Chapter 243
The admission criteria for good dramas in the Xianxia drama track
Before going to Cannes, France, Ling Suisui probably has to go to Hong Kong first.
In February this year, the Academy Awards announced the shortlist. As a film that broke the box office record for Chinese-language films in Hong Kong, "Only the Moon Passes By" was nominated for fifteen awards and was very popular in Hong Kong and the Mainland.
Ling Sui was of course nominated for "Best Actress", and this award was even considered the least suspenseful this year, and it was almost 100% certain that it would be awarded to her. After all, whether in terms of audience love or professional ability, she had an overwhelming advantage in the Hong Kong film market last year.
If she wins the award successfully, she will probably become the first post-00s Best Actress at the Academy Awards. In response to this, many Hong Kong brands that were keen on buying shares in advance came to seek cooperation, but Tong Xiaoman declined.
"It's not a good idea to open champagne in advance." Ling Suisui complained, "It will make me look like a villain who is about to be slapped in the face by the protagonist."
Tong Xiaoman: "...Even if you have nothing to do during the holidays, read less online novels."
Although the dust has not yet settled at the Academy Awards, Sui Si can celebrate two other things - "Yao Tai Lu" is about to come to a successful conclusion, and "Under the Wave" was selected for this year's Five One Project and won the Outstanding Work Award.
Compared with the former, the latter makes fans more excited and happy. She has got five ones, is on the list of the Radio and Television Yearbook, and won an award at the CCTV annual ceremony. It seems unreasonable for Ling Sui not to win the Best Actress award this year - at least she should be nominated - right?
Of course, Sui Si will not favor one over another in favoring Ling Suisui's works. The achievements of Inspur are certainly worth looking forward to, and the performance of "Yaotai Lu" also needs to be praised.
Data such as the number of views, platform popularity, and Yunhe market share are all content that fans are tired of bragging about. A bunch of numbers are no longer enough to get fans excited. After all, Ling Suisui’s previous works were so impressive that everyone’s threshold for excitement has long been raised.
This sounds like a Versailles move that will be criticized by other fans, but it is the fact. Seniors who have been fans for a longer time will envy the new fans. Seeing their naive appearance, they will be happy for a long time when they see the achievements they are used to.
What can make old fans happy now is not only the praise for Ling Suisui and her works, but also the praise for her novelty and style. It would be best if there can also be some incisive analysis to let passers-by feel how great Ling Suisui is and how good her works are.
——There really are such long articles.
@Xiaosong doesn't like eating onions:
[Many friends know that I have been watching Yaotai Lu. Because I’m lazy, I haven’t written a long review for a film or TV show for a long time, but Yaotai has recorded the finale. As a fan who has followed the drama from beginning to end, I have a lot of thoughts in my mind, so I decided to sort out my feelings and write something.
When the filming of this drama first started, I thought that Yumi Video paid too much, and the amount was so large that an actor of Ling Sui's status could bow down for the money. Please note that I am not deliberately criticizing first and then praising, but this is the reputation of domestic fantasy dramas.
Suspended and awkward plots, illogical storylines, a worldview that is a mixture of magical changes, protagonists dressed in lofty god and demon settings, and love affairs that can easily bring chaos to the three realms with their eye-catching acting skills...the above is my stereotype of fairy tale dramas.
Of course, this was all before the Yaotai recording was broadcast.
The significance of Yaotailu to the domestic entertainment industry is not just about the annual championship and the corn ceiling, but also that it saved the entire fairy-tale track on its own.
It is worth mentioning that although "Yao Tai Lu" is a big hit, the conditions for achieving the above achievements do not lie in how good the online broadcast performance is or how high the commercial value is. Otherwise, it will only encourage more people to rush in without thinking, thinking that anyone can make this money.
Its most powerful and most positive aspect is that it actually builds a moat, or entry standard, for good fantasy dramas.
It clearly tells the audience and investors that making a good drama requires in-depth plot development, superb acting skills of the actors, and exquisite coordination among all departments of the crew. Even for film and television works that require the right time, place and people, you should still reap what you sow. You cannot take shortcuts by spending money on marketing, and there is no such thing as a pie in the sky that will "suddenly become a hit".
By the way, I feel like every work by Ling Suisui since the game was released has emphasized this fact.
It's just that, although there are many excellent works on other themes, the effect is not so obvious, but the reputation of Xianxia has been reduced to "the exclusive background of idol dramas", "the gathering place of young talents waiting to become popular", and "the most suitable theme for actors with no acting skills". When Yaotailu is put there, it is like a giant entering the dwarf country, and the dimensionality reduction attack is very obvious.
Let’s talk about the plot first. The story begins with a setting of four races, namely humans, celestials, demons and monsters. But as the plot unfolds, you will find that the immortals who call themselves the celestial race are actually divided into two types. One is those who ascended through practice, and the other is the "nth generation of immortals", that is, the descendants of those who ascended.
To make a simple comparison, it is difficult for ordinary people to practice, but it is very easy for immortals to have children. Therefore, in order to ensure the rights and status of themselves and their descendants, the Tian clan established a feudal order that was almost a one-to-one restoration of ancient society.
We may be unfamiliar with gods, but history books have given us enough answers about the rulers of feudal society. What feudal emperors pursued was centralization of power, and what the Heavenly Emperor wanted was supreme power.
Therefore, he could not tolerate the barbaric demon race that believed all things have spirits, the demon race that was bred by the evil thoughts in the world, and even could not tolerate where he came from - the Celestial Clan set up a spirit gathering formation in the Ninth Heaven. On the one hand, they offered small profits to win over the demon race to work for them, and on the other hand, they made it even more difficult for practitioners in the human world to ascend.
