In May, new dramas continued, and "Back Wave" starring Wu Gang and Zhao Lusi was broadcast, and the configuration of drama bone + traffic flowers + well-known screenwriters continued to decline in ratings at the beginning of the broadcast, smashing through the ratings chassis of satellite TV.
This drama is a traditional Chinese medicine theme, a national key support project, and a first-line satellite TV star. The screenwriter is the screenwriter of many popular dramas such as "Snail House", "Heart Technique" and "An Home", plus Wu Gang, Xi Meijuan, Jiang Shan, Li Guangfu and other drama bones joined...
A variety of elements superimposed a hand of "king fried cards", but I didn't expect it to throw a good hand of cards to a sparse, and the premiere only had a rating of 0.33.
What level is this? Directly smashed through the level of the Oriental Satellite TV ratings chassis. In 2022, the average rating of Oriental Satellite TV will be 0.63, and there will only be a few second-round replay TV series hovering in the 0.3 range.
As far as this countdown rating, the two traffic flowers are still grabbing the merit, both saying that their appearance has made the ratings soar...
With doubts, I watched two episodes of "Back Wave" in a row, only to find that its ratings hit the street, not by accident but as it should be.
The most dramatic thing in the opening is the faces of the leading actors. The male and female protagonists are both fresh flesh and flowers, but their faces are rugged, swollen, and there is no sense of CP.
The face of the heroine Zhao Lusi made a frame-by-frame retouching storm when it was first finished, from a round face P to a melon seed face, visually losing 20 pounds.
Now in the play, there is sometimes meat, sometimes emaciation.
Wu Gang, who starred for a while, also had a lot more slots because of his facial state. The stiffness on his face still did not disappear, and his always tense cheeks seemed to be injected with "technology and ruthlessness".
The eye bags were cut, the wrinkles were filled, the skin was expanded, and the 60-year-old Wu Gang's seemingly youthful face actually only added a violation that made people play.
Because while wrinkles and skin texture disappear, it also takes away his ability to make natural expressions. Now on his puffy and stiff face, even making a natural smile is a little difficult:
In fact, when "Crazy" was broadcast at the beginning of the year, the audience questioned Wu Gang's face, but the official explanation given by his agent at that time was: Wu Gang was sick while filming this scene, which caused his face to be swollen.
At that time, everyone reluctantly believed this statement, and in "Back Wave", which began filming the following year, Wu Gang's face was still in this state, which is difficult not to make people doubt.
may be unwilling to serve the old, Wu Gang's face is wrinkled, and the role is also getting younger. Next door, 52-year-old Yan Ni plays the grandmother of a graduating college student in "Grandma's New World", while 60-year-old Wu Gang plays the father of a college student.
When 60-year-old Wu Gangguan and 68-year-old Xi Meijuan shouted "Shimu" (and mother-in-law), this sense of violation reached its peak.
The state of the actors is one of the factors that affect the audience's viewing, but what really affects the quality of the entire drama is the plot. And the plot of the play "Back Wave" is far more than the flesh on Zhao Lusi's cheeks and Wu Gang's puffy face.
A "takeaway storm" plot at the beginning is enough to glimpse the overall level of this drama. The heroine Sun Toutou, played by Zhao Lusi, is an orphan who grew up in a welfare institution and began to earn his own living after the age of 18 and is now working as a delivery boy.
The heroine received a takeaway order from her son in Wu Gang's play, because she was delayed by running a red light on the road, so she lied when she called that she still had 500 meters to arrive. The male protagonist who was about to answer was anxious, so he went downstairs to pick up takeout, but he waited downstairs for 16 minutes.
The delivery worker was late, and the customer looked at her and still lied, angry and said that she wanted to refund the order.
The delivery man played by Zhao Lusi didn't apologize, and directly threw the takeaway on the other party's head, and ran away on an electric donkey...
In order to create the plot of the male and female protagonists happy and wronged, edit this is not even common sense logic? In reality, this is the degree to which the alarm can be called. There is no lower limit for screenwriters, and the actors don't feel wrong when they act?
How late the real delivery man is, look at Haiqing's performance in "Home of the Heart".
