I can't bear it anymore.
Two days ago, I spent the whole night chasing "Ice Hunting", how do you describe the mood at the moment?
It can only be the envy of "gritting teeth" -
I envy the friends who decisively gave up the show after watching the first few episodes of "Ice Hunting", because you watched the best part of the show in time, and you won't have a heart attack like Sir.
Frankly. In fact, Sir expected that it would not be very good when he watched the first three episodes, but with his superficial understanding of the behind-the-scenes (thinking that it would be half a good drama) and blind belief in the actors (thinking that Zhang Songwen would turn the tide), he kept chasing it.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.
Unexpectedly, the speed and momentum of the decline of "Ice Hunting" far exceeded our cognition, so that the Douban score also plummeted all the way, temporarily fixed at 45。
Why is this happening?
Some people blame Yao Anna's acting skills, some blame the crude filming method, and some say it is because of the audience's prejudice......But to sir, these are not the most fundamental reasons.
Its failure, in fact, has long been covered up by those extravagant memes.
Thereupon. Today we decided to dig into the bottom of it and see how this year's hit was made-
Ice hunting
It's not the turn to scold the acting skillsTalking about "Ice Hunting", the first person who can't be avoided is, of course, Yao Anna. She is almost the epitome of the show. I still remember that at the beginning of the broadcast, there were all kinds of memes of her circulating on the Internet, such as "Yao Anna's chicken-eating acting skills", which refers to Zhao Younan (played by Yao Anna) in the play when he arrested Huang Zongwei (played by Zhang Songwen) when he raised his gun stiffly, as well as his puzzling expression management.
Did Yao Anna play badly?
Sir felt that it was obviously incorrect to judge an actor's acting skills with a piece of **, but at the same time, he had to admit that she acted really poorly.
It is even worse than the average level of Hengdian group performances.
One of the most obvious examples:Emoticons
Yao Anna will use an extremely hard and confused expression to express her emotions no matter what kind of scene she is.
For example, when she wanted to go in to investigate the scene, her expression was like this:
When showing impatience, it's still like this:
Even when she asked in a raw temperament, she still reacted with such an expression. 
Here they show the confidence in the evidence, the pretense of composure when they are discovered, and the sadness when their comrades die. 
Excuse me, can you really tell the difference? But if you think that Yao Anna ruined a play, you are very wrong.
In the face of this terrible script.
The question of whether the actors' acting skills are bad or not is simply not worth mentioning.
In terms of story structure, "Ice Hunting" follows a double-line form of police and bandits that is similar to "Hurricane".
One is Huang Zongwei's drug production line, because he has mastered a new drug production technology, so while evading the pursuit of **, he will make his career bigger and stronger, and finally become the leader of the international drug production group.
The other is the police pursuit line dominated by Zhao Younan, who always followed Huang Zongwei's route, constantly smashed various drug gangs, and finally wiped out the Huang Zongwei group with sustained persistence and hard work.
If the first half of the former is normal.
Then the latter allows the audience to see how low the bottom line of a domestic drama script is.
One word:Push it forcibly
Viewers who have opened this drama, do you still remember how Zhao Younan appeared?
Forced play. At the beginning of the story, ** held a meeting, saying that he was looking for a person disguised as a drug addict to find a drug trafficking den, at this time Minghong (played by Su Xin) volunteered, but the leader gave it a no, thinking that "whether you take drugs or not, the other party can see it at a glance".
According to this line of thinking, do you have to find someone who doesn't look like a cop but a gangster?
No. The next sentence of the leader was, "It's better to be a woman, and you have to be good." ”
Excuse me, how is there a connection between these two sentences?
This is nothing, when someone recommended the police flower of the city special police team, the leader gave it again, and felt that he could not trouble his superiors, at this time, Duan Minghong said, there is a Xiao Zhao in our data room, who has never been out of the field, and his temperament is quite stunned, but it is quite suitable.
emm……Sir really didn't understand where this "suitability" was, in the next shot, Yao Anna's righteous face really looked like she had taken drugs?
In the final analysis, it's just a matter of forcibly letting the protagonist play.
Not only is the character forcibly appearing, but even the process of solving the case is forcibly promoted.
For example, forcible action-
At the joint action meeting, Zhao Younan said that they found a suspicious point during the investigation, that is, the drug detection dog sniffed a stack of newspapers for a while, and she felt that she should start from here, so the leader asked, "Is there any evidence?" ”
Zhao Younan replied: "There is no evidence, but I just think it is suspicious." ”
Leader: "Don't believe anyone who does what we do, don't believe it yourself, we only believe in evidence." ”
It should have ended here, after all, it was not only evidence, but not even a direction and shadow could be seen, but what about Zhao Younan's reaction?
