I was attracted by two lines of dialogue in the trailer.
"Among all kinds of musical instruments, the suona is the king. As long as the suona plays, it will definitely be the focus of the audience."
In the shot, the Suona goddess played by Zhang Jianing plays the Suona, wearing a short skirt and appearing energetically. After a few blasts of the Suona, the whole wedding banquet instantly exploded.
But the next second, the male protagonist was shocked - "Come on, I've heard it - as soon as the suona sounds, a white cloth covers it, the whole village, young and old, is waiting for the food to be served." What a loss, hahahaha!
A few humorous dialogues and a tit-for-tat quarrel directly highlighted the highlight of the show: Suona.
Is Suona king, or is it just waiting for the food to be served? This drama also completely caught my attention -
Tonight, Shaanxi Satellite TV will premiere on Shaanxi TV, "A Small Town with Many Stories".
This drama is interesting. Shaanxi Satellite TV is premiering an urban drama? Is the lineup not weak?
starring Zhang Jianing, Gao Zhiting, Wu Xingjian. A new generation of acting actors.
National first-class actors, Yang Xinming, Tan Xihe.
The golden rooster queen, Na Renhua. There is something about
.
Especially the recent Chinese drama market. I don’t know about you. Anyway, I am a bit drama starved. I watch dramas constantly, but I always feel that they taste the same, as if a gorgeous symphony orchestra is playing, but listening to It just feels uncomfortable.
Can this drama work?
The perspective determines the texture.
In my opinion, the most special thing about "Stories in a Small Town" is that it dares.
dares to combine traditional folk music, youth survival, and small town stories in a safe space of domestic urban dramas to create a tune of its own.
is not here to show off misfortune and provide you with temporary paralysis.
Instead, I will fight with you in this small town, mourn together, and comfort each other together.
What’s wrong, gentlemen, let’s listen to this suona first and get a taste of it?
1. Story: Suona with trumpet, small tune and big tune, an urban drama that fully demonstrates the spiritual core of "suona culture"
Everyone knows that the domestic urban dramas in recent years have basically the same flavor, and any popular industry is the same. Fertile ground for domestic love stories. The pictures of
are all familiar to everyone: CBD, Guomao, big pants... the protagonists under
.
Beipiao are all beautiful on the outside but sad on the inside. Only love can heal the entire universe.
But "A Small Town with Many Stories" is a bit unconventional.
Watch the plot. Mu Di (played by Zhang Jianing), a female graduate student majoring in Suona at a higher education institution in Beijing, lost the opportunity to enter the National Academy due to illness and was forced to return to her hometown to recuperate. However, she happened to meet the most well-rounded and sophisticated planning company in her hometown town. The boss Bai Lang (played by Gao Zhiting).
Two people with completely different temperaments and growth backgrounds have never known each other but sincerely cooperated and changed each other. The story they experienced in this small town is like a plate of delicious dishes with great hospitality and a room full of laughter and tears. With the intertwined food stalls, different people can experience different small town customs, warmth, climate, and life in this story.
This is not clear enough. Combined with the trailer, let's take a look at the three major "tones" of the series:
The first is the small-town struggle of "frustrated" young people.
Zhang Jianing plays Mu Di, a suona professional girl with both high academic qualifications and abilities. She is this frustrated young man.
She was originally a beautiful girl with lots of awards, but her career came to a halt after a big exam - she had tinnitus at the scene.
Love, deceived by a scumbag: The other wife came directly to the door, Zhang Jianing: "You really make me sick."
The frustrated heroine returned home to recuperate, but she met Bai Lang, the "enemies on the road" and the "owner of the group company" from her hometown. , unknowingly started running a planning company together.
She met members of the local folk band and was inspired to combine traditional art with pop culture.
finally worked with the members of the folk orchestra to use performances as an opportunity to make traditional folk music known and loved by more people.
Although the idea of combining suona and pop music is not new in domestic film and television dramas, it was used in "Flash Girl" starring Xu Lu. But when you combine this element with the small-town struggles of young people, the story takes on something new.
The second is the urban “re-employment” of Suona art.
As we all know, suona has a unique status in traditional Chinese music. As the light of Chinese folk music, the suona is actually not a native Chinese instrument. It was introduced from Central Asia, but it quickly spread across China and has been played for more than 1,700 years.
But how to "re-employ" the king of old musical instruments in the new era is actually a problem.
"Small Town with Many Stories" pulls out a picture of a group of suona artists performing like looking in a mirror.
blew at the wedding banquet.
was blown at the funeral.
blowing on the bus.
The noise in the market rang out, the sound of the suona was mixed with a few playful noises, and the value of the suona was blown again.
The third is the real small town texture.
