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Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

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Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?
Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Korean film and television works, which have always been famous for "daring to shoot", have been involved in many things, from the invasion of young women to the corruption of power to the solidification of classes.

In order to echo this "dare to shoot", Korean dramas have also undergone an earth-shaking reversal in terms of human settings.

Ten years ago, it was the "morally flawless little hundred flowers" that dominated the world; Ten years later, it was the evil women, the mad women, the suit thugs, and the Sven scum who were in full swing.

No matter what, the protagonist must be a little "bad" in his bones. This "bad" not only carries the complexity of the characters themselves, but also indirectly highlights their decisive "fighting" spirit.

Whether it is "Anna" starring Pei Xiuzhi or "Black Talk Lawyer" starring Lee Jong-suk, their protagonists are all leaders who are well versed in the spirit of "fighting for their lives".

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Hidden behind this dark black design is actually a sad low-level sigh, corresponding to the increasingly solidified Korean society:

Class solidification disintegrates the fairness of social distribution and deprives it of the possibility of breakthrough, if the people at the bottom do not change their ways and do not use small tricks, it will be difficult for people to achieve a class jump.

In essence, the spiritual core of these Korean dramas is still the one left by "Parasite" playing.

But the most brilliant thing about Korean dramas is that it can transform the same core into thousands of appearances, although the kernel is old, but the story is fresh, and it will not make people impatient with "new bottles of old wine".

For example, this month's most eye-catching Korean drama "Little Ladies" is a good example.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Korean adaptation, serve gas

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As the autumn seed contestant produced by tvN, the team and lineup of "Little Misses" are luxurious: there are powerful choreographers, topic actresses, and traffic supporting roles... It was born with a golden spoon.

Director Kim Hee-won, representative works include "Destiny I Love You", "Vincenzo" and so on; Screenwriter Zheng Ruijing, representative works include "Kind Gold", "Miss", "Determination to Break Up" and so on.

In terms of starring, the drama is starred by Kim Ko-yin, Nam Ji-hyun, Park Ji-ho and Wei Gaojun, all of whom are young and powerful people who have been tested by the market and have high-scoring works. Among them, Jin Gaoyin, who was on fire for starring in "Ghosts", has been steadily fighting in the selection of scripts in the past two years, and the new works are all above the standard.

In the first two episodes, the show attracted Qiu Porcelain Hyun and Song Joong Ki to surprise cameos.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Corresponding to the luxury lineup is its high reputation and high ratings. The first two episodes received good ratings (10.24%), and sat firmly in the same period of ratings; Douban opened with a score of 8.9, and the flag opened victoriously, which was very brilliant.

However, when the three or four episodes were updated the following week, the drama was controversial due to the hostess setting and the underlying portrayal, which caused the rating of the show to slip from 8.9 to 8.4.

The core of the controversy is mainly two points: one is that the hostess has set up excessive opening and hanging, either a stock speculation genius, or an art genius; Another point is that some viewers feel that the heroine does not conform to their "preset image of the poor", that their hearts are higher than the sky, and their lives are thinner than paper.

However, leaving aside these controversies, "Little Misses" still has an outstanding texture that can withstand scrutiny and scrutiny.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

The plot of "Little Misses", summed up in one sentence, is: the three sisters from poor families are forced to get involved in a conspiracy against the chaebols because of a windfall that fell from the sky.

As far as the plot is concerned, the drama is a stable Korean-style assembly line cool drama, which contains the plot of the poor getting rich, changing their lives against the sky, conspiring against the might.

Unexpectedly, its story framework was adapted from the world famous "Little Women", which was translated into English as "Little Women".

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Compared with the original work, the drama has undergone a complete change from the setting to the plot: the four sisters are adapted into three sisters, the empathetic Mrs. March is adapted into a selfish and mean mother image, which greatly reduces the proportion of the plot of the marital love element and replaces it with suspense and horror...

At the same time, the drama also uses some backbones of the original work, such as intimate sisterhood, low-level dilemmas, female growth and so on.

Although adapted from "Little Women", as far as the fancy opening animation at the beginning of the film is concerned, it seems to consciously move closer to the American drama "Deadly Woman" in style, and explains the personal encounters of the three heroines: the eldest sister Renzhu plunges into the money pile, metaphorically sending windfall from heaven; Second sister Renjing alcohol addiction; Little Sister Renhui is good at painting.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

The story revolves around a family of four: the eldest sister who is already working, the second sister, the younger sister who is in her sophomore year of high school, and the unreliable mother who lives under the same roof.

