Today, "The Three Teams" was officially released. This movie is neither a remake of a foreign suspense genre film, nor a "product manager-style movie" that bursts with commercial elements and stirs up public emotions, netizens who have watched the screening joked: "This is very unChen Sicheng".
Indeed, the route taken by "The Three Teams" is a minimalist narrative, and the emotion is a simple and powerful realistic style, which has a lot to do with IP**.
The film is adapted from the non-fiction work "Please Tell the Director, the Three Teams' Tasks Are Completed", which became the annual click champion of "thelivings in the world" as soon as it was published in 2018, attracting major film and television producers to compete for the adaptation copyright. At present, the movie version has finally met the audience, and the TV series version is also close behind.
The competition between film and television producers is largely a competition for IP copyright and talents. If for a long time in the past, the big online literature platform represented by Jinjiang and China Literature was the main ** of film and television IP, then now Douban Reading and Zhihu are also gradually gaining momentum with their respective characteristics, and even animation and games, serious literature and public IP that have been blessed by awards have also become the focus of film and television companies.
The Three Majors is a rare film and television IP from a non-fiction platform.
In recent years, the wind of realistic themes has been blowing strongly, and the focus of film and television companies on non-fiction IP and the shift of industry content are happening simultaneously. It can be said that in addition to online articles, animation and serious literature, news events and non-fiction works based on real people and real stories are being favored by more film and television companies as an IP bonanza to be exploited.
In addition to "The Three Teams", the to-be-broadcast dramas "Once Upon a Time in the Water", "The City Builder", "Squid", and the movies "Let's Shake the Sun Together", "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", "Escape from Youth", etc., are all adapted from non-fiction works.
Youku's online drama "Once Upon a Time on the Border" is produced by Cao Baoping, directed by Guo Qilin and Wu Zhenyu, and tells the adventure story of Shen Xing, a "part-time worker" who accidentally wandered between multiple forces.
It is adapted from the "Escape from the Golden Triangle Series" of the new non-fiction platform "Genius Catcher Project" in 2018 on the public account.
This is a story with scarce themes, full of legends, and strong reading drive, whether it is the narration perspective of the witnesses or the realistic narrative style of danger out of control, it makes readers feel "energetic", the first article has become a hit article, and the length of thirteen chapters is also very suitable for film and television adaptation. At present, the play has obtained a distribution license.
The TV series "City Builder" is produced by iQiyi and adapted from Zhu Xiaojun's long-form reportage "Chinese Peasant City", written by Yuan Keping, which comprehensively tells the true history of the development of a small fishing village into China's first peasant city.
The TV series "Squid" is jointly created by iQiyi and Seven Impressions, supervised by Guan Hu, and adapted from "Decryption of China's Railway No. 1 Case" published in 2019.
In fact, there have always been cases of movies drawn from news events and non-fiction literature, such as the movie "Dear" adapted from CCTV's 2011 special reports "Trafficking Serious Injuries" and "Childhood Death", "Fire Heroes" adapted from writer Baoerji Yuanye's long-form reportage "The Deepest Water is Tears", which was published by "Dalian Xingang 716 fires" incident firefighters interview reports are assembled.
In the movie to be released, "Let's Shake the Sun Together" directed by Han Yan is based on the documentary report article "The Most Utilitarian Marriage Transaction, the Most Emotional Eternal Promise", which tells the story of Wang Xiao, a uremia patient, who signed a marriage agreement with Yu Jianping, a leukemia ** patient, in order to survive, and lived under the power of love.
The film "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" is adapted from the non-fiction work "Murderous Girl in a Wedding Dress" of the "True Story Project", the film is directed by Zhang Guoli, starring Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu, the story tells the story of Lao Qin, who has been released from prison, starting a new life with 1.5 million in compensation for demolition, and with the intrusion of Chang Juan, a quirky 24-year-old girl, Lao Qin's life has also been completely changed.
The movie "Escape from Youth" adapted from "China's Version of Flying Over the Asylum" is produced by Rao Xiaozhi, written and directed by Zeng Hairuo, starring Xiao Yang and Chun Xia, telling the story of a programmer and a mentally ill person in a mental hospital.
In fact, the film and television adaptation of non-fiction literature is not a new thing, but in the past, it was adapted as "reportage", and now it is adapted as "non-fiction writing".
In 2016, LeTV Pictures won the "Pacific Battle Royale Witnesses' Statement" contributed by special reporter Du Qiang for "Esquire" with one million**, which is considered to be the highlight of the film and television of non-fiction works.
