You know what? For me, The creepiest part of the movie is when Will Will APP staffs (including the villain) stalk their registered members' private chat/PM. (Like, unknowingly you were being watched when in the bathroom.) The villain even hijacks the member account to terrorise the heroin. Even though (as far I know) stalking PM/ member's chat is forbidden and unethical for most publisher's staff. They are punishable by the company's rules. This movie shows how vulnerable we are as end users of any APP. We are prone to being stalked! It cannot be helped since we're too lazy to read Term & Conditions before registering into an APP.
They went all out with BGM. lol. Surely they had enough time in post-production.
I wouldn't say this is a low budget. Maybe moderately high budget. For drama that consist of minimum 24 eps, they usually put extra budget and effort. Ofc they cannot be compared to S+ or S++ Project though. S+ project is considered to be very expensive project, higher on budget above average.
It's definitely will be adapted, because the rights was sold to big company this year.
I watched some videos of wrapped C-dramas, they usually spent 2 years in pre-production before principal photography. I considered that they already finished the script before moving to actual pre-production (which consisted of research, hunting filming location, casting, preparing the setting and props, costumes etc.). Because of lots of preparation beforehand, the filming process didn't take long. Taking one to three months shan't hurt. Sometimes, some shows took longer than usual because they wanted to capture more realistic pictures—for example, the scenery of four seasons. I know it's OOT, but the Japanese movie The Lightning Tree (2010) had real snow and cherry blossoms. By the way, I doubt C drama maker will take a year to film their shows. They must meet the demand. After filming and post production, the drama must go through a censor board to get a license to air, and probably re-edit (if needed). Review by the censor board can take weeks or months I guess? From then, the decision to air will be on the platforms that bought the rights. Pray that the actors have a clean image and are not entangled in scandal during those arduous processes. Their well-being affects the destiny of the drama. We can conclude that we get to see the drama in 2-4 years after the casting list revealed.
Douban is not reliable because there are lots of good dramas with popular actors and actresses which gets downvoted…
I think Douban is similar to IMDB. Being a hit movie or commercially successful doesn't mean they will automatically get a high IMDB score. Well, I'm aware about water armies on Douban too. They exist because people rely too much on Douban scores that it can divert people's POV about the shows.
Just started episode 1 and that Duke Su seems mighty suspicious...
In my opinion, at one glance, we can tell that he is the mastermind of the relief fund embezzlement case and the one who made false accusations against XMC's father. Throughout the drama, we ought to know how he did that though.
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budget. Maybe moderately high budget. For drama that consist of minimum 24 eps, they usually put extra budget
and effort.
Ofc they cannot be compared to S+ or S++ Project though. S+ project is considered to be very
expensive project, higher on budget above average.