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Rewriting amnesia genre but the male lead carries the whole show
I was first interested because I saw Kyulkung in it. And because I had so much free time, I gave this drama a try because why not, right? And the first ep totally caught me off guard! I mean, I don’t feel like there are many dramas (that I have watched) gave me the same euphoric feeling right off the first bat. It can sometimes took awhile to build off impression on the characters and the plot line but this drama really sets off with a great start with a simple but comprehensive character’s introduction.Right off the bat, we see the ML, Mu Tingzhou is introduced as the Best Actor that has many awards. And his first impression is that he is cold and unapproachable. His first encounter with the female lead is very awkward due to his imposing gaze and manner as a famous person even though he actually has a good impression of her. Along the way, the viewer can actually see that he is very diligent, studying a lot for his upcoming drama up to the point that he is dreaming about it and even ‘create’ another persona from it. He is also warm on the inside as he takes care of Ming Wei in his own way. From the smallest matter such as teaching her during filming to changing his dubbing schedule impulsively because he wants to spend his time with her is very adorable. He is also kind of weird and sassy in a good way in front of his close people and it make him very much human. I mean, he looks cool on the outside with all the photoshoot and stuff. But he also likes to sit cross-legged while eating at the table like some uncle playing mahjong. And what makes him sassy is his expression! I am very satisfied with his expressive face and body language because come on guys, Cdramas usually like to have cold and 1 dimensional ML. But he is very much a 4D character and the actor basically carries the whole show in my opinion.
And because this drama is all centred around his amnesia and he appears as another ‘him’ for half the show, I would write another paragraph for it. So, when Mu Tingzhou ’change’ into Grand Tutor Mu Yun, he appears much more strict and stubborn, a product of his extensive research and practice for the play. His old fashioned manner and curiosity is hilariously good especially during the first time he wakes up as Mu Yun — epic. It is very nice to see him treats Ming Wei like a princess and stubbonly chases after her. Even when he is Mu Yun, we can see his unconscious behaviour that resembles Mu Tingzhou like the stubbornness and even his acting skill that he purposely uses to trick Ming Wei’s father and tick off the second ML.
So, enter the female lead, Ming Wei. She is very pretty and diligent. She works part time a lot like modelling and be an Italian interpreter. Unexpectedly, she got casted as a female lead for the drama that Mu Tingzhou acts in. As a total rookie, she is very diligent and honest. I think that’s why the ML likes her a lot. He first is interested in her due to their characters in the drama, but we can see that he eventually falls for her deeper as time passes by. She also has the same feeling for him and that’s probably why she accepts to accommodate him during his amnesiac period. But she is not expecting to fall in love with him during that time. We can see her struggles to differentiate both characters and keep the distance between them so she will not be hurt if ML does not remember her later on but eventually just let him do whatever he wants. To be honest, Ming Wei is not a very complex character and it did not give the same explosive impression as the ML did. But she is still fine. Her expression is also on point and I felt like crying with her when she is crying over Mu Yun.
And the side characters! Xiao Zhao, Mu Tingzhou’s entertainment agent and Ming Qiao, Ming Wei’s sister are solid! They are both very adorable as a couple with cute dynamics. Xiao Zhao is the gentle ones with playboy behaviour and Ming Qiao is the no-nonsense and straightforward type. They are a very strong support for the main characters and had a lot of comic relief together. Especially Xiao Zhao because he has a lot of bickering scenes with Mu Tingzhou/Mu Yun that gives out laugh every time. The second ML, Chen Zhang is pretty much a second lead type. He is kind and helpful until the end even though Ming Wei rejects him several times. The parents are okay, but Xu Lin? Fuh. I don’t consider her as the second female lead because she only appears like more than halfway through the drama but causes a lot of havoc later on. She is quite childish with all the jealousy outbursts because she thought ML and her family ignores her because of Ming Wei. I mean, I can understand her frustration but this is already 2022. We had enough of this kind of troupe already and it’s time to grow the hell up, young lady (sorry it came out of nowhere lol).
The OSTs deserve a spot in my heart. I truly and genuinely like them a lot. This drama does not have a bunch of OSTs like kdramas usually have but boy the impact they have! I like that they use different songs during the sad scene where ML and FL was acting in and the sad scene in the actual drama. Personally, I like the ending song the most just because. I also like that they include the entire play that Mu Tingzhou and Ming Wei acted in at the end. It feels like a different drama but with only 2 episodes and it perfectly tie up the entire series.
