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summarized by kkla of nbbbs.com
Introduce The Hospital's story and provide description of the main characters
Su Yi Hua: Played by Yan Cheng Xu. 35 years old, Surgeon. He is confident and persistent with a warm and gentle personality. He is very outstanding in his profession and he values his relationship with his patients. However, he displays weaknesses when dealing with his love affairs.
Director Cai 1
Cai Yue Xun + Yu Xiao Wei = Two-person dream making team
In 2001, because of MG, Cai Yue Xun has made F4 to be popular idols, got the Golden Bell Best Director Award, started the trend of filming idol dramas, and opened the markets for TWese tv dramas in Asia. Although he had nonstop invitations at that time, his family put in all the resources to finish the drama "Friends" in 2003. Unfortunately, the ratings of "Friends" were not satisfactory although it had good responses from the critics, and his company ended up losing more than one million dollars.
In 2004, Cai Yue Xun's team started a new journey again, The Hospital. With more than 2 years of preparation, what kind of ideals do they want to bring to the audience in TW?
The 3rd Generation of Domineer
From the start of the preparation to the end of filming, it had been more than two years. The Hospital's budget had gone up from 1.5 millions per episode with the total amount of twenty something millions to 4 millions per episode with the total budget of about 80 millions. It has broken the record in the drama production history in TW.
This couple, Cai Yue Xun and Yu Xiao Wei, has obviously put in a lot of effort and money. However, they don't just want to produce high-rating and attention-seeking dramas, or to just talk about ideals. Actually, they want to find new possibilities for dramas from TW.
"Among the dramas in Asia, the first generation of domineer was Japan. The second generation is Korea. When Japan's are losing their popularity and Korea's are expanding their territories, if we persist, we may have the opportunity to be the third generation of domineer," analyzed by Yu Xiao Wei, "The third generation of domineer will be TW or Mainland China."
The success of MG provided the couple the conception/ideas and determination to explore the markets for the Chinese dramas. However, due to Friends' poor ratings, this couple once lost their faith. Luckily, during Friends' autograph sessions, they noticed that they were actually supported by a lot of audiences who were excluded from the ratings. When they were told "Thank you", this gave them encouragement again. The Hospital is the project which they continue their dream and one can easily see their effort everywhere, such as the script, the traning of the actors, prop, etc...
Director Cai 2
Wish for perfection and search for high qualities
This project all started from Yue Xiao Wei's being a fan of Hou Wen Yong (the author of the novel The Hospital). As Yu Xiao Wei knew that Cai Yue Xun was interested in filming something about medicine, she encouraged him to fight for the project after knowing that CTV has bought the copyright.
Based on his and his mom's past experiences in the hospital when he was young, at first Cai Yue Xun was only moved by human's weakness during sickness from patients' point of view. Then after reading "A Medical Student's Journal" by Wang Yi Jia, he realized that "When facing sickness and dealth, everyone is so helpless", including the doctors.
From that time, Director Cai has realized that "life is full of challenges" and the hospital is exactly an unforgettable and unavoidable place where one can see another face of life. Therefore, Cai Yue Xun has determined that one day he will direct an "entertaining, but not necessarily lesson-teaching or threatening, medical drama."
The Hospital gave him the opportunity to fulfill his dream.
Before filming, his target was the US drama,"ER". Once the filming started, he then realized that the challenges in front of him were so great. They included renting the filming locations, preparing the prop, providing training courses for the actors, etc... It was common that they learned as they filmed. In the process, Japan was also very curious about this drama which shared the same name as one of its own. The visit of a team of 20 and more people sent by one Japanese tv company also gave the crew some pressure.
"I feel like being in a very painful race..." He is very sorry that "ER" high standard is not something TW dramas can reach at this time.
Nevertheless, dreaming to direct a drama like "ER" is the force behind his continuous improvement and self expectation. It's heard that his strict requirements had reached the point of being abusive to himself and others, and they had broken numerous records. For stance, the most expensive scene was the hospital lobby where the President arrived and entered the hospital, which costed over NT$500,000. "We built the scene which was 20 yrs. more advanced than the current setting in TW... 50 temporary actors were hired...Once the camera started filming, $500,000 were gone like that... Another time, for a small station, the director told the producer 'The station needs to be located on the hillside and the hilltop should also be seen', then the crew searched around TW for the right location..." Yu Xiao Wei said that the strict requirements by the director was the reason why the production fee was 4 times as planned.
Surprisingly, although The Hospital is not broadcasted yet, the broadcast copyright has been successfully sold to different countries. This proves that markets for this kind of dramas do exist. "Now the thing I want to focus on is market benefits, instead of award winning dramas, as I want to open more markets. Once the markets are developed, there are all kinds of possibilities, then we won't get stuck at one place." Cai Yue Xun expressed.
Novel was adapted to be tv drama
This time, the first 15 episodes were adapted from the novel which focus on power struggle among some characters. "But because the ending of the original novel was so hopeless" Cai Yue Xun explained, "The script writers have added another 10 episodes focusing on the things we also want to express about care among people, such as life, love between lovers, and love among family members."
