On December 9, the first 4 episodes of the TV series " County Party Committee Courtyard " can be watched. After the 4 episodes of the beginning, the protagonists mainly did two things, one was to implement the demolition work as soon as possible, and the other was to level the grave. During the demolition work, the perspective of the oil mill and the perspective of the old comrade appeared. Both of these perspectives provide thoughts and ideas at the level of ordinary residents and belong to the underlying perspective of creation. Therefore, this big plot is relatively complete.
I don’t know if it is because there is a plot to level the grave in the future. The grave leveling content currently broadcast on "County Party Committee Courtyard" lacks the perspective of this residents, or the bottom-level perspective. This perspective is very critical and most importantly, the quality of the play is. It can be said that any TV series with main theme and positive energy needs to have a bottom-level perspective. If you lack this perspective, you will easily fall into a kind of self-talking and self-touching, and it will easily make the drama empty. For example, the rural drama "Mountains and Rivers" that just finished its premiere has a strong underlying perspective as soon as it comes out, which is the creative wisdom rooted in the soil.
Return to the work "County Party Courtyard", leveling the grave can really be a good show. Because of leveling the grave, we face many contents that can be rooted in the soil. For example, from the perspective of the county, why do we need to level the grave and what positive value can level the grave bring? For example, from the bottom perspective, why is it not feasible to level graves and where is the resistance? Especially the resistance to folk customs is the easiest way to take root on the soil through this story. And this rootedness requires a narrative from a bottom perspective.
At present, in the "County Party Courtyard", there is no narrative from the bottom perspective on the matter of leveling graves. The only thing I want to take root is the two scenes of a civil servant having dinner with his elders. It's too shallow, and it's still not the real rural perspective, the residents' perspective, and the bottom perspective. If this perspective is not developed, it is not enough to explain the difficulties faced by grave-leveling work. Even if this work is worthy of recognition or reflection.
In the creation of the big plot of grave leveling, the screenwriter and director most need to learn from the field. They need to go deep into the real life to understand what the people who are grave leveling have, whether these demands are reasonable, how reasonable demands should be met, and how unreasonable demands should be resolved. This is a very earthy plot. If you do it seriously, the entire TV series will be filled with content that the audience agrees with emotionally. The current content of grave leveling in "County Party Committee Courtyard" lacks a bottom-level perspective, and even lacks the basic "smoothing" in TV series creation.
The narrative feeling that "County Party Courtyard" gives me is that I am panicked. In my personal opinion, the big plot of grave leveling can be deeply unfolded, and only in-depth development can this TV series have a true rustic spirit and an effective sense of reality. For example, why should the county level be leveled? This "motive behavior" is what the TV series needs to explain clearly. If this "motivation" is explained clearly through the plot, the big plot will become a confusing account, and the audience will be confused. It is not easy to explain the "why" clearly by mobilizing everyone to level their graves. This is a big taboo in the creation of TV series and is a lack of motivation for narrative behavior.
For example, what difficulties will be faced in the work of grave leveling, why do the people who are grave leveling oppose, what are the reasons for everyone's opposition, and whether it is tenable, especially at the legal level. This requires the plot to be carefully developed and told seriously. Moreover, once the plot tells these things seriously, the entire TV series will be filled with earthy atmosphere and a light of realism. This is the underlying perspective I just mentioned. This narrative perspective is very important.
In fact, many times, the underlying perspective is the main melody perspective, which is the positive energy perspective. Let’s take CCTV One’s newly premiere “The Legend of Mountains and Rivers” as an example.In the play, actor Wang Lei plays a cadre who cares about the floods in the Nihe basin. He seems to be from the perspective of a cadre, but in the specific narrative, the audience can see that this role is the underlying perspective, the perspective of the people in the Nihe Basin, and that the funds for the construction of the square are first used to build the Nihe dam. This narrative suddenly pushed the earthy atmosphere up. Although Wang Lei plays a cadre in the play, he stands from the perspective of the people in the Nihe River Basin.
Let’s go back to the work "County Party Committee Courtyard" and talk about the big plot of leveling the grave. It actually requires a bottom-level perspective, especially a civil servant who puts himself among the people and looks at the grave leveling again. Let the character Hu Ge bow to several old branch secretaries and say tears. This is all about pediatrics. In terms of screenwriter creation, this needs to be discussed again. This kind of drama is easy to fall into a void self-movement and has no sense of power.
Of course, "County Party Courtyard" has only been aired for 4 episodes. I hope that in its subsequent plot, the main plot of Grave Leveling will continue to have content, and a real bottom-level perspective will appear. The same goes for the same sentence: Excellent main theme and positive energy TV series have always come from the bottom perspective. If you don’t want this perspective, or if you don’t use this perspective as the main narrative, you must be buying a box and returning the beads. (Text/Ma Qingyun )
