Director Huang Donghe said in an interview with the media: "What I want to write is a fable, a story about the contemporary capitalist society. It tells about a competition under some extreme form, it is Go to the competition to survive. ”
| Author: Wang Zhening
| Editor: Laulingge
"Don't abandon the neglected weak people are the beautiful rules that children in the past will follow when playing games." This meaningful line comes from Nai The Korean drama " Squid Game " recently launched by Fei. The drama has been aired so far, but its popularity has not diminished.
· "Squid Game" poster.
Since its broadcast, "Squid Game" has topped the "Top Ten Today" list of Netflix in 94 countries (regions), including South Korea, and has become the first non-English drama to win the "Top Ten Today" championship in the United States . In addition, the derivative products such as sauerkraut, wooden dolls, and sportswear that appeared in the play were also sold out. Although
is popular all over the world, the drama has also caused a lot of controversy: many viewers said that the plot "opens high and goes low"; its violent elements have allowed some European schools to add violence prevention courses; Korean media said that Wu Jing wears a belt The clothes with the word "China" are plagiarizing the outfits of its protagonist...
Even so, this drama has succeeded in a sense: the popularity of the starring actor is shocking. The number of fans of the heroine Jung Ho-yeon ins has jumped from hundreds of thousands to the number one Korean actress, and the rest of the actors have also quickly "attracted fans".
, especially the male lead Lee Jung-jae , gained 1.5 million fans in just two days after opening Ins, and truly "becoming the circle" again with his acting skills.
Poor boy to become a powerful star
It is not easy for Lee Jung-jae to be successful in his career again. From childhood to adulthood, he has experienced the ups and downs of his life and his career.
Korean tvN program "List of Public 2016" once introduced that Lee Jung-jae was born in 1973, and his grandparents were both doctors. They both passed the Korean national exam in the 1960s, providing a superior environment for his parents' growth.
When he was a child, Lee Jung-jae's family was very wealthy. His mother owns many breweries, and her family lives in one of the famous "Gangnam Eight School Districts", where all the eight top high schools in South Korea are here.
However, unexpectedly came unexpectedly. In the first grade of elementary school, his mother had conflicts with her father because of a failed investment. Her grandfather ran for MPs for four consecutive times and lost the election. The family's financial conditions were getting worse and worse, and many things were used to pay off their debts. The original rich young man became a poor boy overnight.
· Li Zhengzai in his youth.
Because Li Zhengzai's family often moved, and at the worst, they lived in a simple and crowded single room. At that time, he couldn't even get the money to buy gifts for his friends.
He took on the burden of his family at a young age. After graduating from high school, he did not go to college, but worked everywhere to earn money to subsidize his family income. While working in a coffee shop, he was attracted by his agent because of his handsome appearance and went to an advertising company to audition and become a model.
· Lee Jung-jae when he first debuted.
In 1993, Lee Jung-jae was well-known for her role in the SBS TV series "Mr. Dinosaur" and officially became an actor.
In 1995, he played the bodyguard in a drama called " Hourglass Lover ". His popularity was once higher than that of the male lead. A large number of viewers wrote to the screenwriter, asking the screenwriter to give him more scenes.
He also won the SBS Acting Award for the Newcomer Acting Award and the Korean Baeksang Art Award for the best newcomer in TV category, becoming the first actor in Baeksang's history to win the same film and television newcomer award.
However, Lee Jung-jae was deeply tired due to his intensive itinerary and chose to enlist in the army during the period of his career. In 1997, he returned to the entertainment industry, but fell into a trough: his work was not going well, he encountered economic problems, and his communication with his affiliated brokerage company...
During that difficult period, Lee Jung-jae did not give up. In order to hone his acting skills, he was admitted to the master's degree in drama and film at Donggu University in South Korea. After
precipitation, in 1999, at the age of 27, he won the 20th Blue Dragon Award for the Best Actor for his movie "No Sun", becoming the youngest movie star to win this title in Korean history.
·3 "No Sun" starring Lee Jung-jae (first right above picture) and Jung Woo-sung.
For many years since then, he has appeared in many movies and TV series, achieving successes of all sizes. After more than 20 years of honing his acting skills, Lee Jung-jae has given him the confidence to grasp every role, and it has also become his confidence to "become a newcomer" with "Squid Game".
Removed the burden and played the "squid"
"Squid Game" is so popular that it cannot be separated from its luxurious lineup: the acting players who have been in the industry for a long time, Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo , director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who has directed the movie " Furnace ", cameo appearances Gold award stars Kong Liu , Lee Byung-hun , potential rookies Zheng Haoyeon, Wei Huajun ... plus the tense and exciting plot, it is difficult not to attract attention.
