Chapter 376 The popular 'Prequel to the Lotus Lantern'
As mentioned earlier, the difficulty of the protagonist's journey in "Lotus Lantern" and "Lotus Lantern Prequel" is completely different.
Chenxiang bounced around all the way, chatting with two girls. She was protected wherever she went, and her uncle, the "big villain," chased her like a sea.
Even if he was a little cruel in the middle and later stages, it was all directed at the people around Chenxiang, and he himself suffered no loss or harm.
But it's different when it comes to "Prequel to the Lotus Lantern".
The male protagonist Yang Jian started out as a father and brother, not to mention his brother and his mother. In the first few episodes, he was tortured all the way and was in danger of death.
At the beginning, the Yang Jian brothers and sisters were used by Marshal Tianpeng to induce ageing. They changed their appearance and after pretending to be dead, they were worried about how to bury their father and brother.
There was a tiger demon who came secretly to watch the fun and fell in love with Yang Chan.
According to the setting in the play, Yang Chan, the Third Holy Mother, is a peerless beauty with good looks who can compete with Chang'e.
The tiger demon was obsessed with all kinds of things, and he wanted to have an unparalleled love affair with a human and a demon.
However, although he is essentially the same as Liu Yanchang, he is greedy for other girls' bodies.
But the tiger demon was ugly and uneducated, and he didn't know how to express his love at the right time. Just when the girl had just lost her family and everyone was dead, she wanted to fall in love with someone, so Yang Chan naturally didn't want to care about it.
The tiger demon is also impatient. Seeing that soft talk fails to seduce girls, he wants to be tough, but unfortunately he encounters a tough problem.
Seeing that his sister was in danger, Yang Jian was extremely angry and activated the Golden Finger Sky Eye. With a sliding shovel, the tiger demon returned to the west.
This perverted tiger also became the first cannon fodder to die at the hands of the male protagonist Yang Jian...
And here, because the underworld did not receive the souls of Yang Jian's brother and sister, the heaven also knew that the two of them were not dead.
The canopy chicken thieves threw the blame to Da Jinwu. The two of them took the blame and made meritorious deeds, and continued to capture Yang Jian's brother and sister.
The Heavenly Court was powerful and had magical power, so the Yang Jian brothers and sisters had no choice but to run and escape, and were almost caught several times.
The two brothers and sisters were pushed to the end and even agreed with each other that if one of them was caught, even if they were tortured to death, they would not expose the other. If the other one saw it, they would never go out to rescue them. They must remain useful and serve the whole family.
revenge.
Because of this agreement, even if Yang Chan was later captured by the Golden Crow and roasted with magic power, Yang Jian, who was hiding aside, had his teeth broken and would not dare to come out.
This shot was very touching, and it also reflected the embarrassment and danger of the brother and sister. It was truly a narrow escape.
Compared with the two of them, apart from the death of the fourth princess, Agarwood in "Lotus Lantern" really didn't encounter any dangerous life and death situations, strictly speaking.
Moreover, it was such an unforgettable scene, it was a scene, and it was a happy reunion.
Yang Jian: "#&の%@(expletive)"
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While on the run, Yang Jian met Yuding, a disciple of Wushi Tianzun, and the two gradually became acquainted. Yang Jian planned to learn skills from Yuding and avenge his family.
However, although Master Yuding likes Yang Jian's character, he doesn't want to provoke him because he is involved in lawsuits.
Here I want to talk about the setting of Jade Ding Zhenren in "The Prequel to the Lotus Lamp".
Unlike the powerful thug of the Twelve Golden Immortals in "The Romance of the Gods", the real Yuding in the drama is a theoretical immortal.
Although the master is the Yuanshi Tianzun and has lived for thousands of years, apart from a wealth of knowledge, his own magic power is low. When he first appeared, he could not even climb clouds and fly.
The outside world basically treats him as a rookie, including Master Yuding himself, who is not confident. If he doesn't teach Yang Jian, he doesn't want to cause trouble, but he is also afraid of misleading others and harming others.
The character structure of Yuding Zhenren is very interesting. He is very similar to the master in a certain online article. He is not very powerful, but he is very theoretical and is particularly good at teaching his disciples.
