"Back Wave" was scolded, not all blame Zhao Lusi

"Back Wave" ended yesterday, but the Douban homepage is still full of one-star long comments, and at a closer look, most of them are questions about the behavior of the heroine Sun Toutou. During the broadcast, Sun Toutou, played by Zhao Lusi, also carried the discussion of the series, and his role discussion exceeded 50%.

In this way, many bad comments around the play also affected the starring Zhao Lusi. However, if you want to understand how to have these bad comments, you must first understand the brain circuits of the initiator and screenwriter of the project.

In the past, the screenwriter's "Heart Technique" and "An Home" were stories that Liuliu went to find others, and this time, she wrote about her own life.

In 2014, by chance, Liuliu was cured by acupuncture and had been plaguing cough for many years. As a result, she became acquainted with several TCM practitioners, including her later mentor, Liu Lihong, a teacher at the School of Basic Medicine of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine. In this process, she gradually came up with an idea to create.

A year later, Liuli called Lu Chao, the founder of Yaoke Media, and said that she wanted to write a story about Chinese medicine and wanted to go for a master's degree for at least six years.

Not long after visiting Liu Lihong, Liuliu was already able to start treating Lu Chao for his frozen shoulder. Not long after, Liuliu told Lu Chao that she had found the protagonists of the Chinese medicine drama, that is, herself and Liu Lihong. "Just write about a little girl who doesn't understand Chinese medicine at all, how to follow the process of the master from a layman to an insider." Lv Chao in the

"The Sun Tou played by Zhao Lusi is actually me in school." 66 said in the "Oral Record of the Ten Years of Yaoke". "Everyone says that Teacher Liu especially likes me as a 'closed disciple', and indeed, only I stay by his side all day, report to him no matter how big or small, accompany him every day, cause trouble for him, and challenge his authority."

After the self-substitution of June Six, the daily life of Ren Xinzheng, a professor at the University of Chinese Medicine played by Sun Tooutou and Wu Gang, sent a lot of new and fresh complaining materials to film and television bloggers.

In particular, the scene in the first episode where the head of the delivery of food spilled the takeaway on the male protagonist's head became a fixed beginning of the UP masters' complaining video. When Sun Tou Tou Qingming Festival and Shi Cheng Class worshiped the ancestors together, he mocked the teachers and students who sacrificed, thinking that the offerings were a waste of food, and after damaging the roommate's belongings, he thought that the roommate was narrow-minded and did not know how to share, which also made bloggers shout "outrageous".

Liuliu doesn't know if he will be at a loss for this: it is obviously his daily relationship with his master, and it took nearly six years of preparation time to get a graduate degree, why did most of the audience feel "suspended"? What did "Back Wave" do wrong?

There is a problem with six-six, but maybe six-six doesn't care.

"Realistic", difficult to handle

The reality experienced by Liuliu is surreal for many people.

A student with zero foundation and no professional background directly joined the master to become a graduate student. During the reading process, there was a period of time when I lived in the tutor's house to fully study, and in the past few years, I have mastered a lot of techniques, which can not only help Lu Chao relieve frozen shoulder, touch the pulse of the screenwriter's apprentice, but also judge that she secretly ate ice cream yesterday.

In the play, Sun Tooutou is the "heir of Jiang's needlework", and in the first episode, because of this identity, he received a group of old Chinese medicine practitioners in the medical hall, and later joined the teacher inheritance class founded by Ren Xinzheng. The story of the teacher inheritance class is the main line of "Hou Lang", the story begins when Ren Xinzheng resigns as the principal and wants to restore the old system of "mentoring system" of Chinese medicine, this class has no threshold, and anyone who is interested in learning Chinese medicine can join, so we saw lawyers, nurses, medical doctors, and Sun Tou Tou and other students who delivered food.

The point of "inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine" is a few layers more surreal than that of part-time graduate students.

