Parents are short, and sure enough, the ratings are king fried.
From "Snail Residence" 12 years ago to "Heart Residence" 12 years later, it is still a double harvest of word of mouth and ratings.
Teng Huatao + Haiqing, a combination of Chinese opera kings, plus nursery rhymes, Zhang Songwen, and Feng Shaofeng.
The focus is still on the house, but from the material level of the house, more to the atrium of the small people in the city, it is not easy to live, and it is more difficult to live in the heart.
This lineup, this theme, plus Teng Huatao, who never loses his hand in the type of life, Zhejiang and Oriental Tv are simulcast, and the bet is Wang Fang.
As it turned out, they won again. After the two major TV shots, they worked together to win the top two of the satellite TV drama ratings, and the Douban comment area was praising it for being grounded, and the full acting skills were online.
The public's life drama + good reputation, follow-up ratings are likely to continue to rise.
What's so good about this March finale? 12 years after "Snail Residence", is Teng Huatao's presentation of reality and the lives of ordinary people still so accurate? In the field of life drama, can Chinese drama still produce a real classic?
Success or failure may still be those two words - heart, dwelling.
1. After the two major visions, an epic sister-in-law acting battle
"Heart Residence" is still the story of buying a house, but behind the house is the home, and this time the plot mainly revolves around a pair of sisters-in-law of a large Shanghai family.
The story begins on a morning in the local Gu family in Shanghai, where three generations of grandchildren gather together to enjoy themselves, but the reality is an undercurrent.
Why?
Mrs. Gu gave birth to three brothers and sisters, and the second Gu Shihong gave birth to a pair of twin siblings Gu Qingyu and Gu Lei, both of whom were heterogeneous twins, and their appearance, IQ and achievements were not in the same order of magnitude.
In the original work, Gu Qingyu was described as follows, "Graduated from a famous university, 36-year-old executives of multinational companies, talented and complete, what to have." ”
In the play, she just won a big order, is the object of discussion behind the back of the colleague, a big order of seven or eight hundred million commission of 1%, chasing her soil is also a huge wealth, she has not been married, because there has always been a white moonlight in her heart - primary school classmate Shi Yuan.
Gu Lei wanted nothing, but married Feng Xiaoqin, a shrewd and capable daughter-in-law from abroad.
Feng Xiaoqin gave birth to a son for Gu Lei, a little tiger, acting as a nanny for the family, the whole family is sleeping, she has to go out to buy vegetables and make breakfast, of course, she wants to have a house of her own, rather than sending people under the fence and watching people's faces.
These two heroines are a contrast group, different living classes, a high salary, a full-time mother; different regions, a local, a foreign daughter-in-law. The two look polite, but in fact, they don't like each other, as long as a fuse is enough to detonate.
The fuse is to borrow money to buy a house.
At the beginning of the story, Haiqing's character asks her husband to recite her lines, take the opportunity of Gu Qingyu's birthday family banquet, and borrow one million to buy a school district house.
One wants to borrow money, one would rather say that he wants to get married and buy a 2000 Marriott mansion in order not to borrow money, and a big acting drama after the scene is about to start——
Round 1: Masquerade sister-in-law.
At the beginning of the family banquet, Feng Xiaoqin paved the way for borrowing money to buy a house, buying a logo modeled on the scarf that Gu Qingyu woven by himself, this detail ordinary people will empathize when they see it, and even what we will do.
Tong Yao performed the kind of emotions that were dismissive but polite on the surface, but the next scene was still very embarrassing, that is, Gu Qingyu sent Gu Lei a genuine lv scarf.
This kind of embarrassing audience is more empathetic, and many of the sister-in-law relationships in reality are such a "surface light".
Who doesn't want to be Gu Qingyu, but in reality, most people are Feng Xiaoqin, who has no money and wants to make scenes.
The foreplay was smashed, but the play should still be performed, Haiqing had a look in his eyes, and Gu Lei, who had a constipated expression, had no choice but to open his mouth.
Round 2: Open Gun Dark Arrow.
Gu Lei had a hard time saying the dialogue he had been reciting for half a day, and Feng Xiaoqin peeked at Gu Qingyu with hope.
But Gu Qingyu is a person who is accustomed to big scenes, and there are many hand-tearing wars in the workplace, and this kind of sneak attack is effortless to deal with, and he doesn't want to reply without thinking - "Borrowing money is not impossible, but it happens that I also want to buy a house."
