Unexpectedly, the middle-aged idol drama really stood up!
How the word middle-aged idol drama came about should start with a large number of middle-aged actors awkwardly playing young girls.
After that, although the setting was relaxed to the middle age period, the plot was still very outrageous, and there was a very obvious example in front of him - "The Sea of Stars".
In fact, no matter what kind of drama, there is a market, but there is a point, to find the right direction.
If you want to seriously discuss, the reason why a middle-aged idol drama can be called a middle-aged idol drama is that it must have at least the following two points.
First, people should be good-looking.
In the final analysis, middle-aged idol dramas must also be idol dramas, handsome men and beautiful women are the basic configuration, of course, if the acting skills can add points, it is the icing on the cake.
Second, don't be too levitating.
Since the time has been set to middle age, the young people's intentions must not be too much, and the childish approach of not adjusting to it can also be avoided.
After all, after eating the bitterness of life, no one is anymore "silly white sweet".
That is to say, as long as the above two points are met, this middle-aged idol drama will reach the standard.
At present, there is such a standard, and even an excellent middle-aged idol drama has appeared, it is "There Is You in This Life" that began broadcasting in the golden file of Central Eight on the evening of the 18th.
On the night of the broadcast of the drama, it premiered 2 episodes, and the ratings directly broke 1, second only to A golden file of CCTV, ranking second.
Honestly, I don't have any expectations until I click on this show.
Middle-aged Mary Sue set-up, dog blood plot configuration, coupled with the trailer looks really pretentious, the only point to watch is the four young and quiet continued frontier in "Too Late to Say I Love You".
But I inadvertently clicked it open, but it was really fragrant to punch my face.
First of all, the appearance value is very passable.
Li Xiaoran's beauty is known to everyone.
This time in the play, a screenshot is good to see suffocating.
Under the premise of basically no filter, her appearance status is almost the same as in the 2006 movie.
Similarly, Zhong Hanliang in the play is already 46 years old.
In all aspects, there seems to be almost no trace of age, and with the blessing of clothing matching, he can also fully support the "sense of youth".
In the Douban comment area, whether it is a short review or a long review, it is also a "fall".
Who would have thought that it was already 2022, and such an ancient romance drama could be so good-looking.
Why, exactly?
01, the value of the face is against the sky
No matter what IP it is adapted from, the first attraction of "There Is You in This Life" is undoubtedly the recombination of Li Xiaoran and Zhong Hanliang.
In 2010, the Republic of China love drama "Too Late to Say I Love You" adapted from bandits and sicun was broadcast, and this drama from the beginning to the end of the drama received a high score of 8.4 on Douban.
With the blessing of the appearance and acting skills of the two, this drama has also become the white moonlight of the domestic sadomasochistic idol drama in the hearts of many people.
Therefore, the combination of Li Xiaoran + Zhong Hanliang has already come with 100 points, and in "This Life with You", these two people have their own CP sense when they appear.
Zhong Hanliang, dressed in a long black tweed coat, a black long-handled umbrella, not short hair, came in from outside the door, and was completely the male protagonist in the literary and art movie.
Li Xiaoran is concise and capable at work, the gentleness and quietness of changing back to his regular clothes, and he is lonely and helpless when he returns home, several states are different, but each one is very attractive.
The two did not have any intersection at the beginning, not even eye contact, but as long as they were in the same frame, the CP sense was already going to overflow the screen, not to mention the two people looking at each other downstairs at home afterwards.
Li Xiaoran's eyes were full of tears, but he still had to pretend to smile at Zhong Hanliang as if he had nothing to do, and it made people feel sad and want to cry when they looked at it.
In terms of appearance, 46-year-old Zhong Hanliang and 44-year-old Li Xiaoran (the age when filming the drama) are in a very good state, and there is no pressure in playing middle-aged people in their 30s.
The appearance of these two people can convince us, which is the person who will make each other remember for many years.
In addition, not only the adult actors have a sense of CP, but also the small actors in the play also have a sense of CP.
Both men are "sword-rattling" when they first meet;
Or "if nothing" at the time of goodbye;
and the "sweet stay" after the relationship is determined;
At each stage, the interpretation of the two small actors is very in place, the appearance is high, and the bump is good.
Therefore, cp sense is a metaphysics, and some people standing there with a look can already make the audience fall.
02 Dog blood setting, but the presentation is very advanced
Speaking of plot, "There Is You in This Life" is adapted from the novel "Love You is the Best Time" by the "Queen of Sorrows" bandit me.
