Before the broadcast, clear-eyed people knew that "Great Song Palace Words" would pounce, but no one expected that it would pounce so hard.
Li Shaohong's costume legend drama "Great Song Palace Words" has been broadcast for 16 episodes, and the Douban score has plummeted from 6.1 at the beginning of the broadcast to 4.1 points, and since then it has been hovering around 4 points, and has now fallen below 4 points (3.9).
This drama from the story to the lines, from the editing to the performance, is a disaster, it is recommended to have curiosity in time and do not easily click.
The reason why the rating of this drama has never seen before, and its title "Touching Porcelain" Director Li Shaohong's "Fengshen Works" "Daming Palace Words" has a lot to do with it.
Or the Douban 9.1 "Daming Palace Words" is too successful, and the emergence of the "Great Song Palace Words" also shows a fact:
Li Shaohong has already "fallen" to the altar.
In 1978, Li Shaohong, who only had a primary school education, was admitted to the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy and became classmates with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Gu Changwei.
After that, she naturally became one of the representatives of the fifth generation of Directors in China.
China's "fifth generation of directors" refers to young directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the 1980s.
These directors, who have experienced the period of great social turmoil in China and received professional training in the era of reform and opening up, are particularly sensitive to new ideological expression and new artistic techniques, and strive to make new breakthroughs in material selection, narrative, character portrayal, lens use, and picture processing.
This generation of directors has thus become the representative of the "cultural people" directors in the hearts of many people.
In 1986, Chen Kaige filmed "The Child King" on Douban 8.7 and won the Special Award for Director at the 8th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film.
In 1988, Zhang Yimou took out his first film "Red Sorghum", which won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.
In the same year, Li Shaohong's first independent film work was also born - "Silver Snake Murder".
The film set a record for the highest number of copies after its screening in 1988 and became one of the highest-grossing films of the year, but compared to her classmates' two award-winning works, "Murder of the Silver Snake" is really "different".
Because of the large number of exposed shots and excessive rendering of violence, it was interviewed and removed from the shelves by radio and television shortly after its release, and it was also labeled as "inappropriate for children".
Four years later, Li Shaohong brought the realist film "Bloody Morning", which really made her famous, which won the Gold Award for Best Film at the 14th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival in France.
The film is based on García Márquez's "A Murder Case With Premeditated Publicity", but Li Shaohong only borrows a shell to make a drastic localization of the story content, and finally tells an absurd tragedy caused by the strong sexual conservatism in the closed environment of the husband-power society.
After that, her film works such as "Forty Not Confused", "Red Pink", "Red Suit", "Door" and so on have won individual awards in Chinese and foreign film festivals.
With the achievements in film, Li Shaohong began to contact long-form TV series.
In 1996, Li Shaohong directed her first TV series "Thunderstorm", and four years later, she ushered in the peak of her TV drama career " Daming Palace Words".
"Daming Palace Words" has been filmed in terms of visual effects, character lines and narrative structure.
Shakespeare's aria-style lines, illusory pictures, exquisitely shaped characters, classical music, coupled with the accurate portrayal of women in the center of power in the story, made Li Shaohong a hit.
Among them, the use of shadow puppetry several times is even more divine.
After this drama, "high sense" became one of Li Shaohong's style labels, and also put her on the "altar".
2 years later, Li Shaohong hit the iron while it was hot and used the original team of "Daming Palace Words" to create another very stylish TV series "Orange Red".
Because of the background of the story era, compared with the obedience, charm, and wind flow of "Daming Palace Words", the story of "Orange Red" is heavier and more gloomy.
After combining with Li Shaohong's heavy atmosphere, heavy lens language, and attention to listening effects, the taste of Tang Dynasty romance and amorousness is less, but it becomes gloomy and strange.
In fact, as long as "Orange Red" is not too bad, Li Shaohong can always stay on the altar. After all, "Daming Palace Words" is really good, enough for her to stay on the altar and be admired all the time.
It is undeniable that Li Shaohong did stay on the "altar", but her departure has long been traceable.
In 2002, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is preparing for a remake.
Although before the 21st century, one of the four famous works, "Dream of the Red Chamber", had been filmed many times, and the best reputation was the version (hereinafter referred to as the 87 version) filmed by Wang Fulin in 1987.
Nowadays, it seems that this drama is no longer necessary to compare, but at that time, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was not universally recognized.
Some red scholars believe that this version is too realistic and realistic, and loses the overall artistic style and charm of the original work.
At the time of the shooting of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", due to the limitations of the times and technology, director Wang Fulin really focused on realism, rather than dreaming.
Not only did it delete scenes with feudal superstitious factors such as the too illusory realm and the yinji in the original work, but also appropriately added or deleted plots to make the plot development more in line with reality.
Since it is necessary to reshoot, of course, it is best to make up for the regrets of that year, and finally, the burden of remaking "Dream of the Red Chamber" fell on Li Shaohong.
In fact, for the filming of the TV series "Dream Sense", Li Shaohong is indeed very good at it.
Especially after the success of "Daming Palace Words" and "Orange Red", it proves that Li Shaohong's "good" poetic style TV series still has room for survival.
So the huge preparation of the new "Dream of the Red Chamber" began, first for a year, with more than 400,000 participants in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" audition, and then in the scene reconstruction is also quite a effort.