It is far from reality, and then look at Ren Xinzheng's diagnosis and treatment methods - more like psychological counseling or health advice than Chinese medicine diagnosis. Some patients have been troubled by negative emotions for many years, standing in the corner and listening to Ren Xinzheng's emotional class, they were immediately relieved and divorced their husbands. An old lady was not in good health because she ate too much seafood, and Ren Xinzheng's diagnosis was "too much karma", and the prescription was "go to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland to see, go to the three mountains and five mountains, and burn incense when you encounter a temple." ”

However, whether it is the teacher inheritance class, this kind of bold "health guide" is the "reality" that Liuliu personally experienced.

Liuliu's own public account article released in 2018 (titled "Liuliu: Birth and Entry into the WTO", which was later reprinted to the public account @tongyousan and education culture) added more details to her studies in recent years.

In 2018, she was preparing for Tongyou Sanhe Shanghai Medical Center, and said, "I started thinking three years ago, and Teacher Liu Lihong was not my mentor at that time... He suddenly called me and asked me to find a classroom for his students. At that time, Liu Lihong was doing the "Medical Dao Inheritance" project, which provided free education to students and young doctors at the University of Chinese Medicine.

Source: Tongyou Sanhe website

Liuliu then turned to the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission, which found a classroom in the traditional Chinese medicine industrial park. But then the classroom disappeared, and "I was already falsely accused by Teacher Liu of being his student's homeroom teacher." In order to tie me up, he also accepted me as a graduate student. ”

Liuliu continued to lead the class to find classrooms, and vowed to donate the medical center for the project. This medical center has received investment from celebrities such as Jack Ma, Zhang Jiayi, and Haiqing.

Image source: public account @ Tongyou Three and Education Culture

In this way, Liuliu is not only Sun Toutou, who studied Chinese medicine from scratch, but also Ren Xinzheng, who encountered the biggest setback in that play is to find a classroom.

The people around Liu Lihong are also willing to accept his "health guide". Liuliu once mentioned in a 2016 article, "You will be surprised to find that none of the women around Mr. Liu wear skirts, and Sanfutian hates to be wrapped in a foreign race that only shows his eyes." He repeatedly stressed that fire is the source of life. When the fire is extinguished, life ends. ”

In the drama of Six Six, it is the "reality" she has experienced. "My imagination is extremely limited, so most of my realistic subjects are still based on life."

However, the reality that Liuliu experienced for the sake of "Back Wave" belongs to the category of magical realism for ordinary people. Not everyone can learn Chinese medicine to worship the master, and they can also explore the elite resources of first-tier cities to help the master solve problems.

In addition to his own experience, when Liuliu wrote "An Home", he spent a lot of time trying to find a "prototype" from the interview subjects who could be used as the heroine. After finding it, the character and story basically have a context.

"An Home"

According to surging news reports, after Sun Li took over the heroine of "An Home", she asked Liuliu many questions, which were "questions that Liuli had never thought of", "She will question the rationality of this character's character, why is she such a character?" “

However, how to "refine" from the interview has universal "rationality" is not a question that Liuliu wants to consider, "but you know that the character I wrote was interviewed by me, so this person is reasonable or unreasonable, I haven't thought about it, I just presented, why she is like this I haven't considered."

Liuliu used to be very good at dealing with "reality", but the longer she dealt with her works, the worse her reputation became.

From 2007 to 2009, Liuliu's three works as the original author and screenwriter were released one after another, with more than 8 points on Douban, and it also ranked in the forefront of the TV series ratings ranking that year. All three works were written quickly, "Wang Gui and Anna" was written in 15 days, "Double Sided Tape" took 22 days, and "Snail House" took 45 days.

"Double Sided Tape" and "Worm House" were written by her parents who were married to her parents in the early years when she saw netizens talking about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and house problems, and "Wang Gui and Anna" was written by her parents who were married to gold.

These three works were all released in the form of forum posts, and readers gave her timely feedback and material supplements, such as many of the plots about business and law in "Snail House" are "suggestions" from "fans".

Can win a good reputation, has the advantage of the theme. The three works are in the category of "family ethics drama", and this theme is enough to trigger everyone's discussion just by spreading it out, after all, "the family has a difficult scripture", and most audiences can always find some of their own shadows from it.

