Once upon a time, "levitation" was a chronic disease of urban workplace dramas: the industry is the embellishment, and love is the highlight; the rookies in "Beidiao" live in finely decorated model rooms, eat self-heating pots worth more than ten yuan, and carry bags worth tens of thousands of yuan; The professional details are perfunctory and even a layman can spot common sense errors at a glance. Unrelevant, stereotyped characters, and even "stigmatizing" certain industries... Some workplace dramas in the past have continuously refreshed the audience's aesthetic bottom line, forming waves of public opinion backlash, triggering doubts from all walks of life.
However, among the reality-themed dramas that have emerged in the past three years, such as "City within the City", "Police Honor", "Sanyue Has a New Job" and "News Queen", the stubborn problem of the "workplace drama" in the creative field is gradually being eliminated. Dissolve. First of all, the workplace drama is no longer reduced to a "swallowing" narrative framework, but from a false suspension to a grainy reality, allowing the professional industry background to become the capillaries running through the work, and the analysis of professional confusion is also closely related to the characters. Destiny is shaped closely. For example, "Wind Blowing Pinellia" is based on the entrepreneurial wave after the reform and opening up, depicting how private entrepreneurs discover opportunities and lead the changes of the times with innovation; "Sanyue has a new job", "Hunting Crime Illustrated Book", "Glazed Tiles in the Past", etc. Boldly focusing on "unpopular" industries such as the funeral industry, portrait painters, and cultural relic restoration, it corrects the industry theme setting of "cloaked in love" and truly enters the real life of ordinary workers, showing what they do, know, feel, and Confused.
The recently popular "City Within a City" tells a thrilling story in the financial field.
Secondly, workplace dramas are no longer limited to narrow aspects such as "workplace", "interpersonal" and "business war", but gradually go deeper into society, thinking about the reality of the rapid development of the industry, and caring about the changes of the times and the echoes of the various beings in the industry. It fully demonstrates the status of working people in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. For example, "Welcome to Maile Village" puts the high-concept "foreign aid medical treatment" into practice realistically and lightly, and uses a doctor who is experiencing a middle-aged career crisis as the fulcrum to write a moving story of China's foreign aid medical team in the new era. "City Within a City" depicts the financial industry and the financial test and human nature faced by people from different walks of life, and outlines the era before and after financial reform and transformation.
"Welcome to Maile Village" has shaped the group of foreign aid doctors.
At the same time, "people" are an important and organic component of film and television works. Workplace dramas have also shifted from focusing on the middle class, elites, and white-collar workers in first-tier cities to focusing on diversified and imperfect ordinary workers, truly analyzing, reflecting, observing and Career dilemmas and life struggles that are closely related to the general audience. For example, "Come on Today" and "The Breaking Elite" are based on the rectification and deconstruction of the workplace and comically shape the youth workplace ecology; "Police Honor" is run through the stories of four young police officers and is known as the "Rookie Growth Story" of the police station. "; there are also "A Year Without a Job" and "I'm Good in a Foreign Country" which directly attack unemployment, naked resignation, and wandering in a foreign land, and explore the value of life and work.
It is worth mentioning that many high-quality workplace dramas in recent years have the cultural genes of the capital Beijing. For example, " Surgery Live Room " and "Welcome to Maile Village" are high-quality projects of the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau's "Beijing Audition"; In the works, we can also see Beijing landmarks such as Guomao, Sanlitun, and Wangjing, as well as the unique style of the capital where ancient hutongs and high-rise buildings complement each other. As a world-renowned historical and cultural city, and an open and inclusive friendly city, Beijing has attracted countless young people with dreams, writing stories of passionate struggle in all walks of life. These have become the key to unlocking public emotional resonance.
"Surgery Live Room" is one of the high-quality projects of the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau's "Beijing Audition".
It is reported that in order to support key literary and artistic projects, Beijing issued "Several Measures to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Capital Film and Television Industry in the New Era" at the beginning of 2024, which clearly proposed to further improve the film and television shooting service guarantee mechanism and increase the intensity of film and television creation and production services. .Among them, Chaoyang District, which is the area with the highest concentration of film and television companies in Beijing, has already started filming for nearly 500 film and television dramas. Haidian District has also established the first batch of film and television shooting resource lists and established a film and television service center relying on the historical, cultural and university resources in the district. Establish a district-level rapid acceptance and approval mechanism for cultural conservation photography. With the protection of the
policy, the improvement of filming services, the integrity and innovation of the main creators, and the excellence of the actors, domestic workplace dramas are ushering in a bright future. But whether the creators can truly get rid of path dependence, eliminate the stubborn problem of "suspension", enter life down to earth, and truly demonstrate the value pursuit of Chinese professionals. In the end, we still have to wait and see carefully after each work is broadcast. There is no doubt that the popularity of works such as "City in the City" and "Surgery Room" means that there is a strong demand for high-quality workplace dramas within and outside the industry. We all look forward to the future when the outside world will judge excellent realism creations. In American dramas , Japanese dramas, and Korean dramas, Chinese workplace dramas can also have a place.
Beijing News reporter Zhang He
editor Tong Na
proofreader Zhai Yongjun
