Yesterday, I finished talking about the "Fairy Sword" fever.
Today is another phenomenon – Yishu heat.
"The First Half of My Life", "The Golden Years", "Xibao", and the one that is being broadcast-
Cheng Huan Ji
Starring Yang Zi and Xu Kai.
He Saifei, Xu Yajun and other old drama bones are blessed.
After the broadcast, the data was the first, and the hot searches on Weibo continued.
After clicking on it with curiosity, Sir roughly understood the reason why the adaptation of Yishu's works has been favored over the years.
The first is the big heroine, which meets the needs of the current audience.
Most of the female characters in Yishu's paintings are strong, goal-oriented, self-interested (neutral words).
The second is the urban middle class, which has not been well reflected.
Domestic dramas are good at period dramas, local dramas, costume fairies or spy wars of the Republic of China.
Yishu's works are set in Hong Kong in the last century, where the urban cultural atmosphere has been relatively mature, and many women have entered the workplace.
So you can also see that professional dramas and working women have always been the specialties of Hong Kong dramas, and even now they are several positions ahead of domestic entertainment.
But.
These qualities of Yishu's works have been localized and reinterpreted in the mainland.
But it inevitably becomes fragmented and awkward.
It boils down to one thing, which is "both and again".
This is also the problem of "Cheng Huan Ji" that I want to talk about today.
There is no score at present, but there have been a lot of fierce voices on Douban, saying that this is-
"Workplace Idol Drama", "Wife Literature", "Tasteless".
You must know that these are all contrary to Yishu's novels.
Of course, Sir is not the so-called "original fan", and denounces all "magic changes".
And Yishu's novels are not necessarily golden rules, they can't be changed, and she also has the limitations of the times.
But at least one thing -
The brilliance of her characters lies in the fact that they do not pretend to be pretentious, but focus on naked desires and interests.
If you just want to watch a beautiful urban boss idol drama, you can leave the scene quickly and immerse yourself in "Chenghuan Ji".
The next spit is about to begin.
The first episode is a typical Mary Sue opening.
Mai Chenghuan played by Yang Zi, a good girl from an ordinary family.
Living in a small bungalow in a Shanghai alley, the job is a busy hotel manager.
is approaching thirty, and I have a boyfriend of the same age who has a good relationship, and I am almost about to talk about marriage.
So far, it's all grounded.
But soon, clang-
The heroine turned her face.
The boyfriend came to the door to apologize.
Mai Chenghuan's mother asked what was wrong, and she was very principled: this is a bottom-line problem, and it is not okay to deceive people.
He even lied to me that the car was rented and that I had no money and needed a loan, but the result was all fake......
In fact, he is a real rich second generation!
He's really rich!
Because I found out that my boyfriend was rich and wanted to break up???
For a while, I couldn't figure out if this was Versailles, or Mary Sue's simple, special, and didn't love his money at all.
From here, Sir already feels bad.
also understands why netizens say that the heroine is "unhuman".
It's not that you have to be greedy for money to represent real human nature, but the "noble and independent" qualities of the heroine have not been fully explained by the director, as if she is just reading from a perfect character.
Then, those bloody episodes in domestic dramas appeared one by one.
The (quasi) in-laws of the unruly power.
When the two families were eating, they drank red wine and ate yellow croaker, so that the Mai family, who was born from the grassroots and had never seen a big scene, was embarrassed in public, and the homeopathic yin and yang weirdness people had a short knowledge.
The biggest Party A of the in-law's family happens to be the hotel where the heroine works.
So the future mother-in-law pretended to show goodwill, but in fact, she wanted to take advantage of the relationship between the heroine and prevent her company and the hotel from eating kickbacks.
But you get the idea.
The essence of the future in-law's family is just a tool to let the heroine "grow" and "transform".
Sure enough, episode ten.
The heroine and her boyfriend collapsed, and they were also involved in a kickback storm and were fired by the hotel.
What's next?
The world is sober, struggling to make money?
Yes, there is.
But when it came to the workplace, Mai Chenghuan soon met another object of her admiration-
Her immediate boss Yao Zhiming (played by Xu Kai).
And this person is still the grandson of Mrs. Mai.
