I, a persistent domestic urban light comedy part-time field drama complainer, actually watched a domestic drama that has both of the above, and got on top - "Please Call Me Director".
After all, Lin Xin, who had a taste of northeast scum, spat out such a giggling line: "I gave you such a good treatment, I can let you go to my house, that is the trust I gave you that others do not have, you should be touched and honored." ”
Such a giggling plot: "Said that the three-year appointment to transfer the project department, the result of three years and three years later, before there was no choice, now Ning Meng to be an investor!" Then the camera turned, a dream.
Such a difficult to say Su Daqiang type overlord.
I must have refused. After all, who has not been pit by domestic urban comedy, let's say that Lin updated the last urban love drama, that is also speechless enough.
You think I'm going to be fooled? But when the suspended plot of domestic urban dramas increasingly breaks through the bottom line of the audience's patience, when the audience has had enough of the brainless industrial saccharin, the woman who saved the urban light comedy, she appeared -
Because of her, "Please Call Me Director" has achieved this magical effect: it not only presents the light humor that urban light comedy should have, but also jumps out of the perspective of the worker, allowing the audience to substitute for their own workplace experience.
Well, Tan Songyun, I sure didn't read you wrong.
"Please call me director" has been caught in the storm of public opinion due to the change of file, and it is a good thing to urgently change the file to broadcast on the star, but because of the collision with another platform drama "The Gate of Rebirth" after the change, the final platform broadcast "The Gate of Rebirth" two days in advance, which triggered the malice of individual fans of the show, but from the results, the two dramas are very happy.
Facts have proved that as long as the quality of the episode is hard enough in advance and does not have much impact in advance, "The Gate of Rebirth" will still be killed on the hot search on the day of broadcasting, and the next day it should explode or explode, and fans really do not need to anger other dramas because of the decision of the platform.
On April 29, "Please Call Me Director" only broadcast one episode, which slightly increased the ratings of Oriental Satellite TV, and the Douban comment area also had no shortage of high praise and five-star praise. The popularity of the whole network also rushed into the top five.
Domestic workplace light comedy, really turned over in one fell swoop? Don't rush to conclusions. But the drama that was originally not optimistic, but after the broadcast, let the audience call out "true incense", this one, has to be counted!
1, chasing two episodes in a row, laughing to the head, Tan Songyun's acting skills can indeed turn decay into magic
The initial plot of this drama makes all the former secondary two Mary Sue girls feel inspired: the female protagonist's ace secretary Ning Meng and the male protagonist's domineering president fall in love and kill each other, and finally the president cannot do without the little secretary's joyful enemy + overbearing president story.
After watching the first two episodes, many viewers will think that the plot is a copy of "Why Is Secretary Jin Like That", and the fans of the veteran Chinese puppet drama will feel a bit like Zhao Liying's "Shanshan is Coming".
In fact, the series is adapted from Hongjiu's 2017 novel of the same name serialized in Jinjiang, the novel time predates the Korean drama, and is positioned as a workplace inspirational light comedy.
In the next plot, Ning Meng, who has always dreamed of becoming the heroine of the investor, will leave the male company, join other companies and restart the workplace struggle, and eventually strive to become an investment director.
Probably because the director is a woman, this drama is not a Mary Sue sweet drama that relies on the male protagonist to reach the peak of life.
Viewers who think that the show is a typical assembly line operation mode can continue to look down and then draw conclusions.
If there is one sentence to describe the beginning of the show, it is "funny and depressed".
The reason why it is depressing is because the characters in the play are too real. The female protagonist is "spoiled" by the male protagonist, and she is also a social animal squeezed by the work, and her life is not smooth everywhere.
The first scene in the opening chapter gives people a strong sense of substitution.
At the beginning, It is Lu Jieming, played by Lin Xinxin, who is an elite style, and the firepower is fully opened under the office training department, after all, the original is 17 years old, and this setting is somewhat old.
But Lin Updater came to act, and brought a new feeling. The boss is crazy about the business that his subordinates have lost, the subordinates are panicked, how can there be a boss who scolds people and takes a bite of the northeast flavor, it's funny, but I have to endure.
Explain to him that he didn't listen, and said okay, or you will sit in my place!
Under the fire, it seems that the heroine can only be expected to come to the fire.
Then the heroine appeared on the scene under the hope of a whole company executive, moving around in the scene full of gunpowder, facing the boss's request to come up and ask for tea and ice and milk——
Wittily brewed coffee to heat and add sugar, and sure enough, Lin Xinxin found an excuse to say when he drank, "Who said I want to drink tea, I want to drink coffee." ”
The heroine said, "This is the coffee boss, the taste you love, everything has not changed."
The bully always found an excuse to lose his momentum and weakened, and the high-level people who were scolded: Eh?
Less than 10 minutes after the opening, the relationship between a resourceful and flexible heroine in the workplace, the arrogant and vicious president and the clever little secretary is clearly explained.
