is the same as the main theme. What is the difference between " County Party Committee Courtyard "?
is first of all storytelling. "County Party Committee Courtyard" started with more than a dozen people, each with his own official title. The new county magistrate was transferred, new civil servants were hired, mobilization for demolition, relocation of graves, petitions, tax collection, there were so many messy things that it was dazzling to see, and no one could remember anyone.
And the follow-up plot is bland. The leaders are either meeting or eating, eating or driving, driving or talking on the phone. The whole drama seems to have no main line. Except for the interesting line Zhang Xincheng "The story of the promotion of a young civil servant", the others are not good. The story is too weak and cannot arouse the audience's emotions.
"Splendid Mountains and Rivers" is full of stories from the very beginning. The two policemen traveled through mountains and rivers, riding bicycles and riding tractors, and drove around to bring the news to the remote Banshan Village. The scenery along the way not only highlighted the poverty of the Banshan Village, but also brought out the village party secretaries of the two villages - Zhao Shuhe and Liu Daman.
Then he elaborated on the difficulties of Banshan Village: the schools are poor, the education is poor, and the teachers cannot be paid; the villagers are poor, the buildings are poor, and the houses are leaking and in disrepair; they cannot afford medical treatment, cannot afford medicine, and have no money to repair the reservoir. The pressure is like a mountain weighing on the head of the village party secretary Zhao Shuhe. In the branch plot of
, the grudges between Zhao and Liu villages are paved by stealing fungus. There are events and characters, and the plot has ups and downs.
The plight of the villagers is unfolded in plots, plot reversals and collisions between characters, and is told to the audience one by one, vividly.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" is more based on the narration of cadres, explanations at meetings and a small amount of daily life of civilians, which is far from penetrating enough.
The second is the chemistry between the characters. When writing about TV dramas, you must also write about people. To put it bluntly, it is to reflect the events of that era through each character. For example, " Love of Mountains and Seas " has created a splash of tenacious vitality.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" certainly has impressive supporting roles, such as the female cadre played by Wu Yue , and the "old fritter" grassroots played by Huang Chengcheng, but the shaping of the main characters is not enough. The male protagonist Hu Ge is too literary and lacks impressive points, Huang Lei 's performance is disappointing, I won't say more about this, everyone who has watched it will understand.
"Splendid Mountains and Rivers" has done a good job. Zhao Shuhe, played by Li Naiwen , is calm, responsible and conscientious, but he also has a rustic side, which is in sharp contrast to the county magistrate played by Wang Lei and Liu Damanzheng, played by Hu Ming.
Obviously, the county magistrate played by Wang Lei is smarter and more advanced in consciousness. His dialect makes this character look more like a grassroots cadre rooted in the soil.
In his later cooperation with Zhao Shuhe, he just made up for his shortcomings in knowledge.
Although Liu Daman seems to be unformed, he is kind-hearted and can handle big things clearly. He helped Zhao Shuhe a lot in the early stage. This "threesome" complements and promotes each other in terms of abilities and personalities, and the characters are full of tension.
For example, the honest Zhao Shuhe went to the county town with Liu Daman for the first time, and his bicycle was stolen when he went to a restaurant to eat noodles;
For example, Zhao Shuhe borrowed money from Liu Daman, and Liu Daman said he had no money while giving him a bad idea, asking him to go up the mountain to cut down trees.
The rural teacher played by Yan Bingyan is very distinctive, and the love scene with Zhao Shuhe in the later period is also a highlight.
The last and most important one is the issue of perspective.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" is said to be "fake and empty" because this drama is from the perspective of officialdom and cadres, describing the daily work and life of civil servants - it cannot be said that there is a problem with this perspective, after all, there are many civil servants in reality, and it is possible that the audience who are civil servants like dramas that reflect their own lives and find it real.
But broadly speaking, we are talking about the development of Guangming County after all, and cadres need to go among the masses and establish contact with them. Otherwise, we will just stand from the perspective of an "official" and see how the leader is troubled, how he handles problems, and how he eats and drinks.
This is also why Qiao Shengli, played by Wang Xiao, and Lin Zhiwei, played by Zhang Xincheng, are more sympathetic to the audience , because they are essentially at the grassroots level of a civil servant.
One is a young leader who broke his leg while running. He is annoyed by his boss at work, and is criticized by his wife when he comes home. He is "irritated at both ends."
To put it bluntly, even if these people leave that circle, most of them have met them in real life, so the audience can project their own shadows and feelings on them.
But the leadership is different. Not everyone can reach as high a position as Hu Ge and Huang Lei.
But in "Splendid Mountains and Rivers", Li Naiwen is the village party secretary and Wang Lei is the county magistrate. Why can everyone empathize with each other?
This is because this drama uses a "bottom perspective" to tell the story.
Regardless of the life style of the two villages, such as leaky mud houses, muddy mountain roads or dilapidated primary schools, the environment where the village party secretaries live and face is the same as that of the people. Li Naiwen has been wearing a patched sweatshirt since the moment he appeared, living in a dilapidated adobe house, and riding a beer 8 bicycle .
To put it bluntly, the people are like the leaders, and the two classes are integrated regardless of each other. Although the poverty situation in Banshan Village is brought out through the character of the village party secretary, it is the same as what is reflected by the villagers, because the perspective of the village party secretary is the perspective of the bottom.
In the village, some people cannot afford medical treatment, some people’s houses are leaking, and teachers cannot be paid. Even if no one reports these naked problems to Zhao Shuhe, he can still see them with his eyes, because he is a member of the common people and lives in a mountainous village.
As the village party secretary, he not only suffers from the same material poverty as the common people, but his thoughts are also as poor as theirs. For example, you might want to go up a mountain and cut down trees to relieve your temporary financial difficulties.
Why is "Mountains and Seas" so moving?
It uses a "bottom perspective" to tell stories, telling the plight of people living in Xihaigu, the backwardness of economic development, and how through hard work, the "dry beach" with sand and rocks is built into a "golden beach" with every inch of land valuable.
focuses on the plight of the bottom and describes the struggle of the bottom. This creates unforgettable bottom characters such as Shui Hua, Li Dayou, and Ma Huanshui.
It can be said that any main theme requires a bottom-level perspective. Without this perspective, the plot will easily fall into a kind of self-talk and self-movation - this is why "County Party Committee Courtyard" looks "fake and empty".
Take the matter of relocating graves as an example. If you want to write about it movingly, you must take the perspective of the masses and deeply explore and describe the reasons why the people are opposed to relocating graves, especially the resistance from folk customs, because in reality, we rural people believe this.
If I don’t write these, I won’t be able to express the difficulty and determination of cadres’ tomb relocation work.
is like "Mountains and Seas", which talks about why people should "immigrate to Diaozhuang". It talks about the difficult living conditions of the people in Xihaigu and the contradictions of the villagers' accumulated savings over the years. These down-to-earth things are the most touching.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" only talks about relocating graves from the perspective of cadres, and then talks about how difficult it is to move graves based on wishful thinking. As a result, Hu Ge makes a speech to several old party secretaries, bows, and the matter is solved. It is very unreal and has no sense of power.
A cadre who sincerely serves the people must first go deep into the masses and understand their difficulties, otherwise everything will be empty talk. Same for
.
A drama about leaders leading the masses towards the light must describe the interaction between cadres and the masses, and tell the needs of the people from the perspective of the masses. Only in this way can the drama be made more solid and down-to-earth.
