The noonday sun is worthy of the "light of domestic dramas", and at the beginning of 2022, a pair of wang fried -
"The Beginning".
On the 8th, the number of plays exceeded 400 million, and the opening score was 8.2.
The drama is tightly paced, logical and meticulous, and the character modeling is complete, especially Zhao Jinmai's performance in episode 8, which can be called one of the highlight moments of her acting.
From struggling to resist to being stabbed in disbelief, to fear and despair, Ah Liang in front of the screen felt that he could not breathe with her.
In the cycle of waking up again, Zhao Jinmai first showed an extreme state of trembling, and then unconscious tears caused by fear.
Who would have thought that at the age of 19, she would have contributed such a natural performance.
Just when the melon crowd spontaneously produced a good drama in Amway, a discordant voice appeared,
"A plagiarism drama, what's there to blow?"
"'Beginnings' copied the Source Code."
"'Beginnings' is a plagiarism drama, no face."
Oh, you people.
Can you not read a "source code" and copy the "source code" everything?
As far as your veteran film fans are concerned, as far as the films you watch, what ABC is installed?
"Groundhog Day", "Former Destination", "Horror Cruise", "Butterfly Effect", "Edge of Tomorrow"... Time loop movies, don't too many okay?
Co-authored foreigners shoot, that is tall, our own people shoot, is it plagiarism?
【I】
"Source Code", coincidentally, Ah Liang has also seen it.
Compared with "Beginning", in addition to the two points of "infinite loop of time" and "finding the bomb to save other passengers", please tell me, is there a dime relationship between the plot, the relationship between the characters, and the core?
People who have really read these two works with their hearts should not say that "Beginning" copied "Source Code".
The point is that "The Beginning" is really Chinese.
One of the most notable is that its story takes place on a bus.
Have you ever wondered why "Beginning" does not choose other means of transportation such as trains, subways, ships, planes, etc., but the most ordinary buses?
First, buses are our most common and life-oriented means of transportation for passengers. For the public, the story is more immersive.
Second, the bus is easy to operate. If you change to a train, subway, ship, plane, this bomb, the initial security check will not pass.
And the Source Code is on the train.
This scene setting is very un-Chinese.
A line from a passerby in the play "The Beginning" confirms this:
Another point that is very Chinese is the assistance of the Shu people.
Ah Liang has seen thousands of movies, but in any one of them, the credibility of the Shu huang is not as strong as that of China.
In other countries' films, the Shu are basically chicken-like beings, and they arrive at the scene after the male protagonist defeats the bad guys.
In China, "there are things to find the police" and "there are difficulties in hitting 110" is the consensus of the whole society.
So when he saw Li Shiqing's action of calling the police after getting off the bus, Ah Liang's DNA moved, which was a spontaneous pride.
In the play, the Shu Huang are not dispensable, but have played a great role.
Zhang Team, played by Liu Yijun, is experienced and sharp-minded, and every time he can find small flaws in the words and deeds of the male and female protagonists and supporting roles.
Jiang Feng, impatient and inexperienced, is like everyone who has just emerged from society and is eager to make achievements and prove themselves.
【II】
The male and female protagonists in "The Beginning" are ordinary people.
Li Shiqing (Zhao Jinmai), a college student.
Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting), game architect.
Their abilities are the same as yours and mine.
There is no force value of one enemy and a hundred enemies, no background for predicting the future, and no superhuman setting that can fight against beatings.
Because there is no innate buff bonus, they spend a lot of time digesting what is happening in front of them.
In 3 rounds, Li Shiqing figured out that she was trapped in the time loop.
In 5 rounds, Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun found out that the murderer was Tao Yinghong.
When it comes to life and death, they will be nervous, they will be afraid, they will escape.
For "can not save, how to save", they retreated and chose to save themselves, and at the same time, they fearlessly got on the car again.
"If I can save this car person, it is the most out-of-the-ordinary and self-indulgent thing I can think of."
The male protagonist in "Source Code" is a captain of the US Air Force who is on a mission in Afghanistan.
On the verge of death in reality, scientists used technology to retain his consciousness and force him to repeatedly cross over to the body of a deceased killed in the train bombing, collect clues by "crossing" again and again, find the real culprit within 8 minutes before the train explosion, and prevent another larger terrorist operation.
"The Beginning" is active.
From the beginning of questioning themselves, afraid of the police, to the later establishment of psychological defense lines, their own division of labor, clichés, skillfully painful.
Step by step, step by step, growing.
There was only one purpose: to save the man in the car.
Source Code is passive.
If it were not for the help of the female officer in the end, the male protagonist would have to die, and he would be able to hug and kiss the female protagonist in the parallel world.
