Rhino Entertainment Original
Text: Shen Wanting Editor: Pu Fang
As the story of "Flowers" is about to come to an end, "Big River" ushers in the final chapter.
It also belongs to China in the last century.
The 80s and 90s are the period dramas with social backgrounds, and the two dramas present different sections of Chinese society in that era from different perspectives and expressions; At the same time, they refine the grand proposition into small characters, stories, and emotions, so that the current audience can "resonate" with the emotions of the times conveyed in the play.
Two ways to open the "sense of the times".
"Relay" broadcast, similar era, top team ......All kinds of factors make it inevitable that "Flowers" and "The Years of the Great River are Like a Song" (hereinafter referred to as "The Great River 3") will inevitably be compared.
Obviously, although they both focus on the background of reform, opening up and modernization, the two dramas show completely different perceptions, they represent two variations in the torrent of the times, creating a different style of "sense of the times" between realism and romance.
"Flowers" shows the audience a sense of the times of "random flowers gradually want to charm the eyes", placing the intrigue in the business war, the emotional entanglement of men and women in the early 90s of the last century, and the ups and downs of the life of the children who make the tide in the business field of Shanghai, reproducing the Shanghai-style style in the early days of reform and opening up.
As the earliest city in China's era, Shanghai's culture has a significant blend of Chinese and Western characteristics, which can not only mix traditional and modern temperament, but also allow the market and petty bourgeois culture to coexist for a long time. Therefore, in "Flowers", we are not only shocked by the extreme luxury of the Yellow River Road, which gathers business elites from all over the world, but also moved by the fireworks of a bowl of soaked rice and a meal of pork ribs and rice cakes; We not only lamented the ups and downs of the fate of the main characters such as Bao, Li Li, Lingzi, and Miss Wang, but also were infected by the character arc of Tao Tao, Linghong, Teacher Ge and other small people in the market.
Here in "Big River", it depicts the vast number of beings in the times in a more down-to-earth way, and uses three tide-makers with different occupations, different classes, and different personalities who are equally unhesitating to plunge into the torrent of the times as the fulcrum, connecting the thousands of ordinary little people around them, intertwined into a surging picture of the times.
With the flow of the fate of the three protagonists and the people around them in "Big River", the changes in China's political, economic, social life and other fields from the late 80s to the early 90s of the 20th century have also slowly unfolded.
The story line of "Big River 3" began in 1993 and tells the story of the cross-border cooperation between Donghai Chemical and Luoda Company in full swing. In this part, we can still see the development of several different economic forms they represent in the early days of reform and opening up through the growth trajectories of several main characters; After the accumulation and tempering of the first two parts, this group of "young people fighting waves" continue to rise and fall and move forward in the new story, fighting against the waves in the sea of market economy.
After watching "Flowers" and then watching "Big River 3", it will always give people a strong "sense of separation". On one side is the drunken and intoxicated fans of the bustling Shanghai, and on the other side is the young people of the East China Sea crossing the river by feeling the stones, with the same sky above their heads, but their fate is so uneven.
But when you think about it, it doesn't seem unreasonable. The 90s of the last century was the time when China's market economy reform was full of ups and downs, and some people experienced "Flowers" in the 90s, and some people rode the wind and waves in "Big River". Rather than being caught in the controversy between suspension and reality, it is better to savor the rich temperament of the times behind the two works.
Linking the public with the "mood of the times".
Each era has its own themes and trends, and every national drama is also trying to record and reflect the mood of the times. And a good period drama can not only evoke the memories of the audience in that era, but also create an emotional connection with modern audiences with a more universal spirit of the times.
The approach of "Flowers" and "Big River" is to mobilize the current audience's sense of resonance for the stories of the times by creating all kinds of characters, using their "spirit" embodied in the tide of the times and the various states of the world behind them.
For example, "Flowers" is not only the business legend and emotional story of the male protagonist Bao, but also Lingzi, Miss Wang, Li Li, Uncle, Mr. Fan, Mr. Qiang and other businessmen from all walks of life, who are also friends and enemies around them, are strung together in the "Yellow River Road", as well as the interaction of various small people such as small staff, waiters, small vendors, and street gangsters, all of which bring a certain human brilliance to the play.
If you watch the play carefully, you will find that no matter what class of society you are in, the background color of each character in the play is upward, whether it is Ah Bao who "does not die until the heart of the Yellow River", or several female characters with their own characteristics but are independent and self-reliant, or the low-level employees represented by Min Min, Lucy, and Xiao Jiangxi, each flesh-and-blood person constitutes a three-dimensional aspect of the times, and it is precisely every ordinary person who struggles upwards that affects the emotional memory of the public.
The characters in "Big River" are simple and bright. Song Yunhui, a representative of the state-owned economy, Lei Dongbao, a representative of the collective economy, Yang Xun, a representative of the individual economy, and Liang Sishen, a representative of the foreign economy, none of them can escape the coercion of the times; And it is the spark generated in the game with themselves and the times, that is, the process of the characters in the story facing difficulties and solving difficulties, that is the most exciting part of this series.
Judging from the first few episodes of "Big River 3", several protagonists are facing the trough of their own lives, but they have grown significantly compared with the first two parts. Taking Song Yunhui as an example, after experiencing a huge gap between the East China Sea and Pengyang, he was taken away by the police in the first episode because of the pesticide poisoning of the Pengyang factory, and his forehead was smashed by his family, but he still adhered to the original intention of professionalism and fairness in the process of finding out the cause of the problem, and he was a little more mature than the previous "Mu Ne". and Lei Dongbao, who has regrouped and returned to society, has become more calm, and Yang Xun, who has experienced the pain of losing his mother, has become more ......responsible
The people and things in these dramas are the epitome of you, me, and him in the tide of change, the epitome of society, and the epitome of the times.
For the audience who experienced the economic change period in the 90s, whether it is the left-handed ticket in "Flowers" and the right-handed foreign trade to make a fortune, or the ** and perseverance experienced on the road of reform in "Big River", it more or less reflects the real life experience of their generation, and it is easier to arouse their emotional resonance.
For the younger audiences of our generation, the reason why these two dramas can resonate through the torrent of the times and resonate in the depths of the minds of different generations is that they both run through the spirit of the times with the spirit of hard work and high spirit, and have become the key link to build an effective connection between the stories of the times and the current audience.
Now, "Flowers" will usher in the end of membership tonight, and the popularity and word-of-mouth after the premiere of "Dajiang Dahe 3" are still fermenting. bid farewell to the flowery legend of Shanghai, and look forward to the surging "river" story to talk about the proposition of the times.