What is the temperament of the original work? I wrote something about the TV series "Outsiders" and the original novel earlier, and some people were surprised why I would write such serious words on popular works. "Outsiders" is of course a popular work, mainly for entertainment, but it is definitely not what Sohu Video has put on it as "History through Qiong Yao Opera" can be summarized. I personally really admire Qiong Yao. Like Jin Yong, she embodies the popular but not kitsch and vulgar style of the older generation of popular writers. Some adaptations of the drama cannot be blamed on them. For example, Yu Zheng's "Swordsman and Swordsman" throws away Jin Yong's political thinking and sentiments hidden in martial arts novels and turns it into a fighting harem drama. Having said that, since the "Outsiders" series of novels were released, booksellers have put a lot of labels on the novels in order to gain attention. These labels are the same as those posted by Sohu on TV series. It cannot be said that they are completely wrong, but they are not appropriate enough. However, a work can give others so much space for labeling, saying it is about "history", "war", "medicine", "sex", "violence", "spiritual", "dignity", "betrayal", "Hope and despair", "relationship", "the establishment and destruction of family society", "time travel", "moral ambiguity", "adventure", "spiritual and physical travel", etc., which in itself explains this. The richness of the works. The complexity and profoundness of "Outlander" is certainly not comparable to Shakespeare's great plays, but I appreciate that it satisfies the basic interests of readers of popular novels or popular romance novels, and strives to bring out something worth thinking about.
The title of the book "Outlander", outlander, points out the basic situation of the story: an Englishman arrives in the Suger world where there is no lack of hostility to the English people, a woman arrives among a bunch of rough men, and a modern man arrives in the ancient superstitious world. In the world, the author’s story of traveling from modern to ancient times does not allow the heroine to become a god-like figure through the journey. Her modern medical knowledge and historical knowledge are only just enough for her to survive in the strange ancient times, and she is never seen by anyone. People love. Traveling to ancient times can become gods, which are often derived from the pride of modern people and their obsession with history. The author does not have such a sense of superiority, but uses the heroine's journey to first consider the differences between ancient and modern. How would people in the 20th century who have matured the concept of the country view the 18th century English and Scots who had very fierce ethnic contradictions, and the liberated modern women How to look at ancient male chauvinism, how would modern people look at the barbaric superstition of ancient people, and whether modern times, which staged Jewish extinctions and large-scale wars, are more "progressive" than ancient times. I don't intend to exaggerate the novel too much, but as long as you are not, just look at the paragraphs with the main line of romance. You will agree that the author did deliberately introduce these thoughts in many details. For example, there is a paragraph in the novel that talks about the difference between the modern war with guns and the ancient battle based on swords, and the possible ethical differences behind them. You will also find that there are many women who set the heroine as a World War II female nurse. The role is quite ingenious. Contrast is a writing technique that the author uses a lot to introduce thinking. It is not just a comparison between ancient and modern. It is like comparing the heroine's modern husband and his ancient grandfather. The author also sets many contrasts in the ancient times that the heroine traveled through. Two women who traveled from modern times to ancient times, one wanted to leave but stayed, felt difficult to survive but survived, and the other knew history but tried to change history, merged well but eventually died. They have different attitudes towards crossing Is it because they come from different modern times, the more modern they are, the more proud they feel, the more they feel that they can control history? On the one hand, the male and female protagonists have super-relaxed sex after marriage, and on the other hand, the male protagonist believes that there should be no sex outside of marriage. On the one hand, it is the vigorous love and vows of the male and female protagonists; on the other hand, it is the seduction and rape that is pressing for desire. The same is homosexual, the Duke’s unruly intentions towards the male protagonist can make the male protagonist laugh, but the behavior of Captain Landau is abhorrent. The same is whipping. Why is the male lead whipping the female lead different from the male lead being whipped by Captain Lan Dao? How is the male lead being whipped by his father different from another boy being whipped by his father, so the male lead who still loves his father decides to take the boy from The boy was rescued by his father. The tyrannical Captain Lan Dao is a sadist, but the heroine actually calls the hero a sadist. This is very It is hard to believe that this is the author's intentional "multiple use of a word". It is the Catholic priest who wants to burn the female protagonist as a witch, and it is also the Catholic priest and nun who takes good care of the injured male protagonist. The most special thing about this novel lies in its efforts to refresh readers' views on many things or enrich readers' views on many things, apart from popular romantic stories. The author is a smart modern woman. She knows very well what makes modern readers of popular novels, especially modern female readers, uncomfortable, but she does not avoid it, and has the ambition to lead readers to reconsider those uncomfortable and uncomfortable reasons. She is a brave popular writer.
