5·17 The World No Homophobia Day Special Issue, a cup of coffee original work
1 Is the charm of "Fake Puppets" mainly in appearance and acting?
The Thai youth romance TV series "Fake Puppets Tiancheng", also known as "Because we are born to be a couple", which moved all over Asia and the world because of the "credit" of some Chinese netizens, finally ended in "The Earth Shaking" the last episode.
is a 13-episode BL drama about the campus love festival. In this spring, has become a hotly discussed and sought-after little sweet drama by netizens from many countries in Asia. BL dramas are actually not new. There are similar male and male groups in countries that need to be reviewed and those that don’t need to be reviewed. For example, our "Chen Qing Ling" last year achieved unprecedented success, stepping out of China and becoming an Asian cultural circle. Benchmark.
So, what kind of charm does "Fake Puppet Tiancheng" stand out among so many works of the same subject and become this painful and anxious spring, a consoling literary work?
Some people say that it is because of the appearance of .
Of course the two male protagonists in this work are really handsome. Some netizens commented that Sarawat’s actor is a combination of the Thai version of Song Weilong and Ma Tianyu, and the other actor, tine, is equivalent to the Thai version of Xu Kai. Starring by these two very good-looking actors can indeed fascinate many female fans. However, there are too many good-looking boys in this society, but being good-looking may not be convincing enough.
Some people say it is because of acting .
Generally speaking, the acting skills of Thai actors have grown a lot over the years, and they have got rid of the facial makeup and dramatic performance style of the past. This is also due to the fact that the director dares to employ people and will also tune . Many Thai actors are not from drama majors, and most of them are excavated from amateurs. For example, they choose students who meet the age of the characters in the drama on the university campus. Win, who plays tine in "Fake Puppets", is of this type. This drama is his first work. From 2016 to 2017, the "One Year" was also popular. The two main actors have never filmed before. The relationship between the two seniors and younger brothers in the play, in reality, is actually the younger brothers and seniors of the same school. relationship. Enabling newcomers, digging out the real side of the newcomers, and then adjusting them, this reflects the director's vision and level. For actors, the focus is not on acting skills, being able to show the true side of their own personality, natural carving, easier to attract people.
But I think, more importantly, the story core of this drama is indeed very infectious, and the understanding of love and human nature is also in place.
2 The innovative model of "contract couples"
Next, I will focus on my own interpretation and share with you:
The story model used in "Fake Puppets" is actually very common, which is the contract couple model.
Since the Korean drama "Full House of Romance", this kind of theme has been very popular. Two strangers, because of some special reasons, are tied together, and then sparked, which is more in line with the needs of TV drama drama conflict. In fact, some works, even if they are not "contract couples", bind the two to one thing for some reason, such as cooperative investigation, co-renting, etc., which are actually similar techniques.
What happened to the "contract couples" in "Fake Puppets"? The protagonist tine of
is a young boy who fantasizes about romantic love and wants to meet his true love in college. The girls he met before always made him feel that he was not the right person, and in those romantic relationships, he was more to accommodate each other and wronged his own role. Of course, this character was actually different in his later emotional process. Embodied.
When he entered the university, he received a courtship letter. He felt ecstatic. When he went to the appointment, he found out that it was written to him by a gay guy at the same school, but the gay was chasing him. . He was anxious to get rid of each other, and also thought of many ways, such as finding a girl to pretend to be his girlfriend, but was found to be wearing a helper. At this moment, a good friend gave him an idea that could find a better boy as his fake boyfriend, so he would be inferior.
and thisA good boy is a little mysterious on campus, but there are many freshmen in international relations who are sought after by female "fans". At the same time, he is also the guitarist and singer Sarawat of the campus band. In the words of TV drama, it is "Handsome Prince." Remember, the setting of this character also plays a key role in the emotional development of two people.
tine listened to the opinions of his friends, and then sent an invitation to Sarawat, hoping that he could help himself and become his fake boyfriend. The whole story actually revolves around this plot, telling how the two went from a fake couple to a real couple.
However, if you follow the old "contract couple" pattern and think that they are the feelings that they slowly cultivate through contact, you are mistaken.
In fact, before Sarawat agreed to Tine, as early as a year ago, when he saw him at a concert, he had already fallen in love with him at first sight.
Of course, at the beginning of the story, tine, like our audience, was unaware. If you look back at the process of contact between the two with this "love at first sight" perspective, you will feel something special. This is one of the reasons why this work is actually worth the second brush.
