There is a saying in the industry: the ratings of the TV series are watched in the first three episodes.
The first three episodes did not look at the head, and it was difficult to go up the back.
So in the first episode, try to make the audience curious about the characters. After all, I am familiar with and like the characters in the play, and I am interested in continuing to watch it later.
So, the recently popular domestic military drama, has it done it?
Special Warfare Glory
Starring Yang Yang, creamy little boy transformed into a tough guy.
The TV has a total of 45 episodes, currently running into its 12th episode.
But in the comments section, five stars and one stars have already fought.
Five stars: nervous, exciting, crew intentions.
One star: Yang Yang is greasy and packed.
Commenting on this drama will be thankless if you are not careful.
After all, Yang Yang comes with a huge traffic attribute.
But if you look at all this aside, what about this drama?
Ten minutes before the first episode, there was a fierce battle scene.
Teamwork, tactical logic, ideas.
The quality is good, and the scene is intense, you can see that the funds are burning, which can attract people's attention.
But for the next ten minutes, it would be too stretched, because it would be embarrassing enough to make people's scalps tingle.
The battle scene in front of us is a flashback, followed by the time when the protagonist is a recruit.
The whole class ran ten laps in the playground, and The recruit Yan Baoyue, played by Yang Yang, felt that there was a problem with the way of organization.
When the squad leader heard this, he was angry: Then you organize it?
Hey he's really organized.
As soon as he became a soldier, he appointed himself a company commander in the class!
Not only that, he also sealed the deputy company commander, platoon leader, squad leader, and squad deputy, and rearranged the queue.
Uncle is to say, isn't it just a ten-lap run around the playground, is it necessary to do this?
Don't say you're a soldier, when you're in military training at school, the instructor asks you to do it, you have to think about it, right?
Besides, all the young and energetic guys in the class were so willing to listen to him?
At this time, you guess what the squad leader does, he should have to establish his own majesty, right?
No, he ran to report to the company commander.
Uncle saw here and laughed angrily, this is also too nonsense, the squad leader let a recruit lead the nose.
I don't know how many fans who are not Yang Yang, see here were dissuaded.
We understand that the purpose of this play is to establish the protagonist's character:
Physically fit, organized, and a thorn in the ranks.
In fact, see here, the story line is also very easy to guess:
The protagonist slowly transforms from a new recruit with no rules and no unity to a generation of soldiers.
The routine is not unfamiliar, but there is no prelude to the protagonist's behavior in front, and the audience will only feel disgusted when they see it.
But looking back, the plot is better again:
The male protagonist experiences the folding of the quilt that every recruit will experience, and the battle of wits and courage with the squad leader.
In this way, the plot, one will be online, one will be crossed;
In the performance, Yang Yang always looks greasy and upright, but the person is handsome, stands straight, and has a good figure.
The above is the overall impression that this drama gives to Shu.
Is the show that bad? Not really.
Some places are even excellent.
For example, in the play, the more real life of the troops is restored:
All the men were dark-skinned; the expressions and tones of the people inside were, at first glance, soldiers.
For example, the director said that there is only comradeship, which means that this is not an emotional drama that wears a military uniform to talk about love.
For example, the comedy factor in it is really attractive and makes people want to watch it.
It's just that...... We have watched domestic military dramas at their peak.
We've seen good ones, so we're there — Soldier Assault.
Its glorious record does not need to be repeated.
It's just that every time a similar theme of the film and television comes out, everyone will invariably think of this classic again.
As a classic, it is certainly excellent in all aspects. Here, Uncle Eggplant only mentions one point:
In terms of character building, what is the difference between "Special Combat Glory" and it?
After watching the first three episodes of "Special Operations Glory", can you recognize the squad leader of the recruit company? What are the personality traits of a company commander? In addition to the protagonist trio, do you still have an impression of other people?
Like Uncle Eggplant, you basically can't answer it.
Don't hide from you, uncle now even what the male second looks like, he has a vague impression.
However, "Soldier Assault" has passed so long, except for Mu Ne but the indomitable protagonist Xu Sanduo, we can still remember many characters in the play:
The gentle and responsible Shi Jin squad leader, the arrogant second-generation Gaocheng Company Commander, the smart and sleek Chengcai, the Wu Liuyi who prefers not to bend, the walking hormone Yuan Lang...
We remember their images, their personalities, the words they said, and even the expressions they had when they spoke.
We went through stories with the characters in the show, and they were as familiar as the people we really knew.
Some people will say, that's after you've watched it all, how many episodes of "Special Warfare Glory" has arrived.
However, in "Soldier Assault", some people appear very little, such as the three people of the fifth class of the grassland, such as the "Desperate Pit Lord" of the Seventh Company of Steel, and uncle is still deeply impressed.
That's why the show has become a classic.
And the first three episodes of "Special Battle Glory", not to mention other people, the portrayal of the protagonist Yan Baoyue is not so successful.
What we see in him:
Handsome, solitary, so good that it seems that he is now the king of soldiers.
Some fragments can be vaguely perceived that he had bad memories when he was a child, and his family background was not ordinary.
That's it.
But what about the other aspects?
After three episodes, the audience is still not so interested in the protagonist; his growth line and internal character motivation have not succeeded in capturing the audience's heart.
Because everyone knows that as long as the screenwriter and director move the gold finger a little, there is no problem for him to become the king of soldiers.
And more other people in the play are more like walking flowers to serve the protagonist.
The famous Hollywood screenwriter Richard Walter once said:
One of the basic principles of creating valuable characters is to make each character worthy of sympathy.
So far, you and the protagonist himself, a growing character, have not empathized, you can't sympathize with him, and you are not so interested in him.
The director team and the main actor replace the deep excavation of the role with a routine that is visible to the naked eye.
Some people also said that this is a cool drama adapted from Shuangwen's novel, and it is cool to watch.
But "cool drama", in addition to the plot opening and hanging, the actor's acting skills are online, and the audience can watch it coolly.
Saying so much, Uncle Eggplant sincerely hopes that the plot of this drama will be more exciting and the character portrayal will be more full.
Many viewers also prefer to see that there will be works that transcend the classics and can be endlessly reminisced later.