The original budget of the play was 118 million, and the actual investment in the end exceeded 200 million, even exceeding the new version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
After nearly two years of shooting, on September 2, 2010, the veil of the "New Red Chamber" was finally lifted.
That night, the 50-episode "Dream of the Red Chamber" began to be broadcast nationwide on Beijing Satellite TV and Anhui Satellite TV, and on the night of the opening broadcast, it also set a record for the highest local ratings on Beijing Satellite TV.
Unexpectedly, the good times were not long, and the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was greatly criticized by the audience after the first round of short hits.
The new "Dream of the Red Chamber" has been criticized from all sides, some saying that the script has not carried out artistic conversion, some saying that the casting is out of line with the description in the book, some saying that the shape of the copper coin head is incompatible with the real scene, and some saying that the musical style is inconsistent with the original setting.
Even the exquisite props that the drama side is proud of have also made ironic mistakes.
Yes, the new "Dream of the Red Chamber" does achieve the "complement" of the old version on the screen, and the too illusory realm also uses special effects to make the picture.
But in addition to satisfying the audience's senses in the details of the scene, it misses the most important point of the TV series - the text.
Li Shaohong said in an interview with "Phoenix Extraordinary Tao" that she was not very familiar with "Dream of the Red Chamber".
If you are not familiar with it, how do you shoot it?
Li Shaohong replied: "The ignorant are fearless, and your ignorance is your strength." ”
So she gathered a group of young screenwriters who were familiar with the original work and spent 3 months writing the first draft of the 50 episodes of the new Red Chamber.
If you have seen the new Red Chamber friends should have some experience, this version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be called the most "restored" novel adaptation in history, the lines in the play are basically copied from the original, almost no TV processing.
It can be said that in addition to a great "leap" in production costs, this version of the Dream of the Red Chamber is not comparable to the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in other aspects.
It is precisely because of this "fearlessness of the ignorant" pursued by Li Shaohong that the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was immediately repulsed by the audience's reputation after it was broadcast.
At that time, there were many disgusting voices on the Internet, and even literary director Yang Yichao published an article in his blog called "Who will" block the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber"? " article
In that era when everything was dare, Li Shaohong also took the lead actor in the play to the show, ready to take this opportunity to save face.
Unexpectedly, the problems of the reporters on the scene were all suspicious, and in a hurry, Li Shaohong even "went crazy" at the scene of the program.
Even so, the reputation of the new "Dream of the Red Chamber" has not been saved.
Perhaps because this blow was too big, in the next seven or eight years, Li Shaohong did not independently direct any works, movies, TV series, not a single.
Until this "Great Song Palace Words".
At the beginning of the preparation of "The Words of the Great Song Palace", the story about the Song Dynasty did not have a special long story to interpret.
It just so happens that Empress Liu of the Song Dynasty is also a woman with quite rich experience and legend, all of which is in line with the template of "Daming Palace Words".
Li Shaohong seems to see the existence of another "explosive model".
However, the success of "Daming Palace Words" is both inevitable and accidental, it gathers the heavens, places, and people, creates a divine work, and at the same time becomes an existence that cannot be copied.
Moreover, the power and lack of attention to the text are even more prominent in the "Great Song Palace Words".
It has neither the escort of the screenwriting team nor the blessing of the original book, and the lines in the play even frequently have low-level errors.
And such a mistake that cannot be ignored cannot be compensated for with no matter how exquisite the picture is.
Seeing this, looking back at the three TV series masterpieces directed by Li Shaohong, "Daming Palace Words", "Orange Red", and the new "Dream of the Red Chamber", you will find:
From "The New Red Chamber" to "The Words of the Great Song Palace", the "filter" of Li Shaohong's "cultural person" director was completely broken.
The "Poetic" style of "Shakespeare's Poetry" on the text of "Daming Palace Words" has a great credit to find Zheng Zheng and Wang Yao.
It is said that when she first came into contact with the script of "Daming Palace Words", Li Shaohong did not understand the taste of the text, and was worried that the Western classical style could not be accepted by the audience.
Later, the screenwriters took her into the "Little Black Room", lit a candle, and blindfolded her eyes with a red cloth, reproducing the classic scene of the flirtation between Princess Taiping and Zhang Yizhi in the play.
Only then did she understand the love and beauty contained in the script.
After maintaining the standard of "Orange Red", the screenwriter is still Solemn and Wang Yao.
Therefore, we think that Li Shaohong's style, in fact, the most contributed to the screenwriter, once there is no blessing from the screenwriter, Li Shaohong's representative work has become a new "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Compared with these TV series, Li Shaohong's strengths are obvious.
She can change through multiple angles of lens and unique use of light and shadow to create a "fantasy-like reality" sense of dream.
But in other words, "form is greater than content".
Wang Qiang once mentioned Li Shaohong's "Daming Palace Words" in the book "TV Series Creation":
"Li Shaohong's 'Daming Palace Words' is very exquisite in terms of sound and picture processing, but the real success of 'Daming Palace Words' cannot be measured by traditional audiovisual aesthetic values."
Speaking of this, whether Li Shaohong should start to work on the "text" in her own works, or continue to eat the old book by keeping her proud "style", perhaps she understands it better than we do.
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