Interesting comment by Li Yitong (Wan Mei) on the possibility of a BR Season 2:Background :- In a interview regarding…
Ohhh! That sounds interesting. As if she tries to avoid giving away too much information. Reading between the lines, which I love to do, there shines through, that something might be happening but that it might not yet be clear which way they'll choose. Thrilling! Absolutely thrilling! Well, I'll dare to make a guess, that we'll get another story about the four leads. I could imagine a short series of online movies: Maybe one for each of the four, focussing on each of them seperately (means, making each of them the main character for one story).
I'd suggest "Bloody Romance", by all means. Great cinematography, captivating storyline, well chosen and passionately…
In fact, "Bloody Romance" as a low budget and less promoted drama series performed much better than even some of the headlines and aggressively promoted series.
Ashes of Love is the only one everyone is busting their butts to sub. Bloody Romance is completed, not subbed…
Bloody Romance is fully subbed, by now, and it has a very good ending, if one's able and most of all willing to understand it and the novel's author herself wrote storylines for the four leads Chang An, Wan Mei, Gong Zi and Yue Ying which leave no doubt on how a possible sequel might end.
In my honest opinion, both "Bloody Romance" and "Destiny of the White Snake" are better than "Ashes of Love". "Ashes of Love" just got so much hype and attention because of all those mushy love and kissing scenes... That's what the audience obviously wants and that's what gets subbed, while numerous much better series get their asses kicked because of the freakin' lack of romance.
I'm currently re-watching "Ice Fantasy" (or better, I picked it up again after I dropped it a while ago) after I found that a number of my fave actors play in it (Huang Hai Bing, Li Hao Han, Wang Duo and some more). What had me giving it a try, back then, were the beautiful promo stills and the announcement that people would be involved who already took part in creating Middle Earth for Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies.
The right choices, I thought, to help creating fantasy magic, but, alas...it simply didn't work: - Feng Shao Feng, dressed up Ice-Kingdom-Style looks like Legolas himself just without his bow and arrows and his trusted friend Gimli... - Cheng Pei Pei looks like a female Radagast with the bird's nest on her head (just Radagst's little bids and the poo are missing)... - Alina Zhang looks like an even more cartoonish copy of the already totally cartoonish wanna-be Elven warrior Tauriel with those overdone Elven ears and this awful hairstyle... - Hu Bing as Fire King looks like Wonderwoman... - Poor Ice-King: most of his subjects obviously weren't from Ice-Kingdom running around with those horrible and poorly done white wigs which weren't even hiding the actors' original black hair...
In addition, sad but true, the guest stars and the supporting cast deliver better acting and performances than the main cast. That's nothing new, but it rarely gets that obvious like it does here... Why I'm rewatching it, you may ask. Easy answer: Taking screen caps of Huang Hai Bing, Li Hao Han and Wang Duo...
This series could have become a beautiful fantasy tale with gorgeous Middle-Earth-like settings and costumes. In the end it's just another draggy romance in front of CGI settings pretending to be something different while it's actullly all the same like what we got to see a 1000 times before...
I am (re)watching BR too, this time the Ultra HD version (3840 x 2160p) on a 4K Ultra HD monitor :)Even though…
This is so cool that finally a thing gets the attention it deserves - not because of an hysterical hype or because of silly and mushy romance but because it's simply great: well written, well performed, well filmed. I think, it needed a drama like "Bloody Romance", a drama that caused a stir like a whirlwind in a swamp of drama series all following the same principle. This is a fresh breeze and it was long overdue.
1/3 into the show, I'd say it's exactly my cup of tea. The mix of mystery, suspense and crime is nicely done. I like the two leads, Meng A Sai and Xu Jing Yuan, and I all over enjoy the scenes with Li Zong Han and Li Nai Wen. One adds to the mysterious atmosphere, the other adds some fine and well dosed humour. They only thing, I really find highly annoying is the addition of the two Ex-partners of the leads: Sheng Xia's whining boyfriend and that horrible Miao Miao. I don't know, if they'll play a role that adds to the story, in the end, but so far, they don't fit into the otherwise well written plot.
