Author: Clouds in coffee
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People often compare TVB's "Chu Han Proud Hero" with mainland China's "Chu Han Storm".
In fact, there is no comparison, because the two are not the same type of TV series at all.
Hong Kong opera does not have the so-called "historical drama" of the mainland, and they are generally only divided into costume drama, period drama and fashion drama.
In fact, historical figures have become nothing more than people's talk after tea and dinner, and some people have this realization hundreds of years ago:
How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter.
It is very naïve to want to understand history with one or two dramas, and people watching such dramas is not necessarily to learn ancient history, but the greater purpose is to see stories and characters.
The same is the costume drama, the passing ATV is much more serious and serious, TVB pays more attention to entertainment, and the tone of the costume film is funny.
Of course, "Chu Han Jiaoxiong" may not be completely a funny costume film, because it has a very sad sense of fatalism, and the ending is also tragic.
But I still think that it is still essentially a funny film based on entertainment, and the tragic ending does not affect its funny nature.
There are many stories of using history to fry cold rice, but few can be interpreted with new ideas.
From this point of view, the innovative courage of TVB screenwriters is worthy of recognition.
Despite the accusations, they were able to tell the stories in these old piles of paper with a completely different freshness.
In Li Tiansheng's works, the most famous is the martial arts drama that created the golden age of Hong Kong drama, and he is handy for mastering such imposing subjects.
The background of the whole play is the well-known chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty when the princes were strife and heroes were combined, and the chu-Han dispute that moved the world.
The sense of substitution of the plot is very strong, and I feel that I have also gone to the end of Qin more than two thousand years ago, when the smoke is everywhere in the country, and the people are not happy.
People all over the country were aggravated by the Qin Emperor's great construction.
Suddenly, the peasant rebels such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang appeared one after another across the country, but they finally fell short because of their unscrupulousness.
At this moment, Qin Wang Xian died, and Qin II was even more faint and incompetent, only at the mercy of the traitor Zhao Gao.
Since then, the imperial program has been sluggish, and the descendants of various princely states have revolted one after another, and suddenly the spontaneous call of rebels in the land of China for resisting the tyrannical Qin has become louder and louder.
Xiang Yu, a descendant of the famous general of the Chu State, was one of them, followed by Liu Bang, a disciple of the city well who was clothed, and so on.
Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were simultaneously pushed to the cusp of history by the times.
One is an invincible and lonely hero who dares not look up; the other is a market scoundrel who lives a hip-hop life and is greedy for money and lust.
Many years later, the hero killed himself in the Wujiang River, but the scoundrel ascended to the throne and came to the world, and opened the prelude to the prosperity of China.
Among them, the general Han Xin, who is told in a large part of the play, is the key role in the military confrontation between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang and deciding who is the main floating and calm.
The actors have good acting skills, and each of the main characters in the play has a personality or even lifelike, and the emotional and psychological activities of the characters are portrayed very delicately.
Liu Bang of Zheng Shaoqiu, Lü Yan of Zhang Keyi, Xiang Yu of Jiang Hua, Yu Ji of Wu Meiheng, Zhang Liang of Jiang Zhiguang, Fan Zeng of Luo Lelin, Han Xin of Li Yaoxiang, Yongya of Zheng Zicheng, Xiao He of Lu Zhenshun, Chen Ping of Lin Weichen, Xiang Bo of Chen Honglie, Fan Duo of Ai Wei...
Each character in the play has their own very distinct and independent character destiny.
They came together to an era that ended the Cultural Explosion of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, creating the times and many miracles.
One of the easiest ways to judge whether an actor is good or bad is to see the degree of interpretation and interpretation of the role.
To put it simply, it is how much the role played by ta fits in with the audience's mind.
Every actor in "Chu Han Jiaoxiong" can be said to have left a deep impression on me.
Whether it is the protagonist or the supporting character, they all make people feel like real people who have come out of history.
Or rather, the roles they play are highly compatible with the historical figures I imagined in my heart.
If the climax and the unexpected are the wonderful plot of a series, then the perfect interpretation of the roles by many actors is to make the whole series more realistic.
Personally, I feel that whether it is For Zheng Shaoqiu as Liu Bang or Jiang Hua as Xiang Yu, it is a challenge for itself.
Zheng Shaoqiu, who is accustomed to playing the role of a gentleman and a Yushu Linfeng, actually has a hand in Liu Bang, who loves to play rogues and is good at interpersonal relations.
In Zheng Shaoqiu,I saw the merry-go-rounder and the rogue hooligans, and it was really a line of separation.
Zheng Shaoqiu portrayed Liu Bang in the play as cowardly and incompetent, but with benevolence, kindness and righteousness.
It was a normal person with shortcomings, who loved to take advantage of small things and liked beautiful people, but had a unique charm for people to follow, and there was also the favor of fate that made him achieve great things.
Among the actors of TVB, Zheng Shaoqiu is really an expression master, which makes me remember his various expressions more than anything.
Under the interpretation of Zheng Shaoqiu, Liu Bang can be called vivid and vivid.
Especially in the crying scene, Zheng Shaoqiu definitely has the basic skills of being a good Qiong Yao's grandmother male number one, and the tears and snot come together, which is completely fine.
