Author|Xie Minghong
Editor|Li Chunhui
Shanglian: The heart of the princess of Lane Tang is higher than the sky. Downlink: The prince of the alley crossed his eyebrows coldly. Horizontal criticism: "It's all habitual".
The princess of the alley and the prince of the alley, these two words are still a little unfamiliar to the audience in the non-free shipping area. When the future eldest sister of the heroine in "Cheng Huan Ji" shouted out "Lane Princess" one by one, Hard Candy Jun thought it was the same neologism as City Walk.
The so-called Lane Tang Princess, although she was born in the low-level civic space of Shanghai, is a little difficult to give up, and has high expectations for her own positioning and material consumption. The alley was originally a civilian residence, but there was an incompatible "princess", and the irony can be imagined.
Born in New China, growing up under the red flag, and only in TV dramas set in Shanghai can we feel such a distinct class consciousness and the worship of old money. Who's nouveau riche, who's Old Money. Whose family married an Anhui daughter-in-law, and whose family came to Anhui to have a son-in-law...... It is the only capitalist enclave in Chinese mainland and still retains the production relations and ideology before the founding of New China.
But capitalism and socialism will eventually fight in the minds of non-Shanghainese audiences, so much so that the rich plots in Chinese dramas often have a strange look. Some parts of "Cheng Huan Ji" are a bit like the mainland suspended wealthy family drama around the millennium like "True Love: A Million Brides". For the sake of business, the man's mother went to the woman's house to pretend to reconcile, and found a reason to learn how to make Babao hot sauce. As a result, He Saifei had a hard time, and the man's mother threw the trash can directly at the door. Are rich people really so boring? Trivial chickens and dogs jumping, sometimes very lively, sometimes irritating.
Shanghai, in addition to countless wealth legends and romantic loves, there are also the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and money contempt chains of the citizen class. Compared with Tong Yao's gallery agent, Jiang Shuying's academic rich sister, Yang Zi's lane princess, and Ma Yili's unmarried wife, they are another Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai women's universe.
When a boyfriend is an invisible prince
"The boyfriend who has been sharing joys and hardships for three years, there is actually a mine at home", posting the plot of "Chenghuan Ji" on the Internet, most of them will become a hot post. Peaceful: Congratulations to my sisters on reaching the pinnacle of life. Persuad: I have been hiding it for three years, and I don't look down on you at all.
The early plot of "Cheng Huan Ji" can basically be summarized as boyfriend's family background fraud + hotel workplace. After accidentally discovering that her boyfriend's assets were hundreds of millions, the heroine Mai Chenghuan (played by Yang Zi) was forced to get involved in the high-level war of the hotel, and ended up with a demotion and salary cut, her boyfriend broke up, and her career and love were both disappointed.
is different from the ease of discovering that her boyfriend's family has a mine in the romantic comedy, Mai Chenghuan, who has always thought that the two are the right person, suddenly faces the problem of "high marriage". She gradually discovered that the union of two people is also the union of two families. Although Hard Candy Jun wants to complain about this old-fashioned view of marriage and love, it does fit her growth trajectory as a "princess of the lane".
For He Saifei (as Chenghuan's mother), who has been looking forward to demolition for a long time but can't, the poor son-in-law becomes a rich son-in-law, and suddenly it is like grabbing a life-saving straw in the water. Regardless of his daughter's opinion, he forcibly arranged an engagement banquet for the two who had broken up. It's 4202 years, He Saifei is still engaged in arranged marriages, thinking that he is filming "The Red Lantern Hangs High"! In the eyes of his daughter, Xin Jialiang is a handsome guy. In He Saifei's eyes, he is a marriage house, a luxury car, and a job opportunity for his youngest son, all in all, it is difficult to be a person.
A handful of 15 pieces of asparagus, He Saifei was still angry when he killed 10 pieces, and he had to pinch off the so-called "old" at the bottom. You say that her family is so meticulous, but she can't even take out the repair fee of 100,000 yuan (not one person, but the whole family of four). Netizens have calculated that Yang Zi's father is a driver for the boss and has 6,000 every month, and Yang Zi has worked in hotels with room fees of thousands for many years, not to mention starting from 15,000.
