Text 丨Mr. Infamous
The most difficult TV show to do well is not a variety show, but an interview class. "My Bronze Age", which began broadcasting in early June, played a banner focusing on celebrities exploring their love and seeking themselves when they were young, which sounded not salty or light, but because it was Luo Xiang, who was called "extralegal fanatic" by the jianghu people, the show quickly came out of the circle.
Luo Xiang burned the heat, and Chen Peisi further diverged the humanistic atmosphere, and the momentum was very good. Unfortunately, once Dapeng passed, the program changed from weekly broadcast to bi-weekly broadcast, Luo Yonghao caught some heat, and Zhang Weili, who ended yesterday, became a kind of fan. I have to say that the show has not escaped high and low.
Specifically, the first two not only have no negative news, but also have a self-disciplined introverted review, and the other has a broad external pursuit, which quickly closes the distance between the audience and also raises the spiritual realm of the program. The interview between Dapeng and Luo Yonghao is strong in terms of story, inheritance and transition, but the storm of public opinion is first, and it is difficult to hide the need for "must be expressed", and the dialogue mood is weakened. As for Zhang Weili, who is responsible for the finishing, she is the only mixed martial artist who does not rely on eloquence to eat, and the relative weakness of this language expression covers up the glory of the record.
This also shows the "cleverness" of the program team. They pinched the habit of many people to score only one or two episodes, and first fixed the reputation with the optimal combination, and then lengthened the battle line to reduce the impact of weak sets. Obviously, if the guest arrangement is reversed, it is likely that the reputation and on-demand volume of the program will be greatly reduced, at least, the gap is greater than the 9.2 points at the beginning of the broadcast and the current 8.7 points.
That being said, it doesn't mean to negate the show. "My Bronze Age" does not take a deep or even tricky road, it makes good use of emotional cards. This continues the advantage of the host Chen Xiaonan, that is, to dig into the story behind the characters, so that the "story" is ahead of the parties, becoming a divergent medium that resonates and thinks.
She provides an interpretation of "bronze", that is, "a person initially recognizes himself and also identifies the major life moment of the future path", if adolescence is like plasticine, "kneaded into various forms in pain and dreams", then "'bronze' gives our lives a metallic texture for the first time".
Why this metallic texture appears and how it changes is the essence of what we want to hear from the mouths of these legendary figures.
The five guests, involving careers spanning education, law, theater, film and television, music, technology, business, sports and other fields, have now looked at their own "bronze" age in the "silver" age, and this gap has created an infectious force.
They have a commonality, the days before they became famous, most of them were as ordinary as you and me, and even fell below the so-called average line. When Luo Yonghao was a child, his family was poor, and he was excited to see any electrical appliances. Before jumping into the octagonal cage, Zhang Weili worked as a handyman for 8 years, doing everything in security and sales. Dapeng grew up in Ji'an, Jilin Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing North Korea, he said that the first time he went to the plain city of Changchun, there was no border around, and his heart was very afraid, and he would go to Beijing in the future, thinking that this place could eat people.
Stepping out of the small world and seeing the tremor of the big world makes everyone aware of their own current situation of being invisible to everyone, the difference is in their unwillingness, and how they are willing to force themselves in order to resist unwillingness. After finding the direction of their lives, all five guests let go of all self-doubt and limitations and jumped into the track.
With such a foundation, there is room for inspiration. But if there is only an inspirational component, the intensity of the program is weak, the key is to look at that turning point.
The stories of those who have reversed their mindset are particularly emotional to listen to. Chen Peisi said that when filming "The Young Master's Ordeal" in 1985, he ran barefoot on the dirt road, and was pricked by the tribulus thorns on the ground, so he ran crookedly, but the people watching the liveliness next to him laughed forward and backward. "I suddenly felt that comedy laughter was a very cruel thing... Laughing is an immoral thing."
One of the core is that the comedian's posture should be placed below the audience. "When you recognize it as cruel, it is a level, after entering the threshold of this comedy, it is all the way up, just like the South Heavenly Gate of Mount Tai, you go to the Middle Heavenly Gate, the rest are steps, and then go up you know that this is dressed, you a normal person with the pain of the costumed role to win the laughter of the other party, that is an act of wisdom, and this is not the wisdom of us as an artist, this is the wisdom of human beings." 」 Above the pain, he found the supreme realm.
In shame, Luo Xiang found the motivation to whip his own "asceticism". In 2003, he was studying for a doctorate at Peking University, met a ragged old lady on the overpass of Shuang'an Shopping Mall, wanted to ask where the passers-by assistance center was, no one cared, he learned that she walked for a few hours to get here, felt sad, proposed to take a taxi to take her, did not expect the other party to kneel at once, so he was greatly shocked.
When she reached her destination, she thanked her and said she could just go up, "Don't affect your future." This sentence poked At Luo Xiang hard, "In fact, you are using this false sense of moral superiority to cover up your heart", he realized, "true knowledge from the book to reality, the real law is not just abstract logic, but everyone's vivid story, fairness and justice must not only be reflected in the book, but more importantly, to be echoed in each case."
