The Untamed (2019)

bad cinematography

plot had potential but the cinenmatogrpahy was so bad

i’m reading the novel now

i’m a big fan of reading manhua/manga/manhwa/light novels/danmeis and just that stuff in general so that is why i was interested in watching the untamed. the positive reviews also made the story seem appealing.

in addition, there were a bunch of high profile actors starring in the drama so i was expecting something incredible. nothing could have prepared me for how bad the cinematography and editing was.

at first, i thought it would only be for the first few episodes and then i thought that maybe i jsut had high expectations considering i had recently finished watching my journey to you (had fantastic cinematography).

however, after talking about it to my friend who also tried watching it, i concluded that the cinematography was jsut bad. i do hope that i can finish watching it one day but if the cinematography remains the same throughout the entirety of the drama, then i would just have to leave it unfinished.

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Sensacional!

Esse dorama mexeu comigo de todas as formas. Definitivamente é um lindo romance acompanhando de uma super história bem construída, a qual mexe com nosso coração. Posso afirmar com convicção que Wei Wuxian é um personagem o qual eu admiro tanto, tanto, que o coração chega a doer ao lembrar da atuação esplêndida de Xiao Zhan. Xiao Zhan conseguiu, por olhares, mostrar os sentimentos de Wei Ying para nós, e explicita através dos mesmos, o seu amor por Lan Wangji, desde jovens até 16 anos depois. Para mim, é lindo ver como Wei Wuxian demonstrou que sentia algo por Lan Zhan, porém nunca percebeu os próprios sentimentos e nem o do outro, afinal, todos o odiavam, como Lan Wangji não o odiaria?
Bom, Wang Yibo não fica atrás. Ele nasceu para ser o Lan Wangji. 16 anos antes, 16 anos depois, vemos em seus olhos o amor que nutre por Wei Ying, porém não era capaz de verbalizar. Com gestos, sempre demonstrou, mas Wuxian era lerdo demais para perceber.
Definitivamente acompanharei os atores, a quimica deles é surreal e a amizade na vida real é linda.
O final me dói, porém creio que os diretores quiseram mostrar que ambos não conseguem se separar nem por pouco tempo, com aquelas idas e vindas constantes. No fim, eles vêem que não conseguem se separar.
Eu acho lindo como 16 anos depois, os dois mais velhos(mesmo com Xian tendo ''pausado'' sua vida, sua alma continua a mesma, antiga e como pai de A-Yuan) conseguem sentir a mesma coisa que 16 anos atrás quando eram jovens.

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As a fan of the novel, I must say that I started watching with some fear of what might come, but what I found was much better than I expected! The actors are AWESOME, they incorporated the characters and gave even more life, the adaptations and changes in the script didn't bother me, I believe that for the drama it worked perfectly and I really love every detail so much!

The songs are amazing and the relationship of the characters is very well done. The actors, especially the main ones, do everything even better.

Especially Xian Zhan who deserves a lot of recognition for having made such an amazing character and dedicated so much to it, the acting was wonderful!

I highly recommend it! I will probably rewatch the drama many times, ha!

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Aku suka banget drama ini, satu satunya drama china yg ku ikuti,, akting pemerannya juga baik, lagunya juga cocok dengan dramanya,,, sangat menyentuh,,, apalagi pemainnya bening bening hehehhhe,,, pokoknya bagus banget dramanya,, apalagi ini genre favorite ku,, pokoknya bestt, dari ep 1 sampe yg udah kutonton ep 22,jalan ceritanya ga bosan, selalu ada kejutan, bikin kangen,, nonton semalaman juga aku sanggup, karena selalu ada kejutan, apalagi aktornya tamvan,, hehehe, best LAN ZHAN, WEI WUXIAN, WEN NING, JIANG CHENG, XUE YANG, LAN SHIZUI, NIE HUANGSHANG,,,, OOOOOWUUUHHH i like all,, love this drama,, TOP

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Not as good as hype

This review is done being 100% impartial, without any personal fan-favor spirit. Everyone has different perspectives, we should not judge each other. I am still very respectful to someone who gave this show 10/10.

