Two talk show variety shows have returned this year, and the popularity is not low. The offline talk show performance market in first- and second-tier cities is also very hot, and some shows are even hard to get tickets for. Since talk shows are so popular, will it also be popular if the talk show is made into a series with an important theme? Recently, two talk show TV series have been aired in succession, namely " Lost Laughter " starring Lin Yi and Shen Yue, and " Lost Laughter " written and directed by Li Gengxi and Wei Daxun thankless courage 》.
Stills of "The Lost Smile"
Let's talk about "The Lost Smile" first. It is a drama that has been completed and has an effective broadcast data rating of A+. It is somewhat bleak. Back then, both Lin Yi and Shen Yue became popular from popular sweet dramas. Shen Yue's " To Our Simple Little Beautiful " (2017) and Lin Yi's " To Our Warm Little Time" " (2019) is a representative work of sweet pet dramas. After many years, the two collaborated on a sweet drama again, and the effect was 1+1<1.>
Although "Lost Laughter" has talk show elements, the core of the story is an idol drama.
Gu Yi (played by Shen Yue) is a famous Shanghai drifter who works in a magazine during the day and gives talk shows at night. One day, when Gu Yi was performing a talk show, he discovered that Liang Daiwen (Lin Yi) sitting in the audience was not smiling, which inspired Gu Yi's challenging spirit. No matter how hard Gu Yi tried, it was difficult for him to show his joy.
Gu Yi (played by Shen Yue)
Liang Daiwen is a designer who became famous at a young age. He suffered from "alexithymia" due to childhood trauma and was unable to perceive and express emotions. He tried various methods to learn to laugh, and listening to talk shows was one way.
Liang Daiwen (played by Lin Yi)
The two became acquainted through talk shows, and then they frequently intersected in work and life, and gradually fell into each other's hearts. The road to love is not smooth sailing, especially as Liang Daiwen's past haunts him like a nightmare, making it difficult for him to open his heart. The two experienced many misunderstandings, challenges and tests together, and finally gained love.
From a "theoretical" perspective, talk shows play an important role in "Laughter". For Gu Yi, talk show is her part-time job, and it is also a way for her to express herself and find her identity as a social animal. The talk show is also a side reflection of Gu Yi's character - optimistic, tenacious and creative.
The talk show also became a catalyst for the two people to warm up their relationship. In the subsequent plot, they talked about misunderstandings, reconciliation and love in a humorous way. The talk show carries the power of communication and healing.
But on a practical level, the talk show in "Lost Laughter" is not attractive.
On the one hand, if Gu Yi is really a talk show actress, in real life, it may be difficult for her to get the opportunity to perform on stage, right? Regardless of the fact that the talk show text in the play is not funny, Shen Yue, who plays Gu Yi, does not have any talk show acting skills. The actor works hard and the effect is not slack.
It's a bit embarrassing...
On the other hand, the entire script of "Lost Laughter" treats the talk show more as an embellishment and as a medium for the emotional connection between the male and female protagonists. Its main plot is a childish sweet pet plot.
Looking back on the "To Us" series back then, although it was also a collection of all kinds of sweet pet plots, the background of the youthful campus, the fresh painting style, and the natural acting skills captured the youthful emotions and innocent dreams of youth, and it was still able to capture the youthful emotions and innocent dreams. Let many viewers indulge in it. However, the protagonists in "Lost Laughter" are already "adults" who have entered the society to work hard, and the various emotional interactions that fall below their IQs really make people frown frequently.
The soft light filter of "Laughter" has been severely distorted, exacerbating the sense of suspension in the series.
For example, after seeing it a few times , Liang Daiwen repeatedly told the psychiatrist that he had become curious/interested in Gu Yi - girl, you caught my attention; he directly let Gu Yi live in his house - starting a "cohabitation" life; Gu Yi In Liang Dynasty, Wen's family was fully armed and cooking, but a fire broke out. Liang Dynasty Wen just came over and quickly covered the fire with the pot lid - the heroine was "very stupid and cute", the hero saved the beauty, and then had an intimate interaction; after that, the fire scene happened again, Gu Yi prepared a candlelight dinner for Liang Daiwen , resulting in a fire that triggered the automatic sprinkler system, Gu Yi, who was soaked in water, hid under the table, and Liang Daiwen, holding an umbrella, appeared in time - BGM + slow motion to create a sense of atmosphere and create a "famous scene"...
