This online drama has experienced many difficulties and hardships.
I'm afraid even the director and screenwriter of this play would not have thought that once the play was broadcast, it caused great repercussions.
How to tell a good story is a very important factor for movies, TV dramas and online dramas. Online dramas have the characteristics of timeliness and impact (if you don't catch the audience's eye at once, there are so many online dramas, why should the audience watch you? ), we need to pay more attention to the interesting story, the dramatization of the characters and the conflict of the story. These are all effectively reflected in this play.
I watched several episodes of The Ferry of the Soul with some friends. Different from previous horror dramas, stories about ghosts and gods all reflect human nature, with warmth and positive energy in horror.
This is not so much a horror film as an emotional film about spiritual education.
The Ferry of the Soul tells the story of ghosts and the Nine Days King Xuan Nv who realized his life by dealing with the stories of ghosts and souls.
In the first season, each episode has an independent plot and protagonist, and the series that looks like "ghosts and gods" is actually very warm.
This online drama also has a unique vision in the selection of actors. The kindness of Wang, the cuteness of Wang, the calmness of Wang and the characteristics of each character are the keys to the success of this play.
The ingenious design lies in that the drama makes it a unit drama, and the unit story has relative independence and integrity in the main line series.
In this way, we can express diverse themes and deduce diverse stories more freely, and at the same time, we will not hinder the development of the main plot.
Therefore, "The Ferry of the Soul" got rid of the shackles of the minority theme and adapted to the tastes of more people.
In the story of ghosts and gods told in The Ferry of the Soul, it is either the infatuation of the devil or the regret of human beings. However, in the five children's episodes in the first season, there is no mention of finding marriage, but a story about an ancient fierce beast. Five sons, the fifth of nine sons born in Longsheng, are greedy.
In the play, Wu Gongzi opened a restaurant called the fifth floor. Although it is a restaurant, the situation in this episode is still terrible. The female guest is very greedy and eats food, but she doesn't know that the food is her own.
While Holly strayed into the fifth floor, Wu Gongzi tried to eat Holly, but was rescued by He Wang.
It can be seen from the statements of five children that gluttony has been eating people. In modern society, people have too many toxins in their bodies to devour their souls. The intensity here satirizes food safety issues.
The five children are played by director Xing Maoju.
In the entertainment circle, face value is very important.
In a popular saying, you are ugly, and you are embarrassed to be mixed up in the entertainment circle.
Does this mean that you have to bury it without a good appearance?
Not exactly. There are many people who are unsatisfactory but famous, such as He Wang.
However, one actor is also ugly, but he has a very inspiring and wonderful life.
The actor's name is Xing Maoju.
1990, the famous director Li filmed bloody morning in a small village in Shaanxi.
There is a role of a little boy in the script, and no suitable candidate has been found yet. Helpless, she frowned and paced back and forth in the village.
At this moment, she suddenly saw a little boy sitting at the door of a villager, who looked very close to the character image.
So she went over to the little boy and said, "I am the director who filmed in the village these days." I need a little actor. Do you want to try? "
He agreed without hesitation. At the age of 9, he starred in the first film of his life, bloody morning.
It was this film that made him dream of becoming an actor, and he has been working hard in this direction for the next few decades.
After graduating from junior high school, he went to Beijing to seek development opportunities. He played a small role in many movies, but none of them were remembered by the audience.
In a place like Beijing, it is not easy to be an ordinary person, not to mention that Xingmaoju is still ugly, which is even more difficult for him.
Because of his ugly appearance, he is often rejected by the director during the audition.
Xing Maoju had no background and could only play all kinds of walk-on roles, but he didn't give up.
Although he can only play some unknown roles, he has been working hard, every role has been carefully studied, and almost all the roles have been repeated during filming.
Before meeting director Guo Jingyu, he became a "clown" in Guo Jingyu's films and was named "the ugliest actor" by Guo Jingyu.
He is short and plain, and he was unknown until he appeared in Iron Pear, but he is not handsome because of his cleverness and wit.
The image of attaching importance to feelings and righteousness has won the attention of the audience.
Xing Maoju's head is very big, his facial features are very small, his distribution is very uncoordinated, and his chin is extremely short, which is far from ordinary people.
But he doesn't care about these objective conditions and he won't complain.
If you can't play many supporting roles, be a green leaf, no matter the size of the role.
He has been a walk-on for many years, and every role studies hard to get the director's satisfactory evaluation.
Finally, he played the first leading role "Half Pull" in his acting career in Brothers.
The director of this play is Guo Jingyu.
Besides being an excellent actor, he also has a dream of directing.
In 20 12, Xing Maoju began to direct the first TV series My Natasha. Once the play was broadcast, the ratings hit record highs and were well received by the audience.
Later, Xing Maoju directed Dog Stick, Soul Ferry, Soul Ferry 2, Soul Ferry 3, The Most Beautiful Youth and so on. All these have been highly praised and unanimously recognized by the industry. He was also promoted from an actor to a well-known director, known as the "director of ghosts".
He won the first list of "Top Ten Young TV Directors in China" for "Ferry of Soul" and was nominated for the best director of the 20th Magnolia Award for "Beating Dog Stick", but he failed to win the prize.
As a well-known director with nomination qualifications, Xing Maoju's worth has also risen. The TV series directed by him has exceeded10 billion, so some people call him a "10 billion director"
The career is booming, and the family life of Xingmaoju is also very dramatic. After all, many people never thought that a man with a bad face value would marry a wife as beautiful as flowers and jade.
His wife, Mou Xingqu, got to know him because of this play. They met while filming "Iron Pear Flower". At that time, Xing Maoju had neither outstanding looks nor strong financial resources, but he was humorous and talented. Without talent, how could he achieve today's achievements?
Mouxing District is a real beauty with a tall figure. The combination of these two people was dubbed "Beauty and the Beast" at that time.
She silently supported Xing Maoju behind her back and accompanied him through the trough of life.
Now we can finally share a happy life.
It can be said that Xing Maoju is a proper winner in life, and he also proved that "all appearances are not gold".