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"Little two, get drunk!"
"Walking on the road, having a future".
"Wang Xianzhi, dare to ask, what is the cloud of the Nine Heavens sagging?" What is the water of all seas? ”
At the end of the year, the big drama is like a forest, as a highly anticipated drama, "The Knife Line in the Snow" has finally made a blockbuster debut. Judging from the first few episodes of Tencent Video's premiere, the completion of "Knife Line in the Snow" lived up to expectations:
Characters are the soul of a play. The characters of "Knife Row in the Snow" are brilliant, and each character has a distinct personality. For example, Xu Fengnian, a shizi who seems to be clumsy but has a good plan, Xu Xiao, who is scheming and calculating, the cute and strong ginger mud, the oily and deeply hidden Lao Huang, the Nangong servant who is cold and dusty, the military master Li Yishan, etc., let the audience never forget, and as the plot progresses, they take turns to appear, building a huge and vast group portrait of ancient costumes.
"Knife Line in the Snow" lays the foundation for complex and deep emotions, sincere and profound, full of contradictions, and full of dramatic tension. For example, the father-son relationship between Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian is multi-layered and multi-faceted.
The theme of the theme affects the artistic standard of a play. "Knife Row in the Snow" is a novel genre and a lofty intention. There is both chivalry and human affection. There is not only the thickness and thrill of the iron horse Jingo in the court, but also the elegance and beauty of the shadow of the jianghu sword and lightsaber. "Sword Walk in the Snow" constructs a dream of a mixture of court and martial arts.
Lines are the most intuitive criterion for testing the level of a play. The lines of "Knife Line in the Snow" are condensed, beautiful, and have a sense of literary beauty. The classic famous scenes and famous lines in the original work have been well restored in the play.
For example, the play introduces the Nangong servant shooting double knife: "This knife is called Rust Winter, blunt and simple, such as the World's Tao; this knife is called Spring Thunder, blowing hair and breaking hair, like people's hearts poison." ”
Another example is the line in the play when The Street of Lin Tanhua Lang Lingzhou scolded Xu Fengnian: "If there is a gentleman who keeps the way and hurts the world, how can he sit idly by?" Be angry with yourself, defend my way, and judge my heart in terms of righteousness."
The TV series "Knife In the Snow" with a certain level of characters, emotions, lines, and main ideas is produced by CCTV, Penguin Film, Xinli TV, and Xiangchao Media, directed by Song Xiaofei, written by Wang Tian, and starring Zhang Ruoyun, Li Gengxi, Hu Jun, Gao Weiguang, Zhang Tianai, etc. The drama is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Princes of Beacon Theatre, which tells the story of Xu Fengnian, the "first in the world", who experienced the darkest moments of his life, and finally made up his mind to become a Starling King of the North who was completely different from his father.
Brilliant characters: outstanding personality, build a wonderful group portrait
As a large-scale costume drama, "Knife Line in the Snow" is first reflected in the construction of group portrait characters. The first season of "Knife In the Snow" created as many as 30 important characters, such a large number of people and objects, which is rarely seen in previous TV series. What is even more rare is that the outline of each character is very clear, and the personality is very distinct.
In the first few episodes of Tencent Video's premiere, the image of several important characters has begun to appear.
Shizi Xu Fengnian (Zhang Ruoyun), who looks like a cunning, is actually a chest with a gully and a good plan in his belly.
At the beginning of "The Sword Line in the Snow", it tells the story of Shizi Xu Fengnian and Mafu Lao Huang (Yang Haoyu) returning after three years of travel, when Xu Fengnian encountered the enemy's Western Chu people chasing and killing, he cleverly deceived the enemy through the military flag, which showed his cleverness.
After Xu Fengnian and Ma Fu Lao Huang returned to the North Starling, they showed Xu Fengnian's cunning.
Shizi Xu Fengnian's inferences about the origin and motives of his assassins, as well as xu Xiao's speculations on the arrangements made during his travels, his thoughtful, intelligent, and scheming image immediately stood out.
Boating in the middle of the lake, Xu Fengnian easily tested Lin Tanhua's killing chance.
