Starts tonight! Yang 1 airborne drama, led by Guo Jingfei, this campus youth drama is going to be popular?

When it comes to the "school drama king" of the college entrance examination theme, who can everyone think of?

From the perspective of data and performance in all aspects, in the past 20 years of domestic campus dramas, although there are more representative works such as "The Best of Us", "Together Through the Window", "Little Huanxi", "To Our Simple Little Beauty", Zhao Lusi's "Secretly Can't Hide" is also on the air.

But there are only two films that can really be called themed on campus life, not campus love, and the word-of-mouth ratings are very eye-catching.

One is "Destiny's Promise" starring Fu Biao and Wu Yue after the new Magnolia TV in 2002, with a Douban score of 8.9 points, and Liu Yun, who later married Zheng Jun, is still so young in the play.

The other is "Youth Pi 1" starring Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ni, Zhao Jinmai, etc., the drama is not only a great success in ratings, but also indeed a relatively successful work that has shown the college entrance examination family in recent years, Lin Miaomiao's role is also the most successful image of college entrance examination students created by Chinese dramas in recent years.

Facts have proved that a good drama is one that can withstand the "judgment" of the years and can be remembered by the audience.

But then again, several years have passed since the recent explosion of Chinese drama college entrance examination masterpieces, and there has not been another drama to take the title of "campus drama king".

Even if it is a heavyweight work like CCTV's "Big Exam", there are famous directors and powerful people to help. It is also always a bit far from the classics.

Could it be said that there is no new classic in domestic school dramas that can go through the big test of time?

Not necessarily. Perhaps, the drama to be talked about below can save the situation.

Just tonight, this blockbuster drama will be broadcast on the prime time of Central One, starring Guo Jingfei and Ren Min, starring Wang Yuan as a special guest, and a number of national first-class actors pressing the 30-episode TV series "Chasing the Light".

Why do you think that it really has the potential of CCTV's new "campus drama king"?

At least judging from the trailer, there is finally another campus youth inspirational drama that is not suspended, no dog blood polyamorous love, no Mary Sue as a demon, and no bloody hand-tearing.

Instead, it allowed me to see some of the most essential things in campus dramas, such as academics, such as dreams, such as destiny...

Our youth has not been hit by these propositions, and our heads have been broken.

And in the end, we stand in this moment of life because of our own answers, regardless of success or failure, those days of chasing light, looking back, still shine.

This kind of filming is called a campus inspirational drama.

First, another candidate for CCTV's "campus drama king"? This time it's going to come for real!

This is a drama that can feel its weight from the title, but really speaking, its "background" is indeed "something".

Key TV drama projects of the 14th Five-Year Plan, guidance from the Department of Teacher Work of the Ministry of Education.

What kind of drama can make CCTV look good, guided by the Department of Teacher Work of the Ministry of Education?

"The Day of Chasing the Light" is a film and television work with the theme of the college entrance examination. But it doesn't stop there.

As listed above, the college entrance examination theme covers more and more fields, focusing on high school love that the public is more familiar with, as well as the hot college entrance examination family stories in recent years.

However, it is becoming less and less common to start in the most traditional and classic direction of campus dreams.

The reason is simple, one is difficult to shoot, and the other is difficult to explode.

It is easiest to make the college entrance examination theme into a campus idol drama, these dramas do not have to really go deep into the campus life of high school students, find a school uniform and shoot it to pass.

Secondly, TV dramas are about drama conflicts, and the campus life of high school students is a two-point and one-line hard study, in fact, there is a lack of conflict.

Filmed into an idol drama or a family drama, it is easier to construct dramatic conflicts and stage various bloody and exciting famous scenes.

In this sense, filming the theme of the college entrance examination, real knives and real guns to shoot campus life, is thankless, no wonder everyone has stopped filming these years.

But "Days of Chasing the Light" is about doing this thankless thing.

