There is no doubt that in the past few months, it is very likely that this year, the most popular Chinese drama is " want to see you " from Taiwan.
ended last week, and the rating is still standing at 9.2, a high level from beginning to end. If you haven't watched it, please make arrangements! The drama is short, sharp and without moisture . What's so good about
? Eight words: has excellent script and burst of acting skills.
is essentially a love idol drama, but it combines crossing + suspense + campus pure love + adult love + social and humanistic topics , and the composition is very complicated.
If you haven't watched the show and saw such a brief introduction, I am afraid that this is very thunderous! But the crew is like a team of bowling artists. Not only does each bowl stay on the floor, it also shows depth and beauty.
What impresses me most is the love in the play.
, it’s been a long, long time since I saw such a heart-wrenching modern love story in a Chinese TV series! Non-foreign language, non-ancient costume, non-master, I feel very cherished. This drama of
will make me believe that there really is this kind of love-skin and time and space are not important, I love your soul deeply, I can sense the fetters with you from the vast sea of people and the wilderness of time, desperately rushing towards you.
The second generation of Ba Zong and Fu in "The Next Stop Is Happiness" next door makes 180 episodes, which is less than the moment when Huang Yuxuan was recognized by Li Ziwei when he ran out of the ruined building. This is love!
friendship is also very deep. Li Ziwei spent 20 years alone. First, he wanted to see Huang Yuxuan, and second, he wanted to save his friends. There is no distinction between the two, and you cannot choose one of the two.
In 2019, when Lao Li and Huang Yuxuan finally met, the barrage was saying, "Have a good time, stop tossing". But in that case, the design would collapse.
As long as there is a chance, Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan will never allow Mo Junjie and Chen Yunru to live such a tragic life. The bravery and kindness in their character background is the basis for their love and friendship and the basis for the audience to fall in love with them.
Those crossing and suspense seem to be very complicated, but in the final analysis they are all serving . They are not meaningless or gorgeous, they are very extra points of artistic means. It was originally just a story of youth and pure love, but after traveling through the long river of time, the touching degree suddenly increased! The ending of
is also very reasonable. It is not a tragic ending, because the screenwriter has convinced me that no matter what, Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan will still meet and love each other, they are destined!
Okay, I'm talking about this. What I want to say today is why other people can make such a brainy yet touching love story with social significance, and why we can’t. Look at the short story behind this play and you will get the answer.
One, the birth of the script
This short 26 episodes of content took five months to shoot, and the script took 3 years and . The initial idea was started 8 years ago.
In 2012, screenwriter Jian Qifeng and director Huang Tianren collaborated on "Flower Is Love". The two were discussing what they wanted to do in the next play. At that time, Huang Tianren said that he wanted to do a reasoning play.
In 2015, after Jian Qifeng and producer Ma Yiting and collaborated on " must marry a woman " (starring Ke Jiayan), he asked her what she wanted to do in the next play. Ma Yiting said that she wanted to make one that would make people watch A love scene that will cry unknowingly.
Ke Jiayan won the Admiralty view by marrying a woman.
Jian Qifeng is such a person. Every time he finishes cooperating with his favorite partner, he will ask what he wants to do next time. He kept these in mind. Then he had a dream.
He dreamed that he was writing a script about a man and woman who broke up. The audience would know how they fell in love at the beginning and how they separated.
Then Jian Qifeng and his partner Lin Xinhui wrote the story of "Want to See You". They like and Ke Jiaying very much, because she has both Huang Yuxuan and Chen Yunru’s characteristics. When creatingJust take Ke Jiaying as the prototype to write.
Ke Jiaying read the three-episode script and immediately agreed. So, two screenwriters + director + producer + starring Ke Jiaying, a bunch of soul characters who love stories are basically in place from the beginning, and everyone has direction and cohesion.
↑ Ke Jiayan showed off his "land photos" that looked like Chen Yunru before, and warned everyone not to bully classmates, hahaha
The initial idea is relatively simple, there is neither double crossing nor the setting of Mobius ring . In the three years of writing the script, the story has been continuously improved.
Chen Yunru was originally set to have died when Huang Yuxuan crossed, and there was not much ink. The story of Chen Yunru and Mo Junjie gradually became flesh-and-blood in the debates of the script.
According to habit, the starring role is the focus of the audience, but the screenwriter hopes that everyone can pay more attention to the corners where the sun cannot shine. The supporting role is not a tool person to set off the protagonist.
As for the gay character Wang Chuansheng, the two screenwriters did not intend to write much at first, but finally decided to present it with a short story because "the "Wang Chuanshengs" should not be forgotten."
benefited from the screenwriter’s intentions and the relaxed creative environment. This drama jumped out of the general idol drama and explored the self-identity of young people and caring for marginalized characters.
