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In the summer of 2018, "Regeneration" brought the "Taste of Hong Kong Drama" back to a cultural hot spot. However, this "Xingang drama", which is known as "the ups and downs of the business sea for ten years", drove high and low. The overwhelming hot words are mixed up, and even the dubbed version of "Hey, the most important thing to be a human being is to be happy" seems to lose its tone.
"Hong Kong Drama Complex": Urban Mood Records
The Hong Kong drama complex of our generation—or the first glimpse of modern urban life—mostly began with Hong Kong movies and TVB dramas.
is a collective childhood memory of those born in the 80s and 90s. The rich themes of Hong Kong dramas and the fast-food look and feel have left a deep mark on our young hearts. "Dragon Babu" is a must-see drama during the summer vacation. The theme song "The Hard-to-Read Sutra" sung by Wah Kin Chow can arouse our enthusiasm when we were young. There are countless classic screen lovers in "Criminal Investigation Archives" The everlasting pain in the hearts of Hong Kong drama fans; Koo Tianle, who has the highest appearance in "Full Moon Scimitar", has derived the popular "normal appearance" emoji pack; in "The Legend of Condor Heroes", Li Ruotong played the little dragon girl and "Yi Tian Jian" Zhao Min played by Gigi Lai in "Slaying the Dragon Knife" and Zhen Mi played by Cai Shaofen in "Luo Shen" are both irreplaceable goddesses in our hearts...
costume dramas range from "The Legend of the Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty" and "Drunk on the Golden Branch" to "Golden Branch Desire" Sins" and "Intentions of the Palace", fashion dramas such as "Rushing to the Clouds", "Storm of the Heart", and "Pearls", more representative criminal investigation dramas "Forensic Pioneers" series, "Criminal Investigation Files" series...those capable White-collar workers, ups and downs in the workplace, and even elegant housewives, all make us fascinated. The repertoire seems endless.
In recent years, the quality of Hong Kong dramas has declined severely, the plot and the actors' acting skills are clumsy, and a large number of well-known actors have left the nest. The mainland TV stations hardly see the shadow of Hong Kong dramas.
In the past few years, there have been a handful of Hong Kong dramas with a good reputation. "Sneak Attack" and "Apostle Walker" have narrowly won undercover themes, but they are still tepid. On the contrary, it is the "absolutely niche" Hong Kong drama that makes the audience exclaim "Being special", such as TVB's "Love Me Please Leave a Message", or ViuTV's first self-made drama "Margaret and David-Mung Bean"—— The former tells in detail a story about the healing of sentiment and the return of true love, while the latter is "cold" and coldly describes the warmth and loneliness.
The two TV series are in the "literary style": simple and quite lingering lines, contrary to the extremely soothing and delicate rhythm of traditional Hong Kong dramas, in addition to the very brilliant theme songs, there are also many popular ones in the drama. Classic Cantonese songs add a lot to the story. In fact, rather than saying that the well-received Xingang dramas are "literary", they are more "real". We, crowded in the subway crowd, have long lost our childhood admiration for the bright lights of the city, and the one in front of us The loneliness became more and more real.
"Exaggeration" and "Literary and Art"
However, the exaggeration of Hong Kong drama is not an abnormal change after the decline. In fact, fineness has never been synonymous with Hong Kong drama.
A set of costume costumes appears in n dramas; technical special effects (if there are special effects) and action designs are often very funny and rough; forcibly creating exaggerated and illogical fierce drama conflicts (such as "Heartstorm" , The family is always clamoring); there are also a lot of well-known classic but "boring" lines-"This kind of thing happens, everyone does not want to." "The most important thing is to be happy." "Hungry or not. , I will cook a bowl of noodles for you?"
may be this kind of "roughness" that once catered to the aesthetic taste of an era. However, today we can no longer eat the original bowl of noodles. The actors of
TVB are not bad acting, but are restricted to the traditional Hong Kong drama, their acting style is extremely exaggerated. Only when the style of the entire crew changes, will their acting style change. For example, the actor Zhang Jiahui, in the early TVB series, was actually a rather exaggerated style, and his acting skills were largely restricted. After starting to make a movie, he showed explosive acting skills.
