"Gunpowder smell", simple three words, in film and television works, but there are many articles.
The smell of gunpowder in the traditional sense belongs to the standard of war films.
Not only the continuous artillery fire on the battlefield, but also the pouring of bullets, but also the ruins of the city.
Even "the smell of burnt paste from corpses".
This smell of gunpowder can bring the audience a continuous surge of adrenaline, as well as visual sensory stimulation.
But the smell of gunpowder, can it only be manifested by "gun explosions"?
In fact, if we pay attention to observe, we will see the "more advanced" gunpowder smell in some non-war films.
Although not a single shot was fired, the murderous aura has long been in the air.
There is such a vivid example in the recent hit "Crazy".
There is a scene where Gao Qiqiang, played by Zhang Songwen, and Zhao Lidong, played by Bao Dazhi, meet at the beach.
After using the lives of Li Xiang and Tan Siyan as a letter of submission, Gao Qiqiang and Zhao Lidong had their first meeting.
Gao Qiqiang walked over slowly, while Zhao Lidong was sitting in the car with a shelf.
Like a Buddha, he calmly played with his watch, with a dismissive look in his eyes.
Even though Gao Qiqiang bowed and saluted outside the car window, he still turned a blind eye, and gave Gao Qiqiang a white look with a condescending expression.
As a high-ranking vice mayor, in his heart, no matter how rich and powerful Gao Qiqiang is, he is just an ant.
At this time, an unexpected scene happened.
Gao Qiqiang began to untie his tie.
In the understanding of ordinary people, there are generally two reasons for untying ties.
Either the tie is too tight and uncomfortable, or you are going to hit or kill someone.
And he wrapped his tie around his fist, his eyes were decisive, as if he was about to smash Zhao Lidong's car window.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Lidong's eyes changed, and he was a little panicked, and he unconsciously moved his butt.
But then, Gao Qiqiang bent down and sighed at the window, and began to wipe the window glass with the tie wrapped around his hand.
Gao Qiqiang's action of wiping the glass eased the originally tense atmosphere slightly.
But the act of wiping glass itself also has two deep meanings:
First, a tie is a symbol of a man's status and status.
Being able to use the tie as a rag to wipe the glass shows that Gao Qiqiang is showing loyalty to Zhao Lidong and is willing to give up all decency and be willing to be a cow and horse.
Second, wiping the glass itself has the meaning of removing dirt.
This action is actually telling Zhao Lidong, in the future, I will be a "black glove" for you to solve those dirty jobs.
Seeing Zhao Lidong, who was wiping the glass, he also understood, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.
Apparently he felt that he had won the game.
Gao Qiqiang seemed to have lowered his head, but his clenched fists were also telling Zhao Lidong not to treat me as a tool that Li Xiang used as an instant tool.
"No bullets, no plasma, no violence."
A simple meeting, although the two sides did not have a single line, the smell of gunpowder overflowed the screen.
It has both the depth of psychological confrontation and full of "staying energy".
Just in one or two ordinary details, the most sword and shadow "war" was filmed.
This is the real "silent, victorious voice".
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This kind of shaping method is not unique to anti-black dramas.
In workplace dramas, such bridges are often staged.
For example, in "Ideal City", there is a very classic "workplace meeting".
A cement accident, let Yu Hewei played by the chairman Zhao Xiankun, decide to strike.
It was a serious accountability meeting, but Zhao Xiankun came up, did not rush to get angry, but recalled to everyone the happy days when they first started working, working during the day and drinking at night.
Zhao Xiankun's trick is to "advance by retreat", he used the previous days to dissolve the serious atmosphere of the meeting, and also made some people who should be held accountable relax their vigilance.
After saying this, Zhao Xiankun did not say anything, but turned his head to look at Wang Mingyu, the second-in-command, and threw the head of the conversation over.
Obviously, Wang Mingyu is the real protagonist of this meeting, that is, the object of accountability.
