Like all idol dramas, the men they meet either meet in a hurry and miss them, or they end up together for life.
The play is called "Love in a Fallen City", starring,,, Yi Ru, Jiang Hua,, Wu, Feng, etc ... All of them are handsome men and beautiful women, and they are the standard of idol dramas. When the drama was broadcast on CCTV, it achieved the first rating and the second place in Taiwan, second only to News Network. The theme song "He must love you very much" sung by Adu also spread all over the streets.
It's been 18 years. Let's review this ancient idol drama together.
The story structure is still the old story of Cinderella and the overbearing president. Qiu Shi, played by Lu Yi, is handsome. He is already the CEO of an IT company at a young age, and a serious Gao Shuai is rich. The price is high, and he has a special hobby-taking the subway. This hobby is that he found his sweetheart's buff, where he met Sula played by Ruby Lin.
He found Sura's accidentally lost bracelet, and when he was about to return it to her, he witnessed the whole process of her breaking up with her boyfriend Yin Shan. She was so weak and stubborn that he fell in love at first sight.
Sura and her good sister Yan Ruyu (played by Ceng Li) are recent graduates majoring in history. Their major is unpopular and they are in Adventure Island. Yan Ruyu's childhood dream was to take root in Shanghai, so he didn't find a job for a long time after graduation and didn't want to go home. Sura stayed in Shanghai because of her mother's wishes (her mother was an old educated youth who left Shanghai) and for her boyfriend Yin Shan.
As a result, they opened a new chapter in their lives in this city, and their lives had different opportunities. Yan Ruyu, eager for quick success and instant benefit, worked hard step by step, losing his sincerity, friendship and marriage. After losing love and friendship, Sura did not give in to reality. She persisted in herself, finally gained new friendship and love, and lived a happy life.
When I was chasing the drama, I felt that Lu Yi's Qiu Shi was the ideal type in the world. First of all, he is handsome. Secondly, he has a successful career, a house and a car. And he really loves Sura and sends flowers to send warm every day. With Sura's support and encouragement, the failure of the midway career has also come back, which is enough to prove the ability of leverage.
But in retrospect, his male chauvinism is unacceptable. During his love, he repeatedly stressed that he didn't want his future wife to be busy with her career from nine to five and neglect her family.
Even before he got married, he was still instilling in Sura the idea that men are outside and women are inside. So that Sula, who didn't want to be a housewife, left on the eve of the wedding.
Of course, it is precisely because of the shortcomings that this character is real. Unlike the current idol drama, the plot is erratic and the human body design is perfect and exquisite like a dummy.
I have to say that the point of view of this drama is quite advanced, and the issue of "housewives" began to be discussed 20 years ago. The values conveyed in the play are also correct. Qiu Shi and Sura went hand in hand in the most difficult time, which shows that this is true love. There is a disagreement about whether a woman should be a full-time wife after marriage, and the wedding is cancelled, which shows that marriage is not only enough with love, but also pays attention to a "suitable".
This kind of matching does not necessarily refer to the economy, but the outlook on life and values of both sides are consistent. Marriage, at any time, should be to make each other better themselves, rather than one party constantly compromising and sacrificing for the other. Intimacy and independence, love and freedom, and equality are the best states.
At that time, Lu Yi was a smash hit, and he won the Golden Eagle for his role of Xiao Tong in Never Satisfied, and the ratings of Young Bao Qingtian 2 starring him were not bad. I was 27 years old when I starred in Love in a Fallen City, and I was at the peak of my face value, which complemented this handsome and rich image.
The heroine Ruby Lin is the same age as Lu Yi. After her popularity in Chinese mainland rose sharply, she began to star in idol dramas, first starring in You Must with Chen Kun, and then in Urban Love. In this play, Ruby Lin's clothes are not a special trend at present. After all, everyone is just an ordinary office worker working hard in Shanghai, but because of her high face value and striking youth, she still left a beautiful image in the hearts of the audience.
The two stood together, and the CP was full of sense.
In addition to this emotional line of the hero and heroine, there are three other pairs of branch CP plots in the play, which are also very strong.
Yan Ruyu and Sura played by Ceng Li are classmates and good sisters. They were determined to take root in Shanghai, but they took a wrong step. Finally, they got full of happiness.
When she just graduated, she worked in a gym and met Wang Weihua, a rich man. Wang Weihua loved her very much and once bought a ring to propose to her. However, on the eve of marriage proposal, Wang Weihua found that Yan Ruyu's identity as a Shanghainese and his parents were teachers was false, so he angrily left his ring and proposed to break up.
