At present, the TV series "Breakout" is being screened, and the audience's attention is also very high! Compared with other themes, there are fewer TV dramas with anti-corruption and honesty themes, and those with a certain production standard and more well-produced are even fewer, and "Breakout" is considered to be one.
The propaganda company linked the TV series "Breakout" and the TV series "In the Name of the People", calling it the original team of people, and created the sequel and sister story of "The Name of the People", with the intention of continuing the popularity of "The Name of the People" and creating momentum for "Breakout".
But in fact, the original creator of the script has long said that this has nothing to do with the TV series "In the Name of the People". The author of the novel and the script, Mr. Zhou Meisen originally wrote two novels respectively "The Name of the People" and "The Property of the People", and after "The Property of the People" was adapted into a TV drama script, it was named "Breakthrough".
In Teacher Zhou's novel creation, it is a trilogy, but the TV series is independent, and some of the names and paragraphs in it are the same, which is only for the author's convenience (the author's own statement).
The audience was misled by the publicity company to compare the two TV series, and as a result, the reputation of "Breakout" was not very good, with a Douban score of only 5.8 points.
Why the score is so low, let's take a look at the difference between the two films, as well as some problems in the creation of "Breakout", and see where the problems of "Breakout" that are still good in post-production are, and how many can stand out!
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First, the screenwriting aspect
Script script, the script of a play. Most of the people engaged in film and television are clear, tv dramas focus on the script (solid and good books), movies, focus on stars (box office appeal actors), of course, this is relatively speaking, not absolute. (Do not spray trolls)
If we look at the information, we can see that the screenwriter of "In the Name of the People" is only Zhou Meisen. The screenwriter of "Breakout" wrote Zhou Meisen and Sun Xinyue (Zhou Meisen's lover). Of course, everyone in the circle knows that usually well-known screenwriters have studios under them, it is impossible to write every word by themselves, there are students and assistants to write, I check the pass, or the outline and some important roles of the opponent will personally handle.
Two TV series, there may be many people in writing, Teacher Zhou to check, but put aside these, at least in the official signature of the TV series, there is a difference, can not absolutely say that "The Name of the People" must be written by Teacher Zhou, his lover did not write, but at least the script of the two dramas is a difference in emphasis, we can see that "The Name of the People" Teacher Sun and other students participate less, "Breakout", Teacher Sun and other students participate more, Teacher Zhou participates less.
Because of this, the biggest hard wound of the show appeared:
1, there are no classic character lines.
Whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, there is nothing that can reflect the character characteristics of the character, impressive, and amazing "classic lines". This kind of TV series, in order to become a classic and popular drama, one is to have a wonderful scene plot, and the other is to have classic lines (lines that portray characters).
2. There are too many irrelevant dialogues in the whole play.
Because the story to be told in the whole play is very simple, it is the story that the chairman of a state-owned enterprise took the lead in embezzlement and was later discovered, if you want to make this simple thing into a wonderful story of dozens of episodes, it is natural to have some artistic creation level in it, and the problem of the screenwriter mentioned earlier, naturally it is "water", and the story is not easy to make up. For example, the dialogue between Qin Xiaochong and his wife, as well as qi Ben'an (played by Jin Dong) and his wife (played by Qin Lan), as well as Niu Junjie's daughter, Li Shundong, who wants a debt, and other people's some painless, inexplicable, and uncomfortable conversations, the whole time is awkward.
3. The stage of the shooting scene of the whole play.
Most of the places where the whole play is filmed are: offices, conference rooms, living rooms at home, and restaurants
I didn't know that I thought it was a large indoor sitcom. In order to save trouble, the creators did not even shoot the scene of the collective office of the employees in the minimum unit. Save the place, save the scheduling, save the group performance, save the cost, but the sense of reality is gone.
This kind of workplace itself cannot be separated from the employee office, and these must be carried out by a large number of group performances to the office, as a background, setting off the plot of the main characters.
In addition to the absence of various employee offices and scene scheduling of various units, there is no outdoor scene, that is, some sporadic mine inspections, but also cutscenes, just rush this, the realism of the whole play is gone, and the audience's attraction is much less. The actors are not distracted, the scenes are not real, the lines are not grounded, and the audience will not feel good.