It tells the story of heart surgeon Nie Yusheng and his former lover and single mother Tan Jing who face fate hand in hand and finally usher in a happy life.
This is an author who is good at and keen on writing abusive articles, and his representative works include "Too Late to Say I Love You", "Cracked Brocade", "Lonely Empty Garden Spring Evening", "Good Period Like a Dream", "Flowers on the Sea" and so on.
These works have been made into film and television dramas, and they can be summed up in two words: good crying.
"With You in This Life" is the same, according to the plot summary, this is another TV series that hurts the liver.
The plot contains the grudge of the father (the father of the heroine died because of the father of the hero),
Love can not keep each other (hatred is separated between two people),
The woman runs with the ball (retaliating against the male protagonist for lying that his child has been beaten),
The man is injured (depression and anorexia are still obsessed with the heroine),
There is also the sadistic bridge of reunion after many years, and the son's congenital heart disease and so on.
All the sadistic bridges that can be thought of are in this drama.
But such a dog-blooded, even a little earthy plot, has become advanced under the clever changes of the director and screenwriter.
The story of dog blood has become literary and sad, because the substitution of actors' acting skills has become easier to have a sense of substitution, which is very infectious.
Director Liu Junjie, who has filmed the classic Taiwan puppet "The Prince Becomes a Frog", and filmed the adaptation of the sadomasochistic novel "Why Sheng Zhenmo", has his own unique views on urban emotional dramas.
Many of the compositions in the play look different from ordinary dog blood dramas, coupled with the director's small theater and subtitle at the beginning, "This Life With You" presents a unique sense of high-end.
For example, in dealing with emotions, create a scene where the male and female protagonists meet at the beginning, but it seems that there is no intersection, as if they do not know each other.
But in the evening, after the two met, they reviewed the encounter from the perspective of the male and female protagonists.
One is the perspective of the male protagonist who recognized in the morning and deliberately went to the bakery to buy bread.
One is the perspective of the heroine who found out early in the morning, but pretended not to care about it, but had been peeking at it all the time.
The abuse brought about by the extreme pull hidden under the BGM is simply the light of the sadistic drama, which is very worth savoring.
No white light filter, no beauty skin polishing, but also spent a lot of manpower and material resources on the scene details.
For the presentation of life is very real, the scene is meticulous, the heroine's home is a serious resident at a glance, and the heroine's clothes are even hairballs.
The screenwriter's extra points for the play are also obvious to all, so far, the plot development is very smooth, the appearance of several main character relationships, the important twists of the story, can not pick out the big faults, some details are still very poignant.
For example, when the male protagonist found the female protagonist to talk about the child's condition, the female protagonist was afraid that the child would be sad to hear it, and also covered the child's ears.
There is also the filling of teenage stories, which is also a plus.
Especially under the director's cutting technique of seeing things and thinking about people, we can follow the hero and heroine in the play to review the love points of the two people along the way, and we can better appreciate the sadistic story between the male and female protagonists.
03 Acting plus, no crotch pull
In the case of the starring appearance, the screenwriter and the director all add points, the surprising point of this drama is that: from the male and female protagonists, down to the supporting roles and even passers-by, all the acting skills are online.
Li Xiaoran's tearful eyes have a heart-wrenching effect, and Zhong Hanliang also plays a melancholy man who has been hurt by love quite well.
There is also Sheng Zong, played by Wang Yang, as soon as he opens his mouth, there is a hegemonic taste, this character is quite complicated, and there should be many highlight moments of acting skills in the later stage.
Shu Qin, played by Tian Leixi, is a classmate that the male protagonist knew when he studied abroad, and played an enviable strong woman quite well.
Veteran actors Zhang Chenguang, not to mention Liu Dawei.
And the most surprising thing is that every supporting role in this drama can be remembered.
For example, the unreliable husband of the heroine, he seems to be very irresponsible every day, and always looks for the female main money, but when he hears others chewing on the tongue of the heroine outside, he will also rush up without saying a word.
Every time the heroine has something, he will always be willing to help, and he is also 100% loving to the child.
For example, the couple who were beaten to the hospital by the heroine's husband only used two scenes to establish the character image.
The national drama in 2021, a hundred flowers bloom, high-reputation large-scale production of TV series frequently, as an audience, a year's experience summed up is four words: surprise and joy.
But one thing is for sure, no matter how it develops, the future of national drama belongs to good stories and good actors.
Such a rare drama as "There Is You in This Life" should not be buried.
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