Maybe everyone has seen one or two youth love movies, they can be described as vulgar, boring, full of unrealistic fantasies, but at the same time can be described as simple, beautiful, romantic.
From ambiguous feelings to painful breakups, whether it's a fleeting rush or a long-flowing love affair, youth love movies always have a way to show those memorable heartbeat moments in romantic relationships. The similarities and differences in the key performances of the same type of films at home and abroad also reflect the gap in love values in different regions.
American youth romances are always ostentatious. "Mean Girl" shows a unique "American friendship" by showing the struggle to the extreme.
Regina is the most popular girl on campus, good looking and in good shape, but likes to secretly spread rumors behind her back, and Katie, who has transferred from school, becomes the next target she wants to win over.
Katie taught herself at home and had no formal schooling, and was very unfamiliar with Regina and her small group of beautiful women, but in order to fit in at school, Katie chose to quickly integrate into the small group.
Of course, the seemingly stubborn sisterhood begins to change when Katie falls in love with Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron, and in addition to dealing with relationships, the pursuit of love has become a direction that Katie needs to work on - pretending that she is poor in mathematics to let Aaron teach her to do problems, deliberately looking for topics, dressing up and going to parties to meet...
The essence of "Mean Girl" is to sublimate the story of the typical American college sweetheart, bringing together all the elements of chick flick: blonde fools, art students with gothic makeup, sharp and funny gay honey, muscle sports men and innocent and pure country girls with nerdy atmosphere.
It seems too stereotypical from any angle, and the pink plush Barbie princess aesthetic in the movie also reminds the audience that this is a very cheesy youth romance, but you have to admit that it is funny.
The influence of the times brought by "Mean Girl" is not limited to this film becoming a model of campus films throughout the United States, many classic scenes have been used as "terriers" to this day, and even the musical of the same name has further promoted the mean culture of "Mean Girl", which meets the audience's relaxed viewing needs and was once regarded as cult movies.
Another " LegalLyTic Beauty" created a more "all-round and perfect" image, so that the traditional image of blonde beauty with a big chest and no brain was transformed.
Ellie decides to apply for Harvard Law School in order to pursue her boyfriend, but as a girl who is at the forefront of fashion and wears beauty as her main life, it is difficult to compete with "nerds".
Even after the hard work of entering law school, her life has remained contradictory, on the one hand, to maintain her beautiful appearance, on the other hand, the heavy academic tasks and the doubts and ridicule of teachers and classmates, Ellie's college life is not as good as imagined.
But Ellie maintained her passion for the legal profession, but she did not give up her "beauty" label, or to do hair and nails to buy beautiful clothes, but studied harder, and obtained valuable internship qualifications, and even finally reconciled with those who had been hostile to her because of her appearance.
In order to break the stereotype to the end, the main cases that appear in "Legal Beauty" are cracked by Ellie's "skin care and hairdressing knowledge" at a critical moment, so that the seemingly useless and superficial learning has also been fully played. Although the plot is simple, as a youth comedy film, the kindness that Ellie brings to the audience and the friendship between women that this film portrays are still very meaningful.
Of course, in addition to the style of light comedy, youth love movies will also have a "problem awareness", and the campus love stories in the story system of these movies do not fail much in tearing and dog blood love triangles, but are likely to be due to real-life problems such as pregnancy and long-distance.
The heroine in "Juno" accidentally became pregnant in high school, but boldly chose to give birth to a child, and took the initiative to give the child to an unmarried woman who was willing to adopt, which seemed very bold and incredible, but let her harvest growth and love after experiencing everything.
Juno grew up in a very free environment, even in the pregnancy of such a life event, the father and stepmother only as a companion role to provide support and help, whether to abortion or choose to have children, their own children or to send such a crucial decision has Juno himself decided, from a cool attitude to grow up to take more responsibilities, see the importance of family and love, fertility is a pusher, so that Juno, a high school student, becomes a more powerful adult.
Rather than making a fuss or being extremely critical of unmarried pregnancies, the film is very powerful in handing back the initiative and choice to the pregnant girl, so that the audience can see a "she" who is not confused.
Even in the end, Juno and the child's biological father did not part ways because of the "mistake" of an unexpected pregnancy, but continued to develop a romantic relationship under mutual understanding.
Another British film, "Love You, Rosie", focuses on the ambiguous relationship between Rosie and her boyfriend throughout his youth. The same is the scene of accidental pregnancy, the heroine still chooses to give birth to the child,
But unlike "Juno", the development of love relationships in the film is more dominant, and the process of pregnancy and childbirth and even later with children is in the service of the main line of finding "true love", and in the process of Rosie's continuous growth and maturity because of the child, she also gradually recognizes what the family and love relationship she needs are.
And China's youth love movies pay more attention to the sense of atmosphere and the ambiguous relationship in the campus, the difficulty of further education is the basic setting, the grade gap is a necessary element, no puncture of the window paper is the norm, the emotion is more delicate and convergent, of course, there should be some vigorous or there, but always from the perspective of one of the parties, even if it seems that the feelings are still in the category of crush.
"Those years, the girl we chased together" is still the pinnacle of Chinese youth love movies, Ke Jingteng and Shen Jiayi in the long years with details of the love, with regret to pave the friendship are very real to show in the "early love" or the problem of the environment, in the exploration of youth in the exploration of what is the difficulty and joy of love is such a complex problem.
Just the right amount of youth is a rare quality in youth films, and the combination of literature and art and sober nature is more than the industrial synthesis of "saccharin" so that the audience can return to the youthful feelings in memory, which are easier to "sniff" than "sweet".
Therefore, the failure of "August Weiyang" is that when the shooting form is more important than the content, the scene looks beautiful, the intention looks profound, and even the words used in the confession are more deliberate, but it makes people feel pretentious, even dog blood.
In this standard Chinese failing youth love movie, there are familiar classroom elements, original family entanglements and cheating pregnancy dramas, but it has to be said that even if these elements themselves cannot play flowers, the behavior of cutting wrists in the bathtub pool after falling out of love is too old-fashioned, and even said that in such a movie is an insult to contemporary love women, and the ups and downs of emotions are not even enough to pave, only to make people feel that the three people are a little nervous.
Xiao Qiao's personality is sunny to almost a little silly, Wei Yang's personality is dull enough to make people think that she does not have to say lines at all, if you want to shoot friendship, you can obviously show complementarity very well, rather than using stories such as girlfriends cheating on boyfriends for many years to feed the audience flies.
Youth love movies are difficult to make outstanding, the American exaggerated and funny route has been exhausted, and the chinese youth movies that are constantly regressing are also boring, but again and again, the audience will still go to the cinema to watch those handsome and beautiful women talk about campus love on the screen, perhaps because this kind of film can always make people hopeful - maybe this is very good?