Is Gu Yi so ignorant? In addition, no matter how handsome the boy "preaches" (mainly some common sense), it will make people feel unhandsome
All these so-called romantic scenes are really written too childishly, and Gu Yi's various actions are not suitable for adults. mind. For example, during a candlelight dinner, the room was filled with candles. The candles lit the flowers. She first tried to blow them out with her mouth, and then she fanned them frantically with a piece of paper? As far as the author is concerned, to put it bluntly, this kind of scenes really aroused my "sickness" - not about being poor and weak, but whether idol dramas can not deliberately "lower intelligence" in order to create romantic scenes. ah.
What a smart move
So romantic, can you get it?
also writes about the workplace, but "Unpleasant Courage" is much more realistic. Last year's "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" directed by Dong Runnian! " is a workplace comedy movie that has received great box office success. Its greatest advantage is its accurate depiction and irony of the workplace ecology. "Unthankful Courage" still retains a certain workplace critique.
"Thankless Courage" poster
Wu Xiuya (played by Li Gengxi) is an ordinary specialist in the internal propaganda department of a large company. Although she is hard-working and capable, she is always assigned to do thankless tasks due to her flattering personality. Task. His immediate boss, Manager Hu (played by Liu Dan), appears to be maintaining team harmony, but in fact he is more concerned with personal interests rather than the growth of his subordinates; the office veteran Ma Chao (played by Jiang Yi) always shirks things, grabs credit and runs away. At the front... In such a workplace environment, it is easy for contemporary workers to feel a sense of belonging.
Wu Xiuya (played by Li Gengxi)
Wu Xiuya failed to get a promotion opportunity because she was too capable
The role of the talk show in the play was not reduced to a form or embellishment, but was closely related to Wu Xiuya's personal growth.
Wu Xiuya is not born with a pleasing personality. The series traces Wu Xiuya's growth. In high school, after transferring to another school, she became the object of rejection by her classmates because she was "alternative". During a campus event, she was framed by her classmates and got involved in a fight, which resulted in the squad leader's fracture. Wu Xiuya was criticized by the teacher and beaten by her father. Finally, she was ordered to apologize in front of the whole school.
As the teacher left the broadcast room, Wu Xiuya locked the door directly and took the microphone to accuse all of this bluntly. She thought she had told the truth, but she didn't expect that this move hurt everyone. This made Wu Xiuya feel deeply guilty and mistakenly believed that her truth had brought harm to the people around her. From then on, she learned to tolerate and please. Avoid conflict again.
Wu Xiuya was so wanton in high school.
This personality trait has continued into her social life, leaving her in a passive position both in the workplace and emotionally. In the workplace, she is always the good person who is willing to help colleagues and take on extra tasks, but this does not win her corresponding respect or recognition; emotionally, the machismo tendencies of her boyfriend Zheng Hao ( Wang Hao) make Wu Xiuya Feeling depressed, he always tries to control Wu Xiuya's work and life.
At this moment, Wu Xiuya accidentally came into contact with the talk show.Under the dual pressure of the workplace and emotions, her inner grievances and dissatisfaction had been accumulated for a long time. The talk show provided her with an outlet to release her inner depression and express her true thoughts. On the stage of a talk show, she can freely complain about people and things that dissatisfy her, and express her true feelings in a humorous and sarcastic way.
The talk show allowed Wu Xiuya to gain the right to express herself and regain her ability to express herself. It also allowed Wu Xiuya to regain the thankless courage she had lost. Every time she stands in front of the microphone, it feels like she is on a journey of self-exploration, and every performance is a reflection and transcendence of her past behavior patterns. Wu Xiuya gradually got rid of the habit of pleasing others and learned how to live for herself. In the workplace, she is no longer the "good old guy" who is at the mercy of others. She dares to express her views directly and firmly and fight for her rights. Emotionally, after discovering that communication with her boyfriend was ineffective, she took the initiative to break up.
