Before 2004, Gong Dou opera was still a general statement, and did not form its own genre. After 2004, Gong Dou's dramas emerged one after another, dazzling the audience.
The turning point of all this is war and beauty.
"War and Beauty" was first broadcast in 2004, with Qi as the director and producer, screenwriter and starring,,,,, and so on.
Many netizens call War and Beauty the originator of Gong Dou's drama. From the perspective of influence and status, War and Beauty is well deserved.
It is also regarded as a classic, which was produced at 20 1 1, several years later than War and Beauty, and the original author Wu wrote Empresses in the Palace under the influence of War and Beauty, which shows the influence of War and Beauty.
In view of the long time, let's briefly review the plot.
The word war and beauty has set the tone of the story. "Golden Branch" refers to a person with noble status, "Desire" refers to desire, and "Evil" refers to doomed love. Being together is the doomed love between some noble people who have their own desires.
The characters in the credits and posters are all aristocrats described in the play. The female characters are Yu Ying, Chun Er, Yueru and Qian 'an, while the male characters are Sun Boyang and Kong Wu. In addition to palace fights, it is "N-corner love" that strings these prominent people together.
Yu Ying (Gigi Lai) and Chun Er (Charmaine Sheh) are the same young women. They look like sisters, but in fact, they are different
Yueru (Deng Cuiwen) is the most favored concubine in the harem. She is ruthless.
Qian An (Maggie Cheung) is a harem maid beside Yu Ying.
Sun Boyang (Lin Baoyi) is the physician of Tai Hospital and belongs to the "central air conditioning" of the harem.
Kong Wu (Chen Hao) was originally a poor man, a friend of Sun Boyang, and later he became a bodyguard of Sanpin.
After the confession, the story begins.
There was a lot of intrigue, and then she succeeded in the upper position, joined the camp of one of the harem giants such as Yue, and fell in love with Sun Boyang, the physician who took care of her.
Yu Ying looks weak, but she is also very calculating. Later, she got the secret support of another giant queen (Chen Xiuzhu) in the harem. She also fell in love with the warm Sun Man Baiyang, and two of a kind.
Chun Er loves but can't, his heart is jealous, and his struggle with Yu Ying is getting worse.
Because Kong Wu found a brocade handkerchief with love poems written on it, he decided to go into the palace to find the owner of the brocade handkerchief. In the palace, he met and fell in love with Qian An, a maid-in-waiting, and the couple helped Yu Ying succeed.
Qian An later learned that grandma was killed by the queen, so he decided to take revenge on the queen, carefully designed it to please the emperor, and succeeded in promoting to a higher position and making a fortune. From then on, I broke off relations with Yu Ying, and my feelings with Kong Wu also broke down.
On the other hand, the former tycoon Yueru was framed and lost power. Because Kong Wu took good care of her, she secretly fell in love with Kong Wu, and later regained the favor of the emperor through the death of her daughter.
As each opponent's wings grew, the queen felt her position was in jeopardy.
In the end, the Tianjin rebellion broke into the palace, and the queen took the opportunity to eradicate dissidents. Yu Ying and Sun Baiyang were cheated, but Kong Wu, Chun Er and Qian An escaped from the palace, and Qian An was shot in the arrow.
The most tragic thing in this play should be the emperor. Unconsciously, a large green lawn has grown in your yard.
The plot of the whole play is ups and downs, and it is difficult to say in just a few words. The biggest feature of the play is that the mind is not mentioned. The characters in the play, big or small, are very interesting. It's not like Empresses in the Palace. It's refreshing after reading, but it makes people feel worried.
"War and Beauty" was not the highlight of "TVB" when it was filmed, because there were many dramas such as "The King of Chu", "The Legend of Tang Erlong" and "Four Sisters of Tuoqiang", and "War and Beauty" did not even get the title sponsorship of advertisers.
The style of producer Qi and screenwriter makes it more difficult. Qi asked the actors not to ask about the plot, characters and ending, but to write and shoot without the final plot context.
This not only made the actors retreat, but even the top management of the company questioned the quality of the play. Fortunately, Qi Qiyi's qualifications are deep enough, and he finally chose support.
Qi seems to be careless, but in fact, he has made great efforts in production.
In script creation, the main creator watches the news every day and draws materials from reality in order to make the characterization in the play closer to reality.
After winning the support of the company, Qi smashed the heavy copy, dragged the crew to Hengdian and the Forbidden City in Beijing, and changed the previous crude costume scenery for shooting and framing.
