In 1997, the TV series "The Gate of the Mansion" suffered a huge setback when it was first planned.
Due to differences between director Guo Baochang and the capital, there were rumors of a change of director and withdrawal at the beginning of the filming of the crew.
Under the ridicule of many parties, the drama was suspended for several years.
It was not until 2000 that Guo Baochang reached a cooperation with CCTV, and "The Gate of the Big House" was remade.
Despite the toss and turns, the enthusiasm of the actors to participate in the performance has not diminished in the slightest, and they even pay a lot of price for getting the role.
Chen Baoguo deliberately left a schedule for taking over this play, which resulted in not taking over the play for three years, and in order to make a living, he did not hesitate to sell his house and wait.
In order to get the role of the second grandmother in the film, Schenkova lost 18 pounds in a month to meet the director's requirements.
The fifth generation of directors are more willing to run the dragon set for Guo Dao, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou shaved their heads for just a few minutes of scenes, and Tian Zhuangzhuang and others also appeared in the play.
Jiang Wen, who did not succeed in competing for the male lead, also asked for a cameo role from Guo Dao, although it was only 3 minutes, it was also quite brilliant.
A big reason for the big names to compete for the role is guo Baochang's prestige in the show business circle, and the other reason is the extremely brilliant script.
The script of "The Gate of the Great Mansion" began to be planned as early as the age of 16, which was written in conjunction with Guo Baochang's family experience.
After forty years of polishing, the manuscript was lost and burned three times in the middle, and the story was put on the big screen when it was planned.
And "The Gate of the Great Mansion" is also considered to be a condensation of the life's work of "Baoye" Guo Baochang.
In 2001, the drama achieved unprecedented success after its release on CCTV, winning the annual ratings championship with a crushing posture.
Until now, it still has a 9.4 score of bean-petal, which is regarded as the pinnacle of national dramas, and Guo Baochang's decades of hard work have not been in vain.
Although the aging "Baoye" did not have many subsequent works, just relying on the words of the big mansion door was enough to make him ascend to the highest throne of the national opera hall.
Just when people thought that Baoye was gradually fading out, 20 years after the release of the big mansion door, it is now.
Guo Baochang, who is over 80 years old, has once again come out of the mountains and recently landed on Shangxing Satellite TV with his new work "East Fourth Archway East".
Similar to "The Gate of the Great Mansion", the play also focuses on the rise and fall of a certain family in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and the strong quaint Beijing flavor and the occasional Peking Opera singing section in the play also make people vaguely think of "The Gate of the Great Mansion".
In terms of cast, this TV series is also full of points to watch, and the male protagonist is Fu Dalong, who has won the Golden Rooster and the Emperor of Huabiao.
He is widely regarded as a low-key powerhouse in show business, and this time he plays a playful late Qing Belle, and the rather noisy character design is a challenge for him.
The heroine Hao Lei plays tong Lihua in the late Qing Dynasty, and she and the protagonist Ha Lan have walked through the ups and downs hand in hand.
The drama also invited Veteran actors such as Li Chengru, Liu Peiqi, and Kou Zhenhai to star, and Yu Zhen, who has appeared many times in anti-Japanese dramas in recent years, also participated in it.
The low-key film emperor starred, and there were a number of acting strengths, old drama bones, plus the sign of "Guo Baochang", which made this drama attract a lot of people's attention.
Guo Baochang is also full of confidence in this, he once said that if there is a problem with the series, he is willing to accept criticism from the outside world:
If I Guo Baochang's drama is very bad, everyone can scold me and point out what the problem is very fair.
Earlier this month, the drama was launched on Beijing Satellite TV in a low-key manner. But a few days after it went online, it seemed to be too low-key and did not cause much heat.
Turning over the bean-petal comment area, there are many criticisms, including the main actor's design, plot logic, and even the director and main actor have been affected:
How did Fu Dalong's acting skills become like this?
The director is obsolete.
Why did such a high-profile TV series get such a rating after only a few episodes? Is this another work of a famous director who is not guaranteed?
Don't worry, let's take a look at the story first.
The plot of this drama runs through the timeline of decades, telling the story of the late Qing Dynasty aristocrat Ha Lan who revitalized his family in the ups and downs of the times.
Ha Lan (Fu Da Long) is a clumsy prince of Baylor Province, and his pampered habits since childhood have made him develop a provocative and provocative personality.
In his daily life, he is an infatuated species, and he and the stage Hua Dan Lou Xiaoyue (Dou Xiaoxuan) qingmei bamboo horse under the private life.
The two are in love but unable to resist the orders of their parents, and Old Master Ha (Kou Zhenhai) and the former Qing nobleman Tong Laoye (Li Chengru) reach a child-to-daughter marriage.
They strongly advocate Ha Lan and Tong Fu Ge Ge Tong Lihua (Hao Lei) to marry, and this love triangle has been torn off for a while...
On the other hand, the remnants of the former imperial palace are also surging undercurrents, and the former eunuch Wang Gonggong and his son Wang Sihai (Yu Zhen) covet the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty, intending to dig up graves and steal treasures.
The secret of the Tanglin Tomb, which contains the secret of the imperial tomb, inadvertently fell into the hands of Ha Lan, which caused great calamity to the Ha Province, and even caused the decline of the Ha Province.
Ha Lan lagged behind in the family road and contracted his playful personality, and with the help of Tong Lihua and others, gradually grew into a real head of the family...
From the characteristics of the era and the style of the story, the play is reminiscent of "The Gate of the Big House", but there is a gap visible to the naked eye between the two, and this fundamental gap stems from the script.
"The Gate of the Great Mansion" is a work polished by Guo Baochang in combination with his ancestral experience and over the past few decades, and it was under his dual control as a director and screenwriter that he created this phenomenon-level national drama.
