Since this year, many medical dramas have been aired one after another, and there are quite a few of them, but it seems that there are very few good ones. Today we invite relevant experts to help us analyze the reasons.
Chapter1
A hundred flowers bloom, each with its own characteristics
Internet Xiaoyi: Since this year, "Everything About Doctor Tang", "Medical Care", "Thank You, Dear Life" have been broadcast. How do you evaluate these works? What are their characteristics?
Li Wei: Among industry dramas, medical dramas have always been the industry dramas that attract the most attention from audiences. Because they are close to life and related to "life, old age, illness and death", they have a natural emotional resonance with the audience. In 2022, the drama market will usher in a new year of "medical drama". The emergence of medical dramas such as "Everything About Dr. Tang", "Dear Life", "The Awakener" and "Thank You Doctor" respectively focused on the critical illness group of cardiac surgery , Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurology and EICU Emergency and Intensive Care Unit and other departments, showing the trend of domestic medical dramas becoming more subdivided and specialized, breaking through to some extent some previous industry dramas "strong love, light industry" The professional fuzzy stereotypes, using real and vivid cases, professional and credible characters, and focusing on topics in real society, polished the brand of "industry drama". At the same time, these dramas also have their own characteristics in terms of audio-visual style and application of genre elements.
"down to earth" is what these episodes have in common. The doctors, patients, and cases in the play come from life and are the epitome of life. For example, "Dear Life" can be called a science popularization of "pregnancy knowledge". It not only restores the work norms of pregnancy risk screening and assessment, high-risk pregnant and lying-in women project management, and emergency and severe treatment, but also shows the advantages of new technologies in obstetrics and gynecology. application. The feature of "Thank You Doctor" is that it puts the story in the EICU department. This work mainly shows group portraits. On average, there are five or six cases in one episode, and a total of more than 70 cases are selected to present the daily life of EICU in a panoramic manner.
"Everything About Doctor Tang" does not have a "mechanical deity"-style opening and closing operation, but whenever the disease is thought to be solved, the problem suddenly arises, and the "twists and turns" plot interprets the essence of life, life and death. "Awakener" focuses on relatively "niche" neurology, and introduces relatively novel cases such as vegetative awakening treatment, but all the "bizarre" cases involved in the play come from real cases of neurology in reality.
"Temperature". Like other types of works, medical dramas are both derived from life and higher than life. They show the humanistic care of doctors for patients in their treatment plans, and do not avoid some current doctor-patient contradictions and practical problems. Instead, it confronts the social reality with a warm perspective and emotion, which reflects a strong social perspective.
No matter how professional a doctor is, he is not a fairy, and he must constantly overcome difficulties and sum up experience in practice. The incident of hospital patient injury to doctors has depressed the morale of medical workers, but more grateful patients have warmed their hearts. The emotional interaction between patients and the mutual support, trust and tacit understanding between patients and medical workers have built a rich emotional world and resonance path for the audience. In the process of following the doctor to find the source of the problem, the audience can also substitute themselves simultaneously, enjoy the sense of participation in "solving the case", and further deepen their understanding and recognition of medical workers.
"Explore", such as "Everything about Dr. Tang" focuses on solving the problem of "medical-industrial integration" research and developmentFor example, "Awakening" revolves around the topical social issue of conflict and tolerance between Chinese and Western medicine. The two young medical workers from the initial run-in to the final let go of each other's barriers, support each other, and integrate traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment. Methods and modern western medical technology are organically combined to solve difficult and miscellaneous diseases; for example, "Dear Life" closely revolves around obstetrics and gynecology-related cases and doctor-patient relationships, and female themes and female topics become featured, such as "sexism in native families"" "Domestic Violence", "Professional Women's Dilemma Between Career and Family", etc., reflect current social hotspots. Mr.
W: As a medical professional, is happy to see popular medical dramas. Although some storylines are unavoidable, the overall production is relatively sophisticated, which brings greenery to the relatively barren field of medical theme creation, and has taken the pace of exploration in the creation of domestic medical dramas. Now I will only briefly talk about my feelings about these medical dramas from the perspective of career experience and patients.
First of all, these episodes open a window for the society to observe hospitals, understand doctors, and popularize technology. In the play, the operating procedures of the hospital, the working methods of doctors and the application level of modern technology are as "similar" as possible. Especially medical professional scenes, such as the diagnosis and treatment process, doctor-patient communication, surgery and equipment scene details are very realistic, which shows the creators' mastery of medical knowledge and life accumulation.
Secondly, the work explores human nature around the hospital workplace and personal life. Elements such as sympathy, competition, suspicion, love, and communication are revealed and excavated. By promoting the brilliance of human nature and lashing out at its weaknesses, a positive image of the medical staff group is established.
Furthermore, most of these episodes are loaded with social hot topics and popular elements. For example, the portrayal of female doctors in several dramas such as "Dear Life", "Everything About Doctor Tang" and "Thank You Doctor" focuses on the concept of marriage, love and career of women in the workplace today. Another example is the doctor-patient relationship in "Dear Life", which projects hot topics such as women's independence, cyber violence, parent-child relationship, family of origin, marital infidelity, and postpartum depression into the stories of mothers and their families. The social nature of medical dramas has broadened the depth and breadth of medical dramas.
Chapter2
佳作不断，却难产“爆款”
网小艺 ：虽然以上剧集各有特色，但并未出现“爆款”和出圈之作。 what is the reason?
