I once imagined the appearance of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" in the style of "The Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty", but it didn't match. I also imagined the appearance of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" according to the presentation of "Tang Dynasty Legends", but it still didn't match.
There are similarities, Di Renjie peeled off the cocoon, had insight into the subtleties, and confronted the criminals on the spot, which was also staged by Song Ci. Every case must have supernatural eccentricities, and then introduce the category of common sense through reason and science, which is the common trajectory of Di Renjie and Su Wuming's detectives.
But "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" still has its own uniqueness. The detective case written by a Dutch diplomat must have some magical magnificence under the eyes of foreign eyes. The eclectic themes of one case and one style are connected together with an all-encompassing sense of grandeur. The creative process, regardless of cost and cycle, is presented as exquisite and brilliant in the image.
The story of the first unit, "The Phoenix Seal Case", takes place in Chang'an, the center of the Tang Dynasty. It is necessary not only to clarify the injustice suffered by the queen (played by Zhong Chuxi), but also to lay the historical background and anchor the center of gravity, which is complicated and the task is heavy.
From the perspective of today, Wu Zetian first ruled the world with Li Zhi, and later ascended the throne and sat in the palace to arbitrarily administer cadres, which has a certain progressive significance of equal rights for men and women. But in the eyes of the conservative forces of the Tang Dynasty at that time, Si Chen was going against the sky, and he wanted to go quickly.
The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty begins with a strange case made by the queen's opposition forces. exhausted all the strange and strange abilities, after three turns and four twists and turns, and finally Di Renjie (played by Zhou Yiwei) and his mentor Wei Wujian (played by Zhang Jiayi) debated: Is the new policy implemented by the queen right?
Di Renjie holds the people's position: Whatever is beneficial to the people's lives is right. Wei Wujian insisted on the position of the aristocratic scholars: changing the law is a great rebellion. After Wei Wuji's trick was exposed, ** died, and Di Renjie passed the palace examination and was appointed by the queen as the commander of Penglai County and embarked on a career as an official.
Di Renjie still has unresolved pain in his life, but the value alliance with the queen and the friendship between the monarch and the minister have been initially established. This unit is equivalent to the introduction that dominates the whole article, and it is also a wall chart that structures the relationship between the characters. Di Renjie did not get more involved in the political game in Chang'an, so he went east to the sea to solve the case.
Penglai is a legendary fairyland, but the world is not peaceful. "The Screen Case" contains two layers of meaning: one is the love fetters that cut off the chaos and chaos: affection breeds jealousy, infatuation breeds suspicion, upside down sentient beings, and evil obstacles arise; The other layer is the greed and excessive ambition of human nature: some people have a good name, some people are profitable, they are good people who follow the right path, and those who take advantage of crooked ways are thieves.
The forbidden love of the hero and heroine on the lacquer screen is sympathetic, Lai Erniang's love is shocking, and Teng Gong (played by Yin Xiaotian) is a guy who sees hunting, steals poetry and fame, and is jealous and finally kills, which makes us feel the dark abyss in people's hearts, angry and vigilant.
The pattern of "Strange Case" is larger, involving the hostile and ** relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding small countries, as well as the ruthlessness of the struggle between the old and new forces in the imperial court, and of course, there are also the fanaticism and madness that people can achieve after being dominated by ambition.
Di Renjie and Hou Yu (played by Li Chen) were classmates in the past and got along with each other. See you again many years later, because of a strange case of "ghost ship" entering the port and smuggling. This unit has tides and naval battles, and it is the unit that takes the longest time to make. At the same time, it is also an enlightening unit for young people who are facing an unprecedented involution situation.
Hou Yu is a frustrated person after "three generations of loyalty, dismissed by the queen", and Di Renjie was in the middle of the family after his father Di Zhixun was involved in the "Black Flame" mystery case. Both of them have tasted the warmth and coldness of human affection, and the world is hot and cold.
The difference is that although Di Renjie is sinking on the surface and playing the world, he retains a heart to help the world and save the people, and he was able to display his talents after being appreciated by the queen. However, Hou Yu took risks with a sense of revenge and became the white glove of the smuggling of the dignitaries in the DPRK. Later, he had an even greater ...... of schemes
Origins are not chosen, and doom is sometimes inevitable. But keeping the road in mind and sticking to the bottom line can be decided for yourself. The difference between Di Renjie and Hou Yu lies in this. Ambition can't overpower right and wrong, with this persistence, even if you can't become Di Renjie, you will never become Hou Guanshi.
There is still infatuation and entanglement in the "Legend of the Rain Master" unit, and at the same time, the issue of corruption in the military camp is added, and the overly hot "dedication" of the second shopkeeper of the quality shop is no different from Hou Yue.
The "Red Pavilion" unit also has the issue of border governance and the authority of the rule of law, Li Tao "does not move, does not think, does not resist, does not fight back, and changes his heart", which reminds people of the living Bodhisattva and Mahatma Gandhi.
Although the story of the next ten episodes has not yet been revealed, it can already be clearly seen that compared with similar themes in the past, "The Case of Tang Di Gong" has opened up the pattern and extended its tentacles.
Political, military, diplomatic, rule of law, all kinds of issues are in the play. Fantasy, love, action, detective, all kinds of genres are smelted in one furnace. For the crazy love, evil because of name, legal procedures, substantive justice, and independent women, the concepts that are still in full swing and are being discussed at the moment have in-depth ** and expression.
Gao Luopei, the original author of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty", was a Dutch diplomat and sinologist during the ** period. He served as the first secretary of the Dutch embassy in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and came into contact with different classes of Chinese.
At the end of the forties of the last century, he translated the "Four Strange Cases of Wu Zetian" written by an anonymous person in the Qing Dynasty into English, and later used his own original "The Case of the Bronze Bell", "Four Paint Screens", "* Case" and other 23 articles in English to form the "Tang Di Gong Case". * After it spread to China, it became a sensation.
China's public cases attach great importance to value output and chivalrous bridges, and do not pay much attention to the technical details of reasoning, evidence collection, rebuttal, and interrogation. And these aspects are precisely the strengths of Western reasoning ** represented by "Sherlock Holmes".
Gao Luopei reconstructed the Wu Dynasty Qi case in English, and of course introduced Western-style ** techniques into his creation. This provides a good foundation for film and television adaptation.
Westerners write about Orientals, always with some curiosity and mysticism, which is in line with the style of the six dynasties of the Han and Wei dynasties. Even if he is a sinist, he cannot understand all the details of Oriental culture, and these exaggerated distortions and chiseled attachments also leave a huge room for adaptation for today's people.
It can be seen that the screenwriting team of this drama has made a detailed combing and selection of the original work, and selected articles that are easy to resonate with modern people at the same frequency. At the same time, it has also made the promotion and abandonment of values, making them more in line with contemporary ideology and public aesthetic taste.
Behind the fierce painting on the screen that suddenly changes his face is the hearts of people who are suffering from love. The rain master flying upstairs, and below is the murderous intentions of the entrepreneurial partners who parted ways. These thrilling scenes met the audience's spectacle expectations, and also triggered their thinking about resolving similar problems around them.
What's more,Under the leadership of chief director Li Yunliang, the crew gave the costume detective theme a real blockbuster sense through the east-west vertical and horizontal scenery and the production of real shooting and special effects.
Strictly speaking, this is a road movie. The Chang'an unit at the beginning shows the majestic and brilliant atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and after the transition to Penglai, there is a wet coastal smell. After the two cases of Penglai were concluded, Di Renjie's team rushed to the Western Regions, and immediately it was a border scene full of yellow sand and human life. Later, Di Gong has to go south to complete his experience puzzle.
It is also a place of drunken gold, the red of Chang'an Jushui Tower and Lanfang Red Pavilion is different, the former is bright red, and the latter is dark red, in order to show the difference between the capital and the border fortress.
It is also a county office, and the regularity of Penglai is in stark contrast to the ruins of Lanfang, showing that one is a developed place for shipping and distribution, and the other is a place for gangs to make trouble.
Filming the sea scene in "** Strange Case", the crew built a Tang Dynasty sea ship in a 6,000-square-meter studio. The Blizzard Villa-style confined environment killings are staged here, and the big ship vs. speedboat fight also takes place here. This is the first time to solve a case and solve a naval battle.
Filming the ** and chasing the murderer in the Western Regions, the crew laid out a desert in the 10,000-meter studio. The ancient road of the west wind, the ruins and broken walls, the sandstorm horse bandits, the enemy buildings in the border city, all have everything. Solving the case and solving the "Lord of the Rings"-like siege scene is also the first time.
It can be said that the fine production provides a solid material guarantee for the re-shining of Gao Luopei's **.
Di Renjie no longer needs Li Yuanfang, and he shoulders the civil and military work. But Di Renjie was not born a strong man, he drew the arc of the character in the trek from the south to the north.
At the beginning of his career, he had a simple sense of justice, and there were many defects and empty doors.
He lacks experience and perception of love, and took a detour in the detection of "The Screen Case", and he couldn't express his heart to Cao Niangzi (played by Wang Likun). After the two cases, he had a deeper understanding of this, and gradually became one with knowledge and action.
Teng Gong's fame and fortune, Hou Yu's ambition, and the shopkeeper"Careerism", so that he can better understand the thousands of ravines of people's hearts. In the face of heart-driven killing, he sometimes feels powerless: I can't save anyone......
Because there was no evidence, he could not take down the suspect in court, and the questioning of the victim's family made him feel a debt of conscience. The contradictory fact that he resisted because he couldn't bear the abuse of his superiors, and at the same time was a hero who sacrificed his life to resist horse bandits, made his belief in ......the rule of law a little loose
Reality is far more complex than theory, and growing up is far more difficult than imagined. Di Renjie is handling cases while improving himself. Solve the mystery of his life and walk to the main line of a sound personality, wearing the beads of the nine unit cases. The dramatic power of the main line is converging, and the brilliance of the beads is shining one by one.
Di Renjie in "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" is still like a god, but he is also misled every time. In the process of seeking justice for others, he slowly cleared the fog in his heart. After he came out of his spiritual purgatory, he ushered in liberation and harvest.
Zhou Yiwei finally got a complex and full male protagonist role, and he grasped this character with all his heart, and gradually had both form and spirit, and was shining.
Two Zero One Land Film and Television is a mature production company. They have produced education-themed urban dramas such as "Youth School", and also produced low-level people's life dramas such as "Loading the Stage", and this time they took the initiative to step out of their comfort zone to create "The Case of Tang Di Gong". The script took eight years, more than 300 days of pre-shooting, and another year and a half for post-production.
* Such a high-cost, protracted project is a challenge for any company. But the hard work pays offThe profound, intertwined themes and the combination of fiction and reality in "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" have helped the costume detective drama to climb to a new level. With some patience from the audience, they will be able to see what makes it extraordinary.
Of course, in complex and huge projects, there will inevitably be mistakes. The perfection of the plot and images still depends on the overall progress of the film and television industry. The important thing is that the valuable experience and unfinished exploration of this drama will become the support and motivation for the latecomers to forge ahead.