In recent years, purchasing the copyright of Korean variety shows for localization has become the norm in the variety show circle, from the popular competitive reality show "Running Man" , to the outdoor variety show "Flowers" series, to the slow variety show "Three "Three meals a day" , you can find the same version on Chinese screens.
Recently, another Korean variety show sold its copyright to China. It is the indoor escape program that became popular in Korea last year - "The Great Escape" .
"The Great Escape" is a puzzle + adventure program. The content of the program is to take the guests to a secret room prepared in advance by the program team, and then let them look for clues, overcome many levels, and finally open the doors of all the secret rooms. Only then can one successfully escape.
Each secret room has been carefully designed, "Abandoned Factory" , "Zombie Hospital" , "Haunted House Theme" . Each episode of the secret room makes people's adrenaline soar and is a joy to watch.
This program can be said to be the first of its kind in the secret room variety show. Because there are a lot of rigorous reasoning processes in the program without lacking variety show effects, it has been well received since its launch. The Douban score of the first season of
was as high as .2, and the second season was even better, creating a good score of .5.
The original version has great results, and many people believe that the Chinese version should be equally effective. Unfortunately, after watching two episodes, Rotten Tomatoes just want to say: This is the most intelligent brain-burning variety show I have ever seen!
Compared with the original score of 9.5, the Chinese version's score of 6.4 is even less impressive.
The program team invited a total of guests. Judging from the lineup, it can be regarded as a good combination of " intelligent entertainment ".
The first is Yang Mi . Previously, when Yang Mi participated in "Happy Camp" , she had shown amazing memory. She could memorize 20 numbers in 20 seconds, with an accuracy rate of up to 95%, which made people exclaim with her Ability should go to "The Most Powerful Brain" .
Therefore, Rotten Tomatoes applauds the choice of Yang Mi as a guest in "Escape Room".
The second one is Deng Lun . Deng Lun also participated in "Celebrity Detective" . His reasoning ability is amazing, and he is the IQ in the show .
Therefore, Deng Lun is also the best candidate for this kind of reasoning program.
Except for the above two, the remaining guests are all comedians: the hold sister Xie Yilin who has returned from postpartum, the internet celebrity athlete Zhang Guowei , the very good showman Wei Daxun and Meng Mengda The little brother is Huang Minghao .
Although it is an "intelligent entertainment" group, it can be seen at a glance that entertainment is greater than intelligence, and people can't help but sweat: Can these 6 people really support a show that judges heroes based on IQ?
The results proved that such worries were not unnecessary, because IQ became the most serious shortcoming and slot in the first episode of the program.
In the Korean version, several guests had to gather briefly before being taken into the secret room, mainly to test everyone's game skills. The program team gave the guests a few common questions in escape rooms to warm up for the show.
In the Chinese version, the atmosphere is completely different. When everyone meets, it is like going on a spring outing for primary school students, laughing and joking, unaware of the dilemma they are about to face.
Sure enough, when they were taken into the secret room, they were left in a state of confusion. The first secret room scene arranged by the
program team was a barbecue restaurant, and the first room the members arrived was the utility room of the barbecue restaurant.
Faced with the overwhelming amount of clutter in the room, the members started the simplest and crudest escape method - search .
Searched for clothes, shelves, boxes... After the first wave of raids, the utility room had changed beyond recognition.
faced its first failure, and the true nature of all members began to be revealed.
Several people headed by Xie Yilin began to give up on themselves, singing, dancing, and making headdresses with tinfoil, almost forgetting the business.
Fortunately, Deng Lun is still trying to turn the tide.
Seeing that 30 minutes had passed, there was still no progress in the search. In the end, Deng Lun took the lead to break the predicament and found an iron box with the words ", the treasure of the store, ".
It turned out that there was just a can of chili in the box, so the guests staged a chili-eating drama based on misleading prompts. In the end, it was discovered that this was just a prank by the show crew and had nothing to do with escape.
However, an insignificant segment was aired for 7 minutes, fully displaying the hot state of the guests, making the program too entertaining and lackluster.
Afterwards, facing the key item found - mobile phone , all the guests used their wild imagination to randomly try passwords. In the end, it was Deng Lun who discovered the key information stored in the emergency contact and cracked the mobile phone password and obtained Key information for subsequent escape.
