The more the public knows about the history of the Ming Dynasty, it will be a great test for the director's cultural level and historical foundation. Compared with the novels written by Qiong Yao in the Qing Dynasty, writers and directors can piece together their own TV series with their wild imagination as long as they put clothes and backgrounds that conform to the characteristics of the times on the screen.
In the process of external communication, people generally choose more acceptable themes to enjoy, and the old drama is a good example. The ancient drama emphasized the facelift and the distinction between good and evil. Cao, the prime minister who can play a good white face, has a fixed cognitive range among the people. Zhuge Liang threw himself into it at first sight, and Cao Cao was a traitor at first sight. But Li is also a traitor, and most people really don't know this guy.
In the process of preparing Yuan and Ming TV series, I think writers should encounter similar problems. Most of the characters are not well-known among the people, and the forms of TV dramas and movies are closer to life. Things that are too playful have long been out of date and criticized by the audience, so it is difficult to shoot historical TV dramas.
Most people don't go into how much Shang Lu, Xu Jie and Li Dongyang achieved in the Ming Dynasty, which led to the great difference between Xiaozong and Wuzong. The director can only shoot a few celebrities, such as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who was a monk and beggar, and the emperor Judy who was Amin.
As the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's unique temperament and experience, coupled with his own unofficial history label, made him have great excavation ability. In the TV series "Ming Dynasty 1566", besides Jiajing, the emperor who was rated as Jiajing by Hai Rui and whose family was poor, to be fair, Yan Song also had a certain popularity among the people, at least many people knew that Yan Song was a big traitor.
But for Comrade Yan Shifan, Yan Song's own son, birds of a feather, how many people know that Yan Shifan was called the three smartest people at that time, except Ximen Qing in Jin Ping Mei written by Wang Shizhen in Ximen Qing because of his contradiction with Yan Shifan? Yan Gongzi, the cyclops who accidentally lost an eye, relied on unparalleled talent for speculating people's hearts. Apart from being suspected to be the background emperor of Jin Ping Mei, he is basically unknown to the people.
In addition to the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Yongle emperor Judy in the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that the last emperor Chongzhen who was hanged was a little famous. Although "Daming Robbery" is well-made, its bleak box office makes directors and investors who pursue TV drama ratings and movie box office shudder. From the perspective of risk, of course, no one wants to touch such a subject that not only tests the director's historical ability, but also is easy to be thankless.
Can't blame the people. It's hard for you to have a pleasant desire to watch the magnificent Han family being trampled by foreign fighters, a well-crowned dress being ordered to follow Hu, and a big braid representing the humiliating modern history being set up. Whether watching TV series or movies, telling stories is also for relaxation and entertainment. It is unrealistic for you to let the audience work hard all day and go home to watch a costume drama at night to worry about the country and the people.
Compared with several emperors in the Ming Dynasty, some people know that in the Yuan Dynasty, except Kublai Khan and Genghis Khan, the names of emperors who can be pronounced as tongue twisters can make people stunned.
Furthermore, apart from the following four countries with little contact, the emperor who changed lamps frequently existed in China for less than a hundred years. In the history of China, it's a thing of the past, and there are naturally no words and materials to explore in this dynasty.
What's more, from the perspective of safeguarding national unity, some policies of the Yuan Dynasty did cause immeasurable harm to the people of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains at that time. This black history lies there. Although the Yuan Dynasty has been dead for hundreds of years, it cannot be artificially beautified or destroyed. Are you kidding? .
The audience's cognition, the shortness of the dynasty and the limitation of ethnic problems made the descendants of the two dynasties lack the right to speak in the later society. To sum up, it is not difficult for everyone to understand why there is a lack of TV dramas in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties on the screen.