Author|Gu Han
Editor|Li Chunhui
As early as the 80s, when chasing Japanese comics, there was almost a default rule: the protagonist is used to promote the plot, and the supporting role is used to like. So asking "Do you like Kaede Rukawa or Sakuragi Hanamichi" obviously does not know how to do it, "Mitsui Shou, Sendo Akira, Fujima which do you want to marry", this is the person who understands. It is precisely because of this that Qingshan Gangchang's greed can make the "Ke Wei" and "Xinlan" CP party disputes directly quarrel on China's Weibo hot search.
It can't be attributed to the lack of charm of the protagonists, after all, the protagonists carry too much - and to promote the plot, and to promote the main theme, it may still be the product of a compromise of many wills. The supporting characters are much purer, and the creators can freely display their beloved, fashionable, and extreme characters on them, without being tied up and loyal.
But in the early years, Chinese TV series audiences were still relatively simple protagonist parties. Even if they sometimes suspect that the protagonists are not doing things properly, they are willing to explain and cover up for them. It wasn't until many years later that everyone realized that the little swallow was really a troublemaker, and the queen mother was a normal human reaction.
This overturn was out of control. At first, it was a supporting role that turned over after many years. An Lingrong in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the wind review has undergone a shocking reversal in ten years. From a sinister villain who was enough to involve the actor in online violence, he has become today's emoji terrier king and a popular protagonist of rebirth literature. The golden phrase "you are great, you are high" in "Myth" is widely circulated in short videos, no less than Jin Sha's "Star and Moon Myth" and Bai Bing's white clothes dance.
Then it is the supporting role in the broadcast that is pleasant, Qi Tongwei's "Shengtian Half Son" and Gao Qiqiang's "Godfather of Selling Fish", the light overshadows the protagonist.
Now it goes further, in the warm-up period before the episode is broadcast, the supporting roles of Yan Pressed have become a selling point for publicity, such as "Long Moon Ember Ming" and Chen Duling, who plays the female number two.
With the end of the dream of Wanruo Fusheng, Chen Duling's role changed from Saint Tianhuan back to Shunu Ye Bingxiang, and the mana and the limited shape of the "Golden Wire Lop Rabbit" were withdrawn, and the forced frame also fell away. But unexpectedly, its influence and discussion have not decreased, but increased.
Comparing the discussion of the female second character of "Long Moon Ember Ming" in the two stages before and after, the "Huanmen" in the name of madness is just a small group of people's meme carnival, but Ye Bingchang's related discussion has gone to a larger scope, towards the level of text and value - is it time to change the protagonist who has been popular for five or six years at birth? When you Draco fall in love, it's really easy to step on the flowers and plants on the ground.
Supporting role reversal tide
Why does this audience like to overturn the case for supporting roles?
First, new trends of thought such as female awakening and anti-love brain have surged up, resulting in new interpretations of many classic models, and the wind reviews of decent protagonists and villains and supporting roles have ebbed and gone. Wang Baochuan's eighteen years of hard work in the cold kiln, which used to be the object of praise, is now a counterexample of warning young people not to get carried away by love. Correspondingly, the family who blocked her changed from feudal parents to good parents who "calculated" their children.
Second, memes and short videos materialize film and television works, and fan culture personalizes film and television works. For young consumers immersed in this fragmented culture, characters do not have to be attached to the original work, but are just an element in the pop culture database - they can be viewed in isolation from the original context, or they can be used to serve other expressions, and taken out of context becomes natural.
Third, compared with the previous generation, young consumers have a stronger reading and reading volume, can look at the story from a higher angle, disassemble the routine, and feel the deliberate manipulation behind the characters' actions - not clever plot settings, interest competition and censorship considerations in film and television creation, traffic passwords and stereotypes, etc., so as to sympathize with the supporting characters.
Finally, and most importantly, the supporting characters' unsatisfactory fate and not strong enough mentality are more in line with people's first-hand life experience and mental state. Compared with the protagonist who comes from a noble birth and is open in trouble, it is more like a supporting role for ordinary people and normal people, and it is easier to win the psychological projection of the audience.
