Chinanews client, Beijing, July 19 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) After more than two decades, Feng Xiaogang once again directed a TV series, which is still a female group drama.
The title of the play is "Northern Ruins", Huang Bo played Mr. Numbers, Song Dandan Tan Fanwei, Liu Xiaoqing and Zhu Shimao played Sunset Red CP, a large number of guest stars earned enough attention, but the main story was met with relentless netizens. Tucao.
Some people ridicule, the name is good, and the plot is really different from real life.
Is it really?
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Everyone has money?
"Struggle" in 2007 may be the earliest impression of many people's youth dramas. Lu Tao, Xia Lin, Yang Xiaoyun, Xiang Nan, Hua Zi, Millai, the emotional entanglements and struggle stories of the group of Beijing’s post-80s generations, have made many distant young people. People worry about it.
More than ten years have passed, and some changes have taken place in the drama's style.
Someone commented that this film has nothing to do with "struggle" and "inspirational". Either there is a rich father or a rich second generation, the people in the play are far from the young people in reality.
However, in "Struggle", there is also Xiang Nan, who can only afford second-hand Alto, and Hua Zi, who borrows everywhere. Yang Xiaoyun is still happy when he receives 600 yuan of flowers. They will also be unable to afford a house and cannot find a job. Ordinary troubles.
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By the time "Northern Ruins", these "ordinary troubles" seem to have disappeared.
This play tells the story of five women in Beijing meeting by chance and founding a restaurant named "Beijing Nanyuan".
The "Milai" Wang Luodan in "Struggle" faded away and became the "big sister" You Shanshan among the five.
I got married and had children in college. After my divorce, I succeeded in my career. Investors are said to make money on everything they invest. They have never made a loss-making business.
With money, leisure, brain and enthusiasm, you can send expensive washing machines to friends you just met, borrow money to open restaurants from friends who haven't added WeChat, and deal with your ex-boyfriend's entanglement for friends you just met.
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Bao Xue played by Lan Yingying and Dai Xiaoyu played by Jin Chen are cousins.
Bao Xue is an eighteenth-line actor with a cheerful and lively personality. She lives in a courtyard house.
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Dai Xiaoyu studied undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Norway. After graduation, he did not work seriously. When he got married, he knew that his fiance had not divorced his ex-wife and returned to China after being sad.
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Neither of them had much money. Bao Xue couldn't afford the 300,000 equity investment fee, and Dai Xiaoyu only had his ex-boyfriend's breakup fee of 50,000 euros.
But they have a rich grandma (grandma), and a single-family villa on the second ring road in Beijing.
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The other two are friends of You Shanshan, one is Feng Xi, a fellow villager. She graduated from a higher vocational school and is an ordinary person with a bit of a love mind.
She has a PhD boyfriend. The two have known each other since junior high school and have been in love for ten years.
In order to follow in the footsteps of her boyfriend, she came to Beijing. A relative went abroad. She looked at the house for her relative, and the house happened to be near her boyfriend's school.
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The other is a full-time wife, Simeng, who graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University. She has two children. Her husband, Du Shijun, is a partner in an accounting firm. The family lives in a big house that even You Shanshan sighs.
My hobby is writing online articles. The short stories I wrote were bought by the film and television company, and I made 200,000 yuan in a lump sum.
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Extravagant troubles
Many people have criticized that the life in "The North Zhe Nan Yuan" is too unearthed.
In fact, it's not that the lives of rich people cannot be described in TV dramas. The protagonists of many idol dramas are either rich or expensive.
The problem is that "Northern Ruins" not only wants to reflect the life of urban women, but the narration is very dreamy and idealistic, which seems a little painless.
The lives of women in the play have nothing to do with the lives of most urban women.
The protagonists cannot be said to be rich, but at least they are not short of money.
Feng Xi, who is in the worst condition, lives in a relative’s house, and You Shanshan, a girlfriend who helps stocks, can turn 100,000 to 300,000.
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Except for You Shanshan, none of the four have serious jobs and can meet, eat, and chat anytime.
But they don’t seem to be short of jobs.
Dai Xiaoyu met the boss of the advertising company at the dinner and immediately got a job.
The first time I met a customer, I relied on a few words of high emotional intelligence to bring the cooperation back to life. That night, there was a commission of 20,000 yuan.
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They also have no shortage of love objects, and there will always be high-quality men around them.
When Dai Xiaoyu returned to China, it didn't take long for him to have a photographer suitor.
Bao Xue was filming outside and accidentally met the designer of their restaurant while eating dumplings.
Si Meng's full-time wife's "widowed childcare" life has made many women empathize with her. She wanted to hire a nanny to spare her time. Du Shijun just refused because she was uneasy and unaccustomed to the nanny showing up at home.
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But the problem between them is still the way of the junior three. In order to get a positive, the intern of Du Shijun's company forcibly framed him and derailed.
Such scheming interns should be rare in life.
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And from the perspective of the play, the growth of women is inseparable from the advancement of men. They cannot see their own inner pursuits, struggles and choices. The stories surrounding them are mainly about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the relationship between men and women.
Opening a restaurant is also like a temporary motive. Since there is leisure and money, why not do anything, some netizens describe it as a "luxury trouble", like a simulated dish model, which looks good, but it is not true.
In fact, not all the details in the drama have to be exactly the same as reality, but as a work of art, TV dramas should at least take care of young people and urban women emotionally.
The people in the play have the help of nobles and relatives. It seems that it is very easy for them to solve the plight, which is invisibly vague and ignores the real plight in real life.
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Are there no poor people in domestic dramas?
There are also some discomforts to female audiences in the play. For example, in the dinner, the beautiful women are asked to "carry the pot", and the female characters themselves say "I don't believe that a group of women can run a good restaurant", and the designer says "Don't mess with it. "Women with money, leisure and friends" etc., the perception of young women in the play seems to have remained more than ten years ago.
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The audience was disappointed with "Northern Ruins", also because it was remarkable in storytelling, photography, lines, and actor performances, but it was contaminated with the bad habits of floating in domestic dramas.
In recent years, many articles have analyzed that it has become increasingly difficult to see the poor in domestic dramas, and people below the middle class seem to be unworthy of living in domestic dramas.
Per capita brand-name bags, brand-name clothes, just graduated with an income of 5,000 can live in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou hardcover loft, work basically in the Internet or a bank, or an investor, a monthly expenditure of 40,000 can be regarded as ordinary people.
Business wars in the workplace are like a child's play, and being an intermediary is also like doing charity.
This can't help making many viewers wonder, this is not ungrounded, it is that you have not experienced real life and have never seen a living person.
Occasionally, poor people appear in the play, either "Phoenix Man" or "Scheming Girl". It seems that the poor family of the original family determines their future.
Feng Xi’s boyfriend is a post-doctoral fellow in "Northern Ruins", and he also imagined that in the future, his old classmates would be dedicated to him as a driver. I don’t know if he misunderstood the researchers.
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This kind of life in domestic dramas is not the life everyone knows.
More and more such plots will only discourage the audience.
The lives of most people are ordinary.
Without common worries, no real resonance can be achieved.
"More and more entangled in the grievances and grievances of white-collar workers, this kind of routine has been overwhelming and annoying. Realistic themes are becoming less and less thoughtful and powerless. If this continues, realistic themes will die." Screenwriter Gao Mantang in 2018 The view seems to apply to the present.
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