"Use people to face forward, not people to face back, a pack of white-eyed wolves."
Yao Wei (Wan Qian) hid in the utility room alone and continued to output -
"An old woman in menopause has such a little residual value, she is squeezed dry and drunk without knowing it, and really treats herself as a dish." Plug in your wings and you'll go to heaven. Play with me. ”
A box in the back fell to the ground with a bang, and his subordinate Liu Xiaoxi (played by Xing Fei) trembled and came out: Sister Wei.
I was drawn to a trailer. The lines are spicy and feeling, not hidden at all, and the actor's performance gives people an inexplicable sense of "cool".
On February 6, that is, tonight, Hunan Satellite TV prime time will start broadcasting a 40-episode urban drama "Lady's Character", starring Wan Qian, Liu Mintao and Xing Fei, written by Zhao Dongling and directed by Gao Han.
The female group portrait drama has finally enlarged the trick.
Speaking of which, in the last popular and popular female group portrait drama, which work did you think of?
It seems that only "Love is Delicious" is barely qualified, but it is only a dark horse and is not a hit.
Further ahead, many people may remember the female group portrait drama hit, or Liu Tao, Jiang Xin, Yang Zi and their "Ode to Joy 2".
In 2016, director Kong Sheng made "Ode to Joy 1" with a score of 7.5, which made a good start for domestic female group portrait dramas. The Chinese drama screen has been dominated by male dramas for too long, and audiences who are eager to see more women's stories on the screen suddenly discovered a new continent.
However, in recent years, although the number of female group dramas has sprung up, the score has plummeted, and the reputation has gradually collapsed.
The new dramas either tell the same story back and forth, or the understanding of female group portraits, or stay on the old topics of gender discrimination in the workplace and patriarchal native families, which do not show the real plight of women at all.
What's more serious is that some female group dramas seem to be under the sign of women, but they often can't hide some deep-rooted daddy thinking in their bones, such as the title of the play is straightforward: Who said I can't get married? What's the matter, marriage has become a KPI that women must complete throughout their lives?
Is there really no work that reflects women's daily lives and drags back the group portraits of women suspended in the air?
Perhaps, tonight's new drama can really break the stereotype of "there is nothing new in women's group portrait dramas".
By what? Just by the character of this lady.
1. Story: Hidden marriage, Dink, and the workplace can only keep one, and this plot is sensual
The story setting of "Lady's Character" is not new -
Three post-70s, post-80s, and post-90s heroines with different backgrounds and personalities have encountered life difficulties such as cheating on their husbands, hidden marriage pregnancy, and inability to take care of marriage and childbirth at different stages of life, and finally face life positively and solve one difficult story after another.
A typical female group drama, mainly focusing on women's workplace and life, light comedy style.
But the victory is in the sense -
With the entertainment company as the background, three women with different tones meet——
The first is senior commercial director Yao Wei (played by Wan Qian).
Known as a decisive female hero in the workplace, she is the company's commercial director, with the motto "What I Yao Wei wants to do, there is nothing I can't do".
Because the company blindly pursues efficiency, it does not want to bear the cost of pregnancy and breastfeeding for female employees. She was forced to marry her husband Cheng Liang (played by Bai Ke), who also worked in the company, for many years, until one day the two went to the hotel hand in hand to live a fun couple life, and the moment they pressed the elevator, they were bumped into by An Xin (played by Liu Mintao), the opponent poached by their boss Xu Wen (played by Wen Zhengrong).
Well, hidden marriage has become an unspoken rule in the workplace.
What's worse, at the critical moment, she was unexpectedly pregnant, and even if she was pregnant, she vomited in front of everyone at the project work meeting, and she vomited, and was poked in the face by An Xin.
Under internal and external troubles, only pregnancy news can be announced.
The company immediately promoted An Xin to be the head of business, on an equal footing with Yao Wei in terms of level, always waiting for her to be replaced, so there was the scene at the beginning of the article.
The second, "the richest woman I've ever met" An Xin.
This An Xin has nothing to do with the role of Zhang Yi in "Crazy".
