There is an old saying that "there is no worst, only worse" that perfectly expresses the current situation of the domestic film and television industry. When one film and television drama after another challenges the bottom line in people's hearts, people's cognition of film and television dramas naturally follows its continuous refresh of the lower limit.
Four years ago, the film "Pure Heart, DreamIng Showbiz" directed by Bi Zhifei was released. A few days later, the film created a "miracle" in the film industry and "won" the lowest score of Douban movies in history - 2.2 points. Audiences who have seen this movie directly called "hot eyes", and the bad films of the past could not be ranked at all in front of "Pure Heart and Dream Showbiz".
Although the film's ratings are low, its director, Bi Zhifei, still struggles to promote it. Once, Bi Zhifei participated in the talk show "Spit Conference" to promote the movie, and the guests ridiculed one after another: Bi Zhifei refreshed the "lower limit" of Chinese films.
In 2021, the release of a TV series makes "Pure Heart • Dream Showbiz" expected to give the hat of "The lowest score of Douban" to people.
Directed by Qiu Zhongwei and starring popular idol Cheng Xiao and traffic xiaosheng Xu Kai, the e-sports TV series "You Are Beautiful When You Smile" is on the air. It tells the inspirational story of the heroine nursery rhyme in order to prove that she joined the e-sports team, determined to become a female e-sports player, harvested love and friendship along the way, and finally won the competition.
Nowadays, e-sports as a new industry is gaining momentum and is attracted the attention and love of many young men and women. Supposedly, "Beautiful When You Smile" should be very popular, but the TV series only broadcast half of it, and it suffered a Douban rating of 2.9. When the TV series is finished, the rating will only be lower, and it is extremely possible to "surpass" "Dream Showbiz". So, what exactly did "Beautiful When You Smile" do wrong?
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Since it is an e-sports-themed TV series, the audience naturally wants to learn more about e-sports professional competitions through TV series, and wants to know what kind of dreams this group of enthusiastic young people are persevering for. However, the playwright obviously did not take the audience's "IQ" seriously.
Take the game that runs through the show. Friends who have watched the play know that all the players in the play are playing a computer game, and they need the cooperation of the players to operate the computer and keyboard. However, when seeing the heroine nursery rhyme and teammate PK playing the game, the audience was dumbfounded, only to see that the computer interface showed that it was clearly a mobile phone game. Turning the mobile game "deer into a horse" into a computer-side game shows how "unobtrusive" the playwright is.
Some people pointed out that the mobile game is actually an advertising investor in the show. If this is the case, then the behavior of the playwright in disregard of the logic of the plot in order to forcefully implant the advertisement of "Golden Father" is even more intolerable to the audience.
In addition, "Beautiful When You Smile" has also been criticized in terms of character settings. The heroine in the play entered the e-sports team to play professional games after graduating from college, and her age is probably in her early 20s. In this way, the heroine found such a high-paying job as soon as she graduated, and she is also young and promising.
However, those familiar with the e-sports industry know that most e-sports players start playing in their teens, because high-intensity training can lead to spinal, lumbar spine, and hand diseases, and they generally choose to retire in their twenties. Therefore, the female nursery rhyme entered the e-sports industry at the "advanced age" of the twenties, which cannot be said in any way, and does not meet the basic requirements of this industry at all.
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In addition to not being realistic, "Beautiful When You Smile" is also really confusing in terms of plot setting. At the beginning of the broadcast of the TV series, many viewers went to e-sports. I didn't expect that e-sports didn't understand it, but everyone ate a bowl of dog food, which was still inferior.
The female protagonist nursery rhyme entered the ZGDX team, and before she began to play, she and the captain Chen Sicheng staged the "narrow road of the wrongdoers", which was a rotten ancient bridge section of the early love drama.
When I first saw it, the nursery rhyme held a large bag of things and pressed the elevator but could not press it. Chen Sicheng, who was also in the elevator, did not "gentleman" to help the heroine take things, nor did he "enthusiastically" help the heroine press the elevator, but blurted out a sentence of "short". Seeing this, the audience will not only not "snort sugar", but even pose a face of the subway elderly looking at the mobile phone.
After the plot is more psychedelic, the heroine gradually "loses" herself in the male protagonist's voice "short", after the "two men fighting for a woman", "no reason to be jealous", "hegemonic courtship" and other dog blood plots, they slowly approach, almost already together.
Since we are together, we should work together to play a good game, but this is not the case. Later episodes focused more on the emotional drama of the male and female protagonists, and e-sports, which should have been the main line, seemed to have become a "supporting role", and the only few game scenes were also criticized.
When participating in e-sports competitions in reality, teammates will remind each other, resulting in a more concise and intense tone. However, in "Beautiful When You Smile", the players who play the game not only speak very long and protracted lines, but also speak clearly. Such a "beautified" game scene really does not arouse the nervousness of the audience watching the game.
The consequences of such a plot are hot searches on topics such as "the most cute height difference", "nursery rhyme Chen Sicheng together", "male and female protagonist kissing drama super sweet" and other topics, while e-sports as a publicity gimmick is "no one cares".
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If you say that changing the professional drama rot to the dog blood idol drama is the culprit of "You Are Beautiful When You Smile" is classified as a bad drama. Then "plagiarism and melting" must be the culprit that caused it to become the "lowest score domestic drama in 2021".
"Beautiful When You Smile" is an adaptation of QingHun's novel of the same name. As we all know, this novel is copied from the ensemble, and the story told in it has long existed in real life.
The ace smile of the former e-sports professional team WE and the original LPL commentator Su Xiaoyan are a pair of lovers, and the two have a sincere relationship, which once became a good story in the e-sports circle. In order to confess his girlfriend, Smile once changed his game ID to "You are beautiful when you smile" to show love, and this romantic operation also made many netizens call "bumped".
However, a few years later, the two broke up due to personality incompatibility, which was regrettable. The author Qinghun took this as inspiration and completed the novel "Beautiful When You Smile", which is word for word, and she "tampered" with romantic love in reality as her original story.
Not only that, Qinghun also "borrowed" the personalities of the members of the major e-sports teams, the real situation of several professional competitions, and then wrote these "as they are" in his novel. It can be said that any character and plot in the book can be traced in reality. Therefore, "Beautiful When You Smile" is undoubtedly plagiarism.
If this drama is just simply rotten, the audience will not be how to complain at most about the poor ability of the production team, and look forward to the next progress. However, the original novel of this drama copied and melted the stem and trampled on the red line of intellectual property rights, which became its biggest mistake.