Yesterday, I talked about (scolded) Xu Kai's character in "Chenghuan Ji", but in fact, a few thousand words were written, and it only involved the tip of the iceberg of this slot.
It's not enjoyable today, let's start another conversation and talk about (scolding) this drama as a whole.
As we all know, but in case you don't know, "The Legend of Chenghuan" is another Yishu film and television work after "The First Half of My Life", "Golden Years", "Xibao" and other works.
2020 Guo Caijie's version of "Xibao"
Neiyu really loves adapting Shi Tai's text, and almost all of them fail, and they love it.
This strange preference is a mystery in itself, and the adventures of the Yishu-style heroine in today's domestic entertainment are a phenomenon worth digging into.
To summarize simply, the drama version is about Mai Chenghuan (played by Yang Zi), a 29-year-old ordinary good girl in Shanghai, who began to propose marriage with her boyfriend Xin Jialiang (played by Niu Junfeng), who has been in love for three years, at the urging of her mother (played by He Saifei).
As a result, it was suddenly discovered that Xin Jialiang was a hidden rich second generation, and his parents looked down on the Mai family, and they broke up under layers of difficulties.
Mai Chenghuan, a post-independent woman, gradually got rid of her mother and focused more on her career, successfully gaining the approval of another invisible rich step-grandmother, who entrusted her with the operation of a luxury hotel.
As a result, she changed from an ordinary worker to a working partner, and became a working partner with the third richest man, Yao Zhiming (played by Xu Kai), a former big boss professional hotel manager, and then fell in love without suspense and completed the happy ending KPI.
To tell the truth, this drama is like a grafting monster.
Ma Bao's good girl grows into a big heroine, which is the story of Ruping in "Deep Love and Rain", and Cinderella marrying into a wealthy family and being blocked by her elders is the old stalk of Shancai in "Meteor Garden". Coincidentally, these two happen to be old dramas from 24 years ago.
Today, everyone has changed from despising Shancai's mother who gave Shancai a huge amount of money to let her leave the male protagonist, to the collective reality perspective of "Okay aunt, I'll leave right away", "Cheng Huan Ji" still expects to use such an old-fashioned plot to stir up waves in the audience's hearts?
Moreover, in addition to being old-fashioned and stewed, these mixed characters are also very labeled.
In order to embody independence and self-improvement, Mak Chenghuan, as a capable hotel manager, planned a unique promotion on Valentine's Day:
Wow, I took my parents to the hotel together!
The beautiful name is "very warm and meaningful", but the PPT template has not even changed the name of the program, but colleagues and leaders are amazed by it.
And as a manager-level workplace old man who has been crawling and rolling for 7 years, in order to reflect kindness, he will not explain being pitted by villains, and even take the initiative to carry the black pot is also incredible.
In the end, there is no suspense like many domestic heroines, pretending to work hard is actually inseparable from the care of men, like this drama, although Mai Chenghuan broke with his rich second-generation boyfriend for his backbone, but finally achieved a class leap by marrying another wealthy family.
Why does Neiyu love to adapt Mrs. Shi's text? is because there was no such thing as a big heroine back then, but the women in the book really exude female consciousness.
But why can't it be changed?
As you can see, the big heroine is just an empty shell, the so-called female growth of the basic original family, men, and careers, all of which have not been shaped well.
The heroine of the drama version seems ordinary, but in fact, her parents are very fond of her daughters and younger brothers, she is already a top hotel manager at the age of 29, she is a rich second-generation blind box in love, and she has a step-grandmother who spoils her alone. The original family, school, work, love, and interpersonal opportunities are all considered to be successful and smooth, and they are the top settings.
Around the heroine, everyone is a good person, very suspended. Then, in order to create a "transformation moment", he deliberately used marriage proposal to create a bloody conflict, and with the above plot, everyone is a bad person.
Mom will only urge marriage every day, and the fiancé who is anxious about work in the early stage will suddenly become a wreck, and the future in-laws and even the eldest sister-in-law will come out to make things difficult......
In fact, the screenwriter's thinking is not only old-fashioned, but he has never thought about human nature at all.
In fact, it doesn't hurt so much for a heroine who is surrounded by good people or suddenly all bad people, because people will be numb. Only when the people around her are good people on one side and bad people on the other, the heroine will have the luxury of sacrificing herself to balance the expectations of others, so that others will always remain "good", and finally will be painfully transformed.
