text｜Rhino Entertainment, Author｜Meat Dog, Editor｜Park Fang
Before there was Wei Yingluo, the first person in the Qing Dynasty, and later, Zhao Yirui, the most cruel woman in South Korea.
wisely punishes the second generation of violent campus officials, angrily slaps the official wife with power, and tugs the heart-wrenching green tea bitch... With his cool and handsome personality and various high-quality operations to cure evil, Zhao Yirui's popularity in China has quickly risen to the same name as Wei Yingluo. #Zhao Yirui's character# #Zhao Yirui slapped more than a dozen times in the face# has been on the hot search on Weibo one after another. "Itaewon class", which only broadcasts 6 episodes, was also labeled as "the first cool drama in 2020" by netizens, and has won 8.6 Douban high scores from more than 30,000 people.
, the popularity of "Itaewon class" is also rising steadily. According to the survey results of the ratings survey agency Nelson South Korea, "Itaewon Class" has only 5 episodes of airing, and the average ratings of households on comprehensive paid platforms such as cable, IPTV, and satellite exceeded the 10% mark. Episode 6 once again refreshed its highest ratings with a 11.6% viewership rate. When it first started, the ratings of "Itaewon class" were only 5.0%. Before
"Itaewon Class", Korean dramas have become a phenomenal craze, enough to compete with the romantic themes that Korean dramas are best at. New dramas such as " Major League Baseball ", "Prisoner Doctor", " Sky City ", " Fog " and other new dramas have been broadcasted and have repeatedly broken word-of-mouth records.
So, what is the creation system of Korean cool dramas? Why can it be tried and done again and again?
Commonality: Chinese-Italy Realism theme, "Black and Deep" attributes are prominent
From "Story of Yanxi Palace" to "Qing Yu Nian", domestic cool dramas are mainly rooted in ancient costume themes. The key to their popularity is to build a surreal utopia for young people who cannot escape from modern society, and to create characters with very realistic compensation such as Wei Yingluo and Fan Xian, so that the irrational factors in their self can be released and those things that cannot be done and dare not do in reality.
Korean-style dramas use realistic themes as the creative soil, and they strive to show not a dreamy utopia, but a life story with significant "black and deep" attributes, that is, the content is dark and cruel, and the theme is either realistic or profound.
realistic theme dramas have profound story attributes, and Korean dramas not only have the maturity of accurately capturing the pain points of reality, but also have the richness and delicacy of life restoration and story narration. "Not Born", "My Dear Friends", "Please Answer 1998", "Bright", " My Uncle " can set off a wave of watching dramas in China one after another.
Similarly, these two aspects of help also give Korean dramas a charm that infects the public. "Itaewon Class" uses a 15-year revenge to present two characters with different attitudes toward the dark side of society, thus breaking the complexity of human nature, human desires, and human desires; "Major League" uses "small baseball" to reflect "big society", in the play, the audience can see the cruelty of the workplace, and also see the interests entanglement in real life; "City of the Sky" relies on the "skin" of education to analyze social class solidification and the anxiety of the middle class, and also expose the truth about "elite education"...
aims the camera at the little people, directly hitting the surging waves and riddlings under the surface of their calm real life, and the sadness and passion brought by it are not concealed. To create a "satisfaction", restore the reality first. This is the creative commonality of Korean cool dramas and its personality that is different from domestic cool dramas.
Basic Law: Displeasant and Sweet 1:1, counterattack motif + "crime" element
China Youth Daily conducted a social survey on 2,008 respondents on the question of why "Sweet Culture" is popular, 61.0% of the respondents believe that the relevant works can give people a sense of substitution and make people enjoy the halo of the protagonist to get pleasure; 51.3% of the respondents believe that it is because their daily life is too depressing, and some films, TV series, novels, etc. can satisfy the inner "striking" of contemporary young people.
text｜Rhino Entertainment, Author｜Meat Dog, Editor｜Park Fang
Before there was Wei Yingluo, the first person in the Qing Dynasty, and later, Zhao Yirui, the most cruel woman in South Korea.