【III】
After chasing 8 episodes in one breath, in addition to lamenting the full characters and the iq of all the members online, Ah Liang also saw another layer of ambition of the show:
An exploration of human nature.
The portrayal of sentient beings is another highlight of "The Beginning".
At the same time as the male and female protagonists grow up, the plot also explains the various characters on the bus one by one.
Enthusiastic and cheerful live broadcast brother;
Muscle man with headphones pinned to listen to songs;
The medicine-laden aunt carrying a bag of medicine;
Uncle Watermelon who went thousands of miles only to deliver melons to his son;
Uncle who rents an old garage and has a suitcase plastered on the wall with his daughter's award certificates;
A two-dimensional otaku who is controlled by his parents, has no friends in his life, loves cats but suffers from asthma;
They are the people around you and me who are always coming and going.
It is the silhouette of every ordinary person among thousands of ordinary Chinese people, hiding the world's hundreds of things.
The misery of life and the meanness of human nature surround them at the same time.
When Li Shiqing pretended that her heart was uncomfortable, her aunt with medicine actively took the medicine;
Li Shiqing pretended to be "harassed" by Xiao Heyun, filmed a live broadcast of a brother who left a certificate, and went forward to subdue the muscle man of "sex wolf";
Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun kicked the watermelon by quarrelling, and repaid the grievances with virtue and actively divided the watermelon uncle;
Li Shiqing pretended to be a menstrual affair, thought about it for a long time, and turned out the suitcase uncle of the sanitary napkin.
No one is 100% perfect, but they are all working hard and living kindly.
But when the sharp knife stabbed into Li Shiqing's neck, and the injured Xiao Heyun lost his voice and shouted" "Go help her", the whole car was sluggish and did not step forward to help.
Seeing this scene, Ah Liang really cried to the point that he couldn't help himself, like a deaf brain, and could only hear Xiao Heyun's voice of "go help her."
At this point in the story, it slowly transitions to the exploration of the human level.
We have watched too many film and television drama works, and we take it for granted that the people in the drama are "salvation heroes", but we forget that 99% of the people in the world are ordinary people.
They will be afraid of death, and they will seek advantage and avoid harm.
They're just ordinary people who don't have the next cycle.
They did not open God's perspective and did not make any preconceptions about the sudden danger.
Why not go and save her?
As an audience, like Xiao Heyun, we are full of incomprehension and grief.
In the face of this doubt, the original author, Pray Jun, also expressed his views:
Most of the passengers on the car are middle-aged people with old and small ones, and they can't be so hot and impulsive in the face of life and death.
Even Xiao Heyun had hesitated——
Is there something wrong with being afraid of death?
Isn't it human nature to seek advantage and avoid harm?
Can't you be so kind, is it bad?
The question is, is such a "cold" group of people worth saving?
The 19th cycle.
Xiao Heyun, who witnessed this indifference, felt a chill in his heart,
"This time, we got off at the station and didn't care about anything."
But walking to the door of the car, Li Shiqing pulled Xiao Heyun's words "try again", making Ah Liang instantly break through the defense.
This is a human choice, but also a process in which kindness triumphs over selfishness and personality charm gradually grows.
Facing the gangster's dagger, Xiao Heyun did not hesitate to block it with his arm.
In order to protect Li Shiqing, Xiao Heyun, whose face was stained with blood, became a murderer in the eyes of everyone at this moment.
Except for Li Shiqing, no one knew that he was doing this to save them.
From self-preservation, saving people, to being killed, to getting killed.
The multiple faces of Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun's humanity are thus displayed before our eyes.
This time, Xiao Heyun pulled Li Shiqing and got out of the car without turning his head.
Because it wasn't worth it, he just wanted to save Li Shiqing, and the others had nothing to do with him.
Behind him, the bus exploded again.
【IV】
To put it bluntly, "The Beginning" is definitely the first blockbuster drama of 2022.
It's worth chasing.
As for copying or not plagiarizing, Ah Liang also said a lot above.
The narrative structure, character relationships, reasoning logic, and social core of "Beginning" are completely different from "Source Code".
If it is judged to be plagiarism based only on the setting of "time loop", then except for the work that pioneered the "time loop", other works that follow this setting must be judged to be plagiarism.
Don't use Hollywood as a benchmark for everything, there should not be only one Hollywood aesthetic in the world.
The same theme, foreign shooting is a reference, domestic shooting is plagiarism.
When did domestic drama become the original sin?
If this is replaced by Korean dramas, Japanese dramas, and Netflix dramas, some people are afraid that they will boast about taking off.
Give domestic dramas a little more hope and help.
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