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2020 can be said to be the year of the outbreak of female group portraits. The summer hits “Thirty Only” and “Twenty Not Confused”, these two dramas not only won high ratings and good reputation, but also their strong topics. Igniting the summer file to detonate the social platform.
In addition, the female group portraits that have been online or will be online this year include “Old Girlfriends”, “Dear Myself”, “Who Said I Can’t Get Married”, “Youth Youth”, “He Doesn’t Love You That”, and ” More than a dozen dramas such as “Ster Girl”, female group portrait drama really ushered in its spring.
On the other hand, male group portrait dramas have not seen any splashes in this year’s film list. Then why female group portrait dramas have found a focus in urban emotional dramas. Spring is ushered in, while male group portrait dramas are in the city. Encountered collective aphasia in emotional drama?
Urban emotional drama, female singing and male losing voice
From the female group portraits that have been broadcast, it is not difficult to find that these shows are mostly urban emotional dramas, and present a creative trend of age as the boundary, telling women’s marriage and love at different stages as their main content.
The first domestic female group portrait was “Pink Girl”, which was born in 2003. The story tells the life of four girls in their twenties; then “I want to fall in love” in 2004. , The play narrates the love stories of three older sisters in their thirties, and analyzes the marriage and love views of 30+ women at the beginning of the 21st century. These are the “twenties” and “30s” in the 2000s.
Compared with the “Twenty” and “Thirty” in the 1920s, they have become more sophisticated in creation. The overall story is born out of a slightly childish idol plot, and the content is closer to the actual situation, implementing the big era The realism line of the little character is more enlightening to the audience.
In addition, there are “Twenty” and “Thirty” in “Youth Fight” and “Women Gang”. In 2016, the hit drama “Ode to Joy” is a mix of “twenty” and “30”, comprehensively telling the lives of girls in the two stages of 20 and 30.
The female group portrait show has found a place in the urban emotional drama, but the male group portrait drama cannot take root here.
This is derived from: Urban sentiment scripts are a common female-oriented drama genre, which is developed from a male perspective and its main audience.The public, Female audiences do not match, and depicting male emotional and psychological conditions often fails to meet the expectations of female audiences, and is in a thankless situation. Therefore, urban emotional dramas with male themes are few and far between. number.
The 2007 “Struggle” caused a frenzy of ratings once it was broadcast. The drama was based on the struggle of three college graduates. The audience commented that the drama was “very good, and the protagonist is fighting for his dreams.” , Insist on being yourself”; nowadays, when the audience looks back on the play again, they become “hypocritical and inspirational.”
The 2011 “Men Gang” was considered by the audience to be a collection of men’s love, but now the audience commented on it as an imaginary world of love for men; 2012’s “Beijing Youth” was a passionate mouthThe title “Youth Going Again” made the audience feel excited. Now it seems that this is the story of a group of people who grew up under the roots of the imperial city and lived a good life. They have to come to experience the sufferings of the world.
In 2020, Jin Dong’s new work “If Time Can Turn Back”, since its launch, critics such as “exaggerated”, “greasy” and “fake big sky” have been closely surrounding this drama, and finally scored 3.5 points on Douban. It ended dismal.
From these practical results, we can see that male group portraits in urban emotional themes are not so pleasing, and with the passage of time, the audience’s tolerance for male group portraits is becoming less and less. Acknowledge what the protagonist does and think in the play. The following puffer fish will analyze the male group portrait drama from the two dimensions of work and love, and dig deeper into his creative dilemma.
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In the male group portraits of urban emotional dramas, work can be described as a very embarrassing situation. Either the male protagonist’s profession is just a symbol and carries too little content; or the male protagonist is just like the Shuangwen male protagonist at work. , Hanging all the way but indifferent to fame and fortune and careless.
In “The Gang of Men” Gu Xiaobai is a professional screenwriter, but his life is very different from the life of the real screenwriter. There is no joy or distress of creation at all, and he is in a kind of house without loans, rich and leisure. , Lujiazui shopping, drinking coffee on the Bund, going to various high-end restaurants, and falling in love with all kinds of girls.
Gu Xiaobai, as such a “I just spend your time working, studying, and repaying your mortgage for drinking coffee” The suspended male protagonist naturally does not get the audience’s recognition of his living conditions .
Lu Tao in “Struggle” is the existence of the hero of Shuangwen. Lu Tao personally has a dream to become an excellent architect, do everything possible to avoid the protection of his father, and has to fight on his own. However, under the care of his father, stepdad, and even the father of his ex-girlfriend, he was about to achieve a successful struggle. He suddenly realized that the goal of his struggle was his girlfriend Charlene, and immediately left behind his father and ex-girlfriend who were trapped in the project. Father and his own dream, went to France with his girlfriend to start his own happy life.
Such a male protagonist seemed to be somewhat attractive back then, but today’s audiences only think that he is cheap and good. So why does such an aesthetic change happen?
Whether it’s a symbolic career or the opening career of a Shuangwen male protagonist, this is an obvious expression of idol drama temperament. This type of person is very common in domestic TV dramas ten years ago, and it was also the main one at that time. A setting that the audience doesn’t care much about or is satisfied.
However, after a decade of transformation, realist themes have taken root in domestic dramas. The audience prefers the stories of small characters in the big era, looking forward to seeing the protagonists who empathize with them, not This type of floating figure. In terms of character creation, the audience prefers to see a complete protagonist with flesh and blood, three-dimensional and multi-faceted, both work and life, rather than weakening a certain aspect of a character that only shows one-sidedness.
Furthermore, the evolution of domestic dramas and the introduction of overseas dramas have made the audience’s aesthetics more refined, and their tolerance for dramas has gradually decreased. The audience feels that the slogan of “Youth Go Back Again” in “Beijing Youth” is more and more impractical for Secondary Two; on “If the Years Can Turn Back”, the viewers feel that the slogan of “Beijing Youth” in “If the time can turn around” Middle-aged men don’t want to see themselves. Instead of agreeing with their act of resurrecting, they think they are just self-righteous middle-aged greasy old men.
Although in the love chapter of the male group portrait drama, the storyline is rich in expression space, but the thin female characters and the narrated suspended plot are unacceptable by the audience today, and the plump male characters are different from Ascetic male gods and cheating males, which can immediately arouse the high attention of female audiences and strong topicality, they are not so competitive in the creation of today’s urban emotional dramas.
In short, the male group portraits in urban emotional dramas are still in a relatively unpopular situation due to various reasons, and it is temporarily unable to reach the hot situation of female group portraits.