2023 will be a year of full-scale explosion for domestic film and television.
The recovery of the cinema market has not only included industrial giants such as "The Wandering Earth 2", which has a bumper harvest at the box office, but also niche favorites such as "Space Exploration Editorial Department".
From the summer file to the New Year's Day file, the strongest schedule helped the annual total box office to 54.9 billion, which is 183 times.
There are countless national dramas with more than 8 points on Douban, such as "Hurricane", "Three-Body Problem", "Flowers", "Asking the Boundless", "Under the Prosperous City", "The Long Season" ......
Even if you just see the stills and hear the title, you can really smell a smell and immerse yourself in an atmosphere.
Today's article is dedicated to last year's amazing film and television dramas, as well as the unforgettable characters in them.
The hottest. If you want to say that the most popular national drama in 2023, it must be "Hurricane", which has an average episode of more than 200 million.
The most popular character must be Gao Qiqiang played by Zhang Songwen.
During the Spring Festival, "Hurricane" almost dominated the entire TV drama field, and even on the high-speed train after the holiday, it also showed a spectacle dominating the screen.
The biggest reason for such a momentum is that the audience is curious about why Gao Qiqiang, a fishmonger who was still slaughtered in 2000, can become the largest leader of the largest organization in Jinghai City 20 years later, and he is a kind CPPCC member on the surface.
Source: "Hurricane", the same below
can play Gao Qiqiang, who has such a large identity span, actor Zhang Songwen has contributed a lot.
When he was a fishmonger, he had a distinct fishy smell on his body; When he was the boss, he had a lot of cologne smell on him; When he was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he seemed to be in a state of affairs again.
Even if you haven't watched the drama, just by looking at Zhang Songwen's eyes on the poster, you can easily see which stage of Gao Qiqiang these three characters correspond to.
Outside the play, he impressed the audience who wanted to get rich, at that time, thousands of viewers left the avatar of the money leopard in "Journey to the West" and changed to a new goal, not much, only five: go to the vegetable market to sell fish, buy plasma TV, kneel to godfather, marry a widow and read "The Art of War".
Netizens turned into police officers one after another and "checked" Zhang Songwen.
It turned out that Zhang Songwen was a tour guide turned actor; graduated with the first grade in Nortel's grade, but was denied by seven or eight hundred batches of crews; Once, a director pointed his nose and told the management that he was short like a dwarf and couldn't be an actor at all; I have rented a house in the suburbs of Beijing for more than ten years, and the money I saved can't afford to buy a house, not a house in Beijing, but a house in my hometown in Guangdong; Before the start of "Hurricane", Zhang Songwen often stayed in the aquatic market in the early morning to watch how the fish stall owners did ......business
Zhang Songwen's early class photos
From this point of view, Zhang Songwen became popular because of "Hurricane", which is certainly a kind of luck, but it is not a kind of sadness for internal entertainment - even people with acting skills like him have to stay up to this age to get ahead.
The most regrettable. is different from Gao Qiqiang, who is quite emotional in character design, An Xin has obvious disadvantages in character design and character arc.
An Xin and Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane".
When comforting colleagues, An Xin often said that "my life is not worth anything", because his colleagues have families, but he doesn't.
His own beliefs, the vocation of the police, and the teachings of An Changlin and others are the reasons why his sense of justice is bursting, and they are also the source of motivation for him to chase the murderer for 20 years.
But from another point of view, this also means that he is flat and labeled, which means that he has no weakness, unlike Gao Qiqiang, who can use his family to win the audience's sympathy, distress and tears.
He is more like a saint who was born to suffer, and he can only impress the audience with his perseverance and the performance of the actor who has insisted on chasing the murderer for 20 years.
Fortunately, Zhang Yi's acting skills have added a lot to An Xin.
How high-spirited he was when he was young, and how embarrassing it was to say "But who knows what happened next" twenty years later.
If the actor of the role is replaced by a top-notch on the Internet, I really doubt that the drama "Hurricane" can still be watched.
In 2015, a Douban score was 83, box office 9"The Return of the Great Sage" of 5.4 billion has let everyone see the possibility of domestic animation.
Eight years later, the director of the work, Tian Xiaopeng, brought "Deep Sea".
Source: "Deep Sea", the same below
The first particle ink technology makes the entire sea clouds steam and sparkle, and every frame is beautiful and dreamy.
But the audience's bad comment of "wanting special effects and special effects for the plot" also shows the weakness of "Deep Sea".
The director wanted to use the picture to shock the audience, but he didn't polish the story itself.
Wading in the Sea of Wrath", which is as good as Cao Baoping's past films such as "Scorching Sun", but because everyone's expectations are high, the requirements are naturally high.
