2019-06-11

Appreciation of Magnolia | PANDORA\'S BOX Opens Ahead at Shanghai TV Festival, Soft Science Fiction

The suspenseful soft science fiction series PANDORA\'S BOX was shown off-line at the Shanghai TV Festival "Appreciation of Magnolia" on June 9, which unveiling the mysterious veil of benefit-people screening of the first Chinese film at the 25th Shanghai Television Festival. Producer and supervisor Zhou Qiliang and chief producer Jiang Lei, starring Zhang Rui, He Dujuan, Liu Xueyi and Yasuaki Kurata, appeared on the scene and shared the creation story both before and after the scene with the audience. At the same time, the play released the first movie clips, showing many scenes with huge amount of information. Also the texture of the picture, role setting and so on were hotly discussed among netizens.

The whole play is extremely mysterious and becomes a narrative maze

As a key prop of PANDORA\'S BOX, the "Rabbit Mask" also exists everywhere in this opens meeting. In the poster, the starring role mixed in the rabbit mask is eye-catching and has a suspenseful look. The audience at the scene is also equipped with a rabbit mask, making the whole scene into a "mysterious" atmosphere. However, the screening of the two episodes received strong response from the audience. The new soft science fiction theme, highly personalized role setting, and constantly changed story lines made the audience shout, "This is too much information!"

In the following communication session, the actors introduced their roles and identities respectively. Zhang Rui used the keyword "Crow" to reveal that he was a physics student studying quantum physics and was obsessed with the study of "consciousness". He said that he was attracted by the suspense reasoning when reading the script, and also made in-depth understanding of quantum physics and "black hole" theory in advance. After watching the feature film, the quick-witted image of He Dujuan gave the audiences a preliminary understanding. Her interpretation of her keyword "truth" led the audience into a new chapter of brain-burning: The truth is not that simple. All accidents are inevitable. It is also inevitable that we can watch PANDORA\'S BOX together today. At the end of the second episode, the audiences were strong curious about whether the Zhang Ni played by Dujian could survive. Liu Xueyi and Yasuaki Kurata played the "main members" of the mysterious band throughout the movie. They came on stage to introduce their roles around "music and mystery", and layers of suspense were gradually revealed under the introduction of the leading actor, and the characters also had a preliminary three-dimensional display in the audiences\' mind.

All staffs online to create rare brain - burning drama

PANDORA\'S BOX is a work that focuses on the sense of the future and sets a crime of "consciousness". Jiang Lei, the producer representative and chief producer of the play, came to the stage to share the creative sources and plans with everyone. When it comes to positioning the series as a "suspenseful soft science fiction series," he said, "as Hsiao-chuan Chang said in the VCR, it took 16 months until the PANDORA\'S BOX could released and watched by everyone at Shanghai TV Festival. This is a story about music, suspense and consciousness are interwoven, involving unknown areas supported by practical theory and unproven thinking, which combine to form a theatrical form. In addition, Zhou Qiliang, the producer of the play, came on stage to share the formation of the behind-the-scenes team and the challenges encountered in the shooting. He said that the most difficult thing was to bring together the production team of the film and the excellent executive producers, which took five months of hard work to complete the shooting. The friendly atmosphere of the starring actors at the shooting scene extended to the press conference. In the play, Zhang Rui and Liu Xueyi are father and son. On the set, Liu Xue Yi often joked with Zhang Rui: "Daddy loves you"; He Dujuan, who was questioned closely about the suspense, and Yasuaki Kurata, who likes to eat Shanghai Pan-fried Pork Buns. All the staff were lovely and the scene was full of laughter. This is also like the theme of PANDORA\'S BOX. Under the appearance of "cool" suspenseful soft science fiction, it will eventually return to the warm origin of human nature.

First film clip released which is "super cool "

At the same time, PANDORA\'S BOX also revealed its first film clip, showing the themes of consciousness, suspense, family etc. in the play, and more vividly presenting the settings of super-consciousness, soft science fiction, etc. In the ultra-fast pace editing of the clip, there are many entanglements, involving past events and gripping people\'s hearts. Netizens praised and said: "This play is super cool, I will definitely watch it!" Although there are only 12 episodes of PANDORA\'S BOX, the script has been written for two and a half years. Director Huang Jingfu said, "I have written 6,000 pages, some of which are words and some of which are pictures. I carefully deliberate the plot like solving a crime. I\'ve had a good time, but most of it\'s been a lot of meditation." In addition to polishing excellent scripts, the behind-the-scenes team presented each link with high requirements and meticulous attitude according to movie-level production standards, whether in shooting, setting up scenes or music creation. As the first suspense soft science fiction series based on the clue of "consciousness" in China, the play tells the story of Li Tian, the hero who is keen on science and believes in "avant-garde science - the manipulating power of consciousness". After his mother is caught in a strange crime in Tokyo, he gradually steps into an unimaginable "super-consciousness" crime spider web in order to find out the truth. Please look forward to the suspenseful reasoning of "no spoilers".