4. The script will not be changed
Just like the "shop bully", who is famous, who has the right to speak, in "The Name of the People", the screenwriter Zhou Meisen is famous, he does not let the actor change the lines, just like the screenwriter Liu Heping, Teacher Liu is the screenwriter of "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Daming Dynasty 1566", "Peking No War", he also requires the director and actors not to change a word of the script. But the problem is that Teacher Liu Heping is a word of pondering, and then every line of his own read is smooth before it is fixed, and his creative cycle is particularly long, only a few years to produce a script, each is a fine product. Let's look at the directors of "In the Name of the People" and "Breakout", Li Lu, Shen Yan/Liu Haibo, their fame and works are not bad, riding the tiger is comparable, so it is not possible to talk about which is more powerful.
Several well-known screenwriters in China who are more familiar to everyone, Liu Heping and Gao Mantang, their works, each of which is good, different directors shoot, out are very good, in turn, the two films have the same level of directing, but the scripts of the two plays are indeed very different.
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Second, the director
Just as we said earlier, Li Lu, the director of "In the Name of the People", Shen Yan/Liu Haibo, the director of "Breakout", the executive director will not say. The works of these two directors are not bad, all aspects are similar, and both films are basically shot for four months.
Maybe they have the idea of changing, but the screenwriter is too tough to change it, or maybe they didn't read the script lines carefully, because the lines are too dense. Almost every plot is said by the dialogue of the characters, and the audience can listen with their ears without watching, without delaying the progress of the story.
If in the script, the director is a little helpless, then the choice of actors, the director has a certain responsibility. Of course, tv dramas, pick actors will bring relationships. Understandable, but still have to say which characters and actors are not suitable.
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Third, the actor aspect
First, let me look at the main cast of the two shows.
In the Name of the People: Zhang Fengyi, Wu Gang (Emperor Ying), Li Guangfu (Renyi), Yue Xiuqing (Renyi), Zhang Zhijian
Lu Yi, Hou Yong, etc
"Sudden Siege": Jin Dong, Huang Zhizhong, Yan Ni, Xi Meijuan, Wang Jingchun, Han Tongsheng, Li Hongtao, etc
This contrast, or can be seen, the main actors of the previous film (the protagonist and supporting roles) are many of the male number one in the movie, are all powerful factions, the film as the starring and won the award, won the film emperor. Like Wu Gang, Zhang Zhijian, Hou Yongna are tough guys, and several others are also regulars in the movie, old drama bones.
Look at "Breakout", where the no. 1 male lead, villain, Lin Manjiang, played by Huang Zhizhong, Huang Zhizhong, due to his own reasons, has been tepid, can not become a first-line male actor, the movie is not to mention the no. 1 starring, even if there is, it is also a small cost movie, no impact. Acting skills are also limited, his earlier most failed performance is "New Bright Sword", in order to learn Li Youbin's kind of grandfather, the temperament of the soldiers, has always been with a false voice, with Dantian in the force, roaring, let the audience watch the play, laugh. In the past two years, the performance in the movie is a little more, but it is also ranked in the male third, male fourth, and are playing the father-level supporting roles, his biggest problem is that the performance is too external, relying on the facial expressions to interpret the characters, there is no performance of the heart, recently in "Meritorious", playing the father of rice, Yuan Longping, slightly better, the point is collected, it is estimated that the director grasped the accuracy;
Talk about Jin Dong, this is not to say, acting, not bad or bad, but acting is the same, the hairstyle has not changed, refuse to change the hairstyle for the role, but then again, he has always played a type of role, in addition, he has very few movies, let alone the lead actor to carry a movie.
Others, in addition to Wang Jingchun, relying on "Long Days" to take the foreign film emperor, but that is Wang Xiaoshuai's film, is a pure literary film, and in "Breakout", in the TV series, he is a male five, male six role, it is difficult to play, the other is not to say, Niu Junjie is the main character, but the actor Geng Le is not a coban, is my peer, from the Academy of Fine Arts, he is relying on his own angry youth temperament, played Jiang Wen's movies and some film and television dramas about youth, but also Beijing, the true color of the performance. Later, when I embarked on this acting path, I wanted to talk about acting and acting, which was based on feelings, and I couldn't go to my heart.
