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Youth group dramas focusing on high school life have always been the creator's favorite, with "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" and "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy" recently, all of which are among the best. And this year, there are also two such works that have attracted more attention, one is "The Day of Chasing the Light", which was broadcast in the summer, and the other is currently on the air"Singing Dragon Boy".。These two dramas have great similarities in the layout and plot, both of which are miracle stories in which the waste wood teacher regains the teaching whip, conquers the thorny students under him with personalized teaching, and leads the entire senior high school class step by step. 
Compared with "The Days of Chasing the Light", the biggest difference between "The Singing Dragon Boy" is that it is oneAdaptation- Adapted from a Japanese drama"Dragon Sakura".。The original "Dragon Sakura" is about Mr. Sakuragi, played by Abe Kan, who was admitted to the University of Tokyo, Japan's first university, with a group of "stupid poor students with an average score of 36". The play is like a dose of chicken blood, accompanying and encouraging generations of people. The passionate remarks in the play, looking back to this day, still make people excited: "If you don't want to be deceived for the rest of your life, then go and learn!.""There is often only one answer to an exam, but there are many right answers in life. "The adaptation of "Minglong Boy".I learned the surface, but I didn't get the essence。"Minglong Boy" not only wants to inherit the enthusiasm and inspiration of the original work, but also wants to reflect certain practical problems based on the local area, but the results outweigh the losses, and the ideal and reality are not filmed well. 
"Ming Dragon Boy", like "Dragon Sakura", raised a sharp question as soon as it came up: Is it possible to use a year to let the bottom poor students counterattack and be admitted to top schools?The story begins with the merger of two schools, one Mingying Middle School, which has an online rate of 98%, and Longhai Middle School, which has an online rate of only 20%, merge. At the meeting, the principals of the two schools had a disagreement over the students' educational philosophy, and they put forward a plan, deciding to hire an external teacher and set up a free experimental class, the experimental class is composed of poor students, and the number of students who sign up should be no less than five, and the goal is to let these students take the exam after a year. The teacher they hired was the gold medal lecturer played by Zhang RuoyunThunder。Lei Ming was born in a family of educators, and his father was a retired teacher. After quitting the education industry for some reason, Lei Ming did advertising, made mobile games, and engaged in new **, but all ended in failure, and finally returned to the field of education after going around and around. 
After joining Minglong, Lei Ming increased the difficulty of his job several times, he not only wanted to let the students in the experimental class (class 11) be admitted to a book, but also let them be admitted to a top school like Qingbei. And his most important job at the moment is to recruit five students in a week to make this experimental class take shape. As a result, the first five episodes of the show mainly revolve around Lei Ming's "recruitment". Compared with "Dragon Sakura", the biggest difference between "Singing Dragon Boy" is that its narrative focus is different. "Dragon Sakura" focuses the narrative on SakuragiTeacher, the targeted training of Mr. Sakuragi for poor students is portrayed in great detail. For example, he wants students to be admitted to the University of Tokyo, and the grading standard for English essays at the University of Tokyo is a minus point system, even if you have common vocabulary and simple grammar throughout, as long as you don't make mistakes, you can get a high score. For this reason, Mr. Sakuragi prescribes the right medicine, so that students can start from the basics and be admitted to the highest university through hard work and skill. And "The Singing Dragon Boy" focuses on the narrativestudents: The leadership of Mr. Lei Ming is important, but the talent of the students should not be underestimated. The screenwriter arranged a sad picture of the original family for each student in the experimental class. 
Every student is a real "problem student". Li Ran, known as "Longhai Jobs", is typical"Handsome and miserable".。Due to the early death of his father and the departure of his mother, Li Ran has been dependent on his grandmother since he was a child, and his life is poor and he has no fixed place. He himself is a physics genius, intelligent, physics scores passed the first place in the whole school's single subject, the reason why he did not spend his mind on studying, is because he was matured by society too early, thinking that "the most important exam is not the college entrance examination, and it is over when he was born". 
Cheng Yushan's character is a mathematical genius, who can draw the Fibonacci spiral at will, and only do the last big problem when doing math papers. She also has a pathetic original family, her mother remarried and gave birth to a younger brother with her stepfather, she not only became an outsider in the family, lived in a noisy mahjong parlor, and was even monitored by her stepfather, panicking. All of this made her unwilling to study and wanted to run away from her family urgently. Similar to Li Ran and Cheng Yushan, the other three students also have their own troubles. Bian Xiaoxiao was fostered at her aunt's house, and her long-term life under the fence made her form a "pleasing personality";Jiang Qinglang has a favorable family condition, and his parents graduated from prestigious schools, but family conflicts and his parents' desire to control made Jiang Qinglang tired of school and had to rely on cheating in exams to maintain decencyAnd Yu Yang, who is honest, lost himself under his mother's strong attention, suffered from serious social disorders, repeated grades and suffered from school bullying. 
"Minglong Boy" portrays these five "problem students" through the original family, and its intention is very obvious, which is nothing more than to refract social problems and move closer to realism. The role of Sang Xia, a psychology teacher, is also set up in the play to take care of the psychological problems of teenagers. But this kind of setting will directly deduce a plot logic, that is, the problems of the original family will affect the children's psychology and make them poor students, and once the children's knots are untied, they will catch up and become good students. It must be known that this kind of plot logic, put in reality, cannot be established at all. itBlame the families for the learning problems of poor students, and ignore the learning ability of the students themselves. To put it nicely, it's overly idealistic;To put it mildly, it's just the plot suspension. 
In addition, another contradiction in "Minglong Boy" is that it sets several "problem students" as "Maxima"-style genius teenagers. The reason why their talents are not revealed is because they lack a "Bole" like Lei Ming. This kind of character setting seems to be to make up for "poor students to fight for a year to take the Qingbei exam", but in fact, it deviates from the original intention of the original work "stupid students can also be admitted to the University of Tokyo". The story of "Dragon Sakura" is a battle for ordinary people to turn the tables;The adapted "Minglong Boy" is a stealing beam, excluding ordinary people, and telling the story of Maxima and Bole. Of course, this gap is also related to the difference in the college entrance examination systems of the two countries. In Japan's entrance examination, students take the unified examination first, and after getting the stepping stone, they can choose the university they want to apply for for the special examination. Therefore, Japanese candidates are very likely to be admitted as long as they prepare for the corresponding major of the target university. For example, several poor students in "Dragon Sakura" applied for the majors with the lowest admission scores at the University of Tokyo, and their goals were very clear and they were well prepared. 
However, China's college entrance examination is not this kind of "right medicine" model. Therefore, it is also unrealistic to let poor students work hard to be admitted to "Qingbei" for one year. As a youth group drama with the college entrance examination as the background, the most critical part of "Minglong Boy" is to implement the "university entrance examination". After all, the vast majority of viewers are very familiar with the college entrance examination. Once this part is suspended and loses accuracy, the whole drama will lose its foundation and become a castle in the air. And the biggest problem of "Singing Dragon Boy" is precisely this. It has the ambition to reflect reality and the ambition to choreograph "miracles", but it has lost the ability to make the story land. In the process of chasing the drama, once you substitute it into reality, you will more or less feel that the story in the play is not very valid, and it cannot withstand scrutiny. As a remake, if its localization can be more suitable and dramatization can be more restrained, it may attract more audiences. But alas, it doesn't do a good enough job of balancing reality and ideals.