On the evening of March 13, the TV series " Flames " was launched on iQiyi with episode 6, officially starting the premiere mode. After the TV series aired, there were almost all negative reviews on Douban. But to be fair, this fantasy drama should be of higher quality among similar dramas, and it shouldn't have so many bad reviews.
Of course, the current state of all negative reviews is easy to understand. On the one hand, this drama is adapted from anime. Anime works themselves have advantages over TV series. Therefore, it is inevitable that fans of the original anime will give this TV series negative reviews. This is the same as us fans of the original novel " A Dream of Red Mansions " who feel that no one can make a "Dream of Red Mansions".
On the other hand, the negative reviews of this TV series were aimed at the male protagonist Ren Jialun . This needs to be looked at from both sides. The first is that as a popular star, Ren Jialun has starred in such a large-scale TV series. There are indeed some other popular fans who are anxious, fearing that he will continue to be popular. Therefore, they will come to "hack for a while". Movies and TV dramas that use popular stars all face this problem.
gives another example. During the Spring Festival, Zhang Yimou's movie " Article 20" vigorously promoted the participation of Zhao Liying . As a result, it was boycotted by other traffic fans. why? Because of the vigorous promotion of Zhao Liying's appearance, she could only seduce Zhao Liying's fans. Fans of other popular stars feel that Zhao Liying cannot be popular, otherwise our star will not be popular. Therefore, a large number of fan groups have chosen not to watch "Article 20".
Traffic stars turning back on film and television dramas will happen more commonly in the future. This time, the TV series "Fire" received a lot of negative reviews, which is also due to this situation. Among the fan groups, only fans of Ren Jialun are following the show, while other fans are blacklisting it. This has caused the TV series to have an embarrassing reputation. Traffic is a double-edged sword.
The second aspect is that Ren Jialun's acting skills in "Fire" are really different. This young man can still get by in popular dramas that don't require acting skills, especially modern idol dramas. When it came to this costume war drama, especially when the character's emotions were ups and downs, he couldn't control it. For example, when facing his dead father in episode 2, Ren Jialun's performance in the role was just like watching a live show. This level can only be found among traffic stars. On the contrary, watching the performances of Ma Su , Jiang Xin and He Rundong , it really beats Ren Jialun.
In addition, there is a setting in this TV series that I would like to discuss - using dragons as the villains. Is this setting not worthy of consideration?
Regarding this matter, those of us who write film and television drama reviews have vigorously discussed it once before and after the new millennium. At that time, many Western film and television dramas vilified the "dragon". After this thing appeared, it was domineering and killing innocent people indiscriminately. And many of our film and television dramas, after encountering the Western "dragon", translated it into "dragon". What we discussed at that time was that this "dragon" should not be translated into "dragon", but could be translated into something else.
The dragon is a symbol of peace, strength and tranquility among Chinese totems. The "dragon" in the West is often a monster that does many evil things. When we associate our own dragon with this "dragon" in the West, we are giving ourselves a bad name. At that time, this discussion won the approval of the vast majority of practitioners. The Chinese dragon is not translated as "dragon", but directly translated as "long".
The purpose of this is to refuse to stigmatize the Chinese dragon and to maintain the peaceful, powerful and tranquil characteristics of our Chinese dragon. However, in the TV series "Fire", in the opening plot, a black dragon appeared. Not only was this dragon not peaceful and peaceful, but it was evil and killed innocent people indiscriminately. In this way, there is no difference between the Chinese dragon and the Western "dragon".After watching "Fire", Western audiences will definitely say, you have been clamoring for so many years that the "Chinese dragon" is different from our "dragon", how come they are the same in "Fire"?
We, film and television drama workers, must have this common sense attitude. For the animal setting in "Fire", wouldn't it be better to use a Western "dragon" instead of our dragon, which is a four-legged dinosaur-like thing with wings? This is my personal opinion. This is of course just a suggestion and reference, and does not constitute criticism of this TV series.
Generally speaking, "Fire" has pretty good special effects among fantasy dramas. Of course, there is still some distance between it and "Game of Thrones". Putting it among similar fantasy dramas, it is quite good. In this TV series, once it enters the fighting state, it is very interesting to watch. Once the hero and heroine enter the state of having sex with each other, it becomes relatively ugly. Obviously, this is a TV series that can be watched in fast forward. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