Later, Liuliu was not satisfied with being a creator of "family ethics dramas", but wanted to be a "recorder of a period of history" and wanted to write a "historical drama" of the present. Just as "Heart Technique" focuses on the relationship between doctors and patients, "Women Are Not Strong" thinks about the changes in the media industry, "An Home" is the current problem of "buying a house" in China, and "Houlang" is with the determination to "inherit traditional culture".

《Heart Technique》

From family ethics to contemporary history, the stalls have expanded, and the audience's resonance has become less.

The changes in the current society still affect specific ordinary people, and contemporary historical dramas should also reflect how the protagonists of the changes have become the people they are today. Just like Sun Toutou was chosen because she is the so-called "Jiang's needle heir", this kind of blood theory, I am afraid that the public cannot empathize.

People in history should reflect sociology, not metaphysics.

Returning to the role problem of the previous "An Home", in the end, how did Sun Li solve her confusion? Liuliu told The Paper that Sun Li found an astrolabe master, calculated the numerology constellation for Fang Sijin, and found that Fang Sijin was like this, so he gladly accepted.

Amplified dog blood

In the streaming era, "golden seven minutes, the first three episodes of life and death", most of the scenes and plots of the first three episodes will be the public's overall perception of this show.

The one-star comments on the first few pages of "Back Wave" Douban, and the complaints of the B station UP masters, are basically concentrated in the plots of the first few episodes. In fact, the unreasonable character of the characters in the early stage is also explained later-

Sun Tooutou is able to do things that spill takeaway on the heads of unreasonable people, growing up in the welfare dean, she only has a friend of Tian Xingxing, relying on hard fists to protect herself, and she has also entered the police station several times because of this impulsive behavior.

Ren Xinzheng always seems to be complaining about his wife in the early stage, emphasizing the difference between his wife and himself. He said, "I just love Master to marry you", but he is so "unkind", devoted himself to Chinese medicine, is more distant from his family and lover, and his son is even obsessed with extreme sports because of his tense relationship with him.

However, this desire to raise and suppress first, it has been suppressed for too long, too little, and it is difficult to dissolve the impact of the previous pictures and lines. And Internet audiences are increasingly unwilling to accept the character's justified splatters.

Along with "wanting to promote and suppress first", there are also intensive conflicts in domestic dramas. In most domestic dramas, irreconcilable contradictions in the values of the younger generation of elders will be set, and they will be laid and unfolded in a long number of episodes, and create collusion in narrow interpersonal relationships.

This is what 661 has always been good at. Her screenwriting works can be said to be a social hot spot. "Double Sided Tape" and "Wang Gui and Anna" are both love stories between a local girl in Shanghai and a "phoenix man", the former has more mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting, and the latter's 50-year span has given the extended family more narrative space; "Snail House" focuses on the difficulty of buying a house in first-tier cities; In "Heart Technique", there is a presentation of the doctor-patient relationship.

"Double Sided Tape" "Wang Gui and Anna"

These works, which are full of social hotspots and family contradictions, always can't escape bloody accusations, but Liuliu's answer is usually: reality is more complicated than this. According to the Yangtze Evening News, Liuliu said that he did not write after hot spots, but dared to magnify the common problems in life: "Many dishes in restaurants are made with ingredients that can be bought at home, why do restaurants taste different?" I just magnify my life in the form of art, just like a girl who usually puts on photogenic makeup, but she is still the same. ”

Therefore, the works of June Six do not lack ratings and discussions.

In 2019, Kuyun's Five David TV TV series ratings ranking, and "Youth Pi" written by Six Six ranked first on Hunan Satellite TV. In 2020, "An Home" ranked first in the 2020 annual ratings ranking of China's audiovisual big data. In terms of online broadcast volume, the two dramas also performed well, and in the annual effective broadcast ranking of new dramas in Yunhe Data, "Youth Pi" ranked eighth that year, and "An Home" ranked fifth that year. The ratings of "Back Wave" have basically not dropped the top three in the same schedule, and it has won the weekly crown of the market share of the whole network feature film broadcast three times in a row on Lighthouse Professional Edition.

Source: Lighthouse Pro

If "Back Wave" is broadcast in the afternoon, it must be able to stand out from bloody dramas such as "Xia Family Three Thousand Gold" and "Second Life" with fresh career settings and fresh and beautiful protagonists.

