In short, behind the controversy about "Worry-free", facts have repeatedly proved that truly good dramas and good works have never been built up by gorgeous special effects and traffic stars, but need to be rooted in the depth of human nature, showing the sincerity and sincerity of the creator, and showing the power that truly touches people.

Content is king, feelings are supreme, and it has always been a good word.

Of course, the reality is much more complicated. In general, "Worry-free Ferry" was broadcast successfully, and actors Song Zuer and others appeared successfully in the public opinion storm. It is not easy to show their acting skills and contribute their works on the screen. I hope that the relevant controversy can sound the alarm for creators, and learn from this and "passing the tribulation" successfully.

Author｜Colle Fish

Edit｜Xiaobai

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Just five days ago, under iQiyi's "zero preheating" promotion strategy, the costume fantasy unit drama "Wuyoudu" was officially launched with the label of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which attracted market attention.

As of press time, according to Yunhe data, the market share of effective playback of "Wuyoudu"'s main films was 20.2%, ranking first in the hot TV series list.

"The Sword of Fairy 3" and "The Bone of Flowers" are in charge of Lin Yufen, starring Ren Jialun and Song Zuer. The novel "Baixia: The Lights Dark Under the Moon, the 500th Chronicle of Night Falling" is adapted. The above are all excellent. The result is to see the publication time of the original work: 2010.

15 years have passed, are the audience still eating this set?

After the broadcast, "Worry-free" fell into a whirlpool of controversy among public opinion, with some serving the bowl and some scolding her.

From the picture, it has to be admitted that the director Lin Yufen's team has indeed put in the visual presentation. The special effects of the ink painting market in the late Tang Dynasty, the Gothic aesthetics of the blood-colored wedding, and the virtual and real light and shadow of the Jade Pear illusion, can be seen with the special effects cost of over 10 million per episode.

However, these visual wonders do not serve the narrative, but instead become a fig leaf to cover up the script's shortcomings. No matter how beautiful the form is, without the support of solid content, it will inevitably appear to be false.

This drama, known as the Chinese-style monster dark horse, eventually became a narrative empty shell packaged with traffic stars, top teams and expensive special effects, which is a pity.

Song Zuer made a strong comeback with "Worry-free". When she searched on Weibo, she found that there were many hot searches such as #Song Zuer played two roles alone# and #Song Zuer’s two recognizable characters#. It can be seen that although she has been half-retired for two years, her hot search physique is still not reduced.

The scene in "The Joe Family's Children" that she knelt on the ground and cried in the delivery room made the audience very heartbroken and was a famous scene. But in general, the performance in "Worry-free Ferry" this time is just ordinary.

From a plot point of view, in the first unit "The Owl's Song", the human-faced owl monster Qu Manniang (played by Wang Yiyao) creates a throat-cutting case in order to obtain human voice. This tragic setting can also explore the philosophical propositions of beauty and sin, but Qu Manniang is obsessed with the "false love" for Duan Yanqiu (played by Here), the son of the Duan family. In the end, she died under the sword because she talked too much and became a victim of Jiu Xuanye (played by Ren Jialun)'s hero saving beauty.

The suspense clues in unit cases are set up quite weakly and are almost useless. In the second unit "Jade Rejuvenation", the setting of Jade Pear "for the girl's essence and blood for an immortal face" can also be extended to social issues involving medical beauty such as anxiety and frozen age. However, due to the weak motivation of the villain and the sloppy revenge scene, it eventually became a foil for the emotional line of the male and female protagonists.

Therefore, the audience felt at a loss in the interweaving of suspense and romance elements, and sometimes held their breath and concentrated because of the monster's bloodthirsty thriller scene, and was instantly sweetened by the overly sweet emotional scenes of the male and female protagonists. In contrast, "Yan Hui Shi", which is both suspenseful in ancient costumes, can distinguish the main and secondary, and the emotional lines between the male and female protagonists are much more rational and restrained.

Compared with "The Record of the Strange Things of the Tang Dynasty" that closely integrates the elements of strangeness with social reality, "Wuyoudu" also seems to be relatively light. Although each unit starts with brilliant special effects, it ends in a hurry when the truth is revealed. The foreshadowing setting seems too shallow and it is difficult to cause the audience to think deeply. When the audience is looking forward to the plot impact of nervous suspense and reversals, what is waiting for is the Mary Sue plot where Jiu Xuanye forced to change his fate against the will of the heroine Duan Banxia (played by Song Zuer).

Ren Jialun, who plays the monster hunter Jiu Xuanye, is originally a descendant of Xuanbao, and is burdened with the pain of extermination. However, his original lines in the play are unclear and his performance is relatively stylized, which is inconsistent with the vicissitudes of the character setting, which makes many viewers call it "disenchantment".

What is even more awkward is the interaction between the male and female protagonists. The male protagonist forced kisses the female protagonist's eyes, and the male protagonist will definitely descend from the sky when there is danger, etc. It also has the smell of forced love.

Duan Banxia, ​​played by Song Zuer, is a strange woman with yin and yang eyes, who can recognize the true body of a monster. When she found that her cousin was a human-faced owl monster, she stared at the ground with a panic and opened her mouth; when she witnessed other monsters appearing, she opened her mouth and stared again. In contrast, Wang Yiyao, the actor who plays Qu Manniang in the play, deals with the details of feather transformation and voice transformation, which is impressive. In addition, Zhang Zixin, who plays Feng Wuniang in the third unit "Puppets Make Hearts", also vividly demonstrates the strangeness and dull texture of a human-faced puppet through performance details such as "wood eyeballs" and "mechanical actions".

But because of this, the audience has long seen through Feng Wuniang's performance that she is a puppet monster, which greatly reduces the suspense. The previous section describes the strange atmosphere of the inn in a lengthy manner, but has not touched on the core case for a long time, resulting in the plot rhythm being slow.

In short, behind the controversy about "Worry-free", facts have repeatedly proved that truly good dramas and good works have never been built up by gorgeous special effects and traffic stars, but need to be rooted in the depth of human nature, showing the sincerity and sincerity of the creator, and showing the power that truly touches people.

Content is king, feelings are supreme, and it has always been a good word.

Of course, the reality is much more complicated. In general, "Worry-free Ferry" was broadcast successfully, and actors Song Zuer and others appeared successfully in the public opinion storm. It is not easy to show their acting skills and contribute their works on the screen. I hope that the relevant controversy can sound the alarm for creators, and learn from this and "passing the tribulation" successfully.

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