Di Renjie couldn't watch the new drama, and when he saw the chief screenwriter, netizens: I finally found the reason for the bad reviews of this drama

Finally, "The Biography of Tang Di Gong" was officially broadcast on CCTV's second yellow file.

As the first costume suspense drama at the beginning of 2024, before the broadcast, this drama has done enough scenes.

Before the broadcast, a huge launch conference was held in Xi'an Daming Palace, and the scene looked like it cost money.

When it was broadcast on the video website, it was given 8 screens of propaganda cards.

In addition, the copyright of the show was also bought by Netflix, and "The Case of Tang Di Gong" will land in more than 190 countries and regions around the world through Netflix.

There is a reason why a drama can do this pomp before it starts.

IP is Di Renjie, who is too familiar to Chinese people. Just the series "Detective Di Renjie", there is no need to say much about the national degree.

The original work is a masterpiece of English literature written by the Dutch diplomat, sinologist and novelist Gao Luopei over a period of 18 years.

is known as an "Oriental palace-level suspense mystery novel", and even Agatha Christine stamped it as "good-looking".

The actors, from the leading role to the supporting role, are all worthy of their names.

Zhou Yiwei, Wang Likun, Zhong Chuxi starring, Zhang Jiayi, Zhang Ruoyun, Li Naiwen, Yin Xiaotian as a match.

Big IP + big production + powerful factions gathered + old drama bone town, no matter how you look at it, they are all going for the big hits.

But why is it now, it feels a little far from the "expectations" before the broadcast.

After watching 6 episodes in one go, Qingshi is really unhappy about this new Di Renjie drama-

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It is no exaggeration to say that "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" was swiped by one star as soon as it was broadcast on Douban.

One star, from the "magic change".

"After watching the feature film, the plot has been magically changed from the original book. ”

"Gao Luopei's coffin board couldn't be suppressed. ”

"The film party has been promoting the respect for the original work, and after watching it for ten minutes, I was so angry that I turned it off!"

"Ma Rong is a woman?"

Judging from the reviews, there are two main magic changes.

The first is to set up a demon change.

The most obvious thing is that the two male entourages of Di Renjie in the novel Qiao Tai Ma Rong were changed to a man and a woman, and the character and acting skills of this female Ma Rong are not liked.

This was originally a good man in the green forest who was subdued by Di Renjie on his way to take office in the original book, and then followed Di Renjie's side.

In the play, the appearance time of these two entourages was not mentioned in advance, and Ma Rongan was given a "hobby" that was difficult to understand - stealing.

She has the habit of "taking" other people's things casually, and she calls it a souvenir.

And these two people were met by Di Renjie during his travels in the Western Regions in the play, and later brought to Chang'an and followed Di Renjie.

At the same time, Di Renjie's character design has also been changed, such as adding the story of him being a ranger in the Western Regions.

Zhou Zhouwei's sloppy style, and the ability to knock people away with one punch, who will equate him with the "Di Renjie" in our impression?

Another example is the mystery of his father's suicide, it's not that I'm exaggerating, this part of the drama makes our Chinese Di Renjie have the life experience of Gotham Batman.

These magic plots made out of nothing have become typical representatives of "self-created dross".

First, the plot of the first four episodes is all original, and the plot really related to the original book will not fit until the fifth episode when Di Renjie leaves the capital and takes up the post of Penglai County Commander.

It's "original" when it comes up, and it's so long, and it's really bold.

However, in terms of evaluating a drama alone, the criteria for good and bad should not only depend on the consistency with the original work.

So is there a problem with the original part of this show?

Of course.

And the problem is still huge.

First of all, let's briefly introduce the main plot of the first four episodes "Phoenix Seal Case".

The opening scene is a murder, but this time it was a court official who was killed "by order".

At the same time, the plane tree loved by the queen in Chang'an City was killed by lightning, triggering rumors of "heavenly fire".

At this time, Di Renjie was preparing for the exam, he had not come to Chang'an for many years because of his young experience, and this time he came back and met his childhood friend.

The two drank together after the scientific examination, but they didn't expect that on the second day, the hall where the two were drinking caught fire, and 8 of the 9 people in the hall died, and only Di Renjie survived.

Because of this, he was treated as a suspect, but fortunately, the teacher was guaranteed, and he was given a 10-day deadline to solve the case.

The next process of his investigation was like child's play.

Finding clues is all by coincidence, and it happened that he was drunk and saw the secret door in the restaurant;

It happened that his entourage got the key clues (although it was deliberately arranged, hundreds of cabinets could be obtained accurately, and it was difficult to say that there was no gambling component);

It happened that he saw the confiscated comments on the teacher's case.

And how did our Wen and Wu Di Renjie escape from the sea of fire, there is no more explanation in the play, it is estimated that it is still lucky.

After all, when you go to the street with physical evidence, there are many NPCs who come up and take the initiative to send information.

and a small case at the beginning, the scene of catching thieves in this inn is to reflect Di Renjie's ingenuity, but it's a pity that the screenwriter used a story that is too old to be old.

There is an oil flower on the abacus to find the master's "little cleverness", isn't it the Bao Zheng trial pig of "Young Bao Qingtian"?

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Putting aside the pure originality of the first 4 episodes, is "The Case of Tang Di Gong" still saved?

The answer to this is also yes.

One is the plot, after the end of the original part, the plot of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" is linked to the original work, and the watchability is much higher.

The screen case has a fast rhythm at the beginning, and the "weirdness" and "strangeness" of the case are shown at once.

Before Di Renjie entered the city, he encountered a corpse on the side of the road.