This drama tells the story of Hao Nan (Guo Jingfei), a frustrated teacher who accidentally left the teaching profession for three years, led the confused college entrance examination students to rekindle the courage to forge ahead and pursue their own brilliant lives.

There is no doubt that making a play like this is a hard bone.

There is no campus love like "Can't Hide" to attract young audiences, nor family dramas like "Little Huanxi" and "Youth Pi" to impress adult audiences.

But it is difficult to return, and it is not without a solution, and "The Day of Chasing Light" finds an idea to solve the problem.

One is to shoot real youth.

Another campus love story in white clothes?

Started spilling dog blood and selling anxiety again?

I'm sorry.

"The Day of Chasing the Light" passes! Open! Not! Yes!

There is no campus childhood sweetheart who ignores love, and there is no family battle caused by the college entrance examination competition.

Yes, it is the college entrance examination students will encounter: native family, friendship, contempt, discrimination, dilemma...

This is people's more realistic youth, the college entrance examination is very busy, how can there be time to explore so much love?

The second is the real college entrance examination.

The biggest difference of the play is that the camera focuses on the daily life of teachers and students in the college entrance examination class, which leads to the academic pressure, native family, educational problems and psychological changes before preparing for the college entrance examination students.

Hao Nan, played by Guo Jingfei, returned to education three years later and entered Qingyun Middle School, a well-known local high school, as the homeroom teacher of the bottom class 14.

This special teacher with a hot head and a scar on his nose is like an alternative to the teaching profession.

But his students weren't worried.

18-year-old Ren Zhen (played by Ren Min), who failed the college entrance examination because of her unreliable father, how to persuade her to summon up the courage to repeat her studies?

Gao Yuan (played by Wang Yuan) said goodbye to his hobbies and interests completely because of an accident, and since then he has changed from a sunny boy to a melancholic and lonely cold boy, how to help him find himself?

These adolescent students have very different personalities, some are rebellious, some are lively, some dream of not being recognized by their parents, and some people have no intention of studying because of family problems, as Guo Jingfei said in the play, "This one by one, Xiongguan Mando is really like iron!" ”

But the story is good to look at, see how Ren Zhen, who failed the college entrance examination, Gao Yuan, who took a year off from school, and Qingyun Class 14, who was at the bottom, pursued his dream to achieve self-attack under the encouragement and guidance of Teacher Hao Nan.

Compared with the past domestic campus dramas that have been young and romantic campus love one after another, what the director of this play tries to express is:

In this experience, the important thing is not "falling in love", but learning to face themselves bravely and accept things that were unacceptable before, with the company and encouragement of teachers and students.

That's what growth is all about.

Second, Guo Jingfei starring, Ren Min, Wang Yuan as students, and more national first-class actors gathered, cow!

For such a difficult creation, the first step is to find the right person.

The choreographer and director combination of "Chasing the Light" can be said to be an expert in the youth campus genre.

Director Han Tian once directed the box office hit youth film "Your Wedding", the film has a mediocre reputation, but his ability to create the atmosphere of a youth film cannot be underestimated.

Screenwriter Zhao Xiaying has written "West Shake" with 8.4 points, "Naughty Pack Horse Little Jump" with 8.2 points and "Suddenly This Summer" with 8 points.

Her appearance should make up for the lack of the director's previous work at the script level.

And then to support a key part of a play, the actors.

The biggest key to youth school drama performance is: youth and truth.

So what is the cast of "Chasing the Light"? One word, cattle! Among them, there are 2 national first-class actors.

Because of the relationship between the subject matter, the actors of this play are a standard combination of old and new.

Let's start with the teachers and the family group.

The first one, Guo Jingfei.

Whether it is an actor or Guo Jingfei's role, it is a needle-like existence in this play.

The most difficult thing about Hao Nan's role is that he is not a traditional teacher, or even a teacher that the audience has seen in Chinese dramas.

