From Jin Yong Gulong to today's online literature, TV series adapted from martial arts novels have always been an important theme in the domestic TV drama market.
Although with the improvement of the level of special effects, martial arts dramas have lost a lot of fist-to-flesh action design, and even many viewers have questioned the decline of martial arts dramas, but this theme still has a large audience.
With the popularity of goose factory and CCTV's annual finale masterpiece "Knife Line in the Snow", the concept of new martial arts dramas has once again been hotly discussed.
Although the filmed "Knife In the Snow" has many shortcomings, such as unsatisfactory casting, such as slow action scenes, etc., on the whole, the drama is still a rare new martial arts drama for non-original fans.
Recently, the CCTV TV drama channel posted an article on the new martial arts drama to bring new annotations to the chivalrous spirit. As CCTV said, the main story line of the new martial arts drama is no longer the theme of martial arts hegemony, jianghu revenge, and competition for secret books, but more to convey the diversified chivalrous spirit of "taking the world as one's own responsibility".
It is worth mentioning that the CCTV TV drama channel is also equipped with 6 stills of new martial arts dramas, namely "Peerless Double Glory", "Tianlong Eight Parts", "Wudang A Sword", "Qing Yu Nian", "Young You One Inch Acacia" and "Snow In the Sword Line", which is obviously a praise attitude towards these 6 dramas.
Interestingly, of the 6 dramas with pictures of CCTV, "Absolute Double Glory", "Tianlong Eight Parts", "Wudang A Sword", "Youth Tour One Inch Acacia" and "Snow Knife Line" these 5 are all CCTV star dramas, the other "Qing Yu Nian" is a blockbuster web drama at the end of 2019, and Zhang Ruoyun exclusively occupies 2 of the 6.
The "Absolute Double Glory" mentioned by CCTV is the version starring Hu Day and Chen Zheyuan, and the biggest advantage of this version is that the original work is highly restored in the early stage.
However, the shortcomings of this version are also obvious, such as the filter that can be called a ten-level dermabrasion, the fact that the live-action shooting is almost all blurred, and the design of the scene is too simple.
Overall, although this version of "Absolute Double Glory" has Hu Day, a popular idol, and broke the CCTV half-year ratings record at that time, this version is absolutely difficult to surpass Lin Zhiying and Su Youpeng, as well as Zhang Weijian and Xie Tingfeng's version.
CCTV mentioned the "Tianlong Eight Parts" needless to say, not only the casting has been complained about, but some adaptations are really difficult to accept.
For example, most of the protagonists were all online in the first episode, such as Qiao Feng having to play handsome and blow his hair when he fought, such as Duan Yu was excited to pee his pants when he first saw Wang Yuyan.
This version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" was selected by many drama critics into the list of the top ten bad dramas in 2021, I don't know why CCTV bought such a work that subverted the audience's classic impression in the first place?
"Wudang A Sword" was not very popular at that time, but in fact, the costume and shooting methods of this drama should be able to capture a group of middle-aged and elderly martial arts fans, because it is very similar to the martial arts drama of 20 years ago.
The emergence of this drama should also cause us to think deeply, that is, the current martial arts works should return to the taste of classic martial arts? Or do you use special effects to add a little bit of fantasy to satisfy the audience's sense of drama chasing?
"Qing Yu Nian" is a dark horse hit at the end of 2019, and Zhang Ruoyun has completely sat in the position of the male protagonist of domestic young actors with this drama.
It is worth mentioning that "Qing Yu Nian" has officially announced that the second season will begin filming, but as for the return of the original team in the first season, the drama side did not clearly state.
As for whether Xiao Zhan will return, which fans are most concerned about, the author believes that whether from Xiao Zhan's point of view or from the perspective of the drama side, Xiao Zhan should not return to the second season, which is a good thing for Xiao Zhan and the drama side.
"Young Tour one inch of love" should be regarded as the lowest sense of existence among the 6 works mentioned by CCTV, and men and women advocate that Yao and Zhang Yaqin are newcomers in the circle.
In addition, "Youth Tour One Inch Acacia" was jointly broadcast by Goose Factory and Cool Factory, not at the beginning of the star CCTV, but about half a year later was "favored" by CCTV.
The author has not seen this drama, so it is not good to evaluate too much, can only say that the high score of Douban 8.0 and its popularity are indeed very different, perhaps a good drama has been snubbed.
As mentioned above, "Knife Line in the Snow" may have too many slots in the hearts of original fans, but for non-original fans, it is a good drama worth chasing.
Since they are all starring Zhang Ruoyun, written by Wang Ti, and adapted from well-known online novels, "Sword Line in the Snow" will inevitably be compared with "Qing Yu Nian".
Judging from the current popularity and word of mouth, "Snow Knife Line" is obviously inferior to "Qing Yu Nian", but the author guesses that "Snow Knife Line" is about to usher in a highlight moment.
Judging from Li Chungang's sword immortal kneeling special effect in the play, and the reed swing assassination battle in the trailer, "Sword Line in the Snow" should be on the right track.
But as for whether the follow-up can make the audience look more and more cool, it depends on the rhythm of the plot, if it is like this, if it is urgent and slow, then this drama may not reach the height of the original "Qing Yu Nian".
In summary, the martial arts drama market in the next few years will still be a remake of Jin Yong Gulong's works, as well as an adaptation of online novels.
However, as for martial arts dramas in the new era, how to balance traditional martial arts and new martial arts, how to balance action scenes and special effects dramas, is the biggest problem that film and television workers in the industry need to solve.
Finally, I hope that our martial arts dramas will not decline, hope that the new martial arts dramas can balance the contradictions of all parties, and wish that the theme of martial arts dramas is getting better and better, and that there are many excellent works.