My review is like this maybe because that I watched this show after watching "word of honor". The BL theme got me here afterwards. But honestly, the two main leads hardly have any chemistry developed almost till the end. Its only looked like friendly banter and wei ying was almost clueless that Lanzhan may have BL type feelings for him. Maybe its because of censor board. From wei ying's point of view : he probably felt through the whole series that Lanzhan is a trustworthy reliable honest friend, but as soul mate? nah. Except that hunting episode a very short vague conversation between them was about "soul mate" thing. At least before death, wei ying was not at all in love with Lanzhan, he was same way playful and loyal friend as he was with other close person, as example to JC or Wen qing. In that case, if u think Lanzhan and wei ying as BL partner, I would say that about 85% volume of this drama Weiying had more emotions for his brother jiang C. And in that context, one can think of them to be BL partner, lol. Or may be straight relation ship between weiying and wen qing? Last few episodes, you can sense that Lanzhan has little one sided feelings for weiying and weiying is still clueless about it. Probably wei ying is not a gay at all.
I am also very disappointed about the fact that how others ( not wei ying, of course) not at all give any credits to the Wen siblings, specially JC. When those Wen siblings helped WY and JC and tried to collect their parents dead body, it was a huge sacrifice made from their side. And they initiated this kindness. WY only tried to return that kindness. They went against their clan and risking their own life, thats a huge matter of respect. They are proper hero of this story. Their loyalty, conscious, honesty no way lesser than WY. They save WY more than once. Like in prison also they helped WY to survive against that wild creature. Honestly, WY owe them his life, his family glory. In the same way, when WY blindfolded aim the arrows to the target without hitting any wen people, was a bit cruel side of him. He knows that he wont hit any but think about those people who were kept as targets and they might have never witnessed anyone to throw a bunch of arrows at a time without mistake? Although, WY tried to show sympathy and righteousness toward any normal people, but I really doubt, if he was not in debt of those wen siblings, will he still try to defend them going against his own clan? In that case, its not hard to say that whoever goes first to show kindness and righteousness is the actual one, and that is those wen siblings.

The story plot is very attractive thats why I watched the Anime version too after the drama, and in anime the BL theme is more clearer than this drama version. Chibi anime version was cuter and little more expressive about BL theme. I didnt have chance to read the actual novel yet, probably that is why I didnt feel much chemistry between main leads in the drama. Obviously, if people start this drama with pre-mind set then they can feel chemistry even in friendly banter. The way drama portrayed the emotions between main leads, if u consider that as BL then I think every guy is gay out there in this whole world. And any strong friendship means gay/ lesbian-ship.

I am not at all convinced with the "BL" tag with this drama, rather I would recon is as a drama of good friendship.
About the acting: come on! be honest: many actors could have done Lan zhan's role with almost no dialogue. Other actors are also so-so. What was the challenging role here to play that no other actor cant perform? On the contrary, Chasing by dog: the screaming acting by xiao zhan was looking soooo "fake", unless you are totally blinded by fandom you can't claim it as " funny" either. That was more or less over acting, i would say. The best acting done by is Zhu Zan jin and Meng Zi yi. Others are replaceable. Its sad that Xue yang's story part was presented so little and vague way that it almost lost the major contribution it had.

In several episodes, I felt that story was going very slow and it was at some point boring me out. Some scenes were not very necessary and draggy.
I loved the music, so 10/10. This is personal taste. So I wont judge if someone rate music 1/10.

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First of all, the story is very interesting to watch. This drama is originally from a LGBT Novel, but the drama doesn't contain LGBT contents. Just a little affectionate that will make you fall in love with them. The Untamed can make you smile, laugh, cry, angry, all emotions will filled you up to tears. I'M CRYING SO HARD WHEN I WATCH EP 33 AND EP 46. NOT GONNA TELL YOU WHY, BUT IT'S VERY HEART-BREAKING. UGH, I'M SOBBING ....

