Domestic entrepreneurial drama "getting together" staged a plot that is divorced from reality and difficult to gain high reputation.
In order to pay tribute to the 40 years of reform and opening-up, TV dramas with realistic themes have occupied more than half of the screen. Recently, the Entrepreneurial Times, Many Years You Are Late and Little Women under Zhengyangmen, which are intensively broadcasted by many satellite TV stations, all focus on entrepreneurs in different years and fields. On November 5th, another entrepreneurial drama "When the Wind Comes Again" landed on Hunan Satellite TV. This theme work, starring Lu Yi and Yolanda, focuses on economic development and shows the process of economic development in China since the reform and opening up. In addition, tribute dramas such as Our Forty Years, You and My Allure Time will be broadcast one after another in recent days, and a number of highly anticipated entrepreneurial dramas such as Big Rivers will also meet the audience soon. The time line of these TV dramas spans 40 years after the reform and opening up, which also shows that investors and producers of TV dramas are increasingly turning their attention to the ever-changing realistic themes, among which various workplace dramas and industry dramas are the most important. These works let the audience reread the changes of the times of reform and opening up with the plot.
Entrepreneurial stories are even more "earthy"
At the time of 40 years of reform and opening up, many satellite TV stations have focused their broadcasts on entrepreneurial dramas or industry dramas this year. Prior to this, Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace, which was shot with a huge sum of money, was cold after broadcast, which seemed to indicate that the momentum of Gongdou theme was getting weaker and weaker. Previously, the hit Story of Yanxi Palace appeared to be a strong continuation of Gong Dou’s works, but one of the core reasons for its popularity was that the audience needed to watch "cool" dramas. The protagonist’s process of overcoming difficulties was like playing monsters, which made many professionals relieve their pressure and enjoy themselves, which actually indicated the potential market space of workplace dramas and industry dramas.
Focusing on the current screen, Entrepreneurial Times, Many Years You’re Late and Little Women under Zhengyangmen are broadcast at the same time, allowing the audience to look back on the entrepreneurial stories after the reform and opening up and show their expectations for the development of emerging industries. Several entrepreneurial dramas broadcast earlier this year have also broadened the field of industry dramas. Compared with the mother-in-law, palace fighting and fantasy themes that were full of screens in the previous two years, this year’s TV screen seems to be connected with the local atmosphere.
In November, the works of the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up will also enter the climax of broadcasting. "When the Wind Comes Again" starring Lu Yi, Yolanda, zhuyuchen and others landed on Hunan Satellite TV on November 5. Based on the experiences of Fang Bangyan, He Youlin, and Kang Ning who switched jobs and entered the enterprise and government, the drama runs through the historical nodes such as southern talks, establishing the goal of socialist market economy, foreign trade system reform, Asian financial crisis, WTO accession, and Belt and Road construction. It is a work that describes the achievements of reform and opening up in the past 40 years from an economic perspective and restores the reform and opening up.
Zhao Liying and Kim starred in "You and My Allure Time", which will be premiered on Oriental TV and Zhejiang TV on November 11th. The play is adapted from Ding Mo’s novel of the same name, and tells the story that Lin Shao, an urban white-collar worker, met Li Zhicheng, who was ordered to become the president because of the business difficulties of his family business. They supported each other and grew together, bringing the business back to life. With the dream of rejuvenating the enterprise and patriotism, young private entrepreneurs such as Li Zhicheng and Lin Qian refused the acquisition of overseas enterprises and devoted themselves to product upgrading and corporate image management. In the end, the two men made the enterprise go to the world step by step and gained love.
Our Forty Years, which was also broadcast on November 11th, was adapted from the novel Television. This drama takes the television industry as the breakthrough point and tells the story that Feng Du, a teenager who grew up in an old Beijing hutong in the late 1970s, became attached to the television for the first time and was deeply shocked by the world on the screen. From then on, he took television as his career and gradually became a successful TV man.
The theme of entrepreneurship is difficult to be "professional"
Although the broadcast of entrepreneurial works has gradually reached a climax, judging from the word-of-mouth situation of the broadcast entrepreneurial dramas, the online rating of Little Women under Zhengyangmen has remained above 8 points, while the ratings of other works are all around 3 to 6 points. Although the audience praised the glitter of some works, for example, after the broadcast of You are Many Years Late, everyone saw that every role in the drama had shortcomings, and they were growing with the broadcast of the series, and they affirmed it.
However, many viewers still don’t agree with such works labeled as professional dramas, entrepreneurial dramas or industry dramas. One of the key reasons is that most of the works are dressed as industry dramas, but in fact, they interpret the drama of emotional dramas or chronological dramas, and there is no "industry" reality: "Entrepreneurial Times" is the work that uses the most pen and ink to describe mobile Internet entrepreneurship, but the suspended plot, the deliberately pursued conflict effect, and the abrupt expression and plot all make it difficult for the professionals as the audience to resonate; The little woman under Zhengyangmen, with a high score, talked about the reform and opening up from the public-private partnership in 1955, but it mainly reflected the ups and downs of private enterprises in the long river of history. The elements of workplace and entrepreneurship are not the main theme, but more like an "emotional drama of the times". In addition, several works with industry dramas as their selling points have not won a good reputation from the audience, and the workplace elements are either too thin or seriously out of touch with reality, which is the main reason why industry works have been criticized. After reading it, some viewers said that such works show the "parallel world" of the workplace built by directors or screenwriters according to their imagination without experiencing life.
Clever playwrights in the workplace are better at promoting the development of the plot with internal contradictions in the industry. What the audience sees is the survival law and struggle process in the workplace, as well as the entanglement between good and evil in human nature caused by these. In the history of domestic dramas, there have also been workplace industry dramas with win-win reputation and ratings. In the 1980s, Miss Public Relations, Plainclothes Policeman and the popular hit Mind in previous years interpreted the vivid but little-known lives of all kinds of professionals.
A successful entrepreneurial drama can highly restore the professional characteristics of a certain field and set up people with industry characteristics. The first thing to do is to be professional, and professionalism means that the main creator is close to the real life and work state of the people in the workplace, so that the audience can feel the joys and sorrows of the characters in the drama. (Reporter Qiu Wei)