"My Human Fireworks" Douban score 3.8: "Love brain" is outdated, and the big heroine is the "main channel"?
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This year, there has been no drama that has set off a greater negative public opinion than "My Human Fireworks", and many netizens who have not watched an episode of the drama have said that they have chased the recent progress through short videos or graphic explanations on various websites, and followed the crowd anger. Recently, the drama's Douban score of 3.8 has become the lowest-rated work of director Li Muge.
From the audience feeling sorry for "Meng Yanchen" and praising Wei Daxun, who has been in variety shows for many years, to the short-term popularity of his brother and sister pseudo-orthopedic CP, to the character problems of the male protagonist Song Yan and the female protagonist Xu Qin being criticized, and the fire extinguisher playing romance and causing controversy, the topic has now toured to Yang Yang's acting skills and the image of the heroine of film and television dramas. Unlike the villains of the past who were all evil and were bombarded, the "flat", distorted, and hollow heroine not only makes the audience angry, but also involves the issue of value orientation.
In today's era when "disappearing her" is constantly staged in the news, and the love brain is about to be warned that "Wang Baochuan digs wild vegetables", the heroine in the TV series is still in the crazy love brain to stage "a bowl of porridge literature", and the huge counter-effect can be imagined.
In this era of focus, there are almost no episodes whose impact is out of control like dominoes, and each response of the main creator is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire, which will only trigger a larger wave of public opinion backlash, and even stage the mutual choking between the main creator and netizens. The last time the whole family was on the hot search was back to "It's All Good". It's just that at that time, it was the "original family", and this time it was the "big crisis" of the romance drama.
When the fireworks in the world become the anger of the world, the explosive drama becomes a low-explosive drama, the traffic male star is once again stamped as "poor acting", the heroine's three views are applauded, and the audience and the supporting role begin to sober up at the same time, does it mean that the romance drama that has been equated with "silly white sweet" for many years is about to turn a new page?
What mistake did Xu Qin, the heroine of "My Human Fireworks", make?
It can be seen from the original book and the introduction of the series that "My Human Fireworks" was originally intended to show the double-strong story of the male protagonist of the firefighter and the female protagonist of the doctor breaking through the mirror and breaking through the shackles of the family. But while it seems to meet the standards of romance dramas, the essence is a poor boy with a white and rich male frequency narrative, and the play always reveals the male protagonist's discipline taste for the female protagonist, which is also very uncomfortable. The female protagonist Xu Qin is grateful for the confrontation between the male protagonist and the family, for the bowl of white porridge cooked by the male protagonist, and even the sports car becomes a bicycle, and the quality of life plummets.
In fact, such a story is not unusual, the cool text of the male climbing high gate has been popular since ancient times until the Hong Kong-style movies of the 90s, and the current male frequency cool literary drama, the shell tool beauties do not have their own character and future, everything revolves around the male protagonist, the highest instruction is to love the male protagonist, the value of existence is only to reward the male protagonist's headwind turnover, and then lead the male protagonist to easily cross the class.
Xu Qin in "My Human Fireworks" still changes the soup without changing the medicine: even though Song Yan was performed by Yang Yang to look like he was about to commit domestic violence at any time, saying that the heroine was a dog, restraining and directing the heroine at any time, saying cruel things to the heroine's brother and mother, doing all the soft rice and hard eating behavior, and acting the sweet pet drama into "Don't Talk to Strangers", the heroine still smiled and executed the robot-like highest instructions in her body and sacrificed herself to the male protagonist. The author, screenwriter, director, and actor work together to describe the entire process of a Bai Fumei who went abroad to study and had excellent grades.
You know, Qu Xiaoxiao in 2016's "Ode to Joy" has already ordered Qiu Yingying to get rid of the love brain, and this year's hit movie "Disappearing You" even began to explore bloody cases adapted from reality such as the Phoenix man killing his wife. In 2023, Bai Fumei Xu Qin, who has the same high-quality resources as Qu Xiaoxiao, is doing things that he can't carry with a good hand and easily gives his future away, which is far from the reality of the awakening of women's consciousness in the past 8 years and the audience's expectations for female characters.
Some people even ridiculed that "My Human Fireworks" was filmed as a prequel to "Disappearing You", and it goes without saying what direction the two people with serious class mismatches in reality will be. In the play, Meng Yanchen complained about Xu Qin's sentence, "The brain of love talks is full of bubbles", which can be said to be the voice of netizens.
As a spiritual product that reflects the current life of the public, the audience will unconsciously look for substitutes when watching, resulting in empathetic characters or Mu Qiang psychology, such as the explosive Meng Yanchen is the family heir who is gentle and considerate, forgiving and restrained, giving female audiences enough imagination space. And the heroine of the play will naturally be "abandoned" by the audience without too much sense of substitution, thus turning to another "person who aspires to be" as a psychological projection.
Fu Wenying, played by Chen Jin, is the perfect contemporary female representative, whether it is her sense of control and oppression in the early stage, or her love for her daughter when she is unwilling to let her adopted daughter's living standard decline, it is the shining point of high-end women.
On the one hand, Ms. Fu Wenying, who is strict, independent, and protects her family, and on the other hand, the capricious, unreasonable, indiscriminate and longing for the depraved love-brain heroine, it is clear which side the contemporary female audience, who is now disenchanted by love and marriage and immune to romance, will prefer which side.
