Liu Tao's "Jane Eyre" has not gone far, and Mei Ting's "simplicity" is online.
Directed by young director Han Jie, produced and starring Chen Jianbin, and starring Mei Ting, Tu Songyan, Liu Weiwei, Yu Mingjia and others, "Journey of No Confusion" was launched, telling the story of a female teacher and a male host who met and fell in love.
The female teacher is called Simple (Mei Ting), who was originally an excellent middle school Chinese teacher in a small city, and in order to marry her boyfriend Feng Chunsheng (Tu Songyan), who has been in love for many years, she resigned and came to the vast beijing and found a tutor job. The male protagonist Male Yuwen (Chen Jianbin) is his employer, who has a successful career in middle age, but there is a crazy wife and a paralyzed daughter at home, and his own eyes are still intermittently not good, and Simple and Malevin gradually develop feelings in getting along...
Wait, how does this story look so familiar? Isn't this the British masterpiece Jane Eyre, published in 1847? The creators probably also thought that they would not be able to blind the audience with a higher and higher level of education today, so they simply put things on the table, and the heroine was also surnamed Jane.
The Chinese version of "Jane Eyre" is not so simple
Literary and artistic middle-aged Chen Jianbin in recent years in the film quite a pursuit, self-written and self-directed self-acting word-of-mouth film "A Spoon", "Eleventh Time", starred in the black humor film "The Unknown Generation", but the TV series has the suspicion of letting go of the self, just after acting in the Douban 3-point drama "Love Me Don't Think Too Much", it turned into Rochester. Jianbin, who took over "The Journey of No Confusion", not only starred, but also became a supervising producer.
And these two dramas are still the same director and screenwriter - Han Jie. This Han Jie is not Han Jie, the director of "Hello! Mr. Tree", but Han Jie, the director of the Chinese Drama Theatre. Why can you direct such a strong lineup after shooting a 3-point drama? Probably because behind "The Journey of No Confusion" stands the National Theatre of China.
At the beginning of the project, "The Journey of No Confusion" was not called this name, but "If I Love You", which is more like a pair of "Love Me Don't Think Too Much". At that time, the male protagonist was set Chen Jianbin and Mei Ting, but the male second was not Tu Songyan, and it was Ling Xiaosu who attended the drama's press conference in 2019.
The producer writes Mandarin Film and Television Culture Media, which is 100% owned by the National Drama Theatre of China, and the chairman is actor and producer Xu Wenguang.
That's right, it is Ding Yizhen in "In the Name of the People".
He also played roles in "Love Me Don't Think Too Much" and "Journey without Confusion".
In 2020, this drama will be renamed "Happiness is Very Simple", the male second is also changed from Ling Xiaosu to Tu Songyan, and then broadcast, the title has become "Journey without Confusion", the official introduction of the producer changed hands, as many as 17 producers, there are 10 producers.
The various things behind this can be much more complicated than the simple relationship between Malevin and the play.
However, to be fair, the overall performance of "The Year of Not Confused" is much better than that of "Love Me Don't Think Too Much", at least Chen Jianbin and Mei Ting's middle-aged love is much more pleasing to the eye than chen Jianbin and Li Yitong's father-daughter love.
All the staff used their acting skills to support "The Journey of Not Confused"
The plot of "The Journey of No Confusion" was officially revealed early on. Simply quit his job as a regular teacher at the school from Xiaocheng and came to Beijing to prepare to marry her boyfriend Feng Chunsheng, who has been dating for eight years, after all, they are not young.
Mei Ting, 46, introduced herself with one mouth, "This Chinese New Year's Eve three years old."
Fortunately, her temperament in the play is calm and simple, Cong Rong's acting skills are not flawed, in order to be close to people, she would rather show two dark circles and face the sky, simple hairstyles, costumes, and the professional action language of ordinary teachers have become the plus points of the role.
The firmness in Mei Ting's eyes makes people believe that Simple is a kind and tough woman like Jane Eyre.
