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Recently, Jin Dong starred in the anti-corruption drama "Breakout" (originally "The People's Property"), which is the sequel to the "Name of the People", although the director and actor team are not the same, but the screenwriters are Zhou Mason, for film and television works, the continuity of the story is definitely more important than the continuity of the director and actors.
The director team and actors of this drama are even more top-notch, and they are definitely the top batch in the domestic drama lineup.
If Lan Xiaolong is the first person to write a Chinese war drama and Liu Heping is the first person to write a Chinese historical drama, then Zhou Meisen is the first person in China's anti-corruption drama. Director Shen Yan has filmed "The Legend of Hot Mom", "Chinese-style Relationship", "The First Half of My Life" and "Tiansheng Long Song", and Liu Haibo is a director with whom he has cooperated for a long time.
This actor is an all-powerful lineup, Jin Dong, Yan Ni, Huang Zhizhong, Chen Xiao, Qin Lan, Geng Le, Tian Lei, Huang Pinyuan, Xi Meijuan, Wang Jingchun, Gao Xin, Han Tongsheng, Gao Ming, Hou Minghao, Zhang Meng, Chen Jin, Hao Ping, Feng Jiayi, Li Hongtao, Tu Songyan, etc. Just watching the powerful actors act is to enjoy.
However, although the quality and reputation of the "Breakout" drama are good, it has not been popular since its broadcast, not to mention that "The Name of the People" has become a phenomenon-level drama in that year, which is to be expected, this drama and "The Name of the People" are two directions.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="9" > why did "In the Name of the People" become a hit? Good word of mouth is just one reason</h1>
One thing that many viewers may not have noticed is that "In the Name of the People" was launched in 2017. Although there are many regrets in looking back at this drama, such as Zheng Shengli's yellow wool line, this drama is undoubtedly a hit of the entire domestic drama in 2017, and it belongs to the level of "cultural phenomenon".
In addition to the strong reputation of this drama and a group of old dramas, there is also one of the biggest reasons is the environment.
First, the ice-breaking of domestic anti-corruption dramas, domestic dramas because of the relationship between auditing, in the early 2000s there were some anti-corruption dramas, police suspense dramas, but then for some reasons anti-corruption dramas, political dramas and police dramas disappeared on the big and small screens, lasting nearly ten years.
Of course, with the development of online dramas, the police suspense drama returned in 2014 with "The Dark one", and then the "Psychological Crime", and then the "White Night Pursuit" and "Undocumented Crime" in 2017 ushered in the first wave of the development of domestic police suspense dramas in the new era.
However, anti-corruption dramas have not been lifted until the emergence of "In the Name of the People".
The unbanning of this theme for Chinese audiences can be imagined, especially the complexity of Chinese society and many aspects, coupled with the fact that the quality of "The Name of the People" is really good, which makes "The Name of the People" a big hit, and its big explosion has formed a huge impact, affecting the filming of many anti-corruption political dramas later.
For example, "Puzzle", "Backbone", "Circuit Prosecutor", and "Sweeping Black Storm" to the popular "Truth" are similar works, but they are combined with the genre of police dramas.
Second, when it appears in the "traffic economy", it is an outlier, a banner that corrects chaos.
This is a bit like the movie "Wolf Warrior 2", we now see "Wolf Warrior 2" quality is not good enough to explode, even not as good as the later "Red Sea Action", those who do not like "Wolf Warrior 2" audience is to scold Wu Jing is to catch the main theme of the outlet, but they did not consider the environmental problems.
That is 2017, "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Name of the People" itself are the top quality of domestic film and television dramas. At the same time, it was the peak era of China's "traffic economy" from "cutting pictures without self-appreciation" to "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", and all aspects of them were dimensionality reduction blows at that time.
"Wolf Warrior 2" has become the beginning of China's commercial blockbusters in the new era, especially the main theme of commercial blockbusters; "The Name of the People" has also become a banner of domestic dramas, and its influence is very far-reaching.
However, there are many regrets about the show itself, in addition to the problem that the recognized "Yellow Hair" Zheng Shengli clue is completely redundant, there are two issues that the audience discusses a lot, for example, I think the biggest problem is the role setting, especially the shaping of the positive and negative characters.
