The twenty-first episode of "Good Words and Freehand" has a large amount of information and is also very important, explaining the reasons and time nodes of Xie Minghao's blackening, and he, as the ultimate villain of the whole drama, is the murderer behind the tragedy of the heroine's father and sister, and the reasons and time nodes of his blackening are also related to the basic construction and overall balance of the whole drama.
This article focuses on analyzing the key information explained in the plot and lines of the twenty-one episodes, interpreting the important plots that the actors and directors want to tell the audience which lines are not explained through performances and lenses, as well as the intentions and advantages and disadvantages of the director choosing to use such expressions, and based on this information and plot, we can more clearly analyze the character of Xie Minghao and the fundamental reasons for becoming a villain.
In episode 21, Xie Minghao was told by the female protagonist that she had cohabited with the male protagonist, and questioned the female protagonist in a daze, saying the expectations that had been hidden in his heart for many years and did not dare to be known. When God tried to cover up the redemption, he was rejected by the heroine. When he returned to the residence, he pounded the cabinet full of dolls and fell into memories. Many years ago, he took the doll he was going to give to the heroine and tried to kiss the sleeping heroine, but was discovered by Shen Bo. When he plucked up the courage to reveal his love for the heroine, he was fiercely opposed by Shen Bo, and the important setting related to the whole play, which is also the cause of the tragedy of the heroine's family, was hidden in this dialogue between Xie Minghao and Shen Bo.
Let's first look at the key messages in the line:
Shen: What the hell is going on, when did you start thinking about freehand?
Xie: Shen Bo, my freehand writing is... Be a sister.
In the face of questioning, his first reaction is denial, and from the actor's body language, it can also be seen that his shoulders are adducted, and his back is also slightly curved, which is a timid and humble inferior posture. Earlier, after he sensed Shen Bo's gaze, his instinctive reaction was to also retreat backwards, trying to hide the doll behind him. This paragraph can very well explain the background of his personality. His heart is quite inferior, even if he has designed to force Shen Bo to die later, and even threatened the heroine with the safety of Writing Qing, when he was at the peak, he was still humble in front of the heroine.
Shen:, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I don't know what would have happened.
SS: I'm sorry, but I've really been writing for a long time, and this time she came back from Germany and I was able to see her again.
Shen: Shut me up, I don't allow you to have such thoughts about your sister, the writing is still small, I don't want you to affect her studies, and I can't do it in the future.
SHH: Why? Is it because I'm not doing enough?
Notice that this "why" is very meaningful and the most informative sentence in this conversation.
Many viewers believe that Xie Minghao is already engaged to Shu Qing at this time, and a key reason is the phrase "your sister" in Shen Bo's mouth. But if you think about it, this is untenable:
First, imagine if Xie Minghao is already engaged to Shuqing, then Shen Bo should directly say "You are already Shuqing's fiancé, how can you fall in love with your future sister-in-law", this reason is enough to scare Xie Minghao to death. Dai always knew that scolding Xie Minghao was a dead pervert, would Shen Bo put such a ready-made reason not to use it?
Second, if Xie Minghao and Shu Qing had formally established a romantic relationship at this time, or even been engaged, he should not have asked knowingly.
Third, in the later plot, it is also explained that Shen Bo and him are adopted and adopted, so Shen Bo's "your sister" here should refer to this layer of brother-sister relationship, not brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
Xie Minghao, as the boss at the bottom of this drama, not only has an excellent IQ, but also has excellent emotional intelligence and is good at controlling people's hearts, so he can have superb acting skills, present different faces in front of different people, and even show different temperaments to win the trust of others. Even in his memories, he is still relatively young, and there is still considerable room for growth from the later Xie Yingdi, but from the dialogue between Shu Qing and Shen Bo, it can be known that he has made brilliant achievements at this time as a newcomer lawyer with no personal background, with his outstanding ability, so even if he is still relatively young compared to the later Xie Yingdi, the double business is still very online.
Therefore, only he and Shu Qing were neither engaged nor clear in their relationship, or even without vague ambiguity, who knew people's hearts, knew how to advance and retreat, and had the inferiority of nature, had the position and the courage to ask such a question in front of Shen Bo. Especially he followed a very humble question, is it that I am not doing well enough? It is likely that what he said to Shuqing the day after he got drunk and went crazy was true, and they had been encouraging each other to keep warm, but at this time there was no clear relationship.
If the two are already engaged or have a clear relationship, not only will Shen Bo's IQ as a successful entrepreneur be worrying, but it will also lead to the complete collapse of Xie Minghao's personality. At the bottom of the boss's IQ offline, the IQ index of the entire drama, especially the protagonist, is also sparse.
