What kind of domestic drama, the most stamina, can make the audience after a long time, still endlessly reminiscent?
Some people say that it is a black drama.
The plot is often thrilling, with light and dark confrontations and fierce intellectual battles.
Many details that you don't notice when chasing the drama may become the winner or loser who determines the overall situation, and you can understand its subtlety after watching it.
On top of the characters, the characters' adherence to faith, the depth of human nature, and the uncertainty of fate will also immerse the audience in emotions and make it difficult to get out.
Some people say it's a spy war drama.
A good spy story may seem legendary, but it is unforgettable.
A spy war drama like "Kite" seems to be a story 108,000 miles away from the audience's life, but it can bring the audience the most continuous emotion.
This kind of emotion can even affect people's perception of faith, which lasts for a lifetime.
But I think that the most powerful is actually period dramas.
This kind of drama, the story is close to life, and can evoke people's memories, so it is also a common popular genre in Chinese dramas.
To subdivide the period drama, there are two different types.
The first is period legendary dramas, such as "Crossing the Guandong", "The Gate of the Mansion" and "Going to the West Exit", the stories of these dramas often appear in the Republic of China period, laying out a family legend, mixed with changes in the situation and human conflicts.
The second is human drama.
The audience is most familiar with "The World", which will be broadcast in early 2022, which tells the life history of the Chinese people for 50 years.
Similarly, there are "Parental Love" and "Love Man Courtyard". In addition to the legend, this kind of drama focuses more on the people's livelihood years. Stories often span decades, and can be said to really bring the audience into the big picture.
Because this genre naturally fits the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, in the past, CCTV often launched period dramas as opening dramas, and often produced explosive hits.
But the most lively Chinese drama at the beginning of this year is the anti-black drama "Crazy" and the sci-fi drama "The Three-Body Problem", what about the period drama?
Sure enough, CCTV 1 set shot.
Just on February 6, a period drama "Our Day" began broadcasting.
As soon as it was broadcast, it won 1.6% of the ratings, ranking first in the country. This is a stable start.
But can the play continue the period drama boom of "The World" and become the "period drama king" with the first reputation this year?
After brushing 4 episodes in one breath, it is at least safe to say: another period drama, filmed our days.
01, the short story in parents is not easy to shoot, but the angle of "Our Day" is eye-catching
As the name suggests, the story focuses on a "day", and it is also "our", which means that the play, like "The World", has the entry point into the lives of ordinary people.
This entry has advantages and difficulties.
The advantage is that the audience automatically substitutes, those parents are short, the plot of the neighborhood matches the picture of the 80s as soon as it comes out, many middle-aged audiences can see familiar pictures in the play, and the sense of age of the whole drama will be there.
The difficulty lies precisely in the fact that the audience is too familiar with their own lives, and everyone has their own experience of life, so the plot is accidentally suspended, too bland to tell, and the audience feels that it is not tasteful enough.
How should the story be told so that people can watch it? Still want to integrate life into it? It's not really easy to present.
In "Our Days", CCTV once again found the most accurate angle to solve the problem, and in only two episodes, the "days" were engraved in the hearts of the audience.
The opening scene is the three difficulties of our people's life.
First, competition for jobs.
The story is set in the early eighties of the last century, and there are various people living in the family home of Hongguang Machinery Factory.
Liu Shuxia (played by Li Xiaoran) and Wang Xianping (played by Li Naiwen) are a couple in distress who "want money without money and no house", Wang Xianping, who has been transferred from a company commander to the army, shoulders the burden of the family, "I have to let my wife and children live a good life" is his promise to his family, to let the family live a good life, in that era, you must strive for the top, such as being the chief of the security section in the factory.
His biggest competitor Yang Dashan (played by Ren Shuai) is a well-known ruffian in the factory, and now he has caught up with Fang Hui (played by Wang Weiwei), the factory flower, and of course wants to be the section chief.
In the machinery factory late at night, Wang Xianping was patrolling with a flashlight.
Suddenly, there was a noise in the factory, and he followed the sound, and he encountered a group of small furry thieves who came to steal old parts.
Coming from the army, he went up and pressed down one, and the others immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
The young man who was pressed down begged for mercy one after another, and was about to twist him to the police station, Yang Dashan appeared, asked the reason, went up and gave the young man a kick, kicked down a few times, and took people out to teach a lesson.
But after a while, the people returned, and the young man disappeared.
"What about people" "let go".
Good fellow, the thief who was just caught was just released? So angry that Wang Xianping went up and theorized with Yang Dashan, the other party's reason was: I didn't steal something, I learned a lesson, I don't dare after a beating, don't leave a record for the child.
