Chinese dramas have been a bit lively recently.
The national drama market, which was led by "Crazy", finally ushered in the spring of new dramas in this Yangchun March.
First, "Spring Warm Sun" starring Huang Zitao and Wu Gang landed on Beijing Satellite TV on March 13.
Jiangsu Satellite TV did not broadcast the spy war drama "Infernal", but broadcast "Three-Body Problem" in the second round, which means that audiences who are looking forward to spy war dramas will have to wait.
Then, on March 14, that is, tonight, 2 more major dramas will be broadcast on the same day.
Many viewers have set their attention on "Who Is He" led by Zhang Yi launched by Yangba.
In fact, there is also a big drama will also appear, that is, Hunan Satellite TV's big drama "Homecoming".
Jing Boran Tan Songyun leads, Mo Bao Feibao original adaptation, and written by her herself, is also the first satellite TV pure love drama in 2023.
Don't worry, I know what you're trying to say.
In recent years, the domestic pure love dramas have basically been equated with bad dramas.
Almost at the same time, Valentine's Day and Qixi "One Night Tour" became the life of most domestic romance films.
It seems that within a few years, the attitude of the audience became: you can play anything, just don't play love for me.
Why is domestic love here?
On the one hand, with the frequent failure of "traffic + IP", the change of audience's attitude towards traffic, and the inevitable routines and stubborn diseases of many traffic pure love dramas, it has come to a watershed in the market.
On the other hand, under the changes of the times, many audiences may really no longer believe in love, pure love fails, and pure love dramas also fall out of favor.
But as the base camp of pure love dramas, can Hunan Satellite TV find a "way back" for domestic pure love?
1. Is it difficult for domestic pure love to make a hit? This time, Hunan Tai played a big one
The positioning of "Homecoming" is: the first sweet and pure love drama in spring.
Compared with the male and female protagonists, the biggest selling strength of the drama is: screenwriter Mo Bao Feibao.
As a pivotal figure in domestic pure love in the past ten years, Mo Bao Feibao, in pure love jianghu, is definitely the existence of Korean drama ace screenwriter Kim Eun-hime.
She is the original author of the novel "One Life to Beauty Bones". She also participated in the screenwriting of many phenomenal popular TV series such as "Step by Step Scary", "Dear, Love", "Zhou Shengru", "One Life to Live" and so on, and she is also one of the screenwriters in the last pure love national hit "Why Sheng Xiao Mo".
It can be said that she can indeed turn stones into gold in the field of pure love drama.
And the biggest confidence of "Homecoming" is that in addition to the male and female protagonists are popular little flowers, and the original author Mo Bao Feibao personally served as the screenwriter, it can be said that they have explosive genes from the beginning.
The old rule, tell the story first.
"The Road Home" mainly revolves around the story of how to find love and reunite after the first love between the explosive special police officer Lu Yanchen (played by Jing Boran) and investment director Gui Xiao (played by Tan Songyun).
The so-called way back is a pun. It not only hints at the love ending of the male and female protagonists breaking the mirror and reuniting, but also contains the names of the male and female protagonists, the female protagonist is called Gui Xiao, and the male protagonist is called Lu Yanchen. Taken together, it is the "way back".
In the play, Gui Xiao (played by Tan Songyun) and Lu Yanchen (played by Jing Boran) are each other's first love, and after graduating from college, Lu Yanchen went to another country to become a special police officer, and at the same time Gui Xiao's family suffered an accident, and their love ended without a problem.
Ten years later, the two returned to Xiao and Lu Yanchen and found that they couldn't suppress their thoughts for each other.
The news that his parents arranged a marriage contract for Lu Yanchen made Gui Xiao uneasy, Lu Yanchen made a decisive choice, and the two renewed the frontier and registered their marriage.
After marriage, Lu Yanchen was injured during a mission and fell into a coma. Guixiao, who was pregnant, rushed to Lu Yanchen's side and gave birth to a daughter in the border city that Lu Yanchen had guarded for ten years. The family of three was reunited safely and lived a happy life.
The trailer footage looks full of heartbeats.
Handsome men and women are very well matched.
In the trailer, Lu Yanchen's sentence "I remember you when I turn into ashes" instantly made people feel the taste of pure love drama.
