On the evening of January 20, the TV series "City of Streamers" was launched on the original video. Starring Jing Tian, Xu Weizhou and others, the TV series tells the story of family battles during the Republic of China. Based on the plot content that has been broadcast, this TV series does not pursue the presentation of realistic directions, and the story content is relatively fake, but, from a commercial point of view, this TV series does not set aesthetic difficulties for ordinary audiences, on the contrary, it adopts a narrative method that is very dense with low-level conflicts. These narrative strategies are actually typical idol drama paths.
First of all, it is the perception of the TV series on a non-realistic level. "City of Streamers" does not pursue a sense of reality at both the story level and the shooting level. This is the most important feature of the show. Therefore, the audience who tries to see the real story from this TV series work, and even the real narrative logic, can go around. The entire narrative logic of "City of Streamers" is actually still idol dramatized, or childlike.
Let's take a typical example. The relationship between Mr. Teaching and the students must be "not good to discipline". This is actually a typical relationship that idol dramas like to use. Under this typical relationship, it must be that the husband wants to go to class, and the students do not come. In "City of Streamers", it happens to be this narrative logic. The following narrative reflects the childishness of the narrative level of idol dramas. In the face of this contradiction, how can the heroine of the play solve it? After playing poker with the male protagonist, he won the male protagonist, and then let the male protagonist come to class.
Such a way of resolving contradictions and conflicts, put into the real theme of film and television drama works, the audience will definitely laugh off their teeth, because this way, it does not conform to the basic logic of reality. However, this way of creating contradictions and resolving contradictions is put into idol drama works and established. This is interesting thing. Because the specific audience of idol dramas does not want the basic reality of logic, only this simple and thoughtless narrative carving trick of "button tying" and "unbuttoning".
Because of the weakness of the narrative logic of "City of Streamers", this TV series is only suitable for young audiences. Obviously, the positioning of "City of Streamers" for its own idol drama is also very clear. Especially in the manufacture and resolution of contradictions and conflicts, not only does not set aesthetic difficulty, it is not difficult for their young audiences, but also maintains a state of intensive contradictions and conflicts, regardless of whether the contradictions and conflicts are established, as long as they are dense, they will certainly not be ugly.
In the opening content of "City of Streamers", it can be described as a bunch of "buttons". The female protagonist enters the big family of the male protagonist, and there is a conspiracy. In the male family, they are torn apart, each hiding his heart and eyes. The man's family also has secret routes and is doing shady business. Behind this batch of business, the yellow sparrow is behind. Even between the wives, between the wives and the servants, a large number of "buttons" were designed. The entire TV series unfolds in this dense conflict of contradictions. Of course, the design and development of many contradictions and conflicts are relatively low-level and belong to the typical idol drama style.
For example, the heroine uses a bell-like device to hide the eavesdropping next door. For example, the heroine sneaked into the car and tried to peek at the documents in the briefcase. These seemingly tense contradictions and conflicts are actually afraid of being exposed to the reality and reality dimension. Such a bridge section can only appear in the idol drama, and the audience and the creators have reached a large-scale idol drama-style consensus - whether it is fake or not, everyone is really optimistic.
Of course, all idol dramas are ultimately in the service of falling in love. Why is that? Because the established audience that idol dramas face can basically only achieve empathy in the content of love, everyone's age group seems to be unable to appreciate more advanced content. In other words, idol dramas are for children and young people who have just come of age and have just learned what it means to be in love, and they just feel fresh about this thing. Therefore, in "City of Streamers", creating such and such contradictions and conflicts, in the end, is just for Jing Tian and Xu Weizhou to fall in love in the way of characters in the plot.
Based on the attributes of the Republic of China idol drama of "City of Streamers", talking about the acting skills of Jing Tian and Xu Weizhou under this biggest premise is purely ignorant. I have talked in previous drama review articles that idol dramas do not require acting skills, or that actors do not need to prepare acting skills for the role. In works with realistic themes, the characters need to correspond to the real, and the actors also need to rely on their acting skills to approach this reality. Idol dramas such as "City of Streamers" have no real role correspondence at all, and actors only need to perform themselves to a specific audience. Perform yourself, what else to talk about acting?
At this point, we look at Jing Tian and Xu Weizhou in "City of Streamers", it is much clearer, the two actors are just performing what they want the audience to see. Therefore, after the broadcast of this TV series, the fans rejoiced, sweet and sweet, Xu Weizhou was handsome and so on. This fan drama, or leave it to the fans to party. (Text/Ma Qingyun)