These days there is a drama that makes the internal entertainment that has been calm for months like a backwater, like an explosion.
It is:
Dream Chronicles.
The opening score is 8.3, nearly 300,000 people scored, and within a few hours, it jumped all the way to 8.8, if it were not for the Douban lock score mechanism, I am afraid that it would have broken 9 now.
From the main actor to the plot, it instantly swept the hot search list and major forums.
For a long time, we have not seen the mainland film and television industry and entertainment industry that has gone poor so lively.
This rating, in particular, is surprising.
It should be known that the big hit "The Name of the People" was only 8.3, and the peak of the women's costume drama, "The Biography of Zhen Huan", was 0.5 points higher than the current "Dream Hualu".
So, what did she rely on?
The biography of "Dream Hualu" is an ancient opera with a very modern consciousness, and the famous work of Guan Hanqing, a meta-miscellaneous drama, "Zhao Pan'er Wind and Moon Saves the Wind and Dust".
More than eight hundred years ago, our playwrights wrote the story of Girls Help Girls.
Miss Song, a prostitute in Beijing, was going to marry a poor Xiucai, but as a result, the rich second generation was lured with money, so she reneged on her former agreement and did not marry a new person.
Who knows this rich second generation domestic violence, Miss Song is beaten every day after marriage.
Miss Song had no choice but to ask her sister Miss Zhao for help, and used fengyue means to seduce the second generation of the rich and deceive him into divorcing Miss Song and marrying herself.
The rich second generation was confused by Miss Zhao and took Miss Song by the hand, and as a result, Miss Zhao took Miss Song and ran away, and the second generation of the rich took the second daughter to court together.
Fortunately, the second daughter met the Qingtian Grand Master, and not only punished the rich second generation, but also sentenced Miss Song and Poor Xiucai to be married for a hundred years.
Low-level women's mutual aid, domestic violence problems, marriage and love autonomy, gold worship, etc., these issues are still very worth exploring today.
Of course, putting aside social issues, the essence of "Saving the Wind and Dust" is a story of "conscience".
In the ancient concept, a prostitute married from a good person is the best way out, and she must marry an honest person.
It is as if marrying an honest person, no longer coveting the rich and noble, and being at ease with her husband and godson, Miss Song can live a happy and happy life.
Miss Zhao, the red pink hero, continued to go home and wait for her honest man to fall from the sky.
As a fable story with only four folds and no more than one hour of performance time, the more idealized ending of "Save the Wind and Dust" is naturally very perfect.
But to expand a forty-episode long-form series is a little thinner.
In particular, Miss Song's ending, if directly according to the original stills, in contemporary terms, it is indeed a little outdated.
The TV series "Dream Hualu" provides a different direction from the ending of the original drama, or a continuation:
What should Miss Zhao and Miss Song do after they "congliang"?
The first seven episodes of "Dream Hualu" finished the part of "Saving the Wind and Dust", and the story is that Miss Song was deceived and Miss Zhao used the Wind and Moon Trick she had learned when she was a singer in exchange for a letter of resignation.
What was more realistic was that they did not meet the Qingtian Grand Master.
In "Dream Hualu", the magistrates they met not only did not want to punish the rich second generation who cheated on marriage and domestic violence, but also wanted to punish the disobedience of Zhao and Song.
Thanks to Mr. Gu, an official of the Imperial City Division who had been rescued by Miss Zhao before, Mr. Gu found a higher-ranking magistrate in time.
Under their interference, Miss Zhao's troubles were completely relieved.
In the Song Dynasty where the story is set, a woman with no foundation and low status wants to rely only on her own ingenuity to resist the powerful and the gentry.
In "Dream Hualu", zhao pan'er, Song Yinzhang and the original character Sun Sanniang, the three core female characters, are in difficulty in life.
Not only gender oppression in patriarchal societies, but also class oppression under the imperial system.
Untouchability is a common pain point in the lives of the three heroines.
Once you are in untouchables, it is not only difficult to get out of the nationality as a good citizen, but even if you are out of the country, it will still become a lifelong stain.
