The annual dark horse of the domestic drama "Love is Delicious" is approaching the finale, but many viewers are somewhat reluctant. This "small and beautiful" love light comedy, what is the good?
He came, he came. Following "The First Love of The Thousand Years of Adults" and "Skyscraper", director Chen Zhengdao brought his latest web drama "Love is Delicious" to occupy the audience's display screen again.
"Chinese version of Sex and the City", "Watch 10 episodes in one breath", "Biggest Dark Horse of the Year"... Recently, this urban emotional comedy directed by Chen Zhengdao and Xu Zhaoren, starring Li Chun, Zhang Hanyun, Wang Ju and others has gained a lot of recognition, and the Douban score has risen from 8.1 points at the beginning of the broadcast to 8.4 points.
However, if you look closely at this highly acclaimed new drama, it seems to be different from the common path in other TV series on the market. No traffic stars, no old drama bones, no S-rated big productions... This "small and beautiful" love light comedy, what is the good?
"Good soil, but really fragrant"
The first performance on "Love Is Delicious" is probably the whole network chasing and killing the plan to name it.
After all, with such a dirty and vulgar name, there is still a faint smell of bad movies, not to mention the huge increase in playback, and even the audience wants Amway to go out after entering the pit.
Netizens: "It's very good, don't get up next time." ”
Not only is the title rustic, the setting of "Love Is Delicious" looks very ordinary.
At first glance, "Love is Delicious" follows the path of a common urban women's group portrait drama, telling three urban women with different personalities in the post-epidemic era, as well as the twists and turns and stories they have encountered in the workplace, emotions and life.
Among them, Fang Xin, played by Zhang Hanyun, is a full-time wife who returned to the workplace after encountering the cheating of her perfect husband; Liu Jing, played by Li Chun, is a former programmer of a private bank who burns a good dish and repairs a good WiFi but was tragically laid off; Xia Meng, played by Wang Ju, is an overbearing female vice president who is broken up by her boyfriend who has been running for eight years, and then turns around to meet a gym coach and talk about love.
From left to right, they are Fang Xin, Liu Jing, and Xia Meng.
The reason why these 3 women from different industries and different identities can establish a connection is also very simple - they are classmates who grew up together.
"Love is Delicious" has a total of 20 episodes, each episode is about half an hour after the end, and the body is light. Each episode uses the opening few minutes to explain the life fragments of the three heroines in their student days, which reveals the respective personality characteristics of the three like slices, corresponding to the different ways they cope with challenges when they grow up. There is a theme unit every two episodes, and the story also revolves around the corresponding theme.
The casting of the young actors is also very suitable.
Of course, it also carries forward the old tradition of urban emotional dramas, intimately arranging (at least) two emotional lines for each female protagonist, and many netizens have found the happiness of CP stewing from it.
As mentioned earlier, "Love Is Delicious" takes life under the epidemic as the background of the times, and many corresponding plots can be seen in the play.
Fang Xin found out that her husband was cheating, not because of the flip phone, nor because of the smell of perfume on his body, but because of an epidemiological investigation.
In the face of the surveillance records presented by the epidemic prevention personnel, all sophistry looks so pale.
But the front foot just drove the cheating husband out of the door, and the back foot Fang Xin's new peach blossom baking warm man was on the line, no wonder some people said that the pace of this drama is as fast as an American drama.
Also pressed the accelerator button is Xia Meng's eight-year love affair with her college classmates. The last episode of the two is still a strong woman and a weak couple who meet to buy a marriage house, and in the next episode, Xia Meng was broken up by her ex-boyfriend who looked like Wen Taiyi, and after going out to run a step, she met a gym coach who looked like Ning Zetao.
Running injuries encountered by well-meaning coaches to help stretch.
The emotional line of Liu Jing, an elderly young woman who is harmless and dedicated to cooking, is the one who looks the most pompous, not only eyebrow-to-eye with the assistant director of early marriage, divorce, and baby, but also a pure love virgin male rich second generation hair small as a spare tire.
"Love is Delicious" is good, but it's not a big deal. But female characters like this with normal brain circuitry, flesh and blood and desire, we have not seen in domestic dramas for a long time.
Even the scale.
What does the real unpretentious female group look like?
"Dare to say" is the first impression of "Love Is Delicious".
"Why is the female first always silly and sweet, and the female second is always a charming slut?" "Why do you have to hide in the toilet and say bad things about others?" Isn't this just waiting to be heard? "The screenwriter is not good at writing stories, the actors are not good at acting, and they are still making sugar and sugar... Won't the audience panic? ”
These are not the audience's complaints about the phenomenon of bad drama, but the lines about a play-within-a-play scene in "Love Is Delicious".
This is perhaps the most popular bridge section in the play, borrowing the mouth of the film and television company executive played by Wang Ju, complaining that the current sweet pet drama ignores logic in order to make sugar.
Another famous scene, "Now the girl group has gone to act", was said by Wang Ju, who participated in "Creation 101", and the comedic effect was directly pulled.
However, if there is only this, "Love Is Delicious" is no different from those big female dramas that will only create hot searches on golden sentences. What is really powerful about this drama is actually the anti-routine narrative.
Let me give you two small examples.
In episode 6, Xia Meng and the fitness instructor send out flyers to solicit customers for the gym, but no one cares.
After a while, Xia Meng's clever brain occupied the high ground again, pulled the coach through the analysis, thought that it was necessary to lock in the target group and promote the gym's special project - immersive spinning, and carefully took the name of "riding the wind and waves of the dynamic bicycle".
