During this time, did you worship in the "Huanmen"?
Since the broadcast of the fairy tale drama "Long Moon Ember Ming", it has been quite popular. Yesterday, Kuyun Interactive released data that "Long Moon Ember Ming" ranked among the top 5 dramas with peak popularity in 2023, and is the only drama on the air. If you look at the data, "Long Moon Ember Ming" should be the most popular drama on Youku this year. But this popularity, in fact, is not fully reflected in the male and female protagonists, more traffic, was eaten by Tianhuan played by Chen Duling.
There are data to back it up. Since the broadcast of "Long Moon Ember Ming", it has been on Weibo hundreds of hot searches. But the highest hot search for characters in the play is not Luo Yunxi's Lantai Ember and Hades Night, nor Bai Lu's Li Susu and Sang Jiu, but Chen Duling's Tianhuan. Even if this character's role in the play is not heavy.
On Douyin, B station, and Douban, Tianhuan also has much more fans than the two protagonists. Some people boast that finally "some dramas have filmed female villains who rely on blackened eyes", and some people sincerely worship "Huanmen". Recently, with the offline of Tianhuan, many believers of "Huanmen" have even switched to "Bingmen" (Chen Duling also plays Ye Bingchang in the play).
There is also "blackening", why is Tianhuan more recognized by the audience than mulberry wine? This is not only reminiscent of the hit drama "Crazy" broadcast by iQiyi not long ago, and the actors who played Gao Qiqiang, Gao Qisheng, Gao Qilan, and Li Xiang in the play all enjoyed rich role dividends. And the male number one Anxin did not cause much carnival.
Has the pressure lord become an inevitability? This is a phenomenon that deserves in-depth analysis.
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Let's start with Tianhuan. As far as my personal perception of watching 18 episodes is concerned, this is not a likable character. She is not a person on the protagonist's side, and it is not her turn to change the evil and return to the right, and the dramatic task she undertakes is to create obstacles for the heroine, and is the only scourge on the heroine's road to happiness. It can be said that she is the super villain in the ancient idol drama. When watching the play, the first thing I thought of was Lin Xian'er in "The Amorous Swordsman Heartless Sword".
Such a role, which should logically be spurned, how did it become a "momentary light" for netizens?
I think it would be more or less shallow to analyze the reasons for her popularity only from the perspective of blackening. As mentioned earlier, the heroine Sangjiu is also blackened, and it is blackened more thoroughly. Tianhuan only killed the mussel spirit family, and he still took the script of killing for love, who still talks about love in today's society? Sangjiu is a-for-tat road, if you kill my whole family, I will crush your whole family to ashes. In terms of refreshment, the latter is superior.
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Judging from the content of the Douban group discussion, netizens' "cute point" for Tianhuan lies in her frankness. Compared with Ye Bingxiang, a daughter who shows tenderness but does not get the favor of the family and eventually has to be "blackened", Tianhuan's desire is direct and decisive: I like you, and I will stop at nothing to save you; If you don't like me, I'll ruin you.
So we see that when the night condemns her for being cruel, she puts out three chains of evidence to prove her innocence: first, the mussel spirit clan (unwarranted) colludes with the demon clan, she is just to maintain peace in the world; Second, my father entrusted me to you, and you lived in the palace before my father's death, and belonged to the phoenix man; Third, I like you for so long, I don't hesitate to steal ice crystals to save your life, you are strong and healthy, why did you come to me for trouble?
At this point, Tianhuan is extremely selfish. But selfishness is a virtue in today's Internet, especially in the audience of fairy tale dramas. To interject here and discuss rationally, Tianhuan is the best example of what Chizuko Ueno calls an independent woman. Chizuko Ueno said that the essence of feminism is selfishness, a means to gain one's own interests by viewing men as a tool through its own feminine power.
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At the same time, Tianhuan is a rare role that tastes the actor dividend of Chen Duling. In the general perception of the public, a drama is for actors to attract fans. For example, Chen Shuting in "Crazy" is to Gao Ye, and Runyu in "Xiangmi" is to Luo Yunxi. But Tianhuan did not bring many fans to Chen Duling, only attracting a wave of "happy people".
