From "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to "The Wind Rises in Longxi", the era of Three Kingdoms drama is gradually drifting away

The Douban score and the audience's reputation have finally gradually justified the name of "Wind Rising Longxi".

On the day of the launch of this costume spy drama that took a different approach to filming the Three Kingdoms, a netizen message impressed me: "I have never seen such an ugly Three Kingdoms drama." A few days later, I saw another message, "It is okay to say that the wind rises in Longxi, let alone say that it is a Three Kingdoms drama." ”

But "The Wind Rises longxi" is of course a Three Kingdoms drama, not only that, but also the best Three Kingdoms drama in the past decade, since "The Alliance of Military Divisions" and "Tiger Howling Dragon Yin".

If the opening of the series does subvert the audience's impression of the Three Kingdoms drama in a sense, then with the continuous development of the plot, Mi Chong offline, Li Mi offline, the true candle dragon Chen Gong surfaced, Feng Bing was arrested, and the story filled by Ma Boyong in the gaps in the historical materials is actually infinitely close to the truth of history, behind the spy war, it is all cruel.

Because the real history of the Three Kingdoms is very cruel. As director Lu Yang said, "The Wind Rises longxi" is another option for the audience. People who don't like it can not choose themselves, but they should not negate the choice of others in one sentence.

No matter why netizens who question it think that Lin's updated version of "Wushen Zhao Zilong" and Li Yixiao's version of "Luoshen" are better than "Wind Rises longxi", looking back at the Three Kingdoms dramas of the past forty years, it can still be described as "mixed".

The good news is that at the peak of the creation of historical dramas, the national drama did not waste the good theme of the Three Kingdoms, and several excellent Three Kingdoms TV dramas were born, of which the crowning work was, of course, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The worry is that from the beginning of the new "Three Kingdoms" that encountered word-of-mouth controversy, not only the overall momentum of the Three Kingdoms drama has taken a sharp turn, but even the era of large-scale costume dramas has gradually drifted away.

The original era abandoned a subject matter, and even said hello. The wind of history, when it says it blows in the past, blows it over.

Three Kingdoms dramas can always make people easily pick out all kinds of faults, and even the "Army-Master Alliance" series directed by Zhang Yongxin, director of "The Age of Awakening", has also been fiercely complained about by the audience.

But at least, they all gave me the most wonderful experience of chasing drama after "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

There are surprises, shocks, emotions, and aftertastes.

In two days, "The Wind Rises in Longxi" will come to an end, in this new generation of chinese opera that the audience has iterated, the next Three Kingdoms drama that has been painstakingly made, I don't know when it will come, perhaps, in my lifetime, I will not see it.

Wong Kar-wai said that if we can't keep something, the best thing to do is not to forget it. Then let me use this list of the highest rated Three Kingdoms dramas in the past 40 years to take you back to those Three Kingdoms dramas that have touched us.

I hope that the most outstanding Three Kingdoms work in the minds of this generation of audiences will not be "Party Lang Ke Zhuge Kongming".

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"Wolong Xiao Zhuge Ge"

Starring: Ren Quan, Weizi, Yu Hewei, 2001

Douban 6.3 points 丨The best Zhuge Liang childhood drama

"In a grain of sand, see the whole universe."

In addition to the magnificent and vast historical drama, there is also a kind of Three Kingdoms drama, that is, from a grain of sand of a historical figure of the Three Kingdoms, to glimpse the entire Three Kingdoms universe.

Among them, the most gorgeous one with the lineup is this "Wolong Xiao Zhuge Ge".

I don't think it's okay to call an episode an "ancient puppet show."

Because compared with the "industrial saccharin" that is common in ancient puppet dramas, this drama's treatment of the love between Zhuge Liang and his wife is much more advanced.

The main lineup of the series is a copy of the combination of Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao in "Young Bao Qingtian": Ren Quan and Shi Xiaolong.

The series uses simple scenes, stories and martial arts drama styles to tell the story of Zhuge Liang's seclusion in Jingzhou Longzhong before he went out of the mountains.

There are so many brain-opening stories during this period. Directors and screenwriters are completely free to play, and it will be very light and flexible to shoot well, and it will be intriguing.

Unfortunately, the plot of this drama and the costume are more outrageous.

Perhaps the biggest contribution of the play is that Yu and Wei have gathered another Three Kingdoms role: Lu Su of Eastern Wu.