Other things that I was a little bummed about is that ML wakes up from the amnesia pretty late. I want to see him chases her more as Mu Tingzhou. I am also quite sad that the voice of ML is dubbed! When I heard the Jeremy Tsui’s real voice, I was like O_O so deep and manly! But I kind of understand why they dubbed his voice. The character is prince like and delicate while his voice is rough and VERY manly that I’m genuinely afraid it can affect me in the long run if I listen to it more lol so yeah. Thanks for saving my ovaries, dear producers.
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Better to watch discovery or animal planet
Till the sixth episode I was confused why for such a good drama has this low rating but after I realized that this drama doesn’t deserve even 5 also. What I felt is before and after the ML’s head injury his character didn’t changed at all only difference is the memory loss. It is shown after the accident he becomes or remember only the character(grand tutor) he acted in his last drama but in that drama he (grand tutor)was a noble gentleman, descent and matured person but after the accident his attitude is exactly opposite to that grant tutor, he becomes mentally unstable person like jumping on the bed after seeing his mom or any strangers, I don’t whether the director wants to portray him like a child character but I felt like mentally unstable type. I really don’t know what’s there in the Chinese director’s head, when he saw his mom he starts to jumping in bed may be some excess current pass to his brain but for his mom it is an unbearable pain but here they given a funny background music like something fun is happening.How come a selective amnesia patient acts like a mentally retard person, not only during recovering from memory loss but also before the accident and after his recovery also.
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Undecided after 5 episodes.
So far it's slow to start and I can't decide if I like the ML character or not. He can be cute, but mostly it seems like he has no idea what he's doing except to act. Everything is is completely foreign. Answer a question? Foreign. Talk to a coworker? Foreign. It just seems very odd and I haven't connected with him as a character yet.I do like the FL already though, even though she's oblivious to when men come on to her. She's just like "Oh. Well. That's nice. Hope we meet again someday! Bye!"
Now that I'm utterly confused, we'll see how the next 5 episodes go. I'm hoping for a bit more progression in the story.
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Nice one
A good story , actually it has happened when we impress by some character and we all the time think about them and when the character has full contol over our brain so sometime we think ourself as that character or we dream all the time about that character. This thing had been shown in the drama.Male lead in the drama was an actor who played the role of a teacher and his student was a princess . So female lead in the drama was an actress who played the role of that student , this student loved his teacher but due to differences in status they can't be together this was sad so when the male lead had an accident he assumed himself as teacher and treat female lead as his student . He got his memory back when they about to marry that was the teacher wanted a happy ending . So when he regain his memory he forgot the female lead and then what would happened how they again met this had been shown further .
I like second lead chemistry more than the first lead .their chemistry was good .
I wish second leads do drama together as main leads.
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Excellent drama, addictif, avec un super CL
I admit that I started this drama because I'm a fan of Jeremy Tsui. I did not regret it. We are hooked from the 1st episode.The story tells the relationship between a star actor (cold and arrogant) and a young novice actress. At the end of a drama's shooting, the ML has a car accident, becomes amnesiac and finds himself stuck in the character he played, only recognizing his co-star. This amnesia will last 1 year ??? Without flash? Without clue?
Then, when he gets his memory back, he's going to lose the memories of the year he spent in his character's body? That's unbelievable, right?
I admit that I end up wondering why there are so many "amnesia" plots in dramas.
- Do Asians suffer from this type of pathology more frequently than the rest of the world?
- Is the theme of memory a particularly culturally sensitive subject?
- Do screenwriters simply lack the imagination to produce hundreds of dramas per year?
That being said, this series is (despite its flaws) addictive. All the credit goes to the actors, who bring their characters to life with passion and sensitivity. It's amazing work !!
Without mentioning the storyline, the storytelling is a bit confusing at times. We get lost in "the drama itself + the filming scenes + the superb scenes before the credits" (which are sometimes difficult to locate in the chronology: flashback? dreams?)
The images are really beautiful, clear, neat and I particularly appreciated the special effects and the OST.
