does not work.
The backstage has been urging for many days, but I can’t do without writing, Sir went to take a look:
ancient puppet——hmm;
time travel—oh;
8.6——? ?
Ancient Lovesickness
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Produced by station b.
But you see on the playlist, the selections are counting down.
Why?
Because of this drama, you can watch episode 14 from episode 1, and you can also watch episode 1 from episode 14.
First of all, let's talk about the settings -
and reverse travel.
From the 14th episode, it is the perspective of the male protagonist, and from the first episode, it is the perspective of the female protagonist.
The hero Shen Buyan (played by Guo Jianan), a modern man.
The historical best-selling author, because of a piece of broken jade, traveled to the scene in the history book he wrote.
The heroine Lu Yuan (played by Zhang Yaqin), a generation of "demon queen".
This is what the hero read about her from limited historical materials: authoritarian, vicious, and poisoning the common people.
However, after traveling, she met a woman who had never been recorded in history...
The male protagonist traveled back to the fifteenth year of Yuanqi for the first time.
Strangely, not only did she know his name, but she also invited him to spend Shangsi Festival (ancient Valentine's Day) with him, preparing all his favorite seasonal home-cooked dishes.
At first, he was quite resistant to this "demon queen".
However, that night was also recorded in the history books that General Lu Yuan surrounded and hunted the virtuous Prime Minister Li Yong.
Unexpectedly, what the hero saw was that Li Yong was treasonous and tried to steal the city defense map, and Lu Yuan went to stop it.
During the battle between the two sides, Lu Yuan hit an arrow in order to save Shen Buyan, which changed Shen Buyan's impression of Lu Yuan.
The hero's second time travel, the fifth year of Yuanqi. That is, the last time I saw Lu Yuan's was ten years ago.
There are a total of four time travels in the whole play (excluding the dream and the ending).
From the heroine's 36 years old, retrograde to 18 years old.
The first time the male protagonist saw the female protagonist was the last time he was seen in the female protagonist's timeline.
So when he was dumbfounded.
She is affectionate and sentimental.
The last time the male protagonist saw the female protagonist through time travel was the first time the female protagonist met the male protagonist at the age of 18.
She didn't know him yet.
But he already knew her future, and the development of history, so he taught her skills and helped her grow.
After watching Shen Buyan's perspective, the audience can go back and look at Lu Yuan's perspective, and can better understand the deeper relationship between the two parties due to reverse travel, but they have to drift away.
So it doesn't matter who's looking at it.
This is a story that runs in opposite directions and is destined to be separated.
To be honest, this is not the first time I have seen such a setting.
Japanese love movie "Tomorrow's Me Dates Yesterday's You".
is also a story in which the time axis of the male and female protagonists is reversed.
The first day the male protagonist met the female protagonist, she cried into tears.
because she knew it was the last time they would see each other.
And when the hero got to know her gradually as he got along with each other.
But her time went backwards, until the last day, her understanding of the male protagonist was completely cleared, and it became the first meeting...
This kind of "missing each other" setting can easily create an atmosphere of be aesthetics.
You have just tasted the taste of love, and the other party's time is already counting down.
You are getting deeper and deeper in love while getting along, but the other person's feelings are slowly regressing back to a blank sheet of paper.
What about "Ancient Lovesong"?
In addition to a sadomasochism, it also tries to express more cognitive intersection of history.
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You can also see some classic elements of time travel.
For example, the "plug-in" that modern people come with.
After Shen Buyan thought that time travel could really change history, he used modern knowledge to help Sheng Kingdom repel the enemy step by step.
In the battle of Liuligu, he used sugar and saltpeter to make smoke bombs and penetrated into the enemy camp.
In the battle of Huofengbao, simple props were used to make a loud sound of horseshoes to frighten the enemy.
However, it was like a doomed ending from the beginning.
Shen Buyan traveled time and time again to try to justify the name of "The Demon Queen" Lu Yuan, but found that even if he changed a part, he still couldn't change the final tragic ending.
However, cause and effect are still buried. Even if the final course of history cannot be changed, every time Shen Buyan travels through changes, it will affect Lu Yuan's future path.
For example, Shen Buyan traveled through for the last time. He knew that Lu Yuan's fate could not be changed, so he taught her astronomy and geography, tactical knowledge, and life-saving methods, hoping that she could save herself from danger in the days to come.
As everyone knows, this also changed her from an ordinary village woman into a "demon queen" who has power over the government and the public in history.
"Ancient Lovesickness" uses the method of rewinding the episodes, allowing the audience to experience the story from Shen Buyan's unfamiliar perspective. When watching the front, there will be some doubts—
Why did the queen know Shen Buyan who traveled from modern times, and took him to experience the customs of the Shangsi Festival?
