Recently, "Perfect Relationship", "Settlement" and "I'm Waiting for You in Beijing" have been broadcasted in succession, with mixed reviews, but they are all urban themes, showing the lives of professional women.
In recent years, domestic urban dramas that traditionally focus on showing family relationships have begun to be keen on shaping independent women in urban workplaces. They have dreams of working in big cities, and some have achieved industry-recognized achievements; their economic independence does not depend on For others, emotional independence is not affected by secular vision.
Unfortunately, these beautiful-looking urban workplace independent women's personal settings are actually not well presented in film and television dramas.
The Beijing News reporter counted the 7 domestic urban dramas that were broadcast since November last year. Douban scored an average of 5.26, most of which failed. The characters of “urban independent women” that the play strives to create are rare, but there are a lot of people who have collapsed, such as the summer of "I'm Waiting for You in Beijing" and the congratulations of "The Next Stop Is Happiness" Starry.
The independent female characters in the workplace in domestic urban dramas, why is it difficult to break out of the vicious circle of collapse? A reporter from the Beijing News interviewed actor Chen Shu, screenwriters, critics and other industry professionals.
-"Independent women" person settings fit list-
1, "I'm waiting for you in Beijing"
Douban score: 5.3
female characters: midsummer (Jiang Shuying)
personage: midsummer believe" Great because of dreams". In order to realize her dream of becoming a top fashion designer, she came to the United States alone to work hard. She hopes to have her own designer brand store on Fifth Avenue in the future.
presents in the play: , facing the design competition that he attaches great importance to, did not show the ability and experience that an independent woman who has been struggling for many years should have. She failed to rush to the show due to negligence and recklessness, but met the actor Xu Tian (played by Li Yifeng). In the midsummer struggle for her dream, her former rich second-generation boyfriend gave strong support and sent someone to buy the clothes she designed; later, her genuine boyfriend Xu Tian helped her solve the problem of "settlement" at the new studio site. Some viewers said that such struggle really didn't see the greatness of dreams.
Person setting fit: ★
2, "Anjia"
Douban score: 6.2
Female role: Fang Xijin (Sun Li)
Person setting: Anjia has no my sales agent’s slogan. House not to go out". Under the instruction of her boss Zhai Yunxiao, she airborne the Jingyi store as the double store manager. She is frantically pursuing sales performance, cold and harsh and unpleasant.
presents in the play: The room looks unsmiling and does not care about favors. When he sees "potential customers", he rushes forward, and doesn't care whether he snatches his colleagues' orders. In the face of unreasonable requests from customers, she has a soft figure and must achieve her mission. Faced with the cold words of colleagues, she only cares about whether the sales performance meets the standards. Because of her poor background, she was rejected and squeezed by her family and developed a tough and self-centered character. She rents a cheap haunted house, eats horribly, and wears the same professional attire every day, but Fang Sijin is also slowly changing in the constant collision with her colleagues in Jingyi store.
Person setting fit: ★★★★
3, "Perfect Relationship"
Douban score: 4.0
Female role: Jiang Dalin (Tong Liya)
Personnel: , a real estate agency student in Australia, a professional intermediary student in Australia But he has not done public relations. Because of a sudden accident with her father, she was appointed to take over as the president of the DL public relations media company founded by her father.
presents in the play: is kind and simple, has a sense of justice, and is overflowing with compassion. You can pursue self-righteous righteousness and correctness, regardless of the company's reputation and customer entrustment. Although he graduated with a major in communication, his professional ability in public relations is basically zero. Every time a problem arises, Wei Zhe (Huang Xuan) or Wei Zhe and several partners of DL think of a solution together. In recent episodes, Jiang Darin’s blind trust in her boyfriend and her girlfriend has caused serious damage to the company’s interests.The voice of “disapproval”.
fit: ★
female role: Stella (Chen Shu)
Person: the vice president of DL communication, and one of the partners with great qualifications and prestige. Looks proud, Strong style, calmly face any situation.
presents in the play: is a professional, wise and decisive professional woman who has the confidence and ambition to do her part to become a president, as well as the ability and skill worthy of her ambition. She is responsible for the overall situation. , The public and the private are clearly distinguished. Although Jiang Dalin’s position made her lose her position as president, she still provides strong support from the perspective of the company’s interests. If there is a problem with her marriage, she immediately notified all partners to prepare everyone. So as not to affect the company due to changes in his marriage. Although divorced with a scumbag husband, he never brings emotions in life to work. Many netizens believe that Stella is far more suitable for president than Jiang Darin.
