Yang Zi's new drama "Chenghuan Ji" is finally broadcast!
At present, it is very popular, and on the day of the broadcast, the number of Tencent Video reservations exceeded 4 million, and the cumulative number of barrage interactions exceeded 48 million.
Is this new drama familiar or not? No matter how good or bad the works are, the popularity will be "blown" first.
Sure enough, the popularity was there, and the word of mouth immediately hit the street, and after a few episodes were broadcast, "Chenghuan Ji" started high and went low.
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"The plot is old-fashioned, I can't stand it", "It's 2024, why is it still the same set 20 years ago", "The plot is suspended, and the acting skills are exaggerated"······
The most unbearable thing is that under the banner of "independent women", she acted in a boss drama.
(Please Yang Zi don't act in the boss idol drama anymore, cherish your feathers!)
On the surface, the heroine gets rid of her strong mother, gets rid of her unresponsible boyfriend, and "overcomes obstacles" in the workplace, but the core is still the same as the ancient idol drama.
It's a pity that the audience has long since stopped buying it.
Some netizens commented: "If Yishu sees it, I'm afraid I'm going to faint." ”
Yang Zi's interpretation of Mai Chenghuan is indeed too far from the Yishu girl!
In the past two years, with the "awakening of women", more and more domestic dramas about women's growth have appeared.
In this track, "Shitai" Yishu is the popular writer with the most film and television adaptations.
From Yuan Quan and Ma Yili's "The First Half of My Life" to Ni Ni and Liu Shishi's "Golden Years", as well as Guo Caijie's "Xibao" and "The Story of Roses" starring Liu Yifei.
Mainland film and television dramas have set off "Yishu fever".
Yishu's most common sentence is: "The most important thing in being a man is to look good." ”
The "posture" of "Yishu Girl" is that she has a good face and tasteful clothes from the outside, while the core is that she is neither humble nor arrogant, and she is independent.
No matter how you look at it, it is highly consistent with the current argument of "female awakening".
The drama version of "Cheng Huan Ji" is obviously aimed at this, but in the details, it makes people feel that "this is unreasonable".
The heroine Mai Chenghuan (played by Yang Zi) is set to be an ordinary local family in Shanghai.
The family lives in an alley room in the center of Shanghai, and his younger brother Mai Chengzao has been sleeping on the balcony on the camp bed.
Dad is the president's chauffeur and mom is a housewife.
Although the Mai family is not rich and wealthy, it is also a well-off family, but they can't take out 70,000 yuan when their daughter wants to get married.
Mai Chenghuan himself seems ordinary, but in fact, he can be regarded as an intermediate configuration of "Sims".
I worked in the company for 7 years, never skipped the slot, and was promoted to hotel manager. Walk to work, eat and live at home.
(How many Shanghai drifters live in a rental house of more than ten square meters in the suburbs, and eat takeout every day!)
Although he has a younger brother, the family is more feminine than male, and he is favored by his step-grandmother.
fell in love and won the blind box of the rich second generation, and was seriously ready to talk about marriage with her.
No matter how you look at it, Mai Chenghuan's life setting is better than most ordinary people.
According to this setting, there will be no taste of female awakening, so the screenwriter decided to create some conflict.
Mak Chenghuan and her boyfriend Xin Jialiang (played by Niu Junfeng) arranged for their parents to meet to discuss marriage.
The Xin family was deliberately lazy, arrogant, and looked down on the heroine's background.
boyfriend Xin Jialiang did not protect Mai Chenghuan at this time.
So, a meal made Mai Chenghuan feel disgraced, and decisively chose to withdraw from the marriage.
In this scene, everyone is an NPC, in order to highlight the heroine's humility and arrogance.
It's a pity that Mai Chenghuan, who is "neither humble nor arrogant", is a late love brain.
"Shanghai Drift" boyfriend Xin Jialiang is actually a rich second generation, and it wasn't until he talked about marriage that he was recognized by Mai Chenghuan.
After three years of love, Mai Chenghuan helped him find a job, repay a loan, and even clean up his room for him.
After being deceived for three years, it is likely that ordinary people are happy after being angry, after all, no one can't get along with money, right?
But who is Mai Chenghuan? Is she an independent woman? As a result, her boyfriend squatted on the ground and did a few frog jumps and forgave him.
It's too fragmented.
If you look down on your family background, you can get out of marriage, and it doesn't matter if you don't trust your character?
The love brain is put aside, after all, someone can have both a love brain and a strong ability to work.
Seeing Mai Chenghuan working this part is even more "angry"! Is this a plot that has been brain-dead for a few years?
As a hotel manager, Mak Chenghuan planned an "ingenious" promotional event -
Celebrate Valentine's Day with your parents at the hotel!
This "warm and meaningful" activity was well received by colleagues and leaders.
Is it because the screenwriter hasn't worked at work, or is the hotel activity too low?
There are even more annoying ones.
Mai Chenghuan took the elevator to work, holding a cake for her boyfriend in her hand.
The official partner Yao Zhiming (played by Xu Kai) appeared handsomely with coffee, and the two collided together with a cake and a coffee.
Here Mai Chenghuan apologized to Yao Zhiming, and the scheming colleague over there put the cake on the conference room.
The cake with the name written on it was too unprofessional for the customer to eat, and Yao Zhiming took the cake to ask the teacher.
Of course, the colleague threw the pot on Mai Chenghuan.