I hope you like me, just pretend. But in fact, I liked you very early, and this is true.
This is also the wonderful setting of this work.
3 Sarawat's perspective of interpretation
Then you must ask, why not express love straightforwardly when tine asks for help?
This involves the theme that this work wants to express. The name of the TV show
implies that two people are born together. As we said before, starting from the appearance of two people, it makes you feel that two people are super-matched. However, it is not accidental that can be together. In fact, it requires two hearts to work together. What happened to these two hearts
? One of
is thinking, will he really like me and feel about me? This person
is Sarawat.
As we talked about earlier, Tine has been expressing that he likes girls, and asking Sarawat to chase is just a request, and in the first half of the TV series, Tine often left Sarawat to tease her sister.
So, from Sarawat’s point of view, in fact, has always been unable to determine what Tine’s true thoughts are, but hopes that he can get along with him and be by his side as a friend, so the relationship between the two people is always in a close relationship. He is absolutely impossible to directly express his true emotions.
Although one year later, I can see the person I really like again, which is actually very excited, but I can’t overstate the excitement. If this happens, I will be immediately noticed by the other person. He must pretend to be cold, as if it is because you want to be close to me, not because I want to be close to you, and get along with each other in such a natural process.
In addition, he has no love and emotional experience, and he needs to pretend to chase someone. Therefore, in this process, his grasp of emotional scale is always "surprise".
For example, when Tine asked Sarawat jokingly, "Soap Opera and me" (which one do you like), and asked him to choose one of them, Sarawat said it was Tine. At this time, the two people have not yet clearly defined the "contractual couple" relationship.
For another example, Sarawat asked Tine to choose "1 or 2", Sarawat replied "Choose 2 on behalf of me to chase you", and everyone thought it meant "choose 1 means not chasing you", and Sarawat unexpectedly said "choose 1 means you To be chased by me".
This is not only sugar, but also the character's personality. He has a strong desire to express love in his heart, but he can only test it in this way.
Relying on a little bit of temptation, he began to think that Tine was actually a bit interesting to him, so at the concert, with the courage of his friends, he asked Tine ", I don’t want to continue to be ambiguous, tine, can do it My boyfriend? "
So, the two are together. But this does not mean askingThe question is over. When the relationship between two people is in conflict, the way he adopts is still a relatively dull straight male thinking, expressing his heart through "I write a song for you". Some people make complaints, why don't they just say that they should use this method? In fact, he is in line with the character's personality. What's more, in fact, he still has doubts in his heart. After all, is a person who has expressed his love for girls. How could he agree to be with him so quickly?
So, and tine who may also be confused, the two people sit on the old school bus under the stars and look back at the past, which can be said to be the climax of the whole story. It was at this time that he unveiled his mental journey.
As we said before, many people think that feelings are a natural thing, but his narration will let us discover that even if we have a good impression of each other, it actually takes a lot of effort behind it to get together.
There is nothing to do, it was born by nature, it was destined by God, love is not, and other things are not actually, you have to rely on your own efforts.
If you can get this from it, you probably won't continue to choose to accept your fate. Feelings are, and so are other things.
4 From the perspective of tine
Now let’s talk about another protagonist, tine.
tine is thinking: why does like me, he is so good?
His personality, we have already explained before. He has always been a good man, always accommodating.
So when he expressed himself in Sarawat that he was writing love songs, he understood that Sarawat helped him, in fact, to increase his love experience and serve his creation . Of course, the thread buried in the third episode became the main plot in the last episode. He would not have thought that Sarawat might compose a song for himself.
is the same, this can also explain why he is more likely to suffer from gains and losses in relationships, always feel that once another person appears, himself is very likely to be the shadow of others, he is only temporarily taking the main palace, waiting for the coming of the real master . There is another example of
to illustrate his idea. Sarawat was asked by fans about the relationship between the two. Tine hopes Sarawat can help him express that the two are a romantic relationship. This is superficial. In fact, he also hopes that Sarawat can really "sacrifice" for him.
However, it turned out that Sarawat was not ready at that time, or he didn't think that Tine, who had just come to him for a cameo, intended to expose the contractual relationship between the two in front of everyone, so he answered that they were just ordinary friends.
Tine's inner drama immediately is that people like Sarawat, only pays attention to how others think of themselves, but does not really consider the feelings of others (him).