Shen: You have always been very clear in your heart, Shuqing likes you, I don't want you to affect the feelings between their sisters, all these years Shuqing has been with you, encourage you, I don't want you to fail her, this is to be given to Shuyi? I warn you, as long as I Shen Zhihong is in a day, you don't want to think about it.
Carefully reading shen Bo's words can also be seen that Xie Minghao and Shu Qing did not establish a relationship at this time, otherwise he would not have used the phrase "you have always been very clear in your heart", but should say that you are already a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.
In fact, Shen Bo's approach is very debatable, since he loves Toqing, after learning of Xie Minghao's thoughts, the most important thing he should do is to completely cut off his contact with his two daughters, rather than forcing him to be with Wailing Qing. Knowing that Xie Minghao's heart loves freehand, where should Qing qing's feelings be placed? From his point of view, it may be purely patriarchal, simple and rude and do not understand love. But love is not a doll, you can give it to whoever likes it, Xie Minghao is a flesh and blood person with feelings, and cannot be assigned to his daughter as a doll.
Xie nodded while retreating: I understand what you mean Shen Bo, I and Shu Qing are the most suitable match, you can rest assured, I will be good to her in the future.
Shen Bo thought he had received a satisfactory answer, but Xie Minghao's words were actually full of deep meaning.
Inferior in nature, he thinks that he understands Shen Bo's unspoken meaning, and his understanding is that although Shen Bo's excuse is very famous, the real meaning is that you do not deserve to like your own freehand writing, only deserve to like the adopted daughter to write Qing.
This raises an interesting follow-up question, since Xie Minghao has already gained a firm foothold in the legal profession with his own ability and no longer needs Shen Bo's financial support, then why did he agree to Shen Bo's request and get engaged to Shu Qing? Could it be that his IQ and lovers do not know that the identity of the brother-in-law will lead to his eternal disconnection from the heroine? Doesn't this match his people?
The answer lies in the actor's performance and the director's lens.
Shen Bo left, Xie Minghao squatted down while suppressing the crying, while picking up the doll that was shredded by Shen Bo from the ground, and then the camera pulled away, Xie Minghao stood up, the camera was pushed from below to his face again, his eyes have changed very obviously, and this change is progressive, first close the eyes, and then when the eyes are opened, the eyes begin to change, and then the head and neck are slightly raised, the eyeballs move upwards, and you can feel the deepening of emotions when you look closely. If his crying when piecing together the dolls is suppressing pain, then what he is trying to suppress at this time is resentment.
As the male protagonist said at the end, Xie Minghao's life has sought a sense of identity. There is nothing wrong with seeking a sense of identity per se, and people who can really care about external evaluations must be extremely strong in their hearts, which is difficult for ordinary people to do. But Mr. Xie's problem is that he is too extreme and paranoid.
He was born poor, and he was bullied from an early age, partial to the mind, smart, high in both business, the consequence is that at the same time of extreme inferiority, but also extreme pride, the identification of others as the whole sustenance and value of adult life. His character and ideas themselves are very dangerous, like a bomb buried in the path of life, if you can't find a way to dismantle, then sooner or later someone will step on the mine, his blackening is almost an inevitable result, which is the so-called character determines fate.
Also because of his extreme inferiority, the significance of Shen Bo's funding to him not only represents economic help, but also represents the affirmation and recognition of his personal value and ability.
Shen Bo thought that he shredded just a doll for freehand, but in fact, he shredded Xie Minghao's feelings and dignity at the same time, as well as his appreciation and kindness to Xie Minghao all along. And Xie Minghao cried and picked up not only the dolls, but also his torn to pieces of love, pride and dignity.
Because of this, he had to put Shen Bo to death, and for this reason, he did not hesitate to completely sacrifice the possibility of his love with Shuyi, and became Shuyi's brother-in-law in order to use Shuqing. Otherwise, simply because Shen Bo obstructed him from pursuing freehand writing, there are actually many ways to bypass Shen Bo to achieve his goals.
This complete psychological activity can be mutually authenticated with the confession when he drove him crazy to write Qing later: "He adopted me that year, but it was to win a good reputation, and I worked all my life to stop being despised by others, so that I could get his approval." But in the end, he thought I wasn't even qualified to write. ”
The prop of the doll in the play not only represents Xie Minghao's emotional direction, but is actually more like a symbol of himself. He said to the freehand, in the future, you can only be with me like these dolls, in fact, he locked in the cupboard and did not see the light of day, not only dolls, but also hidden in the dark.
The lines of this scene only explain Xie Minghao's superficial compromises, and do not clearly explain his inner feelings, only the superficial reasons for blackening, but there is no precise node of blackening, and these are told to us through the actor's performance and the director's lens.
The benefits of this approach are twofold:
First, while increasing the information content in the performance and the shot, it also increases the attention stickiness of the audience, so that the audience not only relies on the lines to know the plot, but also focuses on watching the performance and the picture, otherwise it will miss some key information and cannot understand the plot in depth.
