"Win or Lose" opens up new horizons for workplace dramas and leads the values of the new era

On the afternoon of January 20th, the emotional workplace drama "Win or Lose", produced by Zhejiang Film and Television (Group) Co., Ltd. and based on Fu Yao's novel of the same name, directed by Zhang Li, with Yang Yang as the chief producer, Sang Minling and Lu Yue as the producers, and Chen Kun and Xin Zhilei starring as the emotional workplace drama "Win or Lose", was held in Beijing. The seminar was hosted by the China Television Arts Committee, presided over by Yi Kai, secretary general of the China Television Arts Committee, attended by experts and scholars in the industry such as Li Zhun, Li Jingsheng, Fan Yongge, Yin Hong, Liu Qiong, Gao Xiaoli, Zhao Tong, Xing Ge, etc., and participated in the meeting by director Zhang Li and other main creators and mainstream media such as Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, and Guangming Daily. At the seminar, the participating experts gave "Win and Lose" high praise, believing that it is an innovative work of domestic workplace dramas, exploring the value of the era of winning and losing, and transmitting the spirit of workplace struggle. The TV series "Win or Lose" was selected into the list of 100 key TV dramas of the State Administration of Radio and Television from 2018 to 2022, and premiered on Zhejiang Satellite TV and Beijing Satellite TV Golden Theater on December 21, 2021, and Washi Video, Youku and iQiyi were launched simultaneously, and successfully concluded on January 12, 2022.

Explore the youthful expression of mainstream values, and adhere to the original intention to interrogate the propositions of the times

As the producer of this drama, Zhejiang Film and Television Group, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, has never forgotten its original intention to keep its original intention and innovation, deeply grasp the script to take root in creation, and insist on exploring the youthful expression of mainstream values, and yang Yang, the chief producer, opened with three photos on the set during the shooting, and fondly recalled his original intention as a creator. In her view, the innovation and uniqueness of "Win or Lose" is reflected in exploring the novelty of the subject matter with genre creation, adhering to the quality of the work with the spirit of ingenuity, and conveying the era value of "altruism" with far-reaching intentions.

Director Zhang Li said that "Win or Lose" tries to depict the fate of the protagonist, showing the wrestling and game between market competition and moral calling in the real society with high technology as the forerunner and the Internet economy as the new growth point. "Any kind of market competition as a new economic order must have its corresponding moral norms, but this new moral norms are always lagging behind and need to pay a lot of costs to form." What this TV series wants to express is that the market competition supported by the Internet tends to be fairer, more benign, or more cruel? The film raises many questions, in this white-hot competitive environment, what about morality? What about dignity? What about love? What about affection? Where are they located? ”

Post-production director and sound director An Wei said that "Win or Lose" tries to use audiovisual language to present the inner world of mature professionals in the fierce commercial competition environment such as male and female protagonists, in order to gain the resonance of the audience, how to get more and broader "acquaintances" for the series is a proposition that the creators need to consider and think about repeatedly.

Find the coordinates of the times and break new in the real workplace

At the seminar, the participating experts highly praised the real professional depiction of the workplace of "Win or Lose" and the compact and gripping storyline, affirming that it is a breakthrough of a realistic workplace drama and brings a new wind to the creation of the same type of theme. Li Zhun, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a well-known literary and art critic, spoke highly of the value of the times contained in "Win and Lose", "Winning and Losing" dialectically analyzes the game between market competition and the criterion of human nature, vividly reveals a new format of the operation of the contemporary knowledge economy on the mainland, a new style in the commercial warfare supported by high-tech and artificial intelligence software, and shapes the image of the tide of the new economic development represented by Zhou Rui, Luo Jia, and Fang Wei, opening up new horizons and providing new enlightenment for content innovation in literary and artistic creation. Li Zhun said that there is an old Chinese saying that "all the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for the benefit of the future." "Win or Lose" very sharply interrogates economic and philosophical issues, carries out in-depth dialectical thinking on the boundary relationship between competition and norms, and effectively explores the social value of workplace dramas.

