When a certain director was proud to invite Lee Min Ho to the Spring Festival Gala, the women around Youxijun had already changed the startup screen of their mobile phones from Lee Min Ho and Kim Woo Bin to Kim Soo Hyun. Yes, "The Heirs" is out. Now the most popular Korean drama is "You Who Came From the Stars" starring Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun.
In the era of "Blue Life and Death", "Winter Sonata" and "Stairway to Heaven", when Korean dramas expressed aesthetic love, although they pursued separation of life and death, they more or less considered the rationality of the plot to justify themselves. But now, they have no reason to speak, and everything only serves "beauty". Beautiful people, beautiful love, beautiful clothes... What can more impress female audiences than "beauty"? !
In the winter
of 2013, South Korea's SBS TV launched the TV series "The Wind Blows That Winter" starring Zhao In-sung and Song Hye-kyo, which fully opened a great new era of Korean dramas selling their faces.
I finished watching this TV series without a single episode, which combines disability, brain cancer, brother-sister love, stealing identities, and many other dog-blooded elements. I didn't even fast forward for a second, why? Just to see Song Hye Kyo's face occupying half of the screen and Jo In Sung's legs occupying the other half.
plot? What it is? I do not recognize.
rationality? What is that? I don't know either.
All I know is Song Hye Kyo's thin-to-transparent foundation, hair-thin eyeliner, terribly good-looking coats, skirts, and pearl earrings. I only know Jo In Sung's steel-rule-like nose, three suits in one episode, and endlessly long legs.
These two are easy to see, and I don't feel at all that I spend two hours a week watching a first episode and can guess the ending, and a TV show that can't get to the bottom of every turning point is a waste of time. Instead, I'm praying that the show had better have 100 episodes, and each episode would let these two people wear all the big-name new styles from spring, summer, autumn and winter, and then just sit and look at each other, smile, and talk.
Obviously, SBS TV also realized this, and every Shuimu drama that was launched immediately caught the key of "selling face". That's right, "I Hear Your Voice" breaks through the limitations of Korean drama genres and has a profound sense of realism - no wonder! Every case is mentally handicapped comparable to "Into Science", the prisoners and lawyers are competing to see who is more stupid than the other, and the legal loopholes are unbearable to look at - however, there are those with thick skin, loyal dog eyes and sexy thick lips. High school teenagers call out to a almond-eyed mature girl in a tight pencil skirt, who cares about this?
And "Master's Sun" cleverly chose the brand new angle of "funny healing ghost movie" - strange! In terms of healing, it can't compare to "Natsume Friends Account", and the ghost hunting plot is not as good as "Onmyoji". The background color is still the family drama of chaebol and mother-in-law with Korean characteristics - but, there is a handsome uncle Su Zhixie who guards the ordinary-looking heroine. Who cares about this setting?
Gradually, I came to a conclusion that for Korean dramas, the plot has always been an embellishment, a decoration, and it exists to set off and emphasize the beauty of the actors.
Soon, SBS's autumn water-and-wood drama "The Heirs" verified my conclusion. Screenwriter Kim Eun-sook, who wrote "on air" and "cityhall" and rekindled my hope for the plot of Korean dramas, this time The work seems to be purely to prove that the previous works are pure misunderstandings, and she is still the girl-hearted screenwriter who specializes in science fiction themes. Otherwise, how could there be a poor girl wandering in Los Angeles at night with no money, a Lamborghini sports car suddenly parked beside her, the second generation of the chaebol with three views and deep facial features asked quietly: "Would you like to come to my house?" This kind of plot? This kind of plot can no longer be explained by ordinary expressions such as Mary Sue and Cinderella fairy tales. The probability of this encounter, the state of the second generation of chaebols who seem to have never seen a woman in their entire life, can only belong to the category of science fiction films.
However, only such a "sci-fi" plot can make Lee Min-ho cry for the heroine's nose and tears, and then people can sigh over and over again, "Oh, it's so sad to cry, when tears run across my nose... Speaking of Asians, how can the bridge of the nose be so high!"; Only such a "sci-fi" plot can make Lee Min Ho and Kim Woo Bin fight for the heroine, and then people can sigh "Oops are fighting - look at them. How can your legs be so thin and so long!"
The plot exists only to make people express such sighs. As for how the plot went from love at first sight to life and death, and how the brotherhood came to fist and foot, it has nothing to do with the screenwriter, but the audience. The part that makes up your own mind. Those who are imaginative can deceive themselves by saying such things as "18-year-old youth is impulsive" and "love doesn't need a reason", while those who are imaginative are scolding the screenwriter, and at the same time - not just to see long legs Coat, have you read it conscientiously?
