How bad is this "The Great Emperor", I have a knot in my stomach after reading it.
In order to make it more intuitive for everyone to experience, let's use the familiar background as an analogy and retell this story. Please imagine that another "Wu Zetian" will be filmed one day. The screenwriter said at the press conference: "Strictly restoring history is too boring, so I only base it on history, and there will be many fictional original plots."
You naively thought you were mentally prepared, so the show started...
During the reign of Li Zhi, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty (yes, you read that right), our heroine, Miss Wu, had great ideals in her heart since she was a child, and felt that she was born to spread justice, freedom, love and peace. of. The chosen daughter was selected into the palace under the planning of the eldest grandson Wuji, who held the power, and became the queen of Li Zhi (yes, you read that right).
After Zhangsun Wuji personally checked and confirmed that she was the perfect person (there is a scene of Zhangsun Wuji licking his fingers obscenely), Miss Wu entered the palace with longing for a happy love, and she was shocked.
She found that the Datang Palace was still an uncivilized place filled with the strong legacy of Xianbei nomads. Will not.
Although the emperor Li Zhi was handsome, he was just a late-stage brain-damaged and cancerous child in the body of an adult. After the death of the father emperor Li Yuan, the empress dowager (yes, you read that right) treated Li Zhi too harshly, resulting in his chaotic personality of lack of love, cruelty, conceit and inferiority. He is incompetent in governing the country, his mind is empty, he only knows how to seek pleasure every day, but he is self-willed, and his temperament is tyrannical.
He likes foul language the most, and at least one of every three lines must say "Fuck", "Force", "P-eye", "Chicken (ah) Ba" and so on. From time to time, he has some whimsical ideas, such as holding a celebration banquet after conquering Goryeo, placing a severed head of the enemy in front of everyone attending the banquet, and asking everyone to dig out the eyeballs. There will be close-ups in this section. The emperor was crowded with young disciples, and the others could only obey, lest their heads fall to the ground. For example, Li Zhi's cousin, King Qin Li Shimin, who is a big boss in women's clothing (yes, you read that right), had to paralyze himself by playing sm or training ants to do acrobatics.
So Li Zhi felt from the bottom of his heart that everyone respected and loved him.
The reason why Li Zhi married the Wu clan was only because he and Changsun Wuji believed that there was no power behind him and that no foreign relatives would interfere in politics. But Ms. Wu is the ultimate invincible fool in the universe, full of the sense of mission of a saint, and decided to start reforms on the second day of her marriage. Every ten minutes in the first episode, she would say with a demented expression and a self-moving tone: "I must lead the Tang Dynasty into a new era of civilization, fairness and freedom, and people's happiness, which is given to me by God. Mission." This practice was reduced to every fifteen minutes in subsequent episodes.
Empress Wu decided to start a girls' school and improve the cultural quality of women, but was immediately rejected by the emperor. Afterwards, she asked Li Zhi for assistance many times, which made Li Zhi very annoyed.
However, although the emperor was really absurd, such as running naked in the palace from time to time, the Empress Wu herself was not much better, and most of the time she only ran around in obscene clothes.
Empress Wu rescued Shangguan Wan'er (yes, you read that right), the daughter of a criminal minister, and promoted her to be her own maid. Shangguan Wan'er understood the situation in the palace better, and tried her best to break the illusion of Empress Wu. In the end, Empress Wu's efforts to attract Li Zhi all failed, and she was completely desperate after witnessing Li Zhi and all the ministers' evil deeds, and after Li Zhi killed her beloved Lion Cong. Just when she felt that her life was dark, Shangguan Wan'er suddenly proposed, "Start a political (ah) change, kill the emperor, and sit on the throne yourself."
A word awakened the dreamer, and Empress Wu had a new life goal since then, and began to secretly bribe various ministers, including Xu Jingzong, who was wise to protect himself but loved reading and hoped that the country would be better.
There is also the general Li Ji, who has been bullied by Li Zhi and hated for a long time. (Of course, Mary Su Bensu must be loved by the general)
Although Empress Wu's method of bribing people is just to keep saying "the emperor is not reliable, but I can bring fairness, freedom and happiness blabla" like a monk recites scriptures, but people who were brainwashed by her think that she is indeed very extraordinary. In addition, Empress Wu also appeased some unstable factors, such as Qin Wang Li Shimin. Li Shimin loves his uncle Li Yuan deeply, and had a one-night stand with Li Yuan (yes, you read that right), and he still comforts (ah) in front of Li Yuan's Yuzhen to commemorate his lost feelings. Although he cared about his younger cousin, Li Zhi's behavior also disappointed him extremely. When he finally guessed the political (ah) change, Empress Wu told him that he was pregnant and that the throne would be returned to the Li family, so Li Shimin also decided not to interfere.
