Lakorns are Thai, less often Filipino,i.e. Asian television series. They can be based on the story of a popular anime or manga, but mostly are full-fledged independent creations. Unlike all known Brazilian "soap operas", Thai lakorns are designed primarily for young audiences. The majority of fans of this genre are young girls under 25 years old. Thai television series are released in different genres: fantasy, mysticism, drama, but more often these are romantic comedies or melodramas. The length of such a teleproject traditionally does not exceed fifty series.
Mandatory Thai evening ritual
It should be noted that Thai lacorne on its ownhomeland more than popular. They are watched every day everywhere: during dinner, in cafes, in train stations, in workshops and from shop windows. For a long time, serials are an obligatory ritual in the life of the local population. More recently Thai "soap operas" have become popular in Europe and Russia, because among the Russian-speaking population there are quite a few ardent admirers of Asian creativity. The first to venture to conquer the world's blue screens, were the dramas, that is, Chinese, Korean and Japanese TV series. Now they are not lagging behind.
Some regularities and features
Thai lakorns have a number of distinctive features inherent exclusively to them and distinguishing them from other serials:
- In one such child of Thai cinemathe viewer will not see the scenes with passionate kisses, since in this state it is not customary to expose their feelings. On one of the local channels, such scenes are officially banned for broadcast.
- However, the best Thai lakorns have a lot ofscenes showing violence, including rape. It can not be said that local directors delightfully savored all the eerie and repulsive details, but simply with an enviable regularity include them in the plot of each project. Do not try to understand this, do not analyze, you can just try to accept it.
- The main antagonist you will learn immediately on the alarming musical accompaniment and the brand-new cunning smirk (these two features will accompany the villain throughout the timekeeping).
- Emotions of the main characters are very hypertrophied, but it is immediately clear where the grief is, and where the joy is. This is Thailand! Thai lacorne is simple and easily perceivable.
- Central characters always have one or several friends who in every way contribute to their early joint happiness.
- The main characters always talk about themselves in the third person, for example, not "I want", but "Rasa wants." Among fans of this genre, it is considered very nice.
All Western in price
It is also a strange fact that allWestern, appearing in the frame, is considered incredibly prestigious. If the brand of clothing - it's only "Dior" and "Chanel". If the house of a well-to-do family is shown, its arrangement will be carried out strictly according to European standards. If the characters speak English, it is positioned as a special virtue. All the rich and respected heroes in the script have just returned from the US or Europe. And so on...
For advanced fans
It's no secret that similar creations of the Asiancinematography is very popular among teenagers, so you can find and view them in popular social networks, which are frequented by modern youth. Of course, to find such a "soap" with a decent voice acting in Russian is quite difficult. However, Thai lakorns "In contact" are offered for viewing with Russian subtitles, which is quite interesting, because original voices and intonations of actors remain.
With what to begin?
If you have a desire to joinfans of this heat, you can consider two options. The first is to view classic samples like "Abandoned Paradise" or "Pin Anon", the second involves studying the classification, so as not to spoil the first impression and guess at least with the genre of the series. Thai lacorne, the list of which will be presented below, will be a good choice for both the novice viewer and fanatical devotee.
Classics of the genre
In 2014, Thai lacquer was released"Hatred in spite of", which due to the construction of the storyline, intrigue and casting can be considered the standard of this genre. Its duration is only 15 episodes, the plot is based on a mixture of romance, love and revenge. The main character Kin - the president of a large corporation - leads his favorite Kanok under the crown, with whom he meets for 7 whole years. But the bride on the eve of the wedding night decides to run to her house, in order to pick up one of the forgotten wedding gifts.
At this time the beautiful Tavan escapes from the groom, breaks off the engagement, learning that he shamelessly changes her for two years, and his mistress is pregnant.
Kanok, taking a gift, hurries to her husband on rainystreets on his car and, not noticing the frustrated Tavan, knocks her down. After the accident, Kanok dies, Tavan is taken to the intensive care unit. Unfortunate Kin in despair rushes to the hospital to find out who is guilty of the death of his young wife, and, recognizing the name of Tavan, swears to take revenge on her. This is such a dashingly twisted plot is typical for most Thai TV series.
Classification by genre
Absolutely all Thai series can be divided intogenre groups. However, it should be noted that there are almost no genre cinematographic projects. In each film, and especially the series, you can always find a close-knit plex of several sub-genres:
- Melodrama (she's also a romance). The bright representatives of this section are: "Heart of Akkani", "Golden Trinity", "Enchanted Wyapak", "Love Trap of Patapi", 4 love stories - "Himalayas of Tara", "Pin Anon", "Taddao Bussaya" and, of course, "In the sunshine".
- Comedy. These series will make you not just smile, but also burst into laughter: "The maid with bloat," "The deadline ... get married" and the classics of the genre - "Restless girl."
- Specially youth lacquers: "Baby" and "Kun Tea Ronnapi."
- Horror / horror. In this direction, quite a few pictures have been produced, of which the "Silk Trail" can be named.
- Mysticism (not horror!) - "Bewitched Wyapak."
- Fantastic (fantasy). This section presents a picture with an interesting name for fantasy - "Love never dies."
Classification by subject and semantic load
Thai lancors in the majority exaggerate burning topics, among which are:
- All varieties and consequences of marriage on the calculation: "Vanida", "One hundred ways of insidious seducer", "Mad wedding".
- The main character deliberately or mistakenly stealsthe main heroine: "In captivity of love", "Pin Anon", "How to get married", "Abandoned paradise", "The bonds of love", "The thief who stole my heart", "Cupid Networks", "Passionate, beautiful and lonely" , "The law of honor", "Bitter honey", "Wild heat of love", "Rainbow flame", "Under one sky", "One hundred ways of insidious seducer".
- Revenge, revenge, etc.: "And tomorrow I will still love you", "In the sunshine".
- Separately highlight the series in which there arescenes of cruelty and violence. Weak and impressionable are not recommended. Among them: "Turn of love", "Bitter honey", "The law of honor", "The abandoned paradise", "Incredible Bo", "In captivity of love", "One hundred ways of insidious seducer", "The thief who stole my heart", " Rainbow flame. "
Enjoy watching!
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