《The Last Cook》Zhang Guoli becomes a cross-border director

The most recent hit - The Last Cook - is top-notch in terms of looks, acting skills and plot, and has attracted a large number of fans and audiences.What's even more exciting is that some hot topics in the play have aroused widespread discussion, among which - The Last Cook - Zhang Guoli's crossover as a director has made everyone full of curiosity and doubts.Let’s chat together today.

Zhang Guoli, who has been acting for many years, did not expect that he would now cross-border and become a director. The film he directed - Zhao Yun Mu Yu - was released in May, but the box office performance was not good. It has been 18 days since its release and the box office performance is still not there.Breaking through 20 million.

Now the TV series directed by Director Zhang Guoli is also scheduled to be aired, this one——————————

《The Last Cook》

This drama was completed as early as 2019 and took 4 years to air. It is estimated that many plots are seriously outdated.

Moreover, the starring cast of this drama is really impressive. The male protagonist Ji Lingchen was ridiculed by the crowd for his relationship problems in his early years. Although he recently appeared in an acting variety show, although the topic is constant, it is a popular one. The female protagonist Hai Lu has also been out of fashion for a long time.for many years.

As expected, the show received rave reviews just one day after it aired.

The first episode aired for 8 episodes, but I couldn’t stand it anymore after watching the 4th episode. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a full-scale crotch-stretching drama!

The plot is cliche and dull, and the pace is too slow

This play consists of two story lines.

One is the male protagonist Li Qi (played by Ji Lingchen), who is the leader of the guards and is ordered by the emperor to find the stolen national treasure;

Another story line is the story of the heroine Rong Er (played by Hai Lu) who was sent to the palace as a maid by her father and conquered the harem with her exquisite cooking skills;

Overall, both story lines have a lot of flaws!

Let’s talk about the heroine’s story line first.

In the play, the heroine's father lost a lot of money because of his gambling addiction, and was asked by his creditor to give him his daughter as a concubine. In order to reject the marriage, the heroine deliberately disguised herself and ran to the creditor's door, scaring the creditor so much that he hurriedly changed the IOU..

This plot is so outrageous and cliché!

By doing this, the heroine is not afraid that the creditor will not allow her to be a concubine, but instead she is going to be a slave in the house?And the plot of pretending to be ugly and refusing to marry is too cliche!

Later, the heroine was sent to the palace by her father to be a maid. She went through all kinds of difficulties, and then relied on others to cheat her!

Because of the emperor's prank, the heroine's friend Qing'er knocked over the snacks made by Aunt Shuangxi for the emperor. In order to prevent the good sisters from being punished, the heroine volunteered to make another one.

I thought that the heroine would show off her superb cooking skills, but in the end, the heroine directly found another aunt in the palace who could make snacks and asked her to help make one.

In the end, Concubine Ronghui (played by Myolie Wu) relented and asked Shouxi to make the same snack for the heroine, so that the heroine and her good sisters were not punished.

Later, the heroine and her good sisters had no money to bribe the eunuch in charge. The good sister Qing'er was framed by the eunuch in charge, and her life was hanging by a thread.

With the help of the male protagonist, the female protagonist meets the emperor (played by Li Mingde) pretending to be a guard, and tells him her grievances, hoping that he will tell the emperor.

Afterwards, the emperor ordered the eunuch in charge to be punished, and the male protagonist sent medicine to the female protagonist.

The story line of the heroine, on the surface, is that the heroine conquered the harem with her cooking skills and kindness, but if you look closely, you will see that the heroine's character is reckless and impulsive. She relies on the heroine's aura and the help of others to achieve various successes.Turning danger into safety, all kinds of cheats, have nothing to do with the story line of the heroine's independent growth!

As for the male protagonist’s story line, it’s ink and boring.

Treasures in the palace were often stolen. The last emperor Puyi was furious and asked Li Qi, the chief of the guards, to find out the whereabouts of the stolen national treasures.

Li Qi's mentor was also investigating this matter. As soon as he found out where the stolen national treasure was sold, he was silenced by the other party.

When Li Qi rushed to her mentor's house, she found that all her mentor's family had been killed, except for the housekeeper who had escaped.

After that, the male protagonist went to look for the whereabouts of the butler, but when he found it, the butler was also killed.

The male protagonist's investigation process has neither brain-burning reasoning nor fierce confrontation with the villain. The plot of the investigation is extremely boring, and there are always plots of other supporting characters interspersed in the middle. As a result, the rhythm of the whole process is very slow, and there is no let-down at all.A person’s desire to look down.

Overall, both story lines are uninteresting!

The female lead is good-looking and the male lead is dull

Apart from the plot, the biggest flaw of this drama is the appearance of the heroine.

The heroine Hai Lu was already 35 years old when she filmed this drama, and she was really not suitable to play such a lively and out-of-the-box role.

Moreover, the oldest palace maid in the Qing Dynasty was only 25 years old. Hailu's face was full of traces of time, with sunken cheeks, nasolabial folds, and crow's feet all very obvious. It was really difficult to play the palace maid.

As for the male lead Ji Lingchen, his acting skills are really unbearable. He looks like a piece of wood in everything he does, and his expressions and eyes are not in place.

This is what he looked like when he saw the corpse of his mentor;

This is how he looked devastated after his mentor passed away;

This is what it looks like when the heroine’s father scolds her in the street;

How would you describe this acting skill?To say he has facial paralysis is a bit flattering!I really don’t know what the director was thinking when he was casting!

▶The service is rough and the dubbing doesn’t fit your face

At first, many netizens felt that the drama's way of persuasion was very similar to Yu Zheng's "Story of Yanxi Palace".

But if you look carefully, it’s not as good as The Story of Yanxi Palace-!Yu Zheng's dramas also know how to use a Bao color to add texture. The costumes in this drama give people a gaudy feeling, and the clothes are too new.

Moreover, all the actors in the drama used dubbing, and the dubbing was not very flattering, which lowered the quality of the entire drama.

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