This family's materialistic desires are so suppressed, it stands to reason that it is no problem to take out two or three hundred thousand. Seeing that no one in the Mai family likes photography and does not open a "middle-class killer" coffee shop, the only explanation is that someone in her family has speculated in stocks. In "The Golden Years", Liu Shishi's father speculated in stocks, but he accompanied the old lady's dowry and the small bungalow in Shanghai.
The workplace shown in "Cheng Huan Ji" is generally vain. The male protagonist Xu Kai's high-level fighting trick is the kickback order obtained from Yang Zi, and Yang Zi is emphasized that there is no ability to work in the sky and on the earth, but it is just to solve the incompetent and angry guests with a friendly attitude. The service industry is portrayed as untechnical, and "Ode to Joy 5", which advocates scientific hotel management, is simply two extremes.
The purpose of setting these dilemmas is obvious, to defeat the princess of the lane and then the phoenix nirvana. It's just that the specific logic of love and the workplace seems too rough, and probably the main line of love is broken by family trivialities. The director also wanted to make up for the romance, but Yang Zi and Xu Kai were filmed drying sheets on the lawn and shaking the mist, like Lolita reading a book on the ground. Honey, that's not love, it's more like sisterhood.
The self-cultivation of the princess of Lanetang
From "The First Half of My Life" to "The Legend of Cheng Huan", Hong Kong in Yishu's works has been "localized" to Shanghai. So, what about the "mainland" in Shitai's novel, which is still in the early stage of reform and opening up as opposed to Hong Kong in the 80s? Anhui is the one who will not give in.
Anhui in the eyes of Shanghainese is the mainland in the eyes of Hong Kong people. From "Deep Love and Rain" to "Little Days", Shanghai's stereotype of Anhui has lasted from the Republic of China to the present day. In "Little Days", Chen Xiao is the son-in-law of Anhui who married a Shanghai girl. In "The Story of Cheng Huan", He Saifei is the daughter-in-law of Anhui Province who married to the Shanghai alley. I don't know what kind of bad relationship Anhui and Shanghai have, which can make the creators tirelessly arrange and combine.
The Internet is constantly breaking the regionality, and the Xiaohongshu sisters seem to be wearing the same old money style and painting the same pouting lips, but fortunately, film and television works are still constantly shaping regional characteristics. When Yishu's Hong Kong independent women are replaced by Shanghai lane princesses, the heroines still show highly similar growth processes and spiritual traits.
In "The First Half of My Life", Luo Zijun has to talk about decency at all times, and swiping the card makes her ex-husband's head bigger, and she turns to cheating on the calculating Ling Ling. A pair of shoes is 80,000 yuan, Luo Zijun bought it without blinking, and adding 20,000 yuan is enough for Chenghuan's family to repair the house.
But in the same way, the masses have been arguing about the financial situation of Luo Zijun's family for many years. It stands to reason that the ex-husband's brother's economic setting can't withstand Luo Zijun's consumption operation, just like the salary level of Mai Chenghuan's family will not be so stretched. Among them, all kinds of unreasonableness can only be understood as the exchange of Hong Kong dollars for Shanghai currency is not adaptable.
The most ideal life for Princess Langtang may be to find a foreign company executive to marry, and her husband and children will be mixed with his wife. "Shanghai Women's Illustrated Guide" has already pointed out clearly: "Our dream in Shanghai is to wear Vera Wang before the age of 30, hold a lawn wedding in a French restaurant, and then live a leisurely life and enjoy life." ”
Mai Chenghuan has a different set of self-confidence theories, which both coax himself and deceive others. Obviously, the job of the hotel was introduced by my mother's sister, but I firmly believe that I deserve it. Comfort my younger brother in the law firm, without the help of my in-laws, I can rely on my own ability to become a regular, so the help of others cannot become your own psychological burden. Look, this is the "worthiness" of a princess who was raised with love!
