Domestic workplace dramas have always been a minefield, ungrounded, suspended and distorted, which are their labels.
There is also a CP in the name of "workplace", working for five minutes and falling in love for eight hours.
Recently, another workplace drama has been broadcast, not only did not "overturn", but there was a little surprise - "Ordinary Road".
The name is the same as Pu Shu's song, and it also uses "Ordinary Road" as the theme song for ordinary people who are running.
CCTV broadcast, the rating broke 1, the peak was as high as 1.4953%, and many viewers gave high evaluations: realistic, just like the workplace in real life.
Some people also said: the resonance of the workers is more than a little... Guo Qilin is completely to the extent of playing me, working overtime to play me, complaining about playing me, and trying to survive to play me!!!
01. Excellent production team and careful scenery
Director Liu Jin is known as the "Maitreya Buddha" in the industry, one because he is particularly kind and kind; Second, praise his strong directing ability.
He won the Magnolia Award for the TV series "White Deer Plain", which reproduced the social style at that time very realistically, and also expressed and pondered about eating and sex.
The director can not only control heavy theme works, but also shoot a textured spy war drama like "Cliff", and he is equally easy to grasp urban workplace dramas.
For example, his 2021 "Ideal City" is already a successful case, not only popularizing the construction industry for us, but also teaching us the workplace game, there are no simple good and bad people in the workplace, there is no clear right and wrong, the most important thing is interests.
This time, "Ordinary Road" focuses the camera on the daily life of the law firm with laughter and tears, allowing us to observe the profession of a lawyer in all aspects.
The screenwriter Chen Tong who cooperated with them, they are old partners, who have previously collaborated with "One Servant and Two Masters" and "Elite Lawyers", and the third cooperation is full of tacit understanding, making the whole work full of life atmosphere.
These alone are not enough, they also have a big magic weapon, in the scene and clothing to demand plain and life.
In the past, many domestic dramas, a working class, lived in a house of one or two hundred square meters in the metropolis, which makes people suspect that neither the director nor the screenwriter has ever lived in the ordinary.
But in "Ordinary Road", we see Pan Yan and his mother crowded in a small room, Fan Xiaotian's late-night live broadcast room, except for a bed, there is not much space left, these scenes are real workers.
02. Real, grounded, full of details
The first impression of this drama is real, Guo Qilin seems to be playing us as a worker.
When looking for a job, I submitted more than 200 resumes, all of which have not been read, and finally had an interview opportunity, or introduced by my girlfriend's cousin, simply put, it is to take the relationship and open the back door.
During the interview, dozens of people competed for two places, and they graduated from the "Southern United University", and the surrounding was either Oxford, Cambridge, or Stanford, naked academic discrimination.
It's good to run in the wrong place, otherwise it's a waste of effort. Once onboarded, everything will go smoothly, no.
It is normal to be accused by the leader of dressing incorrectly, to be persuaded to quit by the boss, to see customers eat closed-door soup, and to work overtime non-stop.
Fortunately, our protagonist Pan Yan has solved it one by one, he came out of a small place, studied law, and became a lawyer, in order to let people see that the world is fair, just, orderly, and beautiful.
Pan Yan's setting is a warm-hearted, sweet-mouthed and sharp trainee lawyer, just like tailor-made for Guo Qilin, performing a sense of joy, which is simply "Little Pan Benpan".
The most interesting part is that in order to blend into the customer community, he disguised himself as a migrant worker and a primary school student, pretended to be a passerby to help the elderly into the community, and interacted with the security brother, making people laugh non-stop.
Many people question why Guo Qilin is used as the male protagonist? Personally, I think there are two reasons.
First, this drama is about ordinary people, Guo Qilin is more suitable in image and role, if you use handsome students like Zhang Ruoyun and Chen Xiao, I am afraid that it is not convincing enough.
Second, Guo Qilin has acting skills on his body, and he performed well in "Qing Yu Nian" and "Sister-in-law".
