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Recently, Wang Baoqiang's TV series "Chess Player" was broadcast again after many years, and it was regarded as a model of "real poor".

The real and delicate performances in "The Chess Player" are moving, the realistic costumes are convincing, and the exquisite editing is addictive.

And "Mo Shang and Flowers Bloom" broadcast at the same time seems to have become a "negative teaching material", similar everywhere, but incomparable everywhere.

From the character setting to the service of Huadao, every detail is full of "levitation", which is criticized as a "fake poor".

So, how can two TV series with similar themes and broadcast at the same time receive such different reviews? Follow the editor's pace to analyze it!

In "Chess Warrior", Cui Ye played by Wang Baoqiang is a low-level Go teacher who lives in a very tight situation, and even has to think twice about buying a KFC children's package for his son.

If a penny is broken in half and spent, a little more than expected living expenses can only hesitate for a long time, and finally grit their teeth and give up.

His wallet was tattered, he wore a yellowed shirt, he used old clips, and he had to save up the expired newspapers in the cupboard, waiting for the moment to come in handy.

Even his father's posthumous photo could only be squeezed together with the newspaper.

Not only that, but the school also extended its claws to his competition bonus, and in the face of the principal's ridicule that he took a cheap price and did not sell it, he could only swallow his anger and accept the outrageous accusation of "why do you care about everything".

And the rural girl in the 80s in "Mo Shang and Flowers Bloom", her hands are white and delicate, her face is clean, translucent and white, how can she face the loess with her back to the sky, and she looks weathered.

Not to mention that the hot water kettle and table of the village committee are brand new, the more you look at it, the more it looks like a modern model room, there are no traces of residence, and there is no sense of rustic feeling exclusive to that era.

In "The Chess Player", the helplessness of the low-level characters is written, Cui Ye was inexplicably abused by the car dealer, humiliated and helpless, but he could only bow his head and retreat.

My brother took pity on him and gave him a hamburger, but he was afraid that his brother would worry, so he could only hold up his smile and "eat the celebration banquet" with dignity and hard mouth, and the forbearance and self-esteem of the poor were fully revealed.

The hemp rope is broken in detail, and bad luck only looks for the suffering.

In order to make up for his son's surgery, he can only sell his treasured cigarettes cheaply, and even accept humiliating chess games from his opponents.

In contrast, the poor setting in "Mo Shang and Flowers Bloom" is suspended and ridiculous, and the character's pediatric-like predicament is not known how people who lack common sense in life struggle to come up with it.

The overly delicate costume makes the audience mistakenly think that it is a version of the catwalk of a certain era.

Not to mention the 80s of the last century, even in today's countryside there are too few, and someone can have such living conditions.

Under the banner of rural poverty, but it is superficial.

I want to talk about everything, but I can't tell anything about the production of floating skin and sloppiness, and I have become a "leather bag company" in vain.

Wang Baoqiang was born from the grassroots and has full experience and understanding of the lives of the people at the bottom.

In addition, he is an excellent actor with enough empathy ability and is good at discovering the bits and pieces of life.

Through subtle expressions and just the right body language, he accurately portrayed Cui Ye's depression and struggle devastated by the weight of life, and his hope and enthusiasm that he was unwilling to admit defeat in a desperate situation.

Cui Ye, who is already sensitive, gets angry because of the teller's negligence when withdrawing money, and people with low self-esteem often burst out with strong self-esteem.

The people at the bottom, who have been suppressed for a long time, are more likely to be crushed by the injustices they imagined.

And how did the actors of "Mo Shang and Flowers Bloom" do? Their appearance is very beautiful, but their performances are very pompous and lack realism.

The screenwriter is writing, the actors are acting, and the props are being designed, completely ignoring the role setting of rural people in the 80s.

Their makeup and demeanor are not so much like a rural girl, but more like a fashionable strong woman in an urban idol drama.

After the broadcast of "Chess Warrior", the audience praised one after another, and they couldn't bear to watch more, as if they were watching their own lives.

The best compliment for an actor is that it is difficult to distinguish where he is performing.

The audience said that Cui Ye was "so poor that he could overflow from the screen", and Wang Baoqiang's acting skills were praised as "documentary-style reality".

After the drama was broadcast simultaneously on CCTV 8 and Tencent Video, it quickly became the ratings champion, with CCTV's ratings breaking 1%, and Tencent Video ranked first in the suspense drama popularity list.

On the day of the premiere, the popularity of Tencent Video exceeded 2025, and as the opening work of Tencent's "X Theater" in 0 years, it attracted a lot of discussion.

The audience generally believes that Wang Baoqiang vividly interprets the struggle, depression and blackening process of the little people at the bottom.

In particular, the performance of "Five Faces" (the transformation from nest to ferocious) has been praised as "cinematic acting".

The first two episodes quickly advance the plot through the credit union robbery and the accountant kidnapping, and the combination of black humor and tense atmosphere is so fast-paced that it is addictive.

In fact, there are very few TV series with villains as the protagonists in China, and Cui Ye's blackening reflects the survival plight of the characters at the bottom of society, with a strong realistic criticism.

Wang Baoqiang has won high praise from the audience and mainstream media for his superb acting skills, real portrayal of the bottom of society and high-quality production.

Although there is a small amount of controversy about the plot logic, the overall word-of-mouth is still very strong, and once it is broadcast, it has become the most watched reality TV series since 2025 years.

His success has once again proved to the market that the audience's taste has improved, the high demand for production, and the thirst for "realism" is far better than the suspended "pseudo-realism".

The arrogant producer should also make it clear that the suspended setting has no way to attract the vast majority of the audience, and the shoddy production is doomed to failure.

Nowadays, if you want to be recognized by the audience, you must only use real life details, character behaviors that fit the underlying logic and superb acting skills.

Everyone says that the past two years have been a cold winter in film and television, it is difficult to act, difficult to produce, and the commercialized monetization model seems to be less and less recognized by the audience.

No hard work, no gain, the same applies to today's production environment, there are always people who are improving, and there are always people who are working hard to make some high-quality works.

If some people still blindly follow the template, follow the inherent ideas, and create some costumes and character settings that are out of reality, it can only be more and more sad.

The gap will get bigger and bigger, more and more obvious, concentrated, and I can only complain about the cold winter of film and television again, is it really a cold winter?