At the beginning of 2024, many domestic dramas will also begin to be exported. From "Flowers" at the beginning of the year to the recently launched "Dajiang Dahe 3" and "Dog Leftover Run", the quality is very high and full of highlights.
It's just that the positioning of these themes is clear, and the audience orientation is also obvious. The quality of "Flowers" is **, but the popularity has not exploded. The combination between "Big River 3" and fans is relatively good, and the war elements of "Dog Left to Run" also have a very obvious audience circle.
The market urgently needs a TV series that can open the audience's horizons, and it needs a real hit to revive its popularity. waited and waited, and finally waited for this drama about life and emotions in "Happy Parents Group".
From the title, it can be seen that the positioning of this drama is very clear. "Family affection" and "parenting" are basically the main highlights of this drama.
However, judging from the few episodes that have been released, the evaluation of netizens can be described as a bad review. What happened to the show?
A family comedy that audiences are all too familiar with.
I Love My Family", "Family with Children" and the director's costume work "The Happy Affair of the Lan Boudoir" can all make people laugh.
However, these comedies are either dominated by small people and wrapped in a core that can add value, or they have a constant value output that makes people want to watch it again.
and "Happy Parents Group" Just by watching the first few episodes, you can feel the inexplicable "fake big empty".
The parents of the three families in the play live in a villa area, they have no worries about food and clothing, and they are financially wealthy, and they should pay more attention to education.
However, they only learned the age and gender of the class teacher at the beginning of the school year, and they did not know anything about it before.
Living in the villa area, on the first day of school, I learned that the teacher was the first time to be the head teacher, but I was talking about it behind my back.
When dealing with problems between students, teachers are immediately frightened when they encounter parents with strong personalities.
The problem was originally easy to solve, and the teacher acted as a mediator in the middle, fair and impartial. With the addition of monitoring**, the problem was quickly resolved, but the head teacher did not dare to say a word.
It can be seen that the screenwriter wants to show the weirdness of the children.
However, the first-grade girl peed her pants, and the fifth-grade boy ran away from home without doing his homework and wrote a letter saying that he had eloped with a junior high school girl. What is this operation?
I would like to start with the "double burden reduction" to show the education system in the new era and the life of primary school students after the "burden reduction". The intentions were good, but it turned out that these people had nothing to do in the first place.
The parents seem to be idle, and the old father, who is a screenwriter, can't hold back a word in three episodes. They "forgive" their children. In addition, there is no economic crisis. It seems that they are all in front of the screen and do not need to be "deloaded".
I have to say that this may be the most contradictory and boring family that the screenwriter can come up with.
The male protagonist is a screenwriter who can live in a villa, eat cakes from his new neighbors, run up and down the teaching building, and belittle the teacher's criticism for two innocuous things.
Where does the stress of middle-aged people go? The old father's good attitude of hard-working and hard-working is gone, and the topic of involution that elementary school students have been facing has disappeared.
It's not an educational topic, it's purely for the sake of being funny.
This world is so crazy that even the Emperor is still in the comfort zone of his "father".
Powerful Mesozoic actor, does he have any obsession with being a father?
Huang Lei is 52 years old. He used the bonus of the cook and dad for nearly 10 years.
Now, the reputation is finally gone. He cooks to the point of boredom the audience, and urban dramas come one after another. As a result, even serious dramas are difficult to get into.
49-year-old Wu Jing, in order to highlight the other side of his tough guy character in the film, he must have a child to show iron-like gentleness.
"Changjin Lake" has a younger brother, "The Wandering Earth" has a son, "Megalodon 2" has a niece, and "Goodbye, Li Kele" wants to play an old father who still has good memories after his death, which is the faith of his daughter and wife.
Of course, Zhang Jiayi has acting skills and strength, but in recent years, he has been a little too keen on the role of his father.
Besides, Zhang Jiayi is 53 years old, has a son who is about 12 years old, is in the fifth grade, and has a daughter who is six or seven years old, won't he feel ridiculous in acting?
I have to admit that Zhang Jiayi does look younger after dyeing his hair black, but to be honest, his words and deeds are completely like a little old man.
Originally, when I had a back injury, I had the habit of making small movements, and every detail revealed the age of the uncle. He was in his fifties and could no longer play a young man.
Especially when Zhang Jiayi played against young actors, that intimacy from another generation immediately exploded.
It's such a simple action of taking the cake, I thought it was my grandfather secretly preparing it for his grandson. My first reaction was even "Why is this kid so rude and let grandpa do it himself?" ”
In fact, Chen Hao is 45 years old, and she plays the mother of a child about 10 years old, and she is also suspected of pretending to be young. However, female celebrities usually pay more attention to maintenance and spend a lot of effort on dressing and styling.
When Zhang Jiayi and Chen Hao quarreled, I really couldn't help but play again.
Leaning on the chair and pointing fingers is completely discriminatory and suppressive, isn't this the boss training employees?
As soon as they stood up, they were in the same frame. Good guys, I'm sure they're father and daughter.
When Zhang Jiayi and Fang Qingzhuo were in the same frame, I couldn't help but dance again.
The moment he put on his glasses, it was as if he had been sealed. Zhang Jiayi put his eyes on the bridge of his nose and squinted his eyes to read the letter. He frowned and looked down at each other, I thought it was a brother and sister.
It turns out that you really can't pretend to be tender, even if you close your mouth tightly, it will still show in your eyes.
This is a father of fifth-graders and first-graders, and a screenwriter himself. I felt like he couldn't stand anymore.
Such an obvious scene, at the moment when Zhang Jiayi called Fang Qingzhuo "mother", became extremely funny and absurd.
After all, Zhang Jiayi looks even rougher than Fang Qingzhuo in the play, and his face is full of traces of old age. He can barely play a father, but playing a son is a bit deliberately pretending to be young.
But then again, the status of actors and actresses in film and television dramas is so unequal. A 50-year-old man is like a flower, and a 40-year-old woman can only play the role of a mother.
Such a farce led to the 53-year-old Zhang Jiayi finally playing husband and wife with an actress who was 10 years younger, and a mother and son with an actress who was 10 years older, focusing on mixing and matching, completely only considering the actor's acting skills, regardless of the audience's feelings.
In addition, there is also a trend of underproduction of film and television dramas. A theme style like "Happy Parents Group" should be performed by actors in their thirties and forties. But the problem is to choose a middle-aged actor who can show a simple feeling in life dramas and can play the role of Liu Xiangxiang well with the audience. There isn't much to choose from.
It is no wonder that in domestic film and television dramas, there are often confusing age relationships between the characters portrayed by actors, and the scenes are abrupt and awkward.
It can only be said that domestic dramas still rely too much on actors in casting. Obviously, audiences have tended to focus on the behind-the-scenes rather than the cast, but most directors still prefer to choose actors who are familiar to the audience, for fear that their plots and stories will be buried because the actors are not well-known enough.
Of course, this also proves that most of the behind-the-scenes teams are not fully confident in the script and the quality of the production.
Fortunately, although Zhang Jiayi's age in the play is a little embarrassing, his acting skills are sufficient, and the father figure he portrays is kind and real, full of fireworks, and it is easier to integrate into the plot.
What's even more unpleasant is that the contrast between Zhang Jiayi's old appearance and the young actor's energetic appearance in the play actually intensifies the collision of comedic effects. Therefore, in addition to the casting of "Happy Parents Group", which does not meet the age, this drama is still worth watching.
Finally, in your memory, what other film and television dramas have actors who are unexpectedly old? Feel free to leave your comments below.