What is the most beautiful TV series in China?
For this problem, some netizens said that it was "Daming Palace Words".
Ta even commented: "I can't think of it for a while, there are dramas that can be more beautiful than it in terms of lines, costumes, actors, and music." “
Although this evaluation is very high, I personally feel that this is not an over-reputation.
Because, thinking that the "Daming Palace Words" is beautiful is the consensus of the masses. The 9.1 points scored by more than 100,000 people on Douban are a good proof.
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When it comes to the beauty of "Daming Palace Words", the content can not avoid its aesthetic visual effects.
It burned the most agile Zhou Xun;
Chen Hong, the most dignified and atmospheric, Chuchu and moving;
Gui Yalei, who has the most kingly style and is not angry and threatening;
Zhao Wenxuan, the most angry;
He Lin, who has the most sense of jasper;
There are even the most delicate and tender Hu Jing and Li Bingbing.
Almost every picture in the TV series is like a beautiful movie, giving the audience an unforgettable enjoyment.
The formation of this visual feast is not only because of the beauty of the actors, but also because of the strictness of the director and the help of the artistic "big coffee".
During filming, in order to reproduce the momentum of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shaohong did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build a magnificent Daming Palace at the Beijing Film Studio.
For the props and ornaments in the play, she is also not ambiguous.
Necklaces and earrings are purchased from Dali and other places;
The requirements for copper mirrors that appear several times are: real materials;
As for the cold weapons, they are all real guys - hard metal.
Moreover, Li Shaohong also used many stunts to achieve the effect of being difficult to distinguish between true and false.
In the film, Wu Zetian saw Concubine Xiao Shufei holding a black cat in his sleep, the male pet burning the palace, the minister riding the crane playing the flute, and so on, all of which were completed under the condition of using computer special effects.
As a result, the "People's Daily Overseas Edition" in 2000 said that Li Shaohong was a female director who loved "means".
Then let's talk about why the "big coffee" who is "hidden" behind the scenes of "Daming Palace Words" is also Xu Ren.
It is said that its makeup sponsor is the famous Givenchy.
The stylist was led by Ye Jintian, a visual artist whom Li Shaohong had found in Taiwan (soon after, Li Shaohong recommended Ye Jintian to Ang Lee, and Ye collaborated with Li on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which later won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction).
In that year, according to the content of the play and the image temperament of the actors, Ye Jintian designed a number of gorgeous and gentle costumes for many characters such as Princess Taiping and Wu Zetian, so that the audience could feast their eyes.
The lotus flowers, peony screens, mother-child connection diagrams that appear in the play, and the statues of the Five Emperors of the Tang Dynasty were created by the painters Ren Gui'an and Fu Jiying.
Even if you have not watched "Daming Palace Words", just by knowing this strong cast and artist lineup, you should be able to judge that it is unlikely to look beautiful.
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Li Shaohong once said: When people are in love, the specific behavior is very secondary, the important thing is to feel, so we create a feeling in the play, and respect the appreciation habits of the nation, and will not express it nakedly.
Therefore, the entire "Daming Palace Words" also exudes the beauty of the atmosphere and the beauty of subtlety.
Here "wantonly" uses unrealistic "wind". The light dresses of the characters, the curtains in the room, and the mosquito nets on the beds are always fluttering and swaying with the wind.
In addition, Li Shaohong also uses elements such as water, lamps, and candlelight to make many details in the lens have the power to infect people's hearts.
Of course, the beauty of the atmosphere is often inseparable from the role of music. The soundtrack in "Daming Palace Words" is also remarkable.
"Prosperous Daming Palace", the atmosphere is magnificent, so that the listener can feel the charm of the luxurious and not exaggerated Tang Dynasty.
The melodious sound of the soundtrack "Mother" can lead us to experience the gentleness and elegance of Daming Palace.
When Taiping first saw Xue Shao, the "Long Shou Shou" sounded, as if he was sighing at the beautiful beauty of his heart, and seemed to be pouring out indescribable poignancy.
A song "Sweet", deep and long, seems to convey Taiping's lingering feelings for Xue Shao, which arouses people's reverie.
"Behind the Prosperity", which always appears in the shadow puppet play part, is permeated with a kind of sadness and helplessness that cannot be done...
These music that can reach people's hearts are mainly from the hands of musician Lin Hai.
Lin Hai has been praised by music critics as "left hand east, right hand west", "with Chopard temperament, and Debusi's laziness and elegance".