In the eyes of the screenwriter, not only the people around the heroine are tool people, but even the big heroine herself is just a tool person to please the audience. And this is the fundamental reason for losing the temperament of Yishu girl after the magic reform of the original work.
"Single Woman" adapted by Beijing Film Studio in 91 actually has similar obstacles to "Cheng Huan Ji", that is, the local flavor is too strong, and the old Hong Kong foreign atmosphere of Yishu's original work is missing.
But the heroine's steps must be firm, and the words she says are also sonorous, not as soft and pale as today's internal entertainment.
I'm a very strong person
"Sense of accomplishment" you know what
It's beyond all for me
Pan Hong's version of "Single Woman"
Let's talk about the original version of "Cheng Huan Ji".
This is a decent short story, about a truly ordinary woman, who is separated from the primitive family, the expectations of traditional society, and faces up to the relationship between the sexes, and takes the helm of her own life.
Yishu dares to let the heroine experience impermanence.
In the book, Mai Chenghuan broke up with his fiancé not because he was bad, in fact, he was good.
She is full of emotional value and material things, and is willing to spend all her savings to buy her a big diamond ring just to satisfy her mother's vanity, and she never wants it back even after the breakup.
This is so good, or it ends without a problem: Mom's request for a wedding is just a fuse, and then their respective families change, and the change of mentality is the reason for their breakup.
It's not bloody but it's true, they didn't even explicitly say that they would break up and tacitly separate. Real life is like this, time passes, the process of things being people is nowhere to be found, and there is nothing to be done, which catches people off guard.
The heavy rain breakup scene in the drama version of "The Legend of Cheng Huan".
She also dared to make the women around the heroine have mixed results.
In the first half, Mak Chenghuan's references are mothers who are both loving mothers and resentful women, and girlfriends who are dissolute and only seek passion.
Mak Seung-hwan sympathizes with her mother and tries to please her, but she is disgusted with her and wary of not becoming her.
The best friend was a modern woman who looked at the new overhead at that time, and Mai Chenghuan was also vigilant. Sandwiched in the middle, strive to become an affordable woman in the new era.
But later, I met my younger brother's girlfriend, a difficult single mother who opened a shop on her own but still fell in love, the confusion of Mrs. Xin Jialiang's rich mother who was cheated, and the stepgrandmother of a rich woman who was indifferent but died because of her wealth. The ideal female template in Mak Chenghuan's mind gradually became clear.
She was frightened by her step-grandmother's huge wealth, and for many years she had not even helped them to drop out of school several times when they were so poor, but she gradually became a step-grandmother.
If it is indifference to be good for yourself, then it is better to be indifferent. The original family, the man, she is no longer balanced and pleasing everywhere.
You will find that women's growth does not necessarily need to be intense and painful, it can be silent and slow. Because she can think of a new path by referring to the life trajectories of other women.
And this process of thinking and transformation, men are neither cause nor effect:
Yishu also dared to erase the importance of men in women's growth.
After discovering that his father was cheating, Xin Jialiang was so flustered that he lost his sense of proportion, and Mai Chenghuan felt that it was nothing more than that.
It's not as rich as the treasure inside you that can be dug up, and you just want to live for yourself. After the breakup, she no longer had a male partner for the purpose of getting married, and her eyes were only seductive because of her flesh, so that she only slept 10 hours in three days, and even so, she did not fall into it, but always remained cold and free.
Later, she "broke up" with her mother, refused to sponsor her younger brother, moved into an apartment and lived alone, and successfully got a promotion and salary increase on her own......
Yishu also dares to make the heroine really ordinary like you and me.
The big heroine is not an objective existence that crushes all powerful existences, but just a subjective perspective that cherishes her own life.
At the end of the original book, the heroine's "big heroine moment" is just moving from the narrow original family with no private space to a small apartment that is also not spacious and really belongs to herself, sleeping comfortably, and interacting freely with strange men, no longer binding to anyone, no longer needing to explain to her family.
It's not spectacular, but it's real and desirable.
So is Yishu girl outdated?
The image of Yishu girl is the appearance of a professional woman in TVB dramas in the 90s, and it is also the appearance of a real professional woman at that time, as I talked about a few days ago, Zheng Yuling, who doesn't believe in anything and only believes in herself.
