played Di Renjie on Monday, and he couldn't surpass Liang Guanhua, but unfortunately "Detective Di Renjie" couldn't go back

The official announcement of the cast of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" will be played on Monday, and Di Renjie and Zhong Chuxi will play the queen of martial arts.

In addition, Wang Likun, Zhang Ruoyun, Chen Duling, Dong Xuan, Zhang Jiayi, You Yongzhi, Wang Jinsong, Zhang Zijian, Li Naiwen, Yu Haolei and other actors joined.

The cast is luxurious, and it is based on the novel of the same name, which is naturally exciting.

There have been many films on themes such as "Di Renjie", but it is difficult to surpass the "Detective Di Renjie" series, and the sentence "Yuan Fang, what do you think" has been passed down to this day.

This large-scale costume detective drama directed by Qian Yanqiu and starring Liang Guanhua, Lu Zhong and Zhang Zijian was first broadcast in 2004 and quickly detonated the ratings and became one of the most popular costume TV series of the year.

and "Detective Di Renjie Part II", which was broadcast in 2006, won 5.69% of the single-episode ratings and the annual ratings champion.

As a costume suspense drama, "Detective Di Renjie" not only has a gripping story in the play, but the story behind it is also full of bizarre and thrilling.

01、墙内开花墙外香的《狄公案》

Although Di Renjie is Chinese, before the eighties and nineties of the 20th century, Di Renjie's story was more well-known abroad than at home.

And the root of all this lies in a Dutch diplomat named Gorope.

In 1943, Gao Luopei, who loved classical Chinese literature, came to Chongqing.

By chance, Gao Luopei read Wu Zhaoren's public case novel "Di Gong's Case" in the Qing Dynasty.

As a lover of literature, Gao Luope was quickly captivated by the stories in his books.

In particular, the book's attainments in case reasoning and criminal psychology are even more impressive.

Although the book is a good book, it is not popular.

Not to mention ordinary people, even many so-called cultural figures at that time did not know about "Di Gong Case".

This was difficult for Gao Luopei, who had become a fan of Di Gong at that time, to accept.

As a fan, I naturally hope that my idol can be seen by more people.

Therefore, Gao Luopei chose to translate the first 30 chapters of "Di Gong's Case" into English and publish them in Europe and the United States.

Gao Luopei's hard work was not disappointed. The English version of "The Case of Di Gong" was very popular with Western readers upon its release.

Seeing this situation, Gao Luopei was full of pride for a while, and decided to write an original work for his idol Di Gong in person to express his love.

As a "China expert" who has studied both China and the West, Gao Luopei imitates the language and chapter hui style of ancient Chinese novels in the form of writing, and adds the suspense and clue setting methods of Western detective novels.

In addition, he also illustrated the story, which eventually formed Gao Luopei's version of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty".

As soon as this book came out, it not only quickly became popular in Germany, France, Japan, Spain and other countries, but was even made into a TV series Judge Dee by British TV, creating a Di Renjie IP in the West.

狄仁杰也因此有了英文名——“Judge Dee”。

02, reverse delivery from "The Case of Tang Di Gong".

Although in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, "The Case of Tang Di Gong" was all the rage in Europe and the United States, it was not until 1979 that this novel attracted the attention of us Chinese.

In 1979, Zhao Yiheng of the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences also accidentally saw the English version of "The Case of Tang Di Gong" in the library, and was also deeply attracted by the plot in the book.

Since then, Di Gongxi has mentioned a new fan.

And this new fan has also embarked on the same path as the old fan Gao Luopei, and asked everyone Amway's own idol Di Renjie.

But unlike Gao Luopei, Zhao Yiheng first published a book review of Di Renjie through the "People's Daily" in 1981, and with the help of the mainstream media, Di Renjie's name was promoted.

With publicity, there must also be works. The original "Di Gong Case" and "Tang Di Gong Case", one is partial to the literary language, and the other is a foreign language version, which are not suitable for mass dissemination.

Therefore, Zhao Yiheng found his classmates, Chen Laiyuan and Hu Ming, who later became translators, and translated "The Case of Tang Di Gong" into Chinese, called "The Legend of Tang Di Renjie's Case Breaking".

Although it was already the 80s of the 20th century, the two translators adopted a semi-literal and semi-colloquial translation method in order to make the novel more historical.

Through the efforts of Zhao Yiheng and others, Di Renjie finally received domestic attention and recognition.

Especially Taiyuan, Shanxi, as Di Renjie's hometown, acted quickly.

In 1986, Taiyuan TV Station filmed China's first Di Renjie series of film and television works - "The Legend of Di Renjie's Case".

However, this drama did not have much impact, because the suspense market of ancient costume cases at that time was Bao Qingtian's world.

However, Master Di's fellow is still powerful.

In 2004, after the launch of "Detective Di Renjie" produced by Di Renjie's hometown Zhang Wenling and directed by Qian Yanqiu, Di Daren finally became popular all over China.

03, "Detective Di Renjie" with a rough life

"Detective Di Renjie" is indeed popular, but its filming process is indeed difficult.