During this period, Empress Wu has grown, from being a romantic dementia all day long to pretending to be eloquent, and occasionally saying a few words that seem to be very powerful but are actually very empty. Empress Wu and Li Zhi and other obstructing forces were all mentally handicapped. It was basically a steaming struggle of elementary school students in order to grab a ballpoint pen and report to the teacher. Dirty means. Since the heroine is so pure and kind, the villain can't be too smart).
Because Empress Wu pretended to be virtuous and virtuous, Li Zhi gradually developed a little affection for her and decided to give some awards. Because the relationship between the two was not harmonious, and Li Zhi's mind was nothing but criticism, so he could only think of giving her a face-to-face concubine (you read that right, the concubine who came from the pre-Qin period). Of course, it is necessary to let the emperor and ministers appreciate his famous chicken.
Unexpectedly, Empress Wu and the elegant and sincere Concubine became true love, and after all kinds of absurd incidents, Li Zhi became more and more disliked. So on her twentieth birthday, she was instructed by heaven in a dream, and she decided to launch a coup d'état out of nowhere, regardless of whether others were ready or not. Unexpectedly, Li Zhi had already kidnapped Concubine Xiang and threatened. Empress Wu panicked and the plan to assassinate Li Zhi failed (yes, personally assassinated), and when Li Ji deployed troops and almost occupied the palace, she pushed away half of the fruits of victory. , crying and saying "I can't lose my daughter, I love him".
Seeing that the situation was not good, Shangguan Wan'er acted as a double agent and placed bets on both sides. Xu Jingzong was sent by Empress Wu to assassinate Zhangsun Wuji. Unexpectedly, Shangguan Wan'er was Zhangsun Wuji's illegitimate daughter, so he tried to stop him, causing Xu Jingzong to be killed by Zhangsun Wuji. Changsun Wuji also began to act. He didn't plan to support the empress, but he had already lost patience with Li Zhi, and he already had another candidate in his heart - just trying to avoid these harassing Qin Wang Li Shimin.
In the chaos, at the end of this episode, Empress Wu suddenly got a spiritual sublimation, and realized that she should focus on the overall situation and not indulge in personal feelings, so her attitude instantly reversed 180°, first using her own pregnancy Stabilize Li Zhi, and immediately decide to sacrifice Concubine. After saying goodbye to True Love, Empress Wu ordered Li Ji to launch a full-scale attack on Li Zhi's army at Xuanwu Gate, which is known as the "Xuanwu Gate Change".
At the end of the first season, to predict what will happen next, please see the decomposition of the next season (there is still another season).
Now, take this story as it is on Russia and Catherine II, and everyone knows what the hell this is.
In addition to the script, Nizi has steadily contributed his prosperous beauty + selling meat and superb acting skills. Little Fanning has improved significantly, and there is no lack of strength in the supporting roles (but I really don't understand how they lost their minds.) This book), everyone tried very hard to gild this shit. However, Tony McNamara, the writer and producer of the show, who was nominated for Best Screenplay by adding a joke to the original script of "The Favourite", has gotten carried away, and has made no secret of his distaste for shit and stomach jokes. The love of jokes with Lunhuang (ah), wanton vilification of history, full of malice (yes, although most people think of the screenwriter of "The Favourite", he is the first thing most people think of, but in fact the real main script is The other female screenwriter, Deborah Davis, wrote the original script. It was a serious historical story, and McNamara added a lot of nasty jokes to make it what we see now). Even if I have to say it's a satirical comedy, I don't know what the irony is.
I think back to the various costume dramas I have watched over the years, the worst ones are all pleasing to the eye, and the most magical ones don’t dare to be so foolish. one battle. And at the beginning of each episode of this drama, there will be a phrase "occasionally true story", it is obvious that it is not only wanting to change the magic but also want to link with history to make people disgusting, really wretched at home.
In addition, the costumes of this drama are also very bad. The ladies have all kinds of ill-fitting clothes, and the ragged shirt that the heroine wears most of the time is a nightmare. I was not very satisfied with the costumes of the Russian drama version and the HBO version, but after this comparison, I immediately felt that it was not bad.
So the middle finger of the heroine on the poster turned out to be aimed at the audience.
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