Imaging Power Program
This year, CCTV's big drama performance is getting brighter and brighter.
At the beginning of the year, a "Hurricane" became popular all over the Internet and became the drama king of the year.
Next, science fiction dramas, youth dramas, and period dramas were conquered one after another.
At the end of the year, a "Pearl River Family" surpassed "Hurricane" in ratings and won the annual ratings championship.
It can be said that most of the high-scoring dramas in the national drama circle this year are from CCTV.
And what hard nails haven't been pulled out?
The answer is: campus youth dramas.
When you think of this genre, what comes to mind?
Many people may think of classic campus youth dramas such as "Sixteen-Year-Old Flower Season" and "Seventeen-Year-Old Don't Cry".
Although, in recent years, CCTV has also launched campus dramas such as "The Big Exam" led by Chen Baoguo and "Days of Chasing the Light" led by Guo Jingfei, and the latter also won 81 rating, but after all, there is a lack of a real national hit.
The end of the year is approaching, and CCTV has finally played this trump card - tonight CCTV has eight sets of ** files, "Minglong Boy".
Starring, Zhang Ruoyun, "Celebrating More Than Years 2" and "Police Honor 2" have to wait, this one will be arranged first.
The director is Ding Hei, and popular dramas such as "Jade Guanyin", "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire" and "Police Honor" are all from him.
In terms of actors, more than 5 good actors are in charge, bringing together three generations of old, middle-aged and young actors who are currently recognized by the audience.
However, if the lineup is gorgeous, it will definitely be able to break the game?
What is the reason for "Minglong Boy"?
In my opinion, perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that from beginning to end, it looks at this college entrance examination time from the perspective of burning dramas.
There are no such eye-stimulating dog blood and coincidences.
Use inspiration to fight against those family problems and Xi confusion that seem to be unexciting, "Minglong Boy", can it be called?Look tonight.
The story of "Minglong Boy" is very simple, telling the story of a wolf teacher reuniting with his original heart after a long absence, and a group of scumbag teenagers fighting with fate with their bare hands.
You might be tempted to say, that's it
But after watching the trailer, you will find that this drama is a little different from ordinary campus youth dramas.
Get up early to brush the questions, read in the morning in the corridor, and take the oath meeting, all of which are not.
On the contrary, it is a former gold medal lecturer who sells classes on the street, and is attracting parents to pay - "Some people say that the poor family has come to an end." The tortoise and the hare race, the stupid bird flying first, or the slow climb up like this snail, are all deceivings in fairy tales. ”
In the end, the conversation changed - convinced?
So for an ordinary person, how can it become different, or even a counterattack in the end?
The answer is - the college entrance examination.
Combined with the trailer, there are three highlights of the episode:
The first is a double counterattack.
Traditional youth campus dramas, what needs to be counterattacked are only students.
And what is going to counterattack in this drama is also the teacher Lei Ming played by Zhang Ruoyun.
Lei Ming used to be an Internet celebrity teacher in the field of teaching, he was good at tapping the potential of students, and once became a hopeful star in the education industry, but a student's accident caused him to fall from the peak, and even depressed for a while, vowing not to get involved in the teaching industry again.
It wasn't until Minglong Middle School opened Class 11 that he returned to the education industry, issued a letter of guarantee, and selected a group of potential thorny students, target: Qingbei.
This story is too different from traditional campus dramas.
The second is to fight monsters and pass the level.
Among this group of students, there is Li Ran, a poor boy who wants to drop out of school because of his family difficulties and only wants to make money to treat his grandmother.
Yu Yang, who has a smart mind, but has always been submissive and has long had low self-esteem.
There is a good-looking problem girl Cheng Yushan.
I have to help my parents play mahjong all day long, as well as gossip everywhere, Bian Xiaoxiao, who thinks about rubbing traffic every day, and Jiang Qinglang, who wants to be a singer.
These students are very smart, but they have their own problems, how to lead them to break through the fog, with an optimistic attitude to actively face the college entrance examination, is like a process of fighting monsters.
As soon as these pictures came out, the audience seemed to return to that period of hard work in the college entrance examination in a second.
The third is personal growth.
The story is actually a very practical topic - how to balance test-taking and personal growth.
There is a line in the play - "Why is there such an exciting thing in the world as the college entrance examination, because this is the most important fair competition for you." ”
Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, but please remember it for me, and you can fill in the blanks by yourself. ”
For students, what is the "growth" in?
Probably for her.
What we need to solve is the psychological problem, how to face the exam, how to face the family, and how to face our own problems.
To put it bluntly, the big topic of growth should not only rely on the "thunder" of a class teacher. Students must learn to answer the questions on their own.
Finding director Ding Hei to film "Minglong Boy" was actually a risky decision.
Ding Hei is of course a good director, a "Jade Guanyin" made him famous in a fight, "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire" scored 9, and last year's "Police Glory" was well received.
Dan Ding Hei is no longer young, can he really understand the youth of this class of students?
So why did Zhang Ruoyun recommend Ding Hei to direct this play?
I think a key point is that Ding Hei is one of the first-line directors who is best at using the details of life to create dramatic tension, and rarely uses routines such as dog blood.