While the source of the text and the character design do not conform to the view of the times, this dislocation and twisted expression is also related to the actor's performance, compared with Chen Jin, Wei Daxun, the two Meng family members of the Meng family's interpretation of the role delicate and natural, can add points to the role or even turn the situation around, and Yang Yang and Wang Churan's performance obviously failed to save the character who was not online. Wei Daxun's explosion in this holiday at the same time broke the shackles of appearance is king, and actors need mystery, proving that good acting skills are the passport to the market, traffic cannot influence the audience, and the audience is the one who always decides who is the traffic.
95 flowers, can no longer be safely used as a vase
Nowadays, the audience has met and improved various spiritual needs in the developed Internet, even netizens' speeches are gradually professionalized and rigorous, and the film and television industry also needs the "rectification" of strict instructors, Er Dongsheng once advised young beautiful and handsome guys represented by Wang Churan in "Actors Please Take Position", good-looking looks in the actor line to grab a handful, youth meal can not be eaten for long, fans will also dissipate. Now it seems that this assertion, which seemed somewhat "poisonous" at the time, seems to be true.
Wang Churan and Yang Yang not only have to face the accountability of the "vase" when the plot collapses and the negative impact of the characters increases sharply, but also find a new way with the old characters of the past. From the wayward favorite concubine of "Qingping Le" to the weakness of "My Human Fireworks", Wang Churan repeatedly tests the audience's patience on the route of beauty + infatuation + arrogance, and attaches acting skills that are difficult to make people feel substitutionary on similar roles, and such frequent "stepping on thunder" will inevitably affect her subsequent development.
After all, Wang Churan in "Actors Please Take Position" in addition to being "admonished" by big directors, but also by Guo Jingming and others to "Tsing Yi" high hopes, and later by the noon sun, Xinli and other senior production teams reused, even in the case of not outstanding acting skills and experience enough, you can also obtain rare resources with outstanding appearance, "Little Liu Yifei" reputation is outside, first mix a wave of face familiarity is no problem at all. These all show the scarcity of Wang Churan's in domestic entertainment.
But the impact of "Xu Qin" has spread to the audience's views on Wang Churan's next play, such as many audiences were optimistic about Wang Churan playing the heroine of the big IP "Hard to Coax" Wen Yifan, but now many netizens have changed their words, thinking that Wang Churan, who has been marked as a wife, a love brain, and an idiot beauty, is no longer suitable for the role. Judging from the expansion of the public opinion fermentation of "My Human Fireworks", for a long time thereafter, any character with these words will incur disgust.
From the extremely sober heroine Sheng Minglan played by Zhao Liying in "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Thin", gradually replacing Zhen Huan to become the most popular costume heroine in recent years, to Zhao Liying, who was once also the spokesperson of the sweet girl, has advanced all the way to become the entrepreneurial heroine in "Wind Blows Half Summer", and nominated Magnolia to see it, it can be seen that the independent, powerful and rational heroine is overlapping with the actress who has made a name for herself by acting.
And this year, in addition to Wei Daxun's popularity with his supporting role, Chen Duling's villain female number two in "Long Moon Ember Ming" also made netizens excited to establish "Huanmen", "no one in this world is more worthy of my love than myself" The Declaration of Independence ambition is ambitious, and finally breaks away from the same old routine of women serving men and sacrificing dedication to men, and the female characters who are happy to engage in careers make the audience hooked. It can be predicted that the casting route after 95 flowers, only the flat characters who rely on beauty and weakness to wait for the prince's salvation will be reduced to the past tense, and the protagonist who can control his own destiny and has enough power and inner drive is worthy of the audience's love.
Urban female group portraits are silently getting rid of inferiority
The sassy female characters in costume dramas have received countless flowers, and in modern dramas, the love brain is even more unable to provide the audience with imagination space. After all, in modern society, wives have no space for survival and the possibility of self-ability. The heroines in modern dramas are elites struggling in first-tier cities, decisive decision-makers, or pillars of many hats in a family, which gives 40+ actresses space to fully display their acting skills.
The recent "Imperfect Victim" brings together Zhou Xun, Chen Shu, Dong Jie three 40+ powerful actresses, as the core characters of the case, the three contributed a number of famous scenes to the play, the script in the complex relationship between the characters, did not let the traditional main palace fight the mistress bloody situation again, but focused on describing the concentration and professionalism of all kinds of women in their respective fields, as well as the fear of emergency situations.
It is not difficult to find that in all kinds of urban dramas involving love or marriage today, there has not been a female image of low infantile and love brain for a long time. "Thirty Only" and "Twenty Not Confused" series of women with ambition in heart and direction in their work; "Strange You Are Too Beautiful", "Love Only" and "Hot Road" in women who can lead their younger brothers and adhere to their ideals occupy the absolute main force of urban dramas; Even the relatively weak heroine in "I'm Very Good in Another Country" and "Sanyue Has a New Job" has never been in love and talked about being an enemy of the world, and the moths are so carried away that they are 108,000 miles away from silly Baitian.
Speaking of today's national idol level actresses, who has played Su Mingyu, Little Father, Meng Yanchen's mother, Ye Wenjie's actor Chen Jin in "The Three-Body Problem" is flourishing, her big female remarks spread rapidly on the Internet with one hot drama after another, "a person has always been with himself all his life", "freedom is that you stand alone, not attached, not afraid".
There can be love in film and television, but there is no need to promote the love brain, and all the tools and female characters that serve male roles will gradually be abandoned by the times. To borrow a golden sentence from the dawn of the ancient urban women's group drama "I Want to Fall in Love", "Where is there any real love, your love is just a wrong imagination of yours."