Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
first I wanna say huge thank you to everybody
who has supported me on kofi
ko0-fi and purchased my icon pack of Cang Lan Jue
I'll try to do more of this type of things in the future.
Now let's go and talk about dramas.
Let's start with dramas that have gone Live
chronologically on september the 26,
a drama went live on satellite television also online.
Pretty much air dropped called Fei Teng Ren Sheng
It doesn't have an English title,
so it is called FTRS as well on drama list.
The drama is led by Han Dongjun, Kan Qingzi
it is a mid 1980s setting drama of a group of young people
going to a nationally owned machinery factory
and designing trucks.
I haven't had time to check it out yet,
then on the 29th.
so yesterday as supposed to today i'm filming this video.
A drama went live on Youku as predicted before
because I said this drama is unlikely to not come out soon.
and It did, Chi Dao, Falling into You,
the athlete and coach drama,
also a Nian Xia drama,
meaning the younger guy and older lady.
This drama is only 26 episodes and they're gonna air the first 15
or so episodes continuously
led by Jin Chen and Wang Anyu
So far it's pretty satisfying apart from the visually,
they just overdo, ok, overdo the lighting,
glowing effect.
Everybody is just shimmering with lights.
It's ridiculous the look of it.
I have no idea why they're doing it,
and it's a totally post production done thing.
You can totally not do it with your raw footage that's shot in raw.
I don't understand what is the problem
then one day after that.
So today, as i'm making this video,
a drama has just gone live on iqiyi and it feels like it's
so in competition with every other romantic dramas
particularly the Youku ones that are on-going,
it's led by Chen Zheyuan and Shen yue
Mr. Bad, Wo de Fan Pai Nan You
a writer who used to write fan fictions,
start to write her own novel.
And in her own novel, she has a bad guy written in a period time,
and this character somehow jumps out of the book,
enters her reality and starts to give her trouble.
Definitely a comedy heavy romantic story.
I will go and check it out.
Chen Zheyuan has done that type of role
also on iqiyi couple of years ago
still one of my favorite that type of theme drama,
(My) Dear Ancestor, where that one is time travel,
this one is book travel to reality.
So let's hope this is a fun and comedy heavy drama.
At least the trailer gives you that impression.
Then just before I sat down making this video,
there was a drama that has released its first trailer during this week.
It's a tencent drama and then like 5 hours before I sat down,
they announced they are gonna go live online.
On the 1st of october,
chinese national day, Wu Yun Yu Jiao Yue
My deepest dream.
We've talked about this production multipl times
since last year when it was filming.
It's a contemporary drama led by Li Yitong and Jin Han
It's about two people meeting on a like ocean liner on a vacation,
and then they realized something is not working properly in their universe.
Once they've met. time space start to warp
they are time traveling, they are space traveling.
They're changing past, changing future,
So this is a what we call contemporary fantasy type of drama
that it will introduce those supernatural elements.
But it set in contemporary time and mostly it's romantic story.
The trailer looks pretty interesting.
So I have one more drama that I need to check out,
love my life.
Those are the dramas that have aired or have announced
when they're gonna air.
Then let's move on to talk about productions at other stages.
First during this week,
there is a drama that has released its trailer,
Nan Feng Zhi Wo Yi, South Wind Knows My Mood
We've also talked about this project before contemporary
drama led by Cheng Yi and Xhang Yuxi
and this is a Huan Rui drama and they are HUan Rui actors.
So no surprise here
that company has some of the worst reputations
among all chinese production companies these days.
We do not know when this drama is going to go live,
they just release the trailer
moving on to the next thing.
It's not a chinese drama,
but I thought I would just mention it
during this week Netflix has released its trailer
first kind of trailer, or more like a promotional video.
On their version of three body problem,
most valuable chinese Sci-fi IP i'd say, ever
and china is also making its own version television series.
I've talked about that multiple times also on my channel.
The chinese version.
so this is the Netflix version,
obviously it's adapted by Netflix
they have to change nationality, race all kinds of things
of a lot of characters in the original novel.
So a lot of chinese people turn into not chinese people in this version
and they're not really telling you exactly who's who's
so you can only guess
There are shots of certain people showing
up in the Netflix trailer that was like
Who is that person?
who can that be?
like I can't remember a person like that exists in the original novel.
So probably a heavy adaptation process
and a lot of things got changed
until it comes out, You never know whether it's worth watching
or good enough or whatever
the thing is with these two guys as the producer or main
adaptation creatives,
if they keep their paws away from the actual script,
then it may be more watchable
if they meddle too much with the story.
~~~ you know what happens.
It is still one of my deepest scars
psychologically about an ip that got destroyed,
that I followed diligently for 8 or 9 years.
Sorry, I never can't have a good opinion about those two guys.
Good luck to Netflix's three body problem and I
also look forward to chinese version coming out.
It will be such an interesting comparative study if both
dramas are released and you watch them side by side,
if you're doing a degree in school of like whatever,
comparative studies of anything
that's like your thesis,
then during this week,
a drama has wrapped,
which is the Chang Xiang Si drama
lost you forever?
Or I think they've also changed its title somewhere.
you know which one it is
It's the Yang XI, Tan Jianci, Deng Wei, who else
Zhang Wanyi led
period fantasy female lead character one,
and then just a group of guys circling around her drama,
Yang Zi's comfort zone,
the zone that she's being for too long.
