Unknowingly, "Ode to Joy 4" has been broadcast more than halfway.
Speaking of it, it is also emotional, the former "Ode to Joy" can be called the pioneer of domestic women's group dramas, not only fired the first shot, but also won a full house.
However, the third part was ruined more than reputation because of the change of personnel and a new story.
After Piao seriously watched "Ode to Joy 3" at that time, I actually liked this sequel quite a lot.
The story of the new five beauty can be regarded as in line with the core of the previous work, and the plot is solid and sharp.
Helplessly, the residual heat of the previous work was too large, and finally did not set off a splash.
Therefore, recently "Ode to Joy 4" was launched, and the story of Wumei opened again, and I wanted to Amway everyone a wave.
Also take this opportunity to look at the entire IP of "Ode to Joy" and talk about the significance of the main creator's attempts in domestic entertainment in the past seven years.
Good or bad.
Why did they want to do Ode to Joy?
What did they tell us with Ode to Joy?
If the excitement of the plot is one of the factors for the success of the sequel, then "Ode to Joy 4" can be regarded as a successful completion of the task.
The so-called life is like breaking through the pass, the pass is difficult to pass, and the life of Wumei is also the same.
The fourth part still continues the plot of the third part, and after the old problems are solved, a new story appears.
Yu Chuhui, graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University, works as an assistant engineer in Nanxin CNC.
Life seems to be going well, but her boss always encroaches on her and her colleagues' invention patents; Her father's domestic violence also caused her and her mother to live in a difficult life.
In the last part, she first rebelled with her colleagues, finally won her own rights and interests, and successfully jumped to a better company.
He also tricked his mother into Shanghai and escaped his father's control.
But in the fourth part, the opening let the heart farction.
Her father chased her to Shanghai and took reporters to the company to block her.
If the problems of life can be solved by avoiding confrontation, the shadow in the heart cannot be eliminated.
Xiao Zhong, a colleague who has been fighting side by side, suddenly confessed to her, but Yu Chuhui's response was distressing
I'll tell you honestly
I have a villain dad in my family
He was a black hole in my family
There are people like him
My mom and I don't want to have a normal life
Who wants to marry me
Unless it's from the big brother family of the golden chain
There is a way to give my dad a stuffy stick at any time
Otherwise, it will be submerged by the black hole at any time
Yu Chuhui ostensibly used the complicated family relationship as an excuse to scare off the other party. But in fact, the family atmosphere from childhood to adulthood makes it difficult for her to enter an intimate relationship herself.
Also confined to his family is Zhu Zhe, who works as a housekeeping manager in a five-star hotel.
As one of the most likable characters in the whole drama, her good lies in her sobriety, whether it is mediation with guests in the hotel or mediation in the relationship between Wumei, she is always a gentle big sister character.
But such sensibility is actually a last resort caused by the family atmosphere.
As the eldest daughter, she came out to work after graduating from vocational high school, and while making a future for herself, she also had to be sucked by her younger siblings, and it was the social crawling that made her her her current self.
However, even if she soberly escaped the moral kidnapping of her original family, in the fourth part, she was discriminated against by academic qualifications in the workplace.
After saying the most pleasing ones, then talk about the least pleasing ones.
He Yihong, because her life is relatively smooth, has developed her paranoid and simple idealistic personality.
In the last part, she provoked an online scolding war between publishers and authors, and in the fourth part, she finally solved the mess with her resignation.
But personality determines life, leaving the workplace, she suffered a crisis in the love field.
Qi Mu, Zhu Zhe's old acquaintance, but not even friends, but once worked together in the hotel.
Zhu Zhe felt that Qi Mu was arrogant and never took the initiative to communicate with people, but this time when he saw Zhu Zhe, he began to express his good feelings, sending flowers and inviting him to dinner.
Zhu Zhe noticed this sudden courtesy, and learned that it was strange that the other party was so eager to remarry just after divorce, so he immediately withdrew.
Unexpectedly, Qi Mu turned his eyes on He Yihong.
Under Qi Mu's PUA-style coaxing, He Yihong firmed up his paranoia and began to stay away from the other Simei and fall in love with Qi Mu.
Why is Qi Mu so urgent, floating without spoilers, leaving it to everyone to chase the drama.
And if Qi Mu's operation is the biggest suspense of "Ode to Joy 4", then the biggest suspense of "Ode to Joy 3" is the revenge line of Lucy's sexual harassment in the workplace.
In order to take revenge, she collected evidence, planned for many years, took the initiative to approach the son of the perpetrator, and finally made the other party pay the price of the law.
But in the fourth part, although the plan was successful, she did not have the joy she imagined, but fell into an entanglement with Li Jiaming.
