The Lion's Secret (2021)

it is a very strange world

Imagine a place called China situated in a whatever continent . The people speaks mandarin practicing Chinese customs and yet this is not China. Every signage is in English but nobody speaks English. This is a totally strange strange world. It is more like a parallel world located in a distance galaxy 10 light years away.

There is a strange company called MOOYAN, Frankly to speak the script is full of flaw when dealing on engineering point of view. There is no way to calculate on using purely calculus to design an aircraft engine. Furthermore there is not a single paper drawing seen in every episode other than calculus . Nowdays in the modern world , there is a software to simulate the engine output based on every data input from the user. In every room there are lots of computers for the programmer to work with but why they still need to write down calculations on the board like back in school years or even before 1980s. The author really had a serious under exposure in engineering business where in this modern world everything had been purely automated. During an air craft engine test run I had a good laugh on myself. The scene located inside a corporate HQ building in a city central. It is a total bluff from reality. Do you know how dangerous it is to conduct a test in a dense urban location? If the engine exploded the whole building would collapse equivalent to a 100 TNT strength . I recalled a drama in year 2020 starring Chen xiang yu and Hu bing qing. the drama has a real pure engineering feel. Besides calculation there are simulations , mock ups and best of all paper drawing. It is more real life like . I would much more comfortable if the producer change their business nature into IT software company perhaps. It would much more forgiven for an engineering background personal.

In a location far far a away there is a place called BARZHEN . That place resembles in a small village in Thailand or maybe Laos tropical rainforest where we can encounter the weirdest population I ever seen in my life. There are people who can speak fluent Mandarin and surprisingly American / British English. Even a small local kid have the multilingual talent but one thing makes me wonder THEY DO NOT SPEAK THAI OR LAOS or whatever native language you could find. Over the village we also could find face look like an East Asian and half Caucasion. I could not see any tan skin which native to south east asian skin colour. The movie set itself is like a movie set taken straight from the theme park. It is so fake indeed. Why can't the set director spare more effort study the culture and the architecture of the designated location?

the final shooting location be in DAGON (if I had pronounce it correctly) There are so many major flaws here. First of all there is a quick scene shown the flag of Czech Republic but the geographical location the story describe I believe is somewhere in Russia. You could see a mixture of Cyrillic alphabet and Roman alphabet mix together. Even weird is the population speaks a mixture of English with Italian tone along American and British English. Maybe for Chinese population it does not make any difference for them but as a non Chinese person this contrast is quite striking to me. I believe the scenes is not really shot on any European cities. I would believe it is shot somewhere in Harbin during winter season.

By conclusion this drama had full of flaw in both geographical and culture so to speak. Without doing in-depth study on foreign culture would resulting a numbers of errors appear on the story itself. Overall I do not impress with whole series of episode and I would spend any effort to praise for their effort. My advise to the drama producers, DO WUXIA DRAMA INSTEAD ! it is much more exciting and you would not going to face those common errors happen to this drama again.

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