Hello everyone, I am a boxing sister, a deep film fan who only recommends good films.
Recently, my major social software has been blown up by a new drama, that is, the period drama "Breakout" starring Jin Dongyan Ni and others, also known as "People's Property". The film tells the story of the ups and downs of a state-owned enterprise in 80 days and 80 years, focusing on the main contradictions of contemporary China and social life.
How explosive is it?
Let's start with the ratings.
"Breakout" has only been broadcast for 7 days since it was broadcast, and the dual platform has quickly jumped to the top of the provincial satellite TV list! CSM63 city ratings continue to dominate the list with 2.614 and 2.472! It can be said that it is the first hot drama on the whole network!
Look at the topic of heat.
Once it was launched, it won 21 online hot searches, whether it is behind-the-scenes tidbits or plot resonance entries, which shows the absolute popularity of "Breakout" in the hearts of the audience.
Finally, there is the audience word of mouth.
Colleagues who have worked in state-owned enterprises for many years lament that the plot is too real, and the actors' industry jargon is tight. Some netizens also praised the image texture of "Breakout" as a drama, stripping away the cocoon to present the core of the story for the audience, with irony in humor and profoundness in straightforwardness.
Frankly speaking, before chasing the drama, I also suspected that the highly unified praise of "Breakout" on the Internet may be mixed with water and suspected of hype marketing. Until I finished 6 episodes in one breath, I just wanted to sigh from the bottom of my heart
——Such a wonderful work, of course, should be a big hit, worthy of being seen by all audiences.
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Dare to do: five years of power, two reshoots, investment of 400 million.
Four years ago, Zhou Meisen's "In the Name of the People" was broadcast all over the country, and the outside world has been circulating that there will be a second part of this drama, but in fact, "Breakout" has no connection with the story of "The Name of the People".
After Zhou Haisen created this "story I want to write the most in my life", he did not consider making it into a film and television drama, because he felt that the script of "Breakout" did not have a brain-catching case sorting, and the story of state-owned enterprise transformation had a relatively narrow audience and risky investment.
However, the pursuit and determination of the producer Xingyao Media for "high-quality products" impressed him, and Zhou Haisen decided to cooperate after careful consideration.
It is reported that just for the polishing of the script, Zhou Haisen spent five years. During the five-year period, the script was revised more than 1,000 times, and the entire crew even underwent two reshoots, with a total investment of more than 400 million yuan for "Breakout".
The requirements of the entire creative team for the script are highly unified: rejecting stereotyping and routineization, respecting and reflecting on the times, giving respect and confidence to the audience, and using the spirit of craftsmanship to create a high-standard and sincere work.
After the problem of the script is solved, the actors also usher in the challenge of job denial - in the face of a large number of dense and professional lines, how to face it in the case of tight shooting rhythm?
Dedicated actors have only one answer - work hard. Racing against the clock to memorize lines, there is even a phenomenon of "inner volume".
To what extent is the volume? During the break, the actors basically hid in the room to memorize the lines, and their assistants changed their partners. Yan Ni once revealed in an interview that her assistant not only remembered the lines of her opponent, but even Yan Ni's lines.
A good work is like a good house, the foundation is not stable, everything is an aerial attic, the script is not solid, the actor is not heavy, and the shooting must be a "quick finished product" without standards.
The success of "Breakout" can be said to depend to a large extent on the excellence of the creative team behind the scenes, every workplace detail, the positive and negative motivations of each character, etc. Everyone is exerting creativity to make extra points for this play, just to make the audience more enjoyable.
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Dare to shoot: the content "scale" is large, and the dark waves in the workplace of state-owned enterprises are turbulent.
If you want to know how big the content "scale" of "Breakout" is, you still have to start from the source of the plot.
Zhongfu Company was one of the first state-owned enterprises in the 1930s, and while it was about to celebrate its 80th anniversary, its subsidiary Jingzhou Zhongfu was in a huge predicament due to an unexpected explosion. Zhongfu Chairman Lin Manjiang (Huang Zhizhong) immediately sent Qi Ben'an (Jin Dong) to Jingzhou to help the company get out of trouble.
However, after Qi Ben'an took office, he found that things were far more tricky and complicated than imagined, and the problems in Jingzhou Zhongfu did not only come from changes in the market environment, but also from the corruption of internal personnel and the collusion between officials and officials.
——Zhongfu Group's 500 million shantytown transformation special fund has disappeared, how many people are involved behind it? Where did the money go? How many people suffered as a result?
Qi Ben'an is bent on investigating the truth, clearing the tumor for the enterprise, and doing practical things for the people.
However, the ideal is very happy, and the reality is very bone. Qi Ben'an changed from the "second oldest of the millennium" to the "number one" of the group, and the appointment of new officials in Jingzhou can be described as embattled.