In the play, Yuding's first apprentice Yang Jian is okay, mainly because Yang Jian is smart and can draw inferences from one example. The master and apprentice recognized each other, slowly explored, and finally cultivated a heavenly war god.
After teaching Yang Jian, Yuding summarized a set of teaching methods. At the request of Guanyin, he transformed into Subhuti and taught his second disciple, Sun Wukong.
That's right, in the setting of "Lotus Lantern", Sun Wukong is Jade Cauldron's apprentice, and Agarwood is considered his disciple.
Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Chen Xiang, the three chief culprits who caused trouble in heaven all came from the Yuding sect.
That's why the "Lotus Lamp" series has the theme "The Jade Cauldron has the final say whether heaven is in chaos or not".
Although Yuding is awesome, he is a comedy character, so Gao Xinjian found comedian Wang Dali.
He is the apprentice of Mr. Zhao from outside Guan. Recently I heard that he and his master seemed to have some disputes. It happened that Lao Gao and Wang Dali knew each other, so they roped him in to play the role of Jade Cauldron.
Wang Taili was born as a duo actor and has rich experience in comedy performances. He is actually not bad in serious dramas, but he often develops outside the country and is not well known by the outside world. He is a very underestimated actor.
When it comes to acting skills in the Zhao family troupe outside the customs, Wang Dali ranks among the top three, leaving aside Lao Zhao. He plays a maniacal character who speaks and behaves crazy, but actually hides a beautiful jade tripod.
In fact, Wang Dali's performance is also very outstanding. In the first few episodes, he was even on par with Tianpeng, only lower than the male protagonist Yang Jian.
Lao Gao himself said that if it hadn't been for the traitor outside the customs, he would have been poaching...
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After all, Yuding did not dare to respond to Yang Jian's request, but asked him to go to Kunlun Mountain to find his master Yuanshi Tianzun.
Yang Jian had no choice but to obey, but he was captured by the Golden Crow on the way. He was captured together with Yang Chan, tortured, and pushed to the Immortal Killing Platform. If he hadn't met Nezha, he would have definitely finished.
After being rescued by Nezha, Yang Jian and Nezha became sworn friends to Jinlan. After entrusting his sister to Nezha, Yang Jian went to Kunlun Mountain to learn skills.
On the way, Yang Jian rescued a small black puppy. This puppy was quite intelligent and recognized him and kept following him no matter what.
At that time, Yang Jian was lonely and confused. Seeing this, he kept the dog beside him as a companion and named him Roaring Sky Dog. They agreed that one person and one dog would depend on each other for life and death.
The above is the content of the first 6 episodes of "The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern". Although the plot is a little depressing, the rhythm is very smooth, one link follows the other, and the audience feels very satisfied after watching it.
Gao Xinjian and the crew were previously worried that the audience would not be able to adapt to Yang Jian's transformation from the aloof judicial god in "Lotus Lantern" to a mortal being driven around by heavenly soldiers and generals, with no power to fight back.
However, after research, the feedback from the audience is generally good, and even many die-hard Erye fans feel that Yang Jian in "The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern" is more realistic.
From a god to a human, he appears more humane, and the characters appear more three-dimensional...
Of course, the character creation is good, but it doesn't stop these second master fans from crying and feeling distressed.
From the first day "Baolian Lantern Prequel" was aired, the topic "Feeling Bad for the Second Master" has never fallen off the scarf hot search list. When the popularity was at its lowest, it remained in the 30s, and when it was at its highest, it even broke into the top 5.
In addition to "I feel sorry for the second master", there is another topic that often appears on the scarf hot search list in "The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern", and that is scolding the Jade Emperor.
When "Lotus Lantern" was on the air last year, many viewers hated the cunning and cunning Queen Mother and scolded her online.
In the early stage, Erlangshen helped share the firepower. After Yang Jian turned around and was cleared in the finale, all the firepower was poured out on the Queen Mother.
Yan Ni, who plays the Queen Mother, lamented in an interview that the "enthusiasm" of netizens took her back to a few years ago, when "Seven Swords" was on the air and the entire Internet was trolling Ma Sanniang.