Yu Hewei's appearance was handsome and beautiful, he was a standard Zheng Xiaosheng, and there was actually no problem playing Zhuge Liang.

And Weizi played Huang Chengyan in minutes reminiscent of Yue Buqun.

Honestly speaking, the series can stay in the memory of a generation, really rely on the childhood memory filter, anyway, when I was a child, I often had a sense of hunger and thirst when I chased the drama, and now I look back and sigh what I saw in my childhood.

Audiences who question "The Wind Rises" always say as if the Three Kingdoms dramas are like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in fact, the style of TVB's "Back to the Three Kingdoms" game works are the majority.

In a grain of sand, it is still difficult to glimpse the entire Three Kingdoms universe after all.

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Butterfly Dance

Starring: Huang Lei, Chen Hong, Yuan Quan, Nie Yuan, 2001

Douban 6.4 points 丨 Chen Kaige directed the most brain-opening Three Kingdoms drama

"Three Kingdoms theme" + "subversive adaptation", which is also a mainstream of the year.

But it is difficult to imagine that the most representative of which is the legendary drama of Lü Bu and the mink cicada directed by Chen Kaige, which was later re-listed, and the title became "Butterfly Dance Tianya", the problem is that there is not a single butterfly in the play, and I don't know how to dance Tianya.

In Chen Kaige's series of works, the drama appears to be both traditional and subversive, and the traditional is that the style of the play is very similar to the "Wuji" of the same period, such as Lü Bu, played by Huang Lei, who wears a nose ring and fights in the Colosseum, which is reminiscent of Kunlun in "Wuji", and subverts the traditional Three Kingdoms story.

This drama may feel very ordinary when it is broadcast now, but it caused great repercussions when it was broadcast at the time, and although it received the first place in the ratings, it was greatly criticized. Audiences questioned that the Three Kingdoms had been changed to a magical story, and the style of the series was even more unusual, but the critics could not imagine that the style of the ancient puppet drama 20 years later was more outrageous than one.

Putting aside the controversy, the casting and performance of the play is still very exciting, Chen Kaige's tuning actors is never wrong, Huang Lei is still very handsome with such a heartfelt look, and the mink cicada played by Chen Hong in the Peak Period is very convincing.

However, many people are most impressed by Dong Zhuo's daughter Dong Yuan, played by Yuan Quan, and now the popular sassy woman is reflected in her very thoroughly, knowing that Lü Bu does not love herself, she stabbed Lü Bu, and then committed suicide in front of Dong Zhuo, Yuan Quan's performance is so wonderful that the audience does not feel that the human setting is unreasonable.

Although the plot is imaginative, looking back at Chen Kaige's ability to shoot love, after the martial arts, legends, and palace fights are danced, a delicate and complex emotional entanglement can be told.

Many viewers still remember the finale of the play, Lü Bu was besieged by everyone after killing Dong Zhuo, and was originally unstoppable, until the news of the death of the mink cicada fell in the chaotic arrows, and was finally hung on the city wall.

The last dialogue is classic: the mink cicada floated in front of Lü Bu and asked, "You came to this world, suffered so much, and experienced so much torture, what is it for?" Lü Bu: "I am for you..."

The series created an early template for "costume idol drama", found a "romantic" style for the Three Kingdoms theme, attracted young audiences with handsome men and beautiful women, and added fresh blood to the three kingdoms story.

Netizens said that this part is now released, and the score should be higher than that year. Coincidentally, so is "Wuji".

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Cao Cao and Cai Wenji

Starring: Pu Cunxi Drama Snow Tranquility 丨 2002

Douban 7.1 points 丨 Pu Cunxi played the most literary Cao Cao in history

Ju Xue is the goddess of national films in the 90s in the eyes of many people, and this is her costume masterpiece.

Compared with the previous two ancient puppet-style Three Kingdoms dramas, this one is more like cutting into the cracks of history and filling the flesh and blood of history with imagination.

The story of Cao Cao and Cai Wenji is only a few strokes of the 71st in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it is presented more completely in the play.

The casting of this drama is also eclectic, and The drama Xue plays Cai Wenji as the second choice, but the quiet mink cicada performs the feeling of empress dowager, and Pu Cunxi performs the most literary Cao Cao in history.

But looking back at the performance of the drama is actually not bad, Ju Xue completely performed the charm of Cai Wenji, and Pu Cunxi's profound performance experience made up for the violation of his image, so that the hesitant, fearful, and lonely emotions of a generation of tyrants were all delicate.

