iQIYI Yunteng's online drama "My First Love is a Crush" was launched today in Pingtan, Fujian Province, and the main creators such as director Chen Weizhen and director Chu Saw and the new generation of actors Zhu Lilan, Li Mingjun, Wang Yimiao, Cao Junxiang, Seventeen, He Zhizhou, Zhou Yitao, Song Kejun, Yuan Jiayao and other main creators all appeared. This may be the most grounded youth film, the heroine of the story is a fat girl with inferiority but she will throw a shot put ball, the male protagonist is warm and considerate but also cowardly, and the sand sculpture class bully and the fun CP of non-mainstream girls seem to bring the black history youth years in everyone's QQ space to the screen.
Reminiscing together in 2008 In high school, the girl's crush was not only sweet but also inspirational
As a key project of iQIYI Literature's "Yunteng Plan", "My First Love is a Crush" is adapted from iQIYI Literature IP "First Love Don't Be Arrogant". The story of the play stems from an obsession planted by imperfect girls zhu Qianshuang girls: ten years of crush, no matter how difficult the day, is to become a better self, stand in front of you again, and tell you, I like you... Zhu Qianshuang, there will always be a fat girl in that class, the weight of the fat makes her a little inferior, but she also has the budding of adolescence and the yearning for beautiful things, for that youthful first love, in order to become a better self, Zhu Qianshuang bravely face herself, determined to lose weight, and successfully counterattacked into a goddess. According to reports, "My First Love is a Crush" adopts a two-line narrative structure, with the protagonist Zhu Qianshuang's current situation and high school memories as the narrative context, the main creative team pulled the timeline of the story back to 2008, which was full of special era memories, deeply restored the high school campus life scene at that time, in the memory and reality, in the strong contrast between the innocent campus and the real society, gradually confessed Zhu Qianshuang's emotional story and reality situation.
Different from the simple and straightforward emotional interaction in regular youth dramas, the "first love" depicted in the play is actually the feelings and youth of the "crush", which focuses on the deepest complex feelings of each imperfect girl. How many people are entangled in whether the crush is their first love, and the feeling of suffering from gain and loss, joy and sorrow, runs through the entire youth. Although in the era of "sweet pet", "My First Love is a Crush" will not make sugar for the sake of sugar, but pays more attention to real details and delicate and resonant emotions, and strives to portray the group portrait youth under an era.
Demanding casting is not only traffic, the strength team to create high-quality youth dramas
The main creative team of the drama boldly selected post-95 newcomer actors in the casting, although there is no traffic star, but this is a group of energetic, youthful young people, clean temperament is very juvenile, let people shine. The main creative team said, "Our play focuses on campus youth, so the age span of the selected actors will not be particularly large, which is complementary to the script's character and age setting." "Of course, the production side that enables the new generation of young actors also has its own judging standards, in addition to spelling the value, but also to fight the acting skills," compared to the beauty of the picture, the audience wants to see more creativity, a play on the choice and grasp of the actor, in fact, from another level to determine the artistic style of the play. After flipping through hundreds of documents, after layers of screening auditions, each actor selected by "My First Love is a Crush" is suitable for the role itself.
In addition to the solid and novel plot and a high-value actor, "My First Love is a Crush" also has a team behind the scenes with rich production experience. General director Chen Weizhen, as a "female frequency popular director" specializing in the female market, has rich experience in the production of blockbuster works, such as "Male Fox Chat Zhai", "President on the Top", "Mermaid Jianghu" and so on; At the same time, as a director of the Visual Department, Chen Weizhen upholds high aesthetics and high requirements in terms of art and modeling, and strives to restore the characteristics of the era in 2008 as much as possible in every detail of "My First Love is a Crush". The director has a keen sense of youth themes, is familiar with the psychology and "hi points" of contemporary young people, and has his own unique understanding and interpretation of youth dramas. The production team gathered feminine expressions, more visual presentation and more sharp hi-points, so that the audience had more expectations for this youth web drama.
"My First Love is a Crush" is jointly produced by iQIYI Literature, Xiangwen Production, Kale Film and Television, Starry Star, Daily Interaction, Bona Fengxing, Dingli Huixin, Fanxing Culture, Zhongxing Hengyi, and co-produced by Kale Film and Television and Guangshi Media, and is expected to log on to iQIYI to meet the audience in this year's winter vacation file. Young crush, shy first love, "My First Love is a Crush" will show that kind of adolescent throbbing, reserved and secret feelings, let us wait and see.