Many people feel that Tine became emotional in the later stage, and it was the collapse of the personality. I feel that he is always chuckling in front of people, and his emotional side after falling in love is actually the same thing. The TV series
positioned him as "troublesome", always happy and smirking. In fact, this is the side he can show to others, and the purpose is to hide the mood swings in his heart.
He can be like a okay person in front of others, but when he returns to his own world, he is still a person who thinks a lot and is very emotional.
He will try his best to avoid experiencing a state that makes his heart very unsafe and emotionally fluctuating. Therefore, once he enters the relationship, he will inevitably face inner struggles and tests.
For example, when Sarawat temporarily left his life, although friends took him to some social occasions and met girls, his heart began to fluctuate and Sarawat was unforgettable.
He wore Sarawat's jersey to cheer him up. Sarawat's bet to pursue him lost the game, and he specifically told him that this game was not counted. Sarawat injured his leg and was unable to participate in the music performance. Although his five notes were incomplete, he practiced hard and cried because the performance failed. These little details are the embodiment of the richness of his inner drama. He is definitely not a person who looks free and unmoving, but he does not express it easily.
So understandable, after being with Sarawat, he wanted to hold him tight, and immediately agreed to the two people's request to live together. After falling in love, Tine seems to have a lot of brains, and many netizens complain about this. It seems that he has changed the character. In fact, when you look back at the beginning of the TV series, he is a person with more brains.
When he was lying on the table and writing to Sarawat, he was in a dream. His dream in his dream was that Sarawat wanted to kiss him. I personally think that his goodwill for Sarawat may have been planted very early, not necessarily after he thought he had been in contact for a long time. Otherwise, how can you casually fantasize about sex?
So you can imagine that after the two people are together, Sarawat’s personality is not good at expressing, and Tine’s personality is easy to think about, so the two of them are prone to a variety of reasons. Misunderstanding.
5 What is a natural pair of
? Therefore, even if is a perfect pair, we need to work hard with each other to break the deep-seated problem of this relationship.
Of course, the two of them have been trying, of course, mainly to break his own original way.
For Sarawat, he has never had the experience of writing a song to a person, including expressing it in public. The expressive ability has not been his good at. He is more accustomed to expressing his emotions in words that seem to be "fun" for the other person. However, at the end of his live concert, it can be said that he is full of affection. Although this is a straight male actor, he does show his affectionate love for his lovers. The song is indeed very exciting. , Analyzed his journey of chasing her husband all the way, and asked him what he was most concerned about, "Do you really love me".
Well, for Tine, because of the "brain-hole drama" relationship, he moved away from the two people's residence, and tried to let go of the relationship, but in the end he was still willing to try to understand the things in his mind and Real life things are not consistent. He went to verify and found out that he might actually be thinking too much.
Therefore, when two people are one step closer to each other, and both are changing their original style in their own way, these two talents have truly become a natural pair.
I personally feel that the ingenuity of this BL theme drama is not only limited to same-sex themes, including equal rights issues such as how to obtain recognition from others, uses the sweetness and distress of ordinary love to show the same sex. In fact, their feelings are no different from the feelings of ordinary people. This is probably the true meaning of equal rights.
Of course, this is also the reason why she can move people's hearts. allows the audience to follow Sarawat's thoughts in the first half, and the second half is replaced by Tine's inner drama , because the story of Sarawat and Tine has our own shadow.
6 The same-sex line
of "Fake Ou Tiancheng" Finally, talk about the same sex. The
drama does not have too many same-sex entanglements. The only thing that can be mentioned is the role of tine, which has a line of self-confirmation that is not too emphasized.
Some people jokingly claimed that this drama is Sarawat’s story, because tine is set as a big boy who likes girls.
I personally do not fully agree with this point. In fact, Tine's sexual orientation is not clear. In the play, there is actually a foreshadowing. In the room he lives in, there will be colored lights by the window. He also likes to wear some pink clothes and drink some colored drinks. These basic elements have already implied his sexual orientation to a certain extent, and the positioning is very clear about his "feminine" (feminine color), but he may not have discovered it himself.
From this point of view, this drama is also a process of his self-exploration, from ignorance at the beginning, to gradually confirming his mind, and then struggling, and finally determining what he likes.
Of course, this once again illustrates the commonality of human emotions. No matter what gender you are, what happens in the emotional world is actually similar and can be understood.
tear in thisIn the era of rift, what is more precious and worth cherishing than mutual understanding?
This is the story of two people approaching each other.
also hope to be a driving force for you and others to get closer to each other.