The time it takes for ordinary players to escape a room is 0 minutes to 1 hour , but it took these celebrities a full hours to get out of the first room.
The second room is a cold storage, and the progress is obviously accelerated.
As soon as everyone entered the door, they discovered that the secret to opening the door was the weight sensor scale. Deng Lun once again took the lead. Thinking of the weight of the shop owner on his mobile phone, everyone worked together to successfully open the door with a weight of 175 kilograms.
However, after the door was opened, Xie Yilin's wrong opening method made everyone mistakenly think that the attempt failed, and some time was wasted. Fortunately, there was no danger in the end.
The third room is into the barbecue restaurant lobby.
After Zhang Guowei entered the barbecue restaurant, he completely let himself go, forgetting all about the escape mission of the show, and started grilling chicken wings, while others couldn't stop eating when they saw the takeaway.
Only Deng Lun and Huang Minghao were working hard to find clues. In the end, it was Deng Lun who was able to crack the passwords for the cash register and toilet in the hall.
Among them, the password prompt for the cashier cabinet was "I know by heart, don't touch " in the mobile phone text message. Just by relying on this sentence, Deng Lun was able to associate the number of pulsations in the first four boxes of the cabinet, and finally successfully unlocked the password.
The password for the bathroom was the pinyin abbreviation of the store name. Yang Mi smartly thought that the takeout order might have the store name, but it was a pity that the final idea was not verified.
In the end, Deng Lun opened the toilet door after thinking that the name of the store might be hidden under the chair according to the store rules.
After that, everyone successfully reached the next room through the conveyor belt, and the first episode of the program also ended abruptly.
With a tolerant and wait-and-see attitude, Mr. Tomato decided to watch the second episode before making a conclusion about the show. Unfortunately - I, , gave the show a chance, but the show did not give me a chance. In the second episode of
, the contestants’ IQs are still not online.
A key hidden in the vinegar boiler made everyone look for oil and vinegar, but they couldn't get the door at all. In fact, this is the most brainless part of the escape room, because finding the key requires no brainpower at all.
There is also the scene where you encounter a greased anti-theft ramp after breaking through the door. It was originally a very interesting segment, but it is a pity that the guests once again showed that you will not die if you don't seek death, causing the entire segment to once again show an entertainment effect. .
My feeling after reading two episodes is: is more than enough entertainment, not enough reasoning, making people feel stuck in the throat, and is not enjoyable enough.
In fact, you can see the problems of the program from the first room:
1. The program group prompts are not set appropriately;
2. The guest mentality is not correct.
First of all, it is the problem of the program team. There are various ways to hide information in the Korean version, including passwords, keys, invisible ink, and even mechanisms.
However, in the Chinese version, there is currently only a single password and key, which makes people feel that the technology has shrunk greatly and is too unprofessional.
Secondly, all the prompt information in the first room has nothing to do with finding the key hiding place. In the end, the key is obtained by searching. This setting makes people feel that the guests are doing useless work.
The second problem lies with the guests. Their attitude is too relaxed and they have no eagerness to get out of the secret room. They just take it as they come.
Especially Xie Yilin and Zhang Guowei, they were out of shape throughout the whole process and just wanted to make jokes.
Xie Yilin started the movie at every turn, while Zhang Guowei was creating a foodie persona throughout the whole process. He would eat corn raw when he saw it and grill chicken wings when he saw it. The two of them had too little power to promote the plot.
Even though the two of them were useful in the second episode, they were all in areas that did not require the use of brains, which made people feel that they were not suitable for this type of variety show.
Although Wei Daxun, Huang Minghao and Yang Mi don't have that much water, their sense of presence is also not strong. They have ideas, but there is no basis to support them. They can only be said to be random guesses. Sometimes this kind of random guesses will hinder their progress.
So after watching the whole show, Deng Lun is the only one with online intelligence, and the first episode became his own stage.
But the wonderful thing about the secret room is that everyone works together and brainstorms. It would be a lot of fun to rely on one person alone.
This program is under the banner of brain-burning, but it completely exposed the brainlessness of the guests. To be honest, it is a bit disappointing. Fortunately, the guests have a strong sense of variety shows, so if it were treated as an ordinary comedy show, it would still be worth watching.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Zhang Changjin)
