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Text/Yu Ming Constrained by the censorship system of "limiting ghosts but not demons", Chinese ghost and god dramas were once out of stock, and even if they occasionally produced supernatural online dramas like "Soul Ferry", they were at risk of being taken off the shelves.
However, the superstition of "ghosts and gods" has been prevalent among Korean folk for a long time, and the audience is fond of characters such as "girl goddess". "The Lord's Sun", "The Bride of a Century" and "Scholar Who Walks the Night" have all gained a large number of fans due to their novel ghost themes.
Known as the "conscience drama maker", tvN has sprung up in the subdivided ghost drama field. In just two years, it has successively launched "oh, my ghost and god" and "fight, ghosts" with different styles but good reputation.
Now tvN is chasing after the victory, and solemnly presents "The Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghosts" (hereinafter referred to as "Ghosts") with "word of mouth and ratings flying together, and the appearance and acting skills are the same" . The exploration of ghost dramas has taken another big step forward. .
【1】 "Are you courting death (cu ger lai)?"
Coupled with the ferocious expression, this line is almost the most familiar threat in Korean dramas.
But if you ask Jin Xin, "Are you looking for death?", he should answer with a smile: "Yes, I'm looking for death."
A ghost who has lived for more than 900 years suffers from a disease of "living impatiently" and is struggling to find a bride who can draw a sword to end his immortality. The beautiful lady boss who is emotionally empty unfolds a novel and interesting story.
The love romance between ghosts and human brides, and the mutual rivalry between ghosts and hell messengers is the most talked-about Korean drama "Ghosts". It was produced by tvN, which is "content is king". Under the circumstance of courtesy, it still broke the premiere viewing record created by "Reply 1988", and won the highest premiere broadcast of tvN over the years. Since then, the ratings have climbed higher and higher.
[2] As the finale of tvN's tenth anniversary, the cast configuration and investment of "Goblin" can be said to be a big deal.
The male protagonist Goblin is a powerful force in the limelight. He starred in "Asia's No. 1 Zombie Movie" and "Train to Busan", which was the box office champion in South Korea this year. South Korea's Chong Olympics, plus the word-of-mouth work "Men and Women", this year, Kong Yoo alone has carried the box office of 20 million people. You must know that the population of South Korea is only 50 million. Coupled with the high-rated "Ghosts", it can be said that the big and small screens take all, and the annual trend of actors.
The heroine is also a movie star of Chungmuro, Kim Go-eun who showed the charm of "dog hair" in "Cheese in the Trap" at the beginning of the year.
The second male is "Xue Gongcan" of "my girl", Li Dongxu who looks better with age.
The second female is Queen Inhyun Yoo In Na.
In addition, the golden team of "Descendants of the Sun": screenwriter Kim Eun-sook and director Lee Ying-bok.
In particular, Kim Eun-sook, the walking star-making machine, and phenomenal Korean dramas such as "Secret Garden", "Gentleman's Dignity" and "The Heirs" are all produced by her.
[3] As a love textbook for Korean dramas, Jinbian has her tried-and-true trump card.
The first killer: The entanglement and delicate male protagonist's experience is comparable to the Korean version of Mei Changsu. Nine hundred years ago, he was a general who was always victorious. penetrate his body.
After being resurrected, he cannot reincarnate and witness the death of his relatives and friends one by one. This is a reward and punishment given to him by God. If you want to rest in peace, you must find the one and only ghost bride, draw the sword to die, and end immortality.
The heroine, who was rescued by a ghost during the mother's womb, was called the ghost bride by the ghosts who accompanied her. After meeting the ghost uncle, she wanted to marry her, but she didn't know that the uncle only wanted her to draw a sword to end her life.
Love and death are mutually causal, and their meeting is a romantic curse and a fatal fate.
The flame of love burns them into a dilemma—
Goblin, stay or not? Bride, to pull or not to pull?
★ Killer 2: The characters are interesting
The male protagonist is a lonely and brilliant god + a cold and cute ghost.