History records that Liu Bang was a city man, a greedy man of money and lust.
And in this play, I feel as if Liu Bang is a small fan of Xiang Yu, and every time he sees Xiang Yu, he is extremely excited.
From the beginning to the end, Liu Bang is actually Xiang Yu's most loyal fan as always.
Xiang Yu, liba mountain, is familiar with reading military books since childhood, born with divine power, and can lift the top.
According to the records, he was a beautiful man with a beautiful appearance and a complete range of culture and martial arts, and some scholars commented that "the god of feathers is brave and brave throughout the ages".
Jiang Hua is handsome in appearance, with a little evil spirit in Swen, and a bit of a sense of "Jiang Yulang", so it is actually a big challenge for him to play The powerful Xiang Yu of Kong Wu.
And Jiang Hua had just played Yongzheng before playing the role of Xiang Yu.
"95 Supreme" is a cross-over drama, and he won my favorite TV role at the 2003 "Ten Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony" for his role in Yongzheng, which crossed to the modern era.
This is a small compliment that Jiang Hua has worked for many years from ATV to wireless.
For me, "Return My Life", "I Have a Date with Spring", "The King of Drama", "Silver Fox", etc., which are more impressive to Jiang Hua, are all his works at ATV.
Since then, Jiang Hua has turned to wireless, although his fame has grown, but it is difficult to say that the masterpieces continue.
After all, a brother of ATV, to the wireless, even if there is a great opportunity to show his face, mixed with the face of familiarity, but may also turn the chicken head into a phoenix tail.
What is surprising is that Xiang Yu, played by Jiang Hua, is domineering, mighty, brave, and serious but also very conceited.
Regardless of appearance or demeanor, tone, or demeanor, there is no sense of violation.
If the xiang yu in history is rigid and self-conscious, then the xiang yu in the play, in addition to having a very high self-esteem, is also very "turtle hair".
Jiang Hua's version of Xiang Yu, every word and deed, every move, a smile and a look, all seem to have been measured with a ruler, and there is no difference.
But it also makes you think, Xiang Yu, maybe this is the way it is.
Zhang Keyi's Lü Yan is also very wonderfully portrayed.
From the beginning of recommending himself to Xiang Yu, to the later unique vision of Liu Bang are very bold.
She is domineering but well-informed, courageous, and loves both power and her husband.
In general, as long as you don't look at "Chu Han Jiaoxiong" as a historical film of the Eight Classics, it is still very good.
To a certain extent, it does satisfy the heroic complex of many people, it is three-dimensional, humane.
Revisiting "Chu Han Proud Hero", it is still full of breath and intestines, and the blood is boiling, and it is so magnificent that it simply blurs the contradiction with history.
Some of the small ideas in the play are also relatively new and interesting, such as the beginning of each episode by an actor or director to introduce a related idiom allusion to everyone.
Although this practice is a bit like giving primary school students the knowledge of popular science literature and history, it objectively increases the entertainment of the TV series, and indeed allows people who do not understand this history to increase their knowledge, killing two birds with one stone.
And the only thing that makes me feel unsatisfactory is that the whole passage gives people a feeling of "destiny".
It seems that at the beginning, the screenwriter clearly told everyone that Chu and Han were fighting each other, Liu Bang was the destiny of heaven, and even if Xiang Yu tried harder, it would be in vain.
The taste of fatalism is too heavy, Liu Bang Xiangyu's success or failure here is caused by Providence, Xiang Yu believes that things are man-made, he does not believe in fate, the result is failure, helpless and pitiful.
It is about the heavenly path, the delicate relationship between the situation and the hero, which complements each other but is contrary to each other.
In fact, many objective factors led to the tragic end of Xiang Yu's generation of Haojie, and it is absurd to blame the heavenly stars alone.
In fact, it is not necessary to say how well the script is written, and the blueprint of the story must be Sima Qian's "History".
Then the children's love things put a lot of things in it, and the plot of dog blood also existed accordingly.
The two characters, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, have been beautified to varying degrees.
And a generation of military genius Han Xin has become the biggest villain in the play.
Li Yaoxiang's version of Han Xin is a wizard but has a hugely low emotional intelligence, no one in sight, and is an unkind, ungrateful careerist and war maniac.
At that time, many things that people despised, such as rebelling against his twilight return, became Han Xin's handwriting here.
This arrangement will definitely be scolded half to death by a large number of Han Xin fans.
Therefore, although "Chu Han Jiaoxiong" gathered countless powerful actors, when it was broadcast that year, the ratings were average.
Of course, the Hong Kong dramas of 2004 are almost all shrouded in the dazzling light of "Desire for Golden Branches", all of which are eclipsed.
Of course, there are flaws, but the flaws are not hidden, and the episodes with such vitality are still worth watching today.
Although today's TVB has been unable to return to heaven, the so-called large-scale production, the plot is also unknown, not to mention the fifty cent special effects that stayed more than a decade ago.
But after all, it accompanied all my growth stories, and it never stopped.
Looking back at the drama ten or even twenty years ago, you can still feel that it is not finished.
The love for TVB seems to have always been a linear function parallel to the coordinate axis, extending indefinitely.
~To be continued~
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Author: Clouds in coffee
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