Recently, in addition to the Wu Yifan incident, the little sister also stayed up late to chase a Po County sweet pet drama "Bride Across the River", which is simply to regain the enthusiasm for Singapore TV dramas!
Speaking of which, Singaporean dramas are really the "tears of the times" of generations, but think about the last popular mainland, pure "Po County" production TV series or 2009's "Little Nyonya". At that time, with a bitter and inspirational setting, as well as a strong Nanyang style, the ratings of this "Little Nyonya" were once close to "Huan Zhu Gege". There is also a super long tail effect, the remake of the same name launched by Changxin Media last year, even if all the newcomers and Douban scores are not good, it still becomes a popular drama with a rating of one in the Central Eight that year, which can be called the love of the mother-in-law and mother-in-law audience.
Unexpectedly, a year later, the same is the summer file, another Singapore TV series broke the circle to become a dark horse of word of mouth, and the place of "trace" is still the B station where young people gather and love the second dimension! Although the stem is old and earthy, the "Bride Across the River", which has nowhere to find "industrial saccharin", still makes the new generation of netizens who are willing to lie flat and feel the trouble of love laugh!
It's earthy and sweet, but it's on top
The plot of "The Bride Across the River" is not new, and even a bit old-fashioned.
The "silly white sweet" Vietnamese bride heroine who came to Singapore to find her sister × the "arrogant and poisonous tongue" elite lawyer male protagonist. The male protagonist suffered a major car accident and became a vegetative person, and as a result, the female protagonist woke him up under the wrong yin and yang, and then opened the "first marriage and then love" plot mode that we are not unfamiliar with.
U1S1, first marry and then love, stupid cute and proud, chasing wives crematorium... This kind of bridge section and routine, we have not read dozens of books in Jinjiang, at least a very deep impression, everywhere in the internal entertainment sweet pet drama can also be seen, why is "The Bride Across the River" so popular?
First of all, the emotional line progress of the male and female protagonists is natural and real, and there are delicate emotional changes, rather than hard stuffing "industrial saccharin" up.
The male protagonist, Zhong Shijie, is an elite lawyer, who became a vegetative person because of a car accident, and the family even worried about his treatment fees, which is very grounded. When he was unexpectedly awakened by the heroine, the first thing he did was to encounter this silly white sweet heroine Mei Fangcao, who would not appear in his previous life.
She is not good at Mandarin, can't understand the sound of strings, and even the literal word "roll" is understood as the male protagonist telling her to leave. She is rash, often small troubles continue, the male protagonist meets her seems to have encountered a water reverse, so the early Zhong Shijie's mantra is "roll".
And the heroine Mei Fangcao, because of the setting of the Vietnamese bride, the silly white sweet "silly" has a reasonable explanation.
She faced the evil words of the previous male protagonist, and responded with a sound of "Ge Ge", the male protagonist told her to roll, she would reply "I rolled first".... Those injuries caused by the language barrier were invisible on the side of The grass. The more the male protagonist feels powerless in the face of the female protagonist, the more the audience looks up to him.
Mei Fangcao's "white", there is also a reasonable explanation, she came from the Vietnamese countryside, instinctively believe that there are not so many bad people in the world, the male protagonist released search information for the female protagonist, the result was that someone mischievous PS photos, but Fangcao firmly believed that no one will have such a great malice to deliberately tease themselves, and go out alone at night to find human traffickers. Her simplicity makes her believe that the male protagonist is a good person, and the most sincere expression of emotion is also returned to the male protagonist, so every "small trouble" of her has antecedents and consequences, and her silly white sweet behavior not only does not make people feel bored, but makes the audience feel a kind of sincerity and warmth.
As a result, the male (guan) lord (zhong) "fell" in the female protagonist's demonic geigei.
Before the car accident, the male protagonist was a self-centered, only for money, will not do public welfare assistance "useless work" elite lawyer. However, in order to stay in Singapore and continue to find her sister, Fangcao made a marriage request. Unexpectedly, he actually agreed and decided to fake marriage, knowing that the elite lawyer never considered the feelings of others.