The last 2 episodes (recap of the drama in the drama) are absolutely useless because the viewer had already followed this story, end by end, in the episodes of the series. Is it supposed to be fanservice???
Conclusion: a series (historical-contemporary) in which we can admire the performance of great actors, at the condition of being indulgent about the coherence of the story.
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J'avoue avoir commencé ce drama parce que je suis une fan de Jeremy Tsui. Je ne l'ai pas regretté. On est accroché dès le 1er épisode.
L'histoire retrace la relation entre un acteur star (froid et arrogant) et une jeune actrice novice. A la fin du tournage, le ML a un accident de voiture, devient amnésique et se retrouve bloqué dans le personnage qu'il interprétait, ne reconnaissant plus que sa co-star. Cette amnésie va durer 1 an ??? Sans flash ? Sans indice ?
Puis, quand il va retrouver la mémoire, il va perdre les souvenirs de l'année qu'il a passée dans le corps de son personnage ? C'est crédible, ça ?
J'avoue que je finis par me demander pourquoi il y a tant de plot "amnésie" dans les dramas.
- Les asiatiques subissent-ils plus fréquemment ce type de pathologie que le reste du monde ?
- est-ce que le thème de la mémoire est un sujet particulièrement sensible culturellement ?
- Est-ce que tout simplement les scénaristes manquent d'imagination pour produire des centaines de dramas par an ?
Je disais que cette série est (malgré ses défauts) addictive. Tout le mérite en revient aux acteurs, qui font vivre ses personnages avec passion et sensibilité. Bravo !!
Sans parler du scénario, la narration est un peu confuse parfois. On se perd dans "le drama lui-même + les scènes de tournage + les superbes scènes avant générique" (que l' on a parfois du mal à situer dans la chronologie : flashback ? rêves ?)
Les images sont très belles, nettes, soignées et j'ai particulièrement apprécié les effets spéciaux et les OST.
Les 2 derniers épisodes (récapitulatif du drama dans le drama) sont absolument inutiles car le spectateur avait déjà suivi cette histoire, bout par bout, dans les épisodes de la série. Fan service ???
Conclusion : une série (historico-contemporaine) pour admirer la prestation de super acteurs à condition d'être indulgent sur la cohérence de l'histoire.
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Une période amnésique trop longue
Retrouver Xu Zheng Xi dans un drame romantique moderne et historique à la fois ? Il n'en fallait pas plus pour me convaincre. Pourtant, ce n'était pas comme la longue balade (ah) que j'avais imaginé.Pas de doute sur le fait que Xu Zheng Xi campe sur ses positions. C'est un acteur au style et à la prestance unique, cela le rend intriguant de plus d'une façon. Pourtant c'était comme s'il pataugeait dans la boue avec Be My Princess. Son personnage avant l'amnésie était intéressant, et puis... Il est devenu répétitif et ennuyeux. De plus, la période amnésique est beaucoup trop longue ! Ça m'a rappelé le temps infini dans The Gentleman and the Lady (신사와 아가씨). Et puis, doubler sa voix lui fait perdre tellement de charisme et de charme.
Zhou Jie Qiong donne à son tour une bonne performance, mais son personnage souffre pas mal sur le plan écriture. Elle est lisse du début à la fin, ne donnant que peu de contraste ou de matière à son personnage ce qui la rend fade. En soit, elle n'est pas spectaculaire, mais assez pour répondre à l'image de la jeune femme belle et adorable.
Concernant l'entente du duo, certains baisers sont vraiment bons et le ML n'hésite pas à prendre soin de sa princesse. Ça fonctionne pour moi et permet de mieux apprécier les personnages quand ils deviennent redondant.
Malgré deux derniers épisodes sans aucun intérêt, on retrouve les plans clairs et propres de Huang Tian Ren - et c'est plaisant. Les décors sont superbes. Les costumes (pour le drama tourné dans le drame (ah)) et les tenues sont magnifiques. Félicitations à Ai Wen pour avoir le bon goût d'habiller les personnages féminins correctement (*cœur*). La musique n'est pas marquante, mais suffisante.
Bref, c'était un bon moment. Malgré ses défauts, c'est un drame qui amène une intrigue rafraîchissante bien que cela ne tienne pas ses promesses jusqu'au bout.