Degree: ★★★☆
Female character: Shu Qing (Gao Lu)
Personnel: Account director of DL communication, independent woman in the workplace, senior publicist who can be a single mother, and a single mother.
Presentation: has first-class public relations skills, especially good at planning, working style is gentle and intellectual, yet resolute. In the face of crisis, he can respond calmly and calmly, analyze and find loopholes to remedy, and can clearly distinguish work and feelings.
Fit: ★★★☆
4, "The Next Stop is Happiness"
Douban score: 6.1
Female role: He Fanxing (Decorated Song)
Person: 32-year-old single independent female executive director of Wonder Decoration Company , Has a house and a car. At work, he is unsmiling at work, but he is very persistent in love. He fell in love with his 10-year-old subordinate Yuan Song. The
show: He Fanxing invites college classmates to have tea during work hours and talk to the office Subordinate Yuan Song played the wall and asked the other party to accept the secret love. Because of her own problems, the time was delayed and the partner asked to terminate the contract. As a company executive, her response method was crying... Some viewers commented that it is acceptable to be older Young women have a girlish heart for love, but it is difficult to accept that a 32-year-old Shanghai executive is a silly and sweet job.
Person setting fit: ★
5, "Elite Lawyer"
Douban score: 5.3
Female role: Dai Xi (Lan Yingying)
z11 Person setting: is a rookie lawyer who is new to the workplace, insists on himself, and has a good sense of justice. She later became the best partner in the industry with the famous lawyer Robin.
presents in the play: Dai Xi is like walking Baidu, like standing on the moral high ground and acting as a preacher of justice. Because of sympathy, she could completely disregard the interests of her client and turn to the defendant. She would ask why Luo Bin received a large-scale commission; she also asked Luo Bin to reject a client who had prevented her from graduation. Because she can’t face people who have hurt herself...Netizens commented that Dai Xi “completely lacks the professionalism of a lawyer and cannot comply with professional ethics. How can I talk about the spirit of the law in a shy manner?”
Person setting fit: ★☆
6, " The second time is also beautiful"
Douban score: 5.3
Female character: Anan (Wang Wangwen)
Person: The single mother born in the 90s, who is divorced and unemployed, still relies on her own efforts to bravely pursue her dreams and become a cartoonist. The dream set a good example for his son.
presents in the play: has an amazing talent in comics, and with a flash of inspiration, he can create the most voted work. Optimistic, confused and ignorant, late to participate in important games, dare to face-to-face contact with Ebola patients. But there will always be a vote of help to solve the difficulties encountered——The lawyer who secretly fell in love with her, her good neighbor Xu Lang, his best friend Qiu Tian, and the ex-husband Yu Feifan of the local tyrant. Netizens commented: "Does the heroine have to be written like a mentally retarded in order to show the growth of women?"
Personal design fit: ★★
7, "Crocodile and Toothpick Bird"
Douban score: 4.6
Female role: Li Nanen (played by Zhang Tianai)
Persona: A tough and strong post-95 international student, majoring in economics at university but interested in architecture. After graduating, he decided to study architecture in France, met with a student Zhou Erwen, and then returned to China to start a business together and became a leader in the international construction industry.
presents in the play: went to rock climbing on the day of the study abroad interview and almost missed it. I didn’t know how to carry cash when I went abroad. The thief who rented a house in France didn’t call the police but chased the gangster... Li Nanen was evaluated by the audience as "love brain" and "double business" not online". The drama is full of old-fashioned romantic bridges of amnesia, sickness, and love triangles, and the plots related to architecture make the "love" of architecture study.
person design fit: ★☆
? Why can’t people set up
lack of understanding of women’s power and lack of solid creative attitude
contrast with the Korean drama "The Mist", the news anchor Gao Huilan, who is full of aura and difficult to distinguish between good and evil; the American drama "War of the Proud", has been cheated of his middle-aged savings Sora, but not complaining about the lawyer Di An who came back from the beginning, and the housewife Mickey who recovered herself after the divorce of "The Great Mrs. Maisel" and struggled to become a talk show actress, even in domestic urban dramas The combination of Fang Sijin and Stella, which have a higher degree of fit, is also not deep and three-dimensional. In an interview with the Beijing News, Chen Shu, the actor of Stella in
"Perfect Relationship", admitted that the current understanding of female power is generally insufficient, which is one of the reasons why the audience is not satisfied with the independent female characters in domestic dramas. . "We have seen a lot of these mature and independent female roles in American, Japanese, and Korean dramas. Some of them are in high positions, and some may be more conventional positions, but they all present the status of living in her social identity. And personality, as well as their hard work, persistence and many good things in social life. Indeed, in domestic dramas, there is no universal and relatively high consensus on independent and strong female power, which may cause workplace dramas to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Satisfaction will point out that the independent female characters in our urban dramas are not independent enough." Chen Shu believes that domestic dramas are still in the process of growing in this regard, and I believe that more excellent works and female characters will gradually appear in the follow-up. "I have always been full of expectations and yearning for the shaping of female roles in the workplace, and I have always felt that this part of our Chinese film and television drama works has a relatively large expression space."
