Nowadays, sweet pet drama has become one of the most common types of drama in the film and television market. In order to seize the opportunity in the fierce competition, the elements contained in the sweet pet drama are becoming more and more abundant. LULU and Lin Yi starred in the sweet pet drama "Beautiful Days and Good Times", which was adapted from "An open gun is easy to hide, but a secret love is hard to prevent" written by Qiao Yao in Jinjiang Literature City. The original novel, in the big framework of sweet pet articles, combines various elements such as entertainment circle, games/e-sports, sister-in-law love, online love and so on, and is very popular with readers when serialized. The drama version is basically a replica of the novel. Needless to say, there is still a little more freshness in the sweet pet drama.
Poster of "Beautiful Days and Good Times"
Liang chen (LULU) is a popular and famous female singer, and Lu Jing (Lin Yi) is a master of science and technology and an e-sports god. He is also a fan of liang chen. The agent helped liang chen take the next game endorsement. liang chen couldn’t play games, so a friend recommended an expert to take her. This expert was Lu Jing. Neither of them knew each other’s true identity at first. In the game and online chat, liang chen and Lu Jing gradually fell in love, and they developed a beautiful love that was evenly matched and grew together.
Liang chen (LULU)
Lu Jing (Lin Yishi)
When there are a lot of competitive elements in the drama, how to deal with the switch between competition and reality is a test. Its moments of beauty and good times are different from the drama series "Full-time Master" and "Crossing the Fire Line", whose route is closer to "Love O2O", and the competition serves the love line, and all the competitions appear in the form of real people’s costumes.
In the game, Lu Jing and liang chen fight side by side, Lu Jing is handsome and capable, and her boyfriend is full of strength; Liang chen, known as the "Millennium Box Essence" (the term used to describe "rookie" in the game), is soft and cute. Through the creation of exotic game situations and the dramatic plot of killing the enemy, the interaction between Lu Jing and liang chen has always had a dreamy feeling of "overbearing chivalrous man protecting me": "My lover is a hero of the world, and one day he will wear a first-class bulletproof vest and a second-class helmet and ride a triple jumper to pick me up." Therefore, before Lu Jing and liang chen formally meet in reality, their interaction in the game has been able to get the audience hooked.
The modeling and interaction of two people in a certain scene of the game
A careful audience may find a rule. In the theme of brother-sister love, almost all the younger brothers get emotional first, and then the younger brothers launch a fierce offensive. The land scenery in "Beautiful Days and Good Times" embodies all the advantages of the younger brother in the idol drama of brother and sister. He has a high face value and a high IQ, and he is very cold to other girls. Only in front of liang chen is he a little fan. Moreover, he doesn’t have the shortcomings of his younger brother who is "naive and immature". He is independent, decisive and has a clear plan for the future.
Although Lu Jing’s persona is almost perfect, for sweet pet dramas, the era of relying on perfect persona to create sweetness has passed. This is the sequela of excessive sugar trafficking, and the threshold for the audience to be sweet is constantly increasing. After all, in the drama of brother-sister love, the perfect brother after another has basically the same emotional routine, and the female audience is not so excited when they see his brother. To impress their hearts, they still have to have what screenwriter Jin Enshu called "5% innovation". Not much, as long as 5% is different from other sweet pet dramas, many viewers will take the bait.
The reason why its moments of beauty and good times are worth mentioning is that the series still has this "5%". On the one hand, the plot is constantly "overweight" to create the doomed color that the younger brother falls in love with the older sister, that is, "I fell in love with you before you knew me" and "before we fell in love, we were deeply bound". It turned out that they met in Lu Jing high school. Liang chen, whose career was frustrated at that time, met Lu Jing, who was in a bad mood (too Versailles) because he got the second place in the city. They encouraged each other. After Liang Chen’s fire, Lu Jing was liang chen’s iron powder and his younger brother. In his eyes, liang chen was a "perfect" person.
The two met once.
Another coincidence is that liang chen and Lu Jing are not only alumni, but also Lu Jing lives in the dormitory where liang chen once lived, and he sleeps in the bed where liang chen once slept. This fateful coincidence indicates that their fate is "predestined". The special effects of the two overlapping transformations of time and space in the play are ingenious, as if you could hear Lu Jing’s heartbeat when he discovered all this.
The same dormitory, the same dormitory.
Of course, there may also be accidents in which the audience doesn’t like this kind of trace. That doesn’t matter. Another innovation of "Beautiful Scenes and Good Times" is that in many cases, it makes the doomed colors of the hero and heroine ambiguous, especially in its handling of the scene of "missing".
"Missing" is basically the standard routine of idol dramas. For example, in a crowded street, the hero and heroine pass by. It not only creates regrets for the audience, but also plays an important role in making the audience feel worried. The more you miss, the more regrets you have, and the more the audience looks forward to their reunion scene, so that the pent-up emotions can be vented and compensated with satisfaction.
"Its moments of beauty and good times" also has the element of online love, and the hero and heroine are emotional in the game and appear in reality. But in fact, they have passed each other many times, and a few times they were just a little short. When the director missed the scene, he still paid great attention to it, with regret and sadness, and also with regret and aestheticism.
For example, in episode 4, liang chen and Lu Jing ate in the same restaurant, and Lu Jing picked up liang chen’s earrings. It was raining outside the restaurant, and Lu Jing walked to liang chen.
Liang chen just thought the sound was particularly familiar, but before she turned her head, Jiayun (Hu Bing), who had a crush on liang chen, stopped Lu Jing. Liu Jing slowly turned at the same time, liang chen also turned. Jiayun took liang chen’s earrings.
Lu Jing left. Then there is a big prospect of overhead shooting. Lu Jing’s black umbrella walked slowly, while Jiayun’s black umbrella was closer to liang chen’s red umbrella. This is also a reflection of the relationship between the three people at this time.
When Lu Jing looked back, it was just the moment when liang chen got on the bus. In the rain, Lu Jing and Jiayun looked at each other. This also indicates their subsequent relationship-emotional competitors.
This scene fully reflects the director Zhen Qin (who is a female directors)’ s delicacy in grasping the emotional drama, and makes a very cliche scene. The same is true of the missed flight in episode 7, which completes a good scheduling in a closed space.
Generally speaking, whether "Beautiful Scenes and Good Times" appeals to you depends on what you expect from this drama. If we measure it from the perspective of realistic dramas, it is really suspended; However, if it is only used as candy, it is still more innovative and thoughtful than the general sweet pet drama.
[Specially published by Shanghai Literature and Art Review Special Fund]
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