Stop.
How did the era drama become an action drama?
Needless to say, this is exactly where "Our Day" is grounded this time:
From the perspective of an old factory security officer, show the style and atmosphere of an entire era.
Such a plot may not be understandable to this generation of audiences, but the previous generation has its own experience: in that era, young people left a record of the case was a great thing, and it was likely to affect his life.
Wang Xianping, who returned home, was so angry that he didn't want to eat, and told his wife to report to the superior leaders that such a person was not suitable to stay in the security department.
Unexpectedly, the next day, at the seminar of the chief of the factory's security section, the factory leader, who had consulted him in person, directly recommended Yang Dashan, on the grounds that Yang Dashan, who used to be a ruffian, was the most able to calm the factory.
What is the reason for this? Another factory leader unceremoniously pointed out that he should not be chosen because he has a good relationship with the leaders of the city.
Now I understand.
The discussion was going on here, and the two people over there had staged a free kickboxing performance in front of all the employees of the factory.
But in the next shot, Wang Xianping, who had a blue nose and a swollen face, announced to his family, who were happily waiting for the news of his promotion: Yang Dashan was finally selected in the factory.
The beginning of the series is so interesting and top, the story starts from a strong plot, quickly brings out the character and the relationship between people and people, and also instantly brings the audience into the play.
The second is collective birth.
In order to increase the story, the screenwriter specifically set the children of the three families to be born on the same day, and unexpectedly, having a child also became a ring competition between the three families.
On this side, Liu Shuxia's fetus moved, Wang Xianping hurriedly sent people to the hospital, and Dongfang Yushu, who was like a family with them, and Fu Ying, who also had a big belly, rushed to help.
But as soon as she went out, Liu Shuxia, played by Li Xiaoran, was not happy, what is this thing, put a quilt on a broken three-wheeled wheel and send it to the hospital, what about the good unit car?
Wang Xianping said that we can't get the cheap of the public family, and after speaking, she took people to the scooter, and a group of people pushed her to the door of the hospital, and saw the new chief of the security section driving the car of the unit to send his wife to the hospital to give birth.
The contrast, my own experience, such a detail, the sense of age can not come out.
When she arrived at the hospital, Fu Ying, who was still helping to push the cart just now, also came to feel, and directly became three families giving birth together in the same year, month and day.
This plot is also a little interesting, Yang Dashan, who came by car, first took the child, and then helped others send his wife to produce Oriental Yushu, but Wang Xianping's family, who gave birth to a second child, suffered a difficult birth.
Yang Dashan, who had fought with him two days ago, did not forget to come over to ask how it was, but was given a cold face by Wang Xianping, still saying whether to find an expert he knew to take a look.
This sentence angered Wang Xianping's family, and the two families were opening the door of the delivery room, and a voice came from inside: Finally born.
Third, the leakage of the house coincides with "overnight rain".
In the first four episodes, the most heart-wrenching thing for the audience is the illness of Wang Xianping's child Wang Mingzhong.
The birth of Wang Xuehua here should have been a happy thing, but the brother who came to the hospital to see the fever was found to have reproductive organ problems when he was taken to the toilet by the doctor.
The Wang family has to take care of the newborn mother, and on the other hand, they have to worry about the sick eldest son, which is really a house leak that coincides with "overnight rain".
What's worse is that the grandmother played by Song Chunli is kind enough to do bad things, Wang Xianping did not immediately take leave to take her children to the big city to see a doctor, and she quietly took her grandson to the big city alone overnight.
As a result, as soon as I arrived at the train station, I encountered human traffickers and almost lost my child.
At the critical moment, Dongfang Yushu, who had just helped their family push their mother to the hospital, happened to go to the train station and help save the child.
This line tugs at everyone's nerves, like grilling the audience on a charcoal fire, which makes people anxious.
But the story has developed to this point, it can be said that it is all trivial, and some people may say, how can it be worthy of such a big proposition as "Our Day".
But this is precisely the highlight of the show:
Compared with other "big dramas", the protagonist turns the river and the sea in the big time, and "Our Day", spanning twenty years, always tells the story of the small life between three families and two generations.
Always family, friends, and firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea.
It seems that the pace of the opening is not fast, but in fact, the content is not procrastinating, but focuses on the creation of characters and the presentation of a sense of life. If you really look at it, it's easy to sink in and read it with relish.
This is the essence of the "life flow" story: it is like a stream, slowly sinking into our hearts.
