"Hard" technology meets "soft" stories, and the focus of drama creation returns to "World Factory"——
[How to observe reality in works with realistic themes 4] Let's break out, industrial drama!
Our reporter Liu Xiaoyan
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From the broadcast to the finale, the industrial drama "The Wind Blows Pinellia" has achieved good ratings on Jiangsu Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV, iQiyi and other broadcasting platforms, and has also triggered discussions on social platforms many times.
In addition to this drama, many industrial dramas with similar themes such as "Song of Lushan", "The Great Game", "Boiling Life" and "Hardcore Era" will also hit the screen in 2022.
"Whether it is an individual, a company, or a large enterprise, we must dare to take responsibility, and we must have a strong sense of social responsibility." Following the confession of the protagonist Xu Banxia, he revealed that he will be the one who used illegal means to occupy the beach back then. Surrendering himself, this TV series "The Wind Blows Pinellia", which focuses on the reform and progress of private entrepreneurs, also ushered in the finale.
In fact, in addition to "The Wind Blows Pinellia", many industrial dramas with similar themes such as "The Song of Lushan", "The Great Game", "Boiling Life" and "Hardcore Era" were also broadcast this year.
These dramas not only formed a phenomenal explosion in terms of quantity, but also deeply cultivated their respective "hard" technical fields in terms of content, told good industrial "soft" stories, and gained unanimous praise from the audience.
Industrial drama ushered in a creative explosion
When viewing the short video, it happens to be a clip of the heroine talking about business with people at the wine bureau; when viewing the social platform, what is shared is the retro style and outfit of the heroine; when viewing the music software, the hit songs appear in TV dramas Classic old songs... After encountering "The Wind Blows Pinellia" on multiple platforms, Sun Jia, born in the 90s, finally couldn't help but turned on the video software and began to seriously watch the drama.
After watching 36 episodes in a row, Sun Jia told reporters that his feeling was "hearty and hearty".
The three protagonists of the play started from scratch. At first, they collected scrap steel as their business, and then gradually came into contact with the steel industry, dealing with large state-owned enterprises, foreign companies, and private companies, and finally broke into a world.
Steel is just one of the "hard core" industrial elements that will be focused on in industrial dramas that will explode in 2022.
Among the industrial-themed TV dramas broadcast in 2022, in addition to "The Wind Blows Pinellia", which focuses on the acquisition of scrap steel, there is also "Song of Lushan", which focuses on the pains of the transformation and upgrading of state-owned heavy industry, showing the entrepreneurial spirit in the reform process of Sinotruk industry "The Great Game", "The Boiling Life", which depicts the Chinese autobots inheriting the ideals of their parents, and "Hardcore Era", which tells the birth process of China's third-generation nuclear power technology "Hualong One" with completely independent intellectual property rights, will also be broadcast soon.
Up to now, "Wind Blowing Pinellia" has been rated by nearly 300,000 people, with a stable score of 8.2 points, and "Song of Lushan" has also reached 7.8 points.
From steel to heavy industry, automobiles, and then to nuclear power, these industrial dramas present the audience with a wonderful map of my country's industrial manufacturing field, not only forming a phenomenal explosion in quantity, but also gaining a good reputation.
Rooted in rich creative soil
The development of Chinese industrial dramas has actually achieved results long ago, and it also provides an excellent reference for the creation of latecomers.
In May 1949, the first feature-length film "The Bridge" of New China, filmed by the Northeast Film Studio, premiered. For the first time, the image of the working class was shown positively on the screen.
Since then, works such as "Director Qiao's Appointment", "Workshop Director", "The Great Craftsman" and "The Age of Steel" have shown the growth and development of our country's workers, factories and industries from different stages and from different aspects, leaving the director Qiao , Duan Qiming, Xiao Changgong, Shang Tielong and many other vivid screen images.
