Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
and let's get right into it
first as usual
dramas that have gone live.
First on september the 14th a drama went live.
Qi Hang Dang Feng QI Shi
Our Times, led by Wu Lei, Hou Minghao
Mao Xiaohui, Xiang Hanzhi
This should still be categorized as a contemporary drama,
but only that it happened a little bit earlier on
set in the 1990s
A story of the young people back then at the turning
point of china's social and economic structure and system,
as the title suggests,
starting the big voyage,
I haven't had time to check out this drama yet,
but i've heard really positive reviews from other people.
and the interesting thing about this project is it is directed and
written by the same director and writer who did Hikaru no Go
Qi Hun
then on september the 16th a period romantic
standard type of drama of that category went live
The title is Gong Zi QIng Cheng
Your Sensibility My Destiny
led by Bu Guanjin and Wang Xingyue
It is in a fictional period time
fictional setting of a guy who just doesn't have senses
And then obviously our female lead would be the only person who
is able to make him feel anything
such a standard and classic setup of idol period dramas.
Then there's drama that has been scheduled to go live
on the 22nd right after chinese mid autumn festival.
And it is the Guo Zi Jian Lai Le Ge Nv Di Zi
We've been talking about this drama since last year when
it was filming right around this time actually september,
and it's led by Zhao Lusi, Xu Kaicheng, Ren Hao
It is the A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College.
That's the english translation.
I don't think there's ever another more literal translation title
of a chinese drama.
and as the title suggests,
this time it is a female student enters the college not under
the pretense of being a guy like many previous idol dramas.
She is kind of like broad daylight.
I'm a woman
all the boys are like wow she's the only female student.
Clearly, this is fictional, right?
Never happened in chinese history.
And guo zi jian, this type of school,
historically doesn't exist in every dynasty.
Most well known would be the Ming dynasty guo zi jian,
which is a physical location that is like the nation's top top
college that takes the best of the best students from all over the
country and put them there.
If you ever travel to Bbeijing,
you can visit.
It's still there
like the buildings and the courtyard and the famous tree.
There's a lot of legends about that entire street,
and then everything around that location is just insanely expensive.
We shall see if it is in any way worth watching.
Then let's talk about quite a few dramas that
have wrapped shooting during this week.
First is the min guo Republic of China setting drama.
We've also mentioned before Ping Lan Yi Pian Feng Yun QI
about the revolutionary time of last century led by
Hu Yitian, Zhang Ruonan and quite a few very well known
actors playing the middle age range characters
more min guo stylings of those leading roles
I mean there's also a rumor that Hu Yitian and Zhang Yunlong
is gonna do another min guo setting detective drama.
Just mentioning it randomly because it's not confirmed yet.
Hopefully it actually works and happens
even if it's just another min guo setting drama that
actually has nothing to do with My Roommate is A Detective.
I'd be very happy.
Also a drama has wrapped shooting during this week,
which I think i've mentioned once
called Hu Tong, english title Hu Tong
It is that particular type of very narrow alleyway
that exists in the city structure of old Beijing.
And this drama focuses on three different time periods of
the same hutong and focusing mostly on the female roles.
so it looks like a very interesting structure drama.
I definitely wanna check this one out when it airs
chronologically.
The first story is led by Zhao Lusi
where the time is back in the olden days.
And then it goes to Cai Wenjing's role
who lives her life in the same hutong after the founding of people's republic.
And then Guan Xiaotong leading the more
contemporary story happening in the same location.
So it's like running through a saga of 3 generations
of women living in the same place in beijing.
Hopefully the script is good enough.
Also a drama has wrapped shooting during this week.
I've also mentioned it once
called Ai Qing Ying Gai You De Yang Zi
Love The Way You Are
led by Angelababy and Lai Guanlin
contemporary drama, as title suggests,
romantic drama.
It's wrapped.
That's all
also a drama.
A lot of dramas wrapped
An Ye Xing Zhe and it's led by
Li Yifeng and Song Yi
it is a crime anti drug drama
and Li Yifeng plays two characters,
his first kind of lifetime as a undercover policeman
in a drug ring who faked his death and came back
5 years later pretending to be his previous self and
continues working
if the script writing quality is similar to,
let's say Stealth Walker or even better
i'd be happy about it.
Then a couple of dramas that has officially announced.
They're at different stages of production.
First is a drama that's called Mo Ran
The title in itself doesn't say anything about what
this drama is about
it's going to be led by Fu Xinbo and Xia Meng
And it is a chuan yue story of a contemporary surgical doctor.
Female
somehow ended up in a parallel universe and became
the wife of a high powered official or aristocrat.
and she's forced into that kind of relationship with this guy has to
gradually get used to the presence of that person and then surviving the
period time setting and using her knowledge of medicine.
Combining that with in the parallel universe,
traditional chinese medicine
also it will involve some kind of court drama
as period drama setting will always have
whenever chinese drama comes into contact with
medical stuff.
you know my attitude is hold back all your expectations,
then there is a drama that has announced
they're gonna go into production very soon.