Before his death, he was a god of war who was dressed in blood and tearing at the enemy. After more than 900 years of cultivation, he became a handsome uncle with British aristocratic temperament. Wen Neng was Aladdin to fulfill his wish, and Wu Neng was the patron saint of heroes to save the United States. No one can stop him from becoming a big emoji when he is cute.
Disgusting straight mouth and body, black belly and poisonous tongue, he enjoys fighting the messengers of hell, but he is often choked by the harmless human girl and speechless.
The heroine's vitality girl + love story Xiaotian.
A 19-year-old high school student with an orphan background and a ghostly physique, her life under the dark clouds did not prevent her from growing into a little sun. Compared with the common people who often set a small goal of 100 million won, her ultimate goal of 5 million won is really happy and peaceful. After all, the three major wishes in life are just "Don't make trouble at my aunt's house, find a part-time job, and find a boyfriend".
As a ghost bride, after encountering a ghost, the love words that have been sealed for 19 years will be automatically unlocked. She looks so pure and unpretentious that she makes the old monster more than 900 years old to surrender again and again.
The second male is the giant baby black impermanence + amnesia Meng Po.
As the messenger of hell, the second male's duty is to put on a black work cap to recover the soul of the deceased, so that he can drink the "Meng Po soup" and forget his past life and re-enter reincarnation. On the woman (female 2) who made him cry bizarrely.
It should be cool to extradite the undead from hell, right? Quite the opposite! People are pure 24K giant babies, simple and ignorant, and easy to be deceived.
On a blind date, he proudly said that his name was "Kim Woo Bin", just because I heard that the most popular names for girls are "Hyun Bin, Won Bin, Kim Woo Bin". In order to date, he started learning to use a smartphone at an age, but made a joke because of video calls.
The simplicity of the emotional line and the likability of the female second are also a major feature of Jin's writing. In her scripts, she rarely sees dog-blood polyamorous love. The female second is generally only paired with the male second, and the characters are not only fair-skinned, beautiful, and temperamental. Also straightforward and independent (see "Secret Garden" and "Descendants of the Sun" female 2), this clear emotional line is simply a great benefit for CP patients who are on the wrong side.
★ Killer 3: Romance in the bridge section Handsome and rich are the standard of national husbands. Kong Yoo has a slender appearance. Whether it is a slim suit or a casual cardigan, it is all elegant and decent. The mature temperament accumulated over the years gives people a sense of security. It is really the perfect endorsement for an uncle and a loli. Handsome √.
Professor Du is more than 400 years old, and the ghosts have been wandering the world for 939 years, and the wealth accumulated is even more than that. He lives in a single-family mansion, and he owns countless real estate in every country he visits, and throws away dishes from the era of Louis XIV at home. Much gold √.
In addition to "people have my own superiority", he also has a number of superpowers. The first is to be summoned anytime, anywhere. Just like Li Jing's "empty handed and hand-to-hand", he is compulsive. The heroine only needs to blow out the candles or If the power of thought is strong, the male protagonist will be automatically teleported to her. It is not uncommon to have money and power, but it is precious to have a boyfriend who is on call.
Because of the forced summoning skill, the ghost was once teleported to her in scruffy clothes. He was very annoyed because of this. He always paid attention to his clothes. lin) call (xing).
The second skill of opening and hanging is any door, that is, pushing open a door to travel to another space. Professor Du also has this ability, but the special thing about Goblin is that he can and can only wear it with the heroine, so the two sneak to Canada, which is separated by a door, from time to time to enjoy the two-person world. It is worth mentioning that the overseas filming location of the drama is Quebec, Canada, which is also the first time in the history of Korean dramas that it has come to this location to shoot the location. Ghosts and brides have left many romantic footprints in the red maple leaf country.
Because of the origin of ghosts and swords, he can not only mobilize gold, wood, water, fire and earth to turn into sharp swords, but also use divine power to directly merge into invisible swords. At the end of the second episode, the heroine was kidnapped by the bad guys and taken to the wilderness. The ghosts and the messengers from the underworld descended from the sky, exploded a lot of street lights, and stepped in the backlight.
