Right on, if you ask me now what I immediately (offhandedly) remember from 美乐加油, it is simply two lines sung by Cyndi Wang who plays the main female lead together with Mike He who plays the first male lead.
忍着不哭我要忍着不哭
望上天空不让眼泪流出
望上天空不让眼泪流出
I sounded almost fan-girl right there. *giggles*
Well... I am a fan-girl when it comes to dramas, and why should I not be, when it is a market worth billions and spans international audiences ranging from Turkey to America and Asia?
Truth be told though, I'd not seen dramas for a long, long time. During the years of the Japanese dramas and the Korean dramas and the Taiwanese dramas- we're talking the Tokyo Tower show, the Meteor Garden show and Winter Sonata- I was unfortunately busily engaged elsewhere.
Which makes this show significant, for it catapulted me directly into dramaland- and I've not looked back since.
Was it the script?
Was it the plot?
Was it the acting?
Was it the characters?
Was it the style of dialogue?
All of the above.
With a good looking first lead thrown into the mix. "Whaaaat?"
You know it's a significant show when four years on, you continue to gush at first mention of it and you can still remember significant scenes in various episodes despite NOT having re-watched it on Viki.
Maybe it's the way 美乐 endears herself to you with her quirkiness and cutesy ways and the way she puts her heart to do even the smallest tasks and manages to charm the gruffiest of characters. Maybe it is the way she's dressed in jeans and T-shirts and sneakers and glasses and ponytail and side bangs as she drives around in her little white car.
But the whole show is about Toast.
I never heard so much about Toast as much as I did in this show.
Whether it was about the flour, getting the flour all over their clothes, entering a baking competition for the price money, whether it was about the survival of small bakeries, the competition between the small bakeries and the franchise chains, whether it was about the sincerity placed in making the sides of the Toast, or the need for fresh spring water to make the Toast taste different, or the way the Toast provided inspiration to a musical arranger, or the script that the Toast separated one couple but brought together another...
It was all about the Toast.
Which you know you're hearing and seeing but you're not really hearing and seeing- because (besides the handsome male lead)- you're looking at the beautifully-shot frames, the immersive and contemplative light, the peaceful scenery of Hangzhou and the idyllic scenery of their 民宿 in the mountains.
是美乐笨笨却可爱的那一面吗?
或是剧本里头所写的闽南语?
无论如何
好多简简单单的词好多简简单单却少用的词终于顺耳了.
投入。疯狂。无所谓。
还有好多好多。
但最熟悉应该是。。土司的土司边..
永不忘记..
永不忘记多年对中文华语国语的恐惧感慢慢消失了..