Since the launch of "Mirror Twin Cities", the popularity has continued to rise. Most of the audience's impression of the male protagonist Li Yifeng stayed in the "Ancient Sword Qitan" period. At that time, a domineering Baili Tusu did not know how many young girls' hearts he had won.
Now Li Yifeng and Chen Yuqi cooperate in "Mirror · Twin Cities", and the two sides have a certain improvement in acting skills compared with previous works, and the sweet pet sparks of cooperation have also added a lot to this drama.
What kind of story is "Mirrors and Twin Cities" actually boiled down to? In fact, similar to the struggle between races, the cloud barren itself is the legendary immortal continent, which is the place where immortals have been born for generations.
There are three major families living here: Kongsang, Quanxian and Cangliu. In the early stage, the three tribes could also be regarded as the three tribes standing tall and balancing each other, but in the later period, the battle between Kongsang and Quanxian was too bloody, and the Quanxian was almost destroyed, and the so-called "forcing people too much" was this meaning. So it leads to an imbalance of power.
When one race that thinks it's on the front wants to wipe out another race, it plunges the world into darkness. At the end of the day, if we look at the problem from God's perspective, what the world needs is not who can dominate, but who can balance with whom. As long as there is balance, the world is harmonious and stable, and conversely, once a king wants to break this balance, then in the end such a regime is in turmoil.
The gods enshrined in the three ministries are different, the empty mulberry has a towering mirror tower, and they believe in cranes, birds that can soar into the sky. The spring was first based on the fish people, believing in the dragon, the so-called dragon submerged is like this, a powerful force from the water. The other tribe believes in eagles, which are more aggressive and have blood as the main color, and its tribal philosophy should be far from the other two.
Dark cloud barrenness
"Mirror Twin Cities" itself is adapted from a novel, and the story is actually a group portrait play. The background of the story is beyond imagination, whether it is from the perspective of time span, geographical area and number of characters, the background is extremely huge. So I think that watching this show, should not be easily commented on in the case of only a dozen episodes of the update, because the background is grand, so if you want to show the audience a complete blueprint, you must have a certain number of episodes, otherwise you can't see the whole picture.
In the adaptation of the TV series, I think the screenwriter considered the inner acceptance of the audience, because the cloud famine in the original work is so dark that it is desperate, and if such a scene is directly put on the screen, it may look like the audience is very suffocating. Therefore, for the sake of our mainstream values and the emotional comfort of the audience, the screenwriter still chose to portray Yunhuang as less desperate and more towards an "idealized" state, even if they survive in the dark, they can also see the hope of "light".
But such a change, there is also a flaw, that is, can not let the audience empathize, why do people resent the empty sang so much? Why are people in the two areas incompatible. Even to hurt the other party as the greatest pleasure, and even to hurt as a means of performance, pastime.
This part of the content is necessary to complete, after the background of the darkness and blood has been whitewashed, it does seem that the dispute between the two ethnic groups seems to be "a child's home".
If you see this part of the adaptation, you will most likely be unacceptable in your heart. But the TV series is a new creation on top of the original, and we can explore the original as a separate story and the TV series as another story.
Su G, played by Li Yifeng, is the image of a sea emperor in the play, from his simple and innocent state of indisputable to a series of human sufferings in the later stage, he can recognize the growth process of this world, which is the main content of the first 8 episodes.
The shape of each character is their personality
If the American movie "Aquaman" tells the story of the Western Sea King, then "Mirror Twin Cities" tells the story of the Chinese Sea King.
After Su G became the real Aquaman in the later period, the costumes were mainly black or dark, while the first few episodes were mainly white and light colors. Because the sea gives people the feeling of being deep and precipitated, the dark clothing gives people a sense of sinking, the feeling of falling into the abyss.
This role is a major breakthrough for Li Yifeng, although his original role is domineering, but it shows a young and energetic and soft feeling, and this time he plays the sea emperor, the status is very noble, so it comes with its own aura. The temperament from top to bottom is Li Yifeng's biggest breakthrough this time. But in the "King's Domineering Spirit", I think he still has room for improvement, and the eyes need to reduce the sense of youth and add a little mature charm.
The roles he originally played were all small people going to big people, and this time he wanted to challenge the big people from the status of the big people, to show the inner perseverance, rather than the small people working hard to the big people, so the role breakthrough is very obvious.
The heroine's makeup and costumes have always maintained a light color system, giving people an ethereal, floating feeling, which is more in line with the empty mulberry she is in, the so-called empty mulberry represents the right of the building - the mirror tower, is high above, as if suspended in the air. In the early stage of the heroine's makeup, the girl's innocence is highlighted by light pink, and in the later stage, the pure white and metal sequins are used to highlight the noble status and the purity and immaculate heart. The makeup and hair are mainly simple, and they are all metal single accessories, which are in line with the human design.
The love-hate relationship between the male and female protagonists is also a major attraction, and many viewers have begun to stumble. According to the plot at the beginning, Su G made a comeback for the salvation of the people and followed the group to the cloud wilderness, and he saw a woman in his dream, jumped off a tall building, and told him to "remember to forget", Su G woke up and called her "Bai Ying".
It shows that at this time, Su G has already experienced the pain of "losing Bai Ying". The prophecy of a fortune-telling homeless also reveals the direction of the later stages of the play, and also indicates whether Su G and Bai Ying have a chance to continue?
The foreshadowing reads that "everything begins after the end, the only way to fight against nothingness is to create and protect", whether nothingness represents Bai Ying's departure, for Su G, her departure is a fatal blow, and the world becomes nothingness for him, which should have this meaning. Does creation and protection mean that you can use some kind of power to recreate a white star? Or to guard the soul that remains of the original?
Zheng Yecheng plays the character of The Crown Prince Zhenlan of Kongsang, who was recovered from the people, because the original royal prince died, so the King of Kongsang had to retrieve this folk son to inherit the family business. His shape is more lively, and the upper body is dominated by multiple patterns and colors, which also represents the joyful jumping off of his own personality.
Zhen Lan's fate is also more miserable, he himself is a happy and free teenager, but he was abducted and abducted by people to Khlong Sang, and then "arranged", for no reason, he did not enjoy the welfare of the prince from childhood to adulthood, because when the prince died, he had to be arrested and returned as a prince, as if he was a substitute, but also to train him to take over the throne and shoulder the burden of the country, it can only be said that for him, fate is very unfair.
The divination homeless man is dressed in rags, but his face is completely white and pure, and there is no sense of vicissitudes, and if you rush into these strange places, you can infer the particularity of the homeless.
Overall, in this play, I saw the grand background of the sea of stars, saw the unparalleled love that was inseparable, and also saw the significant contrast between the inferiority of human nature and the goodness.
In addition to the three-dimensional shaping of the group portraits of the characters, this drama also has a huge advantage, that is, the venue set is very outstanding, especially the layout of the undersea palace, the high-grade sense of turquoise, and the yellow embellishment, which become the main body. Such a scene as the residence of Emperor Quan Xianhai is beyond doubt.
This drama I think belongs to the type of "thin water and long stream", it will not be as explosive as the beginning of "The Beginning", but the later stage should be "the more you look at the more flavorful", this is the advantage of the background, this drama can spread out too many side lines, how to express the completeness in the later stage? How to make the audience understand? It's all a huge test!