Xu Fengnian is ostensibly a person who "pretends to be a bad child", but in fact, his mind is very deep, he disguises himself as a stupid child, and wants to better protect the people and things he values through disguise, and he has a heavy sense of responsibility. At the same time, Xu Fengnian is also an idealist with compassion for heaven and man.
Xu Xiao (Played by Hu Jun), the King of the Northern Starlings, Xiao Yong is good at war, one army destroys the Six Kingdoms, a generation of tyrants, a multi-faceted personality, scheming, resolute and courageous, loving children, lonely and sad.
Shizi Xu Fengnian traveled abroad, and many obstacles and difficulties on the way were actually arranged by his father Xu Xiao to temper Shizi and want Xu Fengnian to take over the North Starling.
As the queen of the Northern Starlings, Xu Xiao was a very "deliberate king", in order to help his son Xu Fengnian to have a chance of hereditary replacement, he has been constantly planning and controlling the overall situation. This is the embodiment of his scheming.
In the eyes of his subordinates, Xu Xiao's majesty cannot be challenged, and the rewards and punishments are clear to the outside world, but he loves and spoils his children in every way. This also reflects the cute side of his "old naughty boy".
However, when Shizi did not understand him, and the father-son relationship went to confrontation, Xu Xiao seemed very lonely.
Jiang Ni (Played by Li Gengxi), originally a princess of Western Chu, entered the Northern Starling Palace at the age of twelve after the fall of the country, became a maid, and was hated by the enemy of the country. She is cute and stubborn, and her personality is very contradictory.
Because of her young age, she is clever, playful, and eclectic.
"This world is like an iron stone blade, I will not be soft", she repeatedly failed to assassinate Xu Fengnian, and continued to assassinate, to be strong and stubborn.
In addition to the above three most important characters, many other characters are also very exciting. For example, the groom Lao Huang, who has more ink in the first few episodes.
Lao Huang (played by Yang Haoyu), miserly, slamming the door, treacherous and slippery, heavy love and righteousness, deep concealment, carrying a major belief.
During his three-year travels with Shizi Xu Fengnian, he fully embodied Lao Huang's miserliness, slamming the door, eating alone, and arranging for Xu Fengnian to steal chickens every time, and encountering strong enemies was the first to escape, which can be called "old fritters".
Lao Huang is deeply hidden, and his real identity is actually the master sword Jiu Huang. In episode 6, he reveals his true skills and defeats the master Lake Bottom Lao Kui (Tao Hai).
He was very affectionate and righteous, and arranged for the old man at the bottom of the lake to protect the safety of Shizi.
He carried a major ideal, and after three years of traveling with Shizi, his heart was infected, and he no longer avoided his weakness, and finally decided to go to Emperor Wu City to challenge Xianzhi, the first king of the world.
In Wang Tian's pen, there are not many "mentally retarded" and "silly white sweet" characters, most of them are IQ online and have outstanding personalities. The wonderful characters who appeared one after another have their own story lines, and while building a wonderful group portrait, they also serve the absolute protagonist Xu Fengnian and promote the development of the story.
Deep emotion: sincere, complex, full of tension
The emotions in "The Knife In the Snow" are sincere and moving, but at the same time complex and deep, the drama is full of tension, which promotes the development of the storyline while brewing emotions.
The father-son relationship between Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian is complex and deep, even contradictory.
First of all, Xu Xiao was somewhat doting on Xu Fengnian, and the fight between Shizi and Wang Ye was the daily routine of the Northern Starling Palace. Everything Xu Xiao did was to temper Xu Fengnian so that Xu Fengnian could take over the heavy responsibility of Beilin and become the second generation king of Beilin.
Secondly, there will be differences and misunderstandings between Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao's father and son, and sometimes they will lead to confrontation. Xu Fengnian has always wanted to take a different path from his father. Xu Xiao cannot determine Xu Fengnian's life path, and many major choices need Xu Fengnian to make his own decisions.
Xu Fengnian's feelings for Xu Xiao are multi-layered. When the relationship between the two moves toward confrontation, Xu Xiao feels that his son will feel lonely if he does not understand him. In fact, Xu Fengnian was very afraid in his heart that his father would be really old and unable to accompany him one day, but he was destined to bear all this, at this time, Xu Fengnian's feelings of compassion for people were born.
Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang's master-servant relationship is also more inked in the play, which is sincere and touching.
Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang have a master and a servant, and their relationship is equal, friendly, loyal, and they are also teachers and friends.
When traveling for three years, Xu Fengnian and Ma Fu Lao Huang were two people together, although they were one master and one servant, but they were equal relations, and every time they stole chickens, it was Lao Huang who ran first. When Xu Fengnian was a child, he had a golden spoon in the palace, and traveling abroad allowed Xu Fengnian to have a friend of equal exchange for the first time, without shackles, so Lao Huang was a true friend in Xu Fengnian's heart.
Lao Huang is also loyal to Xu Fengnian, Lao Huang accepts Lao Kui at the bottom of the lake to be Xu Fengnian's bodyguard, persuades Xu Fengnian to learn martial arts, all for the safety of Shizi, Xu Fengnian is often accompanied by killing machines, afraid that Xu Fengnian is in danger.
The three-year trip left unforgettable memories for the two, and during the three-year trip, Lao Huang saw the energy from Shizi and decided not to avoid his weakness, bravely pursue his beliefs, leave the Northern Starling Palace, and challenge the world's first king Xianzhi.
The moment the two are separated in episode 6, the deep friendship is all in the unspoken.
The main idea: to build a dream of mixing martial arts in the court
The world view of "Sword In the Snow" is perfect and huge, from the court to the rivers and lakes, from the world's peerless to the small people in the city, all-encompassing, the pattern is grand. This is also the characteristic of "Knife In the Snow", that is, chivalry and human feelings, fused in a dream.
In this dream, there is the majesty of the court and the majesty of the iron horse Jinge, and the thickness of Chinese culture. Far-reaching wisdom, hidden sharp edges, guns and swords, BMW fragrant cars, heroic beauties, thousands of armies and horses, picturesque rivers and mountains, how many heroes at a time.
Here in the dream, there is the drift of the night rain of the rivers and lakes, the light and coldness of the sword, the chivalry and freedom, the yearning for freedom, the promise of a thousand gold, the solitude of oneself, both the meaning of dust and the heart to enter the world.
The mood of the characters in the novel "Sword Line in the Snow" is quite the purpose of Wei Jin's style. In terms of the abundance of writing characters, love, heavy promises, and the realization of the value of life, it continues the Wei and Jin style culture represented by "The New Language of the World".
The Analects record many hermits, Chenmen, Boyi, Yu Zhong, Yiyi, Zhu Zhang, Liu Xiahui, Shaolian, and so on, and Confucius respected them. In "Laughing proud of the jianghu", Fox Chong was born unfettered, had no interest in power, and was a hermit who pursued freedom and personality liberation like Tao Qian; Ren Yingying was also a "hermit", she had the power to kill the jianghu haoshi, but she preferred to live in a secluded alley in Luoyang, and the piano was entertaining herself, and she only paid attention to personal freedom and the stretching of her personality in her life. However, "people in the rivers and lakes can't help themselves", and there are also many heroes in "The Sword In the Snow" who contradict and wander between retreat and entry into the world.
In this dream constructed by "The Knife In the Snow", each character has his own unique style, from the chivalrous warrior who is flying to the top, down to the small people of chai rice oil and salt, sandwiched between human fireworks, mood and sorrow. Every character in this dream has their own dreams and pursuits, has their own attitude to life, everyone in the story has an otherworldly side, but also has a normal side of the market, from this point of view, the audience will find that they will also be one of them, see themselves in the dream.
Watch the dancing knife in the snow, taste the cold and warm. The rivers and lakes in the snow seem to be far away, but they are close at hand.
The TV series "Knife In the Snow" was broadcast exclusively on Tencent Video on December 15, with members watching 4 episodes at 20:30 on the first day, updated daily at 20:00 the next day; 2 episodes updated at 22:00 on the first day of non-members, and 1 episode per day from the next day.
Judging from the number of episodes currently aired, the quality of the show is outstanding and worth chasing.