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drama market is blowing a realism.
First, " Bottom Line " was hotly debated in the public opinion field due to the bold remake of Jiangge Liu Xin's case and Yu Huan's case of insulting his mother, and then " Big Exam " brought the topic of college entrance examination postponement to trigger student group empathy , and then It was "Hutong" that took the second place with the story of three generations of old Beijing hutong female neighborhood committee directors.
"The Bottom Line" adapts "Jiangge Case"
You can find the commonalities of the three two-character realistic dramas: they all focus on the daily life around ordinary people, all involve current events or events that actually happen in reality, and all use young actors + Mix and match the hardcore cast of the old drama bones.
Among them, "Bottom Line" leads the top 4 in the popularity list of Yunhe, Maoyan, and Lighthouse. The suspected Liu Xin account responded to the adaptation of Jiang Ge's case and other hot searches have expanded the social influence of the show. . In contrast, the rankings of "Hutong" and "Big Exam" on the Yunhehe Lighthouse are all around 7, 8 or 10, and the public opinion discussion is more difficult to match the former.
"The Bottom Line" can stand out in this new wave of realistic dramas, of course, it has something to do with its organic integration of social hotspots, but the show's word-of-mouth password is far more than that. Judging from the performance of this wave of realistic dramas, we will find that "real" is just a passing line for realistic dramas.
"The Bottom Line" is so clever
"The Bottom Line" has been out of the circle. A noteworthy indicator of
is that topics such as the original family in the bottom line and the adaptation of the suspected Liu Xin account in response to the Jiang Ge case have frequently appeared on the Douyin hot list recently.
Dang Jiangge Liu Xin's case, Yu Huan's mother's case, Wu Xieyu's mother-killing case, and other popular cases that were widely concerned by the society before were filmed, and relevant episodes were re-distributed through , Douyin, and other platforms, which triggered It is valuable in itself to attract people's attention and discussion about related cases again.
It should be said that "Bottom Line" is very smart to find the connection point between the show and the public empathy. Borrowing hot cases to conduct in-depth rational and legal discussions on them will help the society to alert the society to education issues and family problems of origin. For example, parents should not magnify their anxiety on their children, and parents should avoid controlling their children with a desire for control. life etc.
, but "Bottom Line" is not a hard hit on hot traffic. The drama also uses the sudden death of an Internet celebrity anchor and a sexual harassment case in the workplace as an introduction, and takes care of the predicaments that ordinary people may encounter on a daily basis. Encourage women to speak up when faced with workplace sexual harassment.
On the other hand, "Bottom Line" presents the professional daily life of legal workers in a light-hearted and lively style. While reconciling the heaviness of the case, it also makes ordinary audiences feel a strong sense of legal knowledge acquisition, which is worthy of law students. Than a "visualized examination textbook". Each episode of
involves the key progress of the case. Jin Dong, who plays Fang Yuan, the presiding judge of the court's case filing division, will jump out and explain clearly the reasons for his judgment based on the full consideration of the rights and interests of both parties in the case, so that the masses can feel reasonable What kind of judgment under the interweaving of jurisprudence has the most positive impact on social progress.
And that's where the show's inadequacies come from.
The truth of "Bottom Line" comes from the detailed presentation of many real precedents. For this reason, the main creator interviewed more than 200 front-line court workers and referred to more than 500 typical cases under the guidance of Supreme People's Court . The interpretation of the case is relatively "didactic", and because the frequent lectures show that the work of the presiding judge is unreal (you must know that the judges in reality work for the case closing rate ).
"Capital pursues profit, parents randomly assign" the golden sentence, but in the play, for example, there are troublemakers in every workplace, and the plot that "old drama leaders" have to intervene in everything is still suspended, coupled with idealism. Young characters such as Ye Xin and Wei Guangzheng's Zhou Yi'an tend to be masquerading, and the normalized professional drama makes the case analysis of the main line superficial.
This is also the place where the play differs from dramas such as " The Distance Between Us and Evil " that deal with the social texture. In terms of in-depth portrayal of human nature ravines and social diseases around malignant social events, "Bottom Line" does is far from enough.
Which is the best new realistic drama
But "The Bottom Line" is "real and practical".
As far as drama audiences are concerned, we have watched too many pseudo-professional dramas with extremely suspended plots or selling CP candy with a type of dog head. Now a realistic drama can fully respect the profession.
"The Bottom Line" is also a practical professional drama above reality.
