen Huan" and "Langya Bang", they all have one thing in common, and the group drama is very brilliant. Although Dakang Secretary, Shen Meizhuang, Hua Fei, and Xie Yu are not the protagonists, they are still loved by many people. The scenes of the actors in the drama also made the audience enjoyable.
This kind of group performance tests both the director's skill and the actors' acting skills. In the next period of time, group portraits will enter a blowout stage.
Noon sun group portrait theater poster
Among them, Noon Sunshine, who is good at shooting group portraits, will bring three dramas, "Dajiang Dahe 2", "Children of the Qiao Family", and "Flowering Season". "Dajiang Dahe 2" is still starred by the original crew. It tells the story of Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao, and Yang Xun in the 1980s and 1990s. The sequel is directed by Li Xue and Huang Wei, with Kong Sheng as supervisor.
The other two are both family dramas. "Children of the Qiao Family" tells the story of the growth of five children in the Qiao family, directed by Zhang Kaizhou. "Falling Flowers" is written by the original author, Anai, directed by Jian Chuanzhen, and starring Lei Jiayin, Yuan Quan, Zhang Yixing, and Jia Nailiang. This is a realist drama that focuses on middle-aged groups and tells the story of the feud between two families that lasted for decades. entanglement.
"Little Willingness", "Holiday Warm Ocean" and "Best Dress" poster
In addition, "Holiday Warm Ocean", "Little Willingness" and "Best Dress" are all group performances. "Holiday Warm Ocean" starring Yao Chen, Bai Yu, Dapeng, Zhang Jingchu, tells the story of a couple who took their family on vacation when they encountered bottlenecks in their relationship. "Little Willingness" is a companion chapter of "Xiao Huanxi". This time the topic of interest is Xiao Shengchu, starring Song Jia, Tong Dawei, Jiang Xin, and Li Jiahang. Song Jia's other drama, "Best Dress", is a fashion workplace drama, which tells the transformation story of traditional fashion magazines when facing the impact of new media. Chen He, Yuan Yongyi, Song Zuer, Wang Yaoqing, Li Chengru, Lin Yongjian and others starred.
Unlike other types of online dramas, group portrait dramas have a wider audience and are more suitable for family viewing. Due to the large number of roles in the drama, it also brings more choices to the audience. However, when family group dramas broke out, how to make family trivia more attractive became a problem.
Main theme drama poster
In addition, the main theme of the web dramas will also dominate the screen in the future, including Yang Yang’s "Special Warfare Glory", Li Yifeng’s "The Trumpeter in Place", Chen Xiao, Wang Yibo’s "Ice Rain and Fire" and other military dramas and dramas involved in the case. Period dramas and historical dramas such as Zhu Yilong's "Rebel", Li Xian's "Life Is Like First Seen", Yu Hewei's "Awakening Age" and other period dramas and historical dramas, as well as two era report dramas "Our New Era" and "Together". (Finish)