, as a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, was directed by Yu Ding and starred by powerful actors such as Ren Zhong, Guo Xiaodong, Li Nian and Hou Yong. When it was broadcast, it attracted the attention of many viewers. Rate is also among the best in many TV series on National Day.
This play tells the story of the life and the times of the three Lu family who grew up in the lanes in Shanghai, China, where the reform and opening up gradually deepened in the 1990s.
But unlike the big-era drama, the "Ji Dang" crew focused on portraying the life trajectory of the characters in the play, and also made great efforts in environmental details, so that the audience can't help but smile when they see the content, as if back In the era of turbulent times.
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Common waste recycling in the 90s
The protagonist in, Lu Jiangtao, the second of the three brothers and sisters of the Lu family, was an impetuous and wealthy person when he appeared, but he was engaged in the work of waste recycling at the bottom of society.
For many new-age audiences, it may be the first time they have seen the profession of scrap collection.
The scene ofactually riding three wheels and going door-to-door to collect the tatters has existed decades ago. It is only with the rapid development of our society that the process of urbanization continues to accelerate, and now only in remote villages do people occasionally do this.
Zhang Yimou made a cameo appearance as a waste collector
And the 90s in the play was the peak of waste recycling. Because many families in the 1990s were poor and had very low incomes, the waste paper, broken copper and iron in the home could be sold to people who came to collect the waste to get an extra money to subsidize the family.
There is even competition among the scrap collectors. For example, Lu Jiangtao negotiated with the gangsters in the alley and asked how to get the scraps from the three streets.
I think that when some older audiences saw the scene of collecting scraps, they might have already heard the voice of "collecting scraps, xxxx yuan per catty" in their minds when they were young.
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A young man drinking Coca-Cola for the first time
In, the scene where Lu Jiangtao drinks Coke for the first time and feels like cough potion must make many people laugh secretly.
Some people will say that this is not in line with the historical background, because Coca-Cola has long been in China. As a young man in the 1990s, Lu Jiangtao could not have never drunk Coke before.
However, these audiences may not have considered the other side.
may be beyond your expectation. Coca-Cola has already flown into the homes of ordinary people during the Republic of China. At that time, the Coca-Cola Company paid a big price for the famous actor Ruan Lingyu to shoot commercials.
After the founding of New China, the Coca-Cola Company was not allowed to enter the Chinese market until 1978, after the reform and opening up.
But in China in the 1980s, Coca-Cola was definitely a luxury item. We must know that workers in the middle-income group at that time earned about 40 to 50 yuan a month. And a bottle of Coca-Cola sold for 0.45 yuan, which means that workers could buy 100 bottles of Coca-Cola with one month's salary.
The Coca-Cola advertisement in the movie "Fang Hua"
Considering the poverty of the Lu family, the two brothers even went to sell their blood in order to get their sister to go to college. How can such a family have extra money to buy a bottle of novel beverage?
Therefore, Lu Jiangtao only drank Coca-Cola for the first time in the 1990s. It was not because of ignoring the historical background, but rather the screenwriter's intentional setting to highlight the embarrassing life of the Lu family.
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Stock purchase warrants witnessing the development of the stock market
is in the first episode of the TV series. In order to collect the tuition for his younger sister, his second brother Lu Jiangtao had a crooked mind. He took all of the 1,000 yuan payment from the boss Wen in the elder brother’s shop in exchange for a stock subscription certificate, in an attempt to use this method Make a lot of money.
The so-called stock subscription certificate is a unique product of the 1990s.
In the 1990s, my country's stock industry was in the initial stage of development. The stocks that can be purchased on the market were very scarce and the supply exceeded demand. The prices of these limited stocks are also soaring., Many people became rich overnight.
This phenomenon has stimulated people's desire for stocks. In October 1991, Shanghai Securities Company underestimated the urgency of the citizens in a public sale of stocks. The order on the scene was chaotic, which eventually led to casualties. This bloody lesson made the relevant departments learn from the pain, and decided to issue stock subscription certificates first when issuing new shares, and then through the lottery method, only those who won the lottery are eligible to buy new shares.
And in the history of this kind of stock subscription certificate, as described in the TV series, it has been wildly hyped by the black market, and even sold for a sky-high price of more than two thousand yuan at the highest point.
And the time of the first episode of the TV series was in 1992 when the stock subscription certificate was issued. The crew perfectly combines historical events with the fate of the characters. Also through this incident, Lu Jiangtao's mind turned fast, and his adventurous temperament laid the foundation for the development of the plot.
Generally speaking, the drama "Agitated" can be described as very careful in the historical details, and the characters’ sense of the times is also very obvious, so that the audience will have a sense of being on the scene before they know it, and travel back to that era. But so be it.
"Ji Dang" is an urban emotional drama directed by Yu Ding and starring Ren Zhong, Guo Xiaodong, Li Nian, and Che Xiao.
The play tells the life story of the three brothers and sisters who grew up in Shanghai alleys together in the 1990s, in Shanghai's economic turmoil and the capital market from scratch to turbulence.
