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Fangs of Fortune 大梦归离 – First trailer Dir. Edward Guo, Luo Luo, Wei Nan

#guo jingming BETTER do thus drama justice #its too beautiful to go the route of whatever happened to my journey to you #fangs of fortune

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Snowy Night: Timeless Love (2024) dir. Leung Sing Kuen, Ren Hai Tao

#going feral rn #THIS LOOKS INSANE #snowy night timeless love

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 (2022) Dir. Yi Zheng – Episode 33

#love between fairy and devil #the lil run he doesss

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#holy shit he is a fucking good actor #war of faith

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from this article: How does "War of Faith" break the stereotype that "using popular stars means a bad show (drama) "?

These days, "War of Faith" starring Wang Yibo, Li Qin and Wang Yang is on the air. The drama connects the ever-changing Shanghai financial world in the 1930s from the perspective of small people, cleverly combines the spy war of the Republic of China with financial themes, and vividly presents "a war without gunpowder smoke". The young actor Wang Yibo also broke the stereotype of "using traffic stars means bad drama" with his strength.

Television dramas about the Republic of China were once very popular, but with the rapid increase in volume, the plots became seriously "routine", and "War of Faith" was innovative compared to previous works of the same type.

As a work that takes time to produce fine results, the "hardware" in the play also shows a brand new Shanghai flavor. For example, the lively Qibao Street in the drama is full of the life atmosphere of the city alleys of that era; for example, the small house that Wei Ruolai rented was originally designed to be spacious and warm, but Yao Xiaofeng insisted on changing the space to be more cramped, because he felt that only in this way could the life of the grassroots people at that time be presented, forming a sharp contrast with the prosperous Shanghai Bund at that time. Under such living conditions, the image of Wei Ruolai, an aspiring young man who hopes to make money through his own efforts and let his parents move from the countryside to Shanghai, was established.

In addition to using finance as a cutting point and real scenes to show the growth history of small people, making the show refreshing to the audience, the actor Wang Yibo who plays Wei Ruolai also makes the audience shine. Over the years, Wang Yibo has made his way from his hometown of Henan with his own efforts. This experience has made him resonate with the protagonist. In the end, Wang Yibo did not disappoint the director's expectations. Yao Xiaofeng said: "The temperament of the character I want is a clean and immature boy. Facts have proved that this choice is right. In Yibo, I see his most sincere pursuit of acting." Many industry insiders also said that the stereotype that "using traffic stars means bad dramas" is gradually fading, and the industry's views on the new generation of young actors are gradually changing-we cannot deny the addition of actors' own popularity to the drama, but we must also think about the matching degree between actors and dramas, and seek win-win results.

The reason why "War of Faith" is so popular is that it relies on the positive values of passionate growth and saving the country and protecting the people. After experiencing the corruption and darkness of the financial circle, Wei Ruolai was confused and hesitant, but he also found his own direction in life; Communist Party member Shen Jinzhen saw his companions sacrifice their lives for the future of the country and strengthened his choice of faith... This makes the family and country feelings no longer an empty slogan. As Yao Xiaofeng said: "I hope that the audience can see themselves in the drama and find the answers in real life in history."

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#war of faith #potential to watch?

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posting fafa alone since I’m too busy for personal art atm 😭

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aimless efforts

#:)

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Who Rules the World 且试天下 (2022) Dir. Yin Tao, Yu Yong Gang – Episode 19

#stop why is this actually so cute????? #who rules the world

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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

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i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

#YES

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𝕸𝖞 𝕵𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖞 𝖙𝖔 𝖄𝖔𝖚 (2023)

overview : episode no - 24 | genre - wuxia

yun weishan has only ever known darkness. brought up and honed from a young age to become a spy under the mysterious sect wufeng, she longs for freedom. the drama begins as she is sent on a mission into the gong family, the enemy sect of wufeng. if she succeeds, freedom she gets. surrounded by schemes and treachery with possible death looming on both sides, yun weishan must navigate the dangerous waters of the gong family and her own turbulent emotions towards her target, gong ziyu.

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YALL THIS DRAMA. THIS DRAMA. this drama was simultaneously the worst and best thing I have experienced in a long time. however, if I could only use one word to describe this drama, it would 100% be stunning. the drama is absolutely stunning. from the music to the costuming to the makeup to the actors- this drama's visuals is quite frankly something never seen before in chinese dramaland- its so dark and brooding and so cool. the plot on the other hand...? let's get into it.

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𝖕𝖑𝖔𝖙 - 3/10

𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 - 7/10

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 - 7/10

𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 - 10/10

𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖 - 6.7

o⃣u⃣t⃣    o⃣ f⃣    f⃣ i⃣v⃣ e⃣

𝖍𝖎𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖌𝖊𝖒 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖚𝖊 - 💎💎💎💎💎

[ honestly, this drama is pretty unique I have to give it that much. in every way. the characters? the premise? and the style? I think the visuals alone grants it it's five gem value. ] 

𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖚𝖊 - ✨✨✨

[ despite the plot that is quite literally held up by like two stitches, I would probably rewatch it for the characters, but probably not think too deeply about the drama's construction as a whole because honestly- it would frustrate me to no end. ]

‘keep reading’ for detailed review

 𝖕𝖑𝖔𝖙 - 3

okay- hear me out y'all. I know people absolutely LOVE this drama and I am one of them, but I have to admit the logic in this plot sucks ass. like it really sucks ass. recently i heard a youtuber describe the characters as people who thought they were zhen huan but in reality were just a bunch of xia dongchuns and it really made me laugh- and guys... unfortunately, its true. some of the methods that the characters use to scheme and idk "verbally spar" honestly were just so- sigh. so ridiculous.

generally speaking, I felt that the drama didn't really have a "thread" or a central purpose, which I think is mainly a result of the build up to the ending. it failed to answer so many questions and instead made it worse by creating even more. overall, the plot kind of just felt like wading through a gigantic mud marsh with pointless confrontations and plot points popping up everywhere. the scriptwriters gave the drama a super complex framing that they just weren't able to do justice. two powerful sects and two people from completely opposing sides. one is an assassin-spy that initially (?) yearns for freedom and one is the leader of the sect that she is trying to destroy. add to that all the scheming that goes on the gong family. and a lot of childhood trauma. that's a shit-tonne of emotion and plotting to deal with which you can't realistically develop to a good quality within just 24 episodes.

