Taiwanese film and television works that are placed on streaming platforms often show lack of competitiveness!

Two and a half years have passed since the Covid-19 epidemic, which has greatly changed the viewing mode of TV (series) and movies. Before the epidemic, the number of times I could go to the cinema every year was at least one movie a week or four movies a month, but the relationship between the epidemic, in addition to "can't go to the cinema", is more often because of the impact of the epidemic on the progress of filming or the release of films. Planning and not having many options to go to the cinema to watch, it is often like living in the old days, constantly watching a classic re-enactment of which movie.

Regarding the re-screening of classics, streaming platforms have been releasing some movies that started in ten or twenty years one after another over the past few years. It does make people come and watch them occasionally. Watching the same movies at different ages, there are always Different moods, surprises you see in your teens, and throbbing when you watch them in your forties, most of them are good movies.

Due to the epidemic, the opportunity to stay at home has greatly increased, and streaming platforms have become a good choice to pass the time! Some movies bypass the theater chain and go directly to the platform, while some niche films mean that the last theater chain is not very good at the box office anyway. In remote areas such as Kaohsiung (laughs) , it will be released rapidly in a week to ten days, and it will be released in less than three months. It can be seen on the platform, and this still meets the needs of me who can't spare the time to watch bad shows.

As for Taiwanese dramas that could not be squeezed into the popular TV time period before, with this wave of watching dramas at home, whether it is in the production studio or during the release period, it has created a lot of noise, and strives to hype "these works" and "they are all good-looking." ", but the content is often unable to keep up with the word of mouth that has been vigorously promoted. Even "Taiwan TOP10" often makes people feel that those hot discussions or sensational titles are "exaggerated" a bit!

Before there was a streaming platform, I was someone who was determined to go to the cinema and watch all the shows for one round (except for ghost movies that didn’t match the sequence.) After it was released, I still had something to do and I would check out the new shows. Which one I haven't seen, click on it, and even the album, I try to watch the "newly launched" one round as much as possible. If I happen to come across an old movie that I liked before, I will open it again to see how it feels to relive it. Is there any difference.

After a large number of Taiwanese film and television works are put on the line to compete with the works of other countries, it is really often unbearable to gamble. Not to mention how the Korean Wave is the first choice for viewing from the script, actors and spending a lot of money on production, Taiwanese works often lack a certain thickness and texture, even if the actors with perfect acting skills come together, they are often unable to support That's really only a work that "speaks nicely".

In addition to a lot of petty love and idol worship, Taiwan's works in recent years are full of reasoning and suspense, as if there is no drama to be performed without a dead person, or it is often a shocking surprise; the most laughable The thing is, no matter what type of film, you always have to get together with rap and hip-hop music as the soundtrack or theme song, or just find those groups of popular singers to sing! (Why don't you make a good soundtrack? The classic TV soundtracks in the past are super nice~)

And the type of comedy that has emerged in the past two years is not to say that it is "ugly", or it can be said that the script is often "funny" and forget that it will have a certain sense of rhythm and depth. Type, nonsensical funny is also one type, in the north you are killing small funny is another... But "comedy type" is not just laughing, if you lose the rhythm of the drama itself, in the end it will only be The content of "I don't know what to laugh at" is left!

When a large number of Taiwanese works are put on the same platform to be compared with others, it may still be the TOP10 for viewing in the short term, but the quality of the works itself is really not as "really good-looking" as Taiwan's hyped publicity. , not as great as those podcasts or text comments, but also like to write "OOXX you didn't find", "XXYY what the screenwriter wants to say"... In fact, it is often "the script doesn't add more ink to that part; logic The director just forgot about that." That's just your brain!

I have watched a lot of Taiwanese works for a long time, and I have watched a lot of various works on streaming platforms in recent years, only to realize "Ah! Why don't so many people watch Taiwanese film and television creations?" Really, many, they are so ugly. Ahhh! a ha ha ha. It's hard to say what's ugly, at least a few of the movies I've watched in recent months have wanted to scold people! (It's nice, I wrote it.)

Saw a short interview with Samuel Jackson talking about the difference between streaming and theater a few months ago, and the answer at the end was hilarious! It's good for the audience to watch a lot of reasoning, thriller and suspense, but if it's "pretend" content, the audience's eyes are very sharp, and it will probably become a game of chasing, not a movie!

If Korean dramas can break away from those love and love stories, and shoot a lot of touching family, friendship, and deep love or daily life, and they can be applauded and popular, can there be more possibilities for Taiwan dramas? But this "maybe" we may have been discussing for a decade or two!

Photo: 20161104 Long Excuse @Kaohsiung Film Festival, Canon EOS 5D Mark II