Everyone can try your best to guess the murderer. As long as you guess correctly, come to me to claim the prize!
Such a confident statement comes from Bai Shan, the director of the popular new drama "Tang Dynasty Strange Stories: Journey to the West".
At the press conference for the play, Bai Shan expressed his confidence in the suspenseful quality of the play by giving a prize for correct guesses.
Judging from the reaction on social media, Bai Shan is really not bragging.
Although the majority of the Internet Holmes was aroused to challenge and set off a wave of speculation on the entire Internet, as the plot progressed, their frustrated speeches were all over social media:
Guessed wrong again, I am not worthy of guessing this season The murderer!
In the first two cases, I guessed them all wrong.
Who can guess the murderer in the first case? I’m convinced, everyone has guessed it all over
The murderer is really hard to guess. Am I too careless or too stupid?
Under the sighs of netizens, the second part of the Tang Wei series, "Tang Wei: Westward Journey", has also become a hot topic on the Internet recently with a high degree of discussion.
So far, the show has extremely outstanding broadcast data.
has only been broadcast for 4 days, and it has received over 100 million online views. The performance of 89 hot searches during the same period also proves its popularity.
Against the background of the poor reputation of many Chinese drama sequels, it is quite surprising that "Tang Gui 2" has achieved the current results.
So, is the popularity of the show just because "the murderer is difficult to guess" ?
Compared with the first season, which scored a high score of 7.9 points, what changes have been made in "Tang Gui 2", which was launched after 2 years?
To solve these problems, we might as well start with the first case of "Tang Gui 2" "Conquering the Demon" .
The story frame of the case is very clear.
It tells the story of a series of murders caused by a mural. The famous painter Qin Xiaobai (played by Yu Yi) was ordered by Princess Taiping to go to the local Chengfo Temple to paint a mural.
During the creation of this mural with the theme of Buddhist demon-conquering, a series of murders also occurred, and they were related to the "Devil King" in the mural.
This unit case was originally a case in the first season.
However, due to various reasons, this chapter called "Conquering the Demon" was eventually moved to this season.
But as the saying goes, you are never afraid of being late when you have a good meal. This "Belated Arrival" chapter is indeed wonderfully filmed.
In this, a lot of improvements in the second season compared to the first season were also filmed...
1,
The spooky flavor has been upgraded, and the Chinese horror aesthetics is full of
Among domestic detective dramas, the Tang Wei series has always had a distinctive highlight.
is just one word - strange.
Under the premise of detective dramas, screenwriters often wrap their works in a layer of Chinese horror.
Although we as viewers firmly believe that the detective drama will eventually return to the basic point of man-made crimes,
but when one by one strange images or settings emerge, When watching the drama, we will inevitably be shocked.
The opening of the second season of "Conquering the Demon" takes Tang Wei's "cunning" word's shock to the extreme.
In the characterization of this unit, the screenwriter injected three distinctive spooky flavors, allowing us to feel the atmosphere of oriental horror aesthetics.
The first strange smell - the strangeness of legend;
In the "Conquering the Demon" unit, the screenwriter used the characters' "legends" and "talks" around the murals to enhance the strangeness of the plot.
There is a prophetic "saying";
Painter Qin Xiaobai used the drunken anger to say the threatening words "The devil will kill people after he touches his eyes, and he will kill Xie Lv Lang".
The strange thing is that the next day, the named Xie Lulang was found dead on the street.
Immediately afterwards, there were panic-stricken "legends";
After the death of Xie Lulang, an old man claimed to have witnessed the murder with his own eyes, and accused the murderer of the devil who had not yet finished his eyes in the mural.
Judging from the old man’s confident tone, he definitely saw something terrible that night.
In the ancient society where "rumors were believed and rumors were spread", such evil ghost legends naturally became more and more intense, making the background of the story weird.
The second strange smell is the strangeness of the techniques;
What makes people feel the evil atmosphere of the case is also the murderer's modus operandi.
After killing Xie Lulang, the murderer cruelly dug out his heart and liver.
With the appearance of multiple corpses with similar death methods, the protagonist’s direction of investigation was pointed to the murals.
It turns out that it is rumored that the top raw material "liquid" that is the highlight of the mural needs to be made from human liver.
The murderer’s method of tearing out people’s hearts once again provided a strange basis for the “murder murder theory”.
The third weird smell is the weirdness of imagery;
The first two kinds of weirdness only create a sense of atmosphere from the side, but the last one is different. It shocks the audience with a direct visual impact.
The devil and the flying dancer on the mural are all reproduced from the original version.
It is worth mentioning that the screenwriter used the plot of "the protagonist meets a ghost and doubts himself" to strengthen the weird flavor of the work. In the plot of
, the male protagonist Lu Lingfeng goes deep into the ghost market to investigate and encounters the devil in the old man's mouth.
This demon king not only directly collides with the mural, but also rides the mythical beast Qiongqi in " Classic of Mountains and Seas ".
At this time, the male protagonist’s eyes were obviously confused.
After returning from the ghost market, the male protagonist’s determination to eradicate the murals shows that his subconscious has indeed been shaken...
Such a setting by the screenwriter is also similar to the classic drama "Detective Di Renjie" between Master Di and Yuan Yuan. The plot of Fang witnessing the headless general is similar but similar in approach.
Even the protagonist, who is responsible for giving the audience a sense of security, was frightened. Let’s just say whether the case is weird or scary enough?
