#精品长文创作季#
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There are thousands of poor people portrayed in domestic dramas, and Mai Chenghuan, the heroine of "Chenghuan", is also a child from a poor family.
Her home is in an alley that is about to be demolished, and the boyfriend she chose is a low-level Shanghai drifter who cheated that her parents were about to retire and had no house or car.
Even if it was the third anniversary of the two, the other party only gave her a little doll that could learn to speak, which could make Mai Chenghuan happy.
When her boyfriend explained that he was actually a rich second generation, the two families ate together, and her mother was so excited that she could see the Huangpu River and Lujiazui in the private room of the restaurant.
In order not to be looked down upon by her boyfriend, the family had to clean up the house a day in advance, and they also had to put away the younger brother's marching bed to make the living room appear more spacious.
But even so, her father is still squeezed by people but a driver, and her mother is a square dance aunt who can't be seen on the stage in the eyes of her boyfriend's family.
When it comes to going back to their hometown in the countryside for a wedding, my boyfriend described their wedding as turning into a flea market.
And all this foreshadowing is to highlight the word "poor".
But looking at the dramas that make the poor in the national drama market, nine out of ten make people feel suspended and unrealistic.
For example, in Feng Xiaogang's "Far from the South", several of the protagonists created are ordinary workers.
But they either live in a courtyard house or a single-family villa, and there are always new clothes that can never be worn, and at first glance, they are very textured big brands, how can this make people believe that they are poor?
Even if you don't work, you don't have any anxiety, you can spend a lot of time socializing, and you don't have to worry about where next month's rent, utilities and food will come from.
And you can earn 300,000 just by speculating in stocks, and you have so much savings, but you still pretend to be poor.
Another example is Wang Manni in "Thirty Only", a small town girl who went to Shanghai to work, but she had to wear luxury shoes, and the house had to be rented in a place where she could see the Oriental Pearl, and it was not a shared house, not to mention the spaciousness, one bedroom and one living room, and a balcony.
Even if you win the grand prize of cruise travel, you don't want to sell your ticket for money, but you want to experience the life of a rich man, even if you take out a lot of money to upgrade the room at once, and you don't even blink your eyes.
and Li Randi in "Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty", the character is a North Drifter with no background and not a rich second generation, but she lives in a large duplex apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows in Beijing, where every inch of land is expensive.
There is a bathroom where you can take a bath, and the area is larger than the room rented by the Beipiao people in reality. Sure enough, in the eyes of the rich, this is not called enjoyment, but only the living standard of the poor.
In "My True Friend", the heroine played by Yang Ying is finally a poor person who has no savings and owes thousands of yuan to credit cards every month.
A bright and spacious house, with expensive cosmetics, and the ability to give money to strangers casually, is obviously a setting of 2,000 monthly income, which feels similar to a monthly income of 200,000.
There is also this kind of heroine who has no job and can only work part-time in a bakery, while she has to go to school, bear her own tuition and living expenses, and on the other hand, she has to support her family who is not in good health and is often hospitalized, she lives in a spacious and bright, beautifully decorated three-bedroom apartment, and the specifications of a meal are four dishes and one soup, if you really want to put it in real life, I'm afraid you can't even pay the electricity bill!
These "fake poor" directly caused the audience to have sequelae, and when they saw the image of the poor in domestic dramas, they were worried that it was this kind of image that was not real and down-to-earth.
Fortunately, "The Story of Chenghuan" avoided this thunder point, judging from the house where Mai Chenghuan's family lives in the play, it is a small two-bedroom apartment in an alley, the streets and alleys are full of various means of transportation, and the gates of the community are all such old iron gates.
Look at their room again, the daughter has a single room, but the space is very small, there is a single bed and desk, plus a place to put clothes, there is not much free, even if it is a place to put a chair, and then move it back, it has to be pushed to the cabinet.
My parents' room wasn't much better, I could put down the necessary furniture, and it was all old, my mother's dresser wasn't very expensive, and the shampoo was an old brand for a few dollars.
The younger brother doesn't even have his own room, so he can only support a marching bed in the living room, and the sofa is still this old-fashioned style, which looks like furniture from decades ago.
The kitchen space is quite cramped, and it looks crowded with more people, and everything that can put things is full.
That's what a poor man's home should look like.
Even the clothes on the protagonist's body take into account the actual price.
He Saifei's mother in the play has to bargain with others to buy a ten-yuan dish, and the clothes will naturally not be expensive.
Judging from the style, it is very in line with the aesthetics of her age, and from the perspective of the price of the clothes, it is also very suitable for the personality.
For example, this set of pajamas with a high appearance rate, the online shopping price is only 48 yuan to get, the style of home clothes does not need to be novel, and the price does not need to be so expensive, it is very like a budget-conscious mother will choose.
Another set of pajamas looks more novel, but it is not a short-sleeved style, but a long-sleeved style, and the actual price is 136 yuan.
Another set of the same long-sleeved model is also 136 yuan, although it is the same set, but it is normal to replace several sets of pajamas, and the price is set close to the poor.
However, the mother played by He Saifei is a very face-saving person, and it is more decent to dress up when she goes out, unlike at home, where it doesn't matter if she wears old pajamas.
Therefore, the price of these clothes worn out is generally above the pajamas, but a blouse is only about 100 yuan.
There is a scene in the play, where she went to her daughter's company to find the male protagonist to set up and wore a relatively young shirt, because He Saifei has a good temperament, she lined this dress very expensively, but it was actually only a double-digit price.
There is also this Chinese-style shirt that looks very temperamental, the price is 200 yuan, which is still the clothes chosen in more formal occasions and when you are dressed very exquisitely.
Such poor people can really empathize with everyone.
He Saifei's "cheap" mother's shirts in "Chenghuan Ji", I don't know how many domestic dramas "fake poor" have been slapped in the face, directors who can't shoot come and learn!
Have you noticed this detail of "Cheng Huan Ji"?