On the evening of February 6, the TV series "South to North" premiered on CCTV. This TV series is written by Mr. Gao Mantang and directed by Zheng Xiaolong, which belongs to a drama with a clear atmosphere of the era. After the start of the show's broadcast, the ratings rose all the way, and it continued to be in the position of the champion of ratings in the same period, and the peak rating of the first episode exceeded 25601%。(The data is based on Kuyun in real time).
Judging from the current ratings data trend, this TV series has initially possessed the temperament of the "drama king" that netizens often say. In terms of ratings, "South to North" has indeed become CCTV's new year's drama. In terms of audience word-of-mouth, because the play has just been broadcast, the word-of-mouth of fans has not yet been formed. In my personal opinion, this TV series is of high quality, and it has the learning effect of young screenwriters.
Although "South to North" starts with the story of catching a thief on the train, the real essence of this TV series is not one story after another, but the characters on top of these stories. In the play, there are "hot people". This is something that is lacking in many popular TV series at the moment. In many of our popular dramas, although the story is dense, the characters are not hot enough and lack vigorous vitality.
And among the plots that are currently premiering of this "South to North", what impresses me the most is that it has created a group of "fiery people". Let's take a few examples to prove what it means to be a "fiery person".
For example, the character played by Wang Xun was afraid that his bag would be lost again, so he came to the locomotive and was with several masters of the ** car. Everyone has scenes of talking and laughing, especially the momentum of throwing off their arms and working hard and joking desperately, with the unique spirit of the working class, incomparably fresh, revealing high-spirited vitality from the inside out.
For another example, in the compound, a group of women are talking about the scene where their men are coming back, and it has strong vitality. One of the eldest sisters made fun of the other eldest sister wearing new clothes. The other eldest sister is not only not angry, but is complacent, her own man, she likes herself and so on. Then, a female doctor entered. Everyone urged this eldest sister to plan a little bit in terms of childbirth.
This scene is really applauding. The screenwriter's life background is clear, good at observation, and can heartily infuse the observed life into the work. In real life, women who haven't seen their men for a long time just chat like this, with sexual needs, as well as family planning, and even "possible hearings" between neighbors.
This is actually the "fiery person". In "South to North", Bai Jingting and Ding Yongdai contributed two fight scenes in the first episode. These two fight scenes are not the show-off skills of ordinary martial arts films, but real fights. The fight in the train toilet is particularly exciting, focusing on the fiery feeling of the young male protagonist played by Bai Jingting. Without this spirit, you can't beat this kind of momentum.
Even the saleswoman of the state-run store played by Jin Chen is also full of fiery when she encounters a drunkard who comes to make trouble. Many of our young screenwriters feel that creating a "hot person" is to make the character smell of explosives, just a little bit. This is actually recklessness, not fiery people. Let's take a look at "South to North", how did you shape this scene and this character?
The heroine played by Jin Chen, in the face of the drunkard's deliberate trouble, not only dared to go back directly, but also dared to speak righteously and technically. This is actually more ingenious than fighting an alcoholic in the first place. The heroine poured the drunkard's bottle of wine into her own wine spoon to prove that the wine was later mixed with water. This trick can be described as extremely clever. The character is alive, and the flamboyant atmosphere comes out.
Even, the train announcer played by Jiang Yan has few scenes at all, some of the bridges, and even no lines. However, in "South to North", this character does not need lines in a specific section to complete the character task, and make the character alive and hot. For example, looking in the mirror in the radio room of the train and finding another male partner, this is the case.
Why is "Hot Man" important for a TV series? Ordinary TV dramas are to tell stories and let the audience remember the story. And the real top-level TV series is to present people, people with strong vitality, fresh people, and people who exist in the way of TV dramas. Only when the character is hot can the character exist through TV series, especially in the long river of film and television art.
On the other hand, the characters are only hot and have a sense of life that is about to burst out, and the audience is willing to watch their stories and see their ups and downs in the long river of history. People, or characters, at this moment, are greater than the story itself, these people and characters live, and they generate the story themselves, and the screenwriter and director become the supporting roles of the characters. (Wen Ma Qingyun).