In 2013, the Guo era sisters made a surprising splash.
Profit from rotten, 40 million cost won the 6th best result at the domestic box office that year, 480 million.
10 years later, they appeared in a domestic film, holding hands and singing the theme song "Friendship Lasts for a Long Time".
Of course, the home stadium is no longer theirs.
Soon, they finished performing, gave up the stage, and smiled and said to the next group of people on stage: Come on senior.
Unfortunately, it didn't work.
This domestic film was released for 5 days, and the box office just exceeded 10 million, although the score in Douban is already regarded as the wave that can be applauded in theatrical films, 7.8.
Senior sister still hasn't done the era sister flower 10 years ago.
That does not prevent them from becoming the eternal sisters of the "domestic little era sisters".
Some people may have guessed that Uncle Meat said that it was "Love is Delicious" released on April 12.
It is a movie version of the web drama of the same name 2 years ago, the little dark horse who opened low and walked high.
In "Love is Delicious", there are three contemporary sister flowers.
These sisters have personalities when they are in school.
The younger sisters obediently sang the correct and inspirational "Friendship Lasts a Long Time", and they preferred to dance the gossip "Let's Have A Kiki".
Getting together, in addition to eating, is to talk about the frivolities in your life.
The film version of "Love is Delicious" is an extension of the drama version.
After encountering changes in emotional work, Xia Liu Fang and the three ushered in new troubles.
Xia Meng, the most talented in sister flowers, is a well-known video platform director, and he has a hand in buying dramas and talking about copyright.
Never tangled, super execution.
said goodbye to his unsuitable fiancé Wang Jichong, and talked about sweet love with fitness coach Lu Bin.
The market was sluggish, and she did not show results, and was warned by her boss.
Let her take the right to adapt a comic, or cut people.
The most well-behaved Fang Xin is the sweetest, so she married young.
Unexpectedly, my husband was found to have cheated during the epidemic and decisively divorced.
After the divorce, he fell in love with pastry chef Zhang Ting.
Just thinking that she could work and have two blossoms, she was unexpectedly pregnant.
This accident also completely disrupted her and Zhang Ting's lives.
Liu Jing, the most screwed, opened a private kitchen restaurant after being laid off by the bank, but because of the impact of the epidemic, the business situation was not very good.
I finally fell in love, and found that Yamaki borrowed the name of finding group performances and used dating software diligently, and his relationship was in jeopardy.
Different from the series of various small themes in the play, the film takes the three sisters dance rehearsal event as the main line, interspersed with the workplace and emotional difficulties they face, and promotes the development of the plot.
The movie "Love is Delicious" does not have the foundation of the drama version of the story, purely from a film work, the completion is regrettable.
The three main lines of the shadow version sisters are parallel, and Xia Meng's line is explained a little clearer, and Liu Jing and Fang Xin are much weaker.
Especially Fang Xin, when Uncle Rou thought that the line would deepen the plight of pregnant women in the workplace, it ended abruptly in Fang and Zhang's emotional process.
Especially through rehearsals, the three sisters, who could not bear their own troubles, broke out with each other during the rehearsal, which was quite like the bloody smell of Gu Li and Nan Xiang in "Small Times", pulling each other's heads and pouring red wine.
Although it is a bit hasty for the plot, the annual meeting performance at the end is no less visually enjoyable than the bar drama in the drama version that allows Chen Zhengdao and the team to show off their skills.
But other than that, the merits of "Love is Delicious" have not been lost.
Respect reality, create people with "truth", and look at women equally.
Let's start with the reality part.
On the screen (screen), it is rare to acknowledge the epidemic and appear in the story as a normal narrative background like "Love is Delicious".
In the drama version, Fang Xin's line is very epidemic characteristics.
Close connection exposed derailment.
Tear from ex-husband Mistress from a safe distance*.
The timeline of the movie version is still in the epidemic.
Nucleic acid testing is required to enter and exit the hospital.
Wear a mask when entering public.
A "diagnosis" can disrupt normal life.
Such days, although in a trance, cannot deny that it did exist.
Not whitewashing and not alienating is respect for the past and reality.
Watching "Love is Delicious", from time to time there will be a familiar sense of jumping.
Familiar is the daily atmosphere of life.
Bravely explore the Internet celebrity store, the couple's intimate little affair, the gossip face of the girlfriend who wants to say and rest...
What jumps out is the different reactions of different characters to life.
Funny and real.
For example, the disgusted Aquarius hahahahaha, who understands.
Liu Jing was moved by MCN's agent because of the poor operation of her private kitchen restaurant, and experienced a live broadcast of a shop visit with the Internet celebrity, and the anchor complained a lot, put down the live broadcast lens, and said to the photographer, "This, this is delicious." ”
Then why did she still complain?
Because there is no gimmick if you don't complain, the audience loves to watch gimmicks.
