expectations were still disappointed.
I thought the two remakes in the mainland were already giving Sir's expectations the bottom.
No matter how bad can they be?
Haha.
result is a ghost.
From the original version 8.6 to the current 6.7, 6.2, 6.1...
From Tokyo to Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei...
Our big Chinese film and television industry.
is really incomparable to these four words?
Taipei Women's Picture Book
It's really not in vain to look forward to it.
TV series has returned to the naked eye in the past two years:
"With Evil", "Want to See You", "Tears of Vulcan"... There are big and big hits in different themes.
female drama, especially outstanding.
For example, "Father Girl" and " The Lights First on ".
It is a superposition of advantages when encountering the IP of "Women's Illustrated Book".
Not to mention, this time it is still an All-Star lineup.
Logically speaking, as long as the normal level of Taiwanese dramas is used, this drama will be a popular work this year.
However, the opening point is 6.6, and now it is only 6.1.
Mainland audiences are dissatisfied, and Taiwan has a worse reputation.
really confuses Sir.
Holds the top-level big IP, the most resonant theme, the super luxurious cast.
A good hand, how can you play so badly?
This "treasure map" passed down from Tokyo, which piece of puzzle we lack?
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story templates are all very familiar.
How do the heroines who enter the city to work hard, face life, career, and relationship choices, gain experience and growth.
They are in Tokyo, in Beijing, and in Shanghai. The same is true for this part of
.
tells the story of Lin Yishan (played by Gui Lunmei ), born in Tainan, who went to the big city of Taipei to work hard for 20 years.
Never expected it. The problem with
this time actually lies in "Taipei".
is intrinsic, it is the old thing in the routine.
The play tells the story of a girl in Tainan.
Because I visited 01 Building once, Lin Yishan never forgot about it and decided to go to Taipei to explore when she became an adult.
The Taiwanese women in my impression are all, they dare to fight and dare to break out, and have a strong sense of career.
are all "afraid of poverty, ugliness, and failure".
High heels have broken roots, and they are used to it and can always stick them with the prepared glue.
They are bright and beautiful, with endless possibilities.
Did you see the problem?
Replace "Taipei" with any city without any sense of incongruity.
has never opened up the regional gap.
City streets, even if they deliberately distinguish between "town" and "city".
But it looks really different, and it can't even reach the strong contrast between the rich areas in Shanghai and the unfinished buildings...
The story took place in the 2010s. The level of economic development on the island was relatively high, and the urban-rural gap declined.
So some common routines of this IP are invalid here.
The gap between Taipei and Tainan is deliberately emphasized.
But apart from the yellowing filter, in the play, Lin Yishan's home in Tainan is not much worse than that of his aunt's home in Taipei in terms of decoration.
Restaurant & Cafe, if you don’t say it, can you tell which one is Tainan and which one is from Taipei?
There are also differences between "Taipei people" and "non-Taipei people".
HR's difficulties and makeup should be like "Taipei people". Don't worry too much about my aunt's family's affairs, otherwise you will not be like "Taipei people"...
It seems that there are only two types of people in the world, except for "Taipei people" and "non-Taipei people".
In the eyes of many real "Tainan people", they will not think that Taipei people are much higher than them. The "superiority" of Taipei people and the "clumsiness" of Tainan people are not what they appear in the play.
In reality, it is obvious that there are only 300 kilometers and the place where the railway can reach within 1-3 hours must be split into two worlds to match the differences and contradictions in creation.
No wonder people say that they are stereotyped and out of reality, and are happy to bring a lot of negative comments from local Taiwan. The aging of the routine set by
02
has made many familiar viewers unable to substitute it. What about the plot?
can only be said to be tasteless.
Especially the consideration and attentiveness in details are still defeated by a mess of sand in the plot.
The difficulty of the heroine's interview, the sinisterness of the workplace, and the worries of her work are all presented.
can be every time when the heroine really needs to solve specific problems.
all depends on the "golden finger".
Her second job is a telephone operator in a beauty company.
Affliction in the narrow and dark workstation, one call after another was dry.
When Sir was curious whether she would encounter difficult and challenging clients, the camera turned to social issues.
How can pregnant women survive in the company?
Colleague Amy was fired for no reason when she was pregnant, and another female colleague was fired by the company and wanted to help her.
Lin Yishan envied her courage, and after some psychological struggle, she also sued the deputy chief and fired the deputy team leader, but she was unscathed.
It’s the protagonist halo.
Because of the free pattern design, the leader of the brand department recognized the beads with keen eyes.
In order to find a spokesperson for the product, the leader asked her to register.
But the final result is "no investigation of this case". There is no way to know what Lin Yishan did, what efforts she made, and what setbacks she suffered in this job.
is easy and sloppy. A fragmented plot like
is connected by love after love.
pair, love is still one of the main lines.
In order to present the theme of "big heroine", the whole drama gives her life, filling all kinds of male characters.