Zhao Pan'er was originally the daughter of a high-ranking official, her father was framed and convicted, she did not enter the music register herself, and became a church singer, she worked hard to finally get rid of the nationality, and tried to wash away the past that was once a.
She relied on the money she earned from selling tea to help her lover Ouyang Xu go to Beijing to take the exam, hoping that after he won the middle school, he could marry herself and return to the class of scholars.
Song Yinzhang's family has been a pipa music worker for generations, and even if she has entered the court to worship, her household registration is still low, and she hoped that Zhao Pan'er could help her get rid of her untouchable status.
Song Yinzhang thought that the best way was to marry Congliang, but he met Zhou She, who coveted her beauty and wealth, and was not only cheated of her property, but also imprisoned.
Sun Sanniang's father was a pig killer, and when she was in Qiantang, she sold tea fruits in Pan'er's tea house for a living while urging her son to study hard.
However, because of the stricter way of education, he was regarded as an evil person by his husband and children.
The most cruel thing is that the husband of the third lady hooked up with the rich widow in his own clan, the father and son directly abandoned the third lady to inherit the family property, and the desperate third lady tried to commit suicide by diving.
These three characters can be said to inherit the advantages of the female image in Guan Hanqing's miscellaneous dramas as brave, intelligent and chivalrous.
At the same time, in view of the form and core of modern drama, it has been enriched and transformed.
Zhao Pan'er hopes that Ouyang Xu can save her, just as in the original drama, hoping to marry Qian Xiucai is to save Song Yinzhang.
After Ouyang Xu went to high school, not only did he not pull Up Zhao Pan'er, who had spent money for his studies.
Instead, he also tried to drive her away completely, so as to avoid mixing with the women who had been untouchables, which would affect his career and his in-laws with high-ranking officials.
After being deceived and insulted by Zhou She, Song Yinzhang came to Tokyo and saw the richness and prosperity of Tokyo and the pomp and circumstance of the Flower Queen, and Song Yinzhang gradually gave up the idea of leaving the country.
Even if you are not good, you can have unlimited scenery just by relying on the clever hand that gently strokes the strings and slowly wipes the pick.
After the third lady's dream of relying on her son to study and embark on a career to change her destiny was shattered, she also found that her hands were a weapon to change her destiny.
In Tokyo, Sanniang's refreshments, fruits, and dishes are highly sought after. The woman's cooking skills, which are not valued by her husband and son, have become her way to get rich here.
So after "saving the wind and dust", the three heroines decided to realize the value of life by doing business in Tokyo.
Zhao Pan'er used her shrewd and capable business talents, Song Yinzhang used her unique pipa talent, and Sun Sanniang used her ingenious cooking talent.
Open a tea shop, then a boutique tea shop, and then a restaurant.
No need for marriage, no need to get out of the country, on their own, you can also break out of the world.
Of course, in terms of the transformation of modern consciousness of ancient texts, "Dream Hualu" is not completely perfect, and after the episode was broadcast, the biggest controversy was:
Isn't this drama advocating the concept of chastity?
Song Yinzhang's change from good intentions came from a good meeting with Hua Kui Zhang.
Zhang Haohao mentioned that Song Yinzhang was "a lowly servant of Israel", that is to say, a prostitute who sold herself was a lowly person, and Zhang Haohao and Song Yinzhang, who relied on their skills, belonged to "good tricks".
Regardless of whether there is a difference between "trick" and "prostitute" in the history of the mainland, even Guan Hanqing of the Yuan Dynasty can look at prostitutes without wearing colored glasses.
In addition to the entrepreneurial line of the three female protagonists, the series has another main line, that is, the male protagonist Gu Qianfan investigates the "Night Feast Map".
The reason why Gu Qianfan wanted to investigate the "Night Feast Map" was that the current empress had "lost her virginity" before entering the palace, and she was deceiving Her Majesty, and this past was hidden in the "Night Feast Map".
According to the background of the series, we can know that the story takes place in the era of Song Zhenzong, and this "lost virginity" empress is Liu E, who relied on the "tanuki cat for prince" in the wild history drama text.
