Writing detectives and suspense novels in the pre-Internet era requires anticipating readers’ reactions in advance, and this process is irreversible. Only when a novel is published can readers’ reactions be widely collected, and feedback at this time is no longer helpful in improving this work.
When the carrier is changed to TV and the format is changed to a drama series, the situation becomes more and more interesting with the real-time feedback to the audience through the Internet. It is not only a market behavior, the audience uses the remote control to vote, and the audience rating is used to determine the survival of the story; on the other hand, for the suspense drama, it is a process of intellectual competition between the screenwriter and the audience. The screenwriter is facing hundreds of millions of people who love this story and love these characters. They are enthusiastically guessing the plot direction, or to some extent everyone is trying to write every episode. You can only win them by surpassing them. It must be unexpected or even unthinkable, and it must be self-evident, and it must have content and details, which is extremely difficult.
However, it is this extremely cruel natural selection process that allows screenwriters and the entire industry to survive the survival of the fittest and evolve rapidly. No effort to improve oneself can compare with the pressure of the environment. Therefore, we see that screenwriters are much better than traditional fiction writers in ambushing pens, shaking baggage, controlling the rhythm, rendering the atmosphere, digging holes and filling them in time. People often complain that American TV shows only one episode a week, which is too difficult to wait. In fact, this just left an interactive space. The production cost of its single episode is very high. Investors have to look at the audience's feedback before deciding whether to shoot it. The whole episode is live and interactive, and can be adjusted at any time, and it may end at any time. Screenwriters will also use this space to gather opinions and fight against the audience.
Prison Break is such a typical, the core selling point is suspense. In the narrowest time (Lincon's sentence is a deadline) and space (Fox River Prison), contradictions and suspense emerge endlessly, making people breathless. For this reason, the screenwriter really does not hesitate to push himself to death, every time there is a slight turnaround, he will immediately pinch it, and make people fall into deeper despair. Even if you don't believe in the plot, you will be more and more concerned about how the screenwriter finally came to complete the story. Many times you will think in your heart after watching it, so it can be done, and see how this group of guys will end next week.
Michael's role is very similar to Andy in "Shawshank Redemption", a firm, tough, calm, and natural strategist. Unlike Andy’s work alone, Michael has to resort to a large group of notorious and dangerous people to rescue his brother in a very limited time (Andy is a ten-year work), and also to deal with the interference of powerful forces outside the prison. , The difficulty is far beyond "Shawshank Redemption", the real Mission Impossible. But what did he do? He finally established his leadership position, brought out the entire team (PI team:)), and took the time to talk about a relationship. By the way, there is a potential income of 5 million yuan, which can be used as the future two brothers to play the "enemy of the country." Activity funding at the time.
The last episode of the first season has a lot of clues and twists and turns. Veronica found the younger brother of the "murdered" vice president. The vice president was the first to ascend to the presidential throne. The five who escaped from prison were surrounded by a large number of police cars and helicopters and watched the plane used to escape ascend into the sky. Forced to turn to the wilderness, continue to run desperately on the road of desperate escape. This is an open ending, unsatisfactory, or even unreasonable, but more importantly, it makes people unable to let go.
Let us wait for the second season of PB to return.
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