High-reputation “Love Is Delicious” Brings Inspiration, Targeted Female Group Portraits Can Be Out Of The Circle
2021-12-20 10:35:14Source: Qilu Evening News
The modern urban drama “Love Is Delicious” came to an end on December 17. At first, this drama was not very popular. Unexpectedly, “Love Is Delicious” just relied on its high-quality word of mouth to counterattack, allowing the audience to break the prejudice against it and become a recent hit drama. Some people call it the domestic version of “Sex and the City”, and some people regard it as the “Pink Girl” of the new era. The successful experience of “Love Is Delicious” lies in that it holds the scale between realism and drama and is targeted, making itself stand out through the style of light comedy.
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Reporter Liu Yuhan
Wandering in exaggeration and realism
“Love Is Delicious” at first seems to be a bit of a play, not only does not have popular actors, but it is also led by half-way female group players and singers who sing Eryou. The title sounds like the audience’s “bad drama radar”. alarm. Although director Chen Zhengdao has filmed successful suspense themes such as “Master of Hypnotism” and “Skyscrapers”, when he decides to shoot a female theme, it is difficult for people to be confident.
It is such a work with a weak lineup, an exaggerated plot, and a local taste in the drama, which has become the most popular drama recently. How did “Love Is Delicious” made it? The screenwriter of the play once said in an interview that he usually likes to watch American and Japanese dramas. A major feature of this drama is that it has both the dramaticness of American dramas and the delicacy of Japanese dramas.
Exaggerated plots abound in “Love Is Delicious”: Fang Xin’s ex-husband, who was originally a good husband, was arrested and derailed because of the epidemic. He also wanted to get a divorce with Fang Xin at the Civil Affairs Bureau and register his marriage with Xinhuan on the same day. . Xia Meng quarreled with her boyfriend Wang Jichong. Because she forgot to turn off the camera, she broadcasted the whole video conference and became a hot spot in short videos. Liu Jing has a good impression of his neighbor who is a single father, and he fills the pink scene by himself…At the same time, “Love Is Delicious” also has a fast pace like a US drama, and it quickly advances the plot under the mode of a unit theme every two episodes. The heroines did not grieve for the fall of love or work, or take self-pity for the shadows, but immediately regrouped and started a new life. The male characters in the play also appeared on the stage like a revolving lantern, constantly attracting the audience’s attention.
However, “Love Is Delicious” did not go to the black one by one on the road of dog blood, it used realistic and down-to-earth characters to undertake the exaggerated plot. As the screenwriter Shen Yang said, “We hope to make the characters more realistic, so that when the drama design makes all kinds of jokes due to various mistakes, it will not make the audience think that this thing is too fake. Too suspended.” Liu Jing reflected the dilemma of older single women: being urged to marry, the other party said “Thirty,” and was immediately corrected by Liu Jing’s mother, “It was only twenty-nine”; she was dismissed because Others have to raise a child to support a family, which is more stressful than her being single; she has to face the difficulties of marriage and childbirth when she goes out to apply for a job. Xia Meng has the problem of being a strong woman. The mantra of her ex-boyfriend is “Can you save me some face”, and her parents and girlfriends will also persuade her to lower her posture and not be too strong. Fang Xin, who returned to the workplace, had to re-adjust to the handover of work. On the one hand, he was called “Sister Xin” and on the other hand, he was assigned the least valued chores.
Light comedy eliminates the heavy feeling
Beginning with “Pink Girl” in 2003, female group portrait dramas began to be categorized. Later, “Ode to Joy” in 2016 and “Ode to Joy 2” in 2017 opened up a new model of female group portrait drama with the “five beauties”. Since then, this type of drama has been heating up all the way. In 2020, “Twenty Not Confused”, “Thirty Only”, “Who Said I Can’t Get Married”, “He Actually Doesn’t Love You That So”, “Dear Myself”, etc. appeared together. In 2021, “The Ideal Life of Love”, “Northern Ruins”, “I Really Love You”, “I’m With Us”, “Growing Up with You”, “Wise First Half”, “I’m pretty good in a foreign country”的” etc. broadcast. Female group dramas have become a big hit.
Although there are more and more dramas of this kind, there are only one or two works that can be successfully released a year. Most of these dramas are composed of three-five-five urban women with different personalities. They talk about their work, love, marriage, family, friendship, etc., such as workplace discrimination, urging marriage and birth, full-time wives, patriarchal family, native family, and wit. “Little three”…These topics and plots can be found in the female group portrait dramas of the past two years. The audience has already experienced aesthetic fatigue and complained about anxiety.
The works that can go out of the circle are not general works. They know how to be targeted and can find their own unique shining points in a group of female dramas. “Thirty Only” introduces a new perspective of class disputes to let the audience talk about it. Gu Jia tried to enter the “rich-tai circle” and was pitted, Wang Manni broke free from Liang Zhengxian and returned in frustration. “I’m Very Good in Another Country” captures the new community of “beijing drifting girls” and makes the four girls arouse empathy among urban strangers. “Love is Delicious”, in addition to being able to do well between realism and dog blood, it also uses a light comedy style to eliminate the heaviness of realistic topics and make the audience feel relieved. For example, Fang Xin staged a Shura field during the divorce process at the Civil Affairs Bureau, but also bickered because of the need to maintain a safe distance from the epidemic. Xia Meng complained in the play “Now the women’s groups are all acting”, and Xia Meng’s actor, Wang Ju, is a contestant in “Creation 101”. This kind of official complaint makes people can’t help but laugh.
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