"In the Name of the People" sister article "Breakout" began broadcasting, the opening of the audience some surprise?

"In the Name of the People" sister article "Breakout" has finally begun. In front of Zhu Yu, fans are full of expectations for "Breakout", but the opening few episodes of the TV series are chaotic and the plot is warm, which makes people somewhat surprised -

The plot is not a continuation of In the Name of the People

"Breakout" is still a story that takes place in Jingzhou, and the plot is not a continuation of "The Name of the People". As an anti-corruption drama reflecting the reform of state-owned enterprises, "Breakout", written by Zhou Meisen and directed by Shen Yan and Liu Haibo, tells the story of the state-owned enterprise Jingzhou Zhongfu that happened in the eighty days before the 80th anniversary of Zhongfu Group.

Writer Zhou Mason is well known for creating the TV series "In the Name of the People". Zhou Mason has worked in large state-owned enterprises in the coal industry for many years and has a deep feeling for the workplace atmosphere of state-owned enterprises. Zhou Meisen once said that after he went from a state-owned enterprise to the literary world, the work "Breakout" was the work he wanted to write most in his life, and it was also a shock hidden in his heart for more than 30 years, and the prototypes of Qi Ben'an, Shi Hongxing, and Lin Manjiang when they were young were also familiar to Zhou Meisen. However, the opening chapter of the TV series "Breakout" did not have a blockbuster appearance, the plot was not eager to promote contradictions in the narrative, and the pen and ink focused on portraying the protagonist character of Qi Ben'an, as well as weaving an intricate map of multi-level characters of government, enterprises and society, building dramatic relations step by step, but there was no dramatic conflict that grabbed people. The current high-quality dramas are all played by "7 minutes of life and death, the first 3 episodes of gold", and the opening cannot effectively grasp the audience, and the popularity of word-of-mouth is difficult to continue to ferment. Looking back at "In the Name of the People", the opening session is to discuss the political and legal committee meeting that launched the arrest of Ding Yizhen's case, with prominent character portraits, full of dramatic conflicts, and suspenseful plots.

In contrast, the opening of "Breakout" leaves an impression that a large number of lines in the play do not match the lip type, and the editing of the chaotic plot does not make people play. Coupled with the intensive appearance of a large number of characters, there are nearly 20 characters introduced by subtitles in the first two episodes, and many characters have no plot coherence and have become a running account appearance. For the audience, this viewing experience is indeed not very friendly.

Judging from the first few episodes, the narrative space of the "Breakout" image is limited, and many of the storylines and character relationships in the play are "said" by character dialogue. For example, after Qi Ben'an served as the leader of Jingzhou Zhongfu, Shi Hongxing's inner changes were not "acted", but directly completed the narrative through narration, so that people did not know whether they were watching a drama or listening to a novel. The relatively boring meeting scene in the play also lacks rich means of expression. In addition, the state of the characters in the play jumps from time to time, and there is no reasonable growth process.

Character multi-clue miscellaneous items have foreshadowing

The problems at the beginning of "Breakout" make it difficult to imagine that this work is from the hand of Director Shen Yan, who has directed popular dramas such as "The First Half of My Life" and "Flowing Golden Years" and won the Best Director Award for Magnolia for "Chinese-style Relationship". Behind this, I am afraid that there is both the problem of the main creative power, and there is also a place where it is difficult to say anything. The creative process of "Breakout" can be described as difficult, all the way from 62 episodes to 45 episodes, but also due to actor problems AI face change, the work modified more than 1,000 times, two reshoots, completeness and fluency have been greatly affected.

But under the scrutiny, "Breakout" also has a unique place. Compared with the relatively flat character of Hou Liangping, the protagonist of "The Name of the People", Qi Ben'an, the protagonist of "Breakout", presents a certain complexity and three-dimensionality in terms of character thickness. For many years, Qi Ben'an has been appointed as a cultural and propaganda cadre in the Zhongfu Group, and has always taken a humble and flattering posture in front of the leaders, and in the eyes of others, he is just a "trumpeter" with a weak personality and a "strict wife". But no one expected that Qi Ben'an was actually a character who played a pig and ate a tiger, and after parachuting down to Jingzhou Zhongfu to become a leader, the characters first appeared sharp and judged the two, and also fell into a verbal sword and a secret struggle with his sister Shi Hongxing. When making a small report to Lin Manjiang, Shi Hongxing referred to Qi Ben'an as a "gravedigger", which seemed to foreshadow the fate of the characters.

As the plot develops, the problems of Jingzhou Zhongfu are exposed one by one. An unexpected explosion in the eighth episode exploded the bizarre disappearance of half a billion funds, and the previous methodically laid out drama contradictions erupted in a concentrated manner, and several seemingly messy plot lines began to intertwine, and the plot accelerated to look good. The narrative focus will also shift to the relationship between Qi Ben'an, Shi Hongxing, and Lin Manjiang, the core characters of the whole series.

"In the Name of the People" and "Breakout" are both male group portrait plays, "The Name of the People" profoundly reveals the ecology of the officialdom, and all kinds of "good officials" and "corrupt officials" in the play have their own characteristics, which is the key to the success of the work. The character creation of "Breakout" is still in place, there are many roles in the play, the actors gathered can be described as a group of heroes, Huang Zhizhong, Yan Ni, Geng Le and many other leading actors with good reputation have provided superb acting skills, created a role with a sense of substitution, and the performance of the protagonist Jin Dong is also becoming more and more mature. In the play, Pi Dan, a lazy political cadre who only grasps power and does not work, the old fritter land construction who has been sick for a long time, and the cadres of state-owned enterprises such as Niu Junjie, the "Cow Devil King" who is hard-working and bold, constitute a vivid appearance of all sentient beings, and many characters have unexpected reversals and multi-faceted nature, and cannot be simply defined by good or bad. When "The Name of the People" was first broadcast, guessing the black, white and gray of the official group portrait characters according to the plot of the play was a great pleasure for fans to chase the drama. "Breakout" is written from the details, and the expression is also relatively obscure, and it has buried a lot of foreshadowing in a period of dialogue and performance that seems bland but is actually hidden.

(Original title: Zhou Mason's anti-corruption efforts to make a companion article to "In the Name of the People"

"Breakout" did not show the explosive appearance at the beginning)

Source Beijing Evening News author Qiu Wei

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