April 23, 2023 | Total Issue 3214
The youth inspirational struggle drama "City of Youth" is being broadcast on CCTV in a set of prime-time hits.
"City of Youth" is the story of a group of strivers. The background of the story is "Peng City", which is the real Shenzhen. Shenzhen is a city of science and technology, a city of the future, a city of innovation, and a city of youth. The "Peng City" in the play, just like Shenzhen in reality, carries the dreams of the public.
"City of Youth" is not filmed during the reform and opening up period, but a downturn, focusing the camera on the second decade of the new century. The former is the outlet, as long as the opportunity is seized, wealth freedom is not a problem; The latter is the key, after the financial crisis, the real economy has become more and more sluggish, and only those with great perseverance and wisdom can cut the waves.
It can be said that the main creator gave up the gameplay of cool dramas and chose a more calm realistic path. This kind of intentions is also seen by the audience. Since its launch on April 12, "City of Youth" has ranked among the top 1 in the live broadcast attention of Kuyun Data primetime TV series for five consecutive days.
According to Yien data, the user portrait of "City of Youth" is true to its name, and the young audience of this drama accounts for 90%, of which 18-24 years old has the largest audience, accounting for 40%, and 25-29 years old audience accounts for 19%.
This is a struggle drama with a group portrait to break the topic, the story goes around in circles between late summer (played by Qin Hailu), Fang Yuanjian (Lin Yushen), Jiang Nannan (played by Reyizha) and others, without sinking down to watch a few episodes steadily, it is difficult to peek into three of them; This is an inspirational drama that depicts the key transformation of traditional manufacturing to high-tech industries when the times are developing rapidly; This is a down-to-earth main melody drama that does not talk about slogans and does not go first.
A good picture of struggle "ukiyo-e"
"City of Youth" is a work about people. It captures the process of a group of strivers from scratch to nothing, from 0 to 1. Character scenes are often difficult to shoot, and those trivial and boring daily fragments must be transformed into fast-paced and powerful dramatic conflicts, which are boring once they are exhausted. In this regard, "City of Youth" succeeded.
"City of Youth" writes the story of three generations of strugglers from old, middle and young people. The generation is the pioneer of the "Peng City" at the beginning of the reform and opening up, they have experienced the transformation of small fishing villages into metropolises, and now most of them have achieved fame; The generation is a wave of people who seize the opportunities of science and technology, most of them have returned from studying abroad with the intention of doing something new; The younger generation is a fledgling calf who is not afraid of tigers, they do not believe in authority, they have their own ideas and ideas.
Compared with his senior brother Pan Yan, who retired to the rivers and lakes after achieving fame, his luck at the end of summer was much worse, obviously he had already broken into the "Peng City", but he was always in a dilemma, orders were canceled, and foreign debts could not be recovered; But compared with those bankrupt and liquidated factory owners, her luck is much better, at least there is a group of down-to-earth subordinates who will not give up.
At the end of summer, there is the purest emotional surge. She practices the principle of "not abandoning, not giving up", as long as she starves and does not die, she will not abandon the group of old guys who were born and died with herself, cannot pay wages, and the interest owed must be paid at the highest interest rate in the city. But she is also the embodiment of extreme rationality, Guo Lei came out to hurt people, and in the face of bad million-dollar blackmail, she gritted her teeth and did not compromise, bent on going through legal procedures.
This role is the public's best imagination of Chinese entrepreneurs. It is precisely because of this group of people that "Pengcheng" and even China can move from barren and reckless to vigorous and prosperous.
Nie Zinc (played by Huang Weide) is the most effective assistant in late summer. He was a scientific research talent recruited by her high salary, but he was eventually impressed by her unique temperament. As a researcher, he wants unlimited funding; But as the man behind her, he doesn't want to be protected by her forever. So when late summer proposed the development of large-scale energy storage technology, he expressed his opposition with a long silence. Isn't it good to live a few days of stability first, not tossing blindly?
