"City Within a City" has a very high-quality start, with a vague appearance of a king.
In the previous article, we talked about the impressions of the first eight episodes. In this article, we compare the original novel and briefly talk about the changes in the first ten episodes during the film and television process.
Some of the "crazy extravagance" content is not just invalid water injection, but is more worthy of praise.
One, a denser line of master-disciple friends
In the novel "City Within a City", Zhao Xing admires Wuji very much, and rounding means "find a young man and let him become the person you want to be."
He wanted to hold on to his body of ice and snow, but the wind, frost, and swords of the world were pressing against each other; he fell into the dust and smoke halfway, hoping that the young man would not lose his aspirations and his innocent heart.
However, the so-called "mentor-disciple line" between these two people is almost briefly touched on in the novel. Zhao Xing recommends Tao Wuji to be Miao Daxia's apprentice to do auditing.
The play expands the master-disciple line of Tao Wuji and Zhao Xing, and the story and details are interesting.
is not just a few words of advice and a few scenes of sighing from afar, but it actually captures the process of "helping seedlings break out of the ground".
On the one hand, it makes the main story line and characters in the early stage more full; on the other hand, it also makes the subsequent master-disciple confrontation, black and white confrontation between Tao Wuji and Zhao Hui more grounded and emotional foundation.
Su Jianren and Cheng Jiayuan and his son next door are also very interesting. So far, it seems to be very faithful to the novel.
Father is not like father and son is not like son, but it is not a rigid and decadent "gang often sluggish" situation, but a more joyful and more foreshadowing treatment of the complex aspects of family love.
Nowadays, they are a lovely son and a naughty father, and they are the humor and atmosphere team of "the son acts as an ancestor in front of his scumbag father".
At the same time, it also uses light comedy humor to dispel the darkness of Su Jianren's greasy and greedy background. In the follow-up of
, although the father and son have been at odds for twenty years, they are regarded as a weakness and attacked wildly by outsiders. In the bloody scene, Fang shows his close affection for each other. Hu Yue, who has a good reputation in
novels, in the drama version, is just a simple-looking little girl at this stage. I don’t know whether the subsequent drama will arrange for her to take a different path, or whether the role will be greatly simplified.
Two, one-way subordinate pendant, multi-dimensional subjectivity trap group
Xia Meng plays Xiaohui, the drama version is named Tian Xiaohui, in the novel she is the daughter of Miao Xiaohui and Miao Daxia Miao Che. In the
novel version, the focus is on Tao Wuji following his "future father-in-law" Miao Daxia as an auditor. Xiaohui was Wuji's sweetheart in the early stage. In the later stage, the rich girl changes her heart and takes a new love. Basically, she only exists within the emotional line. Rounding it off is actually closer to "a pendant in a man's play". The drama version of
has been greatly modified and expanded. In a sense, Tao Wuji and Tian Xiaohui are a control group.
are all young people with empty hands, dreams, and obstacles everywhere.
Tao Wuji is upright and sticks to his true heart in the face of every whirlpool;
Tian Xiaohui is erratic and drifts with the tide under every temptation.
The former has endured hardships and understood the situation within the situation. Whether it is as plain as water or as flashing swords and flashes of light and flint, there is always a trace of peace and righteousness.
The latter was originally innocent, cute, enthusiastic and motivated, but he lost his true nature under the influence of his cousin to win over, attack, abandon and use a series of schemes, which clearly shows the confusion and wavering of young people before the two paths of good and evil.
If Tao Wuji is a highly idealistic newcomer, then Tian Xiaohui is another more realistic and embarrassing mirror image.
Of course, from a certain perspective, Tian Xiaohui and Governor Zhao are also reflections of some kind of wobbly misfortune.
Governor Zhao suddenly fell into decline after twenty-three years. Under the pressure of all kinds of hardships, he left the meeting sad and angry. He had worked hard to be a gentleman all the way, but now he just wants to spit out a mouthful of blood and become a madman.
So far, Tian Xiaohui’s “detour” is just a sign.
Of these two people, one has bowed his head and turned black in middle age. He has repeatedly gritted his teeth and refused to be stained with the "white shirt" and finally still stained with dust.
One is a little girl who has just entered the workplace. She is ignorant and dizzy. It is very likely that when things are clear, she will become clear, and when she encounters turbidity, she will become turbid.
can’t tell the dangerous difference between “making progress and wanting a better life” and “vain, greed and going the wrong way”.
Different stages, different experiences, different mentalities, ups and downs in the big dyeing vat, dyed as black as ghosts, changing the innocent heart of an old friend, which makes people sigh.
3. Wealthy Couple: Modern Version of Nagato’s Grudge
Xie Zhiyuan, played by Tu Songyan, is named Xue in the novel. There is no essential change in the characteristics of the character. He is a representative figure of the "Qian" school.
