On the evening of September 22, the TV series "Osmanthus Blossoms in August" premiered on Anhui Satellite TV in two episodes. This TV series, starring Fu Jing , Yin Xiaotian , Ma Shaohua and Xu Baihui and other well-known actors, tells the story of poverty alleviation by relocating an old district. The story itself is very main theme and positive energy, and it is worthy of praise. Among the specific expressions, "August Osmanthus Blossom" has many unsatisfactory places.
This TV series was written and written by teacher Liang Xiaosheng himself. Mr. Liang is the author of the original novel " The World ", which was not only adapted into a hit drama of the same name, but also won the Mao Dun Literature Award . Based on this, the TV series "Osmanthus Blossoms in August" written by Mr. Liang Xiaosheng as the screenwriter should raise expectations, or in other words, raise the standard for drama reviews. Teacher Liang Xiaosheng's previous level should be worthy of high standards and strict requirements.
However, as far as this "Osmanthus Blossoms in August" is concerned, the quality of the play itself is not good enough. If this TV series for poverty alleviation was created by a young screenwriter, we can forgive the screenwriter's various flaws. However, this play was written by teacher Liang Xiaosheng, which gave people the feeling that the old gentleman did not write it seriously. Liang Lao's level is really not like this. To put it more exaggeratedly, there are too many routine narratives in "Osmanthus Blossoms in August", which is a very scary thing.
For example, if you want to create a very busy male protagonist, you must have no skills, you must be unable to take care of it at home, you must have a wife who complains about yourself, and a child who is behind in learning. These routines are only used for typical party sketches. They have been used for decades, and the screenwriters who are knowledgeable don't bother to use them. However, in Teacher Liang Xiaosheng's "Osmanthus Blossoms in August", these old-fashioned ways of character modeling are still used, and I never get tired of it.
In the plot content that has been broadcasted in the play, the male protagonist played by Yin Xiaotian came up, and there was a time conflict between participating in the township work and the class reunion, which in turn caused the wife's passivity and complaints, and "Break up" from old classmates. This old-fashioned plot method just wants to express one content: the male protagonist is very busy, and he is so busy that he has to sacrifice his class reunion for work.
However, after watching this old-fashioned plot, I have two questions. A classmate works in the county, and his classmates all come to the county where he works for a party. What is the reason for this? Are these students too laid back? At the same time, the wife of the male protagonist said that her company was operating and listed, and complained that the male protagonist did not take care of the family, which caused the daughter to fail the exams continuously, etc. I just wanted to ask, does your daughter fail the exam, does it have anything to do with your man's willingness to give? This old-fashioned plot mode is in the new era and is still in use. Is it appropriate?
is an example of the repeated use of the same old-fashioned bridge, in "August Osmanthus Blossom", the pitch is all. This creates a fundamental problem - almost all of the characters in the show have the dreaded facebooking problem. The audience is so familiar with these masks that as soon as they appear on the stage, they know what kind of cliché the screenwriter is going to make up for them. The facialization of almost all the characters makes the drama conflict of this TV series almost zero-because every conflict, due to the existence of the facial makeup, seems deliberate or even false.
Also, for some reason, the show uses narration a lot. This is a very big taboo in TV drama creation. When you can tell a story, you must not use narration. Because TV dramas are first and foremost an artistic form of entertainment that tells stories, not reportage, feature films, documentaries, or just words and pictures. Teacher Liang Xiaosheng is a well-known old writer and screenwriter. You should know the basic requirements of these industries. I even doubt that this level of script was written by Liang Lao?
's script is too routine and the quality is not up to standard. At the same time, Fu Jing and Yin Xiaotian's performances also have their own masks, which lack a deeper construction of the characters. Zhang Ziyi once said that an excellent actor can perform a failed script to a passing level ("I am an actor"). "August Osmanthus Blossoms" is really not in place at the script level. Therefore, it requires the actors themselves to make up for these contents through life-like and realistic performances.
However, I don't see such a complement in the content currently broadcast. On the contrary, many well-known actors such as Fu Jing, Yin Xiaotian, Xu Baihui, etc., all subtracted their characters. The role of the script itself is not very qualified, and the actors have to continue to do subtraction, and the plot and role effects that come out are really bad. The most important thing about TV dramas like
is the sense of reality. From the perspective of screenwriting creation and actor performance, there are many ways and methods to shape the sense of reality. But Mr. Liang Xiaosheng and the actors all adopted the most trouble-free way of "masking". Again, if this TV series was written by young screenwriters, it would be a good time to laugh it off. However, it was written by Mr. Liang. Mr. Liang, it really shouldn't be! (Text / Ma Qingyun)
