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The online drama "Love Is Delicious", which will be broadcast in 2021, has become a dark horse with its excellent reputation. The creators launched a film version of the same name while the iron is hot, telling the unfinished story of the drama version to be continued. The film version continues the main creative lineup of the drama version, still directed by Chen Zhengdao and Xu Zhaoren, written by Shen Yang and Yi Shuaijie, and starring Li Chun, Zhang Hanyun and Wang Ju. Objectively speaking, it is difficult for the movie version to achieve the reputation of the drama version with a score of 8.1. It is inferior to the drama version, but it is also above the passing line.

Film version of "Love is Delicious" poster

The film version retains many advantages of the drama version. One is in a relatively natural, comfortable and everyday state, to present the various "private chats" among the three heroines Liu Jing (played by Li Chun), Fang Xin (played by Zhang Hanyun) and Xia Meng (played by Wang Ju) .

Dialogue scenes are not easy to shoot, especially the kind of dialogue with a relatively dense amount of lines. It is easy to appear tedious and lengthy if it is restored one by one. Domestic film and television dramas are often dealt with by "not speaking human words", making the characters fight with words at every turn, or making all kinds of golden sentences and high value, for fear that the drama will be dull and the atmosphere of the conversation will be embarrassing.

From the drama version to the film version, there are many chatting scenes with girlfriends in "Love Is Delicious". They all speak human words, which are very homely. Sometimes a few minutes of chatting scenes are filmed, and they do not feel boring. Instead, they can bring the audience Get into that fun conversation vibe. The screenwriter and director are more or less nourished from "Sex and the City" or some classic sitcoms. The dialogue between the characters has a natural sense of flow, and it also shakes a little burden from time to time, or changes a bit in the scheduling. It is also accurate to use what Chen Zhengdao said in an interview in the drama version, "It's a bit absurd and a little pretentious, but it is still made up of some little fun in life". In the video version, whether it is the conversation of a few minutes at the molecular cuisine restaurant or the conversation at the breakfast shop, they all ensure the presentation of information, the display of girlfriends, and the alert effect of a sitcom.

Sisters eat, drink and chat

Another advantage of the film version continuing the drama version is that the characters are still overwhelming. Although there are some controversies in the handling of some characters in the film version, in any case, Liu Jing, Fang Xin and Xia Meng are not the kind of labels piled up in the female group dramas that are filmed a bit badly. into a "personal design". Even though their stories will have a "reunion" at the end of the movie, it's never done once and for all. They still have many life puzzles to be solved and many difficulties to overcome. Liu Jing’s career was not successful, and her love was not going well. She still hesitated, and she often stumbled while experiencing life; Fang Xin, who looked soft but actually strong, still hadn’t fully learned to say no to others; Xia Meng was still a little Self-centered and successful in her career, she took the script of an elite woman, but she still has self-doubt and low self-esteem deep in her heart...

But what makes them unique is precisely that they have weaknesses. In fact, it is hard to imagine that people live according to their "personality" in daily life, including our close friends. We can easily find that there are some contradictions in them, and these will not mean that we don't love them. We can understand that this is "human nature" and that this is a "cutting edge" that everyone will have. It's just that nowadays, film and television dramas pay more attention to establishing the correct three views and speaking the correct truth, so that the correct "personal design" is rampant, and over time, the audience is used to judging whether the characters conform to the three views based on the "personal design". For example, if a woman has a successful career like Xia Meng, she must also be confident and courageous in her relationship. How can she fall in love with a young man who is not well-educated and not very smart enough to engage in fitness, and sometimes even worry about gains and losses because of him?

Xia Meng and Lu Bin are a good couple.

The three heroines in the film version of "Love Is Delicious" are not perfect, but they are still very human, and they have become one with the actors. It is precisely because of their imperfection that their stories can continue to be told. After all, the "character design" does not allow mistakes to be made all the time, and only allows linear growth. When the character design grows to perfection, the story will enter a dead end.

The so-called "imperfections" sometimes contain precious qualities in human nature. The film version has a little bit of value at the end, highlighting the meaning of "it is too easy to criticize a person in this era, I don't want to hear you criticizing yourself here", the best friends have changed from picking each other and self-criticism into a sincere relationship Compliment and tell each other heartfeltly. For example, although Xia Meng is strong, it also means that she will always stand up for her sisters. This is women's self-identification, self-appreciation, and the sympathy of sisterhood. The advantages are based on the disadvantages, and the sensationalism does not appear to be deliberately exaggerated.