However, Song Zhenzong in the history of Zhengzheng not only knew that Liu E had a husband, but also rewarded the ex-husband with an official, and vigorously promoted Liu E from the singer to the empress throne.
He also gave her the son born to the harem and escorted her to the position of empress dowager.
Is it difficult for a modern screenwriter to care less than Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty if Liu E is a virgin?
Liu E's untouchable origin and life as the empress dowager undoubtedly prove to us that even in the real ancient times, as a untouchable, there is a possibility of not being despised and achieving success.
Liu E's sealed back road was blocked by the chancellor on the basis of her birth.
Even if she is not infamous in the history of the canon, she was discredited by the story of "Tanuki For Prince". It also makes us realize that the origin of the untouchables did have many obstacles in ancient times.
Liu E's story, which could have been reconciled with the three heroines of "Dream Hualu", wanted to refute the story that untouchability is equal to lowliness, forming a mutual reflection of history and legend.
Judging from the respective life settings of the three heroines of "Dream Hualu", perhaps the follow-up content will also refute the questions about "prostitutes are not as good as tricks" and "the queen loses her virginity".
"Dream Hualu" has now broadcast fourteen episodes of content, and the story has officially moved from "saving the wind and dust" to the entrepreneurial road of "partnering to open a store".
In terms of what is currently shown, "Dream Hualu" is a slightly dark costume light comedy.
There is a strong sense of ancient city interest, even if there are some cruel and realistic parts of the content, but all the plot design is still in the direction of ease and cheerfulness.
We can see how Zhao Pan'er can make Zhou She overwhelmed little by little when dealing with Zhou She, which is the "wind and moon" that modern people can also feel interesting.
We can see Sun Sanniang kicking the jinshi, who is full of feminine virtue, into the water.
We can see that Song Yinzhang, full of good fortune, is turned into the cellar and locked with chains, and the cold that wants to squeeze all value out of her.
These passages, whether extended from reality or borrowed from ancient irony to the present, are also the directors and screenwriters' reflections on the real women's encounters from a record of the growth of women that occurred in ancient times.
Unfortunately, in order to ensure the fun of the series, the director and screenwriter may only have a brief taste of those realistic situations.
We only know what the heroines have experienced in the past, but it is difficult to be stung by their past.
The glory and humiliation they once enjoyed as a singer can only capture a trace of their current lives.
Therefore, it is difficult to really empathize with why they do not leave their homes, and why they are determined to prove themselves.
Therefore, we can also see that the audience's discussion of "Dream Hualu" is more focused on the CP sense and love drama of the male and female protagonists.
In the broadcast content, the male and female protagonists played by Liu Yifei and Chen Xiao have gone from not being wronged and not gathering heads, to rescuing each other and understanding each other.
The emotional development journey to the extreme pull between the hidden minds is quite gripping.
Audiences who are accustomed to their idol drama performances in their youth will be particularly surprised by their growth when they see their more delicate and mature appearances in "Dream Hualu".
Although the two actors are older, their appearance has not changed too much, and the crew is still a costume beauty from many years ago under the carving of imitation Song makeup.
Unfortunately, the most important and meaningful depictions of women's independence and the survival of the people at the bottom of the story are not so striking.
Of course, at least in today's ancient puppet dramas that only focus on how rich men and women fall in love, "Dream Hualu" can pay attention to these truly valuable points and strive to shape the intention of this theme, which is already worth encouraging.
Comparing only the ratings, the 8.8 points of "Dream Hualu" are obviously inflated compared with those 9-point costume dramas that have been enshrined.
However, after going through the costume dramas of these years, if you want to find the same plot as "Dream Hualu", the story is meaningful, and the appearance of the male and female protagonists is really beautiful, it is difficult to find the second one.
This 8.8 score is not so much a compliment to "Dream Hualu" as an encouragement to "Dream Hualu".
It is the internal entertainment audience that has experienced the bombardment of bad dramas, and after seeing what a normal TV series should look like, they breathe a long breath.
I also hope that the next content of "Dream Hualu" deserves such encouragement.