The first season of "Bite of the Tongue" was so popular that it was inseparable from the persistence of executive director Ren Changzhen. Most of the filming team she assembled came from outside the system, were insightful and uncompromising, and Ren herself was even more so. Stubborn, in addition, CCTV did not interfere much in the first season, so the results were very good, which is reasonable. However, the first season became a hit, and CCTV came to pick the peaches. It was obvious that they wanted to build a tongue-in-cheek brand, and they promised to film a third and fourth part...
The creators who really worked hard for the first season Most of them were forgotten and not mentioned. At the celebration party, there were only Chen Xiaoqing and a group of leaders, and Ren Changzhen was also kicked away. This is Chinese characteristics!
Since the second part of "Bite of Tongue" has been aired, let me talk about my personal views. I watched the first episode with great expectations. It wasn't as good as I expected, but it wasn't bad either. It was pretty good. The second episode was shot very distinctively, with the style of a martial arts film. I think the director of the episode is a person with a very personal directing style. However, in the third episode, the Dawu clan and Qie Gao's intrusion gave me an ominous premonition. What is this going on? Moreover, the narrative of this episode is very confusing and the pace is too fast, which makes people feel uncomfortable watching it.
A dramatic turn occurred last night. As soon as the fourth episode of "Family Life" came out, there was a lot of criticism on the Internet. A mother had not seen her husband for five years because of her children, and her mother-in-law did not come home to visit her for more than a dozen times during chemotherapy. Who dares to agree with the values! You do your best for your daughter, and then you know that this is true, okay? There is also the narration of the 421 family, the lengthy narration of the birth of a child, making it difficult to tell whether this is "A Bite of China" or "A Bite of China", or a gift film for Mother's Day.
As a food documentary with humanistic characteristics, the audience is not so harsh that they will never tolerate your sensationalism, but if you are so sensationalistic that you have such unhealthy views and are so artificial, who will buy your account? !
Why is there such a gap between "A Bite of China 1" and "A Bite of China 2"?
The reason is very simple, the main creative staff has undergone a major change. The chief director of the first part is Chen Xiaoqing, deputy director of the CCTV Documentary Channel. The so-called chief director is also a coordinator. He has never been to the filming site. The executive director is Ren Changzhen, who used to work at CCTV but later resigned and broke away from the system. The directors of the seven episodes in a season are randomly selected, including Zhang Minghuan, Yang Xiaoqing, Ma Yujie, Hu Yingying, etc.
The chief director of the second season is still Chen Xiaoqing, but it is not clear who the executive director is. Anyway, it is not Ren Changzhen. The directors of each episode have also undergone a major change. Everyone will know after watching it.
After "Family Life" aired yesterday, many netizens took to director Deng Jie's Weibo to criticize it. The great director was quite dissatisfied.
CCTV’s peach-picking behavior makes people really speechless, and the finished product is really substandard, at least far from what people expected. I feel that the creators of the second season are imitating the first season. However, the tiger is not the opposite of the dog, and the east imitates, leading to today's situation.
As an aside, Ren Changzhen's subsequent film "Eat China" was also very unsuccessful.