Copywriter | Thirteen
Editor | Soda
There is one theme in domestic dramas that resonates most with the audience, and that is workplace drama.
There is no other reason. Workplace dramas are closer to our daily lives and more down-to-earth.
such as " settling down to ", "Ideal City" and "News Queen" are all popular and well-known masterpieces.
But this year’s workplace drama failed to meet the audience’s expectations.
"City Within a City" has a strong lineup, but the plot is suspended by complaints and the focus gradually deviates.
"红热" is currently on the air, but it seems to be the same old routine and boring.
Isn’t there a drama that stands up to turn the tide? Of course
does!
Among the workplace dramas recommended by CCTV to be aired, " The Night Is Dark " is on the list. It seems that the date of broadcast is not far away.
After watching the trailer, I want to say that this drama is expected to become a dark horse among urban workplace dramas.
01Real workplace environment
The story of "The Night Is Dark" is adapted from the original novel "The Sales Couple" written by You Er.
tells the story of a group of young people working in the wine industry such as Zhao Mei (played by Jiang Shuying), Li Dongming ( Tong Dawei ), Dong Yue ( Zhang Chao ), Liang Danning ( Lan Yingying ), etc., who work in the wine industry. Keep fighting for your career and protect your own interests and feelings.
They learned to live optimistically through constant setbacks and gained spiritual and material wealth.
It can be seen from the trailer that this drama has two major highlights.
First, there are two sides to the workplace.
When night falls, the party begins. The lights are brilliant, the crowds are surging, and this is a life of intoxication and luxury.
Zhao Mei, Liang Danning, and Qiao Hailun (played by Kan Qingzi) are not there for fun, but for work.
They want to be honest with others, and even have to sell the wine even when they are drunk.
As salespeople, they look glamorous on the surface and seem to be able to easily complete their performance and receive praise at the conference.
But they have to bear the bitterness behind it. They have to digest being harassed, slandered and betrayed by themselves.
This is the real workplace. The play shows two parallel lines of modern corporate system and human society.
From the perspective of the company's bottom-level sales, if you want to achieve performance, you need to maintain interpersonal relationships and retain customers.
Since then, the human society and the corporate system have been completely integrated and inseparable.
What really dominates these standards is interests.
The second is the coexistence of cooperation and confrontation.
There are no permanent friends, only eternal interests. This sentence is quite suitable to describe the relationship between the characters in the play.
This drama depicts the different choices between different classes and generations in an industry. Executives represented by Dong Yue and salespeople like Zhao Mei are each held hostage by interests.
In the web woven together by feelings and interests, they use each other and deceive each other. When conflicts arise, they are able to distance themselves from each other and end them quickly.
Everyone’s motivation is to put their own interests first, so the relationship between them is a coexistence of cooperation and confrontation.
However, this drama’s exposure of the workplace environment and complex depiction of human nature is not to create anxiety, but to let people learn how to find their own balance and live optimistically.
It can be said that "It's Dark" is the most special workplace drama in the past two years. There is no so-called decent villain, and everyone involved in it has their own reasons for acting.
At the same time, the rhythm of the play is fast, the conflicts are fierce, and the relationships between the characters are also quite complex.
Such a real workplace drama, I am definitely following it. The plot presentation effect of
is so amazing, and the role played by the creative team is extraordinary.
The drama’s director Li Jun’s representative works include “Don’t Believe in Tears” and “Chinese Style Marriage”, both of which are classics in urban dramas.
He is good at using different perspectives to show the current life, so he has shot excellent urban dramas one after another.
The screenwriter of the play is directly written by the original author. Based on the author's understanding of the novel, the adapted content will definitely not go astray.
This time, Li Jun is at the helm of "The Night Is Dark", and the original author is protecting it. I believe they can create another classic.
02The actor configuration is powerful.
The creative team has set the stage, and then it’s up to the actors.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the cast of this drama is all talented.
ranks first, Tong Dawei.
As a powerful actor who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, Tong Dawei ushered in another peak of his career with his role as the affordable male "Huang Mudan" in "The Story of a Rose".
In the popular " misaligned ", he plays the hypocritical and self-interested writer Gu Jiming, breaking the previous audience's impression of him as a "good old guy".
And this image will be further broken in the new drama.
Li Dongming, played by Tong Dawei, seemed to be quite emotionally unstable in the trailer. He threw off his clothes angrily, pointed at Qiao Hailun and fell to the ground with a bad tone.
Especially his face slowly moved from the shadow to the light, his expression serious and impatient.
This character is probably a scumbag. Tong Dawei really acted like what he was doing.
ranked second, Lan Yingying.
Lan Yingying’s career is going smoothly this year.
First, she played Guan Zhizhi in "The Story of a Rose". She didn't have many roles but she was very brilliant. Then came the sensitive yet crazy Su Zhenzhen in "Dislocation", a performance that shot directly to the top of the hot search list.
Liang Danning, played by Lan Yingying in the new drama, is another ruthless character. She is ambitious, capable and principled. She knows what she wants and strives for it.
The scene where Liang Danning fights with someone in the trailer reminds people of the scene where Guan Zhizhi beats Zhou Shihui in "The Story of the Rose". It can be seen that this is also a fierce and straightforward character.
Lan Yingying lets her work speak for itself, and she deserves the title of a capable actress.
ranked third, Jiang Shuying.
Urban dramas can be regarded as Jiang Shuying’s comfort zone. Gu Jingjing in " One Servant, Two Masters " and Wang Manni in " Only Thirty " are both classic characters created by her.
So the role of a working woman is very familiar to her. In
's new drama, she plays Zhao Mei, a foreign wine saleswoman. Her tenacious and optimistic personality has also made her successful in the sales field.
But no matter how optimistic a person is, there are things that can't be imagined. In the trailer, she received a phone call, her brows were furrowed and her expression gradually became heavier. It seemed that the matter was quite difficult.
The role of Zhao Mei may become another classic created by Jiang Shuying.
is fourth, Zhang Chao.
Li Dongsheng, played by Zhang Chao in "Red Heat", is still struggling to start a business, while Zhang Chao in this drama has already had a successful career.
Getting rid of the sloppy long hair and non-mainstream style in "Red Heat", Zhang Chao became several degrees more handsome in the new drama.
Dong Yue, who he plays, is well-dressed and looks like a social elite.
Zhang Chao's calm temperament fits this character very well. The way he looks at others in the play is suspicious and scrutinizing. This character may not be as honest as he seems, and may be duplicitous.
Zhang Chao’s acting skills are remarkable.
In addition, actors such as Kan Qingzi, Wang Jianxin, Wang Yaoqing, Ke Lan also joined the play. Gathering of talented actors, this cast has more than enough acting skills to perform in urban dramas.
03 Conclusion
If you want to make a workplace drama good-looking, you must do two things.
First of all, the plot is real. The workplace is closely related to the lives of the audience. Everyone has experienced real workplace life, so the audience will naturally not buy into the fake suspension shot. Only truth can touch people's hearts.
followed by acting online. workplace dramas require actors to have real and natural acting skills, and to have a sense of life. Therefore, in addition to considering the suitability of the character in casting, acting skills are more critical.
"It's Dark" just meets these two conditions. The actors use superb acting skills to truly reproduce workplace life, with fierce conflicts and quite interesting to watch.
believes that as long as this drama is broadcast normally, "It's Dark" may break through the ceiling of workplace dramas.
