Unexpectedly, in 2024, "The Legend of Ruyi" will become popular again, but this time it is red, and the red is "black", and even the wind reviews with the heroine Zhou Xun have been affected.
Ruyi is "crazy", and the whole network complainsBack then, "The Legend of Ruyi" was the "sister chapter" of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and the news of the adaptation spread all over the Internet as soon as it came out, and what was even more unexpected was that the author Liuyuzi personally served as the screenwriter, with an investment of 300 million yuan, and also invited Zhou Xun to play the heroine, and the whole people were boiling, waiting to chase the drama. It's just that in the end, it backfired, and "The Legend of Ruyi" was killed before the broadcast.
Back then, Yu Zheng's "Yanxi Raiders" and "The Legend of Ruyi" both told love stories in the Qianlong period, but the protagonists were different. Take "Huanzhu Gege" as the coordinates, Ruyi played by Zhou Xun is the queen, and Wei Yingluo played by Wu Jinyan is Concubine Ling. Originally, everyone didn't like the positive works very much, but "Yanxi Raiders" made a good start for the "cool drama" model that later dominated the domestic dramas for many years, Morandi became popular all over the Internet, Nie Yuan and Qin Lan became popular, and the little-known Wu Jinyan and Xu Kai "flew into the sky", but it made the "Legend of Ruyi" created according to the boutique bleak, how big the expectation is, how miserable the fall is. However, a few years later, neither drama was spared the fate of being taken off the shelves.
The word-of-mouth collapsed after the premiere of "The Legend of Ruyi", for many reasons, Zhou Xun forcibly pretended to be a girl, and Huo Jianhua had no sense of CP. After 6 years, why was "The Legend of Ruyi", which had already had a reversal of word-of-mouth, attacked again, just because the audience at that time had changed people?
Before this large-scale complaint, "The Legend of Ruyi" ushered in a short "Renaissance", and "Lan Yin Suguo" and "Ruyi's broken hair" were all out of the circle on the short video platform. The turning point occurred last year, a game blogger at station B casually complained about Ruyi's "double standard" in the video, and was besieged by drama fans for "not knowing how to appreciate it" and "not watching the original drama", but I didn't expect this blogger to be energetic, and changed from a game blogger to a film and television blogger, and complained episode by episode after doing more than a dozen videos. After that, many film and television bloggers seemed to have found the traffic password and began a large-scale siege of "The Legend of Ruyi".
In these second-creation videos, many plots that violate history in the play have been picked up, and the flowing purple "no culture but culture" has also been ridiculed, "longevity", "is the palace beautiful", "want to go to sleep" and other ridiculous and generous "pseudo-ancient sayings", as well as various unbelievable titles, were all whipped 360° by netizens.
And "Ruyi", as the big heroine, was even more exposed to her true colors - on the surface, she is as light as a chrysanthemum, but in fact she is completely the maintainer of the feudal order, with the slogan "everyone is equal", but in fact it is "369 and so on", netizens branded her with labels such as white lotus, green tea, mother-in-law, selfishness, hypocrisy, double standard, love brain, etc.
Ruyi in the eyes of netizens, all bad things are done by others, she is only in charge of being as light as a chrysanthemum, she is framed by others and has no power to protect herself, she can only say "I can't argue", "shake shiitake mushrooms", "young man", "boiled onion stew" and other words that appear in dramas have become Internet buzzwords. In everyone's opinion, Ruyi's "light as a chrysanthemum" character is just an ornament. Liuyu Zi found another way to create a perfect successor Ruyi in "The Legend of Ruyi", not Gong Dou, not competing for favor, many people feel that this is true at first glance, Ruyi and the emperor's childhood sweetheart, who were born with a golden key, have no guesses, and they don't disdain Gong Dou at all, and they all rely on others to stuff it into her hands, or the people around her help her fight. But when I looked back and looked again, I found that Ruyi was not indisputable, but she didn't know what to fight. She didn't fight or not, but others couldn't, and she became "inferior in character, light and vulgar". Ruyi looked down on other concubines and palace fights, but they didn't know that the reason why they wanted palace fights was to fight for power for survival. She said that she didn't kill anyone, but her good sister Hailan killed a lot of people, and Hailan became the only person she didn't think about before she died. Such Ruyi is not wronged when she is stamped with the hat of "being and standing" and "double standard".
Some netizens compared "The Legend of Ruyi" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Ruyi insisted on wearing armor in the cold palace, and let Yixin do it alone, netizens complained that "when your mother-in-law Zhen Huan was in Ganlu Temple, she was also washing clothes by the river." is not only conservative, Ruyi is also a "top love brain", as the master of the harem, she has no ambition, and she talks about "right away from the wall" every day, and the future of the family is gone. For such a heroine, many netizens said that it was really difficult to understand the reason why the emperor loved her.
implicated Zhou Xunlu's popularity collapsedThe complaints about "The Legend of Ruyi" inevitably implicate the heroine Zhou Xun. If the people who complained about "The Legend of Ruyi" at the beginning were just a whim, then the larger "fire" in the back was "provoked" by Zhou Xun's team itself. Some bloggers said that they received a report from Zhou Xun's studio on the grounds of "infringement of the right to reputation", and even received a lawyer's letter warning, which caused the rebellious psychology of many netizens, and the turmoil intensified.