The idyllic narrative and introverted lens language of the whole play create a full emotional power.

Another praiseworthy is the ending song sung by Mao Amin, Mao Amin's singing voice is already long-lasting, and the lyrics of the Three Kingdoms Drama of that year are even more gripping.

"Song to wine, geometry of life, why did you say it in the end". After hearing it, I finally understood that the song was not actually about love. It's about the years. Such elegant and noble lyrics, the current domestic costume drama can no longer be seen.

As soon as the ending song of today's Three Kingdoms drama opens, it is: I don't want to extinguish in the wind.

—7—

"The Wind Rises in Longxi"

Starring: Chen Kun Bai Yu 丨 2021

Douban 7.9 points 丨 Costume Espionage Three Kingdoms, should not be taken lightly

Pessimistically speaking, high-end costume dramas have always been a "pseudo-demand" in China.

On the surface, everyone wants to watch high-end costume dramas, but in fact, most people want to see the male and female protagonists in costumes and fall in love.

This kind of thinking can also be understood, every day after work is tired enough, who wants to spend time watching a three-country espionage war after being tired?

It is no wonder that the first broadcast of this drama was a lot of complaining: saying that its story is complex, I can't understand it, saying that this is what is the relationship between this thing and the three kingdoms, saying that there are too many official positions in various departments in the play, can it not be so rigorous.

There is also a spit that the pace is too fast, and the kung fu of drinking saliva cannot be picked up.

Of course, the biggest doubt is that the picture is dark.

But is there a possibility that all this is exactly what director Lu Yang wants.

What he wants is to film the Three Kingdoms spy war into an invisible cat and mouse game, and he wants to shoot through a suspenseful story, not only to shoot the infernal passage of the Three Kingdoms, but also to shoot the undercurrents of the Shu Kingdom's court, and to shoot the small people in history who are helpless to go with the flow.

But in the current era of double-speed drama, "The Wind Rises longxi" is too "upstream". If the director is not so ambitious, the ratings will be much better.

"Secrets of the Three Kingdoms", which is also adapted from Ma Boyong's Three Kingdoms novel, has a Douban score far inferior to "The Wind Rises in Longxi", but it is more simple and easy to understand, and the result is that the three-hour broadcast volume exceeded 100 million, and finally ranked second in the number of online dramas broadcast that year, second only to the new version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon".

But Lu Yang decided that only through the candle fire in the darkness could he feel the true historical experience of the Three Kingdoms era.

From the fierceness of espionage to the power struggle of people's hearts.

From the very beginning, "The Wind Rises longxi" has been running towards the ideal of cinematization.

But in this day and age, it is not a wise move to create an overly advanced costume spy war. The faster and faster pace of entertainment has long lost the patience of the public to appreciate high-end costume dramas.

Since even the re-screening of "The Lord of the Rings" has suffered countless one-star bad reviews, how can "Wind Rise Longxi" be an exception.

But Lu Yang actually shot very well, Chen Kun Bai Yu Nie Yuan also played very well, the little people want to grasp their own destiny throughout their lives, after all, they can't jump out of the net of history; how can the chess pieces jump out of the chess game?

The shadowy light and shadow point to the unfathomable nature of the human heart. The plot of the hidden mystery is about endless plots and people's hearts. The one-shot to the end shooting method is only to reproduce the cruel killing of the real Three Kingdoms battlefield, the real Three Kingdoms battlefield, there will be no three hundred rounds of the great general's front battle.

No wonder Ma Boyong himself was full of praise.

But the most immersive, fascinating, and shocking epic movie-going experience that the director provides to the audience is not what most viewers want, we just want to lie flat.

Well, there is no next one in Longxi, and Lu Yang and the audience each ask for benevolence.

—6—

New Three Kingdoms

Starring: Chen Jianbin Ni Dahong Yu Hewei Nie Yuan 丨 2010

Douban 7.9 points 丨 worthy of being spat on for 10 years of costume history drama, there is no more

When the episode was broadcast, it caused a wave of controversy: how did Sima Yi become paralyzed? Will Chen Jianbin act in the end? How Liu Bei, played by Yu Hewei, looks different from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

But no matter how many complaints there were back then, the fact is that there were actually three other famous works that were remade together, but only one new "Three Kingdoms" can travel through time to stay, and now some people still spit on it because it is remembered.

And looking back now, the ratings of this last costume history drama do not seem to be so bad.

