text | Linghu Boguang
This recent domestic film and television drama is quite boring. The hustle and bustle brought by the 2024 Spring Festival has completely ended, and there are no new movies released. The TV series " Flowers " has not been a hit since then, while "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" has obviously become less popular.
At this time, " Ice Hunting " directed by Gao Qunshu and starring Zhang Songwen and Yao Anna, which was launched a few days ago, has received a lot of attention.
However, this drama has been aired for more than ten episodes, and the reviews have been mixed. Judging from how many episodes Bo Guangjun has watched, this drama is of good quality and can be watched, but it is indeed not a masterpiece of domestic anti-drug dramas. The main problem is that the actors are still good, but the quality of the drama is not enough, and the plot is also at a low level. A kind of oscillation between reality reduction and television art. TV series like
are now the mainstream. They can be watched but not popular. But today's netizens are very dichotomous, either a masterpiece or a bad movie. If you praise an advantage and praise it to the sky, the disadvantages are the same, but is it possible that they are actually somewhere in the middle?
The biggest selling point of "Hunting Ice" is the "actors"? Yes, but the heroine is really not good.
Looking at the drama "Ice Hunting" so far, the biggest selling point and attraction are really the actors. In addition to Zhang Songwen (more on that below), there are several people whose acting skills are quite surprising, and they are all new faces that I have never seen before.
For example, Boss He, the acting is so relaxed, and there is no sense of abruptness in the scenes with Zhang Songwen. It is a pity that he was released too early. He should be given an important role; and the restaurant waiter Ami, the Cantonese flirting scene with Zhang Songwen was too tense. , I also have a special temperament, which gives me a feeling of Maggie Cheung (only like, not compared). In addition, Boss He’s lover, the prostitute Aaron likes, and Aaron himself all gave me a feeling of being both amateur and good at acting.
The heroine Zhao Younan (played by Anna Yao), I think she is quite suitable to play a police officer. She has a rough look that is not suitable for delicate makeup, and her temperament is a bit naive and reckless? She is probably the kind of young policewoman who dares to carry bricks and kill people directly. She looks very healthy and looks like a young policewoman who knows how to box. If
said that she is from Inner Mongolia or Shaanxi in the Northeast, I would believe her. She is bold, straightforward and righteous. Domestic entertainment is actually very capitalized now. Xiaohuadan and young actresses of her age are quite delicate. This one has a rather heavy makeup look. It seems that there are really no actresses with this kind of temperament, right?
Her bigger problem is that her lines and performance are still too immature, and the reckless female police officer is really not good at acting.
Another big problem is that the character settings in the TV series are not likable. I don’t know if everyone has noticed it. It seems that after 2010, domestic police dramas and military dramas with the main theme are particularly fond of setting up young protagonists (whether they are male protagonists or female protagonists) who are reckless and reckless, do not follow the rules, and end up cheating them.
From the three protagonists in "Operation Icebreaker" who scolded the gods, to various military dramas that irritate the protagonists, etc. Today’s audiences really don’t like to watch it. They will criticize every TV series they watch, but the next TV series will still be written like this.
Just like in "Hunting Ice", in the entire anti-drug team, it's as if the heroine is the only one who has the brains to discover all the details, and the others are useless. Moreover, the heroine contradicts her boss time and time again, and the captain later said that she would Obeying the orders of his superiors, he jumped out of the window and ran away. It was hard to imagine that he was a man from the army.
In order to set off the heroine, the supporting characters have to be overly intelligent, but the setting is that the veteran policeman with more than ten years of experience is not as good as the fledgling young man? This part is very unconvincing. You can find another way when everyone is fighting for wits and courage, but you can't be a fool of everyone and you are the only one who can be wise. Such a drama will not tease the audience, but will only arouse the audience's disgust.
text | Linghu Boguang
This recent domestic film and television drama is quite boring. The hustle and bustle brought by the 2024 Spring Festival has completely ended, and there are no new movies released. The TV series " Flowers " has not been a hit since then, while "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" has obviously become less popular.
At this time, " Ice Hunting " directed by Gao Qunshu and starring Zhang Songwen and Yao Anna, which was launched a few days ago, has received a lot of attention.