At this time, the smoke of gunfire at the meeting had begun to rise.
Wang Mingyu took the chairman's words, but did not express his opinion clearly.
Instead, the conversation was thrown to a secondary subsidiary.
Wang Mingyu's purpose in doing this is to show that the cement quality problem is not his own problem, but the company below has a problem.
Throwing the head, Wang Mingyu is also showing his authority to the second-level company to see who dares to be the leading bird.
At this time, the first person responsible for the accident, that is, the person in charge of the subsidiary Tianke, Huang Lilin, spoke.
He shouldered his own responsibility, but also pointed out the problem, and pointed out the general contractor in charge of Wang Mingyu.
Because the general contractor, in order to become bigger and stronger, greatly reduced the price of cement, and the price offered was eight percentage points higher than the ordinary market price.
In order to ensure that the boss Wang Mingyu was not implicated, the director of the cement plant quickly jumped out, indicating that the quality would be strictly controlled in the future.
But Wang Qiong, the head of another subsidiary, Tiancheng, expressed dissatisfaction.
He said that if there is a problem with cement in the factory outside, it will climb around and kowtow to apologize, while his own internal cement factory is still looking for problems.
Obviously, Wang Ji is also referring to Sang Huai, ostensibly scolding the director of the cement factory, but in fact scolding Wang Mingyu, who is in charge of the cement plant.
At this moment, the subordinates have already fought bayonets, swords and shadows, every word, every word, is a murderous knife, it is possible to strangle the other party to death in the workplace.
When Wang Mingyu heard that the spearhead was wrong, he quickly changed the topic and led the topic to the responsibility of collapsing the wall, but at this time, Zhao Xiankun finally spoke.
He said that all subsidiaries are equal.
Zhao Xiankun interjected here, there are two deep meanings.
The first is that the cement plant's operating capacity is really not good, and if it does not work, it can be withdrawn.
The second is to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, using the equality of subsidiaries to knock Wang Mingyu who "makes subsidiaries unequal".
At this moment, the expression on Wang Mingyu's face had solidified.
At this moment, the agenda of the meeting has basically been reached.
Zhao Xiankun quickly spoke, took Wang Mingyu's military order, and then immediately ended the meeting.
In a meeting of a few minutes, Zhao Xiankun achieved two goals, one was to knock Wang Mingyu, and the other was to appease the subsidiary.
Zhao Xiankun only used an example and a sentence to let his subordinates fight among themselves, show their swords to each other, and force the second-in-command Wang Mingyu to make a military order, and finally achieve the desired effect.
Zhao Xiankun showed what is called workplace game and the way to control.
This scene also shows that our workplace drama will not only film infighting, but also film workplace wisdom, but also render the smell of gunpowder and tension.
And this kind of saber rattling atmosphere, all professionals, I am afraid that there are a few moments of empathy.
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In fact, this gunpowder smell scene without gunsmoke does not only occur between male power struggles.
In the family ethics drama, the surface clouds are light and breezy, but in fact, they are also windy.
In "The World", there was a dialogue between Zhou Rong, played by Song Jia, and Zheng Juan, played by Yin Tao, which impressed Pi Ge.
As a highly educated intellectual, Zhou Rong was crushed by a housewife who had not gone to school, which also gave this kind of saber rattling without gunsmoke sufficient narrative significance.
This conversation appeared after Zheng Juan and Zhou Rong knew that Yue Yue and Nan Nan were in love.
At this time, Zhou Rong supported her daughter's love, but Zheng Juan objected.
Because although Yue Yue and Nan Nan are not real brothers and sisters, their love will definitely bring a lot of unexpected negative effects to Zhou Bingkun's family, especially her husband Zhou Bingkun.
So, the two women clashed in the night.
Watch the first round first, temptation.
Zhou Rong asked a question when he entered the door, Zhou Bingkun will leave work later? After receiving an affirmative answer, she began to talk.
