When Tencent Video released the TV series trailer last year, the most important thing I was looking forward to in the costume drama was "The Knife Line in the Snow", and at that time, I praised Zhang Ruoyun riding a horse and hugging the beauty of the stills.
At the end of this year, in December, the good dramas were piled up, and "In the Snow" finally started broadcasting today, Zhang Ruoyun + old drama bones + Wang Tired screenwriter, can it bring new surprises?
Urgent, what if my father loves me too much?
I still remember a joke before, saying that Fan Xian had "four fathers", from adoptive father to biological father to father-in-law. And in "In the Snow", Xu Fengnian, played by Zhang Ruoyun, really has only one father this time, but one father is stronger than the four fathers.
Xu Xiao, as the only heterosexual king of the Yang Dynasty, held 350,000 iron horsemen in his hands, and also had his own three-state fiefdom, to put it bluntly, he was a heavenly emperor who was far from being able to control the earth overlord.
There is such a powerful father, as Xu Xiao's only legal heir, Xu Fengnian, the son of the Northern Starling, can be said to be a proper winner on the starting line, although it is a little martial arts will not be a scum of the war, but there are beautiful servants in the palace, and there are shizi famous outside the house.
Xu Fengnian himself stamped it personally, without him, it is "good fate".
Although the first episode was overturned, it was really "I am the Son of the North Starling, and now I need you to fund a few sweet potatoes, and I will repay him several times in the future" Is too much in taste, and it is not strange that people carry a hoe and chase him for three miles.
However, most of the time the name of the Northern Starling Shizi is still quite useful.
It is too good to use, so good that it must pay the price of "daddy luck" too good, but in just six episodes, Xu Fengnian has been assassinated three times. First, he was hunted down and killed by the old soldiers of the Chu people who had a national vendetta, and then he was assassinated after being scolded by the Tang Dynasty Tanhua Dang street.
I just want to dress up as a pig and eat a tiger, and Xu Fengnian, who is the first in the world, said that he was very EMO. But what makes Xu Fengnian EMO the most is not the endless assassinations, but "what if the father loves himself too much"?
Xu Xiao is nicknamed Ren Tu, and his fame is almost the same even if he does not reach the level of children's crying, but he pets the baby to the heavens, and Shizi can say anything. Before going to see Xu Fengnian, he had to pack up and ensure that he would appear in front of his eyes in the most kind appearance.
Don't like to call Daddy, nothing can be called Xu Xiao directly; the gradeless Shizi cleans up the generals from the three pins, and there is nothing to do with the shizi to be happy. With a full range of service mentality, we strive to let Xu Fengnian receive the ultimate care from her father's spring wind and rain.
It is that there is a point that cannot be let go, Xu Fengnian must take over the file of the North Starling, and the result is that the son is resolute. There is really a throne in the family to inherit, and what if the baby is not willing to do it?
No way, this pair of father and son who get along strangely began to work with each other, also known as Xu Xiao's version of custom training.
Remember the three assassinations that Xu Fengnian suffered? The first time they were chased and killed by the old soldiers of Western Chu, Xu Fengnian escaped by relying on the ultimate disguise, and as a result, they suddenly received a portrait of Xu Fengnian from the Northern Starling Army.
This portrait, going around in a circle found that It was sent by Xu Xiao, and specially picked one that was most similar. Pushing others to assassinate Xu Fengnian, why is Xu Xiao so brave? Isn't it just to make his son feel a grudge against those in the Northern Starling Army who don't support him, and to find a head to eliminate dissidents for him.
In the matter of Lin Tanhua's assassination in the back, Xu Xiao's plot was also indispensable. Xu Fengnian thought that he had finally discovered the true identity of the blue bird next to him and found that she was the person Xu Xiao had arranged for him.
As a result, this matter was also deliberately done by Xu Xiao, and the name was "if the son wants to know, he must let him know."
Let's say that of all the difficulties xu Feng faced in the first six episodes, the biggest boss behind the scenes was actually his father. Being "toyed" by his own father in the name of tuning, the father's kindness and filial piety are not all false, but the two are really working with each other.
No, Xu Xiao sent his other son, Xu Fengnian's younger brother Huang Man'er, to Wudang to dig another big pit for Xu Fengnian.
Xu Fengnian: This love is too heavy for me to accept.
Say good male frequency shuangwen, how to "not follow the routine" to play cards
The unique father-son line that loves and kills each other is not counted, after all, watching Hu Jun pretend to be small in front of Xu Fengnian has a wonderful cute experience.
But "In the Snow" with the big gimmick of the male frequency Shuangwen, but in the play everywhere to give you a counter-routine.
For example, xu Fengnian released the lake bottom Lao Kui imprisoned in the Wangfu Lake at the instigation of Lao Huang, and there was the friendship of often sending roast chicken in front, and now the grace to give freedom is in the back.
According to the general Shuangwen routine, after Lao Kui came out, he should "look at Xu Fengnian differently", not to say that he would use it from now on, at least he would give some affection, even Xu Fengnian himself thought so.
As a result, after the old Kui at the bottom of the lake really came out, it was not like this at all, but it didn't matter who Xu Fengnian was, it was good not to kill you, and he still wanted me to listen to you? How far to roll and how far to roll.
Eh, this plot twist that does not develop according to the conventional routine, the audience and Xu Fengnian are confused together.
In the end, how to solve such a wicked person? It also has to rely on the rules of the jianghu, if we don't obey, we will fight until we obey. Jian Jiu Huang produced five swords, subdued the old Kui at the bottom of the lake, and also became Xu Fengnian's short-term guard.