On Fang Yuanjian, a mixture of human nature and divinity was displayed. If we say that creating a bipedal robot is a snooping of "Nuwa making people" as a person; Then, selling property is unwilling to give up his original intention, and even commercial financing is unwilling, which is the brilliance of his divinity. In his words, "I am a pawn who has crossed the river, and I will only advance but not retreat." "No, he is by no means a reckless pawn, but a wise general. If he only kept his head down, he would not have been financially free sooner rather than later, and there would not be so many people willing to move forward and retreat with him.
Lu Lu (played by Jiang Xueming) is another "possibility" for Fang Yuanjian. Fang Yuan's ship has not been poor, but the land route has not been rich. are all engaged in robots, others drive luxury cars, but their own homes live in factories, and no one is very willing. The land route is a more realistic Fang Yuan ship, and the Fang Yuan ship is a more idealistic land route. If the two families were exchanged, they might make the same choice. When a person who has no way back has a way back, hesitation is inevitable.
There is also the pair of Jiang Nannan and Cui Jiangbei (played by Zhu Yuchen). They did not have many scenes in the early stage and belonged to service-oriented roles. But without them, like gears without lubrication, no one can play. Fang Yuanjian needs them to find helpers, and he needs them to clarify and smear at the end of summer, and even the matter of science and engineering men finding objects, they also want them to hold a sorority.
The other characters also have their own characteristics and full of flavor. Meng Meng (played by Huang Miyi) and Zhuo Ye (played by Sun Yang) came to rectify the workplace, behind Wei Zhiyuan (played by Yang Xinming) humility, is the helplessness and fatigue brought by age, Zhang Feng (played by Han Li) drinks until he vomits, I don't know how many young strugglers epitome... Through these characters who are either painted in white or profiled, the theatrical truth and reality of "City of Youth" are ironed.
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Few people want to see cumbersome formulas and calculation processes in a film and television drama, few people will learn professional theories and get guidance in film and television dramas, and few people will study the latest technological changes and future imagination in the industry through fictional stories. Even if it is an entrepreneurial drama, empathy is more important than popular science.
What can best convey to the audience is the spirit of endeavor and firm will, the former is the courage to "rush to the first", the latter is the ability to "gush". "City of Youth" is very complete at this point.
In the first 10 episodes, there are many memorable episodes. What I remember most vividly is the dilemma of having no way to turn for help in late summer. The dilemma best reflects the complexity of people. Good creators write about people's vacillation and hesitation in this situation. Even though he experienced a lot of battles at the end of summer, he still couldn't make up his mind between "surviving with a broken tail" and "struggling to survive". Even if everyone around her is persuading her, the company can't hold on, and giving up old employees is the most ideal choice. Even she knows that business is the least emotional.
But she was still emotional. She went to the factory, again and again. At that moment, I didn't know what she was thinking, but she must have had the idea of enduring the pain. But this thought was dispelled when he saw Foreman Li and the workers who were immersed in hard work. At the moment he saw her, Foreman Li must have been ready to accept the bad news, but late summer said nothing. If there is no money, the basic living expenses will be paid first; If the efficiency is poor, first reduce the production line. She did not agree with the requirements of investors and would never give up the old employees who had lived and died together for 20 years.
There must be many viewers who can't help but burst into tears when they see this. In the three years of the epidemic, there are countless bankrupt companies, but there are too few company leaders who can do this at the end of the summer to "not abandon and not give up".
Lu Lu and Gong Miao, the pair of poor mandarin ducks, I can't help but mention it. Although I am a man with the land route, I understand Miyami's choice. She came up with a multiple-choice question for the land, choose me or choose the robot? When watching the play, many barrages did not understand: why did he have to force him to make a choice? But a lot of times, the reality is just that painful. As a bystander, she only saw Gong Miao's "vexatiousness", but she never thought that she had endured it for many years.
After seeing 20 episodes, the land still did not usher in success. Even he himself began to look for a way to monetize. Many people in the barrage began to understand Gong Miao, insisting on being a bipedal robot, is it really worth it? Nobody knows. It is not difficult to generate a genius idea, the difficulty is how to find the right path and go on. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon weren't the first companies to generate ideas, but they were the only ones who succeeded.
