Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week,
starting with dramas as usual that have gone live
on the 10th,Thursday, as I was doing my early november live stream,
a drama went live online,
which is the 40 episodes period drama led by
Bai Jingting, Tian Xiwei, Qing Qing Ri Chang
New life begins.
This is its third title in chinese
xxxx, xxxx, xxxx....
It happened again, who knows why
I have actually watched the first 6 episodes yesterday already.
And i'm trying to catch up with it and not
dropping too many episodes along the way.
Let's see how well this one is going to perform.
The one very simple to get positive thing about this drama is the
leads all use their real voice
for both Tian Xiwei and Bai Jingting
which is really good.
I like their own voices.
Also, it sounds very much like 80% live recording on set,
very hard to find these days in dramaland for period dramas.
So hope this drama will do relatively well.
We're gonna go and talk about other things and we're gonna come back
to something related to this drama and actors at the end of this video.
So don't leave yet.
Then today eleven eleven remembrance day here
a drama has just gone live on Mango television,
long period, historical, proper heavy drama,
Tian Xia Chang he, english title.
If there is one, i'll type it out.
It's a Qing dynasty setting historical,
focusing on a couple of officials who work their life at floodway control.
Floodway management engineering has been a
long historical thing in chinese history.
Some of the most well known mythological figures of chinese folklore
are people related to flood control
because of the geographic nature of the country
that fighting against big flood has always been
sort of like like the nation's story
since ancient mythological time.
So this drama is set in Qing dynasty,
roughly around the time of Kang Xi's reign
it's led by an ensemble of very, very high caliber cast.
Many of those actors will be very familiar to my audiences.
I'll just mention the two first credited guys,
Yin Fang and Huang Zhizhong
If it's really worth watching,
i'll let people know for the last couple of years.
I really cannot think of even one that you can term as serious historical,
if it's historical it's often dramatized and has a lot of,
let's say, made up stuff that has nothing to do with history.
This one, though, is full-on serious.
So it's like the only one candidate of his genre in dramaland
Please don't fail.
Then during this week,
we have a few dramas somehow as if they just agreed together to wrap.
Number one Wu You Du
This is the period drama set in Tang Dynasty
led by Ren Jialun and Song Zuer, English title,
The Demon Hunter's Romance
kind of already spoil the whole thing for you.
I believe RJL is a demon hunter okay as for Song Zuer and every
other characters whether they are demons or other types of creatures.
Not quite sure I haven't gone into deep research of it.
They've wrapped and the released special feature upon wrapping,
showing you roughly what the drama may look like
and onset working extra footage of things,
at least in the special feature,
because it's all recorded on set,
it's all themselves talking.
I don't know if when they finished post production,
it's still gonna be the case whether they are gonna dub Ren Jialun
Now we have quite a few Tang dynasty setting
period dramas that may come out next year.
Big competition.
Let's see who can do the costumes best.
That's what i'm really curious about.
The next one is the highly highly anticipated
Heng Xing Yin Li's next year's right now already booked
big explosive fantasy drama Hu Yao Xiao Hong Niang
because it comes from this popular ip
it's done by this company who has successfully delivered
Love Between Fairy and Devil this year
and also because of the casting of the
fox demon matchmaker drama,
Yang Mi, Gong Jun as the lead and then you have
all those pretty ladies and good looking guys,
probably the highest Yan Zhi (look value) period drama.
So good looking-ness right?
If you score that for next year so far,
I think it's this one.
They've wrapped the whole thing,
big ceremony, a lot of photos,
a lot of new footage release.
Everybody just look so good in this drama
the girls are stunningly pretty
I really am looking forward to Gong Jun and Wei Zheming
These two actors both styled pretty nicely in the period drama
with good wigs okay
and good costumes and facing off each other.
And if Zhang Linghe jumps out in the mix and
just have three of them in the same frame,
straight woman's happiness
paradise for AvenueX
The other thing I wanna add about this drama
that i'm also looking forward to
at least the producer is definitely trying to sell this drama on it
is, It is the first chinese drama that has used the xr technology
which is the virtual stage technology to shoot this drama.
It's already been used mostly in the west hollywood for making films,
also television series where you create a rendering of the background.
And it's 1/2 circular, 180°curved screen where the
background of your story is being projected,
live with the computer ai calculating the
actor standing in front of it at every frame,
their position and make sure that what ends up in the camera
has the right perspective, color, lighting.
It makes it look like they are in a real set
that you cannot actually build
and live render whatever happens in the background with computer.
No chinese dramas has used it before,
so they're using it for this particular drama looking really cool.
And since it's a fantasy drama makes a lot of sense
fingers crossed,
this will add that much more of a curiosity value of this drama.
When it comes out next year,
then the other drama that has wrapped has a very similar
name to the first one i've mentioned called Chang Feng Du
So instead of Wu You Du
Chang Feng Du, English title so far is called Destined.