As an old fritter in the workplace who has worked hard for 7 years, Mai Chenghuan suddenly overflowed with the heart of the Virgin Mary and took everything.
Yao Zhiming, the boss of the boss, was not polite, and said, "Go to the personnel department and leave." "I can't fix it for Mai Chenghuan.
Changing my mind, I will take the opportunity to re-interpret -
"Failing to stop them in time is my problem, something happens to throw the blame on each other, and it's not what the leaders want to see. ”
Okay, it's okay, you want to take responsibility, but you can't bear the consequences.
The heroine's family resources are average, but she can always meet the male protagonist who opens the golden finger.
The plot of the whole drama is like the "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty" of "Journey to the West", and there are no difficulties to create difficulties.
"Journey to the West" is to train the sincerity of learning from the scriptures, what is "Chenghuan" for?
Under the guise of domestic dramas with female awakening, the audience has already seen enough.
On the other hand, the Yishu girl in the pen of "Shitai" has a plain and daily life, but she reveals female consciousness everywhere.
Just reading the book, the female consciousness of "Yishu Girl" is not unassuming and radical, and it is nourished by daily work and parents.
But it is indeed difficult to adapt this style into film and television dramas.
Yishu's novels are concise and concise, with many dialogues and unusual.
Many plots are explained in one or two sentences, and there is no plot of catching horses with a big opening and closing.
Therefore, the current film and television dramas adapted from Yishu's works are generally not high.
However, if you put aside the plot, some characters in these film and television dramas can see the core of "Yishu Girl".
In "The Golden Years", Nansun's aunt Dai Qian is a typical Yishu girl.
Whether it is career or relationship, Dai Qian is very clear and free.
When they were young, Dai Qian, Tang Xin and Ye Jinyan, the boss of the group, started a business together.
When only one of her and Tang Xin could stay, Dai Qian felt that Tang Xin would help Ye Jinyan more, so she took the initiative to quit.
Many years later, Tang Xin became Ye Jinyan's deputy, and Dai Qian also achieved financial freedom.
To perfect others is to perfect oneself.
quarreled with her husband, and said that her husband wanted a divorce, and Dai Qian said: "If you want to divorce, then divorce"
The divorced husband repented, but Daisy said that he repented, and I didn't regret it.
As Yishu said in the book, "What you have lost has never really belonged to you, and you don't have to regret it." ”
"The First Half of My Life" Tang Jing's understanding of marriage is also very advanced.
She described herself as "a man who can be married", as long as the conditions meet her own requirements, who is not married?
"For me, my husband is like a diamond watch – I have everything now, I am self-sufficient in food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and I don't have to worry about having no one to accompany me, I can change my male partner every day, if I want to get married. Naturally, to marry an ideal man, you can't overuse the taro to fill the number, and the most important thing is to wear it. ”
One of the major characteristics of Yishu Girl is that she has to earn her own money, and she focuses on doing whatever she wants.
Yishu's Mai Chenghuan is also transparent.
The Xin family in the book did not look down on Mai Chenghuan's family very much, but Mai Chenghuan's mother always felt inferior.
Mai Chenghuan will comfort his mother, although the Xin family has many assets, Xin Jialiang and himself are also salaried, and they are not high on each other.
also showed his attitude, not marrying into a wealthy family, waiting for the other party to get hundreds of millions of alimony once and for all.
Even in Hong Kong, where every inch of land is valuable, in the face of the real estate donated by the Xin family, Mak Chenghuan was not overjoyed.
Instead, he saw it clearly early: "It is impossible to rely on people in life and want to be respected by others." “
So when his step-grandmother left a lot of inheritance to herself, Mai Chenghuan's whole person seemed to have changed.
She rejected the marriage contract, which was not suitable in the first place, and bought a house for her parents and herself.
Get promoted and raised, no longer be a good daughter, no longer rush to get married and fall in love.
Compared with the ending of the drama version of "Chenghuan Ji": Mai Chenghuan broke up with his rich second-generation boyfriend, but married into another wealthy family to achieve class leap.
I prefer the ending in the book.
Yao Zhiming proposed to Mak Chenghuan, but Mak Chenghuan said: "Since I have got everything I need now, why should I marry you?"
This is very similar to what Woolf said in A Room of One's Own, where a regular income can have a huge impact on people:
It can give people a sense of security, reduce the anger that has accumulated in life, and even make people look at gender relations from a different perspective.
Making money is the focus of the life of "Yishu Girl", which is much like the professional women in TVB dramas in the 90s.
Some of them walked through the luxury office buildings of the CBD in high heels, and some wore jeans and T-shirts to catch up with the manuscript.
Among them are police officers, lawyers, and interns.
Their appearance may not be glamorous, but they definitely dare to fight.
"Yishu Girl" will say that "falling out of love is a small matter, and unemployment is a big thing".
It will be said that "be financially independent, never play the hand card".
A typical "Yishu girl" may look like this:
Be a good-looking person, work hard to make money, do what you want to do and ignore others.
This is a calm, independent and self-consistent way of dealing with the world.
The Yishu girls may adapt Woolf's famous quote like this-
If a woman wants to live on her own, she must have money and a room of her own.
I think the core of the story of "Chenghuan" lies in this, the awakening of the independent woman Mai Chenghuan is not because of anything, but because she has money.
And money is the first step for women to fight for independence, and it is also a very important step.