Author 丨 Xin Di
Ten years ago, the dog blood romance drama, can it still be hot today?
"This Life with You" is completely a popular routine ten years ago - the second generation of the rich and Cinderella, family feuds, running with the ball, the emotional entanglement of the male and female protagonists is repeated, grinding and grinding, and finally ushered in a happy ending, which is the modern fairy tale that the audience is most familiar with. The audience is familiar with the routine tomorrow morning, but they can also shout out "I am the soil, I love to watch", have prepared tissues, and chased the drama on time.
Dog blood routine, how can someone always buy it?
Dog blood is forever popular
"There is you in this life" is adapted from the novel "Loving You is the Best Time" by Bandit Sicun, the heroine Tan Jing (played by Li Xiaoran) and the male protagonist Nie Yusheng (played by Zhong Hanliang) fell in love when they were young, because Nie's father tried to obstruct it, and Tan Jing had to leave Nie Yusheng while pregnant.
Many years later, Tan Jing took her son Pingping to treat congenital heart disease, and under the difference between yin and yang, Nie Yusheng became Pingping's attending physician. He didn't know why Tan Jing had left him, nor did he know that the boy who was sick in front of him was his own son.
Tan Jing and Nie Yusheng began a tangled polyamorous love affair, and the old father of the Nie family also had to fight with Tan Jing for custody of the child - this is a typical dog blood plot. Although "dog blood" is old," it has always been the audience's favorite.
You can dislike the dog blood drama, but it's impossible not to have seen it. Dog blood is not so much a traffic password as it is the tone of popular romance dramas. The dog blood in "This Life Has You" is in line with the traditional romance dramas of the past.
Thirty years ago, Qiong Yao dramas, such as "A Curtain of Dreams", "Wan Jun", "Plum Blossom Branding", etc., all used family conflicts as the background, exaggerated love and hate, and earned enough tears from the audience. Later Taiwan idol dramas, although they are the products of youth pop culture, but with the shell of youth, Lizi is still an eight-o'clock dog blood drama - "Meteor Garden" spends a lot of time to solve the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, "Princess Little Sister" to inherit family property, choose a son-in-law to marry the premise of the plot, "The Prince Becomes a Frog" also developed from "the domineering president fell in love with me", all the way to the old-fashioned plot of husband and wife sharing hardships and guarding the family business.
There are more repertoire, and sprinkling dog blood has become a simple routine, such as in ancient Korean dramas, car accidents, amnesia, terminal illness, lovers eventually became brothers and sisters, how to exaggerate how to come.
Later, such a plot gradually faded out of the audience's vision, but in 2020, a "Penthouse" once again made the dog blood drama popular around the world. The audience can clearly see that "Penthouse" is for the sake of dog blood and dog blood, and even sometimes too hard, it has become a comedy, but it can't stand being attracted by the exaggerated plot, and chasing it episode by episode.
Hunting is good, decompression or not, although the means are not so clever, but the dog blood is sprinkled well, often it can be red. In the domestic dramas of the 2010s, the novel adaptations of Bandit Sicun ranged from the eight o'clock dog blood drama in Taiwan in the last century to the dreams of the 21st century idol Mary Sue, with a unique style and attracted a large audience.
"Too Late to Say I Love You", "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow", "Good Period Like a Dream" and other works have adhered to the consistent style of bandits and me, the love entanglement of male and female protagonists is as short as ten years, long as a lifetime, love background or father's grudge, or the great cause of the family and country, in short, it is far from the life of ordinary people.
"With You in This Life" is no exception. Like "Too Late to Say I Love You", "I Have You in This Life" is also adapted from the novel of Bandit I Si Cun, and it is also starring Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran, which can attract some drama fans in itself. In addition to the exaggerated emotional entanglement, the male and female protagonists in "This Life" are one of the surgeons and the other is a single mother, and their stories are closer to the love of the citizens, so today, even if the style is outdated, it has not caused much disgust.
The more unrealistic the plot
Sometimes the more soothing it is
People often don't use "suspension" to describe the dog blood plot, because it is "unrealistic" and shoots people about what will not happen in daily life.
In "There Is You in This Life", the male protagonist Nie Yusheng has been obsessed with a woman for 7 years, and even suffered from mental illness; the female protagonist Tan Jing gave birth to a child alone for love, even if she later met the father of the child, she has been hiding from him and has no maintenance. In this way, she kept the purity of her original love.