She not only has sales champion qualifications, business boss husband blessing, but also Dink, seems to be able to perfectly avoid some of the difficulties of women in the workplace, known as a female devil worth tens of millions, until she found that her husband and ginger have long been cheating, not only behind her back to find young and beautiful girls outside to fall in love, the other party is also pregnant.
And Lu Zening (played by Gao Yiren), who has followed her for many years and has never given up, immediately confessed to her, choose or not?
The third is Liu Xiaoxi (played by Xing Fei), a newborn mother who has returned to work.
Liu Xiaoxi, who originally did not plan to have a child in a hurry, was jointly set by her husband and mother-in-law, the contraceptive pill was replaced with vitamins, and returned to the workplace after giving birth, and the original work experience was cleared, and she had to compete with many past/fresh college students for jobs.
The child is too young and irresponsible and irresponsible, working under the workaholic Yao Wei, the pressure is already great, and it is too difficult to be sandwiched before the two female bigwigs Yao Wei and An Xin.
The three women in the workplace have all encountered a crisis in their careers and lives.
One is still working hard with a child, and An Xin PK, the result affects the couple's relationship.
One found out that her husband was cheating, and she had to PK with Yao Wei, and she was very entangled in the feelings of the young man for her.
The last one in the company was subject to the splint gas of Yao Wei and An Xin, and he was even more chicken feathers at home, collapsing every day.
Whether it is the character or the content, the drama is actually closely related to women's marriage and childbirth, the key is that the plot is too "cooking".
The details of the story alone are enough to touch women.
The three heroines have a very strong sense of adaptation to their respective roles, both tears and laughter, both-for-tat in the workplace, and sympathy in life, cruel, warm and beautiful, female group portrait drama, finally no longer urban women's cool plot.
2. Style: "Honor of the Police" screenwriter Zhao Dongling + "Qing Yu Nian" director Gao Han, this light comedy style I can
As we all know, female group portrait dramas are difficult to shoot, precisely because it does not have a high threshold.
It seems that the performance of the main creative team and actors is not as high as that of sweeping black dramas and sci-fi dramas, and everyone can shoot, but in fact, it tests the real kung fu of the main creator.
Fortunately, the main creative lineup of "Lady's Character" is tough enough.
For the name of director Gao Han, everyone may not be familiar with it, but when it comes to hot dramas such as "Qing Yu Nian" and "War Thunder" that he participated in shooting, the audience should have the impression that Gao Han's sense of picture and texture are very online, and the next spy war drama "Lurker" can be described as highly anticipated.
Screenwriter Zhao Dongling is an ace screenwriter, and last year's two hit dramas "Police Honor" and "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" are both the works written by her, and the latter is one of the few female dramas that do not overturn in recent years.
By her female group portrait drama, the story cut is also a hot female fertility problem in recent years, this style is not the right way, empty words, first a few lines to warm up the scene!
"They are all thousand-year-old foxes, who is afraid of whom?"
"As a competitor, I don't want you to come to learn my work, and when there is still work, please call me Mr. An."
"It's not a bad thing for the result to be a little bit of a little bit when you compete."
In the workplace, every round is a queen showdown.
"My sister can be energetic now." "She's very energetic, and for good reason."
"I'm not attractive or attractive in your eyes now?" "It's inspiring."
A piece of dialogue, the feminine charm of married and childbearing women in the family shows that it is quite exciting.
"I also wanted to balance family and career, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult." "I can't bear this pressure, you have to live if you want to live, or go home as soon as possible."
Hear no, this is the real workplace cruel soul chicken soup.
Don't care about the quality of the feature film, just the dialogue and acting skills in the trailer, I think it is enough to hang a group of urban female dramas with empty posture.
As soon as Zhao Dongling made a move, she punctured a bunch of women's workplace dilemmas:
First, modern people have great pressure in their work and life, which aggravates the pressure of marriage and childbearing. Xing Fei's role is because her husband temporarily dumped the child to her, and screwed up tens of millions of big businesses in minutes.
This is why the older generation does not find it so difficult to raise children, but the younger generation is struggling to raise children.
