Analysis Into Zhao Baogang's Youth Idol Drama

In the late 90s of twenty century, a batch of youth idol dramas came forth under the influence of Japanese and Korean youth idol dramas and the urbanization of China. But Most of them are of low quality. They can not win Japanese and Korean youth idol dramas in market competition. Under this disadvantage circumstance, a director named Zhao Baogang fulfilled nine unique youth idol dramas at his forties which are all warmly welcomed and well commented by audiences.These dramas are of different styles like magnificent sceneries, some of them are criminal subject, some of them have special history background, some of them have exotic sightseeing, some of them create non-mainstream idol, or rouse arguments about contemporary Chinese Youngman's life problem.They attract audiences by their fresh and non-repeat experiences.As a director, Zhao Baogang has special talent of choosing actors and train actors. Almost all the main actors became famous youth idol stars after they took part in Zhao's TV play. So the media and the audiences also call Zhao's youth idol dramas "Zhao star facory" (it means star maker).Besides, Zhao also give unified aesthetic qualities to every drama, for example, the theme song, the image, the clothing, the scene, he tried his best in order to rouse shared feelings.He is fully deserved "Chinese Love Drama Director No.1".Zhao's youth idol dramas fix position of localization, uphold style renew, and they also lead to a new angle of view the issue of youth idol dramas.They mean a lot to the future of Chinese youth idol dramas, and we can learn a lot from them.