◎Huang Zhe
Recently, Beijing People’s Art celebrated its 70th anniversary. Several artists from the student class talked about the importance of “experience life and observe life”. The hospital is an excellent window to observe life. You can face life and death on the operating table, and you can gain insight into human nature off the operating table. There is almost no place where real dramatic conflicts can be more highly concentrated than in hospitals, and they are related to almost everyone's life. It’s no wonder that from Europe, the United States to Japan, medical dramas have always been a bonanza on the screen, with almost every quarter being absent, and blockbusters every year.
The author has always been looking forward to what kind of medical dramas can be produced in Taiwan. Not only because the TV industry there started early and has a good foundation in the Chinese-speaking world, but also because an interview I saw many years ago mentioned that "99% of Taiwan's high-scoring students are in medical schools," and medical students are restricted in admissions. The most rigorous major, bar none. I wonder what kind of career path these top picks will take after graduating from medical school.
Unfortunately, except for the Taiwanese version of "The White Tower", which is a remake of a Japanese drama classic and has been unspeakably successful, there have been almost only two seasons of " Anesthesia Storm " that have supported the appearance of Taiwanese medical dramas over the years. Why is this happening? "You don't have a girlfriend? You're in a medical school!" Maybe the middle school classmate played by Hsieh Yingxuan in "Anesthesia Storm" asked this puzzled question to the anesthesiologist played by Huang Jianwei. The degree also gives the answer: Doctors are so superior in the minds of ordinary people.
It wasn’t until May this year that “A Rampant Female Surgeon Comes to the Village” took over the white baton. When it ended, the ratings of not only became a new high for Taiwanese dramas this year, but also tied the first season of the hit hit " The Raising of a Dirty Girl " three years ago.
White coat + comedy
You can tell from the tone of the opening song how high the comedy concentration of the play is. In ordinary appreciation thinking, the hospital scenes that require the most tension and rigor can be linked to the workplace, reasoning, suspense and even horror, but have nothing to do with comedy - " The Story of the Health Team " is an exception. After all, the olive green background color of its military drama is much heavier than the white color of the medical drama.
knock Lin Chiling The beautiful sister who was born as a supermodel of the same generation and the muscular little puppy who are 24 years apart are not bad at the same time. The bottom line is not to be too unprofessional - after all, they have been wearing white coats to date and have sex these years. I’ve seen a lot of idol dramas where males compete and females compete, but they don’t do much about medicine. The positioning of comedy can at least guarantee one thing: even if the plot is divorced from real life, it is unlikely to be divorced from real human nature due to the forced elevation common in workplace dramas. The "village" and "runaway" in the title of
are the disenchantment and declaration that bring down the aloof angel in white. At the beginning of the first episode, the decadent female doctor was demoted to the countryside. She was already bad enough. She was bundled in a bedroll because she was drunk. She fell out of a truck on uneven country roads, and finally reported to the hospital as an emergency patient instead of the director of the emergency department. Being "appeared" in such an "anti-hero" attitude cannot but be impressive.
heard the emergency signal and broke off his own head and set his bones . From then on, the soul returned to its original position, the funny time was up, and it entered the peak moment of racing against time to cure diseases and save lives. From the misplaced head of the heroine at the beginning of the play, to the boiled cabbage carefully cooked by the hero and containing the truth of life at the first turning point in the plot, to the climax of the plot, the teacher's cancer photo-photograph was handed over to the students with the intention of His life was replaced by the "operating machine" of the past. Almost every episode has such a "magic prop" hidden in it, which is similar to that found in anime, allowing the comedy to instantly switch to a serious medical drama, and also allowing the transition between joy and sorrow without changing scenes or lenses. , comes on smoothly and naturally.
Comedy dissolves the solemnity, and ruthlessly tears off and mocks the sanctimonious disguise. The three views are often more positive than the drama."Runaway Female Surgeon" is no exception: in the female country of the hospital, there is no female competition that is common in literary and artistic works. Women with different appearances and personalities are all professionally self-reliant and competitive with themselves; while the young and old in the play Men, from the cooking genius who is unwilling to leave his hometown, to the herbivorous male doctor with no ambition, to the dean who has found his original intention and resolutely stays in the country, they are also the male rejecters of "men should behave like men".
Doctor + Writer
The author has a friend who is a surgeon and has been asking for recommendations on stress-reduction movies and places for many years. "Eating and sleeping too much, looking at beautiful and handsome men, and other indescribable things." What can best cure surgeons who experience "life and death fatigue" every day are these "low-level tastes."
The play is adapted from the autobiography non-fiction novel of the same name. The author Liu Zongyu, whose pen name is "Dr. Xiao Liu", is an "active" surgeon. The play features various plots that are unbelievable to the residents of big cities, from pigs to bus accidents, penguins and killer whales. Almost becoming a murderer, to the emergency treatment of a bridge-breaking accident caused by a flash flood on a rainy night, all come from her own real experience when she was transferred from the university general hospital to a rural hospital.
