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From love to see love to film, national drama “going to sea” has a new model-China’s wonderful life makes the world better
Wu Xiang
Recently, there has been news that last year’s hit TV series “Thirty Only” may be remade by South Korea’s JTBC TV station, and they are currently communicating with the show’s producer Fang Ningmeng on copyright matters. In addition, Vietnam has also confirmed that it will remake the show, and European TV stations are interested in buying the copyright of the show. “Thirty Only” may become the first domestic reality drama to be remade. Over the years, the “going to sea” of national dramas has become very common. Now overseas audiences are no longer satisfied with “love watching”, and they have started the “love shooting” mode. The wonderful life in China is leading the world trend.
Realistic subject matter becomes a hot spot
I remember that when “The Legend of Zhen Huan” just went abroad, it caused heated discussions on the Internet. Nowadays, it has become a common phenomenon for Chinese film and television dramas to be simultaneously broadcast overseas. Many foreigners are learning about China through TV dramas. However, judging from the subject matter of the “Going to Sea” drama, overseas audiences have not only liked to watch traditional Chinese culture, but also paid more and more attention to the real life of Chinese people.
At last year’s Shanghai TV Festival, people in the industry felt that in the past, whether it was domestically produced themes in Southeast Asia or Africa, most of them were costume dramas. There have been changes. Yan Chengsheng, deputy director of the Department of International Cooperation of the State Administration of Radio and Television, also said: “”Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky” was broadcast on Portuguese national television with a rating of 23.2%; “A Family in Wenzhou” was popular in Cuba; “The Ordinary World” was sung Ulaanbaatar; Hai Qing and other actors are well-known to audiences in Tanzania; during the epidemic, the TV series “Everything is Good” was broadcast in Kazakhstan and resonated widely.”
The audience loves to watch it, and the organization is naturally more willing to broadcast it. From the perspective of the distribution area, the national dramas went to sea from the earliest only sold in the Southeast Asian market, and now they have been successfully sold to developed countries such as South Korea, Japan, and the United States. The reason is that, on the one hand, domestic dramas such as “White Night Chase” and “Undocumented Crimes” are moving steadily towards approaching the American drama model and film-level texture; on the other hand, international users are more and more willing to pass reality The subject matter understands the current state of life of Chinese people and the face of Chinese society.
Overseas remake for breakthrough
There are so many wonderful stories about real life in China, and overseas filming agencies are finally unable to restrain themselves and plan to remake Chinese stories. It is understood that in addition to “Thirty Only”, two other hit dramas “The Hidden Corner” and “The Silent Truth” in 2020 are also expected to be remakes. It is worth mentioning that “The Hidden Corner” is very popular overseas. It is the only Chinese drama selected in the “2020 World’s 15 Best Dramas” by the American “Variety” magazine.
In fact, “Thirty Only” is not the first domestic TV series to be remade overseas. Prior to this, some idol dramas and costume dramas have been reproduced abroad. Take “Journey to the West” as an example, it has been reproduced many times abroad, but some are due to production costs and some are due to lack of understanding of Chinese culture… The quality of the remake is not satisfactory.
This time, “Thirty Only” is planned to be remade in South Korea, because the show has become extremely popular in South Korea. Data shows that the show has consistently ranked among the top ten Internet hits in South Korea. South Korea’s popular idol actor even used the words “crazy chasing” to describe his state of watching a drama during the live broadcast. He revealed that he cried several times while watching the drama. China’s pearls and jade are ahead, and Korean TV stations will be cautious in remakes.
Let’s talk about this South Korean TV station JTBC. Audiences familiar with South Korea know that over the years, JTBC has broadcast many popular TV series and variety shows, and has gradually gained fame in South Korea. Prior to this, JTBC had also remade the popular British drama “Husband and Wife “The World” and the Japanese drama “Legal High” and “Thirty Only” will also be JTBC’s first attempt to remake a Chinese TV series. At the same time, “Thirty Only” will also become the first domestic reality drama to be remade.
In the past, we remade Korean and American TV dramas… Now, they have started to remake us! Good show, there will be one after another.
【Editor in charge: Lu Chunyan】
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