However, this drama has been aired for more than ten episodes, and the reviews have been mixed. Judging from how many episodes Bo Guangjun has watched, this drama is of good quality and can be watched, but it is indeed not a masterpiece of domestic anti-drug dramas. The main problem is that the actors are still good, but the quality of the drama is not enough, and the plot is also at a low level. A kind of oscillation between reality reduction and television art. TV series like
are now the mainstream. They can be watched but not popular. But today's netizens are very dichotomous, either a masterpiece or a bad movie. If you praise an advantage and praise it to the sky, the disadvantages are the same, but is it possible that they are actually somewhere in the middle?
The biggest selling point of "Hunting Ice" is the "actors"? Yes, but the heroine is really not good.
Looking at the drama "Ice Hunting" so far, the biggest selling point and attraction are really the actors. In addition to Zhang Songwen (more on that below), there are several people whose acting skills are quite surprising, and they are all new faces that I have never seen before.
For example, Boss He, the acting is so relaxed, and there is no sense of abruptness in the scenes with Zhang Songwen. It is a pity that he was released too early. He should be given an important role; and the restaurant waiter Ami, the Cantonese flirting scene with Zhang Songwen was too tense. , I also have a special temperament, which gives me a feeling of Maggie Cheung (only like, not compared). In addition, Boss He’s lover, the prostitute Aaron likes, and Aaron himself all gave me a feeling of being both amateur and good at acting.
The heroine Zhao Younan (played by Anna Yao), I think she is quite suitable to play a police officer. She has a rough look that is not suitable for delicate makeup, and her temperament is a bit naive and reckless? She is probably the kind of young policewoman who dares to carry bricks and kill people directly. She looks very healthy and looks like a young policewoman who knows how to box. If
said that she is from Inner Mongolia or Shaanxi in the Northeast, I would believe her. She is bold, straightforward and righteous. Domestic entertainment is actually very capitalized now. Xiaohuadan and young actresses of her age are quite delicate. This one has a rather heavy makeup look. It seems that there are really no actresses with this kind of temperament, right?
Her bigger problem is that her lines and performance are still too immature, and the reckless female police officer is really not good at acting.
Another big problem is that the character settings in the TV series are not likable. I don’t know if everyone has noticed it. It seems that after 2010, domestic police dramas and military dramas with the main theme are particularly fond of setting up young protagonists (whether they are male protagonists or female protagonists) who are reckless and reckless, do not follow the rules, and end up cheating them.
From the three protagonists in "Operation Icebreaker" who scolded the gods, to various military dramas that irritate the protagonists, etc. Today’s audiences really don’t like to watch it. They will criticize every TV series they watch, but the next TV series will still be written like this.
Just like in "Hunting Ice", in the entire anti-drug team, it's as if the heroine is the only one who has the brains to discover all the details, and the others are useless. Moreover, the heroine contradicts her boss time and time again, and the captain later said that she would Obeying the orders of his superiors, he jumped out of the window and ran away. It was hard to imagine that he was a man from the army.
In order to set off the heroine, the supporting characters have to be overly intelligent, but the setting is that the veteran policeman with more than ten years of experience is not as good as the fledgling young man? This part is very unconvincing. You can find another way when everyone is fighting for wits and courage, but you can't be a fool of everyone and you are the only one who can be wise. Such a drama will not tease the audience, but will only arouse the audience's disgust.
In addition, China is different from the United States, Japan and South Korea. Ordinary people know how to talk about collectivism, not to mention members of party and state organs, let alone soldiers. The first priority is to obey the collective, rather than taking credit for it, or so-called "Being on the front line" means that all deployments are the result of the joint efforts of the collective will. If something happens, in most cases it will destroy the overall arrangement. In a few cases, it will be a blind cat encountering a dead mouse.
Has Zhang Songwen’s appearance changed? The crew of "Hunting Ice" had to "knock on one"
Zhang Songwen's performance was as good as ever. Although Huang Zongwei and Gao Qiqiang have the same voice, they can be seen as two people. It’s really not a boast, Gao Qiqiang was involved in the underworld, but he was an honest person at the beginning. He was either cleansed or forced, and then he tasted the benefits.
Huang Zongwei has a good life. Public institutions probably have establishments. Not to mention back then, working in a telecommunications bureau now is considered a good job for ordinary people. Huang Zongwei just wants money, and he knows that drug trafficking means death or doing it. Judging from the number of episodes that have been updated so far, it seems that he is so desperate for money, maybe he simply wants money, while the ancestor worshiper feels that he just wants to get ahead.
