Entering 2022, good drama
Rotation has begun
The recently concluded "Happiness Duo" has presented a new look in the expression of realistic themes, and "urban group portrait drama" is becoming a mainstream trend, not only breaking the stereotype of family roles, but also depicting a fresher marriage relationship.
"There Is You in This Life" broadcast in the next file has once again aroused heated discussion in public opinion. Following Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran's 2010 collaboration "Too Late to Say I Love You", the two have contributed many new "famous scenes" together.
The continuous deepening and exploration of realistic themes in the drama market may usher in a new inflection point this year: stories that are closer to the real life of the public and more dimensions are increasingly appearing in TV drama works and constitute an important part of public entertainment consumption.
In this process, the power of realism will also be more fully reflected.
More "landed" urban emotional drama
In the screen stories of the past two years, different from the sweet pet dramas that are subdivided from urban dramas and have a relatively fixed audience, "middle-aged love" has gradually begun to become a hot topic.
In 2021, urban emotional dramas have a clear tendency in the age of the protagonists, that is, closer to the "mature age". At the same time, the portrayal of the real life of middle-aged people is no longer limited to marriage and love relationships, and various problems encountered in daily life are included.
"This Life With You" premiered on CCTV-8, with a highest rating of 1.4%. In "Middle-Aged Love", although there is no fancy sprinkling of sugar, in the chai rice oil and salt, the true expression of love is extracted.
In the play, the various problems faced by the "single mother" played by Li Xiaoran in life have also been more fully displayed, enriching the connotation of urban emotional drama.
Compared with the love story with higher concentration, the sense of life of "middle-aged love" is more distinct. The marital status of Liao Sha, a strong workplace woman with a strong personality, and the ordinary programmer equation of the Buddhist system in "Happiness Duo" is also a true portrayal of more and more families in real life.
When family relations change, how to deal with the various problems faced in married life and find a self-consistent mode of getting along has also become a new proposition for modern young people's marriage relationship. From this perspective, The Happiness Duo offers a new perspective through dramatic presentation.
As a long-standing genre in the domestic drama market, family dramas have always had a stable audience. Stories of different ages collide in the same family, and there is a more full field of expression in intergenerational relations, education, emotions and other topics.
In the 2022 CCTV film list, there are TV drama works with the family as the axis, such as "Mother's War", "Heart Residence", and "Dear Child".
"Mother's War" is a group portrait drama work based on the family. With single mother Zhou Nannan as the story center, it shows the different emotional dilemmas faced by five groups of Chinese families with different characteristics, and perspectives the practical problems of contemporary Chinese families in terms of parent-child relationship and education.
"Dear Child" is adapted from the family ethics and family love film "Left and Right" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, focusing on "reorganizing the family", telling the story of an ordinary family experiencing various tribulations and finally completing self-redemption.
In addition, the perspective of urban emotional dramas in the creation is also getting wider. In the torrent of society, the fate of every ordinary person rises and falls with the tide and eventually resonates with the times.
"Happiness to Ten Thousand Families" takes the spiritual poverty alleviation and the comprehensive construction of a well-off society as the background of the story, and the heroine He Happiness has experienced a life of ups and downs from the countryside to the city to the countryside, growing under many tests, and finally achieving a career.
TV dramas are forming a close connection with real life. The growth curve of He Happiness presented in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Families" also reflects the new face of women in the new era under the background of poverty alleviation.
A positive attitude towards life and the pursuit of a happy life have always been the landing point of the most realistic power of TV drama works.
A more "fresh" industry workplace drama
As an important type of domestic TV drama, industry dramas have begun to change significantly in recent years. The meaning of industry drama is more like a "window", reflecting the spiritual outlook and state of the industry through the typical life phenomena of a certain industry.
With the continuous emergence of emerging industries, the writing dimensions of industry dramas have also become diversified, thus bringing freshness to the audience. Urban dramas that focus on industry and workplace writing have shown a trend in two directions this year.
First, in the conventional field of domestic dramas, a fresher perspective has been found. Since last year, the military theme, which is a major theme creation branch, has begun to usher in new changes.
Among them, a trend that is difficult to ignore is the emphasis on the writing of special forces groups, including tank troops, rocket forces and special forces, as well as the armed police special police force in a broader sense.
"Operation Clouded Leopard", which appeared in this year's upcoming film list, focused the camera on the "Clouded Leopard Commando Team" of the Special Police Detachment of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Founded in 2002, this national counterterrorism commando tells the story of a newly selected recruit who gradually became a SWAT sniper.
From this, we can glimpse the new exploration of the realistic theme of domestic drama creation, that is, how to tell a story with both temperature and depth on the basis of being close to reality.
In addition, "Female Criminal Police Captain" provides a new perspective on criminal investigation themes and tells the story of women's growth in the criminal police force; "City in The City" goes deep into hot issues and major events such as China's financial development in the new era through the working status of two generations of financial personnel.
It is not difficult to see that industry dramas are looking for more specific writing objects within the vertical field, and at the same time, they show their interweaving with the times and paint a picture of the times.
Second, in addition to the existing field, the focus of the industry is fresher, and expands outward to all walks of life. This is due to the booming development of emerging industries, but also related to the self-driving force of series creators to break the conventional way of thinking and explore new dimensions.
In the list of films to be broadcast, there are "Genius Basic Law" that focuses on mathematical experts, "Public Prosecution Elite" that deeply shows the work and life of procurators, and so on.
After experiencing the turmoil of the "traffic theory", the drama industry is on the road of gradually returning to content.
Excellent realist works have begun to emerge, going hand in hand in terms of word of mouth and popularity, which can not only arouse public resonance, promote national attention and discussion, but also further stimulate the audience's love for life.
As an important cultural and entertainment consumer product, the style of Chinese TV dramas directly reflects the development of contemporary real life. Realistic works have also always had the power to penetrate people's hearts.
Author: Zhang Jiaqi
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