Some time ago, I just finished writing the TVB awards ceremony, and there were Hong Kong dramas frequently on the back foot.
That's right, it is the web drama "Family Glory" known as the Hong Kong version of "Penthouse".
As a member of the veteran audience of Hong Kong film and television, cicada owners see familiar faces such as Zhang Zhilin, Huang Haoran, Yang Xiyao (Yang Yi), Luo Ziyi (Luo Zhongqian), Li Caihua, Xiong Dailin and other familiar faces, and the expectation is natural.
Director Hong Jinpo has directed "On Call 36 Hours", "Student Police Sniper", "Infernal Affairs", etc.; director Cai Jingsheng's famous works include "Searching for Qin", "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong", etc.; the works of producer Liang Jiashu are familiar with "Flowing Golden Years", "Legal Newcomer King" and so on.
This configuration of this lineup, can it continue to be rotten with dog blood?
The answer I was told in the latest episode was: Sorry, well configured, good actors, you can also do dog blood out of the circle.
Word of mouth is also relatively polarized.
There are five-star parties that feel cool to watch the plot:
"Plot dog blood, all bad guys, a bit on top"
"Hong Kong specialty giant drama, the actor is used correctly"
There are also bad reviews that give purely to the lineup:
"Is this really a 2022 TV series?"
"Son preference, recruitment to di, crown husband surname, too cheesy and too feudal"
"You can guess the ending when you see the beginning, how can you still make a scene?"
There are comments that "Family Glory" can be compared to "Pearls" play.
But in fact, the former is at most a drama of the giants tearing x feudal drama.
Family glory, Drama tycoons tear x drama?
When I first saw the cast list, I also had the illusion of "Hong Kong drama killing back".
After all, one of the female protagonists is yao Jinling, the adulterous concubine yao jinling in "Palace Heart Plan", from the fallen maid to the adulterous concubine who has done all the bad things.
Classic punch card bridge section: "Hit you hit you, do you still have to choose a date?" ”
There is also "The Temptation to Go Home", the villain who destroys other people's families, Ellie.
And these two unscrupulous women, in "Family Glory", are the beauty pageant champion Zhen Xin (played by Yang Xiyao) and the runner-up Jia Luoyi (played by Li Caihua).
The subtitles seem to come with a diamond effect
The story is not complicated, it takes place in the ma family of Hong Kong's super-rich.
Ma Shihong and Masamune have three sons and a daughter with his younger wife.
The Ma family attaches great importance to blood and flesh, so even the children of the third grade can accept it.
On this day, Zhen Xin and Jia Luoyi are married to the second young master (Huang Haoran) and the third young master (Luo Ziyi) of the Ma family at the same time, an executive president and a chief financial officer.
I have to be surprised: Yang Yi and Luo Zhongqian, a real couple, are actually uncles and sisters-in-law in the play.
The three brothers established a family, and Ma Shihong naturally retreated behind the scenes in the group.
There are many unnatural brothers, the surface is calm, but in fact, they are all planning for their own interests, which is also the standard of Hong Kong giants.
The second wife of the Ma family is the victory group of life in the eyes of the third wife: the beauty pageant together is the champion; married into the Ma family, but also the second brother married, the heir to the family business.
Therefore, Zhen Xin and Jia Luoyi are intimate on the surface, but in fact, plastic sisters are flowers and secretly calculate each other.
Ma's family is a big business, the two young grandmothers married into it is only the beginning of the story, here we will save those marriage processes, because there is no Hong Kong giant at all!
The beauty pageant lady married into the rich, in the eyes of the grandmother who was originally born famous, but she wanted to fly up the branch and become a phoenix.
"As long as they don't make mistakes, obediently make canaries, and have any festive festivals, let them come out and entertain everyone."
The audience who watched the big drama knew that these were all foreshadowing, and even could guess what the plot was next. It is nothing more than throwing away what gold and silver jewelry, and then saying who accidentally took it, and finally finding out that it was a misunderstanding.
Why? Because you have to settle a grudge to continue to have a story.
But this is all a small thing, throwing a diamond bracelet where is the classic business drama of Hong Kong drama stimulated?
On the wedding night, the three ma brothers were arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption that night because they were involved in a bribery case and asked to assist in the investigation.
Although Ma Shihong is affectionate, he still has the purpose of following the rules and regulations in doing things, and when he does wrong things, he must admit and bear them, and the family must unite and work together in order to make a profit.
Bribery did exist, and the solution was to find someone among the three brothers to take all the charges off.
In the first part, the second young wife Zhen Xin has always been a kind character, and the loving husband will take care of the in-laws and do not like to make conflicts.
There is a saying that goes: Promotion develops a dead wife.
That Zhen Xin in the Ma family, Ma Group is: promoted to developed dead husband, completely white cut black.
Feudal, fake tycoons?
It's all set
Second Young Master Ma Yaozu was convicted of being imprisoned, and Zhen Xin temporarily took over the position of CEO of Ma Group.
Who won? glance.
What's even more bloody is that before going to prison, Ma Yaozu also went to visit xiaosan, a little star, who had been outsourced for many years, and even had a daughter.
After Zhen Xin found that her newlywed husband not only Bao Xiaosan, but also his daughter, although angry, he was unwilling to divorce.
Because if you divorce, you will have nothing.
Moreover, he was not only pregnant, but also a temporary CEO, and after such a toss, Zhen Xin obtained two percent of the shares of Ma Group.
It's better to win to the point of laughing!! Gong Dou still had to look at Yao Jinling Zhenxin.
In Ma Shihong's eyes, Zhen Xin is a smart and virtuous helper who can assist Ma Yaozu, and he naturally does not want to lose a daughter-in-law like this.
But the dog blood is the reason why this Ma Shihong old man went to persuade Zhen Xin not to divorce.
But it really opened the eyes of the cicada lord, a perfect interpretation, there must be a father and a son, and the history of affair is explained as a matter of course.
Having other women who still want to marry you is a sign of loving you. (Huh?) Countless question marks flew by
The concept of marriage and love of the giants is what we do not understand.
But in this 21st century drama, grandma Dashao actually took the names of her two daughters as Zhao Di and Lai Di because she could not give birth to a son.
I really want to say: Please call me Judy.
Family interests first, son preference is the standard of the giants.
But in "Family Glory", the feudal ideology has reached the point where the lady wants to take the husband's surname, and when the cicada lord hears it, he really confirms whether he lives in 2022.
The whole drama is like this, always suddenly give you a smell of feudal dross, a real Hong Kong "local specialty".
They are already big fight dramas, can you be a little bigger?
The use of the set and props of this drama really highlights how earthy they really are, and the soft light filter tone of the skin is even more difficult to say.
The whole Ma is like some kind of upstart, not like a century-old chaebol that has stood for many years.
What has improved may be that the mansion is finally no longer a TVB special mansion for filming.
The mansion on the left, the audience in the Hong Kong drama is more familiar than their own.
The top is real, but so is the dirt look and dog blood.
The means to make the bad are not so clever, in exchange for the giant drama of ten years ago, in addition to Zhen Xin, other characters have already received a box lunch.
The so-called classic Hong Kong giant struggle drama has indeed changed its flavor a long time ago.
The drama of the struggle between the giants has long since changed its flavor
Whether it is TVB or mainland giant dramas, what can attract audiences is nothing more than the word "giants".
Because it is difficult to see the intrigues of high society in daily life.
People have seven passions and six desires, and under the involvement of money and fame, the enmity and humanity between the giants are more dramatic and unimaginable.
In the past, the giant drama may be a bit cheesy to watch now, but in the era of the hit, it definitely refreshed many viewers' three views on the life of the giants.
Every move of the rich family can become the headline of the entertainment newspaper the next day after the accident.
But in the current environment, everyone's concern for the news of the giants is obviously reduced.
The reality is even more exciting than the TV series minute by minute.
More importantly, in the past, the audience will not feel that there is a great sense of division of the times.
In 1999, TVB launched the Genesis series, which is set against the backdrop of the vicissitudes of Hong Kong's real estate industry over the past three decades, combined with the financial crisis, to tell the entrepreneurial story and grudges of three self-made good brothers.
The investment is as high as 150 million, and it still has a score of 9.0 in Douban.
It is very interesting that the real estate field has always been a problem and pressure for Hong Kong people and even residents of other cities.
The three brothers started from scratch, in the play they do not have a clear black and white, good people become bad people because of interests, but bad people can also become good people with conscience.
The business war part is also interlocked and professional, showing the large size and standing of the family.
And the characters, whether they are decent or villains, their transformation is a nuanced description and character preparation, rather than highlighting a "big change in temperament".
1992's "Big Times", set in financial stocks, is also involved in the changes in Hong Kong over the past three decades.
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There is the morality of a good person in Ding Crab, but at the same time there is also the extremity of the dark side, so he becomes the main villain of the play, the source of all evil.
Even the "Storm of Hearts" that sells abalone, mooncakes, and milk tea is the same, although it is not a financial industry, but with the support of a specific industry background, their family story is more three-dimensional.
Although Ma Shi of "Family Glory" started by selling tea leaves, he did not depict the background of the family in too much detail.
Even when the relatively professional content is mentioned at the meeting, it becomes the presentation of background music + explanation of sound elimination.
The project covered by this pier, from the first episode to the 20th episode, does not know what is covered, and has been talking about financing and capital injection.
There are indeed so many formulas for giants to come and go, but past characters still highlight the Hong Kong spirit of changing lives and striving for miracles.
But today's giant fight dramas can hardly show that kind of spirit, the lack of logic in business battles, and the feuds and hatreds are tacky.
There are even only the plot directions that are seen through by the audience and the life of the giants who are sprayed with customs, and the reversal of dog blood.
While using the old narrative of the past, the real story of the times is not told.
This is probably the place that makes people feel the most lamented and smelly.