After nearly a month of word-of-mouth fermentation, "Imperial Gifts of Small Servants" is completely on fire.
Who would have thought that such a network drama, which was "unremarkable" from the title to the actors at the beginning of the broadcast, could get a high score of 8.4 given by nearly 100,000 people on Douban, and the cumulative playback has exceeded 500 million, and even squeezed into the fifth place in the domestic drama reputation list in 2021.
But all friends who have watched this drama will have such a consciousness:
In this year's annual dark horse drama, there must be a place for "Little Servants".
In fact, "The Little Servant of the Imperial Gift" does have the courage to become the dark horse of the year.
The director of "Royal Gifts" is Lou Jian, who is shooting web dramas for the first time, before that, he has been shooting TV series with serious themes, and most of the dramas filmed are broadcast on CCTV.
It is precisely because of the director's more than 20 years of experience in the industry that "Little Servants" presents a proper "positive drama" style in editing and lighting.
In 2016, the screenwriters Qing Xian Yatou and Qian Xiaobai wanted to adapt Qing Xian Yatou's novel "The Servant as a Lady" into a play, but lacked screenwriting experience, so they sought out Lou Jian, who was both a director and a screenwriter.
This consultation is 3 years.
The script of "Little Servant" has been revised several times before and after, and the changes in the lines have not stopped, which has now led to the plot that can make the suspenseful "rational faction" also enter the pit.
The series takes Xiao Jinyu, Chu Chu, Jing Yi, Leng Yue and others as the main characters of the whole story, accompanied by one case solving, step by step to uncover the mystery, and finally cracking a story that lasts for 18 years.
The logic of the whole play is rigorous, the cases are interlocked, no line is nonsense, and the reversal is both unexpected surprises and reasonable logic.
All the characters in the play, no matter how many scenes, have the rationality of his existence, not just to promote the development of the plot.
I have to say that the reason why a drama can have good quality and word of mouth is that it is polished little by little.
Along with this drama, there are also characters and actors in the play, such as Jingyi, the young secretary of Dali Temple, who is eye-catching every time he appears.
Jing Yi, the young secretary of the Dali Temple, appeared earlier in the play than the male protagonist Xiao Jinyu.
As soon as he appeared on the scene, he showed his accurate vision of people, the heroine ChuChu debunked a porcelain touching scene on the street, after seeing ChuChu's excellent professional ability, he did not stick to ChuChu's gender, opened a "back door" for her, and even went to find Xiao Jinyu to send a "recommendation card" at night.
Compared with the male protagonist, Jing Yi is more "unorthodox", but he and Xiao Jinyu both move quietly, complementing each other while complementing each other.
And the trust value between each other is far greater than anyone, one second quarrel, the next second because of the opening to restore trust, such a fairy hair small who will not love?
In the Douban group of the play, netizens who like Jing Yi gave him a very appropriate nickname - Dali Temple "Fox Nick".
Jing Yi's style is indeed very "fox nick".
On the surface, Jing Yi is the well-deserved first "rich second generation" in Beijing, and being a stupid boy is also the mantra he has always hung on his lips.
Therefore, which restaurant in Beijing is the most delicious, what kind of tricks the lady and wife of the capital like recently, these "useless" information, Jing Yi can be described as well-known.
He is also one of the armed forces in the protagonist group, and his light skills are particularly good, and every day the cornices walk on the wall, and the window is a daily routine.
But he is also a practical Shaoqing, in addition to following Wang Ye 007 every day, some seemingly improper skills have also become the key to solving the case.
In the play, in addition to Wang Ye, the absolute think tank, Jing Yi's intelligence is also quite eye-catching.
When Chu Chu secretly checked the cause of Feng Shangshu's death, he was trapped in the spirit hall by the man in black, and when Jing Yi found the traces of the mysterious person, he resolutely followed up, tracked all the way, and finally found Qin Luan, the mastermind behind the scenes.
Moreover, he could deduce the approximate identity of Chu Chu's mother with only one hairpin, and every time he interrogated a prisoner, he knew how to dish with people, and the interrogation skill was definitely the first in Dali Temple.
In addition, Jing Yi also has the "empathy power" that "Wood King" is extremely lacking, whether it is the book's assistance to Wang Ye and Chu Chu, or his own and Leng Yue's "main attack", he is a good hand.