Besides, changes had been made on some characters' personalities and proportion of love matters in the drama. "In the novel, although he was very skillful in his profession, Dr. Su's personality was too passive. In the drama, we changed him into "a very skillful and adorable doctor" to begin with, so the audience will be fond of him, so the audience will follow our lead to watch what is really going on with the power struggle and life cycling inside the tower." Yu Xiao Wei explained.
Su Yi Hua's personality and his view about love were the parts being argued the most in the process of script adaptation. They had spent a lot of time to discuss with the script writers. They both thought that "This character was too passive in the novel and it can't fulfill the need of a commercial tv drama." Therefore, they invited Yan Cheng Xu to play the character, much younger than the one in the novel, and the character was changed to be pure and more active. The only time he was irresolute was when he dealed with his love relationships.
In addition, the biggest selling point of most dramas, love matters, had been increased in the drama as well. In the novel, the components of the love relationships were not complete. Cai Yue Xun insisted to incorporate his ideals into the drama and hopes that the ending will provide the audience some kind of realization. "As Su Yi Hua was irresolute, he lost the female lead Guan Xin, and of course he was impacted by the lost. However, we let him learn that 'What is the most important thing in life?' and let him realize that he couldn't lose any more. If he lost again, he got nothing left. Drama is for people to make dreams and at the same time, it should also give people the power of hope; therefore, we combined the "power struggle myth" with the "love myth", and produced the TWese version of The Hospital.
Art Director 1
summary: The Hospital's Art Director is Cai Tun Jie, who is Director Cai's little sister. Because of Director Cai's high standards, she did a lot of homework, and used "ER", "CSI", and Japanese version of The Hospital as references. She also constantly consulted Dr. Hou Wen Yong's professional opinions, especially when reproduced the human organs.
Art Director 2
summary: The desks of different doctors in the drama is the stage we used to show their different status and personalities. For Dr. Su Yi Hua's desk, I used a lot of stationary, documents, patient files, and medical books to show his enthusiasm in work and his care to his patients. Regarding the casually placed stethoscope, mug as the pen holder, and the crackers for snack, they showed his easy going personality.
Medical prop
Tumor - I finished myself in one week using pork. In the process, I kept consulting Dr. Hou Wen Yong. No one wanted to touch the finished product, as it really stank.
Surgery table - We used pork skin as human's. Similar scenes are frequently shown in European and American dramas, but not so much in Japanese dramas.
Patient's chart - It was designed after reviewing the real patient's charts in the real hospital. The set up of the page and even the logo on the paper were carefully designed to look good in front of the camera and to match the theme of the drama.
summarized by kkla of nbbbs.com
Introduce The Hospital's story and provide description of the main characters
Su Yi Hua: Played by Yan Cheng Xu. 35 years old, Surgeon. He is confident and persistent with a warm and gentle personality. He is very outstanding in his profession and he values his relationship with his patients. However, he displays weaknesses when dealing with his love affairs.
Director Cai 1
Cai Yue Xun + Yu Xiao Wei = Two-person dream making team
In 2001, because of MG, Cai Yue Xun has made F4 to be popular idols, got the Golden Bell Best Director Award, started the trend of filming idol dramas, and opened the markets for TWese tv dramas in Asia. Although he had nonstop invitations at that time, his family put in all the resources to finish the drama "Friends" in 2003. Unfortunately, the ratings of "Friends" were not satisfactory although it had good responses from the critics, and his company ended up losing more than one million dollars.
In 2004, Cai Yue Xun's team started a new journey again, The Hospital. With more than 2 years of preparation, what kind of ideals do they want to bring to the audience in TW?
The 3rd Generation of Domineer
From the start of the preparation to the end of filming, it had been more than two years. The Hospital's budget had gone up from 1.5 millions per episode with the total amount of twenty something millions to 4 millions per episode with the total budget of about 80 millions. It has broken the record in the drama production history in TW.
This couple, Cai Yue Xun and Yu Xiao Wei, has obviously put in a lot of effort and money. However, they don't just want to produce high-rating and attention-seeking dramas, or to just talk about ideals. Actually, they want to find new possibilities for dramas from TW.
"Among the dramas in Asia, the first generation of domineer was Japan. The second generation is Korea. When Japan's are losing their popularity and Korea's are expanding their territories, if we persist, we may have the opportunity to be the third generation of domineer," analyzed by Yu Xiao Wei, "The third generation of domineer will be TW or Mainland China."
The success of MG provided the couple the conception/ideas and determination to explore the markets for the Chinese dramas. However, due to Friends' poor ratings, this couple once lost their faith. Luckily, during Friends' autograph sessions, they noticed that they were actually supported by a lot of audiences who were excluded from the ratings. When they were told "Thank you", this gave them encouragement again. The Hospital is the project which they continue their dream and one can easily see their effort everywhere, such as the script, the traning of the actors, prop, etc...
Director Cai 2
Wish for perfection and search for high qualities
This project all started from Yue Xiao Wei's being a fan of Hou Wen Yong (the author of the novel The Hospital). As Yu Xiao Wei knew that Cai Yue Xun was interested in filming something about medicine, she encouraged him to fight for the project after knowing that CTV has bought the copyright.
