Day after day, year after year, it is ordinary people who really give content to time, who are not only the real protagonists in the real world, but also project deep and vivid shadows into these virtual stories, and are respected and remembered.
Wen | Chandler
At the end of each year, the convention still wants to take stock of this year's film and television drama works, in addition to the persistence of professional habits, the deeper reason is to temporarily stop and get thinking and inspiration that can be continued in the New Year in the finishing. 2021 is the second year we wear masks, and it is a big year for the full disenchantment of traffic and the return of creation to the original intention. In this year, there are two works with the "lighthouse effect", "The Age of Awakening" and "Mountains and Seas", the former makes us believe that revolutionaries are independent and vivid people, and once human nature is ignited by the revolutionary ideal of transcending the selfish desires of the ego, it can burst out an amazing and transformative righteous force in the world; the latter carries on the upward and downward, the right path in the world is vicissitudes, and the ordinary people who continue to struggle selflessly and selflessly in the new era are "contemporary heroes". As a platform, the "Mango Monsoon" theater that gathers creators will accurately capture the echoes of the times in 2021, to find more true stories of ordinary people, to capture heroism in human nature, and to tell heroic dreams.
A wife stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife nineteen times, the undoubted perpetrator, but a female lie detector did not stop exploring after she turned herself in. Professional sensitivity told her that this wife is also a mother, and there must be a weak person who needs protection behind the decision, and sure enough, behind the mother is a young girl who was sexually abused by her father, and "finding the motive for the crime" is the lie detector's promise to the victim, dig deeper, dig out the evil.
The beautiful frontier is staging a contest of life and death, wolf-like outlaws are haunted, playing with life, the snow is glowing with blood, a young man is tied up by them, facing the muzzle of the gun, his eyes are like a torch: there is a kind of let go of me. He is a forest policeman who believes in justice and is fearless.
Beijing Batong Line, subway morning rush hour, a girl wearing a black mask trotted all the way, hard squeezed into the "sardine can", the ripples of the crowd, very crowded, but the girl put on the headphones, a long breath of relief on the car, endure decibels, endure the smell, sprint to the station, the front is to punch the company, the long north drift a day in the high speed.
These pictures are from the National Drama, which are "True Detective lies", "Wolf Hunter" and "I'm Good in Other Places", which are part of the plot tension and a screw in the fate of the characters, but they can become relatively independent "works" at the end of the year to convey an increasingly strong message, namely: compassion, tenacity and dreams.
Together, these three words form the key to open the door to the New Year, the hope forged by the wisdom and courage of every ordinary person. Day after day, year after year, it is ordinary people who really give content to time, who are not only the real protagonists in the real world, but also project deep and vivid shadows into these virtual stories, and are respected and remembered.
At the beginning, it was decided to look up to the creation of ordinary people, in order to give birth to a good drama that was collected by time.
"True Detective lies"
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All three plays come from the "Mango Monsoon" theater, which has put forward a slogan: "Subvert the long drama water injection, subvert the suspension expression, subvert the traffic dependence, bring a new atmosphere", the monsoon concept comes from this, bringing moisture, bringing abundance, but also bringing a long-lost sense of intimacy.
For people in the industry who make dramas, from creation to birth to broadcast, a national drama is often inseparable from the evaluation system composed of keywords such as genre, personality, topic and even traffic. However, what the "Monsoon Theater" has to do is to "break the game" and take "ordinary people" as a consistent value choice. Ordinary people, not human design, not routines, not topics, are people who are experiencing everything and feeling everything become the protagonists of the story, they are rich, the story is rich; they are brave, the protagonist is brave.
The Wolf Hunter (the first episode of "Mango Monsoon", aired in May 2021) is the first suspenseful short drama in China to focus on anti-poaching, about the life-and-death struggle between forest police and poachers on the northern border. Five years ago, the forest public security Wei Jiang (Qin Hao) fought with poachers on a mission, and as a result, because of his recklessness, his comrades were killed, and Wei Jiang, who had made a mistake, fell off a cliff and was seriously injured, carrying the "shame" of the living, giving up his public security status to become an ordinary forest ranger, slowly becoming the "Wei Eighty-Two" in the mouth of the herdsmen, borrowing wine to dispel his sorrows, and his life was originally over.
The good looks of this drama are divided into two levels, the first level is about the bottom counterattack of the frustrated. Wei Baliang mixed food and drink at the banquet, and his friend said that there was a public security (Qin Chuan, Yin Fang) who was lost in the forest and was indifferent, until he heard that the bonus was enough for a year's wine money to have an expression reaction, had he become a city scoundrel drunkard, a waste wood that could not be turned over? But at the end of the first episode, the audience saw a tense and bright rhythm of the action scene, the experienced Wei Jiang laid out a "Shuluo Field" for the poachers in the dense forest, and it was a trap, and it was a push log, and also hung upside down a golden hook to sneak attack, and after the stage victory, there was a shot of Wei Ba's two-handed gun looking back, his eyes flashed, and his drunkenness disappeared.
If you only stay in the reversal, this drama still seems cheesy. What really makes sense is a deeper expression, precisely the "anti-hero mode". For Wei Jiang, it was Qin Chuan's fearless youthfulness that allowed him to see how he was angry at that time, and more importantly, he understood that escaping could destroy a man's dignity more than a death battle. Wei Jiang's counterattack is in line with realistic logic, when we lament the middle-aged waste of firewood, with the tide, the subtext is probably to say that TA was eventually manipulated by fate and had no ability to fight back. Many strong people in life will never be the opening and hanging mode of killing all sides, hurting and fearing and even retreating, but finally persevering, the process is the answer to life.
