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9.4 points, do you know how outrageous it is?
Even the popular "Crazy" at the beginning of the year is only 8.4!
This score actually gave the suspense drama "Long Season".
In fact, when the rating was 9.1, Scarlett's friend said that he could take a look.
However, after watching "Who Is He", Scarlett did not dare to watch domestic dramas until the finale.
You understand the viewing experience of dropping from 8 points to 6 points in the opening game, right?
But after the finale, "The Long Season" rose from 9.1 to 9.4, which is really unique in this rating!
Many people discuss the show from the plot, but no one has ever talked about its editing.
The analysis of the first "Long Season", Scarlett felt that it must be dedicated to the director's deliberate but extremely silky editing.
Editing is really important in film and television dramas.
It will affect the direction of your thinking when watching the drama, it contains the director's plot hints, and it also shows the spatial dimension that the director has created for you.
For example, Nolan's "Memory Fragments" can be called a model editing textbook, and the subsequent very commercial "Inception" also made everyone dizzy.
"Nameless" in this year's New Year film also made many viewers foggy because of the editing.
It can be seen that the editing of film and television dramas can make movies and TV series present completely different artistic narratives.
However, "The Long Season" is not a "Memory Fragments"-style sneaky editing, but echoes everywhere during the double-line narrative, making the interlacing of the two timelines very silky, and the audience does not feel any rigidity in the process of watching the play, and in the plot advancement of the case, it also means something everywhere.
It can be said that the artistry and story of the editing in "The Long Season" are the best domestic dramas that Scarlett has watched this year, refreshing Scarlett's understanding of domestic drama editing.
"Crazy" is a story victory, while "Long Season" is better in the discussion and pursuit of artistry.
The last time I saw such a flowing clip was the Korean drama "Law Money". It's a pity that such a good editing, with a story is not good, dragging, and messy.
This one, let's first analyze the clip of Episode 1.
The first half of episode 1 of "Long Season" tells that now, the old taxi driver Wang Xiang and his cousin-in-law, Gong Biao, who is also a taxi driver, appeared, Gong Biao spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a car, thinking that he would not have to work with people in the future, but he was set by someone else's license plate.
Someone else hit someone with his car and the police found him.
Gong Biao and Wang Xiang began to investigate this matter.
During the investigation of the case, the married Gong Biao's little friend Xiaolu photographed the back of the person suspected of doing this broken thing, and Wang Xiang saw the photo in deep thought, set a table of wine, and began to pour wine and eat.
The previous stories are quite normal, and they are the narrative of this line now.
Then, Wang Xiang sat down at the table, the wheel of time began to start, the picture entered the eighties, and the second narrative line of "The Long Season" began.
Wang Xiang is the old driver of Huagang driving the train, a model worker in the factory, a typical old good man of that era, the factory likes to participate in everything, help the neighbors, idle, his wife can obviously reimburse the medical expenses, just for his own high wind and bright festival, has not tossed.
There is a son who did not go to university and had nothing to do.
Someone in the factory threw something somewhere, and soon, an old lady who liked to pick up garbage picked up a pile of shredded corpses near the dumpster.
Wang Xiang, as an activist who likes to mix things big and small with the masses, also ran to see the excitement and vomited into the hospital.
Wang Xiang's son Wang Yang and his classmates saw Shen Mo, the sunshine of life, at the gate of the university.
However, after he happily heard Shen Mo's name, his smile slowly disappeared under the director's lens, and the director's camera slowly rotated, and Wang Yang turned into a young man covered in rain, shivering, raining under street lamps.
In fact, the second line of episode 1 ends here for the time being.
Next, the second line is combined with the first. That is, the director's highlights and ingenuity on the editing of Episode 1.
As the camera progressed, Wang Yang appeared at the dinner table at his home, that is, at the watershed in the first half of the TV series, Wang Xiang sat at the dining table where he poured wine.
Wang Yang tightly grabbed Wang Yang's hand and said that this table is all dishes you like to eat, and Wang Yang ate all the food in a blink of an eye. He also said that when the person returned, Dad would definitely find out.
The camera turned again, it was dawn, and the food on the dinner table was still the same. On the wall is a photo of his son's death.
It turned out that this night Wang Yang went home full of water, which was Wang Xiang's imagination.
Wang Xiang saw the photo passed to him by Gong Biao and thought that this person was the murderer of his son Wang Yang, so he set up a table of meals and imagined that he wanted to give an explanation to his son in front of his son's portrait.
And all the content of the second half of episode 1 is that the director let us know the second narrative line, which is the appearance of the important characters in the eighties.
The most important iron triangle of the TV series: Wang Xiang, Gong Biao and the police captain appear.
The two most important core mystery characters of the TV series: Shen Mo and Wang Yang appeared.
The highlight of the first episode is Wang Yang's transition from a bright smile to a body full of rain.
In fact, this first episode is similar to the transition of the first episode of "Crazy".
Do you remember in the first episode of "Crazy", from the first line of the education group to talk to An Xin, to the transition to the second line of the big Chinese New Year's Eve An Xin and Gao Qiqiang's acquaintance, the two toasted at the Public Security Bureau, went outside to the fireworks, and then turned back to the first line, Gao Qiqiang celebrated with those uncles in the sound of firecrackers?
Good TV series are all bad, good TV series are similar, and the end of the first episode of "The Long Season" shows the director's ability to control the two-line narrative full of art and story.
You can understand that Uncle Wang recalled the past one night in his current life, took us to understand the approximate, and then he rubbed his hands and started to do big things.
You can also understand that the director deliberately set up this drinking scene for the sake of the double-line narrative to link the double-line narrative.
No matter which direction you understand it, the editing of this transition perfectly shows the ingenious combination of artistry and story, which can be called a flow.