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Hello, I'm Pegasus
I haven't seen it for a long time, and I've been immersed in upgrading before
Recently, have you watched the big hit drama "Meritorious Service"?
In this series that records the stories of eight winners of the "Order of the Republic", when watching the first instructor Li Yannian who can write and fight, Pegasus has already announced in the circle of friends that he has "entered the pit".
After reason returned a little and learned the brain online, he found that each protagonist in "Meritorious Service" originally had only 6 episodes of the appearance quota.
With such a tense restrictive condition, it is inevitable to start thinking about how to tell a good story, so that the plot can appear short and concise, vivid and rich?
I found this answer in the second unit drama "Unsung Hero Yu Min".
The main line is that scientist Yu Min decided to give up studying abroad and devote himself to national defense to participate in the theoretical research and development of hydrogen bombs.
Lei Jiayin plays Izuki sanji, but the group portrait in this unit is more brilliant.
The role of the supporting role of the group portrait makes the seemingly unattainable scientific research plot so that ordinary people can also substitute for the sour, sweet and bitter.
The meaning of the existence of supporting characters is largely to serve the protagonist.
Simplified to two words, "relationship"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" >01 The first relationship</h1>
It happened between Yu Min and colleague Lu Jie.
At the beginning of the story, the relationship between the two people is tit-for-tat.
Lu Jie represents the study abroad faction in the research institute, and Yu Min is the local faction that has not gone abroad.
The two people disagreed at the beginning, and even from scientific discussions, it led to problems of life style.
The turning point was in a misunderstanding of "eating enough and taking more dried radish", the two people from the original tit-for-tat confrontation to Lu Jie overturned his calculations, the first to actively support Yu Min's calculation results.
This change not only reflects Yu Min's unkind words, but also reflects Lu Jie.
Both people are seeking the truth, and Lu Jie's body can see more that the researchers at that time will not fight for themselves, but will be angry at scientific exploration.
After that, they took the lead in completing all the theoretical parts of the work until Lu Jie had to quit after getting ill.
Lu Jie itself has no prototype, but the two people are like "mirror figures", through different fates, we can see more scientists, at that time into the epitome of research.
Among them, Lu Jie has a very interesting independent emotional line, which is worth learning from us
Hey?
Everyone may be eating melon, why?
Because Lu Jie and Yu Min are basically the same tone in their careers.
At this time, how to reflect the diversity of this group of scientists?
The screenwriter tells you that we no longer talk about career lines, but to see the emotional line, how is the other party treated and handled?
At the research institute in Shanghai, Lu Jie met a female classmate who had studied abroad before.
One night, when the other party invited him to dance another dance, suggesting the possibility of development, Lu Jie refused with "the family has been engaged".
Is this rejection of a relationship? Yes, but not only
It not only illustrates Lu Jie's emotional outlook, but also reflects his deep values, there is a kind of "contract and commitment", there is a kind of prudence and responsibility.
Just betrothed to reject the goodwill hint of the heart, which is extremely rare in the current society.
This is talking about Lu Jie, but also about all scientific researchers.
Under the appearance of serious and calm, doing the boring work that ordinary people cannot understand day after day, there is a heart full of ideal attention, romance and affection in the heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" >02 Second relationship</h1>
It happened between Yu Min and the leader Lao He.
The character of Lao He appears in three key points in time throughout the unit drama.
Yu Min decided to join the hydrogen bomb research, the research was deadlocked, and the theoretical research was successful.
What Lao He represents is a kind of "witness", which is no longer a specific person, but more of a support force.
For example, in the opening chapter, Lao He and Yu Min watched a Beijing drama "Empty City Plan"
The sound of the gongs and drums of this Peking Opera became the melody that would ring in Yu Min's mind every time he had an epiphany and a major breakthrough in his research.
In the long story, we may still have time to spend time and explain who are the forces that support the protagonist? For what reason? Is it a benefit, or an emotion?
But in short novels, what you want the reader to feel quickly is best transformed into a specific "symbol"
At that time, there was not even a mobile phone, very little communication, everyone's expectations or support, how to reflect in the protagonist and help him break through?
Here is a reference to a melody, which is a good reference.
There is a vivid example of how supporting characters should be written
If you spend a lot of time writing the protagonist recalling a time with grandma when he was a child, and then there is no plot related to grandma, this supporting character is superfluous!
In the last scene of Lao He's appearance, this is fully reflected:
Learning of the theoretical breakthrough, Lao He made a special trip to Shanghai and talked with Yu Min all night, and the two people talked at night with candles, and talked again about "the "Empty City Plan" that they watched together at that time."
Therefore, it is not difficult to maintain the "coherence" of the supporting characters, the key is to "constantly repeat" the important memories between the supporting characters and the characters.
The memories of Yu Min and Lao He are the song "Empty City Plan"
The image of Lao He is a fusion of multiple characters.
When encountering an aircraft accident, the first reaction was to hold the briefcase containing valuable information tightly in his arms, and it was to pay tribute to the only martyr in the "two bombs and one star" father, the scientist Guo Yonghuai.
I heard that at the scene, Guo Yonghuai and the guards hugged together, just so that the briefcase containing the thermonuclear missile research materials could not be destroyed and destroyed.
The significance of this is nothing more than to keep up with the main line, truly get rid of the "empty city", and create a confidence!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" >03 Third relationship</h1>
It happened between Yu Min and bianjun Laoma.
These two people with completely different functions intersected during the hydrogen bomb's entry into testing, and contradictions were naturally inevitable.
Why?
Because both sides have eaten what the other has not suffered.
As for what is "suffering", it must be said in detail with the events.
The old horse dislikes scientists as delicate people, drinking some water with taste, and this "bitterness" cannot stand it.
Yu Min disliked the other party as a tendon and a rectum, and did not understand scientific experiments at all, that is, to "suffer" and survive step by step.
The image of the two characters is established in this way, and we also have a sense of substitution for the conflict that broke out between the two sides.
So, how do you get people in two completely different industries to sit down and have a good chat?
The breakthrough point between Yu Min and Lu Jie's peers is different from "understanding and guilt", not the relationship between peers, before it was towards the point of mutual dislike, and now it is going to go to the point of "worship".
In the plot, it is a late-night dialogue between the two people.
The old horse asked, how many times have you failed the hydrogen bomb experiment?
Yu Min said that he couldn't count it, and asked the other party how many times you shot and killed the enemy, remember?
Lao Ma replied that at least a thousand and eight hundred times, Yu Min said that we would collapse the house at both ends in three days, at least more than ten times.
Consistent with real life, people in different industries have their own ability list, a measure of the top strongmen.
When we take it out of each other, regardless of logic, the data alone will resonate.
Because the "suffering" and "difficulty" that occur on these numbers are clear to everyone every time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" >04 Last</h1>
The group portraits in this drama are very rich, not only these three people, but also Yu Min's wife and children, sister, neighbors, Lao He's leaders, other scientist colleagues and relatives, and so on.
Some characters know each other's personality traits in a word
There are also characters who hide "secrets", such as another scientist, Yuan Jinhong
If writing the protagonist is writing ideals, writing supporting roles is writing life.
Each of us, throughout our lives, is positioning ourselves in the world through our relationships with others.
Which other supporting character in "Meritorious Service" impressed you?
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