Douban 2.4 opened, setting a new low for domestic dramas.
Before the "bad drama" label became known to the whole network, the one-star negative comments of ordinary drama fans were already on the screen.
Zhang Han 's new drama " Gentlemen in the East Eighth District " officially ended the frequent record of good works in the summer of 2022, giving the domestic bad drama a crazy score, and also attracted the curiosity of many audiences with its ultra-low reputation .
For example, friends who are urging seven episodes to follow the drama...
opened "Gentlemen in the East Eighth District" with curiosity about the "new record of bad drama". The experience is indeed very subtle. Objectively speaking, this drama Compared with many 2+ points in the past, the bad way is special. The acting skills and lines of the
actors are basically OK, and the aesthetics of the costumes look good in all aspects.
But the script is always the soul of the work, no matter how good the shell is with an unsuitable core, there will be no perfect result.
The plot positioning is that four men in midlife crisis seek a breakthrough in the rough, ushering in a double harvest of career and love. It sounds like the male version of " Thirty Only ", but it is a Jack Su idol drama. soul.
has a very high content of "installation, oil, and floating" that makes the audience daunted.
pack X, everywhere. When
first saw that the producer was Zhang Han, he didn't think it was very persuasive. After all, when celebrities are producers, sometimes they can give points to the work because of their pursuit of texture.
But I never imagined that Zhang Han would also put his own characteristics into the story. The beginning was Jiao Lei's X-flavor in " Let's Watch Meteor Shower ". The four "thorn-headed" brotherhood happened to be with the elder. Version F4 is on.
The airplane suit show after the students turned to middle-aged people also made the audience return to the scene of F4 with BGM in seconds. At first glance, I thought it was the rich second-generation people who reunited in middle age, and they were shouting everywhere: I am BKING .
can understand that the screenwriter wants to create a contrasting joke after the protagonist's costume X is dismantled. Similar designs are properly presented, which is pleasing, and even in the follow-up plot, this is a rare piece of plot that will make the audience feel relaxed and funny.
It's a pity that there are too many X elements piled up, so many plot impressions are not used to undertake the reversal, but more like trying to show how "tall" the lives and interests of the male protagonists are, which makes people want to dig their toes. land.
is greasy and offensive.
In recent years, middle-aged actors have often been linked to "oil", which has led to many middle-aged actors getting greasy PTSD.
It's a pity that greasy is brought into full play in "Gentlemen of the East Eighth District", which centers on group portraits of middle-aged men.
was scolded on the hot search "underwear belt" plot is a typical representative.
This bridge is accused of imitating the Lee Jong Suk movie " Hot Blooded Youth ". The two characters in the original version were in horizontal positions. scene.
The young people's favorable impression of the opposite sex and the unintentional troubles caused them to be at a loss. Together, they created a nonsensical joke belonging to adolescence, but in "East Eight District", the effect is far more wretched than funny. The two characters
were in a vertical position at the time. The male protagonist stretched out his hand and dragged the female protagonist who had slipped back. This angle did not require pulling clothes. A middle-aged man who was very familiar with the opposite sex also knew which sensitive points should be avoided.
The identity and position of the characters are changed. The same stalks have different effects. Wouldn't the photographer feel strange when he pulled the male lead's underwear and took a close-up shot? What an obvious intention to find the shoulder straps to pull.
However, this is not the most oily part of "East Eight District". The first episode of
's work has a higher wretchedness index. The protagonist group is the best man with foreign bridesmaids. These bridesmaids all fall under the "charm" of the best men on the ladder...
The common man who has been criticized for many years on the Internet YY was actually filmed, and it wasn't filmed in a satirical form. The mutually inspiring "win glory for the country" at the end of the show made people even more physically uncomfortable.
What is even more astounding is the first meeting between the male and female protagonists. The male protagonist went to the wrong room in the hotel and entered the female protagonist's room (the female protagonist's room was not automatically locked due to falling items), and came to sleep in the same bed. .
In the middle of the night, he found out that there was a heterosexual in his bed. The male protagonist's first reaction was to observe the female protagonist's figure, and the female protagonist's first reaction was to check the "perverted" height and appearance. Aren't these two seriously ill? It's hard to say whether
boys will have such brain supplements. What is certain is that even if there is a Andy Lau on the bed, normal girls will not be in the mood to observe whether the other party is a handsome guy or a dwarf when faced with such a scene.
The male characters in this drama have a common problem. They offend without knowing it.
is flamboyant, the kernel is floating.
If it is said that pretending to be X and being greasy are all dramatic methods of first promoting and then suppressing, fully exposing the problems of the protagonists, and then promoting the period to change and grow through the criticism of other characters, it seems feasible.
But "East Eight District" is obviously not the case. There are indeed independent female characters in the play who constantly fight against the four male protagonists to create a sense of contrast, but they do not really hit the pain point, but show some pity.
The four of them live in a high-end apartment, and their daily entertainment life is rich and colorful, showing the comfort of a high-quality life, but they insist on a pain point of a mid-life crisis. What are their pain points?
The rich and talented smart engineer project will be withdrawn if it is not completed soon, the popular luxury cabinet brother has made a big mouth, the big customer (boss) is complained, the university teacher and the chef are worried about where is the love...
This is Is it their "midlife crisis"? I believe that many middle-aged men in real life are very happy to enjoy such a mid-life crisis. Strictly speaking, this is more like the life of four single men.
uses this "pain point" to make ordinary viewers empathize with , it's too difficult, some of it is the self-pity of "a man is a teenager until he dies", and the "growth" of middle-aged narcissistic men and soft fans , was shocking.
If the screenwriter simply wrote this story as a catching story on the fashion stage, it might be recognized by the audience because of the dramatic tension. Unfortunately, the screenwriter found a floating argument, but wanted to make a contagious resonance. The
kernel is floating and flashy. What the
story wants to express is a bit like the pain literature that we love in our youth. When you grow up, you will find that the moans that you once used to be so naive and hypocritical, but "East Eight District" makes middle-aged people continue to moan.
I don't know that Zhang Han and other main creators seem to be influenced by " Gentleman's Character " when creating this show. This show has the gorgeous appearance of "Gentleman's Character", but ignores the thickness support of character design and conception .
The protagonists can be imperfect, they can be soft fans, narcissistic men or even philandering men, but if you want the audience to like them, you need to discuss their problems more objectively, and adapt to excavate the cute and sincere side of the characters to neutralize the overall perception.
The things expressed by the characters' stories can have the exquisite floating appearance of fashion clothes, but also maintain a positive emotional resonance that directly hits the hearts of the people.Think about value. If
just proves to the audience that those vulgar YY and offense, hypocritical moaning and Jack Su are the basics, then for the audience, it may be better to directly create a completely exaggerated version of "Middle-aged F4's Fantastic Life". Nutrition.
