Chapter 10: The Dharma

"Let's take a look at Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao: Yi Xiaochuan's character, some of his behaviors and thoughts, all point to four words: go with the flow. However, Gaoyao's purpose is very clear, and he has been working hard for it. Yi Xiaochuan's body also has some shining points. Righteousness and bravery, ancient road warm-heartedness, unyielding, hot-blooded and upright...... and handsome. But this character looks cheerful and cheerful, but the deepest part of the character is actually soft. After he arrived in the Qin Dynasty, almost everything was pushed away. fell into the law field at the beginning, so he got acquainted with Xiang Yu's faction, and then apprenticed, learned martial arts, and became acquainted with the father and daughter of the Lu family after leaving the school, all of which can be regarded as half-pushed and half-done (saving Xiang Yu and saving Lu Su is due to his character, not active consciousness). Originally, Yi Xiaochuan had an active purpose, that is, to go home, so it was okay before leaving the school, but after walking with the Lu family's father and daughter, he seemed to have forgotten about this one...... Busy flirting with sisters and playing, helping the Lu family run a academy, and finally ran away because I couldn't face the Lu sisters... This reason is really hell.,If it weren't for the big male protagonist's passive skill beauties would fall in love with me trigger.,I really don't know when he'll end the Lu Clan's copy.。。。 Let's fast-forward the plot, followed by the Tuan dungeon. In this plot, Yi Xiaochuan performed well. I even think that the Tu'an plot is the highest moment of Yi Xiaochuan in the whole myth. From fighting tigers to unite the captives together, to taking the initiative to compete with General Tu'an to win life for everyone, the shining points of this character in the whole process: wisdom and bravery, affection and righteousness, are highlighted. Then back to the Qin Dynasty, this character began to collapse all the way. Whether it was being a military attache guarding the city gate (sorry I forgot my name), or later taking charge of the Mengjia army, or being entangled with Yushu, the soft side of his character was not only shown, but also infinitely magnified, such as getting drunk after Yushu entered the palace at the beginning. Baoju Xiantang is because of Meng Tian's entrustment and his own character, he was forced to take charge of the Meng family's army, and he was forced to give up Yushu. As a general, does he have the same sense of responsibility and mission as Meng Tian for the Qin Dynasty, no; As a later Wenchen, is he interested in Kuang Fu Qin Shi Huang or simply overthrowing the Qin Dynasty, no; As a modern person who knows Zhao Gao's influence on the world, is he interested in going against Gao Yao, and no, he only intends to stop Gao Yao when he kills people, which is also a character factor. Yi Xiaochuan's experience in the Qin State can be summed up in four words - come and come...... He was pushed into one position, and then he thought, well, since that's the case, he has to do a good job, so he worked hard until he was pushed into another position. In the plot after Tuan, he has always restrained himself. How can a protagonist who has been pushed forward by others be liked by the audience? His original personality was unfettered and longed for freedom and followed his heart, but he ended up restraining himself for one reason or another. A character who can restrain his desires is also very moving, but Yi Xiaochuan is not, he seems to be very bitter, but he gives people the impression of being very stupid. Because he restrains himself, it is not the initiative to achieve any purpose or the responsibility he bears, but it is forced. He was pushed around by a pair of hands, swept up by the torrent of history, he didn't think about grasping his own direction, the only thing he did was to keep his boat from capsizing, and he couldn't see a little purpose, resistance and indomitable upward force, and even his somewhat cynical and unruly vitality as a modern person at the beginning was also smoothed out. And then what, because

"The inevitability of history", the few things he tried to do, most of them ended in failure, such a protagonist is really a bit funny.

Gao Yao is different. Before he became a eunuch, he suddenly realized that the reins of fate were in his hands, so he seized every opportunity to climb up.

When he heard that there was a shortage of cooks in the palace, he immediately recommended himself (although he became a eunuch because of his lack of historical knowledge), and when he heard that the cooks were all shirking each other and not daring to serve Hu Hai, he also took the initiative to step forward.

As a modern man, he also has

"Hanging", that is the cuisine cooking skills that ancient people could not imagine. He uses his strengths, seizes every opportunity to the extreme, and is not satisfied with what has been achieved, but always has a sense of crisis, grasps all reliable people and develops his own strength.

Many people were moved by Gao Yao because he said that he wanted to climb up on the night when he broke up with Yi Xiaochuan, but I was initially moved by this character because he had just become a eunuch, and the one he cut off hung on the highest place and said that even a eunuch should be the highest eunuch.

He was also swept into the torrent of history and pushed forward by fate, but his purpose and initiative were many times higher than Yi Xiaochuan's.

Even the hatred for each other is even stronger, and after taking refuge in Liu Bang, he remembered to pit Yi Xiaochuan before leaving.

And love and hate are also more decisive and simple, if you like your sister, you will be unconditionally good to your sister, protect her unconditionally, and if you hate Yi Xiaochuan and those who have harmed you, you will not hesitate to kill each other.

Although he is a villain, the struggle and unyielding he shows are like what a time-traveling protagonist should be.

And why the choice of two people is like this, aside from the personality factor, I think it is the attitude of two people towards history.

Yi Xiaochuan's choice was to be a bystander. This character gives me the impression that he is an outsider all along, and that he positions himself in this way.

His affection for the Qin Dynasty was limited to a few fixed people, and even later he was a native of the Qin Dynasty like Gao Yao.

He neither wants to change history nor promote history, and his feelings are also very strong, but they are all separated by a layer, and I think that a hidden character of this character is actually indifferent, so he can let go of love and hate, and the changes have nothing to do with him.

Maybe his father and brother in the history department subtly influenced him. Gao Yao, since he learned that he was Zhao Gao, his action and purpose have become clearer.

Yi Xiaochuan's reaction to being Meng Yi was resistance, and he never accepted this identity in his heart from beginning to end.

But Gao Ruo accepted it ecstatically, and in this period of history of the Qin Dynasty, he behaved actively and actively.

Yi Xiaochuan basically complied

In the "Why some villains are more likable than the protagonists" table, the protagonist who has no purpose of his own and whose only goal is to prevent the villain from achieving his ideals (which he doesn't even meet).

The role of this character is probably what the screenwriter wants to use to reflect the powerlessness of personal efforts in history.

There's nothing wrong with this setting, but the problem is that the character doesn't show his own efforts and struggles at all, or rather, it's not strong enough, and the audience doesn't feel that sense of fate, but only feels that the protagonist is too wretched.

If you want me to say, it's better to let Yi Xiaochuan become Zhao Gao. If you want to talk about darkness, tragic beauty, and fatalism, it is much more interesting to see how a good person who has become a notorious big bad guy tries hard to change his destiny and do good deeds, but by coincidence, he has contributed to a tragedy and becomes a big devil step by step, than to see how a good person becomes another good person, wants to do good things, but fails. ”