Recently, the national drama market has been very lively, and new dramas have been broadcast one after another, which is dazzling.
After the finale of Yang 1 "City in the City", Yang Ba broadcast another literary suspense drama "Faint Fire", after the first season of "Celebrating More Than Years" was launched, the second season is coming.
The broadcasts on major platforms are generally suspense dramas, such as Jing Boran's "New Life", Ou Hao Zhang Guoqiang's "Unspeakable", all of which are exciting, and fans of suspense dramas are too addicted.
However, among the new dramas, the first in word-of-mouth has to be "My Altay", which recently ended in Yangyi, and Douban's 8.6 score is definitely the first in the near future.
So the question is, which new drama can catch such a high reputation next?
You still have to watch CCTV, the 25-episode rural struggle inspirational drama "The Hometown of the Stars" has long been set for CCTV, and it will be broadcast on May 14, that is, tomorrow night, in prime time.
Looking at the subject matter, it is a bit interesting, "My Altay" took the audience to see the beautiful Xinjiang, and this one brought the audience to the vineyards of Ningxia. Yang 1 This is to bring a national audience to travel all over the country.
starring, Pan Zhilin, Xu Yang, plus Wang Jinsong, Wu Qijiang, Guo Jinglin, Huo Qing, Ma Yue, Li Mengnan and other powerful factions to help.
The play tells the story of the development of Ningxia's wine industry, and it is also China's first TV series on the theme of the whole wine industry.
When it comes to wine, many viewers will think of the famous sentence in "Liangzhou Ci": Grape wine luminous glass, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately.
But for CCTV, it is obvious that it has gnawed another hard bone, a 25-episode reality-themed rural drama, will the audience love to watch it?
Then it depends on whether CCTV can make grape wine from the soil of realistic themes and get drunk in the hearts of the people?
1. Story: Focusing on the whole wine industry in Ningxia, another drama of rural struggle is coming
"Europeans think that wine made by Chinese is a joke, and I came all the way to Helan Mountain to make first-class wine!"
I was attracted by this sentence in the first film, and to describe this drama in one word, that is positive!
As soon as the whole play opened, the audience was shown the magnificent Helan Mountain in Ningxia, with the Yellow River rushing and mountains on top of each other.
The golden sun shines on the picturesque green vineyards, and the grapes on the trellis look intoxicating, making one wonder how good the wine must be.
As we all know, the wine made from self-produced high-quality grapes in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia has become a representative of Chinese wine, and has won many awards in the three major international wine competitions.
The play takes the wine industry as the starting point, telling the story of the young Ouyang Yixing, who fell into a difficult choice between ideals and reality because of his father's sudden accident, and gradually became an excellent winery owner after experiencing tempering and growth.
Combined with the existing materials, there are three highlights in the plot that are enough to catch the audience's attention.
The first is to tell the "earthy" plot of Ningxia's wine industry.
Compared with most domestic dramas with contemporary themes, "The Hometown of the Stars" is very earthy.
There are many scenes in the trailer, the hero and heroine take root in Ningxia, the hometown of the stars, planting grapes under Helan Mountain, and a lot of labor scenes.
For example, the father of the male protagonist played by Huo Qing led the previous generation of Ningxia people to turn the desert into an oasis, and the scene of the older generation of wine industry people played by Wang Jinsong cultivating high-quality grapes in the field.
This is the biggest difference between the play and ordinary urban idol dramas, it mainly tells about the development and changes of Ningxia's wine industry.
Speaking of Ningxia, many people will think of Xihaigu's "Mountains and Seas".
"One wind a year, blowing from spring to winter. The gale is thirty-six nine, and the light wind is every day."
In that drama, there was dirt everywhere.
In "The Hometown of the Stars", there is also a plot of the previous generation of Ningxia people to prevent sand and fix sand, and the sense of simplicity is directly full.
It is on the basis of the struggle of the previous generation that there is a story of this generation of Ningxia people planting grapes, and the core of the play is also about how Ningxia people grow their own grapes and how they develop their own wine industry.
The story shows all the process links from the selection of grape varieties, to the planting and picking skills, and then to the production of "wine that ordinary consumers can afford", so the drama is called a wine industry theme drama.
Audiences who love wine can also see how mellow and fragrant wine is made.
To be honest, no satellite TV dares to broadcast this kind of realistic industrial drama that is dirty to the point of scum, does not bloody and does not catch horses, and lacks love idol elements.
