Speaking of the annual expectations of the national drama in recent years, I have to mention it.
A group of original fans and actor fans, from the beginning of filming to the first time to set the file, waiting, disappointed, continue to wait, and finally - Jin Cheng arrived, Jin Shi opened.
Wait for the rest of your life, please give more advice.
Tonight, Hunan Satellite TV premiered, and Tencent Video broadcast exclusively on the entire network.
Set up a flag, which may be the purest pair of CPs on the small screen this year.
unbelief? Make a bet and see how many people can "live" away from these three scenes —
Gu Weilin's school met without acquaintance - the corners of his mouth began to rise?
The two slowly approached - the heartbeat gradually accelerated?
Gu Wei finally couldn't help but expose it - revealing his aunt (uncle) smile?
Yang Zi + Xiao Zhan.
In the same frame of the stage in the past two years, the audience has already sniffled and shed tears together.
When will they be able to finish this sweet love affair in the TV series?
However, there are also fans of the original who have proposed that this story seems to be the same as the original work is not (too) too (not)?
Indeed, the original author Berlin Mason uses the first person full of substitution to tell the ordinary girl Lin Zhixue and the doctor Gu Wei's plain and real urban love fairy tale. It is as if a delicate love diary, in addition to the process of acquaintance, is mostly sweet daily life. Fans of the original will say, shoot it, I am dead.
However, from the novels that pay more attention to private experiences to popular dramas, changes in plots and protagonists are actually inevitable.
Moreover, with the aesthetic fatigue of sweet drama audiences, the difficulty coefficient of blockbusters is getting higher and higher. In this context, "The Rest of My Life", which was finally launched after twists and turns, is the sweet drama with the hottest drama in the first quarter, regardless of the IP volume, cast and other factors. However, high expectations have always been a double-edged sword.
On the other hand, a big drama ratings war has been about to erupt, just on the same day on the 14th, another annual fantasy drama "Acquaintance with Junchu",
Another sweet drama of the same type, "The Princess of the Shadow Emperor", was officially announced, and the "Heart Residence" that gathered the two major eyes was waiting as early as the 17th not far away.
Even, starring Xiao Zhan's own military drama "Ace Troops", is about to land on Shenzhen Satellite TV, Anhui Satellite TV, hubei satellite TV second round of broadcast.
Can two traffic stars, 1 ace IP, and a sweet drama that is highly anticipated become another king of Hunan Satellite TV?
It's time to savor it in advance, the love of it— slightly sweet, sour, and sweet.
1. Story: A sweet love diary
Let's start with a story.
Male and female protagonists, how to meet for the first time? A restaurant, the heroine lin school dodge - blind date? Hiding until Gu Wei's clothes?
Then I came back with an apology – hello, big brother???
Take a look, Gu Wei, played by Xiao Zhan, the eyes that care for the confused young woman.
Wait, am I chasing the wrong drama?
But the next one, it seems that the taste is right again?
Here, Lin Zhi's impression of Gu Wei is that he is extremely serious, rigid, clean and crazy, and has a small white face? And Gu Wei grabbed Lin Zhixue and asked her to stop practicing the piano, because the sound was really hard to hear!
The dialogue between these two people, it is really every step of the minefield that precisely steps on the other side.
Behind this, it is not the slight sweetness of the sweet drama: the fighting mouth of the joyful enemy, the faint sense of heartbeat, and the full breath of life.
However, although the sweet drama takes sugar as the first priority and sweetness as the core selling point, the storyline cannot be completely divorced from reality, and sugar cannot be sprinkled.
The emotional progression of the male and female protagonists still needs to have the most basic beginning and turn, with a beginning, a development, a climax, and then ushering in a happy ending. If the sweetness is too high at the beginning, it may be difficult to continue afterwards; the sweetness comes too late, consuming too much patience from the audience.
The story of "The Rest of My Life" is based on an accident.
After the funny encounter between the male and female protagonists, the next time they meet is in the hospital.
When Lin Zhixue was about to graduate from her senior year and was ready to chase her dreams, a bad news instantly blinded her:
The father was hospitalized with cancer.
Originally, Lin Zhixiao, played by Yang Zi, and Lin Jianguo, the father played by Xia Zhiqing, were also a pair of "wrongdoers" father and daughter in the early stages. Lin Zhixue wanted to be independent, but Lin Father had to manage his daughter in everything, but now, everything changed.
Lin Zhixue did not live and fell into the abyss, and the boyfriend broke up because of it.
Gu Wei, the chief surgeon played by Xiao Zhan, became the attending doctor of Lin Zhixue's father.