In the early years, because of his father's alcoholism, gambling, and mistakenly entering the pyramid scheme, the family was heavily indebted and destitute. The eldest sister In-joo (Kim Ko-yin) and the second sister In-kyung (Nam Ji-hyun) are young and have already taken on the burden of life and become the pillars of the family. But their working life is not satisfactory, and they are ostracized by their colleagues everywhere.

Because they have tasted the hardships of life, the two sisters put all their hopes on the little sister Ren Hye (Park Ji-ho), hoping that she can live a different life by entering a first-class art school with her talent for painting.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

To this end, the two painstakingly saved 1.25 million won to give to the little sister to do the tuition trip. Unexpectedly, this money was seen by their mother, who eloped with the money in the middle of the night, calling it "to start their own life".

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

In order to raise the cost of the study trip for the little sister before the weekend, the eldest sister and the second sister each made a strange move and began to raise money in four places.

Because of this incident, Renzhu and the company's predecessor Hua Ying unexpectedly got closer and closer. Hua Ying, like her, is a marginal person in the company. Similar situations allowed them to breed a friendship with the same disease, hua Ying not only helped Renzhu, but also let Renzhu feel the warmth outside the family.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

However, this warm life did not take long for Hua Ying to die mysteriously.

After Hua Ying's death, Renzhu learned of two major events: one was that Hua Ying stole 70 billion won from the company by taking advantage of his position, and left 2 billion in cash for his eldest sister; The other is that the former accountant Xiangshu and Hua Ying's death are exactly the same, both of them are crazy to buy luxury goods before they died, and the day before the suicide, plastic surgery, resulting in a different face, and then leaving a suicide note to commit suicide.

This means that there must be some major conspiracy involved behind Hua Ying's death.

Renzhu found that Hua Ying had written to report the corruption of the company's director Shen before his death.

As a result, she had just followed the vine to find the melon to lock on to Director Shen, and the other party had a car accident and fell off the building.

Shin's car accident is very similar to a victim death case encountered by the second sister Ren Kyung: Ren Kyung is a journalist who is investigating a bank deposit evaporation case that occurred many years ago, involving a total of 140 billion won, the suspect involved is a high-powered mayoral candidate Park Jae-sang, Ren Kyung restarted the case, intending to find out the truth, and the only victim who knew the case was assassinated by someone who caused a car accident.

Will it be Park Jae-sang who killed the victims of the Hua-young, Shin-yong, and bank cases?

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Interestingly, Park Jae-sang's daughter happened to be a classmate of Xiaomei, who looked for Xiaomei as a stunt painter and won the grand prize with Xiaomei's paintings.

Therefore, with Park Jae-sang as the axis, the three sisters were either actively or passively entangled together. The three clues seem to be unrelated, but they actually affect each other.

This also means that once the story lines of the three sisters converge, "Little Misses" will open a cool drama mode in which the sisters work together against high-ranking government officials and chaebol families.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Aesthetics and stories, how to have both

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"Little Misses" not only retains the characteristics of Korean dramas with tight clues and fast-paced genres, but also uses a large number of film senses in terms of film tone, composition, and costumes, and has a good artistic expression.

Just take a few screenshots and you can see the exquisite layout that is visible to the naked eye.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?
Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?
Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Since screenwriter Jung Seo-kyung and art director Yoo Sung-hee are both long-term partners of Park Chan-wook, "Little Misses" also presents a strong "simple" aesthetic, using a large number of story elements.

For example, the imagery of orchids throughout: orchids, orchid tattoos, orchid wallpapers, orchid brooch orchid associations, velvet orchid heels... The orchid is synonymous with power in the play, and every murder scene, there are demon orchids appearing, alluding to the ruthless crushing of life by the chaebol class.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Hua Ying once told Renzhu that orchids are also divided into many kinds, "Wen XinLan is both despicable and cruel, and Gardria Lan is very realistic, it is a thief princess, although it is not remarkable now, but once it blossoms, it will look like a real princess."

Hua Ying uses The Metaphor of Renzhu in Jiadeli Yalan, saying that she will make great achievements in the future and stir up the upper echelons.

In addition, the frequent shoe imagery is also full of deep meaning.

Similar to "The Determination to Break Up", Zheng Ruijing also used shoes to metaphorically change the identity of the characters in "Little Misses".