On the one hand, she was tripped up by her sister Shi Hongxing (Yan Ni) everywhere, ostensibly supporting his work, and behind her back, she complained to Lin Manjiang many times, and deliberately spread rumors about the chaos of her private life.
On the other hand, there are constant attempts by former friends to bribe him with money and power, and his office location has been secretly installed with bugging devices, and every move is under the surveillance of others.
As we all know, the taboo of employees of state-owned enterprises is that there is a problem with the construction of personal work style. Even if it is a rumor, it will be a fatal blow.
In addition to being wary of being calculated, Qi Ben'an must also use enough strategy to resolve the contradictions with the mass cadres, reorganize the company, and even handle the relationship between the central enterprise and the local government.
As Jin Dong said in an interview, the biggest feeling of filming this drama is "restriction". Except for Lin Manjiang, all the people around him were "surrounded", and he had to use all his wisdom and courage to "burst" forward.
And through the many details given in the play, such as the appointment of the group to Qiben'an has long been down, why did Lin Manjiang drag on for a month before advancing? Why is the dinner room like a "Hongmen feast"?
Is Lin Manjiang the kind master brother of Qi Ben'an? Or a big leader with two sleeves of breeze? Or is it the big greedy hand behind it?
"Breakout" takes the reform of state-owned enterprises as the incision, which not only shows the daily work of senior party and government officials and enterprise executives walking on thin ice, interlocking links, as well as the internal struggles that are surging with dark waves and sharp incomparable, but also portrays the portraits of newspaper reporters, low-level vulnerable groups and other figures.
For example, Fan Jiahui (Qin Lan), the director of Jingzhou Times, wants to do good news for in-depth reporting, while touting entrepreneurs for survival, so is the role of the newspaper to tell the truth for the masses, or to create "legends" for money?
For example, reporter Qin Xiaochong (Chen Xiao), after writing a letter to the Discipline Inspection Commission to report that the 500 million yuan of special funds in Jingzhou Zhongfu was embezzled, was framed and imprisoned in the blink of an eye.
"Breakout" not only dares to shoot, but more praiseworthy is that it will be filmed. It did not rush to show everyone the bottom card as soon as it began, but one game after another was densely packed, allowing Qi Ben'an to explode the situation and find out what cards were in the hands of the enemy himself.
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The cast is strong and the plot is full and compact.
Jin Dong's role in "Breakout" is not the same as in previous plays, he laughs at himself as a subordinate who gives the leader a "bag", but through some detailed arrangements, the character image is accurately established.
But in fact, at the beginning, Jin Dong actually did not want to take this script, the biggest reason is that he felt that the character of Qi Ben'an was too righteous, had almost no shortcomings, and could not change his original intention and pursue fairness and justice in the face of any situation.
But why did you take on the role in the end? In Jin Dong's original words: "I don't know if there will be a play in the future that can bring together so many excellent actors and such a strong lineup, so I came."
Indeed, the cast of "Breakout" is not exaggerated to describe it as "super strong", and the supporting roles are all Cast level.
Playing the three masters of Lin Manjiang, Qi Ben'an and Shi Hongxing is our old drama bone Xi Meijuan teacher, who is also the mother of the delicious and lazy Pi Dan (Gao Xin), who touches the audience's heart with a cry and a smile.
Also the old drama bones Wang Jingchun, Han Tongsheng, Gao Ming, Hao Ping, Geng Le, Li Hongtao and other people to star in friendship, Dai Luwa, Qin Yan, Ding Yongdai, Wang Yang, period co-starring, no one's acting skills are not online!
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 15 national-level actors in the cast list of "Breakout".
The drama bones are full of fire between light and dark, and they are full of their own experience without saying anything.
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Regarding the play "Breakout", the editor Zhou Haisen's original intention was to make a work of "Qingming on the River". He thinks that he is not lazy, and he has worked very hard to make this "Breakout", not fame and fortune, but with a sense of mission to complete the desire of life.
In the end, the core theme of "Breakout" is human choice.
Will a government worker, an enterprise manager, a journalist, and an ordinary citizen violate his or her principles of being a man when faced with the temptation of great fame and fortune, or the obstacles of hardship and danger?
Of course, the purpose of directors and screenwriters is not to distinguish between right and wrong, but to let the audience see that there are different values in the background of the same era, some people give in and some people insist, some people compromise and some people take responsibility, and the dark side of human nature coexists with brilliance.
However, the vicissitudes of the world are the right way. In the end, there must be someone who keeps the original intention in the face of temptation, is loyal to conscience and faith, and stands out from the siege.
The mission is in the heart, the responsibility is on the shoulders. Shining in their respective trajectories is also a kind of "breakthrough" for life.
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