"Daming Palace Words Soundtrack" is the first film and television soundtrack independently created by Lin Hai, and he has devoted a lot of effort to it. The final presentation of the music can evoke the emotional identity of many audiences.
We will follow the melody, unconsciously walk into the inner world of the people in the play, and naturally follow them with joy, touch, and sorrow...
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The beauty of "Daming Palace Words" is more related to its core.
Before filming, Li Shaohong saw the "absurd and unscrupulous" Wu Zetian in some books, and she did not want to present women in the center of power in her own plays, but hoped to tell a female story with characteristics and full of strength.
To achieve her goal, she selected two young screenwriters. One is a very different and pure Shakespeare theater fan Solemn, and the other is Wang Wei, who later participated in writing film and television scripts such as "Orange Red" and "Crazy Racing".
A solemn cameo as a Turkic prince
When he first saw the screenwriter, Li Shaohong stressed: The lines must be distinctive enough to form their own style.
Then, the screenwriter went back to writing the script.
However, the line they wrote was: upside down + upside down + upside down, like the sentences written by Shakespeare. It was not in line with Li Shaohong's original wishes.
Despite this, Zheng Zheng and Wang Yao were very insistent on themselves. In order to impress Director Li, the two actually lit candles on the night of the power outage, read the lines themselves, and interpreted the plot.
Li Shaohong experienced the charm from their interpretation, and only then agreed to use the language of long poems to show the joys and sorrows of the characters in the play.
But after a while, the two screenwriters encountered a bottleneck. They racked their brains and didn't write a word in two months.
When Li Shaohong saw this situation, he was anxious and had to force them to continue writing.
Then, there was the incident of "forcing the screenwriter away".
Fortunately, the screenwriters only "escaped" for one day and then returned.
Li Shaohong has since given them greater freedom, and she did not frame the script with rules and regulations, but only emphasized: "I need your imagination, more than your experience." ”
Excellent, always able to be forced out by reality. The script of "Daming Palace Words" is like this.
The main line of the script, under the screenwriter's insistence on exerting ingenuity and painstaking creation, successfully changed from the story of Princess Taiping alone to the story of wu Zetian and princess Taiping.
The focus of the play has also been successfully changed to the contradiction between women's feelings and power.
As a result, we can see from the play a lot of the domineering side leaks of Wu hou, such as: after the minister said "I can't stand your mess", he shouted: "Pass the imperial doctor!" I want him to live to be a hundred years old, and I want him to see what is natural and what is normal, all of which can be changed! ”
However, such a woman with great desire and ambition for power also has many moments when her face flashes soft light, for example, when she recalls her first encounter with her husband Li Zhi;
When visiting Xiao Taiping, who "committed suicide" because he missed himself...
We can also see the sadness of Princess Taiping, who relied on her parental power to exchange marriage but could not love her—"All the self-confidence and maturity I have accumulated over the past few days have been ruthlessly dismembered by the reality in front of me." I became the ignorant young girl who knew nothing about feelings again. “
And, her love and hatred for her mother are intertwined, "Fighting my own mother is painful, but I must choose to fight." I will finally prove to her that her domineering is the origin of her own suffering. I knew that I was the only one in the world who could completely defeat her spiritually. ”
Anyway, the images of the two heroines are very vivid and three-dimensional, making it difficult for you to say a word to them.
Happily, the screenwriter is not only willing to spend time writing the protagonist, but also seriously when writing supporting roles.
There are many unforgettable supporting roles in "Daming Palace Words". For example, there is a traditional, kind side, and a cold, greedy side of Merriam-Webster;
Zhang Yizhi, who is keen on "playing with women", but has a reason;
Even the characters of the "Running Dragon Set" have highlight moments.
Even a "child prostitute" can make a deafening, crazy voice for love;
Even a little maid who only shows one side and dies in place of her master has a more specific and touching inner monologue...
In short, both the master and servant in the play are flesh and blood people, and they have their own reasons as a support for anything they do.
These living people, on the stage of power and emotion, vividly display the good and evil of human nature.
When we viewers enjoy the ups and downs of the plot, the seeds of tolerance in our hearts may be activated, so as to bloom more of the beauty of human nature.
In recent years, although the costume dramas on the Internet and on television have been dazzling, I miss the irreproachable beauty in "Daming Palace Words".
Thanks to it, it shows a beautiful picture of the life of the Tang Dynasty Palace, which satisfies our imagination of the Sheng Tang Dynasty at the same time, but also gives us an extremely novel and breathless feeling.
"Daming Palace Words" is really a flower, magnificent and wonderful.
Author: Xiao Dayu
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