Depressed Chen Yunru
two, immortal casting and acting
As mentioned above, the heroine Ke Jiayan is the earliest confirmed starring. Although she is 35 years old, the creator thinks that such a difficult role is none other than her.
In this drama, she has to perform in four states-taciturn high school student Chen Yunru, Chen Yunru pretending to be Huang Yuxuan, Huang Yuxuan when she was a college student, and Huang Yuxuan when she lost her lover.
Ke Jiayan spent a lot of thought to distinguish between roles. For example, Chen Yunru is more hunched, with his head lowered, not daring to look at others when speaking, and walking a little bit inwardly. When
played the role of high school student Chen Yunru, Ke Jiayan took the initiative to ask for a full face. Sister Ke said that beauty is not important, and Chen Yunru is the neglected high school girl. In order to enter the play, Ke Jiayan will spray Chen Yunru and Huang Yuxuan with different perfumes. Everyone has seen the
effect. Different roles can be distinguished without barriers, which is super substituting. After seeing the next Golden Bell, it has been decided by me! Sister Ke, I pick U!
Xu Guanghan also thought of the script for the first time: "I must act."
However, the process of deciding Xu Guanghan was a bit twists and turns. At that time, he was not well-known. Neither "Sin Dreamer" nor "Sunshine" had been broadcast, and his strength had not been seen by too many people. Investors would have concerns. The main creator of
is still optimistic about him. Ke Jiayan supports Xu Guanghan. The producer finds this very rare. The two are far from the same position, but Ke Jiayan doesn't care about this at all. Ke Jiayan's support is also one of the reasons why Xu Guanghan can be used.
Ke Jiayan said that Xu Guanghan's play is very natural. Although he is 29, his temperament is very suitable for acting as a high school student. The role of Li Ziwei must be popular with thousands of girls after the broadcast. My sister is a predictor who knows how to choose scripts and actors!
↓Who doesn't want to have a silly love with the cute white-eyed Li Ziwei? !
↓The vicissitudes of life after growing up are also OK! Don't have a flavor!
It is common for us women to change husbands, but we have never felt that the competition is so fierce, because many gay men see Xu Guanghan's gay Wang Quansheng ↓ are also crazy, shouting willing to do 1 for him.
Xu Guanghan plays the role of triangle, acting as leverage. Unfortunately, Wang Quansheng's part was deleted in the Mainland.
According to an interview with "The Paper", the role of Mo Junjie has been entangled with two actors. The other actor is more red than Shi Baiyu and can also interpret Mo Junjie, but the temperament of the two actors is different, and the opinions of the crew are not uniform.
Finally, the crew took the voteMethod, Shi Baiyu won one vote, which was given by the director. In order to be worthy of this vote, the director pulled the newcomer into a small stove almost every night and taught acting by hand.
I guess the director loves the gentleness that Shi Baiyu has in his temperament. They are soft and cute, but they are so miserable that they will love the audience.
can only say that I was pinched by the director. Mo Junjie played by Shi Baiyu , really!
Three, heart-to-heart and touching production
script and team are in place, the next step is to start shooting and production.
is unbelievable. For such a delicate drama, the crew has only 60 people and only 350,000 (according to 26 episodes). And this is already expensive in Taiwanese dramas.
The "Princess Concubine's Promotion", which is well-known in the mainland, costs 500,000 yuan per book, and many dramas have invested hundreds of millions of dollars. Any crew is started by hundreds of people. Although
is poor, the production of this drama is meticulous and touching. Everyone is fully committed to a good story. Every detail of is filled with emotion. The title of
is not called "I want to see you" at the beginning, it is called "Love, I can't read it back"... so hypocritical! And does this name have anything to do with the plot of the second half? It might as well be called "Love, Crossing for You".
With the improvement of the story, the character has the obsession to see people to travel through time and space, and finally "I want to see you" as the title of the play. The change is so good, the two rush to each other because they want to see each other, and the emotions run through the whole play. The English title "Someday or One Day" of
is also carefully considered. Someday grammatically refers to a certain day in the future, and one day can refer to a certain day in the future or a certain day in the past.
Someday or One Day, which means "want to see you" no matter the past or the future. After reading it several times, I feel that it echoes the circular timeline in the play-never came to the past, from the past to the future, I "want to see you". The opening song of
is also called "Someday or One Day". It is composed and sung by the new generation singer Sun Shengxi, who just won the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album last year.
The ending song "I want to see you, I want to see you, I want to see you", composed and sung by the lead singer of the Bayanyao Orchestra, is more emotional and the lyrics are wonderfully written. Every time it sounds, it makes people excited!
