In recent years, police and gangster dramas with the theme of anti-crime and evil have become a hot spot in the creation of film and television dramas.
Represented by such works as "Smash the Black Storm", "The Showdown", and "Punishment", the storylines are full of twists and turns, and the heroes are vivid and vivid, echoing the people's demands for fairness and justice, and arousing enthusiastic social repercussions.
Recently, the TV series "Hurricane" takes the normalization of anti-crime and evil and the education and rectification of the political and legal system as the policy background. It shows the 20-year confrontation between the public security officers and the evil forces in Jinghai City, and demonstrates the perseverance and sacrifice of the people's police. The spirit is innovative in subject matter and technique.
The biggest feature in the narrative of "Hurricane" is the use of two lines of cross-narrative, one line focuses on the current time and space, and shows in a formal way that the provincial party committee sent an education rectification steering group to Jinghai City to carry out supervision and break through many obstacles. The process of thoroughly investigating the "protective umbrella" of the local underworld forces; the other uses flashback techniques to expose the underworld criminal activities of the powerful group leader Gao Qiqiang through the perspective of policeman An Xin.
It should be said that this narrative method has a certain threshold for watching dramas, but from the actual effect, it has played a refreshing effect: on the one hand, it has a strong sense of the times, and the work is based on a declining industrial factory area—Jiuchang Street. As the starting point of the narrative, the confrontation between black and white is placed in the background of the big era; on the other hand, it also embodies a kind of speculative nature. : Why do some people go to the abyss of crime?
Why do some people become the "protective umbrella" of the evil forces?
Meaningful questioning has a strong warning effect.
For gangster dramas, character creation is the core and difficult point of creation, and it is easy to fall into the pattern of stereotyping and facial makeup.
The character creation in "Hurricane" starts from the background of the times, and pays more attention to the portrayal of the character's heart.
For example, in shaping the protagonist An Xin, a method of contrast and contrast was adopted.
When he appeared on the stage, he was not a hot-blooded and reckless stunned young man, but a head of white hair that did not match his age. After 20 years, he became more and more "poor", as if he was going against the times. The daring criminal police form a sharp contrast.
He could have enjoyed a bright future with the care of the upper echelons of the Public Security Bureau, but in order to stick to his ideals and destroy the evil forces, he faced life and death tests many times.
The portrayal of the villain Gao Qiqiang in the play is unique. His appearance is not the traditional "gangster boss with a sloppy face" image, but he is dressed in a Chinese tunic suit, which looks upright, and then through the camera switch, he restores his previous appearance as a gangster before he made a fortune. The humble fishmonger, who later worked his way up and down in the crevice of the great era, had both sides, and his performance was extremely deceptive and confusing.
In the current environment of media integration, how to get closer to the market and audience and further enhance the attractiveness of the genre creation of police and gangster dramas is testing the wisdom of the creators.
"Hurricane" highlights the fusion of genres in terms of techniques, showing the fierce struggle between the police and the evil forces and their "protective umbrellas", which is rare in domestic dramas.
Especially the "cat-and-mouse game" between An Xin and Gao Qiqiang was full of tension during the process of mutual testing and fighting.
In addition, this play is quite unique in terms of composition and mirroring. On the one hand, it draws on the chiaroscuro images common in film noir to portray the character of the characters and symbolize the fate of the characters. For example, Chen Shuting's upward shot from the stairs shows the character Personality and identity; on the other hand, the play often uses metaphors to express the situation and fate of the characters, such as when An Xin and Gao Qiqiang broke up after finding out the details of each other, including the aerial view of the two encounters in the follow-up plot. Shooting the camera means that the two will completely go against each other.
"Hurricane" strengthens the awareness of innovation, highlights the sociological perspective, grasps the characteristics of the era of the combination of the normalization of anti-crime and evil and the education and rectification of the political and legal system as a whole, and enhances the artistic expression of stories and types. Another successful exploration.
People's Daily Overseas Edition