"I am waiting for you in the future" successfully combines novels with TV art, perfectly presents the artistic conception in the text through film and television works, combines future regrets with past compensation, and integrates authenticity and artistry, so that the audience can quickly bring emotions and experience the shock brought by the works.
In Douban score of 20 19, I will wait for you to rank third in domestic drama and first in mainland drama with a high score of 8.5 in the future, and its charm can be seen. Of course, the script on paper, the actor's exquisite performance and the lines that directly poke the soul are the three key factors for the success of this play. Today, I will interpret the charm of this high-scoring youth drama from three aspects: story structure, theme discussion and theme expression.
First, the story structure: The play adopts the parallel narrative mode of light and dark lines. The bright line promotes the plot with the will of Hao's return, and the sub-line is guided by the growth of the new, and the past and the future, reality and memories are intertwined, which skillfully promotes the plot development. Although there are 36 episodes in the TV series "I am waiting for you in the future", the time in real life is only a short day from the beginning to the end. However, in this short day, through a drunken dream, the film sent the protagonist Hao back to 20 years ago and took the road of youth again, reappearing some important times in the past, reflecting Hao's inner feelings of returning, making up for life regrets, and finally changing his mentality, changing the status quo and changing his life.
I have to say that the narrative structure of this film is very clever. Using dreams to skillfully combine memories with reality makes the context of the story clear.
①? Dream: Make the finishing point and point out the main idea.
The play begins with the actor's fake marriage, and after explaining the basic relationship and state of the characters, it creates a contradiction focus, which makes the protagonist's emotions intensify because of his dissatisfaction with the status quo, thus entering the game hall to vent his emotions and mistakenly returning to the past.
Hao, 37, returned to the game hall because he wanted to vent his emotions. The choice of the game took him back to 20 years ago. When he came out of the game hall, he met himself at the age of 17, and the story began like this.
At first, I felt that the connecting line between the past and the future was obviously the game hall. As a result, at the end of the story, we realized that this is not a crossing, nor is it a game play, but the dream of the protagonist Hao's return.
The theme of the dream appeared at the end, which played the role of finishing touch. Reminding the male host through dreams is also reminding the audience, and it also points out the theme of this film: life can't be repeated, and there is only one chance. Only by cherishing the present can we live a good life.
② Memory: The theme is full and the context is clear.
Most of the films focus on recalling the plot, taking the memory of Hao's return as the leading factor, reviewing his important time experience, enriching the theme of the story through the comparison between memory and reality, making the context of the story clearer, and triggering the audience's thinking in this staggered way of time and space.
We followed the memory of Hao's return to the motherland, accompanied him back to his youth, and reproduced those regrettable past events of his youth one by one. Under his leadership, we can see that five young people are sometimes brave and sometimes timid in the face of growth and choice.
For the audience, this is not only the memory of the protagonist, but also the memory of the audience. One of the five young people will always be like ourselves when we were young.
Memories make Hao's return make up for some regrets in his life. By revisiting the age of 17, he can find his original intention and courage in the past, wake up in the reality of 37, and still have the courage to recover his beloved.
3 reality: echo before and after, sublimate ideas.
It only takes about 25 minutes for the play to tell the real part. The first episode takes 15 minutes to introduce the main characters of the play and the current relationship and state of the male and female protagonists: they are fond of each other, but they can't open their mouths to each other and miss each other all the time. The last episode took 10 minutes to write a happy ending: I woke up from my dream, found my brave self in the past, and dared to confess to my beloved. Echo before and after to make the story complete.
The role of reality in the play is mainly to set off the theme and sublimate the idea of the play: combining artistry with reality, recalling the past from the perspective of reality, grasping the present, and teaching everyone to cherish and be brave.
Second, the theme discussion: to? Youth? As a theme, it reveals the growth and transformation of characters and expounds three important feelings of life. From the perspective of youth and adulthood, the play also explains the different roles played by love, affection and friendship in different periods.
