This is a summer with many sequels, and "Twenty Do Not Confused 2" is one of the most recognized Chinese drama sequels this summer. In the first part, four little girls who are about to enter the society after graduating from college have aroused many viewers' empathy or recollection of the present or past "20 years old", while in the second part, the four little girls become 25-year-old young and mature working women, their worlds and stories unfold further. 
Stills of "Twenty Do Not Confused 2"
Develop and advance new characters and stories from previous games
Director Li Zhi mentioned that it is precisely because of the foundation for the creation of the first film that "the main creative team has followed several actors and has created four real and vivid characters, so when the idea for the second film is made, it will be very exciting. I look forward to the four girls and our newly added characters to polish up some more interesting, fun, and unexpected stories together.”
In the complete story universe of the previous work, it is far more difficult for the creative team to develop and promote new characters and stories than to create a new story, and the audience will have higher expectations for the sequel. Facing such pressure, Li Zhi said frankly, "I didn't feel that I had to compare with the first film, and I didn't go to too many preset results, but from the original intention of creation, I was the same as the previous film. The audience tells a good story." 
Stills of "Twenty Do Not Confused 2"
In response to the challenges brought by the sequel, Li Zhi controlled the creation of "Twenty Do Not Confused 2" from various aspects. It is also the pursuit of the real life texture in the aspect of serving the Tao, Li Zhi mentioned, "The first film is based on the campus environment, so in all aspects of light and shadow color matching in the image, I hope to present a more youthful and brighter Full tones. In the second part, they have become complete professionals, and the environment they live in is a more realistic or even crueler society, so in the video, you will find that it may be better than the first part. More calm, with a little blues in the tone, it will make the audience feel more objective and rational."
In addition, the dormitory is an important drama space for the first story. "This is a natural collective living space, and the story can unfold from here. I also like the healing scene of the four girls laughing and playing together, solving puzzles and accompanying each other. But in the real life logic, the 25-year-old is not necessarily a co-renting state, or even a co-renting state of four people. I don't want us to write them together in order to find a common space. "
Compared with the previous one, the independent story lines of several protagonists are more developed, and there will not be so many scenes that four people experience together, "I don't want these four lines to be written separately, but how can they be brought together? What? If everyone just went home and chatted in the living room at night after a long day, I would think that from the play, it would not be so ingenious. So how can we make everyone face each other in line with the logic of real life At the same time of the predicament, the gathering of the four people is not alienated. From the perspective of production, it is a core problem that we have to solve. This is whether we develop the story or from the perspective of video shooting, all of which have to be explored. part." 
Stills of "Twenty Do Not Confused 2"
The addition of the new character "Ding Yixuan" is a problem
In addition to these challenges in objective conditions, the addition of new characters is often a difficult problem in sequel works. It is necessary to consider whether the chemical reaction between him and the established characters of the previous work is good, and also consider what kind of responsibility he should undertake in the new work. Dramatic role, but also to consider the audience's acceptance of him. The addition of the new character "Ding Yixuan" in "Twenty Do Not Confused 2" will undoubtedly face these three tests.
"After all, it's a group show. Since the colors of the three characters are already clear, considering the richness of the characters, of course, I hope that there will be a girl who is completely different from them, who can radiate to a wider audience." Li Zhi said. Ding Yixuan (Xu Mengjie) has a very unique personality. She can cook and love to clean up, has a strong ability to live, and is dubbed "City Li Ziqi"; she is "solo of the mother's womb", and has a gentle and innocent imagination of love; she lives in the city, but she has the beauty of an idyllic song . "We hope that this character can balance and neutralize some cruel and realistic things in the storylines of the other three girls. So you will see that Ding Yixuan's role may be the one with the least survival pressure or workplace pressure among the four girls. ." 
Xu Mengjie as Ding Yixuan
The character seems to be close to a certain ideal of life promoted on the contemporary Internet: do a simple job and put your passions in what you love, like writing. The reporter pointed out that the ideal state of a certain "happiness lying flat" among young people seems to be very different from the ideal state of striving for wealth and freedom ten years ago. And Li Zhi said that in his own observation, in the era of triumphant progress, there are also people who choose to lie down. In the current environment, there are also people like "Jiang Xiaoguo" in "Twenty Do Not Confused" who strive to be upstream. "Of course, maybe Ding Yixuan's character status now is more romantic, it is a kind of sustenance and projection of good hope, it is true that in terms of reality, it will be weaker than the other three girls, and we will try our best to make it easier in every aspect. Her personality is well established. For example, she is a native of Shenzhen, and her working environment is simple. Working in a pet hospital with a small utopian feel, she has a lot of time to think and think every day."
