author: Long Cheng Fei, the original title: “Tang Yan
Tang Yan’s new play “Yanyuntai” failed to fire the “first shot” of the 85th flower’s postpartum comeback.
When “Yanyuntai” was first broadcast, according to China’s audiovisual big data (CVB) statistics, before Yanyuntai’s viewing The average ratings of 8 episodes are only 0.467%, and the real-time ratings of Kuyun Data are also floating around 0.5%.
In addition to the ratings, the reputation of “Yanyuntai” seems to be somewhat unsatisfactory-Douban scored 4.9 points, below the passing line, and the scores are even declining as the plot unfolds. Wait until the webcast on November 22 The final night has slipped to 4.4 points.
This kind of ratings and word-of-mouth performance is obviously not as good as expected. From the perspective of drama return, “Yanyuntai”, as a big investment and star costume heroine drama, has not been able to harvest a new “popularity” when there was basically no rivalry in similar dramas during the same period. .
From the perspective of the actor, Tang Yan, who once starred in “The Three Thousand Gold of the Xia Family”, won the annual TV ratings champion and has a certain appeal among the TV audiences. The first major drama of her postpartum comeback was broadcast, but the results were not good. It only ends here.
In fact, recently, there have been two new dramas starring in the past, and the two dramas seem to be in sharp contrast. The average ratings of the first broadcast of “Secret and Great” exceeded 1%, and the Douban score reached 8.2. The word-of-mouth performance was obviously better than that of “Yanyuntai”.
Although the drama of the Republic of China is quite different from the ancient puppet drama, it is not suitable for direct analogy, but the poisonous eye found that if Li Yifeng’s performance in “Secret and Great” still has room for praise and discussion, then “Yanyuntai” “The 4.9 points of “It seems to be directly attributed to Tang Yan alone: Tang Yan’s performance in the play after the broadcast immediately caused controversies such as raising a baby and cutting pictures by the crew; the hostess setting was regarded by most people as “old-fashioned”, some netizens Comment on “Except for the heroine, the scenes are pretty good”…
Judging from various public opinion feedbacks, the negative reputation of “Yanyuntai” on social platforms is almost like a “come back” of “Luofang not Appreciate”.
Is “Yanyuntai” really the “Lonely Beauty” 2.0? If not, this recently aired “costume drama” with the largest investment scale can only gain dismal reputation and ratings. Where is the problem?
The “Problem of Historical Perspective” in “Yanyuntai”
From the historical background of the plot, the setting of “Yanyuntai” seems to have a natural “disadvantage”.
The main story of “Yanyuntai” takes place in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the protagonist’s camp is not the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Liao Kingdom, which has always appeared as a “villain” in contemporary costume dramas. The main line also revolves around the Liao Dynasty court politics The bucket unfolds. The heroine Xiao Yanyan, played by Tang Yan, is the legendary Queen Mother Xiao, the politician of Liao in history. During the regency period, Liao entered the most prosperous period of development.
However, perhaps because the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms existed for a short time and their political history was too chaotic, the history textbooks did not cover much of this period of history, and the public was not familiar with the relevant background.
Unlike the Qing dynasty, where many court dramas were born, the national regime of “Liao” was mostly used as a villain that the protagonist camp needed to resist in previous costume dramas. The most famous ones are the “Jiang Yang” series and ” Mu Guiying command”.
The public is watching the showMany generations have also entered the perspective of the Song Dynasty. It is naturally not easy to establish a sense of substitution and empathy for the Liao State, which signed the “Chanyuan Alliance” with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Queen Mother Xiao who is behind it. What’s more, in the series of stories about the Yang family, the Queen Mother Xiao appeared as a scheming main villain, which also produced a big cognitive contradiction with the positive heroine image in “Yan Yuntai”.
When the trailer for “Yanyuntai” was released, Xiao Yanyan’s line “Guardian Yanyun Sixteen States” played by Tang Yan caused controversy.
In 936 AD, the general of the Later Tang Dynasty, Jing Tan, raised his troops to rebel, asked Qidan for help, accepted Qidan sent troops, was canonized by Qidan as the emperor of Dajin, and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun in accordance with the requirements of Qidan two years later, Liao State The territory extended directly to the border of the Great Wall, and in the following hundreds of years, it always constituted a huge strategic threat to the Northern Song Dynasty regime. It was not until the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the Yuan Dynasty that it was completely taken back by the Han regime.
After the trailer was broadcast, the Douban group received hundreds of replies in the discussion building, and the host bluntly said: “I have always wanted to let Song regain the sixteen states of Yanyun from my childhood until my subconscious mind, (Trailer) I am very conflicted.”
The screenwriter Jiang Shengnan had previously responded to the historical background of “Yanyuntai” on Weibo, saying that the background of the protagonist of his work was involved in the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, and Xixia, and clarified that there is no Yang Jiajiang in “Yanyuntai” In writing this series, the original intention was to “take history as a mirror”, and directly called “fake Song fans who can’t distinguish between Liao, Jin and Yuan”, “I can’t afford it.”