Is the ratings code for these two years "BE aesthetic"?

If you say that the keywords of the popular dramas in the first two years are the big female/male protagonist hand tearing dramas, such as "Yanxi Palace Strategy" and "Qing Yu Nian".

Then the ratings code in these two years is "BE aesthetics", and even a new term was born: BE aesthetics royal heroine.

What is BE? i.e. Bad Ending.

The film was placed in the Chinese market five or six years ago, and it is estimated that it will be diss a wave of Japanese pretense

Tragedy is like a sick beauty, sick beauty is the highest state of aesthetics, and tragedy has always been considered the highest art form.

However, the sweetest Korean drama "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" at the beginning of this year, because the finale forced BE to provoke public anger, the rating fell from 9.2 to 8 points, and the scolding was a lot.

Coincidentally, be dog blood and BE aesthetics are only separated by a line:

"Wind Rises Luoyang" BE inexplicably, making the character's sacrifice meaningless, even very embarrassing.

"Acquaintance with Junchu" is also a bee aesthetic work, 6 protagonists, no pair of successful endings.

Even the BE drama "Zhou Sheng Ru Gu", which has a good reputation in the past two years, its tragic achievements are difficult to match "Immortal Sword" and "East Palace", not to mention tragedies such as "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Daming Palace Words".

The last time we talked about the abuse of genre films, or xianxia dramas, today Uncle will talk to you:

Why are we so fascinated by the beauty of BE?

What is the beauty of the real Chinese BE?

01

Why do we think BE is beautiful

BE aesthetics have existed since ancient times, such as "Dou E'er", "White Haired Girl", "Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest", etc., but it was previously called classical tragic aesthetics.

In the same way that MBIT suddenly became popular, when an aesthetic style became a traffic password and spread widely, the first motivation was based on social attributes, that is, "I appreciate because aesthetics".

Not everyone can have an aesthetic experience of tragedy.

The aesthetic threshold of BE aesthetics is high

People who are more likely to get the profound connotation of tragic aesthetics need an ability to "feel together" in addition to having a certain artistic appreciation and aesthetic accomplishment.

This ability is very demanding on imagination, because you need to constantly mobilize your imagination to imagine the pain that the other person suffers and faces.

When the imagination echoes, accumulates, and superimposes in your own mind, until finally, the pain you feel is even heavier than he himself has endured.

This is also why girls are more likely to be saved, because women have more common feelings than men

On the contrary, those who are numb in their thinking and feel dull, those who regard truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil, and ugliness, and even the most shocking tragedies are tantamount to playing the piano to the ox.

Since the first motivation is social attributes, this also means that some of the people who hold high the BE flag are following the trend.

Or in order to show that they have a more advanced and unique aesthetic experience, or to give new words to say sad, as long as someone likes plastic BE, someone will produce plastic BE, which is a logic with the mass production of cool dramas and sugar water dramas.

The second is the driving force behind the aesthetics of BE - filling the spiritual world, which is the real reason why people are obsessed with BE.

The complexity of the beauty of BE can transform pain into pleasure

This complexity is reflected in the form, the emergence of tragic aesthetic experience, the need for a series of complex and meticulous conditions, only the story and the character to maintain coherence and integrity, the plot logic is self-consistent, will make people willing to accept BE.

The reason why some of the current BE dramas are dissed is because the plot (formally) is hard wounded, not because everyone can't appreciate the BE aesthetic.

For example, "Sansheng III", "Liu Li", "Xiangmi", etc., using misunderstandings to create a tragic plot will only make the audience anxious and eager to grow more tongues for the characters.

Or "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One", the love that was brutally killed by the director, the last episode, according to the development of the plot, the breakup of the male and female protagonists is too deliberate, and even does not give a reason for breaking up, it must be separated, so that the audience is not angry.

On the other hand, in terms of connotation, the complexity of tragic aesthetic emotions is reflected in the fact that tragic emotions are diverse, and pain and pleasure are intertwined.

Just like when we grow up, we will shed tears because of the happy memories of childhood, and the intertwining of laughter and tears is the sign of growth.