The Wolf Hunter
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It must be said that "I am very good in other places" ("Mango Monsoon" broadcast in July 2021) This life flow style drama, which was broadcast for three days, there were 10,000 people on Douban who scored high scores, 8.4, and four words appeared at high frequency in the bullet screen: the truth of the world. Many netizens said that the screenwriter is not peeking into his own life. It chooses to look at the audience seriously, neither dodging nor tempting, that is, communicating equally, and this perspective is invaluable.
Many of the details of the characters in "I'm Good in Other Places" come from the creator's subtle observation of life. Qiao Xichen (Zhou Yutong), the marketing commissioner, even if chewing painkillers during the physiological period, you have to run two steps in the company, there is a detail that has a very good texture of life, although the makeup is still neat, but the nail polish is uneven, the signal revealed is that she is very busy, can not care about applying neatly, it is more likely to bite the nail nervously when no one is paying attention.
Many female protagonists in workplace dramas are exquisite and impeccable at the level of Internet celebrities, only this drama creates a slight imbalance, a girl who intends to work her own to make a day in Beijing, and indeed does not have the time and energy to take care of her appearance. People do not roll themselves, they are rolled, Joe's director is so fighting, when the meeting is broken, flowing on the legs, being carried into the ambulance on a stretcher and shouting subordinates to write the plan and send it over, the result is that the front foot gives birth to a child, the back foot still can't keep the position, it is replaced by the company, and the plight of middle-aged married women in the workplace is about to come out.
The first episode of the series is called "Birthday", the four girls in the north drift start a daily day, Qiao Xichen sent away the leader who suddenly came to the pot, but he was to be driven out of the door by the landlord; Ji Nanjia (Ren Suxi) rushed to the sisters' party while also anxiously dealing with sudden business problems; Xu Yan (Sun Qian) found that her boyfriend had spent her credit card; and Hu Jingjing (Jin Jing), who was expecting to sign a big order to pay off debts, had a happy birthday at night, but was suddenly fired by the company.
The four girls in the play are all "us in the mirror", the size of the role is not directly proportional to the fate pressure carried by the role, the series prefers to paint these girls cold and warm self-aware, self-respecting life picture, so that the audience can be healed, the vast majority of ordinary people are invisibly squeezed by life, but still have the resilience and courage to live, maintain the faith of love and sincerity.
"I'm Fine Elsewhere"
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For a long time, the voice of the national drama on the social platform is divided and opposed, on the one hand, it is blind trust in traffic and topics, after a hit is produced, it begins to be virally copied, people set up regardless of whether the plot is reasonable, the complete work is cut into the so-called "highlight", "explosion", "good crying" moment, the audience looks at the past, the understanding of the story and characters stops here, not to mention what emotions and even values resonate.
On the other hand, the audience is in urgent need of a good drama and a good story of "understand me", the vast majority of people have the instinct of social impulses, hoping to be satisfied and seen, however, the fast-paced lifestyle and the increasingly granular organizational structure, resulting in seeking peers to get empathy, it is no longer so easy, "life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten, can be said with people", many times the audience's emotions need to find a suitable outlet in the process of chasing the drama, see their own figure in the role created by the actor, if you can have "suddenly look back" The effect will be even more gratifying.
In the early years of the millennium, our audience was lucky enough to experience and grow with the characters in the series. For example, "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", which was broadcast on Beijing Television in 2000, won almost all domestic TV drama awards, with a Douban score of 8.6. The characters in the play are really poor, many viewers are most impressed by the fear is that the tree in Zhang Damin's hut that the greening department is not allowed to cut down, so it is necessary to saw a hole in the roof and the bed, and at night the man has to split his legs to sleep, the trees in the house grow on their own, not sad or happy, and the people in the house have to live a life, Zhang Damin's two sons also cultivated a "tree", their son Zhang Shu. The precocious boy once asked the adult, "Mom, what does it mean to be alive?" His wife, Yunfang, said, "Sometimes I don't think it's interesting, but I just think it's interesting, and I think it's particularly interesting." The same ask dad, Zhang Damin's answer is more simple, no meaning, also alive, live, live well.
"The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin"
What is an ordinary person, is not no matter what name gender, what status, the posture of living is very different, but the essence is surprisingly consistent: to be soft in pain and keep smiling.
The 2021 "Mango Monsoon" theater is not the kind of big-budget blockbuster, but it is like an ordinary person's feeling: after so much, you can still smile just because you believe in something beautiful, think about it. Of course, the three "monsoon" national dramas are not perfect, and we can also see the inertia of the evolution and development of the national dramas in the market over the years, and there is still compromise and friction between the plot attraction, character shaping and the original intention of expression, but I am willing to use the word fission to express this process, not only to believe in the exploration value of most creators and give time; but also to believe that the audience and the times are co-creating. A theater that is close to people's hearts is to maintain sensitive insight at all times, tolerating diversity and true records, when real ordinary people become the protagonists of the work, their experiences are refined, shared and disseminated in the form of stories, which means that the creators, the audience and the times are in an ecology of a vibrant green cycle, just like being blown by the monsoon, wind and rain, all natural.