Oriental Network reporters Xiong Fangyu and Liu Hao reported on August 6: The 2020 Shanghai TV Festival has a pioneering move, for the first time, the "key video website premiere TV series" is included in the Magnolia Award. This is a big step forward for online dramas, but Zheng Xiaolong, chairman of the jury of the 26th Shanghai TV Festival, "poured cold water", and he told reporters bluntly in the interview that the current web drama is not the real "network drama" in his heart.
Network technology should bring new artistic styles
Zheng Xiaolong has directed works such as "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and "The Biography of Mi Yue", and has been nominated for the Best Director of the Magnolia Award at the Shanghai TV Festival for four times, of which in 2008 and 2012, he won the trophy of the Best Director of the Magnolia Award at the Shanghai TV Festival with "The Golden Wedding" and "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
Talking about the web drama in his mind, Zheng Xiaolong is a little excited, he said that the ideal "super web drama" is a new drama style with large production, strong interactivity, rapid production according to the needs of the audience and multi-line and multi-angle performance. But unfortunately, the real web drama has not yet appeared.
"There is not much difference between the web dramas and TV series that everyone often watches now, but the broadcast platforms are different, and there is no change in the way of production and viewing because of network technology." Zheng Xiaolong said that network technology can narrow the distance with the audience, which is something that TV dramas cannot do, and the network has the characteristics of the network. For example, in the suspense genre, as soon as the character goes out, the audience can choose to turn left or right, and each choice will lead to a different plot result.
New technology should bring new art styles, film technology development has movies, camera technology development has TV series, network technology development should not also have different network dramas? "Technology is productivity, and new technologies must also bring about changes in new content," Zheng Xiaolong said firmly.
It is not right to treat "The Biography of Zhen Huan" as a palace fighting drama
Zheng Xiaolong has a straightforward personality, and there are two topics in the interview that make him directly "recoil" reporters, one about his upcoming "Happiness to Ten Thousand Families" and one about "The Biography of Zhen Huan", which has been famous for many years.
Zheng Xiaolong revealed that during the epidemic, he grinded two scripts at home, "Meritorious Service" and "Happiness to Ten Thousand Families". In view of the fact that he has expressed his position in public before, he does not dare to use traffic stars, worried that the film remuneration is too high, does not memorize lines and plays a big card. Some people asked, then why did Zhao Liying be used this time? Zheng Xiaolong leaned over and asked helplessly, "Do you think Zhao Liying is a traffic star?" High traffic is traffic star? As far as I know, many traffic stars rely on fans to beat the list and control the evaluation, in fact, the acting ability is not good. I don't like to cooperate with such a star, and it has nothing to do with traffic or traffic. And that kind of high popularity is not real, and some of the data is bought. ”
Zheng Xiaolong said that Zhao Liying has a popular star with acting skills, not a "traffic star". More than ten years ago, "Golden Wedding" also starred Zhao Liying, but it was only after many years of cooperation again.
"Over the years, many 'palace fighting dramas' have also been broadcast, but they can't surpass the "Biography of Zhen Huan", how to view this phenomenon?" In the face of this problem, Zheng Xiaolong shook his head, you regard "The Biography of Zhen Huan" as a "palace fighting drama", it seems that for many years there has been no education in excellent literary and artistic works, so that the audience can not distinguish what is the realist theme.
"The Biography of Zhen Huan is obviously a typical work that criticizes the feudal and backward marriage system, is anti-feudal, and has a very strong spirit of realism and criticism", Zheng Xiaolong some hate iron is not steel, the current audience is easy to confuse the realistic theme and the realist theme, costume drama can also be a realistic theme, and the "suspension" youth idol drama is really not a realistic theme. This is not to distinguish according to whether the plot content is modern or not, but to distinguish between the attitude and spirit expressed in the play.
"The Biography of Zhen Huan" can be described as a successful case of "national drama going to sea", many countries or regions have bought three or four rounds of copyright, if it is just a simple "palace fight cool drama", it will not let the audience around the world repeatedly recall. Zheng Xiaolong said that just as the slogan of the American release was "an indomitable soul", the slogan of Taiwan was "the tragedy of love and cannot be loved"... Their focus is not on "palace fighting".
"Harem battles are the inevitable result of the backward marriage system, and now many dramas appreciate harem dramas and even encourage people to cross over there, which is completely critical in "The Biography of Zhen Huan"." Zheng Xiaolong said that there is realism, less entertainment, attention to detail and quality, I believe that China's TV dramas will be good dramas frequently, and there will also be good works beyond "The Biography of Zhen Huan".