is an extremely popular IP, because of the dispersed copyright, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has been adapted in the form of online dramas, online giants, movies, etc. However, the quality is unstable most of the time, and the Douban score hovers between 3-4 points. There are only two exceptions. One is the Noon Sunshine team's "Jingjue Ancient City" ( Jin Dong version), but only this movie was filmed; the other is the "Yellow Skin Tomb", " Fu Qing Xiangxi ", "Longling Mysterious Cave", " Yunnan Insect Valley " and "Kunlun Divine Palace".
"Kunlun Temple" poster
"Yellow Skin Tomb" is still bad, "The Angry Xiangxi" begins to improve, and "The Mysterious Cave of Longling" establishes the "iron triangle" composed of Pan Yueming , Zhang Yuqi , and Jiang Chao . Since then, they have finally changed the "Iron Triangle" instead of filming a new drama. Pan Yueming and three others have signed five dramas at once. In addition to the "Longling Mysterious Cave", "Yunnan Insect Valley" and "Kunlun Temple" that have been aired, there are also "Returning to the South China Sea" that is being filmed, and "Wuxia Coffin Mountain" that will be filmed in the future.
"Dragon Ridge Cave" has a good reputation, with a Douban score of 8.2 points; the special effects of "Yunnan Insect Valley" is actually quite large, but the reputation is mediocre and barely passes the qualifications; this time "Kunlun Temple" is good again, with Douban scores of 8.2 points, and the scores fluctuated afterwards. After the unexpected direct finale on October 5, Douban scores were still stable at 8 points.
Direct to the finale Douban score 8 points
This is a relatively objective score. "Kunlun Temple" has learned some of the lessons from "Yunnan Insect Valley" and has made several good changes intuitively.
One, Teacher Pan finally lost a little weight. This type of adventure drama is not easy to perform. Most of the scenes are performed without physical performances (the later stage is entirely based on special effects). Pan Yueming's performance is not a problem, and he can also show the courage and strategy of Hu Bayi and remain calm in the face of danger. Unfortunately, he is really fat in "Yunnan Insect Valley" and lacks the heroic spirit of Hu Bayi as a former soldier. In "Kunlun Temple", Pan Yueming lost some weight, his spirit improved a lot, and his temperament was more in line with the character's temperament.
Wang Fatty (played by Jiang Chao) and Hu Bayi (played by Pan Yueming)
Secondly, the "iron triangle" is basically in the character framework, and the relationship between characters is expressed to the point.
Wang Fatty has always been a very likable character. Although he is greedy for money, lust, poor and humble, he is very delicate in his roughness and values affection and righteousness. In order to allow Fatty Wang to show more humor, "Yunnan Insect Valley" highlights his mouth too much, weakens his role in exploration. At the same time, the screenwriter made the relationship between Hu Bayi and shirley Yang clear. Some interactive scenes are even a bit industrial sweetener, which is inconsistent with the main line of the adventure and the character design.
In "Kunlun Temple", Fatty Wang is still a pistachio. During the thrilling adventure, he is a necessary adjustment of the plot rhythm, and he has not blurred his abilities.
is not worried about you, it is reminding you to go in the wrong direction.
Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang's relationship has lost the greasy feeling of "Yunnan Insect Valley", and it returns to restraint, and has a bit of maturity and implicit beauty that has reached the end. The deep friendship reflected in the "Iron Triangle" at the critical moment of life and death is still moving.
Third, I think of the mistake in the adaptation of "Yunnan Insect Valley" is that a branch line of villagers was added, which led to too late entering the core plot, and fans of the original work complained. "Kunlun Temple" avoids this point, and does not add characters randomly, nor does it add dramas to supporting roles randomly. Even the supporting roles in this edition are the most complete compared to previous works. The death of Han Shuna, Chuyi, and Peter Huang are all highlight moments of the characters, both tragic and noble; the adaptation of Uncle Ming and A Xiang is in line with the logic of the characters' behavior and is very three-dimensional.
When I was a child, I wanted to eat pomegranate , but I never ate Peter Huang. In my fantasy of being dying, I finally satisfied this regret of childhood
Of course, it is impossible to get praise just by doing the above points. As an adventure drama, "Kunlun Temple" must fully exert the core charm of this type of drama in order to attract core audiences.
adventure dramas share the same genes as tomb robbery novels, that is, they can help the audience escape their daily lives and enter a foreign world, and traverse various bizarre and weird monsters that are unlikely to witness in their daily lives, and feel high concentrations of emotions such as horror, thriller, tension, and stimulation. The more the work can make people devote themselves to it, the more the audience can experience the relaxed pleasure released after the extreme tension of emotions, the score of the work will naturally be higher.
