strawgal

Sometimes the uncut you go huh? The direction in this is so good that the pacing will make a difference. If you watch most things as a whole it gives a better flow, by the time you have watched the ads and intro on Youtube , yes you still have the story intact but you lose most of the context the director has tried to build up. What I do is wait until something has aired say three or four dramas I am interested in and pay for a month only. You can also find discount codes for various streamers so its even cheaper.

The more I watch this the more I appreciate the direction, the complexity of of how a take works an the use of moving camera so you are in a scene not just watching it. which takes time care and planning.
At the start it seems a simple story, and I can understand why people are perhaps bored, but a bit Qin 's character it has layers like and onion, and each episode strips one off, and it becomes more thoughtful.

This has become so ridiculous it's almost funny. There is one scene where there 'classical' music which is so trite you wonder who was the music editor, because they seem to nothing how back ground music can influence a scene.
Then there are the costumes, which I assume are sponsored, some nice suits a bit over used, and the females trotting around in basically the same set of cloths looking befuddled.
What is really maddening is a the actors have done a really good job with what they had, even though the plot is like bad fan fiction, and holey.
I think the direction is clunky and looks cheap, in that they used as few shots and as little imagination as possible.

'they must be hard to handle' Like any tribe there is a culture and once you understand it reactions tend to be predictable. I have horses so shared interests are often a common ground.
The biggest shocker is perhaps you have to get used to the fact that through connections they have resources normal people can not access, they think everyone has the same life as them, but with less money.

There is an excellent interview about Clint Eastwoods style of direction and how experienced actors think about there craft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWUdlf_vEJ0
The thing about Eastwood is he was in pulp TV westerns at the start and formula style westerns films, so I think it is what an actor tries to learn while working. Some will know its a short career, just make money and the smart ones invest it.
I love JA, and when I started watching C and K drama the ideas about class, wealth and family one up man ship with in a family were very relatable. In some respects more than US drama. I used to work and know people country estates, and they look often like the gardener because everyone know who they are, the went to the same boarding schools and they have nothing to prove. The only thing they spend real money on are horses, land ,shot guns and the very old Land Rover or horse transport.They buy new once and never throw anything away, it gets handed down to staff.
JA it think is very transplantable to C drama, in some respect Perfect Match was Pride and Preduice on steroids and but 'Mrs Bennet' was far smarter than the original.

The most recent BBC 'historical production' has only has I think 8eps of 30min. The Other Bennet Sister,by Chinese standards it full of ugly people. The lead actress had been told by casting directors that she had an old fashioned face so I think this her fourth period drama.
I think most of tv drama now on any platform now the main pressure is time and money, and because they are selling advertising, products and merch to fund it, and actor with a face that attracts people who the advertisers want.
Its not only the casting that suffers but the quality of the scripts and ideas behind them, If an actor has enough influence they form their own production teams in the US and UK and employ friends on mates rates. UK actors tend to treat acting as a skilled job so as long as they are working, an they think they can do the role they will do it. When I see a US production with a lot of UK actors in it I often think its because they are cheap and just turn up and do the job. They are usually good at US English.

I started watching Chinese drama from Youtube, a lot of it very old I know there are a lot of talented older actors who are now in support roles, or they do characters in modern drama, all the skills are there
they just seem to be out of fashion for leads, and perhaps no time to coach, the dubbing doesn't help because they are never going to get feed back from their line delivery. The UK has a vast amount of dialects and accents but all actors are taught standard English and regional accents so they can blend in to a production.
I think for young actors they are not allowed to fail, the pressure must be intense and I always think of Michael Caine who would just about
take any movie, so he has been in some really bad ones but the internet
did not destroy his career, or pick over his dating history

I think the actor in the POJ did a pretty good job, for what he was asked to do. The only problem was the character it's self had no drive, you could not imagine him leading troops, and because of the story format, they could not allow for him to be the brains and some troop leader to do the commanding of the army, In reality in most historical wars the leaders tend to stay out of the battle as they are not expendable.

I always think the directer has huge part in this, what are they asking the actor to do to work well to do the role. If they take them too far out of their range it becomes false, and becomes forced. I have never seen this actor before and most of the time he looked relaxed and not over acting. I think the production team where looking for a natural look, and certainly the FL was never going to be able to wrestle a pig, stun it and butcher it. Its a fantasy.
I live in the UK where actors have a chance to do small roles on tv and stage while learning their craft, on stage you get perhaps eight shows a week to change a performance, and work out how the line lands, and the opportunity to see how older actors work.
I actually feel sorry for these Chinese actors because the process of making a drama is so quick compared to international industry standard, where there is more time and takes. Look at something like the Gilded Age, 8 eps and its a year or more to produce.
Then you have the Clint Eastward style of direction who hires very experienced actors and does as little direction as possible, and perhaps only has two takes.

