During this Spring Festival period, female-themed films and television works have become very popular again.
Jia Ling made 100 pounds for the movie "Hot and Hot", and the box office has exceeded 1.6 billion, which is higher than Han Han's "Flying Life 2" and Zhang Yimou's "Article 20".
It's time to enter the market for TV dramas, and just last night, CCTV officially intervened.
In the category of national dramas, family dramas have become one of the themes that can skillfully use routines, and the more bloody the plot, the easier it is to cause a hit.
However, as a new generation of viewers begins to gradually control the ratings, this set of rules full of blood and hits seems to be gradually losing its original effectiveness.
In the past few years, the most popular family drama has undoubtedly been based on the theme of the sincere "The World".
How can we make the atmosphere of home permeate the national drama market again?
Last night, CCTV finally ushered in their New Year's highlight - "Fireworks".
Xu Fan, Ma Sichun, Song Chunli, Liang Jing and Sun Qian are all the main actors, and the overall lineup is quite strong.
However, what fascinates me even more is the theme of the show – female-centric family dramas.
Compared with previous family dramas, "Fireworks Family" pays more attention to China's "intergenerational relationship" and the image of women in the family.
The series is based on the original book and is titled She and Her Islands.
After the show aired, it sparked a huge response.
The ratings of the first broadcast exceeded 2, surpassing CCTV's eight sets of programs with quite high ratings "South to North" in one fell swoop, reaching 2At the peak of 32, CCTV once again caught a king bomb.
After 4 episodes in a row, and after the trailer for the last four episodes, I realized that this drama is different from traditional family dramas, and its core theme is realism.
The more gripping the storyline, the more touching the characters are, the more heart-wrenching the performance, and the more the audience relies on it.
In the face of the involution drama of family themes, this time it seems that it really needs to rely on "six women and one play" to break the deadlock.
01. Drama participation: Two Spring Festival family banquets revealed the true face of traditional Chinese human feelings.
With rich experience in the field of family dramas in the past few years, the work "Fireworks People" mainly emphasizes "authenticity" in the plot design.
The story unfolds in a well-to-do family with three generations.
Although Qiao Haiyun (played by Song Chunli) is old, she is still able to communicate with everyone normally. She doesn't get too involved in the daily life of her children, but whenever the Spring Festival comes, her children and grandchildren will go home for the Spring Festival.
Meng Mingwei (played by Xu Fan), Meng Yunqing (played by Liang Jing), and Meng Yi'an (played by Li Xiaoran), the three Meng sisters with very different personalities, together with their daughters, have been strictly following this ** family rule for many years.
During that year, two family dinners completely changed the previous norm.
At the first banquet of the Meng family, the situation almost became a mess.
On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the three families gathered, and this day was not only the Meng family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but also the old lady's birthday.
Meng Mingwei, the eldest sister of the Meng family, anxiously prepared meals for the whole family, while urging her husband to call ** for her daughter Li Yijin (played by Ma Sichun) and asked her to go **?
Her husband listened intently with headphones on, completely oblivious to her presence.
When the second sister Meng Yunqing appeared, the atmosphere of the New Year also heated up.
As soon as the eldest sister played by Xu Fan entered the door, she asked the eldest sister to help her find slippers, she looked like a relative in the audience's family, with a crossed waist and squinted eyes, and said: Oh, what a little princess of our family! The eldest sister's voice carried a kind smile, like a warm wind, gently blowing through her heart. That tone is gone.
But Meng Yunqing was not embarrassed at all: her skirt was too tight to bend her waist.
Despite this, Meng Mingwei found that person for her, and soon the relationship between the family was clarified.
Then came the classic moment of ChineseChinese New Year's Eve dinner: showing off one's career, "caring" about other people's jobs, marrying unmarried relatives, and one's own children's achievements.
Tao Shuna, Meng Yunqing's daughter, successfully obtained her doctorate this year, and her show off made her eldest sister Meng Mingwei, who was cooking, pale, as if she wanted to find a place to get in.
This text made me nod my head, as if I was pounding garlic, which is how Chinese celebrate the New Year.