This character not only has a life experience, but also a maverick teaching method, he will block the student to "beg" her to repeat the study, will bet with the stubborn boy to help him pluck up his courage, and will put on a paper hat with him in order to comfort the student.

In short, if there is such a good teacher who teaches according to aptitude in reality, ninety percent of parents will immediately consider transferring schools, and one percent will not have to consider transferring directly.

But it was this teacher who led the bottom class of 14 to complete the counterattack.

There is no second actor in the national drama who is more suitable for this role than Guo Jingfei.

Not only acting, but experience.

Many audiences' impression of Guo Jingfei began with "The Darker", but Guo Jingfei was already recognized as the prince of drama before. The success of the drama slowed down Guo Jingfei's entry into the film and television industry.

"The Dark One" is popular but only an online drama, and Luo Fei's role is not as popular as Guo Jingfei.

It wasn't until he played Su Mingcheng in "It's Good", a role that had no glory in the original work but was played brilliantly by Guo Jingfei, that he came out of the circle with his acting skills.

Yu Huanshui of "I Am Yu Huanshui", Chen Jinshan of "Mountains and Seas", and Guo Huai of "Feng Qi Longxi" are the icing on the cake, and what really makes him recognized by the public is "Opponent".

This is a real acting drama, Guo Jingfei, Ning Li, Yan Bingyan, Tan Zhuo have all contributed excellent acting skills, and Guo Jingfei's role is particularly layered, every expression, every action, impeccable.

It was also with this role that Guo Jingfei was shortlisted for the Magnolia male protagonist competition and eventually lost to Lei Jiayin, but the audience's recognition was real.

What Guo Jingfei is best at is to play traditional types of characters with a different taste, which is exactly what this play needs, and he also has the same characteristics as Hao Nan: he is good at sword walking, and he is right.

In the trailer, he has already performed the character's three-point down-and-seven-point unruly temperament, with a sense of joy and a little touching.

This will definitely be another outstanding role for Guo Jingfei, and I hope that he can get the nomination for next year's Magnolia again with this role.

The second place, Dong Qing.

Dong Qing once played a classic supporting role Beta in another school drama classic "The Best of Us", and seven years later, she has already played a teacher in this play.

Dong Qing is a standard actor who is not popular in the drama, but with her continuous and steady performance in dramas such as "Thirteen Years of Dust" and "Go to a Windy Place", she has finally left her name in the national drama, and then look forward to her chemical reaction with Guo Jingfei in this play.

The third place, national first-class actor Yang Qing.

Yang Qing's first play is "Longing", in which she plays Xu Yuejuan, the wife of Song Dacheng.

Over the years, she has been the "national mother" in Chinese dramas, from "Little Daddy", "One Servant and Two Masters" to "Mr. Love", "Little Huanxi", "Do You Know" and other urban dramas.

This kind of old drama bone is a wild card in the national drama, and everything is very stable. In this play, she plays the mother of the male protagonist Hao Nan, and the rivalry scene with Guo Jingfei is also worth looking forward to.

The fourth place, national first-class actor Ma Shuliang.

The most classic film and television drama role of this veteran actor of the National Theatre is undoubtedly "Hu Yitong" in the "Family with Children" series.

This role also vividly reflects his performance characteristics,

Vivid and natural, the interpretation of small characters is especially excellent, and the characters are often loved and hated, of course, this kind of role is only a supporting role, but it is an indispensable spice for a drama, and it almost tastes if it is less.

Next, look at the "Student" cast.

Let's start with the female director Min.

Ren Min and Zhang Zifeng , Wen Qi and others are regarded as the most promising new acting school flowers.

But relative to the fierce momentum of Zhang Zifeng, Ren Min's problem in recent years is that he has acted in too many romance films of the same type, and he has not improved much in both his actual performance and acting skills.

However, this drama is a good work that Ren Min should act, can act, and also act.

Although he is 23 years old, his childish appearance makes Ren Min play a female high school student without a sense of violation.