7 Three additional points
Three additional points, which have nothing to do with the plot, but are related to "Fake Ou Tiancheng".
I know that there is a certain controversy in this drama, writing a review of this drama, it is estimated that some people will be unhappy. Of course, this is not the only controversial entertainment incident on the Internet recently, nor is it the first commentary on a controversial entertainment incident I wrote. Of course, let me clarify that my starting point is to watch TV dramas, not to discuss other issues. The first paragraph of
is for friends who are more entangled in disputes and feel disturbed.
The essence of chasing stars and appreciating literary works is to eliminate pain and bring happiness. If you have more goals, you can give hope to life. especially watch these little sweet dramas, the main purpose is to make yourself happier. Therefore, if you figure out your starting point, you will not lose your heart.
Of course, there are many unhappy people in real life, and there is no way to make themselves happy, so he is jealous when he sees those who can make him happy. For them, a way to balance their mentality is to pull happy people into an unhappy situation, so that they can also taste the unhappiness. In their real life, unhappiness is likely to be unacceptable and understandable, so they will zoom in on the Internet. So, if you are unhappy because of them, they succeeded.
You can feel happy, first of all you are fortunate, and secondly your mental ability is much higher than him, so you don't have to forcefully crush their words that may make you unhappy. It is better to stay away from them with a sympathetic attitude. It is one thing that they disturb your happiness, and it is one thing that you allow them to vent their unhappiness. Because they have no ability to understand your happiness, but you can understand their unhappiness. This is how you are better than them.
Of course, you should not try to save them. You don't have the ability to do this, only a counselor can do it, but the premise is that he is willing to face his own psychological problems.
For you, what you need to know is that in real life, there are indeed so many people who can't make themselves happy and can only vent their dissatisfaction by cursing and besieging happiness.
We must have a heart of compassion, which is also the precious quality that we have obtained from so many literature and art works that lead people to good. Those who can't listen, naturally won't have it.
Second, let’s talk about what is worthy of our attention in addition to the plot setting.
This year's little sweet drama, it seems that music has become the main axis. "I want to see you" borrowed five hundred concerts and music, and the actor Sarawat in "Fake Puppet Tiancheng" is a campus musician, and he did find an actor who can sing well to play this role. The actor in the play The real voices are very touching.
Thailand has always been known as a country of music. Artists are also versatile, able to perform good plays and sing well, and music plays a very important role in promoting the plot, which is also a reference for our film and television drama creation.
is also about the placement of ads.
's current film and television works will inevitably have embedded advertisements, but how to not be blunt is a headache for many directors. In "Fake Puppet Tiancheng", the placement advertisement is combined with the main plot, and it becomes a component of the character and the plot.
For example, the drink when the two are in love, using sticky notes on the drink bottle to write "tine is chased" and "Sarawat has a boyfriend" is the climax of the plot, the implantation is not abrupt, but very aphrodisiac.
is another green can drink, Sarawat's favorite, but how did Tine know that it is his favorite? This leads to tine's secret concern about Sarawat's dynamics, which is also a dessert. Let alone
, Sarawat wipes tine with makeup remover and sunscreen for two people traveling outdoors, which naturally expresses Sarawat’s interest in tiNe's concern is also in line with the character of the characters who like to secretly express their love. This kind of talent implanted in advertising is worth learning.
third is a bit of criticism.
I don't know whether to cater to the audience, the main actors in TV series are almost all male and male CPs. Of course, this is not the case with "Fake Ou Tiancheng".
Is it a good thing or a bad thing to arrange multiple male cps in one play? My personal opinion is that this is not in line with the real life situation. The proportion of people of the same sex could not have been so high, let alone all cps. Moreover, there are more similar roles, and it is easy to dilute the theme you want to express. Entertainment companies want to take this opportunity to push some more combinations that can be understood, but this can easily cause visual fatigue. In a work with a capacity of more than 10 episodes, the consequence of arranging too many branches is that the main line cannot be fully expanded, and the branches are also mere formalities. It is better to not add or add some male and female combinations, which may be more beautiful.
Author | Arthur Chen National Level 2 Psychological Counselor
Brief introduction: Mental circle rare gender male high-value counselor, representative of youthful appearance and mature heart. Motto: Cherish time and people. Consultation hours: 3000 hours, research direction: workplace psychology, marriage and love, physical and mental illness, peer psychological counseling. Recent concerns: important things first, mindfulness reduction, interpersonal communication in the Internet age.
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