A still from "Our Marriage". In 2022, film and television dramas with women's themes have received great attention.
The Nobel Prize poet Pablo Neruda once asked heaven in his Questions: "Is there anything in the world more sad than a train standing still in the rain?" After suffering from the poison of domestic drama, Mao Jian found that he was more sad than "a still train in the rain". As a "forced audience" of domestic dramas, Mao Jian, a professor and writer at East China Normal University, has always been enthusiastic about it and has a huge appetite for swallowing bad dramas.
She once laughed at herself: "I like to watch dramas, it is my physical defect, I can't tell how many TV series I have watched so far, and thousands of long nights are like thousands of high walls." "However, in every sense, TV dramas are the most contemporary cultural form. Directly involved in contemporary cultural criticism, Mao Jian is also duty-bound, she believes that her writing is meaningful, and hopes to use her modest efforts to promote the development of Chinese TV dramas.
In the countless moments of contact with life, Mao Jian understood that literature and art are not a refuge from life, but a way to see, understand and participate in the living world, "In essence, we have a more homely underlying affection for everything, we are part of the popular world, it is this mediocre era that makes us, and all our job is to change this mediocrity until the era finally abandons us."
Many years ago, Mao Jian wrote an article called "Posture! Good looks! "Posture is sincerity and morality." Since the film and television industry represents the highest level of appearance in China, then the people naturally do not want to be obscene. ”
2022 has passed, in this year, Mao Jian has watched a lot of domestic dramas, and as always, has many sharp views, she lamented that the collective contribution of film and television dramas this year is to finally no longer let the audience imagine talent for "jackals"; spit on many women's workplace dramas in 2022, but vegetarian dishes are forcibly made of meat; Think that domestic family ethics drama is to add another duck feather to one chicken feather. The following is a transcript of the conversation with Mao Jian in New Weekly.
Family ethics drama is always to add another duck feather to one chicken feather
"New Weekly": There are many roles of female elites in the workplace in 2022, but it seems that they have failed to create a convincing character image, what do you think?
Mao Jian: Today's modern female characters in the workplace feel that they are not as good as the three heroines of "Menghualu" who have a workplace spirit. For example, "A Year Without Work", just saw this title, I thought it would be a special era drama, but it turned out to be a small fresh flip story. In "Our Marriage", after Bai Baihe has been at home full-time for six years, it has finally come to the point where she can also pursue her career, of course, she and her husband Tong Dawei immediately quarreled about it.
The content they quarrel about is indeed realistic, but the question is, the same content, has been arguing in Chinese film and television dramas for more than half a century, and the epidemic has been three years, can you argue about new directions and new patterns? Jiang Xin's story, as a reversal of Bai Baihe's story, is also lackluster, and other branches are also messy, which seems to be a supplement to Bai Baihe's story, but the perception is just vegetarian dishes forcibly cooked.
In contrast, the new season of "My Genius Girlfriend" also has exactly the same dilemma, but superimposed on more real social aspects and gender relations, the true face of feminist persuaders is also stripped away, and the energy of women that burns each other and burns each other is extremely precious.
"Rock 'n' Roll Flower" presents the emotional bloom and life choices of a group of modern women.
"New Weekly": Do you think there has been progress in domestic family ethics dramas in recent years? Is Yao Chen's mother image in "Rock 'n' Roll Flower" novel enough?
Mao Jian: Frankly speaking, I really don't like watching our family ethics drama. The reality of every family is a chicken feather, but our family ethics drama over the years has always been to add another duck feather to the chicken feathers. I really miss "I Love My Home"! If the choreographer doesn't have a sense of humor, don't make a family drama.
The best family ethics drama since the new century is "Country Love Story", because it is funny. Laughter is the greatest ethic that sustains a family. What is the use of the little stimulating lines of "Our Marriage"? Chinese's family life is already a heavy task, and the voice of "Zhao Benshan" is the truth: take the hand of the son, drag the son away, if the son does not go, stunned, continue to drag away. I am most afraid that family ethics dramas will graft some foreign plots and lines on China's local national conditions.
Although all these things also really happened in Chinese land, there was no social context of rock, and the whole rock mother finally had to return to the mother-daughter relationship to achieve harmony, which reduced the dimension of rock. "The Best Wife" is true rock, flowery and indomitable, rock to ninety.
"New Weekly": "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been on the air for many years, and it has long been condensed into a thick "Zhen Xue", what do you think of the characters in the play?
Mao Jian: In the 11 years of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the popularity of King Guojun has continued to decline, and Su Peisheng's popularity has continued to rise, what does it mean? Chinese audiences have said goodbye to the character sequence of a century-old film and television talking to themselves, go to your sweetheart, go to your white jade flawless, go to your fake Qinggao and really incompetent, we like Su Peisheng, we like Huafei.
Looking back at the history of photography in the 21st century, we find that we have not contributed any new women on the screen, except for Hua Fei. Concubine Hua has nothing to do with the traditional gentle and virtuous woman, full of Mongolian eight flags put together, not as good as Concubine Hua Niang Fengyi, she soars and "scaring the emperor", Yongzheng is coming, other concubines are fully dressed to take over, she can play sex. Yongzheng followed the trend and said, "After sleeping, then go back."
