The two plays are like twins with different personalities. They are similar in appearance, but very different in essence.
Let's talk about Yongzheng dynasty first, broadcast on 1999. This play is adapted from the novel yongzheng emperor of February River, which is the most satisfactory work of February River.
When director Hu Mei finished filming this drama, many CCTV leaders were afraid to go online, because the theme was bold and ironic today. Finally, the director made a decision and the play finally met the audience.
Results As soon as 1999 was launched, the audience rating reached 16.7%, making it an annual classic.
Two years later, another work of February River, Emperor Kangxi, was also put on the TV screen. Kangxi dynasty was more popular than Yongzheng dynasty. When it was submitted for trial, the SARFT evaluated the film as "ideological, artistic and political".
As soon as the play was broadcast, the ratings surpassed the Yongzheng dynasty and became a peak of historical drama.
Compared with Yongzheng Dynasty, this drama takes both history and entertainment into consideration, including the battlefield scene of war and the unpredictable court scene, and all the old people, women and children are fascinated by it.
Even in the "drama desert" of Taiwan Province Province, the Kangxi Dynasty was very popular. In that year, another classic drama, Dazhaimen, set a viewing record of 1.7 in Han Lei Province, but it was quickly surpassed by 2.8, and the theme song "Borrowing Heaven for 500 Years" became a famous song in.
Over the years, people have been arguing about which of the two plays is higher or lower. Pigou has been paying attention to the douban scores of the two plays.
Before the Kangxi Dynasty, the score was 9. 1, and this year it rose to 9.2.
The score of the more dynamic Yongzheng dynasty was 8.9 before, and it has also risen to 9.2 this year.
It is more appropriate to describe these two plays with "peerless arrogance".
But in the original author's view, the two plays are not of the same grade.
February River was asked to rate the two plays.
February River participated in the script creation of Yongzheng Dynasty, and he scored 80 points for this play.
But when it comes to the Kangxi dynasty, he only gave a four-word evaluation: nothing to say.
February River did not participate in the script creation of this play, and his dissatisfaction with the script is also beyond words.
Kangxi Dynasty and Yongzheng Dynasty are both adapted from Sunset Trilogy of February River, namely Emperor Kangxi, Emperor yongzheng emperor and Emperor Qianlong.
Many people don't understand why China's well-known "prosperous time of Kanggan" is called "sunset" by February River. This is because at the end of the Qing Dynasty, western countries had entered the industrial age with the invention of the steam engine, and China lived an idle life at sunset in ancient times, just like Baylor in Beijing. The prosperous time of Kanggan left the last sunset glow of the feudal empire to future generations, but it could not save the collapsed feudal system.
Therefore, the background color of February River's creation is sad. He praised it openly, belittled it secretly, and tore open the vanity mask of the Qing Dynasty with the decay in the prosperous times.
The ideological connotation of Yongzheng Dynasty comes down in one continuous line with Er Yuehe's novels. Director Hu Mei pointed out that this drama is about "being the master of the country" and reveals "the contradiction between the country and the family".
Yong Zhengdi was in office for 13 years, and he was diligent in governing the country all his life. He died of overwork at the age of 58. It is fitting to use his life to interpret this profound theme.
Therefore, although Tang Guoqiang and Jiao Huang, two "royal professionals", gathered in Yongzheng Dynasty, their leading role was not strong, because February River tried to create a sense of powerlessness as an emperor when writing the script, and his personal charm was infinitely weakened. Even like ordinary people, they are stuck in a quagmire and can't get out. It is difficult to tell whether the people around them are loyal or traitors.
Let's see what happened to them:
Local corruption led to the hollowing out of the state treasury, but the big killer with hundreds of officials was going to be burned, which led to the incident of nine sons seizing the office, cheating in the imperial examination, paving the floor, reorganizing military aircraft and other incidents, which were intertwined and interlocking everywhere, completely different from the TV series that had no brains to blame and upgrade.
Let's look at the people around them:
Nian Gengyao's arrogance, Ronco's temporary rebellion, Tian Wenjing's cruel officials, Li Wei, who is full of Jianghu spirit, and Mr. Wu, who keeps Yongzheng at a respectful distance. It's hard for you to judge these people by good people and bad people.
