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Preface
"The Legend of Ruyi" has become popular! But it is black and red!
As a marriage story that tells the painful and entangled marriage story of Emperor Qianlong and his successor Wulanala clan, "The Legend of Ruyi" was removed from the shelves for practical reasons not long after it was broadcast.
But after a lapse of six years, "The Legend of Ruyi" was turned out by netizens and whipped again.
Looking at the plot carefully, the audience found out why this drama cost hundreds of millions, and why the work that claims to be benchmarked against "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is so grand.
Even, because of starring in "The Legend of Ruyi", this has also become a shame for actor Zhou Xun's life.
So, let's take a look at the situation of "The Legend of Ruyi" being complained about first!
"The Legend of Ruyi" was complained about frame by frame
As a palace fight drama that benchmarks "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Ruyi basically imitates Zhen Huan's life process.
Zhen Huan and the emperor had a period of love and happiness that Zhen Huan thought was at the beginning, and Qingying and Hongli also had a period of unguessing when they were young.
Zhen Huan was exiled to Ganlu Temple, Ruyi was demoted to the cold palace, Zhen Huan was surrounded by Cui Jinxi, Huanbi, and Liuzhu, and Ruyi was surrounded by Rong Pei, Yixin, and A Zhen.
Even in order to get closer to the plot of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Cui Jinxi and Xin Xin have both entered the Criminal Division, and in "The Legend of Ruyi", even the good sister "Sister Mei" is ready to replace Hailan.
However, with such an almost identical plot, "The Legend of Ruyi" was scolded by the audience.
The reason is that when "The Legend of Ruyi" created the characters, it only consistently piled up a halo for the heroine Ruyi, so under her "Wei Guangzheng" image, other characters were shaped into puppets with no behavioral logic.
Because Ruyi herself is not fighting or grabbing, she needs a palace fighting helper, so Hailan appeared.
The character of Hailan has almost no thoughts of her own, she seems to be a chip implanted with "life for Ruyi, death for Ruyi", and has become a robot that never makes mistakes in execution.
This is also why the sisterhood between Ruyi and Hailan is not as memorable and touching as Zhen Huan and Shen Meizhuang.
The audience saw the exchanges between Zhen Huan and Shen Meizhuang, Zhen Huan could help Shen Meizhuang find out the truth of the fake pregnancy, and Shen Meizhuang would also send clothes when Zhen Huan was locked up on the island, and visit Zhen Huan in person when she was in Ganlu Temple.
On the other hand, in "The Legend of Ruyi", Hailan's scheming escorted Ruyi, and Hailan's son poured out his heart and lungs for Ruyi.
But when Hailan is in trouble, Ruyi will only say: "You have to learn to protect yourself!"
Please, she can protect herself, why did she come to you!
In addition to sisterhood, there is also an attitude towards the personal palace maid, Ruyi is also chilling enough.
Cui Jinxi was going to the Criminal Division, and Zhen Huan even went to visit her in person to encourage her to keep hope, and she was actively rescuing her when she left the Criminal Division.
But when Ruyi's personal palace maid went to the Shen Criminal Division, Ruyi sat on the chair and didn't even stand, and there was no expression on her face at all, and she didn't even look at it later.
waited until everyone was crippled, and Ruyi came to a false sentence: "It's all bad in this palace."
I have to say that Ruyi is good at lip service.
The difference in Ruyi and Zhen Huan's attitude towards her subordinates directly explains why Ruyi ended up alone.
There is also the hardest hit area that the audience complained, about the congenital deficiency of the five princesses born to Ruyi, so Ruyi halved the reward.
This logic audience can't figure it out, why is the child not good, if you want to pray for blessings and withhold people's rewards, shouldn't you send more money to pray for the child?
In addition to bewildering behavior, what Ruyi is most unaccustomed to the audience can say is her well-known double standard.
Ruyi herself can wear Hailan's clothes to secretly see the emperor, but if Wei Yanwan secretly goes to see the emperor, it will be "unscrupulous and inferior", which is really reasonable and has nowhere to say!
There are a lot of such double-standard moments in the play, basically Ruyi can do it herself, and what others do is a matter of character.
However, it is commendable that Ruyi will not take the initiative to harm others, if she is framed, she will only say: "The concubine is speechless", which can be said to be a rare "gentleness" in the harem.
Because of all kinds of unreasonableness in Ruyi, the audience had another view of the whole drama, but it was recognized by more audiences.
"The Legend of Ruyi" seems to be Ruyi's imagination before her death as a concubine of the cold palace, in this beautiful dream, the emperor loves her, the rest of the concubines also like her, and the person she is most jealous of is also scribbled to death.
Because the plot has been complained about, some viewers even took into account the historical prototype of the Ulanala clan.
