Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
If you've joined my thursday live stream,
you would be able to see it was snowing outside.
And then i'm filming this literally 24 hours afterwards.
It's been snowing for all that time nonstop
So the very British way of starting a conversation aside,
let's talk about what happened in dramaland in this week
as usual dramas that have gone live or will go live first
number one, on ten ten, october, the 10th
two dramas went live.
One is a all platform drama,
meaning it went on five different satellite televisions
plus all streaming platforms, Wo Men Zhe Shi Nian
English title Our TImes
Chinese title would be the decade of ours
It is really about the recent decade where it has many different units.
Each one is about 4 episodes or so and by a different director and
a different ensemble cast
for the past 10 years, important, significant things
that have happened in china.
I haven't had time to watch it.
I will because with the 11 or 12 unit stories that this drama has and
12 directors and more than 15 scriptwriters,
the casting is also pretty much border lining insanity
because each story is a different cast.
And each one features some very major actors and actresses.
So putting this drama together,
it probably is the biggest ensemble of 2022 chinese dramaland
in terms of how many famous faces you have in this drama
Bai Baihe
Zhang Huiwen, Wan Peng
I like these girls,
Wang Kai, Bai Yufan, Tan Songyun
Huang Zhizhong, Yan Ni
Shen Yue, Yuan Hong, Nie Yuan
And these names don't even cover half of the main cast
There are that many people in this drama
so for that purpose
I definitely will go and check it out
then the other drama that went live
previously almost no promotion is an iqiyi web drama
that's only 12 episodes.
and I really like it.
It's one of those overall everything considered
better chinese dramas that you can imagine.
It's a contemporary drama called Yao Gun Kuang Hua
Rock and Roll Kuang Hua
crazy flower if you wanna translate it directly.
It is because this is featuring the main characters played by Yao Chen
who used to be a very famous singer, member of a rock and roll band.
and the name of the band is Kuang Hua
She quit her music career after she had a kid
and then broke up with her ex-husband
and went to America to live for 12 years
until the ex husband dies.
And the daughter is 19 years old now in china
that she hasn't seen for 12 years,
she goes back to china.
It's a family kinship,
but also rock and roll and a lot of comedy drama with
characters that are not so common in chinese dramas,
because almost every male or female role in this drama is
a little bit extreme version of their archetypical.
kind of characters
weird and crazy and eccentric,
but funny and interesting.
And Yao Chen actually sings for real.
All the rock songs she has in this drama and she's such a good singer.
I think I previously know this,
but I i'm not so aware of it.
It's like i've heard about it once or something somewhere
that she can actually sing very well.
well In this drama you're gonna see her sing for real
and badass,
then there is a drama that has just gone live in china
as i'm recording this video on friday on 14th.
That is the Zhui Guang Zhe, Light Chaser Rescue.
Contemporary drama led by Luo Yunxi and Wu Qian
We've talked about this project many times previously,
and it's one of those,
a lot of people heard and really would want to watch project,
because many years ago,
these two actors were playing the younger versions of
Zhong Hanliang and Tang Yan's characters in the drama,
He Yi Sheng Xiao Mo
and a lot of people really liked the university campus version
of the two characters and if you really like these two actors together.
well Now they are officially as the mainly couple
of a rescue focused drama.
Luo yunxi plays a lawyer who goes to an earthquake site,
trying to find somebody who went missing and then come
across the female character who is a doctor
and that experience of him going to the earthquake place.
Made him want to join the rescue team
where you in reality can apply for and get trained for.
If you get qualified, you'll get license
in the future. If there's emergency happening,
you can be called in to go on rescue missions
and it does work like that in china anyway.
So he applied and got trained and become one of those on-call rescuers.
And then the drama will be focusing on these type of people's work
and what they do.
And definitely life and death situations
as this type of story will always feature.
I hope this is a good drama, it only just started airing.
I haven't had time to check it out, but I will.
Then there is a drama during this week that has played
dangling the carrot and then taking it away game,
which is the long waited.
Everybody thought it's gonna air very early on this year,
but somehow it just never happened until now.
Ai De Er Ba Ding Lv, the Tencent contemporary romantic drama.
She and Her Yusband led by Yang Mi and Xu Kai
on the 9th.
The drama came on saying we have finally gotten scheduled on the 13th.
We're gonna air, and then they started promoting
and internet at least like the people I follow everybody is really happy
and excited because they really want to see
the coupling of Yang Mi and Xu Kai
2 days later on the 11th,
the drama jumps out and announced
we have rescheduled.
It's not gonna air on the 13th,
and we will tell you later when
and given the big conference and big thing politically is happening
on the weekend in Beijing,
maybe everybody would just wanna not run head into that,
because everything you promote during this time is gonna be scrutinized.
and you really don't want to, let's say,
compete with the important things right that's happening in the nation
and all the news items and all the hash tags and all the trending is
gonna be completely about that for the next week.
