Recently, two popular family dramas competed across the air, attracting widespread attention from different viewing groups. One is a period drama "Alley People" created by Noon Sunshine, which focuses on sentimentality with its delicate emotional depiction and profound historical

2024-10-31 20:22:04 entertainment 6475℃

Recently, two popular family dramas competed across the air, attracting widespread attention from different viewing groups. One is a period drama "Alley People" created by Noon Sunshine, which focuses on sentimentality with its delicate emotional depiction and profound historical heritage; the other is an urban drama "The Little Alley" in which Bai Baihe, Li Chun and Wang Yuwen interpret the growth of three sisters. Good Reunion" shows the marriage and growth of modern women. Over the past 40 years, family drama has always been one of the most popular TV drama types among Chinese audiences. It is not only a vivid portrayal of the tremendous changes in Chinese society, but also a microcosm of the continuous evolution of the audience's aesthetic concepts. The two works have their own advantages in narrative techniques, character creation, emotional expression, etc., bringing a rich drama-watching experience to the audience, and also reflecting the changes in family dramas in the context of the new era.

"People in the Alley": Sunshine at Noon returns to the period drama track

As soon as Jiang Xin played the supporting actress, her acting highlights came back. Once Yan Ni entered the drama, she was no longer in her usual "tippy" state. On October 28, Noon Sunshine's new drama "Alley People" premiered, bringing back the memories of several generations to the 1970s and 1980s.

"Alley Family" is adapted from Da Mi's novel of the same name, starting from the year when the college entrance examination was resumed. It tells the story of two families, the Zhuang family and the Lin family, who live in a small courtyard in the family area of Suzhou's cotton spinning factory. The children grow up together, and the adults They also support each other, and the fate of the two families changes with the changing times.

Director Zhang Kaizhou's representative works include period dramas such as "Parents' Love" and "Children of the Qiao Family". Lighting is one of his directorial characteristics. The cast is led by four Mesozoic actors, Yan Ni, Li Guangjie, Guo Xiaodong, and Jiang Xin, and is joined by new generations such as Fan Chengcheng, Guan Xiaotong, Wang Anyu, and Lu Yuxiao. The main creative lineup is truly luxurious. The story is also the type that Noon Sunshine is best at reflecting the big era in small cuts. There are no ups and downs of conflict, and the plot is very down-to-earth. From the very beginning, the portraits of the two families are presented one by one in the flow of life.

The dealer, the couple are both good people, with a son and a daughter at home. Zhuang Chaoying, played by Guo Xiaodong, is a high school teacher. As the eldest son of the family, he obeys his parents and often even sacrifices the interests of his wife and children to protect his family of origin. His characteristics are stupidity, filial piety, antiques, and machismo. And Huang Ling, played by Yan Ni, has become a woman who cannot "serve the table" in such a family.

The family of Song Ying, a well-known "thornhead" in the factory, was assigned to the same yard as the banker. Song Ying was an old employee of the factory. After getting married and having children, she was still crowded in the single dormitory. In order to be allocated a house, Song Ying sent her son to the house of the leader of the real estate department, and they worked together with one large and one small Li Yingwai. Although he ended up with a reputation as a "thorny head", he got the house as he wished.

Thornhead and the good old man were assigned to the same yard. The two families were surprisingly harmonious, and the children grew up playing and playing around. In an era when material resources were not yet abundant, the little characters in the play each lived a small life with little worries and sorrows, and staged one warm story after another, which aroused the resonance of the audience.

"Alley Family" won the first place in satellite TV ratings when it premiered. The audience generally believed that the drama had a compact plot, excellent acting skills and well-made production. It was a period drama worth watching. The actors' performances are real and natural, fully displaying the characters' personalities and emotions. Details such as alleys, yards, factories, crowded buses, a room full of people watching black and white TVs, and meat tickets all make the audience feel like they have traveled back to that era. Kaikai Zhou, who pays great attention to the combination of light and plot, once again skillfully uses light to create atmosphere, guide sight, strengthen emotions and express themes. He tells stories through light and shadow, captures the delicate emotions of the characters, and gives the audience a visually immersive experience. Many viewers said that it allowed them to re-experience the ups and downs of childhood life and evoked their deep nostalgia for the life fragments of that era.\

"Good Reunion": The native family superimposes the growth of women

"Good Reunion" brings the camera back to modern times. The three daughters of the Xiang family who came out of a small town in Kunshan are all promising figures in the eyes of their neighbors—— The eldest brother (played by Bai Baihe) is a company executive, and the eldest son-in-law is a doctor; the second child Xiangzhong (played by Li Chun) and his wife also have decent jobs and income in the local area; the third child Xiangnan (played by Wang Yuwen) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Later, he started his own business, married a rich man, and had a bright future. However, each of these "three golden flowers" has its own difficulties. Because his mother (played by Liu Jia) was involved in a case, the beautiful old life of the face-seeking Xiang Zhijun (played by Ding Yongdai) was shattered.