should have high IQ and EQ, complex and multifaceted personality. The independent female roles in the workplace, the domestic urban dramas appear to be neither professional nor independent. Instead, they prefer the simple "Mary Su" and "Silly White Sweet". Screenwriter L believes that the entire industry chain is responsible. In real life, urban women who can be "professional" and "independent" need to have experience and accumulated experience. This is destined to be impossible to be young girls in their early twenties. The video platform analyzes user portraits and needs. The heroine is also required to be pure and youthful. "Even if the characters are set to be 30+ years old, they also require a'girly feeling'. Can this be contradictory?" In his opinion,
shows that dramas related to real life are more difficult to write than unaided romances and require deeper work. , And many screenwriters' creative attitude is not practical enough. "There is a lag in the broadcast of TV dramas. Most of the dramas I see now were filmed one or two years ago, and the script creation was even early. At that time, the film and television industry was very popular, and the small well-known screenwriters in the industry were too busy. The signed screenwriter is only responsible for the key plot control, and other details are left to the team writers to fill in. These young people have basically never experienced a real workplace, and the delivery time is tight. It is a convenient choice to learn from the novels and dramas they have read. , Showing up is a routine."
? How can we stand up to the independent female roles in the workplace who set the
script to be grounded and the actor willing to study
domestic urban dramas? Can the audience be convinced? The
drama critic "West of the Sun" believes that creators should walk in front of the audience instead of flattering.Audience. "The audience likes sweet pets, so add some sweet love scenes. The audience likes suspense, so let the protagonist get involved in the case. This is the thinking of the product manager. The thinking of the creator is that I have the confidence to impress the audience with good works." Specific to the role Shaping, the screenwriter and the actors are very important. The script must be grounded and not suspended, and the actors' performance must be true and detailed. "Since the heroine is set to be a career person, the difficulties, entanglements, conflicts and conflicts that the screenwriter designed for her must not only be related to her own character, but also to her career. To write this grounded and convincing For the deep-seated connection, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of her occupation and the professional dilemmas she will face. This is not something that can be understood by visiting the company."
is among the independent female roles in the workplace in recent domestic urban dramas , Fang Sijin in "Settle Down" and Stella in "Perfect Relationship" have been recognized by more audiences. Although the script is relatively complex and full of characters, the efforts of the two actors for this cannot be ignored. Sun Li was pleasantly surprised when she heard that Fang Sijin had a prototype, and felt that understanding the prototype would make herself closer to the role. She described the Fang Sijin presented in the script as a three-dimensional figure with both a positive and a negative side. She is shining and charming but does not conceal her inner desires and persistence. During the performance, in order to show Fang Sijin's professional characteristics, Sun Li chose to wear very plain clothes and a short hairstyle. For these details, she referred to a relative of her very frugal. "She often cuts her hair very short and very short. Sometimes I ask her why she cut her hair so short. She said that if I cut it a little bit, I can cut my hair twice. I think this is very similar to Fang Sijin's life. Condition."
Fang's beautiful short hair style. In an interview with the Beijing News, Chen Shu said that the script is the most important thing. After all, actors can only rely on the script to perform. If the script is not set to give the role space, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. . But when shooting, excellent creators will do their best to perfect the content that is not available in the script to the maximum extent, even through research and imagination, as well as high enough professional ability to fill in and add points to the play. "As an actor, I mainly fill in the gaps in the text through performances, so that the characters are three-dimensional and vivid, more real and kind." When it comes to the role of Stella, Chen Shu believes that it is very important to accurately express her social identity as a professional. , Not just stand on the level of personal character interpretation. "How to be like a professional in this profession, you need to look at details such as body, lines, style, eyes, etc., to make everyone believe that she has such a professional quality, not just complete the plot and lines."
Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie
editor Tong Na proofread Zhao Lin