At the end of the 90s of the 20th century, Zhang Wenling was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy to study directing, and her first work chose her fellow countryman Di Renjie.

Write a script before filming, and this first step is a difficult problem to change the script. "The Case of Di Gong" and "The Legend of Di Renjie of the Tang Dynasty" are indeed excellent, but they are not suitable for film and television expression, and the script of the play must be rewritten.

Under the recommendation of a senior director of CCTV, Qian Yanqiu, who was still a newcomer at the time, was finally selected by Zhang Wenling as the screenwriter and director.

And Qian Yanqiu did not live up to Zhang Wenling's high expectations, and soon completed the creation of the script.

The script is complete, and the next step is to find the main actor.

Regarding Di Renjie's screen image, the crew was very controversial at that time, and they were never able to reach an agreement.

Therefore, the leading actor could not be determined for a long time, and the start time of filming had to be delayed again and again.

Until one time, Qian Yanqiu accidentally saw Liang Guanhua's drama, and was instantly impressed by Liang Guanhua's acting skills, and decided that he was Di Renjie Benjie.

However, investors believe that Liang Guanhua is too fat to look like a shrewd detective.

But at Qian Yanqiu's insistence, and in order to start filming as soon as possible, the investor finally had to agree to Qian Yanqiu's decision.

After Di Renjie's actor was confirmed, Qian Yanqiu found his friend Zhang Zijian to play Li Yuanfang, forming the famous "Iron Triangle" in the future.

The actors were decided, and then the filming began.

As a result, as soon as the crew arrived in Wuxi to start the film, they encountered a special period in 2003.

According to the relevant policies, the crew not only could not start normally, but all the crew were forced to stay in Wuxi.

However, it was difficult to pass the pass, and in the end, under the mediation of CCTV, the crew was finally spared and did not disband, but it still waited until June to start the film.

As the saying goes, good things come in abundance. After the special period, the result was that the system of separation of production and broadcasting began to be implemented.

In other words, the producer and the broadcaster should be separated. Therefore, CCTV, as the investor, had to choose to withdraw, and Zhang Wenling embarked on the road of finding a new investor.

But fortunately, there was no shortage of investors in the Chinese TV drama industry at that time, so Zhang Wenling quickly found a new investor.

In the end, "Detective Di Renjie" completed all the production in 2004 and started broadcasting smoothly, and became an instant hit.

04, a split crew

After "Detective Di Renjie" became popular, the second and third parts were filmed, and they all became popular smoothly.

But by the time of the fourth part, the problem arose, first the script problem.

Most Chinese TV dramas, no matter what the theme, seem to be unable to avoid one kind of plot, that is, emotional drama.

Don't say whether you are suspense, war, family, or education, it seems that there must be emotional dramas to be successful.

And "Detective Di Renjie" also encountered this problem.

Producer Zhang Wenling wanted to add more emotional scenes in the fourth part, but Qian Yanqiu disagreed.

And both parties are notoriously stubborn, so the two finally decided to break up.

Since you can't go on, there is no need to continue internal friction, and breaking up is indeed a good choice.

But like most divorced couples, Zhang Wenling and Qian Yanqiu broke up, who should the "child" belong to?

Qian Yanqiu thinks that it should belong to herself, but Zhang Wenling thinks that Qian Yanqiu only has the right to authorship the script and has no copyright, so she thinks that it should belong to herself.

The two fought back and forth, and eventually went to court. Qian Yanqiu finally lost the lawsuit, and the ownership of the "child" of "Detective Di Renjie" was given to Zhang Wenling.

And Qian Yanqiu had to shoot "God Breaks Di Renjie". Because of the congenital lack of birth, this drama has such a strong copycat title, so it quickly hit the street.

And Zhang Wenling found Fu Dalong and Yang Mi to shoot a "Detective Di Renjie Prequel" full of emotional dramas.

Although she has the advantage of the title of the play, she does not have the serious "Di Renjie" and "Yuan Fang", so she also hit the street.

This is not the end, Qian Yanqiu, who does not have Di Renjie's right to sign, decided to find another way.

This time, he chose an anti-Japanese theme. And this time, he once again created a smash hit classic IP - "Yan Shuangying".

It's a pity that this IP is not the other IP, although "Yan Shuangying" is red, it is black-red, black-red.

For this series, Liang Guanhua is unacceptable. So, he also broke up with Qian Yanqiu.

At this point, the producer, director and leading actor of the crew of "Detective Di Renjie" have all broken up.

After breaking up with Qian Yanqiu, Liang Guanhua found Zhang Wenling again, returned to the original crew, and starred in "Detective Di Renjie's Love Flower Man Case".

It's a pity that the three of them seem to be destined to be together. Although there is Di Renjie's name and Di Renjie's Benjie this time, this drama still hit the street.

At this point, the three of them finally stopped struggling and were no longer attached to Di Renjie.

Although different investors, producers, and directors have successively filmed various Di Renjie, the original "Detective Di Renjie" has become a swan song. (Written by West Window Snow)