Watching this drama is like watching a difficult and obscure crime of workplace theft. No matter which role you play, you will feel powerless.
There are not so many affairs in Yong Zhengdi in history, and the emotional drama of this drama is also lacking, which makes its audience narrow and concentrated in middle-aged people with certain social experience.
Yongzheng dynasty is a serious historical drama, which belongs to the same value sequence as Daming dynasty 1566 and moves towards * * * harmony. This kind of drama is essentially a group of sentimental and responsible literati who export their historical views and values to the public through the shell of TV series, which is more ideological than entertaining.
The Kangxi dynasty went to the other extreme. When it comes to this drama, the first thing that most people think of is Emperor Kangxi played by Chen. This drama is entirely his personal show.
In addition to Chen's superb acting skills, the biggest feature of this drama is that it infinitely promoted the role of the emperor, broke and reorganized history, and presented the audience with a "Aotian Long" version of Emperor Kangxi. All the characters in the whole drama serve Kangxi alone, and the value behind it is simply to "keep the sky and destroy human desires."
Reading between the lines, many lines are quite bold, such as "I see through everything", such as "You raped me", such as "Be my enemy in the afterlife", such as "My heart will be broken".
Everywhere reveals a temperament that transcends that era.
From the historical point of view, there are also many historical mistakes, such as Kangxi's failure to marry his daughter to Mongolia, and there is no Empress Cixiaoren in history, all of which were fabricated in the play, and even some low-level mistakes such as calling himself posthumous title appeared.
From the perspective of characterization, Kangxi is a typical Wen Shuang hero, who always opens the perspective of God.
Women such as Su Spicy Gu, Empress, Hui Fei, Bao Ri Dong Mei fell in love with Kangxi at first sight and all missed their lives.
The great greed of Suoetu and Mingzhu was seen through by Kangxi at a glance, and Kangxi gave them a look. They cried bitterly at their master.
Judging from the storyline, although this drama also intercepted many wonderful passages in Kangxi 6 1 year, these contents were simplified into a routine of fighting monsters to upgrade. Ao Bai, Prince Zhu San, Wu Sangui, Jardin and others are small bosses. Watching this drama is like watching a customs clearance game, accompanying the protagonist to clear customs from the novice village.
As long as Kangxi meets a difficult problem, there will be Indiana Jones immediately, and then he will save the day. For example, he will meet Summala Gu, who sent herbal medicine, catch Sony, rescue Bambur, meet honest Wu Liuyi, fight against Suo Tu Tu and Li Guangdi, and pacify Wu Sangui and Zhu Guozhi. ...
From a serious historical point of view, Kangxi Dynasty is a bit of a joke, but don't forget that TV drama itself is a popular art, and its audience is ordinary people. More people regard TV plays as a pastime, and few people will learn history by watching TV plays. Twenty years ago, this simplification was only a necessity to some extent.
For a similar example, The Journey to the West, one of the four classical novels, is a fairy tale with strong literariness and ideology. Many plots in it are full of political metaphors, suggesting that the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism was once banned.
However, the 86 edition of Journey to the West simplified this masterpiece and made it a cool article to upgrade monsters. Although the ideological connotation has been greatly weakened, it has become a classic memory of a generation.
Imagine, if the TV series The Journey to the West was filmed according to the original work, the Monkey King was filmed as a hairy-faced tripterygium wilfordii, and things like Pig Bajie and Friar Sand eating people were truly restored, its influence would certainly be far less than it is now.
"Kangxi Dynasty" is similar. After simplifying the processing, the profundity is sacrificed, but the breadth of the audience is won. I think many people still remember the grand occasion when the play was broadcast.
"Kangxi Dynasty" is essentially a hero idol drama in the cloak of historical drama. It is a sequence of stories about the queen of the harem, the royal love in the palace and later Yan Xi Palace.
So Kangxi Dynasty and Yongzheng Dynasty are two different styles of TV dramas. They are of the same origin, but they have different emphases, different audiences, different ways of telling history and different feelings.
When the two dramas are put together, the gap is obvious, but they are two styles, and the two wonderful and favorite audiences are naturally different. We don't need to compare them
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken
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