.I have watched several AMC dramas, and I feel that the names are a bit strange, not English, but Chinese translations, breaking bad --Breaking Bad, better call soul --Coquettish Lawyer/Breaking Lawyer, halt and catch fire -- Pentium era/computer madman/quick fire, and the mad man of this fire--advertising madman. The name is still quite important, I feel that halt and catch fiie is not popular enough, and the name has to bear the cauldron. It might as well be called the entrepreneurial era.
In 2011, U.S. cable television stations accounted for 54% of household subscription revenue, and advertising revenue accounted for 43%. For U.S. cable television stations, advertising revenue is a large part of the income in addition to household subscription fees. This advertising-supported economic model has shaped the narrative style of cable channel TV to a certain extent: because the channel will cut off advertisements in the middle of TV or movies, in order not to affect the audience's understanding of the plot, and at the same time attract the audience to stay on the channel without changing Many channels have adopted a fast, fragmented narrative style. This narrative style includes the use of a large number of short takes, a large number of Steadicam shots, the use of high-speed and sharply changing shots, and the creation of many small climaxes to cut off the inserted advertisements [2]. This kind of narrative mode has obvious advantages: the scattered narrative of many clues and plots, even if the audience misses ten minutes or even one or two episodes, it will not greatly affect the understanding of the plot, and every story and character can create suspense In order to facilitate the entry of advertisements, it can also attract viewers to continue to wait and watch. But a big disadvantage is that it is not conducive to the audience's understanding of the plot from the overall background and details, and the performance of the characters must not be profound and full, and only pursue the rapid advancement of the plot.
Different from the narrative style of other cable stations, AMC's self-made dramas in recent years have adopted a slow-heat narrative style, striving to construct subtle and complex character behaviors, shaping morally controversial characters, and deeply digging into the characters' personalities and behaviors. , emphasizing the narrative setting, the logic and integrity of the story; at the same time, wide-angle shots, empty shots, and long shots are widely used (ASL6.4). The use of shots is also relatively smooth, with few dramatic changes, and we found that the narrative has another characteristic, which is to create pauses in the tense plot.
Maybe because it is related to the profession, I have a deep feeling for this drama, and I have a fresh memory of some inexplicable plots in it. A Stylistic Interpretation of Ozymandias
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"I am the king of kings, I am the king of all kings, I have a great deed, dare to convince the gods of heaven! Reach out to the desolate four directions. Lonely flat sand and empty, there is nothing else, but around the ruins, lonely flat sand and empty, reaching out to the desolate Quartet.
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