There are two levels of practicality here. One is to give the audience the courage and confidence to deal with similar situations by discussing vicious incidents for most audiences, and the other is to do legal popularization work for the public with vivid and vivid cases. , to enhance the people's awareness and wisdom of using legal weapons in their lives. Are
"Hutong" and "Big Exam" "real and practical"?
Objectively speaking, Hutong does take care of the things around us that are closely related to ordinary people. Based on the stories of the three generations of female neighborhood committee directors in the 1950s, 1980s, and 2019, the series restores the local customs and customs of old Beijing in a down-to-earth manner, and also shows the life group portraits of common people who love and help each other.
But unfortunately, the play did not pass the restoration of the "realism" of period dramas. The background of the story is selected in 1950, but the main creator's restoration of the scenery, props and costumes of that era is limited, and the audience is easy to play. The starring Zhao Lusi performed smartly, but she simply grafted in the performance of exaggerated comedy. Not only her face and clothes were not as clean as those of the old times, but there was no trace of a miserable life in her character.
The good news is that only the first unit was broadcast in the three units of the show shortly after it started airing. Work hard. The advantages and disadvantages of
"The Big Test" are similar.
Or based on the consideration of dispelling the heavy feeling of the epidemic, "The Big Test" has made a humorous and lively treatment of family dramas, such as Zhou's parents excitedly kissing and being caught by their sons and other awkward comedy scenes abound. The contrast effect is well handled, but the distance "Real" seems a little further away.
The strange thing is that "The Big Exam" uses the time and space background where the 2020 college entrance examination is postponed, but the art style and color matching of the show always make people jump into the 1990s, and it seems that the struggle of the characters on the eve of the college entrance examination is deliberately presented and despair.
But from the perspective of the final completion, the whole drama's presentation of the college entrance examination and the life of the epidemic are relatively uncertain.Fu, in addition to Zhou Bowen's family drama, which is more interesting, many scenes want both heavy sadness and positive energy warmth. Even actors like Wang Qianyuan who perform naturally and loosely are greasy, which is in line with the strength of high-quality realistic dramas. The direction seems to be going in the opposite direction.
What exactly are we talking about when we say a show is "real"
So what exactly is "real"?
Generally speaking, we often use the word "real" to describe a positive feeling of watching a drama. It seems to acquiesce that authenticity is an important criterion for measuring high-quality dramas, but the description of "truth" is a rather vague concept. Moreover, compared with documentaries, what drama can compare to the reality of the former?
Therefore, when we comment on a drama "true", the underlying meaning is actually that the drama is so real that the audience can be brought into the situation of the play, so that it is possible to further empathize with it. In other words, the episodes do something (i.e. "useful") to our lives.
follow this line of thinking, and we will find that the immaturity of realistic actors in their performances has caused great harm to the "authenticity" of the drama. For example, Cai Wenjing performed too hard in "The Bottom Line", which the audience criticized the most, which caused the audience to resent her role of Ye Xin; Cheng Yi used the original voice to dub Zhou Yi'an's lines, which also seriously affected the audience's opinion. A sense of substitution between characters and stories.
"The Bottom Line" is still like this, but the performance problems of "Hutong" and "Big Exam" are even more prominent. In "Hutong", Zhao Lusi and Hou Minghao wore clean makeup and galloped in the 1950s. It was really difficult to convince the public. In "The Big Exam", Li Gengxi 's stylized performance did not help the audience to dispel her long-term doubts about her acting skills.
Therefore, realistic dramas are widely invited to participate in old dramas or they are helpless.
"The Bottom Line" collects Zhang Zhijian , Wang Jinsong , Wu Yanshu , Liu Mintao , Wu Yanshu, Wu Gang are invited in "Hutong", Chen Baoguo , Wang Qianyuan, etc. They all want to use the deductive ability of the old drama bones to bring newcomers, and also borrow their conscience word-of-mouth to make a foundation for the early word-of-mouth of the drama.
But no matter how much you make a fuss about casting roles, the script is still the soul of a realistic drama. The ability of "Bottom Line" to break out of the circle this time, clever integration of hot-spot cases into the script, and consideration of practical issues such as workplace sexual harassment is the key to the story's ability to impress the audience and break the circle.
As for dramas like "Hutong" and "Big Exam", it's actually not harmless to choose young actors with immature acting skills. The closer the story is to the ground, the more empathetic the audience is. This is a general rule for the production of high-quality realistic dramas such as " World ". After
has broken through the real and practical pass line, how realistic dramas can strive to express more social concerns such as "The Distance Between Us and Evil" is the direction of the next evolution of this type of drama.