Immediately after, Xia Meng saw the target and was ready to go forward to demonstrate how to win customers.
The general TV series is performed here, it must be Xia Meng who very smoothly sells the course, so that the coach looks at her with admiration, who makes her a smart and diligent female president who even thinks about studying the psychology of users when doing piston sports?
However, for people who have no interest in swimming and fitness in reality, let alone Xia Meng, Wang Ju himself may not work.
However, the coach did not laugh at Xia Meng after seeing it, but worked harder to sell according to her ideas, such a small setback, but closed the distance between the two.
For example, in episode 12, Fang Xin, who returned to the workplace, had to often face the representative of Party A who repeatedly poured oil on her, and when she went to a meeting, she chose to bring a voice recorder to defend herself, and recorded the conversation that the person implied to her that she wanted to unspoken rules.
If it is a general domestic drama, the woman can win a big victory by handing over the recording to the man's leader, but in reality, it is more likely that the woman will be splashed with dirty water in turn.
In the face of Fang Xin's recording confrontation, the old fox did not change his face and said that this was a misreading of him-
"I say xx (the woman's boss) will not be a person, because I think he can't take care of the relationship between the brand, the customer and the spokesperson" "I said that our relationship can be closer because I think there is a lack of communication between our two partners" "I suggest that you open your own company, because our leader said that the current public relations company is too procedural, and he hopes to find some young people who have the ability to have ideas to cooperate." ”
But if you think that Fang Xin is just like this, it will be too much to look at people. The belly black and white rabbit first put a recording of the old fox saying bad things about the brand endorsement star -
Then hint that you can let the spokesperson's fans know what he said at any time, and the counter-killing is successful.
In the final analysis, the anti-routine here is actually the consistent routine of domestic dramas.
It may be a little difficult to have a novel plot that is realistic and doesn't sell anxiety, but "Love Is Delicious" probably did it.
Of course, relying on the background of peers, "Love Is Delicious" is not completely invulnerable. In some subtle links, there are some places that cannot be scrutinized.
For example, Liu Jing's family is in a mediocre situation, and Fa Xiao Song Chao is a rich second generation; and Song Chao also has a small and old man who grew up with him, but Lao Gao does not know Liu Jing. The logic is inevitably a bit blunt.
For example, after being laid off, Liu Jing has been looking for a job but has repeatedly encountered a wall, so that he later had the idea of starting his own restaurant; but Fang Xin, who left the workplace for 5 years, was able to return to the original company at once. The gap between them is obviously not something that can be filled by the phrase "beautiful and can be eaten as a meal".
After Fang Xin returned to the workplace, she was snubbed by her colleagues, and no one was willing to trust her with the work in her hand, only letting her do some of the most marginal miscellaneous work. This may reflect true human nature, but the company will not raise idle people, if you think that Fang Xin is not competent for the job, you will not recruit her back from the beginning.
In the final analysis, Fang Xin's encounter is more like a new mother who returns to the workplace after giving birth, rather than a full-time wife who has been away from the workplace for five years.
However, although "Love Is Delicious" is not perfect, it is still so rare at the moment, which depends on the "background of peers".
In the past two years, women's themes have been very popular. Or rather, it was too hot, and the fire gave birth to a large number of works of good and uneven quality.
Of course, there are realist masterpieces such as "I'm Good in Other Places", and there are explosive dog blood dramas such as "Ode to Joy", "All Is Good", "Thirty Only", but more are suspension works such as "North and South", "I Really Love You", "Who Says I Can't Get Married" and so on.
It seems that the more inexplicable the drama, the more I love to concoct golden sentences. /"Who Says I Can't Get Married"
In the first episode of last year's popular female drama "Hear Her Say", the heroine played by Qi Xi asked the camera a series of questions in the bathtub, and many people must have been impressed.
"Must it be a slap in the face?" Does it have to be a nine-headed body? Does it have to be Greek feet? Does it have to be high? Do you have to be skinny? Must it be white? You have to have a chest and an ass, do you have to be skinny? ”
However, when you think that the heroine is finally going to angrily rebuke how hateful this deformed aesthetic is, she turns her words sharply and launches self-criticism - "It is not others, it is me who condones this change."
The criticism of facial anxiety is lifted high, but it falls softly. /"Hear Her Say"
Compared with this kind of boot-scratching presentation, what is more frightening is that there are almost no normal women in domestic dramas.
Those who remain are either strong women who have no intention of falling in love and are bent on pursuing a career, or the white lotus and Mary Sue that all men love me and all women want to harm me.
Men, on the other hand, mostly appear in the image of "rescuers" in female group portrait dramas. For example, Jin Dong of the TV series "Ode to Joy" and "The First Half of My Life" plays a humanoid Doraemon, who can help the heroine solve all problems anytime and anywhere.
You can only distinguish between Jin Dong's Old Tan and He Han by hairstyle. /Ode to Joy
And in the movie "Door Lock", there are not even normal men. In order to render the danger of women living alone, not only the security guards, housing agents, and male bosses are all perverted, but the pet doctors that the female protagonists know online are perverted murderers with immortal bodies...
Some time ago, an S-level big production official announced the list of actors who "fully starred", of which various leading actors, co-starring, and special guest actors were various.
Looking closely, some big productions seem to have a common problem of one kind or another: cass is very important, the position is very important, the gimmick is very important, but the plot is not important, the perception is not important.
But what the audience needs is actually very simple, as director Chen Zhengdao said, "I hope we will enter the era of casting priority adaptation as soon as possible."
Works like this that respect reality, respect creation, and respect the audience, it is better to have more.
Author | Li Luxiu
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