For example, the noodle shop owner who accompanied her to rent a house, such as the leader's competitor and the handsome guy he met in the tea room.
There are two hot relationships between these two people.
One is her uneasy, and the other is her one-night stand.
is different from the imagined big city struggle song.
The heroine's struggle is mostly made around the men.
Drinking, getting drunk, and falling in love is far more than the time I worked hard in my career.
Compared with Ayako, who keeps walking and upgrades to fight monsters in " Tokyo Women's Picture Book ".
This "picture book" makes people both discouraged and question:
Why even Taiwanese dramas have fallen into the vicious circle of not being able to work well without falling in love?
Or is it that in their eyes, love is work, or even greater than work?
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Still back to the two questions about this IP.
, this story template derived from "Tokyo Women's Picture Book", what exactly are the audience watching?
The failure of Chinese adaptation is largely a routine.
template routines are easy to summarize:
The story of girls with different personalities entering big cities to fight, get frustrated, be confused, and fall into the last sobering world.
and they are ignored.
The success of "Tokyo" begins with routines, but falls outside the routines.
In the original drama "Tokyo Women's Picture Book", Aya sets the initial goal to "become a person that others envy."
But the goal generated by comparison with others is never able to be satisfied.
Therefore, you will find that Ayan’s tragedy is that she was influenced by desire and fell into the big black hole of Tokyo.
A detail: underwear.
When Yan was still working at Sancha, she lived a happy life with her boyfriend every day.
But one morning, she accidentally discovered that her underwear had been pilled.
This kind of life that is superficially happy but low-quality makes her unacceptable.
After five years of hard work, Aya went to Ebisu. The first thing she did was to buy 65,000 yen underwear, which was equivalent to the rent she had for Sancha before.
Because "She wants to be a woman who can be without showing her timidity at any time."
As her work upgraded to Ginza, her goals also quietly changed.
After working for ten years, she said in an interview that the "adult" she understands is to be able to believe and follow her own values.
She chose not to care about other people's evaluation of herself, which seems to be contrary to the value of "becoming someone that others envy".
But in fact, it just puts a layer of protection on your ambitions.
is not that she doesn’t want to compare, but she realizes that there is no end to compare, and she is already tired.
As she grows older, she gradually realizes that there is a layer of things that cannot be changed in the glitzy world of Tokyo.
is a world that is developed, and women cannot leap into the male power layer. It is the countryside that cannot leap into the city, and the bottom that cannot leap into the upper layer... There is this layer of barriers and barriers.
This is also the point that emphasizes in the play why she breaks the fourth wall:
The female boss told the audience why she had to ask "what big happened in 1985" during the interview.
Because Japan promulgated laws to change the status of women, women in the workplace are no longer just serving tea and water.
, I just finished speaking.
Female subordinate quickly broke this bowl of chicken soup:
No matter how high the position is, unhappiness is all over the clouds
No matter what era it was, it turned out to get married and have children to start a family
At this time, Ling in the early thirties in the play was in trouble of continuing to work hard in her career or getting married and having children.
In other words, the female boss is actually a divorced mother who already has several children.
In such a fierce confrontation, think about what women really want and where their destiny should go.
Therefore, you will find that the template is right, especially the end of the template, which tells the story of women who only wake up their position after experiencing everything.
The unsolvable solution behind soberness is the ultimate meaning of this "picture book".
can be replaced in our adaptation.
dare not speak clearly, but instead put most of the pen and ink in the heroine's struggle, frustration and confusion.
But I didn’t see the details of the struggle.
instead, it is a frustration and confusion, which is a drunken life and dream and a voluntary body.
even overestimated their lives in order to deliberately emphasize the attributes of the heroine.
The inner variant of expression is:
A woman cannot recognize herself without experiencing x men.
pair, it is about experiencing men, not about work and career.
So, women don’t have life or work except men? Can't get a promotion without men? This kind of shooting is not essentially a male perspective.
Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.
If you read too much, you will find it.
The reason why domestic adaptation is not good.
except for the embarrassing and stiffness of the template.
What is sad is that it is still covering the elephant in the room, trying to make up a ridiculous adult fairy tale.
Back to the first question, if gender is aside, why do we read "Women's Picture Book"?
Because of the insecurity, loss, worry, doubt, and anxiety about reality, it happens in front of you every moment.
Small cities have no space.
What about the big city?
What I dare not talk about in those dramas is that the heroine’s 20 years of experience, many people have to spend their whole life understanding: the beautiful life in the fantasy that
pursued.
At the moment, it is just one dead cycle after another.
Amidst the lights and wines of the big city, under the feet of every silk, countless wandering corpses were squeaking.
They have already rested in peace.
But the tragic thing is.
If you step on them, you will eventually recognize yourself and cannot climb up.
The picture in this article comes from the network
Editor assistant: Xibei Northward