As a ten-episode miniseries, the total cost of "Rogue Female Surgery" is NT$50 million, which is quite luxurious in today's Taiwan. The show does not spend most of the cost on star salaries like "". The basic roles are only about ten people, but the cast and crew are extremely large, including medical staff, props and special makeup from almost all departments. The effect is even more realistic. The subtitle of the original work has already set the tone of the
series of great sorrow, great joy, great joy and joy - "Blood and Bones, Laughter and Tears in a Small Rural Hospital". Dr. Liu's somewhat outrageous behavior in the play is actually her normal reaction. "I am a doctor, and I should know that life has its limits. But when I lost my child, my body turned into a killing machine, and I would hear the cry of the baby whenever I operated." The scene was touching. In reality, Dr. Xiao Liu also experienced the process of physical and mental healing after overwork and miscarriage. The only difference is that she did not get divorced because of this, and her partner "Mr. Bee" never left her. Dr. Liu, who lost everything in his artistic interpretation, received a warm love in his youth as compensation.
What is commendable is that Dr. Xiao Liu, who has experienced misfortune, does not just want to compensate herself. She uses the character's words to expose the beautiful skin of Taiwan's medical community that "does not maintain elevators, only maintains school girls." The head nurse gave birth prematurely due to overwork. After giving birth, she had to balance childcare and work. She was not encouraged but complained. Female medical staff were not the only ones who were not truly respected and treated well. After the health care reform, they have been touting themselves as the world's "cheapest, big bowls with good ingredients" for many years. ”, but it is still difficult to get medical treatment in remote mountainous villages, so one has to pray to God; the “menstrual poverty” of disadvantaged groups can only be solved by theft and the tolerance of well-meaning people...
This Taiwanese "is the best at holding a scalpel with a pen" A best-selling author, in addition to recording her career as a doctor and writing popular science books to popularize sex education for minors, she also actively speaks out against the Taiwanese authorities' adverse policies on health care. "Rogue Female Surgeon" can be called a character novel An "author's TV series" that can withstand the test of both writing and academics.
From the rehabilitated person in " Sin-Eater " to the sexual poverty issue at the bottom of society in "Dear Killer", Lai Mengjie, the director of "Rogue Female Surgery", has always been "standing on the side of the egg" and paying attention to his creations. Word-of-mouth among disadvantaged groups. Because her appearance does not have the sweetness of heroines in the idol drama era, Cai Shuzhen debuted very early and has never been able to become famous. However, in recent years, she has established the route of "Taiwan's No. 1 Femme Fatale" through " Identification Heroes " and "Sin Eater" , after turning 40, he first played the leading role and then won the Golden Bell Award. This time, as the initiator, she participated in script development together with Lai Mengjie. It took five years from initiation to final broadcast, and the results are undeniable.
Taiwanese drama + reality
Many fans of Taiwanese dramas believe that the "new Taiwanese drama renaissance" that quietly emerged in the late 2010s and ushered in a blowout in the 2020s is the result of online streaming media and the international market.It is true that Netflix and HBO International are competing for the treasure island, forcing out hit movies such as " Who is the Victim ", " The Magician on the Skywalk ", "The Lights Come on", "Good Times and Good Times", iQiyi "Going abroad strategy" also has masterpieces such as " reverses the situation ". The rules of the game for international capital are to first satisfy all foreigners’ imaginations about local customs. Taking a closer look at these masterpieces, it seems that they are quite far removed from the daily lives of ordinary Taiwanese people today, or they may have been filtered.
Even though the era of online streaming media has become a general trend, the traditional TV media on the island is not the first wave to be photographed on the beach. If 2015 is the first year of the "renaissance of new Taiwanese dramas", from that year's "Anesthesia Storm" that broke out of the mold of old idol dramas, to this year's "Rogue Female Surgeon", from the love and conflict between the press and the legal circles "The Distance Between Us and Evil" ", to "Tears of the Fire God" about firefighters, as well as the period dramas "A Handful of Green" and "Cha Jin", these popular Taiwanese dramas are all "produced by television". How does
bring the topics that Taiwanese people care about most to the screen? "Narcotic Storm" said, "It's just a small pasture turning into a large pasture, and the sheep inside are still sheep. The abnormal system needs to be collided, and only when there is a collision can there be sparks, and with sparks can it be guided to the right direction." Go in that direction." "The Wild Female Surgeon" said, "If you sue all the doctors, who will treat you?" "When the patient is sick, the doctor will treat it; when the hospital is sick, who will treat it?" In the past seven years, the only thing that has changed is the way you say your lines. .
"Rogue Women's Surgery" has a real bosozoku at the end, but this group of "financial people" who want to kill debtors every minute not only respect the doctors who save lives, but also take the lead in donating blood and stand up to protect those who are being bullied. The female nurse scolded her, "You are an ignorant woman," because she should help those who are more in need first. At a time when trust between the sexes is urgently needed to be re-established, such heavy-tasting "unhealthy" food is much more precious than the various ecstasy poisonous milks that are tried to be fed under high-end and gorgeous disguises.
Seven years ago, it was such a shocking "Anesthesia Storm" that exposed the many long-standing medical abuses in Taiwan. Taiwanese dramas bid farewell to the era of sweet, empty, and non-nutritious traditional idol dramas. Seven years later, it is time for medical dramas to speak out again. Who dares to say that the "Rogue Female Surgeon", who possesses so many revolutionary genes, is gentle, compassionate and determined, will not usher in another era of Taiwanese dramas?
