Chapter 106: The Silence of the Lambs
"God of Gamblers" is popular, but no matter how popular it is, it can't compare to "The Year the Flowers Bloom and the Moon is Full" screened during the Spring Festival, this divine drama that subverts all the current TV drama models quickly grabbed the top spot in the ratings of the entire Asian region once it was broadcast.
In the Xiangjiang area, since the first episode was screened, it has not slipped by 90%, which makes Wireless and Jiayi want to cry without tears. When the second episode was screened on Wandao China Television, the audience hotline was blown up, and some professors in the history field of Wandao praised this TV series for really reproducing the customs and customs of the late Qing Dynasty. The people of the island countries and South Korea have a great love for this drama, and they have also set off a wave of learning Chinese culture. As for the Huaxia mainland, after the CCTV broadcast, the highest ratings once reached 99%, which is simply terrifying, Wang Jie knows that there will be a divine drama "Desire" in the future, which once captured the entire Huaxia ratings, but he didn't expect to get this honor in advance.
"The Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full That Year" was praised by many people, especially female writers, and the talented girl Li Bihua wrote in "Ming Pao": In "The Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full That Year", Zhou Ying's real legend is actually the awakening of women in the big era. The history of "The Flowers Bloomed That Year" is fluid, and the Wu family has irreversibly been under the storm of the times, and has to face the alternation of the old and new eras. And the relay of the historical turning point, "The Flowers Bloomed That Year" was completed by Zhou Ying alone.
The characters in "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full" are vivid and logically self-consistent - there is no love for no reason, and there is no hate for no reason, the characters' behavior is reasonable, well-founded and measured, and they are not frequently hung up by virtue of the protagonist's aura.
The plot is fast-paced, the main line is clear, and there is no side line for water injection - such as the intrigue between the maids and the troubles of passers-by. In "The Flowers Bloom That Year", the maids are no different from the normal appearance of today's service industry, except for pulling each other's skins when they work. Even after Zhou Ying became a "young grandmother" by mistake, she still sincerely wished her blessings. However, the gradual accumulation of misunderstanding and hatred between the Wu and Shen families makes it difficult for you to stand in line; even if it is Du Mingli, who seems to be black-bellied and sowing discord, you only feel puzzled, and you want to quickly follow up the plot to find out, but you can't hate him; Chen Daoming, the magistrate, is upright, and he was originally crazy about his favor, but he inevitably used the means of torture to extract confessions...... In short, the characters are three-dimensional and multi-faceted, which not only depends on the shaping of actors, but also requires the screenwriter to figure out human nature.
The emotional and business war scenes are clear, focusing on shaping the image of Qin businessmen
Emotional drama, watching Zhou Ying marry into the Wu family, has drawn a clear line with the number of paths that are favored by thousands of people by virtue of their appearance or personality. The Hu family regretted their marriage, and the auspicious time should not be missed, Zhou Ying only wanted to save people at that time, completely out of "righteousness" rather than love, and this "righteousness" was not possessed by other women present. Wu Ping, who is in a coma, likes Zhou Ying, but he has not yet broken through the consciousness of secular prejudice for her. And from Wu Weiwen's desperate "sedan chair", you can hear the state of mind of the broken boat. The screenwriter cleverly exploited the urgency of the situation, rather than talking about love - if it weren't for the time-limited mission, this marriage that defies class barriers would simply not have come true.
The business war scene in the play is also a pure game of interests and power - if you are not led by the emotional drama, you can really see the business war. Unlike the Mary Sue drama, it is basically a war provoked by a woman. There are many episodes of "labeling" Qin Shang, such as Wu Weiwen angrily reprimanding Zhou Ying and using azalea leaves instead of blood exhaustion medicine, which is not reduced but dishonest, which not only ignites the clever Zhou Ying, but also highlights Qin Shang's business by the way. and on the night of the tent soup kitchen, Zhao Baishi said, "I thought that these two (Wu Ping and Shen Xingyi) were both mercenary, but I didn't expect that there was also a warm side of the ancient road", and his subordinates said, "Although Qin Shang focuses on business on weekdays, his neighbors are still very enthusiastic as long as they are in trouble." Not to mention these two, Wu Ping proposed to pledge 300 taels of silver from each family, and all the wealthy businessmen have echoed it, and later seven or eight wealthy businessmen followed suit. The group portrait of Qin Shang is gradually established with the deepening of the plot.
Zhou Ying's legend is no longer attached to men
And Zhou Ying is on the way to growing into a legendary Qin businessman. The prototype of its character is the representative of the Qin merchants in the late Qing Dynasty, "An Wu Widow". Although many of the stories broadcast are basically fictional, the prototype Zhou Ying is the daughter of a businessman, not an artist, and it is impossible to have training opportunities in the apprenticeship, let alone Shen Xingyi, a chaotic peach blossom. The prototype Zhou Ying was widowed after marrying into the Wu family for a year, but she was good at management, supporting and growing the Wu family's industry, and climbing to the top of the male-dominated business empire at that time.
In an era when women marry on the basis of "the words of the matchmaker at the behest of their parents" and listen to the arrangements of their masters after being sold into slavery, she questioned, "I can't think about my own life's events?" The woman could not enter the apprenticeship and could not do business, and she questioned, "Why can't women do business?" Women yearn to be a young grandmother who does not worry about food and clothing, and she questioned again, "People are all for food and clothing in this life?"
Therefore, Zhou Ying's real legend is actually the awakening of women in the big era.
Another talented woman in Hong Kong, Lin Yanni, wrote in the "Oriental Daily": "The Flowers Bloomed That Year and the Moon Was Full", as a film and television work based on a female perspective, is no longer a simple Mary Sue character in the big heroine. The general costume dramas of the house category are more dignified and old-fashioned in tone, focusing on black and gray tones, but the play, as a house door play, has a light tone and bright colors, conveying a relaxed and pleasant feeling to the audience. I especially love the episode "Wishful Thinking" in the play, I heard that it was written and composed by Director William and sung by Zhang Guorong, which made me admire Director William's talent again. The song "Because of Love" in "The Love of Ghosts" still haunts my ears to this day, and I believe that Mr. William can become a master even if he is not a director and concentrates on creating music.
"The Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full That Year" made Hu Huizhong and Liu Dehua popular all over Asia, and the two already had a reputation comparable to Zhang Guorong, Zhou Yunfa and others. Now among the small characters of DreamWorks, Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei have taken the lead.
As soon as the Lantern Festival passed, Wang Jie took the whole family to leave Xiangjiang and return to Los Angeles, followed by Zeng Jiang and Ren Dahua, this time Wang Jie wanted to shoot the horror film that created the Oscar miracle in the original time and space - "The Silence of the Lambs"
Wang Jie hopes to use this film to create a miracle, an award miracle that belongs only to Chinese actors.