He came to shoot, maybe it was the right choice.
Looking at the actors again, the main actors in this play are Zhang Ruoyun, Huang Yao, Wang Qiang, Xu Ruohan, Li Mingde, Zhang Chen, Zeng Youzhen, Xu Qijie, Wang Xin, Wang Lan, as well as Liu Dan, Kong Lianshun, Cheng Taishen, Zhang Zhihua, Wang Jinsong, etc.
There are young actors, and there are also old actors. This is also the regular collocation of domestic campus dramas, and there are five of them I am looking forward to the most.
The first, Zhang Ruoyun.
Zhang Ruoyun is probably the national drama student with the most word-of-mouth counterattacks.
From "Celebrating More Than Years" to "Swords in the Snow", none of them were favored in advance, and every time they could silence the doubters.
His performance has his own set of style, and the characters are often unruly in the early stage, revealing in the middle stage, and the ending is earth-shattering.
In "Police Honor", he played Li Dawei, showing a kind of life-like acting skills.
In general, Zhang Ruoyun is good at playing the role of a young man, who is perverse on the surface and calm on the inside, and has a kind of innocence of knowing the world.
These are exactly what the character of Lei Ming needs.
The role of a teacher who does not follow the usual path is easy to shine, but it may also overturn, whether Zhang Ruoyun can amaze the audience again this time can be said to determine the success or failure of the series.
second place, Huang Yao.
After winning the Magnolia Best Supporting Actress for the innocent girl Mai Miao in "Mountains and Seas", Huang Yao has obviously been upgraded from a supporting actor.
In "The Light of the White Tower", she played the photographer Ouyang Wenhui, who was both relaxed and lonely, and won the nomination for the Golden Rooster Actress.
This nomination obviously further established Huang Yao's position as a leading actor in the new class of actresses.
In this play, she has neat short hair and a quirky expression, playing the role of Lei Ming's special assistant, but she is not convinced by Lei Ming's teaching techniques at all, she plays against Zhang Ruoyun, I am so relieved.
third place, Liu Dan.
Liu Dan, who won the best supporting actress in Magnolia with "Aunt Pot", finally played a life-like role.
Gao Jingjuan is the head of grade at Minglong Middle School, and it is this role that advocates the introduction of Lei Ming into middle school.
Liu Dan, who doesn't have to act in a heart-rending drama, has a feeling of lifting weights like a strong woman in the workplace, and she will play the role with a relaxed backlash in the teaching meeting.
fourth place, Cheng Taishen.
Many people know him, and he is still Feng Huacheng, who is hated to the extreme in "The World".
After watching this role, and then watching Mi Zhendong in "Patrol Procuratorial Team", you can understand what a powerful faction is.
One is ruthless and unkind, and the other is ruthless and righteous.
Since the roles are different, he can control them all. This may be the highest level of a good actor, not to play a role, but that he is that role.
I don't think there are any characters in national dramas that can stump him, it depends on whether he and Zhang Ruoyun have a wonderful rivalry.
fifth, Kong Lianshun.
After bidding farewell to what I never expected, Kong Lianshun's career development is actually not very smooth, but I think he is an underestimated powerhouse, and it is difficult to break the fixed impression of the public.
His character in this play seems to be Lei Ming's sworn enemy, and he has a lot of chemistry after watching the trailer, hoping that he can prove that he can not only play the goddess of comedy this time.
As we mentioned earlier, "Minglong Boy" is not a campus youth drama that takes the usual path.
In recent years, the campus youth dramas have long since changed from the early "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season" and "Seventeen-year-old Don't Cry" to "The Year in a Hurry", "The Best of Us", "Hello, Old Times", "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy" and other diverse genres.
So how to shoot this story that the audience is familiar with?
I think there are two key points:
The first point is to shoot a different college entrance examination campus drama.
The college entrance examination is no longer a simple exam, but a national exam.
In the past, many campus youth dramas actually constituted a kind of college entrance examination drama model.
The Lei Ming teacher in the play "Minglong Boy" does not take the usual path, and the director Ding Hei outside the play also has to take the unusual road, overturn the national drama routines adopted, and use the inspirational technique to show the complexity of the story and characters in a rich way, bringing freshness and surprise to the audience, so that there is hope for a breakthrough.
The second point is how to return to the core of campus dramas.
Innovation doesn't go nowhere. The biggest key is to return to life.
In recent years, domestic campus youth dramas have also tried many different techniques, such as dramas such as "Secretly Can't Hide", all of which adopt the filming method of idol dramas, and take campus love as the focus of the drama.
But friendship, love, growth, and inheritance are the core of youth campus dramas.
At the end of the day, education is a kind of transmission.
It is the empathy of one heart to another heart, and it also represents people's beautiful expectations of the world.
Judging from the preview, Mr. Lei Ming's problem students have a lot of problems: cheating in exams, wanting to be an Internet celebrity, skipping classes to make money, etc., but their goal is Qingbei, which seems to be out of reach.
Is Qingbei so easy to get into?If Ding Hei and Zhang Ruoyun can give a convincing answer to the audience, the drama will be done.