The spy drama "Kite" broadcast in 2017 is not the highest rating, but it is another peak of spy drama.
The play was hidden for 4 years, and the final presentation to the audience was a cut version, and the quality was undoubtedly discounted.
Kite
Some viewers were fortunate to see the unedited version of "Kite" and couldn't help but cry out for it, if this drama did not cut it, it presented the appearance expected by director Liu Yunlong, and its rating would not be inferior to "Latent".
The biggest feature that distinguishes "Kite" from other spy dramas is "upper value", interpreting the word faith all the time, the whole drama spans up to thirty years, involving hundreds of characters, from the breadth and depth of the word "faith" are interpreted in place.
"People's Daily" published an article commenting on this drama: Only faith is tied, and kites can fly high.
Unfortunately, the value of "Kite" is too high, almost blocking the way for spy dramas with similar expressions in the back.
It is too difficult to take the road of "Kite", so today's spy drama creators have set their sights on other types of spy dramas such as "Lurking" and "The Pretender".
The Lurker
The recently filmed spy drama "Lurker" is a combination of "Lurker" and "Pretender".
The story of "Lurker" is set in Shanghai in 1941, and Fang Jiashu, played by Huang Xiaoming, is a Communist Party member lurking at No. 76 of the Headquarters of Wang Pseudo Secret Agents; when he is in danger of exposure, his boy adopted daughter-in-law when he was a teenager, Tao Yuling, who is also an underground worker of our party, enters his life with two children and begins the lurking story of pretending to be a family;
Huang Xiaoming
On the other hand, Fang Jiashu also has the identity of a military command agent, and must be involved in relationships such as Su Yalu, a female military commander who has a crush on him, and "Silver Fox", the leader of the military command operations group who secretly monitors him.
It is not difficult to see that "Lurker" blends the "story line" and "character image" of popular spy dramas such as "Lurker" and "The Pretender".
"Latent"
Familiar Wang pseudo-agent No. 76, familiar our party pretending to be a husband and wife, familiar male protagonist military command agent and other multiple identities, familiar crush on his military command female agent, and familiar scheming military commander boss ...
Classic screen images such as Yu Zecheng, Wang Cuiping, Wu Jingzhong, Ming Lou, Wang Manchun, and Wang Tianfeng naturally appear in the audience's mind.
The Pretender
Specific to the storyline, there may be male protagonists who have repeatedly established "qigong" and are heavily used by the headquarters of Wang pseudo-agents but are suspected by their colleagues; there may be male protagonists who obviously do not love but use female agents of military unification to obtain intelligence; there may be military unification corruption and incompetence who are still keen on infighting; there may be military command agents other than male protagonists who abandon the secret and join our party...
But in any case, the male protagonist can always achieve the goal of murdering Ji.
Spy drama
To be honest, the routines similar to spy dramas are rotten, or tacky, how can we attract more and more picky audiences?
The plot is compact, the logic is rigorous, and the performance is professional!
The pinnacle of spy drama "Latent" does these three things.
lurk
Actors such as Sun Honglei, Yao Chen, Feng Enhe and Zu Feng contributed god-level performances, and even the peak acting skills of their respective acting careers;
The plot is very compact, there is no empty gimmick and feelings, there is no "nonsense" lines, and there is no "love at first sight" love section between men and women that are forced into it, and everything is closely around the plot;
Any inference and analysis is based on logic and human nature, one link after another, tightly sewn, directly reflecting the charm of logic itself, convincing!
All this is due to director and screenwriter Jiang Wei's adaptation of the original novel.
The original work of "Latent" is a novella of 10,000 words by writer Long Yi, which is far from meeting the conditions of film and television, but Jiang Wei has adapted the TV series to be better than the original work, and this adaptation is even more powerful than the adaptation of the original book of "Dark Calculation" by Liu Yunlong, the godfather of espionage!
And this just started filming of "Lurker" can not help but worry, not to mention the actor Huang Xiaoming's "erratic" acting skills, screenwriter Yu Fei's ability to control spy dramas is debatable.
Yu Fei has served as the screenwriter of several spy dramas, and the TV drama version of "The Eternal Radio Wave" in these works has the best reputation, but to be honest, the film version of Zhu Yu is in front, his adaptation is not satisfactory, the plot is rough, the logic is chaotic, the water injection problem is serious, to put it bluntly, he has not fully mastered the essence of spy drama creation!
Therefore, "Lurker" may have heat, but it may not have a height!
Text/Song Fat Man