When I heard that the characters in the English textbooks of junior high school can also be used on the big screen as "IP", I was really shocked. I couldn't help but admire how the current film industry really dares to think and do.
But for this long-lived phenomenon, I still think it's really difficult to shoot well.
Li Lei and Han Meimei on the junior high school English textbooks say that it’s difficult to shoot, because the original set of textbooks, despite a few large books, has not provided any reference plot backbone and three-dimensional characters in the past few years character. All the dialogues of
are simple etiquette phrases. Of course, these phrases have become some kind of "stalk" after repeated practice, and that's it. Some people even found that Li Lei and Han Meimei had never spoken in the textbook!
So, what kind of boy is Li Lei? Where is Han Meimei? And Jim Green?
We can only construct according to their thin, flat "personal design". Therefore, Li Lei and Han Meimei in everyone's mind are very different.
Some people think that Han Meimei is a female man, but some people think that she should be a staid squad leader and study committee member, maybe all will work, it doesn't matter. The core theme of
can only be "nostalgia", so that the target audience can go back to the 90s when they were in junior high school and high school, so the film can only be a youth film. But youth films are not a genre with a good reputation. It is also a fact that they are easily scolded no matter how they are filmed.
As a post-80s generation who has used that set of textbooks, I am actually satisfied with the point of "nostalgia".
Yes, I actually saw the live-action version of Li Lei and Han Meimei on the big screen. I also saw Wei Hua, Lin Tao, Jim, Lily, Lucy, and even the English-speaking parrot Polly and the amiable Uncle Wang... …
This is too magical, okay! This is not enough for
. The movie is very timely and tells those iconic English conversations:
"How are you?"
"Fine, thank you, and you?"
"I'm fine, Thanks."
Parrot Polly
So far, the nostalgic appeal of this movie can already be clocked in after get off work.
Before this, the so-called IP of Li Lei and Han Meimei has appeared in quite a few texts, not only the songs of the same name, but also comics and dramas of the same name. If it can resonate and achieve nostalgic effects, I believe that it is 80 After that, there may still be some effect. After all, these names you tell the post-90s, they don’t understand.
"Li Lei and Han Meimei" drama
Okay, this is the end of the nostalgic part, and the following youth film template begins. After the start of the
feature film, "Li Lei and Han Meimei" seemed to be a low-profile version of "My Girls' Generation", but fortunately, it borrowed "My Girls' Generation" so that the direction of the film did not follow the previous domestic youth films. Kind of too bloody routine development.
"My Girls' Generation" (2015)
First of all, the youth film, it is inevitable that there must be a (even if it has not started) love. "Li Lei and Han Meimei" strictly follows the model of "Students with Xueba", and most of the film's narrative motivation is Han Meimei's various tricks and tactics in order to get close to Li Lei. Brave.
Of course, in the end, we all know that it will definitely appear that Li Lei has long fallen in love with Han Meimei.
At this point, "Li Lei and Han Meimei" simplifies the character setting and relationship of "My Girlhood", only retaining the main motive of "women chasing men", and the ups and downs are far from rich in richness.
Secondly, what the youth film must have is the anti-establishment system, which is the so-called youth culture. Youth culture must not be obedience, but rebellion. Whether it is "Rebellion Without Cause" or "Season of the Sun", it is all about the rebellion and confusion of young people. Therefore, from the beginning, youth culture must not be mainstream culture, but subculture, which is contrary to social and school regulations.
The youth culture in "My Girlhood" is reflected in the collective resistance to the strict management of the teaching director. In "Li Lei and Han Meimei", this "anti-establishment" expression seems to be bolder.On the one hand, it seems to be closer to the reality of the mainland, on the other hand, it is more inconsistent with reality to complete the imaginative solution in the movie. In the
film, in order to generate income for himself, the English teacher asks his classmates to enroll in cram school, give thorough questions in the cram school, and sell high-priced tutoring materials... He not only falsely claims that he graduated from Stanford University, but also assigns students to cheat in public classes .
Although the film later used "family difficulties" and "punished" to look back and "teacher-student reconciliation" to resolve conflicts, this kind of teacher that we may have encountered in real life is still subverted. The image of the teacher in the past values on the big screen, and Han Meimei may have done something we dare not do: write a joint letter to tell the teacher, openly confront the teacher in the office, and expose the teacher.
Finally, in addition to dating and rebellion, youth films always have some group activities. At this point, Japanese youth films can be described as a model. Therefore, after "Li Lei and Han Meimei" were not reconciled, they were forced to implant this youth film. Elements, on the basis of love and rebellion, add some positive energy of youth.
However, on the basis of the relatively weak overall plot, such forced implantation is more difficult and embarrassing, so the creator came up with an idea that could not be more vulgar: because the classmate was terminally ill, the band formed half a charity show. Collecting donations for her... The
concert is likely to be the climax of the entire film. This is true in itself, but the film neglects this point. If it is a "group activity", its most attractive feature must be the process of practice. And the difficulties overcome in this process.
"Li Lei and Han Meimei" did not express this very well, so the following concert was not salty, not to mention that the songs and performances at the concert did not add any color to the whole film. Place, especially abrupt in the whole film.
Generally speaking, "Li Lei and Han Meimei" is not useless, but it loses the basis of the whole film because it does not have a solid story support.
In the end, it was the cliché "ten years later." Han Meimei became a cartoonist and discovered Li Lei's confession to herself ten years ago. The film came to an abrupt end...not moved, only the collective permeated in the theater. awkward.
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