In 2014, a Korean drama workplace drama based on the manga of the same name, "Unborn", was launched.
After the episode was broadcast, word-of-mouth ratings were double-harvested, and the extreme realism of the workplace life in the play resonated with the audience, and many people directly called out to see themselves.
6 years have passed, "Unborn" has a score of 9.2 on Douban, which shows its quality leverage.
In December, another Korean workplace drama with a quality that did not lose "Unborn" was launched.
《HUSH》
"Hush" is a workplace drama produced by the South Korean JTBC tv series, directed by Choi Kyu-sik and written by Kim Jeong-min.
Adapted from the novel Silent Alarm, the drama tells the story of journalists' survival and conscience in the workplace against the backdrop of a newspaper.
The cast of this drama is worth mentioning.
The male protagonist is the Korean Blue Dragon Award, the big bell award film emperor Huang Zhengmin, the film starring him has accumulated more than 100 million movie viewers, so he is called "100 million actors".
Since the film, Huang Zhengmin has starred in many classic films, such as "New World", "International Market", "Veteran", "Gunkanjima", "Prosecutor's Biography", "Cry" and so on.
In these films, he is a gangster boss, an ordinary father, a police agent, and a prosecutor, and each role becomes particularly vivid and convincing under his interpretation.
Therefore, such an acting strength actor is deeply loved by everyone, and even the Koreans who control Yan Are not loved.
Looking at Hwang Jeong-min's works, you will find that he is mainly film-oriented, and has only made two TV series since the film, one is "That Fool" in 2009 and the other is "Korean Peninsula" in 2012.
And "hush" is Huang Zhengmin's return from the big screen to the TV screen after 8 years, when Huang Zhengmin received the script, he read it at once, thinking that the story was real and interesting, so he decided to star.
As netizens commented, this is a script with depth, and it is not without reason for the immortals to shoot TV.
The heroine is Lin Yun'er of South Korea's top girl group "Girls' Generation", a beautiful and hard-working little sister.
Last year's movie "Extreme Escape", starring her, set a brilliant record of more than 9 million viewers and became a veritable dark horse.
With her wonderful performance in "Extreme Escape", Lin Yun'er was also nominated for the Green Dragon Award for Best Actress.
This time playing with Huang Zhengmin can be described as both a challenge and a trial.
In addition, there are Kim Won-hae of "Druna Hotel", Park Ho-san of "Witty Cell Life", Yoo Sun of "Little Client" and other powerful supporting characters.
The realistic theme + strong lineup makes "Hush" a highly anticipated new drama, and JTBC TV also has high hopes for the show.
In the first half of the year, JTBC launched high-rated dramas such as "Itaewon Class" and "The World of Couples", but the TV series broadcast by the TV station recently were very fanatic, and the TV series broadcast by Jintu, Mizuki and Moonfire were about 1%.
Therefore, JTBC hopes to use this drama to "turn over" and get out of the dilemma of low ratings.
"Hush" also lived up to expectations, with an average rating of 3.38% for the premiere, pulling the JTBC viewership market back from 1% to 3%, the highest rating of JTBC TV dramas in the past three months.
Word of mouth is also good, broadcast two episodes of Douban from the opening 8.6 points all the way up to 8.9 points, is currently the second hotTest Korean drama, Douban comment area has a lot of five-star praise, by netizens called one of the best Korean dramas this year.
The story of "Hush" takes place in the daily newspaper of "Mainichi Korea".
The male protagonist, Han Jun hyuk, was once a social journalist and is now in the network news department of the newspaper, which sounds very important to this department today, where the network is smooth, but in fact, it is only a marginal department of the newspaper.
From the leadership of this department to the employees, everyone was sent to exile, so they had a bad time.
The daily job is to copy and paste various hot articles, and then take an eye-catching title, and our male protagonist is one of them.
He is the official "headline fishing master" of the daily South Korean and the legendary garbage reporter.
The heroine, Lee Ji-so, is an intern in Daily Korea, and together with 3 other interns, she interns in various departments of the newspaper, and then is finally selected to turn regular.
As the last stop of the internship, the female protagonist and her party came to the network news department, and it was the male protagonist who gave them training.
When these interns meet the male protagonist, everyone's attitude towards the male protagonist is obviously different.
Wu Xiuyan, one of the intern journalists, has a special admiration for the male protagonist, and she was once a fan of the male protagonist's blog, because the male protagonist's probationary diary aspired to become a journalist.
The female protagonist is more of an indifferent disdain for the male protagonist, she is also a fan of the male protagonist, but she is a black fan.
Obviously two people who have never met, why does the female protagonist have such a big prejudice against the male protagonist? The reason is that the male protagonist once had a news report.
When the male protagonist was still a social reporter, a predecessor was in trouble, and the male protagonist tried his best to find information for investigation and reporting.
However, the newspaper reported a news dish that did not match the facts in the name of the male protagonist, which indirectly led to the suicide of the predecessor, and the female protagonist happened to be the daughter of the predecessor.
So after the two met, the female protagonist said to the male protagonist, the reporter can not casually say unsure things, think about what kind of person you really are?