They have the conceptual posters already out and
so exciting.
Xian Wei Jing Xia de Da Ming, Da Ming Under Microscope,
it is another Ma Boyong
the writer's work that's been adapted to screen.
This guy must be the luckiest guy after Zi Jin Chen
Cause he's got Chang An Shi Er Shi Chen, Long XI, Luo Yang
and now Da Ming
all the books he's written that are well known now are all being
made into dramas and all being cast and led by top top
popular actors
Ma Boyong, the luckiest writer out there.
This is a Ming Dynasty setting story
based on real historical events that is super,
super interesting.
It comes in an angle that usually you just
don't see in any kind of historical dramas.
It is about a tiny event that happens in a tiny town
that somehow gradually just butterfly effected
into this huge thing that impacted the history and
left a really interesting record in chinese history.
And it's very well known.
I'm not gonna go into detail and spoil it for you,
but it's a very unusual type of period drama setting story
and it's gonna be led by Zhang Ruoyun, Qi Wei
Wang Yang, Wu Gang
see how many Joy of Life actors are already in there
apart from Qi Wei who's not in
for the major couple of actors
They are all in Joy of Life
I can't wait.
Now a couple of news regarding dramas and dramaland.
We've had a quite quiet half a month of September after August's in sanity,
but still things are happening under the surface.
First a quick news about the drama Zhang Gong An
A Lague of Noblemen
led by Jing Boran and Song Weilong
that is a period drama, 2 male leads
It has passed censorship and it has gotten
the number for basically go online.
Theoretically.
They can just air it now
they have everything cleared,
and they've changed the name to Jun Zi Meng
which is actually the direct translation of the english title.
Interesting.
Honestly, although we put it in the bl category,
it is not really bl
so maybe it can air.
Now
I don't know,
we'll see
that will lead me to talk about
the last couple of things in this video.
First is during this week, Guang Dian (NRTA)
national radio and television administration has come out
and said something for real
from now on every drama that
goes to censorship needs to be first censored about
its budget
of how much money went to paying the
actors and each actor how much
and there's now a rule about the entirty of the budget,
how much percentage of that can go to paying actors
And within that,
what is the percentage that will go to leading actors
and if you exceed that budgeting you don't pass
does not matter what is the drama's content,
we will not even start looking at your content if your budget does
not fit our criteria
which is a really good news for production,
you need money for costume for paying every other person for props,
for post production, everything.
But people are saying,
is there a way to get around this?
I mean if they really want over pay the actors,
they can just give the money in other you know ways.
That that doesn't let it show on the budget.
It is possible to do that.
But the thing is because right now is the high pressure cooker
situation and very tight scrutinization on entertainment business
In general,
I doubt the productions would dare to test how far the higher ups
would go to figure out exactly how much money you've paid everybody.
If they really wanna find out
they can.
and if you play the trick and thinking of yourself being too clever,
and you can outsmart the system,
you're gonna get effed
so it's a good news.
It's positive towards making the whole
thing much more regulated and reasonable.
And then the definitely bad news is,
although there's still no clearly written out policy in terms of
" we from now on ban or bl adaptation dramas"
there is a close to that kind of thing that came out
this week and it's been on top one trending for hours
and hours yesterday in china on weibo,
which is "坚决抵制耽改之风”
definitively and strongly go against
the trend of bl
so you see like the wording,
it's not like go against the existence of bl
it's go against the trend of too many BL
So exactly what that means,
pretty much need to put a big big damper on so many bl dramas that are either
already made. waiting to air or in production or in planning of production.
Personally not a fan of going against a particular genre of dramas.
It has happened many times previously.
It was like qing court dramas banned
the harem drama taken off line
In China, it is like that
when everybody rushes into making the same type of things,
because they've seen one succeeding and,
getting a lot of money
then inevitably leading up to that
That is a couple of years later,
because the market just has too many of these things.
And it's been played by capitals as the store front of
getting just too many unresting things going on internet.
It gets cut down from the policy's end
and it has happened so many times.
and over and over you see that basically people just never learn
all the money craze capitals are like,
we're not gonna be the unlucky one.
We're not gonna be the one who get caught.
We will be able to throw out our stuff and get money.
well...
well yeahFinally, it's happening.
So for all the dramas that have already finished production,
I don't know what will become of them.
Maybe they will have to promote it in a totally different way.
just cuts down all the bl vibe
and they have to be super careful about when it's promoting
they cannot do the cp thing anymore.
They probably have to go through some significant
doctoring
and positioning when they promote
I still wanna see a couple of them.
I really look forward to Sha Po Lang or Feng Huo Liu JIn
Immortality and Chase the Light
These are the three that I really really look forward to
under whatever category or however you promote it.
Or even if you like,
just castrate it
this is just the beginning of a new era of chinese ent business.
And you need to give it time to
work mess out.
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