When it comes to film and television drama childhood shadows, which TV series do you think of?
Many people will think of "Liaozhai", the unit story of the "Liaozhai" series "Lu Judgement" changes its head and heart, which is the most impressive.
In addition, the TVB version of "Liaozhai" is also difficult to forget.
The TVB version of "Liaozhai", with its cool tones and gloomy background music, once became the existence of the audience's "childhood shadow".
Fantasy is a genre that always arouses the curiosity of the audience, making people want to see it but not daring to watch it.
If you want to talk about fantasy dramas, you have to talk about the next Hong Kong drama.
20 years ago, Chen Miaoying played an "ugly woman", but it became a childhood shadow for many people.
But for the author, when this drama was still a child at the time, it felt fresh and strange.
Headless East Palace
In this drama, Chen Miaoying and Xiang Hailan, two heroines, one played two roles, "Chu Chu" and "Ling Yun" respectively.
Among them, Chen Miaoying's interpretation of "ChuChu" makes people see the appearance of an ugly woman, which makes people grit their teeth with hatred.
But Chen Miaoying's performance of "Ling Yun" touched many audiences.
So, what are the plots of the drama "Headless East Palace" that have become the childhood shadows of many people?
Next, let's talk about this divine drama from 20 years ago.
01 Childhood Shadows
The TV series "Headless East Palace" tells the story of the two heroines, Chu Chu and Ling Yun, who changed the trajectory of their lives after changing their faces.
The reason why the play is called "childhood shadow" is inseparable from these three important plots.
The first paragraph is the well-known "face-changing plot".
Although there have been some tidbits of photos circulating on the Internet about the two changing faces, it has to be said that at that time, this special effect was quite exciting and attracted the audience's curiosity.
Since there are not too many behind-the-scenes footage, what the audience sees is the face-changing process of Chu Chu and Ling Yun, the effect of the face being ripped off.
It's hard to imagine what happens after the skin is ripped off.
The plot picture does not give too much, only gives people a feeling that all five features are shielded.
In addition, after taking the face, the face-changing mage Xiao Tao pulled and cast spells on the face, and the picture was extremely realistic.
It is no wonder that many people at that time were frightened when they saw this picture.
But for the author, at that time, I thought it was a fresh and interesting picture, and even fantasized about what kind of presentation such a scene would be if it happened in reality.
The second paragraph, "Childhood Shadow", comes from the story of Ling Yun being deceived by Feng Leren and encountering the bun incident.
The male actor Feng Leren deceives Ling Yun and wants to sell Ling Yun to the hands of the restaurant owner.
Because of his guilt and learning that the restaurant owner was selling meat buns, he immediately went to save people.
At that time, many people were frightened by the close-up in the bun, because the plot described the nails in the bun, which still seems to be difficult to forget.
Coupled with Ling Yun's sight of many people imprisoned in the restaurant owner's shop and a lot of white bones around him, these pictures are the reasons why many viewers are scared to sleep at night.
The third paragraph, "Childhood Shadow", is also the most "divine drama" plot of the play, which occurs in the scene of Ling Yun's beheading.
At this time, Ling Yun was already an empress, but because he was framed by the "adulterer" Chu Chu, he ended up being beheaded by the emperor's orders.
The queen was beheaded by the order, and at this time the holy will arrived just in time, and the queen's head had already landed on the ground.
After landing on the ground, the camera did not give a close-up, but only released the picture of the body falling to the ground, followed by the scene of Ling Yun's head slowly floating in the air.
Despite having only one head, the plot doesn't show too many frightening images, and smoke made from special effects is used below the neck.
But these settings, in the eyes of the audience at the time, were also frightening.
However, in fact, the screenwriter also made this plot very interesting and full of warmth, and now it is a taste to revisit it.
Although "Headless East Palace" is called "childhood shadow", the "good and evil" it wants to tell is worth discussing.
02 Good and evil
The kindness of "Headless East Palace" is mainly reflected in the heroine of Ling Yun.
In the early stage, Ling Yun was good-hearted and good-looking, and it was also worth saving the emperor and becoming a noble concubine.
However, because of the change of face, Ling Yun became a prisoner of the order, and only escaped with the help of officials and embarked on the road to enter the palace to find the emperor.
Ling Yun's kindness is undoubtedly emotional.
Meet the liar, but do not know that he is the liar's Ling Yun, unconditionally believe in the other party, and directly recognize Feng Leren as a good person.
Although she learned that Feng Leren was a liar, she also used kindness to face Feng Leren, resulting in Feng Leren turning from a charlatan into a kind and good big brother.
After becoming empress, Ling Yun has also been treating others with kindness.
After falling into the ordinary people, Ling Yun has also maintained the virtue of frugality and helping others if he can help others.
In the early stages of the story, we see that the "ChuChu" played by Chen Miaoying is very ugly.
But later, under the change of characters, we look at this ugly woman who is jokingly called "Mandarin Duck Face", and the more we look at it, the more pleasing it is.
At this time, we don't feel ugly anymore.
Obviously, the kind-hearted persona can let the audience see a different heroine, although the same face is still used.
In terms of ugly settings, "Headless East Palace" is mainly based on the two roles of "Chu Chu" and "Xiao Tao".
ChuChu's ugliness, the first four episodes can make the audience insult him, feel that this character is selfish and selfish, and there is nothing worthy of sympathy.
Later in the story, Chu Chu changed from "small evil" to "big evil", which made many people unable to look at it directly, hoping that she could get off the line as soon as possible.
Xiao Tao, on the other hand, is a greedy "face-changing" mage.
From the very beginning, he was only greedy enough to complete the greatest "face changing technique" in the world, and then became a national teacher.
After meeting the required requirements, Xiao Tao did not let go of greed, but intensified his desire to become emperor.
However, Chu Chu and Xiao Tao were both greedy people, and they ended up in a tragic end.
03 Subject matter evaluation
As a "divine drama", "Headless East Palace" has many magical places.
The drama of changing faces, changing faces, beheading and resurrecting and restoring appearances is vivid in the presentation of the plot.
These are all because the special effects are powerful and the visual effects are realistic, which successfully makes the audience feel that the show is very "god".
The reason why it can be called a "divine drama" is also because of the ups and downs of the plot.
Some media have commented on the plot of "Headless East Palace", and the wonderful thing is that "the adulterers occasionally fall down, and the good people occasionally scenery", and its reversal also makes the audience have to sigh "admire".
Although the drama is a "childhood shadow" for many people, as an old TVB drama 20 years ago, it is a classic even today.