Here I want to praise the screenwriter. He didn't write cool articles. Although Lu Lu is not the male protagonist, as the partner of the protagonist, the story has developed to most extent, not to mention the success and fame, it is time for wealth freedom. But the slap in the face of "Gong Miao crying and turning back" originally expected by the barrage did not appear, but Lu Lu saw that Gong Miao had a new love and was furious. However, this is real real life, not whoever has the loudest voice wins.
There is also the conversation between Cui Jiangbei and the bank leader, which is also impressive. Cui Jiangbei said that the government has given policy support, shouldn't banks help vigorously? The bank said, tried its best, but couldn't help. As collateral for intangible assets, intellectual property rights have broken through the existing rules of financial assets. In this conversation, the public said that it was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable. No one can convince anyone. As a spectator, you can only be in a hurry and can't judge right or wrong.
There are many chewy plots like this in the play. The main creator really paid attention, the actors really acted alive, and the audience really saw the eyes. In the play, the local newspaper "Shenzhen Special Zone News", the prototype of "Peng City", specially wrote about the viewing experience of Shenzhen people who are struggling in this "young city". Some people said that they saw their future appearance in the play; Some people also said that this drama filmed their real life; Some viewers saw the tenacity and tenacity of the people of Shenzhen ("Pengcheng") in late summer and Fang Yuanjian.
What other deep thinking is
In the end, there are some deep thoughts that "City of Youth" provokes to talk about.
First, why must the manufacturing industry be transformed? Because there is a crisis in manufacturing.
After the financial crisis, the overall performance of the international manufactured goods market was depressed, and the price level was relatively low. Wen Tiejun, a scholar of three agricultural areas, wrote in "Thinking of Danger" that between 2009 and 2013, the import price of China's manufacturing industry rose by 64%, and the export price increased by only 19%. Based on this, the profit margins of the real economy of the basic manufacturing industry are diluted to very few. As a result, we see that the "Peng City", which used to make its fortune in basic manufacturing, began to have a market crisis.
In the past, China was the world's largest OEM factory, but this identity cannot be maintained forever. In the early years, the "four tigers" could take off because they seized the opportunity to become foundries. Later, this opportunity came to the mainland and came to the "Peng City" (Shenzhen). Once the economy rises, material costs and labor costs will inevitably rise. You see, Father Zhuo (played by Gong Hanlin) saw that Fang Yuanjian's Knight Alliance was quite vocal, and he was going to raise a wave of rent.
Second, why is it necessary to develop high and new technologies? Because no one will sell you high technology.
Many times, buying something is not based on how much money you have, but on what the other party sells. People obviously have the latest model of products, but they want to sell you the previous generation model. The taste of someone else's stuck neck, our country has tasted many times, it is not comfortable. At the end of the summer, Fang Yuanjian also tasted it again and again, so they made up their minds to break through the technical barriers set by foreigners even if they sold their property. It is not enough for people to have me, it is necessary for people to have without me.
Third, why do startups "die nine lifetimes" every time? Because there are those who pull back, and there are those who can't hold on. Even such a majestic figure as Fang Yuanjian will be smoothed out by reality, selling cars and houses for money, not to mention ordinary people such as me? I remember that there is a plot in the play, the investor wants to buy the patent property rights of the far ship and contribute 40 million. Fang didn't even hesitate and directly refused. Change to overland, will it be so crisp?
In "Journey to the West", Zhu Bajie scattered his luggage at every turn. In the team that partners and cooperates, there must be a role like ZBJ. With a huge sum of 40 million in front of us, will "Zhu Bajie" become the majority?
Young people who are just starting out are easily carried away by blood and easily bent by reality. Sometimes there is only a veil between reality and dreams, but sometimes there is a heavenly barrier. The story of the late summer and Fang Yuanjian may provide some comfort and advice to the struggling young people.
Midway through the boat, the play is in full swing. Now, "City of Youth" has 20 episodes, and we continue to watch the play.
【Text/Ma II】