In this "East Fourth Archway East", Guo Baochang no longer wears several positions, he mainly controls the whole drama as a director, and the plot is jointly managed by several screenwriters.
The plot "spoonman" has changed, and the taste of the drama has changed. Judging from the first few episodes, the plot problems of the show are indeed not small.
First of all, the most complained about is the male protagonist's "giant baby" persona, and Ha Lan, played by Fu Dalong, is a stupid brother who has nothing to do all day.
But the clumsiness does not mean stupidity, obviously the screenwriter misunderstood this, in the plot, the clumsy Ha Lan repeatedly showed a crying performance like a baby.
In the face of his father's scolding, Ha Lan repeatedly hid in his mother's arms and cried, which was not like a little Belle who was ready to get married, but like a doll that had not yet been weaned.
And when he heard the emperor's holy will, the people knelt down to receive the will, but he danced happily.
After only four episodes, many netizens said that they were not comfortable with such a noisy rich dragon.
Fu Dalong's acting skills have long been unquestionable, but under the plot setting, such a pompous role is indeed a challenge for him.
In the follow-up plot, the male protagonist's image becomes introverted after suffering hardships, and perhaps Fu Dalong will gradually enter a better state later.
The wind review set by the male protagonist may also be brought by opinion, but the dog blood plot is really difficult to say.
For example, under the male protagonist's stupidity, the female one and the two women can compete for him.
The heroine played by Hao Lei is a new-age woman who returned from studying abroad, but after she returned to China, she accepted the marriage arranged by her parents without much resistance.
Even if she knows that Ha Lan's personality is very provocative, she also said that she did not marry the other party, and said that she admired the truth of the other party...
The female second Lou Xiaoyue also has a special love for the male protagonist, as the first Dan in the capital, she sits on countless suitors, but she is also concerned about Ha Lan.
In the first four episodes, the two have repeatedly snubbed each other for the sake of their lover, and the hot-tempered female second hit back at Tong Lihua head-on, and even fought with The Lady.
The heroine Tong Lihua also secretly intimidated her love enemy in the way of clearly scolding the beard:
Others can be uncultured, but the servants in the house cannot be uncultured.
In the subsequent plot, the heroine also publicly swore "sovereignty" and said the following paragraph:
You are nice and beautiful, but I'm also excellent, and I have this confidence
This dog blood plot can't help but make people complain: this man is obviously so ordinary, why do you two want to "waste" this confidence?
The third slot is also that some of the plot is not logical...
For example, in the following plot, the father of the male protagonist gave Lou Xiaoyue a huge amount of 20,000 silver and two huge sums of money to ask the other party to leave his son.
However, after the woman learned that her father collected the money on her behalf, she took the silver ticket and directly tore it, and also said that she would fight for love.
Let's argue about it.
After receiving other people's money, she not only did not pay it back, but also tore it up, and she arrogantly said that "I can't do this."
It was so unreasonable that even Luo Xiang had to beat people when he heard it.
The above are the points that have been spat on the most by the outside world after the first four episodes of the show, but the slot points are far more than these.
The slightly bloated posture of the heroine Hao Lei has also been questioned, and in the film, she plays the age-appropriate married gege, but the overweight posture makes people play.
Historical records record that most of the Qing Dynasty Gege married at the age of 16 or even earlier, even if the Tong Gege in the play has a study abroad background of a few years older, but the approximate age will not exceed 20.
Therefore, the 43-year-old Hao Lei to play the young girl Gege is indeed a bit "bold", but also a little strong.
Although it has just been launched for a few episodes, this "East Fourth ArchWay East" has shown many problems, and in fact, its word-of-mouth collapse has long been foreshadowed.
The drama was close to being launched on Beijing Satellite TV in 2019, but it was canceled by the other party at the last moment, and the reason is unknown.
Last year, the drama was launched on local channels in Shanghai and other places, and the title was changed to "Wind and Rain Life".
Last year, only a small part of the audience watched the play, but the comment area also "fell" early, and now many high praise and bad reviews of bean-petals come from that period, which proves from the side that there seem to be still a lot of slots in the subsequent plot of the film.
To be fair, this "East Fourth Archway East" is not a complete perfunctory work.
From a variety of elaborate sets, costumes, and then to the lines with strong Beijing flavor, you can see Guo Baochang's kung fu, and it is rumored that he consulted the relevant historical materials for 2 years for this drama.
And from Guo Baochang's "over eighty years old and still out of the mountains to direct, and humbly accept criticism, to Fu Dalong out of his comfort zone to try an unpleasant screen image, to the 43-year-old Hao Lei trying to reverse the age difference to play a young girl."
At least to be sure, the main creators of this show still have the courage to try to challenge.
But as Guo Baochang said, there are deficiencies that can be criticized by the outside world.
The TV series is not well filmed, the audience should scold and scold, Guo Baochang finally "cheng" also script, "defeat" also script.
Only a few episodes online, can be caught by the outside world countless plot logic, dog blood places, this new drama began to "pounce" a little fiercely.
Compared with the "Big Mansion Door" 20 years ago, which has a tight plot logic, this drama is handed over to others to take care of the "East Fourth Arch Building East" and it is difficult to match the high expectations left by "Baoye".
The episodes currently aired are only the beginning of the whole series, and the period dramas often need a longer plot time span to see the good and the bad, perhaps we should maintain a certain patience with the show and watch a few more episodes.
The early stage of the TV series word of mouth is a bad signal, but can not be fixed on the whole drama, I hope that the drama can then avoid those speechless slots, against the wind slowly reverse the word of mouth.
Such a main creative lineup encountered word of mouth to make people feel "distressed", after all, no one wants to see the 81-year-old "Baoye" and 45-year-old Fu Dalong smashed the signboard because of this new drama.
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