Servant Girls in the Red Mansions 红楼丫头

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Servant Girls in the Red Mansions was jointly produced by Wuxi Television Station, Beijing Dinghao Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Wuxi Guangda Urban Construction and Development Co., Ltd., and Wuxi Guangda Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd. It won the "Five-One Project" Award of the third session of Wuxi's spiritual civilization construction. Directors: Huang Jian-Zhong and Guo Jing-Yu; starring: Keanu Chi and Xu Jun.
The 20-episode TV drama Servant Girls in the Red Mansions draws on the literary classic Dream of the Red Chamber and is a twenty-episode series that creatively adapts the stories of the maids in the novel. Following the spirit of the original, it boldly expands its creative space, and is full of wit, humor, and brilliance. Servant Girls in the Red Mansions delves deeply into the unfortunate origins, hardships, and tragic fates of the main maids such as Xi Ren and Qing Wen, and uses the medium of film and television to fully present the humanistic history of the maids in the original. These maids, too, had passionate longings and pursuits for love and freedom. The maids in the world of female slaves in Dream of the Red Chamber, for the first time in the history of Chinese literature, stepped out of the shadow of the aristocratic class and entered the gallery of artistic archetypes with their distinctive personalities and the strength of their character. To this end, the writers and directors approached the story from a completely new angle, constructing many plots and details absent from the literary original, so that these maids, who were still "supporting characters" in the "innocent, chaotic world of girls," leap to become the "leads" in the TV drama Servant Girls in the Red Mansions. The countless joys and sorrows, grievances and entanglements these maids act out in the seemingly calm and sunny Grand View Garden are woven into a fascinating story that is related to the love of Bao-Yu and Dai-Yu yet largely different, with a distinctive flavor of its own. Following the spirit of the times embodied in Cao Xue-Qin's view of women, Servant Girls in the Red Mansions will bring you a brand-new perspective and a brand-new realm.
Servant Girls in the Red Mansions basically uses newcomers for its main cast; most of the actresses playing the maids are pure young girls who graduated from film or drama academies. Though not yet experienced, they perform with genuine feeling. Some even predict that a few of the actresses will surely become "big names" in two or three years. Besides the little-known main cast, Servant Girls in the Red Mansions also invited some celebrities to play "green leaves" in support: Xie Fang as Jia's mother, Yim Shun-Hoi as Jia She, Fang Qing-Zhuo as Nanny Li, and Zhong Xing-Huo as Hu Tai-Yi are all "big names" in the film and television world, adding considerable color to the series.
Will the bizarre plot of Servant Girls in the Red Mansions spark controversy among fans of the novel? It is said that early in the series' preparation, there were reports that Huang Jian-Zhong had already prepared himself to be criticized for the bizarre plot, but Huang Jian-Zhong told a Nanjing Daily reporter that this was the media taking his words out of context: "The series merely draws on Dream of the Red Chamber; it is not an adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber. I have no need to fear controversy."
Huang Jian-Zhong told the reporter that he spent four months on preliminary preparation: "The casting work was led by Guo Jing-Yu, while I was in charge of overseeing the script. Places in the script that disrespected the original were pulled back as much as possible, and many plotlines that deviated from the original were deleted."
Guo Jing-Yu said that Servant Girls in the Red Mansions is just an ordinary period drama; it focuses on the fate of lowly servants and is not at all a reckless rewriting of a classic. As long as viewers watch it with the mindset of watching a period drama, there will be no controversy or nitpicking.
At the international film and television trade market of the ninth Shanghai International TV Festival, Servant Girls in the Red Mansions became the TV drama with the most purchase intentions from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, and the market feedback was very good.