This shows that what she wants to talk about cannot be known to Zhou Bingkun.
It also proved from the side that she thought that Zheng Juan was a soft persimmon and was easy to talk to, and decided to "cut" her first.
After the two sides sat down, Zhou Rong spoke first, she did not directly express her intentions, but threw the question to Zheng Juan.
Generally, a person chatting with you alone must have a purpose.
But Zhou Rong did not directly indicate the purpose, there were only two situations, either she was waiting for the other party to take the initiative to explain, or she was embarrassed.
Obviously, Zhou Rong was embarrassed to open her mouth.
And when Zheng Juan answered, Zhou Rong seemed to be relieved.
But when Zhou Rong asked the source, Zheng Juan used a sentence to make Zhou Rong speechless:
"I'm so bad Nan Nan."
This sentence has two meanings.
The first layer is to reply to Zhou Rong's insinuation of her "small vision" and her despise as a mother.
The second layer is mocking Zhou Rong, she, a selfish person, has never been a good mother.
Now in order to repair his relationship with his daughter, he came to hurt their family, which is simply excessive.
When Zhou Rong asked the question, Zheng Juan's counterattack was simple and calm: Hmm.
Explain that this problem is the bottom line, there is no room for it, let alone explanation, here, Zheng Juan has actually prevailed.
Second round, side attack.
After getting Zheng Juan's negative answer, Zhou Rong began to persuade.
She used her experience to tell Zheng Juan that there are only a few most important people in life.
The implication is that in fact, Zheng Juan's circle is very small, and what is important to her, that is, children and relatives, should support the child's love, let others say.
What Zhou Rong said at first glance makes sense, in Chinese culture, the happiness of children is not the most important.
In the face of such persuasion, how did Zheng Juan answer?
She only said "yes", but said nothing about the core issue.
Zheng Juan was actually playing Tai Chi, and this noncommittal answer made Zhou Rong's first round of attack seem to hit cotton, and his strength was unloaded by half.
The third round, frontal attack.
Seeing that the persuasion was resolved by Zheng Juan, Zhou Rong could only drive straight in and ask Zheng Juan bluntly why she didn't agree to Yue Yue and Nan Nan being together.
But Zheng Juan used a rhetorical question: Sister doesn't know?
This sentence is murderous.
The entire photon film knows that Nan Nan is Zhou Bingkun's child.
Agreeing to Nan Nan and Yue Yue's love means that Zhou Bingkun has lost face in Photon and become a laughing stock.
Zhou Rong knew this, but he still had to think that he didn't know.
A "sister" word makes her, as Zhou Bingkun's sister, have no place to be self-contained.
Round 4, Emotional Cards.
"The child is still young, and his life is still very long", this is the emotional card taken out by Zhou Rong.
She knows that Zheng Juan is a good woman and is willing to sacrifice herself, as long as the child is good and the relatives are good, so she focuses on Zheng Juan's weakness.
And Zheng Juan is still a rhetorical question: Sister doesn't know?
Zheng Juan is very smart, she knows that Zhou Rong is more knowledgeable and knowledgeable than herself, so her strategy has always been a gentle "soft knife".
No matter what big reason you say, she will use rhetorical questions to poke Zhou Rong's sore spots, so that Zhou Rong's seemingly sharp attacks again and again are invisibly resolved.
The fifth round, moral kidnapping.
Zhou Rong did not answer, but changed her strategy again, this time she used the method of moral kidnapping, and this method, selfish people like to use.
She asked: Is it worth delaying a child's life for the sake of old things?
Zheng Juan retorted again: Our life is not a lifetime?
Here, Zheng Juan is smarter.
In the face of moral kidnapping, the most practical way is to return this "kidnapping" to the questioner, and when Zheng Juan's rhetorical question came out, Zhou Rong's defeat was decided.
Round 6: Trickery.
Zhou Rong saw that persuasion could not be successful, and began to take out the identity of the eldest sister to play tricks.
