Works such as "The Next Stop Is Happiness", "In the Name of Family" and "The Day I Became You" have received good reviews. The new work "I May Have Met a Savior" co-operated by the two is an idol drama, and its style is more inclined to "The Day I Became You". Both dramas have a light comedy color, and both have the iconic brain-opening, spoof and joyful sound effects, which greatly enhance the laughing effect of the drama.
"I May Have Met a Savior" poster
"The Day I Became You" breaks through the clichés of idol dramas with "changing body stalks". It has won the love of many audiences and played new tricks in the old ones.
In terms of general direction, "I May Have Met a Savior" belongs to the narrative paradigm of "the domineering president falls in love with me", and the connection of the plot is mainly some common old stalks in idol dramas.
Like misunderstanding. At the beginning of the plot, Lu Zhaoxi (played by Zeng Shunxi), the boss of a high-end private hospital who encountered heavy rain and landslides while camping, fell into Pingyang, and was misunderstood by Ye Shilan (played by Liang Jie), a pediatrician who supported the rural clinic, as a sheep thief and a counterfeit drug dealer. . However, there is often no signal in the deep mountains, and Lu Zhaoxi can't get in touch with the outside world for the time being. He "lives under the fence" and can only accept Ye Shilan's various rectifications and difficulties. The handsome president is called to clean up the duck pens, feed the chickens and ducks, and herd the sheep, so as to create a joke of contrast and misunderstanding.
President Lu Zhaoxi (played by Zeng Shunxi), the tiger falls in Pingyang
For example, in idol dramas, in order to allow the male and female protagonists to have the opportunity to have intimate contact, they will create various settings to bind them together rigidly. In "I May Have Met a Savior", the pediatrician Ye Shilan became Lu Zhaoxi's assistant, and the doctor became a "secretary" when he didn't see a doctor. In this way, the two have frequent interactions and contacts every day, creating various opportunities for emotional fermentation.
Ye Shilan (played by Liang Jie) became the assistant to the president
Another example is the fake boyfriend setting. Ye Shilan's mother is very concerned about her daughter's emotional affairs. To save trouble, Ye Shilan directly lied that she had a boyfriend, and took a photo of herself and Lu Zhaoxi, who was drunk and sleepy. Later, Ye Shilan's mother happened to meet Lu Zhaoxi, so Ye Shilan could only bite the bullet and continue singing the play. It's obviously a "fake play", but both Lu Zhaoxi and Ye Shilan are getting more and more serious in this play, and in the end it is logical to "do it for real".
For idol dramas, routines are not terrible. The reason why routines are tried and tested is that their target audience is willing to eat this routine-tired audiences sometimes need content that can be absorbed without effort. As long as the screenwriters make small innovations on the basis of routines and change the taste a little, so that the audience can enjoy entertainment without threshold and at the same time get a little bit of freshness, idol dramas can easily get good reviews.
Judging from the previous works, Wang Xiongcheng's screenwriter team often hides small ingenuity in routines. This time "I May Have Met a Savior" also worked hard. Faced with all kinds of old stalks in the play, the screenwriter played the official "tucao" through the setting of the sub-CP line, so as to offset the audience's complaints about clichés.
Ye Shilan’s best friend Yao Jiajia (played by Li Linlin) is an internet writer who specializes in romance novels, so she started her best friend’s CP online, gave her best friend “suggestions”, and used romance novel routines to deduce The relationship progress of the best friend... At the same time, Lu Zhaoxi's special assistant Lin Kaiwen (played by Zhou Zihan) looks calm, rational and unsmiling. In fact, he is an experienced reader of romance novels, and he always hits the nail on the head with an outsider's perspective. Mind", and use the routine of romance novels to deduce the progress of the boss's relationship...
The heroine's best friend Yao Jiajia (played by Li Linfei), often eats CP online
Using the routines of romance novels to deduce the love of the hero and heroine seems to be complaining, but in fact it wants to form a "alienation effect" that allows the audience to push forward the feelings of the hero and heroine and separate them from the routines in romance novels, strengthening this An impression: The emotional advancement of the hero and heroine looks like a romance novel, but their feelings are actually true.
Just like Yao Jiajia and Lin Kaiwen, at the beginning they used "Primary Chicken" to name Lu Zhaoxi's "trick" to Ye Shilan. , let Lu Zhaoxi realize that "I may be a primary school chicken" and try to prove that he is not a "primary school chicken", but it proves that Lu Zhaoxi is a "primary school chicken", but his "primary school chicken" behavior is no longer an empty human design , and become a flesh and blood personality.
