＂County Party Committee Courtyard＂ goes LIVE and breaks 2! It’s not because I haven’t seen Hu Ge for 5 years, the director is the key

CCTV broadcast, starring Hu Ge’s TV drama "County Party Committee Courtyard", the peak audience rating on the day of the premiere exceeded 2.1%, and the average attention reached 1.75%, higher than the 1.6% result on the first day of the go LIVE of the Yangyi annual champion "The World", which was broadcast at the beginning of this year. Looking at the peak trend like injecting chicken blood, no one dared not say that this drama may not have taken off on a rocket.

From 2017 to the present, after a lapse of five years, the audience has not seen Hu Ge’s face in front of the TV. Not only does he not shoot TV dramas, but he does not participate in any variety shows, reality shows, and even other large-scale entertainment activities are difficult to see him. Therefore, everyone calls him Brother Shen Yin. As soon as the new drama came out, it won such a sky-defying audience rating. Could it be that the usual energy was released in one breath in this drama?

But in fact, it is not necessarily the case that Hu Ge’s last TV drama "Hunting Ground" had an average audience rating. "Hunting Ground" was also a masterpiece of the director of "Hidden" who had been dormant for many years. When it was broadcast, Hu Ge’s popularity was in the limelight, but it still failed to make the show a hit. In addition, Hu Ge’s first film as a male lead during this period, "Station of the Southern Weekend", received a mediocre response from both the market and the awards.

Therefore, it does not mean that as long as there is Hu Ge, it can mean sales and high audience ratings. The key point for the first episode of "County Party Committee Courtyard" to take off is that everyone can’t see the director Kong Sheng from the screen.

Everyone says that noonday production must be a high-quality product. Noonday Sunshine can become a golden sign in the current Chinese TV drama production company industry, and half of the gold content is Kong Sheng.

Just like in the past ten years, the "Langya Bang" on the ceiling of the ancient costume drama was the powerful joint work of Hu Ge and Kong Sheng. This time, "County Party Committee Courtyard" was the two blossoms of the two, and netizens jokingly called it "the second time". Although there are not many episodes of "County Party Committee Courtyard" currently broadcast, in just a few short episodes, everyone can intuitively feel the following two points, and they have to admire the director Kong Sheng’s skills.

The first point is to grasp the rhythm of the story.

In today’s fast-paced era, many viewers directly judge the pace of the first two episodes of a drama. Once the audience needs to turn on the speed to watch the first two episodes, the drama can basically be declared away. Because of this audience reaction, many dramas indirectly try to retain the audience at the first time, always racking their brains to play a big game for everyone in the first two episodes, which makes the story seem rushed and complicated.

Kong Sheng was obviously not in a hurry. With regard to the narrative rhythm of the first few episodes of "County Party Committee Courtyard", he showed the audience what it means to be a good storyteller and what is the ability to tell a story.

The first two episodes of "County Party Committee Courtyard" featured a lot of characters, all of whom were famous actors who were familiar to the audience. Huang Lei, Zhang Xincheng, Li Guangjie, Wu Yue, Wang Xiao, and many golden supporting characters of Noon Sunshine. It stands to reason that seeing so many familiar faces makes it difficult for people to adapt to the roles created by these actors in the first place, but Kong Sheng stayed.

Because it is a group portrait drama, each character doesn’t appear for much time, but strangely, everyone makes everyone feel very memorable. Take Huang Lei, who is the easiest to make everyone play, for example. Over the years, he has always been complained by people that everyone plays himself. This time, he is thin, tired, and looks like a grassroots cadre who has been defeated by the villagers. When drinking tea from a cup, he naturally spits out tea leaves in his mouth. It is no exaggeration to say that although this character is a supporting role, it can definitely be said to be Huang Lei’s highlight moment in these years.

The second point is that in Kong Sheng’s dramas, there are traces of life that many directors cannot achieve.

Let’s not talk about this drama first, let’s talk about an aside. Why has there been a lot of discussion about the family of origin in these dramas such as "Thirty" and "It’s All Good" over the years? Tracing the source, it is because of the "Ode to Joy 1" that year, which was directed by Kong Sheng. So why did the later dramas renovate the suffering of the family of origin, but they could not reach the height achieved by "Ode to Joy 1", and if they were not careful, the audience would scold the selling anxiety. The core reason is that the director could not describe the plot in a life-like manner.

In this respect, we can see it in all the plays directed by Kong Sheng. The Machiavellian drama "Langya Ranking", everyone shouted to watch the 100 episodes of Su Zhai Daily; the era drama "Parents’ Love", which has become the standard electronic mustard; there is also the anti-Japanese war drama "War Changsha", where Hu Xiangxiang hangs a bowl of wonton stew from his boudoir, which makes many audiences think about it day and night; even in the poverty alleviation drama "Mountain and Sea Love", the actors eat potatoes boiled in white water, and the audience is envious. These fragments of life that do not seem to play a role in advancing the plot in the drama are precisely what best reflects the director Kong Sheng’s skills.

Director Kong Sheng was able to fill a variety of TV drama genres with these small details of life, making the audience always believe in their true existence again and again, as if those characters were living people around us.

A good work, a good actor, and a good director don’t need to buy any hot search to market, and the audience will vote with their own preferences.