Our reporter Li Xiazhi
The urban life drama "Police Honor", directed by Ding Hei and written by Zhao Dongling and Tan Jiayan, ended on the 13th.
In the finale, the policeman Cao Jianjun who made a mistake died heroically, and Yang Shu returned to the team after being transferred from the city bureau.
The ending was full of laughter and tears, but the discussion about the characters in the play continued on the Internet.
As of press time, the Douban score of the show has continued to rise, and it has now reached 8.5 points, with more than 40% of the audience giving five-star praise.
During the broadcast of the series, the popularity on iQIYI exceeded 9,000, and the ending day ranked first in the Guduo popularity index ranking TV drama daily, weekly and monthly broadcasts, and also ranked first in the list released by China's audio-visual big data. Ranked the top three on the weekly broadcast list in the first week of broadcast.
For the screenwriter Zhao Dongling, she is very happy that the audience has all the emotional ties to the Balihe dispatched by her, "I have been watching audience feedback these days, some people like Li Dawei, some people hate Cao Jianjun, but Everyone can see the reflections of many people’s real lives in these little characters I wrote, and the cases in the play have also aroused heated discussions among the audience, which is the original intention that we most hoped to achieve when we wrote this story.”
The script of "Police Honor" was first written in 2018. Zhao Dongling, who is good at writing realistic themes, has previously written works such as "China Land", "Red Sorghum" and "An Residence". ".
Determined to write "Police Honor", she still chose to "pick up" materials in her life.
Zhao Dongling said that most of the cases in "Police Honor" were "picked up" in interviews, "Except for the last series of murders, which were artistic creations, other cases have more or less prototypes, including the big characters in the play. Some of them also have prototypes." In order to write this work, Zhao Dongling took the team to five police stations and a criminal police team in Jinan, interviewed dozens of front-line police officers, and followed the police on several night shifts.
For example, the plot of Xia Jie's apology to Dr. Wu in the play comes from a story shared by an old policeman at the Shiliulihe Police Station in Jinan, and it also caused a conflict because the reporter left a blood sample.
"Police Honor" has created four fledgling trainee police officers, connecting the daily life of the Balihe Police Station with the practice process of the "Wang Wang Team" police officers.
The four groups of masters and apprentices appearing in the play are not artistic creations. Zhao Dongling said that they originated from the true tradition of "passing, helping, and leading" in the public security department.
Many viewers saw the rules of workplace operation from the relationship between mentors and apprentices, and even summed up "workplace tips" from the complementarity and behavior of different mentors and apprentices.
Zhao Dongling was surprised, "In the beginning, I just wanted to convey the life of a police officer truthfully. When it was broadcast, the audience said that this is the workplace. I don't think we designed it intentionally, but it was a natural effect of this presentation."
What fascinates the audience most in "Police Honor" is the steamy daily life.
In the play, one-shot-to-the-end performance is often used. From early morning to answering the police, to finishing work in the early morning, taking a break, and on duty late at night, the daily work of the 24-hour police station allows the audience to truly understand the work rhythm of the grassroots police for the first time.
The story also focuses on the family and life of each policeman. They also have to face the tension of family relationships, deal with parent-child relationship, parental relationship and various relative issues. Almost everyone has a story, and every story has a life. 's imprint.
In Zhao Dongling's view, instead of writing about major cases, she turned to the daily life of grassroots policemen because she hopes to show a police image that is really close to the real life of the audience.
"We were very uneasy when we first made this positioning. In the past two years, works with similar themes such as "Guardian Liberation West" have been recognized by everyone, which also strengthened our confidence in this direction." Zhao Dongling believes that the functions of film and television works have two functions. One is to create dreams for everyone, and the other is to truly reflect real life, and to ask questions through art works as much as possible.
In "Police Honor", different types of cases have appeared one after another, and the social problems involved are also very common, such as the problem of raising dogs in the relocated community, how to protect the rights of Lao Lai, the abandoned elderly, and even the household registration police will encounter lock-picking on behalf of and so on.
The handling of the Balihe police station in the play has also been repeatedly discussed by the audience for many times, and new problems and new situations in urban management have attracted attention, which is also the original intention of the main creator of the play.
"The case of Balihe Police Station, an urban-rural junction, was chosen because we found that this urban-rural junction is to some extent the epitome of modern China. In the process of urbanization in China, a large number of rural people are changing every day. Identity becomes a new urbanite, and this situation may continue for a considerable period of time.”
"In the past, we said that art works have the function of creating dreams. I have no objection to this. But people can't be immersed in dreams forever. People always want to take care of themselves and their lives in the works." "Police Honor" is very popular among audiences. , Zhao Dongling is also very happy. She lamented that the return of realism is being generally recognized by the audience. Facing the audience's call for a second season, she said that the platform iQiyi has proposed a direction for cooperation, and she will seriously consider it.