Maybe that's one of the reasons who knows.
So this drama now is unknown.
Could happen anytime
we are in the last quarter of this year.
There are a couple of dramas that definitely are
intended to go out before the end of the year,
including the Youku, An Le Zhuan
Gong Jun and Dilraba's period drama based on an ip novel,
the Tan Songyun and Wang Kai pilot
contemporary drama Xiang Feng Er Xing
we are also have the Xian Wei Da Yuan,
Zheng Wu Yang Guang, Daylight Entertainment drama
with Hu Ge, Zhang Xin Cheng, and many other,
ZWYG veteran actors
projecting it to happen also in November
in the last couple of years,
you see the trend of a lot of dramas happening around the mid of december.
It may be to do with how each platforms count their annual performances.
And they always want to pull the kpi up at the end of the year
to get a little bit more annual bonus, I guess.
So if these dramas don't happen in November,
I don't see why they wouldn't.
For sure make it happen before the end of the year.
During this week.
There is a film that has just started promoting officially
releasing small videos and also posters.
It is a romantic contemporary film
that's supposedly is gonna go into cinema before the end of this year
and it's called Dao Shu Shuo Ai Ni, My Tomorrow Your Yesterday
The interesting thing about this film is
it's left by Chen Feiyu and Zhou Ye
So CFY and Zhang Jingyi' drama Lighter and princess
is likely to come out soon.
Also hoping before the end of this year
and this film is also gonna come into cinema
before the end of the year
and Zhang Jingyi and Zhou Ye
having been since day one
of their presence in the entertainment business
often compared because they really do look very similar
like they can really play sisters,
they have almost like 85% similarity facially
Chen Feiyu has worked with both of them.
One is of a film,
the other is of a drama.
Let's see if this drama and this film air, both of them
before the end of the year
which one would give you a stronger chemistry.
That will be interesting to see.
Also there is a drama that has been rumored
highly rumored and it's like 95% confirmed,
but not yet there.
During this week, there is a contemporary ip novel.
That's going to be made into a drama for sure,
called Cuo Liao
That's the novel name,
but then the drama name now is Yi Ai Wei Ying
Couple of days ago this drama opened its
official account on social media in china,
at least from all paparazzi channels.
You can imagine everybody has the same
prediction or everybody has the same news,
which is it's gonna be led by Wang Hedi and Bai Lu
It's not yet officially confirmed from any official channels
so it could still change and if it turned out to be somebody else.
well I've already told you it's unconfirmed,
it's likely to start shooting in november.
So very soon we're gonna know if that's the case
and the original novel is a very "Ba Zong" (霸总） story,
you know the type of ceo roles,
I mean Wang Hedi, he has played a couple of very successful
Ba Zong roles already,
but I hope the script writer would do the new versions of Ba Zong
that the 21st century 2020 people appreciate
think about Cang Lan Jue, right?
And not the old fashioned,
unbearable ones.
well those are the specific drama related news
also during this week.
Pretty much right at the end of last week,
Vogue magazine had a big event in china,
which is its one hundred thirties anniversary exhibition.
They invited models,
entertainment stars, actors, actresses
to their red carpet event.
Everybody is just there to show off there dresses and stuff
and then having this for this specific event photo shoot,
which is really cute actually, it's nothing grand.
It's a small news booth,
and every person goes in and pose for their specific design of costume
and character, whatever
this is a rather interesting fashion thing that has happened.
I'll put a couple of pictures out for actresses, actors,
such as Zhou Dongyu, Li Bingbing, Na Zha, Jin Chen, Tong Yao,
for the guys, Gong Jun, Tan Jianci, they all showed up
But I have to say for this type of event,
if you invite a super model,
that person is just gonna come in and kill everybody,
because they're super models.
Standing next to other people.
You're not gonna see other people.
You're just gonna go straightforward the super model,
which is Liu Wen
In this case, oh she SLAYS
That's all I can say.
Some people are just clothes hangers,
even famous actors actresses,
although they're pretty they wouldn't be as stunning
as the professionals who do that for a living.
Overall, I really enjoyed in this round of Vogue's styling and photos
among the actresses.
I would say, Li Bingbing really kills everybody.
She is at that age and at that position of the
business like the top top top actress these days now
comes out like a queen, slays,
and her dress is vintage
which is actually not that easy to get
just proving her ~~~ position in the industry.
Also Gong Jun
Again, wears LV's suit, the colorful ones,
the super green butterfly-ish ones.
And I have to say it's hard for anyone to look good in that kind of clothing.
And he happens to be one of the guys who can look really good
in absolutely ridiculous colors and patterns.
so that's a gift.
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Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.