The simple interviewer is the book publisher Malevin. Chen Jianbin sat there, his brow frowned and immediately the four great masters were on their upper bodies, full of domineering spirit. Although he speaks harshly and always poses as a person who is not close to him, he actually pursues his career, has responsibility for his family, and is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside.
Chen Jianbin belongs to a very personal and charismatic actor, mature without losing humor, serious and cute, although everything after "The Biography of Zhen Huan" has a Yongzheng tone, but always able to grasp the subtle emotional differences of each role, the strength of the performance is beyond doubt.
Fate pushes them closer and closer the moment Malevin and Jane Meet, and in addition to being kind and dealing with books, the two have one thing in common about fate - they are both green in the other half.
Simple fiancé Feng Chunsheng, because of long-distance love coupled with work pressure, the difficult living environment in the big city, cheated on the company owner's Qianjin Zhuo Xiaoting (Zhang Shu), Bai Fumei single-mindedly pasted this phoenix man, which made the phoenix man embarrassed, unable to let go of the simple responsibility, and it is difficult to abandon Bai Fumeiqi's unrelenting pursuit, what a rare opportunity to change his destiny.
Tu Songyan in "The Journey of No Confusion", in addition to his body and slight vicissitudes, his performance still can't fault anything.
Malevin's crazy wife is full of love brains, and she cheated on herself and asked her husband for positive forgiveness, but she did not know that the secretary Lin Wanrou (Wu Xiaomin) next to her husband had long been looking at the tiger and was eager to take the position immediately.
Malevin and Jane love the friendship of the two tribulations is bumpy, while Zhuo Xiaoting and Lin Wanrou have no shortage of girlfriends, and they love to rob other people's men.
If such a plot is not filmed in a plain and lifelike way, and the actors can hold the scene, do not roar, do not tear, and only tell the desires and struggles of the characters, I am afraid that it will also become a dog blood drama.
Traditional dramas go left, and web dramas go right
Since the beginning of the broadcast, "Journey of No Confusion" has received good ratings on taiwan, but the popularity of online broadcasting is low, and the reputation has also shown a more obvious polarization trend. The audience who praised the audience believed that the plot was smooth, the logic was clear, the full acting skills were online, and the character modeling was more in line with the identity, and there was no special slot.
The audience of bad reviews does not want to see the old story of the domineering president falling in love with the female teacher of the township.
This is not only the problem of "Journey of No Confusion", in recent years, the fault situation in the drama market has become more and more obvious, and the differentiation of network stations has become more and more serious, either TV ratings have soared, but drowned in the saliva of the network; or the whole network has liked it, but the TV station has not been seen at all.
Today's dramas do not say that they have brought about the grand situation of thousands of empty alleys in the 1980s and 1990s, that is, the explosive phenomenon of "Zhen Huan", "Xiao Shede", "My First Half of Life", and "Thirty Only" has become less and less common.
The reason is that the audience has been divided, with the change of the broadcast platform, people's viewing habits have changed, the audience has gradually been divided into middle-aged and elderly people holding remote controls, and young Internet parties holding mobile phones. One wave of them is a short wave of parents who are accustomed to killing time, and the other wave is watching various Anglo-American, Japanese and Korean dramas grow up, what scenes have been seen, and more require the rhythm, innovation, aesthetics, well-made and so on of the series.
In this case, you clumsily carry a story from more than 100 years ago to impress the current people in their thirties who are about to enter the age of confusion, but the values of the characters do not match them. At present, after the 8090s, I am afraid that it is not easy to empathize with simple and dedicated women, nor can I empathize with my parents who force marriage with death, and I can't understand the white and rich beauty who love phoenix men, so "Journey without Confusion" is ultimately difficult to enter the eyes of the target audience.
In the final analysis, the differentiation of works is the fault and differentiation of creators, the older generation of creators did not promote and embrace the younger generation in time, and they could not catch up with the thoughts and pace of young people after all; the young generation of creators have seized the wave of Internet development and expanded the territory on the network platform, so why squeeze into the circle of the predecessors?
The embarrassment of "Journey without Confusion" is that it wants to grab the left, but accidentally stands in the right team.