When it comes to domestic sadomasochism, we have to mention the Republic of China drama "Too Late to Say I Love You", the love story staged by Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran, the romance has reached the extreme, the sadism has reached the extreme, and the tension has also reached the extreme.
The fiery kissing scene is called the domestic drama ceiling.
The male and female protagonist temperament is regarded as the benchmark of the Republic of China idol drama.
The plot of sugar and knife coexistence has also been regarded by many viewers as a model of sadism.
When the news that Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran would join hands to star in the new drama "You in This Life" after 12 years came out, the old CP fans shouted that the after-sales were perfect, and the audience who liked the theme of sadistic love was also full of expectations.
After the work was launched, it also looked quite good, the ratings were stable and broke one, the network popularity continued to rise, there was no young traffic fan heat bonus, but it still got the heat escort of the national CP.
In fact, Qijiao was initially very interested in Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran's second pair, but he did not have so much confidence in the work, because the same story routine was very popular ten years ago, but the public may not buy it ten years later.
However, "There is you in this life" still gives quite a lot of surprises, the skeleton of the old routine is still there, the core interpretation of sadistic love has produced a lot of changes, and the idol story of middle-aged people is rare to let the suspension and the earth qi blend together.
Middle-aged Mary Sue
The original "You in This Life" and "Too Late to Say I Love You" are in the same vein, both are the sadistic love tone of bandits, still the Mary Sue flavor born for love, and still have a full of dog blood routines.
The male and female protagonists Nie Yusheng and Tanjing campus era have a beautiful and bold love, and the two once married passionately abroad, but they broke up due to various grievances, leaving uneven hurt in each other's hearts.
Nie Yusheng did not understand Tan Jing's "change of heart" and wanted to completely erase her from his heart, but he couldn't help but get closer to her, and when they reunited again many years later, they still couldn't help but follow each other, while angry hatred, while touching humbly.
After Tan Jing broke up with a grudge, she staged a mary Sue network article common "running with the ball", and her father's apprentice Sun Zhijun had an honorary marriage, and it was difficult to give birth to a child with the male protagonist, but the child inherited a family heart disease.
Many years later, Tan Jing ran for the child's illness and became an ordinary working mother, Nie Yusheng returned from school, transformed into a well-known cardiac surgery expert, and constantly fell in love, because the child continued to intersect.
Overall, this drama combines the rich second generation and Cinderella, family feuds, running with the ball, terminal illness, broken mirror reunion, etc., it basically wraps up the common elements of the Mary Sue dog blood story.
If this kind of story is paired with young traffic, it may also attract young audiences who do not care about the sense of suspension, if the protagonist spark is strong enough, a small explosion is not impossible, and the former "One Night Bride" has become popular by relying on the old routine.
The audience of Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran obviously does not meet this condition, they collide with the story, can only be a proper middle-aged Mary Sue, this type of work, almost a film is scolded.
But it is very interesting, and then the dog's bloody "running with the ball" meets Zhong Hanliang Li Xiaoran, it seems to become reasonable, the Mary Sue sadistic atmosphere that is out of reality is suppressed, and the middle-aged struggle and pushing and pulling have the upper hand.
Dog blood landed on reality
Back to the Mary Sue sadistic love "Too Late to Say I Love You" 12 years ago, when Yin Jinghuan reunited with Murong Feng, who had hurt her, the man's collapse roared, and the woman's heart was like stagnant water, like ice and fire colliding, static and moving.
All the grief, regret, hatred, or love without being able to love, are bluntly shown to the audience, which is one of the core charms of the Mary Sue, the love is hot and exposed, and the emotions are full and full.
Similar bridges to the middle-aged version of "This Life has you", the way of expression has changed a lot.
Nie Yusheng and Tan Jing reunite in the bakery, one is a worry-free customer, the other is a dedicated cashier, the whole shot is calm, if placed in real life, no one will feel that there is a complicated entanglement between them.
However, the attentive audience has found that the two are full of stiffness under the calm, do not look at each other, do not look up, the eyes are slightly cast and then immediately moved away, the surface is calm and the waves are calm, and the inside is turbulent.
Immediately after work, Tan Jing found Nie Yusheng, who was watching downstairs at her house, and it was obvious that the reunion of the bakery was a long-awaited "chance encounter", there was no domineering young man, only the caution of middle-aged people.
