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"Celebrating More Than Years 2" has been "crazy" all the way since its launch, with both ratings and popularity value, and the "fault" of various broadcast data is leading, and it is called the "drama king" by netizens.
"Celebrating More Than Years" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the author of the starting point, and the character of the protagonist Fan Xian can be described as the "chosen son": the mother is a traverser, the illegitimate son of the emperor, a modern soul person, full of poetry and song skills, modern technology and ruthless crazy blessings, escorted by the court magnates, and confidantes are constantly encountered.
It can be said that the first season of "Celebrating More Than Years" is an OG (veteran) in the "cool drama" industry, but "Celebrating More Than Years 2" is beginning to be "unhappy". The audience found that the male protagonist's "golden finger" could not overcome the feudal shackles, the Daqing Dynasty began to show its cannibalistic fangs, and the tragedy of the little people deconstructed the conjecture of the "cool drama", and even made the audience feel pain.
This season's camera no longer only focuses on the brilliant achievements and legendary experiences of the protagonists, but turns the camera to those neglected little people, guiding the audience to think, if in the cool drama, we are not replacing the male protagonist, but the perspective of ordinary people, what would it be like? In the era of the gradual proliferation of cool dramas, the concept of "anti-cool dramas" has quietly grown, and "Celebrating More Than Years 2" has burst the beautiful bubble created by the first season, and successfully achieved the breakthrough and sublimation of this season.
In the play, the daughter of the old golden head has only one shot, 5 seconds, but from the dialogues of others, we can imagine the life of this girl: she is also the daughter of a good family, her father is hardworking and kind, and she was raised by selling vegetables. But because she was oppressed by Dai's father-in-law, the family was in debt and could not be repaid, so she sold herself into the Qinglou in order to save her father. Her father tried to redeem her, but he was insulted and beaten to death. She became an orphan, so even if Fan Xian ransomed her later, she would not leave Baoyue Tower, because she had nowhere to go, or maybe she had given up on herself, in the eyes of the powerful, she was like an ant, insignificant. The fate of the old golden-headed girl is just a microcosm of the fate of many little people in "Celebrating More Than Years 2": in the Chunqiu scientific examination fraud case, Shi Yanli, a student from a poor family, went to Beijing to take the exam, but he didn't know that his hometown behind him had been slaughtered, as well as the victims of the "hijacking of ships" in the south of the Yangtze River and the laborers on the Hanging Temple...... It is these characters who have no names and are not even supporting roles that let us see the true appearance of "Daqing".
However, these little people are not worthless existences, on the contrary, their tenacity and blood, unyielding and resistance to darkness constitute the "highlight moment" of the whole play. We saw the old golden man's love for his daughter and his simplicity and kindness; heard Deng Ziyue's deafening words from "harmony with light and dust" to "there are many injustices in the world, and thunder is led by blood"; I felt the power of Yang Wanli's determination to "hit my head and break the bloodstream". Although these little people live at the bottom of society, they have an indomitable spirit and firm beliefs, and it is these flashes of humanity that have become the light that illuminates the dark feudal era.
With the improvement of the audience's aesthetic level, the tendency of "anti-cool dramas" is becoming more and more obvious. The traditional open-minded life and domineering president character is no longer the object sought after by the audience, but has become the theme of short video complaints. There is a growing realization that the overly easy reversal and the illogical embedding of modern civilization in the feudal era are shallow and meaningless. Cool dramas should grow together with the audience's aesthetics, shape characters in a reasonable narrative structure, and make good use of small characters to flesh out the flesh and blood of the story, rather than just shaping them into face-painted characters, or as a tool to promote the development of the plot.