But gratifyingly, when her tense heartstrings relaxed, her personality became soft, and she began to meet a lawyer surnamed Guo, and the two gradually sparked.
And the only "happy child" Ye Hao Hao in the whole drama finally began to have an affair with David. But even if everything goes well, she also encountered workplace troubles such as drinking and scandals.
It is not difficult to see that "Ode to Joy 4" is still showing the treatment and problems suffered by women at all levels and occasions of society through five beauty.
For example, "sexual harassment", "unspoken rules in the workplace", "harm to the original family", "the dilemma of helping the younger brother devil" and so on.
But if it's just to show the problem, it may also be rubbing women's issues.
In the plot promotion of "Ode to Joy 4", we can also see the screenwriter's sobriety and mention in the pen and ink.
The inspiration given to the audience by the plot is the difference between the IP of "Ode to Joy" and other female dramas.
In Piao's view, the biggest difference in the IP of "Ode to Joy" may be that the screenwriter is really showing the audience some truth about life.
Not only questions, but also solutions and life guidance for reference.
For example, when Zhu Zhe discovered that Qi Mu's intentions were wrong, three or two sentences made the other party dispel the idea of courtship and get rid of this evil fate.
Come, let's learn how to operate.
The first is to know people with clear eyes, understand the background of the other party's personality, Qi Mu's character is arrogant self, and then based on this cognition, look at the other party's behavior
Then there is the subtlety of knowing that Qi Mu is delicate, then the roses he sent are not just ordinary meanings, so he knows the other party's favor
Then out of nothing, after feeling the temptation of the other party, he deliberately said "It's hard to bring the family over" to show that he knew that the other party had started a family, and sure enough, he got an affirmative reply.
Finally, it is to withdraw in time, knowing that the other party's purpose is not pure, but also able to maintain the basic etiquette of adults and separate decently.
Therefore, Zhu Zhe did not wade into troubled waters, relying on her witty ability to recognize people and ingenious speaking skills, which is the same as her three or two sentences in the third part to solve guest complaints, which is very worthy of our analysis and learning.
For example, when Yu Chuhui's bastard father took a reporter to her company to block her, Yu Chuhui's solution was brilliant.
She first asked her friends to bring their cameras to follow the whole process, and called all her colleagues to help.
When she arrived in front of her father, she pretended to be worried and said that she could go to the hotel to arrange a place for her father to stay.
As a result, the reporter accused her of having a place to live in Shanghai but let her father go to a hotel, and then Yu Chuhui immediately said that her life was already difficult, and bystanders should not be ignorant of the facts and accuse others so righteously.
Dad Yu saw that he did not achieve his goal, and in the end he did not make a fuss, but walked away in ashes.
Again, we can learn from here.
Let friends record the whole process, is to put the right to speak in their own hands;
To let colleagues help is to increase your own momentum;
Seeing his father making trouble is not angry, but taking the initiative to express concern, is to lower his posture;
This makes her response more powerful when the reporter begins her moral kidnapping, and who can bear to blame a little girl who is struggling to break out but still cares about her father?
But life is not a cool drama, and the screenwriter has never departed from reality in his creation.
I didn't want Yu Chuhui to be beaten by her father just after work, but fortunately a colleague passed by and rescued her, but she ended up at the police station.
Also portraying the ruthless reality is Ye Hao Hao, who fought back with a generous statement when asked to accompany the wine.
While fighting back, he also showed through her mouth that she was just an example.
Ye Hao confessed that she had the confidence to speak out about this injustice because of her family's good fortune and not afraid of losing her job, but there are still many women who are difficult to escape the entanglement of these wine bureau culture and workplace sexual harassment, and silently bear the oppression in order to survive.
Since there are operations like Zhu Zhe, Yu Chuhui, and Ye Hao to fight back like a queen, naturally there is also Xiaobai's behavior of falling into the abyss step by step and then slowly climbing out.
Many people care, why was the role of He Yihong designed?
In "Ode to Joy 3", she used her naïve idea to stand on the moral high ground and accuse Yu Chuhui of treating her parents and was eventually slapped in the face.
And in "Ode to Joy 4", she fell into Qi Mu's design again and was killed again.
We naturally like the role of Zhu Zhe, but at the same time, we also need a childish character like He Yihong to give some inspiration to the audience who are in the same closed situation without knowing it.
And this plot is also Piao's biggest interest in the plot of "Ode to Joy 4".
In the last part, Lucy's revenge gave countless women who were humiliated in the workplace empowered.
In this part, I am also looking forward to seeing how He Yihong stepped into Qi Mu's PUA operation, and then how to escape the growth process.
Think of this story, maybe it can really save some girls who have been deceived in reality.
Screenwriters need to have different identities and different thinking characters to face the same problem, so as to discuss the same problem from multiple angles.