Second, deliberately use the blank space on the lines to increase and prolong the audience's emotional experience.
Xie Minghao's suppressed anger in this eye scene, and the inner activities expressed behind it, can of course be simply replaced by lines, but in this way, the audience loses the space for speculation and imagination of the character's emotions, and at the same time, it also invisibly reduces the questioning and interest in the characters.
This technique is similar to the role of language defamiliarization in literature, and the author deliberately transforms the reader's familiar daily language into a relatively unfamiliar literary language, in order to enhance and prolong the reader's emotional experience.
Similar techniques in the play, as well as memories, freehand return to China, Xie Minghao participated in a scene of the Shen family banquet, Xie Minghao noticed the subtle psychology of the interaction between the father and daughter of Shen Bo, which laid the groundwork for him to later use The feelings and design of Shen Bo.
Of course, such an approach is not without drawbacks, for the audience who are now accustomed to watching the drama at double speed, it is easy to miss the explanation of this part of the information in the fast-forward, and misread the plot and characters.
At the same time, such expressions put forward requirements for actors, directors and audiences, actors should be able to accurately convey the emotions of the characters with performances, directors should be able to use camera skills to tell the story smoothly, and the audience should at least be able to do not fast forward - this in turn puts forward requirements for the screenwriter, to have the ability to build a good story that attracts the audience not to speed up or fast.
It is worth mentioning that in this love drama, Xie Minghao's feelings are always extremely depressed and introverted, especially the kind of stoic sobbing and resentful eyes in the last shot, which makes people feel that there is always a breath pressed in the chest, holding it uncomfortable. And in this scene, the beginning and end of the scene are connected by the fierce release of Xie Minghao's emotional opening and closing. So when the three scenes are watched together, the audience's emotions have been following Xie Minghao up and down, first as a prelude to venting, then painfully suppressed, holding a breath in the memory, jumping to the present time before being fully released. The emotions of the characters are always coherent, and the audience not only does not lead to the play because of the time switch, but because the breath of Xie Minghao's fierce suppression in the memory is released in the present, and there is more sense of substitution.
It is at the time node of the twenty-one episodes that Xie Minghao began to embark on a life path that was doomed to be impossible to turn back, which also led to the tragedy of the heroine's family.
In the fifth episode of the show, there is a line in which he advises him to give up hatred and stop pursuing the truth, which is very interesting:
Xie: "Some things start once they start, and they don't mean to stop. And you still have a chance. ”
Hostess: Of course I understand, but I don't want to stop.
SS: Maybe you can try to let go of hatred, you're still so young, there are still many roads left for you.
Heroine: But the opportunity is in front of me, let me give up with my eyes, I am not willing.
Perhaps this passage is just a rhetoric he said in order to prevent the heroine from tracking down the past, perhaps it is a dialogue with himself standing on the blackening node at the other end of time while persuading the heroine, expressing deep remorse.
Just like, he asked the heroine, if everything went back to the beginning, would you fall in love with me? The heroine replied that there is no if in life, and he burst into tears in an instant.
Through the analysis and interpretation of the above plot, it can be seen that some viewers described Xie Minghao as a phoenix man, which is actually very inappropriate. In the current network context, the phoenix men correspond to the fudi demons, and their problem is that once they are combined with them, they themselves and the entire family behind them will become the vampires of marriage. The purpose of Xie Minghao's engagement to Shu Qing is to use and take revenge, his relationship with Shen Bo is more like a farmer and a snake, this character is like a hidden lurking in the dark, cold, cunning, soft and harmless on the surface, but in fact a treacherous and fierce poisonous snake, love is not bright, hate is not frank.
Some students said that the scene where Xie Minghao's bed was written was like a poisonous snake hunting, which was really accurate and very interesting to describe.
It is worth mentioning that in the official poster, Xie Minghao is sitting in the dark, and his outstretched hand is tossing an apple.
In the Bible, the cunning and treacherous serpent lured Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, and from then on distinguished between good and evil, so the forbidden fruit is also called the fruit of good and evil. Eve and Adam, who ate the forbidden fruit, were banished from the Garden of Eden by God and suffered terribly. Apples are often seen as a substitute for forbidden fruit. The serpent became the embodiment of the demon Satan.
In the play, the cunning and treacherous and well-spoken Xie Minghao tricked Shuqing into transferring the company's assets, resulting in Shen Bo being forced to commit suicide in the end, and Shuqing was also schizophrenic because he learned the truth and was violently stimulated.
Turning back to look at this poster, do you feel that the combination of Xie Minghao and Apple is very interesting.
The green mountains do not change the green water and long streams, and we will meet again in the next chapter.
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