Special correspondent Luo Xiaoting and Dong Ming
A new style of drama is gradually penetrating the European and American film and television drama circles. In November this year, the second season of Douban's highest-rated British drama "Fuck His World" was launched. At present, nearly 40,000 people on Douban have scored a high score of 9.2 for this "sorrowful and refreshing" British drama. In addition to last year’s "Kominsky Theory" and "Deadly Woman" which ended last month, these episodes, despite their different genres, have the same characteristics: they involve heavy themes such as sexual assault, domestic violence, and juvenile delinquency. It also "brings coolness in mourning", that is, the combination of depth of content and coolness of watching drama, connotation and commercial elements.
The rise of streaming media brings genre mutations
In recent years, with the rise of streaming media and changes in audience aesthetics, European and American dramas have begun to appear new genre mutations: "Combination of funeral drama and cool drama" is becoming a new direction for European and American dramas to break through. The current trend of "fun drama" did not start this year. Last year, the first season of "Mind Hunter" launched by Netflix achieved a high reputation of 96% freshness of Rotten Tomatoes. Unlike ordinary crime dramas, "Mind Hunter" does not focus on the pursuit process and the crime scene, but makes the two detectives in the drama lead the audience to explore the inner world of the murderer step by step. The success of this show also proves that the slow-paced, outstanding psychological horror and in-depth themes of the drama can also be recognized by the audience on the streaming media platform.
In September this year, Netflix launched the American drama "Unbelievable" adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning report. After throwing out a series of cases, the show raised a thought-provoking question: Why do most sexual assault victims choose not? Report? The play also triggered a re-examination of the issue of sexual assault by the American public. The just-launched "Fuck His World Season 2" still includes elements such as murder, robbery, and minors' love, but with a little freshness in the cruel style, it once again won praise from the audience. Critics believe that most of these episodes are produced by streaming media, so the scale is relatively large, and "niche hits" are only created for some audiences.
"Song Shuang Drama" pays more attention to the various forms of life
The process of investigating in "Unbelievable" does not have the high-energy scenes of American dramas such as "Criminal Minds". In the play, two female detectives find the connection between several rape cases and lock the suspect. People, and to clean up the grievances of sexually assaulted girls. Then the girl called to thank the female police officer, because the investigation of the two policewomen gave her the confidence to live again, and the concept, rhythm and depth of the series thus achieved a perfect integration.
mourning drama is actually different from the traditional European and American "shuang drama". The series pays more attention to the various aspects of life, while working hard on the style and tone of the picture. In "Fuck His World", the visual beauty brought by the filming of British and American drama production is fully reflected. Through movie-like images, juvenile crime films are transformed into "love sweet pet dramas", creating a cruel and sweet style that impresses many audiences. In addition, editing skills are also an indispensable part of the "fun drama". The editing transitions of the three eras in the finale of "Fatal Woman" were made in one go, linking the three murders together, making the audience hooked.
The creative upgrade of the "post-power travel era"
sorrow drama can be regarded as a creative upgrade of the "post-power travel era" European and American dramas. At the same time, in the context of Hollywood's super-British dominance on the big screen and the continuous shrinking of the small and medium-cost film market space, A large number of outstanding creators lost to the small screen and began to explore diverse creative styles. While expressing the theme of the drama, the main creator also needs to work hard to meet the aesthetic needs of ordinary TV audiences, and then create a "sorrowful drama" style.
's once popular hits such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "Game of Thrones" have come to an end. "Black Mirror" has encountered word-of-mouth Waterloo after Netflix took over. In recent years, European and American dramas have hardly seen new hits. Behind this phenomenon is the aesthetic isolation of European and American audiences triggered by streaming media, which gives more room for niche explosions. Funeral dramas provide a window for some audiences to vent their emotions. Although the current mainstream European and American dramas are still commercial genres, such as the British drama "Bodyguard" and the American drama "Stranger Things", etc., the funeral drama seems to be winning in the market A place.