The name of the play comes from the popular children's confrontation game in South Korea in the 1980s: an offensive and defensive battle on a squid-shaped pattern composed of circles, triangles, and quadrilaterals.
Three graphics are everywhere in the play and become the symbols throughout the whole process.
· "Squid Game" logo.
Compared with other "survival" films and TV series, the logic of "Squid Game" is closer to reality: 456 people who are in debt and are desperate in the real society play games like 123 wooden people and tug of war. Those who fail to complete the game within the specified time will face death. For every 1 person who dies, the bonus pool will increase by 100 million, and the final bonus is 45.6 billion won (about 270 million yuan). Those who leave it to the end can get this. A huge sum of money.
During the game, the boundary between good and evil in human nature becomes blurred:
People who helped each other in the previous game will try every means to deceive the other party in the next game and force them to a dead end; the husband who won the game in the last second , the next second, he committed suicide in pain because of defeating his wife...
There are no eternal teammates, only the urgency to survive. At a critical moment in life, everyone is selfish.
is different from other characters with different personalities. The male protagonist Cheng Qixun is rated as "Holy Mother" and "White Lotus" by the audience because he is too kind and always helps others.
· Lee Jung-jae plays Cheng Qixun in the play.
Lee Jung-jae described him as "squid":
Compared with the handsome and cold image he has played in the past, Cheng Qixun is a marginal person living at the bottom. He is penniless but loves to gambling. There is an old mother suffering from diabetes . She can't raise her head in front of her ex-wife, and she is forced to save face in front of her daughter. She is also scared to cry at the threat of a debt collector.
·3 Cheng Qixun.
Therefore, shaping the character "Sung Qixun" was a big breakthrough for Lee Jung-jae. He thought about it for a long time to make the "fireworks" of the male lead."I took off a lot of burdens when filming this drama and used a lot of expressions, breathing and movements that I didn't use very much."
The protagonist in the drama is always under high pressure stimulation. Can the actors face the real state of emergency situations? It is particularly important to present it to the audience.
"Because it has to be natural and looks like a person in daily life. Like the role of a sugar cake, it makes me very distressed. Do you hesitate to lick it so exaggeratedly, but then I thought, this is risking my life. Danger comes to the competition, so I have to do my best. So, I wander between natural acting and extreme acting. "
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Lee Jung-jae has left a deep impression on fans around the world with his powerful acting skills. The characters that make people love and hate and subversive performances also make the audience immersed in the plot and unable to extricate themselves.
Fables of the real society
"The Squid Game" can resonate with the audience. In addition to the actor's immersive acting skills, it is inseparable from its realistic nature. In Korea, many people have the same dilemma as the characters in the play. The gamers in the play are compared to the "horse" in "Tian Ji's horse racing". The upper class who holds most of the wealth has the power to "race horses". They squander money and bet at will, watching the people of the lower classes kill each other like fun behind the scenes.
The financial crisis that occurred in the past decade and Trump won the 2016 US presidential election , which inspired director and screenwriter Huang Donghe to produce this drama: young people's unemployment rate rises, housing prices in big cities rise, and many sudden The failure of layoffs and investments has forced desperate people toward high-risk lending institutions. The debt ratio of South Korea's civilians has continued to rise, and the gap between the rich and the poor has expanded sharply.
He once said in an interview with the media: "What I want to write is a fable, a story about contemporary capitalist society. It tells about a competition under some extreme form, and is to compete for life. . "
" This "match under extreme forms" is a true portrayal of the intensification of conflicts between different social classes in South Korea.
There is a Western proverb: Born with a silver spoon in your mouth. This sentence has derived the "spoon class theory" in South Korea: According to the degree of family background, young people are divided into "gold spoon", "silver spoon", "copper spoon" and "earth spoon".
·3spoon class theory.
It is difficult to cross the class level and climb up from the "earth spoon".
Against this background, many realistic dramas have been born in South Korea. Among them, " Sky City " is particularly famous: the parents in the upper class in the play rack their brains, hoping that their children will pass on the "gold spoon" and "silver spoon".
· "City of the Sky" line.
Although many of the plots are slightly exaggerated, art comes from life, and the cruel reality has long crushed many Koreans .
Nowadays, the emergence of "Squid Game" directly points to the spiritual depression of the lower class: the helplessness of life, the choice of good and evil, the unbearable class oppression...
Perhaps, it exploded under controversy The fire is also due to the audience's empathy for of this "fraternal" story.