The cast also very deeply fell into the characters of this drama. AN EXCELLENT ACTING FOR SURE!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING, THE MUSIC! A drama wouldn't be perfect if the music isn't good. But this drama has THE BEST OST FOR SURE! ESPECIALLY WANGXIAN AND YI NAN PING! OMG, I SUDDENLY REMEMBER YANLI. POOR MY HEART :"(

With this drama's addictive effect, you gonna rewatch this a thousands time for sure.

IT'S A PERFECT DRAMA!

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First Cd i watched

This is the first CD I have ever watched, it's based on a super spicy BL novel. It lacks the spice of the written story but it's still a good story, while i dislike the editing and CGI its a bit crap imo it looks a bit shit.
The story is a 6 out of 10 because when you have read the story this lacks quite a bit of things.
Acting is a solid 8 of 10 because while the story lacks the spice the actors are good at what they do.
Music is amazing as always 10 out of 10
I think it's a solid rewatch for me because i love anything based on the stories of the novel author.
Over all i recommend it but i have my grievances with it as its deviating a lot from the spicy novel

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Wajib nonton

Ini benar-benar sangat menarik untuk di tonton, semua yang di tampilkan benar-benar luar biasa. Dari cerita nya ini di adaptasi dari beberapa novel, salah satunya ada dari novel BL. Wei ying dan wang ji benar-benar memerankan peran nya dengan sangat baik. Wang ji yang sangat dingin sikap nya membuat dia berwibawa dan berkarisma. Namun saat berhadapan dengan wei ying dia selalu menurunkan pandangan nya, terlihat bahwa wang ji menyukai we ying, dan ternyata mereka saling menyukai. Wei Ying yang sangat aktif dan humoris membuat cerita ini semakin berwarna. Berharap mereka bisa bersama selamanya dan hidup bahagia.. Musik nya sangat bagus, feel nya dapet banget..enak banget di denger nya. Overall sejauh episode yang sudah aku tonton sangat menarik dan aku akan menonton sampai habis. Terima kasih

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Tried to keep going but finally dropped it about a third of the way through. Didn't read the book or manhwa so this is a fresh take on this drama with no preconceptions one way or the other.

Acting - Young actors new at their craft.

Directing - Low budget and it showed. Sloppy editing/timing/acting where the director clearly cut corners and let it slide. Scenes that needed 5 seconds drawn out to 30 seconds or more. Rather than a buildup of tension, it dragged the scene down. This happened many times from even the earliest episodes - which does not bode well for the series.

Screenwriting - Too much filler, cliched conversation. Bickering - this was cute maybe the first half dozen times, then it became tedious. The characters were a bit superficial in development - especially the side characters. The usual character archetypes but it gave the sense of being 75% done and could have been refined in presentation. Very odd choices - action/dramatic scene interspersed with casual conversation or obvious exposition.

Storyboarding - A bit confusing and disjointed. Starting at the middle, then going back to the beginning makes a bit more sense if there was some storytelling device that needed this artifice. But the way it was done detracted rather than added to the story being told - why not just do it chronologically? And the decision to cut back from the confrontation scene (ep 4?) (and this is a LOOOONG back story) left me confused. A poor choice - maybe driven by inexperience.

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Such a drag

Exceptionally boring for all the hype and awesome reviews. I was trying to find something to watch after Love and Redemption and after receiving multiple suggestions decided to watch it. While I was trying my best to stop watching and taking a rest with L&R, this one I've had to force myself into watching until now. No point going into detail, when the 99.9% reviewers think it is the best creation after loaf of bread. I hope the next 27 episodes prove me wrong. The story maybe good but the CGI is terrible, and so is the action choreography. Nothing keeps you glued tbh. I wanted to like it so bad, seeing how everyone seem to love it, but this one is just not cutting it.

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