Officialdom is the wealth password of domestic dramas.

High EQ: I hope everyone can attend the celebration dinner in one month. Low EQ: I think some of you are very judgmental.

This sentence by Luo Shanhe, the leader of the Central Supervision Team in "Sweeping the Black Storm" is really full of meaning and quite calm. At the beginning, it was a welcome banquet for all the wise people. On the surface, it was peaceful and beautiful, but it could not cover up the deep water behind the city of Lvteng.

In the typical official speech, casual words on the wine table often imply the confrontation between light and dark of many forces. This is probably the reason why the people are fascinated by the officialdom, especially the high-level officialdom dramas. If you work and have enough to eat, you will always be the second party in life. If you can substitute yourself for the 5-6-year-old leader to have sex in the power vortex, it is no ordinary feeling!

Fan Wei's mood in Private Customization is similar to this. He is "pretending" to be a senior leader, and he has one requirement for the customization team: "Corrupt me as much as possible!" From "in the name of people" to "Sweeping the Black Storm", the audience not only enriched their political knowledge, understood the inside story of officialdom, realized the function and significance of political education, but more importantly got an "officialdom experience card".

Being an honest official can be like a mirror, fighting with the evil forces. When corrupt officials can engage in horizontal and vertical affairs, they can fully understand the whole process of mind corrosion; When you are a profiteer, you can be intoxicated with money and unlock the happiness of thousands of servants in person. Judging from the theory of "use and satisfaction", dramas that have mastered "officialdom rhetoric" usually get the wealth password of genre creation.

After all, apart from the rhetoric of experienced taxi drivers, the only way for ordinary people to gain political knowledge and understand the situation in the sea is to ban books and anti-corruption drama. Compared with the curiosity of the banned books and the inside story of the elder brother, the dramas that shape the current political ecological circle on a large scale are still closer to the people and the present, and almost all of them will explode.

Official and field, scheming and art

The scheming and art of officialdom was originally an intellectual game that belonged to middle-aged and old men (in reality, there is no meaning of not being feminist), and the chess game was smashed to pieces. "Guanzi" says: "Those who are mind-bending, those who do nothing but know how to do things." That is to say, the heart is hidden and static braking. Although it is "inaction", it can control nine tricks.

Dong Yao, the head of Shimen District in "Sweeping the Black Storm", knows this well, and he is what He Yong (Liu Yijun), the leader of the 911th Five-Year Plan Task Force, calls a "wise man". After the fall of Yang Dong, the "food tyrant", before He Yong singling out, Dong Yao left the relationship completely, saying that he only had a few faces with Yang Dong, which was related to the people's vegetable basket, and he should be held responsible for his oversight.

In Dong Yao's mouth, He Yong can only hear the invalid information that Dong Yao wants to tell him, and there are no other clues. When he arrived at Ma Shuai's wife's side, Dong Yao pretended to be a nice guy to consider for his sister-in-law, and wanted to set up the project of Yihe New Village of the new coach group at a low price, and then sold it to Changteng Capital. Not only made a fortune, but also sold Gao Mingyuan's favor, and the abacus jingled.

Starting with the murder of Xue Mei on the day of the arrival of the task force, and turning to the unexpected death of the arraignment in Ma Shuai, "Sweeping the Black Storm" satirizes the corruption in the officialdom with realistic methods, which makes the audience feel satisfied while faintly feeling stiff. Like an invisible hand, the evil forces stand between the task force and the innocent truth, trying to wipe away all traces by sex.

Whether it's controlled vegetable prices, girls threatened by naked loans, or the police chief who harbors evil forces, the whole city of Lvteng is rotten to the roots. Director Hu, played by Sun Hao, is willing to be the lackey of Gao Mingyuan (WangZhifei). He took a blood pressure test n times a day and soaked in medlar in a thermos cup. When he went to the wine bureau, it was a whole pot, so his health was not important.