On the surface, she is laughing at herself for being "selfish and willful", but in fact, she is scolding Zheng Juan for showing "selfishness" in this matter.
And this time, Zheng Juan began a real counterattack.
She directly pointed out that Zhou Rong came to persuade herself, not for Yue Yue's good, but for herself, in order to make up for her lack of maternal love for Yue Yue.
One move attacked the other shield with the other spear, killing Zhou Rong by surprise.
That was the end of the conversation.
In this dialogue, on the surface, independent intellectual woman Zhou Rong has the upper hand, but in fact, housewife Zheng Juan won completely.
And these six rounds of attack and defense also shaped the two characters of Zhou Rong and Zheng Juan, as well as the atmosphere of the dialogue between the two.
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Such wonderfulness will not only appear in the above types of dramas, but if it is placed in historical dramas, it will have a different taste.
What impressed Pico the most was a sharp dialogue between Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing in the historical drama "Armageddon".
In the Chongqing negotiations, Chiang Kai-shek always regarded himself as the "head of state".
Therefore, on various occasions, he revealed a sense of authority from above, and the whole meeting process was actually the process of Chiang Kai-shek's three "attacks" against Chairman Mao.
The first round of offense is to meet.
In the face of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, who had come from afar to seek friendly cooperation, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not greet him, but arranged for his grand finale appearance, so that everyone applauded and greeted him.
Of course, this includes Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
Chiang Kai-shek's meaning could not be more obvious.
As the Fuhrer, I should certainly accept your applause, even if you come from afar.
In the next handshake, Chairman Mao first extended his hands, but Chiang Kai-shek responded with one hand, as if he still wanted to gain the upper hand in momentum.
However, in the second round, the offensive and defensive momentum began to slowly change.
The two met and talked about each other, and Chiang Kai-shek's words were full of threats and intimidation: I am in Longtan Tiger's Den.
When Chairman Mao asked him if he was a dragon or a tiger, he said he was a public servant.
So Chairman Mao stepped off the donkey and said that his meeting with the "public servant" was naturally frank.
In addition to the words, everyone should be able to hear Chairman Mao's two meanings.
The first layer alludes to Chiang Kai-shek's self-esteem as a "public servant", but he cannot make "heaven and earth clear".
The second layer, using "frankness" corresponds to "long qiqi", mocking Chiang Kai-shek as a hypocrite.
There were only two dialogues, but the two of them were like military and horse arrays, and they had already begun to fight.
In the third round, the attack code is even more exciting.
Chairman Mao went to Chongqing and put on a hat, and Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to guide the hat to "ism".
The Chairman's response was extraordinarily grounded, not only-for-tat and not falling behind, but also expressing our party's attitude of serving the country and the people.
The contest before the three negotiations made people's spines chill.
The drama of Tang Guoqiang and Wang Jinsong was a tense string in the relaxed atmosphere, as if this string would be broken at once, which was very tense.
However, after three rounds of attack and defense, on the surface, Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of everything, but in fact, he did not succeed once, and he was quite deflated.
The excitement of Armageddon is not only reflected in the battle scenes.
The battle of wits and courage between literary dramas, and the witty attack and defense of electric flint are also part of the battlefield that makes up "Armageddon" without gunsmoke.
As long as you understand the wit in these words, the perception of the TV series to the audience will be different in an instant.
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From the examples we listed above, we can see that these scenes of life, seemingly light, can actually be saber rattling.
After summarizing, it can also be found that such a detailed design of the scene is the standard for excellent dramas.
And without exception, these dramas have won one of the best ratings, becoming the most genuine "rating password" in the domestic drama market.
A really good drama can not only shoot face, but also shoot inside;
Not only can you shoot wisdom, but also the undercurrent under the calm waves.
I hope that future national dramas can develop in the direction of these dramas, so that the exquisite design similar to "gunpowder taste" will come more.
Because of such a drama, it's enjoyable to watch!
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