The reunion in the fantasy is the "Shuluo Field", the reunion in reality is a perfunctory laugh, the person who does not love is embarrassed, and the two people who still love each other try to treat each other as strangers, with relaxed mouths and entangled actions.
Nie Yusheng is like this because his love is wrapped in hatred, Tan Jing is so, it is her love, has taken a back seat, and now she needs the chai rice oil and salt of life, the child's medical expenses.
The director is very clever, did not use the gorgeous set of the young idol drama, but put the living conditions of the characters into reality, talking about the crowded, cramped and pyrotechnic smell of the Jing family, a pair of mother and son who work hard to live, instantly convince the audience.
The hospital is no longer a high-end ward plus uniform temptation, but a busy staff, nervous and simple beds, do a cardiac imaging to calculate the price of patients' families.
When the fireworks of the story are stable, the male protagonist's status as a rich second-generation high-quality student, and their former "running with the ball" abuse, have slowly been diluted the sense of dog blood, leaving only the introduction that arouses the audience's curiosity.
Why break up? How to resolve misunderstandings? And, when will the spark be rekindled?
Restrained emotional competition
The above several questions need to be answered by emotional story lines, in this regard, "There is you in this life" is interpreted in the same way as the protagonist's personality setting, without quickly solving the puzzle, all of which run through "restraint".
The first conversation after the reunion of the male and female protagonists is very interesting.
Tan Jing said: Hello, I haven't seen you for a long time.
It is polite, alienated, calm that is vigorously controlled, and there is a polite invitation belonging to old acquaintances, and the taste of life is strong.
Nie Yusheng replied: You often invite strange men to your home?
Look, the Taste of Mary Sue is coming, the overbearing president from youth to middle age, still can't change the hedgehog attribute, but also indirectly tells the audience that this broken love, the man's heart is left with hate.
But the Mary Sue smell just floated up, and the quiet sentence "My husband is at home" washed away the dog's blood, and in the face of the verbal damage of her loved one, she learned to pull out four or two pounds, rather than the patience or pain of her youth.
The screenwriter did not deliberately render the hatred of the male protagonist and the avoidance of the female protagonist, but through a play, a few lines, the contradiction point was set in place, and gave the audience enough brain space.
After the reunion, there was almost no rivalry between them, because one was busy with life, the other was struggling with how to get out of the emotional wounds, and what promoted the further contact between the two characters was money.
Her son's illness, unreliable and troublesome husband, took the lead in destroying Tan Jing's calmness in money, and she had to make a deal with Nie Yusheng, this scene, Li Xiaoran portrayed it very wonderfully.
There is no strong pretense or pretending to be scheming, but full of dignity and embarrassment, the Mary Sue of middle-aged people, less love routines, more real feelings, and giving up self-esteem is more painful than giving up love.
Of course, although the female protagonist played by Li Xiaoran this time is very bitter, the current plot of "There Is You in This Life" is biased towards abusing the male protagonist, not knowing that he is loved, nor does he know that he has a child.
After 12 years, the abused "Yin Jingwan" finally learned to give "Murong Feng" a knife, and the love cycle of the national PC is quite interesting, and it is already looking forward to the collapse of the male protagonist after knowing the truth.
The middle-aged Mary Sue no longer reunites with the style of the young Mary Sue, but when the dog blood is used as a skeleton and filled the flesh with sincerity, it will produce a different spark, both the idolized Shuluo field and the grounded emotion and life push and pull.
Objectively speaking, the perspective of "In This Life with You" to excavate love is very good, did not give up the essence of the original, and did not blindly pursue suspension, this middle-aged Mary Sue, can be worthy of Zhong Hanliang, Li Xiaoran's second pair.
However, "With You in This Life" is not perfect, the portrayal of workplace drama is a bit thin, the integration is not as good as life drama, and the age setting of the characters has obvious BUGS.
When the two broke up, they were obviously still college students, and when they reunited, the child was only 6 years old, but the male and female protagonists, regardless of age perception or career development, had moved closer to "middle-aged people", and the script ignored the fit of the actors in this regard.
Moreover, the makeup of the actors in this drama is a bit dragging their feet, not only does the protagonist look slightly old-fashioned, but even the male number two Wang Yang is obviously not as energetic as the previous drama, completely relying on their superb acting skills.
But overall, the highlights are more than flaws, and the audience who like Mary Sue and sadistic love will most likely be poked by the plot, if the follow-up emotional explosion drama is powerful enough, it may also be able to play a new "model" for middle-aged idol dramas.