[Flipped to a manuscript that I wrote half of when I chased "Ace Troops" a few months ago, and after thinking about it, I sorted it out]
I have not seen a work with expressive desire like "Ace Troops" for a long time, which is rare in today's limited film and television works.
The final presentation result is not so good, but it is rare to maintain the desire to express, and if the creator has the desire to express, the audience will have the desire to express.
And I've always wanted to have more female expressors in every field.
The director of "Ace Troops" is a man and a woman, but the female director Liu Yan, who participated in the screenwriting, has a particularly strong style.
The general drama is mainly to tell the story itself, but she likes to output ideas through the story, so the details and lines are particularly wonderful, but because the storyline is too thin to bear this depth, the overall presentation will look a little awkward, and the emotional drama is often complained about.
Many people think that because "Ace Troops" has a lot of emotional dramas, they think that it is a military idol drama, but it is not.
Idol dramas do not think so much, most of the protagonists in idol dramas strive for perfection, and the love in idol dramas is mostly romantic and ends from one to the end, but the protagonists in Liu Yan's works will be very real and uncertain, even half-hearted, especially women.
Why are female characters of female directors not pleasing?
It is because we are too accustomed to the male gaze, always with the thinking of male rights, to examine the feminist color of them.
We are accustomed to respectful and obedient women, and we find those who dare to be selfish very unlovable.
Liu Yan also had a director and screenwriter drama before, 2003's "Homecoming Like a Rainbow", is a military drama with the return of Hong Kong in 97 as the background, whether it is a story or a line is permeated with the screenwriter's thinking, as well as strong emotions, many philosophies and verses are handy, and even some lines themselves are poetry, and the quality of the screenwriter is difficult for most domestic drama screenwriters today.
After watching this drama, you will know that many of the ideas of "Ace Troops" are in line with it, and even the advantages and disadvantages of the distinctive style are also in line.
In the play, He Zhiyuan, a soldier played by Wang Xuexi, and his wife Nan zhen, the story is the same as that of Jiang Nanzheng's parents in "Ace Troops".
He Zhiyuan, the "godfather of the army", is an impeccable and excellent soldier, but Nan Zhen has to cooperate with his work transfer, take care of the image of the family of the officer stationed in Hong Kong, and take care of the deaf and mute daughter... As a result, her work could not be done, He Zhiyuan asked Nanzhen to take her daughter at home, Nanzhen was unwilling, after a series of frictions, she finally filed for divorce.
Everyone in the barrage was scolding Nanzhen for being selfish and ignorant.
In the eyes of the audience, the military sister-in-law should know the general body and silently be the woman behind the military.
There are countless such great and selfless military sisters-in-law, and Nanzhen was also one of them, she once had a child and took care of her in-laws alone.
She has always loved He Zhiyuan deeply and understands his contribution to the country, but those honors and pride are too abstract, and she wants to have a realistic and complete life: to have her own job, to have a lover who accompanies each other.
As for the heroine Lin Jiayi played by Li Ruotong, it is even less pleasing, as a Hong Kong female journalist who combines beauty and talent, she can go on a rampage for what she believes in, she could have lived happily with her handsome and obsessive rich second-generation boyfriend, but she escaped at the engagement party in order to work, and even "watery Yang Hua" fell in love with Shi Tao, a hong Kong-based officer she wanted to interview.
The field of film and television works has always been male creators, especially military dramas, everyone is accustomed to singing the praises of men paying outside, women silently sacrificing behind their backs, making people feel that all this is justified, and also allowing more women to be proud of silently sacrificing behind men's backs.
But someone still has to tell them that women are not born to sacrifice for men, women can be selfish, and maybe even the other way around, they should also let men sacrifice for women.
Women don't have to be always docile, and from start to finish, women can be aggressive and fickle.
In addition to "Returning to the Rainbow", Liu Yan also filmed a military drama "Bing Feng", the screenwriter is not her, but in her military drama, "military sister-in-law" always has a strong sense of existence.