I think she has two things that are very are in actresses, good looks and the ability to give a truth to any performance, never showy but sincere, All drama is based on suspension of disbelief , add make up and a filter, lets face it non them act with out it, she will do a better job than most twenty somethings.

Two good actors, Peat doing an amazing job, being let down by a script that makes no logical sense. what so ever.
I wondered how they would get out of the hole the script had backed them in to, and like the classic Bobby Ewing shower scene, you have a certain age to appreciate this, you just pretend a whole lot of sh!t never happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdOpQE5miP4

I have, seen it, but Petruchio I thought was a pretty tough character, never know if he does it for the bet, the money or the challenge.
I thought parts of it were more like the classic film, It Happened One Night, the road trip part rom com part I thought worked the best. It could been leading to a bit of Withnail and I
https://www.facebook.com/venturecinemauk/videos/now-now-patience-withnail-only-6-days-to-go-visit-wwwventurecinemacouk-to-get-yo/1192196087520304/
only with two creepy uncles.

I would go for Much Ado About Nothing, there could be some laughs. Or the Taming of the Shrew, I saw that at the RSC a long time ago where a motor bike was driven through the stalls on to the stage.

I think they are just trying to make him look insecure and uncertain, which is funny as even his resting face his somehow ironic and competent.

I love this but at the same time I find it really immature. Some very entitled people spending too much time angsting about things that have little importance, and having personal relationships at the level of self absorbed teenagers.
What is fascinating is when you see the actors being seriously interviewed is they all have a lot higher level of serious commitment and self awareness, so I wonder what they must feel about playing such trivial d!ck heads. Perhaps they should try Shakespeare?

In away Boston is the only adult in this. He works out quickly what is going on and weighs up is it worth the trouble. I think now he gets more kicks from the chase but doesn't want the blow back, just let them screw it up themselves.

Sets and actors looking for a story. What little story there was, which could perhaps have been interesting, reduced to unrelated cliche scenes that added nothing to it.
A nose better than Tide of Love.

I have tried to watch some very expensive formula films recently and theses beats most of them by a mile. Good script, keeps moving, characters that if you live in a an area you will find, dry observational humour. A pretty good twist towards the and end and the bonus no romance or stupid second plot shoe horned in, complete with a bucket of pathos.
I can only think the low rating is there is no romance and most of the seasoned actors are over 50 and behave like normal people.

If this was a book I would have thrown it across the room in disgust, I quite like spoilers because I hate wasting my time.
What I fail to understand is why adult men were being so manipulated by the FL, because being older I know men move on, no matter how much they seem to care in a moment. She didn't appear to have any attractive qualities, just the ability to manipulate them. The ML attitude is perhaps realistic, because men are just like that sometimes, unfortunately.
The way the FL was played it was obvious that she was not telling the truth, and really most of the mess was caused by her, I wouldn't believe a word she said.
I think the girl friend had a lucky escape, because she knew he wasn't committed to her, and if he had stayed with her she would have been in limbo.
If he thinks the choice will lead to a happy ever after I think in real life he would get a rude awakening, teenagers are serious work at times. If it is him or her son she will chose her son.

I did not believe a word the female lead said, not sure if it was how the actress was told to play it.
The detective needs his head testing, there is a reason she is an ex, and the reason the whole mess happened, as an adult.
If he was so infatuated with the idea of her, he wasn't worth keeping, so at least she gets a reason opt out and run away, I would have binned him sooner.

This started out well, I liked the Stand By Me shooting style of youth, and the idea of how your past affects your attitude to life.
The but is, all the men were depicted as if they has no rational thoughts of their own, they seemed to accept everything the FL said and never questioned her motives. A policeman would have been really incompetent not to notice that at the least she was disingenuous. How the hell was he still involved with the case?
It did have some good twists but the last episode was just lame, and such a disappointment. The admission of guilt almost comic.

I had my reservations about the plot, knowing people who have been deceived by their partners and see the harm it causes it's not comedy its a tragedy. I am not sure how you could make that even remotely funny, but somehow Ohm and Poon managed to pull their bit off IMO. I have never seen Ohm look this human.
The time and calculation that Juniors character uses to scam multiple people never mind Pai, I am not sure having an abusive parent cuts it as an excuse.
I have just decided to suspend my disbelief as far as will go, the actors are doing their best with a flawed dubious script.