October 24, 2022 | The 3034th issue
Korean dramas are becoming more and more popular on the road of fantasy.
From falling in love with aliens, to redeeming each other with patient-type protagonists, to playing with high-quality time concepts, coexisting with wild and close-to-ground flights, it has attracted countless fans of the drama.
The best soil for domestic fantasy is ancient costumes, while Korean dramas like to gallop in the city, find outlets that modern people cannot vent in real life, materialize or humanize it, and reflect on reality.
The fantasy routines of domestic dramas against Korean dramas have been used in a script-style remake, but they are not very effective. Only by carefully reviewing the fantasy logic and grasping the "basic points" can we better make use of this stone from another mountain.
Zhuang Zhou Mengdie
" dazzling " realizes the reversal of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie .
The story begins with the usual path of fantasy and romantic comedy. 25-year-old Kim Hye-ko has a happy family, a few close friends, and a favorite. Unexpectedly, my father accidentally encountered a car accident when he changed on weekdays. In desperation, she used a watch she picked up as a child that could turn back time, hoping to return to the moment before her father's accident to save her father.
failed countless times and adjusted countless times, and finally she succeeded. But the price of violating the laws of nature is that she turns from a young girl to a gray-haired old woman overnight.
The parents don’t know each other, the boyfriend doesn’t recognize him, and he is unwilling to accept him. She dragged her aging body and began a battle to become young. This drama uses the perspective of Huizi, who is young in her heart to output many heartfelt words from the old man, "Don't you have a day of old age?"
She also tried to form a new relationship with her family, deliver meals to her father, support her mother's divorce, and educate her brother not to lose her ambitions. When he met his former favorite partner Junxia, he had to silently encourage him and stay with him. At the Elderly Activity Hall of the Filial Son, she saw the elderly in various ways, the scammers who coaxed the elderly to buy health products, and the elderly who committed suicide by being abandoned by their children.
But this drama does not stop showing the old age life.
Finally, Jin Huizi, who woke up from her dream, remembered that she was not the girl who became an old man, but a real old man, an old man suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
The "father" I always thought was actually a son, the "mother" was the daughter-in-law, the "brother" was the grandson, and "Junxia" was his attending physician. I have always wanted to save my "father" from a car accident because I did not protect my son, which led to his guilt of being disabled for life. Saving Junxia was because her husband, who was a reporter, died unjustly in prison, and she had always had the obsession to save him.
In this world where imagination and reality are intertwined, we see true love and reluctance, and also see the ordinary but dazzling life of ordinary people.
Fringe people with extreme
"Inner Beauty " uses a very edge setting to tell a popular romantic comedy.
In "Inner Beauty", the heroine Han Shi suffered from a strange disease. She had about a week a month, and her appearance would undergo bizarre changes, and she might become a burly man, elementary school student, old man, young man... regardless of gender, age, or even nationality. The troubles and psychological loneliness caused by strange diseases make her unable and dare to maintain a stable relationship with others.
The male protagonist Xu Daozai is another extreme existence compared to the female protagonist. He suffered from brain damage due to an acquired accident, and there was a problem with the process of facial memory, and there was a problem with facial recognition. In other words, the male protagonist is completely blind. He can only identify the other person through various details such as clothing, voice, walking posture, etc.
This drama is both transcendent and worldly. This ultimate marginalized setting is the natural culture medium for love. Xu Daozai is the only person who can recognize Han Shi's appearance immediately no matter how she changes.
"Love is not the love between two perfect people, but the two flawed people become complete because of love."
In addition to the fantasy setting, this play is essentially a story about the president falling in love with a female star. The conflict between strange diseases and life has brought a lot of laughs. The heroine with "transformation" is an actor who has to rely on his face to make a living; the hero with face-blindness has to be a company manager who deals with all kinds of people every day; the mother of the hero originally opposed this relationship, but unexpectedly found that the person who was dating his son was a boy (the heroine transformed), so she immediately agreed to the marriage of the hero and the heroine.
