Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get right into it. We have quite a few dramas going live or will go live this week.
So in the order of them going live first on february the 5th,
a contemporary drama went live called Nv Shi de Pin Ge, Lady's Character, a Mango TV series
Led by Liu Mintao, Wan Qian, Xing Fei
if you're familiar with these three actresses and their age range
You already kind of get the idea.
It is yet another contemporary dramas featuring three main female characters as the leads
that we've seen being done so many times now in recent couple of years,
a typical story of different age range fffice ladies who have to balance life and career
such an old tropey topics about women and working environment.
The next drama went live one day after on february, the 6th called Wo Men de Ri Zi,
English title Every Day and Night, It is another contemporary drama,
but that crosses a much bigger timeframe
led by Li Xiaoran and Li Naiwen, on iqiyi and also cctv one.
And that means this drama is the type of drama that is suitable for most of the viewers,
widest demographics.
and it's a story that's focused on our main characters from the 80s
leading up to 90s and early 2000s crossing about three decades,
the common people's life type of drama.
And then 3 days after that on the 9th thursday,
a drama has just gone live on iqiyi, the long waited period drama based
on the famous author Ma Boyong's novel Xian Wei JIng Xia de Da Ming
right now the title is Under the Microscope,
I think previously it's Ming Under the Microscope or Da Ming, does not matter.
It's Ming dynasty under the microscope led by Zhang Ruoyun, Wang Yang, Qi Wei,
and many many very famous people.
Also people who have just shown up in other dramas very recently such as
the actor Wu Gang who was one of the main characters in Kuang Biao, knockout.
Also there's this actor zhang... (Zhang Fan)
I'm sorry, I can't remember his name, i'll type it out here.
He played Lei Zhicheng in three body and immediately he shows up in this drama
as one of the essential official characters in the story.
Just shows you entertainment business is big, but also very small.
So the drama airs 4 episodes on the first day,and then it's gonna update pretty regularly
and it's gonna finish airing very quickly since it's only14 episodes in total.
A story about the mathematics genius back in Ming dynasty discovering his county's
Tax is wrong.
Their own county has been paying for 100 years, a tax that they shouldn't be paying
and he discovered that and then he reported it up.
And it start to create a chain of really epic turmoils in the politics of things.
This is based on real history back in Ming dynasty
and essential characters are shifted around, details of this case in the drama version
is changed as compared to real history,
but it did happen and it was a pretty epic journey that ran
a decade or so more than that time of investigating, of all kinds of dramas
and eventually arriving at a conclusion that is a bit like expected,
not so exciting, but somehow still has an ending.
Real history is much more slower and complicated.
The drama only has 14 episodes.
So depending on how they're gonna do the dramatic version,
plus there is a novel existing, so whether this adaptation is gonna tightly follow the novel,
or is it gonna have huge changes?
Wait till we see. It's gonna be only 1 week and it will finish sharing.
Then we have two things that have scheduled both of them belong to penguin. Tencent.
The first one is supposed to go live on the 13th one day before valentine's day,
called Xia Hua,The forbidden flower,
a contemporary drama led by Xu Ruohan and Yan Chengxu,Yeah.
Jerry Yan, can't believe it. he's the longest lasting F4
in terms of still being playing those roles at this age.
Anyway, this is a romantic contemporary drama between a very young girl
and and a middle age man, for this type of drama, right?
It's very sensitive. You have to just find a perfect casting in the great story to sell it.
If you don't sell it, well it becomes even like morally questionable and
people are gonna feel very uncomfortable about it.
So totally depends on the acting the script.
Whether it works between these two actors.
I am curious to see the result.
The other drama that has been scheduled on Tencent will show up on february the 15th
one day after valentine's day.
Somehow nobody wanna pick valentine's day itself.
Why? Is that day jinxed or something?
Anyway, it is the long waited, fantasy period drama, Chong Zi, journey of chongzi.
Pretty much, it's like the remake of journey of the flower,
almost exact plot, a girl who was like naturally born with some kind of evil spirit,
but she's not aware of that, one day got picked up by this master cultivation guy \
Yang Chaoyue, Xue Zhengxi
and then bringing her to their sort of places training her,
but then you know she's destined to go wild and
there's the good part and bad part fighting, pretty much exactly Journey of the Flower,
Hua Qian Gu's setting after how many years has it been?