In that feudal dynasty at that time, her behavior of breaking her hair can be said to have defied the world's condemnation and was very courageous, but the adapted TV series smeared her badly, which is probably the reason why this type of TV series was taken off the shelves.
Ruyi in "The Legend of Ruyi" was complained about, but the villain in the play, Wei Yanwan, was favored by the audience.
Wei Yanwan has always made no secret of her ambitions, she really wants to live a better life, and she has made her own efforts for this.
In order to please the emperor, Wei Yinwan learned archery, opera, dance, etc., which can be said to be on par with the versatile An Lingrong, so Wei Yinwan is also affectionately called "Miracle Wanwan" by the audience.
Many people criticize Wei Yinwan for being greedy and vain, but in the five years in Qixiang Palace, Wei Yinwan was bullied and beaten by everyone, she didn't eat well and slept well, so she can be said to be a subordinate.
Because of this, Wei Yanwan understood a truth: "Except for myself, no one can help me!"
Such a character who works his own is the character that the audience likes to see now.
Judging from the remarks she has made, Zhen Huan has also said such "rely on herself".
However, Ruyi is indeed a staunch defender of male rights, saying that she relies on the emperor for everything, without any subjective initiative, and it can be said that she has performed feudalism to the fullest.
The plot complaints of "The Legend of Ruyi" are getting more and more intense, although many people say that they only complain about the role, not the actor himself.
However, Zhou Xun, the actor of "Ruyi", was still attacked by netizens.
Zhou Xun overturned?
Zhou Xun's own Weibo comment area was accused by a large number of netizens who complained about "The Legend of Ruyi" that her acting level was not good, and the role of "Ruyi" created was very problematic.
When a large number of negative comments from netizens arrived, Zhou Xun's public relations team chose to forcibly cover his mouth and delete the comments directly.
But this practice quickly aroused the rebellious psychology of more netizens, and also made this abuse more and more intense.
I have to say that this is probably a Waterloo in Zhou Xun's career, and it also caused her popularity to collapse directly.
After being dissatisfied with the character setting, many viewers also focused on Zhou Xun's acting skills.
For the classic characters that Zhou Xun once created, most people still maintain their admiration, but her Ruyi is indeed very problematic.
Netizens even took screenshots of Ruyi's pouting collection, which can be said to have collected all the flaws in Zhou Xun's expression management.
Especially in the face of his father's death and Ling Yunche's different reactions after becoming a eunuch, Zhou Xun's performance and the reputation of "The Legend of Ruyi" fell to the bottom.
His father died, and Zhou Xun only had tears overflowing slightly in his eyes, as if he was moved.
But in the face of his half-life-saving benefactor Ling Yunche becoming a eunuch, Zhou Xun cried so much that his expression on his face was distorted, and the audience didn't know what to say about such acting skills and character understanding.
In the play, Ruyi kept saying that she and Ling Yunche were innocent.
But the audience really didn't see the innocence of the two from Zhou Xun's acting skills, but there was tenderness in the corners of their eyes and eyebrows, and they smiled lightly to convey friendship.
Zhou Xun's word-of-mouth reversal in the hearts of the audience is reversed, which also shows the cruelty of the entertainment industry.
The audience understands your past glory, but they will not allow you to lie on it and die.
Zhou Xun's "Ruyi" played this time was ridiculed by the group, and the root cause was her understanding of the role.
It can be seen from the behind-the-scenes documentary of "The Legend of Ruyi" that Zhou Xun has a very high status in the crew, and she has also made corresponding changes to the makeup and plot.
Even from the behind-the-scenes documentary, it can be seen that what Zhou Xun understands as Ruyi is what she shows.
She thought that Ruyi couldn't fight in the palace, so the plot about Ruyi's palace fight had to be added to Hailan, which also led to the distortion of Hailan's role.
Netizens also commented on Zhou Xun: "The coffee position is too big, but I don't realize that my culture is shallow." ”
This fall from the altar also shows that the audience's requirements for works are gradually improving, and for works with problematic views such as "The Legend of Ruyi", the criticism is even more intensified.
This is actually the cruelty of the entertainment industry, after performing a role full of infamy, the actor's image in the hearts of the audience will be affected accordingly.
Just like Yang Yang and Wang Churan, after performing "Fireworks in My World", their reputation also plummeted.
The actor's career is actually very long, so the actor is also facing trial after trial from the audience.
One mistake may be wasted.
epilogue
Zhou Xun's Waterloo actually shows that no one can sit firmly on the altar.
Even Zhou Xun, who has won numerous awards, will become the target of criticism from the audience because of his inferior works.
Therefore, I still hope that the creators of film and television works can put more attention on their works.
The acting skills of the actors are one thing, but the works with content and depth are the key to the audience's favor!