Or – the 2000 Marriott House.
The charity father heard it and called out directly - ah, gold-encrusted!
In order to enhance Gu Qingyu's persuasiveness, a bigger trick was also released - for marriage.
This section of Haiqing Tong Yao's acting skills are very online, it can be seen that the two actresses are also holding their feet and do not want to lose their acting skills to each other, although the tone of both of them is calm and quiet, but the audience with life experience can feel the tense atmosphere of the role spy war film, a family banquet, eating out the general feeling of wit and courage of the Hongmen banquet.
The money was not borrowed, and Haiqing looked ordinary on the surface, but in fact, the whole person was lost.
The soldiers will come to block, the water will come to cover up is not counted, Gu Qingyu once he finished eating, can't wait to hold a family meeting, over there Haiqing is still washing dishes, here Gu Qingyu has questioned the purpose of his sister-in-law marrying into the Gu family is not pure, but also in front of Gu Lei's face to tell people to be kind and soft father not to borrow money.
Feng Xiaoqin heard clearly outside the door.
The scene is so real that it suffocates the audience. Chinese-style family relations are such a dark knife poking people.
Round 3: Sister-in-law Dark War.
It has been embarrassed into this, Haiqing's sister-in-law also has to personally send Tong Yao's role downstairs for several weeks, the two people talk freely on the street, Tong Yao is a strong exaggeration of Haiqing on the surface, but with obvious subtext, full of dark war dialogue, plus the two actors with a sense of the eyes and tone, the implications are out.
What about one side of the face? Instantly change face.
A family banquet, although the family maintains a superficial harmony, the whole scene is very pyrotechnic, but the back has long been dark fire burning, behind which is obviously the daily life and life of the Chinese family helpless.
Teng Huatao is worthy of the king of domestic urban life dramas, easily filming the dirty between the family, vividly presenting the subtlety of getting along between the family, many families are this fake smile for decades to maintain.
A scene that leads to the core contradictions of the series, shapes the characters, portrays the family relationship, and lays the groundwork for the future story. That's wonderful.
When Gu Lei was alive, the contradictions between his sister-in-law were still somewhat reconciling, but when Gu Lei died unexpectedly, the volcano between the two of them naturally completely erupted. As Gu Qingyu said in the trailer: "The big aunt gossips about the younger siblings, which is the standard action." ”
The series reflects a series of realistic topics, but the roots are still traditional Chinese family relationships, and with this layer, the story is thick.
Teng Huatao remade a life drama, or the inner taste of "Snail Residence" that year
Watching Teng Huatao shoot such a subject, you can also feel his ease of playing across the screen. As soon as you start, you quickly construct the character characteristics, quickly throw out the core conflict of the play, and the reality is also there.
Of course, some people may have to question: why is life so bloody and so anxious?
In fact, it is quite the opposite. Life is the way it is.
"Heart Residence" should do what domestic life dramas dare not do - that is, to shoot a mirror image of the family, and every audience can see themselves from it.
One of the major characteristics of Teng Huatao's drama is that the character shaping is powerful.
Some people questioned that Tong Yao's sister-in-law playing Haiqing was not right and should fall over.
But the casting is the best part of the whole drama, and it really falls over to this drama to fail.
In the play, Haiqing is almost a plain face performance, the role is busy from morning to night, and Gu Qingyu, played by Tong Yao, is a senior white-collar worker in the workplace, and getting up early in the morning is Pilates.
Isn't it right that Gu Qingyu is young?
The screenwriter also specially put a line in the family banquet, so that Tong Yao said to Haiqing, "Obviously older than me, I call my sister", which is a very wonderful stroke.
Teng Huatao is looking for actors who have a certain appeal and can play this time, and the role modeling is complex and real, without any face.
Haiqing's Shanghai daughter-in-law, after buying vegetables in the morning, returned home, her husband asked her where her clothes were placed, her son asked her where her school bag was, the medicine that her in-laws took wanted her to match, she complained that her husband's dialogue was also very wonderful, "the head is on the neck, whether there is a brain I don't know", from the performance to the dialogue, the whole scene is very lifelike, the audience is substituted by minutes - ordinary people live like this every minute to run up!
Haiqing's role is nominally the daughter-in-law of the Gu family, but no matter how you look at it, she is just the nanny of this family, and the Gu family holds a family meeting, and she can only eavesdrop on her ear.
