"Children of Joe's Family" officially ended.
The era family drama produced by "Noonday Sunshine" gathers many powerful young actors (Bai Yu, Song Zu'er, Mao Xiaotong, Zhang Wanyi, etc.), which Sir was once optimistic.
Unexpectedly, the word of mouth in the later period quickly slipped.
From 8.7 at the beginning of the broadcast, it dropped to 8.0, 7.8...
The reason we are familiar with, "dog blood".
How bloody is the dog?
In the last few episodes, some viewers began to compare it with the Korean drama "Penthouse":
What a character in Penthouse.
The new generation of Korean dramas is a masterpiece of dog blood.
Later, there was even a special hot search to discuss:
In fact, it is not only "Joe's House".
Recent major hit dramas have almost never escaped the accusation of "dog blood".
The Ideal City.
"North and South".
"Dear Mommy and Daddy".
Even Sweeping Storm.
Of course, these complaints are not completely objective.
So today Sir wants to borrow the ending of "Joe's House" and talk about it
National drama is not "crazy devil", is it really not alive?
01
What is dog blood?
Sir also boasted when "Joe's House" began broadcasting.
It patiently shows the bitter taste of life, and finally bears the seeds of breaking through the suffering in the hearts of the audience.
Unfortunately, such patience in the later period is gone.
The "dog blood history" of "Joe's House" can be summarized in one sentence:
"The life of five unlucky bastards in Joe's family."
And without exception, all are unlucky in "feelings" and "marriages".
Sir simply make a statistic:
10%: marriage, divorce, remarriage, re-divorce (attempt), compound;
Two strong: married, cheated, divorced, remarried, divorced again (unsuccessful), compound;
Sanli (the least number of steps): married, (rare) did not leave, but the husband lost her fertility;
Four beauty: married, cheated, cheated, cheated, divorced;
Seventy-seven: (confused) married, (confused) to have a baby, (confused) divorced.
Unhappy marriage is a topic that adults can't get around.
But when it happens to all the protagonists in unison, the audience is in a trance.
this...... Or is it a life drama?
Bad luck can be.
But large-scale and repetitive bad luck is not enough.
Is this dog blood?
Sir wanted to clarify the concept of "dog blood" first.
The "dog blood plot" involved in "Joe's House" is roughly divided into four categories.
First, repeat.
And it is a repetition of sacrificing the autonomy of the characters.
The Qiao family has five children with different temperaments and abilities.
Yicheng Dun is thick, agile, and hardworking, and works hard to become a reporter in graduate school; Erqiang is kind, affectionate, and weak, has done all kinds of handymen, and finally opened his own hotel; Sanli is gentle, sensible, and tenacious, working in the factory; Simei is lively, playful, and simple, and enters the foreign affairs hotel.
Similar childhoods, very different personalities.
Characters are full of possibilities.
But in the end, the biggest difficulty they encounter is all emotional relationships. There are so many children in a family, each one is a demon, and it is indeed strange to meet people.
Emotional failure is not dog blood.
In order to satisfy the fate of the "original family misfortune", the collective performance of "emotional failure" is dog blood.
On the contrary, the role of Daddy Joe Zuwang is more three-dimensional.
He is not responsible for any ending.
It's lazy, it's bad.
But at least it breaks out character and desire.
A wide range of hobbies, good food and drink, but also love to play chess, usually practice tai chi, play cards, but also from time to time want to engage in investment, the last few episodes, only by the way came to a dusk love...
Sons and daughters also have career lines.
But after all, the career is still to serve the emotional line:
The two strong people do business and form a group with their daughters-in-law; the four beautiful stars chase out not love beans, but husbands.
Second, exaggeration.
And the exaggeration of sacrificing logic and rationality.
What are the most common routines of dog blood dramas?
Infidelity (mutual green), miscarriage, brother-in-law, sexual impotence, death of a baby, terminal illness, going abroad to break up, filial piety, evil father, evil mother-in-law, evil nanny, property struggle, domestic violence, unmarried pregnancy, love brain, non-parental, autism...
Extreme situations in life.
"Joe's House" is all occupied, and the amount of "blood" is overloaded.
Extremes are not original sin, either.
But look at how these bridge segments came about:
Simei buys a thing, she can bump into her husband in an ambiguous relationship with other women, and when she comes back, she will have a child;
When the second strong and the master skate, they will be met and denounced by the good deeds (and add oil and vinegar).
When Qiao Yicheng went to visit his wife, he accidentally bumped into her being given flowers.
Where is the dog's blood?
Extreme scenarios are not meant to elicit more chaotic emotions, more complex human nature.
There is only extreme hatred, extreme anger.
Third, ugliness.
Do not hesitate to make the characters ugly/mentally weak/instrumentalized on a large scale.
Sir chased after it only to find out...
Qiao Zuwang, the scumbag father, turned out to be the most "cute" character in the evil group.
Believe it or not:
Ye Xiaolang, the hated character top 1 in the whole drama.
It is said that he came from a family that was extremely patriarchal, but he could not do housework, like a big miss. The heart is extremely heavy, and the meal does not forget to plagiarize the date's manuscript.
Sun Xiaomo, "Green Tea Bears".
Originally ambiguous with his boss (husband with a wife), while maintaining a romantic relationship with the second strong. While pregnant with the boss's child, he also scolded the two strong spirit cheating and not face.
There is also one that will never be absent: the best evil mother-in-law.
Favoring her husband's younger brother, the passbook is handed in, and even the pager that Sanli gave to her husband must be handed in (and then given to her brother), and the worst thing is that she also sprinkles her anger on the innocent little doll and deliberately pushes down Sanli's son.
What these characters have in common is that they are "ugly" for no reason or background.
Why is Qiao Zuwang the most "cute"?
Because his "ugliness" is complex and realistic.
He is an ordinary wicked man, and the landing point is not evil, but ordinary.
Qiao Zuwang is selfish to the extreme, but he will still cook a bowl of noodles for his son because he is in college, and he will brag about the market in front of his neighbors.
Evil people can bring emotions.
But real people can resonate
Qiao Zuwang's selfishness is more or less something we have seen, experienced, and even felt in common.
4, complaints.
Create unnecessary setbacks to sell misery.
Sanli, the eldest daughter of the Qiao family.
From a young age, he was well-behaved and sensible, but he hid the deepest emotional shadow. When he was a child, he was molested, always rejected the opposite sex, and was extremely defensive.
How to highlight her misery?
It is not to strengthen the portrayal of the psychological depth and precision of the characters, but to directly increase the degree of misfortune.
Sanli has psychological disorders, and her husband Yiding also has family disorders.
More than that.
The screenwriter made a big stroke of the pen - the sky fell, Yiding suffered a work injury, and the fertility was lost.
Key Sir watched the whole drama, this contradiction was not further revealed, even if it was deleted, it had no impact on the relationship between the two, or a model couple who loved each other in the film.
Okay, stop.
The above bridge section does bring multiple hot searches and swarming traffic to "Joe's House".
so.
Here's the problem
02
No dog blood, can I?
In fact, "Joe's House" has many bridge sections that are not "dog blood", which have moved Sir.
Mostly in the first half.
At that time, it was still a solid life drama.
What is a life drama?
Life isn't all hysterical.
There are also aimless complaints
The cat in the family ran away for no reason, and Simei and Erqiang climbed onto the roof and put two bowls of snacks, wanting to wait for the kitten to return by himself.
But sitting and sitting, they no longer have cats in mind.
It is the more poignant "loss" of childhood memories.
Life is not all about flying disasters.
There is also the momentary loss of control when you are in your arms
The vegetables grown by the family were stolen by someone, and the powerless Ichisei ran to the roof and angrily asked, "Who stole our vegetables?"
The mouth kept howling: "Stand up, stand up, stand up..."
He wasn't just shouting at the man who stole the vegetables.
It was also the one who stole his happiness.
Life is not all about explosions and grief.
There is also the embarrassment and embarrassment of sesame mung beans
Borrowing to live in the big brother's house, the second strong habitually crashed into the toilet in the morning, took a look, and immediately exited.
The sister-in-law is still inside.
Who do you blame?
You can only be angry with yourself in situ.
Are these fragments untouchable?
But are they dog bloody?
Therefore, anti-"dog blood" does not mean completely abandoning the most basic conflicts, contradictions, and reversals of drama.
Lan Xiaolong, the screenwriter of "Soldier Assault", said this:
We hope to get rid of the conflict in addition to the guns and bullets
There are people in conflict and no conflict
There are various faces
What do you mean?
Conflict is only a means.
Its purpose is not to provoke emotions, but to show through conflict the moment when human nature is beyond our stereotypes.
Such moments will point to a greater conflict.
People and society, and the times, and destiny...