And to be honest, the role of Niu Junjie, there is no entanglement, in China, a lot of more suitable male actors. When he comes to act, he knows whether it is the director or whose relationship it is, because it is not a male one, a male two, and any actor can come.
Some people have said, have not acted in the movie, or the movie is less acting? Then this still has to be said, the performance and all aspects of the film are more demanding, the TV series is relatively rough, simpler, the actors involved in the film are better grasped in terms of camera sense and texture. Therefore, movie actors can come to act in TV series, but TV drama actors can not act in movies casually. Film actors have to consider an acting skill, but also consider the feeling of the shot, and consider the acceptance (box office) of the theater audience.
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Let's talk about a few actors who really don't fit in. One is "Niu Junjie's daughter", how this actress looks, how does not look like the daughter of Niu Junjie and Shi Hongxing, feels too old, the three of them together how to look like a family of three, said that she and Jin Dong talk about the object is not against the peace; there is a reporter played by Chen Xiao "Qin Xiaochong". This young man, who can't even speak lines, memorizes lines stiffly, speaks fast every time, doesn't have a little logical accent, and is obviously a related household.
In the plot, he just came out of prison, with some beard, we know that this is the need of the plot, indicating that he is in prison, but after coming out, there should be a change! Otherwise, how can there be a contrast, the highlight is that he did not take care of it in prison, came out, became a new person, started again, and had to have a mental outlook. But the beard is not shaved, then there is no contrast, there is no contrast, then this is futile, you are in a mess in prison, come out or wretched, it is not right, the logic is gone.
Of course, this child is too young, the skin is so smooth, it is estimated that he has shaved his beard, he looks like he is in his twenties, and he cannot play the image of a middle-aged journalist who has suffered setbacks.
Some people say that Yan Ni's performance is not good, in fact, it is not that she is not good, but she has been playing urban life dramas, some mothers and ordinary women's roles, rarely participate in this realistic theme, especially anti-corruption, and is a villain, no matter how well she plays, her temperament and the roles she often plays will make the audience play.
Let's talk about Qin Lan, this is a typical vase. Typical uncomfortable, uncomfortable she acted, the audience watched uncomfortable, plus some of the reasons for the script lines, has been there awkward chat, making people really embarrassed to watch. However, in recent years, her plays have also been less, and the director also wants to have some beautiful women to nourish her eyes, but we have to say that the director is really too ambitious, the real anti-corruption theme, you can not want beautiful women.
There are a few old drama bones left, unfortunately, the limitations of the role, there is no play, basically a go-through play.
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In such a comparison, we can see that in the case of the script itself is very watery, the selection of actors is not as good as the former, plus the number of roles of some characters is set, several old drama bones are cutscenes, no play, all kinds of circumstances, "Breakout" has no good reputation, it can only appear Douban 5.8 points results.
To say that the breakout, the script, the director is not good, can only talk about the actor, Jin Dong is the main actor, and the previous TV series is almost the same, the back line is stiff, but he is better than Huang Xiaoming, Lu Yi, that is, the expression is still quite stylish, there are edges and angles, the performance is stable; Huang Zhizhong, rare in a TV series, there can be such a character description, it is reasonable to say that he is the number one villain, there is a lot of room for play, the character emotions are very fine, but he did not interpret all of this character. However, compared to his previous characters in the play, his performance is also OK; Yan Ni, or it is OK, but the temperament and ordinary performance are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, no way, the director's problem;
To say that Li Shundong played, actor Tian Lei, this actor was originally starred in a role in the TV series "An Jia" starring Sun Li, which was well received by everyone, and now he plays a more important role in this play, or very lucky, it can be seen that his performance is an object, there is imitation, this actor has some aura, and there will still be better performance in a few years, but in this part, because of the problem of the script lines, and the problem of the opponent Playing Qin Xiaochong actor, it can not come out too much.
To sum up: this is a large indoor sitcom in which a bunch of interchangeable and adjustable actors are awkwardly chatting, and the old drama bones are busy going through the stage. No one broke through the whole drama, and the whole army was destroyed!