From the beginning of this story, each episode has a famous scene of emotional waves, and the male and female protagonists' cognition and emotions for each other also grow in waves.
But, sweet, is that all sweet drama is all about?
No, from the beginning of the original book, it is accurate to grasp an important feature of young people's love:
Time. Pay attention to a sentence that Father Lin said to her in the play: Daddy can't accompany you for a lifetime.
For the rest of their lives, some people go and some people come, which is an important lesson they learn in life.
How the male and female protagonists face the cruel parting of life and death must be an important part of the series.
This is also an additional question of the series, that is, it is not limited to the sweet love of the romance idol drama, but superimposed with the life drama, combining sweet love with the growth and tempering of youth, which not only increases the viewing point of the drama, but also opens up the pattern of the drama.
For the rest of your life, only after experiencing it yourself, you know how difficult it is to make a choice.
Therefore, "The Rest of My Life" is both a light and implicitly heavy and timeless love sketch.
It is also a warm urban adult fairy tale.
2. Actor: The two top acting challenges lie in daily life
Before the story begins, let's taste the three kinds of eyes.
People who have been emotional must be familiar.
The first, temptation.
I couldn't help but peek at him, even, spit on him, looked at him, and hurriedly looked away.
Second, heartbeat.
Duplicity under the cover of ambiguity. For example, Lin Zhixue only instantly realized under the guidance of his girlfriend Sansan's love, "You mean, Dr. Gu likes me?" ”
Yang Zi's cute expression of hindsight made people can't help but snort, but subconsciously the corners of their mouths rose.
Third, be honest.
In particular, the sincerity of the two men after putting down their defenses was blazing. Gu Wei knelt down and said, "Lin Zhixiao, are you willing to marry me?"
Cover up the trepidation, show a sincere look, but accidentally betrayed by their own eyes.
Because, the eyes are full of heartfelt feelings. This is the sweetness of "The Rest of My Life"—
There is no infinite sugar, only the continuous accumulation, gradual, and explosion of feelings...
It seems that it is reliable?
Not enough, and then consider the three indicators of the sweet drama one by one.
The first criterion of sweet drama is to look at the face.
In sweet dramas, appearance is justice. Good-looking people fall in love, love will look good!
The faces of Xiao Zhan and Yang Zi in "The Rest of My Life" do not need to be exaggerated, at least, such a face is suitable for all ages.
The second criterion is that the acting skills are enough and the CP sense is strong enough.
Many sweet pet dramas have chosen newcomer actors to reduce costs, but many of them are not good at appearance, and their acting skills are more embarrassing. In contrast, "The Rest of My Life" shows its advantages.
Although Yang Zi is harshly reprimanded for always playing the same type of role, from another point of view, it can also be seen that she is indeed quite good at shaping that kind of girl with a big grin, kind and tough in her bones, with a high degree of fit with the role and a strong sense of girlishness.
Xiao Zhan all the way from "Chen Qingling" and "Ace Troops" came over, acting skills are more and more skilled is certain, although, this is his work three years ago, but Xiao Zhan is best at immersive performance, once fully into the world of a role, often have more than expected performances, from the material, Xiao Zhan's Gu Wei, still retains a rare sense of youth, but also released between the gentle atmosphere between the bully and the warm man.
To sum up, the two actors have a good audience relationship, enough acting skills, and enough CP when interacting emotionally.
The third criterion is that people are pleasing to the liking, and it is best to be innovative.
Speaking of breaking it down, the characters in the idol drama are just a few things. The male protagonist is either a domineering president or a super warm man, and the female protagonist is either Cinderella or a little white rabbit. The point, in fact, is not the sword going sideways, but how to let the audience understand these characters.
Lin Zhixiao, played by Yang Zi, is a third-year student in the music department.
Majoring in cello, she is lively and cheerful and righteous, kind and "wind and fire", the standard little sun on earth.
Gu Wei, played by Xiao Zhan, is a high-cold medical god, with high appearance + doctor's duty + ascetic white coat, but in his bones, he is a gentle big boy.
The two personalities are pointed at Mai Mang, and many interactive scenes are love and kill each other, creating joy and creating sweetness at the same time.
Sweet pet tube enough.
But, I'd rather talk about the hidden characters of the two characters.
The former, once ignored it, single-mindedly flew forward, but after experiencing a great change in the family, he found that no, the hand that played the piano was shaking.
She is strong and stubborn on the surface, and does not hit the south wall and does not turn back. But on the other hand, she is so fragile and sensitive.
Fear of losing his father.