What Huang Zongwei probably thinks is that having money = getting ahead and honoring one’s ancestors. And the three sons also need a lot of money. Huang Zongwei just recognizes the money. Gao Qiqiang wants others to respect or fear him more, and is afraid of being bullied. He has been dependent on Gao Qisheng since he was a child. Huang Zongwei was taken care of by his neighbors and people, and he probably lived well when he was a child.
Huang Zongwei's character design is particularly interesting. Gao Qiqiang is generally restrained and rational. Huang Zongwei is particularly crazy. He says he is superstitious about gods and Buddhas, but in fact he is more superstitious about himself. This man is genius, arrogant, cruel, extremely self-centered, despises everything, and even sometimes has He is kind of innocent and cruel. He is used to hiding himself and pretending to be a gentle and good person but occasionally reveals his true face of being careless and perfunctory. When he is proud, he can't help but snap his fingers. It is easy for him to tease ordinary people.
I felt these internalized parts while watching the plot. The finger snap was also designed by Zhang Songwen. It should be said that he was basically improvising throughout the whole drama. Director Zhang Songwen obviously favored him more, and the quality really improved once he appeared.
The police are also good. Although they are very plain, they were so unobtrusive in that era. I feel that if the female subject is replaced, it may be better (but I don’t know who can play the reckless policewoman). Starting the first episode I didn't feel anything in one episode, until later on, she always had the expression of someone owed her. Whether this character is walking, chatting, attending meetings or handling cases, she always feels very tight when asked by passers-by, without the sense of relaxation that other people have.
is rustic and advanced? Zhang Songwen, why is Yao Anna's new drama "a bit over the top"
The bigger problem of this drama in my opinion is that it is a bit poor, and the director uses his own skills to deal with it (realism). In the end, the texture of the finished film is a bit strange in the eyes of current audiences. It feels very real (like a documentary), but Zhang Songwen comes out with a bit of an American drama texture.
has a fragmented style of painting, which feels a bit earthy yet high-end.
The reason is that the investment in this drama is not high at first glance, and the second princess is starring as the heroine and there is no money to join the series. At the same time, many people don’t know that the director of this drama is Gao Qunshu, and his earlier works are "Thirteen Murder Cases", "Conquer", "Tokyo Trial", "", " Detective Hunter Zhang", "一Romantic affairs " " trident " and so on.
He can actually shoot high-end movies like "The Wind", but he can also shoot TV series with an ancient quality like "Conquer".
The investment in this drama is indeed low, the filters are not uniform, and a wine bottle prop is reused several times. All the actors and staff live together in a budget hotel worth tens of yuan, said Liu Chun, who went to visit the show. The poor man treated him to two bottles of beer. But the drama produced actually has a documentary style that is both wild and wild, wild and crazy.
When Zhang Songwen comes out, it looks like an American drama, and when the extras come out, it looks like "Today's Statement".But if you have watched Gao Qunshu's early TV series, they are actually Gao Qunshu's consistent characteristics, long-shot documentary type, and even faster-paced. It's true that many people have plain faces, but they don't feel like they're being staged. Some of the lines are really funny and interesting. I don't play according to the routine. I watched the highlights and there were improvisations.
Although they are really poor due to the budget, they definitely did their best within the budget, and Zhang Songwen is definitely the male protagonist. The second princess has a sense of immersion that ignores the camera. Maybe because she really doesn’t understand, but it fits her well. The characters and other amateur NPCs are even more interesting. It’s a magical feeling to play opposite Zhang Songwen who has such good acting skills!
If you can tolerate some of the plot settings of the protagonist and this earthy yet high-end painting style, it seems a bit over the top.
Want to watch Zhang Songwen, but can’t stand Yao Anna? Is "Ice Hunt" a good drama?
The drama "Hunting for Ice" has obvious advantages and disadvantages. The shortcoming is that the camera is not good at many times. Most of the actors are relatively plain. Those who are used to watching exquisite period dramas may have to get used to it. The advantage is that the plot is compact, the pace is fast, and as soon as the camera reaches Zhang Songwen, the quality immediately soars. There are many long shots that are very enjoyable to watch in one shot.
But putting aside the issue of highlighting, I think the most dazzling thing is the lines. The extras did find actors with corresponding local accents according to their backgrounds, but the dialogues in the countryside should be in dialects and all the dialogues are in Mandarin (not to mention that they are not included for the audience’s understanding) Dialect details, after all, Cantonese and Northeastern dialect are used as selling points in the drama).
