China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 146 Discussion
In 1990, after a TV series was broadcast, thousands of people were empty-handed, creating an unprecedented miracle of ratings, and it became a milestone in the development of TV series.

This play is "Longing".

Why is this TV show so successful?In addition to objective factors such as the times, the BE aesthetics contained in itself is also an important factor.

The most important point in BE's aesthetic approach is to tear beauty apart for others to see.

The screenwriter of "Longing" first used all the beautiful words that define women on the heroine Liu Huifang in the play, such as she is kind, upright, beautiful, hard-working, and at the same time bears the burden of humiliation for the family.

When the audience appreciates this role, they continue to let suffering befall this woman.

For example, she gave up the college entrance examination for Wang Husheng; suffered a misfortune in her marriage, and later sacrificed her own marriage to let Wang Husheng choose his beloved Xiao Zhuxin; and finally returned the child she had raised all her life to others, and so on.

After watching the TV series, the audience will have a strong sense of substitution: while feeling sorry for Liu Huifang's experience, they are also aggrieved for her.

Then it was discussed at the meeting, and finally gradually formed the unique scenery of "the whole country mourns Liu Huifang, the whole country scolds Wang Husheng, and everyone laments Song Dacheng".

Since then, many TV drama producers have been keen to consume the suffering of individuals or small groups to win the sympathy of the audience and win high ratings.

Such as "The Woman in charge", "Don't let love be silent", "Silly Spring" and other dramas.

When watching this kind of TV series, the audience often sighs: "This family/person has suffered all the bad luck!"

The recently hit "Snail House" actually applied BE aesthetics.

For example, Haiping, played by Haiqing, works in Shanghai after graduation, but has been worrying about the house; after the child is born, the family can only live in a small house of more than ten square meters.

The younger sister Haizao played by Song Jia is also in trouble at work.

But this time, no one lamented that sentence again, because this is the fact that happened to the general public.

With the broadcast of the follow-up plot, many lines and plots in the TV series were discussed by the audience:
For example, in the tenth episode, Su Chun borrowed 6 yuan from usury in order to make up the down payment for the house. Haiping made a fuss when he found out about it. Su Chun sat at home and expressed his feelings:

"Everyone around you is discussing houses, hyping houses, and hoarding houses. If you don't have a house, you will feel marginalized, and you will suddenly feel a sense of fear."

And after the quarrel, Haiping talked to her sister Haizao about her husband's uselessness, the embarrassment of life, and the pressure of the house, and finally concluded:
"Love is a trick for men to lie to women. When a man loves a woman, don't say anything, first send a wad of money to make the woman feel safe, and then offer a house, at least for you After hurting this woman, although her heart is lost, her body is still."

These lines and plots all fit the lives of ordinary people, and soon aroused heated discussions among audiences and netizens.

And soon a blog post became popular on the Internet, which was the audience's impressions after watching the current plot of "Snail House":
""Reality Forced Me to Be What I Hate Most""

"Since I was a child, I didn't like to go shopping with my mother, especially when buying new clothes before the new year, because she would always care about a little money."

"It's like seeing clothes I like during Chinese New Year. She will quietly ask me to say that I don't like them, and then play tricks and pull me to leave, so as to lower the prices of the merchants."

"In the end, when my mother handed me the clothes with a big smile on her face, I no longer had the initial joy."

"I hate people who care about money like this."

"Later, after I graduated from university and stayed in a big city, in just two years, I changed from a person who bought things without paying attention to the price to a person who would calculate the price of a meal by myself."

"Because I became a house slave."

"Even though I made up the down payment, the monthly loan of more than 1 yuan weighed on me like a mountain, and I had to worry about it."

"I like the TV series "Snail House" very much, because it is very real, and a lot of it is my current life. I don't want to face it but I can't escape it."

Although there was a lot of controversy after this diary became popular, more and more people followed him and began to share their own stories.

【Have gotten used to such days, can't go back to the 'quiet' small city】

[I have paid too much, I can't give up]

【For the sake of face, endure no matter how hard it is】

With more and more such stories and controversies, a new term "ant clan" came into being on the Internet.

Just like the sisters who struggled for a house in the big city in order to survive in "Snail House", people call those low-income groups who choose to live in the big city after graduation as "ants".

This group of people got this name because they have many similar characteristics with ants: high intelligence, weak and gregarious.

They are highly educated. Although they have a high degree of education and a white-collar job, they still cannot afford a house in the metropolis. Facing the high rent, they can only choose to live in the rented villages at the fringe of urban and rural areas.

Of course, in addition to reflecting the current situation of house slaves, another focus of this drama is the emotional entanglement between Haizao played by Song Jia and Song Siming played by Zhang Jiayi.

A beautiful love story, a reed worth a dollar, the love between Beckham and seaweed is the first love that many people have ever had, simple and beautiful.

But such love fell in front of money.

Haizao asked Xiaobei for help with her sister’s 6 yuan to buy a house, and said that she would repay the kindness with all she had, but Xiaobei said that she could only take out 2 yuan, “to save the emergency, not to save the poor”. Cracks appeared in personal feelings.

When Haizao stayed with Song Siming for a night, he gave him 6 yuan as soon as he shook his hand. Such material satisfaction made Haizao's heart tilt first, and later Song Siming was considerate and delicate, and he really loved Haizao to the extreme.

So Haizao chose to leave her boyfriend Xiaobei who loved her so much and planned to get married after buying a house, and became the "little three" of Song Siming, the powerful secretary of the mayor.

This episode involving values ​​and morality has also aroused widespread discussion among netizens:

To marry love, or to marry life?
Many people were angry with Xiaobei played by Huang Xuan on the Internet and spurned the seaweed.

Some netizens scolded directly:
"Under her pitiful nature, vanity and debauchery are hidden. She can deal with the emotions given by two men at the same time, but accepts them all quietly. The hypocritical image is difficult for people to accept."

The innocence and innocence of Haizao's face also made netizens dissatisfied: "I really don't understand why she can deal with two men like this, but she looks innocent and shows no trace of guilt."

Song Jia's blog background was also abused by these netizens who left messages frantically.

Of course, more netizens fully praised and tolerated Song Jia's performance.

"A good actor is like this. Usually, he gets too involved in order to play a role well. No matter how people comment, it means that you have successfully portrayed the role of "Seaweed". Otherwise, there would not be so many people paying attention."

But it can also be seen from this that Song Jia has indeed lived up to this role.

(End of this chapter)