Recently, the star-studded big production legal drama "Battle of the Roses" aired.
The play combines the return of housewives to the workplace and the workplace ecology of lawyers. It is also an inspirational workplace drama for the heroine's growth.
Lawyer workplace dramas are an indispensable type of domestic dramas. The creators continue to integrate elements and innovate narratives, but there has been no high-quality lawyer workplace dramas. People can't help thinking about where the creative direction of this type of drama is.
Reporter Shi Wenjing
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"Battle of the Roses" tells the story of Gu Nian, played by Yuan Quan, who suddenly returned to the legal profession after being arrested for a crime by an elite lawyer's husband.
Gu Nian's return to the workplace is the law firm where Fengsheng (played by Huang Xiaoming) and Lingyi (Yu Feihong) are partners. Moreover, Gu Nian was also the secret crush of Fengsheng during his college days, which opened up Gu Nian's emotional line, career line, and female growth line in the workplace. Wait for the story.
On the one hand, Gu Nian dealt with her husband's complicated affairs, and on the other hand, with the help of Feng Feng, she overcame difficulties and won the cases and lawsuits that she represented, and grew into a strong woman in the workplace again.
The play is a group portrait of elite lawyers, but it has innovations in narrative rhythm, case selection, and workplace competition, integrating multiple topics and highlights such as women's growth, marriage relationships, and parent-child relationships.
It is worth mentioning that this drama focuses on the work and career as a narrative focus.
Many lawyer workplace dramas have been criticized by the audience because these dramas only use case representation and lawsuits as the story background of the hero and heroine's love line and workplace infighting line, which deviates from the professionalism of workplace dramas and the real ecology of the workplace.
The plot of the first few episodes of "War of the Roses" focused on letting the heroine deal with case by case to portray the courage and strengths and weaknesses of stay-at-home moms who must return to the workplace.
After Gu Nian returned to the workplace, the first case assigned was a case of drunk driving and killing someone.
This case seems to be a drunk driving case, but it is actually a case of intentional homicide, and it is also a complicated replacement case in which the criminal husband makes the housewife wife the "scapegoat".
After Gu Nian found clues from the loopholes in the transcript, she persuaded her with good words, standing on the same mother's stand, and persuaded her "scapegoat" wife to wake up and let her explain everything publicly in court.
The second case was the murder of a security guard in the villa area. Gu Nian and Feng Feng went to the villa area to "restore" the scene, found key evidence, exposed witnesses for perjury, and cleared the parties of suspicion.
The subsequent cases of inheritance of nanny inheritance, Internet celebrity anchor case, and nanny murder case have also continued to change, which are quite interesting.
The play is basically one case per episode. As a professional lawyer, Gu Nian can always turn the tide of the battle and win the lawsuit at critical moments.
Through these cases, the thinking of social issues such as the dilemma of stay-at-home mothers, parent-child relationship, and support dilemma has been drawn, and some positive values have been spread.
"Battle of the Roses" has a relatively fresh portrayal of lawyer groups such as the heroine Gu Nian, the male protagonist Feng Feng, and the female commander of ceremonies. Everyone has different characteristics, which attracts the audience to watch.
Through the characters' professionalism and the benign competition in the workplace, the audience can also find some emotional empathy.
Because the heroine is a middle-aged mother who has returned to the workplace, when dealing with various cases and facing various people, she presents a delicate and sensitive temperament, and Yuan Quan plays the role of richness.
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There are more female legal dramas this year. For example, the female-themed workplace drama "Lady's Law" starring Jiang Shuying, Liu Mintao, and Peng Yuchang before, tells the story of two female lawyers overcoming difficulties.
Xu Jie, a female lawyer who was "frustrated in love and in the workplace", became colleagues with Chen Ran by fate, and jointly investigated a bribery case.
This drama has written a large number of social cases to enrich the topicality of the plot. It is also a drama about women's growth, but the whole drama is linked to the story of female friendship and "sister and brother love".
Legal themes are a bonanza for film and television creation.
Some media in the political and legal industry believe that the reason why legal dramas have become a specific type of film and television drama is mainly because of the theme.
The exclusive nature of the subject matter requires it to be guaranteed by extremely strict legal expertise, and the related stories involved are naturally attractive, so this type of film and television work also has a special charm.
However, judging from the currently broadcast dramas, legal workplace dramas have always been the mainstream of creation. Most of these dramas focus on the elites of law firms. They either charge tens of thousands of dollars for an hour of consultation, or are talented lawyers, or It is the tyrant who helps the heroine overcome all obstacles. It is difficult for ordinary audiences to resonate with these elite characters.
Lawyer workplace dramas should not focus on the creation of elite characters, but should work hard on various cases, topics, and workplace professionalism, so that the audience can feel the complexity and power of human nature in the real ecology of these workplace people.
Next, a large number of legal dramas will be broadcast, such as "Above the River" starring Gao Weiguang and Chen Shu, "The Bottom Line" starring Jin Dong and Cheng Yi, "Perfect Evidence" starring Zhang Ruoyun and Jiao Junyan, Di Lieba , "Prosecution Elite" starring Tong Dawei, "Ordinary Road" starring Guo Qilin and Jin Chen, etc.
"Above the River" focuses on the wonderful cases of environmental protection judicial practice in the Yangtze River Basin; "Bottom Line" interprets the story of the people's judge's mission; "Prosecutor Elite" tells the story of a top student prosecutor finding the truth in the whirlpool of a series of cases; "Perfect Evidence" It tells the story of a workplace game in which two prosecutors are secretly competitive and dependent on each other.
These new dramas no longer focus exclusively on elite lawyers, but expand their roles to various workplaces related to law and politics, presenting the ecology of the legal and political workplace in many ways.
Legal-themed film and television dramas have inherently higher requirements for creators, and they are not limited to a certain creative mode. Only in this way can they create more good dramas that can be watched by laymen and experts.