Fan Yongge, deputy director of the Plenary Committee of the China Writers Association and the Film and Television Literature Committee, said that "'Win or Lose' can obtain a win-win situation of ratings and word-of-mouth at the moment, and it has achieved innovative expression in three aspects: one is to pull the most easily trapped plot of workplace dramas back to the real state; second, the anti-routine design of the main characters has created a new screen group portrait for Chinese workplace dramas; third, "Win or Lose" as an industry drama has been professional enough to present a real and grounded contemporary workplace people's 'Qingming On the River Map'. ”

Yin Hong, vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association and professor at Tsinghua University, believes that "the theme of "Win or Lose" is pioneering, showing the re-recognition of the value of the workplace by new professionals in the new era, providing a new space for the creation of the same type; the genre is innovative, and on the basis of the distinctive characteristics of typology, there are many types of innovative integration, which is a three-in-one work of workplace, business war and love, with the type assumption and vivid image of the common emotions of society, reflecting the profound social meaning; the theme has modernity. It shows the speculation of winning and losing, fits the values of young people, and provides a space for discussion and new inspiration for modern value concepts. ”

Liu Qiong, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department of the People's Daily, saw the creator's ingenuity from the performance level of the actors and the display of the director's skills in the details, and believed that the play "presents an expression that matches the development trend of the times, the value position is very clear, shaping a number of new character images such as Zhou Rui, Luo Jia, Du Heng, Fang Wei, etc., and is an excellent reality TV series that faces the present and reflects the changes of the times." ”

Gao Xiaoli, editor of The Literary and Art Daily and director of the Art Criticism Department, said that "Win or Lose" "embodies the difficult creation of commercial dramas, and is a return work in the true sense of the business war theme that has been missing for a long time", and commented that the drama "is not suspended, not vulgar, based on real life, showing a vivid sales workplace, delicate emotional description and profound theme ideas, and many actors have a precise grasp of the characters' professional attributes and complex emotions, leaving a deep impression on the audience." ”

Show a broad vision and achieve value leadership in theme exploration

"Win or Lose" takes the Internet workplace as the incision, and through the construction of the "double-headed eagle" style character relationship, the workplace confrontation and the narrative of the life flow are picked up, so that it is integrated and reflected in each other. Zhao Tong, deputy director of the Television Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, believes that the play is "based on the present, pays attention to reality, drives the progressive thinking of the enterprise form, corporate mentality and corporate value with individual fate, and has a particularly respectful attitude towards reality, the present and the times", he analyzes the structure of the play from the two dimensions of workplace and emotion, and affirms the creative attitude of the creative team of "Win or Lose" to actively observe reality and the courage to face realistic issues from the perspective of social value.

Xing Ge, senior editor of the China Television Arts Commission, started from the topic of "Win or Lose", pointing out that the drama "depicts the faces of industry beings, conveys diversified values, closely links the development of the industry and the direction of national development, shows a broad vision and profound philosophy, has a strong visual expression and appeal, and creates a unique aesthetic taste." ”

Li Jingsheng, vice president of the China Federation of Radio and Television Social Organizations, highly affirmed the in-depth excavation of "Win and Lose", believing that "'Win and Lose' has truly returned to the genre characteristics of the workplace drama itself from two aspects, one is that it has distinct professional characteristics, and the other is that it has a strong workplace commonality. The play vividly reflects that social progress brings new occupations, new occupations bring new people, new groups of people embody new concepts, new ideas, new characteristics of the fresh social ecology, its value height is still reflected in the core values of socialism, and its value-led coordinates shine in the work. ”

At the end of the seminar, Yi Kai, Secretary-General of the China Television Arts Committee, summed up: "'Win or Lose' has made a good attempt at workplace drama innovation with unique and diverse quality expressions, exquisite artistic pursuits and efforts to pursue profound creative attitudes, reflecting the original intention and mission that artists should have. ”

"Win or Lose" is based on the rapid development of the new era, opens up a new vision of workplace drama, leads the mainstream values of the times, blooms the ideal light of perseverance and altruism and win-win results, and injects the "strong needle" of struggle into the current youth.

Source: Beiqing Network