Pay attention to the title of the drama. There are many stories in small towns. How long have our Chinese dramas only focused on the big city and little love and not cared about the stories in the small town?
This drama, through the setting of a professional suona graduate student returning to his hometown, suddenly brings out the current situation of the small town.
For example, the slogan within the male protagonist group company: a century-old brand, getting richer day by day, no big problem.
A "hometown that the North drifters cannot return to" was instantly depicted. The
drama series tells the story of northern Shaanxi. Many scenes in the drama also reflect the reality of today's small towns in northern Shaanxi. It is no longer Bailuyuan, facing the loess and with its back to the sky.
This kind of down-to-earth texture can produce works with strong realistic taste. Among all the suspended Chinese dramas, at least the trailer gave me a rare resonance.
The delicate and heart-wrenching scenes in the play made the workers feel from the bottom of their hearts - "The world is real!"
Is the story interesting? The actors are more exciting.
2. Actors: Led by Zhang Jianing, supported by national first-class actors and actresses, a gathering of talented actors
If you want to revitalize an urban drama, the performance of the actors is also crucial.
But our Chinese urban dramas have a habit of letting fresh meat flow be matched by talented actors. This is a characteristic of Chinese dramas, but the audience may not like it.
The budget of "A Small Town with Many Stories" cannot afford to hire top-notch actors, so it has to find talented young actors. However, there is no shortage of national first-class actors who can play the main roles.
No. 1, Zhang Jianing
Many people know Zhang Jianing because of the cute Sheng Rulan in "Do You Know". Every time I see Mo Lan acting as a demon, I have to look at Rulan to ease my mood.
But in fact, before this drama, Zhang Jianing had already participated in many major dramas such as "Aunt Duohe", "A Beautiful Era of Wifes", "Wenzhou Family", and her performance was not bad.
It wasn't until "Known Do You Know" that she became famous, and Zhang Jianing finally found her acting career, and "Twinkle Twinkle Shining Star" became a hit.
She participated in "Ode to Joy" 3 and 4. Although the ratings were mediocre, Zhang Jianing's performance was still well received. She was also included in the recently popular "Dajiang Dahe 3".
Noon Sunshine’s habit is not to exclude new actors, but only those with good acting skills will continue to cooperate. Zhang Jianing’s acting skills have been stamped.
Her role is also played in this drama.
Usually, he is everyone’s pistachio, positive, humorous, and shining anytime and anywhere.
But she was discouraged after a failure, and the whole drama was also her process of finding herself.
Compared to a group drama like "Ode to Joy 3" or a hard-boiled romance film like "Twinkle Twinkle", Zhang Jianing is obviously more suitable for this kind of role with rich character layers and difficult performance.
I am extremely optimistic about her performance this time.
In second place, Golden Rooster actress Na Renhua
The older generation of viewers may know more about how popular this powerful actor was back then.
Na Renhua won the Golden Rooster Best Actress title as early as 1982 with her outstanding performance in the film "Xiao Xiao".
Later, with the movie "Eji", she became the double movie queen of Huabiao and Golden Rooster.
She also collaborated with director Xie Fei on another domestic masterpiece "The Black Horse".
In recent years, she has become active in Chinese dramas again. She has performed in "It's Worth It" and "The Days of Love".
In this drama, she plays the heroine's mother, who is worried about her daughter's career. For this veteran movie queen, the only problem with this kind of role is that it is too simple.
The third place is a national first-class actor, Yang Xinming
This veteran actor has actually participated in many film and television works in his early years, such as "The Qin Empire", "Battle in Changsha", "All Quiet in Peking", etc. . The old professor he played in "The Ancient City" was also very exciting.
But it was not until the past few years, after "I'm Not the God of Medicine", that his name was gradually remembered by the audience.
Audiences who have watched the movie version of "Three Brigades" and the drama version of "Three Brigades" know that the other actors in the two works are different, except for the role of Uncle Qi, both starring Yang Xinming.
Especially the drama version, the plot and acting skills are very controversial, but Yang Xinming's performance is recognized to be more detailed and layered than the film version. The two states of Uncle Qi before and after he fell ill were textbook-level performances.
The biggest characteristic of Yang Xinming is that although he is 67 years old, his facial expressions are still rich and he can express any role he plays. This is very different from many old actors whose expressions become rigid and their roles are fixed as they grow older.
In this drama, he plays the heroine’s teacher.
I believe that a teacher like him can teach students like Zhang Jianing.
is ranked fourth. He is a national first-class actor in Xi'an Theater Theatre. Tan Xi and
Yang Xinming are both treasures. This powerful actor is more low-key.
