Online TV Guide: 's "8090" just aired tells the topic of old-age care from the perspective of young people, and pushes the common elderly themes in domestic dramas to the audience once again. However, there are still many "difficulties" to make new ideas.
There are few excellent domestically produced TV dramas for the elderly.
In recent years, the number and attention of TV dramas about the elderly group are relatively low, and the reputation and popularity of the works are not satisfactory. The two dramas "Happiness Court" broadcast in 2020 have a dismal reputation, and "Old Girlfriend" is starred on the Oriental Film and Television Channel but has no webcast, and no one knows it.
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Compared with the desolation of domestic dramas on the theme of old age, many such foreign works have been affirmed, such as South Korea's "My Dear Friends" Douban scored 9.5 points, the highest score in 2016 Douban The Korean drama won the best drama at the Baeksang Arts Awards in Korea. "Dear Them" is also a remake of this show. In 2019's "Dazzling", Jin Huizi, who played the elderly heroine, also won the award. In 2018, the American drama "The Kominsky Theory" received a score of 9.2 on Douban. In these dramas, the stereotype of the elderly is broken, and the real sadness and sadness of the elderly are pointed out. While the audience is healed and moved, they realize that even if they are old, they can still be different fireworks.
Older themes have a lot of potential
In recent years, although there are few works on the elderly, the topics are actually constant. For example, Xue Zhenzhu in "The First Half of My Life" and Su Daqiang in "Everything Is Good" have become very classic characters, and related topics such as love between the elderly, relationship with children, being defrauded, and common diseases in the elderly The Alzheimer et al.Although he played a supporting role in the drama, he has become a hotly discussed figure among the audience in the streets and alleys. It can also be seen that character mining in this respect is still fertile ground.
The performance of the old actors is a guarantee of quality. Nowadays, all the dramas are the combination of old actors and young actors. The audience is also very familiar with the faces of the old actors. Picking the main beam is also a good point of view.
At present, the elderly are presented as supporting roles in most dramas, such as the recent "Little Shede". The single expression of the feelings and thoughts of the elderly is more reflected in some unit plots and short dramas. For example, "Come a Bowl of Duck Blood Fan Soup" in "Promise" depicts the little people in the big era by telling the self and perseverance of the three veteran craftsmen, and the selected girl played by Xi Meijuan in "Hear Her Say". Much more memorable to the audience.
The most different from other film and television themes, the most difficult and attractive thing about the elderly theme is that it can tell people's life and death. Although other dramas are equally good, they do not have the naturalness and depth of old-age themes to tell this topic. There is no need to lay out complicated dramatic plots. The eyes and faces of the actors can tell many stories through the years. If we compare film and television to a classroom, where we learn social ethics, morality, experience love, marriage, and the workplace, there is still one more level to experience life and death in advance and accept the last stop.
A little careless turn into dog blood
Life, old age, sickness and death, you can look back on too many things, sad, missed, put down, but whether you can tell the story well without floating on the surface is a problem, otherwise you will fall into the short-lived chicken and dog jumping in the parents' mind and become dog-blooded plot.For example, in the plot setting of "Dear Them", the plot of the original Xici suicide is more superficially copied, but it is not clear why he committed suicide and why he gave up, losing the role of this topic.
There are more details. The original version faced the misunderstanding of killing an animal but thought it killed a person. The protagonists repented and reflected. After the remake, it turned into a near-miss joke, the depth was greatly reduced, and it made people feel more This group is biased.
There are more choices and manifestations of values. The elderly are not completely old, old and wrong values. At present, most of the movies and TV dramas present negative and extreme images, such as patriarchal preference for women, strong desire to control children, blood sucking etc. Instead of digging deeper, amplify it with some social stereotypes.
The themes of the elderly are still the treasures of film and television dramas. Delicate and profound scripts can not waste the acting skills of the old drama bones. Telling better stories of the elderly can also bring comfort and growth to more audiences watching the drama.
