Cover News Trainee Reporter Lei Yunhan
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Screenwriter Guo Shuai. His representative works include " Dislocation", " Huanlian"
Recently, the suspense drama "Dislocation" has been popular on online video platforms, attracting a lot of attention. . The play is written by Guo Shuai and Liu Mengsha, and stars Ma Yili , Tong Dawei . The story tells that when detective Jiang Guangming, played by Ma Yili, was investigating a case, he discovered that the scene described in the novel by best-selling author Gu Jiming, played by Tong Dawei, was exactly the same as the crime scene. He then investigated Gu Jiming in depth, but in the process,... Another bizarre case was involved... The intricate clues and confusing plot made many viewers unable to stop. On July 15, a Cover News reporter interviewed screenwriter Guo Shuai and listened to him tell the story behind the show.
Suspense dramas should not be defined, what is more important than the case is the person
"Dislocation" is not a suspense drama in the traditional sense. It does not focus all its attention on the detection of the case, but uses a lot of space to To show the life drama of Jiang Guangming and Gu Jiming in detail. In this regard, Guo Shuai said: "The suspense of this drama is more of a shell. In fact, what we want to talk about is people's choices in difficult situations." He believes that suspense dramas should not be defined. What is more important than the case is Showing the people behind it is also the direction the screenwriter wanted to stick to from the beginning. "Everyone in this drama has their own dilemma, but these dilemmas do not come from the outside, but from everyone's own self, such as their desires, morality, and past. So everyone involved in this case, in fact, It’s also solving a mystery in their lives,” Guo Shuai said.
Stills of "Dislocation", according to the official Weibo
Although there are many elements in this drama, it is not cluttered. The story revolves around a case within a case, radiating to the fate of each character, showing their struggle, entanglement and confusion. During the creation process, the screenwriter used the method of first writing the four story lines separately and then weaving them together to create different characters in this period in each story line of different time and space. Guo Shuai explained, "We did not deliberately design, but in the writing process, we let the characters serve the story and the main line first, and then immersed ourselves in each character one by one. I would think about what I was going through if I were him. What kind of reaction will you have when this happens, and how will you do it? "
The title of the drama is "Dislocation", which is very appropriate in Guo Shuai's opinion, "Every character in this drama has left their original position. "The wealthy daughter Su Zhenzhen became disabled, and the unknown Gu Jiming became a great writer... Guo Shuai said, "Everyone is experiencing a dislocation, and their original lives have changed. The audience will see How do different people deal with and respond to this change? "
In the play, the screenwriter not only created distinct individual characters, but also built a very special relationship between the characters. For example, Jiang Guangming, as a criminal policeman, solved his own dilemma by helping others solve cases. In the process of handling the case, she saw the attitudes of the two female characters Jiang Na and Su Zhenzhen towards emotions and marriage, and finally figured out how to deal with her own emotions and marriage. Guo Shuai believed that "this is a very A unique emotional connection. "
and the actors achieve each other, shaping the characters from the details. For the actor's performance, Guo Shuai said that it fits the character image in his imagination very well. Some viewers commented that the casting of "Dislocation" was very good, but Guo Shuai believed that it was the actors' excellent acting skills that made the characters successful. The detective played by Ma Yili is very realistic from the way he walks and talks, and Tong Dawei also vividly interprets the role of a villain he has never played before.
Stills of "Dislocation", according to the official Weibo
Guo Shuai told the cover news reporter that during their creation process, the characters of the three female characters have always been very clear, but in the case of Gu Jiming, a rather complex and key character On the body, they are always hesitant."Should we make him a completely bad person, or should we hold him back?" When Tong Dawei was confirmed to play the role, all problems were solved. "We were unified at once and decided not to make him a complete bad guy, but to make him a non-traditional villain that the audience can sympathize with and understand better."
In terms of character presentation, Guo Shuai believes that actors and screenwriters must achieve mutual success. For example, when he wrote the script, he specially arranged a back-and-forth response. Gu Jiming, who was not yet famous at the time, was perfunctory when delivering a manuscript to President Su. The manuscript was abandoned with oil dripping on it. But after Gu Jiming became famous, someone accidentally spilled wine when handing him a manuscript, but Gu Jiming quickly wiped the manuscript clean. Such details abound in the play, which not only reflects the screenwriter's ingenuity, but also portrays Gu Jiming's image in a more three-dimensional way.
Guo Shuai also shared a detail. There was a scene in the script where Gu Jiming had to climb into his car through the window because the driver of the luxury car was unwilling to move the car. It was intended to show that Gu Jiming was bullied before he became famous. As a pavement for the character's darkening. During the filming process, Tong Dawei pulled the handle of the little broken car off when he struggled to get into the car, and shed tears of humiliation. This itself was not in the script, but this on-the-spot detail pushed the resentment of Gu Jiming to a new level, making the emotion even more extreme. It can be said to be a stroke of genius. Guo Shuai said that it was this scene that allowed him to see a change in the audience's attitude towards Gu Jiming in the barrage.
The puzzles left to the audience and the ingenuity buried by the screenwriter
As a screenwriter, Guo Shuai also enjoys following the drama in real time with the audience. After reading the audience's comments, he revealed that there were actually two screenwriters whose little ingenuity was not discovered by the audience. The first is that when Jiang Guangming angrily went to find her husband's lover Chen Weiwei, Chen Weiwei did not show her face the whole time, which triggered a lot of speculation among the audience, and there were different opinions for a while. Guo Shuai explained that this design is actually from a female perspective. "We designed her not to show her face throughout the whole process, just to prevent the audience from focusing on how young, beautiful and different this woman is. That's why Jiang Guangming's husband cheated. Her husband's cheating is his problem, not that woman's. It doesn’t matter what it is.”
The second ingenious idea is actually a puzzle left to the audience. In every flashback of 2018, there are specific dates marked. Most of the dates actually correspond to a solar term, such as Xiaoman or Summer Solstice, and this solar term echoes the plot of this section. At the same time, the novel that Gu Jiming handed to Mr. Su was called "Winter Solstice", and the other solar terms that appeared were all in summer, which actually implied an expression from the screenwriter. "He could have waited until spring, but because he was eager for quick success, he chose to take another path."
For Guo Shuai, as a screenwriter, life is above all else, "Life is the basis of creation." Talking about the creation of this film Regarding the feelings of the play, he believes that the most important thing is "firmness". He said that the difference from writing the first draft outline to the final presentation in the play may be only 10%. During the year and a half of script creation, they mostly revised some details, but the direction of the script has always been firm and there have been no major changes. "Don't forget what you wanted to express in the first place. Although you may encounter problems that you don't know how to deal with in the middle, the best solution is to think about what kind of work we wanted to make it in the first place."
