"Little Forest for Two": The Healing Power of "Sweet Earth" Love Drama

After the "Dixin Gravity" in the summer file " Freeland Jue ", Xiao Lanhua's Yu Shuxin returned to the present, and formed a "flower and bird CP" with Zhang Binbin in " Two People's Small Forest " .

"The Little Forest for Two" is an original forest decompression love drama produced by Huaze Keton's Juku Communication and jointly produced by Youku. The story of Poppy, who turned from ornithology doctor to become a fashion blogger, went from misunderstanding to unexpected reunion and falling in love. The starting points of their careers were different, but they finally walked hand in hand with the common ideal of building the motherland and hometown.

"Professor Zhuang, medicine is bitter, you are sweet, you can be my medicine"

"Professor Zhuang, you like to drink water, and I am made up of 70% water. If you like drinking water, you like it Seventy percent of me."...

From the name to the content, "A Little Forest for Two" is full of "earth sweet" style. In addition to the brisk narrative rhythm, the natural pastoral narrative and The novel and interesting character setting also adds a bit of healing power to the play.

"routine" or "sweet"?

The popularity and attention of the two leading actors have soared since "The Secret of the Orchid". Therefore, the audience's expectation of "A Little Forest for Two" starring Yu Shuxin has been continuously raised before the broadcast. At present, the drama has a score of 6.6 on Douban, which is quite satisfactory, but it is also considered to be "the honey of yours, the arsenic of the other", and the comments on the Internet show a trend of polarization.

From the overall perspective of the play, "The Little Forest for Two" is a sweet drama for women. In the episodes that have already been broadcast, Yu Meiren's "revenge chasing husband" method has begun to bear fruit: as a beauty blogger, she hides her identity as a doctor of ornithology in order to fight back against Zhuang Yu's contempt for her IQ in high school , moved to become Zhuang Yu's neighbor, determined to make Zhuang Yu fall in love with him.

In order to further realize her plan, Yu Meiren recommended Zhuang Yu to come to her hometown on Weibo trumpet, and in order to solve the lie she told her mother, after negotiating with Zhuang Yu, they decided to "pretend to be a couple". They are attracted to each other in conversations again and again. In daily life, the original misunderstanding and disgust are being eliminated and run in a little bit, and the plot is developing in the direction of high sweetness. Although

said that the routines of romance dramas are only those, but some viewers said that in today's poor, thinking changes, the cold winter of the film and television industry has made many companies focus on a series of innovations from subject matter to content to presentation form. Elements such as secret love, women chasing men, love at first sight, and rejoicing with each other will inevitably fall into the rut of production line idol dramas. Is "The Little Forest for Two" a "routine" sweet pet drama or a reverse "earth sweet" plot? It's actually debatable. The shortcomings of the routine sweet pet in the

drama are as follows: although from the educational point of view, the two are evenly matched in love, they still follow the model of "women chasing men". The form of Yu Meiren's "revenge" is to "take Zhuang Yu down", which does not conform to conventional logic. In addition, the male protagonist's "poisonous tongue" attribute in high school also makes the emotional foundation of this love suspicious.

is similar to dramas such as "To Our Warm Hour", the screenwriters sometimes add some novel and professional plots in order to make the little sweet drama taller. For example, "To Our Warm Hour" sets the male protagonist as a scientist, and the male protagonist of "A Little Forest for Two" is a professor of botany who is dedicated to the cultivation of Artemisia annua. In the process of research, it is often necessary to have A lot of highly professional content output, coupled with the contrast of the screenwriter deliberately created a cold character to highlight the two-way romance, the functional color of the male protagonist's character attributes is relatively strong.

But on a macro level, today, when romance dramas have become the mainstay of the drama market, the entanglement of the ancient puppet "X life X world" has become formatted, and the plots of happy enemies such as "the overbearing president fell in love with me" are also emerging one after another. . Although "The Little Forest of Two People" does not have much innovation in the plot direction, it is better than the originality of the script.And the novelty presented with the countryside as the background. Its close-to-nature story background and simple and pure expression of love can play a role in decompressing the audience, and it is more than enough to be regarded as a "meal drama".

"Thirty-six Strategies" for love

Compared with the innocent and kind little orchid in "The Art of Freesia", Yu Shuxin in "The Little Forest for Two" is more like a charming and moving poppy. The beauty blogger's cuteness and cuteness are brought to life, and this style of performance is also in Yu Shuxin's comfort zone. The subtitle of each episode in the play is called "Thirty-six Strategies for Love".