This is also the charm of "Our Day" as a period drama.
02, the actors are all powerful, six characters stand in six scenes, and the details are simply magical
No matter what the drama, the actor is the most important.
Actors who match the temperament of the characters of the period drama can inject realism and heaviness into the play itself.
On the contrary, many period dramas forcibly put traffic stars in order to traffic, which often affects the temperament of the entire drama, and the audience will play when they see the white and clean face, but CCTV dramas have their own explosive potential, and they don't eat the set of traffic stars at all.
In terms of casting, "Our Day" has achieved "old drama bone freedom", and almost every actor's performance is very outstanding.
"Our Day" starring Li Naiwen , Li Xiaoran, the main supporting roles are Song Chunli, Sun Hao, Qi Huan, Ren Shuai, Zhou Still, Zhou Qi and other powerful people.
This lineup is not top-notch, but the acting skills are undoubted, and there are many scenes of racing in only four episodes, which is very enjoyable to watch.
Here, let me give 6 examples of performance details to help you see through the intentions of character creation in this "Our Day".
First: Li Xiaoran's "hypocrisy".
Li Xiaoran, who has been reactive in recent years, has just been affirmed by many audiences with her performance in "The Three-Body Problem", and in a blink of an eye, she plunged into a period drama, playing a factory worker with a particularly strong poetry and book atmosphere, can this work?
Unexpectedly, as soon as he appeared, Li Xiaoran performed the "hypocrisy" of the character of Shuxia.
Secretly drinking coffee must be paired with plaid cloth to have style, what to do without plaid cloth, take the old mother as the prize of Cheng Xinliver baby plaid cloth to shop.
It's about to have a baby, and I insist on washing my hair before going.
If you don't let it, pout. Such a character must be out of place in that era, and sure enough, the play directly used Wang Xuehua's tone to officially spit out two words: pretentious.
But Li Xiaoran was actually played very cute by this hypocrisy.
The scene of her bickering with Li Naiwen is simply the scene of the quarrel between the parents of many audiences, and the scene of collapse at the scene of collapse before the birth because she can't wash her hair and has no car can only take a flatbed car to the hospital to collapse is pitiful and cute, full of infectiousness.
Although the role is pretentious, Li Xiaoran is not heavy at all, but has a light comedy style, the girlish feeling of being a mother makes the audience feel very cute, which is completely different from the mother image in previous family dramas, and this cute little character is also in line with Li Xiaoran's characteristics.
There is also a scene where Li Xiaoran looks out the window and is fascinated, which may be the most poetic and romantic scene in the previous episodes:
Sunlight streams in through the window, giving her silhouette a gilded edge. The camera glides very slowly across the ends of her hair, eyes and the back of her neck.
This character suddenly has a unique sense of beauty. Li Xiaoran not only performed the beauty of the characters, but also performed her yearning.
It can be said that Li Xiaoran's performance far exceeded my expectations.
Second, Li Naiwen's "making trouble again has made you abrupt."
Li Naiwen gives the audience the feeling that his daughter-in-law has survived for many years to become a mother-in-law.
From Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff", as well as the gold-medal supporting roles in such as "Meet the Season", "Counting Merry Characters" and "The Daughter Who Came Back", to the protagonist who provoked the big beam in the CCTV drama "Mountains and Rivers Splendid", in recent years, Li Naiwen has increasingly become another backbone of the Chinese drama generation.
This time he once again played a small person from the army, and his performance was very relaxed, natural, and full of fireworks.
Wang Xianping's setting is a typical Chinese father, the standard Lei Feng hat + army coat, drinking his wife's coffee in one sip and saying that it is more difficult to drink than washing the pot water, and his wife dislikes him and does not understand the style, only to say "I don't know what is romantic." ”
His wife made a mood before giving birth, he tried to persuade him not to use it, and directly came to a sentence "Do you believe it or not, I will take a gun to surprise you" hahahahaha
A more classic scene is when his wife is in labor, shouting for his wife "Have the spirit of bombing the bunker!" When he finally gave birth, the nurse called his name, and he replied loudly: Yes.
Li Naiwen performed the stubborn, stubborn and rigid side of the character, but also performed the simple, kind, simple, and even "intimidating" side of the character, facing the leader of the unit, he would be aggrieved and say that I have no car and no house, how to explain to my family.
When the family encounters difficulties, he will not hesitate to stand up and tell his mother-in-law: "With me, even if the fryer sells iron, I will treat the child." ”
The most touching thing is that behind the roughness of the character's surface, there is also an affectionate side, seeing Wang Xianping anxious for his wife in front of the delivery room, saying to his wife that we will never have children in the future, I am afraid that I will be touched when I lose her.
