Sweeping the black storm: How hateful Sun Xing is, how dark the gray area is.

The case of Sun, the case of burying a corpse in the playground, the case of Hunan Wen Liehong involved in the underworld, and the case of Hainan Huang Hongfa ... all together, it is the "black storm".

"Anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" is an important genre of drama that has emerged in recent years. From 1995' s Paradise Above, there was a small climax in 2003. The advantage of "anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" is that it can bring the audience a "aristocratic feeling" experience, which is difficult to give in daily life and other types of drama.

However, in terms of creation, the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Pornography also has a dilemma: most audiences watch the drama not for education, but for entertainment. Therefore, people look at the "anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" from the perspectives of whether the plot is tortuous, whether the picture is wonderful, whether the suspense is enough, and whether the imagination is grand.

It is with this dilemma that the "black storm" dances hard.

If "Sweeping the Black Storm" is powerful, it is precisely because it balances the relationship between "ideology" and "entertainment" well, making it beautiful, but not just beautiful. It presents an abyss-like, hard-to-look human nature, which provides the possibility for "sublime beauty".

Break the shackles of the traditional "anti-corruption and anti-triad drama"

The structure of "Sweeping the Black Storm" is very unique-the clues are complicated, flashbacks and memories are widely used, new clues are constantly inserted, and every clue is covered. The progress of a single event is not completely linear ... which brings a strong sense of jumping and depression.

After careful combing, The Black Sweeping Storm also adopts the traditional double-line style: on the one hand, it is the organization that sweeps the black, and gradually reaches the truth through detective means; On the other hand, evil forces are intercepting at different levels, constantly creating illusions.

The charm of the two-line style lies in its strong suspense. No matter the positive or negative characters, there is no complete information, which leads the audience to guess: how to advance the plot next?

However, the shortcomings of the two-line style are also obvious, that is, it is black and white, and it is too cartoonish-good people are everywhere, and bad people are evil, not only rude, but also ugly in lifestyle and lifestyle, and even lose face at a glance.

There are unavoidable factors in adopting a two-line narrative. "Anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" is a long-term suspense drama, which should combine long suspense with short suspense. If suspense points don't keep breaking out, it will be difficult for the audience to support them. If the final reversal is not strong enough, the audience will feel teased. Only by making the pros and cons to the extreme can we form enough narrative tension to meet the audience's demand for "stories".

If the double-line style is the required action, then the success of an "anti-corruption drama" depends on whether it can play well in the optional action.

A unique story line was designed in the anti-gang storm: ten years ago, police officer Li Chengyang (played by Sun) was planted and framed, and his father died strangely at the same time, which made Li Chengyang doubt "who is true and who is false". He turned himself into the "second master" of the new coaching staff, which once became the biggest difficulty encountered by the "anti-gang task force". However, in fact, judging from the plot trend, Li Chengyang will inevitably reverse again and become the key to the success of "anti-gang".

Inserting Li Chengyang's oblique narrative line between the positive story line and the negative story line subverts the shackles of the traditional narrative structure-in addition to the confrontation between good and evil, there is also a game in the depths of human nature. Everyone is complicated. In our hearts, there are both good thoughts and evil thoughts. "Eliminating evil" is not only a social action, but also a soul game, the latter's plot is more advanced.

It is precisely because of Li Chengyang's oblique line that many characters in "Sweeping the Black Storm" are more interesting. For example, Ma Shuai (Li Ning), as the boss of Xinshuai Group, has a brave civilian side; Clearly a thug with a scar on his face, but full of plastic English (Su Ke ornaments); Gao Mingyuan (WangZhifei) and others are easygoing and have no edge to hide their evil nature.

In Sweeping the Black Storm, each character has its own complexity, which shows that the transformation of structure creates more space for characterization.

Sun took on a play.

However, structural breakthroughs will also bring risks-higher requirements for actors, especially Li Chengyang, the key point of narrative diagonal.

Li Chengyang has both good and evil. He has a strong sense of justice, but he has to give in to reality. As a strategist of the new coaching staff, he must be full of pride and have outstanding ability to deter his subordinates, but he needs to convince himself to change himself. Therefore, his personal loyalty to Ma Shuai has a strong "monkey spirit" in Li Chengyang-he looks down on people with lower ability than him, but he is rebellious and can't do it. He wants to "die for his bosom friend", but he knows those actions are disgraceful.

Resentment, anger, arrogance, ruthlessness, sincerity, principle, loyalty … these contradictory qualities are presented to the same person, which brings great difficulties to the performance.