17 years old is the most unscrupulous beauty of love, the most desperate time for friendship, and the most indifferent time for family.
37-year-old, full of confusion and confidence in love, questioning friendship and starting to fool his family.
Compare the two age stages and the three most important emotions in life, reveal the growth process of the characters and help the audience think about themselves. Along the way, we have become people we dare not be, but we have lost our original selves. The play not only made Hao return to find courage, but also helped all the audience find themselves.
Family: the most tolerant emotion in the world.
In this play, family relations are described through the combination of contrast montage and flashback montage. The comparison between the memory and behavior of Hao's return, the comparison between 37-year-old Hao's return and 17-year-old, and the comparison between his former mother and his former mother.
The three groups of comparisons all illustrate this thing: no matter how the role changes, no matter how the child's mood and attitude change, the mother's love for the child will never change. Through the comparison of these three groups, the audience can intuitively feel the tolerance and greatness of the family.
There are two things that Hao, 37, regrets most when he returns to China: one is that he didn't see his grandfather for the last time, and the other is that his parents divorced.
The first thing and the second thing are independent and interrelated. Because of my grandfather's sudden death, when my mother was most sad, my father was too busy to stay with his wife in time, which left her with psychological trauma.
The 37-year-old Hao returned because he knew about it in advance and told his father in time, so that the relationship between his parents did not alienate, but deepened their feelings, turned the corner, made up for Hao's regret of returning, and eased his mood.
After waking up from a dream, 37-year-old Hao realized her mother's good intentions for many years. She didn't care that her mother and father joined forces to force her to get married, but bravely told herself the truth of cheating her mother and expressed her true thoughts to her mother, who also generously forgave her.
Friendship: Sincerity and understanding are the most important.
The play does not mask every character in the play, but lets the audience define their own roles through stories. In the friendship part, the play used a classic paragraph to pay tribute to the young and dangerous. In this shot, the director used a lot of monologues to shape the brotherhood of several people, expressed Hao's understanding and respect for friendship, and vividly showed his inner world at that time.
After learning that Chen Xiaowu went to the vegetable market alone to get justice from the evil vendors, Chen Tong and Liu Dazhi were desperate to help Chen Xiaowu. Hao came back because he knew in advance that he would miss the college entrance examination and tried to stop it, but under the persuasion of He, Xiao Wu was rescued together. The appearance of three people running in the street and helping Chen Xiaowu fight, that kind of blood and indignation brought the audience back to the era of watching young dangerous people.
For Hao's return, there have always been two regrets for Chen Xiaowu and his two best friends: one is that he missed the college entrance examination because he helped Chen Xiaowu, and the other is that Chen Xiaowu couldn't understand that he was deliberately alienated at the bottom. After doing it again, he found that what he had been worried about had nothing to do with others.
Everyone has different ways and views on the same thing at different stages and in different identities.
Hao, 37, returned to China and became a university teacher. Naturally, he thinks that the most important thing for students is to study, so he always thinks that it is a pity that Chen Tong missed the college entrance examination. However, for Chen Tong of 17, it has always been a pity to miss the college entrance examination, but it would be the biggest regret if he missed his friends and didn't stand up when they needed help most.
For Chen Xiaowu, 17 can't understand why Chen Xiaowu dropped out of school, while Hao Hui, 37, explained Chen Xiaowu's helplessness and embarrassment at that time.
Therefore, after starting all over again, whether it is right, Chen Xiaowu or Hao, he has returned to a new definition of friendship, from that self-righteous person to a person who takes others as the center and learns to respect and understand others.
Love: Someone has to speak first.
The play takes the opportunity of missing someone you like for 20 years, but still dare not confess, and goes back to the time when you met your first love, to re-understand the true meaning of love, to understand the heart of yourself and the person you like, and to look at feelings from the perspective of a bystander, so that the clues of feelings become clearer.
