The same rice raises hundreds of people.

Everyone has their own preferences.

People also have their own advantages when watching movies and TV dramas.

Some people like to watch romance dramas, accompanying the male and female protagonists in the drama to have a long love and hate entanglement, as if they also had a relationship;

Some people like to watch mystery dramas and think that criminals and police, one commit crimes, one solves the case, one sets up a situation, and the other breaks the situation, which is very brain-burning and very satisfying;

Some people like to watch martial arts dramas. Martial arts masters have unique skills and are very skilled in martial arts. They fly around and are as elegant as immortals. They are accompanied by beautiful women, wandering around the world, and are extremely free and easy.

Of course, some people like to watch bloody and violent TV series. They think this is exciting and novel, which can satisfy the desire for destruction in their hearts and release the psychological pressure brought by life.

There are indeed many film and television dramas that sell blood and violence as their selling points, such as "Bloodthirsty Forensic", "True Love as Blood", "Spartacus", etc.

"Prison Storm" is based on bloody and violent as its selling point, coupled with the excellent story arrangement, climaxes and suspense plot, which has won the recognition of so many viewers. After it was broadcast on Amc TV, the subscribers on the station increased by more than two million.

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"Friends" also performed very well, with ratings in the top ten.

In fact, because the United States is a capitalist society and has a high pressure on life, the ratings of funny sitcoms have always been good.

This is actually the same as China. In China, the ratings of sitcoms have always been good, such as "I Love My Home", "Idle Son", "Wulin Waibao", etc. Even "Love Apartment", which is suspected of plagiarism, have been filmed for four seasons, which shows how popular sitcoms are in the mainland.

However, it is very difficult to make a popular comedy. Because comedy must amuse the audience, otherwise it will be boring. To amuse the audience, you must have a good screenwriter, a good actor, and a good director.

The reason why "I Love My Home" was so beautiful back then was because its screenwriter was Liang Zuo. Liang Zuo was a top student in the Chinese Department of Peking University and a professor in the School of Languages. He had extremely high attainments in crosstalk, folk art, and literature.

He created the popular "Tiger Mouth Reverie", "Elevator Adventure", "Extraordinary News" and so on at the Spring Festival Gala.

Its cast is also very strong. Song Dandan is one of the best female comedians in the mainland, with first-class acting skills; Yang Lixin is the pillar of the Beijing People's Art Theater; Wen Xingyu is graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama and vice president of the Central Experimental Theater; Cai Ming is also one of the best female comedians in the mainland, and he is also superb in acting, and he acts like whatever he likes...

In addition, there are Liang Tian, ​​Ge You, Xie Yuan, Li Mingqi, Pu Cunxin, Li Xuejian, Yang Kuirong, Wang Zhiwen, Lei Kesheng, etc.

Such a magnificent cast is not only unprecedented, but at least it is rare.

Director Yingda is also indispensable. He has studied in the United States and has a certain understanding of sitcoms. He is the first person to engage in sitcoms in the mainland. It is precisely because of his directing that he has released such a comedy that is amazing to watch decades later and is still a classic one.

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It is no surprise that the mainland lacks comedy and comedy that can make people laugh.

The work of the screenwriter is not respected. Regardless of whether the producer, director or actor, as long as he thinks the script is not good, he has the right to modify it. The script is changed in a mess, with characters, stories and logic.

This leads to the fact that the comedy in the mainland usually does not have a good story that can be established. The characters who can be established are funny relying on deliberate and exaggerated actions and shapes to make people laugh. Just like the clown in a circus, they make comedy into a farce.

The actors are all traffic stars who don’t care about their acting skills at all, and only know how to hype, smack the show, and cut pictures. Such a performance that is not thoughtful will naturally be difficult to amuse the audience.

So the mainland comedy is not funny.

Of course, we should also see emerging comedy forces such as Happy Twist and ZuiTao Trio are rising, and I believe that it will bring new changes to comedy in the mainland.

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It's a long way to go, and let's talk about "Friends".

As a sitcom, "Friends" has no doubt about the classics.

The reason why it is popular is that it has a very good personality.

Rose, an expert in the museum, has a stable income, belongs to the middle class, has a scheming personality, and is serious;

Qiande, a data processing expert, a middle- and senior executive of the company, has a high income, is also in the middle class, has a humorous personality, is angry, and is not liked by girls;

Joey, an actor and a variety of zero-hour workers, has a meager income, is located at the bottom of society, has a simple personality, and is liked by girls;

Monica, a restaurant chef, was unemployed later and was located at the bottom of society. She had a cleanliness and was serious about it;

Rachel, a daughter who is a daughter who escapes marriage, is located at the bottom of society, and is a silly and sweet person;

Phoebe, a masseur and singer, has a limited income and is located at the bottom of society. She has a weird personality and is a bit nervous.

The six people have different personalities, different jobs, different classes, and live together, and they will naturally create a lot of sparks. In addition, the joining of various guest characters makes this drama infinitely expandable.

Second, the story is arranged.

With the outline of summer, the screenwriters of Tianxia produced copied the stories and wrote good stories.

There are two ways to create scripts in Hollywood. One is that a screenwriter writes a good script independently. He independently completes the story structure, character creation, and plot arrangement... which is commonly known as the "play master" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry."

Another way of creation is "brain storm". That is, people in the crew gather together to accumulate scenes, you have an idea, I have an explanation, and choose the best ones to make a script.

Like in "Mr. Zombie", the idea that when you encounter a zombie, you will hold your breath. It was what everyone came up with when they were brainstorming.

The filming of dramas in the United States adopts the "brain storm" method. Several screenwriters write scripts together, think of ideas for each other, and then accumulate them into a complete story.

What is missing in Hollywood is the showrunner, such as Michael Clayton, who was sitting in "Jurassic Park", sold for two million dollars in a movie.

And the screenwriters of "brainstorming" are not short of them in Hollywood.

Compared with the "brain storm" screenwriter, the worst is the "big picture view".

The master of the drama is like an architectural designer, completing a building from the foundation to the main body to the exterior wall design, landscape design, interior design, etc.

The screenwriter of "brain storm" is basically responsible for adding bricks, repairs, decorations and other things.

Just like in "Friends", the characters, hobbies, work, etc. of the six characters have been set up, and their work, love, and life have also been set up, just like a building has laid a solid foundation and has established six pillars.
Chapter completed!