It must be admitted that Sun's performance is a prominent highlight in the black storm, and it can even be exaggerated to say that one person holds up a play.

In "Sweeping the Black Storm", Sun's iconic action-grinning, can be used to cover up the embarrassment when chatting with He Yong, a former classmate and the backbone of the gang's anti-black working group; It can also be used to express the ferocity before turning against each other; It can also express the extreme pain and despair when I learned that Ma Shuai died …

This iconic action is strange and intense, symbolizing the inner waves, but full of mystery, which makes people feel pressure and I don't know where the pressure comes from. By "let you guess", the tension is fully mobilized.

Sun deliberately left blank, not full, in his performance, and tightly buckled the core of Li Chengyang's lines-unpredictable, but any action of his may determine the ending of the whole narrative.

Of course, several old actors in the play have wonderful performances, which also gives Sun a performance.

Without the story of brother and sister Xu, it is impossible to establish a moral position.

In "Sweeping the Black Storm", the experiences of Xu (played by Yang Yutong) and Xu Xiaoshan (played by Liu) are very embarrassing: Xu Xiaoshan owes a sum of money for participating in online gambling, and when he happened to go to the toilet, he overheard drunken Sun Xing (played by Wu) admit that he killed someone, so he filmed a video to try to blackmail him. As a result, Sun Xing took advantage of his relationship with the Public Security Bureau to arrest Xu Xiaoshan, and in turn blackmailed him a large sum of money. In order to pay a huge "management fee" to save her brother, her sister may have to borrow a naked loan.

Xu and Xu Xiaoshan thought that if they met Sun Xing's money requirements, they could live in peace, but their lives were still swallowed up by evil forces: Xu Xiaoshan was silenced and committed suicide.

Some viewers feel that this story has nothing to do with the whole case, but is sensational. This is actually a misunderstanding. The root of "anti-corruption and pornography" lies in "anti-corruption and pornography". We should use real cases to tell the audience why we should "eliminate pornography" and what will happen if we don't. Without this foundation, "anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" will lose its moral position and become an entertainment drama that serves the audience to pursue curiosity, novelty and excitement. I can never get rid of suspense and suspense, and it is bizarre.

It should be said that the story of Xu's brother and sister is an organic part of "Sweeping the Black Storm", telling the audience that evil forces will not extend their evil hands just because ordinary people "block financial opportunities" and "commercial competition" and other "major events". The essence of evil forces stems from evil human nature. I can't help it. Once tolerated, it will expand rapidly.

In "Sweeping the Black Storm", even Li Chengyang expressed the feeling that "the sky in Luteng City is too dark", which provided a logical basis for the whole drama: if there is black, it must be beaten, if there is evil, it must be eliminated. Only by thoroughly eliminating the evil forces can we ensure that the tragedy of Xu and Xu Xiaoshan's brother and sister will not happen again and that the people can live a stable life.

Writing sublime is the right way to "repeatedly sweep black dramas"

David morley, an American scholar, pointed out in his book Media, Modernity and Technology that film and television have been constructed with multiple meanings, and the creator needs to provide a message with a "directional" or "closed" structure, so that it has a tendency in various interpretation possibilities.

A completely closed work with only a single meaning does not exist, but the creator has the obligation to guide multiple meanings and make them point to one of them. This brings two problems:

First, whether the means of pointing is clever; Second, whether the meaning is profound enough ultimately determines the quality of the work.

"Anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama" should not be a black-and-white battle of wits; It should not be a drama to show off the high consumption life of corrupt elements and criminals; And the audience should not misunderstand the real situation of society because of the existence of the case. The fact is that it is obviously a wrong measure to measure "anti-corruption and anti-pornography dramas" by exposure scale and story suspense.

Evil does not suppress justice, which is an inalienable principle of all societies. Darkness can only last for a while, and light will eventually win, because no matter how the times change, people will always yearn for justice, kindness and order. Deviating from this direction, it is difficult for "anti-corruption and anti-gang drama" to have a future.

Everyone is a combination of good and evil. Digging down on the good side is a dark world, not only selfish, but also those human evils that support selfishness. I think life is a long game, and those forces that make people dare to stare into the abyss and be independent on the shore forever are noble. In "Sweeping the Black Storm", whether it is Li Chengyang or Lin Hao, it is this lofty feeling that shines.

Facts have proved that if you write sublimely, the anti-corruption and anti-pornography drama will stand up and really win the audience. This is the success of the anti-pornography storm.