If Yang Yi doesn't broadcast again, the audience may not be able to see it.
However, just seeing these lines and the pictures of sand prevention and grape planting can make people feel the tension of the plot.
The more earthy it is, the better it looks.
Because "The Hometown of the Stars" should be filmed, it should be a story that grows out of the land of Ningxia.
The second is a plot with drama.
Although it is an inspirational industrial drama, it does not mean that the story is not good.
There is no villain in the play.
But the obstacles on the road to the development of the wine industry are the biggest "villains".
They turn into difficulties one after another, creating dramatic conflicts, waiting for everyone to overcome.
The first hurdle: the issue of inheritance.
On the eve of the 2008 Olympics in the play, the young girl Ouyang Yixing (played by Pan Zhilin) successfully advanced to become a cellist in a top orchestra, fulfilling her musical dream. But at this time, her father (played by Ma Yue) suddenly suffered a catastrophe and became a vegetative person, and the winery he had devoted half his life to facing life and death.
She was forced to take over the responsibility of the winery, rebuilding the winery with the assistance of her father's old partner Shi Mingshan (played by Wang Jinsong), but one problem after another followed.
The second difficulty: the rupture of the capital chain and industrial upgrading.
It can be seen from the preview that the first problem of the heroine in office is that the capital chain of the winery has been broken, and the farmers who raise grapes are unwilling to continue planting.
The wine industry is also facing the problem of transformation and upgrading.
The third difficulty: industry competition in Mission Impossible.
This part of the plot reminds me of a spy war drama.
The heroine's winery in the play not only faces vicious competition, but also has peers who want to bankrupt the winery through low-price dumping.
What's more serious is that there are also a large number of OEM inferior liquor flooding the market, and bad money drives out good money, but good wine cannot be sold.
In order to break into the "enemy", Shi Mingshan and the heroine made a plan, pretending to be excluded and resigning, and waiting for the OEM company to take the bait to find him.
But at this moment, the male protagonist's reckless actions almost ruined the plan.
How this Mission Impossible continues depends on how the story develops in the feature film.
The third is a growing character.
The male and female protagonists of the series, one is a heroine with a musical dream, and the other is Qi Lu, a young genius winemaker who came to the foot of Helan Mountain in order to make the best wine.
After fifteen years of hard work, Yixing Winery has broken into a butterfly in the hands of two young people.
This kind of plot setting can also see the pattern of the episode.
In industrial development, the problem of people is the most difficult to solve.
When a new generation of wine industry people grows up, the whole drama pattern is completely opened.
It reveals that the development of a region's industry should not be just material support.
What we really need to do is to help the local villagers see the development of the wine industry, make bubbling wine juice on the once barren land, and solve the problem fundamentally.
How the younger generation copes with the challenges and what changes they can make to the place.
It has become the expectation of every audience.
2. Cast: Wang Jinsong is in charge, three national first-class actors joined, and the drama bones gathered
Of course, if you want to be brilliant in a realistic drama, the actors must not hold back, and after looking at the cast list, although it is the young actors who take the lead, the content of the drama is not low, and there are three national first-class actors.
There are five of the most powerful people I am looking forward to.
The first is Wang Jinsong, a national first-class actor
As soon as Wang Jinsong's name came out, I was relieved.
Over the years, from "Ming Dynasty 1566" to "Langya Bang" to "Icebreaker", this old actor has always played what he is in the shaping of his role.
Although the plot of "City in the City" is controversial, there is no controversy about the acting skills of Wu Xianlong played by Wang Jinsong, and it is this character who slides like a poisonous snake that makes Zhao Hui fall into the mud step by step.
The biggest advantage of Wang Jinsong's acting skills is that he transforms good and evil and controls it freely.
This time, he played Shi Mingshan, wearing a straw hat, carrying farm tools, and unremittingly pruning grapes, his eyes were full of deep affection for the wine industry. The image of the older generation of winemakers immediately stood up.
The spy war plot in the play is also interpreted by him.
In order to break into the OEM company, he pretended to have a falling out with the heroine, and was recruited by the other party to obtain the other party's OEM evidence.
With him joining, I believe the audience will soon be able to enter the play.
second place, Wu Qijiang
Maybe you are not familiar with this name, but Wu Qijiang is indeed an old acquaintance of everyone.
Chen Pingyuan in "Big River", Qiu Yingjie in "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", and Director Chen in "Mountains and Seas" are all his representative roles.
Wu Qijiang is a typical low-key and powerful actor, what he acts like, and he throws face in a proper drama.
