At noon on July 6, the TV series "Mustard Seed Time" was launched in 4 episodes on Mango TV, officially opening the premiere mode. This TV series starring young actors such as Hao Fushen, Bian Cheng, and Huang Zixing tells the story of the campus life of a group of high school students. Based on the content of the current 4 episodes, this TV series is light-hearted and humorous, of course, there are distortions, but it maintains a very good-looking characteristic, which is very suitable for young viewers who have just finished high school campus life.
Light-hearted and humorous is one of the biggest features of this TV series at present. In the play, three types of characters are selected: male school bully, male school scum and female protagonist narrator, and then they tell about their high school campus life together. This way of taking images is more common in campus dramas - the heroine is the narrator of the story, and the male student bully and the male student scum are often typical representatives of all campus classes.
On the male school bully's side, of course, he is introverted, but his academic performance is very good. On the male scumbag side, he is a typical extrovert, lively and active, but his academic performance is not good. This role positioning is also typical of campus. There are really not many people with good academic performance and extroverted personality. The scumbags are lively and active, and they are easy to be recognized by the audience. Under the current educational concept, it is rare to be lively and active and learn well.
The relationship between the three is, of course, a typical triangular relationship. The female protagonist likes the male school bully, the male school scumbag likes to cover the female owner, the male school bully needs to help the male school scumbag in learning, and the male school scumbag does not want the light of the male school bully to be the same himself. Under this relationship, the trio has a clear behavioral goal, that is, the college entrance examination. In fact, almost all middle school campus dramas have a definite goal, and that is the college entrance examination. Because of the existence of this goal, the final direction of all characters is also the same. On the main line, high school campus dramas are rarely different.
However, when it comes to the details, everyone is different. This "Mustard Seed Time" takes the route of light comedy, looking for some comedy moments in campus life. For these moments, of course, they are unreal. Especially compared to today's high school campuses. At the moment of exam-oriented education, high school students are very nervous and don't have so much fun. The TV series only shows them studying hard, and there is nothing to watch. For the sake of highlights, you can only fake and have fun.
Because there are a lot of fake scenes for fun, this TV series is seriously distorted. Even if it corresponds to the high school campus life of the old editor and me, this TV series is still so relaxed that it is distorted. Back then, the exam-oriented education was not so miserable, Hengzhong had not gone sideways, and Hebei candidates could still laugh and be proud in their respective middle schools, instead of harvesting the land for this department and that department. Even so, our campus life is still not so much fun.
This is actually the problem that all campus dramas have to face. Do you want to be realistic? Of course it can be realistic. The poorer, like the beginning of Lu Yao's "Ordinary World", is realistic. That was the memory of our generation's poverty, and poor students could only drink vegetable soup. That's realistic enough. However, such a heavy thing, the young people of the moment don't look at it. Moreover, in today's high schools, there are no so poor students. If there were, the school would help itself.
At present, almost all campus dramas can only take the route of comedy, showing imagination about high school campus life in a state of distortion. It's a martial arts-like way. Central Plains, how is it the same? Before Jin Yong wrote martial arts, of course he knew what the Central Plains was like. However, he prefers to write an imaginary Central Plains martial arts forest rather than anything else. And this imagined better Central Plains martial arts has become a classic for many people.
Campus dramas are the same, they all require imagination based on reality, and many times, imagination is more important. The creators of many campus dramas have just walked out of campus themselves. Of course, they know that their creations are distorted. But it is this distortion that makes them content with the life they once had. Everyone, when they tell about their past, is distorted. And this kind of distortion also makes many people who have just left the campus feel enjoyable.
These distorted plots have done what this group of viewers wanted to do but didn't. It's similar to martial arts, where martial arts do what the reader audience wants to do but doesn't. "Mustard Seed Time" is a campus drama suitable for students who have just finished the college entrance examination. Of course, it is also suitable for all middle school students, and when it is fun, it can still make everyone happy. (Text/Ma Qingyun)