2, reversal and upgrade, the murderer is definitely harder to guess than the first season
Tang Gui 2 has improved over the previous season because of the greatly upgraded suspense index and the multi-layered reversal of the choice of the murderer.
Let’s go back to the topic at the beginning of the article:
Why is the murderer in this drama so difficult to guess?
It is not difficult to solve this problem.
The reason is that the crew avoided several murderer routines that were easy to guess.
In the plot of the first season, off-site factors including actor fame, cast order and other off-site factors were interpreted by netizens as guessing the murderer. routine.
The most typical one is undoubtedly the "Stone Bridge Picture" unit.
When veteran actor Wang Jinsong appeared, due to the huge gap in popularity between him and other actors, barrage netizens basically locked in advance that his character was the murderer.
This time, director Bai Shan made it clear that the screenwriter has learned the lessons of the previous season and avoided many routines.
For this reason, even the starring Yang Zhigang said that he had to read the last page of the script to know who the murderer was.
From the perspective of the second season, the screenwriter has indeed put in many layers of effort in the "murderer setting".
In the first layer, a wide range of suspects are established;
Taking the "Conquering the Demon" unit as an example, there are many candidates for the murderer, and the screenwriter is not eager to "clear" the candidates from suspicion.
Behind the mural murder case, the crazy painter is naturally regarded as a suspect.
In addition to him, the sinister old man in the bookstore, the official Zhang Qian with cunning eyes, and the erratic bookseller all have certain suspicions.
There are more than 20 supporting characters in the unit, and until the finale, at least 5 suspect characters remain, which greatly makes it more difficult for the audience to guess the murderer.
The second level of kung fu, breaking away from the routines of the first season;
In view of the audience's habitual "guessing the murderer routine", the screenwriter also cleverly responded to the counter-logic.
For example, let the well-known acting school "clear the suspicion early".
In the second case "The Death of Wu Zuo", Wu Zuo's mother, played by veteran actor Shi Ke, showed the sorrow and resilience of a mother from the beginning, and she will basically not be regarded as a candidate for the murderer.
In other unit cases, the screenwriter also has potential settings.
The third level of kung fu is reversal and reversal;
As the plot progresses, the screenwriter continues to insert various false and true details to add reversal points to the plot.
In the "Conquering the Demonic Transformation" unit, a certain deceased person left the last words "A monk is not a monk, a wall is not a wall", so the host who was not originally suspected was promoted as a candidate.
A large amount of information flow comes, making the audience's thinking constantly in the process of guessing and reversal, which also makes the whole process of "guessing the murderer" gradually increase the suspense.
There is no doubt that this season’s Tang Gui is definitely more unconventional than the previous season.
3, the temple line is upgraded, and the Tang Wei universe is further extended.
What surprises Qingshi even more is Tang Wei’s idea of upgrading the plot pattern in the new season.
While the investigation line is advancing, the screenwriter also added a large proportion of temple battle lines.
Behind the seemingly independent murder cases, there is actually a struggle between the emperor Li Dan, Princess Taiping and the prince Li Longji.
If the first season was just a secret battle of wits, then this season, three The tension between the two forces is basically close to "turning the tables".
In the first unit "Conquering the Demon", surrounding the murderous mural, the three parties that are restricting each other have their own potential plans.
To support this view, there are also hints given by the second season timeline.
The story background of the second season is set in Tang Dynasty 712 . Based on historical analysis, this year was not only the first year that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Longji ascended the throne, but also the year when the conflict between him and his aunt Princess Taiping reached its climax.
Coupled with the "army battle" plot that appeared many times in the trailer, it can be basically determined that the proportion of court dramas this season will not be low, and the scale of the conflict will escalate.
As the preparation for the third season is put on the schedule, the title of the next season also gives more hints about the court line.
While the protagonist’s investigation line is advancing, the proportion of the court line will only gradually increase.
On this basis, the entire series will also unfold the plot universe in a two-line parallel way.
And this will make the show more and more interesting.
The continuous improvement of the above three basic items has given the quality of the show a lower limit guarantee.
What makes Qingshi happy is the attempt made by the crew of "Tang Wei" without sticking to routines.
In addition to the counter-logical setting of the murderer mentioned earlier, each unit also has its own surprises.
For example, in the second case "The Death of Wu Zuo" , on the premise that the reverse setting is still brilliant, the conceptual layout of this unit is very ingenious.
And this also allows the play to add more humanistic aspects to the suspenseful reasoning.
In the comments of netizens, there are positive comments such as "The Second Unit Conquers the Gods" and "I will give 5 stars directly after reading the second unit".
And the third case "Fengxue Mojiadian" is the ultimate satisfaction for fans of literal reasoning.
The story focuses on the Blizzard Villa model of traditional mystery novels, setting the murder case in a confined space where multiple characters coexist.
Such a story setting makes the plot rhythm enter a simpler and crude guessing mode.
As an audience, we also need to find flaws in the characters’ lines.
Wrapped in a strange coat, the screenwriter adds different reasoning methods to different cases, which also makes the work always full of new ideas.
When most domestic drama sequels fall into the dilemma of "exhaustion of inspiration", we are also very happy to see that the "Tang Wei" series has not followed the same path.
The crew of "Tang Wei", which took the initiative to innovate and seek change, successfully got rid of the "sequel dilemma" and carved a new path for itself.
As the reputation of "Tang Gui 2" with 40 episodes and 9 cases is fermenting, and as the filming of the third season is put on the schedule, Qingshi has to admit one thing:
Yang Zhigang, this time he has caught the king of bombs again!
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