He angrily reprimanded the leader: "We can't delay the fighter plane" and left the table in anger.
It turns out. This unprovoked sixth sense dominates the development of the case.
Or forcibly detected-
You will find that in the detection process, everyone has a "sixth sense".
For example, in the field.
The police cordoned off the KTV private room, and as soon as she appeared, she found footprints at the door, and this footprint seemed to be stained with flour, providing her with clues all the way, and when the footprints disappeared, there happened to be a boss who saw the direction of the murderer's escape.
For example, in the old house of Uncle Zhong's family.
Duan Minghong heard that someone had sent a letter to Uncle Zhong, so he hurried over, and after luring Uncle Zhong away, he kept running into his room, not looking at the front and back, not looking at the corner, not looking down, his eyes kept looking at the roof, but within a few seconds, he found that Uncle Zhong had hidden the letter on the roof.
Especially the scene where Boss He was arrested. The previous story of this incident was that Boss He killed two people, immediately escaped from the city, and flew away, ** I don't know where it went, but I miraculously found the hardware store owner who made the barrel for him.
The result? **Let the hardware store owner call** to Boss He: I'm going to be demolished, you take your gun away.
As a fugitive, Boss He said angrily in the field: I'll contact you when I go back.
According to common sense, this matter is over here, after all, no murderer has just killed someone and fled, in order not to trouble others and take the risk of going back to get something, ** should also know that the other party is not so low IQ.
Even if you come back to pick up something, it may be a month, a year later.
However, the subsequent plot was,**I have been living in the hardware store,Waiting for Boss He**.
Outrageous? What's even more outrageous is that sure enough, not long after, Boss He came back, so he immediately launched an arrest operation.
Did you find out? This gives the impression that the director leaked the script to ** early on, so that they knew exactly what the story was heading to.
The rest is just to cooperate with the acting.
From the narration of director Gao Qunshu, we can probably understand the reason for this situation, Director Gao said that the original script actually only had a line of drug production, but he felt that he could not pass the trial, so he found someone to add the police line.
This practice is understandable by sir.
But the problem is that the police line created based on the drug trafficking line is so full of mistakes and omissions that it is completely illogical, and even we cannot use the word "thin" to beautify it, it is like a patch, reluctantly pasted on the already tattered clothes, "cooperating" the performance.
Such a script.
Even Zhang Songwen had no choice in the end.
False truthOf course, Sir knows that many people will also say that this drama is not useless, since there is only one line of drug production, then at least it will be half a good drama, right?
Sir originally thought the same way.
In particular, when we see the unadorned exterior, deserted villages, old houses, small restaurants and mud bungalows, without any exquisite shapes, and when the drug dealers run away wearing flip-flops, walking through the chicken coop and making a mess, a long-lost word comes to mind:
Coarse.
The set photography is close to reality, and from time to time it is interspersed with a few passers-by, hawkers, and villagers.
How long has it been since I've seen a series of this style?
And in the director's self-description, we also know that such a rough style is not only limited by conditions (it is said that the investment is only 40 million), but also the director's intention, in order to let everyone go back to the 90s, he said, "I have been filming for so many years, and it is very simple to shoot beautifully, but many people can't do it." ”
There is some truth to this thinking.
Many current domestic dramas have the problem of "exquisite suspension", the lens is as beautiful as an advertisement, but it is getting farther and farther away from reality, so that even if it is an urban drama, we seem to be in another parallel time and space story.
So the sense of reality has become a reason for many people to support "Ice Hunting".
The whole drama has the roughness of a rural police drama in the 90s.
But here's the thing. Does this style really match the content?
In terms of the style of lens language, Sir has always believed that there is not much need to compare, Wong Kar-wai chose Rembrandt-style lighting for the TV series "Flowers", and Zhang Yimou chose the TV series photography of the head-sticker style for the movie "Article 20", this choice itself does not have who is high or low, it only depends on the fit between style and expression.
Ice Hunting too.
It does not mean that it needs to be praised for choosing a rough style, and our criteria for evaluating its success can only be expression.
So here's the problem.
Why do we praise certain styles that look rough?
In Gao Qunshu's sequence of works, this question is actually very easy to answer
Because it presents the vitality of the underneath and enhances the sense of realism.
Gao Qunshu is a journalist, and he has filmed many documentary-style works, such as "*Thirteen Sects", "Detective Hunter Zhang", and "Qianjun". One Shot", "Conquest" and so on, they all have the roughness of a crime documentary at the beginning of the century.
For example, "Detective Hunter Zhang".
We don't rate the quality of the film itself, but there is no doubt that it shows the Beijing city side in 2012.