Li Wei: First of all, the "explosive style" is characterized by extreme appearance, which is the subject matter, story content, character and character relationship, or visual spectacle, which can satisfy the curiosity and sympathy of the audience and users and empathy. In this sense, the theme of medical drama itself is difficult to make an ultimate breakthrough because it requires industry display, professional expression, and popularization of medical knowledge.
Secondly, judging from the above episodes, although the structure adopted is a two-line structure of industry and love, the progress of the plot basically adopts the modeled expression of unit cases. Although there are many cases, it can truly show the daily life of the hospital, doctors There is a long way to go to enhance the richness of the plot, but the lack of in-depth excavation of the doctor-patient emotion for each case and each paragraph weakens the audience's "sympathy" to some extent.
Third, some deficiencies in the series itself do not meet the expectations of the audience.The introverted plot and intricate emotional drama make the positive theme of the whole play somewhat diluted. In addition, from a medical point of view, it seems far-fetched that the relatively rare congenital heart disease has repeatedly appeared in Dr. Tang's specific relationship. The plot structure of "Thank You Doctor" is limited to the hospital, the scene changes little, the story line of the main characters is not well developed, and it lacks dramatic conflicts.
At the beginning of "The Awakener", with the support of veteran actors such as Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan, the reputation was good, but the ratings declined significantly in the middle and later stages, and the plot appeared "distorted" and the characters' behavior appeared "out of order". Coupled with the suspenseful elements, the audience's expectations for the series are misplaced. "Dear Life" is too extreme in the selection of cases. Although they are all from real cases, they are one-sidedly pursuing bizarre and intractable diseases, which are far away from the lives of the audience, and it is difficult to resonate; Issues that forcibly provoke opposition and conflict.
The overall topicality of these medical dramas is insufficient, and the marketing methods are limited. In topic marketing, choosing controversial and topical content to ferment on social media, and then feeding back the popularity of the drama series, is a common routine in drama series marketing in recent years. Although the above-mentioned dramas have also been exposed in relevant hot searches, the topics are still mainly clichéd topics such as native family and gender discrimination, which have not sparked extensive discussions, thus really increasing the popularity of the dramas. Mr.
W: First of all, although most of these dramas choose related themes such as "life and death" and "good and evil" in script creation, they focus more on biomedicine, and lack of in-depth exploration of the psychological impact and social reflection on patients and families caused by diseases ,discuss. Illness, life and death, doctor-patient relationship, medical system, and life ethics are not superficial stories, and should fully mobilize the audience to empathize and resonate.
Secondly, there is a big difference between the choice of disease and the public's perception. These dramas are often eye-catching with critical illnesses and traumas, rare diseases, cutting-edge surgeries, etc., and the clichés represented by surgeons are difficult to arouse social reflection and resonance with most audiences. The independent and frequently changing unit plot mode makes the social topics reflected inevitably limited to the scene display.
In several dramas, although the topic of life, old age, sickness and death close to the society is selected, the description of the cause of disease and the prognosis of the change from the perspective of health concept is weak, and more is to show the superb skills and medical ethics of doctors, which raises the topic heat but has no effect. Help the public understand and reflect on life.
A good work can let the audience find the shadow of themselves and others in the characterization and plot conflict. Part of the reason why it has not become a "popular style" is that the character groups show unrealistic and far away from life scenes. Focusing on a small number of elites with handsome men and beautiful women, too much infighting and love in the workplace, the pursuit of fashion, gossip, going to bars and other young idol drama imprints, and the professional pressure of working overtime and night shifts with medical groups, doing research and development papers, and promoting professional titles , There is a certain gap in the living conditions of renting a house and buying a house to support a family.
For example, in "Dear Life", the bar scenes appear too frequently in the play, which seems inconsistent with reality. The leading actor, Dr. Liu Nianbai, appeared on the stage of the bar for at least half of the episodes, and complained to everyone as a talk show. Except for the hospital as a workplace, it seems that only bars are social places for medical staff. In the fifth and sixth episodes, the bar-club doctor drank too much alcohol, and the episodes that appeared in the subsequent episodes such as borrowing alcohol to relieve sorrows and meeting friends with alcohol did not correspond to the practice characteristics of surgeons who need to be sober when performing operations.
As the patient of the weak, he has all kinds of difficulties and helplessness, especially the complex psychological interaction between doctors and patients is not enough. resonance.
True feelings are the foundation of medical dramas. Only a cruel and realistic plot can move the audience. Only the pain, helplessness and grief struggle of parting and death can lead to thinking about the meaning of life.
Conclusion
Net Xiaoyi: From the analysis of the teachers, it can be seen that as a year when medical dramas bloomed, not only the number of episodes showed an increasing trend, but also the exploration of subdivided themes and the professional content There has been a lot of progress and breakthroughs in the enhancement of the nature and the realistic creative techniques.
However, under the "Hundred Flowers Blooming", this year's medical dramas have not yet appeared "explosive models" that meet or even exceed audience expectations. Compared with other industry dramas, medical dramas have the particularity of themes and the natural difficulty of creation, the topic focus is still relatively narrow, and the theme presentation deviates from the public's attention and empathy to a certain extent. Some distortions in the plot structure are all shortcomings that hinder the further development of medical dramas to high-quality products. In the next issue of
, we will invite teachers to focus on the difficulties in the creation of medical dramas compared with other industry dramas, as well as the characteristics that an excellent medical drama should have, etc., to analyze and answer questions in depth for our friends confused. Stay tuned!
