The city fireworks of "Outside the Drum Tower"

Another Beijing-flavored urban life drama is a hit! The TV series "Outside the Drum Tower" premiered on March 17 in the golden file of Beijing Satellite TV, with many points to watch and a long rating, and currently ranks in the top two of provincial satellite TV in the broadcast of dramas, and is expected to continue to rise. Urban life drama, urban love drama is the main type of drama, often easy to homogenize, "Outside the Drum Tower" is ingenious, in the story creation, human structure and value leadership ingenuity, filmed a different style, to overcome the urban drama prone to "floating" disease, it can be said that the urban drama injected more connotation, its innovation and expansion attract people to think, worth summarizing and learning.

First, grow new stories in the tradition and see the social customs in the city

"Outside the Drum Tower" is the sister chapter of "Love Man Courtyard" and "Under the Gate of Zhengyang", which is still rooted in the Beijing Hutong, but the main body of the story shifts from the past to the present, telling the life story of the carpenter master Yi Dachuan and his four apprentices in the hutong outside the Drum Tower. Carpenters, Qingming furniture and master-apprentice inheritance are highly recognizable elements of traditional Chinese culture, and the story injects traditional culture into the narrative of the times, making the former enter the contemporary topic, resulting in a strong drama, and the urban story is therefore more historical and humanistic.

"Outside the Drum Tower" designed three pieces of money. A dark line, the story of the antique furniture of the Yi Da Ship; A main line, that is, the story of the eldest disciple Yu Zhongsheng and the second disciple Yin Dongyi, has gone through several stages of resentment, mutual struggle, redemption, and reconciliation; A side line, that is, the love between Yu Zhong and Yi Xiaochuan bumping and bumping, but always unswerving. These three threads are woven together, stringing together the three families in the hutong and the chaotic social changes outside the hutong, showing the dreams, pursuits, running and conflicts of a group of ordinary people in contemporary society from one side, as well as the resulting bittersweet and bittersweet, and finally, under the guidance of the excellent traditional Values of China, each finds its own spiritual home. As the poster shows, the best thing on earth is reconciliation and reunion. Reconciliation and reunion are the daily life of the city, and they are also the entanglement and warmth of everyone on the street. These three lines are covered with a series of contacts, linking family conflicts, furniture markets, love storms, people's calculations, country breeding, capital chasing deer, network competition, etc., opening up the contemporary city legend, looking through the social situation, and experiencing the various flavors and philosophies of life in fireworks.

Second, promote cultural inheritance in life and cultivate spiritual flowers in salvation

One of the distinctive places of "Outside the Drum Tower" is that it integrates urban life dramas and urban love dramas, opening up their blood connection with excellent national cultural traditions. In the first episode of the TV series, when Master Yi Dachuan tested the carpentry skills of the four apprentices on the spot, he taught the apprentices a meaningful point of view: one is to make technology, and the other is to be a person; Make furniture with your heart; We can't do everything in our own way, and only by uniting can we do great things. Yi Dachuan knew the merits of the battle between the two apprentices of the great disciple, and he said that the revenge was repaid by himself, and the result was borne by himself; After several infighting between the two apprentices, when they finally reconciled, Yi Dachuan said that he should blame himself with the heart of blame, forgive others with the heart of forgiveness, know and stop, and never be ashamed for life. These sobering quotes are impressive. It can be said that Yi Dachuan is not only the technical instructor of the apprentices, but also the spiritual mentor of the neighbors, including the apprentices, who are trained in their feelings, see through things, are highly respected in the hutongs, encounter difficult disputes and contradictions, and a few words can awaken the deep hearts of the good. It can be said that he is a typical image of the same kind of person in real life, and from him you can see the vivid "old lier" rooted in the blood of the people and has not faded for thousands of years. These excellent traditional cultural concepts, in the inheritance of the vast, lead to the good, give everyone a positive spiritual force, and form the righteous atmosphere and value leadership in the play.

The main plot of "Outside the Drum Tower" continues to extend in the cycle of resentment and revenge between ZhongSheng and Yin Dongyi, but under the inspiration of the master's education, they have successively realized their mistakes, and finally achieved reconciliation, inspiring people and attracting empathy. These truths are not blunt, but a reflection on the tragic failure of the two sides of the conflict to set traps for each other, through the natural point of the master. These principles of life are naturally integrated into the plot, and there is no sense of preaching. "Outside the Drum Tower" beyond the general urban life drama, urban love drama is that it does not wantonly show the darkness and ugliness of human nature, nor does it jump away from the land of life to build a nihilistic sweet pet world, but in the fireworks of the city, the people are included in the narrative center, conveying the public's life interest, life aspirations, emotional world and self-redemption, and people finally resolve conflicts and struggles in tolerance, and return to the warmth and warmth of the world. This kind of aesthetic treatment makes the whole drama not only have the roughness and texture of the bottom of society, but also is full of spiritual strength to be good.

Third, make TV dramas into a mirror of society, and create vivid characters with diversity

"Outside the Drum Tower" is written about a group of people in the hutong, but it reflects the society around us, it exposes and criticizes the phenomenon of mercenarism in contemporary society with the language of comedy lenses, and shows the right way in the transformation of the fate of the characters. Competing for wins and losses, competing for interests, and competing for superiority is a common social phenomenon, while committing adultery, mercenarism, and injustice are the "passes" for some people. Both interests and desires can make people lose their minds. "Outside the Drum Tower" is laid out in the fierce fighting and courage of Zhongsheng, Yin Dongyi, Boss Wen and Boss Pan, calculating with each other, and later they wake up, redeem themselves, move towards cooperation, mutual reconciliation, mutual warmth, vivid and profound, and reasonable.

Its plot and structure are not complicated, but it is attractive and tasteworthy, especially the portrayal of the main characters is remarkable, showing the flesh and blood, emotions, love and hate, dreams, and inner conflicts and struggles of the characters. It can be said that the people inside are multi-faceted. As the most senior elder in the hutong, Yi Dachuan is well-informed, generous and harmonious, but he is inevitably a little careless about the willfulness of his granddaughter Yi Xiaochuan, and sometimes knows but does not break on some issues of right and wrong, and there are childlike hearts and city governments. Yu Zhongsheng was imprisoned at the beginning, a victim, capable and responsible, and after his release from prison, he was bent on revenge and became a reckless perpetrator, showing the side of rape against rape and poison against poison, but he had a brain, a sense of compassion and self-respect, and after winning victory, he could sympathize with the weak and show a tolerant side. Yin Dongyi is a treacherous villain, selfish and sensitive, often calculating others, and regards love as a child's play, but he takes good care of his family, and finally realizes his own faults in the face of failure and the warmth of his brothers, and repents and repents. Yi Xiaochuan is unswerving in love, cheerful and righteous, but always has to be superior, willful and does not care about the feelings of others, finds pleasure in charity, and so on. Most of the characters in "Outside the Drum Tower" have pyrotechnics, and the typical characteristics are prominent, including Boss Wen, Huo Quanmei, Yin Dongmei, Tianyu and other supporting characters who also have distinct personalities, and we can find "them" around us. Valuablely, the personality of these characters is not solidified in the play, but changes, and it is these changes that make the plot constantly reverse, fascinating, and avoid routineization.

In the tide of the times rushing forward, urban drama creation has a wide space. "Outside the Drum Tower" is a new achievement of urban drama creation, of course, there are still some shortcomings. It gives a basic enlightenment, that is, the creation of TV dramas must bear in mind the people, step on the earth, open the pattern, pour ingenuity, care for the fiery social life, access the changes of the times, and exalt the spiritual power of goodness. (Yang Mingpin)

Source: China Net