The biggest thing in the rice circle in the past two days is that the top female idol of K-pop is in love.
aespa captain Yoo Jimin, who is slightly familiar with the Korean circle, knows that the popular phrase "already at Next Level" is from one of aespa's most popular songs, "Next Level". After her relationship with actor Lee Jae-wook was dispatched by South Korea's largest paparazzi **dispatch (affectionately known as "D Society")*, criticism includes but is not limited to:
Falling in love during the rising period, don't you want to die? "Don't want to be the 'Five Girls One' (the first of the five generations of girl groups)? "That's what a beautiful woman looks like? ”
Among the many doubts, most of the passers-by who ate melons were confused: Who is Lee Jae-wook?
The love news came out on February 27, and Lee Jae-wook's new drama was launched on Disney+ on the 28th. I won't list the connection for the time being, but judging from the quality of the new drama, this actor who is not well-known finally has his own masterpiece: "Usurpation".
Judging from the synopsis, this is a modern conspiracy drama. Lee Jae-wook plays the male protagonist Han Tae-woo, the son of a murderer who forms an alliance with the illegitimate son of a top chaebol and conspires to become the heir to the group.
Strategists and concubines, ministers and kings, have the taste of Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei.
If you watch two episodes, you will find that this is also a counterattack from the bottom to the upper class.
Korean dramas always like to shoot the chaebol struggle for power with the flavor of the kingship, which is indeed in line with the national conditions of South Korea. Since there is nothing to dig into history, we should put more effort into reality. Hyundai Motor Group's "eight sons and one daughter" competed for the second-generation leader, which was no less than "nine sons to win the heir".
In other words,The conspiracy drama of domestic costume dramas has been translated to Korean dramas, and it has become an urban theme.
In "Usurpation", the setting of the strong five groups is very "down-to-earth": the top chaebol, three sons and one daughter, the third strong Renxia (played by Li Junrong) is an unfavored and disgraceful concubine, who was "exiled" to the countryside to study, so he met the male protagonist from the bottom.
It's a clever setting. Where the palm is big, you can't avoid the quarrel between the corners of the mouth; In high school, I was simple-minded, and even if I didn't like each other at first, I could easily let go of my defense; The injuries brought by the original family and the growing pains of adolescence made the two sympathize with each other and laid a solid foundation for the alliance.
On the other hand,Conspiracy essentially writes about human nature, and if the conspiracy drama is to be good-looking, it is necessary to write colorful human hearts and write about the unevenness of the world.
Watching "Usurpation", I still can't see that the bottom line of the three protagonists is **.
The male protagonist Han Taiwu is the most inconsistent with the common male protagonistIn particular, it does not meet the expectations of a "saint" in the traditional sense.
The childhood shadow of his father killing his mother made him understand the social rules of the jungle early. The screenwriter barely left the male protagonist with any emotional nourishment, and the male protagonist climbed upwardsThe driving force is to move the murderous intent, resolute, extreme, and dark.
This is also the background color of the male protagonist's character.
What Han Taiwu is best at is grasping people's hearts.
Although Qiang Renxia was surrounded everywhere in the class, Han Taiwu could see at a glance that he actually had no friends; Qiang Renxia stole chickens and dogs in front of him, but Han Taiwu contemptuously pointed out that this gangster was just a loveless child who was asking for attention. The vision is steady and ruthless, so that Qiang Renxia can break the defense.
Qiang Renxia has had a habit of petty theft since the first episode, and his noble identity and his actions have formed a strong potential difference. Lack of love, lack of friends, and more importantly, lack of dreams. Until Han Taiwu awakened his hidden ambitions.
At the TV series press conference, Li Junrong once described Qiang Renxia as "a dog raised by the owner Han Taiwu". Watching the drama, you will find that this description is accurate enough, and Han Taiwu is the absolute leader of this alliance.
The superior is led by the nose by the staff, which is already evident in the first two episodes. Han Taiwu celebrates his birthday every year, and Qiang Renxia arranges a big meal, and he has been adding dishes to the male protagonist; Find the male owner for lunch every day.,Introduce a part-time tutor to the male owner.,Drive the male owner to a part-time job .......
Even, I noticed the heroine Luo Huiyuan (played by Hong Xiuzhu), also because of Han Taiwu's sight. Presumably, there will be a corresponding backlash in the follow-up plot, and dramatic conflicts will occur naturally.
The heroine doesn't just exist for the emotional line. She did get the love of the male protagonist and the male protagonist at the same time, but the core driving force of this female character is to be on top. Like Han Taiwu, her miserable life experience has given her a rational mind and the ambition to climb up regardless of everything.
In this regard, Luo Huiyuan is the male protagonist of the sexual transformation. Therefore, having a good impression of the male protagonist as "the same kind of person", and finally choosing the second male as a partner, seems to be a drama love triangle, but it is actually the inevitable choice of the female protagonist.
And the best part is,Sexual fate is not a factor that drives the story. The male protagonist did not have an inferiority complex and a willingness to go all out because he was not chosen, and the female protagonist in turn urged the male protagonist not to give up the **rope of the second male sister. Ambition is greater than everything else, it is a conspiracy drama.
However, will the inexplicable youthful feelings become a time bomb in the future power struggle? The second male is interested in the female protagonist, does he really like it, or is it because of his possessiveness for the male protagonist? These are the follow-up highlights of "Usurpation".
About 20 years ago, Hollywood already had this kind of "usurpation narrative", such as the 1999 movie "The Genius Ripley", which was also designed to overthrow the superior and replace it, but from a critical perspective, using scheming commoners against elegant and kind rich boys.
Twenty years have passed, and the times have changed"Usurpation" has become a "counterattack" that everyone yearns for.
The counterattack drama of the people at the bottom fighting the chaebol is becoming more and more popular in the post-epidemic era. At the end of 2022, "The Young Son of the Chaebol Family" starring Song Joong Ki caused a wide range of heated discussions in domestic entertainment, and the protagonist was reborn in a chaebol family and ascended to the highest position of power, and the refreshment of the social status counterattack is max.
More than a year has passed, and the bottom-level counterattack drama has completed the evolution from a rebirth theme to a crime theme. If you want to be ruthless, you have to be more ruthless than others, and the hero fell off the altar and began to play tricks.
Whether it is giving up the golden finger or the shaping of female characters, "Usurpation" has removed the exclusive brand of male frequency. The refreshing feeling of social status counterattack and the emotion of "the prince will have a kind of peace" are common, and they also attract female audiences. There's still ten episodes to go, so let's watch it.
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