The independent woman you think is to get rid of the rich second generation and be yourself independently.
As a result, people dumped a second generation and hugged another second generation.
Another way to fall in love in the workplace is.
Rush to Yishu.
In a few steps, he fell back into the trap of domestic dramas.
The most lethal thing about domestic working women is.
On the one hand, they claim to be independent, but what they show is that if you don't rely on men, you can't believe that she can succeed in this business.
In "The Story of Cheng Huan", Mai Chenghuan is smart, kind, and independent, and cannot be self-consistent.
For example, her boss asked her to plan a 520 event.
In recent years, young people have become anti-love brains, and consumption has also been downgraded, and they are still doing it as before, which is obviously not good.
The heroine patted her head and changed to another set of marketing plans-
520 is a festival for children and parents!
Let the children bring their other half, as well as their parents, to talk about the love secrets of the previous generation of parents, which must be very warm and meaningful!
...... Just imagining that image requires you to tap your toes to the ground.
Let you play romantic, you play embarrassingly, right?
520 couples dating, directly breaking the "Good Family Style Publicity Day".
But the most fatal flaw of "Cheng Huan Ji" is not the distorted workplace drama.
It's about --
In the name of women's growth, it rudely simplifies all the difficulties encountered by women in reality as "there are always people who want to frame this princess".
Like the one mentioned earlier.
The setting of the heroine is that she likes to work overtime and wants to roll her career.
But under the urging of her mother, she suddenly felt confused that it was good to get married.
The front foot also felt that it was hateful for her boyfriend to pretend to be poor and cheated on her, which violated her principles, and the back foot felt that her boyfriend was excusable and needed better material conditions for marriage.
Say one out is one out.
But you never feel that these decisions made by the heroine are out of her ego and desire.
Including her love.
Mak Chenghuan is keen to be her boyfriend's mother, and understands over-giving as love that you shouldn't care about gains and losses.
Sir is not going to crusade against the love brain.
The question is –
The audience didn't see from beginning to end, what are the shining points of this mother's treasure man, who was portrayed by the screenwriter as useless, worthy of her being so in love?
As netizens said, the growth of women is always inseparable from the standard four-piece suit:
The original family is not a good mother, she does not act as a weak man, she is a difficult and calculating mother-in-law, and she is a scheming woman in the workplace......
In addition to these horse catching settings.
The screenwriter can't seem to think of how a thirty-year-old woman will take care of one or the other and waver between career and marriage, between dedication to family and self-realization.
Once you encounter difficulties, the first thing is not to show the process of struggle.
It's a golden finger from heaven.
Mai Chenghuan is an ordinary girl.
But as a result, they still have a trump card: step-grandmother.
We don't understand why an eighty-year-old lady would own a whole century-old store in the center of Shanghai, with several small goals in assets, and she has nothing to do all day, so she spoils Mai Chenghuan alone.
I don't understand why the old lady's own grandson happens to be the male protagonist played by Xu Kai, the former boss who is interested in Mai Chenghuan.
One is her own grandson, and the other is her favorite girl, of course, they have to be matched.
So from the very beginning, Mai Chenghuan won -
Because of this family business, it is predetermined.
Anyway, according to the setting of internal entertainment for independent women: perfect character, peak career, and happy marriage.
Then the next plot must be that the heroine lost her job, but she will help in the old lady's hotel.
The male protagonist will definitely fall in love with the female protagonist for a long time, and the two of them will make the hotel prosperous in the workplace drama isolated from reality, and finally enter the marriage to welcome the life of the third child......
is also distorted, as well as the heroine's best friend.
As a mirror image of the good girl Mai Chenghuan -
The main theme is a self-liberating cool literati design.
Previously, when I had a child, I had to compromise with reality and entered a marriage without much love.
Divorced three years later, and still taking the baby alone, it was originally possible to describe the plight of women.
Like the past "The First Half of My Life", although the second half is also Mary Sue, at least it allows you to see the pain of divorced women: consumption downgraded, not treated by colleagues, self-realization, and neglected the growth of children...... wrote about the unbearable glamour of a single woman.
Then "Chenghuan Ji" is a direct one-click upgrade.
I just got divorced and want to return to the workplace, what should I do?