Second, urban workplace women do not want to change and lose themselves for the sake of their children. Having children not only greatly increases the family's expenses and burdens, but also affects careers, especially women's careers.
None of this can be solved by experts in a few words, but a problem that women of childbearing age must face.
Therefore, the fertility topic discussed in the drama "Lady's Character" can be described as timely.
Although it is a more idealized plot, this idealization is a healthy and benign picture of a woman's workplace that should be expected.
The main characters in the play do not have the set of daddy thinking that despises and oppresses women. Several heroines who are facing workplace pressure and family troubles will eventually use their own way to fight back and control the overall situation.
It's a fascinating story.
3, acting: Wan Qian Liu Mintao fighting drama, and 7 powerful people, acting skills are not worried
Another key to female group dramas is character shaping.
In the past, many of the heroines in female group portrait dramas were AI people who could be generated with one click by entering keywords.
They always have delicate makeup, walk into the office with bright windows every day, say difficult terms with coffee, occasionally output some golden phrases symbolizing independent women, and then naturally become the mainstay of the team, and often have a young boyfriend who is obsessed with them.
Zhao Dongling does not have these routines, next, it depends on the actors.
The cast of "Lady's Character" is a popular powerful actress with cost-effective acting skills, and there is no shortage of highlights. Among them, the performance of 8 actors, I am especially looking forward to it!
The first one, Wan Qian.
Wan Qian is a sexy goddess with acting skills.
《Hello! The famous scene of one person playing multiple roles in "The Hunting Ground", Xiong Qingchun in "The Hunting Ground" is her acting masterpiece.
The characters she created are precise and tense, and once they enter the play, they enter the play deeply.
But in the past few years, Wan Qian's problem after becoming popular is that the supporting role is more wonderful than the protagonist.
Chen Man's shocking glimpse in "Out of Court" is evocative,
On the contrary, Tian Dan in "New World", Qian Ping in "The Great Game", and Hu Ge's wife roles in "County Party Committee Compound" are all passing and not outstanding enough, in the final analysis, Wan Qian has never given full play.
Zhao Dongling is notoriously good at writing people, and the role of Wan Qian in this play is only in terms of personality, although there is no lack of routines, but there is a more straightforward and realistic depiction of women, and it is not a flawless strong woman. This is Wan Qian's chance to prove herself.
The second place, Liu Mintao.
At the beginning, a slightly drunken version of "Red High Heels" made her a household name female star, but the peak of her acting reputation was in the low-key luminous stage of "Langya List" and "Pretender".
In recent years, Liu Mintao has been active enough, but there are not many excellent works. Whether it is "Life Home" cooperating with Wen Qi, "My Love for You is Beautiful" with Zhang Jiayi, or "Lady's Law" of the same type, they have failed to set off storms.
But Liu Mintao's acting skills are still very professional, the basic acting skills are solid, and the lines are also very good. This time she played an older "evil girl", which is the most lacking role in Chinese dramas, and it will be very outstanding if she plays it well.
The third place, Xing Fei.
Many viewers remember that she is still the first love face of the nation in "To Our Warm Little Time", and last year's "Flying Fox Gaiden" showed her efforts to begin her transformation, this time simply playing a new mother, and sandwiched between two female devils.
Looking at the trailer Xing Fei's performance is quite stable, the passage that is called by the two female devils at the same time is funny and sad, and the young actress dares to jump out of the safe zone of the sweet pet drama and look for more challenging roles, which is already worth encouraging.
The fourth place, the white guest.
When it comes to white guests, the audience is in love and anxious.
Love is that his acting skills have improved rapidly, and when I mentioned Baike in the past, I don't need to say it, there must be only three words in everyone's minds "Wang Sledgehammer".
But among the wave of actors who became popular in "Never Expected", Bai Ke is the most stable in acting transformation, and in "Jiang Zhao Dawn", he played the reporter Wang Cheng, which has made people's eyes shine. In "The Three-Body Problem", he played a role that betrayed Ye Wenjie without changing his face, which can be said to completely subvert the audience's impression.
Anxiously, although his acting skills are good, his works are never popular enough.
