One city, two generations, three cousins and brothers who are not biological than biological ... "Dragon City", which is being broadcast on Oriental Satellite TV, is the same as "The World", "Our Day" and "Wishes", which have achieved high ratings in recent years, all of which focus on the history of ordinary families and their parents' short, sad and joyful, but because of its more "rich" expression, it shows different temperaments and gives the audience a fresh look.
The meaning of home is infused with multiple interpretations in "Dragon City".
Tearing and love are intertwined in family affection
"Dragon City" focuses on a pair of cousins of the Zheng family in Dragon City - Zheng Xizhi (played by Bai Yu) and Zheng Dongni (played by Ma Yili). a restrained and selfless dedication; A passionate, self-exasuring. They care for each other and dislike each other, change each other and understand each other, and when their youth is gone, they face practical difficulties and grow into warm and down-to-earth adults who do not lose their original intention. In "Dragon City", the audience can empathize with the significant impact of family on everyone's growth. Zheng Dongni's parents have been quarreling constantly, and domestic violence often occurs, so she developed a rebellious and jumpy personality, dropped out of school early and left home, and in her own marriage, she continued the mode of getting along between her parents, hating each other with her husband; cousin Zheng Xidu, whose parents died since childhood, was raised by three uncles and three aunts, and has a gentle and tolerant personality, so he stayed in the Dragon City family to repay his kindness; The Zheng family also has a third sister Nanyin (played by Li Tingting), under the careful care of her family, she was lively and naïve, dared to love and hate, she impulsively obtained a marriage certificate when she went to college, and began a tragic life in confusion.
The three children of the Zheng family are not biological than biological
In "Dragon City", it is more not the father's filial piety and sisterly love familiar to the audience, but laughter, contradictions, quarrels, intimacy, dissatisfaction and resentment; But it is not "pain literature" and "crazy literature", in "Dragon City", the audience will see very "rich" elements. Broken families will also have a moment of warmth, and happy families are also inevitable and jealous, but no matter whether the family brings them warmth or pain, the imprint of home cannot be removed from them. The intertwined family affection of tearing and love in the Zheng family of Longcheng is actually the epitome of the family affection of thousands of ordinary urban families in China.
The relationship between the characters is full of tension
"Dragon City" is adapted from Di'an's series of novels "Dragon City Trilogy", published from 2009 to 2012, the starting point of the story is in the late summer and early autumn of 2005, in the book bright and crazy Zheng Dongni, gentle and calm Zheng Xizhi, wayward arrogant Zheng Nanyin, and the devastated native family behind them, are the key to attracting readers, many people deeply empathize with the fate of the characters in the story. And the characters of the three cousins of Zheng Dongni, Zheng Xidu, and Zheng Nanyin, put on the screen in 2023, are still "exploded" - Zheng Xizhi was robbed of his beloved woman Chen Yan by his uncle Zheng Hong; Zheng Dongni saw that his brother was deeply hurt and came forward to fight unevenly, his words were aggressive, and he also reached out to slap Chen Yan; Zheng Nanyin couldn't understand the adults' concessions to their feelings, and used a big fuss to disrupt the hard-won dinner, expressing her unwillingness to forgive Zheng Hong and Chen Yan... The Zheng family, because of the existence of these three cousins, can break out in war anytime and anywhere, turning into a large Asura field.
Screenwriter Wu Nan said that the most vibrant place in the original work of "Dragon City" is the "unique and dramatic character relationship", especially the relationship between Xi Du and Dongni, "Xi Du is particularly humble, even inferior, but constantly gives warmth, the more he lacks, the more he has to give to others; But Dongni is bursting, grabbing, ostentatious, and aggressive. These two imperfect people represent two values, two expressions of love." Although the Xidu and Dongni siblings both want to solve difficult problems for each other, they continue to argue and bring new difficulties again and again. And whenever the big family and the little sister Nanyin face difficulties, Xi Du and Dongni face it together again and again. The third sister Nanyin is like a mirror, and what they can't see clearly in the East Ni and West will be revealed on Nanyin's body.
The story of Zheng's parents' generation is also interesting
The actors are close to their faces and have acting skills
With the foundation of the original novel in front, the audience's attitude towards film and television adaptation is inevitably harsh, in addition to whether the story deletion is smooth enough, the most important thing is whether the casting is consistent with the feeling in the book.
Zheng Dongni rebelled and perverse, supporting most of the "crazy criticism" stories in the whole play, and she appeared either for her family or a divorce war, and she fought each other with words. Audiences who are accustomed to Ma Yili's short hair styling in urban dramas for more than ten years were a little difficult to adapt to her Qi bangs and long wave style in the play at first, but Ma Yili performed Zheng Dongni's madness, vulnerability, kindness, and determination, and used her acting skills to make Qi bangs and long wave styling also look good.
Ma Yili used her acting skills to make the audience accept Dongni
Bai Yu's performance of Qiao Yi's achievements in "Children of the Qiao Family" has made countless audiences distressed. This time, Bai Yu, who came to the Zheng family, became Xi Zhi, who took care of the big family wholeheartedly, and was repeatedly injured and lost in love, which once again made the audience feel that "Bai Yu is so suitable for this unlucky child's character".
Bai Yu's role as Xidu is deeply rooted in people's hearts
Li Tingting, who plays Nanyin, played the optimistic and cute liberal arts girl Xue Tong in the school drama "Exclusive Memory" in 2019, and has already attracted attention, and has been praised as "extremely talented, not only mastering the role in place, but also giving the character vitality". In "Dragon City", cooperating with a group of acting schools, she did not fall behind at all, playing the little sun, the ghostly Zheng family's "little rabbit" Nanyin.
Li Tingting plays the "ghost elf" Nanyin
Author: Liang Juan ("Shanghai TV" original article, please contact the editorial office for reprinting)
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