I've mentioned a couple of times before led by Bai Jingting and Song Yi
think about like (My heroic Husband) or even Ming Lan
that type of innerr family story.
We've mentioned Bai Jingting for the second time,
and later i'm gonna mention for the third time during this video.
And that's the last part sweet part of this video.
We're gonna conclude it on.
So just just just bear with me.
These are the three dramas that have wrapped.
Then you have a couple of other things of regarding drama and film.
First, there's a film that has started promoting during this week.
It's a project i've mentioned also quite some time before when
they were shooting
the mystery thriller film called Xiao Shi de Ta
lost in the stars.
English title is lost in the stars,
but its chinese title Xiao Shi De Ta
is pretty much the same title as
the american film Gone Girl
and this one is led by Zhu Yilong and Ni Ni
I think if you still remember you remember,
they have started promoting this film.
They haven't said when it's gonna get released,
but it's likely to be soon.
There's another film they have just started promoting
again said they aim at releasing the film.
First day of next year's chinese new year
Wandering Earth 2, finally
one of the highest budgeted and best received
chinese sci-fi film in history was the first one
and I did make a video about it a long time ago
and everybody has been waiting for its sequel.
So sequel is coming
unlikely to exceed its first film's box office
because we all know what happened in this world for the last 3years,
everybody is poor,
the economy is shit and it's not safe to go to places
where there too many people so all things considered
I don't hope for this film to do more than previous one,
but a lot of people are waiting for it,
good luck to this production as well.
Then before we talk about the last thing that
i've mentioned 4 times already
during this week,
another major award of television has happened in china,
which is the Jin Ying, Golden eagle,
which is a hunan sort of televisions thing
that has been going on for a long time and in recent
five or so years has been very controversial
and most people have now kind of just agree
that this award is "Shui Jiang" (water award)
watered down awards where basically it has no value.
It has no weight
people often joke about it due to the fact that this awards allows
audiences or just like internet users to vote
vote for their stars,
for their candidates up to the top and getting awards
and because of that,
there was so much fandom's intervention into the whole thing
for the last couple of years,
making it becoming a more and more ridiculous
and in a way a laughing stock.
So this year JIn Ying suddenly changed.
They gave awards to whether it's production or
direction or script writing or acting, to the,
let's say, proper,
heavy weight actors who are industries sort of
acknowledged good actors who deserve awards.
So they totally did a 180 in their directions of what kind of
awards they give out to what kind of people
and everyone was like, uh?
Personality Shift?
They've given the best actor and best actress to Lei Jia Yin
and Yin Tao for their performances in the. drama.
Ren Shi Jian, Lifelong Journey, Pretty fair I'd say
while I was watching RSJ, there there was no shortage of tears
and not just for this particular couple,
but for many other actors like their parents actor,
their brothers, sister
there are so many plot line in the drama that are
good okay so that drama deserves awards for sure.
And these two nobody has any problems basically
with them being the two new award winner in dramaland
maybe golden eagle finally is like we cannot continue doing this thing.
We're gonna just get so hated in entertainment
and we need to save our own ass.
So this time,
it suddenly become very proper.
Those are the drama film related stuff going on this week.
And then to conclude
while I was asleep last night in china,
the new sweet romantic gossip broke out
Bai Jingting and Song Yi who are the lead of Chang Feng Du are together.
They haven't announced it officially themselves,
but it's like 99.99%reliable coming from this paparazzi person,
but with very solid evidence.
And actually this thing has been cooking on internet since september.
People have already leaked,
but like hasn't gotten that much of attention.
Now it's kind of full out
There's so much detail of their relationship when they started it,
what happened along the way and until like november.
And the funny thing about Bai Jingting and Song Yi being now,
kind of found out as a couple,
everyone is so happy.
I see very little negativity probably only their like single fans,
their super hardcore fans are not happy about it,
but everyone is so happy about them.
Because first is they have zero scandals in their past,
literally nothing bad has ever been attached to them.
Whether it's professional things they do or private life.
And then neither of them is the idol type of performers
who really rely on a huge fandom to support them.
They are both professional actors now.
So basically they have very clean slate,
and then they have this drama that is likely to air next year
with them leading it.
So the quantum state of announcing celebrity's love relationship.
It could go either way.
This time it goes to a very positive angle.
The only thing is because right now BJT's other drama,
new life begins just aired yesterday as i'm filming today
we haven't even had time to warm up to.
His CP with Tian Xiwei
Now it's like the real cp is him and song yi which
is waiting for the next iqiyi drama next year.
It's a bit funny like the timing of things
whether it's gonna actually help new life begins
or actually not help it.
We shall see in the next couple of days
as the drama keeps airing
as people keeps watching the drama
and maybe start shipping the screen couple,
but knowing back of their mind that the guy is actually
paired up with a different lady in real life.
and we're gonna see that drama not so far down the line
very weird experience,
i'd say for any any cp shippers.
So these are the rather colorful things that has happened
during this week in November from chinese dramaland
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