It can be said that the talk show plays the role of the soul protagonist in "Unpleasant Courage". It represents the right and courage to express, and also carries a "unpleasant" life attitude and values. Wu Xiuya's growth experience is the epitome of many female talk show actors. The series helps the audience understand what the "expression" of talk shows means to many women. This is the greatest significance of "Unpleasant Courage".
Wu Xiuya slowly gained the courage to be thankless.
Although it has the above advantages, the script of "The Courage to be Unpleasant" still has some puzzling points.
The formation of Wu Xiuya's please-pleaser personality is quite unexpected. In high school, Wu Xiuya suddenly transformed from a somewhat "prickly" girl who dared to resist and spoke out bravely on the school radio to a swallowing, extremely submissive and cowardly person, lacking sufficient psychological preparation and realistic rationality. Especially the line where the bully classmate accused Wu Xiuya left people speechless - she was so confident even though she was being slapped down, how could Wu Xiuya not find the loopholes in the logic of the female classmate and fight back?
It is outrageous that the female classmate who bullied Wu Xiuya accused Wu Xiuya in this way
The emotional drama between Wu Xiuya and Shi Ye (played by Wei Daxun) was tasteless. Regardless of whether there is a need for emotional drama in this drama, the emotional development of the two people in the drama is really boring. Shi Ye's positioning is more like the introducer of talk show culture and the guide for Wu Xiuya's growth - equivalent to a "tool man". It would be better to change to a woman to take on the responsibility. I hate Zheng Hao, but at least he has some memory points. He is not willing to be filmed in "warm boy" idol dramas with the same look like Shi Ye. If Meng Yanchen's charm is worth 100 points, Shi Ye's charm is less than 30 points. It seems that it is very important to make a character "live".
The very "common" Shi Ye
Wu Xiuya has the courage to be thankless in the workplace after her talk show, and she gradually becomes proud in the workplace. We can understand the screenwriter's intention of writing this way, but objectively speaking, the play still uses the chairman's clear-eyed writing method, which is so cool. In a real workplace environment, it is often difficult for senior managers to fully understand the true situation of a grassroots employee, but in the play, the chairman can always accurately understand the efforts and difficulties of Wu Xiuya and other employees. The bad ones are all in the middle, and the top leaders are all good, which also reflects that "Unpleasant Courage" does not reflect thoroughly on the workplace mechanism itself.
The plot so far, the chairman is "good" and a "wise king", the future is temporarily unknown
The talk show performance in "The Laughter" was a disaster, the talk show text of "Unpleasant Courage" includes Yang Mengen, Niaoniao and others It's relatively passable for check-in, but overall, it's really not as good as watching variety shows or offline.
"Unpleasant Courage" has many talk show actors to support it.
In addition to the fact that the text must meet the needs of the plot and there is less room for performance, the main reason is that the performances in talk show variety shows are not the same as the talk show performances in TV series. Something happened.Talk show variety shows provide performers with a stage dedicated to showcasing their talk show talents, with a strong sense of on-site interaction and a strong sense of immersion for the audience; talk show performances in TV series are limited by the plot and scene settings, and cannot create a talk show The performance environment and atmosphere of a variety show - the "pseudo-live" feeling in the drama is very strong, and the focus of the drama is the plot. The talk show in the drama is only presented in fragments, and the look and feel is very fragmented. The best talk show performance in the whole drama is still the scene where Wu Xiuya complained in the broadcast room when she was in high school.
The talk show performance in the series gives people a "pseudo-live" feeling.
Therefore, talk shows are very popular, but if the producers think that talk shows are very popular, then the TV series with talk show themes will also be very popular. It was definitely a mistake. It is estimated that the mainstream audience of talk shows will find it difficult to tolerate the juvenile plots in TV series, and the talk show performances in the series cannot provide the experience brought by variety shows or offline talk show performances at all.
Of course, as the talk show industry becomes popular, more and more people are entering the talk show industry. If there are film and television works that want to reflect their living conditions, it is naturally okay to use talk show actors as the protagonists. "Unpleasant Courage" is Not a bad idea. However, how to present talk show performances in film and television works beautifully requires careful exploration.