But then, Meng Mingwei almost carried it on his back.
Li Yijin, the eldest granddaughter of the Meng family, made a decision for her mother to cut first and then play. When her boyfriend had already come to the entrance of his family's village, she told her that she was going to his boyfriend's house for the New Year this year.
What happened next made her even angrier.
Arch fire has appeared.
Tao Shuna's words deeply hurt her mother, "My sister has no plans to go home this year, and she has shared it in the circle of friends." Meng Mingwei realized after hearing that she had asked her daughter to be grouped.
Okay, blocking parents in the circle of friends during the Chinese New Year has a new arrangement.
The old lady Qiao Haiyun angrily criticized her daughter for scolding her granddaughter again, and claimed that her granddaughter would not come back because this birthday was too important. The old lady fiddled with the cutlery in her hand, feeling more and more annoyed. After some comfort, the family finally finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
However, the story is far from over, and a big feast is held at home.
* Immediately after this play, I started looking for a quick-acting heart-saving pill and almost failed to memorize it.
At the second meeting, the family banquet held by Li Yijin's boyfriend's house was a complete failure.
Although Li Yijin even gave up the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home for her boyfriend's thoughtfulness, her family life did not seem to be satisfactory.
Arriving at the entrance to the village on Monday, he began to retreat, and it was only when the audience saw it that they understood what he really cared about.
First of all, he just arrived at the door of Zhou Zhi's house, but Zhou Zhi's grandmother blocked the door, accusing the two of them of being incompatible, and ordered Li Yijin to cross the brazier to expel the ** qi.
Later, Grandma Zhou handed over a bowl of chicken blood again and told her that she would only be allowed to enter the house after drinking it.
Li Yijin's stomach was not very good, and he felt vomiting after drinking it.
Immediately after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the toasting session of the seven aunts and eight aunts, if it was not for Aunt Wang Yun who broke the TV at that time.
originally thought that Li Yijin had finally successfully passed the level, but unexpectedly, after giving all the gifts to the seven aunts and eight aunts, she took out the gifts again, saying that she wanted to give them to her thoughtful mother.
Later, Zhou's grandfather immediately became furious, scolded her and said, "Even if you mention a broom star, it's still a broom star," and told her to leave now and not to step through this door again.
What's even more heart-wrenching is that Grandma Zhou suddenly suffered from heart disease because of anger, she quickly got rid of Li Yijin's hand, didn't say anything, and left the scene directly with her grandmother on her back.
In a family, Li Yijin is the only one who feels lonely.
The food eaten that night that year brought deep psychological trauma to people.
The truth behind this story is that Zhou Zhi's mother killed her husband, and since then, this woman has been regarded as a taboo by the family, however, Zhou Zhi did not reveal everything to Li Yijin, and it is really strange that the parents of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are not at home, and there is not even any hint in front of his house, and he can only watch his girlfriend step on the pot.
* After this play, I almost accidentally broke the remote control at home, my mood was heavy, my blood was boiling, CCTV's New Year's drama was really shocking.
Li Yijin, who violated the taboo, actually ate her boyfriend's family banquet completely.
So far, these two Chinese New Year family banquets have not only successfully dispelled the various troubles of several families, but also vividly captured the true face of Chinese New Year culture.
There are comparisons, calculations, and secret battles between relatives, and some people are not allowed to officially serve the table because of taboos.
Celebrating the New Year can only be called a new year when the past is in the past, and the place where you can't spend it is Kamiharuyama.
02, storyline: Removing the fig leaf of the ** family, the three pairs of mother and daughter staged a wonderful drama together.
The three families of the three sisters of the Meng family were torn apart because of this opening moment, and the wonderful drama of the three mothers and daughters kicked off.
It describes "the mother and daughter who slapped her on the first day of the new year".
Meng Mingwei, the eldest sister of the Meng family, played by Xu Fan, and her daughter Li Yijin have the main purpose of establishing a bridge of communication between generations.
Meng Mingwei is not Qiao Haiyun's biological daughter, although Qiao Haiyun treats her like her own, Meng Mingwei was born with a lame problem, which makes her feel very inferior in the family.
