Struggle for living－The Study on the Television Drama “Days We Stared at the Sun”

• Main Authors: LIN,YING-CHIA, 林迎佳
• Other Authors: HUANG,QING-SHUN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47vhv8

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 103 === The study investigated the TV drama- Days We Stared at the Sun, the first TV drama directed by YOU-JIE, ZHENG, an up-and-coming director in Taiwan. Though this drama was quite different from others, which was rife with conflicts, sex and physical force, Government still approved it. It won five awards at the 46th Golden Bell Awards, including best leading actor, best supporting actress, best supporting actor in a mini-series／TV movie, best writing for a mini-series／TV movie and best television Mini-series／TV Movie. The author thought Days We Stared at the Sun provided moral conditions in reality. It showed the pain that people suffered between the right and wrong, and connected with the experiences of the audience. That meant TV dramas were though just made up, they still strongly interacted with our real world. In order to understand the structure and implications of the TV drama, the scripts were perused. Newspaper, magazines and medias that reported about Days We Stared at the Sun and Zheng were collected. According to the information and materials, the author integrated the motivation of the director and the theme skeleton, analyzed plots and clarified conflicts by the way “three-act structure” and “story grammar.” Moreover, based on the psychology and tragedy consciousness, the author discussed teenagers’ characters from their dialogues and movements. And based on the sociology the author observed how the environments, backgrounds and personal characters influenced mutually. Finally the author cogitated the particular noun that main characters often used and implications of stage properties in literary viewpoints. Days We Stared at the Sun integrated the reality of Taiwan society into this drama.