Obviously it is beautifully shot, why do some people say it is not good-looking?
Intrigue and treachery can also be seen as a kind of "shape", although the gorgeousness of the shape can already attract people, but if you want to do it, you need more solid logic to fill in.
Author | Meng Qi, editor | Horse back
In the 8 days since its launch, the highest popularity in iQiyi Station exceeded 9400, ranking in the Top1 of major authoritative lists such as Yunhe, Bone Duo, VLinkage, and Maoyan, and "Cloud Feather" can be described as "menacing".
This is an ancient version of lurking that integrates rivers and lakes feuds, "wealthy" grudges, and detective reasoning. The battle between brothers has not yet been decided, and the infiltration of the Assassin Organization has further complicated the situation.
At the same time, there are intricate but interdependent emotional lines in "Cloud Feather". As an assassin, the heroine, when performing the mission, she became emotionally entangled with a target character with a sincere heart, and tried to go back and forth in the turbulent field, taking care of each other, so that the main CP has a strong flavor of pure love.
In addition, the other characters' personalities are also extremely tense, and any combination of two of them seems to extend a self-justifying love and hate. If you want to eat a CP buffet, I am afraid that there is no better taste.
But after the broadcast, some viewers reported that "Cloud Feather" was a little "overfilled". The excessive pursuit of showmanship, dizzying settings, and interwrestling character relationships make it difficult to hide the lack of logic in some plots and characters, "with gorgeous appearances".
What is the color of this drama that has aroused heated discussions?
Intrigue and danger, treacherous
Rivers and lakes, conspiracy, spy warfare, and love are the four hard dishes of "Cloud Feather".
If you only talk about rivers and lakes, only talk about conspiracy or only spy warfare, in recent years there are not no martial arts works that can be called boutique, but the uniqueness of "Cloud Feather" is that it once again raises the upper limit of genre hybridization, and every element of superposition is done to the extreme.
I have to say that "Cloud Feather" has a huge world view that is very exploratory. The palace gate where the male protagonist Gong Ziyu (played by Zhang Linghe) is located, representing the right way of the famous family and the great family; Wufeng, where the heroine Yun Weiyi (played by Yu Shuxin) is located, is an assassin organization that almost everyone fears.
Looking closely, the inside of the palace gate is divided into four palaces: Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu, each with its own responsibilities, and the leader of the palace gate is called the Holding Blade. Inside Wufeng, the Assassins are divided into four ranks, with the lowest rank and the highest rank. These assassins were trained by the Bladeless Jackdaws system, represented by the Jackdaws and the Jackdaws. These names alone have a classical meaning.
The world view of "Cloud Feather"
On top of this huge worldview, the story of "Cloud Feather" slowly unfolds. Externally, the main line of the story is that the Assassin Yun Weiyi and the Charm Assassin Shangguan Asa attack on the palace gate Shao Yu and the Horn Palace Master Palace Shangjiao respectively. The process of the two pretending to be the chosen bride and sneaking into the palace gate can be described as dangerous, originally thinking that the self-explosion of the Assassin Zheng Nanyi could exchange breathing time for the two and the temporary trust of the palace gate, but who knew that entering the palace gate was the real darkest moment.
The old blade and Gong Zhaoyu were killed at the same time, and the originally most unpopular brother Gongzi Yu was succeeded as the new blade, and Yun Weiyi suddenly changed the mission target, and had to do everything possible to become the bride of Gong Ziyu. His own identity crisis, Gong Ziyu's identity crisis, the constant suspicion of Jiaogong and Zhenggong, the frequent temptations of the red jade guard Jin Fan... Yun Weiyi struggled with every step he took. But the advantage is that Gong Ziyu is simple and clear-minded, and has never doubted Yun Weiyi's disguise.
Yun Weiyi (played by Yu Shuxin)
Shangguan Shao and Yun Weiyi, on the other hand, are in very different situations. If "Shi Yu wants to come" is Yun Weiyi's unilateral scheming on Gong Ziyu, then "The night is still shallow" is the pulling and temptation of you and me. Compared to Yun Weiyi, Shangguan Shao does not have much threat from the outside world, and the hostility of her brother Gong Yuanzheng should be as worthless as a young child's fist in her opinion, and Gong Shangjiao, who is always on guard and occasionally gentle with her, is her biggest opponent.
Yun Weiyi and Shangguan Shao lurked respectively, representing the contest between Wufeng and the palace gate. And inside the palace gate, it cannot be called a common enemy. Hanomiya and Kakunomiya have never been on good terms, and the younger brother Gong Ziyu, the head of the Shang Palace, Gong Ziyu, and the elder brother Gong Shangjiao, the head of the palace, Gong Yuanzheng, stood in the team. Gong Shangjiao has excellent ability, but he has no chance to hold the position, and maintains the absolute purity of the palace gate bloodline, so he has repeatedly questioned Gong Ziyu's ability and origin. Gong Ziyu hated Gong Shangjiao's contempt and calculation, and complained about the actions of Kakumiya and Zhenggong.