Playing a female student is also Ren Min's specialty. She also came out of the circle with the distressing Yi Yao in "Sadness Against the River".

The arrogance, toughness and love of Princess Hui Rou in "Qingping Le" are also somewhat similar to the scholar Ren Zhen in this play.

In general, this is a character that is completely within the range of Ren Min's acting skills, and Ren Min has no reason to play it badly.

Whenever a close-up is aimed at her in the trailer, you will intuitively feel the sadness, confusion and excitement experienced by Ren Zhen, and the effect of her and Guo Jingfei's rivalry is surprisingly good, and this role is reassuring.

What makes people relatively uncomfortable is indeed Wang Yuan.

However, I think I don't think Wang Yuan, who has played films such as "The Earth Is Long and Long", will not have much problem playing this cold and lonely character.

What is less difficult to present is the transformation of the character, that is, from the loneliness in the early stage to the warmth of the sun after reviving.

But fortunately, Guo Jingfei plays the role of teacher Wang Yuan in and out of the play, hoping that Guo Jingfei's words and deeds can help Wang Yuan complete his acting transformation.

Third, how to revive the youth campus inspirational drama? This drama may be able to make a sample

From "Youth Pi" and "Little Huanxi" to the "Secretly Can't Hide" on the air, there is certainly no shortage of campus dramas in recent years.

This kind of work has a wide audience, young audiences can see their own shadow, middle-aged groups are also easy to resonate with educational themes, and it is not difficult to create a hit.

But what Chinese dramas lack is a youth inspirational drama that really penetrates into campus life.

Instead of a campus idol drama that blindly revolves around campus romance.

On the surface, this type is not easy to shoot, but in fact, it has a huge demand.

Many college entrance examination students can best experience the feeling of fighting for their dreams, but there are too few campus dramas that express this reality over the years.

"The Day of Chasing the Light" fills in this gap.

Judging by the trailer, burning is the keyword.

How did this feeling come about? The director gave the answer, two words - real.

Because the college entrance examination, this fate-changing life battle, itself is very burning, very ups and downs, as long as the main creator really goes deep into life and shoots the sense of reality of the college entrance examination, the story will not be boring, and the audience will be substituted into the story.

The difficulty of the college entrance examination is never only the exam, as presented in the trailer, students have to overcome their own demons, the plight of the original family, and the outside world's incomprehension, and even discrimination.

The story is actually represented by Qingyun Class 14, intertwining and showing a generation of adolescent teenagers, facing unavoidable problems in the growth process,

They will be confused, frustrated, frustrated, doubtful, and choosing, but in the end they will still be able to "work wonders towards their goals."

These high-burning and healing plots, filmed well, should be enough to evoke the public's common memories of the student days.

In the trailer, Guo Jingfei has a sentence, "This Mobius ring, only you can untie it", this delicate, green, natural and real perspective happens to be the point of "Chasing the Light".

It tells the most difficult and beautiful place in this period of youth: the college entrance examination, which is actually a mandatory question in youth.

The process of problem solving is also a process of mutual healing between teachers and students.

This process should be very burning and very healing.

"Chasing the Light" is the main theme drama, but who said that the main theme drama must be filmed "old-fashioned" and "tasteless", it can also become interesting and make people of all ages love to watch.

What is the light in the days of chasing the light? Is it a fish leaping over the dragon gate, a gold list title, realistic interests and achievements?

It's not!

The real light is actually that teenagers must learn to bravely face their true selves.

Only in this way can we truly grow into adults.

For a long time, "youth campus inspirational drama" was actually a word that made people smell and change.

Over-aged protagonist, suspended campus setting, bloody love... These make us shy away from this subject.

However, in recent years, domestic school dramas have begun to become realistic and grounded in texture.

This direction is right, but can it be done better?

I think "Chasing the Light" should be a better model.

Whether it is a high score or a low score, tonight is the moment of handing over the CCTV youth campus drama.