In the end, SBS, who had fully tasted the sweetness of selling faces, made the ultimate trick at the end of 2013 - "You Who Came From the Stars", once again, it used seemingly innovative themes, seemingly attentive characters and timeless The beautiful duo captured the hearts of the people.
In fact, from the legal affairs of "I Hear Your Voice", the ghosts of "Master's Sun" to the alien creatures of "You Who Came From the Stars", Korean dramas have really followed the pace of American dramas in terms of subject matter and genre, and they are neither lazy nor fooled. . But I don't know why, any subject matter falls to Korean drama, just like any ingredient falls to Korea, it is only mixed with chili sauce. In the field of TV dramas, the ever-changing chili sauce is the eternal theme that true love cannot be together due to disparity in status and identity. Legal affairs, ghosts and alien creatures all turned into fake and outrageous backgrounds in the end, which basically did not prevent the hero and heroine from spending 20 episodes flirting with each other, accidentally falling over, flirting with each other, living together unexpectedly, flirting with each other, kissing unexpectedly , teasing, teasing, true love.
Look at "You Who Came From the Stars", in fact, I think it should be renamed "The Screenwriter from the Stars". In this story that integrates various types of elements such as superpowers, murders, time-travels, showbiz, and chaebol, you originally expected See, or if it's a British or American drama, what you're about to see is the rhythm of "Hero" plus the mystery of "X-Files" plus the suspense of "Small Town", but Korean drama writers have the ability to ignore these elements themselves The drama, leaving all rationality and logic behind, concocted a "Domineering Professor Falls in Love with Me" on the red sleeves.
In this drama, everything that can be called a plot exists to set off the handsomeness and cuteness of the hero and heroine. In every minute of watching the drama, you have countless questions to ask the screenwriter:
First of all, how did Kim Soo Hyun fall to the earth? What kind of life does he have on another planet? Do you have family? Are you trying to get in touch?
Secondly, why is the villain's solution to the crisis only by killing people? Why does the male protagonist have important criminal evidence but not hand it over to the police? Why is the villain so calm and unscrupulous after seeing the hero's teleportation skills with his own eyes? Why did the male lead and female lead each react as calmly as they shook hands after kissing?
Finally, why does the police uncle's criminal investigation methods seem to be taught by a physical education teacher?
why? why? Why...
and the biggest bug is that the screenwriter has always used the setting of aliens as an all-purpose excuse for all ridiculous plots. When she needs the heroic heroism of the hero, the hero can be omnipotent because he is an alien, When she needs the heroine to be weak and weak, she can jump on the street instantly because she is an alien. The ups and downs of the plot are completely dependent on the character setting, and the rules of this setting are so ambiguous, self-contradictory, and hasty Vague.
However, when you see the god-level beauty Jun Ji-hyun going crazy and cute without bottom line, and the god-level paralyzed Kim Soo-hyun going through fire and water to save the goddess, all the questions about the plot are not important, you will convince yourself that this is a professor's version. It's just the story of Jiang Zhishu" and the female star version "Aihara Kotoko" rejoicing with each other, a new reality show from a major brand, a super-long screen saver of Korean good genes - so it's just a loop between complaining and nympho After one episode, I just want to ask: when will the update be next week?
You see, this is how much women tolerate the plots of idol dramas, but the same is true for men. A friend of mine has watched 50 episodes of "Let's Get Married". He said that even if Gao Yuanyuan laughed at the camera for 50 episodes, he would still Happy to watch.
If we really want to exaggerate, I think this kind of appreciative behavior of watching a drama only by looking at the face represents the most primitive and instinctive human demand for pure beauty for a long time. Satisfaction may be the same as the ancient Greeks admired the muscular lines of the arm of a discus thrower.
What other departments of the TV series have to do is to do their best to highlight this pure beauty. The lighting must be hazy and clean, the scenery must be fashionable and concise, the pictures must be saturated and bright, and the plot must be happy. Dabei is used to easily show the beauty of the actors in various situations, such as crying, laughing, blowing beards and staring. The lines should be interesting, vivid and cute so that the actors are not only beautiful but also likable.
Of course, even if there are none of these, it doesn't matter too much. When you look at Kim Soo Hyun's slap face that is completely narrowed into his neck, don't you want to applaud the mysterious slap of human genes? And being able to give birth to such perfectly proportioned facial features is simply a gift from God.
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