Many people do not know that director Gao Xixi's filming of the new "Three Kingdoms" is actually "holding the three stalls".

The first director was Chen Jialin of the Kangxi Dynasty, and after he resigned as the chief director on the grounds of age and physical condition, the second director, Yan Jiangang, resigned not long after taking over.

Perhaps the 1994 CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is too classic, and the pressure of re-shooting can be imagined.

After Gao Xixi took over this hot potato, yang Xiaoming, the chief producer, told Gao Xixi before starting the camera that what we had to do was to "pick the ceiling".

In the end, Ghosh made a controversial but indeed popular and beautiful story of the Three Kingdoms.

There are countless large and small battles in the Three Kingdoms, the new "Three Kingdoms" focuses on the three large-scale battles of the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, and the Battle of Yiling, under the new shooting technology and modern production methods, these major battles are indeed filmed with sound and color, and the waves and momentum of the historical war are filmed.

The martial arts scenes of that year were also very ornamental, and most of them were live shots. Nie Yuan played by Zhao Zilong in the crowd of thousands of people come and go like a dragon scene, it can be said that this shooting method is played to the extreme, in the "Wind Rises Longxi" to play the literary drama with a sound and color Nie Yuan was still a top-class student in ancient costumes, but the top-stream Xiaosheng who never saw the real horse in this circus can no longer understand the shooting of that year.

The most outstanding thing about the new "Three Kingdoms" is the casting.

When Gao Xixi was sleeping, he dreamed of Ni Dahong, and when he woke up, he felt that Teacher Ni was very suitable for Sima Yi!

After Ni Dahong was invited, he was not interested in the role of Sima Yi.

Gao Xixi can still flicker: "There is nothing good for a martial artist to act, and the fight and killing cannot reflect the acting skills, only a strategist like Sima Yi, who is very clumsy, can reflect your level."

In the end, Ni Dahong took over, and suffered a wave of bad reviews at the beginning of the broadcast, but Ni Dahong became popular with the drama after the drama was broadcast.

Chen Jianbin took the last shot of Cao Cao lying in bed sick and said to Gao Xixi: "Can you give me a longer shot and give me a beam of light, I obsessively hold this beam of light with my hand." This shot and Chen Jianbin's performance eventually won the praise of the audience.

Yu Hewei was originally not sure, and when he acted in the back, a drunken scene blushed and roared: "I have fought all my life, can't I enjoy it?" Then the music and the dance! "The play was out of the loop years later.

Lu Su is an old and good man in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In the new "Three Kingdoms", Huo Qing's Lu Su is far-sighted and resourceful, and such a person succeeds him as the governor of Dadu after Zhou Yu's death, and Bao Jiangdong's 20 years of innocence are more convincing.

Nie Yuan played the most handsome Zhao Yun in history. The Three Kingdoms, of course, have true heroes.

However, the adaptation of the new "Three Kingdoms" is too bold, deleting many classic bridge sections such as the Yellow Turban Uprising, the burning of Bowangpo, Liu Bei entering the river, and the Seven Captures of Meng, and the Return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin only uses a brief narration to explain, and also shoots Xiao Qiao to cover Zhuge Liang's "escape", Pang Tong's self-directed self-directed Luo Fengpo was robbed, Sima Yi's "iron sand palm" shoots Cao Zhen and many other classic bridges, and even left Yuan Shao's "Who in the world does not know the king" and other cross-cutting lines, so that after many years, he is still being spat at by historical fans.

Unfortunately, after the new "Three Kingdoms", history fans want to find a costume history drama worth complaining about for ten years, but there is no more.

—5—

Roselle

Starring: Cai Shaofen, Chen Hao, Ma Junwei 丨 2002

Douban 8.0 points 丨The strongest historical drama in the history of TVB

It is difficult to imagine that the Three Kingdoms single drama with the highest score on Douban is actually the work of TVB, and it is even more difficult to imagine that this character is Zhen Mi.

The image of Zhen Mi, who is most familiar to the audience this year, comes from "The League of Military Divisions".

But cai Shaofen's ancient costume at that time was no less than this version.

The term "Roselle" comes from Cao Zhi's famous "Roselle Endowment", one theory is that Roselle refers to the beautiful Zhen Mi.

This TVB drama directed by Mei Xiaoqing is to turn a period of historical gossip into a classic TVB drama.