I also got the vibe that the scriptwriters were scared to pin point any of their characters down for the sake of mystery, which honestly instead of making the drama better, really just made it worse. so many characters' motives were constantly doing 180s and big revelations were thrown in without any evidence of it being interlaced with the rest of the drama (I'm looking at you Big Plot Twist At End of Drama). like, the general concept was amazing, show-stopping, fantastic, never seen before, but then came the execution and it all just sort of fell apart.though I did enjoy the plot and watched the show until the end, ultimately I felt that there was honestly just too many frustrating flaws to justify it getting anything higher than 3. I loved the drama all the same though, the concept, the music and cinematography was just insane.

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 - 7

ugh all the characters in this show where literally sO COOOLLL. they all had such distinctive characters, styles and personalities, it was amazing. honestly, literally never seen before. their tragic backstories were so so heartbreaking. while plot wasn't fantastic, the drama was pretty good at establishing and handling the characters and their emotional attachments to each other. its kinda funny to me that for a drama which marketed romance as it's main thing, the non-romantic relationships were so much better written. I loved yun weishan and yun que's relationship to their master han yasi and the relationship between xue chongzi and xue gongzi. and omg, gong ziyu's relationship to lady wuji? brought me to tears.

speaking of the romance department; I found it really hard to invest in the ships. while I approved of all the pairings and thought a romantic dynamic between them would be very interesting, it did feel like the storytelling was yet again lacking. I couldn't be sure wether I could really invest and ship the romance between shangguang qian and gong shangjue bcs both their motives were so unclear, and neither of their feelings towards one another were never really explored properly? and while I definitely understood yun weishan's attraction to gong ziyu, I didn't really get why gong ziyu loved her and risked so much for her which made some of his actions seem really silly and hard to stand by. overall, for the romance, i think I liked what it had the potential to be than what we actually got.

𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 - 10

Y'ALLL. time to talk about my absolute FAVOURITE part of this drama. THE PRODUCTION. the colouring, the lighting, the sets, the cinematography?? the makeup? the music? the costume design?? THE COSTUME DESIGN?? its quite obvious that a huge amount of the budget for this drama has simply been poured into the design, like I've seriously never seen a drama shot like this ever before and it was absolutely insane (though they definitely had to cut down on the cast and extras, the whole drama has this weird kind of empty feeling for a manor that is so rich and famous and so tightly guarded, like yun weishan didn't even get a personal handmaiden) I remember seeing the trailers for this show and literally screaming- the drama itself did not disappoint. I would even go as far to say that I would watch this drama completely just for the aesthetics.

𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 - 7

in my personal opinion, no complaints about the acting, it was pretty great. although it's pretty dramatic at times and everyone speaks at the volume of a whisper, at no point in the drama did I get taken out of the show by the acting. esther yu really slayed in her new assassin role which was so fun to watch especially since most of her roles thus far have been rather cutesy and light- and her marital arts scenes ate- in fact all the martial arts scenes ate in my opinion. I think even the side characters did fairly well, it was all very nice. no complaints.

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𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖚𝖘!!

favourite character(s) : 

yue gongzi ( who doesn't love an angsty angsty man? he's literally the definition of that teary wet cat meme and I love that for him ) 

xue chongzi (yet another angsty man- you can see a pattern forming lmao- his arc at the end was literally so heartbreaking. one of my favourite characters from this show fr. )

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𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖜 (source mydramalist)

lead actors : esther yu, zhang linghe, lu yuxiao, cheng lei

director : guo jingming, luo luo

screenwriter : guo jingming

#my journey to you #cdrama #wuxia #cdrama recommendation #drama review #final review #at long last my review is heeereeee #honestly it took me so long to finish it bcs this drama left me reeling #in both a good way and a bad way #like #the plot logic was just so out of whack #but it was so good at the same time like what #and sometimes it did make sense #but sometimes it didn't #LIKE #AKSJDJDJ #Esther yu #zhang linghe #lu yuxiao #yu shuxin #chinese dramas #cheng lei #shanggang qian #yun weishan #gong ziyu #gong shangjue #fandomaesthetics

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"if you weren't prince guo [...] who else would act in such an unruly manner within the palace?" | zhen huan meets aisingioro yunli | episode 13

#empresses in the palace #cdrama #historical cdrama #sun li #zhen huan #aisin gioro yunli #guo junwang #palace drama #imperial china #watchlist #甄嬛传

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you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

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˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 甄嬛传 | episode 12 appreciation post

#empresses in the palace #sun li #legend of zhen huan

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chen lijun + ju jingyi's performance of 游山恋

#ju jingyi #in blossom #cdrama #c-ent #chen lijun #yue opera #new dragon inn #gufeng music #鞠婧祎 #陈丽君 #新龙门客栈

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My Journey to You 云之羽 (2023) Dir. Guo Jing Ming – Episode 22

#I will never get over the visuals of this drama #my journey to you

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Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they've done to you that's when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence