Author |Mo on the flower.
When filming "The Legend of Zhen Huan", there are many details, some of which are not required by the director, but are figured out by the actors themselves, such as Chen Jianbin often designs some actions or details according to the needs of the plot.
Sometimes the director and the screenwriter disagree, but the screenwriter usually has to listen to the director, and the two people will have conflicts.
There is a plot in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" where Concubine Hua eats sour cucumbers, and at the beginning, director Zheng Xiaolong and the screenwriter did not agree on it.
The director thinks this plot is weird, Concubine Hua is eating pickled cucumbers vigorously, what's the meaning, will the audience find it strange, especially the male audience must think that this is too much.
But the screenwriter felt that this detail was very important to better show the inner world of the characters, and the director originally wanted to remove this paragraph or change it to something else, but she insisted on adding this paragraph.
For this reason, she argued with director Zheng Xiaolong, and in the end Zheng Xiaolong had to compromise, because this screenwriter is Wang Xiaoping, and her other identity is the wife of director Zheng Xiaolong.
Wang Xiaoping is a woman, she understands the sadness and difficulty of Concubine Hua seeing others pregnant and eating "sour cucumbers" in the play, so she insisted on filming this paragraph. Unexpectedly, this paragraph has also become a classic fragment.
The plot at that time was that Concubine Hua saw that the Fucha noble, who had not been favored by the emperor several times, was pregnant, and she was very sad, and Zhen Huan was also pregnant, so her heart was even more unpleasant.
So she had a plate of pickled cucumbers brought to her, and while eating, she cried, and stuffed it into her mouth in large gulps. Concubine Hua played by Jiang Xin has good acting skills, and she was originally an arrogant and domineering image, but the part of eating sour cucumbers makes people feel inexplicably sympathetic.
Concubine Hua always thought that she was not pregnant because she had a miscarriage and her body did not recover, so she found a lot of famous doctors, but it was actually the special Huan Yixiang made by the Queen Mother and the Emperor that caused her to be infertile.
She was not allowed to get pregnant because her brother held the military power, and she was afraid that after she had a child, Nian Qianyao would seize power because of this.
Although Concubine Hua is domineering, she loves the emperor deeply and fantasizes about giving birth to children to the emperor, but she doesn't know that this opportunity has long been nipped in the bud by the queen mother and the emperor.
Concubine Hua knew that Zhen Huan especially liked to eat pickled cucumbers after she was pregnant, so she asked her to bring a **, and then she ate the pickled cucumbers, thinking about her previous miscarriage, she felt very sad, crying while eating, she wanted to find the feeling of vomiting when she was pregnant.
The maid Songzhi was also sad, and kept persuading her not to eat anymore, and even knelt down and begged her, but she still did not stop until she vomited.
At this time, she cried and laughed and told Song Zhi that she had vomited and asked her to pass on the imperial doctor quickly. Then she cried to Songzhi, everyone can give birth, why can't she give birth.
This tearful line almost shows the weakest, most helpless and painful part of Concubine Hua. Zheng Xiaolong didn't expect the final shooting effect.
Although Concubine Hua is usually arrogant, but in this scene, she is just an ordinary woman who just wants to have a child of her own, but she can't do anything about it, so she can only rely on eating sour cucumbers to find the taste of pantothenic acid in the stomach of pregnancy.
The imperial doctor who treated her said that she was in great physical deficit, and the famous doctor she invited back from the northwest was threatened by the queen mother, and he could only lie to her.
Seeing this scene, people can't hate Concubine Hua. I have to say that it is Wang Xiaoping who stands from a woman's perspective and feels that this plot is necessary, so that there is a more three-dimensional and full portrayal of the character of Concubine Hua in this paragraph.
This paragraph is really impressive, making the audience feel sad for Concubine Hua, and it is also a foreshadowing for her to finally know that it was the Huan Yixiang sent to her by the Queen Mother and the Emperor that caused her to be infertile, and then she was completely desperate.
Originally, the emperor didn't want to put Concubine Hua to death in the end, he let the queen do it as she pleased, and the queen and Concubine Hua were rivals, of course she wanted her to die.
But when Concubine Hua knew that it was the queen who let her die, she calmed down, she knew that the emperor had feelings for her and would not be willing to let her die, so she wanted to see the emperor and hoped that the emperor could remember the old feelings.
The emperor was angry at that time, and he didn't put her to death, so it can be seen that he still has some feelings for her, but compared to the imperial power and the throne, this love is not much.
In the end, Zhen Huan told her the truth about her infertility for many years, and she realized that the person she had always loved had caused her to have no children.
And she always felt that Huan Yixiang was the incense specially prepared for her by the emperor, and the emperor favored her, but she didn't expect that this was actually harming her, so in the end she was desperate and simply hit her to death.
In the whole play, although the detail of eating sour cucumbers does not take up a long time, it has a deep meaning, and screenwriter Wang Xiaoping's insistence is right, and this paragraph also portrays the character image more comprehensively.