Although Mei Xiaoqing, who is the best at costume and family fun, "Roselle" is a complete tragedy. Every major character in the play is a tragic character, "The so-called tragedy is to tear all the good things apart in front of people's eyes and destroy them for people to see."

Zhen Mi in the play is a beautiful woman with both moral integrity and ability, but she is eventually jealous and dies.

TVB's reshaping of historical figures allows the audience to see the most elegant version of Ma Junwei's cao zhi in history, and Ma Junwei's performance makes the character's sense of tragedy stronger. Cao Pi, played by Chen Hao, is also unique, although full of shortcomings, it makes the audience hate it.

Zhen Mi should also be the most moving role played by Cai Shaofen in TVB, although she was not seen in "Roselle". In the seven-step poem, her smile and glance completely restore the audience's imagination of historical legends. Let people sigh that there is such a woman in the world.

Therefore, in the finale, she was framed to death by the villain played by Guo Xianni.

Such a costume history is good to make now TVB costume drama sequence more like a coincidence. The so-called accident is that the past only appears once, and it is difficult to reproduce the future.

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The League of Military Divisions

Starring: Yu Hewei Liu Tao Li Chen 丨 2017

Douban 8.2 points 丨 Cao Cao's dying scene, Yu Hewei's acting skills are sealed

This audience knows zhang Yongxin mostly because of "The Age of Awakening", but the director who is stronger than famous also has a good series, that is, "Army Division Alliance".

It is he who has brought a completely different style to the Three Kingdoms drama in recent years, and even a new shooting method for the Three Kingdoms drama.

Ordinary audiences will think that "The League of Military Divisions" is still very good, because the first half of the play is full of comedy elements and a large number of life scenes, but the overall style is still the style of the main drama, which is relaxed when it is easy, and the power is scheming, and each does not delay.

This makes the drama break out of its own style in the traditional Three Kingdoms theme, and it is unique.

Of course, another breakthrough in the story is that the protagonist chooses Sima Yi. And the very complicated operation of Cao Cao's coercion of the Heavenly Son to order the princes, as well as the resulting contradiction between Han Chen and Cao Cao's subordinates, which have never been really understood in the past Three Kingdoms dramas, are told to people who are interested in this in a simple and in-depth story.

Any piece of history is written by people, so to shoot history is to shoot people, and people are the most important. The series also allows a personal character we see in the history books to fade the aura in the play and become vivid and intimate.

Especially Cao Cao, played by Yu Hewei.

Until half an hour before the start of the series, Douban netizens still think that this is a very ridiculous casting, no director will let an actor who has played Liu Bei play Cao Cao again, not to mention that this Cao Cao is not good.

On the one hand, the drama weakens Cao Cao's treacherous and murderous image, so that the characters have enough thickness, on the other hand, it also injects huge contradictions into the characters, and it is easy to overturn if the performance is not good.

But Yu Hewei has mastered this character perfectly from the first scene, and the opening scene of intimidating the courtiers, forcing Sima Yi to present and the last dialogue with Wang Jinsong are all wonderful.

However, the most admirable scene is the last scene of the whole drama Cao Cao, from the construction of the scene, to the creation of the TV series image atmosphere, and then to Yu Hewei's interpretation, which together achieve the classic moment of this Three Kingdoms drama, which fully shows the sigh of Cao Cao's last year and strong heart.

As another top-level historical drama director after Zhang Li and Hu Mei, Zhang Yongxin contributed the ultimate exquisite technique in this scene. With a large number of fine audio-visual stimuli, constantly stirring up the inner emotions of the characters, Yu Hewei did not waste any shots, achieving a curtain called art.

After the episode was broadcast, it won praise from historical drama audiences, but for a series with an investment of nearly 400 million yuan and took nearly a year, the return rate of the series is actually not high. Whether it is the number of online broadcasts, ratings or topics, it is one breath away from the blockbuster, which is obviously not as good as the explosive dramas "Chu Qiao Biography" and "The First Half of My Life" broadcast at the same time.

The fate of this drama is actually a reminder of high-quality Three Kingdoms dramas: the era of female audiences dominating ratings has arrived, and the hardcore Three Kingdoms dramas that focus on male audiences have become difficult to rely on excellent quality to make Wang Fried.

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"Tiger Howling Dragon Yin"

Director: Zhang Yongxin 丨2017

Douban 8.4 points 丨 Underrated historical drama masterpiece

Although "The League of Military Teachers" is good, but the actors are larger than the director's works, Yu Hewei's performance is really too shiny, not only covering up the acting brilliance of almost all other actors, but also directly causing the audience to feel bored after Cao Cao went offline.