After becoming a social animal, I watched "SpongeBob SquarePants", only to find that the octopus brother who shrugged his face every day was the real thing in the world, and I understood why he didn't want to play with his colleagues after work, but liked to play the clarinet at home for a while.
After personally experiencing the class gap and survival pressure, many people have a better understanding of An Lingrong and Gao Yao's blackening. If you don't scold them, you let go of yourself who takes off your robe.
The same is true for Ye Bingchang in "Long Moon Ember Ming". On the surface, this character is a Bai Fumei heartthrob and a typical strong female second in idol dramas, but in fact it is full of negative buffs: unvalued out, mortals who are not special enough, female partners who intervene in the male and female protagonists...
Regardless of her thoughts and actions, her natural identity is already doomed that she will not have the same choice space as the protagonist. She has no right to be good and decent, and can only become an unscrupulous villain as the plot develops, and is finally executed with great pleasure.
But such a "bottom" villain is obviously no longer happy, but makes people feel concerned. Just like the hot phrase "no one is more worthy of my love than myself", the character is treated differently by the family, the heroine changes the trajectory of life, the actor "let makeup" and "let the filter", this set of "bullied by the world" narrative is not necessarily completely in line with the facts, but it is very effective, accurately poked at the popular social mood of self-pity and self-injury, attracting the attention and participation of many young people.
Overturning the case for Ye Bingchang is another kind of rat and mouse literature, Kong Yiji literature.
The rebound of the cool text
People can't substitute the protagonist but sympathize with the supporting role, and the reason has to be found from the source of the web article.
With the changes of the times, people's attitude towards the cool text routine has undergone several changes, and this has undoubtedly promoted the cycle of film and television creation.
At first, it was believed that Shuangwen also needs Shuangwen. There are martial arts stories of poor boys reaching the pinnacle of life in male texts, and fantasy little white texts that shout "Don't bully young people poor". In the female frequency, there is a dominating Cinderella mode, and the prince on campus will always be moved by that stubborn and ordinary girl.
And with the solidification of social class, Shuangwen is no longer substituted and encouraged for people, but catharsis and anesthesia - anyway, I am already yy, and it is more refreshing to open and hang directly with goldfingers. The male frequency Buddha system lies flat, the system flow, the son-in-law flow, the soft rice flow... The Basic Law is gradually not talked about, because there is no need to be guided by reality at all.
The audience of female frequency and idol dramas no longer pursues the sense of substitution of "ordinary girls", but chooses to take a step back and snort CP, wanting to see smooth characters talk about decent love, and there are many loves between Gao Fushuai and Bai Fumei on the screen: "A slight smile is very charming", "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "You Are My Glory"... The heroine decathlon, the two are unanimous to the outside world; There is no class gap, rescue and poverty alleviation, only the door is right, and the water is successful.
In "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", Susu changed back to the white shallow god after jumping the Sendai, and slapped the face in an all-round vicious female match
The downside of this is that ordinary people are marginalized in the story. The current puppet is not obvious, the fairy ancient puppet is the hardest hit area, not so much according to the origin of the distribution of morality, but according to the position of the distribution of characters, the more protagonists, the more character elements are stacked. So that in the end, the audience sees that the protagonist with a bunch of gorgeous titles is busy in love, and Cang Sheng is either a background board or is Huo Huo.
At this time, the audience's sense of self-worth in reality is further reduced, and there is no heart to substitute the protagonist, but they always subconsciously compare themselves with low passers-by.
It should be said that now the audience has come to such a new stage: they once again want to see themselves in fairy tales. But the decent protagonist who is too high in the realm and the villain of the big devil king who is too extreme are not ideal objects of common feelings. The audience will even resist the particularly obvious protagonist's aura.
In fact, it stands to reason that "Long Moon Ember Ming" is an anti-routine "villain Fuzheng" story, and the male protagonist Tangtai Ember is a person who has not felt the warmth of the world, and died tragically after being bullied. However, whether it is born with a lack of emotions, or being misunderstood, discriminated against and bullied by the world, it is too far from the life situation of ordinary people. In contrast, the reasons for Ye Bingchang's blackening are much more grounded: being cold-eyed by her family, discord with her sisters, jealousy, and not feeling safe from her lover... You can see similar complaints on social platforms almost every day.