People are three-dimensional and multi-faceted, and only when put together can they form a complete "person". Li Naiwen's emotional expression is really just right.
Third, Song Chunli's "kneeling".
Song Chunli's acting skills need not be said, the older generation of audiences know that her "Plainclothes Police" period was already a bone-level acting, which was more than 40 years ago. Some of this audience watched Liu Yunlong's spy war drama "Dark Calculation", and most recently watched Jin Yueji played by Song Chunli in "The World", a supporting role performed the protagonist's sense of layering and weight, and the acting skills have entered the realm.
In this "Our Day", she also plays the role of a mother, but it is completely different from the last time.
The first is the intimacy of the performance characters, there is a scene where she reacted when she saw her daughter and son-in-law "intimate", and immediately walked away calmly, plus a sentence of "ready to eat", the audience immediately felt the same way.
The most extreme thing is her crying scene, learning that her grandson who she brought up since childhood was sick, she directly knelt down to her son-in-law for help, and the heartache made the audience want to cry instantly.
Later, she took her grandson to see a doctor alone, and almost lost her grandson at the train station, and her eager collapse expression was too tense.
With such an old drama bone, the drama has a full of life, and the audience wants to "kneel" for Song Chunli's acting skills.
Fourth: Sun Hao's burial.
Sun Hao's last acting skills were so amazing that the audience was the director of the blackened police station in "Sweeping Black Storm", but in fact, what was more visible was his cooperation with Zhang Jiayi in "Loading the Stage". In the play, Sun Hao plays the iron director, calculating wages with the workers all day, known as the "iron rooster", Sun Hao's performance is very grounded.
This time, he played Dongfang Yushu, a delicate Shanghai man who can play the accordion.
Seeing him being compared by Yang Dashan in the delivery room, not being treated by his wife, so angry that he sat on the hospital bench and buried Yang Dashan with his old friend Wang Xianping, it was so funny.
His family is also the best one in the audience, with a big voice, warm-hearted, straightforward temperament with serious, meticulous, talented, cautious, full of contrasts, and the combination of strong women and weak men is too full of joy.
Fifth: Ren Shuai's fish soup.
Ren Shuai, who played the well-known Zhen Sanjiang in "Crossing the Guandong", and the old Ding in "Parental Love" can be said to be a veteran of period dramas, his acting skills are better than simple and traceless, this time he played the role of Yang Dashan, who was born as a ruffian but changed his evil and chased to the factory flower, with an arrogant side on the surface, and he said that he would do it.
But in the scene of feeding crucian carp soup to his wife in the hospital, he is full of confidence, thoughtfulness, calm and reliable.
The audience didn't understand how the beautiful factory flower could be chased by him at first, but seeing him studying the perm hat invented for his wife without saying a word, and his wife produced his meticulous care, he felt that such a man who would make money, have strong manual ability and spoil his wife would not marry the factory who would marry.
Ren Shuai's acting skills in playing a drastic change in the era are also very powerful.
Sixth: Qi Huan's "big grin".
Qi Huan, who played the instructor in "Police Honor", played the role of Fu Ying, who has the most beautiful personality, this time.
It seems that the role jumps greatly, but it is played without a sense of violation, Fu Ying is also my favorite character in the whole drama, straightforward and fast, enthusiastic and hearty, with a big belly to help in the kitchen of the unit, he is about to give birth, and he pushes his girlfriend to the hospital, and the whole person is happy to watch every day.
Watching her chat with two other factory goddesses is like watching two worlds, one "the author is Simonov" to her became "a coward when you hear it", but such a festive character, under the seemingly grinning appearance, also has a gritted teeth and does not admit defeat.
Qi Huan, who has always been popular and not popular, must have become a role again this time.
In the first four episodes, each actor's performance is light, delicate, real, and very layered.
With this group of good actors, the story does not need to be stuffed with too many plot conflicts and emotional grabs, just need to gently look at the three weathered families in front of him, and let the actors let go to act, which can highlight a kind of heaviness and timelessness belonging to the older generation.
03, period dramas like "Our Days" are filmed like this, it is right
These two years are the spring of the great drama of the era.
From the acclaim during "Love Man Courtyard" to the successive explosions after "The World", the audience's enthusiasm for period dramas has returned.
These successful works have also paved a way for period dramas, and this "Our Day" is also destined to move forward on the basis of predecessors.
