On the evening of July 5th, the long-awaited costume drama " Xinghan Brilliant " finally started airing. On the night it aired, it ranked first in real-time popularity.
This TV series co-starring Zhao Lusi and Wu Lei is adapted from Jinjiang 's famous house fighting IP "Xinghan is Brilliant, Fortunately Even Zai". The original work has a large fan base, and the male and female protagonists are relatively attractive young actors. , so the premiere of the entire drama was very popular.
However, despite its high popularity, the premiere of "Brilliant Star" did not have a good reputation. Many viewers pointed out in the comments a series of problems such as the vague plot line, the style of the premiere that favored home-based fighting, and the forced intelligence reduction of the supporting characters. The acting skills of the actors also also was criticized.
So let’s talk together today about why this S-class costume drama, which is favored by netizens, has a bad reputation after its launch:
The content of the premiere of "Brilliant Star" is not complicated, and it mainly revolves around the heroine Cheng Shaoshang ( Zhao Lusi) unfolds, she is the daughter of Cheng Shi, the eldest son of Cheng. The Cheng family has a small population but a lot of savvy. Since the second daughter-in-law of the Cheng family has never had a son after marriage, she even plotted to have the eldest daughter-in-law, Xiao Yuanyi, in order to adopt her child, so she made up the story of the old man of the Cheng family. The wife is destined to have a disaster, and she needs Xiao Yuanyi's newborn child to protect her from the disaster. It's all nonsense.
When Xiao Yuanyi gave birth, the emperor ordered Cheng Shi to lead troops to reinforce the isolated city. Faced with the old lady of the Cheng family who cried, made trouble, and hung herself, and insisted on leaving her children to protect herself from disasters, Xiao Yuanyi, who gave birth to twins, decided to keep her daughter. Taking away the son, although this solved the wishful thinking of the second wife's daughter-in-law, it also caused the "left-behind child" Cheng Shaoshang to grow up in a difficult situation when his parents were not around and his grandmother favored sons over daughters.
When his parents came back to take over him, Cheng Shaoshang, who longed for maternal love, started a new round of battle of wits and courage against his harsh mother.
After seeing this, the audience will understand that this "Brilliant Star" follows the light comedy model of first torturing and then enjoying the house fight and slap in the face. The novel was originally popular, and after being adapted into a TV series, there are also Zeng Li , Guo Tao , Bao Jianfeng and other powerful veteran actors have joined to help out, plus the sweet and smart Zhao Lusi and "national brother" Wu Lei are starring, no matter how you look at it, it is a lineup of a hit drama.
However, after the broadcast of "Brilliant Star", many viewers still found the most annoying "routine", that is, in order to highlight the heroine's IQ, the supporting characters were forcibly reduced in intelligence, or even turned into thin paper characters.
Take Cheng Shaoshang’s conflict with her mother and grandma as an example. Her parents were not at home when she was a child, and her grandma didn’t like her. She often sent her to the village to “think about her mistakes.” In this case, in order to protect herself, she would inevitably have a few problems. It's very clever, but the house fight scene between Cheng Shi and Xiao Yuanyi after returning home was really witty and procrastinating.
Cheng Jungu didn’t like Cheng Shaoshang’s setting, which left the audience baffled. Cheng Shaoshang is the daughter of Cheng Jungu's favorite son, and everything in the family is earned by her son's hard work outside. They say they love the house as much as they love it. What reason does Cheng Jungu not like Cheng Shaoshang? This setting is completely untenable.
Cheng Shaoshang’s mother, Xiao Yuanyi, had never taken care of her daughter for a day, but when she saw Cheng Shaoshang being clever, she scolded her with a straight face and loudly scolded her for speaking as harshly as she wanted, even leaving behind the things she had abandoned more than ten years ago. The daughter didn't care, but kept praising the cousin who took care of Cheng Shaoshang. What she did was criticized by many netizens as "stepmother behavior."
Although Xiao Yuanyi’s actions made the audience half angry, but according to the direction of the plot, the director will soon put all this in the name of “for your own good” and forcibly whitewash it. It can only be said that it is thanks to Zeng Li’s acting skills. Well, if you make Xiao Yuanyi's character look hateful and heroic at the same time, it will be difficult to clean up the character later on.
And since the family reunited, it has basically become a house-fighting competition between the old lady of the Cheng family, Cheng Shaoshang and Xiao Yuanyi. This one pretends to be weak and coughs, and the other one pretends to be so angry that he is about to faint in front of his son. One second, Cheng Shaoshang pretended to be in poor health and fainted to give eye drops to his father, Cheng Shi. However, Cheng Shi couldn't tell at all that his daughter was pretending to be sick and was weak. The next second, he was able to unceremoniously expose the old lady of the Cheng family. "Acting".
Generally speaking, they are the noisy old lady, Xiao Yuanyi, who is obviously the biological mother but colder than the stepmother, and Cheng Shaoshang, who is happy to be in the house fighting atmosphere and not thinking about his studies. They are really very childish.
The whole plot is boring and speechless. Things that can be finished in ten minutes have to be dragged out for two or three episodes. This makes the audience wonder whether the director and screenwriter have a tendency to deliberately add water to the plot. After all, In this film and television industry where "short dramas" are becoming more and more popular, more than fifty episodes are divided into two parts. The first part has twenty-seven episodes of a costume drama, which is really too slow.
In addition to the slow pace and the witty supporting characters, the most speechless thing about "Brilliant Star" is that this drama is obviously a period drama, but it insists on adding the setting of intrigue and war, and the result is that it is a nerd. The fight dragged on, and the plot line of General Ling Buyi, played by Lei Wu, was once again fragmented.
It’s okay to fool around with the war scene. It’s even more ridiculous than Gu Qianfan breaking into the queen’s palace at night with a knife in " Meng Hua Lu ", and the emperor personally issued an edict in "The Brilliant Star" allowing Ling Buyi to bring a sword to the palace. , simply challenging the audience’s IQ.
The acting skills of the two leading actors in the drama are not good enough.
Wu Lei has always been the younger brother of the nation in the hearts of the audience. The general he played in the play gave the audience a poor sense of empathy. He was more handsome than heroic, and in many scenes in the play, it was seen that his acting skills were too "pretentious". In order to play the role of a general, Majesty, too deliberate.
Zhao Lusi has always been known as a sweet girl. In this drama, she is still cute, but her acting skills have not improved significantly. Her signature acting style is still the same, which made the audience feel tired.
In contrast, Xu Di, 's acting skills are outstanding, and her noisy character in the drama reminds the audience of Xue Zhenzhu in "The First Half of My Life".
Although the premiere of "Brilliant Star" was very popular, in terms of content and reputation, it is difficult to become a hit drama in the summer.
