took advantage of the holiday to catch up with the popular high-scoring drama " Northeast Transitioner " recommended by Douban, and was a little surprised:
, an older actor "pretending to be tender" to play a high school student, obviously stepped on the thunder point of youth drama; neither realistic nor nostalgic , and there is no fantasy element bonus, which does not seem to match the aesthetic preferences of the audience of youth dramas; regional differences and dialects are dense, but the freshness it brings is limited... Although there are a lot of deductions, this drama is still Got a high score of 7.7 on Douban, and there is a lot of tap water.
director Gao Qunshu wrote on Weibo, "The Northeast Transitioner is so fun... Every actor has his own accent: from the Northeast, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Cantonese, Thailand, they play Northeast Dialects , Taiwanese , Cantonese, Thai Mandarin , all kinds of accents are mixed together to form a wonderful weird taste."
is indeed in a lot of serious dramas Judging from it, "Transfer Students from the Northeast" retains the "rebellious" gene inherent in online dramas in the early stages of development. Many plots are unreasonable, there is no enthusiasm for life, and there are traces of "play" everywhere.
In fact, because it tells the campus stories of secondary school and sand sculpture, many viewers compare this drama with the Japanese drama " I'm Big Brother ", which is a hit drama in 2018 and has 309,000 on Douban People marked "seen". After the sand sculpture stories of a group of delinquent teenagers from other countries have crossed the sea, they have been sought after in China, which fully reflects the power of sand sculpture culture. The camera of
's "Transfer Students from Northeast China" is also aimed at delinquent teenagers. Wang Hu (played by Shi Yuanting ), a poor student in a high school in Northeast China, often gets into trouble at school because of his poor academic performance, which greatly disturbs his father. So at the suggestion of a friend, his father sent Wang Hu to study in Macau, far from his hometown, in an attempt to change him.
This high school in Macau brings together students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, three places, and even Chinese and Thai people. All kinds of cultures are mixed together, and there is what director Gao Qunshu calls "weird coffee".
In fact, there is also a plot in the play to express this creative tendency. When Wang Hu first arrived, he confided his thoughts when he visited the student club, saying that the original intention of the students to join the club should be to have fun, and it is better to change the name to "hodgepodge".
The "hodgepodge" is a feature of "Transfer Students from Northeast China". It has distinct characteristics of the Northeast region. The spoken words such as "I am so tired as soon as I go to class", "I thought I was born lonely" and so on are all over the place. "Look at you how you drop" is just an Internet joke; it even relies on the particularity of the setting to raise the theme to the height of national unity and national integration, and photographed the sense of ceremony of students from both sides of the strait and three places raising the same national flag. This drama
is a drama version of the 2017 online movie of the same name. The original version is only 75 minutes long. The second part changed the background from school to society, but the original spirit was lost, and its influence was far less than before. After the expansion of
into a drama, the characters and plots have softened. Many plots seem familiar, and you can guess the ending just by looking at the beginning, and there are obvious traces of mixing.
This may be related to the personal characteristics of director Peng Yu . This drama is the first web drama he directed.
Before this, many people may have the impression of him more as the host of Hunan Satellite TV's variety show, and this type of host is often characterized by being able to ignore their own age and devote themselves to program production. In order to achieve the purpose of entertaining the audience, they not only put down their posture, use their best skills, but also are willing to learn from others.
For comedy creation, this is especially important, and "Transfer from the Northeast" did it. Perhaps because of this, the audience has obtained pure happiness from a work that is not pure, so they are willing to ignore its shortcomings, even if the actors are young and the plot is old-fashioned.
In addition to creative reasons, there may also be psychological factors of the audience.
Under the numerous Amway posts, some netizens responded by surprise: "Are you sure there is no thunder point? I will rush without me." So much psychological construction has to be done. It is obviously an entertainment activity. Why does the audience have psychological pressure before watching it?
Some people are afraid of seeing stereotyped topics of gender opposition, some people are worried that they have to learn to stand in line after a drama, and some people are afraid of seeing blunt preaching and embarrassing positive energy sublimation... Becoming a drama When the other functions carried are far greater than the entertainment functions, the audience is easily intimidated.
In this case, short dramas and long dramas like "Transfer Students from the Northeast" bring the simplest joy to the audience. In
"Transfer Students from Northeast China", there are no traces of deliberately creating topics, but there are also main melody elements. For example, in the last ceremony where students from both sides of the strait and three places raised the national flag, it softened the original rigid links and raised the national flag. The link is placed in the position of the easter egg.
When people watched the feature film, enjoyed the behind-the-scenes footage, and were moved by the friendly atmosphere of the crew, the flag-raising ceremony at the end of the shoot was more like a group building activity for friends. Not only was it not blunt, but it was very warm. At the moment when
is too guided by topics and emotions, it has won word of mouth with a kind of "simplicity" that is moving away from us. "Northeast Transitioner" is not the first, nor should it be the last.
[Text / Xu Xinqiang]