After listening to them tell these stories, the stories have become a source of shame and detachment for us. Naturally, Dapeng's deception, Luo Yonghao's sniping, we will also have a very strong touch, but the sadness of the story of suitable talent going deep into the bone marrow is too painful for the history of the group portraits in this land, Chen Peisi tore himself, Luo Xiang dissected himself, and only then did he have that bloody fierceness.
Therefore, the first two periods have a clear vision at different stages of life, and the third and fourth periods bring inspirational effects while "correcting the name". At first glance, there are indeed highs and lows in the realm of life, but in fact, this provides different pain relief and lighting methods for people with different personalities, different experiences and different stages.
We see the light and the light, but what we still have to see is that under the awe and gratitude, there is a kind of "confession" idea. In the words of Luo Xiang, "People can't be romantic forever, and people still have to enter a system of rules, the so-called 'do whatever they want without exceeding the rules'", otherwise, "it will lead to self-destruction, waves, floods, all next to the water, will drown people".
Under the rules, there are many realities that individuals cannot shake. Among them, in fact, there is a subtle pessimism, which will not affect their success, and may not lead to their lives becoming worse, for example, for Chen Peisi, just because he sees thoroughly, he must live a good life, but this "confession of fate" still reflects the corruption of the world, and this corruption obviously cannot be easily ignored.
After Luo Xiang read the law, he sensed contradictions and weaknesses between reality and laws, and the "sense of superiority of knowledge" not only could not eliminate the sadness of being impacted by the tragic events of the world, but magnified the inner trepidation, then the law and even the people's hearts must be restored to a "neutral" position.
The reason why Chen Peisi left the Spring Festival Gala stage during the peak period was because the relationship between people became cold, and he could not find the happy state that he had been obsessed with in the early days. In the early days of Luo Yonghao's entrepreneurship, the atmosphere of the small team was very good, and everyone took supplies at will, but after the team grew, people began to develop greed under the opposition between public and private, and he was very sad with moral purity.
Dapeng apologized to the public before the release of the second film because he was told that "Pancake Man" had overdrawn his reputation. Originally, in the early days of box office popularity, there was no shortage of praise on the Internet, but after harvesting four or five hundred million, flowers turned into insults. Between gaining and losing the belt, Zhang Weili also felt the change of extremism in online public opinion.
The dilemma they mentioned is not limited to these few things, but to be able to glimpse the confusion and helplessness faced by many people at present, this observation medium is "people have changed".
One is that "others" have changed. What Chen Peisi misses most is the career when he first went to the countryside, although the material conditions are not comparable, but the pure and sincere mutual help between people allows him to experience more and more contrasts in the future. Unfortunately, the rapid development of economy and science and technology has brought about more and more huge life pressures and spiritual gaps, accelerated the separation of people, and the anonymous network has become a concentration of many hostile forces, which has also expanded the bubble sense of fame and even the ambiguity of the meaning of struggle.
The second is that "self" has changed. The more you know, the more insight you see, the more you know the panic and helplessness of being in the fire house. What is more painful is that no matter how powerful the hero is, it is difficult to cure the chronic disease and turn the situation around. In the state of obstacles that hit the wall everywhere, where the individual goes is not just a problem that the program boils down to.
The so-called "poor are good at their own, and the poor are good at the world", which has been confirmed by these guests. Dapeng is eager to continue to make good movies to prove himself. Luo Yonghao wants to complete the task of repaying debts as soon as possible when there are few entrepreneurial opportunities left. Zhang Weili envisions that in the future, when someone mentions her, she can think of the name of "Big Hero". Chen Peisi, who knows "nothing is better than freedom", after walking through no man's land, he must focus his efforts on climbing the "South Heavenly Gate" in his heart.
Luo Xiang has many incisive arguments about this. "The most important thing is to do what you think is right, you can't hear the complaints from your heart, and the most important thing is that many years later, you can look up to you now." 」 Then, "Live each day well, act out the script of the moment, and move towards the benchmark in your heart." People must not be clear, not arrogant, and not complain." What fate gives you, you must grasp well, "because all this is not worthy of you, so give back." That's what he's done all these years.
"My Bronze Age" has a specific retrospective action, but it also makes people see that "bronze" does not necessarily correspond only to the difficult youth, it can refer to a reckless, hesitant or even mournful stage, this stage makes people unable to see the status quo and the way, so they are not able to put their own position. The texture of that rough blank can bring the impact of the number of seats to everyone.
Perhaps Chen Peisi's half-life experience of ups and downs can be a lasting taste of the beauty of the swan - the "strong beauty education" obtained during those hard days can be closer to the "silver" above the "bronze". Or it was necessary to have Luo Xiang's almost ascetic restraint in order to avoid the confusion of the "bronze" stage. And isn't it true that we want to temper ourselves and perfect the practice we have to go through?
This program allows people from the post-50s to the post-90s to give us a kind of life rehearsal. Luo Xiang's self-awakening is to wake up for us. Chen Peisi's freedom is to put it down for us. Dapeng bowed his head in the hope that someone could look up. Luo Yonghao's resistance was to hope that someone would no longer be kidnapped by vulgar and reasonable sayings. Zhang Weili's "top" is to avoid the laziness of stealing herself and turning into a fist in the face.
Such a life review is not just to throw us some short-term incentives.