When the sense of pain and pleasure are transformed into each other, it can not only improve the aesthetic effect of tragedy, but also improve your tolerance for pain, and cherish happiness and happiness, thereby optimizing your personality.

Be of Philharmonic City tells us that when two people's dreams come true, it seems less important to discover that dreams

The beauty of BE is a process of self-discovery

In addition to the complexity of form and connotation, at the level of action, compared with other psychological phenomena such as perception and memory, tragic aesthetic psychology is a deeper and more hidden psychological phenomenon.

It not only stays at the level of emotions and emotions, but also penetrates and blends with other psychological processes (such as cognition, motivation, etc.), and even involves the subconscious level.

When we treat "The Biography of Zhen Huan" as a cool drama to fight monsters and upgrade, we will bring ourselves into the perspective of a righteous and noble protagonist, despising and scorning the villains in it.

But when we understand that this is a tragedy, we will see these villains as tragic figures, so as to pity and understand them.

Just like An Lingrong, whose reputation has reversed ten years later, everyone more or less has inferiority and sensitive emotions, and will also be full of hatred for what they have not had, but others can easily get this thing, and even hurt others.

While understanding tragic characters, we will subconsciously find a remedy for ourselves, find an outlet for our dark side, and achieve redemption.

02

Chinese-style BE

Shu believes that from the past to the present, to the future, each era has a different tragedy:

In the past, it was the tragedy of "Liang Zhu", "Dream of the Red Chamber", and "Daming Palace Words", which were feudal rituals that imprisoned individuals.

The future is a tragedy like "The Three-Body Problem" in which human beings are small and only the god of death is immortal.

We cannot compare vertically which era's tragedy is more profound, just like the tragic theme of "Ruyi Zhuan" - the siege of marriage, looking at each other and looking at each other, is still valid in modern society.

But there is only one thing that remains the same about Chinese tragedy, and that is its core:

Chinese tragic stories are usually not fierce external struggles, bloody wounds and hand-to-hand combat, nor evil dark forces, but the hidden and unspeakable struggles in a person's heart.

Xue Shao in "The Words of Daming Palace", while reading his dead wife and hating the powerful, suppressed his feelings for Taiping

Everyone's actions stem from the rationality and correctness of self-knowledge.

Then we watch him get trapped in the inner moral, ethical, political, cultural, religious, and other ideological illusions, causing the internal fracture or tearing of the body, leading to infinite pain, sadness, and despair in the heart.

The Fa Hai in "Green Snake", the tearing of morality and desire

The more we can't fight fiercely on the outside, the more we feel the tragedy of survival and development, the more we make our hearts faintly painful, and after trembling and tearful collapse in an instant, we return to the aesthetic effect of calmness, harmony and peace of mind, and great enlightenment.

This is a more straightforward ending than Western tragedies, and a more profound and far-reaching aesthetic effect.

Outgoing, tragic Western-style BE

In addition, in terms of solutions, there is a little difference between Chinese and Western BE.

I don't know if you remember the ending of "The Biography of Zhen Huan", the original novel plot is:

In order to kill the emperor, Zhen Huan said that Sister Mei and the son of Wen Taiyi (the original was a son, not a daughter) were about to inherit the unification, and the emperor's trust in Jiangshan was not a person, which was simply a billion points of harm, and there was nothing more tragic than this.

However, the plot of the TV series is changed: Zhen Huan promotes Hongli to inherit the throne, which is the realization of the unique Tao and the settlement of benevolence in the Chinese tragedy Chinese.

Because in the Chinese heart, he always retains a touch of the ideal color of a scholar and a doctor, and in the Confucian concept, he does not do anything to rob people of their inheritance.

Finally, Uncle Oxygen said a few more words.

What can we really get out of tragedy?

Shu believes that in addition to the pleasure brought by tragedy, it is mainly a growth need.

In the experience and reflection of suffering, discover the meaning of life, realize that the process of human beings and their existence is not smooth, and understand the potential of this world, and finally sublimate the understanding of themselves and the world, continue to grow, and constantly improve personality.

I also wish you all to pursue the BE aesthetics while trying your best to give your life a HE (happy ending~).