Really, I haven't heard such shameful lines in a national drama for a long time.
In the trailer, the male and female protagonists go from the young campus to the snowy land, and the different environments reveal the same atmosphere of entangled fate.
The real snow scene is beautiful, the male and female protagonists in front of the snow scene gently embrace each other, and the romantic atmosphere of the field scenery of Xinjiang and Beijing also makes people feel the fresh and gentle spring breeze in the bustling noise.
Is this the most delicious dog food in spring?
Needless to say, the texture of the series is rare, and it also brought me unexpected surprises.
The identity of the male protagonist in the story is a special police,
In the first episode, they met ten years later, and the male protagonist played by Jing Boran acted cleanly, with one enemy and more sassy, and subdued the gangsters who threatened the heroine and her party in one fell swoop. Finally, gently asked the heroine, are you afraid?
Ah, SWAT love, it's so handsome!
Over the years, the identity of the male protagonist of pure love dramas has increasingly become two points, first "You Are My Glory" tells the love of scientific researchers, and this time there is the love of SWAT.
Positive energy love is the best to knock.
Secondly, in the past, pure love dramas were like castles in the air, but I don't know that the simpler and rougher the "sugar" comes, the more greasy it tastes.
Fortunately, "The Way Home" breaks this cycle.
It's not that short, flat sugar drama. "Open" the first 6 episodes of the trailer, the pace is not hurried, and it has a long-lost storytelling temperament.
At the beginning, the background of the characters is laid out, and it can be seen that what can block the love of the male and female protagonists is neither a mistress nor an accident, but a family.
Lu Yanchen's father is a domestic violence man, the male protagonist often took bruises to school when he was a teenager, was beaten before the college entrance examination, and was locked up for two days and three nights, missing the college entrance examination. Later, because he owed Zhao Minshan's family 500,000 yuan, Lu Yanchen's parents thought of "marrying" him to the Zhao family to settle debts, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was a blood-sucking parent.
Gui Xiao's father was also not good, cheating in marriage, and after the divorce, he threw Gui Xiao and her mother out of the house. Not long after his mother fell ill, Gui Xiao did not dare to tell Lu Yanchen, who had just joined the army, for fear of delaying his future, so he ruthlessly said to break up. Lu Yanchen only learned the truth ten years later.
The plot seems bloody, but it is not without a sense of reality, how much love has been broken because of the original family. Domestic pure love is finally no longer a castle in the air.
2, Jing Boran Tan Songyun leads, there is no shortage of appearance and acting skills, but I am more looking forward to 4 golden supporting roles
The male and female protagonists of the drama may not be the most suitable choice for the original face, but it is the best choice for domestic pure love at the moment.
Tan Songyun is entertained internally, and it can be regarded as a magical existence.
Other actresses are 32 years old and may have reached the age of acting mothers, but Tan Songyun seems to be open, and successively fell in love with the most handsome brother and brother in domestic entertainment in the play.
"The Best of Us", "In the Name of the Family" and "Under the Brocade" are on fire.
In the past two years, "Please Call Me Director" and "Walking to the Wind" have also achieved good results, and after winning Liu Haoran, Zhang Xincheng, Ren Jialun, Wang Kai, and Lin Xinxin, it is Jing Boran's turn.
Although she is over 30 years old, she still has no sense of violation as a high school student with a baby face.
The internal entertainment is tender, and I only serve Zhou Dongyu and Tan Songyun.
The heroine Gui Xiao also has a play to play. Temperament, cheerful personality, stubbornness in the bones.
Tan Songyun opened his mouth, and the sunny and playful image stood up.
Let's talk about the male protagonist Jing Boran.
With "Come on! After "Good Boy" became famous, he was once the best draft student in the film and television industry, "Tomb Robbery Notes" and "Later Us" are all blockbuster films, but the development has been somewhat slow in recent years, "Female Psychologist" and "Gentleman's League" are tepid.
I have to say that at present, he needs good works to prove himself, and returning to the pure love drama he is good at is a good choice.
This time, he played Lu Yanchen is also a little interesting.