Zhou Xun herself and the comment area of the studio all fell, and netizens commented that she "has no acting skills, no masterpieces, pouts, emotions are not in place, and her acting skills are not even as good as other supporting roles". For Zhou Xun, the "Three Golden Queens", acting skills were originally the most difficult to find fault with, but netizens were anxious, so they wanted to break the "award-only theory".
A large part of the reason why everyone is so excited is that Ruyi in the play and Zhou Xun outside the play are actively linked.
Zhou Xun said in an interview that she had changed the script of "The Legend of Ruyi" during filming, and in her opinion, with Ruyi's values and identity, she could not be allowed to enter the "palace fight", "You can't kill people, and you can't borrow a knife indirectly, unless you let me play a bad guy." Netizens believe that it is precisely because Zhou Xun used his understanding of the role to change the script without authorization that the logic of the plot cannot be explained, and Ruyi is played as a hypocritical and double-standard "White Lotus".
Some netizens who have read the original work said that the heroine is indeed sincere to the emperor, after all, she is a childhood sweetheart, but she has always had reservations, and she has a good grasp of her identity as a concubine in the early stage, and she will not take the initiative to cause trouble, nor will she pretend to be open-minded. And after Zhou Xun's changes, Ruyi has become a "twisted" heroine, and all the logic does not make sense in the end can only be attributed to the protagonist's aura, which makes the character flat. Some people also argue that the original book is not a first-class novel, and the responsibility for changing it to such a novel is not entirely on the actors.
From the play to the outside of the play, from the role to the actor himself, Zhou Xun's past several relationships and past remarks have also been re-sorted and excavated by netizens, thinking that she is also a "love brain" outside the play, and "The Legend of Ruyi" is her true color. Zhou Xun, who didn't understand "Gong Dou", abandoned the original experiential acting method and externalized Ruyi into himself, instead of internalizing himself as Ruyi, and the crew had to cooperate with her to complete a biography.
Back to the original intention of filming "The Legend of Ruyi", when this drama was handed over to Wang Jun, many people expressed their surprise, Wang Jun is an expert in filming domestic dramas, "Little Farewell", "Men's Gang" and "Those Things About Husband and Wife" are all rare hit dramas, but in comparison, he is better at family and urban themes, and he is a novice in the field of costume dramas, especially Qing court dramas. However, it is precisely because there have been no similar works before, and the contrast is also considered that "The Legend of Ruyi" is a valuable attempt to break the previous Qing court dramas. Filming a Qing court drama for the first time, Wang Jun was ambitious and wanted to make it into a work of art. Just imagine, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has already been a great success, and "The Legend of Ruyi", as a sister chapter, of course, can't be any worse.
When talking about the work in the early stage, Wang Jun once said that "The Legend of Ruyi" did not want to be a traditional palace fighting drama at the beginning, it wanted to tell about the death of love, the crisis of mid-life, and explore the commonality of marriage and human nature in the context of the Qing Palace. On this point alone, in the short revival process of "The Legend of Ruyi", Wang Jun's original intention was indeed understood by the audience, telling the story of the process of young lovers slowly becoming dead after they entered into marriage, which is essentially a marriage drama wrapped in the coat of Gong Dou.
"The Legend of Ruyi" planted the seeds of failure from the beginning, the revival is true, and the current anti-water is also true. Of course, this has a lot to do with the current aesthetic orientation.
For a long time, domestic dramas were occupied by the "domineering president" and "Mary Sue", everything that is the protagonist is good, and everything that is a villain is bad, and later this deformed aesthetic is gradually improved, and the villain image in film and television dramas has been shaped more and more full, no longer good and evil are one-size-fits-all, Concubine Hua and An Lingrong in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" have also been understood, and what the audience wants to see is a character rooted in life, not a castle in the air imagined by the screenwriter.
In the same way, Ruyi was counterattacked, and the villain Wei Yanwan, who had done all the bad things, was rehabilitated after 6 years. As a little person with no background, Wei Yanwan's biggest dream when she first came to the palace was to make more money so that she could live a stable life with her Ruyi Langjun, but because she was just looked at by the emperor one more time, she became a villain who charmed the emperor, and her fate was changed since then, and finally after being squeezed for five years, she had to embark on the road of competing for favor. In order to please the emperor, she not only learned poetry and songs, but also learned Kunqu opera and dance, and she worked hard to learn what the emperor's boss liked. Looking at it this way, how can hard-working workers not empathize deeply?
From "Hurricane" and "Fireworks in My World" to "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "The Legend of Ruyi", which have been repeatedly observed and interpreted, there have been more and more examples of "supporting roles on the table" in recent years, and the audience's aesthetics are changing, but no matter when, flesh-and-blood characters can gain a firm foothold in the hearts of the audience.
Reporter: Ren Xiaofei Editor: Xu Min Proofreader: Gao Xin