During the filming, the actors also suffered a lot. The most unbearable thing is the snow scene made of chemical fertilizer. Shooting American TV series in stinking fertilizer makes people feel uncomfortable and dizzy.
Moreover, the weather in the north is not suitable for southern actors at the moment. Gigi Lai even wore 65,438+00 pairs of pants when shooting. Some plots in the play were completed in winter. In order to let the actors speak their lines without breathing, the crew directly asked the actors to drink ice water before shooting to reduce the breath in their mouths. That's a tough move.
In the initial casting of War and Beauty, it was not smooth sailing.
First of all, the ownership of the protagonist. Originally, the most important scene was the role of Yu Ying for Ada Choi, because Luo Shen, played by Ada Choi before, was deeply rooted in people's hearts and had an advantage in clothes. However, after hearing this story, Ada Choi felt very depressed, just like a ghost film, which conflicted with her religious beliefs. In addition, she has signed Hidden Moon, so she resigned because she can't meet the schedule.
Maybe it's destiny takes a hand, because Ada Choi chose "Hidden Cave", and he was able to get to know and fall in love with Max Zhang, which became a much-told story in the entertainment circle.
Because the script is not formed, several female characters in the play may become the protagonists, which is nothing more than a question of how many plays there are.
Ada Choi was replaced by Gigi Lai, who was at the low ebb of his career, and Ceng Lizhen directly appointed this important person.
At that time, Maggie Cheung, who had just received this TV series, was also one of the early actresses. However, many scenes of Qian An were deleted from the play later, because TVB also wanted to promote the rising star Charmaine Sheh through the east wind in Maggie Cheung.
However, many actresses don't want to take the role of Yue because it is not pleasing. In the end, depressed Deng Cuiwen had no choice, so she accepted.
However, people are not as good as heaven. Maggie Cheung and Charmaine Sheh, who are favored by TVB, did not get the expected highlights after the show was broadcast. On the contrary, Gigi Lai and Deng Cuiwen, which are at a low career level, are very popular.
With the popularity of War and Beauty, the light of many hit dramas has been obscured. The biggest winner of Hong Kong drama in that year was War and Beauty, which won the annual viewing champion in Hong Kong.
Several leading actors in the play are all in by going up one flight of stairs, and they all nominated TV Queen or TV Emperor in 2004. Among them, Gigi Lai, Charmaine Sheh and Deng Cuiwen entered the top five TV queens, and Lin Baoyi entered the top five TV queens. Finally, Lin Baoyi and Gigi Lai took TV queens and TV queens into their pockets.
Because there are three actresses "War" and "Beauty" in the top five, even the award ceremony of Wan Xinghui has been changed for it, and it has always been the best actress promulgated in the second year, and it is the finale after the award of best actor.
Now more than ten years have passed. In addition to Gigi Lai's marriage, Charmaine Sheh, Deng Cuiwen, Maggie Cheung, Lin Baoyi, Chen Hao and other major actors are still active on the screen, and they are still the backbone of domestic entertainment circles.
Compared with the infinite scenery of the protagonist, the career changes of some brilliant supporting roles are actually not great.
Liang Zheng, who plays Nalanfuya, has many scenes in the play, and people are also pleasing to the eye. It's a pity that she died in the same year that War and Beauty was broadcast because her father was seriously ill.
Zheng Liang made his debut in the early 1990s, but unfortunately, he never became popular. After his father died, Zheng Liang returned to the film and television circle, and now he mainly plays a supporting role.
Well-known powerful actors, such as, Chang, Chang, did not go further with the popularity of War and Beauty, but still followed the rules and entered the shooting of the next play. For many years, they have been trying to make movies and are still active on the screen, but Chen Xiuzhu left Wireless in July this year.
War and Beauty also released the second part on 20 13. The director and screenwriter are all the same. Deng Cuiwen and Chen Hao returned, and Ada Choi joined in after the mainland became popular. The lineup is quite good.
However, the second part is not as famous as the first one in terms of popularity and word of mouth, and it has lost the taste of the last one. Not only did the capital not eat well, but even the level was far below that of the first one.
The reason why War and Beauty is different from many Gong Dou plays is that it shows explicit and true human nature, which is its most successful place.
The characters in the play are all flesh and blood. There are no good people and no downright bad people in conventional cognition. Human nature has only selfishness and desire, and only good and evil.
Being able to shoot the TV series to this height is enough to make other opponents proud.
Unfortunately, although the second part talks about continuing this classic, the finished product is greatly discounted, which is a pity.