This time, he played the role of a local official, and he was also the strongest support for the development of the winery. In just a few pictures, it can also be seen that he is a leader who is dedicated to doing practical things for the people.
third place, Huo Qing
Huo Qing's actor road is a bit interesting, he went to the sea to do business for 10 years, returned to the film and television industry, and played Lu Zijing, a good old man in "New Three Kingdoms".
Since then, he doesn't seem to have played any positive roles.
In recent years, he has become a famous spy face in national dramas, he played the enemy spy principal in "Aiming", and he played the traitor Pei Ruhai in "The Forerunner".
But this time, he played the first generation of Ningxia builders in New China, took everyone to the yellow earth that could not be seen at a glance, and gave a passionate speech, saying that everyone was high-spirited, and finally used the efforts of a generation to turn the yellow sand into an oasis.
This role should not be much, but it is very important and difficult to play.
Give it to Huo Qing, and the audience can rest assured.
fourth place, Guo Jinglin
Another national first-class actor.
Many viewers will not forget that he played Yuan Longping, who is really expressive.
Over the years, this powerful man has repeatedly played the role of a villain.
But in this play, he should play a pure and decent role.
Looking at the scene of him and Wang Jinsong carrying a hoe in the play, the old drama bones are full of acting texture, and they are alive.
Fifth, Ma Yue
"The Rule of Zhenguan" has become a representative of Tang Dynasty dramas among domestic historical dramas, in addition to respecting historical facts, a key is that "Li Erfeng" played by Ma Yue is too classic.
From the ambitious young commander who raised troops in Taiyuan to the "Heavenly Khan" who set up peace in the world and created the rule of Zhenguan, Ma Yue's interpretation can be described as a bone.
Ma Yue has not been active in recent years, but the foundation of the powerful faction is there.
In this play, he plays the heroine's father, he lies flat at the beginning, and he recovers at the end of the play, there are not many scenes, but the weight is not light.
This role is given to him, steady.
plus Pan Zhilin, who is not bad at acting and appearance,
National Theater first-class actor Li Mengnan and others, this lineup is not luxurious, but it is good.
3. Can the ratings of "My Altay" be reproduced?
Finally, back to the theme of the show itself-
Struggle inspirational drama.
It can also be said that it is a rural industrial drama with the theme of "main theme".
For many viewers, this is not a flattering genre of national dramas.
But the reason why CCTV dramas are so powerful is that it has repeatedly subverted the cognition of national dramas.
For example, the just-finished "My Altay", the ratings of the premiere were also mediocre, and it was even said by many bloggers to hit the street, but the word-of-mouth exploded immediately after the two episodes, and the ratings rose.
It can be seen that any theme is not a problem, especially CCTV dramas, which are not popular themes, but can be made into popular themes.
"Mountains and Seas", which also tells the story of Ningxia, is not also a model of ratings counterattack.
Like these CCTV masterpieces, "The Hometown of the Stars" is also based on the grandeur of the times, with personal ups and downs as the foreground.
The development of the winery in the story actually reflects the development and changes of Ningxia's wine industry.
In the past, the main theme of the work was high and low, but now it may not be.
Ordinary commercial dramas are placed on the platform of Yangyi, of course, the data is more guaranteed, and with the chassis of CCTV, it is not surprising that it explodes. On the contrary, it is "My Altay" and "Hometown of the Stars", which are not broadcast by CCTV, and other platforms are definitely unwilling to take risks.
But whether it succeeds or fails depends on whether the series is really down-to-earth.
Just like "Mountains and Seas" back then, the whole story is in the service of "truth".
The dirtier and poorer the year, the more it shows the necessity of sand prevention and fixation;
Nowadays, the more difficult the development of the grape industry is, the more valuable it is to highlight the development of the industry.
Soil is not a derogatory term here.
It's the vernacular, the real realism.
On the basis of realism, "The Hometown of the Stars" has not forgotten to embellish the poetry.
The sweetest place in China wine also has the most magnificent scenery.
The rough and desolate primitive beauty in the trailer hits people's hearts.
Compared with domestic urban idol dramas with layers of filters, these earthy dramas allow this audience to get close to the real Chinese countryside and understand that sweet wine is the same as the life of the people of Ningxia today, which is not easy to come by.
The audience understands not only the Chinese wine industry, but also the sweetness of today's life, where it comes from.
This is more meaningful than the high-sweet domestic love under any filter.