Many viewers were most impressed by his role as Gao Zhan in "Nirvana in Fire". There are many eunuch characters in Chinese dramas, but there are really not many people like Gao Zhan who have experienced two dynasties and lived as adults without being annoying at all.
In fact, as early as the 1980s and 1990s, Tan Xihe starred in blockbusters such as "Old Well" and "Qin Song". "Ode", "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full", "Do You Know", "Qing Ping Le" and other dramas, as a royal actor of Noon Sunshine, he interprets every role vividly.
In the recently popular "If Running Is My Life", does the leadership role he plays still have the slightest trace of Gao Zhan?
This time his role is the heroine’s father.
If I were Zhang Jianing, I would be a little bit stressed. The person who plays the father is a national first-class actor, and the mother is a Golden Rooster actress. I am just here to act in an urban drama. Do you want to play such a big role?
Finally, let’s talk about the young and talented actors in this drama.
The male protagonist, Gao Zhiting, is one of the new generation of young men who is so talkative that I rarely find it annoying.
In recent years, he has appeared in CCTV dramas such as "Transcendence" and "The Story of Time". His acting skills were also good in last year's spy drama "Fateful Enemy".
is missing a hit drama right now.
second male lead Wu Xingjian.
is another actor who is highly regarded by the industry. The most familiar role to the audience should be Zhou Nan in "In the World".
, this complex character, was played by him in such a way that the audience both loved and hated him. It aroused a sense of regret when he was offline, which shows that his acting skills are not low.
He played the young revolutionary martyr Jiang Xianyun in the CCTV drama "Ask the Cangmang" which opened the year.
In "Qing Yu Nian 2", he took over from Xiao Zhan and starred as Yan Ruobing.
I think the more young actors of this new generation who thrive on acting in Chinese dramas, the better.
and Song Jiateng.
Song Jiateng has appeared a lot in the past two years. He has appeared in "Hurry", "Secret and Great", and "The Beginning". With a unique performance style and personality, he can be regarded as a young treasure supporting role that has emerged in recent years.
His characters are often funny and always amuse the audience. In this drama, his role is an important senior executive of the hero's "group company". Anyway, there are only a few people in a company, and it seems that he is still the conductor of the Suona Folk Orchestra.
Looking at the stills, it feels very much like that.
3. Creative team: Noon Sunshine Gold Medal Photography Director + "Happy Street" screenwriter, this lineup is trustworthy
Many viewers should be able to see the strong flavor of Noon Sunshine from the introduction. The director of this drama, Guo Zengyou, does have a lot of connections with Noon Sunshine. , "Nirvana in Fire", "The Beginning" and "I am Yu Huanshui" were all taken by him.
has collaborated with Noon Sunshine so many times that I believe he has most likely inherited Noon’s realistic style.
Judging from the trailer, the quality of the play is quite good. Some of the scenes and atmosphere of the suona performance look very real, such as the funeral performance scene, and you can immediately feel like you are immersed in that atmosphere.
The representative work of screenwriter Xu Jianbo is the anti-special drama "In the Silent Place".
is also the scriptwriter of CCTV's "Thank God You're Here" and "Happy Street". People who have watched these two programs should know that without strong scriptwriters, such a high-quality program would be impossible to win.
There is no doubt about his familiarity with life-style light comedy themes. With such an experienced and gold medal screenwriter sitting in charge, I find it hard to believe that the script will be messed up.
4. A dark horse domestic urban drama in the new year? After watching the lineup, my real question is that with such a good theme and lineup, it is not a loss to be on CCTV, why is it only on Shaanxi Satellite TV?
Since this year, after "Flowers", various types of Chinese dramas have continued to dominate the screen, but the dark horse dramas that really make the audience shine have not yet appeared.
This "Small Town with Many Stories", from the perspective of story, main creative, cast and other configurations, really has the potential to be a dark horse in the new year.
Admittedly, the story is suspected of being a misfortune: especially the heroine, the beloved daughter of heaven, fell into the mortal world.
But the good thing is that its "tragic", the heroine's collapse and sadistic heart... are all based on delicate daily life and solid details. What moved me most about the
trailer was not the heroine’s high-octane suona performances.
After a Suona performance, a couple came over to thank the heroine. This made the heroine feel that Suona is still needed by people in this era.
Old stuff, it’s better to have old stuff.
New may not necessarily be good.
Let’s talk about today’s domestic urban dramas. There are constant hits and traffic, but they lack authenticity. Why is
real?
"A Small Town with Many Stories" gives a sincere demonstration.
Its perspective is also the most easily overlooked perspective in Chinese dramas that are getting increasingly popular.
Small viewing angle.
But small is not necessarily bad. Is Suona small?
When the suona sounds, there is a thousand taels of gold.
Tonight, listen up.