The fifth episode of the TV series "Outsiders" has a high degree of originality, and in my opinion, it fits the original aspirations quite well. Episode 5 begins with the protagonist and Ned Gowen, a senior staff member of the Mackenzie family, reading the verses of the 17th-century Oxford poet John Donne. When they read poems to the picturesque lakeside, the Mackenzie tribe behind them vulgar slapsticks. The author's consistent contrast between civilization and barbarism is brought out in this original TV series. The civilized taste of Ned made the hostess more close to him, and it also made people wonder why such an elegant gentleman would mix in this bunch of rough guys, and he had to go back to mix in the rented pigs. The TV series uses originality to integrate the novel scattered in the psychological activities of the heroine "I". The process of gradually understanding and integrating the barbarians from not understanding and not accepting the heroine not only increases the heroine's survival in the group of people. The possibility is also one of the necessary foreshadowings for the heroine of the story to choose not to leave the Scots to go to the same English people as herself, and to return to the modern without leaving the ancient times. The group of people made nasty yellow jokes and was rude to the heroine, but it was also the group of people who would insult the heroine and fight with them for the sake of outsiders. The group of people coldly refused to return the sheep handed in by the farmer. As a result, the children of the family ran out of milk. But it was also the group of people who saw that the farmer was in a real dilemma and stopped collecting rent and repaying it. Up food. As modern Chinese people who are deeply educated by the proletariat, we may be surprised that there is such a harmonious relationship between landlords and farmers. In fact, the proletarian movement is booming in Europe, and Europeans and Americans may also be surprised and refreshed in their view of history. Of course, the male lead is much gentler among those rough men, but it is he who reminds the female lead not to judge things that he doesn't understand easily. The male protagonist is an intermediary, and we will know more clearly later that he is smart enough to think of all the use, calculations and even murder of his uncle, and he has no lack of understanding, obedience and respect to his uncle. Although he was very dissatisfied with his uncle's use of his back injury to show the public to raise money, he knew that what his uncle did was not for what the hostess thought at first, but for the "righteousness" he also agreed with. Senior staff member Ned is also a middleman, he understands and even admires the rough guys. The hostess learned that they were raising money for the inevitable failure of the Scottish Uprising, and she found Ned, who she thought might be the most plausible. Ned responded to the hostess’s warning with history as a fart. Ned's disregard for her warning may not be just because he didn't know that the heroine was passing through. The response that the novel does not have is a succinct and vivid display of what the novel says in other ways, and why Ned is among this group of Scottish barbarians who are far from his civilization. Is the result the most important thing? Is it possible that in the stubbornness of this group of barbarians is the nobility that civilized people increasingly lack?
Another part of the TV series that is loyal to the original is its grasp of the rhythm of the plot. The pace of the novel is not fast, because I have already said that the author is by no means satisfied with only telling a good-looking legendary romance story. The TV series also retains the original ambition and bravery, because the protagonist's progress is too slow and it is possible to lose a part of the audience who only want to watch romance. After five episodes, the hero and heroine's rival drama has been running through, but it is still relatively light. The process of being courteous and intimate between them is not only the foundation for their vigorous love, but also reflects the same concept of love as the original author. Although later in the novel, the male protagonist said that he fell in love with the female protagonist from the beginning, but before that, the male protagonist always restrained himself from showing it. Love is not to be said, it is not to do what you want, if you can't confirm the other party, the expression may burden the other party, if you can't bear the responsibility, you shouldn't use love as an excuse, just do what you want. This kind of love view is quite traditional. It may not be enough fast food to please the taste of modern people, and it slowly burns up from small sparks, which is not good for performance. So far, I think that TV shows are just right in this regard, and they are tickle and not frizzy.
Before I knew it, I said a lot about the novel and TV series "Outlander". If what I have written can increase people's interest in novels and TV series, then I would be very happy. If not, then I have nothing to do, because watching this novel and TV series and writing these are enough to make myself happy. Everyone has a different G point. But I think, if you can accept the male lead’s warning to the female lead, "Don’t judge things that you don’t understand easily", and look at "Outlander" in such a "posture", instead of taking the female lead for granted. Skills are widely used, female protagonists are loved by others, female protagonists and husbands are very lewd, and female protagonists are unfaithful if they don’t return to their modern husbands... You may be more happy. Why not find something different in popular works. And I think that enriching one's horizons from others may still be greater than the pleasure brought by confidently complaining about others, although the rise of the self-media makes the latter pleasure easier to obtain.
PS TV series are getting better and better, and it has been upgraded from 4 stars to 5 stars.
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