The audience has been complaining about the bones of many old dramas, Lu Yi and Ke Lan's acting skills are not outstanding, and even some are inferior, but it has to be mentioned that the characters they play themselves have limitations, the roles are too positive, lack of three-dimensional sense, basically do not reflect the contradictions of the characters, so that of course there is no sense of conflict in the drama.
On the contrary, the vast majority of the people who left a deep impression on the audience in this drama are villains, such as the one who made up the Internet: chen Qingquan who learns a foreign language well, has the universe Sun Liancheng in his heart, prays for Tongwei in the middle of the sky, does not move Zhao Dehan, zhao Lichun, the hero behind the scenes, Gao Xiaoqin, who seems to be smiling and not smiling-
The real villains who still let the audience remember the roles, probably only Li Dakang, the back pot master, and Zhao Donglai, the hero of the tiger.
The male protagonist Hou Liangping and the female protagonist Lu Yi are completely tool people, Hou Liangping and Zhao Ziqi's wife's performance at home is even more blunt to describe, on the contrary, a large number of villains, especially the most important villain of this drama, Qi Tongwei, Hou Liangping and Qi Tongwei are both graduated from Handong University, Hou Liangping is in Beijing, Qi Tongwei goes to a poor ravine, your wife Zhong Xiaoai is young and beautiful, his wife Liang Lu wants to destroy me, your wife is the bureau chief, my wife only wants to play me, why can you Hou Liangping not engage in politics and starve to death, and I will starve to death if I don't bow my head I bowed my head in resignation—
This role has aroused a large number of audience sympathy, but for the positive role can not empathize, this as a film and television drama is actually a problem, this is the main theme of the audience does not like the protagonist, the result of empathy for the villain to do things, and even empathy -
In addition, the main protagonist group is a high-ranking official hand-picked by the above, in fact, it lacks the role of the real "people".
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="44" > "Breakout" did not become a "blockbuster"? But these two points are stronger than "In the Name of the People"</h1>
The "Breakout" broadcast now is not so hot in terms of results, and the reason is very simple, it is the lack of the theme of the ice-breaking outlet, and the breakthrough of this environmental model after the "traffic economy" has passed. Moreover, this explosive TV series must have a famous scene in the early stage, otherwise it will be difficult to catch fire.
For example, the first two episodes of "The Name of the People" were Sun Yizhen's escape, Zhao Dehan's wall-filled money and the stimulation of the old drama in the office, the laughter of this year's "Mountains and Seas" relocation, and the killing of "Sweeping Black Storm" when the sprinkler almost missed the patrol team.
"Breakout" and "The Age of Awakening" are relatively similar, and the lack of stability in the early stage is the explosive point of this famous scene, but its script is actually quite solid, and in the storyline, especially in the shaping of certain characters, I think it is more interesting than "The Name of the People".
First of all, the male protagonist Qi Ben'an, this role is really much better than Hou Liangping.
The actor of the male protagonist is Jin Dong, who has been ridiculed by the audience for several years and can only play old cadres and urban elites, in fact, he played a good role in this drama, because this role is quite contradictory. The second oldest of the millennium, in the company to the boss Lin Manjiang to carry bags, at home to the wife to carry bags, work and family have the desire to turn right.
He has Lin Manjiang, the big leader who prevented him from leaving the audit, next to him is Shi Hongxing, the head snake sister who has been making a stumbling block for him, and underneath him is Pi Dan's fainting, Lu Jianjian's incompetent and careful eyes, Wu Sitai's confusion, and the former good brother Wang Ping'an absconded in fear of crime.
Recently, the whereabouts of 500 million assets in the shantytown collapse are unknown, the master is injured, and the workers are homeless; as far away as Jingzhou Energy's 4.7 billion yuan high-priced mine, overcapacity and low coal prices are about to be dragged down. Such a calculation, Qi Ben'an, the leader who was in danger, was really dangerous to the extreme.
How can we find out the facts under such a difficult situation and lead Jingzhou Zhongfu out of the predicament?