Gu Wei, on the surface, is an invincible male god with high cold, but the shadow left by a medical accident almost crushed him.
On weekdays, he hides well, but notices a scene in the trailer, where he almost loses his mind in the face of the death of a patient and roars with collapse.
Strong and vulnerable, two extreme emotions, perfectly mixed in a character's body.
In the final analysis, this is two people who have also suffered setbacks, but their hearts are sunny, and the story of "The Rest of Your Life" is actually the process of two people finding each other in the world, teaching and comforting each other for the rest of their lives.
It is also easy for the audience to notice that "The Rest of Your Life" is a very new set of dramas, almost no old drama bones to press the lineup, the main supporting roles, except for the Lin family's parents, are almost all newcomer actors.
For example, Lin Zhixue's girlfriend Sansan, dare to love and dare to hate, an important promoter behind Lin Zhixue's love, played by Li Muchen, representing the role is Shen Yinlan in "Si Teng".
Not like? Looking at the shape, it is the pleasing three-three, in the play, she and the mercurial, cynical rich second generation Gu Xiao, should also have a relationship line.
Gu Wei has a colleague in the hospital, Gao Huan, the daughter of the vice president, excellent, calm, intelligent and capable, Gu Wei's best partner.
The actor is Ma Yujie, who played Ma Wen in "Icebreaker Action", from a sassy female policewoman to a cold female doctor, with proper acting skills.
This character who likes Gu Wei is also the biggest obstacle on the road of Lin Zhixue's pursuit of love.
Looks like a lot of side lines? But one of the characteristics of "The Rest of Life" is that, although the male and female protagonists have their own emotional lines, but there is no polyamorous sadomasochism common in domestic love dramas, on the contrary, the story always focuses on the love of the male and female protagonists, compared to the polyamorous love, the family and dreams, pain and choices are the biggest challenges on the road of male and female protagonist love.
When the slight sweetness is sealed, it begins to bubble, ferment, and steam a hint of sourness, that is the love in life.
And the key to the male and female protagonists to impress the audience is not in the strange feelings, but in the daily life.
3. Sweet pet: the self-cultivation of a sweet drama
Director Lü Ying's best work before the word of mouth is Bai Yu's "Suddenly This Summer", a love drama with a score of more than 8 points.
From that play, you can probably guess the overall style of this play.
There is love, and there is reality.
But love is not like that. I understand the reason, but many things in the rest of my life, only after experiencing it personally, I know how difficult it is to make a choice.
Regret is the background of life.
If only it had been a confession at the time; if it had been a good idea to have put the misunderstanding apart... But it is also a pity to make love so precious-
Because the more fate wants to break the, the more it needs the of love;
The more fate tosses, the more eager it is to love and be loved.
From the time the story of "The Rest of Life" is set in a hospital, it is difficult to bypass the loss of life.
But the good thing is that —
The reason why the original work is moving is that it does not use the fictional dog blood to amplify your regrets, on the contrary, it does not force you to cry, does not force you to abuse, only lets you chew quietly and repeatedly, and experience the return of life.
This is also the most anticipated place for "The Rest of Your Life".
As a romantic idol sweet drama, the target audience of the series is very clear - the original fans, male and female main fans, female audiences, the story bypasses the ancient idol drama "car accident, terminal illness, incurable" and other nine curves and eighteen bends, but not directly sprinkle sugar on the audience is enough, but to create a sweet dream for the audience.
Whether this dream is sweet or not is the key to determining the failure of the drama.
The self-cultivation of a sweet drama lies in its ability to withstand the delicate tasting. It is to help us recall the innocent romance that we have forgotten for a long time.
This is actually more precious than the love story itself.
Although "The Rest of Life" faces the competition of "With Jun" and "Heart Residence", the audience does not completely coincide, even if it is partially overlapping, the superimposed broadcast can still produce a hit, and the real key lies in itself.
High-heat idol sweet dramas, on the one hand, are easy to rush out of high heat, and the episodes that reach the top overnight will be a high-probability event, but it is also easy to appear the reaction of ordinary audiences.
In the end, whether you can seize this opportunity depends on "The Rest of Your Life" itself.
In the final analysis, the fate of any blockbuster predetermined is like a love unknown to the audience, facing an unknown chaotic future.
Sweet, painful, depressed.
Sit down. Put in the story and believe in fairy tales.
Like a detail of the trailer, Gu Wei asked: "How much does one plus one equal?" In the original work, Lin Zhixue honestly replied, "two"...
In the play, Yang Zi is serious and determined: "Three! ”
What makes two into three? "The Rest of Your Life", please advise.