After making its debut, the ghost directly slashed the bandit car into two with an invisible sword. In ancient times, aliens stopped cars to save stars, but today there are ghosts who raise swords and chop cars to save brides.
★ Killer 4: CP sparks everywhere , ghosts and brides frequently make sugar, but the sparks in the whole drama are the first male and the second male, ghosts + hell messengers form a dead ghost CP, even the routine action in Korean drama "cohabitation" scene All arranged for them.
Because 19 years ago, the ghost temporarily rescued the pregnant woman with the heroine, disrupting the normal work of the messenger of hell, and the two became grievances.
The naughty nephew of the ghost rented out the house without authorization. The messenger of hell had worked hard to save three hundred years of incense money to pay the rent. On the day of the house inspection, the two started to pinch each other. After successfully moving in, the two elderly people started their daily life with each other under the same roof.
The ghosts mocked the messenger's hat as vulgar.
The messenger sang a nursery rhyme and made fun of the ghost's dirty underwear.
Usually at the dining table, he throws the condiment hopper and fights, and fights with mouth cannons. Occasionally, he is caught off guard and whispers.
Or walk the model step in the dark and windy night.
Over time, the friendship has been sublimated. As soon as he heard that the ghost asked the heroine to sleep on his bed, his anxious expression instantly revealed the secret. The group of dead ghosts who laugh at each other for fun, but they are all fallen people from the end of the world. One suffers because he forgot his past life, the other suffers because he can't forget his past life, one wants to kill the heroine, and the other wants to protect the heroine. The two hug each other and love each other. kill.
Because of this fateful entanglement, when the messenger of hell is lost because of the memory of his past life, the ghost will comfort him like this: "No matter what your past life is, I don't care at all. No matter what you do, I will always bother you as always. ." Don't be stubborn, you can only see the truth when you comfort with a poisonous tongue .
Supplement: How far is "Goblin" from the drama?
From actors to behind-the-scenes, from funding to platform, if the episodes are compared to dishes, "Ghosts" undoubtedly has the best ingredients, but as long as the food is not fully cooked, the dishes will change.
The most interesting thing about "Ghosts" is the details of the daily interaction of various characters. The details outline the characters vividly, and the screenwriter also spends a lot of thought and space to design.
But the main line of the whole play is "drawing the sword". If the first three episodes are a little scattered in order to build a world view and shape characters, it is understandable, but after the "certification" of the ghost bride in the fourth episode, the plot has almost stagnated. Being awkward with the bride, quarreling and reconciling for a while, drawing a sword for a while and repenting, and repeating this, plus an episode of more than ten minutes of flashbacks and MV-style narration recitation, really consumes patience.
The root of the problem lies in the fact that the plot is difficult to escalate. The setting of the story is evident. The bride is chasing after the ghosts, and the ghosts also have a soft spot for her. This kind of love story from the very beginning is very interesting. It is difficult to create conflicts. Under the setting of "draw the sword and die", the emotional conflict falls on "to be or not to be". Will the immortal body and the bride open a happy routine for decades before drawing the sword? (Supplement: It was postponed until the end of the eight episodes before the sword was finally revealed, and the contradiction was transferred to the difficult choice of choosing one or the other regardless of whether to pull it out or not. This new setting finally brought the show back to life.) If you say "The messenger of hell" =Ancient King" will turn the plot, but it is not closely related to the heroine. After all, she has no corresponding position in the ancient stories of ghosts, so she cannot fundamentally lift the knot in his past and present life.
Although screenwriter Kim is still the queen of golden sentences, her creative state in recent years is indeed worrying. Even though her writings "The Heirs" and "Descendants of the Sun" are popular, they can't help but fall into unfinished business. One yard is one yard, can the high-grade ingredients of "Ghosts" finally make a luxurious meal, and can the pleasing performances, witty plots, novel themes, and beautiful opening help it become a god? Wait and see.
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Note: This article first published the public account "Fujii Tree Viewing Group" founded by senior film critic Fujii Tree
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