The recent explosion of "News Queen" has brought people back to the days when they were dominated by TVB.
And this drama is also known as a modern version of the "palace fighting drama" because of its sharp lines, fast-paced conflicts and wonderful character scheming.
It is said that at the beginning, the main creator really wanted to reproduce "Palace Scheming".
The original protagonists were Charmaine Sheh and Yang Yi.
But Yang Yi did not appear in the end for some reasons.
So her role was changed to Liang Jingren played by Ma Guoming that everyone sees now.
However, what Pai Ye wants to take you to review today is not "Palace Scheming".
is the one Charmaine Sheh starred in five years earlier, and is often called the originator of palace fighting dramas by many people
The following contains spoilers, so if you mind, you can watch the original film before reading this article
The most unique and powerful thing about "Golden Branches" is that it is not a big heroine drama at all.
Although the plot is about Gong Dou, it has nothing to do with the word "Shuangwen".
And it can be called a miraculous ending, and it sets off a sad momentum in the small pattern.
This may be the reason why countless latecomers have not been able to surpass this drama in terms of concept.
Pai Ye wants to start with a small person: the palace maid Su Ying.
She is one of the most inconspicuous palace maids in the Forbidden City.
On a rainy night, she was ordered to catch all the bullfrogs around her.
In case the croaking sound disturbs the rest of the concubine.
She chased the bullfrog into a room by mistake, just as a crow flew by and shattered Guanyin, a send-off on the shelf.
But the crow was called the "sacred bird" at that time, and according to legend, the ancestors in the palace were saved by it.
So even if everyone knows that it wasn't Su Sakura who broke the goddess of mercy.
But she became a scapegoat.
Unbeknownst to Su Sakura, at the last moment before being fed the poison, she was still naively worried about what would happen to the crows.
You see, here you are because you are a subordinate.
So your life is not as good as a crow, and it is not as good as Niangniang's sending a child, Guanyin.
In the end, even if Anqian interceded, Su Ying failed to leave the whole corpse, only a handful of ashes.
Kong Wu, who was also from the bottom, couldn't stand it, so he put Su Ying's relic: a flute.
Secretly hid behind the enshrinement in the Bonseon Hall.
All he could do to retaliate was:"I want the master of the Forbidden City, every time I worship his ancestors, I have to kowtow to Su Ying. ”
This paragraph is in the original play, but it is only half an episode of effort.
But it completely shows the two major highlights of "The Desire of the Golden Branch":
The portrayal of the plump characters, as well as the rebellion of the bottom against the imperial power.
The four heroines in the play all have strong and reasonable motivations to support their actions.
Er Chun is a chess piece planted in the palace cultivated by Gonggong Xu since he was a child.
Yuying entered the palace to compete for status so that her mother could live confidently at home.
Anqian decided to take revenge on the queen because her relatives were killed.
For example, Concubine has grown up in this palace since she was a child, and intrigue has become instinctive.
If you look closely, you will find that in fact, no one really loves the emperor.
will even push the sleeping emperor away in disgust after going to bed.
They are fighting for the power brought by the emperor for themselves.
The four of them knew very clearly from beginning to end that the emperor would not love them.
Even if you climb a branch one day and jump into a golden phoenix, you may fall to the ground at any time.
No one can be replaced, which also lays the groundwork for the collective awakening of the ending.
So the handling of the role of "Emperor" in "Golden Branches" is also very exciting.
Not only does he rarely show his face, but even his choice of image is very realistic.
There is no room for "romance" and "romance".
made him a symbol of imperial power.
I can't see it when I want to see it, but it's everywhere in this Forbidden City.
But for their own purposes, everyone's competition for the "emperor" has never stopped.
And as long as you are in this Forbidden City, there is no such thing as "being alone".
In the early stage of the plot, Anqian just wanted to wait until the day when she could leave the palace and reunite with her grandmother.
So she doesn't cause trouble and doesn't take sides.
But she is kind by nature, just because she helped Yuying, she accidentally offended Concubine Ru.
As a result, he was involved in a dispute between the concubine and the queen, and was promised to a eunuch.
The queen even designed to kill Anqian's grandmother, who was also her only relative, in order to balance the situation of the concubines in the palace.
Did Ancy do something wrong?
Probably the only mistake was to enter the Forbidden City.
The same is true of the imperial physician Sun Baiyang.
He is also one of the representatives of the palace who does not take the initiative to stand in line and is cautious.
Even if he delivered the baby for Concubine Ru, it was only out of the professional ethics of a doctor, without any personal feelings.
But at the moment Xiao Gege was born, you stood on the opposite side of the queen and were pulled into the same camp by Concubine Ru.
In the final analysis, in the rules of "Gong Dou".
The more human you are, the worse you're likely to lose.
Therefore, in order to keep the dragon species, Concubine Ru, who almost appeared as a villain in the early stage, even if she risked hurting the fetus in her womb, she had to use the method of giving birth.
After his own downfall, he used Xiao Gege's corpse to complete the Jedi turnaround.
She said that if she wanted the emperor to break her liver and intestines, she wanted him to see Xiao Gege's moment before he died.
Only when he touched the afterglow of Xiao Gege's death with his own hands would he always remember this scene.
Always remember that he owes me Niu Hulu Ruyue.
Rufei was a typical villain in the early stage, and there seemed to be only two sentences in her world: "how to fight" and "how to win".
And then she will be defeated by the protagonist, and the protagonist will step on her to ascend to a higher position?
No, the screenwriters didn't approach the characters so flatly.
On the contrary, Rufei was molded into an unusually plump.
There are three places that impress Pai Ye.
In the first place, Concubine Ru walked in the palace in the middle of the night with a rattle.
She never believed in ghosts and gods, and only relied on herself.
But at this moment, Concubine Ru began to fear that she would not be able to let Xiao Gege's soul rest in peace.
This is when the human part of her body begins to loosen.
The second place is that after Anqian's plan to take revenge on the queen failed, Concubine Ru gave a last resort.
Since both horizontal and vertical are dead, it is better to die more valuable.
She asked Anqian to commit suicide by poisoning herself in Chuxiu Palace, creating the illusion that she was poisoned by the queen.
and cooperated with Concubine Ru's side to add fuel to the fire, and exchanged this life for the opportunity to bring down the queen.
You see, the screenwriter did not simply "whitewash" a character.
How can a person who has been run through his whole life by the word "fight" be changed in just a few words?
It's just that it makes ambition more warm.
The last place is that after the Tianli Sect ** attacked the Forbidden City, Concubine Ru gave up and fled with Kong Wu.
Leaving this opportunity to leave the palace to Anqian, sacrificing himself to stay behind and drag the queen's people.
She said that she had learned one thing since she entered the palace at the age of sixteen, and that was to calculate people's hearts.
This palace is your home and your own tomb.
If you go out, you may not be able to survive.
So Concubine Ru decisively threw off Kong Wu's hand and left the future to others.
Finally, as Concubine Ru reads the verses on her handkerchief, the whole play ends.
The arc of the concubine's character is also complete.
The alienation of people in this palace is all condensed in one sentence:
I don't love the palace wall willow, only by the front edge of the mistake. ”
The Tenrikyo uprising is a real occurrence in history.
And this ending is actually hinted at at the beginning of "The Desire of the Golden Branch".
The show girl was pursued by the Tianli Sect, and Kong Wu was in a hurry and smashed it with a mango.
When the Heavenly Doctrine saw the mangoes on the ground, their eyes lit up and they rushed to eat them.
They are just begging for food.
At the same time, the crows in the palace are not only fed by special people.
The food is still meaty.
The gap between this wall is a heaven and an earth.
The screenwriter has always been very clear that the "elephant" is **, and pointed the finger at it at the end.
So "Golden Branches" did not fall into the full set of female infighting.
Rather, it was the moment when the gates of the city were knocked open, so that everyone could complete their awakening.
The three words "anti-feudal" are the real background color of this drama.
When the palace was lost, the emperor took the lead in fleeing.
But when you are a concubine, you can't escape.
In order not to affect her family, Yuying was burned alive in the palace.
Lust for the Golden Bough doesn't offer the coolness of hanging up, nor does it provide the same pink bubbles as Mary Sue.
So compared with the follow-up various palace fighting dramas.
In fact, this one can be called an "anti-palace fight".
Its characters are flawed, and the pros and cons are vague.
More importantly, it provides a valuable and under-the-radar perspective.
It is not a big heroine drama, but it portrays a group portrait of flesh-and-blood women.
In the end, everything became this classic in front of the audience.
A story that is truly driven by "people".