The enemy will not understand,
The old ghost is not alone,
It's a spirit.
A faith!
- "The Sound of the Wind"
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When it comes to the Mai family, I have to say that his spy war legend work "Wind Sound", in fact, I prefer his "Dark Calculation" than "Wind Sound", but in terms of influence alone, "Wind Sound" is indeed better than "Dark Calculation", thanks to the birth of the spy war movie "Wind Sound" adapted from the novel of the same name of the Mai family, this film can be described as the pioneering work of domestic spy war film and television works, whether it is a story or characters, full of suspense, legendary twists, thrilling, and unfinished.
In 2009, the film "The Sound of the Wind", co-directed by Gao Qunshu and Chen Guofu, was launched, creating a sensational "espionage myth" at that time. At first glance, the movie "The Sound of the Wind" won in the lineup, gathering a group of powerful and idol actors: Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Zhang Hanyu, Wang Zhiwen, Su Youpeng, Huang Xiaoming, Ni Dahong, Duan Yihong... Such a card division, even if it is put in the present, is also a "fairy lineup".
With the protection of the actors, coupled with the wonderfulness of the Mai family's original work, the movie "The Sound of the Wind" is a special fire, even if the film only adapts one of the novels, the plot is slightly insufficient, but the simple environment, refined characters, exquisite sets, flowing water editing, reversed plots, rigorous details, add a lot of color to the film, and the film itself jumps out of the main theme of the film's consistent shooting methods, and has made a lot of new challenges in the plot arrangement design, both the dramatic tension of suspense and the cruel blood of the life and death spy station.
Eleven years later, at the end of 2020, "The Sound of the Wind" was mentioned again, this time not a novel, nor a movie, but a TV series of the same name adapted from the original work of the Mai family.
Because of the peak of the movie "The Sound of the Wind", many people inadvertently compare TV series with movies, in fact, TV series and movie versions are not the same, there is no comparison at all, and they do not know where to compare. In a certain dimension, the TV series has the advantage of duration, which is more playable than the movie, whether it is in the shaping of the characters or the integrity of the overall structure of the story, the TV series will be more mature than the movie.
And the TV drama version of "The Sound of the Wind" is not the most popular plot, but the actors, Xu Lu, Wen Yongshan, Yang Youning, Zhou Zhouwei, these four leading actors make the audience unable to believe, you say they get together to play an urban idol drama OK, acting spy war is not a little too floaty. In particular, Wen Yongshan's version of Li Ningyu, a young model debut, entered the entertainment circle by appearance, and looks completely without Li Ningyu's momentum; there is Also Xu Lu's Gu Xiaomeng, the route That Xu Lu has always taken is the image of a little girl, and Gu Xiaomeng is a beautiful and exquisite appearance, a character with a free and delicate personality; of course, there is Yang Youning, who speaks a Taiwanese accent, it is difficult to imagine that he sang the sentence "I was originally a person who was scattered in Wollongong", there will be as imposing as Zhang Hanyu. To sum up, this batch of cards looks unreliable.
Fortunately, in addition to these idol actors who are young and familiar, there are also many old drama bones of the powerful faction: Zhang Zhijian, Yu Haolei, Ma Weijun, Feng Qian, etc., which give the audience a little confidence.
The main characters in the play have their own characteristics. Gu Xiaomeng (Xu Lu), an intern in the Wang Pseudo-Confidential Department, is bold and careful, can speak eloquently, and is a very good compound agent talent; Li Ningyu (Wen Yongshan), an officer of the Wang Pseudo-ConfidentialIty Department, a deciphering genius who is alone in the world; Jin Shenghuo (Zhang Zhijian), the director of the Wang Pseudo-Confidential Department, the old fox among the old foxes, he has accurate judgment of the situation, can always go straight up to the source, and is good at guessing people's hearts; Wu Zhiguo (Yang Youning), the captain of the security team, was once a killer. From guns and ammunition to close combat and even chemical poisons, Bai Xiaonian (Niu Zifan), the secretary of the headquarters, is always extra attentive to important people, considerate, and walks through the database, which can easily please everyone who wants to please.
At the beginning of the TV series, it did not enter the main topic, directly cut into the story line of Qiu Zhuang, but gave everyone a "starter" and used a "boat play" to introduce several main characters.
This "boat drama" was planned by the Japanese, requiring the genius decipherers on the ship to decipher the "second generation Enigma machine", everyone said that it was too difficult to complete the task, the Japanese used the lives of everyone on the ship as a threat, asked to crack, and finally Li Ningyu took on the heavy responsibility, she needed to decipher the "second generation Enigma machine" in just 96 hours, and transformed the generation to decipher the German secret electricity.
When everyone was unable to decipher the "second-generation Enigma machine" for Li Ningyu, Jin Shenghuo said the real plan of the Japanese, whether Li Ningyu deciphered it or not, it was ultimately a "death", so the plan was that whether Li Ningyu deciphered it or not, they needed to come up with a clever trick of "how to retreat from the whole body".
