"City in the City" is being broadcast on CCTV, and because Zhao Hui, the deputy branch president of the bank played by He Wei, is even more popular, Tao Wuji, who should be the protagonist in the play, directly became scum in seconds. Many viewers have followed the drama until now, and even take it for granted that Zhao Hui is the male lead.
This can't blame the audience for being "clumsy", after all, the portrayal of Zhao Hui in the play is too rich.
The core set of the script for him is that he is upright by nature
Internally, he is the perfect husband and father who loves his wife and son
Externally, he is a branch president who adheres to the bottom line and acts resolutely
The plot is paving the way for his later blackening from the beginning, and his daughter's eye disease is the introduction, so that his final "corruption" is attributed to a father's deep love for his daughter.
In the play, in order to make his "blackening" more poignant, a double line was deliberately arranged
One of them is the beauty plan arranged by his old classmate Xie Zhi.
The second is that his good big brother took advantage of his daughter's eye disease.
Zhao Hui loved his deceased wife so much, and when a woman who was extremely similar to his wife appeared, his short-term confusion was to reflect his nature as a man.
And Zhao Hui was not addicted to beauty and couldn't extricate himself, and he could quickly withdraw from the moment and rationally analyze that there was someone behind the game, which was to highlight his strong self-control and adherence to the bottom line of his heart.
This kind of plot reversal not only allows the audience to intuitively see Zhao Hui's keen insight, but also makes the audience more recognize his character and further solidify his "integrity" in the audience's heart.
The reason why the screenwriter did not let Zhao Hui fall into the beauty scheme set by Xie Zhiyuan was to make a strong contrast with the trap that he was "forced" to take the initiative to jump into for him after his good brother Wu Xianlong.
He Zhao Hui can still calmly analyze the pros and cons even if he is beautiful, but once it comes to his favorite daughter, as a father, in order to treat his daughter's illness, even if he knows that it is a catastrophe, he can only choose to compromise with money.
This process of "blackening" not only does not make the audience feel hateful, but also allows the audience to bring his perspective to empathize with his helplessness, and even forgive him for what he did, feeling that everything he experienced was "the trick of fate" and that he was just a poor person who was forced to become bad.
The setting of Zhao Hui's character is very similar to the villain Gao Qiqiang in the hit drama "Hurricane". How much the audience empathized with Gao Qiqiang at the beginning, and now how much they "love" Zhao Hui.
Under the backdrop of these two villains, the decent male protagonists in "Hurricane" and "City in the City" have been criticized.
Gao Qiqiang played by Zhang Songwen in "Hurricane" completely overshadowed the positive policeman An Xin played by the powerful actor Zhang Yi. And Tao Wuji, the male protagonist who is mediocre in all aspects of "City in the City", has been reduced to a passerby.
portrays the villain as flesh and blood and makes them "blackened" by "all expectations"; the sluggish wooden man who writes the decent is like a tool man who sets up a program, and then uses public opinion to incite public emotions after the show is broadcast and deliberately leads everyone to "feel distressed" about the villain, and it is really problematic to write such a plot.
"Human nature is complex" is not a reason for them to go bad!
In the past, the audience would automatically bring themselves into decent characters when watching dramas, and they hated villains to the core, and even rose to the actors themselves
Representative figures: An Jiahe, Rong Mama
But the current audience is really distorted by public opinion, and they will really bring themselves into the villain, but they don't know that in reality, what we ordinary people should bring in is the object of bullying and oppression by those so-called villains "good people".
Is it really okay to over-glorify the villain and use public opinion to guide the public to over-praise the villain?