Speaking of complaining, Uncle Meat wants to praise Chen Zhengdao hahahaha, the Internet celebrity probe shop at the beginning of the movie, the name of the store is called "private goods".
The first shot of the movie directly gave "private goods" a big close-up.
(Previously, many netizens said that the director carried private goods in the movie, this time Director Chen directly counterattacked, my whole book is private goods)
He also used the name of the waiter to express his attitude: less set meal (variety), a lot of ingredients (very attractive).
"Love is Delicious" is indeed Chen Zhengdao's least varied and most relaxed.
In his words, it has been 8 years since he made a drama or movie where no one died or no one committed a crime.
Famous for the fantasy "Back to Twenty", he has handed over the youth films "Midsummer Lightyear" and "Midsummer Future", and has also filmed "Memory Master", "Hypnotic Master" and "Skyscraper" in the genre of crime suspense.
After the epidemic in the past three years, Chen Zhengdao's own mentality has also changed.
I used to seek reversal, heavy story, and dramatic tension.
"Midsummer must have a future, visitors must have secrets, if the building is skyscraper, the master must be hypnotized."
Because of the "Love is Delicious" series, he began to pay attention to life.
When the world really writes a historic dramatic twist, the little things and dilemmas of my own life and the friends around me can also be stories I want to tell; When it wasn't so easy to get together with friends, I realized that every time I ate with friends, drank, chatted about gossip, and complained to each other was precious.
This shift in mindset, combined with teamwork, gives "Love is Delicious" a sense of lightness.
Xia Meng's neatness and professionalism have the shadow of "Party A" who has dealt with the platform for many years; Part of Liu Jing's entanglement is the epitome of the team's two female screenwriters.
The daily life of the film, with the two perspectives of female screenwriter + male director, tries to look at three ordinary women who are a little good, a little tangled, and a little angry.
These three people, if they put the story on the Internet, they will definitely be complained about, and the labels are all thought of: "love brain", "drama essence" and "like to control others".
But in life, who doesn't have a little flaw?
Are these small flaws delaying normal life?
Nope.
Just like Chen Zhengdao's side, there are also screenwriters of "love brain", but people are the most to the point of writing feelings among all the screenwriters who have cooperated.
Women's film and television dramas, popular elements and characters, how to be more dramatic, more attractive, the team also understands, but they are not willing to fall into the stereotype.
Just like the director knows how "sassy" the audience loves to see Xia Meng show, but in the movie, she still needs to rely on her boyfriend to play games to win the project.
Female independence is traffic password, that's right.
But blindly biased, blindly strengthening women's independence and strength, will make the role distorted.
Everyone wants to warm a man and spoil his wife and crazy devil, but in fact, spoiling too much will also annoy everyone. We have removed the male label of the movie version, I know that this will make the plot more bland, although we want to make women, but we don't want to over-strengthen women, as this play shows, although boys bring difficulties to women, but they are not necessarily scumbags, I think the film version is more balanced.
——Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang | Director of "Love is Delicious": I hope to keep filming the story of the three sisters
The rare heads-up of "Love is Delicious" also creates a special atmosphere for this crew.
The director became friends with the actors in the play for the first time.
The starring actor, from only promises to bold mics, slowly injects "self" into the role.
Needless to say, Wang Ju is the most active, has the most opinions on the spot, and has many ideas.
Zhang Hanyun was originally polite and decent, and the more she acted, she would argue with reason when she encountered unreasonable places.
Li Chun, originally a social fear, few words, and a lack of humor cells, made Chen Zhengdao scratch his head. Although the more humorous cells still do not increase, the sense of substitution for the characters is getting stronger and stronger.
In the original script, I met Dongliu and watched the sunrise together on the first day. Li Chun felt that she had just ended her previous relationship at that time, and it was unlikely that she would invest in the next relationship so quickly, so after discussing it with the director, the plot behind was also deleted.
In short, the sister flower is visibly arrogant.
To be honest, the box office of "Love is Delicious" is only over 10 million now, and Uncle Meat is very worried.
I am worried that in the eyes of capital, this IP is not easy to sell and is not worth investing.
"Love is Delicious"'s level view of women and respect for reality are so precious in today's domestic film and television.
Not only the director, but also the meat uncle as an audience hopes that the second season of "Love is Delicious" can get investment, continue to film, and keep shooting.
In Chinese film and television works, this kind of work is relatively rare, lack of certain characters that accompany you to grow up with, every two or three years we will want to shoot this story, whether it is a movie or a drama, which one gives us the green light to shoot, the film version or the drama version is not important, we just want to talk about these three girls.
——Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang | Director of "Love is Delicious": I hope to keep filming the story of the three sisters
I really don't want to see it.
When it comes to domestic sister flowers, we can only give a few Oriental Pearls.
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