Cause Hua Qian Gu is like 14, 15 drama.
So it's close to a decade, like1 year or two short of a decade.
Honestly, it is too old.
The type of story everybody has watched it.
And more than once of different mixed match of actors in specific story settings,
you get another one in 2023.
I don't know, like just by hearing the story makes me feel exhausted,
we shall see very soon if it's gonna do anything like
being able to make any splashes in a water of dramaland,
then we also have a film that has announced during this week
when it's gonna go into cinema, middle of the year June 22nd
is the time it's gonna get released at least for now.
And it's the i've mentioned many times, mystery thriller, film,
Xiao Shi de Ta, Lost in the Stars, ledy by Zhu Yilong, Ni NI, Wen Yongshan,
they've previously released a only have shots not having any lines trailer
Now they've released a new one where you do hear more about the plot,
you know more about it, and I think it's kind of semi based on real cases,
which is a young couple who goes to southeast asia for a honeymoon or for some kind of holiday.
And then the woman goes into a changing room and and never comes out.
And many years later, the guy went to that country again and saw a performance of deformed humans.
And one of that is his fiance or girlfriend.
I think this is a real case, actually, i'm pretty sure it happened because i've read it on news.
It's pretty scary.
So the whole premise of the story is based on this real thing that did happen.
But obviously there's a thrillerr film, so they're gonna take the creative license and go crazy
with what really happened and why this is the case.
Talking about movies.
We also have a film that has announced they've started shooting,
which is a film that has a really cute title.
Nothing can't be undone by a hotpot.
That's a very long title. Chinese title is exactly that, so also a very long title.
Mei You Yi Dun Huo Guo Jie Jue Bu Liao De Shi
Just by hearing the title,you thought it's a gourmet film
about eating and food, but actually, it's not.
This film is about four thieves at the backstage of a theater
who have just finished a big job, who are dividing their rewards
happened to run into a murder and therefore got entangled in this murder.
Sounds like a comedy plus a a crime plus a little bit black comedy type of thing going on.
So the premise sounds pretty interesting and the film is led by
Yang Mi, Yu Qian, Tian Yu, Yu Ailei, Li Jiuxiao
just the idea and even the poster looks pretty interesting
the kind of you don't really hope for it to perform great at box office type of film,
but you hope it actually will be really interesting.
Let's see if that can turn out to be the case
finally to cap on what we've had during this week the three body problem drama on tencent,
they did the give me money and i'll let you watch all the episodes thing.
They also announced the the second season they will make it the Dark Forest.
I just hope they can keep the original crew including the writer adaptation writer
because they've done a really good job of the first season,
it will be silly try to change the team now
and dark forest will be humongously more difficult to make
because of how crazy the stories start to spin.
And it really start to enter the more sci fi area.
You're gonna have more special effects.
You're gonna have a lot of hardcore stuff like spaceship, space battles,
things that are burning money on the cgi end of things.
And then also the casting, live action actor who can take on the role of Luo Ji
because he is without a question for the male roles at least,
in the whole series of books, the most beloved and also most important male role
So who can be the actor? Already, China's internet has started basically voting
for who can be the guy taking up this role.
So far i've heard the the most popular choices are
Zhang Yi, Hu Ge, Wang Kai, Qin Hao, Zhang Ruoyun
People are just like you know trying to push their favorite actors onto this
if it's still the original crew and they still keep the attitude that they had.
In the past 4 years for working on the first series,
they can keep on doing this on the second one.
This role is gonna be humongous for this actor whoever that person is.
So. xxx
But also they've announced along with the Dark Forest
they're gonna make a spin off, slightly worried about that
only focused on Yu Hewei's role Da Shi, and it's literally gonna be called
Three Body Da Shi, that's gonna be focused on this policeman,
maybe talking a little bit about his past history and then about
the gap or the kind of limbo time between he basically moved out of
Wang Miao's life and entering, before he entering Luo Ji's life
We shall see how well that's gonna work out because that would be completely original script writing.
so these are things i've collected during this week.
Thank you for watching AvenueX, i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.