Author / Zhou Yi
So far, in the list of my favorite domestic dramas this year, "Imperfect Victim" ranks second, "The Long Season" ranks first, and "Hurricane" ranks third.
The author's personal scores for "Imperfect Victim" are: 9 points for the script, 8.5 points for the director's aesthetics, 9 points for casting and actor performance, and 8.8 points overall. This drama was filmed during the epidemic. You can see that many actors in the drama are still wearing masks. Due to the limited conditions, there are many indoor scenes, but the director is very particular about the camera, and the indoor scenes are also beautifully shot.
It's exciting when a director gets a good script. Director Yang Yang said: After seeing Gao Xuan and Ren Baoru writing such an excellent script, he immediately stopped the project he was working on and devoted himself to the project "Imperfect Victim".
material selection and positioning
The management's positioning of "Imperfect Victim" is "a topical drama with insight into the times". In terms of material selection, "Imperfect Victim" is a category that is difficult to benchmark and has a rare theme among domestic dramas.
European and American dramas are mainly divided into two categories: drama series and comedy series. The genre of "Imperfect Victim" is more common in drama series of European and American dramas, especially limited series (miniseries) with short episodes.
BBC, HBO and other platform production projects do not take broadcast data as an absolute guide. Although this kind of theme may not be the most popular category in terms of dissemination, it is easy to win awards (such as Emmy Awards, British Academy of Television Awards). "The Distance Between Us and Evil" won the 54th Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award for Best Drama Series.
In terms of form: Because the number of episodes of the limited series is not long, the overall time occupied by the actors’ schedules is not too long. Many big-name actors are willing to participate in such series, such as Michael Keaton’s “Addiction Dose”, Kate Winslet’s “East Side Nightmare” and Elizabeth Olsen’s “Love and Death”. "Imperfect Victim" was initially registered as an online drama, but it was finally released to Beijing Satellite TV and Dragon TV, and it was broadcast simultaneously on iQiyi. From the perspective of traditional TV dramas, 29 episodes are not very long.
In terms of actor age: This type of drama is more adult-oriented and mature-aged, and the leading actors are middle-aged. For example, Kate Winslet was 46 years old when she starred in "Nightmare on the East Side", Nicole Kidman was nearly 50 years old when she starred in "Big Little Lies", and Jiang Jingwen was 45 years old when she starred in "The Distance Between Us and Evil". Several leading actors in "Imperfect Victim", Zhou Xun is now 49 years old, Liu Yijun is now 53 years old, Chen Shu is now 46 years old, and Dong Jie is now 43 years old.
In terms of creative materials: Dramas of this type in Europe and America are usually adapted from "real social cases", such as "Love and Death" is adapted from the Texas housewife Candy murder case. Although "The Imperfect Victim" is an original script, it was inspired by Chinese social news in recent years. Many viewers said that after watching the play, they would unconsciously think of the Liu Qiangdong incident.
structure and type
Many European and American urban life dramas are all involved in the end. Such as "Fatal Woman", "Big Little Lies" and so on.
"Imperfect Victim" has a short overall number of episodes, a not-so-complicated structure, a compact plot, concentrated dramatic contradictions, and no sloppiness. The "fuse" of the whole story was ignited at the beginning-the sexual assault case, and then the whole body was triggered, and the "domino effect" appeared: the stock price of Dacheng Group fluctuated, the marriage between Chenggong and Xinlu broke up on the bright side, cracks appeared in Zhao Xun's family, and the hearts of the parties were constantly tortured...
"Imperfect Victim" is a good-looking "emotional drama", but it also has some "melodrama" characteristics.
From the perspective of suspense, the line of suspense "who framed success" has been running through the previous episodes.
"Imperfect Victim" is also a rigorous "legal drama". Many cases and details in the play have played a role in popularizing the law.
choosing and changing
good TV dramas often dig out the gray areas in human nature. A good TV series is inseparable from the choices made by the characters at critical moments and the turning of the human scale when weighing left and right.
The core plot and "famous scenes" of "The Imperfect Victim" come from this choice and transformation.
Was Zhao Xun ( Lin Yun as ) "willing" or "refusal" during the incident? Did you tell the truth or lie afterwards? In the face of "nurture" is to accept or reject?
Xin Lu ( Chen Shu as ) is to endure success or fight back?
Success ( Liu Yijun as ) Faced with his wife's divorce agreement, do you agree or disagree? Facing Zhao Xun, an uncontrollable variable, how should he deal with it?
Li Yi ( Dong Jie as ) is really willing to be a lover?
Lin Kan ( Zhou Xun as ) continues to wipe the ass of the rich and powerful? Or speak for the weak? Will her position be shaken? Judging from the follow-up preview, Lin Kan's major choice at the critical moment will be one of the famous scenes of the play.
Concept and thinking
The pursuit of some TV dramas is not only to entertain the audience, but also to make the audience think about the higher pursuit. "Imperfect Victim" makes people have to think deeply about these issues:
1. Environment and individual involuntary
In "Imperfect Victim", the audience sees the individual's involuntary in a specific environment.
