Compared with the publicity of today's so-called "hit dramas", the start of the sixth season of "Secret Affair 9" is quiet.
For a British drama that has aired until the sixth season, "Jiang Lang cai exhausted" is a key word that cannot be bypassed, after all, countless classic episodes that have been started have been destroyed after about six seasons.
To put it bluntly, I'm not talking about Prison Break, Lost, Bankrupt Sisters, True Love Like Blood, Game of Thrones, and House of Cards.
However, "Secret Matter No. 9" has just aired 3 episodes, "snap" a little, and soon, it threw out a high score of 9.3 on Douban.
So the audience of this drama has a belief: "Secret Matter No. 9", never collapse the house, ensure quality and quantity, and do not go down to the altar!
Rhapsody by two screenwriters
The quality and quantity of "Secret Matter 9" is not only that it can maintain a high score all the time.
What's even more rare is that "Secret Story 9" aired six seasons, six episodes per season, each episode is a complete and independent story, and these stories have not been similar to this day.
The producer of "Secret Story 9" is also the two screenwriters of the show, and the two people stand together as if they are brainless and unhappy.
The tall man was named Steve Pemberton, and the jianghu people called him "Fat";
The shorter one was called Reece Sher smith, and the jianghu people called it "Two Books".
Don't look at these two people whose appearance is not proud, the appearance value is not as good as a small fresh meat with eighteen lines in China, but the achievements of these two can top eighteen cows.
How good are these two people?
Chubby won awards at britain's most authoritative awards ceremony, including screenwriting awards, comedy awards, new media program awards, producer awards and actor awards.
Although the second volume did not win many awards, he produced the top ten sitcoms in the United Kingdom, "The League of Gentlemen", but anyone who knows a little about British dramas knows how high the historical status of this drama is in the British film and television industry.
The two met in 1999, and Secret Affair 9 wasn't their first collaboration.
The aforementioned League of Gentlemen was co-created by Marc Cadiz (the brother of sherlock) and Jeremy Dessan.
In 2009, the two collaborated on a British drama called "Crazy City".
After these two collaborations, Fat and The Second Book decided to abandon those bells and whistles of the production process and return to the most primitive theatrical form of expression---- a scene and tell a wonderful story.
The characteristics of "Secret Matter 9" are thus finalized: a room, several people, a dark, comedic, informative script that must be reversed, which is the entire content of an episode of "Secret Matter 9".
Initially, Chinese audiences, accustomed to big productions and big scenes, did not have much interest in this drama.
Because most people will feel: a story, no matter how wonderful, how can it be?
This also reflects the contempt of Chinese audiences for screenwriters from the side---- a writing post, can dominate film and television works?
However, in countries where the film and television industry is developed, such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, etc., screenwriters are always the most powerful in the entire film and television production process.
Especially in Britain, the birthplace of modern drama, the screenwriter's salary is often much higher than that of the actor or director.
It is precisely because the power of screenwriters is large enough that countless classic works have appeared in Britain, and with excellent narrative innovation ability, they have become the object of learning and imitation in other countries.
"Secret Affair No. 9" abandons the complex technical part of the film and television production process, returns to the era of "script is king", and also begins the fat and two volumes of screenwriting rhapsody.
Screenwriting is a technical job
Every episode of "Secret Story 9" proves to the audience that the screenwriter is not just making up a story, but a thorough technical job.
"Sardines Game", the first episode of the first season, tells the story of a large family who get together when the owner's daughter is engaged and plays a game called "Sardines", resulting in more and more people gathering in a closet. However, the true relationship between this group of people does not seem optimistic.
When you first watch this episode, the first 28 minutes will feel "just a typical British cold humor comedy", although there are some small secrets revealed in the process, but under the guidance of the screenwriter, you will only feel that it is probably the suspense caused by the secrets behind the relationships, but in the last 2 minutes, the story suddenly changes the atmosphere in front of it and enters a very serious situation.
When the final truth is revealed, you realize how dark it is behind this story.
At this time, if you go back to the beginning and read the story again, you will find that every shot, every expression, and every sentence here hides another meaning.