She desperately hopes that her daughter will give her a better face than always let her sister show off her PhD daughter in front of her.
Compared with the talented Tao Shuna, Li Yijin is just an ordinary woman, who has served in a small theater troupe for many years, neither up nor down.
Because there is a nagging mother and a father who looks down all day long, he is reluctant to go home even during the Chinese New Year.
However, there is also a warm side hidden behind the family's troubles.
The series of greetings from her mother that Li Yijin did not click on was really filmed very realistically.
Even though we met, there were still arguments.
Meng Mingwei was keenly aware that her daughter's life at her boyfriend's house was not satisfactory, but her least favorite way was to rush to break up, coupled with the misunderstanding of her daughter's pregnancy, she did not hesitate to slap her daughter on the first day of the new year.
Li Yijin was furious as soon as she got home, and immediately began to organize her belongings and return to her deserted cabin, and was resolutely unwilling to stay at home for another minute.
Observing the progress of the plot, we can foresee that the conflict between the mother and daughter will further intensify, from the sudden blind date mission, to the unhesitating arrangement of a relationship for her daughter in her hometown, looking for a job, and urging her to quit her job and return to her hometown to become a teacher.
However, the more Meng Mingwei cared about Li Yijin, the more obvious Li Yijin's rebellious behavior became.
The issue of intergenerational communication between the mother and daughter, while seemingly unpleasant on the surface, is actually very real and down-to-earth, enough for the audience to understand in a second.
With her outstanding acting talent, Xu Fan successfully created an ordinary mother figure full of inferiority, care and chaos, which made the audience instantly fall in love with her, which was undoubtedly a huge impact on her acting skills.
The second point is the "crisis of being revealed" in middle-aged marriage
Liang Jing's second sister Meng Yunqing and Sun Qian's Tao Shuna Xueba's daughter successfully show the perfect relationship between mother and daughter, as well as the problems faced by middle-aged women - having a career, wealth and outstanding appearance, although the daughter is the pride of the family, the crisis of middle-aged marriage is still unavoidable.
Compared to the previous couple, the mother and daughter can be said to be flawless. The daughter shares her crush with her mother and shares a common secret with her mother, which is enough to prove that Liang Jing plays the role of a dream lover in the hearts of the audience.
However, life always has its imperfections, and Meng Yunqing's imperfections are brought by Tao Dalei played by the red wolf Liu Jun.
Meng Yunqing's relationship with Tao Dalei can be seen as a true reflection of the middle-aged couple: they play various roles during the Chinese New Year, sometimes arguing in the room, sometimes performing outside the room".
The two hadn't lived together for a long time, and they lived together briefly for the sake of their daughter. But Red Wolf's acting skills are still excellent, he not only plays a less reliable father, but also vividly shows the real life of a middle-aged couple. However, his acting skills were so superb that he ended up leaving only himself as the focal point of a new generation.
This character forms a pair of scumbag partners with the scumbag dad played by Li Chengru next door.
Meng Yunqing's daily life seems to be completely dependent on her daughter's breath to sustain it.
Once you lose that breath, life threatens to fall apart.
Meng Yunqing's situation also symbolizes a different type of middle-aged working woman, who will encounter various problems to a greater or lesser extent.
The third point is about the "role simulation of going home during the Chinese New Year".
Li Xiaoran plays the third sister Meng Yi'an, and the challenge she faces is how to find a balance between career and family.
The children of the Meng family regarded her as a role model, she was gentle and intellectual, she was outstanding, her career and wealth were rich, and she was very kind to others.
When I went home for the Chinese New Year, the family did not look arrogant at all, but thoughtfully gave a satisfactory gift to the whole family, and never let people cook at will.
This aunt can be said to be perfect, but under her dazzling appearance, there are also some secrets hidden from the outside world.
Although she looks like a well-behaved couple and beautiful children, in fact she and the husband played by Song Ningfeng have ended their marriage and mainly play the role when they return home, and after the performance, her ex-husband gets off halfway.