So, whether it is a tomb robber novel or an adventure drama, the basic task of the creator is to create one mysterious and fascinating exotic space after another, like the upgrade mission in the game, from one to the next. The author of the novel must have strong imagination and knowledge. He must know a little about myths and legends, non-experienced history, yin and yang theory, Feng Shui theory, cultural relics knowledge, biological knowledge, etc., so that he can tell different ways in different tombs and arrange various bizarre "monsters". When it comes to film and television dramas, what is tested is the ability of the creators to depict words into pictures. They must turn the imaginative text imagination into intuitive and strong visual impact.
"Kunlun Temple" says that the adventure of the tomb of King Xian in Yunnan was over. Although the Iron Triangle got the Dust Pearl, it thought it would be able to untie the curse of the red spot on its body. But with the dust beads, I don’t know how to use them. As several people's condition worsens, their task of cracking the secret of the Dust Bead is even more urgent. Hu Bayi thought of his strange experience when he was in the military service in Kunlun Mountain, and felt that Yun Chenzhu had some connection with the ghost mother of Kunlun Demon Kingdom, and decided to go to the tomb of the ghost mother of the Demon Kingdom in Kunlun Mountain to find out.
The adventure motivation of this season
This has their adventure route: to find the address of the Ghost Mother’s Tomb, you must first find the ruins of the Gularo Dynasty. Gularo’s silver eyes are the distribution map of the tombs of the Demon Kingdoms throughout the ages, thereby positioning the first ghost mother’s tombs of the first generation. This leads to the first stop of the adventure - the Reincarnation Temple at the ruins of the Gularo Dynasty, and then leads to the first "monster" - Eat Sin Baru ; arrives in Karamir In the mountain, we encountered wolves in the Zanggu Gully; after reaching the Dragon Top, we entered the tomb of the Cangreal Sect and encountered Snow Maitreya; we confirmed the location of the nine-story demon tower, and after chiseling the top floor, we fought with the wolves again; after entering the inside of the nine-story demon tower, we were even more dangerous, from the ice insects flying out of the crystal corpse, to the evil Luohai City in the hallucination, and the battle of the Spotted Dragon at the duel...
Snow Maitreya
Every adventure point is a place where special effects are used. Compared with several previous works, are the special effects of "Kunlun Temple" more refined? In fact, there is no one. It can only be said to be "enough", not as rough as the Internet is large, but when you project the screen on a large-screen TV, you will find that the details of the special effects are still room for improvement; although there are many real-life shootings, there are also many traces of cutouts slightly obvious. There are many cutouts like
. At the same time, I don’t know whether it is because of the censorship (many of the descriptions in the novel are too terrifying), or to save special effects costs, some adventure scenes have been omitted directly. For example, the red flowers of blood bait are gone, the white-bearded fish king fights the spotted dragon are gone, and all kinds of strange creatures in the Evil Luohai City are gone... Compared with the novel, the series presents the mysterious foreign world much simpler.
The creation of a foreign world actually does not only rely on "enough" special effects, it is also largely inseparable from the creation of atmosphere. From "The Angry Xiangxi" to "Kunlun Temple", I have always put a lot of effort into the atmosphere. This is a safe strategy, and the special effects are not enough to make up the atmosphere. The changes in light and shadow are combined with the thriller sound effect create a strong sense of suspense. At this time, the "monster" has another jump scare, which can always scare the audience every trial and error.
"Kunlun Temple" also uses dreams quite cleverly to portray "strange powers and chaos". First, some horror shots of divine and "feudal superstition", and then a scene where a character wakes up from a dream, and can reasonably "carry private goods". The audience is also willing to enjoy this kind of horror and is willing to follow the protagonist's pace to start a new adventure - after all, it provides a landscape that is almost impossible to see in daily life, and the audience's curiosity is the greatest motivation to watch dramas.
"zombie" in sleep
It is worth mentioning that the director of "Kunlun Temple" is the director of Taiwan, Cai Yuexun (the previous few movies were Fei Zhenxiang ). The difference between the two directors can be seen: Cai Yuexun is more scene-like in the design of some fighting scenes; rhythm control is relaxed and relaxed, and humor is well combined with adventure, lyricism and adventure; Cai Yuexun, who has rich experience in idol dramas, can better hit the hearts of the audience in grasping emotional scenes. The miserable fate of the woman as a sacrifice makes people feel sad and infuriated. The last episode of the lyrical dramas (such as Shirley Yang Yu feels freedom, Shirley Yang and Partridge Whistle's "reunion") is handled more delicately.
Shirley Yang, who lifted the family curse, felt relieved in the rain
In short, this version of "Kunlun Temple" is still OK. Real life is exhausting, and the mysterious and exotic world created by Kunlun Temple may bring us a little stimulation - whether it is visual or psychological.
(Source: The Paper Author: Yu Li)