"The reason why we decided to create such a character is to bring some warmth to everyone. It is a kind of healing and beauty to see someone living like this, even if we can't live like this for the time being." 
Bu Guanjin as Jiang Xiaoguo
The "healing" mentioned by Li Zhi seems to be a major theme of the series "Twenty Do Not Confused". Several girls, from the campus to the society, are relatively rare screenwriters, and they did not write about the separation, injury, and misunderstanding between them to increase the drama and conflict of the plot. "I think a very dramatic conflict is not the most real in friendship." Li Zhi said frankly, "Do you think these girls have had troubles? There must have been, but after making troubles, they will use their own methods. Come to heal. The original intention of the whole story is the warmth of them healing each other together. So whether it is the first or the second, we have not moved a few girls to break apart and make the story seem cruel Some people may think that cruelty is very 'reality', but I think the beauty of friendship is another reality, or a reality that I have seen more." 
Li Gengxi as Luo Yan (Stone)
In addition to the addition of Ding Yixuan, Li Gengxi's role as Stone left the scene in the early stage of the story, which made many audiences "uneasy". Li Zhi said that the characters will leave and may return. In the early stage of creation, everyone made a lot of designs for her departure, because they wanted to express "the road of life, there is a person who accompanies you at every stage". "And at a certain point in time, everyone's pace is inconsistent, the rhythm is different, there will be separation, but in the process of progressing in their lives, they may come back after going around. Like my best in college. My friend, he went out of town after graduation, and we may not have much contact with each other in four or five years, but then he returned to Beijing and everyone got together again." Li Zhi said. Li Zhi and the main creative team seem to want to look at the relationship between these characters on a longer time line. People are growing, the world is changing, and everything is fluid. When we are separated and parted for a short time, we cannot read anything. 
Guan Xiaotong as Liang Shuang
"From the perspective of story rhythm, the so-called dramatic conflict can still be found in individual stories, because their personal lines are quite ups and downs, and friendship is their gas station and booster." Li Zhi explained, "Xiao Tong's character has a sentence, which I always thought was one of the important themes of this play. She said to several other girls, 'You guys are my strength in Shenzhen', that is, no matter how much unhappy and happy I have encountered outside. Feeling wronged, I can still find the confidence and courage to stay here from you. This is the value of friendship."
What has changed in "confusion"
From the first 20-year-old entering the society to the second 25-year-old skilled worker, both are "not confused", a few heroines, what kind of change has happened to the "confused" at the moment? Li Zhi said frankly that they will face a clearer, more realistic and cruel predicament, "And even if you are confused, or even encounter a critical attack in life, you may not have time to react, so you have to go to your battlefield in the next second. I think this is the first time. In the second part, the protagonists will experience more." In "Twenty Do Not Confused 2", Liang Shuang was just mentioned for breaking up the first second, and the next second he would immediately devote himself to the next live broadcast, "The world will not wait. you". "As you can see in the plot, we try to express a lot of questions, but we won't give a standard answer. In fact, life can't have a standard answer. Everyone's problem-solving ideas are different. We let The characters go out and feel themselves, and use this part of self-exploration to resonate with the audience." 
"Twenty Do Not Confused 2" Poster
As a director, Li Zhi has successively created female stories such as "Beijing Women's Guide" and "Twenty Do Not Confused" series in recent years. He proposed, "Women's stories have many subtle details to express their emotions, but men's emotional expressions are more subtle, they may be ignorant of expressing certain emotions, and men's stories may be written in another way of expression. "But he also admitted that every time he gets a project, the first thing he sees is not whether it is a female theme, but the characters and the story itself. "I don't seem to choose a project because of the theme, but I am moved by the characters and stories, and then I naturally enter into more detailed and figurative creations. So if I go back, I choose these female-themed dramas along the way, maybe It's all because of the female characters in the story that I see the strong vitality. Whether it's "Beijing Women's Guide" or "Twenty Do Not Confused", the life trajectories of these female characters are completely different, but I can see their perseverance. vitality."
Regarding the creation of female themes, this question seems to be what Li Zhi has been thinking about all the time, "It may be a bit contradictory, on the one hand, I feel the strong vitality of female characters, on the other hand, this vitality will make me not very comfortable when creating. Think about gender, like how she's going to be because she's a woman."
Li Zhi's remarks made the reporter see another way of thinking about female themes. In the creation of film and television dramas, the vigorous vitality of female characters may be able to push female characters out of a certain gender limitation in social cognition.