In the whole family, she bears a striking resemblance to Qiao Haiyun, she is both determined and self-reliant, unwilling to become a strong woman like her mother, but ends up taking a different path from her mother.
Not everyone is born a strong woman, it's just that due to the pressures of life, many women end up becoming strong women.
Each of the three sisters of the Meng family faces different dilemmas and challenges. From intergenerational communication, husband and wife relationships, to the crisis of middle-aged marriage and the balance between career and family, a series of problems that modern urban residents have to face are like snowballs, constantly rolling in front of them.
It was only when six women participated in a theatrical performance that the drama began.
The main acting schools were all gathered, and surprisingly, 2 of them were criticized to the point of being "scolded".
After discussing the main plot, we can talk about some other topics.
In the work "Fireworks People", the performance of the actors is undoubtedly the most attractive highlight.
The top-level elderly woman role is played by Song Chunli, who has won the title of double actress and national first-class actor.
The middle-level sisters of the Meng family and their partners are composed of Xu Fan, Liang Jing, Li Xiaoran, Li Chengru, Liu Jun, Geng Le, Song Ningfeng and other members of the acting school.
Even the younger generation of fighting sisters have acting geniuses like actresses Ma Sichun and Sun Qian.
The quality of the performance of this play is ensured. For those who code, I just pay tribute to Yang Xiaopei.
Surprisingly, the two actors were criticized for their in-depth interpretation of their roles.
At the top of the list is Xu Fan.
In the play, she successfully created the role of the eldest sister of the Meng family, who can be said to be chattering.
In her young years, she starred as the Huabiao actress and the national first-class actor Xu Fan among many urban women, but she never avoided playing the role of a nagging mother.
Still, her performance is outstanding, and every little detail is eye-catching.
In the scene when Li Yijin returned home, she and her mother looked at each other through the door, her mouth was dissatisfied, and her eyes were full of comfort and relief: as long as people return safely, it would be fine.
After an argument with her daughter, she became emotional and couldn't help but say, "If you are pregnant with such a thoughtful child, your whole life will be affected." She almost burst into tears.
Not long ago, the audience was still dissatisfied with Li Yijin's control of life, but the next moment, I saw Xu Fan sitting alone in the room, staring at his daughter's **, and I really couldn't express his dissatisfaction in words.
Under Xu Fan's outstanding performance, this role was unexpectedly criticized by some audiences, especially the old mother's excessive concern made the audience feel suffocated.
However, the higher the audience's attention, the more it proves that Xu Fan's acting skills are not far from the past.
In second place is Song Chunli.
The veteran drama actor plays the role of a consummate parent.
Qiao Haiyun was a vigorous and resolute person when he was young, he raised two daughters alone, and also adopted Meng Mingwei, who was born with a leg disability.
Despite her advanced age, Li Yijin still insisted on her position, telling her boyfriend that the first time she did it was to save face for him, because she would return to her grandmother's house for the Chinese New Year in the future, which is a grandmother's tradition. Li Yijin's boyfriend was silent for a moment after hearing this, and finally laughed, and understood the rules of this family in his heart. This line shows a strong domineering, and the character is immediately portrayed.
Although it may seem tough on the surface, behind it is actually endless care and care for the younger generation.
Although the number of these two scenes is not large, they can still be regarded as classic teaching materials for acting.
First, after the New Year's dinner, she went out with her three daughters and her family. For a moment, she smiled and waved to her daughter and family, but when she saw her daughter drift away, her loneliness immediately came over her, and her expression changed very subtly.
In another scene, a 60-year-old girl lies in her arms, gently touching her daughter's hair and telling her to learn to release herself.
This scene once again shows the touching and tearful acting skills of the two veteran actors, even if the child is older, they are still the child in the eyes of the mother.
Song Chunli and Xu Fan once again showed our strength as excellent actresses, and the key is whether they can match their stories.
In third place is Liu Jun.
Liu Jun is considered to be the best male actor in China to play the role of "scumbag", which you can't refute.
After Sheng Hong and Qiao Zuwang, he created a scumbag dad character known as a classic: Tao Dalei.
