Popular dramas are accustomed to post-90s as the main audience. The core of film and television dramas lies in "dream-making", and youth themes are always the rigid needs of the market.
There are roughly two types of dreams in youth stories; one is a dream of returning to 17 years old, always thinking of waking up suddenly and finding that you have just taken a nap in high school class; the other is an eternal dream of love. Fantasize that you accompany me to the wedding dress, and I accompany you to the loyal love of green silk to white hair.
"100 Years old, one word is certain" that is being broadcast on Tencent Video is doing these two dreams for the audience.
On the one hand, it inherits the realistic style of traditional high-quality youth dramas, reproduces people's high school and college life, and leads the audience to dream of returning to campus; on the other hand, it writes the story of the male and female protagonists with great color, while taking into account the emotional context and growth of supporting roles, which not only depicts a lovely portrait of youth, but also plays a love music that is ignorant and mature.
Since its inception, "100 Years old is good, one word is certain" has achieved good results, not only the popularity has risen steadily, but Douban has also maintained a rating of 7.6. The most surprising thing is that not only the female audience is highly motivated, but many male audiences in the bullet screen are also chasing the drama.
In fact, looking at the feedback of netizens can find the reason. In this drama, female audiences can find the ideal boyfriend, and male audiences can find the white moonlight in their hearts. The emotional needs of both parties were met.
Don't be afraid of spoilers behind it, add sugar without ice
Teenagers are always full of impulses, and love often comes and disappears quickly. But "A Hundred Years of Good, One Word is Certain" first set the tone for the emotional development of the male and female protagonists from the title: this is a love story from one end to the end.
"A hundred years of good" comes from the Ming Dynasty Tu Long's "Elopement of elopement": not only stopped at the beauty of love, but also Yamu its talent, so it will be good for a hundred years, not only to invite a night's joy.
This sentence is most appropriate for Jiang Zhenghan (played by Wang Anyu) and Xia Linxi (played by Xiang Hanzhi) in the play. Xia Linxi is a good student with good character and excellent learning, occupying the first place in the grade for many years, even if she is late for the English test, she can use her amazing memory to write down the listening questions broadcast on the radio, without affecting the final score.
Jiang Zhenghan is a computer programming master cloaked in the cloak of scum, although he has been dragged back by other subjects, but in mathematics subjects, he has to overpower Xia Linxi. More importantly, he has a maturity and responsibility that is difficult for his peers to match, not only using his spare time to work and study, but also taking the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of taking care of the workers in his own closed factory.
If appearance is only the first step in the attraction of the two, then Jiang Zhenghan's mathematical talent undoubtedly amazes Xia Linxi, who is a bully, and his sense of responsibility has opened the last barrier between the two.
Since it is not a superficial love inspired by hormones, the two naturally will not "talk about marriage color change", but will show each other their hearts when they get the opportunity, explaining to the audience what is "not just inviting a night's joy".
For example, Jiang Zhenghan's computer is old, and the configuration is difficult to describe, which seriously affects the speed of its programming. Xia Linxi bought a computer for him out of his own pocket, and Jiang Zhenghan returned it with an IOU: promised to pay it off within five years, pay another interest of 50,000 yuan, a wedding ring, and a marriage certificate, and pay it all in one lump sum, without default.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the title of the play, the beginning of the series is in the form of the wedding ceremony of the male and female protagonists, spoiling the fairy tale ending of the story.
Judging from the results, this opening method that allowed the creators to delete and delete, change and change in the planning stage, and finally decided to retain, not only did not dissuade the audience because of spoilers, but achieved unexpected results.
First, sprinkle sugar at the beginning. The warm atmosphere of the wedding involuntarily dragged the audience into the situation, although the audience did not know the love story between the male and female protagonists, but as soon as this handsome man and woman entered the eyes, the aunt smiled and came out first.
Secondly, from the perspective of the structure of the series, the wedding plays a role in dominating the whole play. In the first five episodes, each episode opens with a short story that happened during the wedding, as well as a gossip about the bride and groom's love history when the bride and groomsmaid got married.
Every story is not unfounded, and each stage of a relationship contains different stories and emotions. When the audience is not familiar with the plot, the series naturally connects the main line in this way.
In addition, a realistic story triggers the memories of the past in the play, which is also a reminder to people: the main film will start immediately, please prepare the audience to watch the play. This is precisely where the opening chapter of "A Hundred Years Is Good, One Word is Certain" is structurally regular.
In the end, this is a hook that the creators have buried. From the sixth episode onwards, the wedding scene no longer appears, leaving the audience with enough suspense: what other interesting things happened at the opening wedding? Will there be any accidents? According to gao Xiaoxian, the show's producer and screenwriter, these suspense will be revealed one by one in several episodes of this week's update.
A juvenile jianghu where ideals and reality coexist
Although compared with previous youth dramas, the sweetness of "A Hundred Years is Good, One Word is Certain", its idealized expression does not bring a sense of suspension.
The love between Jiang Zhenghan and Xia Linxi is somewhat dreamy, and even if they are placed in real life, it is also a combination with "immortal qi". The original family and growth environment of the two are different, and the value concept is not the same, so Xia Linxi will say to Jiang Zhenghan, who is a work-study student, "What kind of things should be done at any age, and what should be done at this age is to learn" This kind of persuasive words.
