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Once again, on the recommendation of a friend, I, a person who does not watch idol dramas, have chased after the second idol drama "A Twinkle and a Shining Star" (the last one is "You are my glory"). The drama tells the story of a young woman who has reached thirty and lost both her love career, because of a mobile phone from high school, she repeatedly travels back to the past through time and space, intending to change the fate of herself and the male protagonist who has a crush on her but dies unexpectedly.
Poster of "Twinkle a Shining Star"
Just listening to this introduction, there is a bit of novelty. The popularity of the drama is indeed the leader in the iQIYI sub-account drama, and in the three days of broadcasting, the popularity of iQIYI content exceeded 6500, and the peak of popularity exceeded 6900, becoming the highest popularity in the history of iQIYI. It can also be seen from the data statistics platforms of multiple film and television dramas such as Lighthouse Professional Edition, Bone Duo Data, and Maoyan Professional Edition that since the broadcast of this drama, the data performance has been excellent in the tv series of the same period of the whole network. And recently, the official film version of the drama has also begun to be produced. As a medium-sized, no-traffic star campus idol drama, being able to announce the production of a movie proves that it has received a certain degree of popularity or word-of-mouth recognition in the market (at least it proves that the cost is recovered).
Lin Beixing (left, played by Zhang Jianning), Zhang Wansen (played by Qu Chuxiao)
To be honest, leaving aside this somewhat pretentious name, purely looking at the quality of the story, the performance of the actors and the level of production, "A Twinkle of a Shining Star" is really good.
First of all, the theme is scarce, fantasy love, which is originally the golden oil on the market, the drama has added two major elements of light comedy and suspense on the basis of fantasy love, and in the mix of genres, it has pinched the measure and rhythm, making the story more novel than ordinary campus youth love, which is conducive to attracting the audience and is conducive to the network marketing of the current era.
In addition, the starring group of Qu Chuxiao Zhang Jianning has novelty and scarcity in the theme of campus youth and love. And the two people's acting skills are really online, it can be said that if it were not for Zhang Jianning's solid acting skills, the eyebrows were bent and cute and pleasing, some silly white sweet plus off-line moments in the early stage of the heroine story would really make me feel irritable. And Qu Chuxiao, because of some events in the first two years, the wind is subtle, after watching this drama, I really want to persuade Qu Ge: Don't cling to what rebellious prodigal son is set up, more contact with the role of honest and pure white rabbit, which can show your acting skills and reshape your reputation, why not enjoy it?
Stills from "A Twinkle of a Star"
Speaking of roles, the male protagonist of this drama, "Zhang Wansen", has recently become the so-called "crush ceiling" under the joint efforts of the drama party's publicity and the tap water of the fans. Among the male protagonists such as the domineering president and the iceberg male god in many idol dramas throughout the ages, "Zhang Wansen", the first in the well-behaved and quiet grade, is more in line with the image of many people's real youth school boys: he is excellent, but also young; the image is good, but not dazzling to be unreal; intelligent and sensible, but not elevated to the point of being out of reach. And those woodenness, social fear, and nervousness outside of his advantages add a sense of intimacy to this character, and also add a little bit of indifference and self-sacrifice to the character of "Zhang Wansen".
In terms of intention, this drama has indeed hit several accurate audience points. First of all, I think that the most different place between campus love and urban love lies in the pure simplicity of the first heartbeat of young people, and the role of this kind of affection on personal growth and self-awareness. Many campus idol dramas do not understand this difference, and the campus love is like urban love, and what kind of bridges and elements such as "mutual provocation", "XX kiss", "polyamorous love" and "pure desire" are just adding grease to campus love.
The good point of "A Twinkle and a Shining Star" is that it accurately captures the youthful purity of the first love on campus, 24 episodes down, no kissing scene, no crazy sugar, just do a good job of the character tension between the male and female protagonists, the details of the first heartbeat, it can already make the audience be attracted.
