Nine years of sharpening a sword! "The Legend of Huo Qu's Disease" starring Zhang Ruoyun and Mao Xiaotong was finally renamed "The Wind Rises in the Desert" and got the distribution license. This costume drama, which started filming in 75 years, was cut from 0 episodes to 0 episodes, which can be called a case of "living for a long time" in domestic dramas.

To talk about the bumpy journey of this drama, it is simply more exciting than the plot. Zhang Ruoyun was still a newcomer back then, and now he has become the top of "Celebrating More Than Years". Mao Xiaotong has also changed from a sweet girl to a sassy female general, and even Bai Yu has become a powerful faction from "Soul Town".

The most dramatic is the historical controversy. In the original work, Huo Quai, who was named a marquis at the age of 23 and died of illness at the age of 0, insisted on adding the drama of "counterattack at the bottom" and "love for children". But history fans directly fried the pot and frantically complained to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. After all, who doesn't know the allusion of "the Huns have not been destroyed, why do you want to be at home"?

And the crew's desire to survive is also bursting, first renamed "The Wind Rises in the Desert" to weaken the historical direction, and then slashed 17 episodes of water-injected plots. Judging from the exposed stills, Zhang Ruoyun's armor and body are so handsome that they explode, and Mao Xiaotong has both hair and costumes. Thousands of groups performed the real-life war scenes, and people were enthusiastic to watch.

But the controversy remains. Netizens picked up the plot of "Huo Qubing and the female general falling in love" retained in the play, which obviously contradicts historical facts. But the producers are right: "The artistic processing shows the human side of the hero." Does that sound familiar?

If you want to say that the worst is the actors. In order to play a good role, Zhang Ruoyun once drank mud in a stinky ditch, and was hospitalized for insect repellent injections. Mao Xiaotong practiced horseback archery so hard that his knees were bleeding. Now that the drama has finally passed the review, the barrage has exploded with "distressed brothers and sisters".

Is the nine-year backlog a blessing or a curse? Fuhuadao is indeed outdated, and Mao Xiaotong's headdress was ridiculed by netizens as "online game style". But the popularity of the leading actors is now more than one level higher than it was back then. But to be honest, 75 collective volume is also more in line with the current habit of watching dramas.

I have to say that the fate of this drama is comparable to Huo Quai's illness. From funding breaks to historical controversies, from lawsuits to censorship twists and turns, it is already a miracle that it can be broadcast. Now it's up to us to see if the adapted "The Wind Rises in the Desert" can be worthy of the audience's nine-year wait.

Do you think that historical dramas should strictly abide by historical facts, or allow artistic creation?