Official Trailer: Love Between Fairy and Devil | iQIYI Romance
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This is a very silly fantasy, but the visuals are out of this world. Our girl is a flower / fairy. She is apprenticed to the Aribiter, who is some kind of record keeper. The arbiter has been on leave for a zillion years, so our girl is basically running the shop by herself. The devil has been locked up in a tower for zillion years. He manages to break out. The hero calls upon his minions to reseal the lock on the tower. They struggle mightily, but are unsuccessful until our girl shows up and by throwing herself at the tower she manages to reseal the lock. She vanished so I thought she was stuck inside, but maybe not. The hero and his minions manage to catch all the other escaped devils except for the big guy.
The devil runs into fairy and the collision results in a kiss which has mucho magically effects - they exchange bodies which they find disconcerting. They kiss again and manage to return to their bodies, but now anything that happens to one, like getting hit or cut, happens to the other, so now the devil has to protect the fairy even though he wants her dead. So it's a bit of a comedy.
It's not our usual fare, but the sets, the scenery, the clothes and the battle grounds are all phenomenal. The fairy's treehouse-in-the-clouds is fabulous. Some of it is ridiculous, but hey, it's fantasy, so go with the flow.
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When the characters in this show wish to unleash their magical powers (for good or evil), they go through some contortions with their hands. You remember that line about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? (Arthur C. Clarke) I see modern day magicians play card tricks and I can't figure out how they do it. I know there is no real magic, it is just artful distraction and slight of hand, but to me it may just as well be real magic. And then you have people doing any kind of intricate work, like assembling a circuit board, typing at a keyboard, operating a big, complex machine. Their hands are flying over their work, too fast for the eye to follow. They work for a few minutes, and presto-chango, we have a new thing, or something has come to life. If you don't understand what's going on, it looks a lot like magic.
So we have our hero and villain fighting each other with giant magical swords. They are both lords in their respectively realms, so they have serious resources backing them. The present day equivalent would be piloted jet fighters engaged in a dogfight. Magical swordfights look better on the screen because you can see the fighter's facial expressions and body movements. Modern day dogfights all you can see is the black visor over the fighter's faces.
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