Since the broadcast of the annual drama "Qing Ping Le" produced by Noon Sunshine, both the ratings and social topics have not reached the popularity of the "Langya Bang" style, and it is not even as hot as last year's "All Good". Many people believe that the drama has maintained the top level of the noon sunshine at the technical level such as the service road, but the overall lack of drama conflict and the slow rhythm have led to the decline of the audience ’s "endurance" in the drama. Should "Qing Ping Le" really hit the street?
"Qing Ping Le" is adapted from the novel "The Lonely City". The play abandons the original narrative perspective, and instead takes Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen as the center, reflecting the "renzong shengzhi", which is the most literary yearning in history, from multiple angles. The whole play is like a world with three sides folded: the front is Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan , Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi, Su Shunqin and other literary ancestors have a solemn and stern hall, with a complex emotional world interwoven by Zhao Zhen and Queen Cao, Princess Guifei, Miao Zhaoyi, and Princess Huirou in the harem on the back, and the middle is a checkered The cross-section of a bustling and hustle and bustle society composed of tiles, restaurants, shops and rural areas. The height of the temple and the distance from the rivers and lakes, the secular market and the spiritual home are sketched out by the director in a meticulous manner. I think that the biggest highlight and innovation of Qingpingle is that the director tries to restore the image of "benevolence" in Chinese traditional culture with realism, which is unique and courageous. Such intentional work should not be far from Buried.
Putting the first perspective on Song Renzong shows that the director is not satisfied with the small pattern of showing the love of the children in the novel, but is trying to make the Northern Song Dynasty's national power a thousand years ago so strong, and what is the rule of governance Said. This kind of "Tao" is actually the idea of "people are the most valuable, community is second, and monarch is the light" in Confucian culture. How to express this "Tao" is actually very difficult. It cannot be a boring political essay, nor can it be limited to individual historical details, but it can be used to judge military affairs in the court of the emperor, the emperor goes to the merchants to check the practice of preserves, and is mixed into the general audience to listen to his own story, and even hold his mouth. In order to treat others generously, to accept criticisms before criticizing himself, etc., from these different dimensions, the internal texture and cultural soil produced by "Renzong Shengzhi" are outlined. The TV series no longer shows the supremacy of the imperial power, but shows the audience a kind of king power restricted from the inside out, emphasizing the traditional thought of "people are the basis of the country". This distanced the drama from the court dramas that were keen on expressing the powers of court fighting and competing for jealousy, and restored the bustling ideal world a thousand years ago.
This drama also has a bright spot-the vivid expression of the Northern Song literati. Since the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, it has absorbed the tragedy of the Tang Dynasty due to the separatist rule of the feudal towns, and adopted the strategy of valuing literary power with little force, forming a characteristic political structure of "co-governance with scholars and officials". What is a warrior? "Scholars, the vitality of the country, and the spirit of the world." In addition, Song Renzong's inaction and ruling created the situation of cultural prosperity and talents at that time. "The wonderful group portrait: Han Qi dared to look at the current affairs in front of the emperor, and dared to confront the prime minister Lu Yijian after entering the court; Yan Shu has the loyalty, the power to turn the tide, and the status as a state official, as well as the rhythm of Futian Qin. On the other hand, Fan Zhongyan, who is the leader of Qingliu, is even more impressive. He appeared in front of Yingtianfu Academy as a farmer and debated what was a "rite". It was full of innovation and was able to enter the river smoothly after being demoted. Drinking water and drinking, the literati's open-mindedness overflows off the screen; the young Ouyang Xiu is outstanding and reckless, but he does not want to encounter the imperial examination of Waterloo because of his erotic words, which makes people can't help but be the first. It was so vivid and subtle, and by the way, popularized humanistic knowledge, so that the name in the Chinese textbook jumped on the paper, and the deep literati background of the play was laid. Their "sorry for both advance and retreat" and "first worry and second pleasure" spirit and peerless demeanor are bridges connecting the temple and the people, and they are also a vent for serious and repressed court life.
Literati-style film and television dramas have always been unpopular. From Tang poetry to Song Ci, from Li Bai to Su Shi, there are very few film and television works that dare to use literati as the protagonist. On the one hand, although the ancient literati mostly used their names for writing, but their own stories lacked a sense of action and drama, they were not suitable for adaptation. The success of the foreign "Shakespeare in Love" also came mainly from the drama structure of "Romeo and Juliet"; on the other hand The difficult ancient poems in the play, and the semi-literary lines of dialogue, did raise the threshold for reading. The above two factors, combined with the huge volume of 69 episodes, are the important reasons for the "Wan Ping Le" ratings. However, the success of a good drama should never be based solely on ratings, but on whether it has the spirit of the times and the humanistic connotation that can withstand years of washing. Throughout the history of drama, the ratings of Daming Dynasty 1566, known as the pinnacle of historical costume drama, were also terrible.
At present, the creation of realistic themes is the mainstream, and the costume dramas are cold in the market, mainly related to the audience's aesthetic fatigue caused by the obsolete values of the costume dramas and the subject matter. Costume dramas need to accelerate the transformation of creation. At the moment when the overall level of technology is improved, the competition of costume dramas is no longer the exquisiteness of the service road, but the inherent sense of innovation and excellent quality. "Qing Ping Le" in the fast-food culture is very popular, cool drama, sweet favorite drama is popular nowadays, in a daily realist way to panoramic perspective of the Northern Song Dynasty society, insist on "immersive" expression, form a "slow" rhythm, show the traditional Chinese spirit, this It is not easy to create courage, such a good drama should also be encouraged!
Hu Xiang