Original Guhan entertainment hard candy
Author | Gu Han
Editor | Li Chunhui
Under the impact of the epidemic, the Spring Festival movies are deserted. Although the dramas have been updated, the publicity is still much lower than usual. At the same time, a domestic medical drama, which premiered in 2017 and scored 6 points in Douban, unexpectedly became popular under the title of "Prophecy Drama".
Emergency Doctor, directed by Zheng Xiaolong and Liu Xuesong and starring Zhang Jiayi and Wang Luodan, is also one of the first TV series donated by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to Hubei Province. During the epidemic, many satellite TV stations were replaying, and some netizens spontaneously watched it on video websites.
I don’t know if I don’t know, the drama "God Prophecy" is more than an epidemic. In the first episode of medical trouble, a supporting role died by the knife of the intruder. The bloody scene is inevitably reminiscent of the murder case in the Civil Aviation General Hospital.
From the national attention to violent medical injuries years ago to the passionate praise of "angels in white" during the epidemic, the group of doctors has inevitably become the focus of recent hot discussion, and the content of medical subjects has also received more attention.
Judging from the audience’s interest and market inventory, domestic medical drama seems to have finally reached a new turning point after the setbacks in 2017.
Domestic medical drama, what’s the difference?
Similar to the theme of criminal investigation, medical theme, as an important branch of professional drama, has become quite mature and stable overseas. Doctors are an indispensable industry in people’s daily life, but they are easily unknown. Taking them as the object of description not only meets the realistic needs, but also caters to the audience’s prying psychology to some extent.
At the same time, the hospital faces birth, illness and death, and the human feelings are warm and cold. There is huge room for drama. Light can be like "Grey’s Intern", showing growth and workplace; It can be like "The White Tower", which describes the complexity of human nature. Su Shuang opened, such as the Japanese drama "Dr. X: Surgeon Daimon Michiko"; Hard core is deep, such as the short-lived and high-scoring American TV series Monday morning.
In domestic dramas, medical drama’s output is not high, but there were some works of conscience in his early years. For example, Never Give Up, also directed by Zheng Xiaolong, Infinite Vitality, created by the original crew of Six Major Crimes, and The Doctor’s Benevolence, directed by Dongyu Fu, the director of Action to Break the Ice.
The most influential domestic medical drama in recent years is Mind Mind in 2012. The screenwriter Liu Liu’s grasp of realistic themes and social topics is indeed in place, and all the actors are acting online (although it seems that this lineup is really toxic now).
After the popularity of Mind Art, the market followed suit in succession. In 2014 and 2015, there was a small outbreak in medical drama. In the past two years, four films and three films were broadcast in medical drama, including Distance to Love, Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love, Young Doctor, Growing Up and so on.
In medical drama during this period, the leading role began to be younger and idolized, and the professional details were increasingly controversial. In 2014, Lilac Garden conducted an online survey involving 2,012 doctors, among which 79.4% of the respondents thought that there were many mistakes in domestic dramas.
Medical drama was temporarily absent in 2016, and made a comeback in 2017, under the circumstances that practitioners made mistakes and the media discussed it hotly. Bai Baihe’s Justices Seeker and Wang Luodan’s "Emergency Doctor" are separated from each other. There is also a Pediatrician, starring Leo, who was not famous then.
At this time, the audience’s spit on medical drama has not only pointed to the professional details, but has risen to the level of personnel. Simply put, the protagonist is too virgin, and the returnees love to pretend "beep-".
Why do most domestic professional dramas annoy audiences, especially practitioners?
Distortion of professional details and water injection in love are appearances; In a deeper sense, it is the creator who failed to give the role professionalism (or the creator’s own understanding of professionalism is not in place? After all, most of them are "people who have never been to work"). As a result, it is often the case that the protagonists are emotional and morally kidnapped by each other without a word, regardless of their professionalism.
Different occupations have their own unique ethics and ways of doing things, and professional dramas should be properly displayed to better portray characters. Instead of taking the most superficial primary school students’ three views on all stories, creating a confrontation between "sticking to your duty" and "being a good person", taking exceptions and sacrifices as inevitable, being vague about the structural problems behind the phenomenon, or not thinking at all.
Documentary and online literature have ushered in a medical fever.
Unlike domestic dramas, which are tied behind one’s back, stupid and difficult to explode, in recent years, the "medical fever" in the field of documentaries and online articles has been maintained for quite some time.
Compared with TV dramas and reality shows, authenticity and professionalism are the biggest advantages of documentaries, and it is a great plus for medical subjects. According to media statistics, the average score of douban, a domestic medical documentary, was as high as 9.2 from the 2013 Ten-Year Festival of SARS. Among them, the well-known ones include Human Life, which shows the relationship between doctors and patients, Birth Gate, which focuses on obstetrics and gynecology, Emergency Room Story and Emergency Rescue 120, which focuses on emergency treatment, and the popular science Two Hundred Years of Surgery.