At the same time, the series has put a lot of effort into some details.
For example, the daily life in the office and the social interaction in the pantry; There must be small groups among colleagues, discussing gossip and eating melons together, and spitting on leaders by the way; The group names of their law firm range from WYSL to Nanyan Hidden to Pan Pan fan base, which is very interesting.
03. Profound practical issues
In the play, two couples are used to discuss the marriage relationship, first of all, Zhang Rumei (played by Arya) divorce case, the marriage of the two has come to an end, and part of it is different concepts.
Their company is equivalent to their child, and the woman does not want the man to be too tired, so he closes the company and earns enough money to live.
And what about men, how can the children they raised be lost and lost, he is not the kind of person who lives a stable life, his life needs to fight and move forward.
Ideas do not coincide, naturally can not communicate well, every exchange is short and ineffective, it ends in a big fight.
The other pair is a little bloody, Zuo Na played by Jin Chen, her girlfriend is with her father, and she is the third party of her parents, she is really a fire, burglary and anti-girlfriend!
Zuo Na's mother was unwilling to divorce, and even tried suicide, and has been trapped in the shackles of marriage.
In fact, she was influenced by her mother when she was young, so that she regarded marriage as a faith, to believe in marriage, no matter what mistakes the man made and what detours he took, in the end he would always come back.
For this kind of man who cheats again and again, it is really good to go. But now there is another treatment plan that is quite recognized by netizens: as long as the husband has a mine, the money is in place, whatever he does, each plays his own.
Of course, I still hope that all women will not be bound by marriage and bravely go out, the world is so big, and the outside is wonderful.
In addition to exploring marriage, the series also satirizes some online phenomena.
Pan Yan met a secretly photographed man in the subway, turned into a righteous man, and accidentally became popular on the Internet because of the image of "war-damaged man".
One second he was a war-damaged man with whom everyone rushed to take pictures, and the next second, the mother of the beaten came to the door and said that her son had been beaten into the hospital.
But the network never sees the surface, does not seek the truth, they only care about whether the traffic is high or not.
In real life, there are not a few Internet celebrities who rub the heat, and wherever there are hot spots, they will drill wherever they go, and they will consume the pain of others to earn tips.
Although it is the era of self-media, everyone must also be responsible for what they have said, and cannot lose their heart for the sake of traffic.
04, old drama bones
First of all, let's talk about the parents of the three protagonists, Pan Yan's parents are played by Zhou Yemang and Niu Li respectively, leopard head Lin Chong and Gege in "Crossing the Guandong".
Zuo Na's parents are played by Wang Zhifei and Wu Yufang, the former is Shang Jun in "The Great Qin Empire", and the latter is the gold-like Qiaozhen in the movie "Life".
Shi Jingming and Liu Weiwei play Shu Saisai's parents, Su's father in "Ideal City" and Li Mei in "Conquest" are also familiar faces.
Then turn to the law firm, Du Law Firm, played by Zhang Zixian, has first-class ability to deal with problems, and he has a steady grasp of human affection.
Zhang Zixian is really a drama, and it is suitable everywhere, spy war films, fantasy dramas, and workplace dramas can be controlled.
Yi Lu, played by Zhu Zhu, is beautiful and kind, she is Pan Yan's guiding lawyer, and the master and apprentice rush together, and I also hope that Zhu Zhu will have an excellent performance in "Riding the Wind 2023".
In addition, Qiu Xinzhi, Li Naiwen, Li Hongtao, Ding Jiali, Arya, Yue Yang and many other powerful people joined, which can be described as a gathering of stars.
"The Road of Life" aired 10 episodes, and many golden sentences were born, "Don't let the world influence your emotions, don't let emotions influence your rationality"; People can't teach people, it's enough to teach people once; You are not handling a case, it is someone else's life.
Which line makes people feel powerful, which scene makes you feel empathy. (Reported by: XI)