"I blame you for being too beautiful" to tell the truth about the entertainment industry? | Entertainment
A question that once puzzled many people is, why are people in the entertainment industry not able to take pictures of the entertainment industry? If you ask about an impressive episode set in the entertainment world, you can say no. But recently, many people may report a title: "blame you for being too beautiful". This drama cuts into the entertainment industry from the profession of broker. It is more like a career drama of the profession of broker.
The background of the entertainment circle is often reduced to a love field and a strange material
Although there were works such as "Made in Stars" (2000) and "I Want to Be Famous" (2006) in earlier years, the rise of this theme is also after 2015. With the advent of the traffic era, the traffic star group has received unprecedented attention, and film and television creations have also focused on star stories.
This led to the first wave of creative creations in the theme of entertainment circles, such as Zheng Shuang and Jing Bairan's "Falling in Love for Thousand Years" (2015), Marco and Zhang Xinyu's "Celebrities Reborn" (2016), and Marco and Guan Xiaotong's " "Aurora Love" (2017), etc., take the idol drama line. The star is just a variant of the traditional bossy president. The plot is often an arrogant idol, falling in love with a mediocre girl; if the heroine is a star, then the actor is a "superhero" who can help her calm public opinion and save her from "fire and water" at any time.
Making entertainment stories into idol dramas is still the most mainstream way of speaking. Song Zuer and Xu Zhengxi's "Tongue Damage" (2018), Zheng Shuang and Indipah Tani's "My Nanny Handbook" (2018), Zhang Mingen, Xu Lu's "Falling in Love with the Big Dipper Boyfriend" (2019), Huang Zitao, Wu Qian's "The Most Bright Stars in the Night Sky" (2019), and the recently concluded Ding Yuxi and Zhang Xinyu's "Too Rich" This type. The entertainment circle is just a "novel" story background, and the star is just a "novel" protagonist; all kinds of intrigue in the entertainment circle make the star protagonist in trouble, the other party can just send it in the snow, and the emotions of the male and female protagonists quickly heat up-everything All are for the love scene.
In 2017, Chen Xiao and Yuan Shanshan starred in "On Top of the Cloud". Although there are still dog-blooded bridges and vulgar love, there are also uncovered hidden rules about the entertainment circle. The main producer of this drama is Yu Zheng. "On top of the cloud" presents the entertainment industry with a strong "breaking news" color. Although it can satisfy the audience's private desire to entertain the entertainment industry, it has The portrayal is also one-sided, and follows the "thick black school". The same problem also exists in the "Queen of Search" in 2019. The theme of the play is: What a mess of words behind the paper fans in the entertainment circle. The people in the entertainment circle tell the stories of the entertainment circle. They are also as curious as the ancient folk storytellers who wrote the secrets of Gong Wei. They have more gimmicks and less style.
There are also a series of entertainment-themed dramas starring powerful actors, such as Luo Jin and Zhou Dongyu's "The King Behind the Scenes" (2019), Deng Lun and Ma Sichun's "Come on, You Are the Best" (2019), they are the workplace Miscellaneous drama and emotional inspirational drama. The former has a strong lineup, but the portrayal of the workplace is still superficial. The male and female protagonists are TV producers, but the screenwriters are timid about the profession’s portrayal; the latter’s early narratives and comic treatments have attracted a lot of powder, but the latter half of the narrative has collapsed seriously. .
The last episode is not based on the entertainment industry, but the protagonist is a person in the entertainment industry. For example, "Who Says I Can't Get Married", the heroine Cheng Lu's occupation is a screenwriter. In real life, young screenwriters like Cheng Lu grab a lot, even if they are young, they have a limited right to speak in the circle, but Cheng Lu in the play is like a star, wearing a beautiful evening dress at the award ceremony. , Accidentally even hit the hot news. The drama highlights the aura of the protagonist and magnifies the conflict, but sacrifices the authenticity of the profession.
"I Blame You Too Beautiful" has shortcomings, but the flaws do not conceal
The past workplace dramas are very easy to transform into romantic idol dramas, and "blame you for being too beautiful" also has a romantic line, but it better controls the proportion of the two. Mo Xiangwan's workplace dramas account for 70% of the space. Be the subject.