wisely punishes the second generation of violent campus officials, angrily slaps the official wife with power, and tugs the heart-wrenching green tea bitch... With his cool and handsome personality and various high-quality operations to cure evil, Zhao Yirui's popularity in China has quickly risen to the same name as Wei Yingluo. #Zhao Yirui's character# #Zhao Yirui slapped more than a dozen times in the face# has been on the hot search on Weibo one after another. "Itaewon class", which only broadcasts 6 episodes, was also labeled as "the first cool drama in 2020" by netizens, and has won 8.6 Douban high scores from more than 30,000 people.
, the popularity of "Itaewon class" is also rising steadily. According to the survey results of the ratings survey agency Nelson South Korea, "Itaewon Class" has only 5 episodes of airing, and the average ratings of households on comprehensive paid platforms such as cable, IPTV, and satellite exceeded the 10% mark. Episode 6 once again refreshed its highest ratings with a 11.6% viewership rate. When it first started, the ratings of "Itaewon class" were only 5.0%. Before
"Itaewon Class", Korean dramas have become a phenomenal craze, enough to compete with the romantic themes that Korean dramas are best at. New dramas such as " Major League Baseball ", "Prisoner Doctor", " Sky City ", " Fog " and other new dramas have been broadcasted and have repeatedly broken word-of-mouth records.
So, what is the creation system of Korean cool dramas? Why can it be tried and done again and again?
Commonality: Chinese-Italy Realism theme, "Black and Deep" attributes are prominent
From "Story of Yanxi Palace" to "Qing Yu Nian", domestic cool dramas are mainly rooted in ancient costume themes. The key to their popularity is to build a surreal utopia for young people who cannot escape from modern society, and to create characters with very realistic compensation such as Wei Yingluo and Fan Xian, so that the irrational factors in their self can be released and those things that cannot be done and dare not do in reality.
Korean-style dramas use realistic themes as the creative soil, and they strive to show not a dreamy utopia, but a life story with significant "black and deep" attributes, that is, the content is dark and cruel, and the theme is either realistic or profound.
realistic theme dramas have profound story attributes, and Korean dramas not only have the maturity of accurately capturing the pain points of reality, but also have the richness and delicacy of life restoration and story narration. "Not Born", "My Dear Friends", "Please Answer 1998", "Bright", " My Uncle " can set off a wave of watching dramas in China one after another.
Similarly, these two aspects of help also give Korean dramas a charm that infects the public. "Itaewon Class" uses a 15-year revenge to present two characters with different attitudes toward the dark side of society, thus breaking the complexity of human nature, human desires, and human desires; "Major League" uses "small baseball" to reflect "big society", in the play, the audience can see the cruelty of the workplace, and also see the interests entanglement in real life; "City of the Sky" relies on the "skin" of education to analyze social class solidification and the anxiety of the middle class, and also expose the truth about "elite education"...
aims the camera at the little people, directly hitting the surging waves and riddlings under the surface of their calm real life, and the sadness and passion brought by it are not concealed. To create a "satisfaction", restore the reality first. This is the creative commonality of Korean cool dramas and its personality that is different from domestic cool dramas.
Basic Law: Displeasant and Sweet 1:1, counterattack motif + "crime" element
China Youth Daily conducted a social survey on 2,008 respondents on the question of why "Sweet Culture" is popular, 61.0% of the respondents believe that the relevant works can give people a sense of substitution and make people enjoy the halo of the protagonist to get pleasure; 51.3% of the respondents believe that it is because their daily life is too depressing, and some films, TV series, novels, etc. can satisfy the inner "striking" of contemporary young people.
Shuang drama is a reverse compensation for dissatisfaction with the current situation. Therefore, the opposition between "unhappy" and "shuang" is the focus of the creation of Shuang drama, and the best effect is the plot ratio of 1:1. Simply put, a gentleman takes revenge and seizes the day.