Source: "Wading through the Sea of Wrath", the same below
Lao Jin, played by Huang Bo, just loves his daughter Nana in a way that "thinks he loves".
But in fact, he doesn't really love his daughter.
When Nana listened to the teacher talk about the difference between "like" and "love" in Japanese, and was asked to try to form a sentence with "love", but could only say "love, no", almost all the audience was heartbroken.
When Huang Bo once again showed actor-level acting skills and washed away the embarrassing situation of the past few years, almost all the audience was excited.
But when a film focusing on suspense and crime suddenly starts to discuss intergenerational communication, although it is reasonable from the plot point of view, it is inevitably a little out of step with the publicity, and all kinds of coincidences that occur in order to promote the plot are also a little disregardful of logic.
The bigger problem with the film is that while it focuses on intergenerational communication and the problems of the family of origin, it rarely focuses on what causes the intergenerational problems, and only rudely attributes it to Lao Jin himself.
Although the overall flaws are not hidden, it has to be said that it is a big pity.
The most magnificent. During the Spring Festival, complementing "Hurricane" on the small screen is "The Wandering Earth 2" that shines on the big screen.
Source: "The Wandering Earth 2", the same below
20 scientific advisors, 200,000 words of world viewing; 10 set workshops, 17 studios, 102 sci-fi main scenes; 3,000 conceptual design drawings, 8,000 storyboard sketches, tens of thousands of props production, more than 20,000 group performances, and nearly 100,000 costumes ......
In terms of investment costs, casts, and production cycles, it is an indisputable blockbuster.
Unlike "The Wandering Earth", which is limited to cost and cannot be perfect in many aspects.
The Wandering Earth 2 is the best domestic sci-fi blockbuster from all angles, even better than its predecessor.
In terms of production, it is small, with exoskeleton armor tailored by rescue team members, and dense drones in the air; Big, with adrenaline-pumping space elevators, and massive space stations.
In terms of effect, it can not only use long shots to give the audience a huge visual impact and sensory stimulation, but also give Yaya a complete life to give the audience a subtle spiritual tremor.
The box office can reach 4 billion, which is what "The Wandering Earth 2" deserves, and it is also generally optimistic in the industry.
But even derivatives such as "Benben" can be sold out again and again, and finally reach the order of 100 million, which is really surprising.
Because this means that domestic films have taken another leap forward in IP production and development.
The magnificence is similar to that of "The Wandering Earth 2", which is the epic blockbuster "Fengshen" in the summer file.
One science fiction, one fantasy, one modern, one ancient, can be called the twin stars in last year's domestic blockbusters.
Source: "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun", the same below
The "proton group" closed training, three consecutive shooting, with an investment of more than one billion.
The effect of "Fengshen" on the IMAX big screen, such as the ruthlessness of "Pingping Jizhou", such as the magnificent waves of ten thousand arrows, cannot be given by all the "Romance of the Gods" TV series in the past.
"It doesn't matter whose son you are, it matters who you are".
When Ji Chang, played by Li Xuejian, said this sentence to Ji Fa, it laid the core of the film "Killing Father".
Xibohou and Ji Fa tell us with their actions that the so-called canonization of gods is the process of recovering ourselves, the process of building a new culture, and the real epic.
Space Exploration Editorial Department", with a box office of 67 million, is very inconspicuous today when domestic films are often two or three billion.
But as a pseudo-documentary and pseudo-sci-fi film, if it can attract Guo Fan's cameo + producer, and if it can win 4 awards such as Best Screenplay in Jinji and Best Film in Pingyao, you can know that it is not ordinary.
The reason why it is placed here is "the most magnificent" because it is very poetic, and the proposition of wanting ** is also very grand, that is, "what is the meaning of human existence in the universe".
When Tang Zhijun, a middle-aged and elderly civil science, the editor-in-chief of a raunchy science fiction magazine, and a psychopath in the eyes of outsiders, said to the snowflake point on TV with a very serious tone and expression, "This is not an ordinary snowflake point, this is the afterglow of the birth of the universe", it raised the film to the height of philosophy.
Source: "Space Exploration Editorial Department".
Human existence is both a mystery and an answer in itself.
The starry sky twinkles in the universe, but also in the human body.
This is also why Tang Zhijun can't read the poem he wrote to his daughter, because his tears are the poem itself.
Drama King of the Year. Which drama last year deserved to be the "best of the year" by any point of view?
In my eyes, the answer must be "The Long Season".
Source: "The Long Season", the same below
For a long time, it has been popular in the film and television industry to "summarize your story in one sentence", and it is best to have a benchmark, otherwise, no matter how good the story is, it will be difficult to get the favor of capital, let alone meet the audience.