There are many idioms in one line of ordinary people, which has a strong sense of dissonance; not to mention forcing the plot to advance, the progress is like being driven away, the clues are very unreasonable, and even in order to keep up with the progress, most of the clues are directly from the public When I asked, the extras directly integrated the clues and presented them to me like NPCs, without any reaction that real people should have.
So, this drama has high upper and lower limits, and a strong sense of fragmentation. It tries very hard to create a sense of reality but lacks the skills. I don’t even want to talk about the part of the second princess. It’s like a drama, contradicting the leader and talking nonsense, and turning the traditional The image of the overbearing heroine is copied and pasted onto a drug police officer, and her scenes with her partner are just a forced emotional line. She and Zhang Songwen are a sharp contrast between ordinary people and professional actors.
In short, this drama is like Fire and Ice. If you want to experience American dramas for a while, you can try "1818 Golden Eye". I tied it today. The first half of the first episode was a bit slow, but it got better after Zhang Songwen came out. The second and third episodes had a good pace, the fourth episode took off, the fifth episode became a god, the sixth and seventh episodes slowly introduced new forces, and the eighth episode started to have an undercurrent again. .
The acting skills in this drama are very extreme, as if you are watching an amateur web drama at one moment and a high-quality web drama at the next.
As mentioned at the beginning, more movies and TV dramas nowadays are in the middle, good or bad, not bad. If you are interested in a certain point, you can watch it. It is neither a great drama nor a bad movie.
But if you have watched Gao Qunshu's early TV series, they are actually Gao Qunshu's consistent characteristics, long-shot documentary type, and even faster-paced. It's true that many people have plain faces, but they don't feel like they're being staged. Some of the lines are really funny and interesting. I don't play according to the routine. I watched the highlights and there were improvisations.Although they are really poor due to the budget, they definitely did their best within the budget, and Zhang Songwen is definitely the male protagonist. The second princess has a sense of immersion that ignores the camera. Maybe because she really doesn’t understand, but it fits her well. The characters and other amateur NPCs are even more interesting. It’s a magical feeling to play opposite Zhang Songwen who has such good acting skills!
If you can tolerate some of the plot settings of the protagonist and this earthy yet high-end painting style, it seems a bit over the top.
Want to watch Zhang Songwen, but can’t stand Yao Anna? Is "Ice Hunt" a good drama?
The drama "Hunting for Ice" has obvious advantages and disadvantages. The shortcoming is that the camera is not good at many times. Most of the actors are relatively plain. Those who are used to watching exquisite period dramas may have to get used to it. The advantage is that the plot is compact, the pace is fast, and as soon as the camera reaches Zhang Songwen, the quality immediately soars. There are many long shots that are very enjoyable to watch in one shot.
But putting aside the issue of highlighting, I think the most dazzling thing is the lines. The extras did find actors with corresponding local accents according to their backgrounds, but the dialogues in the countryside should be in dialects and all the dialogues are in Mandarin (not to mention that they are not included for the audience’s understanding) Dialect details, after all, Cantonese and Northeastern dialect are used as selling points in the drama).
There are many idioms in one line of ordinary people, which has a strong sense of dissonance; not to mention forcing the plot to advance, the progress is like being driven away, the clues are very unreasonable, and even in order to keep up with the progress, most of the clues are directly from the public When I asked, the extras directly integrated the clues and presented them to me like NPCs, without any reaction that real people should have.
So, this drama has high upper and lower limits, and a strong sense of fragmentation. It tries very hard to create a sense of reality but lacks the skills. I don’t even want to talk about the part of the second princess. It’s like a drama, contradicting the leader and talking nonsense, and turning the traditional The image of the overbearing heroine is copied and pasted onto a drug police officer, and her scenes with her partner are just a forced emotional line. She and Zhang Songwen are a sharp contrast between ordinary people and professional actors.
In short, this drama is like Fire and Ice. If you want to experience American dramas for a while, you can try "1818 Golden Eye". I tied it today. The first half of the first episode was a bit slow, but it got better after Zhang Songwen came out. The second and third episodes had a good pace, the fourth episode took off, the fifth episode became a god, the sixth and seventh episodes slowly introduced new forces, and the eighth episode started to have an undercurrent again. .
The acting skills in this drama are very extreme, as if you are watching an amateur web drama at one moment and a high-quality web drama at the next.
As mentioned at the beginning, more movies and TV dramas nowadays are in the middle, good or bad, not bad. If you are interested in a certain point, you can watch it. It is neither a great drama nor a bad movie.