This year's "Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" was broadcast. At first, many viewers planned to see how the Queen Mother acted like a monster again, and were preparing to greet her.
As a result, after the TV series was aired, everyone was surprised to find that the Queen Mother was quite honest. Although she was occasionally eccentric, she was generally normal.
On the contrary, the Jade Emperor is arrogant, arbitrary, ruthless, and always uses the rules of heaven to suppress others, looking like a feudal tyrant.
The Jade Emperor is played by director Gao Xinjian. Although Gao Gao has focused on behind-the-scenes directing in recent years, his acting skills have not fallen too far. He has appeared in "Family with Children" every year.
Whether he is fatuous and cowardly in "The Lotus Lantern" or arbitrary in "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern", he has mastered the transformation of the character's personality very well.
As for why the two versions of Jade Emperor are so different, the original version didn't put too much emphasis on this aspect, it just expressed it in a subtle way, while the Shanhe version made some additions.
Generally speaking, in the later period of the Jade Emperor's life, he became more and more excessive and behaved in various ways, causing the immortals in heaven to become alienated from him.
The Queen Mother, who had been secretly causing trouble, took the opportunity to join forces with Yang Jian, who had "malicious intentions", and joined forces to evade the Jade Emperor. The Queen Mother became the real talker in heaven, and the Jade Emperor was greatly hit, and his character slowly withered.
In this way, the plot and characters match that of "Lotus Lantern", with the Jade Emperor acting as a monster in the early stage and the Queen Mother causing trouble in the later stage. Anyway, a couple is not a good thing.
But so far, the main work is Jade Emperor, and the audience's firepower is directed at Jade Emperor.
Gao Xinjian has a good attitude and doesn't take it seriously at all. He is quite happy. The more the audience scolds him, the more popular the TV series becomes.
In fact, this is also the case. "The Prequel of the Lotus" premiered with a ratings of 16.7, breaking 2 in three days, and now ranks first in the ratings of summer TV series.
The results were better than when "Baolian Lantern" was first aired, and the reputation was even better.
The Douhua score of "Baolian Lantern" is only 8.2 so far, which is basically the bottom among mountain and river dramas.
After 6 episodes of "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" were aired, the rating has stabilized between 8.4 and 8.5, and judging from this trend, there is still the possibility of an increase in the future.
This has made Lao Gao excited for a long time. Although "Baolian Lantern" is a top-3 hit drama, it has always been at the bottom of the same-level mountain and river dramas because of its slightly low reputation.
Even to a certain extent, it is not as good as "Seven Swords" and "Detective Di Renjie", which have slightly lower ratings but far superior reputations.
Lao Gao has been holding back his anger.
If "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" gets a high reputation this time, even though they are two TV series, they are in the same series after all, and "The Lotus Lantern" can get some credit.
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On July 8th and 9th, the first climax of "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" was launched.
After all kinds of mistakes, Yang Jian finally officially became a disciple of Jade Cauldron and learned the seventy-two transformations. With the help of Jade Cauldron, he refined his Heavenly Eye and greatly increased his magic power.
Because the Roaring Sky Dog accidentally swallowed the dragon ball stolen by the three-headed dragon from the Heavenly Palace and turned into a human form, Yang Jian also forged a great feud with the three-headed dragon.
Yang Jian's first battle after becoming a successful practitioner was to beat up the three-headed dragon.
Speaking of which, this three-headed dragon was also very unlucky. At the beginning, he was in the mortal world in private, and before he had time to be free and happy, he was caught up by Yao Ji, and everyone lost in a fight.
Later, after finally recovering from his injuries, he was beaten violently by Yao Ji and was sealed in Kunlun Mountain.
Later, Yang Jian and others came to Kunlun Mountain and opened the seal. Just after the three-headed dragon was freed, they were discovered by Da Jinwu and others. During the escape, the dragon ball in his body was swallowed by the Roaring Sky Dog, and he almost died of anger.
Afterwards, Tianpeng made trouble and concealed the fact that Yang Jian was still alive. He blamed the three-headed dragon and then hunted the three-headed dragon in the sky and on the ground for three years.