Small advertisements on telephone poles, ambushes and porcelain gangs on busy streets, even swallowing blades in order to escape punishment for thieves, and the crowd venting their anger on the thief after catching him.
The reason why the Golden Horse Awards gave it the honor of best film was precisely because it could see the vitality of the people at the bottom and the struggle to survive in desperation from this rough documentary style.
It was the lowest reality of the year.
Or "Qianjun. One shot.
The film chooses a real policeman to play the protagonist Lao Yu, because he wants to show the cowardly attitude of an ordinary policeman who wants to escape again and again in the face of demining, and the bitterness of ordinary people who have left their last words many times before facing the danger of life and death but have to stand up for the sake of their family.
One of the actions shows his fear, and the old fish is so frightened that his shoes are covered with sweat after defusing a bomb that is not in danger.
No one is born with the blood and dedication of a hero, and this is the character needed to take the documentary route.
But what about "Ice Hunting"?
According to the foregoing, you can know that all the people in the police line have become tools to complete tasks in this story, and not only are they alive to speak of, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are paper people.
No one knows why they joined the anti-drug team (except for undercover), why they are willing to pay so much for anti-narcotics, whether their families have been destroyed because of drug dealers, what impact drug dealers have on them, etc., the information portrayed by these characters' motivations is completely invisible in the play. And the drug production line that should be thick and colorful.
In this way, the presentation of the underlying vitality only exists in a few fragments outside the main line.
For example, Ami. As a low-level migrant worker who is eager to change his fate, it is easy for the audience to empathize with him.
Especially in zoos.
After she was released from prison, she faced the tiger and strengthened herself in her constant gaze to take revenge on Huang Zongwei, showing her complex psychology of longing to see him and wanting to take revenge on him.
Such "irrational" behavior can also arouse the pity of the audience.
Or accompany the wine girl Bingbing.
This is also a desperate little person, she climbed the big dragon, but the relationship between the two of them has not yet begun, and they were thrown off the boat at the critical moment of escaping, in order to escape the pursuit of **.
This simple and crude way of dying.
On the contrary, it can arouse the sympathy of ordinary audiences for "consumables".
But. Such a fragment is almost negligible in the whole play, take Huang Zongwei, who occupies most of the scenes, for example, the prototype of the story is Liu Zhaohua, the "drug lord of the Chinese century", and people's impression of him is arrogant and arrogant.
How arrogant is he? He is not highly educated, but he is very good at chemistry, and at the age of 23, he made his own ** with extremely high purity that is not available on the market. Changed his name several times, fled from under the noses of the police, and formed a new company elsewhere. He has also been in the newspaper because of his righteousness and bravery.
I saw a wanted notice with my portrait on TV, and told the people around me that this person resembled him. After being arrested, he also rationalized his behavior, saying that he was "using ** to open the door to foreigners".
But only in the first few episodes of the series showed Huang Zongwei's character and initiative.
For example, Zhang Songwen used many details in the play to reflect the arrogant and arrogant side of this character, the most obvious being his snapping fingers.
Successfully fooled the police, and snapped his fingers proudly in the hallway.
I made a ** for the drug dealer Chen Jianchang's horse boy to taste, snapped his fingers three times, and the other party immediately wanted to die.
In order to get out, he pretended to give the formula, snapped his fingers, and the laboratory immediately **.
But it's a pity that the further the story develops, the more Huang Zongwei becomes like a tool that can only make drugs, and his sense of existence is getting lower and lower. Until the end, it can even be said that it is for the sake of reducing intelligence. What is realism? Vitality?
It doesn't exist. So may I ask, can such content really rely on a rough style to add points? Just because we like a certain brand of vinegar doesn't mean we give extra points to dumplings no matter what kind of filling they are, right?
At least here in sir, it can't be done.
Attitude determines the lower limit"Ice Hunting" officially ended today, judging from the data, it still maintains a high popularity, even under the impact of the new drama "Don't Be Tempted by Me", it can still maintain the second place on the Maoyan popularity list.
Douban 4The word-of-mouth of 5 did not have an impact on the series.
It even surpassed "The Long Season" and entered the top ten of Tencent's annual list.
And this is also the most painful point of Sir. No matter what the quality of the work is, as long as there are actors who can carry the drama and hot topics, it will definitely explode, make money, and have a celebration banquet. But look back.
In fact, the most puzzling point of this drama is, why is it so poorly filmed?
Is it an actor problem?
Of course not, Zhang Songwen's performance is still above the standard, and others, even if they are as blunt as Yao Anna's acting skills, but if you look far and put it in a domestic Xianxia drama, you will not feel that an actor can ruin a drama.
So is it the director's ability?