From another point of view, the drama also expresses the positive effect of this youthful emotion on the heroine "Lin Beixing". Lin Beixing, who first appeared on the scene, was thirty, achieved nothing, did not work hard, lived by his parents, only in love, upside down, completely brainless. When she returned to the age of 18, when her life had the opportunity to start again, her first reaction was not to plan well and change steadily, but to opportunistically change the score of the college entrance examination in order to try to reach the peak of life. Such a heroine really makes people's heads bigger, but the good part of the story lies in how to achieve the growth and change of Lin Beixing with the participation of Zhang Wansen.
Compared with the thirty-year-old Lin Beixing, the eighteen-year-old Zhang Wansen is more like an adult, his parents are not around for many years, he has strong independence, not only ranks among the best in his grades, but also establishes his future dream early and works hard for it, while always being kind and considerate to others, and is a good child without compromise. It was under the influence of Zhang Wansen that Lin Beixing began to reflect on himself, and at the same time, in Zhang Wansen's narration, he re-examined life: the original self, obviously a child full of courage to move forward, when did he lie flat and become a salted fish in love? It is also because of Zhang Wansen's love that Lin Beixing re-recognizes himself, accepts himself, and thinks about his future. Even if you go back to the age of eighteen and your life is all over again, if you don't change from yourself, how can you change your destiny?
The love story should be good-looking, in addition to the wonderful plot, the details are moving, and the emotional resonance point with the audience is also very important. It is thought that if a love story is "sprinkled with sugar" in vain, but does not ask important questions such as the nature and meaning of love, it is inevitably superficial. In the youth stories of Zhang Wansen and Lin Beixing, the most important emotional resonance point is undoubtedly recognition and protection.
When he was a child, Lin Beixing's recognition of Zhang Wansen's dream was the origin of Zhang Wansen's unconditional recognition of Lin Beixing when he grew up; when he was a teenager, the silent protection of Lin Beixing by the eighteen-year-old Zhang Wansen was the reason for the thirty-year-old Lin Beixing's firm protection of Zhang Wansen. This recognition and protection seems too romantic, but in fact has its own source of reality. For those of us who are sensitive as teenagers, the process of self-building is often a lonely struggle. If at this time, someone unconditionally gives recognition and support, it will become a glimmer of light, so that we grope the way to growth, a little less confused.
Who wouldn't want that in our growth, someone will guard us from afar and firmly with their eyes, and some tiny gentle moments can really support a person to grow into an adult, or even grow into a better adult. This emotional resonance point is accurately captured and presented for the play, which makes the drama different from other campus love stories.
It is worth noting that "One Twinkle And One Shining Star" is part of the account drama. In the media interview, according to Li Li, general manager of iQIYI Drama Center, although "One Flash and One Shining Star" is a sub-account drama, based on its optimism about the quality of its content, iQIYI has given the highest level of resource support for the custom drama in the station, and it is also the first S-level sub-account drama series after the upgrade of the iQIYI network drama sub-account rules.
To be honest, I used to have some prejudices about the three words "ledger drama". Because the sub-account drama is almost synonymous with "brainless sweet pet drama" on some platforms and in a certain period of time. For some small and medium-sized film and television companies in the industry, the "sweet pet" account drama is a small investment and a big return on the business, a shoddy hegemonic love story, supplemented by the marketing means of "sugar" cut on the short video platform, which can basically make such works make steady profits in the click rate, as for word of mouth, it is not the goal of this type of work.
So "Twinkle a Twinkle" was a bit unexpected. Although on the platform of Douban, where literary and artistic youth exceed the standard, the score of the drama is less than 7 points, I personally believe that due to the characteristics of the theme of campus love, the drama is doomed to lack in depth. But the show does a good job of fulfilling its genre requirements and expanding in terms of content breadth and production level, which is already commendable.
"A Twinkle of a Shining Star" will have a movie version in the future
Editor-in-Charge: Zhang Zhe
Proofreader: Liu Wei