Editor: Xiao Meng
Preface
As a classic palace fighting drama, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" not only reached its peak when it was broadcast, but also still has a high reputation and popularity after many years of broadcasting.
The reason why this drama can keep the audience tired of watching it is because of its superb production level and excellent cast on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of its tight plot and realistic character creation.
In the play, Emperor Yongzheng played by Chen Jianbin is a complex and multifaceted character.
When Chen Jianbin played this role, he not only tried his best to restore the solemnity and majesty of an emperor in his external image, but also delicately expressed Yongzheng's suspicion and selfishness in his inner emotions.
Especially on the emotional line with Zhen Huan, Chen Jianbin showed Yongzheng's complex emotions to the fullest.
Although Chen Jianbin took over this role, many netizens questioned Chen Jianbin 's appearance, thinking that his appearance was not high enough, and there was a gap between him and the male protagonist in the novel.
Later, as soon as the TV was broadcast, Chen Jianbin proved his acting skills with his own strength, and he showed the inner world of Emperor Yongzheng vividly through his in-depth understanding and speculation of the role.
More than ten years have passed, and fans who like "The Legend of Zhen Huan" are still enthusiastic about this show.
They shared their experiences on social media, discussed the plot and character relationships, and even conducted in-depth analysis and research on some details.
This also proves the classics of this drama, it is not only a good-looking TV series, but now it has become a "dinner drama" for the majority of women.
How was the "sleeping scene" of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" filmed?
In addition to the compact plot, the "Yongzheng Emperor" played by Chen Jianbin can be described as a harem with 3,000 beauties, so many concubines compete for favor around this one man all day long, and any man feels that it is simply "heaven on earth".
But when someone watched the drama dozens of times, he raised a question, Chen Jianbin is the emperor, how can he make a sleeping scene and practice sadly and impatiently?
Is it a lack of acting or is there something else?
In fact, there are behind-the-scenes reasons, everyone knows that when filming in the crew, the director will definitely not follow the plot sequence, which will be a waste of energy and time.
How to save time in the filming process of a crew, so the director will reasonably arrange the time for filming scenes to ensure that it is completed efficiently.
In the past, the filming equipment was not advanced enough, and it sometimes took a year to shoot a film, looking for shooting locations in various places.
Now it's different, a TV series only takes three or four months from start to finish, and at most half a year, which greatly shortens the time.
Just like in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", in the later stage, the actors revealed that Chen Jianbin as the emperor, and each concubine's "sleeping scene" were not filmed separately, but concentrated on a few days to shoot the "sleeping scene".
After the filming of the "sleeping scene", the attention will be focused on other scenes again, as long as each sleeping scene is added to the post-editing.
Doesn't it sound very simple, especially the "emperor", as long as he lies on the bed, watching one after another "concubines" being carried to the bed, it's really beautiful!
However, in the eyes of outsiders, it is a very "enjoyable" thing, and the actors don't think so, after all, only when they are in the situation can they understand the hardships.
As the emperor, Chen Jianbin needs to lie on the so-called "dragon bed" continuously and go through one "bed" after another.
This "dragon bed" is not as luxurious and comfortable as we imagined.
Instead, it's just a rudimentary plank with a thin futon on top.
Usually we sleep in soft beds, even if there is a thick mattress, but after lying in bed for a long time, there will still be back pain, not to mention just a wooden bed.
For Chen Jianbin , lying on this bed is a kind of torment, and the long lying down makes his body stiff, and the back pain is even more unbearable.
Moreover, there will be lines in the sleeping scene, and in the face of "concubines" who look different, Chen Jianbin will also be afraid of calling the wrong name.
So when we watch the TV series, the "emperor" lies on the bed with his eyes closed to recuperate, and after watching the "concubine" being rolled into an "old Beijing chicken roll" and carried to the bed, he will not take the initiative to speak, but wait for the "concubine" to say hello first.
In this way, more than ten or twenty "concubines" in a row take turns filming with Chen Jianbin , which is okay for the actress, but after filming, she will change to another person, and she can rest.
But the "emperor" can't do it, and he has to wait for the next actress to come up.
There are many times, which is what we are puzzled about, why is Chen Jianbin so depressed, impatient, and even his expression is exactly the same when he is filming the sleeping scene.
I don't know if you have noticed that every time you go to the bedtime, there will be several quilts neatly stacked on the "emperor's" dragon bed, why is this?
Later, I learned that because the sleeping scene was filmed intensively, it was impossible to use the same quilt every time to change a "concubine", and of course, it would be appropriate to change the quilt, so that it would not be too perfunctory.
The performance of the "concubine" in various sleeping scenes
"The Legend of Zhen Huan" is a large-scale classic palace fighting film, and the director also handles the details very well, and the performance of the concubines and concubines in each palace, if analyzed from a deep level, has actually hinted at the different experiences of each concubine to a certain extent.
Let's talk about "Shen Meizhuang" first. As the sister Mei with the best relationship with the big heroine "Zhen Huan", Shen Meizhuang has a gentle personality, the most beautiful lady for everyone, the daughter of the family, and has received a good education since she was a child.
Before entering the palace, Shen Meizhuang learned how to walk Xi under the guidance of his grandmother at home and "Shen's mother".
and told his daughter Shen Meizhuang that her waist was softer when she walked, implying that the emperor must like to look at it very much.
