There is a short drama that has been out of the circle recently, with a score of 7.6 "Writing".
But there is a lot of controversy and polar evaluations.
Some people say that she is a real big heroine, and some people say that she is still an old routine to engage in female competition. So what's going on?
It can be seen with the naked eye that in the past two years, short dramas have become the most popular track in domestic entertainment, and they were once at the bottom of the contempt chain, but now they have begun to break through the small circle and go to the public. Especially in terms of ideology and progress, many short plays have received much better reviews than long dramas.
So let's not only talk about "Writing" today, but also use it to talk about whether the short drama circle is really overtaking in a corner, or is it just an illusion?
The high score of "Holding the Pen" is actually very understandable, after all, there is indeed innovation.
"Su Luoluo, the sister of the concubine, is kind, and she is destined to be the queen, Su Yunqi, the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, is vicious and will definitely die."
Su Yunqi saw this prophecy about himself in a book called "Book of Life", and burned the book with displeasure.
Unexpectedly, she began to hear the writer's systematic voice and see the summary of each chapter.
It happened that as the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she was about to marry the prince as a concubine, but she didn't expect the chain mail guard Lu Huai to break in, and wanted to take the three away in the name of the prime minister's collusion with the border general and the prince.
In order to protect himself, the general of the border pass lied that he was not forming a party for personal gain, but that he had an affair with the prime minister's wife, and the prime minister also acquiesced to this explanation in order to get out.
caused the prime minister's wife, that is, Su Yunqi's mother, to hit her head and die to prove her innocence.
Su Yunqi found out that what the "Book of Destiny" said was true, and rushed to save his mother when the ink was not dry. It's a pity that the script soon staged "Death is Coming", and the other way of death still made Su Yunqi's mother die.
What's even more tragic is that Su Yunqi found out that she was the vicious second female in the ancient love story.
Everyone in the script is just a tool for the heroine Su Luoluo. The most exaggerated time was that someone froze to death on the road in the summer, just to reflect Su Luoluo's kindness, so that Lu Huai, the second male in the script, fell in love with Su Luoluo.
So not only will the mother die, but he will also die because it is convenient for the protagonist to fall in love.
In order to defeat the plot arranged by the writer, she changed her life against the sky and became a free-minded person, and she murdered her husband and father, subverting the entire virtual world.
When I heard it, isn't it very cool to be a big heroine?
Indeed, when other heroines were still distressed by men, Su Yunqi saw his father sacrifice his wife for self-protection, and decisively sent him on the road, and at the same time deliberately approached Lu Huai, just to use him to investigate the case and bring down his father and sister and return to the position of princess.
When she saw the original plot setting, Lu Huai would kill herself for Su Luoluo, she simply pushed Lu Huai off the cliff. The sentence "I choose myself" is even more burning.
For example, in order to cut off the glory of her status as the prime minister's concubine and the princess, so that she will never turn over, the writer of the "Book of Destiny" arranged for her to lose her virginity, and she responded like this:
In your story
A person can only earn respect if he is of noble birth
A woman
She is worthless as long as she loses her innocence
It's ridiculous
This is the world you write about
So ridiculous
nauseating
Not only criticized the paternity of the book of life, but also the inspirational struggle for personal freedom consciousness in addition to gender.
The most surprising thing for me is that when she failed to change her life in every possible way, and the writer of "Book of Destiny" exchanged her for the position of the heroine, she did not give in, but chose to commit suicide in exchange for the last freedom she could control, which is very beautiful in the idea of "freedom" shouted by William Wallace before his death in "Braveheart".
However, it must be said that the innovation and progress of "Holding the Pen" are still at the most superficial level.
It also has a lot of room for criticism, because in essence, it is still a traditional female drama with a female second hood.
In fact, Su Yunqi did not really lose his virginity, and in order to maintain his spiritual innocence, the creator forcibly whitewashed the "evil" of his evil girl:
Pressing people's heads into the water tank to soak in water is interpreted as clear rewards and punishments, and bullying Erniang and sister-in-law is interpreted as seeking justice from Xiaosan for his mother.
also teaed the "goodness" of the heroine of the original book, allowing her to reveal her scheming side, and comprehensively corrected the justice of female evil.
Therefore, Su Yunqi was actually identified as the "new heroine" who was both physical and spiritual.