Seeing this, many people will wonder, is this not a workplace drama, how can it involve the plot of suicide grudges.
"Hush" is indeed a workplace drama, but its focus is actually the growth of the protagonist, the female protagonist has grown from a rookie with a strong pen to a real journalist, and the male protagonist is the growth and transformation of the reporter - garbage reporter - reporter.
In particular, the transformation of the male protagonist is the core of the whole play, and in order to complete these transformations, the death of two people is set in the play.
One is the predecessor of the male protagonist, whose death has made the male protagonist lose the motivation to be a journalist, and the other is the intern Wu Xiuyan in front, her appearance and accidental death make the male protagonist no longer silent, choosing to become a real reporter again.
As a workplace drama, the pace of the drama is slow and fast in terms of the currently broadcast plot.
On the top of the slow, the play spends a lot of space to introduce the relationship between the characters and the content of the story, and also buries a lot of foreshadowing, such as the death of Wu Xiuyan, and many details show that this is not a simple suicide case.
In terms of fast, the contradiction between the protagonist and the story is explained at the beginning of the play, and it is clear who to confront.
At the same time, in the transformation of the male protagonist, it took only two episodes to complete, and some of the protagonists have to lay up many episodes of the drama is not too fast compared to the speed, and the pace of an episode offline a character is also fast.
In addition, the biggest feeling in the process of watching the drama is that it is real to the heart, which is also the biggest success of a workplace drama.
The realism in the play mainly comes from two aspects.
One is the authenticity of the actor's performance.
At present, there are not too many confrontations between male and female protagonists, but the performance of two people alone is definitely commendable.
The heroine Lin Yun'er cut a concise short hair for the new role, and the style in the play is mainly based on capable professional clothing, which is very in line with the workplace temperament in terms of image, and the acting skills are also visible to the naked eye.
For example, in the two crying scenes in the first episode, one is to stand in the doorway with a shocked face when facing the accidental death of his father, covering his mouth and trembling uncontrollably.
Once at her father's funeral, the heroine said with a sad face that my father was hungry, and then took a big bite of white rice, the process of the heroine's emotions are gradually increasing, from sadness, sobbing to the final collapse.
Lin Yun'er's two performances are very infectious, showing the grief of losing her father to the fullest.
As netizens said, Yun'er's acting skills have improved greatly, and it can be said that she has got rid of the identity of Aidou and is now finally an excellent actor!
If Yun Er's performance is a surprise, then Huang Zhengmin is expected.
As a powerful drama bone, Huang Zhengmin accurately interprets the characteristics of the role, especially the appeal he brings through performance is too strong.
For example, in the second episode, the male protagonist stands at the window where intern Wu Xiuyan jumped off the building and has a dialogue with her imagined.
Here Huang Zhengmin has brought emotions from the beginning, and when he talks to Wu Xiuyan, he first has tears in his eyes, the corners of his mouth twitch, and then he nods with tears in his eyes, and finally smiles back.
In this performance, Huang Zhengmin performed different emotions every time, there was apology and reluctance to Wu Xiuyan, there was anger and disappointment in himself, which invisibly brought the audience into it, and the acting skills were absolutely amazing.
The other is the reality of working hard in the workplace.
The story of "Hush" focuses on a daily newspaper, which is like a miniature version of the workplace, and you will see all kinds of professionals.
For example, I don't care about many things, I don't seek merit in my work but I seek no fault, and I think that not being fired and sticking to it is the successful gold section chief.
Without serious study of the work, the mind is all about how to promote Minister Yan through the leadership.
Treat employees harshly, and when employees have accidents, they are more concerned about whether their interests are damaged.
There are also ordinary employees with outstanding abilities, but they cannot be corrected because of academic problems, just like the flowers outside the window of high-rise buildings, and they will eventually be blown away by the wind after doing their best.
You see, isn't that what happens everywhere in reality?
Here I have to say that Korean film and television films are really too daring to shoot.
In addition to restoring the real workplace, the show also boldly exposes the darkness of the news industry, allowing us to see another side of the journalistic industry.
What is a journalist?
The play is defined in this way, the reporter is the last bastion of the citizens, with an unwavering stability to everything for the sake of the citizens, for the citizens to speak out.
But many times the reality is the opposite, as shown in the play.
For example, when a trainee reporter goes to an interview, when asked sharp questions, he will be reprimanded by the other party, and when writing blockbuster news, the editor-in-chief will hesitate to add a name, afraid that the reporter will be personally attacked.
When major news appears, it takes a level-level report review to decide whether it is good or bad for you to decide whether to publish it or not.
There will even be news that reverses black and white for certain benefits and reports that do not match the facts, and the predecessors of the male protagonists are indirectly killed by such news.
From this, we can see that journalists, who are clearly the true recorders of events, have been bound by various rules and have become the most silent people, and those truths have always been packed in a container called silence.
Like the play's title, hush means quiet, don't talk.
And this time, the male protagonist chose not to back down, he crushed the container full of truth, and used the pen in his hand to write out the silent truth.
Because the journalist's mission is not to boo, but to say it out loud!
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