As a SWAT officer, he is young, handsome and highly valued.
also comes with its own contrast cute, serious and cold, a serious book, but there is no nonsense to the heroine, and the sentence goes straight to the heroine's heart - ten years of reunion golden sentence, "I know you when I turn into ashes." ”
Chasing love golden sentences, "Do you still love me?" ”
Straight men chase love, I only admire Lu Yanchen, Jing Boran said such shameful lines again and again so naturally, he does not play the male protagonist.
But compared to the male and female protagonists, I am still looking forward to the 4 supporting roles of the series, because it is too exciting.
The first one, Liang Tian.
Liang Tian is an old acquaintance of everyone and a veteran comedy star familiar to the audience.
At the beginning, by chance, a film director and his mother Kan script, suddenly found that he had acting talent, so he pushed him on the screen, and since then, he has acted all the way from "Two Sons Open a Shop", "Comedy Star", "Born Timid", "Obstinate Lord", "Police Officer of the Year of the Dragon", and "Agni Kong".
When he was young, Liang Tian once burst out with a huge comedy genius. His performances are vivid and humorous, especially those funny little eyes, which are unforgettable, and in "I Love My Home", his comedic talent is simply unstoppable.
The audience once thought that his comedy talent would continue to shine in sitcoms, but a genre fell, actors also fell, sitcoms hurried to the bleak in China, and Liang Tian gradually disappeared from the screen.
In recent years, Liang Tian has begun to frequently play various scumbags in Chinese dramas, and the father of the male protagonist in this play has made the audience itch his teeth with anger, Liang Tian will definitely be able to play the role well, but I still can't help but sigh.
The second place, Wu Yufang.
Today's young people may no longer know what heights this powerful actor could have reached.
She was not only a "goddess" level actor, but also reached the peak of her acting skills earlier and has unlimited prospects.
In 1984, 21-year-old Wu Yufang starred in the movie "Life" directed by Wu Tianming, in order to play the role in this Luyao classic, Wu Yufang, a native of Shanghai, went to the countryside to do farm work and talk with villagers, and finally created a simple, delicate and beautiful image of a rural girl, which became a classic image among Chinese film women.
With her wonderful interpretation of Qiaozhen, Wu Yufang won the Best Actress Award at the 8th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards, and became famous at a real age.
After becoming famous, Wu Yufang did not take advantage of this to continue to sing, but entered the acting training class of the Beijing Film Academy in 1985 and became classmates with Kou Zhenhai, Song Chunli, Tang Guoqiang and others.
He died in 1988 after marrying ping-pong player Jiang Jialiang.
In 1997, she made a comeback, but the market no longer has a place for the heroine.
Until after the age of 50, the acting goddess bloomed again.
In "The Golden Years", many people first wanted to watch Ni Ni and Liu Shishi, but they were attracted by Wu Yufang, the actor of Liu Shishi's mother "Mrs. Jiang" in the play.
Mrs. Jiang in the play is elegant and dignified, seemingly weak and submissive, but in fact she is firm in her heart and has her own wisdom in dealing with the world, and later realized that she pursued the life she wanted.
In "Xiaoshede", Wu Yufang changed again and became Cai Juying, who rose to the top as a nurse.
In the movie "Send Me to Qingyun", she played Yao Chen's mother Liang Meizhi. This character was beautiful and simple when he was young, and he was betrayed by his husband in middle age, still like a little girl who did not know the world, tacky, shallow, and loved to play small nature.
Wu Yufang performed the character's unqualification as a mother, as well as the unwillingness and pain of women. With this role, she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 27th Huading Award for Best Supporting Actress in Chinese Film.
The era of the heroine can no longer belong to her, but it blooms brilliantly in the position of the supporting role, and it is also beautiful.
The third place, Song Ningfeng.
Compared with film and television dramas, many audiences actually know this powerful person in the mango variety show "Goodbye Lover".
How unbearable the audience is Zhang Wanting in the variety show, how much sympathy is for Song Ningfeng, if there is really a script behind the variety show, then Song Ningfeng has undoubtedly completed a perfect performance.
In reality, Song Ningfeng's ex-wife is Qi Xi, and the marriage of the two has lasted for 7 years, and the wedding scene picture of the two is still classic.
Song Ningfeng, formerly known as Song Ning, added the word "peak" to himself because "the stream comes from the peak".