Tencent's Gu Yu, NetEase The Livings, Interface Noon, True Story Project, Genius Catcher Project and other new non-fiction writing platforms, as well as magazines such as "Esquire" and "GQ Zhizu", have been committed to the creation of non-fiction works.
For example, the film and television adaptation rights of Lin Shanshan's "The Last Enemy of the Gangster Godfather" were bought by Taiwanese director Chen Haoyi in 2016;In the same year, "Ellemen" sold the copyright of the feature article "1986, Life and Death Drifting";In 2018, Five Star Legendary Pictures bought "The Chinese Version of One Flew Over the Asylum: Seventeen Years of Conspiracy" produced by True Story Projects;Huayi Brothers purchased the interface feature "Desperate Travel: 32 Hours of Life and Death for a Group of Chinese Tourists".
However, due to multiple factors such as the film and television winter and the epidemic, these works have not been successfully filmed, so that non-fiction IP has always existed in niche corners until the emergence of "The Three Teams".
"The Three Teams" is the first successful non-fiction IP in film and television, and its emergence allows people to see the market space of non-fiction IP in realistic themes and suspenseful criminal investigation and other types of stories.
The author of "Three Teams" Deep Blue is a non-fiction talent unearthed by NetEase Human Studio, he is a former first-class police officer of the police station, and his experience in public security, criminal investigation, anti-narcotics and other departments has exposed him to a large number of cases, and he published his first article on the NetEase Human Platform in December 2016. The real image of the police and the vivid and complex display of human nature are the distinctive characteristics of Deep Blue's works.
In addition to "The Three Teams", the criminal investigation drama "Abyss", adapted from the same name**, also appeared in iQiyi's film list.
This drama will be adapted by Nie Chengshuai, the screenwriter of "Basic Law of Genius", still from the perspective of grassroots police, telling the story of two generations of police officers who have been tracking for 12 years and finally cracking a serial ** murder case.
In addition, NetEase Human Studio also sold the copyright to lawyer Cai Liaoyan's non-fiction work "The Dying Ward".
It can be found that the main body of non-fiction writing is no longer feature reporters and professional writers, and the non-fiction writing platform has attracted a large number of amateur writers from all walks of life, such as police, lawyers, doctors and other groups to devote themselves to non-fiction writing. As a result, the genre of non-fiction writing is also more focused on crime, legends, and professional stories.
Each IP platform has its own unique group of authors and temperament of works.
For example, Jinjiang's female frequency and fantasy temperament are strong, while Douban Reading focuses on urban emotions and suspense works with social concerns, rather than the typed realism IP provided by the fiction platform, which is a benign and complementary relationship with online literature platforms and serious literature.
No one can live in a vacuum", the charm of non-fiction IP comes from the impact of real events, detailed details and documentary texture, which has a strong persuasive power and sense of substitution for the audience.
However, non-fiction IPs also have some tendency to "go to extremes". Driven by the logic of the public account's pursuit of popular articles, many non-fiction works will rush to a more curious and exciting strong plot narrative, and violent plots such as serial murders are everywhere.
The long-form non-fiction works that take the publishing route are relatively "life flow", and this year's widely discussed non-fiction collection "I Deliver Express in Beijing" won 8With a high score of 2, the author Hu Anyan graduated from secondary school and worked in 19 jobs before and after, from hotel Xi waiter, to bakery apprentice, convenience store clerk, security guard, sales, etc., readers are moved by the hard work and tolerance of an ordinary good person.
Of course, the final film and television effect of non-fiction IP also depends on the screenwriter.
Compared with the adaptation of serious literary IP, it is difficult to match screenwriters of the same magnitude, and non-fiction IP is less difficult to adapt because it has its own genre commercial genes.
The movie "Three Teams" was adapted by Zhang Ji, the screenwriter of "Dear", who changed a short article of less than 10,000 words and a single person chasing the murderer into a story of three teams and five people fighting, telling the audience the group portrait and brotherhood, the ups and downs of the world and the idealism of "self-obsession".
*Doctor Zhang Yu's humorous nonfiction series Only Doctors Know, published in 2013 and featured on Youku's list this year, was written by Zhao Dongling.
It is conceivable that more non-fiction IPs will be put on the big screen and small screen one after another, and "The Three Teams" is just the beginning.
Wen Feiyu].