Because it was 8 minutes late, she apologized in a low voice and said "I'm sorry", and when she left, she hesitated but accepted in the face of the other party's request to take out the garbage.
Because a bad review deducts 50 yuan, the real delivery man will swallow his anger even if he has a reason, let alone make the outrageous behavior of throwing soup on customers 16 minutes late.
The outrageous plot of "Back Wave" is not only here, the male protagonist was splashed with vegetable soup, and the formal clothes he bought for the defense could not be worn, so he went back to the bedroom to change clothes.
The screenwriter and director may have chosen a red and green outfit to defend in order to express the funny effect... Is this something that normal brain circuits can do?
The father of the male protagonist is also a strange person, and Ren Xinzheng, a traditional Chinese doctor played by Wu Gang, spent 100,000 yuan on strangers who had never met with a wave of his hand. That stranger is the heroine.
Ren Xinzheng wants to run a TCM teacher training class, intending to promote TCM in the traditional model of mentoring and apprenticeship.
His less reliable friend approached him, saying that he had found the inheritor of the "Jiang's Needle Method" of the same origin as him, and the inheritor had long died, leaving only a daughter to grow up in an orphanage.
And how can it be proved that this orphan girl is the orphan of the Jiang family? The only evidence they can come up with is an old group photo. Even the daughter-in-law in Wu Gang's play couldn't help but doubt: "Don't find someone to pit you casually." ”
Wu Gang swore with a look of conviction, saying that although the era was a little older, he could still see that this child had similar eyebrows to the woman who took a photo with the ancestor in the photo.
The next shot gave two close-ups of the photos... The heroine played by Zhao Lusi is not similar to the woman in the old photo, but it can be said that they are exactly the same.
The audience took a look at the fake, but the characters in the play turned a blind eye, and the master mother played by Xi Meijuan even praised her eyebrows like a loyal queen.
They may not know that this "Zhongliang Queen" has just spilled a head of vegetable soup on their grandson without quality, nor do they know that she has already entered and left the police station several times.
After splashing the vegetable soup, the heroine saw righteousness when delivering food at another store, and rescued a sister who was abused by her brother, but she didn't want to be bitten back by the other party, saying that she beat people because she didn't give good reviews.
The heroine entered the game because she broke the wrist of the domestic violence man during the fight.
Wu Gang, who was looking for the inheritor, went all the way to the police station, and learned that he had to lose money to reconcile with the other party.
The domestic violence man opened his mouth to ask for 100,000, obviously blackmail, and the intellectual played by Wu Gang really agreed for a strange little girl, ready to go home to get money.
Without investigating, without DNA testing, or even in person, they insisted that the girl was the inheritor and wanted to redeem her and nurture her. Only two people in the male protagonist's family were still sober, and they were also persuaded by the two old men.
In the end, they really took out 100,000 and redeemed a stranger... I don't know if they are stupid and have a lot of money, or if the screenwriter forcibly lowered his wisdom for the plot.
The heroine played by Zhao Lusi was so coaxed back to the medical hall and became everyone's master.
The "master" she played was shocked the whole time, so shocked that he would only show his Korean-style staring acting skills. She glared at her salary in the car, when she was asked on the road, and when she was called Master in the medical hall, as if she only had this expression.
Left and right staring up and down, while trying her best to show the white part of her eyes, she also matched the figure eight eyebrows + mouth slightly open, as if she would say Korean in the next second: "Xihachi." ”
So many years have passed, from the ancient puppet "Chen Qianqian" to the current puppet "I Like You" and the period drama "Alley", Zhao Lusi's acting skills have always "never forgotten the original intention". Nowadays, playing a Chinese medicine inheritor is still full of kimchi flavor.
The outrageous plot in "Back Wave" with exaggerated acting skills can also be regarded as "complementary" in another sense.
It's just a pity that this Chinese medicine theme, many old drama bone foils, the last time I saw such a luxurious lineup of Chinese medicine theme drama, was "Old Chinese Medicine" starring Chen Baoguo in 2019.
Just 4 years have passed, the film and television industry has shot again, filming the new era of Chinese medicine drama "Houlang", but the ratings hit the street, ridicule, a good hand of cards to play sparsely.
No one expected that the front wave receded, but the "back wave" fell to death on the beach.