Whether it is TVB workplace drama more than 20 years ago, or today's "News Queen", they have always been with a modern workplace concept and a more modern creative intention

Tvb56th anniversary finale drama "News Queen" recently aired, set off a wide discussion, the drama currently scored 8.2 on Douban, its rhythm, plot, and other people are praised by the audience.

"The Queen of News" is on fire, and workplace dramas should have a good career
"The Queen of News" is on fire, and workplace dramas should have a good career

As the title suggests, Queen of News is a workplace drama that focuses on the news industry. As early as the 1990s and 2000s, TVB has brought enlightenment and imagination to many audiences about the "workplace elite" with a series of classic workplace dramas such as "Good Hands", "One Emperor Court", "Criminal Investigation Files" and "Forensic Pioneer".

Although workplace dramas have sprung up on the mainland since the 2010s, few have won acclaim from audiences.

A common shortcoming of mainland workplace dramas is that they portray careers unprofessionally or fall in love under the guise of careers.

"News Queen" continues the excellent tradition of TVB workplace drama - since it is a workplace drama, all the staff seriously engage in career.

The story of "News Queen" is set around the fictional news media organization SNK-NEWS, in which the 6:30 news report program as the highest rating of the ace program, become the focus of the anchor.

The surface story of the "News Queen" is that several anchors fight around the golden anchor position, which is nicknamed "workplace palace scheming" by the audience. Fortunately, "News Queen" never deviates from the main line of journalism when presenting the struggle of anchors.

No matter how the anchors compete, they are all centered on news and take the quality and influence of news reports as the core embodiment of their personal abilities.

Thus, "News Queen" has the "palace scheming" gimmick of catching horses, but the inside is a incisive presentation of journalism. And that's exactly what a workplace drama is supposed to do: responsibly show the audience the "door" of a career.

The series is also covered by one news case after another, revealing the dilemmas that journalism can face: Should entertainment come first or truth come first? Should ratings come first, or should we push for social change? How to strike a balance between seizing the time limit and protecting the credibility?

If the truth of the news report will offend the TV station's biggest financial backers and affect its sponsorship of the program, should it resist the pressure to report?

"News Queen" for the professional focus of the portrayal, is also intuitively reflected in the drama's plot advancement. The play does not have many trivial plots, no Rory bar verbose nonsense, but a quick cut and crisp, not only well restore the characteristics of the work of journalism against the clock, but also with strong plot, strong conflict, strong suspense, strong reversal and other characteristics, firmly hang the audience's appetite. Some golden sentences are very happy, but also directly poke the heart of the workplace, "I only demonstrate once, let you see what is the ultimate news", "where I am, where is the broadcast room", "they are not enough, others will kill"......

Another big taboo in workplace drama is to fall in love under the guise of engaging in career, and the "love brain" prevails over the "career heart".

"News Queen" all engaged in the cause, regardless of the leading roles and supporting roles are sober and rational, even if there is a love on the brain, the cause has been too big.

Therefore, unlike some workplace dramas, successful women are portrayed as, "career success, finally can find a good man to marry"; The logic of the Queen of News is that you can't even manage your career, "find a man and marry him".

As the "first sister of Hong Kong drama" Sheshman's work, "News Queen" is also a real female lead drama. On the mainland screen, some big female lead drama makes the audience aesthetic fatigue, in addition to some of the flow of female stars acting can not support the role, another main reason is that the shaping of big female is often limited to the framework of "moral model", such as she can not have any moral flaws, and always selfless and selfless in life.

The characterization under this paradigm will not only make the characters appear false, but also make it difficult to gain the audience's empathy.

The "news queen" Wen Huixin, played by Sheshiman, is a certain "model" of modern workplace women, committed to the cause, to become the first in the industry with strength, even if there are lost, but always do not forget the cause of the original heart.

She has the ability, the aura, the wrist, the ambition, although not perfect, but every step of the upward climb can bring thousands of professional people a real sense of exhilaration.

Compared with the classic workplace dramas of early TVB, "Queen News" has some flaws. For example, in order to highlight the drama, too magnify the "palace scheming" in the news industry;

In the performance of specific conflicts, a little superficial, not delicate and profound; Excessive use of slow motion in shot scheduling, etc.

But the defects do not obscure, "News Queen" is still TVB to the mainland workplace drama brought a little shock. In the final analysis, whether it is TVB workplace drama more than 20 years ago, or today's "News Queen", they are consistent with a modern workplace concept and a more modern creative intention.

This is exactly what some workplace dramas lack, and some filmmakers' cognition of the workplace is still at the level of mainstream social stereotypes. Only by breaking through the limitations of this narrow perception can a new workplace drama be produced.