Among the veteran TVB actors, Lin Baoyi is obviously the one with the least "TVB style" style. In the above-mentioned literary film "Mung Bean", the delicate and introverted acting skills of Hong Kong opera actors are fully demonstrated. Lin Baoyi’s drama is in the "Old Hong Kong Film Era", or it is arrogant and domineering like Gao Changsheng ("Pearls of Pearls"), or affectionate and introverted like Sun Baiyang ("Golden Branch Desire"). But this time he played a taxi driver, a full-fledged little man, with a dull and considerate personality, and affectionate for the heroine Princess Margaret, but he repeatedly encountered her indifference and impatience.
Every delicate expression has caused us to weep frequently-the helplessness of talking and restless when conflicts over trivial matters, and choking up after knowing the lover's betrayal, unwilling to talk and then grieving, looking around in the empty room , Sitting on the sofa at a loss...At that moment, we caught a glimpse of our fragile and helpless ourselves. The decline of the "exaggeration" in the Xingang drama lies in the handling of drama conflicts-there is no longer a "needle confrontation" or "family melee". After the communication was blocked, a person silently returned to the car and prepared a little vomit bag; encountered a funny little thing, wanted to share it with others, turned the list, but was sad; every night in the same bed, secretly sent a message , And deleted the record in a hurry...
At this point, Xingang drama is similar to the popular "slow variety show". We like to see the protagonists cooking curry lamb, to fried chicken beer, to barbecue at the roadside stall, and BBQ together to coat chicken wings with honey, from dark to the sky revealing the white belly; "friendship" is not "old and Dangerous" but They secretly signed the test papers for their classmates, and played the role of Wong Kar-wai in the movie while smoking; they made a long phone call, but no longer had the "eavesdropping code" in the "Old Hong Kong Drama", but only to let their friends teach themselves to be sour again Spicy soup, I want to keep the recipe in mind.
is like the furnishings in Margaret’s house in "Mung Bean". The "literary and artistic" of "Xingang Opera" is simple, empty, and pale, and the warmth during the period becomes more and more clear. To borrow the lines in the play, "This is a breathing space, and the longer you close your breath, the bigger the breath you breathe."
"Hong Kong Style", the lively and lively Hong Kong drama era outside the camera is gone forever. However, domestic dramas still follow the trend seriously. The online novels and game adaptation dramas that account for half of the country have invested a lot of money but are still shoddy. The rest are mainly traditional themes of spy warfare and family ethics. Workplace business warfare is beginning to show up in Hong Kong dramas. The "salvage" cities, "commercial wars" and "entrepreneurships" in China are now in sight.
discovered an interesting phenomenon when he was in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year: many of the office workers on the streets and on the subway during the day are plain-faced, and their dresses are simple. Many people are expressionless, even a little uncut, and it is difficult to see the vibrant look of the metropolis-that was the exquisite and capable "Hong Kong opera look" we are familiar with. Hong Kong, which has always been regarded as the fashion capital, seems to have a sense of powerlessness for no reason.
Central at night is different-exquisite faces from all corners of the world, exquisite dresses, famous brands all over the street, the air is filled with mixed but faintly high-end perfume smell-but it is limited to Central, probably all in Hong Kong The prosperity of the city is concentrated in Lan Kwai Fong at night.
Hong Kong and Hong Kong dramas are always mysterious in our eyes, and they are like Maggie Cheung in "In the Mood for Love". In our childhood, we were underage girls who sneaked on their mother’s high heels with their faces turned upside down, hiding behind the screen, secretly looking at the mature woman with eyes mixed with confusion and envy—her full red lips and skirt swaying on her knees. Stilettos, stilettos.
And now, when the girl grows up, the figure with the gauze and the filter is extinguished like a candle.
No matter grotesque or indifferent, the most fascinating tones always come from real feelings—whether it is a longing or a realization.
And literary or exaggerated, which one is more real and who is more sober? Hong Kong TV dramas do not know, nor may Hong Kong know.
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