Chapter 101 2. Principles and Skills

One day, I was invited to a TV station to have a chat with Chen Jieling, He Shouxin, and Wang Jing (in no particular order, just smile). When it comes to dramas that use historical figures as protagonists, my opinion is: No matter how you add more branches and leaves, add There is nothing wrong with this historical figure being disfigured beyond recognition. (Seriously, who knows what the true colors of historical figures are?) The question is, after wanton transformation, the resulting things are not good-looking.If it looks good, it will be successful; if it is not good-looking, it will fail, and it has nothing to do with being completely based on history or shaping it out of thin air.It is better to look good out of thin air than to look bad based on history.

For those who look good regardless of history, there are examples, such as Jin Yong's "Deer and Ding Ji" and "Book and Sword Enmity Record". He was really imprisoned on the Six Harmonies Pagoda in Hangzhou! If you stick to historical records and refuse to create richness, then the Thirty-Six Suicides of Xuanhe will not be able to develop into a colorful and exciting "Shui You Zhuan". Artistic creation must have rich imagination, this is the principle.Whether the imagined creation is good or not depends on skill, and the principle cannot be denied because of poor skill. The reason is very simple and easy to understand.