Simple.
With a staggering amount of alimony, you can casually rent a small western-style building in the center of Shanghai, and then open a private custom fine jewelry store.
With a baby, but still longing for love, what should I do?
Simpler.
Arrange a milk dog with fine skin and tender meat, pure love and invincible.
It just so happens that he is the pseudo-orthopedic godbrother who has had a crush on you since he was a child.
Domestic entertainment filmed the growth of women, and still used the logic of idol dramas-
It's just that I lied to you before, as long as the princess is sweet and pure enough, there will be a prince to love.
Today, it's cooler, rougher, and faster.
You were born to be the Queen's destiny.
Sir doesn't mean that this kind of cool heroine can't have it.
Remember Gloria in "The Myth of Love", "Rich and free, her husband is missing".
But what is the reason why this character is cute and does not make people question its authenticity?
The three women in the movie are three different planes-
Gloria focuses on beauty, Miss Li focuses on her career, and Beibei focuses on traditional families.
The cuteness of the movie is that these three planes are juxtaposed together, there is no comparison, and different types of women can be independent women.
And these three people all embody the ups and downs of life.
A glamorous wife with no ability or business acumen;
has strong business ability, life is not glamorous enough, and he is crowded with his mother;
As for traditional housewives, their marriages broke down.
How can people be perfect, and how can life be smooth.
In the midst of imperfection and unsatisfactory, it is still indomitable that is an independent personality.
Instead of having money, nobles, and invincible luck, now you can finally be independent.
We complained that domestic editors always give the protagonist a golden finger.
And at the end of the day-
We don't know how independence can lead to success.
Because reality allows us to see.
In an environment of class solidification and second-generation monopoly, independent struggle will either fail to succeed.
Either this success will not be too clean.
Not to mention the craze caused by "Hurricane" last year, many people also want to follow Brother Qiang's example to "sell fish".
Let's just say that in Yishu's novels, how many real things can still be put on the table today?
Those urban girls who "want a lot of love, if not, at least a lot of money", who are always exquisite, independent, chic, and never lead to exquisite self-interest, are destined to be difficult to become heroines in domestic dramas.
Whether it is "Chenghuan Ji", or the past "The First Half of My Life", "Golden Years" and "Xibao".
They are all just borrowed from Yishu's characters.
has never filled these women with desires and ambitions with convincing and resonant flesh and blood.
They just want to cater to the coolest "right".
First shoot the heroine as a white lotus.
And those who hinder women's self-realization must be cheating scumbags, juniors who rob their husbands, controlling mothers-in-law, and blood-sucking original families......
Behind the creation of gods for female characters in domestic dramas, there is actually the most stubborn laziness hidden-
I don't want to approach you, to observe you, to understand you.
So, I had to stuff you with the cheapest sleeping pills.
Many people say that the most important thing to film women's growth is to have a "female perspective".
Sir feels that the so-called female perspective is just a narrative strategy.
Feminist works, or works that care for women, do not mean that women shoot or shoot women's stories.
To borrow the author of "The Handmaid's Tale", the definition of "feminist work" -
Am I writing "feminist" novels?
If you're referring to an ideological pamphlet in which all women are angels, or victims of moral incapacity, or both, then the answer is no.
But if you're talking about a novel in which the women are interesting and important human beings — with different personalities and mannerisms — and everything that happens to them is crucial to the book's theme, structure, and plot, then the answer is yes.
In this sense, many books are actually "feminist".
and also shoots female themes.
The idea of Taiwanese dramas is just the opposite of domestic entertainment-
When internal entertainment is keen to cater to the right and crusade against scum.
But what Taiwanese dramas want to do is to put aside the right and only care about an interesting, complex, and mature person, a heart that is more difficult to understand than the universe, and a desire that is more excessive than Pixiu.
is like the difficult mother-in-law in "The Story of Chenghuan", Ma Bao's husband.
"We Are Not Good Enough" is also available.
Rebecca's brother had been in prison, and Ho's mother urged her to move out. He Ruizhi, who has always been filial, used the Cold War to warn his mother for the first time in more than 30 years.
The "evil mother-in-law" broke her heart.
But in a conversation.
The audience understands her evil, her control, her excessive attachment to her son.