The body had 7 wounds on its body, and its face was horrified and unknown.

The body has not yet been identified, and there is another murder in the city, the wife of the famous local poet Tengkan.

And he also came to the door and turned himself in, thinking that he was crazy, so he killed his wife.

It's strange that everyone in the family said that Teng Kan was a person who was possessed by evil spirits and killed, because the painting that was originally placed on the screen in the study suddenly changed one day.

The painting originally showed the husband and wife, Qin Se and Ming, but now it is a husband killing his wife with a knife.

疯病杀人，恶鬼附身，屏风突变。

In just one episode, the strangeness and treachery of "The Screen Case" are conveyed in place.

However, this part of the plot is wonderful, mainly because the original work is well done.

It's a pity that these two episodes fit the original book, which led to a lot of problems exposed.

The most intuitive thing is the director's ghostly shooting technique and the gags of the supporting roles.

In order to highlight Di Renjie's meticulous reasoning ability and observation beyond ordinary people, the director has his own ideas, and he uses crazy flashbacks and sparsely chopped shots to express them.

It must be said that the perception is really bad, and a drama shows the dizziness of riding a roller coaster.

There is also a crazy omission of details, which makes people always have a question mark when watching the drama, when the plot ends, when is the key part, and the director's evaluation of the control of the rhythm - difficult to evaluate.

Every time, there was a lot of foreshadowing in front of me, and in the end, it was hasty.

Suspense dramas, especially suspense dramas with their own thrilling and weird atmosphere, must shoot the atmosphere, let the audience worry along with the plot, and throw clues little by little to guide the audience to follow the protagonist's perspective.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of these in this drama.

It is said that this drama originally had 36 episodes, and now the broadcast version has only 32 episodes, and it seems understandable that it will be cut into such a sparse finished product.

There is also the old problem of the first few episodes, and there are many unnecessary scenes in the entourage duo.

The character of the female Ma Rong is as unlikable as ever, and her "self-made smart" magic operation accounts for a large proportion.

There is even an ambiguous scene between her and Di Renjie in the play.

In this paragraph, she looked at Di Renjie with a thread, and called Di Renjie's name, showing a relationship that can be compared to Tan Qi and Zhang Xiaojing in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an".

But the problem is that the two people in the play are not in this relationship.

The screenwriter is not clear, the audience loves to watch suspense reasoning dramas, it is a weird and bizarre story, and an atmosphere with a sense of substitution, rather than meaningless flirting.

Qiao Tai's scenes are linked to Ma Rongqiang, and the scenes of the two were deleted together, which has no impact on the plot of episode 5.6.

One is production.

The finesse of the production of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" is also visible to the naked eye, from the first picture of the first episode, it can be seen that this drama has indeed spent money, and the filters and tones are also very comfortable to watch.

The big scene in Chang'an City shows the prosperity of Datang, and there are many group performances on the street, which is worthy of a big production that uses 45,460 actors.

However, these are also "pseudo-refinement".

The costumes of the female characters, especially the main characters, are almost unrelated to the costumes of the Tang Dynasty, and several of the looks look particularly exotic.

Looking at the bustling Chang'an City, it actually lacks "characteristics".

Episodes 5 and 6 are transferred to Penglai, and the screenshot of any street scene is no different from the previous Chang'an City.

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Finally, we focused on the lead actor Zhou Yiwei.

In the one-star area of Douban's short comment, more than half of the artillery fire was aimed at Zhou Zhouwei.

"I was besieged by Monday, and I saw the greasy and sloppy Di Renjie for the first time. ”

"This is not Di Renjie, this is Monday oil. ”

Whether the oil is oil or not is a matter of opinion, but the performance does not conform to Di Renjie in the eyes of the public, and it is true.

Di Renjie's image, not to mention the version of Liang Guanhua that we are all familiar with, even if it is the movie version of Tsui Hark, which is seriously "magically changed", Zhao Youting's image is also bookish and angry, regardless of whether he will do martial arts or not.

And Zhou Zhouwei's performance brought more "ruffianism".

Because the screenwriter set him as a ranger in the Western Regions, he was not a "literati" at all from his appearance to his style.

Especially this hufu with Zhou Zhouwei's long ponytail hair, and when he meets him strategizing, this expression can really hallucinate many other roles that Zhou Zhou has played.

It's really not too much to say "oil".

In fact, with the development of the plot, his style has changed again and again, and his appearance is really much better.

In the process of gradually degreasing, we can finally see his acting skills.

In episode 5.6 of Penglai County's county order, one is that the temperament of the literati has risen, so that the acting skills have also risen a lot.

A glance can convey Di Renjie's keen observation.

The comparison before and after is indeed obvious, and it is not unjust to be scolded in the early stage of Zhou Zhouwei.

Finally, I would like to say a few more words.

One is the actor's "fraud", because before the broadcast, all kinds of media hyped Zhang Jiayi and Zhang Ruoyun as gimmicks, so that the audience's expectations were raised.

In fact, Wei Shi played by Zhang Jiayi went offline in the fourth episode, and this part was sudden and crazy, which really caught people off guard.

There is also a story of Zhang Ruoyun's unit, which should be the penultimate case.

One is the screenwriter, everyone is familiar with the original author of this play, it is the Dutch writer "China expert" Gao Luopei, but there are actually two Englishmen in the screenwriting team.

They are Jim Keeble (UK) and Dudy Appleton (UK).

So whether this bizarre suspense drama that seems to tell the story of Di Renjie really meets our expectations of him actually has some answers.

In short, if you want to see strange cases and carefully reason, "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" really doesn't have it.

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