And this is also the spiritual core that has never changed from the time "Ode to Joy 1" created a new track of domestic urban women's themes to the broadcast of "Ode to Joy 4" today.
With solid stories, sincere expressions, based on the foundation of realistic creative techniques, to give the audience a good-looking story and inspiration to women's lives.
Therefore, in the process of chasing the drama, Piao has been thinking about a problem:
Why is the core of the third and fourth parts in the same vein as the first and second parts, but they did not get the results of the first and second parts?
I think of two reasons, one is because of the substitution, and the other is that I feel that there are enough dramas with female themes, and there is no need to chew anymore.
Not looking at it because of substitution, it is a personal choice, and it is non-committal.
But there is no need to chew on the female theme, but Piao is firmly opposed.
In fact, as long as you have watched "Ode to Joy 3", you can see that although the two stories are both female themes, the content is very different.
If the first two seasons show the plight of urban women in the emotional and family situation.
Then the third season should focus more on the plight of women in the workplace and society.
It can be seen that the complexity of women's issues can never be explored in a TV series, so since the core is the plight of women, why not let this IP continue?
What's more, just as a TV series, Piao also thinks that "Ode to Joy 4" is good-looking.
It creates five real female characters and gives us a mirror through the social ups and downs encountered by these characters.
It makes us not only watch dramas, but also reflect on their own lives, encounter problems, solve difficulties, and gradually grow.
We will pay attention to Lucy's revenge, feel sorry for what happened to her, resent the shamelessness of the perpetrator, and be happy that she has finally taken revenge.
Especially when I saw that she finally came out of the shadows accompanied by a small group on the 22nd floor, her personality also became soft, and she was pleased to have a new relationship.
Will understand the dilemma of Yu Chuhui and Zhu Zhe's native family.
Although you can see that both of them are very sober and resourceful, and have the ability to escape the harm of the family, at the same time, you will also find that they are different from the children of ordinary families.
For example, Yu Chuhui did not dare to enter love because of his parents' relationship, while Zhu Zhe was unable to get into a good university because of past reasons and struggled in the workplace.
Moreover, their sober wit is not brought about by their original family.
Therefore, although we dislike He Yihong, it is undeniable that even if she is simple or even stupid, it is only because she has not been hit by society, and belongs to the problem complex of many newcomers in the workplace and even social news.
In this way, it seems that only Ye Hao Hao is a happy child, but she actually has her own workplace troubles.
In addition to their own problems, the five girls also have entanglements with each other.
This brings us to another segment in "Ode to Joy 4" that benefits Piao.
Since Yu Chuhui changed companies, the road to the workplace has been smooth.
No, because the proposal made helped the company change its direction, and the leader decided to promote her to the leader of the threesome, and also raised her salary by six thousand
But Yu Chuhui was not as happy as she imagined, firstly, she was not confident, she felt that her ability was insufficient, and secondly, she thought that the other two team members were better than herself and more worthy of being the team leader.
But the fat that came to her mouth was not her style, so she asked her sisters as usual.
I don't want to hit it off compared to the previous exchanges, but this time there are two completely different answers
Zhu Zhe thinks that Yu Chuhui has already worked in the part-time marketing department after raising her salary, and let other team members help her share a lot of work, and this time to become the team leader will make them more unbalanced, so it is best not to agree
But Lucy feels that since the leader gave Yu Chuhui this position and salary, it shows that Yu Chuhui is worthy, and as for colleagues, there should not be too much personal emotion mixed in the work.
The reason why the two girls give completely different answers is actually due to their different cognitions.
Zhu Zhe works as a hotel housekeeping manager, focusing more on people-to-people communication and interpersonal relationships, while Lucy is the HR of a financial company, who understands the value of mental work and is more rational and professional.
Although this plot flickers by, it not only reflects the difference in the characters' personalities, but also shows us the mutual help daily life of Ode to Joy.
This is also one of the themes of "Ode to Joy", mutual help and growth between women.
Although they have different backgrounds, abilities, and situations, they are all working hard, living actively, loving each other, and forming a unique magnetic field of women's circles, working together.
And in the process of watching the play, we are also accompanying the five girls to encounter different or the same confusion and problems in life, workplace and love, and also make different or the same reactions and operations with them.
Inside and outside the screen, an upward female magnetic field is also formed.
I remember that at the press conference of "Ode to Joy", producer Hou Hongliang said that one of his favorite sentences in the play was:
"Life is full of thorns, but it can't stop you from singing all the way."
Wumei is not five people, but also a variety of women from all walks of life in society.
And the theme of the IP of "Ode to Joy" is to tell them that no matter how harsh life is for women, we can still continue to sing.
"Ode to Joy 4", another high song.