On the first day of the new year, he and his wife lived a married life like a peacock about to spread its wings.
He built a tomb for his mother and asked for 100,000 yuan, looking at his lazy and lazy appearance, the thought of beating him surged in his heart.
However, he secretly bends down and secretly observes the scene of his wife and "love rival" getting out of the car, which makes people feel very happy, as if he wants to see him after completing the demon before inflicting violence on him.
This acting technique is really outstanding.
In fourth place is Ma Sichun.
Ma Sichun's performance this time is quite outstanding, although she has lost a lot of weight, Li Yijin is an ordinary heroine in a rare national drama. She doesn't stand out academically or professionally, and she lacks insight in the search for a boyfriend, which allows viewers to better see her from the perspective of ordinary people.
In the duel with Xu Fan, she always remained calm, even if she was beaten hard by Xu Fan, her role also showed amazing explosiveness.
Next, I want to see how the role shifts.
In fifth place is Sun Qian.
Sun Qian's acting talent among the new generation of female actors is quite outstanding, and this time she is no exception.
She plays Nana, with her coquettish, playful and lively personality, who has become a mysterious sister who can make Li Yijin mentally break down with just clever handling.
She is not only the bright pearl of the family, but also a beautiful and sassy female doctor, whether it is her studies or appearance, she is the baby of the neighborhood.
However, Sun Qian showed a subtle willfulness when playing the role, such as Li Yijin's behavior of not going home for the New Year, which further exacerbated the conflict, and after sharing a house with Li Yijin, Sun Qian always tried to make her sister give in.
The shoe cabinet is completely occupied, and I don't mop the floor after using the bathroom, and my attitude is very arrogant, if it were me, I would not help but do it.
However, this kind of character setting is real. The 27-year-old Sun Qian is really very popular, and I really envy him.
The excellent actors spanning the three age groups of old, middle, and young provide a solid self-confidence for the series.
04. The heart is full of warmth, and the deep bond with the family deeply touches people's hearts.
Although the title of the movie "Fireworks People" is only four words, it is like a huge fig leaf, revealing the inner world of adults, and vividly describes the communication problems between generations in China and the actual situation of women in the family through six women living in different generations.
The audience may get angry after the meeting because the story is too real.
During the Chinese New Year, this drama will make me feel more deeply. Originally, it was a cerebral hemorrhage caused by emotion, but due to the "comparison" plot at the family banquet, it really reminded the audience of the scene replay during the Chinese New Year.
Several characters in the play are also strongly represented.
The role of the eldest sister played by Xu Fan reflects many regretful parents who pin their hopes on their children and hope that their daughter will get ahead. But what is hard to accept is that they may be ordinary, they may not be smart, beautiful, or excellent, or their children may be ordinary, and genius girls like Nana are just a rarity.
However, even the most inconspicuous ordinary people have the right to live the life of their dreams.
The role of Li Yijin, although the heroine in the national drama is not common, I have a special love for her, because she represents the one who is difficult to bring face to our parents at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Although the daily life of an adult is not simple.
Although "Fireworks People" is a panoramic group drama with a family theme, its tone is full of warmth.
The true meaning of life lies in "no regrets".
This does not mean that Luozi does not need to feel regrets, but it does mean that he does not need to regret them.
The family bond between the three sisters of the Meng family bears similarities to the family life of many during the Spring Festival, which is both distant and close.
Even though each family is a part of each other, full of comparisons and secret struggles, in the end I hope you can live better.
This is the direct feeling brought by the first four episodes of "Fireworks People".
If you can be in the spotlight like me, it's because the show's real footage reminds us of the deep bonds we have with our families in our lives.
In real life, there is not much real meaning, and we need to spend each day on our own.
The series does not intend to reveal the answer to the audience, as life itself does not have a clear answer.
However, the deep affection between family members has a deep meaning. The original adaptation of the TV series is titled "She and Her Islands", which describes the comparisons, struggles, quarrels and archfires with us during the Chinese New Year, but also expresses deep concern for our loved ones, we are not isolated islands. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan