Autumn is coming, and the film and television drama market has ushered in a new round of PK competitions.
Among them, the Korean drama market can be said to be the first to usher in a small climax, which makes many Korean drama fans happy.
If you have to pick out the leader of a popular drama, this high-energy cool drama "Squid Game" made by Netflix must have a place.
To say how hot this drama is, just look at its recent achievements. In the domestic part, "Squid Game" won a high score of 8.5 on Douban one night, which has remained at 7.6 points until now; during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Weibo hot searches received 800 million reads; before and after the National Day, major domestic media accounts competed for comments, becoming a topic of network brushing.
Do you think that the pure Chinese people have "no insight" and like to pursue the heat? Looking at the overseas achievements of "Squid Game", you will immediately realize the well-informed audience of my big country. Because the drama is a Netflix work, the number of overseas broadcasts is equivalent to the end of the university's big list. But even so, "Squid Game" also lived up to expectations, winning the title of Netflix TV series champion in the first week of broadcasting, setting a miracle of Korean debut and angrily brushing the overseas history of Korean dramas; as for the Asian region, whether it is the degree of discussion or the rating rate, "Squid Game" is a well-deserved king. It is no wonder that it is regarded by the Korean media as a candidate for the best hit of the year.
The reason why "Squid Game" can achieve such good results is that director Huang Donghe can be said to be indispensable. Written as a script in 2009, after 12 years of polishing, the play has a solid foundation for the play. Coupled with the leadership of the film emperor Lee Jung-jae and the powerful actor Park Hae-so as a match, the drama fundamentally ensures the production level. What's more, Kong Liu and Li Bingxian, the two film emperors who want to have heat and works, have come to be willing to make cameos to increase topicality and exposure, that is, to exclude the high-quality works of "The Melting Pot" and "Strange Her" Huang Dao has such a big card face.
The first reason: large-scale control is in place
Blood and violence, human torture, money slaves and other plots are highly sought after by the audience, but under the fame, the audience is still divided into two factions. People who like it think that the drama is a shocking drama that came out of nowhere, is a self-proposed title that breaks the scale, and is a rare "dare to shoot" work for domestic audiences; while the nasty people sneer at the male protagonist Cheng Qixun played by Lee Jeong-jae, thinking that it is a high-grade green tea, lying to win the most wasteful male protagonist, and also criticizes the end of the play, thinking that the audience is like being deceived by a scumbag, and in the end it is an angry garbage.
But no matter what kind of argument, "Squid Game" has successfully aroused the audience's seven senses and five senses, joy and sorrow, which may be the state of excellent film and television works. It's impossible to be happy with everyone, as the show tells about the 456 people who participate in the game. They face the obsession with money, the ups and downs of life, and have their own reasons. It is precisely because of this that the audience who watched the play has a mixed feeling.
According to the works that take the line of commercial value with thriller and suspense as elements, "Squid Game" is a fine product among the best, there is no doubt about it. Because the director did not simply use raw pictures, bloody sensory stimulation and violence as the only selling point, filling the nine episodes. Instead, it uses the most commercial method to write the most tragic human nature, and let this web series cater to the love of most audiences.
For example, in the first game in The Squid Game, one two or three wooden men give the audience a red feast. The 456 contestants turned into tiny ants in front of the giant dolls, and the yellow hair that ran in the front was shot in the head because of a little shaking, which was even cooler than the chicken eating game. As the people behind find out that the former fell to the ground because he was shot, they fled backwards, compared to some war and disaster movies, it is even worse. Such a bridge section, in the eyes of ordinary audiences, is the tension of physical discomfort, and for the film and television old cannon, it is the embodiment of people's instinct for survival.
In the second episode, the remaining 201 people voted to quit the game, and once again fell into hell because of money in life and chose to return to the game, this ironic bridge section, let the superficial audience scold these people while looking for death, while wanting to see how they died? Let the audience who like to delve into the core see the horror of capital, the horror of greed, and watch the people in the play live their lives into hell little by little.