Of course, the recent plot of "Chenghuan Ji" has a tendency to get rid of the "princess of the lane". She rejects a high-paying job offered by her ex-boyfriend while breaking with her mother, who arranges a wedding reception. From the princess of the lane to the runaway Nala, compared with the princess of the lane who enjoys life after getting married, Mai Chenghuan is more motivated and able to endure hardships.
In "I Love You", Jiang Wenwen, the princess of the alley, said frankly after her identity was revealed: "I go in and out of the most high-end CBD in Shanghai during the day, but at night I can only go back to the alley." Even if I could afford a Chanel and a sports car, I would never be able to afford a down payment on a house. ”
The core contradiction between the princess of Lane Tang is the pursuit of exquisite life (not only material, but also spiritual) and the embarrassment of real conditions. In addition to a vigorous love from a rich man, or a huge inheritance falling from the sky, how the story of Princess Lane Tang can be told and how it ends, perhaps it is more interesting and intriguing.
The domestication of idol dramas
In the box, He Saifei was arguing with the man's mother, and Xu Kai was so frightened outside the door that he didn't dare to go in. Xu Kai, who is in a suit and leather shoes, seems to have strayed into the set of a family drama from an idol drama, and he is so cramped that he is out of place. In the hospital, the man's sister threw something at Yang Zi, and Xu Kai just turned around and protected the other party in his arms.
The more I look at it, the more I feel that the more I feel that Xu Kai is going on, shouldn't Xu Kai grab the hand of the man's sister and say, "Move her again, you and your family are waiting for the end"?
The confusing thing about "Cheng Huan Ji" is that too many family drama elements have been implemented in idol dramas. Romantic love meets pots and pans at home, not only splitting but also not pleasing at both ends. The male protagonist who repays grievances with virtue will naturally feel that the female protagonist is a flower born to the sun, worthy of love and protection. And the substitution reality is: There is such a difficult mother, I'm sorry I withdrew first.
Other idol dramas are "Woman, You Caught My Attention", while "Cheng Huan Ji", where family elements are messed up, is "Woman, your mother caught my attention". Not only is the heroine's family a mess, but the male protagonist's family is also complicated and treacherous. "My grandfather abandoned my grandmother, my mother abandoned my father, my father was in prison, and now my family is only my grandmother. "The combination of familiar bosom friends and characters makes people feel so strange and alienated, this is a wealthy ethical drama that only existed in Hong Kong before the handover!
Hard Candy Junli: Xu Kai's grandmother remarried Grandpa Yang Zi after the divorce, and after Grandpa Yang Zi died, she invited herself to move to a nursing home because of her discordant relationship with her stepson and daughter-in-law.
It can be said that the proportion and exclusivity of genre fusion are closely related to the user's viewing habits. Adding the plot of idol dramas in family dramas, such as "If Running Is My Life" and "Fireworks People", often does not make traditional family drama audiences feel bored. In "If Running Is My Life", the appearance of Hou Wenyuan is undoubtedly an idol drama-style redemption for Zhong Chuxi, who suffered a car accident, but it is not separated in family dramas. The plot of Sun Qian's little couple in "Fireworks People" even injected a lot of freshness into the family drama.
The mixing of a large number of family drama plots in idol dramas is in line with the creator's wishful thinking of reflecting realism and related to social issues, but it makes the audience of traditional idol dramas feel like they are on pins and needles. Many viewers don't buy the mother-daughter line of "Chenghuan Ji", because they feel that firewood, rice, oil and salt have killed the romance that it should have.
A similar incompatibility is also "In the Name of Family". In the later period, the bloody plot of Song Weilong and Zhang Xincheng, two brothers, competing for his sister Tan Songyun, is incompatible with the warm family drama in the early stage. Imagine it's about talking about pornography, the family sits and eats together, and the father can't serve his daughter in the family law. is as insatiable as Hard Candy Jun, who wants his brother but is reluctant to give up his brother, then he is really going to be immersed in a pig cage by netizens.
Based on this, it is still recommended that idol dramas liberate themselves from family dramas, and give idol dramas a love vacuum away from the hustle and bustle - chickens and dogs can jump, but not trivialities.