Yi Jian Qing Xin, Fall in Love
is a 38 episodes web drama that's being aired
on the platform Youku
it is led by Chen Xingxu, Zhang JIngyi, Lin Yanjun
and it is
As the drama itself says Min Guo Ou Xiang Yan Qing Ju
Republic of China Idol Romantic Drama
Hi, you're watching AvenueX where a junkie on good storytelling
shares her thoughts, knowledge,
and occasional weird ideas on stories and how they're told.
At this point I'm making this video,
i've watched the first 12 episodes.
Surprisingly for dramas that deserves my
ranting that actually has a rather high score.
One 1 goldmine/1 landmine for the reasons
that there are actually ways to enjoy this drama.
This is a love story set in Shanghai supposedly.
Republic of china time more specifically in 1920s
between two young warlords and one rich girl.
And you probably have noticed I used.
The word "supposedly" is because although it
appeared to look like republic of china,
it really bears no resemblance to real history and any of
the historical figures that actually existed at the time,
there are a couple of conditions you need
to fulfill before you can enjoy this drama.
First,
you have to go and voluntarily delete some of the memories of older dramas,
of similar genre, similar character set up
that you've watched.
Yeah, i'm talking about that one.
Delete all your memory about that drama,
or at least compartmentalize that
you will not be able to really fully
enjoy fall in love if you have the interference of
that drama in your head.
Second,
if this type of color grading and extreme brightness
and insane skin smoothing is not to your liking,
then you have to voluntarily ignore that.
The third thing is,
if you're very sensitive to voice and you
understand chinese mandarin to some extent,
then you have to voluntarily ignore that part of your cognitive ability.
As all the young actors,
actresses are fully dubbed in this drama,
and the people who dubbed them are super familiar to you.
If you watch a lot of chinese dramas,
four if you have any knowledge about the actual history of republic of china,
the city of shanghai,
what kind of living condition was really there back then for an average
person and what kind of threat to survival everybody is living under.
Please also delete that in your memory that will really make
it impossible for you to continue watching this drama.
With all those above four conditions fulfilled,
this drama can be enjoyable.
What are the things that's actually enjoyable about this drama?
Well It was led by a group of rather good looking people,
particularly the male lead, female lead, male second
taking out the foundation of real history and premise.
And what you understand would make sense for that period of time.
And then only look at a couple of steps that built upon it.
Then some of their actions are interesting, clever,
not entirely dumb.
Now let's get to the real part of this video.
And what you clicked open this video for
every sin that Fall in Love has committed.
First,
it taught everyone a lesson
do not trust,
leaked production photos.
Do you still remember last year when they were filming this?
Paparazzi telescope lens, the male lead the female lead
what they look like and it was so good.
So it gave us the illusion and this drama is gonna turn
out to be the second Lai Bu Ji Shuo Wo Ai Ni
and it's gonna be the hope of
2021 bg dramaland of china.
Lesson learned, do not ever trust leaked photos.
Second thing,
even if you ignore the super detached reality described in this drama,
right from the beginning of this drama is started to test your
capability of tolerating things that does not make logical sense,
such as our male lead decided to kill the secretary that has
betrayed him by slash her throat with that tiny wound that looks
like it's gonna heal in 5 seconds.
And our female just happens to walk in
And when the guy is trying to hide the body under a bed,
where you can actually see through the crack
of the bed if you have a dead body there.
So what's the point of hiding it there?
While you're killing this girl in your room,
you don't lock the room,
and it happens to be on an ocean liner that is totally green screened.
and when the girls stumbled upon this murder
our guy resolved to push her to the bed.
And somehow that's gonna stop her from screaming.
And then a service person was outside on
the corridor and calling
what is happening.
We hear some commotion.
If you don't respond,
we're gonna come in.
At that point.
Our male lead could just say
" leave, we're fine!"
and that woman would be leaving.
He would not say that.
And at the time our female lead could just scream for help,
she didn't do it either.
Why?
Because somehow the drama just has to make male lead and
female lead meet as soon as possible and better to start that
with pushing her onto the bed to establish their first encounter.
If you can't say through that and it's gonna happen
for quite a few times in the first 2 episodes,
okay, you're not gonna be able to watch the rest of the drama.
It's an obstacle for you to hop over before.
You can watch the later episodes where things are not that ridiculous.
But if you quit at that point,
don't wanna watch this drama anymore
I would not blame you.
Third thing.
Dubbing, let's just get into the absolute,
horrendous mess of dubbing of this drama.
First.
It's not a very finely produced dubbing work,
but I wouldn't blame dubbing actor,
they probably don't get paid a lot.
I am very sensitive to human voices.
Chen xingxu is stopped by the same dubbing actor who dubbed Wen Kexing
Zhang Jingyi is dubbed by the actress who dubbed Gu Xiang
Lin yan jun is dubbed by the voice actor who
dubbed Wang Xiqi i in both The Imperial Coroner
And Once We Get Married.
Imagine Wen Kexing pushing Gu Xiang to the
bed and he is fighting the affection from
her against xiao jingyu in Imperial Coroner.
And Yin Sichen in Once We Get Married
what a freaking mess.
I just turn away for a second.
I hear the voice coming out of my ipad in my brain.
That is what I see
I see Zhou Ye and Gong Jun and
Wang Ziqi's face playing this drama in my head.
Can you imagine how awful that is and how
weird that configuration of characters is?
and I know this doesn't work on everyone,
but if you suffer the same thing,
as I do, my condolences,
I understand that fully
4th thing,
although it claims to be republic of china setting, obviously,
it's not based on real history,
but even in terms of props and looks and costumes and everything else,
just doesn't look like.
Time at all.
It's so roughly made.
