In 2001, Huang Lei had a heart attack while filming and was once carried off the set.
This happened during the filming of the Republic of China drama "Orange Red", and Huang Lei was ill due to being too immersed in the role.
In the play, he and Zhou Xun play a pair of lovers who are happy with each other but have never been able to be together.
Along with various plot killings, the tragic color of the love of the two characters is extremely strong, which makes Huang Lei, who has entered the drama too deep, difficult to overcome for a while.
In addition to the character's sadness infecting the actors, many viewers have fallen into it, and after the finale was broadcast, many people directly denounced the film side on the Internet.
The tragic atmosphere of "Orange Red" still leaves a mark in the hearts of many people to this day, and Huang Lei and Zhou Xun are still regarded as the classic CP of the screen.
And this year, 20 years after the start of filming of "Orange Red", Huang Lei and his old partner Zhou Xun cooperated again and played a couple in the TV series "Xiao Min's Family".
This time, they no longer have a bitter love scene that makes people cry, but satisfy the audience's feelings with a powerful sweetness.
The drama takes Liu Xiaomin, a divorced woman played by Zhou Xun, as the perspective, and tells a story of urban feelings between middle-aged men and women.
Huang Lei plays Chen Zhuo, a middle-aged male who is also divorced, who knows and loves the heroine in urban life and completes a sweet emotional reorganization.
With the sound of netizens' "Grandpa Qinghui", this "Xiao Min Family" has gained considerable heat.
The drama won 4 consecutive network-wide heat championships in the 4 days after it was launched, and after landing on satellite TV, it created the highest rating record of Hunan Satellite TV in 2021 with a data of 1.43.
On social platforms, the popularity of the three words of "Xiao Minjia" alone has reached 1 billion, and the data can be described as extremely strong.
Judging from a series of strong data, this TV series that has been online for less than a week is full of the word blockbuster.
In my opinion, the strength of the show is supported by the following three highlights.
Highlight one: replace the temperament with grounding gas, and the "middle-aged Mary Sue" can also be sweet
Once upon a time, the middle-aged couple/couple in front of the screen was widely criticized for being tender and forcibly dominating.
The emergence of one hot-eyed fragment after another has made "middle-aged Mary Sue" once become a derogatory term in the eyes of the outside world.
But this time, the "nearly 100-year-old CP" of 50-year-old Huang Lei and 47-year-old Zhou Xun has received wide acclaim, and they have justified the name of middle-aged love in a down-to-earth way:
When it comes to love, old comrades can also be very sweet!
In the play, Zhou Xun plays Liu Xiaomin, a female nurse who has been divorced for many years and has been alone in Beijing, and Huang Lei plays Chen Zhuo, a single father who takes his daughter to Beijing.
Compared to the other group of mid-aged Mary Sues, the biggest differences between the couple are:
They have a clear understanding of their age
In the process of love, they do not have the strength of young people to be obsessed with love, but constantly consider various pros and cons.
Because they are worried that children who are preparing for the college entrance examination will not be able to accept their parents to fall in love, they choose to hide their feelings from the situation.
This makes the two hide their feelings "underground", and when they commute together, the two always have to look around, making it like a spy war...
Fearing that the official romance would produce more unpredictability, the two subconsciously avoided marriage.
After Huang Lei's inadvertent kneeling action, the reactions of both of them were extremely real.
Zhou Xun, who thought that the other party asked for marriage, subconsciously hid, and Huang Lei had to make an embarrassing move down the steps...
This interesting scene reveals the careful thinking of the middle-aged couple, and also shows their restraint and calmness in their feelings.
In addition to the "unique careful thinking" of middle-aged people, in the space where the two are alone, they will occasionally play with the little romance of young people.
Sometimes, this romance manifests itself in fancy dating.
At midnight, between the children's sleep, Huang Lei secretly said a sentence "What are you doing" to evoke the interaction between the two.
You come and go for a few rounds, and the more we talk, the more energetic they come to a date where they can go.
Sometimes, this romance is reflected in the sense of ritual in middle-aged people.
On the anniversary, Huang Lei will secretly buy red wine and roses to wait downstairs at the other party, and send flowers to surprise when the woman appears.
At the same time, they also fiddle with various warm objects to add atmosphere to the date, and they also talk to each other deeply.
The two maintain restraint and rationality in love, but they also show romance in the details, and such love is the correct way to open the middle-aged Mary Sue.
Highlight 2: Focus on realistic issues, warm brushstrokes to tell the "pain" of 7.4 million people
Another highlight of "Little MinJia" is that it rarely focuses on the divorced group in society.
From 1987 to 2020, the number of divorced couples in China has risen from 580,000 to 3.73 million, and a series of data show that the increase in divorce groups is an indisputable fact.
In this context, the screenwriter touches on this social issue in the form of almost all the protagonists divorced.
Many of the main characters in the film have experienced marriage changes, including the male and female protagonists played by Huang Lei and Zhou Xun, as well as the heroine's sister played by Tang Yixin, and even the heroine's mother is divorced.
There are many divorce cases in the film, but this drama is not selling marital anxiety, but telling and alleviating the "pain" of divorced groups with a life-like plot.