Based on his and his mom's past experiences in the hospital when he was young, at first Cai Yue Xun was only moved by human's weakness during sickness from patients' point of view. Then after reading "A Medical Student's Journal" by Wang Yi Jia, he realized that "When facing sickness and dealth, everyone is so helpless", including the doctors.
From that time, Director Cai has realized that "life is full of challenges" and the hospital is exactly an unforgettable and unavoidable place where one can see another face of life. Therefore, Cai Yue Xun has determined that one day he will direct an "entertaining, but not necessarily lesson-teaching or threatening, medical drama."
The Hospital gave him the opportunity to fulfill his dream.
Before filming, his target was the US drama,"ER". Once the filming started, he then realized that the challenges in front of him were so great. They included renting the filming locations, preparing the prop, providing training courses for the actors, etc... It was common that they learned as they filmed. In the process, Japan was also very curious about this drama which shared the same name as one of its own. The visit of a team of 20 and more people sent by one Japanese tv company also gave the crew some pressure.
"I feel like being in a very painful race..." He is very sorry that "ER" high standard is not something TW dramas can reach at this time.
Nevertheless, dreaming to direct a drama like "ER" is the force behind his continuous improvement and self expectation. It's heard that his strict requirements had reached the point of being abusive to himself and others, and they had broken numerous records. For stance, the most expensive scene was the hospital lobby where the President arrived and entered the hospital, which costed over NT$500,000. "We built the scene which was 20 yrs. more advanced than the current setting in TW... 50 temporary actors were hired...Once the camera started filming, $500,000 were gone like that... Another time, for a small station, the director told the producer 'The station needs to be located on the hillside and the hilltop should also be seen', then the crew searched around TW for the right location..." Yu Xiao Wei said that the strict requirements by the director was the reason why the production fee was 4 times as planned.
Surprisingly, although The Hospital is not broadcasted yet, the broadcast copyright has been successfully sold to different countries. This proves that markets for this kind of dramas do exist. "Now the thing I want to focus on is market benefits, instead of award winning dramas, as I want to open more markets. Once the markets are developed, there are all kinds of possibilities, then we won't get stuck at one place." Cai Yue Xun expressed.
Novel was adapted to be tv drama
This time, the first 15 episodes were adapted from the novel which focus on power struggle among some characters. "But because the ending of the original novel was so hopeless" Cai Yue Xun explained, "The script writers have added another 10 episodes focusing on the things we also want to express about care among people, such as life, love between lovers, and love among family members."
Besides, changes had been made on some characters' personalities and proportion of love matters in the drama. "In the novel, although he was very skillful in his profession, Dr. Su's personality was too passive. In the drama, we changed him into "a very skillful and adorable doctor" to begin with, so the audience will be fond of him, so the audience will follow our lead to watch what is really going on with the power struggle and life cycling inside the tower." Yu Xiao Wei explained.
Su Yi Hua's personality and his view about love were the parts being argued the most in the process of script adaptation. They had spent a lot of time to discuss with the script writers. They both thought that "This character was too passive in the novel and it can't fulfill the need of a commercial tv drama." Therefore, they invited Yan Cheng Xu to play the character, much younger than the one in the novel, and the character was changed to be pure and more active. The only time he was irresolute was when he dealed with his love relationships.
In addition, the biggest selling point of most dramas, love matters, had been increased in the drama as well. In the novel, the components of the love relationships were not complete. Cai Yue Xun insisted to incorporate his ideals into the drama and hopes that the ending will provide the audience some kind of realization. "As Su Yi Hua was irresolute, he lost the female lead Guan Xin, and of course he was impacted by the lost. However, we let him learn that 'What is the most important thing in life?' and let him realize that he couldn't lose any more. If he lost again, he got nothing left. Drama is for people to make dreams and at the same time, it should also give people the power of hope; therefore, we combined the "power struggle myth" with the "love myth", and produced the TWese version of The Hospital.
Art Director 1
summary: The Hospital's Art Director is Cai Tun Jie, who is Director Cai's little sister. Because of Director Cai's high standards, she did a lot of homework, and used "ER", "CSI", and Japanese version of The Hospital as references. She also constantly consulted Dr. Hou Wen Yong's professional opinions, especially when reproduced the human organs.
Art Director 2
summary: The desks of different doctors in the drama is the stage we used to show their different status and personalities. For Dr. Su Yi Hua's desk, I used a lot of stationary, documents, patient files, and medical books to show his enthusiasm in work and his care to his patients. Regarding the casually placed stethoscope, mug as the pen holder, and the crackers for snack, they showed his easy going personality.
Medical prop
Tumor - I finished myself in one week using pork. In the process, I kept consulting Dr. Hou Wen Yong. No one wanted to touch the finished product, as it really stank.
Surgery table - We used pork skin as human's. Similar scenes are frequently shown in European and American dramas, but not so much in Japanese dramas.
Patient's chart - It was designed after reviewing the real patient's charts in the real hospital. The set up of the page and even the logo on the paper were carefully designed to look good in front of the camera and to match the theme of the drama.
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