In the past, he only liked smart women and did not like to take care of people, but he began to like to help Fangcao, find information for her fellow sisters in court, take care of her bits and pieces, and attach importance to her feelings.
In the play, there is also a screenwriter who secretly pokes and pokes at the "smuggled goods", that is, the social problem of "Vietnamese bride".
This drama allows us to see the group of "Vietnamese brides" in Singaporean society and the social phenomena behind it. In addition, those Singaporeans have inherent "geographical terriers": it is Malaysians who lend usury, and Vietnamese people are always too simple because they come from the countryside.... It is precisely because these reflect the unique social problems of Singapore" "private goods" that they can see the output views outside the sweet pet drama, rather than blindly making "industrial saccharin".
The social problem of the "Vietnamese bride" also allows the male protagonist to find his sense of social responsibility as a lawyer again. It can be said that from strange to familiar, from disgust to heartbeat, the feelings of two people are natural and not achieved overnight. Its "sweetness" is also based on reasonable plot development, so that the audience can also feel the sincerity of the characters.
The setting of the male protagonist's elite, as well as the setting of the female protagonist's rural sister, is an insurmountable class in reality, put into the film and television drama, how to rationalize, persuasive, this is what the screenwriter should do. The audience can substitute themselves from the perspective of the male protagonist, which is also the best place of "The Bride Across the River".
Because what the screenwriter has to convince the audience most is why such an elite will fall in love with the country girl.
"The Bride Across the River" can put together two people who are different from the clouds and mud in reality, because when they met, they happened to experience the most unsatisfactory period of their lives at the same time, which rationalized the reason why the two people loved each other: alone in a foreign country, it was Zhong Shijie who helped Fangcao, and the male protagonist really stood up in the company of Fangcao, and the two people slowly approached in mutual redemption. Zhong Shijie found himself in a sound of "geigei" and fell in love with the heroine.
Rationalizing the direction of the emotional line of this play, the "sweet" point is naturally not greasy at all, which is also the second reason why the whole play makes people feel naturally sweet, because it understands "blank".
At the moment of the sweet pet drama "inner volume", everyone has long been tired of seeing a variety of "pet" routines, the male protagonist has changed for several generations, from the overlord to the young wolf dog, but the male protagonist in "The Bride Across the River" is called "human ceiling" by the audience for no reason.
Chung Shi Kit has never stood in the perspective of the elite to gaze at Fangcao, he helps Fangcao, teaches her how to survive in Singapore, all bit by bit silently to solve. In the face of the ex-girlfriend's repeated compound requests, he will directly express his refusal: "First of all, she is my wife, in your eyes, she is not who she is, it does not matter, but if you respect me, please respect my wife." 」 "Any possibility of completely entangled dog-blooded love triangles is snuffed out in advance."
He also expresses his feelings quietly, and will not give a strong kiss or wall bang without moving.
He knew that the heroine would be sad in the process of finding her sister, and after finding The grass, even if he was unstable, he threw away a crutch to hug the heroine back. ↓
He overcame his weakness of being afraid of the dark, and in the dark, he took advantage of the heroine's sleep to restrain his forehead, which was also the only kiss scene in the whole play, and another kiss scene appeared at the end, which was also brought by dragonflies.
There is no more so-called "sprinkling sugar", but it is particularly heartwarming, in addition to a reasonable plot, just the right scene, but also tightly played the actor's "eye skills", such as the male protagonist peeking at her eyes after the female protagonist is asleep, so that many viewers have called "so sweet".
It also relies on this "blank space", there is no crazy pile of kissing scenes of "The Bride Across the River", but there is a sense of atmosphere.
The kiss scene, originally as a climactic point for the development of love, can quickly and directly show the emotions of the characters, but now in all our sweet pet dramas, in order to so-called sugar, directly skip the encounter and promise of the male and female protagonists, only a variety of kiss scenes to express "sweet". The emotional development between the hero and heroine is illogical, let alone paved, and some producers also particularly like to buy a hot search during the broadcast after adding a kiss scene in the play, which is equivalent to "drawing the point", as if the audience only deserves to feed some "saccharin". So, how can their kissing scene be moving? It is not an exaggeration to say that without these kiss scenes, the creators of the inner entertainment sweet pet drama do not know how to shoot the so-called "sweet pet drama"?