In the official plot synopsis of Yaotai Lu, the whole drama is the story of Jiayue’s struggle with the Celestial Clan. This is not wrong, but it is really not accurate enough.
What Jiayue is fighting against is not the Celestial Clan, but the infinitely expanding selfishness and power. The villain Tianjun who was exposed was indeed very bad, so bad that he deliberately raised his son, the male protagonist of this drama, to be a naive and innocent person. Because he didn't want the other party to seize power, and he also wanted to leave himself a backup option for taking over another person's body when his life span ran out.
But then again, there are elders within the demon clan who are ready to make some moves, and the fight for succession within the demon clan is also fierce.
Not to mention the human race. The spirit gathering formation, which is so damaging to the foundation of the human race, was done by the cultivators of the Celestial Clan who were holding a carrot by their side.
The Heavenly King is the main line of struggle in the whole story, while other ethnic groups are side lines and hidden lines. This is also reflected in the change in the protagonist Jiayue's mentality.
After being wrongly accused of colluding with the demons and betraying the alliance, and having her nine tails cut off by several thunderbolts, Jiayue only wanted to practice again, to clear her grievances, and to use her powerful enough strength to force the Heavenly Monarch to clear her name.
And after she practiced in the human world and discovered the secret of the spirit gathering formation, her dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Emperor reached its peak. At this time, she wanted to support the prince of the Celestial Clan to ascend to the throne, and she believed that this would stop the war between immortals and demons and restore peace and prosperity to the Three Realms.
With this thought in mind, she went to the demon clan, only to discover that the battle between immortals and demons was simply a grand fake match. The Heavenly Lord is not a good person, and the Demon Lord is not a good match either. In the name of war, they throw anyone they think is disobedient or who they want to weaken into the battlefield.
The broken Jiayue returned to the demon tribe and wanted to run away with her people. She said she would not play with these two tribes anymore. However, the reality was often worse than she imagined. You would never expect that there were match-fixing referees among the demon tribe. No one should blame anyone for their dirty tricks.
At this time, Jiayue finally understood why the Celestial Clan had set up such an elaborate trap when she was framed, and why the support provided by the Demon Clan was so weak.
Disillusioned, she returned to the human world, thinking that the oppressed human race would be the last hope, but what she saw was that the practitioners could not cross the threshold of ascension, so they wielded their swords against the weaker ones.
They dared not subdue demons and monsters, nor fight against the celestial beings in the Nine Heavens, so they waged proxy wars among the mortal worlds. The sects have become the backers of various countries, and the endless fighting on the battlefields provides practitioners with the exhilarating feeling of "crushing ordinary people".
As for how many people will die in the war, no practitioner cares about this. They pride themselves on their different status from ordinary people, because as cultivators who are isolated outside the gate by the Celestial Clan, they need ordinary people of a lower status to restore their suppressed self-esteem.
Jiayue looked up and realized that she was actually making enemies with the whole world. Even if she cultivated the Nine-Tailed Fox and could break into the Ninth Heaven and pull the Lord of Heaven off his chair, what would that do?
Whether it's the spirit gathering formation, the battle between immortals and demons, or the proxy war in the human world, the interests of too many parties are involved and it is not something that she, a single demon, can end.
Many people say that Yao Tai Lu is a drama about a strong female lead, but I disagree for the reasons listed above.
On the surface, Jiayue killed and killed all the way. Except for a few lightning strikes at the beginning, she never suffered any injustice on the physical level and never lost a fight with others. However, her worldview had collapsed several times and her heart was already full of holes.
Why do people have different feelings when watching the same play? In addition to the fact that there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand people, it is also due to the almost superb acting skills of the heroine Ling Suisui.
Ling Suisui is an actor who can understand the script thoroughly. If the story of Yaotai Lu consists of two lines, it seems that Jiayue is fighting against the source of all evil, Tianjun, but in fact it is a battle between idealism and selfish power. Then the character she presents in the play is also divided into two layers.
Judging from their outward appearance, Jiayue and Feiguang are both warriors who present themselves as strong men. I have researched her early life experiences. Her roles as Jia Zhenzhen and Qin Xian both became famous for their crying scenes, but in this drama recorded at Yaotai, she did not shed a single tear, not even a scene where tears welled up in her eyes.
Her steps are always firm, her lines are always passionate, and she is certain to win as long as she takes action. Therefore, Jiayue has many exciting mashups on Zimu Station with over 10 million views. If you treat her appearance as a cool drama, it is really cool to the end.
But this does not mean that the strong will not be broken, or will not feel confused and vulnerable.
I have to say that Ling Suisui is a very confident actor. Her positioning of this work is by no means background music for eating or working, but her trust in the audience that "you will watch the show carefully."
Therefore, Jiayue's pain is covered with a strong shell, and even if she occasionally removes the disguise, it is presented in seconds. If the audience wants to find the most authentic Jiayue, they need to play a treasure hunt game. As for the reward for finding the treasure - who can deny that her heart-touching performance can give people a wonderful spiritual feast?
In order to prove that what I said is real and not to provide an excuse for some actors' poor acting skills, I deliberately selected a clip of Fei Guang and his senior sister watching the snow at night.
I know that this scene was very popular when it was broadcast. Fei Guang's Divine Picture in the Snow should become a classic and bring about a trend of costume dramas. But compared to her beauty, Ling Sui's performance is more worthy of being recorded in film history.
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