The online drama "New Life" is about to end on Youku members on the 15th. From the dual perspectives of the deceitful and the victim at the beginning, to the revelation of Fei Ke's life story in the second half of the series, "New Life" lays out an airtight fraud story with a rigorous logic of peeling off the cocoon. This is also the innovative point that film directors have found in similar themes again after "All or Nothing".
The beginning of the play gives people a refreshing look, in the classic Blizzard Villa drama mode, a number of victims who have been deceived by Fei Ke (played by Jing Boran) acquaintances gather together to piece together Fei Ke in the eyes of different people under a disguised funeral. It turned out that Fei Ke's father-in-law, Chen Shufa, imprisoned Fei Ke out of hatred, and held the so-called funeral in the hope of killing him together with the help of everyone. Under the strong evidence and investigation of female reporter He Shan (played by Zhou Yi), the story about Fei Ke has a different look......
Presenting diametrically opposed facts from the perspective of the victim and the perpetrator, this Rashomon narrative technique is occasionally reflected in movies, but it is innovative when used in TV dramas. According to the director's Olympic bid, this narrative method has brought direct challenges to the screenwriter and actors, the actors' shooting is a jump shot, and they do not follow the logical order of the plot, so when it comes to on-site shooting, it is often necessary to clarify the state of the characters who are reversed before and after.
The Olympic bid bluntly said that suspense dramas especially test the rationality of logic and the degree of attention to detail, so when filming the second round of reversal plots, we must turn out the first version of the material that has been filmed before and correspond one by one, so as to avoid any mistakes or omissions. In the play, along with the change of perspective of the characters' memories, there are huge differences in the clothes, jewelry, and even dress styles of the actors in the same event. Like Xuan'er's story, Mr. Jin changed different actors to play. This contrast makes the audience clearly realize that even if it is the same event, there will be huge deviations in the cognition and memory of different people, and the characters in the play are all expressing their positions in a way that seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and even uses lies to cover up the truth.
In the second half of the play, he begins to enter a complete description of Fei Ke's life background, starting from his failure in the exam and going to prison, step by step portraying the injustice and malice he encountered after returning to society, so as to clarify the theme of the story. The Olympic bid believes that filming a suspense drama is not only about telling a good story about the criminal, but also about what is behind the crime and the reasons for the formation of human evil, "Not everyone who has a tragic experience will go down the wrong path, and why this character has become bad is precisely what needs to be explored and reflected." He hopes that after watching the whole drama, the audience will be able to realize what kind of bad impact and uncontrollable results Fei Ke's chosen path of revenge has caused, so as to achieve the purpose of alerting the audience, "In the face of any encounter, we must find a way to reconcile and overcome, instead of revenge and hatred." ”
Due to the complexity of the plot, almost every actor needs to perform the two sides of the role, and Fei Ke's actor Jing Boran brought a lot of surprises to the audience. Jing Boran meticulously portrayed the pride of Fei Ke as the proud son of the sky, but after encountering the substitute examination incident, he was hit by reality again and again, blackmailed by gangsters, and discriminated against by friends, and his originally clear eyes gradually became sharp. In the acquaintance fraud link at the beginning, Fei Ke is even more versatile among many victims, from a personable financial upstart to a sunny and motivated entrepreneurial youth, from a considerate and sensible lover to a fickle and ruthless scumbag, Jing Boran perfectly interprets Fei Ke's multi-faceted nature with rich details.
The Olympic bid said that it was the interpretation of the actors that helped the play reach the core theme, "In addition to our own personality and human nature, each of us is often playing another social identity, hoping that the audience can enter the story, rather than watching the story, when the story progresses layer by layer, and gradually clears the fog of identity, the audience also interacts with the play." ”
Source: Beijing Daily client
Reporter: Li Xiazhi