Yes, the "Please Answer" trilogy refers to the three classic Korean dramas of "Please Answer 1997", "Please Answer 1994" and "Please Answer 1988".
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I say today that the "Please Answer" trilogy is the best Korean drama (in a specific Korean drama category, there are no other dramas), and I emphasize that there is no one!
"Please Answer 1988"
I've foreseen that someone will refute me — take out a bunch of national dramas with a rating of more than 40%, and then take out my favorite "Castle in the Sky" which is also a cable station pay drama but breaks the ratings record held by "Please Answer 1988".
Castle in the Sky
In the same way, there will be people who will support me – and then come up with all kinds of unique data, evidence to support it. Say the feelings, say the depth.
Even some fans of the "Please Answer" series have infighting first - 1988 is the first in the world, 1997 and 1994 are far apart; 1997 is the best, 1988 can not understand; 1994 was buried, are a group of "garbage" who do not understand the drama.
I am not surprised by all this, after all, there is no first in the communication, and there is no second in wu, and what is said will definitely be controversial. But I still have to say that the "Please Answer" trilogy is the best Korean drama, there is no one, it has nothing to do with the data. (Although I don't deny that there are my personal feelings)
In my opinion, the "Please Answer" trilogy is the only work in Korean dramas that can be turned over and turned over, watched over and chewed over and over again.
I have watched each of these three plays no less than thirty times on average, and each time there will be joy, emotion and thinking.
I don't want to argue with people, it's like a shrew tearing people apart, it's ugly.
Those who like to watch Korean dramas, they should have all seen "Please Answer", not to mention watching the whole thing, at least one. Writing this article today is to give these three series of amway to new fans who want to enter the pit Korean drama or just enter the pit Korean drama, and even to those who do not watch Korean dramas, but like good dramas, hoping to break the prejudice, good works should be shared with more people regardless of borders.
The old fans of Korean entertainment first went back a little bit, and gave the new pink and tender newcomers a science popularization of the "Please Answer" trilogy
"Please Answer 1997"
The first installment of the "Please Answer Series", "Please Answer 1997", is a fire drama broadcast by TvN Cable TV in South Korea since July 24, 2012, which tells the growth diary of female high school students (the heroine, played by the girl group Epink member Jung Eun-do) and friends who are immersed in the idol group.
Zheng Endi
The shots varied between 2012 and the 1990s (techniques are common in films, such as in sunny, also known as Sunshine Sisters). However, it is relatively rare in TV dramas, and it can even be said that it is used for the first time, which is groundbreaking), and the 33-year-old protagonists outline a series of climactic youth reviews through the gathering of the classmates, which contains a variety of feelings between friends, lovers, brothers, and couples, which is a plain and happy but unpredictable life landscape.
The social setting of the plot is based on the Popularity of Korean idol groups H.O.T. and Crystal Boys in Busan in the late 1990s and Seoul (Seoul).
H.O.T.
The influence of korean idol groups H.O.T. and Crystal Boys on Korea and even Asia at that time was very huge, and only young people who experienced that era really understood the unforgettable madness.
The play also makes extensive use of 90s hit songs, plus pagers, cassette tapes, electronic chickens, dancing carpets and other popular things of the time, which evokes memories of the present. The sweet feeling that really takes people to another era is refreshing and makes people's souls tremble.
In fact, China's social form, at least in the townships, is after the South Korea at that time. The sense of déjà vu in the play happens to be a rural township in China from 1998 to 2000, which was my childhood and made me feel very kind. Unlike many of my peers, I have a lot of understanding of the group groups in Korea at that time, so I have seen this drama more deeply, and I am also an idol fan, and I can better understand the idol culture and character psychology, which is very emotional.
The production team is a combination of variety show and TV drama experts, led by Lee Myung-han, producer of "Two Days and One Night", director Shin Won-ho and screenwriter Lee You-ting, a fresh attempt to successfully combine variety shows and dramas, rewriting the iron rules of TV drama production, and creating the history of Korean TV dramas, which won the tv station's ratings championship in the same period for nine consecutive weeks, following "Yellow Revenge Grass" (3.898%), with a rating of 5.109% (AGB) to break the new record for the ratings of cable TV home-made TV series at that time.