During the Spring Festival this year, Iqiyi launched a documentary called Chinese Doctors, which has achieved a high score of 9.2 in Douban. According to the data, the film was shot and produced by the film crew in different departments of obstetrics and gynecology, emergency department, oncology department, anesthesiology department, operating room, ICU and so on in six large 3A hospitals all over the country, trying to show the real doctor’s daily life with calm lens language, which is more meaningful in the current public opinion environment.
There are also many types of doctors or medical elements in the net. The most basic thing is that in female frequent romances, there are not a few people whose protagonists are doctors. After all, white coats are also the temptation of uniforms. Traditionally, through the passage, the protagonist shocked the ancients by modern accumulated medical knowledge, stirred up the storm, or upgraded by medical skills in the palace fight (after all, the abortion team in the palace only knows something about musk and saffron), and finally became a generation of medical concubines.
In addition, Hard Sugar Jun also mentioned "The Great Doctor Ling Ran" under the reading article before. The novel tells the story of a graduate who entered the hospital accidentally acquired the mysterious system and embarked on the road of technical cattle. Among them, the characters are distinctive and even exaggerated like cartoons, but the description of the hospital environment and the world is very realistic. The novel involves a lot of professional medical knowledge, and describes the "technicality" of surgeons, which has been affirmed by many professionals and has a certain interest in popular science.
The popularity of "The Great Doctor Lingran" has also led to the rise of a new batch of "technical stream medical articles". There are also "Operation Live Room", "I can see the status bar" and so on.
It is difficult to define this kind of works simply by the label of realism or non-realism. Many times the problem is realistic, but the means to solve the problem is unrealistic, and the sense of coolness comes from this.
More than half of the new medical drama was intercepted by the epidemic.
In fact, judging from the market inventory, in 2020, there will be more than ten films to be broadcast and filmed involving medical elements. Its lineup is also quite eye-catching, with 85 small flowers and delicious fresh meat. It is really a gathering of the most popular and topical actors at the moment, and the marketing number began to count and vote early. Unfortunately, nearly half of them were turned on at the end of last year or January this year, and filming has been suspended due to the epidemic.
Among them, Yang Mi and White’s Thank You Doctor (started in November 2019, which was the earliest time to stop filming medical dramas), Stephy and Yang Shining’s Take a Deep Breath Together (Foreign Aid Medical Care), and Huang Jingyu and Li Qin’s Dear Military Dress (Special Forces and Female Military Doctors).
The second level includes "We started to fall in love from marriage" starring Zhou Yutong and Simon; And "My Little Lucky" starring Fair Xing and Daddi Tang, the urban sweet pet, did not run away; In addition, there is a costume drama "Great Traditional Chinese Medicine" starring Xia Yu. According to the master, it took four years to prepare for the drama, and the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine was invited to provide guidance. Unfortunately, it is a pity.
There are also two new dramas that were just finished in January 2020. One is the military emotional drama "You are my fortress" (swat elite and female doctor), which is produced by Golden Shield Film and Television Culture Center of the Ministry of Public Security, the drama cool communication of Huace Keton and Leben Culture, and starring Sandra and Bai Jingting. The other one is produced by Mango TV, starring Yuxi Zhang and Ding Yuxi, "The Color is Strong" (genius doctor and the Popular Floret).
There are also three new dramas that were filmed in 2019, including The Great Pediatrician starring Chen Xiao and Olivia (finished in May), Little Doctor starring Dong Zijian and Jenny (finished in July), and Please Teach Me for the Rest of My Life (finished in November).
Judging from the lineup and plot, all three plays have the potential to be stars. In addition, the epidemic has affected the shooting of new dramas and the broadcast of TV stations, so the first two dramas may have the opportunity to meet the audience as soon as possible. The prospect of "Please Give Your Advice for the Rest of Your Life", in which both male and female stars are at their peak, is even clearer. It has been confirmed that it will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Tencent video, and the schedule is undecided.
However, it is not difficult to see that most of these medical dramas are not traditional medical industry dramas, but idol dramas in which one party is a doctor, and there are even collisions. Generally speaking, unless there is really a big gap in shooting quality, it is bound to be who broadcasts first and who is more dominant, which is also a lot of pressure for stopping filming.
Of course, medical drama can and should do more. The outbreak of new pneumonia was in a period of highly developed information, which was quite different from the experience of SARS in 2003. Even squatting at home, we can get in touch with real people and stories from the front and back, as well as various voices with different positions, which makes people anxious, painful and sad, and forces us to think.
If this kind of thinking can be embodied in the writer’s pen, deduction is not only a unique way of recording the times in film and television, but also a social responsibility that literature and art should bear.
Original title: "Do you still want to see medical drama after the epidemic? 》
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