Drug Lord ": The intertwined magic and reality are contained in "Movie World" 2015.10.
As "House of Cards" shocked the world in 2013, Netflix, a company that was originally only an online film rental service, began to attract the attention of the industry and global TV series audiences. Although the word-of-mouth in the subsequent dramas has fallen from the overwhelming praise formed by the phenomenal drama "House of Cards", after a lapse of two years, they once again took out "Drug Lords" so that they can be compared with "Cards". "House" is comparable to the work. Netflix, which emerged as a spoiler halfway through, attracts a large number of paying users, but also successfully confuses the stagnant waters of the already solidified distribution system.
The story of "Drug Lords" is based on real events. The protagonist Pablo Escobar is one of the two most well-known characters in Colombia in the 1970s and 1990s, and the other is the Latin American magical reality. Garcia Marquez, a representative writer of the literary genre. What's interesting is that when the drama "Drug Lords" opens, it uses subtitles to briefly explain to the audience the general meaning of the literary concept of "magic realism". The creator did not do this for simply dropping a book bag or forcibly binding these two Colombian world-class celebrities, but to use this literary concept to accurately position the style of the show "Drug Lords" . I believe anyone who knows about Pablo Escobar’s life and things will agree that apart from the words "magic realism", it is really difficult to have a more appropriate word to summarize that " Unbelievable astonishment" fact.
Although the beginning of "Drug Lords" showed its relationship with reality, and a large number of real shots taken by Pablo Escobar’s private photographer were added to the film, but many years later, it was about Pablo. Apart from the fact that Escobar was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1949, a series of keywords such as poverty, theft, love, killer, etc. have been unclear and legendary. All kinds of entanglements, especially when he started to get involved in drug manufacturing and trafficking, and reached the top of the world’s wealth when he was less than 30 years old, it was even more difficult for people to rank the "drug king" and "the seventh on the Forbes list." The titles of "presidential candidate", "Robin Hood" and "kidnapping machine" are juxtaposed on one person.
Such a huge difference provides infinite possibilities for shaping plump characters, and also makes the story full of magic. However, in the short ten episodes of the first season, it is necessary to erect such a character truly and credibly, and also for the creation. It's not a small difficulty.
The story uses the perspective of one of the protagonists of the show and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency agent Steve Murphy. It cuts in from the key scenes in the play, and briefly explains the background of the story and how the drug center had moved from Chile earlier through the narration. Transfer to Colombia. Then the protagonist Pablo Escobar appeared. He was intercepted by a few police officers during a "conscientious smuggling" operation. This is the first scene to portray the character. He calmly, pointed directly at the hearts of the people, in order to lure and make peace. The methods of intimidation easily draw these policemen to his side. His calm, cold, smart and insightful ability makes people look forward to his next performance in the drug industry.
Pablo Escobar is played by the famous Brazilian actor Wagner Mara. For this role, he went to Colombia to learn Spanish and gained weight. Only from the appearance, this cruel and murderous poison Owl looks a bit naive, and there are quite a few scenes in the plot that show the multi-faceted character of Pablo Escobar, such as his love for relatives and small animals, suspiciousness of his opponents, and ruthlessness of his opponents. Wagner Marado's interpretation is very accurate, which makes the free conversion of characters between multiple identities true and believable.
"Drug Lord" is easily reminiscent of another drama "Breaking Bad", which involved drugs and has an excellent reputation, but compared with the latter, it starts from the character situation and through its own struggle and harmony. The relationship between the surrounding people builds a contradictory model. The narrative pattern of "Drug Lord" is much larger and more externalized. For example, in "Breaking Bad", the most intense plot conflicts are largely derived from other drug dealers. Competition and fire merge, and these plots are basically covered in "Drug Lord".
Pablo Escobar has no moral burdens, no inner entanglements, and his handling of the relationship with the people around him is simpler and more rude. The narrative motivation of "Drug Lord" comes from a person rushing to the top desperately and cold-blooded. Get rid of all those who hinder him. Although the film is called "Drug Lords", drug trafficking is not the whole life of the protagonist. Pablo Escobar is full of yearning for power and knows the importance of power to his career, so he uses various means The process of gradually monopolizing the Colombian drug market and quickly accumulating huge wealth does not account for a large proportion of the entire episode. Then he took the Bolivar sword from the guerrillas he defeated and declared that he would Liberation of Colombia, such a sudden change in the plot is like the shock that magical realism brought to people at the beginning of the advent: it can still be like this!