This way of reversing the standard Shuangwen routine is more than one in the first six episodes, which is also the most surprising place for me in the first six episodes of "Snow Knife Line": the aura of the protagonist who is most easily criticized is modified to a reasonable degree, and a group of supporting characters will not be reduced to a tool person in order to complete the conventional routine.
The rebellion of the lake bottom boss was surprised at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, this should be the right logic. A strange person who was imprisoned at the bottom of the lake and had high martial skills, if it was so simple to change with Xu Fengnian, wouldn't he become a proper tool person?
For Nangong, martial arts is the most important, and Shizi has to give way to the side. This set of rejections was reasonable and reasonable, and finally lent a knife to Xu Fengnian, full of friendship.
The audience will not feel that Nangong Servant is ignorant of good villains, on the contrary, they will only think that she is a smart person with a clear mind but a sense of righteousness.
This is a character framework built up by reasonable character logic, which dissolves the uncomfortable intellectual behavior in the past cool dramas because of the strong protagonist aura.
It is normal for the protagonist to have some "advantages", but if the character personality is not concerned about the antecedents and consequences, and only blindly gives the advantage, the protagonist will have to shake his head when he looks at it.
Therefore, the anti-standard shuangwen routine of "In the Snow" can feel the respect of the screenwriter for the audience.
The words and deeds of the characters have reasonable logic, and the protagonist's aura has a foreshadowing of the previous situation. Instead of holding a dark dish like a mooncake stir-fried pepper, I came up and said, "You see this new is not new"...
Instead, according to the normal cooking logic, the rules and regulations brought a plate of dishes that had no problem with color and aroma, and told you, "This is very delicious, please taste it."
Modified "cool spots", revitalized group portraits
If we get this kind of anti-routine is actually normal logic, and then look at the first six episodes with this "correction" eye, we will find some wonderful points that were previously ignored.
For example, the father-son relationship between Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao, the mutual rectification between the two people, is actually because they have a most fundamental contradiction to be resolved, that is, the bottom line of the two people's lives is different.
Don't forget that Xu Xiao's nickname is human slaughter, and he is a figure who fights all the way up in the battlefield. For him, whether the Starling can maintain stability in the political dilemma of having wolves outside and tigers inside is what matters.
Therefore, he is indifferent to the sacrifice of the lives of others who are insignificant. Even if it was his righteous son Ning Emei, he felt that it threatened his son to take over the Northern Starling Army in the future, and he could find a reason for Xu Fengnian to kill him.
But Xu Fengnian, he still maintains the simplest respect for life, unwilling to sacrifice those tiny individuals as he should.
Even in the face of the remnants of Western Chu who wanted to assassinate him, he did not move to kill, and even returned to the palace with Yu Youwei to give her a place to live.
The antagonism between them, there is no misunderstanding or coincidence, just a complex choice based on human nature. This kind of character contradiction setting, it is difficult to create a dualistic confrontation in the usual sense of the face-punching cool point.
Even for some viewers who like to be "strong to the end", Xu Fengnian's persistence and choice may be slightly arrogant under the internal and external troubles of Beilin. But it is this kind of behavior that does not rely on the dramatic setting, but starts from the character personality to correct the logic of the character's behavior, so that the cool point of "In the Snow" is different from other male frequency cool points.
The abusive and strong plot of the sword on the face is straight, and it may naturally bring out the results of reversal and the protagonist's victory under the correct logic of the characters, and there will be a sense of precision strike.
Xu Fengnian and Lin Tanhua perform each other, you pretend to be stupid, I am stunned, layer by layer to release new information, and finally with the reversal of the role to push the emotions away from the highest point, to bring the audience the pleasure of "so it was".
Moreover, when the motivation of the characters is normal and the words and deeds are normal, the group portrait is naturally revitalized.
In the first six episodes, there are many characters, except for the core characters of Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao, the other characters have their own characteristics and wonderful points.
For example, Lao Huang, because he was defeated and fled under the hands of Wang Xianzhi, a master of the jianghu, he was never able to face that cowardly self. He worked as an unremarkable groom by Xu Fengnian's side, but gradually found his inner peace during his three-year travels with Xu Fengnian.
He chose to fight Wang Xianzhi again with one man and one horse, knowing that it was a mortal act, and still went.
It is said that the group portrait drama is difficult to write, in fact, it is because it is too difficult to write because the characters who appear can exist according to normal logic, and it is too difficult to generate enough turmoil in the story.
What "In the Snow" does is actually to correct the unreasonable cool points on the protagonist, and let a group of supporting characters be reasonable, and then use reasonable storms to achieve twists and turns.
Sister E concluded
Male frequency dramas rarely produce good works in recent years, some crews do not have to worry about one reason, another, is "difficult to change", some original works have their own intentions, but how to reflect the characteristics of each role to become a TV series, and let the audience get the plot, it is quite difficult.
The original work of "The Knife In the Snow" itself is also particularly large in its own world view, fusing fresh clothes and angry horses and small people in the city to weave a dream of "jianghu". In this case, the protagonist's aura may sometimes be infinitely large, and how to reasonably deal with the protagonist's aura is also a test of the screenwriter's skill.
For now, Xu Fengnian has also received a "son of luck" gold finger. But at least I can see the screenwriter's efforts to rationalize the protagonist's aura, and he tries his best to give each character as real and logical as possible.
So even if it's a male perspective, I can still see the character growth in it, because no longer only the protagonist lives in the perspective of the episode, other characters can be equally included in the perspective of the series.
It's a respect for the original characters and a respect for all audiences.
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