On December 17, when the membership edition of love is delicious ended, Shen Yang accepted an exclusive interview with reporters. Just after watching the finale, he had a lot of feelings. He thanked the audience for their love of the play and the intentions of director Chen Zhengdao and the whole creative team. The greater change brought by this play to Shen Yang is his confidence that he always falls into self doubt. "This play is of great significance to me. On the one hand, it makes me less self doubt. On the other hand, it also forces me to continue writing and write better. It seems to open the next chapter of my screenwriting career." 2021, which is coming to an end, is a year of reunion, tribute and moving for screenwriter Shen Yang. He used to skip classes for "chasing drama" in college, This year, when watching "friends reunion special" and "and just like that..." shot by the original crew of "sex and the city", he cried while watching. He cried when his old friends reunited and felt that his youth had passed away, "we are all old". On the other hand, he wrote the script "love is delicious" because he paid tribute to "sex and the city" After being left out for three years, it was broadcast on Tencent video on November 26 this year. As a result, it became the dark horse of the year, with a Douban score of 8.4. The project was suspended for three years That make complaints about three years ago now being tucking up. "Love is delicious" is directed by Chen Zhengdao and Xu Zhaoren, written by Shen Yang and Yi shuaijie, starring Li Chun, Zhang Hanyun and Wang Ju. It tells the story of Liu Jing, Fang Xin and Xia Meng's confident growth after a series of changes in family, workplace and life. Seeing many domestic irrigation dramas, the depth and thickness contained in the film length of more than 20 minutes in each episode of "love is delicious" shocked the audience. Under the clear theme of each episode, the story is compact, fast-paced, life-oriented and grounded. It is true like the roles around you and me, which makes the audience laugh and cry sometimes, and more empathy. Therefore, as soon as "love is delicious" was broadcast, Douban was 8.1, and then rose to 8.4. The meaning of the end is not enough. It also made countless audiences send barrages and urged the creator to shoot the second season quickly. For the open ending at the end of the first season, Shen Yang admitted that it was not specially set according to the "audience response". When he created it, he hoped to write works like friends and sex and the city, which can grow up with the audience every season, "Love is delicious" It was shot last year. We hope but don't dare to expect a second season, but this type of play is more suitable for writing season by season. It's better to deal with it in this way. Where can we summarize the life and feelings of the three female owners in 20 episodes? So, we used this ending, that is, this season is just a temporary end, the feeling that a new chapter of life has just begun. " Shen Yang said that not only did they have no confidence in shooting the second season, but even because "love is delicious" was stalled three years ago, which even hurt Shen Yang's confidence and doubted whether they could be a good screenwriter. Sex and the city has a great impact on Shen Yang. "It has a great impact on my outlook on life and values. I also like that style of light comedy and group TV dramas." Therefore, three years ago, Shen Yang, who had just become a screenwriter, wanted to write a play to pay tribute to sex and the city. "I'm not a professional. What I'm interested in and want to write is what I like. I've been nagging with Director Chen about whether I can make a Chinese version of sex and the city. At first, he denied it. Later, just in a gap period, he suddenly figured it out. One day, he said, we can make a drama that conforms to our values and standards." Chen Zhengdao named the play "love is delicious" because they believe that appetite and the desire of men and women are the two most basic desires of people. Shen Yang said: "in fact, it is difficult for us to explain love with some very logical and rational things. Love is similar to whether you like to eat a food. Therefore, we want to focus on the subtle relationship between love and food. Taking this as the starting point, we can pass it all at once." So Shen Yang and others soon wrote seven episodes of scripts and handed them to a platform for six episodes, "However, it was soon hit because the platform didn't like it. The platform was not Tencent, so the project was terminated. Later, two years later, when the epidemic broke out in 2020, director Chen had some insights and wanted to do some warm things in comedy. When he thought of love is delicious, he restarted." However, after the restart, it was not plain sailing, and I gave up halfway, "I started writing the script again from the end of March to June last year. I said I couldn't shoot it, so I stopped. When I could shoot it, we continued to write it for another month. At that time, we started up, so the last two or three episodes were actually written after starting up. The sum of zero and zero should be four months after the script was written. It's not easy to shoot it at the end of each step, Today, after the grand finale, I feel very sad. Many viewers like our play, which makes me happy. " The stagnation of the project is a great blow to Shen Yang, "I was very confused at that time. Why was my understanding so different from that of the industry market? In 2019, the Korean drama romantic constitution When it was hot, many friends sent it to me and said it looked like something different from yours. When I saw it, it was really a little similar. Even the settings of the three female owners were very similar. At that time, I felt even more uncomfortable. It was clear that we could shoot it first. It was a pity and a little depressed. " Now that the work can be broadcast and welcomed, Shen Yang said with a smile: "to use the vulgar saying: 'everything is the best arrangement.'" To make complaints about Shen Yang, though the audience liked the play, they