The TV series "Shen Yin" was launched on Mango TV and Tencent** on the evening of December 11, with a total of 4 episodes premiered. The play, starring Zhao Lusi and Wang Anyu, tells the love story of the hero and heroine in a mysterious world. This work has a typical fantasy romance drama style, and can be regarded as a simplified or fantasy version of "Dream of Red Mansions" to some extent. "Dream of the Red Chamber" is one of the four great Chinese masterpieces, so comparing "Shen Yin" with "Dream of Red Mansions" will naturally attract the attention of book fans. However, let's not jump to conclusions. Let's take a look first, what is "Dream of Red Mansions" about?It tells the love story between the Shenying waiter and the Zhuzhu Fairy Grass, in which the Shenying waiter is Jia Baoyu, and the Jiangzhu Fairy Grass is Lin Daiyu.
This setting is obviously borrowed from "Shen Yin". In "Shen Yin", the hero and heroine also have many bonds from their past lives, so in this world, the two began their love story. In particular, the plot of the male protagonist hatching eggs is simply a fantasy of the plot of the Shenying waiter watering the Zhuzhu fairy grass in "Dream of Red Mansions". Of course, "Dream of Red Mansions" has more philosophical connotations and profound life reflections, which are beyond the reach of "Shen Yin". As a "Shen Yin" for young audiences, its main content is to show the karma of the hero and heroine in their past lives, and then let them start love in the fantasy world. Young men and women are at the age of falling in love, and this kind of fantasy romance drama is also in line with the trend of the times.
Unlike "Dream of Red Mansions", "Dream of Red Mansions" is biased towards the route of tragic dramas, and the heroine often cries desolately;And "Shen Yin" is more inclined to the comedy route, and the male and female protagonists are shown in laughter mode, as if they are ready to present a two-person turn for the audience at any time. Especially Zhao Lusi, in this drama, her performance makes people laugh. Fortunately, she is not from the Northeast, otherwise Zhao Lusi's performance level is likely to attract Zhao Benshan's attention and train her to be a comedian like Yadan or Liu Ying. As a fantasy drama that focuses on amusing and talking, the performance requirements for the actors are very simple - lively and interesting, like traffic stars, and with idol temperament.
This is also just the return to Zhao Lusi's road to success, she is good at interpreting her image as a traffic star, and she is also good at bringing joy to the audience. Therefore, in "Shen Yin", it is not difficult for the audience to find many joys. Wang Anyu may look a little cute, but he seems very casual in role-playing and behavior. Obviously, he is also a lively and lovely person. The heroes and heroines are together together, and it's like performing a fantasy version of the two-person turn. Therefore, it can be said that the drama "Shen Yin" draws on the narrative path of the male and female protagonists of "Dream of Red Mansions" and adopts the narrative technique of two-person turning. Zhao Lusi and Wang Anyu are like a two-person performance in the fantasy genre.
The acting skills of the duo-turned-actors have always attracted much attention. When Xiao Shenyang was performing, he made Zhang Ziyi, the mentor on the stage of "The Birth of an Actor", laugh. How is Xiao Shenyang's acting skills?This is a matter of debate. Therefore, they also need to express their opinions on Zhao Lusi's acting skills. In this fantasy drama, her "two-person turn" performance is quite good, at least it can make the audience enjoy it. It's actually quite not easy. However, once he left the performance of the role, as a safe zone for traffic stars, Zhao Lusi's performance did seem a little insufficient. For TV series like "Shen Yin", there will inevitably be viewers who accuse the plot of being too vulgar, too naïve, and too commonplace. I can accept these criticisms.
This TV series is indeed somewhat commonplace. However, put it in the same genre of TV series and consider it as part of the fantasy drama genre, and we will find that "Shen Yin" is actually more interesting than many other fantasy dramas. Especially its picture texture, which is quite outstanding in fantasy dramas. In the plot of "Shen Yin", which has been launched, many of the pictures have the texture of "Monster Hunt". Of course, Monster Hunt also caused a fan frenzy when it was first released, but with the release of several sequels, they also began to get bored. Fantasy dramas like "Shen Yin" are suitable for young audiences, after all, this group of audiences does not know much about drama. In addition, the brightness of the graphics in "Shen Yin" is excellent.
In order to reduce the production cost of special effects, many fantasy dramas dim the picture. This is not right. In contrast, the brightness of the picture of "Shen Yin" is outstanding, and the audience will feel comfortable watching it. Such a TV series can easily become a background painting in the living room, and if it is broadcast on the stars, the ratings will be good. (Wen Ma Qingyun).