From this point of view, we can give "The Long Season" a lot of slogans that are as short as possible.
It is a contemporary version of "A Generation".
tells the story of young people who are full of vigor and hope, in order to pursue their own light, how they struggle to climb out of the dark night, but in the end they are exchanged for a deeper fall.
It is the Chinese version of "Memories of Murder".
Source: "Memories of Murder".
With a seemingly sunny tone and a widely implicated ** case, to reflect the symptoms of the entire era.
It is the Northeast version of "Kill That Shijiazhuang Man".
It depicts how a group of middle-aged people living in experience encountered the collapse of the building, how they lived after the encounter, and how they lived with their families, society, and their own expectations.
There are many similar sentences that can be written, and they are all correct, but they are also one-sided.
Because not all dramas can be summed up in one sentence, "The Long Season" especially cannot.
If you have to sum it up in one sentence, the most appropriate sentence may be the poem "Snap Your Fingers" written by Wang Yang in the play (the author is the writer Ban Yu).
"Snap your fingers," he said, and if we snap our fingers in resonance, things far away will be shattered, and the people in front of us will not know it at this moment. ”
Whether it is outside the play or in the play, it is an incomparably accurate **, a impact that spans time and space, with infinite and endless strength.
Just as we didn't know before watching the drama that the quality of "The Long Season" was so high and the stamina was so great, that there are still people who can't stop crying when they listen to "Looking Back Again" and want to talk about it.
Just like Wang Xiang, who has been a train driver in the birch steel mill for decades, his life was suddenly divided into two halves.
Half of the birch steel mill has not closed down, and the son and wife are still alive.
At this stage, he has a typical macho character, a cowardly bravery, and an almost pedantic integrity in the eyes of today.
In the words of Qiaoyun in the play: "His name is Wang Xiang, loud and loud." ”
The other half was the collapse of the birch steel mill, and the death of his son and wife.
At this stage, he took the initiative to devote himself to sadness and grief with an almost pathological attitude, and often turned grief and anger into strength, to find out the ** who killed his son Wang Yang in the autumn, and give him an explanation for "dying in the water before the age of twenty".
In Wang Xiang's own words in the play: "Why is this autumn so long, it seems like a lifetime." ”
The actor who played Wang Xiang in these two stages very naturally is Fan Wei, who was born as a cross talk actor, and later became popular all over the country as a sketch actor, and even won the Golden Horse actor.
This "slash" man who has repeatedly crossed the border interprets the highest achievement that a literary and artistic worker can achieve, that is, to make countless audiences sincerely sigh "not like acting".
After counting the screen images of the past few decades, most of the keywords linked to Fan Wei converge, such as honesty, integrity, humor, and many roles, except for him, you can't find a second suitable actor.
But through "The Long Season", we can still be pleasantly surprised to find that it is not all of Fan Wei's energy at all.
When Wang Yang's grievances of "suicide (fear of crime)" were washed away, and Wang Yang was given an explanation after 20 years, Wang Xiang's whole spirit seemed to be hollowed out.
He bent his body and walked on the bridge where Wang Yang jumped deep twenty years ago, gradually lost his breath, and fell to the ground with weak legs, but his strength was not enough to support him to continue kneeling, so he fell and lay on the stone bridge.
It was his adopted son Wang Bei who saved Wang Xiang from this state, just like his cry twenty years ago, which gave Wang Xiang hope to continue to live.
Wang Xiang has always wondered, "Why is this autumn so long, it seems like a lifetime", but when the snowflakes fell, he suddenly changed his head and said with a smile, "This snow daddy has seen it."
From this moment on, the "long season" is over, and the people in the play will come out of that bright but cold autumn to a winter that is as bright as snow and can wash everything away like snow.
The person who created all this art is director Xin Shuang.
From the beginning of "The Hidden Corner" in 2020, which makes people's scalps numb, to "The Long Season" in 2023, which makes people unable to extricate themselves from "looking back", Xin Shuang is undoubtedly one step closer on the basis of maintaining quality, and "translates" what the audience really wants to watch.
Although I don't know what type and lineup Xin Shuang's next part is, I think it must be extremely exciting.
The above is my personal opinion.
Because "there is no first in the text, there is no second in the martial arts", even if there are so many excellent works, it is difficult to say that there is a work that can satisfy everyone from any angle, and feel that it is a well-deserved best of the year.
This is the common dilemma of literary and artistic works, and it is also the reason why we are happy to speak.
February 2nd is coming, and the dragon is about to raise its head.
I hope that this year's domestic film and television dramas will be better than last year.