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WANG Zehui
YANG Jingzhou
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2023.01.006
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
“Better Call Saul” is an excellent American television series. As a spin-off of “Breaking Bad”, it continues its excellent character design and intriguing plot development, giving audiences around the world a treat to talk about. However, while “Breaking Bad” has a huge audience and the film and television industry has done a lot of research on it, “Better Call Saul” has not been studied in domestic academic circles. This paper takes several main characters of the play as the research object, analyzes how their characters are designed, and how they complement each other with the dramatic conflict of the plot, so as to explore a new angle of character design. Through the study of the characters in this American drama, this paper can provide a reference for the Chinese film and television industry. The results show that Chinese TV dramas can learn from this American drama to improve the depth of character design and avoid designing stereotyped and labeled characters. This may ultimately improve their artistic literacy and bring more excellent works to Chinese audiences.
TV drama, role construction, characteristic, impact
Psychology Research, January 2023, Vol. 13, No. 1, 37-42
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