"Please Answer 1994"
The second part of the "Please Answer Series", "Please Answer 1994", is a Golden Earth drama broadcast by TvN Cable TV in South Korea on October 18, 2013, and the production team is the same as the first step, which is also the shooting method of crossover of memory and reality, and the same drama of guessing the groom.
As you can see from the title, the background is set in 1994, and the difference between 1994 and 1997 is only 3 years, but for South Korea, it is really two eras. South Korea in 1994, the Korea of Xu Taizhi and the children, is the craziest South Korea of basketball feast.
Xu Taizhi and the children
The story takes place in a Hesu family with students from all over the country who come to Seoul (Seoul) – a long wedding full of 20 years of memories, the bride is the pearl in the palm of the shinmura Hopsu family, and the only child of the coach of the Gemini baseball team. The main guests at the wedding were Yonsei University students from all over the country who lived with their brides in Shinmura. As for who the groom really is? With the revelation of one young and interesting thing after another, it was not until the end, when stepping onto the red carpet, that this intriguing answer was announced, and it turned out that he was the bridegroom!
It is also because the background of the 90s story is mixed with many important social events, and there are many classic episodes and music of "that period" in the play.
97 as the first film was also a hit, and the heat continued unabated. However, 94 has been controversial because of its plot and production, and its popularity is slightly inferior. But my favorite of the entire "Please Answer" trilogy is 94. It is not because I was born in 94, but the plot of this drama is the most full, the actor's acting skills are also the most exquisite, and there is the spirit of the Koreans of that era, as well as the social atmosphere that is different from the future market.
A group of college students from the countryside is not as cruel as the struggle of wandering in a foreign land in the future, nor is it as lonely as studying abroad. Everyone is their true self, not so polite, not so rigid, not so much comparison, not so much inferiority. Everyone is from the countryside, and they don't feel inferior or embarrassed in the face of Seoul people, and the dialect is still slippery, and they open their mouths. Dressed to the point of slag or super confident, even if the dates are out of trouble but still happy every day.
That kind of not caring is really enviable!
The third installment of the Please Answer Series, Please Answer 1988, is a Korean tvN drama that has aired since November 6, 2015. Same as the previous two, or the old production team.
That year was 1988, when the Seoul (now Seoul) Olympics sounded the clarion call for South Korea's economy to take off. The children of the five families who live in Sungmun-dong, Dopong-gu, Seoul, are good friends who grew up together, and they are exactly 18 years old. Warm affection, neighborhood stories, traditional love and pure friendship, simple but evocative.
The show held the viewership record for cable dramas until the 2019 broadcast of "Castle in the Sky", and in the eyes of many fans, 1988 was the best and most successful trilogy in the trilogy.
In fact, in my opinion, this is a bit biased, from the perspective of the plot, the screenwriter actually wrote the plot collapsed, when the screenwriter found that the writing was biased, began to pull back, in fact, it was already a little late, and the audience's opposition was extremely loud. In fact, 1988 was as discredited in South Korea as 1994, but the gorgeous ratings masked these voices, fortunately, this was only a small flaw, just making "Please Answer" not perfect, but it would not shake the unique "first" of the "Please Answer" trilogy.
Compared with the plot of 1988, I may prefer his music "Youth", Mao Buyi has sung Chinese version, which is really an eternal classic belonging to youth.
PS: Do not understand the idol culture, we must understand the background of the times that run through the main line of the story, the big events that run through the three dramas should be the collapse of the Korean military government, the Asian economic crisis and the 2002 Japan-South Korea World Cup (although it is indeed disgraceful), these are the background of the entire Korean era, if you want to really understand and understand the feelings of the characters in the play, you must first understand these.
Although there are still many classic Korean dramas broadcast after "Please Answer", there is no classic Korean drama that can be as evocative and unbearable as "Please Answer".
Friends who oppose the "Please Answer" trilogy is the best Korean drama, please come up with the repertoire that you think can be compared or surpassed, and let's study it together! I will also write some interesting stories and secrets about the unknown trilogy of the "Please Answer" series.