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Un dramma che non mi aspettavo!
Inizia come tanti con lui bello famoso e presuntuoso e lei semplice e delicata,si incontrano ma sembra che non si piacciono ma poi cambia tutto però succede l' imprevisto e lui perde la memoria ma ricorda lei come la principessa del ultimo film girato con loro protagonisti.In fine la memoria torna ma non del tutto ma lui si ri innamora di lei.Una piacevole visione soprattutto le puntate iniziali e finali,in mezzo un po' monotono.
Attori fantastici e chimica davvero pazzesca tra i protagonisti.Lui una scoperta,bravissimo che spazia in un solo dramma da freddo a innamorato,imbranato,comico e drammatico.
Menzione d'onore anche alla colonna sonora...bellissima.
Da vedere assolutamente!
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beberapa review bagusnya :1. Saya suka main lead utama. Aktingnya bagus banget dan keduanya sangat good looking, cemistery nya juga dapet banget suka lah pokoknya sama akting keduanya terutama jeremy, aktingnya bener bener WOW.
2. dan comedynya ngidupin banget cerita dramanya jadi ga bosen bangetlah
3. Bagian amnesia berlangsung lama dan saya berharap mereka menghabiskan lebih banyak waktu untuk mengembangkan kisah cinta di antara para pemeran utama setelah anmesia teratasi.
ada beberapa kekurangan dari drama ini :
ceritanya terlalu bertele-tele diawal episode malah aku yakin orang nonton ini pasti paham dan ngerti maksud dari inti cerita dari drama ini di ep 6, untungnya ketolong banget sama akting dari main leadnya jadi masih bisa sedikit enjoy lah nontonya.
banyak banget adegan yg sebenrnya gaterlalu penting2 banget tapi yaa selera yah...
jadi intinya bagus sih ini drama tapi saran buat yg belum nonton, kalian mending langsung stop di ep 28 karna ep 29 30 itu balik lagi ke cerita si putri sama guru besar di masa xianxian, tapi kalau kalian suka atau ga terlalu mempermasahin yah its okey.
saran : mending di ep 29 and 30 itu dibikin adegan cerita dimana ming wei sama Ting Zhou itu masuk nominasi ajang award dan keduanya menang kek gitu lalu diperlihatkan menikahnya adik ming wei dengan xu run lalu ming wei hamil dan punya anak bersama Ting Zhou... kemuadian setelah anak mereka sedikit besar mereka menceritakan bagaimana kisah guru besar dan putri kepada anak mereka and walaaa. dah gitu menurutku.
dan gausah nyeritain lagi kisah si putri dan guru besar lagi saat di jaman xianxian jadi menurutku sangat amat disayangkan :( tapi yahhh balik lagi yah selera ;)
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É uma comédia que faz rir por causa da improbabilidade das situações e das interpretações exageradas dos atores, principalmente, do protagonista masculino.
A história é absolutamente sem nexo. As atuações não são ruins, mas também nada de extraordinário.
A edição do drama é confusa, as cenas anteriores a abertura, no geral, se repetem durante o capítulo. O uso de cenas de recordação é um tanto cansativo, mas nada se compara aos dois últimos capítulos, pois ficaram absolutamente desconexos da sequencia do drama e enfadonho, pois todas as cenas já haviam sido utilizadas no decorrer do drama. Se pararmos no capítulo 28, poderia dizer que o drama nem é a pior comédia, mas com a adição desses dois últimos capítulos ficou forçado.
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1Uma serie maravilhosa e altamente recomendada a amantes do romance.
Amei essa série e as atuações desde o primeiro minuto.A cada momento esperava ansiosamente o desenrolar da trama, e inclusive os protagonistas me roubaram o coração durante as cenas que apresentaram o drama historico.
Essa série ganhou o primeiro lugar no meu top seja para series coreanas ou chinesas,
Assim que recomendo seja pelas atuacoes, pela ost, pela historia e pelos bons momentos de doçura e comedia.. E não sentirão falta de romantismo e uma ou outra lágrima e de forem fans de romance como eu.
Até esse momento se emitiram 28 cap e cada um ja revi mais de três vezes, e voltarei uma e outra vez até poder despedir me desses atores e personagens inesquecíveis.
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