In fact, it stems from her fragility as a widow.
He Ruizhi's cold war with his mother, does it mean that-
Is he brave enough to choose the partner he really wants and no longer be under the control of his mother?
Wrong.
When Rebecca broke up with him, He Ruizhi did not stay.
He compromised with reality.
chose Jian Qingfen, who he didn't love very much, and his mother was very satisfied.
Later in marriage, he trained himself to be a 100-point husband.
The mother-in-law was degenerate, he asked his wife to take her over, and his wife complained that the pot was too dirty to brush, so he happily took it, it was great, I like to brush the pot the most.
But on his wife's birthday, he bought "her" favorite cake.
This she is not Jian Qingfen, but her ex Rebecca on the same birthday.
So, is "We Are Not Kind Enough" to speak for Jian Qingfen as a housewife, saying that she was devastated by her married life?
Neither is it.
On the contrary, this drama wants to puncture the embarrassment under everyone's decency and the selfishness behind the affection.
Jian Qingfen told her husband that she would not quit her job to take care of her mother because she needed a job to prove herself.
So independent, so chic?
slapped in the face in the next second-
Jian Qingfen is doing insurance, and this month's performance is not good.
She immediately asked her brother to sign the bill.
Why is "Not Good Enough" just about a midlife crisis.
is slow, trivial, and contrived monologue, but it can make the audience passionate five stars.
Because it doesn't want to overtly tout the value of women's independence, let alone turn women into victims or winners.
I just want to restore the original appearance of ordinary people such as me, and the life that will not be open to anyone and is full of black humor.
But such a drama, frankly speaking, if the internal entertainment is accidentally filmed.
Sir didn't dare to imagine what kind of crusade he would suffer-
The male protagonist has been married for more than ten years and still loves his ex.
...... Dregs?
The heroine's words and deeds are inconsistent, and she wants to do both.
...... Tea?
On the contrary, the characters of "Cheng Huan Ji" are distorted, the plot is earthy, and the audience is frustrated.
Even if the core of this drama deviates from the independent consciousness that Yishu really wants to express.
Even if Mai Chenghuan's setting is so white and flawless that it is distorted, it is even impersonal.
It still has a rating of more than 2 and has more than 100 million broadcasts.
In fact, Taiwanese dramas do not only focus on women, they just use more humane details to restore the tragedy of the real world.
Thereupon.
We can see Carina Chen, a laywoman who returned to her hometown at the age of 40 to buy a haunted house, decided to have a child, and lived her life to death.
will also sympathize with "Her and Her Her", because she can't give birth to children, she is brainwashed by traditional values, and silently connives her husband to sexually assault female students, hating the poor teacher's wife.
will be stabbed by Chen Yunru, who represents most of the dark side of the ordinary in "I Want to See You", to the soft part of my heart.
It doesn't matter if it's the protagonist, the supporting role, or the villain.
They always allow you to be precise and always broaden your understanding of human nature.
And internal entertainment, these female growth dramas that advertise independence, progress, and positive energy.
But it is still in the most shoddy stage-
only cares about what kind of issues are easy to explode, and what kind of plot is enough to relieve anger.
Maybe.
The difference lies in the inclusiveness of the market.
But perhaps more fundamentally, how willing we are to face the reality of life.
In one place.
People can calm down and appreciate life, pay attention to ordinary people, and understand all kinds of helplessness and suffering.
And when Sir criticizes certain works, there is always no shortage of such voices:
Life is tired enough, do you still have to face the truth in the TV series?
I'm angry on weekdays, what's wrong with watching cool dramas?
Even in "Not Kind Enough", which has soared to 9.0 on Douban, many one-star short reviews are also judging the "imperfection" of the show-
It seems that whoever breaks the perfect bubble in their hearts is the enemy.
Sir understands this mentality and does not want to be too harsh.
If we have exhausted our mental energy in reality, we will naturally not be able to reflect on reality more, empathize with others, and reach deeper meanings.
What is only needed is the most immediate gratification, the most open cool article.
A number of works that he liked came into being......
So, we built a delicate wall to separate the outside world.
Who deceived whom.
Who chose whom.
It's been hard to tell for a long time.
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