This did not deviate from the inherent trajectory of domestic film and television, but only made a few more detours in the first half of the journey, and the locomotive did not change.
Moreover, Su Yunqi's so-called change of life is actually still a recognition of the change of life under the patriarchal structure.
Every step she takes, she relies on the ability of a man to take revenge, and she infinitely recognizes the Divine Cult of Yanshu, and what she wants to negotiate with her father is always the identity of her mother's wife and her own concubine, and the self-identity of the real heroine is self-dependent, not at all.
And the most annoying point for me is that the male protagonist inevitably has to fall in love with Su Yunqi.
According to the logic of the writer of the original script, the male protagonist should fall in love with Su Luoluo indiscriminately, but in order for the real heroine Su Yunqi to be protected by the god of war of pure love, the creators of this drama violated the basic logic of their own story and arranged a love at first sight for the male protagonist, which will remain unchanged forever.
Even if at the end of the play, Su Yunqi subverted the writer and let everyone live according to their own wishes, but only the male protagonist must love the female protagonist. What exactly is he loving about the heroine?
Su Yunqi scolded the writer for the heroine to fall in love and only use others as tools, which turned into a self-slap.
Focusing on women's topics, this drama only stays at slogans. After all, who said that a woman must be loved by a man in order for her life to be complete?
In addition to wearing the coat of evil heroine with freshness but acting in the traditional heroine drama, what is even worse is that they also blasphemed the self-love spirit of the big heroine into selfish indifference.
mentioned earlier, the famous sentence "I choose myself" when killing my husband "I choose myself".
In fact, Su Yunqi pushed Lu Huai off the cliff after learning that he had the aura of the protagonist and would not die. Her motives for acting were reasonable.
At that time, she and Lu Huai were already in love, in order to save her life, she could not love her, but she would not hurt Lu Huai unless necessary, this is mature and rational adults, and with the temperature that a normal person should have.
But the sentence "I choose myself" in order to emphasize the sober personality has forced her into a cold-blooded demon who can sacrifice anyone for self-preservation.
What is the difference between this and her father, who rebelled against his mother, who gave up his mother for self-preservation?
This is obviously to please women, but accidentally poured dirty water on the women who love themselves, right?
Of course, criticism is criticism, and I have to admit that the influence of short dramas has completely broken through the circle.
In recent years, my attention to it has also gone from 0 to addiction.
From the electronic mustard that does not have any nutrients except for cool, to the ability to write long articles to analyze the content and ideas, it can also be seen that the rapid development of short dramas.
In fact, short dramas are really getting more and more rolled, and even began to roll up long dramas, forcing domestic entertainment to progress from the bottom up.
The original profit model of short dramas was mainly to attract audiences to pay, so unlike the stable operation of domestic entertainment capital to first circle popular IPs and then use traffic stars to escort data, short dramas subverted the original project standards: scripts> actors, costumes and other others.
For example, in the short drama "Give Her a Handle", the clothes of the protagonist group were noticed by netizens to be the same style in "Long Moon Embers" starring Bai Lu and Luo Yunxi.
On "Long Moon Embers", under "Give Her a Handle"
To tell the truth, as long as the script is good, there will be no audience objection to TVB's rooster bowl for 30 years. The costumes are all kinds of face-bumping, but the play itself is good-looking, do these little things not affect the mood of the audience at all?
It is not difficult to explain why the audience's emotions towards short dramas are often "dirty but love", because they have been ignored and fed for many years, no matter how immature the short drama is, it is no longer just to please capital, but to create for the audience, which shows sincerity from the genes.
In addition, compared with S-level projects with hundreds of millions of dollars, the short drama has less investment and a short production cycle.
The production cycle of a micro-short drama is generally 7 to 15 days, the average cost is 300,000 to 500,000, and there are four or five hundred micro-short dramas produced in the country every month.
For example, this year's Spring Festival hit "I Was a Stepmother in the 80s" was revealed to take only 10 days to shoot, and about 80,000 yuan was invested in the later stage.
Therefore, the iteration of short dramas is fast, and almost a quarter can be used as a cycle of short drama ecology.