Therefore, after entering the palace, Shen Meizhuang was the first among all the draft maids to arrange a bedchamber, in addition to family reasons, there is also Shen Meizhuang's noble and elegant, dignified reputation.
So when she went to bed for the first time, Shen Meizhuang showed her dignified, calm and intelligent.
Unlike the other concubines in the palace who were nervous, shy or active, Shen Meizhuang showed a beautiful demeanor, showing respect for the royal family and respect for the emperor.
In the first bedtime, Shen Meizhuang did not attract the emperor with beauty and tenderness like other concubines, but faced it with a dignified and decent attitude.
She did not show excessive shyness or initiative, but showed her feminine charm just right, the sentence "Emperor" called out, and realized a woman's gentleness and shyness, such a woman, will the emperor not be moved?
But it is precisely because of this that her road in the palace has been smooth from the beginning, so it also makes the people she ignores sinister.
also faced the framing of "Concubine Hua" later, she was caught off guard and suffered a loss!
Look at An Lingrong again, from a humble background, under the suppression of his father's majesty since he was a child, he has a timid personality and is particularly afraid of the proximity of men.
In the scene of the waiter's bed, An Lingrong shows nervousness and fear, and when she is sent to the emperor's bedchamber, her hands are shaking all the time, and she can barely control her emotions.
In the face of the emperor, An Lingrong tried her best to remain calm, she knelt in front of the emperor and spoke in a soft voice, showing her gentle side.
However, when the emperor asked her to raise her head, An Lingrong's nervousness was vividly expressed.
Her hands clung to the edge of the bed, almost trembling, and it was evident that she was trying her best to control her emotions, but the fear in her heart could not be concealed.
When the emperor saw An Lingrong like this, his interest was lost all of a sudden, so he was "returned on the spot".
Even if she later regained favor and was named a concubine by the emperor, she never got the respect of the people around the emperor, and the ending was quite miserable.
Among the many concubines, the most interesting thing in the sleeping drama should be the "Qi nobleman" who entered the palace later, and as soon as he entered the palace, he was the status of "nobleman", which shows that the starting point is very high.
In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Qi Guiren's character is arrogant and domineering, which is partly due to her father's excessive pampering of her and her goddaughter.
Qi nobles have no one in their eyes, they are extremely arrogant, even if they enter the palace, they will not restrain their edge at all when they become the emperor's wife.
She relied on her father to make meritorious contributions in the previous dynasty, so she was even more presumptuous, and she didn't take other concubines in her eyes at all.
In the first bedtime, the Qi nobles did not show shyness and anxiety like the other concubines, but took the initiative.
She drilled from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed, this action was the rule of the harem concubines in the ancient Qing Dynasty, known as "drilling the dragon bed".
What is a "drilling machine"?
The emperor went to bed first, the quilt was covered to the ankle joint, and the feet were exposed, and the concubines were carried to the emperor's bedroom and placed on the bed, and the concubines were not allowed to lift the quilt directly to enter, but to crawl into the quilt from the emperor's feet.
The Qi nobles were very bold and proactive in their first bedtime, which was obviously different from other concubines who served for the first time.
Without hesitation, she burrowed into the emperor's quilt and looked at the emperor with a bold gaze.
Qi Guiren was also an emotional and impulsive person, and she often showed impatience and impatience in battles with other concubines in the palace, lacking patience and calmness.
It is precisely because of this that the nobles of Qi targeted Zhen Huan, but in the end, they were counterattacked, and the end was miserable.
filmed the sleeping scene, "Qi nobleman" Tang Yixin scolded Chen Jianbin
The role of "Qi Guiren" is actress Tang Yixin, who was still a new actor who had just debuted when she participated in the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
It is said that filming the sleeping scene is very simple, what Tang Yixin experienced during the filming of this scene made her scold Chen Jianbin in her heart.
It turned out that when Tang Yixin was rolled into an "old Beijing chicken roll" and carried away by the "eunuchs", because the quilt was too slippery, people had to slip out of it several times, resulting in many shots before and after, and people were tired like dogs.
Later, this period finally passed, and when I entered the dormitory, I went to the wrong place again, so I had to start again.
When the "eunuchs" finally lifted Tang Yixin onto the dragon bed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and gasped tiredly.
At this time, Chen Jianbin who was lying on the bed laughed, and there was no way for the director to say: Do it again!
When it came to the scene where Tang Yixin drilled the quilt, Chen Jianbin watched her drill in like a worm, and couldn't help laughing again, and had to be refilmed.
Tang Yixin filmed back and forth several times in the scene of drilling the quilt, and the reason for the repetition was because of the laughter of the "emperor" Chen Jianbin .
So, before the filming was over, Tang Yixin began to scold Chen Jianbin in his heart.
Tang Yixin's character of "Qi Nobleman" is particularly distinct, beautiful but brainless, arrogant and domineering, "The Queen" in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" commented on "Qi Noble": Qi Nobleman is really stupid, but really beautiful!
epilogue
In the drama "The Legend of Zhen Huan", director Zheng Xiaolong's vision is particularly unique, and every actor can perform the characteristics of the role, whether it is acting skills or plot, it is undoubtedly successful.