This time, Yan Ruyu didn't realize that the problem was her deception. Instead, she thinks it is because she is not a native of Shanghai, which further intensifies her idea of sharpening her head and establishing herself in Shanghai.
She really embraces happiness. While working in a star travel agency, she got the president Liu (played by Yi Ru) and became Mrs. Liu. However, she is not satisfied with this. She was jealous with Liu's daughter, betrayed company secrets, and misappropriated company funds to invest in stocks for her idle brother. Thanks to the closure of the travel agency, the marriage came to an end.
After the ups and downs of life, Yan Ruyu finally calmed down and became an ordinary teacher.
Interestingly, all four protagonists in this play were born in 1976. They were 27 years old when the play was filmed, and their youth was invincible.
Ceng Li's height 170cm, even the clothes that are not very beautiful are full of aura. Only her face dares to call the name Yan Ruyu.
Yi Ru plays Liu, president of Star Travel Agency, the former boss of Sura, Jingsa and Yan Ruyu. Divorced gold single man was settled by Yan Ruyu, but because he had a female Doudou with his ex-wife Bao Aihua, a serious illness of Doudou made the relationship between the three adults tense.
The "beauty content" of the play is very high, and even Bao Aihua, who has few scenes, is also a temperament beauty. Bao Aihua was played by Zhou Lei, and he also appeared in Eighteen-year-old Sky.
Jing Sa, played by Jiang Hua, is a very subversive role in the play. At first, he was Sura's boss, demanding and unreasonable. Unexpectedly, Sura and I finally became sisters and opened a bar together.
Jing Sa, as the name implies, is a career-oriented woman. But when I met love rat, when I was pregnant, my husband hooked up with another woman. After the baby was born, I ran back to grab the baby. Fortunately, in the most difficult days, she met Lei Zhao (played by Yu Yi). Zhao Lei is a good friend of Qiu Shi, a small policeman. Knowing Jingsa's situation, he fell in love with her regardless of worldly vision. When Jingsa needed a birth certificate for her children, he did not hesitate to marry Jingsa and did his duty as a husband. Just when Jingsa accepted him, he was unfortunately injured and became a vegetable.
Finally, under JingSa's meticulous care, Zhao Lei miraculously woke up and the family of three lived a quiet little life.
Yu Yi had just debuted for two years and was not famous, but the role was very popular.
Although Jingsa played by Jiang Hua is the boss of Sura Yan Ruyu, she is actually seven years younger than Ceng Li, Ruby Lin, who just turned 20 at that time. Jiang Hua made her debut as a child star and began to make TV series at the age of 9. Around 2000, he performed well in plays such as Flower Maid, Love in a Beautiful City, Female Talented Person and Male Appearance, and retired after 20 12.
Xiao Fang, Sura and Yan Ruyu are classmates and friends. Unlike them, Xiaofang is from Shanghai and has a real estate in his twenties. Compared with Sura Yan Ruyu, a working girl who can't find a sense of belonging in Shanghai, her material conditions are much better, but her parents stretched out their hands too long, which made her emotionally miserable.
She has a childhood friend, Aceh, who is very suitable for her financially, but this guy is ugly and has no marketable career, so Xiao Fang's parents despise him.
Later, Xiao Fang met the returnee Luc and was attracted by his knowledge and conversation. At first, my parents took a fancy to Luc's gold-plated status abroad and were quite satisfied with him. Later, when they learned that he had returned to China to devote himself to the education of children in poor mountainous areas, they began to play mandarin ducks.
In the end, the two broke through many obstacles and came together to join hands in teaching in mountainous areas.
Wu, the actor of Xiao Fang, is most famous for his "ex-wife". Of course, she didn't know Ma Jingtao at this time. She smiles beautifully, and Xiaojiabiyu's appearance is full of aura in acting.
Unfortunately, the two suitors given to her by the director are both ordinary and not very good-looking.
There is also a villain named Yinshan, played by William Feng, who was also called Feng Ke at that time. He's Sura's ex-boyfriend. Qiu Shi let bygones be bygones, recruited the company again, but leaked company secrets, which ruined Qiu Shi's career. Yin Shan is a scum and a bad person. Because of this role, she has a bad impression on Feng Shu for many years.
Looking back now, the TV series at that time was much better than now. Even idol dramas are very lively, and they are discussing some social topics. In just 20 episodes, the plot is not procrastinating, the characters are full and three-dimensional, and even the supporting roles are meaningful. Although some plots are idealized, the real struggle and final firm choice of the little people can make the audience scream.
The most important thing is that the actors in the play are all natural faces with high values, unlike the leading role and supporting role in idol dramas, who can't tell who is who.
Then the problem is coming. From the present point of view, which of the five heroines do you think is the best?