Look at male second's hairstyle.
If you are really a young marshal
as you are at the time,
there's no way you're gonna wear that hair.
You either have a buzz cut,
or you have so much hair product put in to keep the hair in shape,
and particularly that one
strand of hair
just sits out through the whole thing.
So it's definitely not accidental.
They designed that one strand of hair
like what the heck is that?!
And that is only on the superficial level of things.
When you consider the overall tone of this drama.
It is not just laughable.
It is a bit heartless for them to pick that
period time and then write a super rosy,
romantic, happy story
in the particular time where life is just at hell mode.
One of the worst time in china's history to be
reincarnated in if you have a choice like before,
you come to this world when you're picking what
time and place and i'm gonna incarnate into.
you know, Min Guo
china is like red zone.
Don't enter
enter for tragedy only
the dramas overall tone is just so far away
right from the title song
It is so focused on this tiny,
personal feeling,
love story of oh the memories are beautiful,
you know our encounters is this and that
and it's all just so sweet.
And all those lyrics.
Really in 1920s, china?
when everything is pretty Fxxxed UP?
it's just funny how everybody is set up
the drama has so many Shao Shuai
Shao means young,
Shuai means Marshal or commander in chief.
However, you translate that it's a military term,
this drama has four of them.
Do you know how rare a military man back then can be called shao shuai?
How many shuai are there really in chinese history?
These days when you talk about Shao Shuai of republic of china,
the person that comes immediately to your mind is Zhang Xueliang
he's the known“Shao Shuai"
Those lesser known ones there are not many.
You can't have a city of shanghai and having
four shao shuai of four different armies.
and they are together as friends like the F4 of shanghai,
and they go out dressed in uniforms of different colors
because they belong to different armies and the rich girls,
whoever they are,
okay the young girls of shanghai.
are like fan girls.
They would literally scream and waving there, whatever.
oh my god he comes out,
oh you're so good looking.
Look at me,
republic of china,
a shitty time to live different political powers are at odds with each other.
Warlords are constantly killing cities making commoners life a hell.
You have Guo Ming Dang nationalist party,
you have communist party,
and there's constant power struggle.
You have foreign powers trying to come in and invade.
You have japanese threat,
you have all the other like french concessions and different powers, whatever.
It's a mess of time.
Anybody who lived at the time,
no matter if you are high high high society
people or low low low society people,
it's pretty shitty in everywhere imaginable.
And if you've watched Lai Bu Ji Shuo Wo Ai Ni
you just like cannot take this drama in any way serious
and you constantly laugh at it
not because its own comedy is funny,
it's because the story's overall premise is in itself
an insult to the real history that it was
supposedly to be set in and therefore it becomes super funny.
So that probably is the biggest sin that this drama has committed,
other things such as like really low quality production and
not taking it seriously at all when they do the work all that,
particularly if you look at a couple of supporting roles
how they walk,
how they talk,
how they do the gun fighting shots,
it's so funny.
don't take it seriously.
You can't
if you are a rational human.
you can't
I'm pretty sure the entire production
from producer to writer and director,
they know what kind of crappy stuff they have in their hands.
And I trust the actors know that too.
They're not stupid.
I think they intentionally made it look even more ridiculous.
They decided to go for this kind of color,
super skin smooth,
which if you don't want it to look like that,
you can reduce it significantly with post production these days.
Okay?
I mean I can make it look better on my own home computer.
So with their magic ability,
these days I don't see why they can't do it.
I have the feeling they intentionally did it,
because they know the story itself is crappy.
The premise is totally does not make sense
and people are gonna rant about it anyway.
So might as well just make it even more ridiculous with the
color grading and the skin smoothing so that people would focus their
fire at that and ranting about how stupid it looks,
therefore not really pay too much attention about the other
bigger sins it has committed
or since it's already
a shitty drama might as well.
黑红也是红
people would want to rant about it because of how bad it is.
Therefore it gets a little bit more traffic.
Than say you try to rescue this crappy story,
but you can't quite do it and then people are still gonna rant about it,
but then there aren't gonna be that many
people watching it while ranting about it,
so might as well have traffic and have the hate
at the same time
instead of just having the hate.
Maybe that's why they did they did the whole skin smoothing.
They literally took out the
the shadow of the muscle
of Chen Xingxu's eyes in some of the shots,
which is just so ridiculous.
I think as a drama itself,
it really has no value of existence.
But if anybody wants to do a comparative study,
any kind of serious academic study about the history of
entertainment business in china or a history of chinese television
series starting from day one to now and looking at how
things change and what are the factors that plays into
why things are the way they are today
If any of those academic people you know are looking for resources,
this drama can serve a purpose
case study of their thesis
in a way we can feel
sympathy the actors talking nonsense and
performing under the premises that doesn't make sense
and still somehow have to make it work.
They get paid.
So I wouldn't feel sorry about them,
but then I cringe and I dig out a castle
with my toes on my carpet,
while I watch this type of thing,
feeling
thank heavens.
I wasn't given the appearance and body and face of a pretty actress.
If I ever seeked a career in that business,
I would not want to end up with this kind of script and having to be forced to
play it because I need to make a living
what a pain that would be instead.
I can sit here watching the snow fall in the window and then,
rant about crappy dramas and have fun with it and have fun
with you people
and make a little bit Ad money on youtube.
That seems to be a better choice overall.
That would conclude my rant and first impression on the drama Fall In Love
Honestly,
I would actually continue watching it just to see how far it goes and how
many ridiculous scenario it's gonna come up and see the beautiful actors and
actresses get tortured by this stupid plot and,
how they play it out.
In that sense.
Life continues to deliver us fun,
surprise and enjoyment.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.