Perhaps it is how high the expectation is disappointed, Yan Min's new variety show "New Travels" is about to end, and the Douban score has fallen to 4.9 points, becoming the lowest work in Yan Min's variety show directorial career, before his "Extreme Challenge" and "Drama New Life" and "Rap New Generation" are all word-of-mouth masterpieces with more than 9 points. "New Travels" was placed high hopes at the time of the official announcement, thinking that it is expected to become a member of this year's 9-point word-of-mouth variety show, and now the tearing of evaluation and the dismal rating have become a foregone conclusion, what happened to this variety show?
The start is unfavorable, and the ideal and reality are impacted
"New Travels" was questioned by netizens at the time of the official announcement whether there was a suspicion of imitating the Korean variety show "New Journey to the West", and with the start of the show, these doubts were self-defeating, and the form of "New Travels" itself was not related to "New Journey to the West". The program invited six guests, including Zhang Ruoyun, Huang Zitao, and Lin Xinxin, to experience life, modeled on the setting of "Journey to the West" tang monks and apprentices who went through 9981 difficulties, so that the six guests could experience the hardships of ordinary people's lives and obtain the true scriptures of ordinary life.
This variety show is very "Yan Min style" from the content point of view, even if it is a variety show that entertains the public, it also tries to inspire the audience to think, care for the philosophy of life, the deeper things in the philosophy of life, this form has been tried before "Extreme Challenge", and has received good feedback, and has also become the highlight of Yan Min's difference from other variety directors, and in "New Travels", how can it not work?
If you look at the ideal results, "New Travels" should be a variety show that shows the faces of all sentient beings and excavates the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy in the lives of ordinary people. But unfortunately, the performance of the sentient beings is superficial, the lives of ordinary people have become the show of guests, and it is difficult for the audience to feel how the lives of the ordinary guests who shine in all walks of life are, but can only see the distance between the guests as stars and the lives of ordinary people and the incomprehension between each other.
The most out-of-the-loop episode of this variety show is the second episode, which has sparked a lot of discussion in social media. In this episode, Huang Zitao discussed the choice of work with a Daily Junction worker, Huang Zitao thought that he must find something he liked, and as long as he liked it, he would have the meaning of sticking to it, but the Day Junction worker thought that it didn't matter whether he liked it or not, and there were not so many choices for life. This clip has triggered a lot of negative discussions on multiple social platforms, and some film and television self-media have launched a fierce attack on this clip with the evaluation of "levitating ugly, hypocritical and arrogant". A large wave of self-media flocked to the scene, and the criticism of this clip continued. The audience's emotions are constantly pulled, to a large extent, it has also had an impact on the subsequent development of this variety show, although it still maintains a relatively high discussion and viewing popularity, but the word of mouth has never come up.
Not a success, but not a failure
Judging from the final rating, this variety show is undoubtedly a dismal ending, but the experimental and experimental attempts of the program itself are not worthy of recognition. In the past, celebrity experience life variety shows are generally based on entertainment as the ultimate orientation, through the lens of variety shows to build a virtual, ideal life world, the life experience of stars is "hypothetical", the audience will not believe it when watching, but only as a pastime entertainment product, as a daily life adjustment, such as a variety of rural life experience of slow variety shows, generally such a routine.
"New Travels" tries to get rid of the model of celebrity experience life from the "assumption" and shoot in a manner similar to a documentary observation film, which is a rather bold attempt, and the camera does not shy away from showing the differences in life and life thinking between high-income stars and low-income japanese workers, and also fully shows the dazedness and foreignness of stars in the face of their unfamiliar work scenes.
Although "New Travels" is still insufficient in the final presentation, it can be seen that the director is trying to break the attributes of variety shows that are only a laugh, trying to upgrade them into a cultural product that can arouse people's thinking, perhaps to upgrade the ideology and culture of variety shows, and the small stories that care for ordinary people will be more empathetic than a grand theme.
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Shen Zhao
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