As for the most controversial male protagonist, Cheng Qixun, whether it is the Virgin or hypocrisy, but he truly plays a small character, who wants to become a good savior but is helpless to do nothing about himself. He is clearly alluding to most of the general public. As a child, teachers will ask, "Who do you want to be when you grow up?" "Little children will give all sorts of answers. But when you grow up, how many people really dream come true? Children who want to be police officers may grow up to be just neighborhood security guards, and people who want to become scientists may end up as property managers.
People originally have a good heart.
The elderly who fall on the side of the street are not without compassion, but they are not able to withstand the possibility of being blackmailed. In "The Squid Game", Cheng Qixun, a man in his forties who is divorced, has no financial income, eats old age, gambles, has no family concept, and is irresponsible, does not mean that he cannot have a conscience.
Just as, again choose to participate in the game. Compared with Ali who evaded responsibility because he injured the factory owner; the hooligans had no way to escape because they offended the president; Jiang Xiao, a defector who wanted to buy a family reunion with money; and Cheng Xun's Fa Xiao Cao Shangyou, because he was suspected of fraud, let the old mother lose the house and the shop must be apologized for the death. They all use games to allow themselves to escape from reality temporarily. Only Cheng Qixun came back to make up for his past mistakes and treat his mother's illness. Judging from the results, the reasons for the first few people to come back are linked to "greed and hiding", and the "goodness" of the male protagonist is destined to be different from the beginning.
Therefore, after Cheng Qixun returned to the game, he began to actively team up with others, showing the innocence of hugging and sharing between the weak. But such people are clearly out of place in a game where someone must sacrifice. Just like those employees in the workplace who don't like to play right and wrong in the office, always want to establish their position with strength. Always remain neutral, away from the vortex of struggle, and in the end, such people will be marginalized, neither reused, but also excluded from both sides. Therefore, when playing the game of sugar and tug-of-war, Cheng Qixun felt fortunate that he was alive, deeply blamed himself for deceiving the old man with the brain tumor No. 1 during the marble game, and felt powerless and angry when he saw Fa Xiao Cao Shangyou sacrifice others to save himself when he crossed the glass bridge game.
The second reason: the pleasure of doing the opposite
I saw a lot of comments because Cheng Qixun did not become the standard male protagonist of the "cool drama" in the end, grew all the way, and finally upgraded to fight monsters and was indignant. It can be understood that the audience hopes to meet the goals that reality cannot achieve by watching the drama, and the results achieved. But for this kind of core that deeply discusses money, human nature, the weak and the strong, and capital eats people, if Cheng Qixun becomes a Marvel hero because he plays the game twice, what is the difference with the current fast food drama and Shuangwen novel? Naturally, it does not highlight the preciousness of the play.
Shooting a profound story simple and profoundly expressing a simple truth is the selling point and difficulty of good film and television works. "Squid Game" successfully expresses this point, and also gives us a glimpse of the level of work that film directors should produce when making online dramas.
Of course, it is undeniable that the end of the play is indeed unsatisfactory, and many characters are relatively hasty. However, many "rotten tail" complaints also convey the audience's love for the play and it is difficult to give up. It's like the last bite of food, the last cup of wine, and the abrupt end on the head of the head is inevitably unpleasant. But that doesn't obscure the show's success.
It is precisely because the quality of the work is guaranteed that the marketing results of "Squid Game" are also quite eye-catching. What kind of social welfare is it to choose to play the entire episode in one go during the holidays? Compared with some platforms to play with members, plus super point S-level giant drama collapse, this wave of Netflix operation is like a slap in the face, but also won countless applause from the audience.
The intense and exciting multiplayer game has become the precious material of the second creation, the audience's reputation has been transformed into a powerful tap water, coupled with the director's own fame and the traffic of the four male stars, the success of "Squid Game" is by no means a shooting star, but should become a classic case of good study, which is worthy of in-depth study by every film and television industry.
If you also want to experience the nakedness of human nature and receive the baptism of the senses, you may wish to take the time to make up for it.