After entering September, the Chinese drama market launched a new round of competition, and three big dramas were broadcast at the same time, making it difficult for audiences to choose. The urban drama "Bright Sun with Me" jointly performed by top Xiao Zhan and actress Bai Baihe has the highest popularity, and this drama with a strong lineup naturally attracted the attention of countless audiences.
Another period drama "The Glory of Fathers" is not weak, and the wonderful acting skills of powerful actors such as Guo Tao, Liu Lin, and Ge Shanshan have won applause from the audience.
However, a new work "Cloud Feather" suddenly appeared and attracted great attention. Although he almost got into trouble because of the turmoil of the supporting actor, when this drama suddenly aired into the peach factory, the audience was pleasantly surprised. Zhang Linghe and Yu Shuxin co-starred, and also fulfilled the regrets of the two characters in "Canglan Tips", so the popularity of the play is quite high.
However, what I never expected was that after only 4 episodes were broadcast, netizens could not bear it anymore, and ran to the People's Daily comment area to demand a strict investigation of this new work, and asked the radio and television to quickly remove it from the shelves. What's going on here?
Gu Xiaosheng's return: conscience discovery or wolf ambition?
In the past two years of costume-themed film and television dramas, one of the most taboo problems is "wafeng". As we all know, Guo Jingming's previous film "Qingya Collection" was removed from the shelves because of private goods, and caused widespread controversy.
However, now he shoots costume themes again in the name of "Gu Xiaosheng", seemingly wanting to be a person again and pursue high-end cultural works, but unfortunately, the finished film still cannot hide his wolf ambition, and the details are full of foul smell of "woko".
A clear example is the "family emblem culture". In Chinese culture, the family emblem culture that has not yet formed is more totem worship, that is, symbols evolved from animal shapes.
In Japan, on the other hand, the family emblem culture is very common and closely related to the history of its shoguns. In particular, the way in which the family emblem is printed on the funeral white cloth is a typical example.
However, in Gu Xiaosheng's new drama, the family emblem that can be seen everywhere makes people feel a sense of incompatibility with traditional Chinese culture. In contrast, the style of a certain "divine toilet" work is strangely matched with the family emblem, which will undoubtedly cause immediate discomfort to the audience. The audience can also be keenly aware that something is wrong, right?
Wadang is an ancient Chinese building that covers the front end of the cornice, and common styles include cloud head patterns, gluttonous patterns, and animal patterns. However, chrysanthemum patterns are extremely rare among them.
Influenced by Chinese culture, Japan regarded chrysanthemums as the highest family pattern of the imperial family. Chrysanthemums have a special meaning and symbol in Japanese culture, so they are widely used in imperial decorations.
The chrysanthemum pattern that appears in the play is very similar to the sixteen-petal eight-fold chrysanthemum pattern used by the Japanese imperial family, which arouses doubts from the audience. Is the director trying to mislead the audience with this?
Not only that, the waking elements in the play are not details hidden in the corners that are not noticed, but clearly appear in the center of the picture. This behavior goes beyond the entrainment of private goods.
Looking closely at the screen shot, the pattern on it is exactly the same as the sunrise picture of Mt. Fuji. This is an obvious and impossible to ignore symbol of the wind, indicating that the director did not hide his intentions.
The bridal outfit to be chosen on the heroine does not stand up to scrutiny. The fringed ornaments on her head clearly take the shape of marigold flowers and are worn in a way that goes against tradition. Whether such a design is reasonable is debatable.
The audience was dissatisfied with Yu Shuxin's role in the play. In order to try to whitewash, some fans used the works of ancient style circle painters as evidence, but even the painter himself could not bear it. The painter bluntly said that Yu Shuxin's appearance was "quite boobscurous and had nothing to do with the Western Han Dynasty".
It is obvious that the shape of the headdress in the play does not match the real historical artifacts. The tassel is too long, and the horn should be protruding on the head, but the headdress in the play is clearly attached to the scalp, and the insertion point cannot be seen.
In addition, compared with Yang Ying, who also has a similar shape in "Feng Qi Longxi", there is a clear difference between the two. It can be said that this forced whitewashing of fans is simply a large-scale face-punching scene.
In addition to the character modeling, the scenes of the play also bring discomfort to the audience. The placement of furniture items and the knife dancing movements during practice are obviously contrary to the Chinese style.
An impressive shot is where the character kneels directly in the center of the room, with no coffee table as a partition in front and a screen placed between people and the wall. And this small, cramped room looks like you're watching a Japanese costume film. All these details are uncomfortable.
Even in costume dramas, the audience can feel the rich ancient rhyme through the script lines. In recent years, although the lines of costume dramas have become more modern, the drama "Cloud Feather" seems to transliterate Japanese lines, which is completely unusual.
Many viewers, like me, felt that the dialogue between the characters was awkward when they first watched the show. However, when netizens added Japanese subtitles, the effect was completely different.
When I learned that the names of the father and son of the Gong family were Gong Hongyu, Gong Zhao Yu, and Gong Zhi Yu, I was very confused. In traditional Chinese thought, how can fathers share a word with their sons to name them?
However, if the name is placed in Japanese culture, things are easy to understand. The Miyaya family is actually a system of the Japanese imperial family. The word at the end of the name represents different "palaces", such as the three father and son of Miyanoha, which is equivalent to "Hanomiya". I see.
What is even more angry is that the broadcast time of "Cloud Feather" coincides with the anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan. The airborne broadcast of this work full of bonobony winds inevitably makes people wonder whether there is some kind of provocative intention in it.
In addition, in the drama calendar, September 2 is marked with a "囍" character, and September 18 is painted with a heart. Any firm Chinese should understand what these dates mean for the country. Coupled with other commotion operations of the drama party, it caused public anger, which is also an inevitable result.
epilogue
As a literary and artistic creation element, the culture of wafeng has become more and more common in costume film and television dramas in recent years. However, there are growing concerns about the seriousness of the culture and its potential impact.
Recently, as long as there are film and television dramas under the banner of ancient costumes, such as "My Name is Liu Jinfeng" and "Changfeng Du", they have all been condemned by the public. Facts have proved that the public has a rigorous attitude, and they attach great importance to the control of the content of literary and artistic works. Only by strictly rectifying and removing the Wan Feng film and television drama can we reflect the public's strict adherence to the bottom line of this phenomenon.
The repeated prohibition of the culture is not only an inevitable problem in the market. Audience discontent should be food for thought, including the upgrading and normalization of censorship bodies to more rigorously censor the use of the Wanfeng element. Only by strict investigation and prevention can we avoid the phenomenon of improper cultural invasion.
"Cloud Feather", as the current hit drama, has not yet given a clear response in terms of the controversy, which has caused anger among the audience. Guo Jingming, as the director of the play, if he cannot make a clear attitude statement, it may accelerate the series to the edge of overturning.