Everybody tries to pull her out,
but she still gets stuck in it,
whatever, drama has just wrapped during this week
and they've released their wrapping special features,
posters, videos,
looking just like any other that type of drama
that she's done before.
And then because it's a big period drama, probably, again,
definitely over 40 episodes long.
So you're not gonna see it until next year.
Then another period drama has finally started to move
and it's been 3 years I think.
Da Song Shao Nian Zhi, Young Blood
the drama I think a lot of people really really liked
that drama has finally finally started to move, the second series
they've started shooting during this week
This time, five of them stayed the same actors,
one got changed.
So the guy who played Wei yanei in the first series now
is moved to a new actor Fu Weilun
who played He Jiajia in Hikaru no Go
the actor himself he's pretty fine
and I think he can do the role well.
It's just sad that they can't have the full original cast
and there's rumors about why and it might be
just a preemptive strategy for the production
to avoid future may come up political problems.
Yeah, i'm not gonna go into details because this is a drama channel,
don't wanna touch any of the politics topics anyway.
So this drama is gonna keep five of the original six cast members.
Still i'm looking forward to the second series and I hope it's a
well written well directed and this time maybe getting more money.
But then cautiously optimistic,
we've seen enough chinese dramas that has
second series and second seasons that efs it set up,
then quickly talk about a tiny piece of gossip which is during this week,
the actor zhang linghe and the actors Bai Lu have been caught by paparazzi.
She spent a couple of nights at his place.
First, neither of them are idols in any way ,
where they really just completely cash in on fandom and stuff.
And then secondly,
they've just been promoting the drama that hasn't aired yet.
But they've just wrapped shooting the Kunning Palace drama.
And it's literally right after the release of their trailer.
So it feels like it may be intentional or designed and whatever.
But then you know even if it's just accidentally
got caught on camera by paparazzi.
So what?
It's two adults.
I think Zhang Linghe's weibo account lost over
10,000 fans overnight because of this news
okay fine, I guess you can do whatever you want right
with your social media account,
but I just don't see why people can get offended.
It's like if he starts to date other people,
then he doesn't deserve my attention anymore.
But like why do you feel so entitled to start with
it's not like if he's not dating other people, he would date you.
So I don't quite get the mentality of that,
but hey does not matter.
It's just one tiny tiny piece of gossip
to wrap up today's video.
There are a couple of other things regarding
dramas and fims that has happened in chinese dramaland.
Number one is gentleman of the east 8th time zone drama that i've
mentioned at least 4 times now recently in the other dramas' videos
just because of how stupid that drama is,
it absolutely belittles the level of misogyny that you can see coming out of.
Donald Trump's mouth.
I'm just gonna put it that way
that drama every episode and every scene is stinking with it.
So if it get reported too much,
and then that's the reason it got pulled down.
I understand why that happens.
But then later i'm gonna talk about that at the end of this,
okay there are certain things I still don't quite agree
with why this can happen.
The other thing is a film that has been doing really well.
In cinema for over a month called Yn Ru Chen Yan
Return to Dust, a very Indi, art house movie
that's not supposed to get any mainstream attention
somehow because of a lot of people promot it on their own
that started this grassroot movement and making this film
performs 10 times better at box office.
Than expectation, and then it suddenly just got pulled down
everywhere from web, from cinemas.
Exactly why? we do not know
also in that category of things getting moved around
and you never know why is the
film, Chang Kong Zhi Wang
that i've just been talking about last week and the week before
Born to Fly, the Film led by Wang Yibo, Hu Jun
the pilot fighter jets film
just announced during this week that they
moved out of the national holiday slot
and they haven't said when they're gonna come back.
The reason that the prduction gives you is they haven't fully,
really done the post production.
They want to refine it more before they release it.
But we all know you know they have to find
some kind of excuse for why you do this.
It's a quite big move and it costs money.
They've already started promoting it.
Tickets have already been sold.
So now they have to cancel all that,
and that's a cost.
So they have to give you a reason,
but honestly is that real reason?
Most people wouldn't believe it.
So this week we've had like three things that either got taken down,
or moved away to other time happening entertainment in china.
And you know the thing that's most annoying about these things is
you just never get first a clear explanation of why it happens.
And then there's no rule books anywhere to follow.
You never quite know why certain things that
has cleared already passed censorship.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be airing in the first place.
Even when they are airing,
they can be taken down halfway.
They can finish airing, get taken down.
They can be doing well and suddenly disappears.
And you never know why.
And these things is, Can we just have a clear rule written out there?
so that people know you know what to follow.
And then what to expect.
Obviously, when you don't have that you can play with it,
however you like.
Now you see why people would hold those ceremonies before
they start a project and burn a lot of incense and
very sincerely prey to heavens and whatever gods in charge of these things
Please make sure this whole thing goes well.
Anyway, those are the things that's been happening in chinese dramaland
entertainment this week.
Every time when I see these things happen,
I remind myself
there are more shitty things going on in this world.
That is gonna affect more people in reality,
much worse than this
this week. we've had a couple of big things happening in this world y.
Politics, energy,
you already know what i'm talking about
and those things happen you're just like,
as if we're not living in chaos already, like you just want to,
make it worse.
The other day, I was running through my account books
and seeing how well i'm doing this year.
And i'm like, ah it's a miracle.
I'm still alive at this point.
so if one day this channel disappears, or if one day like,
I just stop updating,
it could happen you know totally
in this great time of uncertainty.
I hope everybody have a great weekend
I'll see you in my next video
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.