They don't have to be the imaginary top people standing in the concave shape of a luxury office on the top floor of an office building in high heels, they can be ordinary little policemen and intern doctors, but they are never arrogant, but they are serious about the things at hand.
Always start working and do things, further study and improve.
And the posture of Hong Kong women back then, such as Xu Zishan, who retired from an actor and studied for a degree to become a jewelry designer, is still being practiced.
Behind their behavior are the common traits of Yishu girls, including:
Sharp and bold.
The female characters are not afraid of criticism, and they admit openly that I only believe in myself, that I will love myself as much as possible, and that I may even hurt others, and that money is really important.
Yuan Quan in "The First Half of My Life" still captured the essence
In "Xi Bao", Xi Bao said, "I don't mind selling my youth. Youth will pass if it is not sold. "I feel too happy, I'm just a cheap young woman, and money can bring me joy at any time. ”
These words are controversial, but they are also a kind of true self-face.
In the original book, Mai Chenghuan moved out of the house, and when her mother began to tell her to go home for dinner, she began to openly express that she didn't want to go, if this is unfilial piety, then it is not filial piety.
The sentence "Today, she has to think about herself first" is even more sonorous.
She even shows a cunning way of dealing with the world.
When her physical male companion, Yao Zhiming, begins to show possessiveness for her sinking, she goes out for a walk.
After coming back, the explanation she gave was that she disappeared because she Mai Chenghuan went to her mother's house for dinner and Chenghuan fell to her knees by the way.
Haha, she's lying.
No longer thinks about balancing herself, but uses external objects to balance each other and facilitate herself, this is her cunning, and she has a very good way of dealing with the outside world and facing herself.
But you don't think she's hateful, and you even think she's a little cute, because it's enough to lie and be sincere about your feelings, isn't that?
After the film and television, the Yishu girl's common characteristics have been magically changed: from sharp and bold to a "green tea", for fear of being said to be "exquisite egoism" and "greed for money", etc., the heroine always realizes the desire filling half-pushed.
The divorce was made difficult by the future in-laws who were so mean that they were suspended, and it could not be because they had changed their minds; the hotel that engaged in the business was given by the rich woman's step-grandmother, not by herself......
It's really boring, from the cunning self-determination and strong self-interest, to the pie of passively accepting fate, the adapted version does not recognize women's desires or even the dark side of desire, and just wants to be a doll.
and then through the crazy accumulation of dog blood plots to attract discussion, such as changing the love scene of the prodigal brother who stepped on two boats and dated divorced women in the original book to an innocent little milk dog Ai Mugan sister, creating fake orthopedics;
Xin Jialiang's parents and sisters, who still admired Mai Chenghuan very much after the breakup, changed to a big boss who despised wage earners and created sharp contradictions......
seems to cherish the heroine, but in fact, she doesn't believe that women can change their circumstances through themselves, and they don't even have the courage to self-awaken and explore.
So from the awakening of women's consciousness, the old narrative of "Cinderella needs to be passively saved by men" is returned.
It's not that Cinderella can't write.
is writing, Shi Tai writes about Mai Chenghuan and other women who have successfully transformed, and in the end, they look down on men almost in a female-oriented manner, and instead write about women who have failed to transform, Cinderella Xibao, who has a serious plot, and finally uses tragedy to warn women who are trying to look up to men.
Earlier, when she was still young, she also honestly wrote about the confusion, emptiness and frustration of her youth.
The last sentence of "Star Shard" is full of grief and sorrow: "I am satisfied with nothing? I drink tea, I will start from scratch, life is not a star, just fragments. ”
1990 Kwan Yonghe's version of "Star Fragments" (Sister He is so beautiful!)
Nowadays, while shouting slogans and relying on the awkwardness of men, he doesn't believe the audience.
They don't believe that the audience will watch the heroine grow up calmly, and they only superficially love the bloody plot.
"Cheng Huan Ji", published in 1996, is the result of his parents looking forward to the eventual growth of Mai Chenghuan under Cheng Huan's knees, and deciding not to give priority to meeting the expectations of his parents and society, but to love himself first and inherit the joy of his life as a person.
And "Cheng Huan Ji", which will be performed in 2024, is the fatherly Cinderella story of women and men, not that the Yishu girl is outdated, but that the big dads who are in power to tell stories on the screen have not yet progressed.