Xiangqian is like the eldest sister in many families. She takes the lead in everything at home. She is used to being independent and does not even need a husband for many things. But married life is not as glamorous as the outside world sees it. Her husband is a "Phoenix Man" who obeys her on the surface, but is selfish and indifferent behind the scenes, and frequently plays tricks to control his wife. The second child, Xiangzhong, was fostered in the countryside since he was a child. He believed that his parents were partial to his younger sister, whom she disliked, had an introverted personality, and was sharp-tongued and cruel. Her husband, on the other hand, has no ambition. Apart from eating and drinking with friends, he also plays games at home. There is a lack of communication and understanding in their married life, and conflicts continue to accumulate. There is also a controlling mother-in-law in the middle. The innocent and innocent Xiang Nan married into a wealthy family, thinking that what awaited her was a fairy tale life. However, the transition from love to marriage was not as beautiful as she imagined.

The trauma of the native family has been a common element in domestic dramas in recent years. Popular dramas such as " Ode to Joy ", " Everything is Good ", " An Jia " and " Fireworks " have all involved it. It often forms a public issue. However, if we read too much about common family problems such as favoring sons over daughters and overbearing mothers, it will inevitably lead to aesthetic fatigue. The valuable thing about "Good Reunion" is that it chooses a normal native family as a sample, allowing everyone to see that in a traditional family with loving parents, a loving mother and a filial son, daughters will also face confusion and confusion when they fall in love and get married. These emotional models from the original family interact with their careers and love, reflecting the life dilemmas and choices of urbanites in the new era, allowing the audience to think and understand real life while enjoying the plot.

The main cast of "Good Reunion" is made up of young actors with excellent looks and acting skills. There are also veteran actors such as Ding Yongdai, Liu Jia, Zhu Yin, etc., who perform well. However, some viewers raised questions about the characters and plot settings. The seemingly "normal" family still did not break away from the habit of deliberately creating conflicts and relying on quarrels to promote the plot. For example, Qiang Xiang pays special attention to details in his work, but he doesn't know that his husband has another sinister face, and Xiang Nan's sister-in-law is also a very flat tool person. These lack of details make the quality of the series slightly flawed.

40 years of changes in domestic family dramas

Although "Alley Family" and "Good Reunion" did not carry out large-scale publicity work before their premiere, they still captured the attention of many viewers once they were broadcast, which proved from the side. increased the popularity of family dramas in China.

The prototype of family dramas began in the 1980s and 1990s, with "Family Traditions", "Fences·Women and Dogs", "Desire" and "Shanghai Family"... Most of the dramas focus on small families in the big era. , reflecting the great changes in society through changes in the family, shaping the collective memory of a generation. In particular, China's first large-scale indoor TV series "Desire" once created a sensational effect that was sold out and was the pioneer of family dramas. From the mid-1990s to the beginning of the new millennium, family dramas entered a prosperous stage, with an increase in the number of works and more diverse types, such as "Beijingers in New York", " I love my family ", "The Happy Life of Zhang Damin" Excellent works such as "A Family with Children" appeared frequently, and dramas began to focus on social hot spots and reflect social changes.Since the popularity of "Double-Sided Tape", "Chinese Divorce" and "Dwelling House", family dramas have increasingly focused on real-life topics, such as husband-wife relationships, conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, difficulty in buying a house, naked marriage, childcare and other issues, as well as external pressures and problems in the family. Internal contradictions become narrative themes.

In recent years, the social topics in family dramas have iterated to female growth, mid-life crisis, children's education, elderly care, etc. The narrative angle is closer to the lives of ordinary people, and the scale of conflicts that promote the development of the plot has become more and more clever. While discussing family issues, I began to try to change from imagining life out of thin air to deeply exploring life, from laying out chicken feathers on the ground to savoring the fireworks of the world, from focusing on sharp contradictions or showing illusory appearances to focusing on warm reality and thinking about the meaning of life. Judging from this year's popular dramas such as "Fireworks", "South and North", "Happy Parents", "Little Couple", "Mortal Song", and "The Time Is Right", most of them adopt the group portrait mode and design parent-child scenes. Multi-dimensional character relationships such as lines, sister lines, grandparents and grandchildren, friendship lines, career lines, love lines, etc. have gradually stepped out of the comfort zone of traditional family dramas, arousing the audience's resonance and thinking.

But what is worth thinking about is that although the family narrative space has been fully expanded, works like "Parental Love" and "Human World" that can withstand audiences of different ages and often watch Chang Xin are still rare. When does the family drama leave social topics? It takes a broad social background as the stage. It not only pays attention to the contradictions and conflicts within the family, but also deeply explores social hot spots and characteristics of the times, conveys universal values and humanistic care, and has both inheritance and innovation. It is the way forward.

"People in the Alley": Sunshine at Noon returns to the period drama track