On June 11, the TV series " Jin Yong's Martial Arts World " was officially announced and will be exclusively launched online at 18:00 on June 17 on Tencent Video. The first chapter it aired was " Iron-Blooded Heart ", directed by Yang Lei, written by Luo Yiwei, starring Zisha, Bao Shang'en, etc., Zhou Yiwei , Gao Weiguang , Peter Ho , Ming Dao and Meng Ziyi makes a special appearance. The screenwriter, director and cast, as well as the advantages of its subject matter and content, are destined to become a phenomenal work.
The broadcast time of this TV series is very friendly. This friendliness is mainly reflected in two aspects. First, on June 17, most universities across the country have already had a holiday, and many primary and secondary schools have also begun to enter the summer period. Obviously, the TV series is launched online at this time, which is very friendly to young viewers.
The second aspect is that it will be online at 6 o'clock in the evening, which is very friendly to the TV series staff. When I was talking about the change of the launch time of the TV series "Fox Fairy Matchmaker", I once said that changing the launch time from 6pm to 7pm, or even later, seemed to take care of the fans, but in fact it was just It just increases the labor intensity of overtime work for the people involved in the production. The TV series was quickly launched online. After finishing it, everyone should get off work and take a rest. Don't get involved, let alone create data in the middle of the night.
This drama "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" obviously has no shortage of data, and the number of views must be very high. I estimate that the broadcast number of a single episode of this TV series should exceed 100 million. Why do I have this estimate? Because Mr. Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is so famous. However, in the past ten years, there has been no TV series about "The Condor" that has passed the quality standard. In the past ten years, it has accumulated hundreds of millions of young viewers. Everyone has a need to understand "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" through the TV series - this need is no less than ours back then.
In the 1980s, we also grew up watching Huang Rihua and Weng Meiling's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". People of our generation also started to understand Jin Yong from his TV series. There is a Jin Yong martial arts drama for every generation. How popular was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" back then? I would rather give up three meals than the Legend of the Condor Heroes. I didn't even eat, but I had to go to a neighbor's house with a TV to wait for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to be broadcast.
Of course, for a group of middle-aged and elderly viewers, I have a hunch that everyone may think that the quality of this version of "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" is not as high as that of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". The shooting quality of this current version is definitely the highest. Why is the quality expected to be low? There are several reasons.
The first reason is preconceptions. People tend to think that the TV series they watched in their youth were of the highest quality. I often write articles saying that "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is such a bad TV series, but after reading this statement, many readers turned against me. why? The aesthetic perception of TV dramas that we have established in our youth is often simple, kind and not high-end, but this is the cornerstone of aesthetics. If the cornerstone is passive, we will feel uncomfortable. This is true for Qiong Yao's drama, and so is Jin Yong's drama. For example, if I say that Jin Yong’s martial arts novels are hollow pleasure products, it’s no big deal, there will definitely be many readers who won’t be happy. Fortunately, these words were not said by me, but by Wang Shuo. If you are not happy, go to Mr. Shuo.
The second reason is that our current martial arts dramas do lack some flavor.
Martial arts dramas, and even martial arts novels, have one of the most important characteristics, and that is blank space. The last thing our current TV dramas don’t do is leave blank spaces. When I wrote a review article on martial arts dramas more than ten years ago, I mentioned that many of our martial arts dramas and martial arts films created by non-Hong Kong screenwriters and directors are easy to express emotions for the audience, and are easy to yell, thinking that this is momentum. , as everyone knows, the best martial arts momentum is outside the plot, it is the art of leaving blank space.
Judging from the content of the trailer of "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" this time, it is still a bit weak in terms of white space.If a martial arts drama wants to be good, it needs to be short. Use the shortest plot length to tell the most blank content. The rest, the audience will make up for it, which is the atmosphere of martial arts. If a play is told for dozens of episodes, there will definitely be less blank space and more verbosity.
In addition, Jin Yong's martial arts novels and martial arts dramas are popular for their own reasons - sitting in Hong Kong, looking forward to the Central Plains.
In the 1960s and 1970s, there were too few exchanges between Hong Kong and mainland China. At this time, Hong Kong emerged as an island or a peninsula, and people were full of curiosity about the mainland. What was the culture of the mainland like, and what were the people of the mainland like? At this time, Jin Yong's martial arts suddenly appeared, which to a certain extent satisfied the imagination of Hong Kong citizens about the culture of the Central Plains. Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels reshape an imaginary cultural world of the Central Plains in the context of martial arts and ancient times. For example, a great chivalrous man can bring peace to his family, country and the world, which is the essence of the Central Plains culture.
This is actually a noble wish for the Central Plains.
Now, communication between Hong Kong and mainland China is as simple as having a casual meal. This sense of "elegant hope" is gone. Many of our mainland screenwriters and directors did not have such "elegant expectations" when they received Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels or adapted film and television dramas - because we are in the Central Plains cultural circle. Being in a culture, it is difficult to turn a culture into more advanced film and television dramas. In the same way, Mo Yan would never be able to write about Northeast Gaomi Township in the literary world unless he left Gaomi and our beautiful Hebei. Another example, if teacher Liu Zhenyun had not left Yanjin and came to Beijing, which is surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers, he would never have been able to write "The Story of Leaving Yanjin" and "The Story of Returning to Yanjin".
This is actually the reason why our current Jin Yong dramas are not as good as before. The "departure and return" of culture is a big issue and very interesting. If you are interested, I will talk about it at another time. You might as well start watching the drama "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" first. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