"Itaewon Class", when you learn that it was a second-generation official classmate who reported him, Zhao Yirui immediately counterattacked, slapped more than a dozen times, and threw a sentence "I hit your mother like this too"; in "Major League Baseball", Bai Shengxiu proposed to exchange star player Ren Dongkui with other teams, and both the employees and Ren Dongkui thought it ridiculous, but Bai Shengxiu immediately made the employees speechless with impeccable data analysis, and then walked out of the conference room leisurely; in "City of the Sky", the talent who has been pressured, humiliated and beaten by his parents immediately disappeared after getting the perfect report card that his parents longed for, thus completing his "revenge".
Secondly, the counterattack theme of domestic cool dramas is also a major creative basic method followed by Korean cool dramas.
On the one hand, in real society, only a few people succeed in counterattack, and ordinary people are still the majority. Therefore, the public is often powerless to resist stories of counterattack, and such stories are more convenient to portray the complexity of human nature; on the other hand, counterattack will inevitably reverse, and reversal can create a sense of stimulation and tension, thus ensuring the pleasure and pleasure of watching the drama.
Similarly, many Korean dramas like to embed "crime" elements, which is the same reason, such as the hit-and-run case in "Itaewon Class", the instigation and murder case in "City of the Sky". In fact, no matter what the subject matter or type, Korean film and television creators seem to prefer to use "crime" to increase the stimulation. Even the high-reputation Korean drama "When Camellia Blooms" which was broadcasted separately in September last year, started with a murder case and connected the entire story.
highlights: looking for the audience's anxiety, uses art to present human nature
or because it is basically rooted in ancient costume themes, domestic dramas mostly stay at the "golden finger" level, presenting a kind of nutritional and slightly "anti-intellectual". As stated in "Shuang Cultural Thoughts in the Meaning of Self-Construction of Youth", they do not output the inspiration for how the self seeks subjective construction in interactions with families, groups and society. The more "younger narrative" they show hides a crisis that guides the expansion of self-subjects in reality.
Simply put, domestic dramas create a utopia for the audience that they can temporarily escape, but ignore finding a possible outlet for reality for them.
Korean-style drama is exactly the opposite. The lives in their stories are all messy, wrapped in the atmosphere of "mourning", "depression" and "darkness". But there is another strong sense of enthusiasm, and a messy life will always rebound to a greater or lesser extent. For example, the truth in "The Mist", the passionate dream-chasing path in "Major League Baseball", and the "sweet night" from the door to the guests in "Itaewon Class"... By showing this contradictory society that coexists with cruelty and beauty, life is always full of hope.
Excellent film and television works will definitely contain the creator's subjective feelings, but they will also be integrated into the complexity of human nature. Only in this way can we show the moving emotional power. There are no complete bad guys or complete good guys in Korean dramas. As long as the audience changes their identities, they will find that the reality will inevitably lead to this kind of personality.
Take Wu Xiuya from "Itaewon Class" as an example. Wu Xiuya, like Zhao Yirui and Park Selo , both live in a single-parent family, but Yirui and Selo's single parents provide enough companionship and support during their growth, while Xiuya was abandoned by her mother and grew up alone in an orphanage.
Therefore, she hates herself in need of help, open the hand of the beggar old man, throws the things that one of her classmates who most sympathizes with her into the toilet, and sets the greatest goal of life to achieve a successful life in the secular sense... Behind these choices is just her disbelief of self-protection and self-power
Korean-style dramas are frequent popularity, thanks to the delicate description of complex human nature, and are also closely related to the mature ability of Korean dramas in life and character creation.Compared with Korean dramas, how to make the outlet that acts as a social pressure relief valve more practical and practical, how to let the audience see the shortcomings in the positive role and see the deeper roots from the tragic fate of the negative role are what domestic dramas need to be improved.
Compared with Korean dramas, how to make the outlet that acts as a social pressure relief valve more practical and practical, how to let the audience see the shortcomings in the positive role and see the deeper roots from the tragic fate of the negative role are what domestic dramas need to be improved.