The protagonist's special assistant Lin Kaiwen (played by Zhou Zihan) is also an experienced reader of romance novels
In a word, it forms an "intertext" with romance novels, so that "I May Have Met a Savior" can deviate from the cliché while at the same time, at least let the cliché show a little real foundation.
Another ingenuity in setting comes from the appropriate changes in the character setting. Although they are all "the domineering president falls in love with me", the "president" Lu Zhaoxi is indeed "not domineering at all", which is quite extraordinary.
The current portrayal of domineering presidents in the market is more or less mired, mainly because the domineering bosses are set in a rigid way. Almost all the domineering bosses are cold, arrogant, paralyzed, defiant, and even have a strong "straight man cancer", such as Dong The overlord of the eighth district used the name of love to cover up the unknowing misogyny of men, so that after the broadcast, the audience strongly rebounded.
Whether it is "Qingqing Daily", which was very popular with female audiences before, or "I May Have Met a Savior" this time, the screenwriters consciously engraved "respect for women" into their consciousness when shaping the image of the male protagonist. Lu Zhaoxi's personality is not domineering or greasy at all. He is clean and cheerful, distinguishes right from wrong, has an online IQ, and is well-educated. More importantly, he is emotionally stable, respects women, is able to consider issues from a women's standpoint, and provides timely and appropriate advice for women. emotional value.
The emotional value provided by Lu Zhaoxi can be called full marks
For example, Lu Zhaoxi likes Ye Shilan, he has no intention of hiding it from others, after all, it is not a shame to have someone he likes. But he has doubts about confessing to Ye Shilan. He was not afraid of rejection, but worried that Ye Shilan would "reject the boss's confession, it would be difficult to face me in the future, and it would cause her bad troubles."
He went on to explain, "Think about it, no matter how good the relationship between a boss and an employee or a boss and a subordinate is, or how casual the former behaves, the mentality of the two is always unequal, and some people are consciously compromising. But there are also some people who unconsciously obey the stronger side." He was worried that his dominant position in power as the boss would put pressure on Ye Shilan's choice.
This awareness of empathy is really a plus.
Another example is when Lu Zhaoxi took the initiative to confess to Ye Shilan, and Ye Shilan also made it clear what she wanted for Lu Zhaoxi, but she still hesitated to accept this love. She confessed to Lu Zhaoxi the twisted part of her character, and she was worried that she would not be able to bear it. Such happiness is afraid of losing and falling short. Lu Zhaoxi's response was, "Although I can't empathize with you, I understand you." He was neither anxious nor annoyed and felt ashamed, but respected Ye Shilan's feelings and was willing to continue waiting. Unconditional understanding and acceptance does give people a great sense of security.
Lu Zhaoxi is always able to think from Ye Shilan's standpoint
A large number of similar plots make Lu Zhaoxi quite pleasing and refreshing, and there is no sense of deliberate indentation. From the beginning to the end, the logic of his behavior is consistent. It can be seen that it is too important for the screenwriter team to have advanced female awareness.
When portraying Ye Shilan, the screenwriter did not fall into the "Cinderella" routine, such as making the heroine out of reality and blindly being kind, brave, and pitiful to win the favor of the hero. Ye Shilan has a certain background of reality. She is kind and just, but she has an unknown childhood trauma, and she is just an ordinary social animal under the pressure of reality. "Inferiority" also appears credible.
At the same time, as Lu Zhaoxi said, rather than saying that he is her "savior", Ye Shilan is her own savior, because she always loves life, believes in beauty, and can finally overcome her worries and grasp beauty.
Ye Shilan is also a rare "normal person"
This is another place in "I May Have Met a Savior" that transcends the routines of idol dramas: the relationship between the hero and heroine is not a nonsense misunderstanding or heart-wrenching gossip. When the love is deep, they kiss each other with their mouths, and pass the sugar to the audience's mouth quickly and neatly-there is no taste of industrial saccharine.
In general, "I May Have Met a Savior" has better utilized the functions of idol dramas: creating dreams, healing, and bringing joy to people. Although the general direction is clichéd and the rhythm can be more compact, the emotional mode in the play is rare and normal and healthy, and the length of 24 episodes is also acceptable, which can be included in the winter drama list.