Behind such a plot is "love first". Although the plot is exaggerated, it does reflect the idea that modern people want to achieve, but cannot achieve - let love override the actual conditions. Nowadays, the cost of marriage and love is getting heavier and heavier, "can't afford to get married, can't afford to have children" is a knife hanging over the heads of couples, and everyone does not want to bear various risks in life because of marriage.
In the past, people's concept of marriage and love was not so negative, so they always criticized TV dramas for being too far from reality. Now, the actual conditions are more and more breathless, but a shot of middle-aged people's love, you have to shoot an anxious life, you have to shoot a chicken feather. Therefore, although "There Is You in This Life" is anti-trend, it has also become a clear stream, and the "unrealistic" of the romance routine has become a rare spiritual relaxation.
Moreover, female audiences watching "There Are You in This Life" will have a relaxed feeling of pressure being diverted. The heroine Tan Jing is a particularly tragic character - did not get a college degree, worked in a cake shop, had a heart attack, and the treatment of illness was a bottomless pit of money. What the audience can get in her is not the happiness of finding that they are "less than the top and more than the bottom", but from her subtle emotional turns, they get an amplified empathy.
Quarrel with boyfriend again, the child's father is "widowed parenting" again, and the in-laws are conflicting again... Troubled female audiences, seeing the forbearance and dedication of the heroine in the play, can often obtain a certain sense of identity. As long as the protagonist's emotions are infectious, the audience does not need to think about who is more miserable between themselves and the people in the game, and it is over with crying. The more exaggerated the plot in the play, the more the negative emotions in reality can be relieved. Therefore, the abuse drama is actually a cool drama and plays a soothing role.
Made with heart
The dog blood plot can also be brilliant
Although the plot of "There Is You in This Life" is old, "dog blood" is actually just a shelf, and the psychological activities and subtle emotional changes of the characters are the flesh and blood of this drama, and many places reveal the intentions of the team.
Tan Jing is a real poor woman - coat up, no makeup, living in a dilapidated residential building, every day honestly commuting to work, as soon as you see discounted fruit, you are excited; the hospital where the male protagonist works, the environment is also quite real, the relationship between superior and subordinate is clear, only rich people can live in luxurious single rooms, ordinary people only live in simple beds.
Such details make the story of dog blood stand up at once. Producer Xu Jianning said: "A good drama must be extreme and intense, if you show the audience a bland life, it is better to honestly watch a social news." Whether this view is correct or not, we leave it alone, at least we can see that the drama "There Is You in This Life" has been injected with great recognition and expectation in the production process.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, Xu Jianning revealed the relevant information of "There Is You in This Life" on Weibo, but for various reasons, the project has not really started. He never let go of the story, and when the novel was finally adapted, the script was polished for five years and revised many times.
Screenwriter Bo Bonnie said that of all the characters in the play, the most difficult for her is not the complex adult characters, but the heroine's son Pingping , a seven-year-old boy. In order to figure out this child, as soon as she caught the child of an acquaintance, she asked a question and wrote down a long note, hoping that a child would show its original aura in the play.
This role does add a lot to the whole drama - in the play, talking about eating and chatting, saying that he wants to change the broken electrical appliances, the sick Ping ping suddenly asks on the side: "Will my mother replace me?" Just such a sentence has been able to earn the tears of the audience.
On the eve of the broadcast, Bo Bonnie issued a long text: "The internal tension of this story is very large, the conflict is very strong, but the external waves are not alarming. Therefore, this drama does not focus on how the characters resolve the contradictions, but on how the characters feel the contradictions - when the feelings of the male and female protagonists are not stretched, the lines that come and go, the subtle expressions, and actions are all expressive. There are a large number of places depicting "small measures" and "small situations" in the film, which are literary and introverted, and have been carefully considered everywhere.
It turns out that as long as you use your heart, even the old routine can be presented wonderfully. We often judge whether a TV series is worth watching by whether it fits the current popular topics, and the highlight of "This Life with You" is only to portray subtle emotional fluctuations.
In fact, no matter how hot the topic is, it is not as solid and sincere as the production, I believe that the audience who chases the drama has already felt the unique charm of "This Life with You".