The drama famine in 2018 is really too long, so long that the audience of the original TV series has been diverted to the major variety shows, leaving a small group of fans to lift the tall in the short. At this time, the emergence of "Gold Medal Investor" is like a shot in the arm, saving domestic TV series fans. This TV series adapted from the novel of the same name tells the story of the business war of investment institutions, and the protagonist is an investor from the grassroots, who has become the general manager of the branch with his own efforts, during which he has been inspired.
From the setting of the story, "Gold Medal Investor" is quite old-fashioned, basically "Chinese Partner" in the investment field, but the drama has risen from 6.6 points to 7.1 points, which is already good in the Chinese drama. What makes it change from an old-fashioned one to a powerful player is probably the workplace part of this drama.
Around a veteran enterprise Jinsheng, the male protagonist Fang Yubin is located in Rongding, the female protagonist Su Jin is in a third-party investment institution, and the Su Jin family who comes out at any time to stir up muddy waters, the three parties have their own magic in the competition for this target, and the story will also unfold.
Unlike most domestic dramas because of the understatement of the workplace part because of the lack of heart, "Gold Medal Investor" alone shows several confrontations in three dimensions: Jinsheng stock price fell, Rongding failed to protect the disk, the heroine took the opportunity to enter the Board of Directors of Jinsheng to make a lot of money, but unexpectedly her brother came out to stir up trouble, and as a result, a pair of old enemies met in this target company. There Rongding also has bloody storms inside, the high-level executives who failed to protect the plate are eager to throw the pot to the middle level, the scene is deadlocked for a while, and the male protagonist is pushed aside in this power struggle as a stunned head, and receives unreliable entrepreneurs in the lobby. Halfway through the show, the three-way fight has several scenes back and forth, and the density can be described as very high.
In addition, the most brilliant thing about this workplace drama is that it tells the audience one thing: there are no relatives and friends in the mall.
After the third-rate domestic drama gives a protagonist's miserable setting, it will basically let him open and hang within ten episodes, either every nobleman or luck bonus. "Gold Medal Investor" is terrible reality in this regard: the heroine Su Jinming likes Fang Yubin, but when she encounters competition, she shows no mercy, often disappears in secrecy, the phone is blocked, and the interest comes to give him the next set.
It is not difficult for Su Jin to understand that her biological father abandoned her and her mother for the company's listing, and when he was old, he tried to make this daughter who was smelted on Wall Street a sword for the cleaning group. The first half of the play devotes a great deal of space to a theme: in the face of absolute interests, most people's affection and love are not necessary.
But if that's all there is to it, then "Gold Medal Investor" is nothing more than a TV series full of copper stench, and its balance lies in borrowing Fang Yubin, a small person, to turn over and talk about the feasibility of idealism.
Fang Yubin, a grassroots person, entered the first-class investment institutions purely lucky, his concept of being a person and doing things is highly idealized: love and righteousness come first. So when his good friend Qi Yu leaked 50 million yuan because of dereliction of duty, Fang Yubin chose to carry the pot for the latter, which directly led to his loss of the position of project leader. From a short-term point of view, this is indeed a weakness, but with the development of the plot, dramatic things happen: the infighting in Rongding leads to the scarcity of talent in the company, and the top management just looks at Fang Yubin's characteristics of not bending over for fame and fortune, which gives him another chance to ascend to the throne.
It is difficult to say whether an idealist like Fang Yubin has such a good opportunity in the play in reality, but from the perspective of the ornamental nature of the drama script, this is indeed a classic climactic design: people are accustomed to surrendering to reality, but they are more subordinate to idealists in their hearts.
After talking about the advantages, it is time to talk about why the "Gold Investor" with so many advantages mentioned above is relatively general in terms of ratings and traffic. In 2018, the realistic themes of national dramas are piled up, and it is a pity that a drama like this, which is almost comparable to Japanese and Korean dramas in the workplace, has become its current position. The biggest pot may belong to this name, if you don't have the patience to open two episodes to watch, you will probably think that it is a third-rate work broadcast on local satellite TV.
When it comes to broadcast platforms, Hunan Satellite TV is also difficult to bring bonuses to dramas with this name without advantages: the main audience of the former is the youth drama circle such as "Sweet Strike", and the mature audience targeted by "Gold Medal Investor" is not too high. If the drama has a small flow or old drama bones, perhaps it can also rely on actors to bring a wave of traffic, but whether it is the male protagonist Yang Xuwen or the female advocate Li, although the acting skills are online, it does not meet this typical market law.
In addition to all of the above, the only possibility of flipping the disk is the reputation of the series itself. However, the plot progressed to the second half, Douban collectively suspected that the screenwriter's IQ went offline: in order to provoke the class contradiction between the male and female protagonists, he forcibly let the female second car accident hang, and then let the genius Fang Yubin, whose IQ was in the line in the first 30 episodes, become an unreasonable little milk dog, and made a series of actions that did not conform to the character's personality. This came and went, four or five episodes passed again, not to mention attracting new audiences, and the audience who originally came for the workplace drama could not sit still. Within a week, the Douban score fell by 0.1.
The original problem with domestic professional dramas is that they can't shoot workplace dramas well, and new problems have emerged after "Gold Medal Investor": after filming, how to stabilize in the capacity of more than 40 episodes. This is not harsh on the audience, because if it is only a third-rate workplace drama, fans will not care about its progress and ratings, but obviously have the appearance of superior works, but for various reasons, they have not been able to turn against the wind, for the audience of the national drama market, it is natural to love the deep responsibility.
I hope that the experience it leaves to the latecomers can make the National Drama Market give birth to more workplace dramas.
Recommendation Index: ☆☆☆☆