A friend is someone who has flaws, but we still love him

From the drama version to the film version, "Love Is Delicious" has another consistent advantage, it has a more real sense of the city. There are many domestic urban dramas, and most of them do not have a real "urban sense". The urban sense is not just the most superficial things such as high-rise buildings, but the works must reflect the thoughts, values, cognition and lifestyle of urban young people. Urban dramas that lack a sense of urbanity hide the outdated values of the farming society, and at the end of the filming, they often end up with the family ethics of chickens and dogs jumping all over the place.

Many details in the film version of "Love Is Delicious" can reflect the lifestyle and attitude of urban young people. For example, Xia Meng and Lu Bin have an interesting intimate life, "meet each other" on "Hao Hao" dating software, popular webcasts, mobile games, and shop visits with different motives. It is also worth mentioning that the movie also retains elements such as masks, close contact, and isolation in the epidemic era. It does not block this background like many urban dramas filmed during the epidemic period, nor does it only serve as a story like some stories. With positive publicity, "Love Is Delicious" filmed the epidemic as a key part of reality, how it once intervened and affected our lives. It’s an urban feel and a record of the times.

It seems to have passed, but not forgotten

Although the author is more tolerant of the film version of "Love Is Delicious", I have to admit that this time the film version was a bit hasty after all, and there is still a lot of room for polishing.

Some viewers questioned that the characters did not stand up in the film version, which is true. For example, even if it can be explained that Xia Mengmeng did not do the project of sci-fi fairy tales, she is not interested, so she thought of being lazy, and went to the cartoonist KK (played by Yin Haoyu) to discuss cooperation without reading the story much... But this explanation is still Very weak, and when KK didn't cooperate for a while, Xia Meng's rage "Is it because I am a woman that you don't believe me" is also very unreasonable.

You know, Xia Meng is the vice president of the video website. Without strong professional ability, it is impossible to sit in this position. The video website is going to have a project, and the person in charge can discuss cooperation without knowing the project? How could she be so perfunctory about a major project that was related to the retention of team members? She paid more attention to the dance at the company's annual meeting than this project. Is this really in line with common sense?

This "failure" does not mean that it will destroy the character of Xia Meng, Xia Meng is still unique, but the series of plots around this project in the film version are more like the screenwriter did not think clearly and was anxious to create a dramatic conflict It was "hard-coded".

The film version seems to default that the viewers who choose to watch the movie are drama fans, and all viewers have already understood the girlfriend relationship between the three heroines. The feeling of getting up. For example, when they are in great difficulties in life, their girlfriends are not even by their side. Is it true that girlfriends are only together when eating, drinking and having fun, and bear alone when there is adversity? Although fans of the show can understand the unspoken feelings between them, there are also omissions in the portrayal of the film version.

What's more, the theme of "love is delicious" is not richly reflected in the film version. Food comes from desire, and love also comes from desire. The drama version has a lot of ink on the relationship between "food-desire-love", and there are many wonderful observations and metaphors on the relationship between the sexes. It can be said that girlfriend love and "love is delicious" are the core of "love is delicious".

Food and desire have something in common

But in the film version, "Love Is Delicious" is relatively weak. There are only a handful of food bridges, the echo of "food-desire-love" is relatively weak, and the portrayal of the relationship between the sexes is far less complex than the drama version with a large Shura field. Except for Lu Bin (played by Zhang Fan) who is still cute, Zhang Ting (played by Ren Bin) suddenly showed an exaggerated desire to control, Jiang Shanmu (played by Zhou Chengao) became a tool man, and Song Chao did not appear from beginning to end (it is said that the last The voice is his), the newly added Xiang Dongliu (played by Bai En) is too dramatic, it can only be said that it is not lost...

In any case, compared to those "female perspective, cheer and inspiration; love motif, knight appears; amusing tricks, reunion ending", full of routines and bottlenecked chick movies, the film version of "Love Is Delicious" still wins Its freshness, fun and personality. The movie is like a transition between the drama version and the next film and television drama developed around "Love Is Delicious". Due to the haste of creation and the limited space of the movie, some plots are not thought through clearly, and some people and things can only be passed in a hurry. The shadow version is somewhat superficial.

This kind of feeling is probably like the audience has not seen the three sisters for two years, and they are full of expectations to be able to reunite on the big screen. It is indeed a surprise to see them, but the chat is over without fun. There are many regrets at the same time. . Fortunately, the three girls are still cute, the director and screenwriter are still sincere, and the audience is still looking forward to the next party, hoping to have a good time next time.

Looking forward to seeing you next time