In fact, the life drama part of "Joe's House" has described these "distant cries".
Unfortunately, the moment of light is torn apart and left behind in the blood of the dog when the children grow up.
However, all this is not unique.
You all remember the famous scenes of those national dramas
The vampire mother in "An Jia", Fan Shengmei's brother-in-law demon parents in "Ode to Joy", and the parents of both parties who do not let the little two get married comfortably and treat marriage as a transaction in "Mother-in-law's Bracelet"...
The domestic dramas with the label of "dog blood" are all the so-called dramatic conflicts to the most extreme and externalized state, ostensibly either hysterical or written on the face, and at a deeper level, there is nothing.
Well, here comes the problem again.
When "dog blood" became the standard of national drama.
What kind of us will it shape?
03
Beyond dog blood
Speaking of this, of course, there will be viewers who want to refute it.
But our lives are all kinds of dog blood.
He has been hollowed out by the "Fu Di Devil", scolded by the nasty mother-in-law, and overwhelmed by a sudden terminal illness...
Right.
Sir never denies that this is part of the truth of life.
It is precisely because we have experienced all kinds of changes in life and are still fighting with all our strength.
We must be vigilant against the flood of dog blood.
Be even more vigilant
Dog blood spreads in the name of "life".
Otherwise, what we see is not emotion.
Rather, it is a binary opposition, an "emotion" that does not know the truth.
Not specific people.
Rather, it must conform to the "human design" of a non-bad or good script.
In fact, we have been aware of real life in countless stories that seem to be "dog blood".
The family drama is Kore-eda's "Thief Family".
A family of thieves coincidentally got together, pretended to be family, and adopted a young daughter who had been picked up.
Seems ridiculous.
However, when the deeds were revealed, the "mother" Nobuyo was arrested.
When the police asked her what her two children usually called her, the face that was always cold began to shed tears.
Why?
They are not related by blood at all.
Emotional drama, Cai Liang's "Long Live Love".
Three young people in the apartment entangled with each other emotionally and physically, venting, and warming up.
Looks like dog blood.
But when it all comes to an end, although no one harvests true love.
Yang Guimei still contributed a 6-minute crying scene at the end of the film.
For whom is she crying?
Good.
If the example of the movie is unfair, Sir will say another national drama.
The Age of Awakening.
In the second episode, Chen Duxiu returns from refuge in Japan.
He was not a home country hate in the first place.
It's a father-son contradiction.
The two sons, Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian, held a grudge against their father and had reached the point of unilaterally tearing up the father-son contract.
Is that a big enough conflict?
According to the usual shooting method of domestic dramas, the father and son three are not allowed to fight on the spot?
See how "The Age of Awakening" was filmed
Chen Duxiu and his friends have a dinner, the last hard dish, lotus leaf yellow ox hoof.
The two brothers took the bag they had given to their father and untied the lotus leaf.
wail
A frog jumped out.
provocation.
There was no hysterical roar, but there was emotion, and the fuse of conflict was ignited.
After that, Chen Yan began to count his father's "guilt".
What was Chen Duxiu's reaction?
He didn't speak, but his hands didn't stop
Spin the bowl that holds the frog.
He didn't want to admit his fault.
But the body has been exposed - he feels that he is wrong (the character's psychology has it).
After the sons left, Chen Duxiu walked out of the dining room and threw the frog from the bottom of the bowl into the pond with one hand.
The scene ends.
Is it really over?
All the metaphors and arcs of the characters are still fermenting.
A frog, when brought out of the son's hand, represents anger and resentment towards the father.
After escaping from his father's hands, he represents understanding and release.
Even more is yet to come.
Chen Duxiu released frogs, which actually echoed the details of Chen Yannian's release of ants in the previous episode.
No need to pick out
No matter how fiercely they quarrel on the surface, or whether they still have tacit understanding in their bones, they are all a kind of person and a family.
The above is designed though.
But this design is solid enough and in line with the personality and mood of each character.
Chen Duxiu's stubbornness and concentration, Chen Yannian's blood and innocence.
and.
All the pioneers of that era tacitly insisted.
At last.
When it comes to "dog blood", many people will use one sentence to excuse it:
"Art comes from life, but it is higher than life."
truly.
So, how to distinguish between "dog blood" and "life"?
Sir's experience
Life can be shaped, it can be exaggerated, and it can even be "fictionalized" to some extent.
But there was never an art.
Willing to betray life and consume life.
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Editorial Assistant: Doraemon