Why does a court lady have to mourn for her lover for ten years?
Why did Lu Yuan choose the original path when she knew that tragedy would happen later?
These doubts will become the grounds for abuse in the future.
In addition to the heart-wrenching emotional line between the hero and the heroine, it is the growth and display of the heroine as a historical figure.
Lu Yuan was originally a carefree girl who grew up in the village. In order to let her grandchildren live an ordinary life, her grandfather even refused to let others know their names.
But because his father, who has been fighting abroad all year round, does not come home, the heroine's younger brother Lu Shi also has a wish to go to the battlefield to defend his family and country.
Lu Shi became a general and fought on the battlefield.
The two have since lost contact in their respective destiny.
Therefore, when Shen Buyan traveled for the third time, he hoped to change Lu Yuan's fate, marry Lu Nanmeng Lake with him, and become an ordinary woman.
Unlike those male protagonists who have golden fingers in ancient puppet, Shen Buyan did not control Lu Yuan's choice because of predicting the future.
After learning that Lu Yuan wanted to change the country's mind, he decided to respect and understand her, and he was willing to accompany her in the deep palace to wait for fate to come.
The plot is the rectification of the "demon queen" Lu Yuan.
is also an innovation of the female characters who are always rescued and spoiled in ancient puppets.
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"Ancient Lovesickness" is a low-cost online drama. From the simple props, repeated scenes, and the lighting of the gang, it can be seen that this drama is thin enough to be seen by the naked eye.
△The important Liuligu battle in the play, the scene is very stretched
Director Zhizhu used to be a very popular photographer in the ancient style circle, and later became a director of short dramas. "Donglan Snow", "The Long Princess Is Above" and other ancient costume short dramas that have appeared on various short video platforms are all works directed by her.
Because Zhizhu is good at shooting oriental atmosphere shots, he has won the love of many people in the ancient style circle.
A lot of soft halos, halos, and sparks are also used in the play, so that the important encounters between the hero and heroine are tinged with the color of time, adding a touch of romance to this sad story.
"Ancient Lovesickness" originally came from a Lalang video of an up master @三千鱼 on station b, which is a video edited from clips of Zhu Yilong and Liu Yifei in different costume dramas. It tells the story of a modern person who travels backwards and falls in love with an ancient woman.
If you don't know the setting of "reverse time travel" in advance, you will indeed dissuade many audiences at the beginning of the play, because the audience will be as confused as the male lead when he travels for the first time.
But in fact, in order to deepen the audience's devotion to the characters' emotions and keep the audience confused like the hero, the director later changed the order of many shooting contents, moving key information to the back, and the audience will feel more deeply when they see it.
Due to the limited cost, although it only took one month to shoot, it took a year just to edit. The screenwriter He Xiyun also complained in the postscript: "Because the reverse logic of the script is inextricably entangled, there are often situations that affect the whole body. So every small modification, we have to read it again and again, and we can only modify it after soul-searching each other."
They had no experience in feature film creation before, but they were moved by the core of the story and created this series.
In fact, there are many objects in the play that have deep meanings, some of which hint at the next development.
For example, Shen Buyan's clothes are getting darker and darker. On the contrary, Lu Yuan's clothes are getting lighter and lighter, implying the depth of their feelings for each other and the maturity of their minds.
The "Book of Songs", which is a close-up shot in the first episode, is the evidence for Lu Yuan to pass the message to the outside world by playing musical instruments and deliberately playing wrong sounds.
When Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan paraded through the streets, the shabby mask he wore was the mask he wore to assassinate treacherous ministers.
The articles and small animations of each title will change according to the plot.
The cast and credits at the end of the film have forward and reverse progress, implying that the male and female protagonists are interlaced in different timelines.
Although overall the lines of the script are not polished enough, and the photography and composition are a little ordinary, but a good story can make people ignore these and focus on the feelings and plot of the hero and heroine.
Today's ancient puppets are basically ruled by IP dramas.
"Ancient Lovesickness" is an interesting attempt. It chooses to rewrite the plot of fan edits and adapt them into drama series.
Facts have proved that even if there is no big IP, traffic star, a novel setting in series with a light story volume, it can still show the affection of the characters and the sense of historical fate.
8.6 may be inflated.
It can also be expected that many non-ancient and time-travel fans will watch this drama with high expectations, and feel that the weight cannot be compared with other national dramas with the same score.
But maybe that's why it's fan-favorite.
In the generally flashy antique doll market, some small sincerity is particularly valuable.