But looking for Haiqing to play, this role is by no means the lord who swallows his voice, usually and angry to coax a good family is to buy a house to borrow money to open his mouth, really want to quarrel she alone can fight a Gu family + three sisters and six wives.
Later, the Gu family's family meeting said that she heard her bad words, Haiqing er did not say anything to tidy up the luggage and left, the Gu family was suddenly in a mess, Gu Lei pulled directly from the corridor fell down.
Chasing the drama can feel that Haiqing has stood for so many years for a reason, especially the life drama, she can always quickly enter the drama as soon as she appears, and many viewers are pulled into the pit by her role.
The lines in the actress are so dense, the mouth is so broken, but each dialogue is relaxed, the eyes of each action are extremely accurate, and it is difficult to find the second one.
After a quarrel scene, the characters are more flesh and blood. Depressing and real.
Tong Yao's role has also subverted the image of the sister-in-law in previous domestic life dramas.
Although she plays a female elite in the workplace, although on the surface she is still a successful female executive, Tong Yao is an actress who is very good at acting with micro-expressions.
In the first episode, there was a scene where a jealous female colleague spat on her in the bathroom, and after a group of gossip girls left, she came out of the cubicle, smiled slightly, washed her hands and waved her hands, and the emotions of contempt and self-satisfaction came out, and the character also took the ground.
This character seems to live a dashing life, but in fact, there are huge regrets, she is not married at the age of 36, not to pin her hopes on men, but in the white moonlight that said that she wants to return to Shanghai, and she did not expect to meet Shi Yuan, who has been worn away by the years and made money everywhere.
Her dreamy love was doomed to fail.
Watching the story development Gu Lei downline is within the first five episodes, this is definitely the opportunity for the relationship between the two women to deteriorate, the mask that was worn before is all torn off, and the classic battle scene is inevitable.
But these two women seem to be incompatible, in fact, aside from the situation, birth, in essence, a kind of person, strong, independent, on their own, they are destined to reconcile, but not now, but the finale of the whole drama.
Zhang Songwen's upstart Zhan Xiang is also very interesting.
In the past, Zhang Songwen's circle was the famous scene of "The Hidden Corner" eating wontons and eating tears, but this time this role is the most relaxed in the whole play.
Gu Qingyu's girlfriend once commented on Zhan Xiang, "White swans may become old hens, and toads can also grow into Zhan Xiang." ”
Gu Qingyu complained that he was also very desperate, "What serious books can there be in bookstores opened by upstarts?" ”
But this role is actually the bottom of everyone, the more to the back, the more important his role, the character will be precipitated in the later stage, the current exaggeration is to pave the way for the later changes, I believe That Zhang Songwen's good play is in the back.
Feng Shaofeng's Shi Yuan does not play much at present, but Feng Shaofeng's grasp of the role is also very accurate, that is, the inner tension, Tong Yao's character loves him, but he is very painful for his situation without a car and no house, and he can't relax for half a second.
However, to say that the best role played in the first three episodes should be what everyone did not expect - Gu Lei.
In the original work, Gu Lei was disabled, his legs were a little lame, and this design was erased in the play, but the role was still very frustrated, he was not capable of being motivated, he could not secretly watch movies, and the number of daughters-in-law in the family was not stingy.
But he also has a cute side, on the way to work with his daughter-in-law's small note back all the way, there is a kind of cuteness.
His rivalry with Haiqing is also very vivid and natural, no less than Huang Lei, which is simply the sense of vision of the old husband and wife.
The drama of being intimidated by his wife every day is angry and funny.
This contradictory, screwed image can also represent the ma bao man in reality. They are not bad people, but putting them in life can make you take off in the same place.
Everyone in the play is not perfect, and there are their own shining points. It is this kind of real and deep character that makes it easier for the audience to empathize.
A group of actors don't have to dub their lines, and they don't have eye drops to shed tears.
Even the image of each supporting role is very three-dimensional, not a flat existence, but a flesh-and-blood character that is close to real life and can resonate with the audience.
Watch these good actors play in the same frame. Just one: peace of mind!
3. Can the domestic drama of "having a home in the heart" still produce a classic?
The biggest problem with domestic life dramas in recent years is that they are not grounded, but watching Teng Huatao's dramas will never have to worry about this problem.
More than a decade ago, his "Snail House" and "Wang Gui and Anna", the former broke the ratings record in four days of broadcasting, and the latter became the highest-rated TV series on Beijing Satellite TV that year, with a single episode setting a record of 10.95%, which is definitely not accidental.