In this sense, the sequel to the drama, "Wuthering Dragon Yin", truly shows director Zhang Yongxin's extraordinary understanding and control of the Three Kingdoms drama.

If "The Alliance of Military Divisions" has made a profound and thorough and meticulous re-analysis of the characters and stories of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, then "Wuthering Dragon Yin" is to re-push the characters it has created, and has carried out a more extreme construction, more completely outlining a picture of all sentient beings in the middle and late period of the Three Kingdoms.

Whether it is The exhausted Zhuge Liang, the evil and crazy Cao Rui, and the ambitious Sima Zhao, they are all wonderful characters created by this drama, and they also give us a glimpse of the outstanding style of historical figures.

In particular, the scene of Sima Yi destroying Cao Zhen and seizing power in the finale made people's blood boil instantly. This history is only a few short lines in the history book, but it has been filmed by the director with ups and downs, and the lines, shots and plot design are extremely elaborate, which is enough to prove that this costume drama is not all an idol drama cloaked in history.

Compared with some historical dramas that inevitably fall into the embarrassment of high and low while maintaining the compulsion, another advantage of Zhang Yongxin is that he can always maintain the popularity of the plot and achieve a good balance between reproducing history and embracing the audience, so although the historical drama is no longer in the storm, his drama can still reach the passing line of ratings.

In this era, the high-quality large-scale production of the Three Kingdoms drama can return the original, which is actually a very precious thing.

The director's historical drama experience gained from this series was finally fully released in "The Age of Awakening". However, the spiritual temperament of the two dramas is completely different, and the spiritual temperament of "The Age of Awakening" is still high-spirited in a desperate situation.

The protagonist of this play pushes himself to the land of destruction.

Throughout the life of Sima Yi in the play, there was a qingjun ruya when he first entered the shi, there were seven emotions and six desires, in a world of great strife, he was once like a lonely "mortal hero", but in the end it was inevitable that he would be corrupted by power.

Watching the first part, I also have doubts about whether the episode is whitewashing historical figures, but people who have watched "Tiger Howling Dragon Yin" should no longer have this doubt, the series is not to wash anyone, but to show through the comparison before and after that, "any character is created by the times" Of the desolate background.

Handsome young talents, finally can not escape the power to swallow, legendary figures, after all, can not resist the old man to die. No matter how carefully constructed the world of the Sima family, it could not escape the death of the third emperor.

The tiger roared and the dragon groaned, and all went to the past.

This is the charm of historical works.

—2—

Zhuge Liang

Starring: Li Fa Zeng 丨 1985

Douban 8.6 points 丨 This is the most classic Zhuge Liang single-player drama

In 1985, Hong Kong and mainland China simultaneously broadcast a TV series featuring Zhuge Liang, which also presented two very different historical drama styles in the mainland and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The former is almost "magic reform", Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao are portrayed as successful husband masters, as well as "Xiao Qiao fell in love with Zhuge Liang" this kind of dog blood love triangle plot, even if there is Zheng Shaoqiu, the "most handsome Zhuge Liang in history", or can not escape the ratings of the flat word of mouth, fortunately, hong Kong dramas soon found that historical dramas are not played by themselves, and turned their strength to martial arts dramas.

The mainland version of Zhuge Liang's single drama has become a classic of the moment.

In fact, with the shooting conditions in 1985, it is almost impossible to shoot a huge production of the Three Kingdoms era. However, the main creator still basically follows the original content of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and includes key plots such as "Longzhong Visiting Xian", "Tongue Battle Group Confucianism" and "Lost Street Pavilion" in the 14 episodes.

Although the production was inevitably rough at that time, the elegance and restoration of the costume road were far better than the domestic costume dramas 40 years later, with a simple and elegant temperament.

The series also did not give up the "large group portrait", and there were many supporting roles in the whole series. Various historical figures sing and Sing on the stage, and the protagonists shine together to form a side line.

The overall vein of the series is clear, the structure is stable, and the climax is repeated, creating a "main drama" template in the historical drama.

Especially the lead actor Li Fazeng, the performance in that era did not have an exaggerated feeling at all, and the old Cheng who performed the characters was heavy, gentle and calm, and several important plays were performed thickly and powerfully, and it was more appropriate to show Zhuge Liang's bowing and ideal struggle in his later years.

