What type of drama do you want to have great momentum, can make people think, and make people have endless memories?
It must be a historical drama, especially launched by CCTV, and there are few bad works.
How many viewers have watched TV series such as "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty" and "Kangxi Dynasty", which are very good in terms of script, production and actors' acting skills.
These high-quality dramas caused a wave of drama chasing at the time, set amazing ratings, and endured, and every time you rewatch it, you can have a new experience.
Historical dramas generally focus on two types of groups, one is the emperor, and the other is the people's livelihood.
The Great Qin Empire" and "Kangxi Dynasty" will know whose story it is telling by looking at the name. The word-of-mouth dramas "Daming Dynasty 1566" and "The Granary of the World" are to present the people's livelihood and feelings of that dynasty.
However, historical dramas are not so easy to film.
First, it has high requirements for the ability and quality of screenwriters and directors. This type of script usually takes a long time to polish. Filming should not be sloppy either, on-site scheduling, scene layout, actors' lines, etiquette, manners, etc., are all very important.
If you shoot well, it will be "a classic forever", and if you don't shoot well, you will be nailed to the pillar of shame.
For example, the follow-up "Daqin Fu" of the "Daqin Series" has been criticized so far.
With these two major obstacles, the producers do not dare to touch historical dramas easily.
What's more, historical dramas are difficult to explode.
The investment is high, the creation is difficult, and the returns are not equal, and the "smart" producers are of course willing to shoot ancient puppets.
But recently, there is a new historical drama that is being broadcast on CCTV, which is "Ding Baozhen".
premiered two episodes, and the ratings easily broke one, and won the second best result in the country.
Although the leading actors are not top-notch celebrities, they are all powerful people with superb acting skills.
Needless to say, Ma Shaohua's acting skills are self-evident, he played Principal Cai Yuanpei in "The Awakening Age", and everyone can see how he performed.
Cao Jun became famous at a young age, and his acting skills were already very natural at a young age. Although there are not many works in adulthood, his acting skills have never collapsed.
Ye Jing is also an actor familiar to many audiences. You may not remember his name, but you must have seen him play. Although the reputation is not loud, the acting skills are definitely recognized by the audience.
The cast doesn't have to worry, but what if the plot of the script is passable?
Ding Baozhen is different from previous historical dramas, and its perspective is neither a generation of emperors nor ordinary people, but historical ministers.
By telling the story of Ding Baozhen, it shows the current situation of the late Qing Dynasty and the current situation of people's livelihood.
At the beginning of the TV series, Ding Baozhen ordered to catch **, and used this as a guide to bring out the story step by step.
Corruption is an eternal topic. This opening can quickly catch the audience's attention and arouse everyone's desire to follow the drama.
Then there is the plot of the various forces in the court secretly colluding to carry out a power game.
In the previous part, the pace of the plot progressed quite quickly.
It's catching ** again, teasing foreign devils, and interspersed with a food plot that invents Kung Pao Chicken. Serious but not stereotypical, it doesn't look obscure.
In just a few episodes, the tone was set, showing the late Qing Dynasty hall where the storm was coming and the building was about to collapse. There are too many leading water injection episodes.
The details of the scenes and character costumes can also be seen to be carefully arranged, full of historical drama texture, and a strong sense of substitution.
But the shortcomings of "Ding Baozhen" are not small. It is almost impossible to reproduce the myth of "Ming Dynasty 1566".
First of all, the lines of the characters in the play are not elaborate enough and too casual.
It's not that historical dramas must be written and crepe, full of poetry, and they are also very good. It's about saying something that everyone says that is in line with the character's personality and identity.
In the play, the dialogues between Cixi and ministers and eunuchs don't look like a relationship between superiors and subordinates, but like colleagues.
* An Dehai's line, at first glance it was exciting, but when I continued to look down, I found that it was a bit of a forced reduction of intelligence for him, and the character creation was too child's play.
If the portrayal of the character is too flat, it is either the ultimate bad or the ultimate good. But people's personalities are multifaceted, and they have their own logic in acting.
But it didn't show it in the play.
A lot of critics say it's "too rough"!
All in all, "Ding Baozhen", as a historical drama, has a novel entry point, a rare theme, a compact plot, and a good cast, which is a work that can be watched.
But its shortcomings doomed it to be impossible to compare with the previous classic plays.
It's a pity that such a good theme and cast.