Whether it is a reverse cliché playing a pig and eating a tiger, or pretending to be a wounded soldier to go to the medical center to listen to intelligence, Jing Shaoqing, who has a fast reaction and extraordinary agility, can make a qualitative leap in the plot with his three-inch tongue.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the "official uniform semi-permanent" mentioned in the barrage.
Jing Yi because of the identity of "stupid children", often often dressed in the street, rare official clothes appeared, wearing an official hat, a red coat, on the basis of a dashing and arbitrary more solemn, indeed has the taste of "fresh clothes and angry horse boys".
This and his walking in the rivers and lakes, the cornices walking the wall and jumping out of the window is simply like two people.
In addition to the blessing of clothes, the acting skills of actor Yang Tingdong are the biggest plus. Therefore, it is not that Jing Yi is elusive, but the temperament of the actor himself is very changeable.
Not only in this drama, but also in the "My Beautiful Friend" broadcast at the same time, Yang Tingdong also perfectly interpreted what is called "changing clothes as if changing a person".
In "My Beautiful Friend", Qiao Haifeng, played by Yang Tingdong, is a frank and free journalist with ideals, sincere to friends and attentive to work.
Although there are not many scenes, he can make the audience remember this "small" role with frequent golden sentences.
Being remembered is obviously the greatest affirmation of an actor.
In fact, whether it is Jing Yi or Qiao Haifeng, the success of these two roles is largely due to Yang Tingdong's control of the role.
Yang Tingdong is an "old" actor.
In 2015, he entered the show business circle by starring in the science fiction comedy "Super Crazy Asylum", and has been in the film for many years, but Yang Tingdong's original intention of actors has always remained unchanged - "performance is only focused, there is no right or wrong".
Before Jing Yi in "Little Servant", Yang Tingdong had two impressive roles. One is Mo Fan in "Full-time Master", and the other is Xiao Fu in "No Failure to Live Up to Qing".
In 2019, the "Full-time Master" starring Yang Yang and Jiang Shuying was launched, and Yang Tingdong played Mo Fan only appeared in the middle of the plot broadcast, but this lonely role with few words won the love of the audience.
The reason why this role will be recognized and loved is because Mo Fan seems to be a flesh and blood person, not just a "paper man" in the play.
"Full-time Master" is a big IP drama, it has novels, comics, games, a wide audience, and there will be a lot of pressure to take over the roles here.
After receiving the role of Mo Fan, in order to better understand the role of Mo Fan, Yang Tingdong himself wrote a short biography of a character that was not in the original story.
In the biography, it is his understanding of the role of Mo Fan, and in his understanding, Mo Fan has definitely experienced a lot of betrayal, and only then has his current personality with a sense of alienation, isolation and even a little paranoia.
The character is controlled, which is not enough, Yang Tingdong also made a "design" in the character image.
Such as wearing headphones, headband, these are based on the original character, Yang Tingdong's own ideas, in order to highlight the character of this character from the details, so that the audience at a glance has a preliminary accurate impression of this role.
At the same time, the role of Mo Fan has obvious growth in the play, and in the process of teamwork, he has gradually changed from a state of habit of one-person walking to a team member who can discuss tactics with the team.
How to express the subtle changes of a person, Yang Tingdong uses micro-expressions to the extreme in the play.
At the team meeting of the Xingxin team to fight against Xuan Qi, Mo Fan's apparent state was still clenching his fists, sitting quietly in a chair, watching or being alienated from the team.
But in the close-up, his eyes are firm and the corners of his mouth are slightly sniffed, which is a sign of his trust in the team.
Counting further a few, in 2017, Yang Tingdong participated in "No Failure to Live Up to Qing", in which he played Xiao Fu is a person with a very extreme and contradictory personality, he has a flamboyant personality, debauchery, but his heart is sensitive, flammable and explosive.
For such a difficult role to control, Yang Tingdong still used his old method and devoted himself wholeheartedly, so that after the play was finished, he was still immersed in the role for a long time and could not get out.
Whether he has just started acting or has 6 years of acting experience, Yang Tingdong has his own set of "sayings" for acting.
In the words of Yang Tingdong, acting is one thing he has always been willing to stick to, because of love.
We are very fortunate that in today's era of high and low threshold for actors, we can meet such a young actor who is willing to act wholeheartedly.
For the identity of the actor, Yang Tingdong has the ultimate enthusiasm, using the most focused performance to interpret one role after another, whether there is a heart, the audience knows best.
And such actors, especially young actors, we really need it too much.
Finally, look forward to his new work "Made in China".
Bluestone Film Editorial Office | Old Meng
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