To say that the most impressive youth film and television drama, I think that the first in line must be this "Seventeen-year-old does not cry".
"Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry" is a 1997 school youth drama produced by the China Television Drama Production Center, directed by Wang Jing, starring Hao Lei, Li Chen, Zhang Chao, Chen Yanyan, Wang Zhuo, Li Xuan, Li Mu, Niu Mengmeng and so on. The drama is adapted from the collection of essays of the same name by Li Fangfang, a seventeen-year-old middle school student, and tells the story of the youth of sixteen and seventeen-year-old boys and girls.
Although this TV series is only a short 10 episodes, it still maintains a high score of 8.8 in Douban, which is rare in youth film and television dramas, which shows its influence.
Stills from "Seventeen Don't Cry"
The play is adapted from Li Fangfang's essay collection "Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry", she studied at Beijing No. 12 Middle School, began to create when she was in school, and won many national essay competition awards.
At the same time, she is also the director of the movie "No Questions Asked", which shows the grasp of the character's emotions and the handling of details.
Why do you still miss it after all these years? Because it truly records our youth, conveys the enthusiasm of youth, the poetry of youth, and the restraint of youth.
The show's success lies in the fact that it has created a group of vibrant, impressive and classic characters.
Whether it is Jian Ning played by Li Chen, Yang Yuling played by Hao Lei, or Raymond played by Zhang Chao, Lin Lin played by Chen Yanyan, lexin played by Wang Zhuo, and Yue Xiaodan played by Niu Mengmeng, all people feel that it is so kind, real, grounded and warm.
Li Chen plays Jian Ning
They almost do not wear much makeup in the play, present to us are the most real side, say very grounded words, think the same as the confusing topics we encounter in adolescence, from their bodies, mouths, will not feel a little pompous, impetuous, empty.
So many years later, I still think of them, can't help but pay attention to the news related to them, and deliberately search the Internet for the development path of each of them and the current state of life.
Hao Lei plays Yang Yuling
Youth should be a state of enthusiasm, the body should be enthusiastic, dare to rush and dare to break through, showing the appearance of youth and vigor. The spirit should be enthusiastic, energetic, positive, not afraid of any difficulties, always dare to meet all the most difficult challenges.
In the same way, film and television dramas about youth should also reflect its enthusiasm, to truly reproduce the real psychological state of adolescent children, to restore them to the greatest extent, and to pass on to the audience a kind of sunshine confidence, straight to the heart of the spiritual strength.
Niu Mengmeng played Yue Xiaodan
"Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry" did it, with its enthusiasm, its simplicity, its quality, which is also the biggest reason why we have been missing it for 22 years.
The youth depicted in the TV series does not have so many dog blood plots, nor so many disease-free moans, and there are no unrealistic, imaginative plots.
In it, there are countless lines that touch our hearts, showing what we think, think, hear, understand, and vividly display.
"Who doesn't learn to be strong while getting hurt?" "Even if I am in chaos, I will be calm." "We keep coming out of loneliness and throwing ourselves into the crowd, only to find helplessly that loneliness is still behind us, that it is never far away." "A person's total strength can not be considered strong, only fall, fall very heavy, and then get back up, this is really strong." 」
During military training, a childish face was not taken off
Reading these classic lines that once touched us over and over again will still stir our heartstrings and touch the softest places in our hearts.
Because it uses very simple and unpretentious language, it is full of our expectations for youth, confusion, confusion, and records the mental process of our growth.
In this play, it shows the poetry of youth through a golden sentence, youth is not only about exams, preparing for exams, but also growing, preparing for growth, meeting growth, and experiencing growth.
It is precisely because we have cried, we have hurt, we have laughed, we have let go, so these unforgettable memories let us find the most appropriate emotional resonance in "Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry". This is also its artistic charm.
Sunny and handsome Raymond, Yang Yuling with a straightforward personality
In the TV series, Xi Murong's small poem "Youth" has appeared many times, "All the endings have been written, all the tears have also begun, but suddenly forgot what kind of a beginning." On that ancient summer day when I didn't come back, no matter how much I tried to pursue, the young you were only like a cloud shadow, and your smiling face was extremely shallow and faint, gradually disappearing into the group after sunset. So I opened the yellowed title page, and fate bound it extremely poorly, and with tears I read it again and again, but I had to admit that youth is too hasty a book. ”
Every time they see them reading this poem in it, they always feel an inexplicable sadness, touched, and think along with the content of the poem, especially the sentence "With tears I read it again and again, but I have to admit that youth is a book that is too hasty", which is deeply engraved in the depths of memory.
Cheerful and confident
It is an age that likes to read poetry, but also an age full of fantasy, and the success of "Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry" lies in the fact that it expresses a kind of poetry in the play very well, an artistic creation rooted in life, but higher than life, making youth look more colorful, full of imagination, more romantic, more moved.
In the play, Jian Ning, who is simple and quiet, always calm and calm, and Yang Yuling, who is domineering and like a small tank, will also encounter the trouble of early love.
However, the way the play is handled, different from other youth dramas, with the participation of teachers and parents, but another way, through the interweaving of various complex emotions such as inner ignorance, throbbing, entanglement, awakening, etc., showing the psychological world of middle school students and facing emotional confusion, calm down to analyze, and finally successfully deal with confusion, return to the whole process of calm, showing its superb artistic techniques, as well as the unique charm of deeply rooted in people's hearts.
I still remember the words that Jian Ning said to Yang Yuling in the play: "Actually, I understand everything you know, popular songs, I can also sing; love novels, I have also read; even, I can't help but like a girl, that feeling of panic I have also had." 」 I'm not a wooden man, whether you understand it or not, believe it or not. ”
I have to admire the author Li Fangfang's writing, a few words, simple and fluent, just to expose the complex, tangled inner world of a teenager, accurately presented in front of us.
Jian Ning and Yang Yuling
At the end of the story, Jian Ning figured out this matter by himself, he was no longer entangled and confused, and expressed his state of mind to Yuling in a paragraph, "At our age, we can't afford such a laborious thing. Yuling, you are the best girl I have ever seen, I admire you and pay attention to you, but I also care too much about my studies, my grades. I need too much solitude, too much calmness, to read books, to do problems, to do experiments. Because, I am so hungry for success and excellence. ”
I always feel that the TV series' handling of this is very superb, it shows the restraint of youth very well, especially the tangled but helpless side, and this emotional treatment also resonates with people's hearts.
Yu Ling and Jian Ning
The theme song of "Seventeen Don't Cry" is also particularly good, "Parents say that there is no eternal greenhouse flower, and the teacher says that when you grow up, you will know what setbacks you will suffer." Growing up is another lesson, about different rules of the game, dancing teenagers, blossoming to bear fruit, this is the principle of survival..."
Film and television dramas are like a phonograph, which can help us awaken sleeping memories and carve past times. Dancing teenagers, time is rushing, we were once young, have such a good time, have such an excellent TV series to accompany, all this is very beautiful, worthy of our eternal heart to cherish.