Regarding the analysis of this episode, there are many pictures and texts of the gods on the Internet, and I will not repeat them here.
I want to emphasize that the original responsibility of the "screenwriter" position is to "make up stories" and "tell stories".
Many times, a good story is a flash of inspiration, and some people may not wait for a good story in their lifetime.
However, "storytelling" is the skill that screenwriters rely on to survive, and it is the screenwriter's ability to "tell" a general story to the depth.
The story of "Sardine Game" is actually a story that many people have told, but Fat and The Second Book understands what the audience is thinking too well, so it uses very superb guidance techniques to take the audience's thoughts in another direction, and then pulls the thoughts back through the last 2 minutes.
"Reasonable, unexpected", will make the audience feel that the story is good, which has little to do with whether the story itself is wonderful or not.
The second episode of the first season, "Quiet Night", is back to the "silent film" era.
The story tells that two stupid thieves go to the home of a rich man to steal famous paintings, and just happen to encounter a quarrel between the rich man and his "girlfriend", in order to successfully steal the painting, they can only keep detouring.
Although this episode is not a complete silent film, only the last few seconds of the film have lines, and the front is completely performed by body and music.
And in order to pay tribute to the great silent film actor Chaplin, Chaplin's granddaughter was also invited to play the "heroine".
There are actually many irrationalities in this episode, but because of the magic of the form, the audience ignores this irrationality.
Another thing worth mentioning is the duo's ability to pull the audience into the story.
For example, the first episode of the sixth season, "The Wuthering Heights Thief".
This episode begins with the "breaking the fourth wall" approach, making the audience think they have the story line.
Then a large number of stage drama memes and cultural memes are used in the middle, so that the whole story constantly swings in the "search for the truth" and "small resonance", and the audience feels the fun of playing with the terriers while slowly forgetting the clues given by the story from the beginning.
So in the end, when things are clearly developed according to the original design, the audience will still feel "shocked".
This is an advanced screenwriting skill.
Screenwriters are often in a game of wit with the audience, and only screenwriters who treat the audience as opponents can write works that respect the intelligence of the audience.
Screenwriters who treat the audience as fools will only end up making themselves look like fools.
Laughter and anger are all articles
In fact, there are many wonderful stories in "Secret Affair No. 9" that deserve to be written in a big book.
For example, the first episode of the second season, "Sleeper Carriage", is a very typical secret murder mystery story;
The second episode of the third season, "Please Pay the Bill", from a daily dinner scene of competing to pay the bill, gradually unfolds into a brain-opening story;
The third episode of the third season, "The Mystery of the Sphinx", has a large number of text memes, a dizzying display of anagram skills, and repeated reversals, which makes people addicted;
The second episode of the fourth season, "Bernie Clifton's Locker Room", shows the two people's solid stage skills in the front, and in the last paragraph, the audience's tears gush out;
The fifth episode of the fifth season, "Think It Out Loud", tells a sad childhood trauma story in the form of a new media interview, and the final reversal once again makes the audience not think;
The second episode of the sixth season, "Simon Says", uses a crime story to explore the relationship between creators and fans today, keeping up with current events and has great depth;
There is also the sixth episode of each season, which is an episode in which the screenwriter lets himself go, has a strong experimental nature, and completely breaks the audience's habitual thinking, and the sixth episode of each season is the most controversial episode, and the people who love it are very much loved, and the people who hate it are very hateful.
The quality of Secret Story 9 does deserve this score, but it is also destined not to be widely accepted by the public.
Because we all understand a truth, Yangchun Baixue is only a small number of people, and the people in the lower riba are the trend of the times.
Compared with other positions in the film and television industry, screenwriters are more like a literati position.
When a screenwriter writes a script, the work of directors, cinematographers, actors, etc., is actually subtracting from the script.
So, if you limit the scope of the screenwriter's activities from the beginning and expect to be able to make a masterpiece, isn't that a pipe dream?
And "Secret Affair No. 9" proves this truth to everyone: only screenwriters are the first productive force of high-quality film and television works.
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