Why do the pictures of costume Hong Kong dramas many years ago look more realistic, but now some real-life shooting seems illusory and exaggerated?

Relatively speaking, most of the early costume post-80s Hong Kong dramas are preconceived, the production quality is really good, and they may prefer the freehand brushwork style of Hong Kong dramas.

After 90' s and 00' s, with the vigorous development of mainland film and television industry, relatively few people watch Hong Kong dramas. Under the bombardment of costume dramas in mainland China, they will also be influenced by some excellent continental drama and love realistic style.

The picture texture of the early costume Hong Kong drama seems to have added a layer of retro filter, which is full of nostalgic romantic artistic conception. The mainland costume drama opens the beauty filter, and some real-life scenery even has the visual sense of travel documentaries.

There are many factors that affect a film and television work, such as actors, costumes, scenes, photography, music and so on, and these factors are closely related, and their coordination directly affects the overall quality of the work.

The influence of actors' acting skills on image quality, such as to the sky kingdom, which was released the year before last, has two versions: TV series and movie. Generally speaking, the picture quality of movies should be far better than that of TV series. The film version of the play is also beautifully produced, but the audience generally likes the TV version.

Of course, the freehand brushwork costume films of Hong Kong dramas may not always surpass some realistic TV dramas in the Mainland. In my opinion, the four classic novels of the old edition, the list of gods, etc. It is an insurmountable classic drama in the mainland. The same work, under different production levels or different forms of expression, can present different understanding and interpretation of the producer and different picture styles.

For example, The Journey to the West's Six-year-olds, Monkey King, the Monkey King, Chen Musheng, A Chinese Odyssey, Aaron Kwok's Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon and a series of film and television dramas on the theme of westward journey all show different styles and screen textures because of different forms of expression and production levels.