The drama doesn't use much space to tell the story of love, but it buries them in the imprint of growing up: Smile takes off her socks for Liu Dazhi, nicknamed Liu Dazhi, and Liu Dazhi walks around painting stalls and buys magazines for Smile.
Their love is hidden under every little thing in life and in the common experience. This kind of silent love gives people a true and pure beauty. Whether it is the parties or the audience, they need to ponder it carefully to appreciate the wonderful taste.
How many people found these small signals about love when they knew nothing about love, and how many people missed them? When Hao returned to China, he didn't dare to confess with Xiaoxiao, because he always thought that Xiaoxiao didn't like him, because he wasn't confident enough, because he wasn't brave enough, and he finally missed the person he liked for 20 years.
Fortunately, the screenwriter gave him a happy ending and let him run around and reunite with his first love. But in real life, those who miss their youth, love and people will live forever.
The editor used the story of Hao's return and smile to explain his view of love: No matter what age, we should cherish the people in front of us and bravely express our love.
Third, the theme performance: the play clearly presents the theme of youth through simple and real shots, ingenious music and wonderful lines. The story of the play takes place in 1998. Most of the scenes were shot in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, which is the hometown of the author Liu Tong. It is mainly nostalgic, from old school uniforms to old radios, from melodious melodies to wonderful lines, from mottled roads to street vendors, from environment to clothing, from scenery to later stage. The play has been around 1998, with various details and elements.
0 1 shot: use slow motion and close-up shots to highlight the feelings of the characters, express their feelings and render the atmosphere.
On some important events, the director especially likes to tell stories in slow motion, slow down the camera to create a solemn atmosphere, so that the audience can well integrate into the emotions of the characters and resonate.
As for the narration of the characters, the director likes to use close-ups, and many shouting scenes in the play are told with close-ups. Every time an event comes out, the director will aim the camera at the character's face, focus on the actor's expression and movements, portray the character's facial expression, and let the audience better feel the inner feelings of the character at the moment.
Music: 26 songs are used to express feelings, reveal the inner world of characters, convey feelings with music and deepen the theme.
Dramatic Theme? It is youth, and music cannot be separated from youth. It is said that youth is a song, and I want to sing it to you. There are many languages that can't be spoken, so the director skillfully tells them with music, introducing the audience into the emotions of the characters, crying and laughing with them, and making the audience feel the same.
For example, 17-year-old theme song "Song of Liu Dazhi" sings not only the secret love of the protagonist Liu Dazhi, but also the unspeakable voice of our youth.
Lines: Every sentence can be used as the lines of proverbs, which promoted the development of the plot festival, sublimated the characters, and reflected the brilliance of the author Liu Tong everywhere.
Everyone has one or two proverbs that encourage them all their lives. When I was young, those exciting lines were the driving force for many people to move forward.
Maybe ten years later, your real life is far from your dream, even beyond recognition. At that time, you may transfer the responsibility to your parents and friends, but it will be the responsibility of everyone except you. But at this moment, I want you to remember what you think now, but at your age, the dream you set up is your initial heart.
I'm waiting for you in the future. A movie that can become a classic largely benefits from lines that are deeply rooted in people's hearts. Whether it's Hao's inner monologue every time he returns to China at the age of 37 or the vows of several young people at the age of 65,438+07, every episode can evoke memories and resonate with the literary titles.
These words can penetrate the screen and reach the audience's heart. These lines are chicken soup and chicken blood, reality and ideal, which echo the theme and everyone's youth.
Ending: Don't leave regrets for your life. "I am waiting for you in the future", a well-deserved high-scoring drama on campus, has a wonderful plot, deeply rooted musical lines and actor's role-shaping, which takes the audience back to youth by time machine and gives them a shocking visual and sensory enjoyment. The play tells us: No matter young or adult, we should cherish the present and don't leave regrets for life. Therefore, "I am waiting for you in the future" is not a simple youth campus drama, but also a youth documentary of many people, and a good drama full of life philosophy.