In recent years, industrial dramas such as the two parts of "Dajiang Dahe", "The Pentium Era", "Mountain and Sea Blueprint" and "Chasing Dreams and Blue Sky" have begun to be presented intensively, and gradually broaden and refine the industrial fields involved in the subject matter.
On the other hand, my country's literary works focusing on industrial themes have also become a rich soil for the creation of industrial dramas.
For example, "Wind Blowing Pinellia" was adapted from the novel "No Rebirth" published by writer Anai in 2006. Writer Xiao Kefan's "Machine", "The Last Worker" and "Pig Iron Blossom" and other works that reflect the feelings of workers have won many awards. .
In the field of network creation, "industrial style" is also an important category in recent years.
With "industry" as the keyword, there are 379 related works in the search on Qidian Chinese website. Among them, Qi Cheng, who is known as a great writer, also has many works such as "Great Power Heavy Industry", "Material Empire" and "Industrial Overlord" on the list. The highest recommended value is as high as nearly 1.3 million.
"I like the original novel and the outline of the story very much. This story has a real passion, from the mid-to-late 1990s until the beginning of the 21st century, the realism of the times - passion, vitality, and emancipation of the mind , be brave in innovation." Fu Dongyu, the director of "The Wind Blows Pinellia", believes that no matter whether it is the steel industry or not, they have all experienced radical changes in the wave of that era, so he is also full of intimacy and expressiveness for that memory. desire.
People in the industry admitted frankly that using these excellent literary works as the soil, as well as the promotion and commendation atmosphere of craftsmen from big countries, outstanding industrial workers, and front-line workers, can indeed stimulate the desire to create industrial dramas.
At the same time, it should be noted that the industrial drama itself has its own main theme "filter", but the previous creative mode was too serious and it was difficult to open up the audience.
Today's approach is better at telling "soft" stories on the basis of "hard" technology, and can better receive a dissemination effect that breaks the circle, so as to give creators positive feedback and form a catch-up production effect. .
Let the drama and reality respond to each other
Telling a good story has also become the part that the creators of the series try their best to show.
According to Mao Wei, the director of the TV series "Wind Blowing Pinellia", in order to restore the sense of the times and changes in the steel industry, the crew not only found the core scene of the steel factory in Shenyang that is still in production so far, but also photographed the old blast furnace in Ningbo Iron and Steel The precious picture of the shutdown of the furnace, and during the filming period, steel experts followed up and guided the filming.
Sun Jia, from Ningbo, Zhejiang, feels very kind to the scene of the play.
Since a large number of scenes were filmed in Ningbo Iron and Steel, she had seen the propaganda reports in her hometown before.
When I actually watched it, a familiar feeling came over my face.
Sun Jia said: "On the one hand, it is the climate of a coastal city, and on the other hand, it is the whole nostalgic and retro tone, including household appliances, the protagonist's clothing, hairstyle and accessories, all of which are very similar to the pictures I remember when I was a child."
"Before acting as a worker, let yourself be a worker." In the TV series "Song of Lushan", in order to restore the most authentic scene, the creative team not only visited Zoomlion, Sany Heavy Industry, Sunward Intelligent, China Railway Construction, etc. Industry-leading companies communicate with managers, technicians and workers, and organize actors to change into tooling, go deep into the workshop, and learn from workers.
At the end of the play, real heavy workers such as the "July 1st Medal" winners, national model workers, "Great Craftsman of the Year", national May 1st Labor Medal winners, international skill masters and other real heavy workers appeared one by one... The series interacts with the current era, and it also brings the image of the "craftsman" back from the screen to reality.
As a young man, Sun Jia also believes that industrial dramas are still quite attractive, and they especially meet the current needs of watching dramas.
After communicating with people around her, she found that everyone has been chasing these industrial dramas. "The TV dramas are not obsessed with those too complicated and professional industrial terms, but focus on the development of characters and stories. It is very interesting to watch. Looking at the achievements of the industry and those outstanding workers, I feel very proud.” (Workers’ Daily)