From the beginning of the superficial cool point, now it can really really give the audience what they love to watch, filling the gap of bitter entertainment for a long time:
For example, the elderly in domestic entertainment film and television have long disappeared, but the comedy short drama "Big Mom's World" starring Li Lingyu, the jade rabbit spirit of "Journey to the West", has a score of 8.1.
Another example is the ugly man in ancient costume.
The short drama has produced several handsome actors, such as Li Fei who hit "Give Her a Handle" at the beginning of the year, Cheng Lei of "False Face" the year before last, and Jin Chao of "The Eldest Princess is on Top" and "Donglan Snow".
Li Fei of "Give Her a Handle".
Among them, Cheng Lei and Jin Chao have already eaten on the table. Cheng Lei starred in Xiao Si's "Cloud Feather" last year.
Jin Chao participated in "Long Moon Embers" last year, and today he was praised by his mentor for his acting skills in the acting variety show "Infinite Transcendence Class", and his humble personality has been repeatedly searched, which really broke the circle and has a name in domestic entertainment.
In addition to beautiful men in ancient costumes, there are also many heroines of short dramas on the table.
Xu Mengyuan, the heroine of the short drama "Mr. Pei Thinks of His Father Every Day", participated in "South to North", playing Niu Dali's young girlfriend.
Including Li Muchen, the heroine of "Writing", many people think she is familiar, in fact, she has participated in "Full-time Master", "Sito", "The rest of your life, please advise more", and played Ge Zhaodi in "Menghualu" last year, and her role is equivalent to the fourth female.
There are also intimate scenes.
Internal entertainment kisses a mouth to replace the mouth, the sexual tension between the hunter and the prey can't be filmed and dare not shoot, try some speechless hunting, what nipple kisses, handstand kisses, noodle kisses......
There are many very flirtatious scenes in the short play, although there are occasional unreasonable settings, but the atmosphere is absolutely accurate, and there is no need to rely on curiosity.
The most impressive thing is the bed scene of strong women and weak men in "Donglan Snow", which subverts gender but is full of real hormonal scenes, which can be repeatedly studied by the above-mentioned creative team.
One of the core changes is that in the short drama ecosystem, practitioners generally believe that "7 points rely on the script, 3 points rely on shooting".
The script is the key to the success of a drama, and as a result, in the short drama ecology of screenwriters who are usually speechless in internal entertainment, the money they should earn will no longer be divided by the male and female lead actors, and they have a certain right to speak.
The windfall profits of the skit attracted a large influx of capital.
In 2023, the size of China's online micro-short drama market will be 37.39 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 267.65%, and it is expected to exceed 50 billion yuan in 2024. At the same time, traditional film and television cultural enterprises such as Bona, Great Aim and China Literature have entered the market one after another, and Stephen Chow has jointly developed and operated the "9527 Theater", and announced that the first short drama "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" will be launched in May this year......
Volume, if the short drama plays a catfish effect on the internal entertainment of being lazy and making a pool of stagnant water, for the audience, isn't it a long-awaited blessing?
When Piao was collecting information, he found a very ironic thing.
The costume actors mentioned above who went to the table for dinner, Cheng Lei and Jin Chao, they entered domestic entertainment in the later stage, and participated in "Long Moon Embers" and "Cloud Feather" respectively, with scores of only 5.6 and 6.2.
The score is not as good as the short dramas they came out of the circle at the beginning, "False Face" with 7.4 and "Donglan Snow" with 7.3. It's ironic enough.
The explosion of short dramas, to put it bluntly, is not because of the creation of something new, but just the return of the logic of content creation.
Will "The Legend of Zhen Huan", with 76 episodes and a total duration of 57 hours, be disliked because it is too long?
Therefore, the essence of people's attention is not the "shortness" of the short drama, but its content density.
When internal entertainment is full of all kinds of long and smelly footwraps, there are some works that can tell stories honestly without mixing with water or materials, even if they are fresh and refined.
However, as I said earlier, the shortcomings of the short drama are still obvious, it attaches too much importance to the excitement and ups and downs of the story, so that it cannot really break through in consciousness and thinking, which is a dilemma that needs to be solved urgently.
What I hope is that short dramas can bring back more of the fine traditions of the entertainment industry in the past, and continue to force the progress of traditional film and television dramas.
I hope that the fig leaf of internal entertainment will soon be swept up by short dramas.
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