Unfortunately, its positioning is: professors from the University of Chinese Medicine resigned to establish a TCM inheritance class, teaching students with different personalities and professional backgrounds according to their aptitude, and eventually leading them to grow into the story of inheriting the waves of Chinese medicine.

"Misogyny" and "Daddy"

In addition to "dog blood", "Back Wave" has been accused more of "misogyny" and "daddy".

Liuliu loves to write "Xiaomi", almost every drama has it, what is common is the disgust of the creator himself, the difference is that the complexity is gradually diluted.

The seaweed in "Snail House", in order to help her sister Haiping buy a house, went to borrow money from corrupt officials, and as a result, began to cheats with corrupt officials. Liuliu once excitedly told the Southeast Express reporter: "Seaweed is obviously breaking the order and taking shortcuts, and if you meet the queue and no one cares, who will queue up in the future?" Men are hateful, but the opportunistic second milk is even more dead. ”

"Snail House"

But this role won the sympathy of many people that year, and Douban praised the short comment and also believed that "Guo Haiping is the crux of her sister on this road". Poison Eyes also analyzed in the article "Help, the audience of domestic dramas also loves to catch the mistress", the extramarital affair in "Snail House" itself also involves many aspects of the power structure, social problems and other issues, not just a tool for "spilling dog blood".

And the mistress in "An Home", Zhang Chengcheng, who "really cheated" with the male protagonist to buy a house "fake divorce", it is difficult to say what problems she reacted to, more often she is like a "tool person" in the scene, the male protagonist needs a reason to live with the female protagonist, so she cheats. The work needs a topic, so she justifiably said, "I just made the mistakes that men all over the world make." In the later stage, it is necessary to catalyze the feelings of the male and female protagonists, and she returns to rely on the male protagonist when she finds out that she is pregnant with the child of the cheating partner.

Liuliu believes that Seaweed does not deserve sympathy because she "encroaches on resources" and "disrupts order". At that time, Sixteen was a woman who regarded marriage as a career, and she wanted to play a series of roles as a good woman, daughter, wife, mother, etc., and thought that she had a very successful set of theory and practice.

Ten years ago, Liuli published a book "Women Are Not Strong and Heaven Is Not Tolerant", in which there is an article "What kind of girl will have a good home", writing: Chinese and foreign standards, women want tradition, this can not be wrong anywhere. "The so-called tradition is that the heroine is within the heroine, the husband and the child are together, the husband and wife support each other, and they rely on each other in difficult times."

She is surprised that many women choose not to have children. "Don't you know that once you choose to give up the title of mother, you will basically lose half of the roof of your life. You don't have a chance to be a mother, mother-in-law, or mother-in-law, grandmother, grandmother, or even both. You live in a room with only half the eaves, do you feel breathable, or do you feel uncomfortable? ”

Ten years later, Liuli continued to teach people to be "good daughters-in-law" in "Back Wave".

Ren Xinzheng's mother-in-law in "Back Waves" saw him working, immediately organized, and then let her daughter do it, and said: "Isn't it good for the male protagonist to be outside, and the female protagonist to be inside?" I had to let him mop the floor, do these chores, read books. The way Ren Xinzheng persuaded his wife to accept the "wild road" Sun Tou Tou was, "Isn't this also for the society to cultivate a good daughter-in-law who knows how to be polite and is good at running the house." ”

In this perspective, this group of medically trained students will also link pregnancy to women's private virtues. When they learned that the girl who fainted in the supermarket had an ectopic pregnancy, their first reaction was "I didn't expect it, it looks so honest...", the son wanted to take the girl home for treatment, and the mother's first reaction was to drive away, not wanting the girl to be "my grandson's mother". This girl will probably never be able to enter the standard of "finding a good home" in June Six.

However, thirteen years later, in addition to teaching people to be "good daughters-in-law", Liuliu also wants to teach people to be "inheritors of traditional culture".