It is said that the writing inspiration is that the director showed him this scene↓↓, I want to see but can’t see it, relying on technology to imagine it, but "the advanced technology in the future cannot simulate your embrace of warmth"...
"Dance" is the Divine Comedy of Transcendence, partly because of the personal hobbies of the screenwriter, and secondly because of the first song on the B side of the Wu Baika of "Last Dance". The writer of
explained, "The A side of the cassette is the title song, more like Huang Yuxuan, everyone likes it, but we want to choose a song that represents Chen Yunru, just like the first song on the B side." Great! The
crew pays great attention to copyright. Whether it is the frequent occurrence of "Last Dance" or the Mayday song "Embrace", which appears only once, it has solved the copyright problem. The line "only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me" in the
play is from the French writer Beauvoir’s "Love Letters from Overseas" . It took the crew four months to obtain the authorization.
At the beginning of each episode, there is an ingenious picture of the account, with subtitles that incorporate the key plot of each episode, and a little thoughtfulness. For example, the raindrops in the sixth episode symbolize the rain when Li Ziwei fell in love with Huang Yuxuan.
And oh, the handwritten font of the title subtitle is written by Decathlon Ke Jiayan.
In order to distinguish the different timelines in the journey, the crew set the scene very carefully.
once also considered to use years like 1998 and 2019 to remind the audience. Later, the director felt that this was very low, "This means that we are not doing well enough, and the actors' plot art is not good enough."
They plucked up the courage to trust the audience’s IQ, and finally proved that the careful construction of the scene, coupled with the actors’ excellent performances and the atmosphere of the shot, would not hinder the audience’s discrimination even if the timeline jumped around. Another great thing about
is that although poor, for the sake of the complete presentation of the work, the producer’s attitude towards investors is very tough, "We will say, if you have doubts about this script, and then ask us to change it, we There is no need to cooperate. If you trust us, then don’t let us make any changes to the script.” (According to an interview with The Paper) The producer of
has repeatedly emphasized “creation first” and “work, not a product”. For this idea, I even refused to accept the TV station's screen advertising. The overall painting style is very pure and beautiful, and the screenshots are beautiful. Although
is very meticulous in all aspects, the name of the character is very "random".
Wang Quansheng, Li Ziwei, Mo Junjie and Chen Yunru are all the names of screenwriter Jian Qifeng’s classmates. Chen Caiyu (Chen Buchan) is the name of the production boss of the producer Fang Sanfeng, and Lin Mengjie, the most beautiful sister of the International Trade Department, is the name of the executive director. Only the name Huang Yuxuan is slowly put together. The screenwriter of
said that using the names of people around you is not because they are similar to the characters, but because I am not good at naming names, a peculiar personal habit.
Four, super loving crew
If you watch the behind-the-scenes footage and interviews of "Want to See You", you will find that they are completely "lawless". What kind of coffee does not exist.
"Bad" everyone is the soul character Ke Jiayan. Originally she was old and she had taken the movie queen. It was her seniors. However, as Xu Guanghan said: "originally respected her, but (after cooperation) she was a little disappointed..." finished. Immediately counseled.
Ke Jiayu’s sister let out a knife in her eyes: "You are really good at chatting~"
I am as surprised as Xu Guanghan. Ke Jiazhen seems to be Gui Lunmei's model, literary and intellectual, but I always drive with the little Yun-mi. Kind! The two younger brothers couldn't keep up at all.
In the scene where Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan reunited in 2019, Ke Jiayan questioned his soul. Li Ziwei had not fallen in love with anyone in the past 15 years. When he came back, he grabbed Huang Yuxuan to tell the story. Isn't it reasonable to not do anything else?
shout! In this way, the deity of Li Ziwei has always been a virgin, and the body that has been with Huang Yuxuan for five years belongs to Wang Chuansheng. Sister Ke must have thought of this.
During the promotion, Ke Jiayan teased Xu Guanghan for a wide range of dramas, played both numbers, and Xu Guanghan was played in "Dream of You No. 0". The interview in Taiwan is really unrestrained.
The feelings are too good. When it was finalized, the little brother Shi Baiyu cried so hard that he hid in the cabinet.
Xu Guanghan went to pull him out of the closet, and Ke Jiayan laughed to death~
After understanding Ke Jiayan, I can't look directly at this chat record. I hate it. How good is the atmosphere of the crew of
, you can see the subtitles of the staff at the end of the film, "Leader starring" has been abandoned, and it is directly "Fengnan Team", I feel so fresh after seeing too much fan circle to tear X! It is simply a good homework made by a group of lovely people who love stories, full of love and sincerity!
After watching these, you probably also feel why we can’t make this kind of TV show, right? !
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