Concubine Hua lifted the curtain and replied in her pajamas and pajama pants: "If you leave, don't enter the door of my Yikun Palace in the future." "Concubine Hua brought modern personality into the harem, her style of acting never disregarded the hierarchical order, knowing that she would also seal the empress at the moment of the most full of emotions, she was an individualistic hedonist and a dangerous element, leading the way, not afraid of difficulties, reckless consequences, she opened an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal folding play in the backyard of Yongzheng, and she was not afraid of breaking her bones, and she wanted to leave momentum in the world.
"Slut is hypocrisy", transmitted from her mouth to the mouth of countless Chinese, helping professionals in the north and south of the river to open up the spleen and stomach, and her flaws and shortcomings have won the love of the whole people. Because of her appearance, the traditional female character rank was modified. She is bad, she makes bad, she does not pity her opponents, but she is bad out of the spirit of the dragon and tiger, and she is bad for the bright side in the darkness.
In such a weak era, her appearance is also a lamp. Concubine Hua once had such a line - "Being clothed like being a person, you need flowers and vigorous to be good", doing TV series, this is also the truth.
Appearance is morality, and morality can convince the public
"New Weekly": Under the call of "the world's bitter ugliness for a long time", the appearance of "Menghualu" is eye-catching, what do you think of this drama?
Mao Jian: How many idol dramas, the beauty of the heroine, all rely on the vulgar powder around it; The heroine's goodness depends on the sloppy support of the opponent. But "Menghualu" even the appearance of the heroine's love rival is remarkable; Even the appearance of the scumbag is on the table. This kind of appearance realism not only effectively improves the viewing value of the entire drama, but also covers up the surreal plot of the entire drama. Although the whole play is dragged down by the virginism that comes out of the mud and is not clean, but the appearance is gone, "Menghualu" can still be a dream. Appearance is morality, and morality can convince the public.
"New Weekly": At present, many male protagonists of sweet pet dramas seem to be following the "Bking" (pretending to be cool) character, how do you view sweet pet dramas in 2022?
Mao Jian: Actually, it's still the previous sentence, the appearance is enough, it doesn't matter what to pretend. "Canglan Recipe" would have been reduced to an ordinary sweet pet drama if it were not for Wang Hedi's appearance pad "star value". Is the setting of "Menghualu" reliable? Three Song Dynasty Jiangnan women, with a few dollars in their pockets, coupled with their low status, two days of hard work, can open a tea house in the capital that is enough to resist a street?
Even if there is the support of Gu Qianfan, the commander of the Imperial City Division, two girls from a musical background plus Sun Sanniang, who killed pigs and "debuted", can fight the powerful and press the ruffian, and make the tea house profitable in less than a month, and can also win the applause of peers, such a business success, it is difficult to find a few companies in the world that can be compared.
But the audience doesn't care, appearance is logic. The same is true of "Canglan Recipe". But "Gentlemen of the East Eighth District" is not, that's "oil value". Including "Qing Qing's Daily", which has recently been well received by the audience, the appearance of the group drama is relatively online, which greatly guarantees the affinity of this play. Therefore, with the "starting price" of film and television dramas in 2022, future film and television dramas will at least not let us imagine the "jackal". This is the collective contribution of this year's film and television dramas.
Stills from "Tang Dynasty Mystery". The play can indeed be regarded as a word-of-mouth work in suspense dramas in 2022.
We are still far from the industry standard for film and television dramas
"New Weekly": How to watch the suspense drama in 2022? In addition to the good discussion of "The Beginning" at the beginning of the year, many suspense dramas have no splashes, but the costume detective drama "Tang Dynasty Mystery" without traffic actors and CP marketing has a good reputation.
Mao Jian: That's right, "Tang Dynasty Mystery Record" is a word-of-mouth drama in the 2022 suspense drama, and the first six episodes are almost a bit addictive. The atmosphere is in place, better than "The Legend of the Demon Cat" "tricky" to get in place, although the more you go and rely on the lines, but the victory is not "talking about rotten" dragging the scene, the plot has too many bugs, but because of the compactness, the audience is too lazy to think about it, this way of unsettled case and case again, is the common bridge and rhythm since "24 Hours", which happened in our costume suspense drama, and it actually made a big difference.
Of course, as far as the "detective" itself is concerned, Di Renjie's apprentice is still an apprentice, but the audience popularity of "Tang Dynasty Mystery" shows a new understanding of detective dramas by a new generation of audiences, which is a bit close to Hitchcock's purpose: the audience is to suffer a little pleasure. In addition, it is worth saying that "The Beginning", like "The Tang Dynasty", is something that we can rightfully recommend to foreign counterparts without adding a lot of "but", both dramas show the status of "new dramas" in terms of speed and style.
"New Weekly": As a spin-off of "Breaking Bad", "Coquette Lawyer" has always maintained a high production standard, and the main creative team has broadened the boundaries of the "Desperate Universe" with stories of equal weight. But on the other hand, domestic dramas, such as "Ode to Joy", have been filmed for the third season, under the banner of realistic style, but the plot is becoming more and more suspended.
Mao Jian: The success of "Breaking Bad" and "Coquettish Lawyer" is supported by a solid film and television drama industry, and we are still far from the industry standard of the film and television drama industry. Ode to Joy has nothing to do with realism in any sense.