In the world of "Cloud Feather", there are dangers and chess games. Yun Weiyi and Shangguan Shao wanted to complete the task assigned by Wufeng in exchange for the antidote to sustain their lives, and they couldn't rest assured to give their backs to each other. Because in addition to the confrontation between Hamiya and Kakunomiya, the Bladeless Assassins are not afraid to betray each other, and there is no way to talk about sisterhood.
Gong Ziyu (played by Zhang Linghe)
What's more, in the palace gate, there are many unsolved mysteries. Who were the Old Blade, Gong Zhao Yue, and Elder Moon killed by? Why do the four houses of Wind and Snow Moon lack the Wind Palace? If Lady Kirihime is really a nameless assassin, then what is her bitterness in disappearing for twenty years? Any link that exceeds the unexpected may lead to the failure of the latent achievement.
Completing missions, hiding identities, finding out the truth, confirming companions, and advancing through the main story, each link of crisis that extends from this is exciting enough. Puzzle solving enthusiasts can follow the perspective of Yun Weiyi or Shangguan Shao and enjoy the great refreshing feeling of breaking the game in internal and external troubles.
"Cloud Feather" takes the competition of two parties, the elimination of evil and the right as the base, and the four palaces of wisdom and conspiracy as the branch, outlining a visually fantastic and magnificent appearance, and the emotions surging inside, meeting the audience's needs for diversified and composite narratives.
It is pure love, but also complicity
Compared with the complexity of the palace gate spy battle, the emotional line of "Cloud Feather" is actually simple. This simplicity does not refer to the way emotions are shaped, but to a certain "simplicity" in the heart of the characters.
Whether it is "the shirt is coming" or "the night is still light", the occurrence of emotions is based on hatred and even deception. Yun Weiyi was destined to live up to Gong Ziyu's full sincerity, and Gong Shangjiao's mother and younger brother even died at the hands of Wufeng. It is foreseeable that when the truth is revealed, how mixed and even desperate emotions will linger. Such emotions are certainly not simple.
But the characters themselves are simple and clear, such as Gong Ziyu, simple in his heart. The rest of the palace gate is either strong in martial arts or resourceful, and at least has the ability to make poisonous medicines or make blades. Only Gong Ziyu and Wu Zhi are not outstanding, and they recruit cats and dogs all day, and they are not very interested in things in the palace gate. In addition to not looking like he was valued by his father, he also lived a relaxed life.
He grew up in love. The care of the girl, the protection of Jin Fan, and the love of my sister nourished the pure and good heart of Gong Ziyu. In the palace gate where everyone is afraid of making a mistake and can't wait to hide all their sincerity, Gong Ziyu is an absolutely sincere existence.
He does not have the scheming and skill of Gong Shangjiao, does not know how to cover up and disguise, and even cannot see through the appearance of others sometimes close and sometimes alienated, whether there is a true existence under the surface. But this does not affect his efforts. As long as the other party has a little sign of goodwill, he does not resist to show much more emotion. It's in his nature.
And the simplicity of Yun Weiyi lies in her wish.
The identity of the Assassin of the Dragon Rank, the kung fu of Jin Fan, who can win the three successes, Yun Weiyi's character is enough to kill all sides. But what she did was not voluntary, she fought in Wufeng to save her life and that of her sister, and infiltrated the palace gate pretending to be a bride to complete the task in exchange for freedom. While deceiving Gong Ziyu, she was also devastated by this helpless deception.
Yun Weiyi needs too many complex and difficult conditions to live on, but what she really yearns for is "washing clothes for her beloved, cooking porridge, lighting a lamp in a hidden corner of a snowy mountain, guarding a fire, and living a life of no one disturbing and guarding." In the back of Gong Ziyu's porridge cooking for her, she saw her once distant vision, and she felt even more bitter and unbearable.
When two people with simple and innocent backgrounds meet, even after thousands of entanglements and pains, they will eventually attract, redeem and complement each other. Both the palace gate and Wufeng are obscure worlds, only love is not mixed with any gray, it will make the once seedlings grow into towering trees, and it will also turn the once sharp thorns into soft knives.
"Don't envy heaven and earth, only Yun knows Yu." Their fate has long had their own verdict.
In addition to the main line "Shi Yu is coming", the secondary CP of "Cloud Feather" also has its own highlights.
