On the evening of August 2, the TV series "Upstream" was launched in Episode 4 of Youku. The total number of episodes marked in the drama is 30, co-starring young actors such as Hu Yixuan, Qi Yandi, and Wang Ruichang, telling the story of the heroine from high school to college. Based on the content of the first 4 episodes that have been launched so far, "Upstream" is more real in the youth school drama, and there are also many hilarious contents in it. Therefore, it may become a blockbuster work in the near future.
In the past TV drama genre, there are not a few youth campus dramas, and this theme is not new. However, in the past, such plays often have the problem of not being real enough. "Realism" is the most important element that connects this genre with reality and thus pulls the audience together. In "Upstream", the female protagonist's family moves to a new environment, the family life is not rich, the father relies on helping people move bricks to live, and in the face of such family life difficulties, it is the problem of son preference and so on. Difficulties in life and preference for sons and daughters are very important contents in "Upstream".
Life is difficult, economic. This is a place that can bring the plot and the audience's emotions closer. In many of our youth campus dramas, everyone lives a well-off and above level of life, this kind of life, although carefree, but somewhat makes people feel that it is not consistent with everyone's real life. And the youth and love stories in this dimension of life always give people a sense of nothingness. In "Upstream", the living state of the heroine's family is more pyrotechnic.
At the same time, the preference for sons over daughters is spiritual. Although this problem is avoided by many dangling youth love dramas, in real life, especially in the family of the brother-sister combination, the sister often becomes a victim. This is a plot design that can make the audience empathize. In "Upstream", we can see the preference of parents over daughters due to economic problems, and we can also see the "reconciliation" between fathers and heroines. This is a helpless and warm narrative technique.
It is precisely because of these contents that the TV series "Upstream" has the value of audience empathy, and then, the story it tells, the audience is willing to believe that it is true, and is willing to enter the emotions of its characters. This is the convenience that a TV series that stands on the ground and narrates should be given. Among the 4 episodes of plot content that have been launched, I personally believe that the life of the third year of high school told by it is also relatively real. In the play, learning and examination become the focus, and academic performance becomes the most important "measure". Such a true one.
Of course, the reason why youth love dramas are good is not only because of the sense of reality, but also because the novel authors and TV drama screenwriters have a kind of "youth feeding" for school life. What is "youth feeding"? When creating novels and film and television dramas in the youth campus category, creators will not only restore a lot of their own life and learning content, but also achieve a creative mode of "making up for regrets" for this restoration. In this type of work, the protagonists may do something that real people dare not do during the learning stage. A small out-of-line is actually another kind of literary, film and television drama of youth.
In the TV series "Upstream", there is obviously this kind of feedback. In the plot that has just begun, the content of the school bully riding a bicycle to carry the heroine to school is sweet and warm, and has a love flavor. In fact, in reality, this kind of scene may not appear or rarely appear. This kind of bridge section is a kind of youth feedback of the creator to himself. And the more content of this kind of youth feeding, the more it can satisfy the audience's regrets about their past youth. This is a mutual satisfaction between the creator and the reader and the viewer.
At this point, we have also explained the mystery of youth school dramas - in fact, it is to use the way of stories to feed their youth. A good youth campus drama needs to have a sense of realism in campus life, but it also needs to have this kind of creative in the spiritual dimension of feeding. The scale control of the TV series "Upstream" in this creation is relatively good, not suspended, but it can also appear from time to time to feed the imagination.
Based on the relatively good level of the story, several young actors are performing, and they can be remarkable. The performance difficulty of youth school dramas belongs to the smallest of film and television dramas. Because for young actors, they only need to perform their real campus life. In this kind of drama, young actors do not have to experience life. In the play, the performance of the heroine Hu Yixuan adds a lot to the script role. Several male protagonists are also within their roles.
Of course, for many middle-aged and elderly audiences, this "Upstream" may not be able to empathize. No tv series can meet the needs of all audience groups. It can even be said that each generation has its own youth model. For Upstream, it should belong to the youth. (Text/Ma Qingyun)