And jiang Zhenghan's sense of responsibility is also a double-edged sword. When I didn't say goodbye to the college entrance examination, I was also afraid that I would not be able to enter the same university as Xia Linxi, so I also made a lot of misunderstandings.
But the characteristic of both men and women is that they not only know what they want, but also clearly perceive each other's needs. So although there will be some bumps and bumps, when the two people work hard towards a goal, the relationship is still a lot easier.
When it comes to Chen Yichuan (Played by Chen Ze) and Gu Xiaoman (Played by Pan Meiye), it is a completely different style of painting.
Chen Yichuan is a bully who has always been suppressed by Xia Linxi, and he is also an elm knot who does not know things. Perhaps it is precisely because of this pure juvenile mentality that he does not need to make much effort to be almost on par with The grades of Xia Linxi, who is desperately brushing up on the questions. However, in the face of Gu Xiaoman's stalking, when will his elm head be able to open up?
Gu Xiaoman is a naïve girl who grew up in a honeypot, and her carefree living conditions have created her straightforward and kind character. Because there will be no gain or loss, it will go forward in the pursuit of love.
Compared with Jiang Zhenghan and Xia Linxi, her and Chen Yichuan's love road will have many twists and turns, but when these two pure people come together, the happiness gained will also increase exponentially.
In addition, the series also portrays a group of people who can't be loved, such as Gu Xiaoman's Qingmei Bamboo Horse Qin Yue (played by Yuan Hao), and then such as Zhuang Fei (played by Jiang Ruize), who has a crush on Jiang Zhenghan. They sometimes do things that make the audience unhappy for their jealousy.
But as Gao Xiaoxian said, "This does not mean that they are the so-called villains, just like we drink soda in the summer, occasionally bubble up, in fact, it is some small friction that inevitably occurs between young boys and girls, and there is no overnight vendetta against each other." ”
Finding realistic support in the supporting roles and idealism in the protagonists is the two-pronged experience given to the audience by "A Hundred Years of Good, One Word is Certain".
The "not deliberate" between realism and fantasy
After experiencing the initial dog blood exaggeration, domestic youth dramas have long been freed from suspension, from scene layout to human settings and even stories are closer to the audience's youth experience. As long as the creators work in these three directions, then the rating of this drama is basically not low.
Proficiency inevitably produces deliberate, or rather, cookie-cutter repetition can easily cause people's aesthetic fatigue. This leads to two phenomena:
First, the creators put the "designed truth" into the play. For example, the most likely to resonate with the audience is the old objects with a distinct sense of age, but if a scene is full of such scenes, it is not a life scene.
Second, the audience has long been baptized by the "sense of reality" of youth dramas, and has already cultivated a pair of fire eyes and golden eyes, and knows the little nine-nine in the creator's heart. The reality that the play strives to present has become a deliberate show in the eyes of the audience.
All these bring difficulties to the creation of youth dramas.
"A Hundred Years of Good, One Word is Certain" understands the truth that greed cannot be chewed, and emphasizes "point to the end". For example, the funny zhang Huaiwu (played by Zhao Haohong) in the play silently read "three long and one short to choose one short, three short and one long to choose one long" to the multiple choice questions of the English scroll during the exam, and the audience did not have time to "spit" on such an old bridge section, and he immediately continued to say "how is this all the same length". Humor instantly dissolves the sense of deliberateness.
For example, although the series is more realistic about the campus elements familiar to the audience - school uniforms, canteens and even the classic quotations of teachers, it does not fully focus on these resonant parts, but focuses on character building.
"The so-called famous scenes can be preset during the planning and filming stages, but they may not be able to form a good spread after broadcasting. Many times, what the audience really recognizes is the silent plot of those moisturizing things. Therefore, we can't give up the polishing of any one detail. ”
Gao Xiaoxian said that during the shooting, the creative atmosphere was very good, and the creators put forward new ideas all the time, and achieved a good response after practice.
For example, the plot of Jiang Zhenghan taking Xia Linxi to the teacher's office to "steal" the computer, wrote in the original script that he blocked the monitoring in some way and achieved the ultimate goal.
However, director Wen Deguang proposed a new idea when shooting on the spot: Jiang Zhenghan used "Polaroid" to obtain photos of the scene, and then hung the photos in front of the surveillance camera to blind the security personnel in the monitoring room. However, at the last moment, the photos slowly slipped down, and their whereabouts were still exposed, so the two staged a "great escape". This change not only strengthens the comedic effect, but also makes the dramatic conflict more obvious.
In addition, the main creators of this drama understand the truth of being too late, all the "high sweetness" and "high burning" plots are based on the rational play of reality, so as not to make the audience have a "suspended" and "unreal" perception.
Regarding the fantastic component of the series, director Wen Deguang believes that the screenwriter needs to have an idealistic injection when writing youth dramas. The beautiful love of the characters and the highlights of life are often the things that the audience yearns for the most. The creators present them to fulfill the dream of the audience, rather than blindly revealing the ugly side of life. Not creating anxiety and conveying to people the preciousness and beauty of youth is the value of this work.
This week, "100 Years of Good, One Word is Certain" will usher in the grand finale, the plot has escalated, and the sweetness is still there. How did Jiang Zhenghan and Xia Linxi break through the family's obstruction and come together? What kind of famous scenes will be staged at their wedding? Let's witness it together.
【Text/Noon Talk】