Wow, thank you very much, Erudite! I love both spin-offs (although I like my own fan fiction a tad bit more, hahahhaha!).…
Adding in the Japanese makes sense as there was a big problem with Japanese pirates, the Wokou, who started raiding the Korean and Chinese coastlines in 4th and 5th century. So, I really could imagine a plotline including such raids or even wokou getting hired to solve problems for certain Emperors, Kings and other leaders. There are not many stories, series and movies dealing with the pirates, but some do: "Shaolin Wendao", an excellent drama series, and King Hu's legendary movie "The Valiant Ones" - both, the series and the movie, are set in the Ming Dynasty. So, Japanese pirates/assassins were around for about 1000 years. Would be interesting to see how a skilled writer like we have one here would get them woven in.
But, many thanks for the info!!! :D
Would have been nice to get a bit more of Wang Hai Xiang.
Can one of you tell me if Bai Shan will appear again after eoisode 10...???
Many thanks in advance. :)
That sounds interesting.
As if she tries to avoid giving away too much information. Reading between the lines, which I love to do, there shines through, that something might be happening but that it might not yet be clear which way they'll choose.
Thrilling! Absolutely thrilling!
Well, I'll dare to make a guess, that we'll get another story about the four leads.
I could imagine a short series of online movies:
Maybe one for each of the four, focussing on each of them seperately (means, making each of them the main character for one story).
In my honest opinion, both "Bloody Romance" and "Destiny of the White Snake" are better than "Ashes of Love".
"Ashes of Love" just got so much hype and attention because of all those mushy love and kissing scenes...
That's what the audience obviously wants and that's what gets subbed, while numerous much better series get their asses kicked because of the freakin' lack of romance.
https://www6.dramacool9.io/destiny-the-tale-of-kamakura-episode-1.html
https://www6.dramacool9.io/destiny-the-tale-of-kamakura-episode-1.html
What had me giving it a try, back then, were the beautiful promo stills and the announcement that people would be involved who already took part in creating Middle Earth for Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies.
The right choices, I thought, to help creating fantasy magic, but, alas...it simply didn't work:
- Feng Shao Feng, dressed up Ice-Kingdom-Style looks like Legolas himself just without his bow and arrows and his trusted friend Gimli...
- Cheng Pei Pei looks like a female Radagast with the bird's nest on her head (just Radagst's little bids and the poo are missing)...
- Alina Zhang looks like an even more cartoonish copy of the already totally cartoonish wanna-be Elven warrior Tauriel with those overdone Elven ears and this awful hairstyle...
- Hu Bing as Fire King looks like Wonderwoman...
- Poor Ice-King: most of his subjects obviously weren't from Ice-Kingdom running around with those horrible and poorly done white wigs which weren't even hiding the actors' original black hair...
In addition, sad but true, the guest stars and the supporting cast deliver better acting and performances than the main cast. That's nothing new, but it rarely gets that obvious like it does here...
Why I'm rewatching it, you may ask. Easy answer: Taking screen caps of Huang Hai Bing, Li Hao Han and Wang Duo...
This series could have become a beautiful fantasy tale with gorgeous Middle-Earth-like settings and costumes. In the end it's just another draggy romance in front of CGI settings pretending to be something different while it's actullly all the same like what we got to see a 1000 times before...
I think, it needed a drama like "Bloody Romance", a drama that caused a stir like a whirlwind in a swamp of drama series all following the same principle. This is a fresh breeze and it was long overdue.
The mix of mystery, suspense and crime is nicely done. I like the two leads, Meng A Sai and Xu Jing Yuan, and I all over enjoy the scenes with Li Zong Han and Li Nai Wen. One adds to the mysterious atmosphere, the other adds some fine and well dosed humour.
They only thing, I really find highly annoying is the addition of the two Ex-partners of the leads: Sheng Xia's whining boyfriend and that horrible Miao Miao.
I don't know, if they'll play a role that adds to the story, in the end, but so far, they don't fit into the otherwise well written plot.
So, I really could imagine a plotline including such raids or even wokou getting hired to solve problems for certain Emperors, Kings and other leaders.
There are not many stories, series and movies dealing with the pirates, but some do: "Shaolin Wendao", an excellent drama series, and King Hu's legendary movie "The Valiant Ones" - both, the series and the movie, are set in the Ming Dynasty.
So, Japanese pirates/assassins were around for about 1000 years.
Would be interesting to see how a skilled writer like we have one here would get them woven in.