At this time, everyone began to calculate the benefits and losses in their hearts. Gu Xiaomeng, who had just been pulled onto the ship on the first day of work, hoped that everyone would not die; Jin Shenghuo wanted to sacrifice Li Ningyu to save himself and Gu Xiaomeng, only because Gu Xiaomeng's father was Wang Jingwei's guest, and he wanted to rely on Gu Xiaomeng to climb this relationship; Wu Zhiguo hoped that even if he could only live one in the end, he would do his best to save Li Ningyu, because he loved Li Ningyu deeply. In the end, in order to survive, everyone pulled Bai Xiaonian on the shore in.
Everyone was honing their own calculations, and Jin Shenghuo even used Gu Xiaomeng to get close to Li Ningyu, hoping to blame all the problems on Li Ningyu and Wu Zhiguo when they had no choice but to do so. At first, Gu Xiaomeng could not understand Jin Shenghuo's practice, after all, everyone is a person in a boat, and Li Ningyu is a decipher genius, one person can stand up to all of them, so Li Ningyu can't die, but Jin Shenghuo's words tell the people on the ship, he said: "Li Ningyu is a genius who deciphers, Wu Zhiguo is a genius who kills people, Bai Xiaonian is a genius who serves people, I am a genius who guesses people's hearts, and Gu Xiaomeng is also a genius who plays a pig and eats a tiger." "Everyone has a reason to live, everyone surpasses the vast majority of people, but in this era, it is not a genius who must survive, but a genius who can survive."
However, Li Ningyu's mind and sleepless deciphering Enigma machine were planted by a deciphering expert named Jin Shengxian, because he was jealous of her talent, and he could not decipher it himself, so he kept interfering with Li Ningyu.
Everyone licked the blood on the knife edge to live, all eager to get off the ship, and finally Li Ningyu had a hard time completing the deciphering work, and as a result, the Japanese wanted to use the deciphering success of the dance to poison such deciphering experts with poison gas, but what they did not expect was that after the end of a dance song, the Japanese officers died first, and the situation became more complicated, not only the difficulty of getting out escalated, but even the possibility of going offline at any time.
This is a secret room murder case, all the people at the scene of the dance are suspected, Jin Shenghuo uses a smoke ring to convey a message hoping that everyone will unite, while Gu Xiaomeng knocks on Li Ningyu with his hand and warns her: "Don't believe Jin Shenghuo." "On the surface, we are united and together, but in fact, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and there is fog in the clouds.
Finally jumped out of Jin Shengxian, the substitute ghost, first of all, he sketched a clear picture of the five of them working together in his mind, and then described his idea in front of everyone, the result was full of loopholes, but gave Li Ningyu the possibility of their life, using Jin Shengxian's death to end all things, just like this, in the end, Jin Shengxian became the substitute ghost of this secret room murder case and the ship's spy case.
Everyone in the play is planning for themselves to get off the ship alive, every action and every sentence is quite meaningful, no one is simple, including Gu Xiaomeng, who grew up in a favorable environment, and the ability to see dishes is also a must.
The early worries disappeared in the progress of the plot, although Wen Yongshan's Li Ningyu had a slight deviation in his line skills, he was beautiful and mysterious in temperament, and he had the genius pride of Li Ningyu; although Xu Lu's Gu Xiaomeng was a little too strong at first, his later performance was also remarkable, from a newly hired spy personnel to a mature spy expert.
Gu Xiaomeng's most asked sentence was "What is the professional life of espionage work?" At first, she did not hesitate to say "loyalty", then Jin Shenghuo told her that the answer should be life, life itself is composed of life, and finally Li Ningyu told her that it is "destruction", espionage work can destroy darkness, destroy light, destroy conspiracy, destroy justice, destroy secrets, destroy trust, and destroy all existence that cannot be destroyed.
It was only at this moment that Gu Xiaomeng understood Li Ningyu's insistence on espionage work, preferring to give her life rather than cheating, because its authenticity is higher than life, and I believe that her trust in Li Ningyu began with Li Ningyu teaching her how to view "espionage work."
Even if the first six episodes did not enter the main topic of Qiu Zhuang, but this "boat drama" arrangement should not be underestimated, not only gives a convincing basis for the audience, but also allows the audience to enter the thrilling mode of the spy drama, the characters are also good and evil, the ups and downs of the plot, all of which have made a good "paving" for the later plot, although we who have seen the movie or novel know "who is our military person, who is the enemy camp", but how the plot of Qiu Zhuang will unfold in the later stage is worth looking forward to.
As a general audience, a spy war drama, can do the double control of characters and details has seen the sincerity of the crew, do not compare it with the movie, do not compare the characters in the play with the characters in the movie, the TV series is a TV series, the movie is a movie, the two can have their own different excellence. Facts have proved that the TV series "The Sound of the Wind" is not a bad drama, and if you chase it down, there may be surprises!