2022 may be the year of the "film and literary goddess", and goddesses must always undergo some tempering and discomfort.
" Determination to Break Up " is good or not, it depends on whether you recognize it. " Tang Wei has acting skills"; Ma Sichun has experienced a reputation decline with her "Broken Bridge" starring her; Zhou Xun , which was scolded for being on the hot search on Weibo because she is not funny, can also use "In the talk show industry, she is just a child" to win over the respect.
Because Monroe should not be treated like this, the rating of "Blonde Monroe" is "worth it". "Blonde Monroe", which was overwhelmed by negative reviews on the entire network, everyone assumes that this film is exactly the same as Monroe himself, at least it has nothing to do with it, but for Norma Jane, this is not a kind of "a sudden disaster from heaven".
Compared with the experiences of the above actresses, the "literary goddess" was lucky. She was just filming a TV series that was "stopped" quietly, talking about Gui Lunmei and " Taipei Women's Picture Book ".
As one of the first original Taiwanese dramas launched by Disney+, the "Taipei Women's Picture Book" launched on September 23 has been aired halfway, but it still won the Douban minimum score of the "Urban Women's Picture Book" series with its "strength": 6.0 points.
consciously pack up and withdraw from the competition for the best drama in 2022.
"Taipei Women's Picture Book" is the third remake of "Tokyo Women's Picture Book" in the Chinese film and television industry after Shanghai and Beijing. As for its impression, it can be summarized in three sentences -
This is a "three no" TV series: the actors are not suitable, the plot is not good, and the audience does not need to watch it.
lets you show that the gap is not to create discrimination
After all, it is the first original Taiwanese drama launched by Disney+. The production team of "Taipei Women's Picture Book" is not careless. Just from the golden song configuration of the original soundtrack of the drama, you can "listen" it, and it is almost like stuffing all the celebrities in the previous Golden Melody Awards.
The famous lyricist Ge Dawei serves as the coordinated team. The production team includes Mayday Ashin , Monster, Xu Jiaying , five people, Bai'an , Dingdang... The theme song even invited heavyweights - Rene Liu .
As Rene Liu sang in the opening song "Minique", "Can those microscopic portrayals represent my good life? The answer is very subtle." The seemingly "beautiful" "Taipei Women's Picture Book", which has been running on the "subtle" road since its launch.
Remake from the "Urban Women's Illustration" series of "Tokyo Women's Illustration", all have the same fixed plot: the heroine born in a small place, yearns for the prosperous metropolis life since childhood, and after graduating from college, she chose to stay in the big city to struggle and ups and downs, and constantly pursue her ideal life.
"Taipei Women's Picture Book" also follows this routine, but forgets the most important point - down-to-earth localization.
Lin Yisan, who grew up in Yongkang District, Tainan City, came to Yongkang Street in Taipei City, which is the starting point of her new life. The same street name and the different living environment should be the meaning that this place name setting should carry, but it has become a regional discrimination filled with stereotype .
The story begins with the heroine who wants to leave her hometown to develop in Taipei. The reason given is that "Tainan has few opportunities", and the other is that her two best friends are living in Taipei, and they are physically distanced from her, making it difficult to maintain their relationship.
In fact, Yongkang District is the "downtown" of Tainan City, with a population of more than 200,000 people, and rounding it can be regarded as a "busy and downtown". To get from Tainan, a "small place" to Taipei, the high-speed rail is just a ticket price of about 300 yuan and a distance of less than 2 hours.
If variables such as material consumption level are included, the gap between "small place" Tainan and "metropolitan" Taipei can be narrowed a little further.
For example, according to data from the administrative agencies of Taiwan, my country, the per capita disposable annual income of Taipei ranked first in Taiwan in 2020, at 715,197 NT$3, which is approximately 161,133 yuan, with an average of about 13,000 yuan per month; during the same period, Tainan City was roughly more than 9,500 yuan per month.
The plot setting and reality are too disconnected, which leads to the lack of tenable reasons and motivation for each turn of "Taipei Women's Picture Book", and every frame of the picture is written as "outdated".
"The scenery you see from 101 is indeed different", which is enough to become the heroine's obsession with Taipei.
To show the exquisiteness and ability of urban women in Taipei, passers-by let the broken heels of high heels, and then continue to chat and laugh with customers as if nothing had happened, "The girls in Taipei are not afraid of anything."
The heroine's grades were not admitted to Taiwan University, so her family comforted her, "Just just recite the school near her home." Here, "school near her home" refers to the Taiwan Chenggong University in "North Taiwan University, Nancheng University". It is located in Tainan and is second only to Taiwan University for examination.
When I was in college, I studied makeup major and won numerous awards, there is only one reason why I encountered wallows when I was interviewing in Taipei: "Your makeup, you are from Tainan, we in Taipei don't wear such heavy blush."
This kind of deliberately ugly makeup is not only different from Taipei people, but also from Earth people.
is already 2022, and it is hard to imagine that we can still see such a TV series that is openly engaged in regional discrimination and stereotypes.
The "Taipei Women's Picture Book" is about to follow, which should be the "Tao" of apologizing. Tainan people who have not provoked anyone deserve a sorry.
Gui Lunmei is very good, but it does not mean that the "urban women's picture book"
No matter how many shortcomings of "Taipei Women's Picture Book", the targets of "criticized" should be queued for a long time before it will be the actors' turn to act.