This time, he played Cheng Liang is a talented variety show director, and Wan Qian formed an office hidden marriage couple, and as a result, going to a hotel with his wife to live a husband and wife life was mistaken for an unspoken rule in the workplace, and cooperation with female stars was misunderstood on the hot search, which is obviously reminiscent of Wang Sledgehammer.
Bai Ke is an actor who acts in a formal drama, but returning to the comedy he is good at, there can also be surprises.
The fifth place, Wen Zhengrong.
It's a pity that this acting school familiar to the audience with "Wrong Love for a Life" is a bit of a pity, when it was popular, he plunged into the anti-Japanese drama, and when he came out, the big heroine trend came, but it was already past the best time.
But Wen Zhengrong, who plays a supporting role, is equally wonderful, it's hard to imagine Wan Qian and Liu Mintao playing two heroes in the workplace, fighting in the dark, what kind of actresses can play their bosses, but Wen Zhengrong whispered to Wan Qian, "Competition is also for progress, you don't have to reject it." ”
I knew the role was stable.
Sixth place, sea day.
In recent years, Hai Yitian can be described as quite active, the costume comedy "Son-in-law" has him, "Breakout" has him, the spy war drama "Opponent" has him, and the urban drama "Even if the Wind Rises" also has him.
Hai Yitian's performance has his own style, solid line skills, and can grasp all kinds of roles, so there are his plays in any genre.
In this play, he plays a friend of the role of Baike and a senior official of the company, and the project will hear that Wan Qian's character is pregnant, and the first reaction is that this is not mine, it has nothing to do with me.
The audience laughed, this character is right again.
The seventh place, Yao Anlian.
is also a gold medal supporting role in recent years, he has appeared in many big dramas, such as "Rebel", "Home of the Heart", "Tang Dynasty Tricks", such old drama bones are versatile, although it is a supporting role, but wherever it is put adds color to the series.
The eighth place, Wang Mian.
I never expected that as soon as the king of talk shows participated in urban dramas, he played a role that made the audience so popular.
His role in the play, Wang Wei, is Xing Fei's husband, not only partners with his mother to change medicines, so that his wife "accidentally" becomes pregnant, but also acts as a palm cabinet in life, as if raising children is his wife's business.
I have a hunch that this character will be scolded by the audience after the series starts, so I want to see how Wang Mian rounds the role back with his strength.
4, breaking the game: 6 years of female group portrait drama difficult to sharpen a sword? This drama may bring hope
As mentioned at the beginning, the last recognized hit of the domestic women's group portrait drama was "Ode to Joy 2" 6 years ago.
Female group portrait dramas have theme dividends, but no matter how good the theme dividends are, how many years can they eat?
When the new episodes are all about independent women in the workplace and revenge housewives, the same sister and dog love hair is about the same industrial saccharin, the same magical female friendship and almost the same golden sentence.
Finally, there is a similar stereotypical character + similar routine plot.
These stories that can roughly guess the ending after watching the first episode, how can the audience watch it?
In order to get rid of the hard-hit area of ungrounded and suspended dramas, it is necessary to make the emotional contradictions, troubles, and anxieties of the protagonists incompatible with reality, and make the female group portrait stories lose their convincingness.
What kind of female group drama can be recognized by the market? In the final analysis, in realistic dramas, what the audience wants to watch is nothing more than a story that talks about people and people.
How to stand in the perspective of women and shoot realistic female emotions is the key that female group dramas need to solve.
The plot of "Lady's Character" still focuses on family and emotional aspects on the surface, telling the story of women's balance in family and career, but in the context of the current promotion of having "three children", this story naturally has a universal empathic perspective.
Such a story atmosphere is very humane. Each of the main characters, with their own story, can represent a kind of bitterness and dilemma.
That's right.
Recently, anti-black dramas have been out of the limelight.
"Brother Qiang" brand pig's foot noodles are popular all over the country, but not all audiences like anti-black dramas, and not everyone can watch Sun Tzu's Art of War, and there are still many audiences who like urban light comedy.
But the premise is that our national drama can catch up with the aesthetics of the audience, care more about women, consume a little less, as long as the character of a real lady is filmed, the result will not be bad.