Chinanews client, Beijing, October 24th (Reporter Ren Siyu) Recently, suspense dramas have become popular on screens.
The Misty Theater has announced four new suspense dramas in succession. The cast includes Duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Liao Fan, Zhao Liying, Xiao Yang, Dong Zijian, Feng Shaofeng, etc., which attracted wide attention from netizens. At the same time, there are also many suspenseful dramas on other platforms. The drama is being aired or warmed up.
Among them, can there be more explosions?
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The lineup is luxurious, but the score is not high?
As the beginning of this year's Misty Theater, the lineup of "Octagonal Pavilion Mysterious Fog" is called "King Bo". The combination of well-known director Wang Xiaoshuai and powerful actors Duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Wu Yue, Xing Minshan and others made the show not broadcast. At that time, the expectation was high.
"The Mysterious Fog of the Octagonal Pavilion" took place in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The first episode of the broadcast included two chase scenes: a girl in a red school uniform was running in the woods, and Xuan Nianmei, a high school student, was being chased by gangsters all over the city.
The picture flashed across the water villages and stone streets, and the shaking hand-held photography rendered a gloomy atmosphere.
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And this kind of atmosphere is also the feeling of some audiences when they first chased the drama-"in the cloud and in the mist".
The girl Xuanzhen passed away unexpectedly 19 years ago. This unsolved case has not been solved for many years. When Xuan Nianmei's niece, who looked exactly like Xuan Zhen, grew up, she was also followed and put into danger. At this time, she had harassed Xuan Nianmei. The bastard was murdered mysteriously.
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Different from the interlocking narrative methods of some suspense dramas, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" did not rush to peel off its cocoon, but first laid out a complicated net for the audience.
The Xuan family has one son and three daughters. The older brother Xuan Liang was guilty for half his life because of the accidental death of his sister Xuan Zhen, and he almost guarded his daughter crazy; the sister Xuan Min had a husband who was a policeman, and she always superstitiously believed that she was not pregnant because of her younger sister; and Xuan Zhen Xuanzhu’s twin sister Xuanzhu has not been home for many years, and her personality is withdrawn. There seemed to be contradictions between the two back then...
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Because of the trauma caused by the unsettled case, everyone in the Xuan family always lives in a depressive atmosphere.
At the same time, the parents of the slain gangster had old grudges with Xuanliang; in the previous episodes, Ding Luolie and his wife Zhou Yamei, the director of the Kunqu Opera troupe, who seemed to have drifted outside the main plot, have inextricably linked with these two families. connect……
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There were many characters in the first few episodes of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", but everyone was full of mysteries and unpredictable. The relationship between the characters and the characters was slowly revealed with the memories, which also made many viewers complain." It doesn't look so cool."
Polarized word of mouth
Director Hua Qing said in an interview, “Actually, the mystery is not revealed all at once. I hope to reach the final truth little by little through everyone’s different perspectives. Moreover, after 6 episodes, we have speeded up. Converge, peel off bamboo shoots layer by layer."
As the director said, the plot of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has accelerated after six episodes, but at present, it has not become a hit as the audience expected, and the Douban score is only 5.7.
Netizens who gave high scores mainly focused on actors' acting skills and film quality, as well as the presentation of family relationships and social group portraits in online dramas.
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It is worth mentioning that excerpts from Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion" often appear in "Octagonal Pavilion Mysterious Fog". Therefore, some audiences cut into the drama from the perspective of the plot and interpret the correspondence between the plot and the drama in detail.
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"The Octagonal Pavilion Mysterious Fog" photography director Lu Yifan once said that although this drama has the shell of a suspense drama, the story tells more about the psychological and emotional world of the characters.
The interweaving of the suspense line and the family line in the play, despite the exploration of the depth of content such as complex human nature and family relationships, has attracted many viewers to complain about the reduction of suspense, such as "drawing frames and dragging shadows to see too much." "Uncomfortable", "The role of the new actor does not stand up", "Suspense drama depends on plot and logic."
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Explosive models are still on the way
Looking back on last year, "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth" of the Fog Theater won high scores of 8.8 and 9.1 on Douban. In addition, several years ago, "Chasing the Murder in the White Night" and "Unlicensed Crimes" and other out-of-circle dramas , The performance of domestic suspense dramas aroused the attention of the audience and the market.
In addition to the Misty Theater, other platforms have also recently launched suspense drama works, such as "The Truth" focusing on prosecutors, and "The Twelfth Second" with Wan Qian playing two roles.
Compared with last year, this year's suspense drama is more diverse in themes and perspectives, and has its own expansion in "Suspense+".
For example, among the four dramas released by the Fog Theater, "The Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" focuses on "family suspense" to show the influence of family on growth; "Who is the Murderer" analyzes "humanity suspense" and shows the persistence of generations; "Gold Rush" is "Adventure hunting", cracking the identity secret of "Owl" during the crisis-ridden gold rush; "Fatal Wish" is a series of stories about desire triggered by a mobile phone software.
Group portrait poster of the Fog Theater.
In addition, the main lineup of suspense dramas is also gradually upgrading. For example, the director Wang Xiaoshuai, who is on the grid for the first time, and Qin Hao, Duan Yihong, Zu Feng, Hao Lei, Liao Fan and other powerful actors on the same stage. "While frequently being promoted and emphasized, the subject matter and lineup are constantly being refreshed, the audience's requirements must also be higher and higher, and whether the script that bears the heavy responsibility can be played is still the key.
The audience is still waiting for who can become the hottest piece of this year's suspense drama.
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