Mo Xiangwan, played by Qin Lan, is one of the top top broker directors in the industry (brokers can be divided into broker directors, agent brokers, and broker assistants. The broker director has the most influence). The series takes her as the latitude and longitude line, and sweeps everything about the stars in the entertainment circle. The audience can see a miniature gossip forum in the play, which guides public opinion, fan control, marketing for the stars, and helps the star group CP from the marketing number. There are all kinds of chaos in the industry, such as traffic stars' rolling dramas, sky-high film rewards, and drama shooting centered on traffic stars.
If it is stated that the star is a commodity, then the broker is the salesman. The broker's duty is to do everything possible to pack the star, attract the largest number of consumers, and sell a higher price. Therefore, the responsibilities of brokers include but are not limited to picking scripts for stars, talking about endorsements, doing "personal design", engaging in propaganda, responding to crises, and planning. Whether a broker is strong and professional can directly affect a star's star journey and ability to absorb gold.
Mo Xiangwan in the series embodies two essential contradictions: one is that she is stuck in the middle of the company, stars, platforms, producers and advertisers, etc., the company’s orders must be executed, and the stars must be "Coax", have to bow your head to the platform and big advertisers, and to be hard and soft to the producers... Brokers need to deal with all kinds of conflicts exquisitely and balance the interests of all parties. The other is what Mo Xiangwan said, "The more successful the other industry is, the more free it is, but the more successful we are, the more artists and cafes we bring, and the more pressure the agent has. This is indeed a paradox. "
"I Blame Me Too Beautiful" is dramatic enough to help amateur audiences better understand the entertainment industry and is a successful step in the background episodes of the entertainment industry. However, as far as the current plot is concerned, there is also a deficiency in "I Am Too Excessively Beautiful", that is, the disclosure of deep-seated problems in the entertainment circle is still "shallow."
Mo Xiangwan's handling of many dilemmas was solved in just a few words. Like Mo Xiangwan, he asked his competitor Hao Mai to help persuade the director to let her female artist Lin Xiang appear in the female number one. Hao Mai opened the condition that two brands are talking to Lin Xiang and have to bring his male artist Luo Feng , Mo Xiangwan replied, "Everything can be discussed." The two brokers hit it off, Lin Xiang quickly replaced the others and got the female number one.
On the surface, Mo Xiangye cleverly grabbed resources for artists. But invisible, "blame you for being too beautiful" also simplifies many complex issues in the entertainment industry-for example, she is not an advertiser, how can you be sure that the advertiser agrees to bring CP objects? Hao Mai hasn't got any benefits yet, so why would he be willing to help the "dead rivals"? Although "blame you for being too beautiful" puts on the screen the rumors of CP speculation and resource grabbing, but it only strengthens the stereotype that the audience has had in the entertainment industry, and does not end up with a high-quality workplace drama. Responsibilities—Tell viewers what “insiders” they don’t know about, and provide them with incremental information about the profession.
Another example is the intimate photos of two popular flows of Luo Feng and Lin Xiang afterwards, improper handling will cause a serious blow to the career of the two artists. The way Mo Xiangwan came up with was to claim that this intimate photo was the "still photo" of the TV series that the two were collaborating on. This dispelled doubts and also highlighted Mo Xiangwan's brilliance. But in fact, the screenwriter slipped on the most difficult problem-if the two did not happen to collaborate, if the watermark on the photo had time, what would Mo Xiangwan do? This is the time to truly test a broker's ability to handle crises.
"I Blame You Too Beautiful" "points to the end" of many insiders in the entertainment industry. On the one hand, the writer is "avoiding the heavy, heavier" and chooses an easier creative method. Otherwise, it will be difficult to present the inconsistency when it is deeply contradicted; on the other hand, the episode about the entertainment circle itself is also a product of the entertainment circle. "On one side, this may make the creators have some scruples.
But "blame you for being too beautiful" does not hide its flaws. Its overall texture is a better episode in the entertainment industry in recent years. Of course, the entertainment industry is a wealth of creation, and "blame you for being too beautiful" has only tapped a little bit, and there is room for follow-up creators to learn from each other.
□Li Yu (play critic)