Back to "Ace Troops", the heroine Jiang Nanzheng is actually more and more regressive, I have written it before and will not repeat it, today I mainly want to write about the military sister-in-law Ah Xiu in this drama.
This role is more controversial, a large part of the reason is that the character is inconsistent, when she appeared, she was obviously very good, very knowledgeable, willing to stand behind Zhang Fei to take care of his family for him, so that he had no worries, but later, she herself seemed to have become Gu Yiye's worries.
Once, she was the one who sacrificed for the man, but later, it seemed that it was more the man who sacrificed for her.
Many people say that Gu Yiye can obviously marry a better partner and have a better life, but now he offers to be with her because of guilt and responsibility, why doesn't she refuse? Isn't she supposed to be very selfless and sensible?
Obviously, she is not worthy of Gu Yiye, this marriage, she climbed high.
Therefore, although she wholeheartedly cared for Gu Yiye after marriage and took care of him like a son, some people still felt that Gu Yiye was unhappy.
But what about comparing Zhao Hongying and Qin Hanyong?
Whether it is from the cultural level or family conditions, Qin Hanyong is not worthy of Zhao Hongying, but everyone thinks that they are quite cute together.
When the two had not yet established a relationship, Qin Hanyong knew from Song Jianshe that Zhao Hongying's family lineage was not ordinary, and he also knew that Lu Pingfan, who was better than himself, was chasing Zhao Hongying.
"I don't deserve her, she deserves better."
Would Qin Hanyong think like this, and then reject Zhao Hongying because of this?
No, he definitely wanted to be with Zhao Hongying more.
Zhao Hongying is also married, and after marriage, there have been problems because of insufficient matching, but overall she is still happy.
In reality, there are quite a few such marriages, and even there are more gaps or fewer feelings but they are also married, happy and unhappy, and the ugly ones are called "poverty alleviation".
Poverty alleviation is almost always female to male, not male to female.
Basically, women sacrifice all or part of themselves to promote men, and everyone has become accustomed to women giving fuel to men.
But why can't it be the other way around, why can't it be men who sacrifice themselves to promote women?
Gu Yiye came to Ah Xiu in this way.
But in marriage, men can always sacrifice less than women, women help the poor, there are many times with each other to sink together, men to help the poor, with each other to rise together is much easier.
If Gu Yiye did not take the initiative to take responsibility, I believe that Ah Xiu would not pestering him, but now it is Gu Yiye who takes the initiative to marry her.
If you are Ah Xiu, can you refuse Gu Yine?
Substitute it, I wouldn't refuse anyway.
Most of the audience is standing on the position of Gu Yiye, standing on the position of the male protagonist, and does not like Ah Xiu, who has not implemented the sacrifice of himself to the end.
But if you stand in Ah Xiu's shoes...
She just made a choice that most people would make.
If there is a chance, the vast majority of women will become Ah Xiu, or the female version of Qin Hanyong, but everyone has no chance, there are very few male versions of Zhao Hongying in this world, and Gu Yiye only exists in TV series.
On the issue of love and marriage, Gu Yiye's choice, no matter from which point of view, is a symbolic significance, the director has the opposite meaning, let men more to assume the responsibility of publicity, let women as independent emotions, will think for themselves to react.
Women have been fooled for too long, and it is time to fool men.
Of course, director Liu Yan herself may not have thought so much when filming these scenes, she just simply shoots what she wants to shoot, just like when many straight male directors shoot things that are subconsciously patriarchal, they are not necessarily brainwashing the audience to output views, but they just naturally shoot what they think men and women should have.
However, there are too many male creators and too few female creators, and the final result is that the male gaze has become the mainstream, and everyone is always extra tolerant of men and always extra picky about women.
In fact, I didn't like the later Ah Xiu, I admit that I was also a member of the PUA of the patriarchal society since I was a child.
However, if there are more and more women who dare to "selfishly" think for themselves in this way, I may not be surprised, and even in reality, there will be more and more women who can justifiably let go of the moral sense that is too harsh for themselves and bravely "selfish".