The four protagonists in " The Gentlemen of the East Eighth District ". Photo/The official Weibo of "Gentlemen in East Eight"
Recently, the TV series "Gentlemen in East Eight" became a hot search after it was launched because of too many negative reviews from the audience. Four protagonists and four different professions, this should have been a story full of urban life, but what these four male protagonists say and do reveals "greasy".
"The kind that needs to wash your eyes after watching it" "The greasy man's self-carnival", the audience in the comment section speaks bluntly and expresses their disgust for this series without hesitation. All the bad reviews are rare in domestic dramas. The entire drama involves interactions between the four male protagonists and other female characters, and the lines and plot reveal the creator's stale values.
For example, being with a foreign woman is called winning glory for the country; a successful woman is called a female devil; a woman who inherits the family business is called a Shengnan; a female entrepreneur is considered not to spend her own money on her own... "Get glory for the country", "Female devil" and "Fighting men", these lines with obvious derogatory tendencies are the malicious speculations of women by the four male protagonists in the play, and they exude prejudice and rudeness towards women everywhere.
Behind these lines is the creator's values - reverse right and wrong, "self-interesting imagination", but the lack of "respect" for women is no wonder it is regarded as greasy by the audience. What's worse is that this concept not only involves one or two lines, but is filled with the entire drama. The four male protagonists have such values, which are fully reflected in every move. Values like
have been repeatedly criticized many times. Audiences who have grown up under the values of modern society are naturally difficult to "swallow" such lines and plots. You should know that creating film and television dramas is not an easy task. Most excellent works include the creator's perception of reality and insight into human nature. Of course, the creator's value tendency will also be passed on to the audience through lines and plots.
The student days of four protagonists. Photo/The official Weibo of "Gentlemen of East Eight Districts"
For a workplace urban drama, the biggest highlight is "contemporary" and "down-to-earth". Contemporary sex is indispensable to "contemporary life" and "contemporary consciousness". However, the unconcealed and objectified female gazes of the four male protagonists in this drama have long run contrary to "contemporary" so that "contemporary" only has fashionable character settings and empty shells such as bright and bright modern life.
More importantly, when viewers watch the drama, they not only watch the story of the protagonist in the drama, but also watch the current life. In addition to respecting the real life, it is necessary to be able to see the audience's "conceptual life". This kind of life can make people feel submissive and resonate with it more.
For example, although the story background of " Dream Hualu " was in the Song Dynasty, the writing of female friendship and the presentation of the concept of love between men and women is a response to the current hot topics; in the female group drama " Twenty No Confused 2", the daily life and workplace of the four heroines are real and down-to-earth, and it is a real image of the current urban life of women.
From this perspective, "Gentlemen in East Eight" seems to be just a banner of male group dramas, blindly relying on ridicule and consuming women to support the drama. Too disconnected from real life is precisely the problem with the creators of "Gentlemen of East Eighth District".
Written by/Beijing News Commenter Ding Hui
Editing/Chi Daohua
Proofreading/Wu Xingfa