The three-headed dragon struggled a lot, finally got rid of the canopy, and came to the place where Yang Jian secretly learned skills to block people. As a result, Yang Jian succeeded in his magical skill, and it was almost impossible to kill it directly.
After taking down the three-headed dragon, Yang Jian decided to save his mother.
In order to split the peach mountain formed by the Jade Emperor with heavenly rules and precepts, Yang Jian found diamond, the hardest stone in the three worlds, and turned it into a stone ax with the boundless hatred in his heart.
After arriving at Taoshan, although Yang Jian experienced some setbacks, he still successfully split Taoshan.
However, although Taoshan was split open, the chains tied to Yao Ji were made of heaven and were extremely strong. No matter how Yang Jian attacked, they could not damage her in the slightest.
At this time, the Jade Emperor in the sky also saw what Yang Jian had done and was furious. Regardless of the opposition of the immortals, he sent ten golden crows to capture Yang Jian's mother and son.
As soon as these ten golden crows appeared, the color of the world changed. Yang Jian and his son, as the center, withstood most of the golden crows' attacks.
After all, Yang Jian's training time was still short. Although he could barely protect himself from the ten golden crows, Yao Ji, whose magic power was deactivated, could not hold on.
In order to protect his mother, Yang Jian carried a huge stone on his back to shield Yao Ji from the scorching sun, but it still didn't help.
Seeing that Yao Ji was slowly running out of money, Yang Jian did not hesitate to give up his dignity and hatred, begging for mercy from the Jade Emperor, begging the Jade Emperor to let Yao Ji go, and voluntarily become a slave or die to apologize.
However, the Jade Emperor remained unmoved and insisted on killing them all.
In the end, Yao Ji told Yang Jian to take good care of her sister, and sang the songs she had given to them as brothers and sisters when they were young, and turned into ashes, leaving only the rock-solid heart shared with Yang Tianyou.
Holding on to his mother's heart, Yang Jian, who has always been committed to saving his mother, completely fell into madness.
Revenge for killing your mother!
The hatred of annihilation!
Yang Jian's eyes were red, he was crying blood, and his whole body instantly entered a state of extreme explosion.
With ten golden crows blocking his way, he killed nine of his old cousins with one ax in a short time, repeating the work that Hou Yi had done back then.
If Chang'e hadn't tried her best to stop and save the little Golden Crow, the Jade Emperor would have died on the spot...
In fact, this plot is quite interesting to study carefully. First, the brother destroyed the sister's family, and then the nephew took revenge and killed nine cousins.
After all, those who died were all members of my own family, no matter what.
Yao Ji died tragically, and Yang Jian furiously killed the Nine Golden Crows. The two plots combined instantly aroused enthusiastic reactions from the audience.
The Jade Emperor was scolded by the audience, and Yang Jian became famous all over the Internet again.
The topic "Feeling sorry for the second master" topped the trending search list for scarves that day, and it dominated the list for more than 4 hours.
Also popular is the nursery rhyme, which is also the ending theme of "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" - "There is a Mountain in the Distance".
"There is a mountain in the distance
There is a tree on the mountain
There is a thatched house under the tree, thatched house
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There is a mountain in the distance
There is a tree on the mountain
A family lives in the house
Very, very happy..."
This song actually appeared in "Lotus Lantern". In the finale, San Sheng Sheng thought she was about to die and sang a nursery rhyme to Agarwood.
It was quite touching when I filmed it, but because the Three Holy Mothers did not die in the end, the impact was somewhat weakened.
Yao Ji's death this time rounded out the song. Especially before she died, the TV series flashed back to the Yang family's happy life, coupled with the ethereal and lyrical singing, it was a tear-jerker.
The barrage of this clip in Penguin Video was all flooded with comments such as "Crying loudly", "Crying to death", "I don't dare to listen, I cry when I hear it", "Too cruel", etc.
Riding on this popularity, "The Prequel of the Lotus Lamp" became a complete hit.
In just two days after breaking 2, the ratings of "The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern" approached 2.5, and the Douhua score remained stable at 8.5, and the trend continued to rise.
As long as this posture is stable, it is not difficult to surpass "Lotus Lantern", and it is not impossible to even imagine that it can match the 3.83 "Seven Swords 2"...