"The Bride Across the River" of course also has its dog blood, such as the heroine looking for a sister too coincidental, such as the finale HE has some tiger tails, but it is filmed sincerely, so that people can feel the beauty of mutual redemption in love; it is not suspended at all, the male and female protagonists do not have a brand to add, to consider life; there is no polished filter, the actor's face looks like fireworks.
Singaporean dramas that were popular in those years
Watching "The Bride Across the River" can always see a familiar face, such as Lin Meijiao, who plays the mother of the male protagonist, as soon as she sees it, she remembers the previous "Little Nyonya", because she has played the big wife in it, and she is also the mother of the female protagonist Fangcao in real life.
Such "old faces" in Singaporean dramas are not uncommon, and many of them were once our memories of the same year. Think about it, the little sister watched a lot of Singapore TV dramas in her childhood.
1981's "Man on the Journey" was the first Singaporean TV series introduced from the mainland. Unlike the TVB costume drama introduced at that time, this drama was quite modern for the mainland audience at that time, because it saw the life of young men and women in the international metropolis.
Since then, the Singaporean dramas introduced have been this kind of modern urban drama, until the mid-1990s, Singapore's costume dramas entered the Chinese market, and suddenly had the meaning of competing with Hong Kong and Taiwan costume dramas.
Bai Yuchuan, who loves to transgender in "Lotus Battle", has shaken the hearts of many TV children. In the producer of "Journey to the East", which was filmed in Jiuzhaigou in large quantities, there is also Sichuan Television, which is still a model of "double heroine" drama.
Modern dramas such as "Three-Faced Eve" and "Blazing Love" have also caused a boom in drama chasing in the mainland, and the style of Singapore's "Ah Jie" (big sisters) such as Zheng Huiyu and Pan Lingling is not inferior to that of TVB women. Singaporean artists such as Fan Wenfang & Li Mingshun, Guo Feili, lin Xiangping and so on, took advantage of the popularity of the series to simply develop with China as the main battlefield.
The last glory of Singapore drama in Chinese mainland is "Little Nyonya", relying on the strong Nanyang style and unique Nyonya culture, which has triggered a lot of drama chasing boom, and the heroine Ou Xuan has also won many job offer opportunities because of the surge in Chinese. However, the glory of "Little Nyonya" did not allow Ou Xuan to reproduce the successful path of Fan Wenfang's development in China, and Singapore dramas also disappeared in the mainland for a long time.
"The Bride Across the River" is now a small range of popularity, which makes the little sister particularly surprised, because unconsciously, the Singapore drama has also changed.
In the past, Singaporean dramas were mostly short parents, or stories of legendary characters like "Little Nyonya", even in early modern urban dramas, the emotional line would not be the main line.
And "The Bride Across the River" retains the line of affection, and the supporting characters in the play are not tool people, each has its own story, and also conveys the attitude towards cultural inheritance in it.
The man's father has been guarding the family's tailor shop for decades, he took over the qipao shop from his mother, and he also inherited the qipao craft, even if such a handicraft industry has entered the sunset in Singapore, he has not lowered the standard of his craft.
When Singaporean dramas are gradually retreating from the eyes of Chinese audiences, and even Singaporean creators are beginning to switch to mainland dramas, Singaporean dramas are undergoing obvious changes.
The main line of "Bride Across the River" has become a rare sweet pet model in previous Singaporean dramas, but it has retained its own advantage of saying that the parents are short. The screenwriter also did his homework, as far as possible in the supporting role of the scene to bring out their own understanding of the sunset industry of the handmade qipao, it did not make any new routines in the model of sweet pet drama, but in the earthy and vulgar sweet pet framework, "Bride Across the River" did the warmth and love through the details.
On Douban, it has reached a high score of 8.4, which is a praise for the creators who have watched more mainland greasy sweet pet dramas to the creators who sincerely shoot love.