The whole play is a failed attempt to forcibly turn a fantasy children's novel into a dark adult epic!
Although the setting of the story itself is very novel, the details of its structure and the level of the screenwriter and director are not enough to support this huge ambition. There are a total of 8 episodes in the first season. Until the seventh episode, it actually tells a story similar to the movie version. The drama version uses more time and more scenes to say more nonsense, and does not have more details to increase the substance. Instead, the content is full of rigid lines and awkward performances.
Children have acting skills, but just like elementary school students speaking under the national flag, you don’t think that the children in the play are real children. It feels like just a group of talented little actors playing children like adults. In particular, Roger, acting is absolutely rare, but the excessive force and the artificial lines seem very unnatural. You don’t think he is a child in the play when he speaks. A normal child would not speak that tone and make sentences like that. If you change his image to an adult male, you will feel that some lines and some situations are more natural. . An excellent performance should be natural. Children who play a child should be directly integrated into the role. There is no need to act. The impassioned lines and inexplicable smiles and hugs are more like adult communication etiquette! Really, from the first sentence of "She's special!" that scared me, to the impassioned speech when saving people in the laboratory behind, to the hug with Lai without moving (maybe a little boy and a little girl who just hug him when he is okay. Give me a hug? Even if you are a good friend, you are all in your teens, right? Very pure, there is such a??
In fact, in addition to children's performances, some of the performances of adults are also very weird. Maybe it has something to do with the director's style? Why do adults growl and scream inexplicably? ? ? Incompetent furious? The mouth was so wide and it was still drawing... and it wasn't a quarrel or a fight, there was no brewing, no preparation, and suddenly he roared. I understand being angry, but it's all about human beings. Why is emotional management so bad?
The cast or role image of the drama version is also difficult to describe in a word. It's totally incomparable with the movie version. It seems a bit superficial to say ugly, but the actual situation is like this. The characters and actors in the movie version are really too beautiful. Not only are their faces good-looking, they are also there, and the young actors are also very agile. , Not to mention the black people who are nowhere to be placed in the drama version. Nicole Kitman doesn’t know how taller it is than the old witch in the drama version. It’s really an old witch. When I first came out, I thought it was Laila’s grandmother; although I like "Little Wolf Girl" very much, this role is , The movie version of Laila is really more immortal, more aura, more like a "Chosen One"; not to mention the bear, the version in the drama version is too ugly, and the small eyes in some scenes look very shocked. , Not to mention Ian’s voice in the movie; the more breakthrough character in the drama version is Lee, who is indeed more styled and distinctive. Different from the star-studded movie version, the only "big name" in the drama version, Yimei, seems to have a very full schedule. A few scenes are rushed and rushed.
Speaking of black characters, say a few more words. Political correctness is really disgusting. I’m not a racist, but it’s really annoying for you to mess with me like this! BLM is BLM, homosexuality is homosexuality. If you think it is normal, then it is normal. Why do you say it every day, put it on stage every day, and forcibly insert stories with any background at any time? ? ? I think I'm used to normal heterosexual and white protagonist movies. Why do you think that normal things have to be deliberately emphasized, or even marched to require legislative protection? Do you supporters themselves are the biggest doubters, and deep down in your heart, you feel that these are abnormal, so you need special treatment in order to get on the stage?
In addition, is the church a zoo? The villain’s gloom is understandable, but why are they all weird, yin and yang? Is this for children to show to adults? Can you show the kids that are bloody, weird and scary! Can it be superficially labelled for adults?
The plot, I said before, spent more space telling almost the same story. Except for the part of the black boy in the parallel world, this part is also delusional and has no elements to actually promote the plot. What I hate the most is this plot that is entirely for the next season. The strength is digging holes without the slightest exciting. In addition, the plot is actually less than the movie version. Isn’t God magical? It really took more time to talk more nonsense. How the Earl of Asriel was captured, the details of the night that Laila was taken into captivity, how the Gypsies tracked the surprise attack on Burfanga, and other key plots were not introduced, and many scenes changed suddenly, without the slightest excess. The second was changed suddenly in the next second in that scene. The plot of the Battle of Berfanga, Laila's persuasion of the Bear King to fight and the victory of the duel was too sloppy. What about the big scene? Where is the Tatar army? Where is the black witch? How about more than two hundred bears? What about the special effects of reading the compass? It's so saving! It's too crotch!
In the first 7 episodes, regardless of the content of the parallel world, watching movies can definitely get a smoother, natural, and eye-catching audio-visual experience, and some settings and relationships can even be better understood.
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