"Holiday Warm Ocean", said to be "warm Yangyang"

Author: Chun Chun

This year's Spring Festival, people's viewing needs in addition to the movie New Year file, there is a new choice - New Year drama. "Holiday Warm Yangyang" (hereinafter referred to as "Holiday") was launched before the Lunar New Year, attracting a large audience with a joyful plot and igniting the enthusiasm of the New Year.

But with the advancement of the plot and the end of the premiere, "Holiday" gradually dropped from Douban to 7.4 to 6.6, is it because the protagonist role of the publicity is too small? If you think about it, this is not the case, and it is reasonable to go high and low. For a TV series positioned as a "Chinese New Year light comedy", the plot is too complicated, the story line is too complicated, and the forced reunion is enough to make the audience's recognition continue to decline.

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Multi-line narrative that turns the holidays into "messy"

"Holiday" brings the audience into the New Year's atmosphere through three story "lines": the fast-paced star agent Xu Yi (Yao Chen) and the slow-life resort staff Hou Hao (Bai Yu) meet by chance, and after a series of stories, the feelings quickly heat up, but also face the choice of the future; the divorced couple Song Xiaoke (Zhang Jingchu) and Chen Binbin (Dapeng) pretend not to be divorced for the New Year with the whole family, in this set of relationships, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the year-old love, Young people's emotional crisis and other issues erupted in a concentrated way; another group tells the story of anti-epidemic doctor Lao Wen (played by Chu Shuzhong) and daughter Wen Ruonan (played by Lan Xiya), a "workaholic" father, a "problem" girl, from the lack of communication and misunderstanding to the story of opening the knot.

This is also one of the "creative points" of the play - the multi-line parallel narrative. The advantage of multi-line narrative is that it can set up independent story lines, create a festive and joyful atmosphere, and surprise the audience at the end of the story. But apparently, "Holiday" did not occupy any other conditions except to create an atmosphere.

Judging from the development of the plot, there is no direct link between the three story lines mentioned above. Whether it is the love line between Li Yi and Hou Hao, Song Xiaoke and Chen Binbin, Chen Nuannuan and Lao Yan, or the reconciliation between Lao Wen and his daughter, it is an independent story, with no main line and no core appeal, resulting in this drama becoming a platter New Year drama of "sweet idol drama + family ethics drama + family education drama". The various complete and compact stories are constantly split, coupled with the way of switching plots like ppt playback, so that the "four unlikes" drama, the audience's gradual disappointment is also inevitable.

More importantly, on the surface, this drama is three lines, but the plot of Song Xiaoke and Chen Binbin alone has produced countless branches. Song Xiaoke's emotional entanglement with Chen Binbin from divorce to wanting to remarry to not wanting to remarry to wanting to remarry, can be described as a wave of N folds and no "nutrition", interspersed with ex-girlfriends, children and other settings to create conflicts and contradictions. Chen Binbin's second aunt Feng Suzhen (Zhang Tong) met rock icon Yan Liwei (Hu Jun) and became friends under "accidental" circumstances, but what he did not expect was that he and his daughter Chen Nuannuan (Kang Keren) were actually lovers, and then opened the road of opposition. In addition, there are clues such as the parental love of Chen Binbin's parents and the contradiction between Chen Binbin's mother and grandmother. This family alone has created a large story framework and trivial storyline.

Do you think that's the end of it? No, not yet. There are also the "bizarre" stories of Li Yi's ex-boyfriend and current girlfriend, the plot of Chen Binbin's father and Pan Jin'er, the love line between hotel employees Xia Xiaorui and Zhu Haowei, Li Yichu and Lin Yiju... If it weren't for the actors' acting skills still online, the audience would have been overwhelmed.

It is already difficult to tell such a complicated story, let alone to tell it well? And once the plot can't be pushed, the new people will have a new story line, making the plot more flustered. In fact, since it is a multi-line narrative, you may wish to learn about "Wulin WaiChuan", "River God 2", etc., and then rehearse the play according to the setting of the "Zhenhua Trilogy". It is very rare to tell a story well and touch people's hearts, so why force it to pull hard, so that the stories that have no reasonable intersection and are no longer on one level tear each other down and torture each other.

