Preface
Recently, "The Legend of Ruyi" once again appeared in front of everyone's eyes with negative labels such as "Yi Disease" and "Da Ru Chuan".
So today, let's take a look at what a good Qing court drama should look like through the background board in the palace fight drama - the setting of the role of the emperor?
is also the famous "Emperor of the Political Machine" Qianlong, who is higher and who is lower in the performance of Nie Yuan and Huo Jianhua?
Of the two Qing court dramas, only one really created the image of Qianlong's "feudal emperor" on the basis of palace fighting dramas and women's dramas.
In the same scene of losing his son, how did the two actors portray it?
How did Huo Jianhua and Nie Yuan balance the roles of palace fighting and government affairs in Qing court dramas.
The grief of losing a child
Let's first take a look at the two versions of the loss of a child, and how the two actors, who are the emperor and the emperor, handle this plot.
Qianlong, played by Huo Jianhua, heard in the dormitory that the second elder brother Yonglian had passed away and had no time to change his clothes, and his shock could be seen in the dormitory.
muttered to himself how could it be, Yonglian is a son-in-law, and he will inherit the treasure in the future.
At a cursory glance, it makes sense, because this is an emergency, and it is normal to be stunned and not show too much grief.
After that, he went out to his son's residence with only his bedclothes, and Qianlong's anxiety could also be seen.
But the problem is that Huo Jianhua plays this emperor too unrealistically, and neither his expression nor dubbing emotions are enough to mobilize the audience in front of the TV.
The only thing that can bring the audience's emotions is the soundtrack and Queen Fucha, who cries for her son.
Huo Jianhua's performance in this clip is not much of a problem, but it shows that the screenwriter's skills are insufficient, and the plot that is so suitable for being the breaking point of the plot is actually just plain.
On the other hand, Nie Yuan's interpretation in "Raiders of Yanxi Palace" not only takes into account life, but also achieves climaxes and interlocking scenes.
In the plot, the death of the second elder brother Yonglian is only a hidden danger of the contradiction between the emperor and the queen, and it has not been filmed in the TV series.
But after Yonglian's death, Nie Yuan's Qianlong once had a drunken mourning scene, and many years have passed since Yonglian's death.
At night, the emperor played by Nie Yuan sat in the gazebo and drank alcohol, and the imperial guards hoped to share his worries, so Qianlong said his nostalgia for Yonglian.
Here is a long line here, and there is also classical Chinese in the middle, Nie Yuan, as the original line, is not only full of grief, but also maintains the pride of the nobles and refuses to cry for the death of his children and grandchildren.
Although he didn't cry, anyone could detect Qianlong's self-deprecation and resentment from his depression.
If one is to learn about the child's death directly, and the other is to miss it many years later, and feel that this comparison is not fair, we can see how Nie Yuan dealt with the death of his second sister-in-law, Yongcong.
In the face of the death of his second sister-in-law, Yongcong, and the madness of the queen, Nie Yuan still did not lose the majesty of the king of a country.
Grief is real grief, but you can't lose your prestige, Nie Yuan's version of Qianlong did not blindly appease and take care of the queen who lost his beloved son, and put down the emperor's frame in front of the pain of losing his son like Huo Jianhua.
On the contrary, Qianlong, played by Nie Yuan, does not indulge in this atmosphere in the face of everyone's grief.
"Just because I am the emperor, I am the lord of the world! Even the women in the harem are dead today!
This is the emperor, this is the lord of a country with the world in his chest, the Qianlong who was called the "political machine" by later generations.
But Qianlong was also saddened by Yonglian's death, how did Nie Yuan show his grief in not destroying the ruthless tone of the emperor in front of him?
When he just learned the news of Yonglian's death, he suppressed the grief with tears in his eyes but still calmly asked the cause of the accident, and the guards had to find a suspicious point every time Qianlong reported a word.
Under the great grief, he is still logical and clear-minded, and his love for his son can be seen at a glance.
When facing the queen who looked like a mad demon because of the loss of her child, Qianlong, who had executed twelve people in a big way, disappeared again.
He looked at his wife and told her firmly: You are the queen of the Qing Dynasty, cheer up.
His eyes always followed his wife, and his eyes were full of concern and distress, but everything changed when the queen began to question.
Nie Yuan's eyes went from grief and heartache at the beginning, to the disbelief at the moment when he found that the queen had lost her mind and questioned him completely regardless of the queen's identity.
The process of Qin Lan and Nie Yuan playing against each other here is really exciting, two people who are obviously in the same situation are-for-tat and even resentful of each other.
After watching this scene for the first time, you will definitely be impressed by Qin Lan's acting skills, and cry with her about the injustice of God.
But when you taste it again, you will find that the most calm emperor in the audience, his inner grief can neither be said nor spoken.
This is the right way to open the climax of the plot.
It is undeniable that the camera movement and the beauty of photography in "The Legend of Ruyi" are first-class in China.
But purely in terms of the viewing experience of the series, in this scene, Nie Yuan was able to crush Huo Jianhua three times, once with the grief of learning the news, once with the eruption of the emperor's might, and once with his wife.
"Yanxi Raiders" Nie Yuan
In fact, this is not the first time that Nie Yuan has played the sixth emperor of the Qing Empire, as early as 2001, Nie Yuan played the young Qianlong in "The Granary of the World".
