Summer youth drama has warmed up in reputation,"The Story of You and Me" is grounded and resonates

Youth campus themes have been piled up this year's summer, including the hit drama "The Summer Solstice Is Not Arriving" and the popular online drama "The Spring Breeze is Not as Good as You". However, this year's youth dramas have picked up their reputation. In the eyes of many viewers, the content of these dramas is down-to-earth, and the stories are not bloody and easy to resonate.

On summer screens, youth campus themed works are never absent. Although "Our Boyhood" starred by TFboys ended the night before, the addition of "Blooming Waves" and the popularity of "Spring Breeze Is Not as Good as You" have made the screen full of youthful vitality. What surprised the audience was that these youth dramas generally focused on sunshine and passionate youth. Although they were rebellious, they did not shed blood, arousing public resonance and the pursuit and remembrance of the green years. Many viewers lamented that both the style of the work and the interpretation of the actors were very young and lively."This is what youth should look like."

Youth dramas fall in love with "sports": Some are inspirational, some "cool off"

The night before, the campus youth inspirational idol drama "Our Childhood" starring TFboys, Xue Zhiqian, Li Xiaolu and others ushered in the grand finale. The ultimate confrontation between the Cubs and the Silver Eagles ended. The plot did not turn around according to the "routine". In the end, the Cubs, who tried their best, lost to the Silver Eagles by one point, but they received applause and respect from the audience. Regarding this unexpected ending, some viewers thought: "The 'ignition point' that I always thought would appear did not appear. Thinking about it, it is too perfect to be true. Youth is not perfect without regrets. It's enough to work hard and do your best." Some viewers believed that although the Cubs were regretful that they failed to win the championship, they were inspiring enough."All youth is best interpreted in the shackles of childhood. Those cheers and persistence are memories worth cherishing."

As the only weekly youth drama in the summer season,"Waves and Waves" continued to be in a "high-sweet" mode after its launch on Hunan Satellite TV. The play is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by online writer Jiu Xiaoqi. It tells the youthful story of a rookie female journalist who falls in love with the swimming god. The weather is hot, but some netizens said that "Blooming Waves" is just like a summer dessert."Watching the pool show on hot weather has a cooling effect."

Both "Our Boyhood" and "Waves" choose to blend youth and sports themes. The former focuses on baseball, while the latter focuses on swimming. In "Our Boyhood", baseball games are also the most important scenes in the show, so TFBOYS, Xue Zhiqian and other actors all participated in half a year of baseball training.

Xu Zheng, the special baseball director of the show and the former main pitcher of the China national baseball team, revealed that because they have solid dance skills, they learn faster than children of the same age. Sun Yang, who had just achieved good results at the World Championships, made a guest appearance in "Waves".

The work is down-to-earth: "Stories of You and Me" resonates.

In addition to "Our Youth" and "Blooming Waves", youth campus themes have been piled up this summer. The previous hit drama "The Summer Solstice Is Not Arriving" and the popular online drama "The Spring Breeze is Not as Good as You" are all works with similar themes. However, unlike the "bad reviews" that youth-themed works have frequently encountered in recent years, this year's youth dramas have picked up their reputation. In the eyes of many viewers, the content of these dramas is down-to-earth, and the stories are not bloody and easy to resonate.

From "Those Years" and "To Youth" to "My Girls", there is always a market for well-made youth films, which also allows practitioners to see the blue ocean to be explored behind the themes of youth. However, with the influx of capital, youth-themed films have fallen into the strange circle of "having money but not being able to shoot well". Even though the number of youth films in the past two years has increased sharply, what does not match the high output is the cliff-like decline of reputation. Some netizens concluded that a large number of youth-themed works have a routine for character setting,"The first male is tall, rich and handsome, the first female is cute, and the second female is very abnormal." The foreshadowing setting "clearly has something to say but doesn't explain it clearly", and the plot is full of blood. People can't help but shout,"Our youth is not what it looks like in the work."

What surprised the audience was that this year's summer youth dramas basically got rid of the dog-blood routine. The overall style was clean, lively and down-to-earth, which triggered a trend of public pursuit and nostalgia for "youth at that time". The feelings brought in a group of people born in the 1970s. Life touched audiences born in the 1990s and even 2000s.

Every character in the play "Our Boyhood" has experienced storms and setbacks, but in the end, they also ushered in their own sunshine. The description of family life and school life makes many netizens feel the same. Audiences of different ages can see their own shadows in the characters in the play.

"Ten Miles of Spring Breeze is not as good as You" attempts to restore the scene from the 1990s, including wooden windows painted with green paint, thin white birches on both sides of the cement path, clean and elegant small buildings and ever-present campus broadcasts. The atmosphere is universally recognized. Netizens believe: "Everyone can see the shadow of their past. The journey from youth to maturity makes people feel empathy every moment. Similarly, persistence in love or friendship is something worth remembering." In this regard, director Ma Jin said that without hormones is not youth, and without tears is not youth; if you fall due to impulse and then be resurrected full of blood, the feeling of smiling and crying is youth.

Casting selection does not "pretend to be young": Young actors naturally vividly increase their sense of substitution.

Previously, the selection of many youth dramas has also been criticized. Famous actors "pretend to be young" and "reduce their age" to participate in the competition, which gave the audience a sense of discord. Some viewers said it was difficult to substitute when they saw their familiar faces. This year's youth dramas mostly feature young actors. Although some of the actors 'performances are childish, they are natural and vivid, which helps the audience have a sense of substitution.

"The Spring Breeze is not as good as you" made the audience praise that "casting selection is half the battle." The audience believes that Zhang Yishan has shown the Beijing boy quite well, and in conjunction with "Autumn Water"'s love of poetry, poetry, and Fu, he has performed a kind and responsible young man very well. Zhou Dongyu's version of "Xiao Hong" was paranoid when she was willful, cute when she was coquettish, and the "smile with her five senses squeezed together" made netizens sigh that "Sister Hong solved thousands of worries with a smile." The two men's sense of CP was also recognized by the audience and was "very infectious."

In "Our Boyhood", the characters played by TFboys are all tailor-made based on their true personalities. Wang Junkai plays Wu Tong, a black-bellied boy who is "cold on the outside and hot on the inside". Wang Yuan plays Ban Xiaosong, hot-blooded, proactive, and cheerful and lively. Yin Ke, played by Yi Shou Qianxi, is somewhere in between, introverted and decent. When performing, they not only put their lives into their own lives, but also rely on the image that their peers like in performing. In "Waves", Tan Songyun plays the rookie female reporter Yun Yun, who is full of "girlish power", and her fresh and natural performance made the audience comment "really cute."

Editor: Mary