When many people on station B complained about "Back Wave", the key words were "feudal" and "patriarchal". In this teacher's inheritance class, Sun Toutou had to accept the salute of a group of elders because of his "inheritor" technique, and Ren Xinzheng's son was unwilling to salute and was severely criticized by him: "If you are unwilling to salute and do not want to do this, you will leave immediately now, and the province will wronged you in this family."

In the teacher's class, there is no reason, only the truth of the master, Sun Tou to sleep in class is to "cherish the body" others play with mobile phones is "not as good as Sun Tou to sleep", Sun Tou Tou robbed the roommate used to learn to needle the little leather man, the roommate said to Ren Xinzheng that he wanted to change the dormitory, Ren Xinzheng blamed his roommate Xiao Qi, "If you don't take this 75 yuan matter to heart, it's not a big deal." ”

Ren Xinzheng's actor Wu Gang responded in an interview with self-media entertainment that everyone said that this side of "feudalism" was that when they did their homework, they found that Liu Lihong's teacher and apprentice got along like this. "Teacher Liu Lihong is a little smiling, his apprentices have great respect for him, such as speaking to the teacher must stand, to respect "Master"... I said at the time that the screenwriters really wrote like them. ”

Wu Gang also said that he may still need to think hard to digest the audience's reaction. "But the feedback from the audience made me realize that young audiences now have higher requirements for film and television works, and they want to have a kind of value transmission."

This situation of "no reason, only the truth of the master" in the master-apprentice system is also her "reality" for Liuliu.

In 2018, she forwarded a news that "Dr. Hanmen committed suicide after being PUA by his mentor", saying that "today's children don't know what is going on in their heads, put a curtain, buy a vegetable, clean up and die of grievances... Don't take yourself too seriously, you serve the teacher, isn't that right? After being criticized by netizens, she also responded seriously: "It's not ridicule at all, but from the heart... I think that if you have fun doing trivial things, you will attract the closeness of all kinds of people. In any industry, emotional intelligence comes first. ”

Therefore, in the subsequent plot of "Back Wave", Yang Xiaohong, a lawyer who emphasizes personal boundaries, does not often act with classmates, and does not care much about class dynamics and only cares about his own studies, has been repeatedly criticized by elders such as Ren Xinzheng, and at the same time was arranged with the plot of "no one cares after falling on the mountain, Ren Xinzheng said that you should care more about the classmates, you see why everyone likes Sun Toutou so much".

However, this may not be what young people think now. You want young people to be your "back wave", but do you really care where young people want to rush?

Many older generation creators will have such moments when they are accused of "daddy" when they write about young people. For example, the noon sun in recent years.

Poison Eyes was once in "How did urban drama become the short board of the noon sun? The article wrote that the backbone of the noon sun, mostly born around the 60s or 70s, is the protagonist of the drama "Great Rivers", after the huge social changes after the reform and opening up, internalized struggle into habits. The rapid development of society has also allowed them to reap the positive results brought by their struggle.

"Great Rivers"

In Hou Hongliang's interviews, he often put the drama into the large coordinate system of social change to extract value, and the noon sun, and before the noon sun era, when they were still in the mountain shadow, they were consciously or unintentionally using the TV series to complete a "modern chronicle". This may also be the reason why Liuliu, who was born in 74, wants to write "current historical dramas" now.

In the drama that can place his feelings of home and country and thinking about grand propositions, the "daddy taste" of "Noon Sun" will be more natural, such as "Langya List" and "Great Rivers", but in "Meet the Season", which is full of business war plots far from the audience's daily life, and the equally less "down-to-earth" "Ode to Joy 3", the "daddy taste" of the noon sun has not yet found a way to dialogue with contemporary young people.

For Liuliu, when she stepped out of the comfort zone of family ethics and emotional life and entered the grand proposition of "contemporary history", she could not empathize with the current state of young people, but also must put the heavy responsibility of "inheritance" on the shoulders of young people, and at the same time, when dealing with "reality", she could not refine her personal experience into resonance with the times. Contradictions arose.

For all "front waves", "daddy taste" arises from the moment when they see themselves as "front waves" and young people as "back waves" that "rush in the same river" as them.

When they can really feel the flow, rather than necessarily thinking about which tracks they should be taking, maybe that's the moment of relief for both creators and audiences.