1. What is the exam ?
Before evaluating the TV series "Big Exam", we need to understand the meaning of "Big Exam". The author understands that "Big Exam" should have three meanings:
The first is the college entrance examination for high school students to enter the university. The assessment of people's career is a "big test of life" related to one's future;
The second is the handling of the relationship between husband and wife and children in various families in society. This can be said to be the epitome of every family in today's society, and it is related to the survival of the family.
The third is how to deal with and deal with sudden crises from all walks of life under the background of the epidemic, which is a "social test" related to the overall security of society and the country.
When we clarify the overall purpose and meaning of the "big test", we can look at whether the performance of the "big test" is reasonable, and whether it is too streamlined and programmed.
Second, how is the performance?
1. Running account and filling narrative, character tagging
"Big Exam" is tagged on Baidu Encyclopedia as urban, plot, education and other tags, and the total number of episodes is 22 episodes. There are such a small number of episodes, and each episode has less than 40 minutes of feature film content, which adds up to less than 15 hours in total. Can you clarify the plot, shape the characters, and solve problems? Since only five episodes are broadcast now. Set, not good to comment.
is now evaluating the content of these five episodes: the filling narrative of the plot running account
"everything is difficult at the beginning", the performance of the first episode is roughly the epitome of the whole drama, which is enough to see the level of the whole drama.
has a total of five groups of students and families in the play, namely: Tian Wenwen, Zhou Bowen, Wu Jiajun, students from No. 4 Middle School, Pan Xiaoxuan and Gao Mingyu from No. 1 Middle School, and principals and class teachers from No. 4 Middle School and No. 1 Middle School;
these Most of the characters appeared in the first episode. In less than 40 minutes, nearly a dozen characters appeared, and the characters were initially labeled, such as: Zhou Bowen's eager to learn, Zhou's mother's Diligent and capable, the headmaster of No. 4 Middle School is considerate, and the headmaster of No. 1 Middle School is strict. The entire narrative of the first episode of
revolves around time and the perspective of the students, which leads to the fact that the events shown in the episode are like the running accounts on the ledger. When the audience watched, the three children of the fourth middle school went to school, got up, had dinner, was late, and went to class. In such a long narrative story, the only information they could get was that the three had a good relationship, the principal was very kind, and it was flat. Besides, the principal of No. 4 Middle School does not quite conform to the public image of real life, which leads to a bit of drama.
This is the case in the first episode, and even more so in the following two, three, four and five episodes. It is still the gradual appearance of the characters: Zhou's father and Zhou's mother, Tian Wenwen's parents who go out to work, Wu Jiajun's parents, etc.; The literary evaluation is that the narrative is poor, the whole story is straightforward, there is no emotional waves, and there is no brilliant rhetoric, and the words are bland as water.
Let's compare "Little Huanxi" with the same theme. In the first episode of Xiao Huanxi, the main characters were not crowded together, and the five children in high school only mainly introduced Ji Yangyang and Fang Yifan . The narrative logic of the overall story of
begins with "conflict and contradiction". One is the contradiction between the principal and the head teacher in their attitude towards teaching, one is about encouragement and support, the other is serious and management; the second is the quarrel and physical conflict between Fang Yifan and Ji Yangyang; the third is Tong Wenjie and Fangyuan's concept of treating children's learning is contradictory.
revolves around three conflicts and contradictions. It is not difficult to find that these are the school's internal attitude towards students' education, the relationship between students, and the family's treatment of children's learning and educational concepts. It can be said that three conflicts are enough to run through the whole book. TV series, of course, the follow-up development of Xiaohuanxi is indeed revolving around these three conflicts.
In addition, the character shaping in the conflict is also extremely good. Tong Wenjie, who is strong in work and life but can't help his son, is naughty but not stubborn.Yifan and other diverse characters.
Of course, it is not difficult to see the point of "conflict" in the "Big Exam": the contradiction between Zhou's father and his son about work and life, the conflict between the principals' attitude towards students' education, and the conflict between various characters during the epidemic; but too single, The effect of the conflict and contradiction is limited. (But there are only five episodes, so it's not too arbitrary to make a decision)
" drama conflict " is the component of the drama plot and the core of the story; the flowing narrative and filler content will not let the audience The idea of continuing to watch.
2, character template, the comparison is too deliberate
Flat characters refer to people with simple characters, flat characters have two advantages: one is easy to identify, and the other is easy to remember. For example, in the public's impression, the police are the embodiment of justice and the nemesis of evil; the teacher is the image of teaching and educating people and treating students equally.
