In the 1990s, Wang Kai’s ＂Great Rivers＂ was less popular than Hu Ge’s ＂Flowers＂. Why？

The TV series "The Years of Great Rivers and Rivers are Like Songs", which was adapted from the well-known novels selected for the "New China 70th Anniversary Series", is being broadcast on CCTV.

This drama not only brought together the original cast of the first two films, but also called the director Kong Sheng back to film. Many audiences were excited, after all, it was the director Kong Sheng! As an IP drama adapted from a novel, the drama has maintained a very good reputation for several consecutive films, achieving a good score of 8.8, which can basically be said to be the ceiling of the drama in the past five years.

The timeline of the third installment came in 1993, and it was still based on the reform and opening up. More and more people began to do business in the sea, and the stock market gradually rose, which made people think of the "Flowers" broadcast some time ago. Therefore, the two dramas were inevitably pulled together and began to compare.

In fact, radishes and cabbage all have their own preferences. Some people like the filters and colors of "Flowers", like Wong Kar-wai’s artistic taste, and like all kinds of episode soundtracks with a sense of age, which cost 10 million to buy. Some people like "Great Rivers and Rivers", like the complex and multi-faceted characters in it, like to tell stories down-to-earth, and watch plot conflicts. However, there is one thing that can be said, that is, "Great Rivers and Rivers" is definitely more realistic than "Flowers", because it tells the struggles and lives of ordinary people, and there are more ordinary people’s daily encounters.

However, the real data tell people the answer, reality may not be useful. Compared to "Flowers" on the platform, advertisers crowded to explode, and advertisers woke up on the platform, but few people paid attention to the advertisements of "Great Rivers and Rivers". Recently, it has developed to zero wide opening.

Then, it is strange that the two equally textured period dramas also tell the story of the reform and opening up of entrepreneurship. What is the difference that makes them so different in popularity?

Strive to restore, the details are impeccable

The two dramas were also produced by the best in the industry. Whether it was "Great Rivers", which everyone had already seen, or "Flowers", which had been filming for three years, the details made it impossible for everyone to find fault. Not only could they achieve the greatest degree of restoration, but they could also lay a lot of foreshadowing, and many of the props were carefully designed.

For example, in "Flowers", even Reiko’s drinking brand (she has lived in Japan, so she drinks Japanese beer) and the cup she uses to drink (she is different from Bao Zong, who takes exclusive cups) are exquisite and have a background. In addition to the props to be restored, "Dajiang Dahe" is so serious that even the clothes are all old. Therefore, the comparison of the details of the two dramas is comparable, and the same is done with care.

Display group portraits, with very contemporary characteristics

Both plays want to show the changes of the times by borrowing group portraits, and the group portraits are also products of the times. Their characteristics can only be produced because of the turbulence and change.

The first broadcast of "Flowers" can be said to have attracted the attention of the news media in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai recently. Because not only a few protagonists, but also other supporting actors who appeared in the play showed the courage of private entrepreneurs in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai at that time. Their bold innovation at that time and the high-profile song that Fei Xiang invited were all true histories, but because of regional restrictions, there was not much publicity and they were forgotten in time.

The story of "Great Rivers and Rivers" is more complicated than "Flowers", and it spreads out three lines in one breath. Everyone knows that Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao and Yang Xun represent the state-run economy, the private economy and the individual economy respectively, and have made great progress in the first 20 years. Then the first problem appears here.

It seems that the three characters are complex because they are taken care of too comprehensively, showing almost all aspects of Chinese society, making every story seem familiar to everyone.

After resuming the college entrance examination, Song Yunhui, who has studied hard since childhood and embarked on this ride, is still Lei Dongbao, who is hot, fierce, daring and daring, and his eyes are always bigger than a bull’s eye, or Yang Xun, who is glib, has a unique vision, and his head turns very fast. On them, the audience sees the shadow of other stories, and the visibility of the story is reduced. It is precisely because it is too contemporary, but it always makes people feel that it is not so unique. You must watch this drama.

Rushing actors, capital intervention becomes stale

One thing that is particularly hard to ignore about "Great River" is that we have to step out of the show and take a look at these actors.

Unlike Wang Jiawei, who dragged the 258,000 yuan and no one in the entertainment industry dared to provoke, the production of "Great Rivers and Rivers" should have a lot of capital game results.

The farther the drama goes, the more Yang Xuanliang Sishen is the highlight. The biggest label on the actors Dong Zijian and Yang Caiyu is resource coffee.

Dong Zijian’s mother is Wang Jinghua, who is known as the number one agent in China. Yang Caiyu is even more legendary. Chen Jinfei’s genuine girlfriend, who was born in the air, is Feng Nunlang. The first TV drama was Noon Sunshine, and the role she played was beautiful, smart, and had a bunch of golden fingers. Now, there is a saying on the Internet that these resources are called guest actors.

Having said that, he naturally knew why some people did not watch this drama.