This role, whether it is a private or business affair, is much better than Hou Liangping's three-dimensional, and we can see the role state he began, the huge dilemma faced by work and family, and then how to solve the problem. Jin Dong, who usually plays an elite, also plays this role that is only non-committal and a little provocative.
Another role is the role of Qin Xiaochong (played by Chen Xiao), who can really represent the "people", which is an important role that does not appear in "The Name of the People", the main roles there are elites and high-ranking officials, and the identity of retired Chen Yan is also different, the real People's King wg Everyone can see this name, and it is very extreme to hurt himself.
In addition to the miners who collapsed in the shantytown, Qin Xiaochong's struggle and bitterness of this low-level person is actually quite empathetic, he is not not working hard, he has worked hard, and he also has a sense of responsibility for the family, but the reality is very bone!
Zhou Mason's portrayal of this character has deep meaning. Chen Xiao also acted very well!
Zhou Meisen wrote three lines in this drama, at least part of the content to write the real "people", Qin Xiaochong's role is a representative, wife supermarket employees, dad ordinary retired miners, they want to live a good life for their families and work hard to earn money, see the classmates around him at every turn on hundreds of millions, he is not smart or not working hard, harder than others, or unjustly imprisoned.
The loss of state-owned property to the end is still the ordinary people, and the performance is so good, I personally like the drama of Qin Xiaochong and Qin's father, a middle-aged man who struggles in the psychological imbalance at the bottom of the society but is a bit responsible, an ordinary person with great wisdom, they are father and son, the son will be the psychological imbalance between the rich and the poor in the rapid development of society, and want to struggle to make money to survive.
The father has experienced the baptism of the older generation's simple and excellent thoughts, and advised his son not to take a crooked road and to be a man.
There are many other characters in the show who have broken through and good and evil are not so obvious, and everyone has a lot of secrets in their hearts. For example, the role of Niu Junjie, this role is not very pleasing in the early stages, but the scene where he and Qi Ben'an have dinner is very good, don't look at Niu Junjie, who usually speaks funny, and when he encounters serious things, he also analyzes the head is the Tao.
Although Niu Junjie held his breath in this situation in Jingzhou, the situation was also clear. Moreover, he was really worried about Qi Ben'an's situation in the company, and he also boldly predicted that there would be a war between Lin Manjiang and Qi Ben'an!
Other well-portrayed characters will not be analyzed here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="73" > "Breakout" was expected to become "The Age of Awakening", but unfortunately it was not even as good as "Sweeping Black Storm"</h1>
According to the previous analysis, from the perspective of the script structure, "Breakout" is not like "The Name of the People", in fact, it is more like "The Age of Awakening", but this drama is now not even as good as "Sweeping Black Storm", although "Sweeping Black Storm" is high and low, it is still one of the hottest domestic dramas this year, but "Breakout" has not exploded until now.
And "Breakout" did not become the reason for the hit, it is exactly the same as "Sweeping Black Storm".
I believe that as long as the audience who has watched these two dramas will feel a little pity, "Breakout" has a good team, good screenwriters and good actors, originally created a good work, but unfortunately Qin Xiaochong's many wonderful scenes have been deleted, otherwise his line will definitely be more exciting, and the character names have changed.
In addition to Qin Xiaochong's other characters are like this, the editing is quite chaotic, which seriously affects the viewing experience.
This has to spit on the most serious problem caused by the review in our country, and the audience can clearly feel that the anti-corruption drama seems to have been released, but it has not been completely released.
In addition to the unexpected factor of Zhao's actor, this renaming and deletion problem has brought serious problems. And the character was originally strongly related to "The Name of the People", but now it has been changed to this, which is really a pity. Not only will Sweeping Storm be better, but so will Breakout.
Finally, "Breakout" has been suppressed for three years because of some uncontrollable factors, and it is really not easy to broadcast. It may not have achieved the expected effect, but I think it is still a rare reality TV series. Every actor is good, all dedicated actors deserve respect, and the episode response has practical significance, but it's a bit of a pity.
I hope that "Breakout" and domestic dramas can get better and better!