The big opening and closing of the plot provides a lot of exciting scenes for the story. Action dramas such as assassinations, gun battles, jungle siege and suppression run through every episode of the whole drama. When Pablo Escobar’s political career was blocked, in order to eliminate the accusations against him People, he has committed many assassinations, and he even created a Supreme Court bombing in order to destroy criminal evidence, razing the courts representing state power to the ground. Later, when Colombia was about to sign an extradition clause with the United States, Pablo Escobar created a passenger plane bombing in order to assassinate the presidential candidate, killing hundreds of people. This also meant Pablo Escobar and the entire country. The official declaration of war, the plot immediately entered a more magical development track...
The production team of this film is the team behind the film "Elite Force", which won the 2008 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award. Director José Padilla also personally participated in directing the first two episodes of the show, and the other main creators were Including Paul Eckstein and others who have produced "Law and Order: Criminal Tendency". The addition of these people has brought a reliable guarantee for a large number of action scenes in the film. When Netflix released all the episodes at the same time as before, it immediately caused a new round of Binge Watching, and the second season of the show has also been successfully renewed.
Let’s start with the word “renewal”, and it is natural to go back to the Netflix company behind Narcotics. Although from the beginning of “House of Cards”, they claimed to be a self-produced drama, but the real situation is theirs. I got the exclusive broadcasting rights for the first two years of the show by way of investment, and the production of the show was done by MRC. As Netflix grows stronger, it may have deeper participation in the future, but it is unlikely to be completely self-made. After all, separation of production and broadcast is the general trend of the future, especially if you want to do some quality-guaranteed dramas, self-made is not as good as outsourcing. convenient.
But having said that, even if it is not a self-made drama in the true sense, it is already very "unruly" in terms of Netflix's current distribution model. From "House of Cards" to "Drug Lords", everyone gradually became familiar with a term called "phenomenal American drama". This phenomenon, in addition to the unexpected quality of the drama itself, has a greater significance in the emergence of online premieres. A new attempt to Hollywood's traditional distribution model or a challenge to the old pattern.
If it’s difficult to understand from the perspective of the distribution model change, there is one of the easiest ways to explain what happened, that is, "House of Cards" and "Drug Lord" are actually equivalent to what we call online dramas. . In Hollywood, after so many years of precipitation, the distribution of film and television dramas has formed a very fixed pattern, and it is basically controlled by six major companies that we know well. Take a movie as an example. The distribution of a movie first starts from the theater. , Followed by audio-visual products, premium channels, and free TV. Every change in distribution channels will bring a new round of benefits. In this chain, Netflix, as an online movie rental service provider, is basically at the end of the distribution, with little room for profit. And as the cost of buying movies continues to increase and other competitors join in, the benefits will increase. In this case, they are forced to take other measures, forcibly jump in the line in the distribution chain, and win the network premiere and even exclusive rights of certain series and even movies.
Another reason for the feasibility of this new distribution model is that independent production companies that have always been dependent on large companies are actually very willing to cooperate with Netflix in development. The acquisition by the publisher of, has to go through an extremely long and complicated process, any link of which may terminate the project, and even the series that is currently on the air may be suspended. The cooperation between the production company and the network streaming media company simplifies the process and virtually reduces the risk. Especially Netflix, which changes the weekly broadcast of traditional TV stations to centralized broadcast, avoids being caught due to poor ratings. The risk of stopping the broadcast halfway is a win-win model.
However, this process, which is completely independent of traditional large companies from production to realization, will inevitably bring about the response of several major groups. If the significance of "House of Cards" marks a successful test of the waters, then "Narcotics" The significance is even more significant, it means that the success of "House of Cards" is not accidental, but a practical new method, and is likely to be promoted. It is reported that Netflix has joined hands with Hollywood comedy star Adam Sandler to further plan the distribution of movies on the Internet. Although considering the audio-visual experience and cost recovery and other aspects, it is impossible to shake the status of traditional movie theaters in a short period of time, but this is after all Forcibly cut a piece from someone else's cake, and several big groups will definitely fight back on the Internet.
As for Netflix's announcement that it will enter the Chinese market independently, let alone the policy restrictions that it faces in entering the Chinese market independently. In terms of attractiveness, it is far less attractive than that of the United States. What's more, Chinese netizens who have always watched free videos will take some time to develop the habit of paying to watch. These are the problems that Netflix has to face.
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