Another advantage of the opening is that it avoids the excessive filter and nothingness of most failed domestic urban dramas, and some complaining viewers say that there are two acne on the ugly face of the heroine, but the domestic drama that allows the audience to see the flaws on the heroine's face under the close-up lens is worth cherishing.
This opening is not in vain, and the plot of the follow-up male protagonist's scolding will also unfold.
The most crucial thing is Tan Songyun's performance, which fully shows how a workplace social animal is witty and just right. The opening of this year does not make the audience feel that the heroine of the domestic urban drama who has a nasty personality or opens a plug-in is too precious.
Secondary two, funny, and only a small part of "Please Call Me Director". Its creative intention is actually to paint a vivid and interesting picture of the workplace for the audience.
The plot does not focus on the love of the male and female protagonists who can sing and cry, but: the heroine's three-year secretary survived, can she get rid of the overlord and live out her own will?
The "overbearing ×× fall in love with me" routine has many bridges that force real love. It is true that the female protagonist of this drama encountered the male protagonist's workplace PUA at the beginning, but she did not silently accept the PUA and then fall in love with the bully as the audience imagined, on the contrary, she was very rigid.
When she was a secretary, she started work in the company during the day, worked as a nanny for Lu Zong, was on standby 24 hours a day, and wrote Lu Zong's instructions on a wall: eight precautions for dry cleaning, thirteen precautions for making coffee, twenty-one precautions for eating habits, thirty-eight precautions for business trips...
When the little secretary and the overlord's opponent play each other, it is really joyful and very cool and with a hint of sweetness, Tan Songyun's performance of this kind of play is simply easy, so that the audience habitually substitutes in, thinking that the little secretary will obey.
But the heroine endured for so long, because there was a word first, said that after three years to transfer her to do investment, the result of three years after the supervisor to give her a long-term consideration, the boss is personally invited the little secretary to eat a romantic dinner, but also sent a brand-name bag, and then said that he hoped that the other party would not have delusions about himself, which doubled the amusing degree of Bai from Lin Xin's mouth.
But this drama is good that the heroine does not eat your workplace PUA at all, from the follow-up plot to see that the heroine first transferred internally, and then found that the high-level dug up their own corner and dug the company corner, telling the bully that after being intimidated, he was angry to the end of the person.
Therefore, the plot of this drama is not the Mary Sue text that the little secretary is successfully pua, but tells you: The Mary Sue story comes true, that is, the robbery.
From the opening two episodes, Tan Songyun can be said to be the soul of the whole drama, not only performing the kind, optimistic and tenacious heroine's tenacity to strive for the upstream but not humble.
And under the setting of Tan Songyun's "middle two girls try to chase their dreams", the sad past of all the social animals helplessly has become an awkward and flying laugh.
The classic dialogue of "I want to wear small shoes for me, but my little feet, I can bend and stretch" were said by Tan Songyun to be too charming.
In the past domestic urban dramas, the popular overbearing president fell in love with silly white sweet. Silly white sweet heroine often has a passion for justice, is not accustomed to someone running amok, brainlessly contradicts people, and finally wins the love of the overlord in the primary school chicken dispute, tired.
The heroine of this drama, who is aware of the boss's mind, is good at walking a tightrope in the workplace and has a meticulous IQ online, is obviously a good medicine to cure the disease that the heroine of the national drama hates.
At the end of the second episode, the heroine can't bear to take the boss home, a large-scale drama, the original plot is not very reasonable, but Tan Songyun's relaxed performance makes everything reasonable.
The emotions that go from being unrecognized to erupting are real, Tan Songyun's lines and micro-expressions are just right, and the audience can naturally truly empathize with the same person as a worker.
In contrast, Lin Xinxin plays this arrogant, naïve, grumpy + broken mouth overlord, the casting is completely correct, and the audience naturally substitutes for the role.
Although Lin Updated's lines are still weak, and even because of the skilled Northeast accent sounds a little funny, but the actor's own physique automatically integrated into the role is not too bad, it can be seen that Lin Update is not the 13th grandfather of the year, the head wrinkle is obvious, but it seems reasonable to put it on a investment company that often stays up late and works overtime and drinks excessively.
On the performance, Lin Xinxin was skilled and lacked surprises, but I laughed when I heard him say, "I like you the most and don't have any intentions for me."
Overall, Tan Songyun still supported the whole drama, and the opening of the role from the shape is not very beautiful, but the heroine can be cute and love and dare to bully the total. Cool!
2, this workplace small white counterattack drama, although the routine, but also really fragrant
In the past few years, the domestic urban workplace light comedy, why don't everyone like to watch it? Too levitating, too much to take for granted.
At every turn, the bully always fell in love with me.
"Please Call Me Director" in the plot, there is no dog blood love that catches horses.
Instead, the troubles and pains of the workplace are cleverly wrapped up with comedic elements.