Does a person love appearance or soul? It is difficult to explain this problem simply by reasoning. But using imagination to build dramatic situations that are slightly higher than life can find new inspiration.
Talking about human feelings by ghosts
"Hello Mom, goodbye! 》Using the resurrection of a person, a group of people is redeemed. It raises the question at the beginning: If you are given the dead person a chance to be reborn for 49 days, can you find your place?
The heroine Che Yuli was in a car accident when she was about to give birth, leaving behind the baby, her heartbreaking husband, and her parents, relatives and friends who were deeply affected. But because of her reluctance, she stayed with her child in the form of a ghost, but she got the chance to be reborn by chance. As long as she could find her place within 49 days, she could stay.
Director uses flashbacks to reveal the changes after Che Yuli left: his father who cried bitterly late at night, his mother who wiped tears in the heroine's room, his friend who sent text messages to the heroine's mobile phone number, and his husband who was a doctor but was afraid of the operating room. She is the heart knot of the whole family.
Even if it is difficult, life still has to go on. No matter how hard you work, there will be no longer a place for Che Yuli in the world. She decided not to destroy the existing happiness of her loved ones and leave her reincarnation.
In just 49 days, she fulfilled her wish to see her parents again, untied her husband's knot, and encouraged her stepmother to be a good mother. Most importantly, she hugged her daughter.
If the person you miss is still protecting you, what kind of you will he hope to see?
verbally explaining the other party to walk out of the past, it is difficult. The screenwriter untie people's hearts from the perspective of the deceased. This change of thinking is wonderful.
Deconstructing myth
"Drunner Hotel " transplants modern humanistic care into the mythological system. The setting of this drama is full of legendary meaning and is a good container for carrying all kinds of things in the world. "Drunner Hotel" is a place where the dead rest. Every undead who has not yet fulfilled his wishes stop here. After his wish is fulfilled, he can set off for Naihe Bridge and go to another world to reincarnate.
The starving orphans will eat enough here before leaving; the frozen old man will roast the fire to keep warm; scholars who have not completed academic research can continue to study here...
The entire drama uses a unitary structure, showing the undead group portrait. There is a resentful girl who commits suicide and intends to take revenge without public opinion; there is a bride ghost who loves her husband deeply and eventually gives up taking him away; there is also a brother who died in war for seventy years and is waiting for his sister to go on the road together...
The logic of comforting the dead is simple: good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded. For example, a man and a woman who had a life-and-death hatred in her previous life was tied to her husband and wife in this life. The heroine of this drama, full moon , is also the president of Drunner Hotel. She runs through the main task of the whole drama, and is also to let go of hatred and lead to rebirth.
Korean dramas have never been afraid of deconstructing legends. The monsters and monsters can be used back and forth, and the screenwriter's skills are used to portray people's hearts and output value. When the goal is focused, the stories that seem to be chaotic in time and space and the appearance of gods and ghosts can also impress contemporary people.
Age travel
" Confession Couple " Age travel not only saved a precarious marriage, but also gave the protagonist the courage to face regrets.
"Confession Couple" is a couple "double wear". A middle-aged couple who were crushed by life woke up and returned to their 20s on the day of their divorce. At that time, they had not met yet. In order not to repeat the same mistakes, they decided not to meet each other.
I am lucky to walk the road of life again, but not everyone can have Charlotte's spirit and luck. After returning to the past, the couple gradually regained their original intentions. Seeing his wife singing and dancing on the stage in a beautiful dress, the husband was shocked to find that his wife, who was sloppy and unpretentious, was also full of energy; witnessing the social animal going crazy after drinking, the wife recalled her husband's fatigue from get off work.
"Confession Couple" found the balance between fantasy and reality. The bitterness of full-time mothers, the difficulty of supporting their families, and the grievances that endure in their own way, are directly touching the audience's hearts.
"A person can become a sage even if he lives backwards." This kind of imagination is realized through time and time. Only by hitting people's inner desires and providing opportunities for reflection can such urban fantasy be vigorous.
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