The original work of "Heart Residence" is a short family ethics novel about parents, which has a serious literary style, such as the contrast between the fates of Zhan Xiang and Shi Yuan: the loss of stock speculation has become a habitual offender who makes money by fake marriage, and the person who borrows money to buy a house has made a fortune.
After the adaptation, Teng Huatao's own theme was added: the same concern for the house and the sophistication of the Chinese family.
The series has a lot more film and television design than the original, but it does not take off the sense of life of the original, and the suffocating daily life taken from life is enough to make the audience happy and cry: the screenwriter of this drama is living a life at a glance.
The director also considered the acceptance of many non-Beijing and Shanghai audiences very intimately, setting the school district house that Feng Xiaoqin was thinking of at "more than 2 million", plus savings as long as he borrowed 1 million to buy the school district house in Shanghai's inner ring, which was impossible in reality. The director obviously knew, but still did so, so that more audiences would not be able to sleep.
Although there is deliberate distortion in the details, the whole story is very real.
The audience saw that Feng Xiaoqin was frustrated by buying a house, and in front of her husband's eldest sister-in-law, father-in-law, aunt and aunt, she couldn't help but applaud, on the one hand, Haiqing's acting skills had nothing to say, on the other hand, it was also substituted: how is it wrong for a foreign daughter-in-law to want to buy a house for herself and her son!
This process contributes strong dramatic tension, but it does not appear to be dog blood.
Because with the advancement of the contradiction, we see not only a Haiqing who wants to buy a house, but also a big family facing the bondage of buying a house.
The strong breath of life makes the plot shine into the reality we are in.
People's joys and sorrows are not the same, but the anxiety points are surprisingly consistent.
Although the domestic life dramas in the past two years have scrambled to find topics in the hot search for workplace PUA, fertility dilemmas, and chicken dolls, the protagonists are very anxious on the surface, but the audience often sees that the husband and wife are both unemployed and can afford to support thousands of Marriott houses and college children, and have nothing to do with a good day of self-driving travel.
Life dramas are spat on middle-aged idol dramas for a reason.
What is even more frightening is that when the main creator exported this set of national drama life drama explosive formulas, the so-called realism actually distorted the normal understanding of the people at the bottom.
And "Heart Residence" is good in that the real sense of life has achieved a strong pyrotechnic atmosphere in the play.
The protagonists' life situations are as vivid as copying and pasting from our side. Each character can find a considerable number of archetypes in ordinary people in real society.
In addition to the realism of the characters and stories, what makes the audience feel more empathy is the realism of trying to fight against fate.
In "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", Zhang Damin has never bought a good house in his life, but he has left a simple wisdom of life: "No one shoots you, you live, live well." ”
To be alive is to find the questions and answers of ordinary people for a lifetime.
It is hard to imagine that this kind of life drama that focuses on the sadness and joy of small people has disappeared for so many years, the picture is getting brighter and brighter, the protagonist is becoming more and more eye-catching, but the taste of life is gone.
"Heart Residence" is not perfect, but it has somehow lost the sense of life.
Some Douban netizens said: After so many years of "Snail Residence", has Teng Huatao's level improved?
This means that Teng Huatao's level is still in that year. I thought to myself, what other good thing is there?
In the past two years, there has been a lot of discussion about domestic life dramas.
Actors want to receive roles that are not routine. Audiences also want to see more real real life.
Not a middle-aged idol drama, but a "win-win" between the actors and the audience.
Watching "Heart House" now does not waste the acting skills of good actors. Their rich life experience makes the characters more real and credible.
From "Snail Residence" to "Heart Residence", from buying a house to the place where the heart belongs, what remains unchanged is the real ordinary people who are busy up and down in the national drama.
Only then did ordinary people see the fireworks full of fireworks.
There is a wonderful sentence in the TV series poster: "Life is like this, everyone is living hard and tirelessly".
And all good life dramas are actually just repeated to confirm the old saying: art comes from life and is higher than life.
From "Snail Residence" to "Heart Residence", it is still not easy for Haiqing to buy a house in the play, just like the life of ordinary people in reality, but why do we need a life drama?
Because there is the true face of life hidden in it. It also makes us rethink the true meaning of life.
It is because we are all Feng Xiaoqin, who can't afford to buy a house and has to work hard to live, longing to have the only heroism in the world - "After seeing the truth of life, still love life." ”