So although the initial setting of the story is a bit old-fashioned, the story has gradually entered the second episode.
There are also some problems in the story, such as the heroine can enter the company of the boss, because the heroine just fired the former female secretary during the interview, and needs a secretary with english expertise to complete the English shorthand, so the heroine is easily selected.
But now only the English students who are destroyed by English every day have two opportunities to take the eighth exam, but the heroine said in the play that she is studying finance, which is definitely a detail bug.
But fortunately, the common sense errors in the play are limited, the overall is more reasonable, the presentation of the investment industry is currently flashy but not out of line, the most important thing is that there is no kind of dog blood and hand tearing, but all kinds of funny.
In fact, the opening scene is actually paving the way for workplace comedy, such as the camera highlighting the small secretary's old and broken rental house, the big president's viewing room, the small secretary's bracelet, and the big president's watch, which are all in preparation for the heroine's next workplace counterattack.
These realistic descriptions are for the drama to remove the suspension, domestic urban drama finally did not live in the seaview room every day to eat self-heating pot and bitter workplace bottom female protagonist.
Some plots look outrageous, but in fact, they are fine, such as the plot of the little secretary angry with the boss, a call of anger is not enough, but also directly sweep people out of the door, leather shoes are thrown out. Netizens asked which real hitman dared to lose his temper with the big boss so much? But the workers who have already made up their minds to resign dare.
The second episode of the plot seems to be a very neat framework, and the characters all appear to leave enough room for various changes after that.
The heroine is very brave when she appears, holding a life attitude of being sure to invest, but she has survived three years under the burden of humiliation, what will she experience after she officially opens the road of director, and how to change from a small white rabbit in the workplace to a tough investment director? It is probably the real character line of the heroine in the play.
Although it is still a very routine workplace counterattack, since this routine can achieve so many classics, it means that this type of condom is effective enough. Next, let's see how the show fills in these flesh and blood.
The dream of investment in the female protagonist's eyes that is about to overflow the screen, the male protagonist's disdain for a "silly white acid", Tan Songyun's interpretation of this role can also show how different explosive forces, it is quite expected.
I can't wait to see how the heroine can beat the face of the overlord with her ability.
3. Is this session of domestic hegemony still so pompous? But the heartache of the hit workers is really understood
So is the series a qualified workplace light comedy? I think the opening can be a passing score.
Some workplace PUA viewers are not happy to see it, but in fact, this happens to ordinary people every day. For example, Lin Xinxin's bully is very concerned about the heroine Ning Meng on the surface, but in his heart he still treats her as "pouring coffee and making a call", thinking that the heroine's payment is all very relaxed, a sense of condescension and overlook, but also reflects a workplace truth: the boss can never understand the efforts of the workers.
Another choice that makes people in the workplace empathize is the choice of workplace dreams and reality, which should be a dilemma that all social animals will face.
Even if you just want to lie flat, the experience that the heroine has experienced at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night has been lying flat and then being woken up by a phone call, and the experience of not returning to the boss's phone at three o'clock in the middle of the day, the experience of the boss getting angry, should also cause wide resonance.
However, the topic of "work will hinder the love of contemporary people" has nothing to do with the heroine, the opening heroine saw the "big day" on the calendar, I thought it was a love anniversary, the result was that the heroine did not fall in love at all, a mind to change jobs to engage in career, big day is the heroine's three-year expiration day.
This is a decent domestic workplace light comedy, love is a rare product of social animal life.
The life of a social animal is like being trapped. There is no choice to choose what job to do, and there is no choice to choose what boss is on the stall. When you meet a boss who loves to play tai chi, you don't have to choose.
This kind of life is more or less permeated by almost every worker.
Saturated work squeezes out our time. What's even more frightening is that a constant ineffective job will gradually swallow up our enthusiasm, our original dreams.
So the female protagonist will yell at the male protagonist, and I will be abolished after three years.
Urban dramas that reflect realistic issues are easily criticized for over-suspension or selling anxiety, but this drama does not blindly render bitterness while saying things. Instead, it gave this emotion an outlet.
The heroine is still struggling with fate.
Of course, in the end, the heroine realized her dream of the workplace, and this alone won over countless workers. After all, the heroine of the TV series has an aura, and ordinary people do not.
However, if you can't do it yourself, see if the heroine realizes it.
At the very least, the heroine is able to do it, so please call me director, not please give me director.
It's not about carving yourself into a standard overlord love drama template. It's about living a life that's truly true to yourself.
Can create such a heroine, such a domestic drama is at least worth chasing.
Although the plot is full of routines, but the routine is true, good-looking is also true, if the subsequent plot advancement, can be on the basis of flesh and blood on the basis of some surprises, in the daily trivialities of the heroine's workplace, dig out the real moving moments, rather than falling into the sweet pet story of the bully and the former secretary, then this drama is the real national drama surprise.