Chasing the Ball： Even if Ping-pong is a cover, you can’t play it blindly.
FansiR, Guanjin Bu and Huang Shengchi starred in "Urban Table Tennis Drama" and "Chasing the Ball", which was recently launched in iQiyi. The main stunt is that VIP members can watch the complete works at one time, and whoever wants to watch the cut version can only watch his/her cut.
"chasing the ball" poster
There is a reason for this move.
With the campus story as the background, it is also a hot topic of "Fat Ball" in recent years, and the supporting actors also gather a lineup of love beans such as I (Li Xikan), Qing (Li Wenhan, Yang Gen), Tuan (Gao Xin) and He (whitehairpin), which adds some "flow" to this small-budget idol drama. It is not difficult to see the focus of the cast’s announcement from the positions of whitehairpin and Li Wenhan at the broadcast conference. Once the complete works are released, you can also watch the broadcast mode of the cut version, and broadcast the stalks that can be searched hot early, which can attract some "traffic powder" registered VIP members with few scenes but good popularity. To some extent, this is also a shrewd marketing strategy.
Chasing the Ball tells the story that Qi Jinghao (FansiR), the grandson of the president of Tengyuan College, meets Cinderella Yan Xiaoxi (Guanjin Bu), who pretends to design a upstart but actually cleans up his father’s grievances. They become tell it to the judge because of a whirlwind ball. The only suspense element comes from the fact that Yan Xiaoyun (Ken Chang), Yan Xiaoxi’s father and former Tengyuan star player, was expelled from school.
It took me a few days to finish the complete works. As a fat fan, I just want to say — —
If you are a fan of the above starring or supporting roles, you can consider watching cut. After all, handsome guys and beautiful women are pleasing to the eye, and screen licking is still very useful; But if you are a loyal table tennis fan, then you don’t have to expect too much from this drama. Click on the top right corner to close the video and finish.
Guanjin Bu plays Yan Xiaoxi and FansiR plays Qi Jinghao.
Let’s take a look at the basic staffing.
Jing Hao, a male, is overbearing, while Huang Shengchi, a male, is gentle. They compete for Yan Xiaoxi, a female with weed spirit. Looking at this template horizontally and vertically, they are all very similar to the ping-pong version of Meteor Garden or Slam Dunk Master. Although the people are similar, the progress of the plot is somewhat embarrassing: the man and the woman are either on the road of misunderstanding, quarreling, breaking up and making up, or on the road of misunderstanding, quarreling and making up, they spent 8 times in crying after 10 meetings, and only about 2 times were they seriously pursuing the truth of the incident of that year. Giving candy and crying once or twice is still new, but after watching it for a long time, people want to fast forward, wasting the acting skills of the two starring roles in vain.
Whitehairpin plays Tong Jiayue and Ryan plays Hou Jianbai.
It’s the team’s supporting role line, which focuses on the anti-routine of women chasing men, which is a bit interesting. Hou Jianbai (Ryan), a wooden little brother, wandered between Bai Wei (Lu Yangyang), a scheming woman, and Tong Jiayue (whitehairpin), a school flower. It’s a big attraction to see darling daughter chasing after a simple poor boy (by the middle and late period, the author has almost become Jianbai X Jiayue Xipi powder). Wan Ku’s young master Yun Gaoyang (Li Wenhan) and his young girlfriend Yao Nana (Hong Xiao) are the funny actors in the whole drama (there are not too many gif expression packs for this pair).
Li Wenhan plays Yun Gaoyang and Hong Xiao plays Yao Nana.
After talking about the love line, let’s talk about the so-called "ping pong drama" itself.
First of all, apart from starring in the table tennis club from Tengyuan College, 80% of the story has little to do with table tennis. If table tennis is replaced by basketball, football, badminton or other ball games, it will have little impact on the main story.
Secondly, the details involving the professionalism of table tennis really can’t stand scrutiny. Not to mention the grandiose playing posture of the main stars and the spinning ball that does not conform to the basic physical principles just for playing handsome, it is puzzling to look at the competition system alone. Open intercollegiate competitions are constantly changing. For a while, there are only men’s groups in team competitions, and for the interaction between men and women, mixed doubles are added. Not to mention the so-called team competition, each game is actually decided by playing only one game with an 11-point system. Although this is an amateur competition, if you don’t play the five-three system, at least you can play the three-two system. Is it really reasonable to decide the outcome in one game?
In addition, in the semi-final of the Academy Cup that Tengyuan participated in, in order to win, the opponent did not hesitate to soak kerosene in the racket in a clumsy way. You know, before the general table tennis match, there will be referees who will carefully check the rackets of both players, and the rackets soaked in kerosene can actually play. I am afraid it is not the opponent but the black whistle referee who will be punished!
In order to highlight the opponent’s oiling on table tennis, at the final moment of the deciding game, there was a situation that one side served all the time, just to oil the player’s ear and get more close-ups. You know, in a regular table tennis match, once the players of both sides draw 10 or more in the deciding game, according to the rules, each side will serve a ball to continue the game. While being a hero, you can’t lose out.
As for the suspense part … … Forget it, let’s forget that there is suspense in this play.
Tengyuan table tennis team
In recent years, many youth dramas with sports themes have been filmed in China, such as Taekwondo, swimming, fighting, and now table tennis. None of them are popular or unpopular. However, the main plot of this kind of drama is mostly that the family members of one of the male and female owners suffered losses in a certain sports event many years ago, and the male and female owners took the opportunity to help them get justice, or that the starring role has various problems of family of origin itself, and he slowly found himself in the process of sports competition, etc., which has a strong personal heroism. This type of drama is often a "suspended drama" that sells dog meat in the name of competitive sports. The core is still an idol drama that brushes the face of young love beans. The routine is obvious, and few "theme dramas" that really understand the essence of sports are born.
Since the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, the popularity of table tennis among young audiences has obviously improved. It is not a bad thing to rub the popularity of popular events. It is also a good thing to attract more people to participate in this sport. But ask the producers to use snacks a little. If you want to make a sweet pet drama, don’t abuse it for the sake of abuse. If you want to do suspense drama, don’t waste time on the side lines, but delete the main line; If you want to do a theme drama, you should honestly clarify the basic rules, otherwise, if you shoot too many "suspended dramas", you will only smash the signboard.