said that the love of "Tucao" was a bit of a bit of earth. Shen Yang said that when Chen Dao had said the name of the play, he thought it was very suitable for the theme. It was called three years ago. The name was also make complaints about it. "Maybe I didn't feel earthy three years ago. Now many online dramas use the name with strong sense of Internet, which seems a little earthy. This is also a lesson for us. When we do anything in the future, we will consider the fashion sense of the play name." Zhang Ting and Ji Chong are former colleagues It is the most smoothly written, happiest and moving script at present In love is delicious, Wang Ju plays Xia Meng, the vice president of the video website. When reviewing the online play at a meeting, she praised "this screenwriter has something". This sentence has also become the audience's evaluation of love is delicious, Shen Yang said with a smile, "I didn't write this in my script. I didn't boast. I don't know whether it was added by Wang Ju or by director Chen at the shooting scene. Some lines in the play were improvised by director Chen, and he added more." How are the lines that poke into the heart of the audience polished? Shen Yang smiled and said there was no secret. "They are all very life-oriented. Usually we talk like this, including our script meeting. It's like the feeling of three girls eating in the play." Interestingly, in order to pursue this life style, the names of many characters in the play are Shen Yang's friends around them. "For example, Zhang Ting and Ji Chong are the names of my colleagues who had a good relationship with me in the past; Huang Menglin and Ma Zhenyu are friends of another screenwriter Xiaoyi (Yi shuaijie). We named them to be as smooth as possible, like real people, but we didn't think of them as particularly literary." What are the similarities and differences between the restarted script and the original script three years ago? According to Shen Yang, the overall story, from character setting to story trend, has basically not changed much compared with the first edition, "Maybe I just made some adjustments to the settings of several supporting actors. In addition, I have a deeper accumulation during this period of time, which is more solid than three years ago. The script of love is delicious can be regarded as one of my current works. It is the most smoothly written, happiest and moving script. I am very involved." Speaking of the specific division of labor with Xiaoyi, Shen Yang said that we usually talk together to discuss what happened in an episode. After it is settled, they will write it in separate sessions, and then summarize, adjust and modify it, "Sometimes, we will divide according to the character line. For example, my character is a little like Liu Jing, so Liu Jing's works are basically written by me. Xiao Yi's character is a little like Fang Xin. Fang Xin's plays are basically written by her, and the rest of us are half." Shen Yang revealed that this was director Chen's idea for the scene of "club Shura field" which was praised by the audience, "It was set when writing the script. Director Chen followed the law of the golden fourth episode of the TV series and thought that there should be an important play in the fourth episode to firmly grasp the audience and let the audience continue to catch up. We also want to use this model, because we set the top ten episodes at the beginning, and the fourth episode is actually the current seven or eight episodes. Therefore, before writing the first episode, we knew that there should be this In a big play, everyone has to throw it into the nightclub. All contradictions break out when they should be handled, and then lead to new contradictions in the next stage. " Because of the good design, it is not difficult to write the play, but it takes time to write the play of beating people in the nightclub, Shen Yang said: "we are sure to use the way of beating people to make the activity go wrong. Fang Xin will be blamed by the company. The relationship between Fang Xin and Zhang Ting will enter the next stage. After these purposes, we beat people and changed many versions. Who beat who is good? Finally, we even wrote the beating of Ma Zhenyu version." All three women like themselves, most like Liu Jing Roles and actors achieve each other The performances of Li Chun, Zhang Hanyun and Wang Ju in the play were highly praised. The audience even thought they were Liu Jing, Fang Xin and Xia Meng. Shen Yang said that the three actors and the three roles really influenced and achieved each other, and the roles were integrated into some characteristics of the actors. Wang Ju was the first of the three, "Before the script was written, we decided to play Wang Ju. At that time, Wang Ju had just participated in the first season of creation 101 。 When we wrote the script in 2018, the summer dream in our mind was the image of Wang Ju. It's hard to say whether we wrote the summer dream for Wang Ju to play or whether Wang Ju gave us a summer dream. This is more like a two-way influence. This role is very three-dimensional, and it also brings a lot of Wang Ju's original characteristics. " Zhang Hanyun and Li Chun were settled when the project was restarted in 2020. When they were settled, the script was written in the middle, so Shen Yang and they also began to lean on Zhang Hanyun and Li Chun, "Hanyun himself is an Aries, and Xiaoyi is also an Aries. There are many plays of Fang Xin behind. Xiaoyi consciously brings in some of his own characteristics. We also consider the temperament and affinity of Zhang Hanyun and Li Chun." Shen Yang said that the three women have archetypes, but not someone. "Usually they are the personality characteristics of one or two or three people. We are mixed together. It can be said that it is the integration of the people around us." Three ladies, who does Shen Yang like best? He smiled and said that he liked them all. He was most like Liu Jing. "The audience may not fully accept Liu Jing. It may be that this kind of female owner rarely appears in domestic dramas. She is a little strange. It's not very common and difficult to play