The same is true of the hit drama "Crazy" at the beginning of the year. The audience almost one-sidedly sympathized with the little fishmonger who loved his family and defeated the strong with weakness, but the evaluation of Jinghai's godfather Brother Qiang was more divided: some people were triggered by Mu Qiang's psychology, and some people began to sober up from the Mang Village part, and turned to empathize with cannon fodder Li Qing and his son.
The positive protagonist An Xin can only be said to be an upgraded version of Hou Liangping, although Zhang Yi has added a lot of humanized details to him, many viewers are still not close to him psychologically. On the contrary, Li Xiang, who has a stain, Lu Han, who "does not measure himself", and Tan Siyan, who has few scenes, can move the audience more, and Zhang Biao, who is not guaranteed in the late festival, even gets more understanding than condemnation.
Everyone admires the protagonist An Xin, or naturally stands on the side without the protagonist's aura - that is, their own side.
The cycle of actors
The supporting role has the advantage of the supporting role, and the protagonist has the bitterness of the protagonist. As the protagonist, the plot may be compromised in order to censor the customs, and the chance of changing the vulgar character is also greater, and it is often impossible to be black to the end and logically consistent like the supporting characters.
However, starring means an increase in income, exposure and coffee position, and no one does not want to play the leading role. As a result, the dramatic cycle of playing a supporting role and waiting until he took the lead and being suppressed by the supporting role was repeatedly staged in internal entertainment:
Di Li Gerba pressed Tang Yan out of the circle in "Cara Lover", and was stolen by Zhao Lusi in "Long Song Line" 6 years later; Luo Yunxi played "Fragrant Honey Sinking Like Frost" into "The Legend of Runyu", and 5 years later, he starred in "Long Moon Ember Ming", and the audience once again fell to the supporting role.
If you want to earn popularity through supporting roles, or even further attract fans, you need consistency in and out of the play. For example, Song Yinzhang in "Menghualu" was also loved and supported by the audience, and in the end, the blessing of the actor Lin Yun was not great, because Lin Yun's resource café identity and bullying scandal were too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Luo Yunxi is the opposite. He was inferior to the other two main performers during the "Xiangmi" period, firstly, he had a freshness and secondly, he was more likely to be regarded as weak. In the later stage of the episode broadcast, Runyu's suspicion cloud of drama was bloody, and after all parties threw out evidence, the more accepted explanation was that the young actor injected water for the film party and dragged the number of episodes. The "beauty and misery" in and out of the play echoed each other, and the abuse of fans was successful, and the traffic was born.
The same goes for Shuhuan traffic Zhang Songwen. As a supporting role in the play, outside the play, at least the popularity of the episode when it was broadcast was far less than Zhang Yi, which naturally aroused the audience's curiosity and pity for the beads. The more fights about the character of the scene, the easier it is for the audience to fall for Zhang Songwen.
However, as soon as the artist becomes popular, sooner or later the "208w" and "Draco" side will be exposed, and the basis for audience empathy and empathy will no longer exist. Zhang Songwen's personality has not changed, but fans inevitably have a traffic rice circle atmosphere; Luo Yunxi eventually became the male protagonist of the drama, but he was more inclined to the adaptation and presentation of the male protagonist, which also changed the story originally told from the perspective of the female protagonist.
Under the cycle of the underworld, the former outstanding supporting actor Luo Yunxi and the current outstanding supporting actor Chen Duling got into a game, which is really a wonderful show. Throughout Chen Duling's experience in the circle, the heroine of the Heavenly Fall movie back then also played a lot of big IPs when she had no fans, which is far from the imagination of today's "ordinary people without the halo of the protagonist".
Those who can take the stage are ultimately the protagonists of this game of life. I wait for the extras, and I can only grab the lines and gossip about them a few more words.