Although his acting career is not as dazzling as his ex-wife, Song Ningfeng is actually a powerful actor.
His first film was to play Mei Ting's boyfriend "Xiaobai" in "Aspirin", his eyes were clean and clear, revealing a unique literary and artistic temperament, but the era of literary and artistic films passed, and he also fell into the bottleneck of his acting career.
Now that he has unexpectedly become popular with variety shows, this drama is his opportunity to prove his acting skills.
The fourth place, He Rong.
This national first-class actor who graduated from the 89th class of the Central Academy of Drama has always been known for playing the role of a tough soldier.
In works such as "Bitter Cauliflower", "Wolf Poison Flower", "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow", "Knife in the Snow" and other works, he has performed wonderful green leaf roles, and this time he is also likely to play the male protagonist's superior, which is undoubtedly a performance that can never go wrong.
3, domestic pure love drama, how to make Chinese believe in love again? Look at Hunan Tai's
Undoubtedly, today's romance dramas are more difficult than ever to hit.
In the past, our romantic dramas were not like this.
Not to mention the eighties and nineties.
2009's "Let's Go to See the Meteor Shower" can also become an annual ratings hit amid a crowd of ridicule.
In 2015, Zhong Hanliang and Tang Yan starred in "Why Sheng Xiao Mo" is still the ceiling of domestic romance dramas, and He Yichen is still an irreplaceable top male god.
"If there was that person in the world, then everyone else became a general, and I don't want to settle." It is still a youthful memory for a generation.
The changes began in these years.
Traffic dramas are flooded, the top streamers are saying similar lines in different fantasy romance dramas, jumping similar cliffs, making similar vows, and having almost happy endings, on the surface, there are continuous explosions, and the traffic drama market is infinite, which actually makes ordinary audiences increasingly desensitized to domestic pure love.
The result is that pure love drama is getting harder and harder to do.
"With You in This Life", which has achieved relatively good results in recent years, is the middle-aged version of "Why Sheng Xiao Mo".
"Please Advise the Rest of Your Life" is a typical "traffic + IP" idol drama, the fan effect is played to the extreme, the rating traffic is not bad, but it is not out of the circle. The same is true for You Are My Glory.
The latest "Summer Flower" popularity "low open high go", but the discussion of this drama is mixed, "praise" is the sense of atmosphere, the ambiguous lust flowing between the male and female protagonists, and the "depreciation" is the suspended plot and sparse plot.
Some netizens complained, "If this is a MV, you can give 4 stars +, but it is a drama."
This is also the biggest problem of pure love dramas at present: if there is only a sense of atmosphere and no solid plot support, it will become a source of water, and pure love will lose its soul.
The story is outdated, and the character details are definitely distorted.
No matter how the actor acts, it is fake.
Although the evaluation is polar, being able to win the fan circle of Shufen and the star is enough to ensure the basic data of pure love dramas.
"You Are My Glory" was officially announced by Tencent Video as the fastest drama with more than 100 million views on the station that year on the second day of its premiere, and it was written into the quarterly financial report, and "The Rest of Life" was also known as the savior of mango ratings.
The question is whether "Homecoming" can save Mango Stage once again after several series of sluggish ratings.
The market environment of pure love dramas, the probability will not be easy to make a big hit, and the circle outside the fans will be more and more difficult to break through, but the more such pure love dramas can not be put out.
We often say respect for the market. But respect is by no means simply pandering.
True respect requires aesthetics.
Audiences who like to watch romantic dramas, most of them need a sense of sweet pet and happiness, really to satisfy them, domestic pure love must jump out of abortion, car accidents, difficult to get old. Say goodbye to the "crying is king" stage.
So what to do? Let the audience see the real dilemma of love.
What is the real dilemma?
Life. Life is the biggest problem of love.
Only by filming the essence of life can we talk about moving the audience and healing the audience.
When I read the original, what impressed me the most was the warm sense of healing.
Some plots are still very touching to think of now.
To replicate this emotion, what is needed is not blindly making artificial saccharin, but slow simmering over low heat and flowing with fine water.
As viewers, we don't need to wait for candy to be handed out.
But as the plot progresses, enjoy the real and delicate emotions between people——
This is the true return of domestic pure love.