Count the cast in detail, Yang Jinhua , Tianxin , Feng Xiaoyue , Zhang Xiaoquan ... They all have the role of Taiwanese drama actors, and the starring actress Gui Lunmei returned to the TV drama market after 14 years, which has also become the biggest gimmick before the show started.
movie star "down to earth" to shoot TV series, and it is no longer new in the entertainment industry in recent years. Many movie actors who have failed also use a series of weird and terrible dramas to tell everyone: It is really not easy to enter the small screen.
Despite years of experience, Gui Lunmei's most recognized masterpieces are still the debut movies " Blue Door " and "The Secrets that Can't Tell" many years ago.
once described her: "Gui Lunmei has a face that reminds everyone of her first love."
So the most beautiful thing is not the rainy day, but the eaves that hide from the rain with you. / "The Secret I Can't Tell"
This is the innate advantage of Gui Lunmei becoming the protagonist of "Taipei Women's Picture Book". The heroine in the play has changed from an innocent and young girl to a 40-year-old charming mature woman. The audience outside the screen needs such a face to create empathy with , which increases the sense of substitution.
The heroine Saito Aya in the Tokyo version is an ordinary girl who is "only cute is useless"; Shanghai's Luo Haiyan looks like a shrewd urban beauty; while Beijing's Chen Ke simply found the beautiful and aggressive Qi Wei to play.
does not need to please the audience, the heroine of the "Urban Women's Picture Book" only needs to show their ambitions and desires. This is also destined that from the beginning, the "Taipei Women's Picture Book" is completely different from the other "Urban Women's Picture Book" series.
One of the golden sentences of "Tokyo Women's Picture Book": "Greedy girls are also cute, aren't they?"
In the steel jungle, "first love face" Gui Lunmei can perfectly conform to the gentle and harmless character of the "post-its girl" in the early stage, but it cannot convince people that she can step by step towards the glamorous materialistic life she longs for.
, and the plot that is "tailored" to fit this pure feeling pushes the incongruity of the heroine's character to the top.
The heroine, who is simple-minded, has no other real desire for life in Taipei except for envying the "different scenery of 101 building", she has no other practical desire for life in Taipei; she is lost by her colleagues who have a backstage copying her creativity, and the next second she will teach her various workplace survival skills; she can just rely on her cousin's words "You are suitable for this kind of comfortable life" to break up with her boyfriend and live a "better life".
On how to say one sentence makes people break the big defense.
In "Taipei Women's Picture Book", all I see are the "god assists" of various passers-by, but there is no greed of the heroine, or in other words, her honesty towards her inner pursuit.
" Beijing Women's Picture Book " is the most criticized point that Chen Ke, a girl from Beijing who said "you must rely on yourself" at the beginning, presents a woman who relies on men to become the top. In the end, it became a Mary Sue idol drama that "every man likes me", and "Beijing Women's Picture Book" is also known as the "Beijing Men (Philatelic Collection) Picture Book" of the heroine.
, and the "Taipei Women's Picture Book", which simply regards "10 Boyfriends" as the promotional selling point of the series, is probably just Gui Lunmei's "Taipei Men's Picture Book".
million green passes through it, and a leaf does not touch the body.
Urban women do not need picture books
If you want to say the original intention of "urban women's picture books", maybe it is "Sex and the City". Although the protagonists have already gained a foothold in big cities and stand alone, that classic line can still be the summary of all urban women's stories:
"They said that in New York, you are always looking for a job, boyfriend, or residence."
The ambitions and desires that cannot be filled are the driving force of these urban women who are running all their might.
This is also the reason why the original "Tokyo Women's Picture Book" can be remade countless times. It nakedly shows a kind of women's desire and greed for material things, but does not raise the banner of criticism or praise, but just rationally looks at the existence of a certain life.
It is this sense of neutrality that allows female characters of different ages and positions to have the opportunity to speak for the lifestyle they choose, forming a rich and brilliant "urban women's picture book".
Beijing and Shanghai remakes. Although there are female group scenes that "read the script" in "sentence", what ultimately leads to the poor reputation of the drama is that they greatly weaken the original heroine's openness and nature in pursuing material enjoyment.
Lin Yishan in "Taipei Women's Picture Book" can sometimes "see money as dirt."
In the first episode, Saito Aya, a girl who longs to become "a person envied by others", has gone through 20 years of youth and is still brave enough to confess her greed in the ending - "A greedy woman like me will not be satisfied with the happiness in front of her."
, who lacks this awareness of ambition, Lin Yishan has neither become a "bad woman" who only looks at material things, nor is she a member of the group portraits who watch over and help each other and shine together in "" " I'm a good place in a foreign land.
"Big heroine" Lin Yishan became the heroine of the "White Lotus" in the retro Taiwanese idol drama in the floating plot. The story is still fantastic and exaggerated, but it can never touch the corners of real life again.
Like the original version, the end of the story of "Taipei Women's Picture Book" will be frozen in Lin Yishan's life when she was 40 years old, as if a woman's life came to an end here.
to be continued, which is the best ending for the "Urban Women's Picture Book".
If this time node is put into "The Story of the Familiar Girls", Chen Jialing, who has also struggled in Taipei for 20 years, has just begun the second half of her life.
A story is heading for an end, and there are also people heading to another beginning.
What kind of story can be called the real "urban women's picture book"? It is enough to just present the following point.
The life she pursues is not necessarily beautiful, but it is not that bad either.
Reference
[1] Even Gui Lunmei can't save this drama? Originally, she couldn't | Iris
[2] From Tokyo to Taipei, is the series "Women's Picture Book" getting ugly? | Sanlian Life Weekly