Zhao Xun didn't dare to refuse success because it would bring more trouble.
In some officialdom dramas, high-ranking officials finally chose to be corrupt officials because they were "assimilated" by the environment. It is too difficult to be a clean official.
screenwriter Gao Xuan revealed that after reading the script, a certain platform leader was deeply sympathetic to the role of Zhao Xun. The boss said, "I have done a lot of things that I don't want to do but can't directly refuse."
2. Cognitive bias created by power
From the perspective of ordinary audiences, we can see the bullying of the weak by the powerful in "Imperfect Victims".
"Imperfect Victim" The good thing is that the powerful stand on their own side, he doesn't think it's a kind of bullying, it's a kind of "natural". Chenggong has many lovers, and he really loves every lover "sincerely".
The role of success reminds me of the Ding Crab in "The Great Times". The bad guys don't think they are bad.
So, what makes for such a "natural" success? It is a cognitive bias created by a high position of power.
A person in a high position cannot tell what is right and what is wrong? What is good and what is bad?
3. Money has become the guide of society. When
successfully chose to use money to "clean up the aftermath", Zhao Xun's parents almost agreed.
Money evokes greed in people's hearts, money makes people cowardly, money dominates the relationship between people, and money becomes a bargaining chip to maintain a superficial marriage.
There was a news last year that after Wang Sicong slapped someone in the face, he accompanied the client to a 2 million reconciliation. Many netizens commented on Douyin: "I want to be slapped by Wang Sicong too!"
Money tramples on human dignity.
Why money worship has become a social trend, because everyone regards money as a guide, "the distance between us and evil" is close at hand, everyone has the "original sin" of worshiping money, and everyone has become their own unbearable maker.
4. Legal protection of human rights equality
The formulation of laws is the embodiment of social progress.
With the law, there is the concept of "citizen" and the rights given to citizens by the law.
The law protects human rights, and the law allows "the emperor to break the law and commit the same crime as the common people".
"Imperfect Victim" warns people that no matter how small the strength of every citizen, there is a strong backing of the law, allowing you to bravely say no to anything illegal!
Characters and identities
The roles of TV dramas can be divided into "big people" and "little people" from the perspective of identity.
There are "little people" well-written dramas, and there are "big people" well-written dramas.
Some playwrights are good at writing big characters, such as "Da Ming Dynasty 1566", "Yongzheng Dynasty", "In the Name of the People", "Towards a Republic" and other plays.
"Imperfect Victim" is also about big shots, about the rich and the upper class. In terms of character identity, it is comparable to HBO's "Battle of Inheritance", the prototype of "Battle of Inheritance" is the Murdoch family.
"Succession" presents the squalor and ugliness of high society, but from an artistic point of view, every character in the play is full of charm.
Domestic dramas have fallen into a creative misunderstanding in recent years. Screenwriters and directors want to create "imperfect characters" to reflect the complexity of the characters and the depth of humanity, but they don't care whether the audience likes the characters or not.
Under such a creative concept, the result is that although the characters in many dramas are "imperfect" and "complex", they are extremely annoying to the audience, especially the "growing characters". The audience hates your characters, so how can they like your drama?
"Imperfect Victim" does a good job at this: while every character is imperfect and complex, most of them are artistic and likable.
This year's domestic drama, following the appearance of "Gao Qiqiang" in "Hurricane", another villain "Success" successfully exited the circle.
Observation and refinement
"Imperfect Victim" is another peak of this year's domestic realistic drama series. How did such a work come about?
One is the careful observation of the real society; the other is the artistic refinement of the real society.
succeeded in such a role, if Gao Xuan and Ren Baoru did not have in-depth interviews or long-term observation of domestic first-line entrepreneurs, they must have created such a character simply by relying on artistic imagination and social news.
For characters like Xin Lu and Li Yi, if the screenwriter hadn't observed the rich man's first partner and lover for a long time, he would not be able to write such delicate emotionally.
For the various legal cases in the play, if the screenwriter hadn't been rooted in a law firm for a long time and had contact with various lawyers, it would be impossible for the screenwriter to be so rigorous in details. The legal and political dramas and dialogue scenes in the play are very good-looking, there are layers of back and forth, and they are not boring at all.
Although real life is the first material for creators, it is not enough just to observe, trace and copy reality, it also requires artistic refinement and artistic processing, because art needs to be higher than life.
The main creator of "Imperfect Victim" has well balanced the relationship between reality and art, and created this rare realism masterpiece.
Also, Mao Amin's ending song "Imperfect" is also very nice:
"Who can be perfect and let go of the embarrassment"
"Love is meaningless, and the heart is guilty"
The process of watching "The Victim of Imperfection" is a process of torturing one's own heart.
Long videos need entertainment as well as thinking. Domestic dramas need more Imperfect Victims.
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