Gao Mingyuan is a typical villain who keeps a straight face, and what is terrible is the YinZhi under his smiling face. Just sent a killer to bury his girlfriend's mother, and suddenly he can be intimate with his girlfriend and persuade the other party to visit his mother. What a perverted psychological quality is this? In the face of the task force, the phrase "all the clues are here, pinch them off" makes people's backs cold. In Gao Mingyuan's scheming, pinching off is equivalent to "doing it".

In addition to the characterization of the pros and cons, the discussion of the gray area in Sweeping the Black Storm also highlights its narrative innovation and progress. Li Chengyang, played by Sun Honglei, wears glasses and smiles to tell you about the law. He is a "litigator", but he can't let go of the death of his master Lin Han more than ten years ago, even though the possibility is slim. According to the routine, it is very likely that Li Chengyang will "prove his innocence" in the later period and become the god assist of classmate He Yong.

By depicting the characters' struggling state under the pull of material desire and lust and the swing of fate and power, Sweeping the Black Storm got rid of the facebook to some extent. Sun Honglei, who is strong externally, often hides in the wonton restaurant, not because she covets the beauty of the female boss, but just wants to find a corner with fireworks to avoid the world.

Officialdom Imagination and Audience Expectation

The plot logic, text narration and value orientation of anti-corruption works are the perspective of the ideology implied in the text. They show the relationship structure of characters to the audience through the plot and satisfy their desire to explore political life. The disclosure of the details of the case handled by the procuratorate is a "literacy" for the public.

Before Sweeping the Black Storm, in the name of people created a large-scale precedent. The audience can not only sort out the functions and relationships of the party and government organs in China from the positions of the people in the play, but also learn about the "double regulations" of party member cadres and the handling process of the secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission when violating the law and discipline, breaking through the previous red line of "writing until the deputy provincial level".

It should be noted that in other dramas, the emotional line of Bailing has generally become an obstacle in anti-corruption dramas. Compared with Zheng Shengli's emotional drama and Hou Liangping's family life, the audience, whether young or old, are more willing to watch the scene of the meeting in the officialdom, some wonderful political words of the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and the refreshing point of Mayor Dakang Li. Watching a bunch of old men in "leadership jackets" fight bravely and quietly is much more exciting and memorable than the worldly men and women who are mentally backward.

Compared with fresh-meat actors, the audience is more willing to see the old actors' fighting, and their ability to control the role and perfect lines often overshadow the young actors. In "in the name of people", Lu Yi was completely overwhelmed by the momentum of WU GANG and Xu Yajun. Everyone had lines in the same scene, so the old actors had to close their eyes and become the eyes of the drama.

The same is true of Sun Honglei and LAY in Sweeping the Black Storm. Although LAY's young police officer, Lin Hao, is not bad and really handsome, he still looks a lot awkward when he plays opposite Sun Honglei. From "Is this melon cooked" in Conquest to "It's hard to pass" in Sweeping the Black Storm, Sun Honglei's role coverage has been upgraded from a gangster to both good and evil, and his temperament is firmly grasped.

Faced with the right and wrong of anti-corruption and anti-vice, the audience will naturally take the behavior line of the just side as the main course. Hou Liangping, the positive figure in in the name of people, fought with Qi Tongwei and Gao Xiaoqin in Shanshui Manor, and the audience saw it thrilling and knew that justice was not easy.

Unfortunately, the positive protagonist in in the name of people is poorly portrayed. There is a complanation of Hou Liangping's role itself, and there is always a feeling that I will judge you scum because I don't know the sufferings of the world, and there are also problems that Lu Yi, Michelle and others interpret themselves.

On the contrary, a righteous and upright positive character is not as good as a righteous and evil villain, which really cannot be attributed to our audience's "incorrect views". Perhaps due to the constraints of creation, the decent figures in anti-corruption drama are always like "saints from heaven", but the villains are mostly "people" with complicated mental processes and normal love, hate and greed.

