"Minglong Boy" is adapted from the Japanese drama "Dragon Sakura", directed by Ding Hei, starring Zhang Ruoyun, Huang Yao, Wang Qiang, Xu Ruohan, Li Mingde, Zhang Chen, Zeng Youzhen, Xu Qijie and other actors. The play is based on preparing for the college entrance examination, and is deeply influenced by film and television works with youth inspirational themes. Lei Ming, a senior high school teacher played by Zhang Ruoyun, was different as soon as he appeared.
Unlike other teachers who pay attention to students' comprehensive performance, Lei Ming can find the excellent results of students in a single subject, see the students' unwillingness and determination to change their fate, and tap the students' learning motivation and potential.
Lei Ming adopts a unique teaching method, guiding students to connect knowledge points with the method of learning trees, leading students to sing English songs to learn English, and even taking students to the monitoring room to observe the learning habits of the top students' classes. In order to let the students understand the importance of academic qualifications, Lei Ming led them to go to the job market to experience the cruelty of reality.
Through the role of Lei Ming, the screenwriter expressed the idea that if you don't have a good academic qualification, it is equivalent to not getting a beautiful score at the beginning, and recruiting companies need to spend more time and patience to verify.
In the play, another idealistic teacher, Sang Xia, was also arranged to have an ideal and realistic debate with Lei Ming, debating whether academic qualifications are important, providing the audience with a very enjoyable viewing experience. The students in the play are more or less faced with problems from their families of origin, putting them at a more or less disadvantage at the starting line.
Li Ran, played by Wang Qiang, his father died suddenly, and his mother left, leaving him and his grandmother to depend on each other. The two lived in the basement of Shen Yao's house, which was the first in the grade, and her grandmother was an aunt in Shen Yao's house. In order to reduce the burden on his grandmother, Li Ran learned the craft of repairing mobile phones, often skipping class to repair mobile phones to make money, with low self-esteem and easy impulsiveness.
Cheng Yushan, played by Xu Ruohan, is an avoidant personality with beautiful appearance, but he was ostracized by girls of the same age because of this, and also attracted similar harassment from male classmates. Therefore, she often pretends to be arrogant, which is used to disguise that she does not care. Cheng Yushan's family is suffocating: her mother is married to a lame uncle, and there is a younger brother born to her mother and stepfather, and the whole family is patriarchal.
The stepfather installed a surveillance camera in Cheng Yushan's bedroom** She was willing to spend 100,000 yuan on school choice fees for her son, but she was not willing to give her stepdaughter 380 yuan for school uniforms. When Cheng Yushan was wrongfully accused by her stepfather of stealing the family's money, no one chose to believe her, resulting in Cheng Yushan's hostile and highly defensive personality.
In the TV series "Becoming an Orange Light Campus", Li Mingde played the role of Shen Yao, a school bully, who is smart and diligent on the outside, but is actually a school bully. His family was complex and tormented, and despite his wealth, he was neglected by his family. Shen Yao spends his birthday alone, is selfish and sensitive, and even has a tendency to self-harm.
Yu Yang, played by Zhang Chen, has a strong desire for family control, his mother quit his job to work in the school cafeteria for his studies, and his father expects him to take over his long-distance freight business. Yu Yang was ridiculed by his classmates and had a weak personality due to stuttering problems. Bian Xiaoxiao, played by Zeng Youzhen, lives at her aunt's house, tries to please others, and is willing to help with work, but is ignored.
She spared no effort to integrate into the group of girls in the class, which is distressing. Jiang Qinglang played by Xu Qijie, his parents quarreled constantly over his education and life, and he cheated and rebelled in order to meet his mother's expectations. The play addresses the issue of same-sex harassment and points out that the college entrance examination is not only a challenge for children, but also a test for parents.
There are many pairs of cps in the play, each other**. Li Ran and Shen Yao, reckless teenagers save self-harming school bully and lead Shen Yao out of the darkness. Li Ran and Cheng Yushan, the two support each other at the bottom of the valley and have a common heart. Bian Xiaoxiao and Jiang Qinglang, Jiang Qinglang acted bravely and believed that Bian Xiaoxiao was honest and kind. Cheng Yushan and Bian Xiaoxiao became friends after initial estrangement due to a common experience.
Minglong Boy boldly dabbles in social issues, in-depth analysis of the problems faced by students and parents in education and how they get along, touching on many aspects such as origin, preference for sons, subject selection, education, employment, and heterosexual relationships. The play not only confronts the confusion of the students in the plot, but also mercilessly exposes the mistakes of parents in the way they educate.
Even if it is an old-fashioned college entrance examination theme, in the foreign version of the localized adaptation, "Minglong Boy" also shows a novel and sincere creative spirit, boldly advocating: "Don't blame the subject matter for being bad or too strict because of the lack of artistic talent."