It is no wonder that ten years later, before the production of an epic began, he was still Zhuge Liang's first choice.

It can be said that without the 85th edition of "Zhuge Liang" to open the way, the 94th edition of this epic masterpiece may not have progressed so smoothly.

This immortal costume classic is still hanging a vote for the Three Kingdoms drama -

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Starring: Tang Guoqiang, Bao Guoan 丨 1994

Douban 9.5 points 丨 Three Kingdoms drama ceiling

Its popularity, its out-of-the-loop, and its continued pursuit not only for all Three Kingdoms dramas, but for all historical dramas have made the best demonstration.

Why has "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" been on fire for so many years?

At the end of the day, it's because it uses the most popular creative method.

For example, the creative principle of the play - "Big things are not vain, small things are not informal." "There's also the creative attitude of the play.

The 94th edition of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has a total investment of 170 million yuan, and the huge difference from today's national drama production is that most of this huge investment is not used on actors, but on production.

The crew first built two of the largest soundstages in China at that time in Zhuozhou, each with an area of 1200 square meters, and the two studios cost a total of about 40 million yuan. There are more than 1,000 kinds of costumes and more than 30,000 sets of costumes in the whole drama, costing about 5 million yuan. These basic investments alone cost more than 100 million.

The series is co-produced by the China Television Drama Center and CCTV, and the director is Wang Fulin, the general director of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".

The drama looks absolutely brilliant in terms of casting actors: Tang Guoqiang, Bao Guoan, Sun Yanjun, Lu Shuming, Wei Zongwan, Yang Lixin, Zhang Guangbei, etc., and later almost all became the ceiling of the Three Kingdoms characters he played.

But what's even more amazing is that many actors originally want to play roles that they didn't determine later.

For example, Liu Bei's actor Sun Yanjun originally came to the role of Cao Cao. Zhou Yu's actor, Hong Universe, was originally planned to play Zhao Yun.

And Tang Guoqiang's original plan was to play Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang's original plan was to continue to play Li Fazeng, whose acting skills were highly acclaimed in the 85th edition of "Zhuge Liang", but because Zhuge Liang needed to act from his youth, the general director Wang Fulin personally made a decision to play Tang Guoqiang, and the selection of the first batch of actors was still mainly responsible for Li Fazeng.

Looking back at the casting of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the casting is very classic, and Wang Fulin is indeed indispensable. He saw that Bao Guoan, who was not yet famous at that time, spoke calmly, had the style of a general, and his expression was very deep, and he felt that he could play Cao Cao.

What is even more powerful is that many of the supporting actors he selected that year have been proved by the years not to be generalists.

For example, Pan Yueming, who plays Sun Xiu.

Assassinate Sun Ce's trio, one is "Secretary Dakang" Wu Gang, and the other is "Dao Brother" Liu Hua.

He Bing played Zhuge Ke.

Lü Zhong played Empress Dong.

Li Hongtao plays Tai Shi Ci.

Jiang Chao played Lü Bu's general Wei Xu.

Zhang Liao's actor is even more unexpected, it is "Tang Xuanzang" Xu Shaohua.

In stark contrast to the huge investment, the main characters such as Tang Guoqiang, Sun Yanjun, and Bao Guoan are paid only 250 yuan for an episode, and the other actors are paid even lower, even in the early 1990s, which is also a very low performance remuneration.

A Singapore film company came to investigate and said to the crew members, "You are really filming for the Chinese nation!" ”

But it is not only the actors who do not care about the interests, the drama is directed by Wang Fulin, but there are also Cai Xiaoqing, Zhang Shaolin, Sun Guangming, Zhang Zhongyi, Shen Haofang and other sub-directors.

Ordinary audiences remember one Wang Fulin the most, but Cai Xiaoqing, as the only female director, single-handedly filmed 28 episodes, including classic episodes such as "Taoyuan Sanjieyi", "Fengyi Pavilion", "Prancing Horse Tanxi", "Back to Jingzhou", and the most grand scene in the whole theater, "Burning Chibi", which was also her main shooting.

After the premiere of the series on CCTV1, the ratings reached 46.7% on the same day, becoming a "divine work" that is still difficult to surpass. Japanese television bought the rights to the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from CCTV that year, and the price at the time was $15,000 per episode, and it promised to broadcast it only twice in three years.

Japanese audiences really love the Three Kingdoms, and the three kingdoms animation with the highest Douban ratings are all filmed in Japan.