His wife was not mentioned in the story. Shen Jing, played by Yang Zishan in the drama version, is a powerful character.
is deep-minded and full of tricks, but it is not a thin setting like "femme fatale" or "money-greedy lady". On the contrary, the character is very full.
Knowing that her husband was guilty of something fishy, she arranged for a rape spree, but unfortunately she was not caught. She swallowed her anger and threw away her cousin who was working as a spy for her as a "letter of surrender".
found his little cousin under the banner of "for your own good", extended an olive branch in the name of job introduction, used top-secret information to gain favors, and once again arranged for his little cousin to be his eyeliner, and behind the "gifts" I don’t know if it’s poison or disaster. Although
's technique is still conventional, it seems to have a "bottomless whirlpool" attribute. You don't know what kind of tornado she is going to spin out.
The most interesting thing is that Shen Jing's quality lies not only in business war, but also in the coldness of the golden house and the deep resentment of Nagato.
But unlike the old passive attribute of being lonely in the palace and still waiting for death, Shen Jing seems not to be engaging in the "Nagato Grudge" thing, but rather "If you dare to make me unhappy, I will throw you away." It means "in a dry well".
Underneath the two skins of homely warmth and sisterhood and wealth and power, there is a complex tension that is golden, blurred and bloody.
Four, before cutting from white to black, the degree and sense of proportion of white
In the 10th episode of "City Within a City", Zhao Hui, played by Yu Hewei, "turned black".
’s long-awaited call for “blackening” has finally been answered. The core attraction of
's character is his struggle. He wants to be clean, but he has never been clean, and he wants to be right.
is originally a loyal person, but after drinking ice for twenty years, his hot blood will eventually become cold.
originally wanted to be pure and honest, but he was pressed hard every step of the way. There was a sick girl in the family who needed treatment, and there was a big brother who was plotting against her.
The boss who was parachuted into the workplace swept away half of the country with a wave of his hand. He was exhausted, sad, angry and cold.
Yu Hewei's emotional expression while driving was particularly good.
didn’t have a single line, but he was filled with rage and resentment. Every frame of the movie was filled with speechless roars and songs like weeping blood.
It falls and flies; it breaks and burns.
The story of "A Qiang, a fish seller, was forced to go to jail" next door is touching. Now the content of "An incorruptible president was forced to go dark" has the same emotional value logic.
But as far as the first ten episodes are concerned, some of the story's techniques and scale may be questionable.
Whether it is a novel or a play, the early treatment of Zhao Xing is highly "whitened", or overly whitened.
Logically speaking, the whiter the early stage, the process of blackening and graying is more impressive, but "whiteness" also requires attention to methods, and some "whiteness" presentation techniques are slightly difficult to describe.
His wife has been dead for many years, so it is natural for people to talk about marriage again; but in the play, Zhao Hui is deeply passionate about his deceased wife, so deep that he almost catches up with the beautiful widower in the ancient movie next door.
When faced with a beautiful woman who is responsible for the job of "bringing bridges and corrupting people", all his emotions are "Wan Wan Lei Qing", just because the homely appearance of the woman wrapping rice dumplings is very similar to the virtuous and tender filter of his deceased wife.
's novel describes how Zhou Lin deliberately came to his house to make rice dumplings, and used the words of the housekeeper's aunt to complain that "she is not good at making rice dumplings at all."
However, there is no such meaning of "not very good" in the play. This may seem inconsequential. In essence, the female character is treated as a "good wife" and the male protagonist's "pure sense" is enhanced.
emphasized everywhere: I was not tempted, it was entirely because I was too affectionate.
And this kind of deep love is not the one-dimensional love of idol dramas. It is mixed with the unrequited debt to the wife and the regret that the disease was discovered too late. It is a more traditional kind of family life. The emotional complex of responsibility.
It's normal for Zhao Xing to have this mentality, but Wan Wan Lei Qing's comments are really a bit jarring.
Next door Lei Dongbao cheated and was criticized in hot searches. Zhao Hui is single and has the freedom to love, and there is nothing wrong with whoever he is attracted to. However, knowing that the other party has other plans, he still chooses "Wanwan Leiqing", which makes the impression a bit awkward. In the
novel, when Zhou Lin later helped Zhao Xing manage various "grey" big dishes, she was somewhat charming like the sister-in-law next door. This has not been revealed yet, and perhaps the perception will be better as the subsequent plot unfolds.
Again, the advantages of "City Within a City" far outweigh the disadvantages.
Comfortable Conclusion
A group of characters in "City Within a City" are like each other's mirrors.
This mirror can correct clothes and people's hearts, but sometimes it has the bitterness of distortion.
When Zhao Hui woke up in the dark night, he suddenly realized that twenty-three years had flown by. Facing the young man who was still innocent and burning, did he still remember where he came from?