In "Yanxi Raiders", Nie Yuan showed his "skills" when he played Qianlong for the second time.
Nie Yuan's Qianlong is not a simple palace fighting background board, he has a common feature with Yongzheng played by Chen Jianbin in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
That is diligence and dedication, but Nie Yuan's performance as the emperor in the palace fighting drama is not limited to those things in the harem.
In the 70 episodes of Yanxi Raiders, Qianlong, as the male protagonist, did not have mutual feelings with the female protagonist in the first 42 episodes.
After watching "Yanxi Raiders", we can even say that the career line of the role of the emperor in the TV series is the highlight of Nie Yuan's performance.
Whether it is pacifying Jungar, or controlling the water, or preventing the alliance between the DPRK and China, all kinds of feats are well integrated into the plot.
And Nie Yuan also showed the emperor's mental skills and checks and balances in the plot vividly through many details.
Qianlong, played by Nie Yuan, will never be interrupted by others when dealing with political affairs, and as an emperor, he will never give up state affairs because of love.
Judging from the loss of a son, you can feel what kind of person Qianlong played by Nie Yuan is.
You can even feel that even he is a flesh-and-blood man, but he suppresses his personal will and emotions to the extreme for the sake of imperial power, just to become an "emperor".
"The Biography of Ruyi" Huo Jianhua
From my personal point of view, "The Legend of Ruyi" is a "work of art", but it is not a very good-looking TV series.
Huo Jianhua's acting skills in this TV series can be regarded as the passing grade in his career as an actor, and his acting skills still contribute to this drama, so it is far from lagging behind.
is different from Qianlong in "Yanxi Raiders", Huo Jianhua's version of Qianlong pays more attention to Qianlong's selfishness and suspicion.
It is understandable, after all, "The Legend of Ruyi" is more about using the plot to build up characters, and Huo Jianhua's own temperament is not suitable for playing an emperor.
used to act in some idol dramas in Taiwan, Huo Jianhua's acting skills are absolutely enough, and Xu Changqing, who has the world in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", also proves that he is not only an idol drama.
But if Huo Jianhua wants to play the emperor of his family and country, he lacks a kind of "momentum".
Throughout the whole story of "The Legend of Ruyi", the loving couple in the early stage is the worst part of Huo Jianhua's performance, and those who have watched the Legend of Ruyi feel that Huo Jianhua's performance in the early stage is a little embarrassing.
In the later stage, when he was suspicious of his wife's affection, Huo Jianhua gradually got better, and his performance level obviously went up to a higher level.
Who's higher and who's lower?
In a blink of an eye, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been broadcast for 13 years, as the benchmark for Qing court dramas in the mainland, after it, domestic palace fighting dramas have sprung up.
Among them, there are two TV series that are the most popular, and coincidentally, both TV series are created in the background of the next generation of Qianlong period of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
One is "Yanxi Raiders" produced by "Ghost Producer" Yu Zheng, which was not favored by others, because the production team of the other "The Legend of Ruyi" can be called a dream.
Why is the team of "The Legend of Ruyi" very dreamy? Because this TV series has been benchmarked against "The Legend of Zhen Huan" from the beginning of the project.
In order to interpret the role of Hao Ruyi, the crew not only invited Zhou Xun, the queen of the three golden films, to be the heroine, but also built five important scenes in real life and interviewed more than 1,000 actors.
But it was such a big production and such a big limelight, but after the series was broadcast, the investors fell hard, and even the company was almost acquired.
The superiority of the two dramas can be glimpsed only from the interpretation of the role of the emperor.
In "Raiders of Yanxi Palace", Qianlong played by Nie Yuan is actually not the male number one in terms of the number of scenes.
It's like a test paper, the full score of the average person's test paper is 100 points, so the paper Nie Yuan got was only 60 points.
Although the scenes and plot shackled Nie Yuan's room to play, Nie Yuan still relied on his years of experience to perform a 100-point effect.
And when it comes to Huo Jianhua, when the tone of the script is not very good, it is already very good for Huo Jianhua to score 80 points in a 100-point roll.
summary
Recently, "The Legend of Ruyi" has been frequently searched again, and labels such as "Yi Disease" and "Da Ru Chuan" have made Zhou Xun experience "cyber violence" again at this age.
These are not without reason, after all, the TV series "The Legend of Ruyi" is really too much.
In addition to the well-known problem of the literary level of screenwriters, the makeup of Zhou Xun, the heroine of "The Legend of Ruyi", also looks very old-fashioned.
In terms of personality, the heroine who has been loyal to her for more than ten years is offended, and she must stick to the character of "people are as light as chrysanthemums".
The screenwriter who aspires to be a drama in the feudal era never thought about what was wrong with the "kind" person he pressed on the heroine, and if he didn't fight in the harem, he would give up or wait for death.
wants an ancient person to wait for the love of an emperor under the oppression of imperial power, and to be a heroine who will never harm others, and cannot be active or passive.
This kind of idea similar to the modern White Lotus appeared in ancient dramas, which doomed this TV series to collapse in the setting of the plot of the heroine.
In comparison, the pseudo-crossing of "Yanxi Raiders" is not twisted or pretentious, and the attitude of telling the audience "We are a cool drama, and it will be over if it is cool" is more pleasing.