Renzhu wears cheap shoes and will be disliked by colleagues, saying that "we have never isolated you, just in a different world." Later, she stepped on Jimmy Choo Korea's limited three pairs of velvet orchid high heels, and the identity jump is self-evident, connecting the shopping guide to her counter, all of which are handsome guys like Song Joong-ki.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Put on expensive shoes and make a class jump, can you sit back and live every day with peace of mind?

Of course, there will be no such good thing in the world, because "wealth and wealth are sought in danger", and money is always accompanied by danger.

When Hua Ying died, she was wearing a pair of shocking red high heels on her feet, and because it had not been found for too long, the skin on the ankles of the corpse had turned blue, and the color of the high heels was ghostly and dazzling.

Later, Renzhu investigates Huaying's cause of death in depth, and a mysterious person sends her a pair of identical high heels, warning her that danger is approaching.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Although Shen Director does not play much, Zheng Ruijing arranges a rich character history for him, telling the audience that he is the son of a shoemaker, who counterattacks from the bottom to the upper level, and has a perverted preference for women who wear cheap shoes.

When he mocks Renzhu for wearing cheap shoes, the camera deliberately gives him a close-up of his expensive leather shoes. Later, Director Shin's car got out of control and rushed out of the parking lot, and the camera gave him a close-up of his shoes.

These two close-ups echo back and forth, which is obviously the creator's intention to tell the audience: a pair of expensive shoes may bring comfort and health to people, but it cannot make the owner worry-free for a lifetime and embark on a smooth and safe road.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Zheng Ruijing is good at writing "evil women", and the female characters in her stories are not good stubble.

She wrote about the vengeful woman in "Kind of Gold", the snake and scorpion woman in "The Determination to Break Up", the cheating girl in "Bat", and the unrequited love in "Miss". Although they all do very evil things in the movie, the audience can't hate them.

Because it's not just them who are bad, but also this society that lacks justice. The premise of their deterioration is that they are forced to survive.

At the same time, reflecting reality, we will also find that the reason why the audience likes to watch the Shuangwen bridge section of counter-attack blackening and fighting evil with evil also stems from a tendency to extreme attitude:

We no longer blindly hope for the legal system to seek justice and solve difficulties as before, but focus on our own transformation and strength, and pursue a sense of happiness of hand-bladed enemies and Jedi counterattack.

Foucault once said, "Madness is not a natural phenomenon, but a product of civilization."

By extension, the image of the crazy criticism of evil women in Zheng Ruijing's works is not really "crazy" or "evil", they just start from the common life experience, wrap themselves in a protective color, and break with society.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

This time, in "Little Ladies", Zheng Ruijing also injected her usual crazy demon "evil girl" personality in the play, dissecting the selfish and unbearable human desires:

Renzhu once experienced a short marriage, the purpose is to marry a rich man, rely on marriage to change his fate, the result is that he meets someone unladylike, and meets a fraudster; The mother of the three sisters will run away with the money that her daughter has painstakingly saved for herself... Except for the second sister Renjing, most of the female characters who appear in the play are not absolutely righteous characters.

Compared with the original "Little Women", the second sister Renjing, like Qiao in the novel, has been given a very idealistic indomitability and tenacity by the creator. As a TV reporter, Renjing was so patient with her work that even her colleagues couldn't see her eyes, and she teased her: "Is your family very poor?" Because you're so stoic."

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

Before Renzhu gets a huge fortune, the plot has been spent in depression. The sisters will be distressed about raising money, and then they will suffer from the number of people around them because of raising money, and they will be low to the dust every minute.

These depressing plots are all paving the way for the three sisters' later counterattacks - how sad there is in the front, how cool the back is.

For example, Renjing grew up in foster care at his aunt's house, developed the habit of a rich man, and would buy "ice cream that symbolizes wealth", and Renju was very disdainful of this behavior. Later, Renzhu became rich overnight, and the first thing he thought of was to go to the supermarket to buy a lot of ice cream and realize "ice cream freedom".

It is not difficult to see that in the process of telling, "Little Misses" has been trying to make a fit for the underlying context, opening up a human opening under pressure for the three sisters who have been suppressed for a long time, promoting the rationalization of the characters' motivations, and then achieving its purpose of criticism and reflection.

As Susan Sontag puts it, "Illness is often used as a metaphor to bring to life allegations of social corruption or injustice."

At present, in the new drama sequence in September, "Little Misses" is indeed a more brilliant work in all aspects, with a luxurious creative lineup, interlocking suspense design, and exquisite artistic presentation, which is worth our continued wait-and-see.

Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?
Netflix pushed hard, Park Chan-wook royal screenwriter to operate, why is it high and low?

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