It was a little disappointing that "Mad Men" came home empty-handed at this year's Golden Globes.
"Mad Men" has won the Golden Globe Best Drama Award for three consecutive years since 2008. This year, the TV industry and audience may need some fresh faces and talk. But I still find the story of the well-dressed middle-aged man on Madison Avenue more intriguing than "Boardwalk Empire," which basically "inherited" "Mad Men" this year.
(Photo Caption: "Mad Men" star John Hamm at the 62nd Emmy Television Awards in Los Angeles on August 29, 2010. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)
Looking at the entire season, I think that the American economy The boss Naki Thompson, who was both an official and a thief in the Depression and Prohibition era, was a bit pale (not just the appearance of the hero Steve Buscemi) and predictable. No matter what the praises of TV critics in the US and China may say, I still find it difficult for Martin Scorsese to surpass The Godfather and surpass himself in this film. After all, we have seen too many underworld bosses in American film and television. There are "Godfather" trilogy far away, "The Sopranos" (The Sopranos), "Deadwood" (Deadwood), Johnny Depp's Public Enemies. Being affectionate and righteous to the point that "people are in the rivers and lakes and cannot help themselves", the various dimensions of the bosses have been portrayed to the extreme and interpreted to the classics. It is really difficult to find any new development space - the cliche of a crime boss.
In contrast, a "creative director" in the advertising industry in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, but a rare topic on TV - most people who watch TV hate advertising, who would be bored enough to make a TV series about the advertising industry? At least from the perspective of the Chinese audience. Maybe that's why there are relatively few fans of domestic American dramas who like "Mad Men" (those pseudo-fans who only chase "Mad Men" for the classic costume design are not counted).
In fact, the common attraction of the two films "Mad Men" and "Atlantic Empire" is that the stories both take place in the historical period of turbulent and brewing great changes in the modern history of the United States. "Atlantic Empire" is about the legal prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the late 1920s, which made the manufacture and trafficking of bootleg alcohol make huge profits. Similar to today's drug trafficking, it created a golden age for the American underworld - later the famous Al Capone, in "Atlantic" In Empire, he is just the driver of a certain boss. Other historical events, such as women gaining the right to vote and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, are also important plot clues for "Empire of the Atlantic".
(Photo caption: September 25, 2010, "Boardwalk Empire," starring Steve Buscemi in New York, "Boardwalk Empire" premiere .REUTERS / Jessica Rinaldi)
say "Mad Men", the rise and fall by the advertising industry , the ups and downs of company politics, the romantic history of the male protagonist, and the changes of several families are intertwined as the main lines, and naturally brought into the characters' lives all kinds of earth-shattering events in American society in the 1950s and 1960s: the Korean War. , the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union (the Bay of Pigs incident, the Cuban missile crisis, the American people digging "nuclear bomb cellars" in the backyard), the election of Kennedy, the suicide of Monroe, the assassination of Kennedy, the rise of the black civil rights movement in the South, the rise of the anti-tobacco movement, and so on.
For Chinese audiences, it is very interesting that we all read about these historical figures and events in the Soviet version of history textbooks when we were children, and some words with strong political overtones are still fresh in our memory. In the "Mad Men" drama, it is told from the perspective of ordinary people in the United States. The contrast is so strong that people often fall into contemplation after laughing.
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Falling out of the bag of history, let's talk a little more vulgar. The Chinese fans of the two films seem to be mostly male. Although "Mad Men" has a somewhat high-pitched feeling, in fact, male drama fans should be more and more fascinated by it. In the final analysis, there is a "role identification" factor. Of course, most men can't help but fantasize when they get caught up in a TV plot that they're the gangster boss (of course, we also all have a darker fantasy of having the power to kill others, so Dexter became a hit)— - But I'm afraid, more people who watch American TV dramas are still willing to imagine that they are a senior white-collar worker on Madison Avenue in New York who has a successful career, is respected, and can often get out of the company's political struggles. What's more, he has no shortage of confidants around him every season. At this point, in fact, people from any country are the same, and everyone is a laity. (Finish)
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