After 6 years on the air and 4 years after it was taken off the shelves, "The Legend of Ruyi" became popular again, but unfortunately it was black and red. In the past, the audience's first impression when mentioning Zhou Xun was "Three Golden Queens", but now what comes to mind is "mouth pouting". Recently, the "Ruyi" who does not admit defeat has opened a real-name complaint, and the more people who don't pay, the more fierce they are.
△ "The Legend of Ruyi" poster
"The first person to complain about "The Legend of Ruyi" is a genius"
Recently, I can always see this comment when I watch short videos: "The first person to complain about "The Legend of Ruyi" is a genius. "How did the costume drama that once exploded on the whole Internet fall to the point of being frantically complained? This has to start from 2020.
In 2018, "The Legend of Ruyi", which was blessed by Zhou Xun, Huo Jianhua, Zhang Junning, Tong Yao, Dong Jie, Xin Zhilei and other powerful actors, was born, which is undoubtedly another firewood in the fiery palace fighting drama.
The eye-catching cast, gorgeous visual style, and complex emotional veins stimulate the audience's cranial nerves. However, the good times did not last long, and after the rapid popularity, "The Legend of Ruyi" took a sharp turn.
In September 2020, "The Legend of Ruyi" was removed from the video website, and people speculated that the reason for the removal at that time may be that "the well-designed palace fight plot in the play has deteriorated the current social ecology". It was also since that time that people have been complaining about "The Legend of Ruyi" has not stopped.
In 2023, a game UP master of station B casually complained about Ruyi's "double standard" in "The Legend of Ruyi" in the video, and was besieged by drama fans for "not knowing how to appreciate". So he fought back, and made more than a dozen videos across fields and complained episode by episode. Subsequently, all kinds of film and television UP owners also smelled the traffic password and began to produce large-scale tricks, setting off a wave of Internet "renaissance".
One of the UP masters expressed his opinion in the video, and he believes that the internal logic of "The Legend of Ruyi" is to shirk all responsibility. After the video became popular, it was complained by Zhou Xun's studio with his real name. So the same story was staged again, the stars "covered their mouths" and the fans "protected the road", and this sudden gunshot broke the silent night of the harem.
What are they complaining about in the war of words?
Many "Xiao Ming" who don't understand have to ask: A drama, as for it? Let's go back to 2020 again, on the day "The Legend of Ruyi" was taken off the shelves, all kinds of public opinion flocked, among which the most talked about was the topic of "malicious distortion of history".
Although the TV series "The Legend of Ruyi" is adapted from the novel, the characters selected are real people in history. In the play, Empress Hyohyun is portrayed as a hypocritical and scheming bad woman, which is very different from history. In the play, the cause of Empress Hyohyun's death is described as accidental drowning due to a palace struggle, while in history, the death of a child and the aggravation of her illness caused strong dissatisfaction among the audience.
Moreover, the depiction of Emperor Qianlong in the play has also caused controversy. Especially the emotional setting of the step-queen Ruyi, the relationship between her and Emperor Qianlong in the play is shaped into a childhood sweetheart, and there is no such record in history. The audience believes that this fictional plot is seriously contrary to historical facts.
is full of distortion throughout the play, which was summarized by a B station UP master as "Yi is guilty", before meeting the heroine Ruyi, everyone has their own good life, once they encounter something related to the heroine, no one gets a good ending.
A netizen commented: "I didn't think about it at the time, but now I look at it with a magnifying glass, and I feel that none of the frames are right." ”
"Ruyi" twisted, Zhou Xun lay down the gun
This kind of complaining about the plot and the protagonist inevitably burned to "Ruyi Benyi".
Two years ago, Zhou Xun participated in the "Talk Show Conference" because he didn't understand the stalk of the rider's brother, so he was stamped and certified as "why not eat minced meat". As a result, the remarks that have been out of the circle in those years, such as Zhou Xun saying "There are so many people" when walking the red carpet, and Zhou Xun saying "I don't read" in "Round Table Pie", is no longer the original frank and cute appearance.
△ Stills from "The Legend of Ruyi".
""The Legend of Ruyi" is full of mistakes, and Zhou Xun accounts for half of it", netizens' unceremonious complaints also triggered a conflict war between the two sides. A number of video bloggers complained that the video of "Ruyi's Biography" was complained about and taken off the shelves, and the blogger himself was sued for infringing on Fan's personality rights, and the reason for the infringement was to distort the plot in a frame-by-frame interpretation, from the explanation of the plot to the personal attack on the actor.
So netizens were even more unconvinced, "Can the top flower be like this", "I heard that the role of Ruyi is to fulfill her personal dream of the Virgin"...... Speaking of which, the focus of the conflict is still on the characters, the plot and the actors.
△ All kinds of "Ruyi" spit videos on social platforms are removed from the shelves
The poor performance in "The Legend of Ruyi" also reminded the audience of Zhou Xun in "Suzhou River", "Li Mi's Conjecture" and "Red Sorghum". "Elf" and "genius" are Zhou Xun's labels, Xiuhe in "Orange is Red", Zhou Xun depicted the softness and strength of women in that era deeply and vividly, and contributed textbook-level acting skills, which were deeply loved by the audience. This time, the drama party or the creator may see it as a kind of good news.
The high standards and strict requirements of the audience are the proof of the improvement of the public's aesthetic taste. Plays that lack soul will be criticized, but good content and good stories will also be seen by more people.
Modern Express/Modern + reporter Song Jingwei