In recent years, urban dramas for women's growth have definitely been the leading role of the new generation of national dramas, and they are recognized as domestic dramas with high cost performance.
From the popular "Ode to Joy" tells the story of five girls with different personalities, facing their own unsatisfactory in the workplace, family, and love, from not knowing each other to opening their hearts to each other, actively facing work and life, helping each other, and growing together.
and then to "Twenty Don't Confuse", four twenty-year-old college graduates, from the perspective of campus entering society, with the desire for dreams and the courage to move forward, so that the audience can feel their vitality.
"Thirty Only", every woman is more or less hesitant when she reaches the age of thirty, and the play unfolds from the perspective of three married and childless, married and childless, and unmarried women in different states, allowing the audience to see their attitude towards life at this age.
"Their Names" uses three women with different identity labels to substitute into the play, social whites, housewives, and strong women in the workplace, in the process of overcoming obstacles on their respective life paths.
Every plot broadcast breaks the audience's perception of conventional women, women are not only a good wife, a good mother, a good daughter-in-law, they are also themselves, they are independent women in the new era.
The director of "Today's Them", Du Xiaoyu, born in 1990, graduated from Beijing Film Academy, is also a woman, and today she will enter this "Today's Women" from her perspective to see if it can become the next hit drama for women's growth?
1. Plot: Is the reform of Chuanbailou inheritance or innovation?
If life is a dish, which one is yours? The play takes three women as the protagonists, telling the story of Lu Zhenzhen, who has been drifting north for ten years, and returns to his hometown to manage his best friend Gu Manting's Sichuan restaurant, but is hit by his opponent Liang Qingran to the two.
The selection of materials is the original intention, and it is also a brave determination. A plate of dishes with full color and flavor is not only the selection of materials from the source food, but also the selection of materials from the reform of Sichuan Bailou, is it the inheritance of the old store, or the innovation in line with the new era? Does Liang Qingran, who flashes by the camera in the trailer, represent the addition of innovation?
Preparing food is a vision and an examination of reality. From the perspective of cutting vegetables, to the opening of the store, to Liang Qingran's attempt to taste Sichuan cuisine.
The technique is frying and frying, and it is also the tempering of life. From the perspective of stir-frying, to Gu Manting crying, to the shop being smashed.
Seasoning is sweet and sour, but also love and hate. From the perspective of seasoning, to the separation of the three people, Lu Zhenzhen sat in the car to vent, and then to the unity of the family, life is salty and sweet, and how to season is very important.
Plating is the fireworks in the world, and it is also the temperature of true feelings. From the perspective of plating, the three of them reconciled, Lu Zhenzhen wore a wedding dress, good girlfriends hugged each other excitedly, and then served the food.
Twenty-four flavors of Sichuan cuisine, a thousand flavors of life. It is not difficult to see the core of the plot, from the production mapping of Sichuan cuisine, to the story of the three people from rejection, disagreement, venting to acceptance, reconciliation, and growth, as a woman, step by step in the face of ideals and perseverance, and finally succeed.
2. What to watch: Can love, career, and ideals stand up to layers of tests?
Lu Zhenzhen, a career-oriented strong woman who has been adrift in Beijing for ten years, got carried away for love and followed her boyfriend back to her hometown, but she didn't expect her boyfriend to be her competitor.
It's hard to figure it out! Obviously so ambitious, after ten years in Beijing, but her boyfriend suddenly chose to return to his hometown to develop, isn't this equivalent to giving up his contacts in Beijing for ten years and returning to his hometown to start from scratch?
But Lu Zhenzhen is also true love for her boyfriend, and she followed him back without hesitation, and the two became competitors, making people can't wait to see how long the love run between the two can last.
Gu Manting, who has long been married, assisted her father in running the time-honored restaurant Chuanbai Lou in her hometown, and married her first love before finishing college, but she always wanted to escape from her marriage.
followed by Liang Qingran's joining, wanting to change this time-honored brand from beginning to end, but in the end, it backfired, the blow of reality, and the conflict of ideals can always defeat this sudden outsider in an instant.
3, lineup: Song Yi, Charmaine She, Li Chun are the main players, the supporting roles are all powerful, and the acting skills are arranged
The lineup of "Today's Them" is solid and strong, from the protagonist to the supporting role, it is amazing, and they are all real powerful actors.
The first place, Song Yi.
As soon as many viewers see Song Yi, they will think of Fan Ruoruo, the first talented woman in Kyoto played by her in "Celebrating More Than Years", and Su Tan'er, who loves business and financial management in "Son-in-law", she has her own personality and opinions, and she has shaped the image of a gentle and talented woman deeply into the hearts of the people, which makes the audience remember it vividly.
This time she played the role of Lu Zhenzhen, who returned from ten years of drifting north, good at carrying to the death, and suffering any grievances by herself, this time after she returned to her hometown, she wanted to get out of her own world.
second, Charmaine Sheh.
Many viewers' impression of her is still Liu Sanhao played in "Palace Scheming", and Concubine Xian in "Yanxi Raiders".
But in addition to this drama, there is also the starring crime suspense film "The Leaker", a reporter who is not afraid of hardship or death, and dares to pursue true thoughts, plays just right.
also starred in the legendary drama "Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red" in the Republic of China, a Northeast girl with a spicy personality, dressed in a burgundy cheongsam, elegant and charming, and every demeanor and action reflects the aristocratic style.
This time, he played Liang Qingran, an entrepreneur who dared to think and dare to do in the play, wearing gorgeous clothes as soon as she appeared, and her aura and personality showed the image of an urban strong woman.
It can be said that Charmaine Sheh's challenging character styles are all different, each role can give people a new feeling, so that the audience can't get enough of it, this one has her joining, this drama should be popular.
third place, Li Chun.
Many viewers know her, but they are always impressed, as if she is in every film, such as Wei Yanwan played in "The Legend of Ruyi", from an innocent, kind and unfavored little palace maid, to step by step blackened, becoming Ruyi's mortal enemy.
There is also the manager played in "Celebrating More Than Years", who exudes charming charm as soon as he appears, and Xuanyuan Qingfeng played in "Sword in the Snow" has a unique temperament and can directly bring the audience into the role.
In this drama, she plays a Gu Manting who has been pampered by her parents since she was a child, and it can be said that she is in great contrast with her previous roles, I wonder if she can bring impressive acting skills to the audience this time?
fourth place, Zhang Guoli.
A powerful actor, it can be said that he has won awards in every TV series or movie, his acting skills are undoubted, and the styles of the roles he plays are also different, and he has rich acting career experience.
This time in the play is Gu Dapeng, Gu Manting's father, an amiable father figure, who has been running Chuanbai House for many years, and he also loves his daughter very much.
Judging from the trailer, "Today's Them" is not only a story of three women growing up, but also a promotional video for Sichuan-style food, which makes the audience who follows the drama late at night greedy, the fireworks in the world, the most soothing to the hearts of mortals, looking forward to the premiere on March 29!