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Urban drama became a silent hit for a whole year in 2023.
CCTV's "all the way to Chaoyang", "fearless", "Lesser Fullness of Grain's Life" and other major dramas have failed to achieve the expected results, the ratings are getting more and more popular, and then watch word-of-mouth, barely pass.
On the other hand, the urban drama of Mango platform has propped up the reputation of urban opera in 2023.
"go to a windy place" 8.7 points, "apocalypse" 8.1 points, stable word-of-mouth, but the popularity of the broadcast, it is difficult to meet the popular style standards.
At the beginning of 2024,"If running is my life," with the strange plot of "Lao San," the urban drama finally highlights a hole, but a good drama is not enough.
The mango stage made a move--
"Happy parents" starring Zhang Jiayi and Chen Hao was parachuted into Hunan Satellite TV and broadcast simultaneously on Mango TV on Feb. 1.
Can this play break the game for the city? Let's take a look.
Light comedy style drama, interpretation of life in laughter"Happy parents Group", represented by Liu Shangshang (Zhang Jiayi), tells the story of novice parents greeting a new educational classroom and a new starting point of life together with their children after facing various unexpected situations.
Combined with the trailer and the brief introduction of the plot, it is not difficult to see that there are two major points of interest in this play.
First, the family's "history of growth".
Liu Shangshang is a screenwriter who works relatively free hours and is responsible for the educational care of a pair of children at home.
His wife Dai Jing (Chen Hao) chose to work in a higher-paid foreign company. With the implementation of the double-reduction policy, their education plans were disrupted and their education ideas diverged.
Among parents, some parents questioned the rationality of the double reduction policy and the way of education offered by the school. After a series of incidents, Dai Jing gave up her high-paying job and went back to her family to grow up with her children.
As they continue to get along with their children, Liu Shang and Dai Jingcai understand that education requires all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty, and labor, and that all families of four enjoy a "double reduction" of happiness in their study and grow up together.
Second, the narrative style of light comedy.
"Happy parents" focuses on ordinary families, showing the family by their parents, but it doesn't give the audience a sense of depression. There are a lot of funny clips in the trailer.
Father Liu sat up and listened to his son Guoning (Wang Yuxuan) read the composition.
"Why can't you write in your essay that your mother is gentle and beautiful and your father is elegant?"
"Dad, the teacher told us to make up sentences, not to spread rumors."
Both men fell silent.
The son assured his father that he would do well in the exam.
"I'm sure I can get a good score this time."
"cheating?"
"Yes, ah, no, by hard work."
Then a pair of shoes covered with cheat sheets appeared in the camera.
The son stood between the living room and his parents with the examination paper--
"what if I do well in the exam or if I don't?"
"if you don't do well in the exam, don't call us parents."
"Please have a look at your aunt and uncle."
After saying this, Guo Ning ran away, leaving her parents stunned.
Under the tone of light joy, the whole play naturally leads to practical problems such as the collision of ideas, intergenerational communication, educational thinking and so on. From the hilarious story script, it outlines the faces of "raising children" in different families.
I was attracted just by watching the trailer, and the feature film will be more wonderful.
The strength creator joins in, and the actor escorts him.As we all know, the finale of domestic cities is not difficult to guess, no matter how rugged the process is, the ending is mostly family fun.
Then it must solve one of the big problems of family drama, how to make the story attractive with almost a known ending.
The problem is left to the director and the screenwriter.
Li Yafei, the director of the show, currently has only one TV series, "Orchid Wedding", with a rating of 7.7.
He has a very good control over the rhythm of comedy, can naturally shake out the burden and bring out real problems, the show to his audience rest assured.
Screenwriter Ma Guangyuan, who has written many popular dramas such as "adolescence into menopause" and "pre-divorce rules", can always express his understanding of life in his works.
It is not a problem for this lineup to shoot the play well.
More importantly, it is a very stable cast that protects the creators.
From the protagonist to the supporting role, they are all familiar to the audience.
First, Zhang Jiayi.
Zhang Jiayi's acting path is very wide, and all kinds of roles are familiar with it.
Zhou Yi in the espionage drama "Cliff", Bai Jiaxuan in the era drama "Bai Lu Yuan", and Lin Dawei in the life drama "Young Pi", each character with very different character has become very outstanding under the interpretation of Zhang Jiayi.
In the new play, Zhang Jiayi plays Liu Xiangshang, a bad old father. In the preview, he looks particularly funny when fighting with his son. It's a piece of cake for him to play this role, depending on the degree of the character's brilliance.
Second, Chen Hao.
Chen Hao seldom appears in front of the audience in recent years, but her role on the screen is impressive.
From the "heartthrob" in "Pink Girl" to the elegance in "Dad to be married", Chen Hao uses his solid performance to interpret characters of different ages and backgrounds just right.
It is worth mentioning that the "happy parents group" is Zhang Jiayi and Chen Hao working together again after 26 years, and what kind of sparks they will collide with each other is worth looking forward to.
The third is Wang Xiaochen.
Wang Xiaochen is the kind of actor who is regretted by the audience. she has no lack of acting skills, but she has not been popular for many years.
However, Wang Xiaochen's popularity is still good, and the cooperation with Zhang Jiayi is "mine!" Physical education teachers "and" elite lawyers "who worked with Jin Dong all achieved good results.
In the new play, Wang Xiaochen plays the hot mother Tang Xiaowei, who looks unreliable, watching the baby crying and sitting at a loss.
In addition, there are Zhao Da, Liu Ruilin and other young actors, as well as Fang Qingzhuo, Zhang Lu and other drama bones to join, the old, middle-aged and young generations gathered together, the audience has a good show to see.
Conclusion:As we all know, urban dramas are easy to shoot but difficult to shoot.
It is easy to shoot because the threshold is low, and it is difficult because it is difficult to shoot well. Can "Happy parents" break the game for the city?
It's not that difficult.
On the one hand, the play closely follows the development trend of the times, skillfully discusses the new topic of parent-child two-way growth education, and maps and observes social topics from the perspectives of educators, parents and children.
Correct handling and guidance are also given when describing conflicts, which can attract audiences of different ages.
On the other hand, the play gathered a group of powerful actors with a high degree of national strength, which injected fresh vitality into the series, and the chemical reaction they collided with was worth looking forward to.
Next, we'll be waiting for the feature film to air.