Judging from the first four episodes, there is both the timelessness in "Parental Love" and the delicacy in "The World".
The most important thing is to shoot the taste of period dramas, what is the taste of period dramas? One word, really.
First of all, it is to serve the Taojin.
The service road in the play is very exquisite, and through the scenes of life and the nostalgic image language, it shows a strong sense of reality. From the folding wood-grain round table and red dining chairs, old-fashioned TVs and stoves, chests of drawers and other "old objects" in the play, to the scenes of the family home, the audience looks at the house where the protagonist lives, and the feeling of the 80s comes.
There is a scene in the first episode where Wang Xianping buys roast chicken and comes back, first wanders around to the kitchen to see what dishes his mother-in-law makes, then hugs his son to make trouble, then chats with his wife, and finally goes to the table to eat, a delicate and smooth family drama, naturally brings out the atmosphere of the times, and the screenwriter carefully observes the life of the older generation.
Secondly, the details are true.
As soon as the series comes up, it is what the collective life of the factory looks like. From the workers' commuting to and from work, the factory director's office, to the "Unity is Strength" released on the factory radio when the discussion is arguing, the details of the times are the easiest to bring the audience into the play.
For viewers who worked in factories in the eighties, the series should have a striking reality. Wang Xianping and Yang Dashan fought to defend the head of the science branch behind the fight, is the reality of the era of competing for posts and separate houses in that era, Wang Xianping's family is crowded in a small bungalow, the younger brother can only hit the floor every night, and the section chief can be assigned a larger room, this kind of era memory is the most empathetic.
There is also Liu Shuxia who insisted on washing her hair before giving birth and then went to the hospital, saying that it was very uncomfortable not to wash her hair when she gave birth for the first time, and such details should be experienced by mothers.
Such warm details seem real and natural, although the parents are short but not dull and boring, because life itself is not boring.
Finally, it's emotional truth.
The audience looks at the trivial daily chicken flying dog jump but full of warmth, will remember the lively life full of neighbors fighting and making trouble when they were children, and return to the past era, behind which is a sense of warmth of the plot.
The good thing about the story is the fate and ups and downs of the protagonists in the times. The more difficult the days, the more it tests the protagonist's vitality.
On the other hand, it is the warmth between the characters and the characters. There are contradictions between neighbors, there are diaphragms, but in the end, they support each other and walk together for a long time, which is a memory that belongs to the Chinese of that generation.
That emotion is the most real.
In the final analysis, compared with the current popular works, period dramas have no traffic, no fierce dramatic conflicts, and no gimmicks and explosive points.
But it always gains batches of audiences.
Because the play is all about the little things in life, and these little things are what every audience will experience.
The three words "period drama" mean real rather than strange, and mean fine water instead of deliberate blood.
Times are different, the most basic emotional composition of people has not changed, today's young people will still have various difficult experiences, and no matter what era, people's hearts are eager for warmth and human affection.
So as long as you shoot the true feeling and the kind background of ordinary people, you can resonate with the audience.
There is a scene in the play where the mother-in-law played by Song Chunli blames herself for doing bad things, and the son-in-law played by Li Naiwen chases back to her hometown and appears in front of her eyes at the moment when she is ridiculed by her old family, saying that she is her own mother and gives her the end.
It was one of the most moving moments on the screen in recent years. We have seen too many love scenes, but rarely see such a brave paragraph on the screen - Li Naiwen and Song Chunli's line skills are too good, and this paragraph is so frank and warm.
Although it is only the beginning, "Our Day" has portrayed this warm human feeling of the older generation, the drama is very life, very warm, there are laughs, and there are heart-wrenching places, but life is like this, sweet and sour, bittersweet, frivolous, short in parents, and ordinary fireworks.
Fate is uncontrollable, but Chinese can always get by.
Such a period drama is nostalgic for those who have experienced that era, and for the new generation of audiences, they can also better understand the experience of their parents' generation, and understand the simple warmth of their parents' generation in the neighborhood.
Times are different, but there are always difficult scriptures in the world, and happiness is always dull.
Some viewers left a message saying that Li Xiaoran said in the play, "I hate you for the flat car for the rest of my life." "I remember my mother said similar things to my father, but after decades of ups and downs, the relationship between the two people is now harder than the cement bricks in my house. Is this life?
I think this is the thickness of a good drama, it can really tell the audience with a story: "Good things are coming, don't be ecstatic; Bad things are coming, don't be overly sad. Life is a process. ”
Fortunately, there are still people who tell such stories, and there are people who are willing to listen to such stories.