For example, the first encounter in the first episode, titled "What I'm going, is the way in your heart", is in line with the sweet and earthy style of the show, and is also the outline of Yu Meiren's love offensive against Zhuang Yu; The title of the third episode is "The more beautiful the plant is, the more poisonous it is", which secretly clarifies the occupation and identity of the male protagonist, but putting it in the context of "love" can become a metaphor; the title of the fifth episode "This is God" It seems that the love between Yu Mei and Zhuang Yu is not only a coincidence, but also a match made in heaven. After watching a few episodes of

, ​​the heroine Yu Meiren is not the "Cinderella" setting in ordinary idol dramas, but full of vitality, full of optimism and cheerful emotions, and can bring joy to the people around her. Due to the botanical-related background settings in the play, many stories take place in the countryside, and the overall style is bright and relaxed. In addition, compared to complicated love triangles and sadomasochism, "Little Forest for Two" pays more attention to creating a sense of relaxation in love. It talks about the process of the male and female protagonists approaching and attracting each other, and there is not too much "grabbing". "Ma" moment, has a great fit with the contemporary young people's concept of love, and can be regarded as a qualified little sweet drama.

In addition to love, the play has also raised many realistic issues, and in the advancement of realistic issues, it shows the multi-faceted identity and character of the protagonist, and the three-dimensional sense of the characters is stronger. Therefore, in addition to the most basic "sweet pet" love, the play can have more topic extensions.

First of all, it is a challenge and breakthrough to 's stereotype of "beauty blogger" professional . As the only doctor in the village, Yu Meiren's mother's expectation for her is to become a university teacher, because this is a decent job in the eyes of her parents, but Yu Meiren, because she can't bear the pressure of scientific research, changed her career and became a "doesn't work" in the eyes of her mother. beauty blogger. She has her own principles for the selection of products, and the use of professional knowledge is also in place. Whether it is doing scientific research or being a blogger, as long as you do one thing attentively and meticulously, it can be regarded as a small success.

Secondly, it is a question of how to balance between ideal and reality. As a professor of botany, Zhuang Yu hopes to improve the level of scientific research in China through his own efforts. Although he has experienced countless failures, he has always been firm in his beliefs and responsibilities.

When he says "I believe butterflies are a good omen", Poppy can naturally pick up "like crickets , lizards and clover ". This corresponds to the fragment in "The Fantastic Journey of the Shepherd Boy". As Yu Meiren described Zhuang Yu, "Obviously he is the champion of the college entrance examination, recognized as a god of learning, has a great future, but falls below everyone's glasses, chooses a major that can't make a lot of money, and doesn't hit the south wall without looking back. To enter the world of artemisinin, we must solve global problems. Isn't this a teenager who wants to cross the desert and find the pyramid?" Zhuang Yu's career choice may bring us different inspirations.

So far, we can see the overlapping of the two people's worldviews, and we can better understand the depth of this sugar-filled love, which is the resonance of two souls who understand each other. This kind of setting also makes the couples like "Little Forest for Two" no longer "fall in love for the sake of love" to a certain extent, broadening the dimension of the content, and naturally forming a strong narrative tension and the personality of pure love expression is stronger.

"Little Forest for Two" is a hit, in fact, the underlying logic has a lot in common with dramas such as "'s longing for life ", "Lonely Gourmet", " Late Night Cafeteria " and other dramasSpace: In the narrative of "life flow", the psychological demands of people in contemporary first-tier cities to "escape the metropolis and get close to nature" are revealed.

Drama cool culture's hot drama memes , , Ao Ruipeng and starred in "The Newly Wrong Prickly Prickly Pear Marry the Right Man", etc., which aroused heated discussions among many netizens during the preparation and filming stages, and continued to raise the audience's expectations.

"Little Forest for Two" was broadcast on Youku and became a part of Youku's "lots of dramas". As the producer of this drama, Huaze Keton's drama cool communication is also attracting attention.

In recent years, several TV dramas from Gu Man novels into film and television " why ", " Shanshan came to ", " smile is very beautiful " and so on have a high popularity on the whole network And the degree of discussion, and ancient puppets like " Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms " even more reflect the cool drama culture's powerful ability to create hot dramas and bet money, and become the "making machine" of the top hit dramas.

It is not difficult to find that in the process of making the drama, Huaze Keton has always focused on the exploration of standards, processes and tools. While focusing on the content, he has not missed the transition to the network, the de-foaming of IP, and the change of platform capacity. In many key stages of development, it has always ensured that the genre has no shortcomings and focuses on good content, so the market has a high degree of recognition of its works. In addition, the works of drama cool culture have been closely following the development of the market. In the process of seeking innovation and change, they try to satisfy the audience's taste as much as possible. It is also expected that the stable output of hot dramas can be achieved.

The market for sweet pets and sweet love dramas like "Little Forest for Two" may continue to exist. How to refuse to be defined and dig out more highlights and new ideas in an old track is a big test for the playwrights and actors.