The crazy attribute on Tianhuan's body coincided with this group of "fun people". Three years into the pandemic, mad literature has become an Internet buzzword. Slogans such as "Where are the people in the workplace who don't go crazy" and "How can college students not be crazy" are countless on short video platforms. How can such a "crazy beauty" not be liked?
This is not only reminiscent of Park Yeon-jin and Sarah Lee in "Dark Glory". "Yeonjin", who walks, is full of pure evil written in the background. She enjoys the process of going crazy, enjoying the pleasure of wiping the sludge splattered by the crown, she never mentally involves, nor does she complain about the sky, with absolute perseverance, splits all obstacles.
Li Sarah took a different set of scripts, she was addicted to drugs, crazy, and attacked everyone indiscriminately. "A true warrior is one who drives a mud cart and kills everything in front of him." Park Yeon-jin, Lee Sarah, Cheon-hwan, all of them.
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But this kind of madness is not unbridled madness. Dramatic tension is naturally important, but the practice of blindly abandoning dramatic logic for the sake of tension is no longer accepted by today's audience. The character can "go crazy", but the foreshadowing must be in place, and the gold finger cannot be opened too much when blackening. Taking Korean dramas as an example, there are not many characters in Korean dramas that have been crazy in the past two years, more beauty is beautiful, and there are no memory points. For example, Li Roai in "Eve".
Li Roai
The same failure is the Korean movie "Killing Fushun". This is a movie whose name looks very similar to "Kill Bill", and the content looks very similar to "Squid Game", and the heroine Ji Fushun has the strongest combat power in the whole film. She kills like a chicken, and her only weakness is her daughter. The heroine in the early stage, and a rational brain. The boat reached the middle of the stream and suddenly began to kill the special kill. The fight scenes are good-looking, but it's a pity that the drama logic is completely out of focus.
Why is "Dark Glory" good? Because Wen Dongen blackened quite logically. She was bullied since childhood, and asked for help from a teacher, who not only did not uphold justice, but beat her up; Tell the parents that the parents will accept the money from the bully's parents and go through the withdrawal procedures for her. There is no way up to heaven and no way down to the ground, and there is only one way left to blacken and take revenge.
Wen Dongen
The mulberry wine in "Long Moon Ember Ming" is blackened, and the logic of the drama is not so consistent. She was killed into the devil because of her clan, and suddenly became the first master of the Three Realms, not only can she violently beat Tianhuan, who was born from the spirit beast Teng Snake, but also kill the Divine Soldier God in seconds, and even the First God of War of the Three Realms is not her opponent. Blackening can become stronger, too idealistic.
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At present, there are roughly three reasons for the blackening of domestic dramas. One is that he is betrayed by his beloved because of his emotions, so he is blackened. There is often a secondary setting on such characters: betrayed by the world. Only the beloved stood by his side, but he didn't expect that the person he dared to leave his back to actually stabbed himself this time.
Second, it is blackened by blood relatives with revenge. The martial arts novels of the Jin Gu era often have this setting, and the reason why the demon head became the demon head was because the whole family was destroyed when he was a child. After this battle, he no longer trusted anyone. Third, blackening is to satisfy personal desires. For example, the desire to become stronger, the greed for power, etc.
These three reasons are sometimes mutually exclusive. For example, the "blackening" of Tianhuan, that is, the veil of love for the night is lifted, revealing the inner selfishness. Gao Qiqiang's blackening in "Crazy" also does not want to be bullied anymore, does not want to be called "smelly fish seller" anymore, and wants to become the person who rides on the head of others.
Interestingly, what audiences now admire more is the third blackening. Madness for love is too low-level. The revenge of killing the father is not shared with the sky, and it is too routine. Netizens are only willing to "go up" for the sake of selfish people.
But the protagonist is precisely difficult to be selfish.
In today's prevalence of network moralism, the protagonist's personality represents the three views of the screenwriter. If you are not careful, the work will be labeled as three incorrect views. The long-meaning blackening in "Acquaintance with Jun Chu", the main attribute is actually "cute". Based on this, the rule of blackening can only be fully satisfied in supporting roles.
This kind of addiction psychology is a compensatory psychology that transcends reality, and there is no need to lament or be nervous. Once a person becomes a social person, of course, he knows that An Xin will win, and evil will not suppress righteousness.
【Text/Ma II】