This is the case from Black Hole, starring Chen Daoming, to Qi Tongwei, the phoenix man in in the name of people. Hard candy gentleman is hard to substitute for Lu Yi, the favored son of heaven, but he can understand Qi Tongwei who gambles on his life and wants to "win the battle". His future destination has a strong tragic color from the root, which in turn stems from his too bumpy experience. Yes, how many people can be as successful as Hou Liangping?

It is true that Qi Tongwei is not worth imitating, but he can be substituted. In particular, Chinese people have always sympathized with tragic heroes, and Qi Tongwei's shaping has obviously become an ideal container for this emotion. Judging from the current development of Sweeping the Black Storm, Sun Honglei will not be like Lu Yi at all. Perhaps we can expect a more complicated positive figure.

Political narrative from ancient times to the present

From the perspective of field sociology, officialdom is undoubtedly what Bourdieu said. In the contradictory struggle, people strive for their own interests and control over others, which is an attempt to change the original field relationship. This makes the officialdom narrative in a state of flux, full of accidental and mysterious variables.

Although ancient officialdom is different from modern officialdom in nature, some structures and functions are quite similar. In Ming Dynasty 1566, the situation of anti-corruption is no simpler than that of modern drama. There are not only conflicts between the strict party and the anti-strict party, but also conflicts within the anti-corruption faction.

Xu Jie, Zhao Zhenji and others equate safeguarding the interests of the emperor with safeguarding the interests of the people, and adhere to the ethics of "the monarch is the father, and the father has no fault"; However, Harry upholds the concept of "the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light", and bluntly talks about the root causes of corruption in the imperial court. In this way, in the face of divided justice, the silent audience can reflect on the complexity of history more deeply.

No War in Peiping, with the background of "anti-corruption movement" and "currency reform", also gives some enlightenment to anti-corruption drama with modern theme. On the one hand, it is concerned about the current affairs of fighting against corruption and tigers, on the other hand, it is also of far-reaching significance to reflect on the reasons for the economic collapse of the National Government from the perspective of great history. It is the purpose of "saving the country with blood" that created the split personality and tragic fate of Liang Jinglun and Secretary Sun. It is difficult for the audience to analyze the identity politics of these characters with the binary opposition mode of "good and evil, loyalty and treachery".

The same classic officialdom narrative is also reflected in the characterization of Lurking. Wu Jingzhong, the stationmaster of Juntong tianjin railway station, as an old man in the Renaissance, finally understood the slogan of "uniting the will and defending the leader" as "Every man for himself, the devil takes the hindmost". What he studied was the ancient technique of being an official. As long as his personal interests were preserved, everything else could be sacrificed.

If used properly, Lurking can be regarded as a guide to the survival of officialdom. Lu Qiaoshan framed Li Ya by leaking information to Zhong Tong, and Li Ya turned against him, indicating that he should never betray the interests of the department for personal interests. Ma Kui didn't understand the hidden rules of officialdom. He actually checked the stationmaster while checking Yu Zecheng, and finally fell into the trap of Yu Zecheng, indicating that you should never check your direct leadership ...

Zhao Tingyang said in < Anti-political Politics >: "When the political game degenerates into an administrative game, this game of administrative struggle is intellectually high-level conspiracy, but spiritually it is extremely low. It has no spiritual significance, no spiritual pursuit, no ideal, and the moral and aesthetic significance has degenerated to near zero. "

As a tacit survival skill of the whole ancient society, politics is by no means an intangible cultural heritage. However, the cleverness among them, after being presented in film and television by anti-corruption and anti-vice dramas, is indeed fascinating. Don't take things as a mirror, but at least you can ponder the profoundness of Chinese language and art.

It is not clear whether it is a new form of mass participation in political life to understand these routines of officialdom rhetoric. But at least in terms of words and sentences, we can avoid many "social death" scenes.