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"The Forerunner" has been a great success, and some viewers, even if they are critical, still think that the show is very good-looking, and it is very likely to enter the ranks of classic dramas.
In the spy dramas of the past few years, there are not many excellent works, "The Forerunner" has the honor of becoming a dark horse, asking the reason, starring Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan.
The two leading actors are worthy of being powerful stars, in the play to the end of the acting online, won the reputation, many netizens bluntly said, watching "The Forerunner" is to these two leading actors.
This 40-episode spy drama tells the story of Shanghai in 1931, when our underground organization was severely damaged by traitors. Ma Tianmu (starring Zhang Luyi) was ordered to return to Shanghai from overseas to transfer top-secret documents, but the opponent he met was Tang Xianping (starring Nie Yuan), a brother who had died in the Northern Expedition War.
The two take very different paths for their own different beliefs, and a life-and-death contest begins.
As a strong opponent of the enemy, Tang Xianping also put life and death aside for personal "faith", and even endured humiliation and burden. However, the clear-eyed people knew at a glance that Tang Xianping's belief was only a kind of "foolish loyalty", and he knew that he could not do it.
What is disgraceful is that for this belief, Tang Xianping can mercilessly shoot at Ma Tianmu, a brother of the Northern Expedition who saved his life, and can also marry Fan Yaluo, who does not love each other, against his will in order to get close to the Confessions.
In order to get the "Confession", he gave up Houlu, a high-ranking official in Nanjing, and returned to the Shanghai station of the Fuxing Society to share the hardships with the agents, and he could also do whatever was wrong with his heart in order to achieve the purpose of robbing the "Confession".
Compared with Ma Tianmu's "battle of faith", the final outcome is self-evident.
Ma Tianmu is superior in intelligence, good at camouflage, and good at strain. In order to achieve his goal, he dared to risk death, but he could always be born into death and Jedi was born.
He had to disguise himself as a "mercenary" city servant, who was deeply appreciated by the proprietor of the foreign firm, favored by the president of the Revival Society, reused by the French Concession Public Administration Bureau, and co-opted by the Japanese secret service agency, and finally shook the beach with the title of inspector general of the new Shanghai French Concession Patrol House.
These experiences of Ma Tianmu echo the title of the play" "Forerunner", in the stormy old Shanghai Beach, adhering to the lofty faith and risking death.
Such a double male protagonist is very attractive: from the life and death brothers to the spy opponents throughout, it not only determines the intensity of the conflict, but also makes the image of the two protagonists clear in the life and death contest.
Ma Tianmu, played by Zhang Luyi, is a legendary hero, and under his gentle and elegant appearance, he is an all-powerful underground party intelligence officer and a positive character with personality.
Tang Xianping, played by Nie Yuan, reflects the complexity and changeability of human nature, on the one hand, he is good in his heart, opposing corruption and ugly phenomena, on the other hand, he has no mercy for the fierceness and cruelty of political enemies.
Tang Xianping's inner contradictions are vividly displayed in the play, and the disguise of Ma Tianmu's two-faced faction is extremely dramatic, and this pair of "double male protagonists" has achieved the dramatic tension of the duel between the two males.
Needless to say, the wonderful performances of Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan, two powerful actors, made "The Forerunner" a success.
In addition, the layout of the play is suspenseful, gripping, constantly reversing the plot, revealing the mystery, and the audience is suddenly enlightened in the fog when watching the play, and suddenly has an epiphany when they are surprised.
From "The Forerunner" to the idol spy dramas of these years, many questions are thought-provoking.
Unlike the powerful star starring in "The Forerunner", the idol spy drama borrows the influence of the traffic star to win ratings, and the performance quotation of the idol actor is high, resulting in the production cost of the TV series also rising.
After a large number of high-investment, high-cost, and high-price type TV series are put into the market, they are often not passed by the script or actor performance, and the quality of some TV series is uneven, and some works are complained by the audience when they are broadcast.
When the audience is exposed to such works for a long time, they begin to understand the plot routines and aesthetic fatigue.
Some creators try to depict the story from a different perspective, redefine the spy drama, provide a new direction for the development of spy drama in the future, and become the cornerstone of the TV series creators' way forward.
"The Forerunner" is one of the exploration works, which is worth watching and praising.