It doesn't seem to be true, even if Gao Qunshu's works over the years are unsatisfactory, he has also made good films such as "The Wind" and "Tokyo Trial", and has also single-handedly created good dramas such as "Conquest" and "*Thirteen Sects", and the latter is even similar to the theme of "Ice Hunting".
So what's the problem?
After watching the finale, Sir couldn't help but have a heart-wrenching theory, that is——The attitude of the whole crew. One of the most obvious examples: the post-editing didn't even understand the storyline of the show. For example, two years after Huang Zongwei escaped by faking his death, he met Ah Dong under the introduction of Ah Sheng and went to Shan Yue to make drugs. ** Grasped his whereabouts and prepared to make a plan to arrest him, at the meeting, the leader asked: "Where did Xiao Zhao go", and the colleague replied that he went to have a baby. Soon the camera shifted to the scene of Huang Zhongwei making drugs in Shanyue, and the subtitle indicated that this was two years later.
But when he returned to China, he found that Zhao Younan was still pregnant, and even that belly was as abrupt as a pillow.
How can a child be pregnant for two years and still pregnant. What's even more outrageous is that after another two years, Ami came out of prison and said that she had met a chivalrous warrior three years ago. But in fact, there were two years later, at least four years.
But any director who listens to a word and looks at the picture will not make such a low-level mistake. What about other than clipping? There is also the casualness of the prop group. The drug trafficker who can take out six million deposits in one hand can only hold the big brother, but Zhao Younan and the escort girl can hold more than 8,000 Motorola's flip phones. Before Zhao Younan took out her flip phone, she had just infiltrated the drug dealer's den and risked using the enemy's mobile phone to locate the location.
How did the flip phone come about, just forget it without explanation, if there was a mobile phone, why did you use a landline to report it before?
These aspects all reflect that this is either rough or not careful, which led to so many bugs, and it was not even modified after the broadcast. If, as mentioned earlier, it is only a matter of script, we can still think that this is a difficult and unavoidable result of a clever woman, but if a drama has serious bugs from editing to props, and even lighting, then it can only be considered that this is the entire crew, and they did not plan to shoot this drama from the beginning. Sir is not just talking. In fact, if you look carefully at Gao Qunshu's narrative, you can see some clues. On Weibo, Gao Qunshu mentioned the process from the establishment of the show to the start of filming. The first version of the script took two or three years to write, but I was not satisfied, and then I found a reporter to write the script, but the reporter couldn't write the police line, and I found a young director to write the police line.
But when I showed it to investors, the feedback I got was that the script was not good enough.
Despite this, considering the cost, I did not continue to change the screenwriter and revise the script.
Is it reasonable? Compared with the investment of 40 million, even if it is ultra-low-cost, it will cost 10 million, what proportion of this small screenwriting fee is occupied? Even everyone thinks there's something wrong with your script, so why not get the script right first and just think about starting filming? Even more outrageous. After Zhang Songwen joined, the director went through the script again, the reason was "I'm sorry for Songwen".
If someone else is going to shoot it, such a script is worthy of others? There is only one explanation for this: perhaps from the beginning, the crew didn't care whether the script was good or bad. They never thought that this show would be a hit. Maybe the original intention was just to complete a random project as usual. Of course, it's a bit chilling to say that, but there's no doubt about itAlthough the attitude of the creator of a work cannot determine its upper limit, it can determine its lower limit. Take the first hit drama "Flowers" at the beginning of the year. Even if you don't like it anymore and think it's levitating, you won't find it outrageous, and its lower limit is extremely high. Why? Not to mention the stories of dedication during filming, just saying that after the broadcast of "Flowers", Wong Kar-wai still adjusted the color of the series and revised a version, which can be seen that at least he is very serious about his works and cares about them.
Something made by a serious person is not too bad. And what about "Ice Hunting"? Obviously, all kinds of bugs are flying all over the sky, but on the one hand, Gao Qunshu posted an article, and the next one will use new actors, in order to see if it can be popular.
seems to want to say that the popularity of the series is his own credit.
On the other hand, this IP is also favored by many investors, and the film version of "Ice Hunting" is ready to be launched.
It was as if everyone was immersed in the joy of victory. is also a popular drama this year. The contrast between the two is stark.
Having said that, many people may not understand that it is just a "bad drama", why spend so much energy to talk about it?
That's right, it's easy to complain simply.
But after complaining.
We have to watch and see, the next Zhang Songwen will still be overdrawn? Will the next bad drama still be out of the circle?
Sir is reluctant to do so.
So it's not so much a spit as it isIt's a pity
We have seen a good deck of cards being broken, and we have also seen the result of our reputation being consumed for our own reasons.
It's even more a pity.
The people who are in it are still unaware.
After all, not all things can be defined by whether they "exploded" or not.
The work is so. Creators, even more so.