Some people say that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a product of a special era, and it is true, otherwise, there will be no such epic production that transcends the times, but the creation of historical dramas should be a creation for the public, should be grounded, should be appreciated by both elegant and customary, and the drama has also completely done it.

From a professional point of view, whether it is a play, a film, or a performance, the play is textbook level.

It is good that, under such a professional premise, it can be understood by ordinary audiences and can be seen coolly.

There is no second Three Kingdoms drama, which can tell the history of the Three Kingdoms, the most brilliant and brilliant heroes in ancient China, so delicate and informative, can interpret the historical figures of the Three Kingdoms so vividly and three-dimensionally, each shot is full of careful study, and can also leave such a classic theme song: "Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water, Waves Exhaust heroes!" ”

In the end, the series also made a magnificent epic sense.

The fierce ambition of the historical figures of the Three Kingdoms still moves the audience who have seen it to this day.

Life will always want to forget everything for a short time, to escape from the present. Historical dramas exist because of this.

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The above are the ten live-action Three Kingdoms dramas with the highest Douban rating, and it is not difficult to find an interesting phenomenon.

Only three of the ten dramas are works from the last decade, and two of them are still the upper and lower parts of the same director and creator.

But this is not surprising. The Three Kingdoms drama has a long cycle and high risks, which is extremely challenging to produce and adapt. Filmed well and scolded, filmed not good and silent, but whether good or bad, it is difficult to make a hit, "Wind Rises Longxi" and "Army Division" series obviously can no longer copy the ratings miracle of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that year, in fact, it is far from the new "Three Kingdoms".

Big investment, high risk, eliminate all difficulties to shoot out, the ratings may not be good, but also scolded by the audience, what is the picture? From the perspective of revenue, of course, it is better to shoot ancient puppet dramas that guarantee drought and flood.

From this point of view, we do not lack good IP and good stories with strength.

What is missing is the environment for making a good show.

Will there be more Three Kingdoms dramas in the future? Yes, but there will be no more craze for Three Kingdoms dramas.

The orthodox Three Kingdoms drama is a historical drama, even the costume espionage war such as "Wind Rises in Longxi" is also a partial historical genre, and after decades of "de-seriousness" and "de-deepening" of the national drama, "Daming Dynasty 1566" encountered ratings after being broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV in 2007, which has marked the decline of this creation.

With the change of public aesthetics and the rise of Internet big data algorithms, the platform can easily calculate this type of loss more wins and less wins, and sure enough, "Wind Rises Longxi" has a good reputation but the ratings still lose.

Then there will be fewer of these types in the future. The audience chooses it themselves.

The fate of all historical dramas is determined by the present, and the era of a new generation of audiences loving such a relaxed and humorous and deep historical drama as "Party Langke Zhuge Liang" has naturally passed.

No one will ever need such a Three Kingdoms line - "Death is a cool summer night, for people to sleep without worry."

With the withdrawal of traditional Three Kingdoms drama from the historical stage of National Opera, it is not only a poetic and profound expression, an epic creation at any cost, but also an understanding of the traditional Three Kingdoms story by a generation of audiences.

But the story of the Three Kingdoms will not stop, it just needs to find the next focus, to tell the story of the Three Kingdoms in the hearts of a new generation of audiences, when will it come? I don't know, even if it comes, it is not the Three Kingdoms drama in the hearts of this generation of audiences.

One of the most famous tidbits about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is: the three actors who played Liu Guanzhang were hungry enough to steal corn, and were discovered by the old farmers, "Guan Zhang" ran away first, "Liu Bei" was captured alive, and finally Cao Cao borrowed money from Sun Quan to redeem Liu.

This romance and amusing have also passed.

But people who like that Three Kingdoms drama will often brush it up, because they create a space that belongs to the fans of the Three Kingdoms drama, no matter how the outside world changes, the group of people and those things have always been there, as if they have never left.

In "Tiger Howling Dragon Yin", Zhongda asked: "What is a person looking at in this life?" Kong Ming replied, "What I hope for is time."

The time has come for a generation of Three Kingdoms dramas, so the fate of the next Three Kingdoms dramas will be handed over to the future.

This sentence is also written to every empathetic audience.

The fate of the Three Kingdoms drama has long been written in that classic song - "Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River, the Waves Exhaust the Heroes." The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees. White-haired fisherman on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is a happy encounter. How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter. ”

How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter.