Only by understanding them can you understand the intentions of the play "Gentleman League"

Recently, the finale of "Gentleman's League" has arrived!

This drama has been accompanied by various voices since its inception. The historical background of the overhead and the extremely realistic texture of the set costume road once sparked discussion.

After chasing the play, on the one hand, I understand everyone's dissatisfaction, but at the same time, I feel that the "virtuality" of this history and the "reality" of the scene are very flattering.

There is no clear dynasty, but the real scene suggests that such a story can happen in any dynasty. With the "reality" of the scene, the "virtuality" of history is extended to infinity. As a result, everyone has richer associations and projections.

Between this "virtual" and "real", the characters have a unique dramatic time and space, in which they freely grow a living character life.

Even the recently launched villain Gu Qingzhang has the same full character arc as several protagonists such as Lan Jue and Zhang Ping.

1. Gu Qingzhang : Childish He Gu

In this story of overlapping suspense and intrigue, Gu Qingzhang is the villain who pushes the story to a darker place, he is full of wisdom but full of hatred, and his heart is becoming more and more crazy on the road to revenge.

At first glance, he is a crazy villain, but the most poignant thing about this character is that he allows us to touch the grayscale of human nature, in addition to black and white good and evil, a villain also has his lamentations and weeps.

Lan Jue and Zhang Ping solved the case one after another, and the final game to be solved was Gu Qingzhang's crazy approval revenge bureau.

In the past, many intersecting partners have now chosen different sides of good and evil, and it is precisely because of the equal strength that it is necessary to compete.

Gu Qingzhang is very smart, he has known Lan Jue for many years as a friend, and he has become a little closer to Zhang Ping because he saw Zhang Ping's mirror flower water moon technique.

His intelligence is not inferior to Zhang Ping, and his human temperament in worldly things is also rivaled by Lan Jueqi.

It is this intellectual excellence that makes them sympathetic best friends and the source of this character's original charm. But unlike Lan Jue and Zhang Ping, Gu Qingzhang's intelligence is a bit evil.

When Zhang Ping fell into Tao Zhoufeng's case, Gu Qingzhang fell asleep in the middle of the night and advised Zhang Ping not to intervene in the case, he played with the sachet ball in his hand, and as the aroma lingered, Chen Qiao on the bed slept more and more sweetly.

The next morning, Zhang Ping woke up, unable to tell whether last night was a dream or real, only a manuscript in his arms proved that Gu Qingzhang had indeed come last night.

In this round, Gu Qingzhang's means are a little more strange than Zhang Ping's mirror flower and water moon, and he can even make Zhang Ping, who has been performing spells for others, also be used. His intelligence draws people closer, and the evil aura shrouded in him is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, with a trace of his life and confusion.

As the story progresses, Gu Qingzhang's identity is gradually revealed, and we, like the other characters in the play, understand where his hatred comes from.

——An abandoned son who was abandoned by his biological mother since he was a child, has been planning a decisive revenge all his life.

The unquenchable hatred made him work hard for decades, and in the long and dark road of revenge, his heart was burned crazy by the fire of hatred.

In order to ask the truth, he did not hesitate to threaten to kill Zhang Ping. He wrapped everyone in his own vengeance.

Originally, he could be a simple and rude villain with explosive combat power to satisfy the refreshing feeling we crave. However, the director is partial to digging behind his madness, digging out his pathetic and lamentable, revealing the slight of human nature under the cracks of revenge.

The deepest impression should be that when he almost completed his revenge, the cry of the baby in the city made him find a trace of unbearability. This is a very important moment, the complex depth of human nature completed the redemption of the "villain" in the cry of the baby, and it is precisely because of the letting go of this moment that the character of Gu Qingzhang has fresh flesh and blood and complete character arc, completing the transformation from the dark side to the human side.

The childish He Gu, Gu Qingzhang, who was still a baby, became a victim of the Empress Dowager's seizure of power, and after the great revenge, Gu Qingzhang walked on the street, and a baby's cry awakened the humanity buried deep in his heart.

This cry is simply the cry of the childish Gu Qingzhang many years ago!

He chose to pick up the baby, as if embracing his innocent abandoned self as a child, which is the human moment of the villain and the moment of reconciliation between Gu Qingzhang and himself.

When Gu Qingzhang completes his crazy path of revenge full of intelligence and hatred, and is close to destruction, the remaining goodwill of human nature becomes the brightest ember of his black life.

In the play, this method of shaping the villain can be called "touching the puppy", which basically means that no matter how bad the villain should also have this gentle and human moment of "touching the puppy". The cry of the baby who recalls reason in the play is the moment when Gu Qingzhang "touches the puppy".

It's not difficult to write a vicious villain, but after writing the viciousness of a villain, you can still see the sadness behind him, let us feel sorry for him, this is the mastery of the creator.

Human nature is never black and white, even villains have multi-dimensional shaping and expression. Gu Qingzhang completed the transformation of the character dimension from black to gray, leaving people stunned and embarrassed. And this is the real charm of the villain.

2. Lan Jue: Gentleman Rulan

After talking about the villains, and then looking at the positive characters of the entire set of dramas, you will find that these people, regardless of good and evil, regardless of the size of the characters, have thick flesh and blood, and have their own complete growth curves,

If Gu Qingzhang took a road of self-destruction, then Lan Jue took a road of self-search to find his original intention. Lan Jue has been a gentleman since elementary school, reasonable and restrained, and acts calmly, but his desire for revenge makes him lose himself for a while. A gentleman is like Lan, Lan Jue also has Lan's toughness, and this toughness supports him to restrain from the precipice when he makes a mistake and return to his heart.

Lan Jue's growth has experienced a wandering between the drill camp and the heart, which can be regarded as a piece of good jade buried in dust and finally cleanses itself and finds its original heart.

The story begins with Lan Jue's theft of secret letters, he is thoughtful, good and evil, and in the battle with the noodle stall detective Zhang Ping, we soon discover that this ceremonial waiter is even more intelligent than the detective.

He is not only intellectual, but also one of the most emotionally intelligent. He gave gifts to his teacher at his birthday banquet, so that Shangshu of the Ministry of Etiquette, who claims to have never accepted gifts, could not refuse. In order to climb up, who can use such a good means of drilling camps, who can not blush around officials.

So is Lan Jue's nature like this?

Behind, there is a rivalry between Lan Jue and Shangshu of the Ministry of Etiquette. In that tense rivalry scene, we learned about Lan Jue's background.

Lan Jue's father was beheaded on charges of treason, and before his death, he asked Lao Shangshu to take care of Lan Jue, and one of the most important last words was not to let Lan Jue try to overturn the case for himself.

"I have not fulfilled any of your father's instructions."

Saying that, both of them burst into tears.

One is to protect the elders of the old friend, and take care of Lan Jue's predecessors from afar.

One is to rehabilitate his father, and he did not hesitate to dirty his youth in the officialdom.

In the contradiction and dislocation of the two generations, Lan Jue faces the choice of self-identity. Do you continue to track down, or do you go back to your teenage self?

In the memory of Wang Yan, the waiter of the Criminal Department, Lan Jue was also a boy as straightforward as Zhang Ping. In the past, he whipped Lan Jue's painting and calligraphy stall in the busy city, and he wanted to lose a piece of silver, but the clinker Lan Jue was justified, and he had to discuss the merits with him, an official and nobleman.

It was also the recklessness of the young Lan Jue's idea that made the two form a deep friendship with each other.

From a straightforward young man to a "Lan Daren" who is proficient in the way of being an official, Wang Yan has witnessed Lan Jue's growth and changes along the way, and knows that Lan Jue's tolerance of Zhang Ping is precisely because he saw what he used to look like from him.

Lan Jue was also the same as Zhang Ping, only on the merits, it is this similarity that allows him to love talent and cherish talent, and choose to save Zhang Ping again and again at critical moments, because in essence, they choose the way of a gentleman, so they can have a gentleman's friendship that is as light as water and as tough as Lan.

On the way to rehabilitate his father, Lan Jue hesitated, and even was once controlled by the heart demon and almost lost his heart, but in the end, after blackening and struggling, Lan Jue soberly found his original intention and strengthened his path of justice as a gentleman.

The gentleman's way, light and not tired.

Lan Jue's growth curve is clear and tortuous, he has experienced self-subversion and reinvention again and again, and in Lan Jue, we see his growth and struggle. When he struck the demon in his dream, he finally firmed up the gentleman's path he wanted to take.

From this, the full and tough lone light of this character is drawn.

Seeking a just ending with a gentleman's way, Lan Jue experienced shaking and then kept his original intention, lighting up the glorious moment on this character.

3. Open screen: block a screen for hatred

Unlike Lan Jue's tortuous self-growth, Zhang Ping's growth curve is blunt but persistent.

He is a fusion of genius and idiot, a bit like Jin Yong's Guo Jing, with great wisdom and great creation. At a time when everyone around him was blinded by hatred from his enemies, he became the barrier against hatred with his blunt sense and wisdom.

Zhang Ping is an orphan in Mojiao Village, he has no father or mother since he was a child, he grew up with his master, he has superior intelligence but does not understand human feelings at all, and his lack of knowledge in interpersonal relationships forms a strong contrast with the meticulous mind in the detective.

A new science scholar who puts the wrong face in order to think about a case, you can say that he is stubborn, or you can say that he is true and pure.

He is sometimes too stubborn in the truth, which is indeed offensive, but on second thought, isn't this stubbornness precisely the preciousness of this character?

When everyone is covering up for the sake of face, relationships, interests, and reputation, only a screen, like entering no man's land, comes straight to the truth.

His Mirror Flower Water Moon Art and Gu Qingzhang's Mirror Flower Water Moon Technique are very different from each other, and this difference may lie in his purity.

When he learned that he was the son of a bad man, he was also confused for a while, but fortunately he was awakened by Master's words, "Fate is predestined, and luck comes out by itself." "People with great wisdom, even in the face of such great changes, can find a solution in the opportunity.

Once again, he went back to fight alongside his friends.

When he was stabbed for Baolan Jue, Gu Qingzhang asked him if he regretted it, until in the end he still stubbornly said the sentence "Ask ten thousand more times, and still don't regret it"...

Zhang Ping's growth seems to be gentle, but it is actually the acceptance and internalization of life by a blunt person full of great wisdom. Of course, he is a gentleman, although he is blunt, but Tianxingjian, a gentleman has filled the characters with his self-improvement and unceasing spirit.

These characters, they all have their own past, sorrows, joys and hatreds, and they are like real people living in different times and spaces, and they have a complete life with heart and affection. Even if he is not the protagonist, he still walks his own life line outside the aura of the protagonist.

For example, Chen Qi, a friend who is always with Zhang Ping. He is ordinary with a little cleverness, like every ordinary you and me, real and trivial, will blame friends for stepping on shoes into mud puddles, and will also find opportunities to enter banquets in order to help friends pave the way.

Under the grand aura of the protagonist, Chen Chu does not show anything extraordinary, but he has the simplicity and righteousness among friends, has his own little growth, and has his own sincere and lovely life outside the protagonist.

They make us believe that there is a parallel dramatic time and space between the real and the fictional, where each character has his own intentions and makes reasonable choices.

When I saw these people, I suddenly understood why the stories of these people were called "Gentlemen's Alliance". To some extent, they are indeed gentlemen, saving the building, but they do not form a party for personal gain. Simple and literate, gentle and reasonable.

Whether good or evil, gentlemen are like lans, and gentlemen are self-reliant, which is exactly the portrayal of these people. Such characters naturally give birth to a white and light interest and a light and tough wind bone.

Understanding them, I really understand the intentions of this play.