□ Liu Yuhan
Within 10 days of its broadcast, the number of views of "Menghualu" exceeded 1.5 billion.
However, as the ratings skyrocketed, word of mouth declined.
In the recent plot, the group portraits of women inspiring entrepreneurship and the turbulent battles in the courtroom have temporarily disappeared from the assembly line, and they have been making candy around the hero and heroine.
It would be a waste of resources and subject matter to use such a gorgeous set and excellent actors just to make an ancient puppet drama with good quality.
At present, "Menghualu" has been broadcasted for more than half, and the first 20 episodes, Guan Hanqing's original work "Zhao Paner Fengyue Save the Wind and Dust" supported most of the plot, and the prosperous beauty of the hero and heroine and the director's advanced aesthetics have suffered from "ancient puppet clown drama" "The poisoned audience washed their eyes, so everyone gave "Meng Hualu" "revengeful praise", so that the Douban score soared from 8.3 points at the opening to 8.8 points, almost zero negative comments.
But after the essence of the original book is exhausted and the emotional carnival begins, how should the plot of the next 20 episodes be supported?
The current Douban score of "Meng Hualu" has dropped to 8.7 points, which is caused by many reasons.
In recent episodes, career and friendship lines have given way to love scenes.
After the male and female protagonists have gone through the extreme pulling of the ambiguous period, they have entered the honeymoon period of private life and mutual confession.
On Tencent Video's exclusive broadcast platform, the original C-position poster of the three sisters was also replaced with a couple poster of Zhao Paner and Gu Qianfan.
But the love scene is sweet and sweet, but it also seems suspended and light.
In the play, Zhao Pan'er encounters a new crisis - being arrested into the Imperial City Division and confronting Gao Jianbo. These are no longer resolved by her own heroic ingenuity, but by Gu Qianfan's timely "protection of his wife".
The "double clean" configuration in the play has also been criticized a lot.
Gu Qianfan swore to Zhao Pan'er, "I've never had a little lady, and I've never played a show." Zhao Pan'er said that after he fell into the dust, he was arranged to be the accountant, even the three years he was with Ouyang Xu. Send out love, stop at courtesy".
This kind of plot arrangement is nothing more than trying to highlight the hero and heroine's consistent, proper idol drama routine.
Such a setting is a step backward for a female drama with a broad vision.
After fighting tea with the owner of the teahouse, Zhao Paner's career basically had no stumbling blocks, and quickly entered the "love brain" mode.
With the four land deeds handed in by Gu Qianfan, he lives in a large mansion with carved pavilions that does not need to pay rent, and he has no intention of returning the start-up capital he borrowed before, which makes Zhao Paner's statement that "women's self-reliance" lacks persuasion. force.
In the original book, the inspirational stories of the three sisters in Qiantang who fell into difficulty in the capital, started from scratch, and climbed to the bottom have become easy and painless.
Some netizens pointed out, "Don't take suffering lightly."
Other female characters are about to enter the stage of "Lalang Match": Song Yinzhang and Shen Ruzhuo, Sun Sanniang and Du Changfeng, Ge Zhaodi and Chen Lian, their emotional lines have also been arranged.
The initial "girls support each other" and self-salvation may still fall into the stereotype of "wish to have one heart, and white heads will not be separated".
Moreover, it is difficult for female characters to match the "cheapness and goodness" and "Feng Guan Xia's wife" that female characters are thinking about, and it is difficult to match the modern female consciousness.
The sweet "Gu Zhao's family" also overturned the car, not to mention that the Song Dynasty did not have the custom of naming her husband's surname, and putting her surname before the Song Dynasty's surname "Zhao" is also "off the chart".
If the female characters are "fighting their husbands", then the male protagonist Gu Qianfan is "fighting their fathers".
In addition to the "living Yama" character set up everywhere, and always appearing as "the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Secretary", Gu Qianfan hid when he was in trouble, waiting for his biological father who became the prime minister to settle things.
At first, the big case of privately opening the sea ban, the battle between Qingliu and the traitor, the imperial party and the later party, made "Menghualu" look quite a drama. I thought it was going to spread out. The picture scroll of power and conspiracy has only been passed by very little, and even the "Night Banquet Picture", which is about the life of the family, has become insignificant, just to quickly promote the love progress bar of the male and female protagonists.
The Douban score of 8.8 points is highly praised, which is a lot higher than that of the new year's big drama "The World". Now it seems that it is too much for "Meng Hualu".
If we compare the "Langya Bang", the friendship line between Mei Changsu and Xiao Jingyan, the love line with Princess Nihuang, and the power struggle in the courtroom, all the lines are clear, reasonable, powerful and restrained, "Langya Bang" can bear the responsibility It has a 9.4-point rating on Douban.
If it is compared with "Knowing whether it should be green, fat, red and thin", the female consciousness of this drama is much higher than that of "Menghualu".
If "Menghualu" can't open the pattern, but is just a corner of the love line, it is likely to open high and go low, and it will lower its intention and taste.