First of all, I used the case of the predecessor of the best to tell the outside world that divorce is not necessarily my fault.
For example, the heroine Liu Xiaomin's first marriage was because she met a blood-sucking ex.
Her ex-husband drank and gambled heavily because of the family's fall, and verbal violence against his wife and children under the influence of alcohol, and even inexplicably suspected that his wife was having an affair.
After the heroine resolutely divorced her, the ex-husband has also been rubbing his ex-wife for many years.
He also instigated his son to go to Beijing to find his mother for money, and his sentence "She is your mother, it is right to give you money, you have to care about her more" completely exposed the character attributes.
And the heroine sister played by Tang Yixin is also a bit miserable, and she encounters the strange mother Bao's ex.
While she is busy working every day, her husband plays games all day and has nothing to do, and even moves out of his mother as a shield.
What is even more exaggerated is that after the divorce, he also broke into his ex-wife's house under the control of his mother to find private money and demanded that the other party return the ring.
Take us to appreciate how scum the ex is, and the screenwriter also shows us the correct way to open the ex, which is typical of the role of Huang Lei & Qin Hailu.
After the two chose to divorce for personality reasons, they did not tear their faces, but used their children as a link to start a new relationship.
The ex-husband played by Huang Lei sends his daughter's ex-wife to a better condition every year on his daughter's birthday to meet the other party's thoughts about his daughter.
And when his daughter was angry with Qin Hailu, he would also persuade his daughter bitterly.
The ex-wife played by Qin Hailu will also thank each other many times and maintain a friendly interaction with him to restrain his emotions.
In addition, the film also shows the brave pursuit of life of each protagonist in an all-round way, telling us that the divorced group is no different from others on the road of love.
Zhou Xun and Huang Lei's characters find true love in Beijing after their divorce, and even if they are "sneaky", they can't hide their sweetness.
The heroine sister played by Tang Yixin chose to divorce after recognizing her husband's true face and crying for a while, and quickly opened the next love.
Even the heroine's mother showed a free side after the divorce, and in the face of the coaxing of her daughters, she smiled and acquiesced to a potential sunset love.
Judging from the above series of plots, "Xiao Min Jia" tries to remove the colored label of the divorced group in the eyes of the outside world and trigger a new round of social thinking.
Watch point three: Huang Lei Zhou Xun's role is brilliant, but some people "steal the scene"
After talking about the plot, let's talk about the brilliant characters in the play.
The biggest selling point of the whole film is naturally the CP partner of Huang Lei and Zhou Xun.
This time is the third cooperation between Huang Lei and Zhou Xun since "April Day on Earth" and "Orange Red", compared with the tragic end of the previous two CP, now they make up for the shortcomings with a sweet love with complementary personalities.
In "Xiao Min Family", the heroine Liu Xiaomin has a high-cold and sensual personality like a cat, and she often falls into contemplation because of life problems.
The male protagonist Chen Zhuo is completely opposite, he is as enthusiastic as a dog and constantly amusing people, and the two are in love with a quiet cat and dog, so that this set of CP-like matching degrees is full.
In addition to Huang Tuesday's continuous brushing screen, Qin Hailu's one-man show after the film did not lose at all, and even had the feeling of stealing the scene.
In the film, she plays Li Ping, the ex-wife of the male protagonist Chen Zhuo, which is a real and somewhat cute role.
After the divorce, she became a female boss, always showing her vanity and wealth, creating gorgeous sets in her home according to court standards and placing personal portraits like narcissism.
On the way to get a visa, she will also let her assistant put a holiday chair for herself, as if she is on a Maldivian beach...
Despite some problems of showing off her wealth, Li Ping's love for her daughter is extremely real.
In order to persuade her daughter to study abroad, one second she was still sitting with a noble woman's temperament, and the next second she gave up her seat to beg her daughter.
With an interesting plot, Qin Hailu played the image of the local tycoon mother with a straight temperament very vividly, and also made people a little "envious".
With the popularity of "Xiao MinJia", the entry of "the whole network asks Ping Sister if she is still missing a daughter" is a leap on the hot search, and within a few days, it has won more than 130 million heat, and the vivid image of Li Ping can be said to make the whole network want to shout mom.
In summary, the above three aspects are the reasons that support this "Xiao MinJia" to become a hit.
First of all, Zhou Xun and Huang Lei's reorganization CP after 20 years satisfies the feelings of countless people, and this middle-aged love shows a unique sweetness without fabrication, which is completely worthy of the middle-aged Mary Sue ceiling.
Secondly, the screenwriter also aims the plot tentacles at the divorced group, and the theme is novel and also makes people think.
In addition, the outstanding performances of Qin Hailu, Tu Songyan and other powerful acting schools have made the film carry the light of acting skills and further improve the watchability.
Nowadays, this textured "Xiao Min Jia" is constantly brushing the screen in the form of daily hot list and "living" hot search throughout the day.
At the end of 2021, this sincere work of Zhou Xun and Huang Lei joining forces again after 20 years may be expected to become the king of the national drama market at the end of the year!
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