Force the ending, so that the "family fun" is not happy and dispersed

Most Of the Chinese New Year dramas pay attention to the reunion ending, and "Holiday" is no exception, because it is in line with the atmosphere of the New Year. The mixed plot of "Holiday" is delayed to the last few episodes, in fact, it is already in a state of disintegration, and it is not okay to have a big reunion and a family reunion. The contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law should be resolved, love should be complete, divorce should be reunited, children and parents should be reconciled... Every problem is not a small problem, forcibly reversing the ending, it seems to be a family celebration, but in fact it has become unhappy and scattered.

If the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is a real problem, "Holiday" can be completely abandoned, if you want, it can be easily handled by understatement. However, the design of the mother-in-law contradiction between Dong Yanping (Played by Chen Xiaoyi) and the mother-in-law is obviously too strong, the mother-in-law complains in public, the daughter-in-law works hard and complains, and the result is that the contradiction continues to escalate, until the mother-in-law is misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, coupled with the video record of resolving a contradiction, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law become as close as mother and daughter.

Looking at other people, the key to whether Song Xiaoke and Chen Binbin can remarry lies in whether the problem that led to divorce can be solved, and it is obvious that Song Xiaoke's yearning for singleness and irreconcilability for the problem have been revealed. Chen Binbin, who was afraid of heights, took a paraglider in the air and confessed to Song Xiaoke "affectionately", "I will not be afraid, wife I love you", and the two embraced deeply and prepared to reunite. Permission Yi and Hou Hao's sister-brother love is even more so, although sweet and sweet, but the internal contradictions between the two are also sharp, you love fast life, I love slow rhythm, you like Beijing, I like Hainan, even you know that I love to "control others", I also know that you "blackmail and kidnapping", and then a drone + live broadcast confession, let the two together. There is also Chen Nuannuan's year-old love with Lao Yan, the reasonable basis for her mother's opposition, but the reason for finally agreeing is that Chen Nuannuan showed her the WeChat record with Lao Yan and told her that "when you were absent all these years, Lao Yan was there." Let me ask, isn't it the phone that is "all in"? The love of Chen Binbin's parents could have been portrayed through daily bits and pieces, but the result was a "third party" to paraphrase, which is also a bit of a sacrifice.

The joy is over, but this twisted melon tastes not sweet, and the problem is still unresolved. No wonder netizens exclaimed, "This is not our view of love." This deliberately arranged ending, no matter how you look, looks like an empty carnival.

Of course, "Holiday" is not without remarkable points. The opening score is 7.4, which shows that the first few episodes have done enough drama, whether it is the plot, scene or jokes, it is very handy. And as a "New Year light comedy", the drama opened the Spring Festival file in advance, and each episode also innovatively added a characteristic song and dance drama to create a happy New Year atmosphere. Playing with stems and laughter points are dense, funny and generous will not tie hands and feet, but also touch the current sense of anxiety and crisis in society in joy. More importantly, whether it is an old drama bone or a young actor, the powerful cast adds a lot to the drama.

To put it bluntly, "Holiday" is still a commercial New Year drama, and all the drama party wants is audience groups and traffic of different age groups. But the problem is that fish and bear paws can't have both, not to mention, they still want chickens and dogs, and the philosophy of life. Losing an audience in order to cater to an audience is not worth the loss. Besides, for the Chinese people who attach importance to the leisure of the Spring Festival, is it really so difficult to win the "cake" of the New Year stall?

In an interview, some media asked director Yao Xiaofeng to evaluate and score himself, and he replied, "It has not yet reached excellence, anyway, pass it." The same is true of the drama "Holiday", barely passing, and still needing to work hard. What kind of New Year drama the audience needs, it is not difficult to figure out, if you have to continue to realistic themes, it is better to really go to fireworks, pay attention to youth culture, or go to the Internet to see those real anxieties, collect "my family's story", etc., there will always be touching people's hearts and inspiring creative points. As an audience that insists on following the complete drama, I still hope that if the phrase "I want to make the holiday New Year into a series, I can go on vacation all over the country, the first part chooses an island with a tropical style, the second part is in the ice and snow world, and the third part goes to the desert city" Is true, then be sincere, okay? (Chun Chun)

Source: Guangming Network - Literary And Art Review Channel