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Text: Yu Dazui Booth
Editor|Yu Dazui Booth
Recently, when the youth campus drama "Minglong Boy" broadcast the finale, it used the technique of changing roles in advance, and the original cast jumped to many years later at the end of the play, and different actors played adult roles, which caused widespread discussion. This article will analyze the five main points that this plot arrangement has attracted attention for the benefit of readers.
The angle change technique overturns the audience's impression of the characters
"Minglong Boy" has been revolving around the growth stories of several young students, and the audience has been deeply impressed by these familiar actors. At the end of the play, many years of jumping, the originally familiar faces became unfamiliar, and the audience was difficult to adapt for a while, and they needed to reacquaint themselves with these aging characters. This "strangeness" is enough to explain the audience's shock and confusion.
Taking the male protagonist Cheng Yushan as an example, Xu Ruohan perfectly interprets his growth trajectory from youth to adulthood, and the audience has associated this character with Xu Ruohan's face. Suddenly replaced with Qian Dongni at the end, the audience will automatically compare with Xu Ruohan in their minds, and it is difficult to establish a new character impression. Several other main characters have the same problem, which creates a huge cognitive impairment for the audience.
It can be said that "Singing Dragon Boy" uses this unique technique to overturn the audience's impression of the characters and force everyone to re-examine the characters at the last moment. This reversal strongly stimulates the perceptual inertia of the audience, forcing people to face up to the changes brought about by the passage of time.
The plot reversal highlights the helplessness of the passing of youth
The reversal of the role change at the end of "The Singing Dragon Boy" enhances the time and space span of the whole play, from adolescence all the way to middle age, and this span of contrast strengthens the helplessness of passing youth.
A group of energetic boys and girls grew up in front of our eyes, and suddenly they were no longer what they used to be, but middle-aged people with gray hair. This contrast strongly stimulates the audience's sadness, and people can't help but sigh at the inexorable passage of time.
Youth has always given people hope, passion and infinite possibilities, but it will eventually compromise before time. Seeing that the familiar teenager has long since grown old, the audience can't help but feel regret and powerlessness. We've all been young and destined to go through this transition. The ending design of "Singing Dragon Boy" is just like a bitter reminder that youth will eventually go away, and we can't stop it.
Through this contrast across time and space, the crew cleverly highlights the helplessness of the passing of youth. The audience is forced to face this dramatic reversal, and in shock and can't help but lament the impermanence of the passage of time. This is the core meaning of the ending of "Singing Dragon Boy".
deliberately set up a test of the audience's viewing experience
The pre-existing role change of the finale of "Singing Dragon Boy" can be said to be deliberate, and its purpose is to set a difficult hurdle for the audience and test their viewing experience. This tricky plot reversal undoubtedly poses a new challenge to the audience's emotional investment.
The process of watching a drama requires the audience to continue to accumulate emotions and resonate with the characters. But the reversal of the role forcibly broke this process and set off emotional fluctuations in the audience. They need to accept the environment and rebuild their emotional identity in a very short period of time. This puts the movie-going experience to the test.
In a sense, the crew is inviting the audience to play a "mind game". The audience has to accept the reversal, deal with the confusion, and rebuild the emotion, and the whole process is an emotional baptism. Viewers who successfully pass this level will have their audio-visual experience elevated to new heights.
It can be seen that this reversal technique is a small "mechanism" deliberately arranged by the director, aiming to set an emotional and cognitive dilemma for the audience. Solving this puzzle is one of the pleasures of watching "Singing Dragon Boy" in itself. It's a test of an innovative movie-going experience.
The ending symbolizes the cycle of life and inspires the audience to think
The pre-recast ending of "The Singing Dragon Boy" can be interpreted as a symbol of the cycle of life, which inspires the audience to think about the fate of life.
This kind of travel across time and space is as if an individual has experienced a complete life cycle. From youth to old age, and finally to dust, like reincarnation. This enlightens us about the finite nature of life, which is a way of looking at impermanence.
Similarly, such an ending design can also trigger the audience's thinking about "metabolic compensation". The new generation replaces the old generation, and the new actors replace the older generation of actors, as if the replacement of different stages of life. This is called "metabolic compensation", and it is also the fundamental law of all things in the universe.
On a certain level, the reversal of the finale symbolizes that we all experience the replacement of different roles in the cycle of life. We will grow old, but new life will continue. This inspires us to adopt a positive attitude towards life, to grasp the present moment, and to take on a sense of mission to promote the transmission of life.
Netizens had mixed reactions to this plot
The advanced role change of the finale of "Minglong Boy" has aroused widespread discussion among netizens, and the plot arrangement has mixed reviews.
Many netizens expressed unacceptability and thought that it ruined the movie-watching experience. They couldn't adapt to the new cast at the last minute, and they questioned whether such a reversal was counterintuitive. Some netizens ridiculed that they regretted chasing the whole drama, and finally reversed and ruined.
But there are also many netizens who said that the reversal is novel and interesting, showing the director's innovative thinking. They appreciate the shock of the reversal and say it deepens the play's expression of the loss of youth. This kind of view believes that the reversal of the ending is completely unexpected and a bold initiative of the director.
Of course, there are also some viewers who are neutral. They were not opposed to the reversal itself, but they did not think that the performance was appropriate. The reversal amplitude is too strong for the audience to adapt, which affects the perfection of the ending. This view represents a more modest perspective.
summary
The finale of "Minglong Boy" sparked heated discussions with its bold innovation. This reversal poses a new test to the audience's perceptual inertia and emotional investment. We should not stop at the discussion of the reversal itself, but also achieve emotional sublimation after reflection.
This disruption pushes us to reflect on the meaning of life and face up to the changes in life. Whatever the view, this is commendable. I hope everyone will be rational in the debate, because there is no completely right answer about art. This discussion itself is also the accumulation of our aesthetic experience.
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What do you think of the advanced role change arrangement of the finale of "Singing Dragon Boy"?What kind of viewing experience and thinking does it bring you? Looking forward to your opinion.