For example, the attraction of "light night" lies in the sinking of wakefulness. Shangguan Shao values the task more than Yun Weiyi, and she regards her concern and courtship for Gong Shangjiao as a complete bargaining chip, and Gong Shangjiao may not be unaware of the disguise under her weak appearance. But in the back and forth pulling and temptation, there is always a little sincerity that will be unconsciously revealed.
Shangguan Qian's stunned when he heard that Gong Shangjiao's mother and brother died at the hands of Wufeng was not fake, and the vulnerability that Gong Shangjiao showed when he was comforted by Shangguan Shao's words was not fake, they knew that each other's feelings had purpose and pretense, but they indulged their own fall.
In contrast, Jin Fan and Gong Zishang's "Miss Falls in Love with the Jun Guard" is much lighter, and the interaction between them also gathers most of the laughter of "Cloud Feather".
In addition, Gong Yuanzheng is slightly paranoid possessive of his brother Gong Shangjiao, mixed with a little sour mood that has become a substitute for having a guilty conscience; Yun Weiyi and Shangguan Shao are complicit in the edge of crisis, never killing each other, and never being able to do without each other.
No matter what kind of extreme emotional relationship you need, you can find meal replacements in "Cloud Feather", and these relationships have become stronger in the context of not knowing whether tomorrow will come.
Walking is greater than God, but it is really rare
The gorgeous lens language and complicated plot design are the first impression of "Cloud Feather", but if you study it carefully, some places are inevitably overdone and lose a certain sense of nature.
In the play, there are slow-motion for no reason, abrupt and untimely soundtracks, and mysterious lines, such as "When lions are not absolutely sure, they will lie in the grass, quiet as a rock, and will never act rashly..." How demanding is it? Two hundred heartbeats. "These forms of stacking, far from reflecting the strategy or gloom of the characters, show their hollowness and exaggeration, and help little to shape the characters.
Although in terms of setting, "Cloud Feather" can be self-justifying, its coolness mainly comes from the superposition of genre elements and the framework built for the progress of reasoning, and it is too rough in terms of specific plot.
For example, Gong Shangjiao tried to take down Gong Ziyu with a medical case, but was jointly calculated by Mrs. Wuji and Yun Weiyi. Cautious as Gong Shangjiao, obviously after thoroughly investigating the medical case, he could see the fraudulent layout, but he did not have any doubts, just seeing the word "Gusu" on the medical case, coupled with the testimony verbally promised by Mrs. Wuji, he could easily stab the major matter related to the origin of the blade to the elders of the third palace, and did not leave any tricks after Mrs. Kirihime turned against the water on the spot, which inevitably seemed a bit of a joke.
Gong Shangjiao suspected that Lady Wuji was the reason why the Wufeng assassin was nameless, relying on only a few innocuous lines that could be said both positively and negatively, without any details and substantive presentations.
Some plot settings also lack logic. Take the three-domain trial, it is obviously a major matter related to whether Gong Ziyu can take on the role of the blade, and he will return after completing a trial, and he can even take time to visit a market with Yun Weishirt, without seeing the importance and urgency of the trial at all. Between Gong Ziyu and Gong Shangjiao, others can see who is more suitable for the blade, but the palace gate wants to carry out the so-called absentee inheritance, so "close and far", I don't know if it is because he really carries any secrets.
The same problem exists with emotional shaping. For example, the old Zhijian's attitude towards Gong Ziyu can be called indifferent, and his deep love for his son cannot be foreshadowed or hinted at in the early stage, but after being killed, he forcibly shapes the image of a loving father through the memories of his father's filial piety. And Gong Ziyu's relief of his father's attitude is mostly through Yun Weiyi's enlightenment and Mrs. Wu Ji's narration, rather than the well-founded reconstruction of his inner emotions, which is too straightforward.
All this can be seen that the setting of "Cloud Feather" in some plots is undoubtedly greater than that of God. Intrigue and treachery can also be seen as a kind of "shape", although the gorgeousness of the shape can already attract people, but if you want to do it, you need more solid logic to fill in.
However, compared with the same period and even the same type of dramas, "Cloud Feather" still has obvious differences and uniqueness, and the intentions in production are also visible to the naked eye. Especially in the strange story, people can still feel the warmth from family affection, friendship, and love.
Gong Ziyu's love is "I won't let you suffer in the future", and it is "no matter what choice the girl makes, Zi Yu has no complaints"; Yun Weiyi's love is to "light a lamp and guard a fire"; Jin Fan's love is "going to the soup and not dying"; Gong Zishang's love is that she knows that she is a woman who has no inheritance rights, but still tries her best to protect her relatives...
"Cloud Feather" lays out such a picture, broken people can heal, stubborn people can grow, and people full of intrigue and calculation will eventually indulge in the true nature of feelings. With affection, with love, there is the strength to fight against the established destiny, and can reshape the appearance of responsibility, morality and self.