But with the continuous development of artistic images and the changes of modern people's aesthetics, flat and expressive characters are not only too common, but also difficult to resonate with the audience, because there are too few modern people who can maintain a pure and innocent heart. . Therefore, the phenomenon of flattening is often avoided in shaping the image of the characters, and the main characters are as full and multi-faceted as possible. For example, the police are ruthless towards crimes, but this does not affect his pity on the coerced criminals; the teacher does his best to the students, but it does not affect him being more attentive to the students who study well.
made many mistakes in flattening the characters in "The Big Exam", and deliberately established contrasting characters.
Zhou's father is lazy, plays games all day, doesn't work and doesn't pay attention to his personal image, while Zhou's mother is thrifty, hard-working, and does her best to take care of the family, Zhou Bowen is learning from morning to night, helping the family dry goods, just like a pair The appearance of the head of the family.
Although Zhou Bowen's family is based on real people, it is obvious that only a small number of opinions should not be considered when creating art.
"Art comes from life and is higher than life."
The reason why art is art is that it extracts profound educational significance through the re-creation of well-known life. Or to inspire people; or to express people's good expectations for life; or to express people's psychology of punishing evil for good, etc., to satisfy people's yearning for a better life.
What is the purpose of the program team to create such an image of a father and husband, to show the selflessness and greatness of working women? Reflect the child's character maturity? Warn you not to be so addicted to the game?
is wrong! The premature maturity of the child is his suffering, this is not the suffering he should endure at his age! When Zhou Bowen in the play becomes an adult, the shadow left by his father will affect his future marriage life. It is good to promote the great work of women, but is it reasonable to base the propaganda on negative men?
Zhou's father's character change in the future must be the cause of the epidemic. Assuming that no epidemic did not occur, or that the impact of the epidemic on the Zhou family would not be affected, then Zhou's father was purely a graphic tool person who came to compare and highlight his wife.
There are too many contrasting images, which are too deliberate: the attitude of the principal of the first and fourth middle schools, the comparison of Pan Xiaoxuan and Gao Mingyu's family, the comparison of students' learning, the comparison of ordinary people and civil servants during the epidemic.
Contrast is conducive to fully showing the contradictions of things, highlighting the essential characteristics of the things being represented, and strengthening the artistic effect and appeal.
Here, let's compare "Little Huanxi": Fang Yifan is naughty and playful, but he is careful and aware of the changes in his relatives and friends; Qiao Yingzi and Lin Leier are obedient and study well, but they also have a rebellious and playful side; Fang Yuan is a bit afraid of his wife, but he also loves his son... With characters like
, the audience will feel more human and realistic.
is also not deliberate in character comparison, here we take the attitude towards Qiao YingziOn the contrary, Qiao Weidong and Song Qian, Qiao Weidong is a daughter's slave, Qiao Yingzi goes to him whether it is skipping classes or snacks, and even buys telescopes and Lego Qiao Weidong that have nothing to do with learning; and Song Qian quit her job for the sake of her children's study, Classes, cooking, and exam papers are all hands-on.
With such an opposite character, Qiao Weidong will also supervise her daughter's studies together with Song Qian for her daughter to go to a good university and have a better future, and she does not agree with her child going to school in Nanjing; similarly, Song Qian will also relax her mind for her daughter and accompany her Go to the movies, eat snacks.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, nor are they completely opposite leaves. Life is full of unintentional comparisons, which makes life appear more real and beautiful.
3, too many elements, leading to confusion in the main line
To make a long story short, we can see that the whole TV series is played from the perspective of students, and if we interpret the "big test" from the very beginning, if we prioritize it, it is definitely From the main perspective, the college entrance examination > family > epidemic situation, because the requirements of schools, families and society for students and children are to focus on learning. In the first five episodes of
, the pictures about student learning and school are just a few scenes of classrooms and online classes. As for the plot and pictures of family and the epidemic, do they overwhelm the real main line? The first five episodes are just the beginning, can the next seventeen episodes handle all the lines completely?
Why is "Little Joy" a classic and popular with audiences, because it mainly talks about the learning of students and the working status of adults under social anxiety, and the priority is clear, and the importance of clear lines and dark lines is clearly defined.
's "Big Exam" integrates too many elements, such as rich and poor, epidemic situation, left-behind children, second child, school attitude, teacher responsibility, etc., and individual elements need to be considered, which leads to the confusion of the main line.
here quotes Douban users' evaluation of the "big test":
(invasion and deletion)
blindly cares about integrity (pinyin) considerations, why not become " Pravda " in Soviet jokes.
then went to court to meet King Wei and said, "I am not as beautiful as Xu Gong. The wife of my minister is a private minister, the concubine of a minister is afraid of the minister, and the client of the minister wants to ask the minister. , Hundred and twenty cities, the palace ladies are not private to the king, the court officials are not afraid of the king, and there is no one who seeks the king in the four realms: from this point of view, the king is very shielded.”
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