Recently, "Courageous Forward" was exclusively launched on iQiyi, and this domestic anti-war drama was previously broadcast on Shandong TV's Qilu Channel, which set a record for the first place in the prime-time national non-star channel, and also won the 2020 "Ratings Ace Award" awarded by the channel.
The drama is directed by well-known directors Wu Hongwu and Li Xiangguo, and co-starring Ye Jing, Miao Tingru, Ren Donglin, Huang Junpeng, Du Yuan, Wang Ji, Xie Yuan, Xu Shaoqiang and other powerful actors.
And to talk about the success of the show, of course, is inseparable from its high-quality story core.
The emergence of the "Anti-Japanese War Drama" is not unrelated to the market environment at that time. Irresponsible producers hope to win with "odd" in content, while broadcast platforms value ratings, so in the vicious circle of "more scolding and more fire", "anti-war dramas" have become a flooding trend. The entry of many Hong Kong and Taiwan directors has also helped the crooked wind of "anti-Japanese divine drama". In fact, the original intention of these Hong Kong and Taiwan directors to direct anti-war dramas was to open up the mainland market, but their own entertainment style and habitual martial arts drama routines made their anti-war dramas lose their original style and become "mysterious" dramas cloaked in the cloak of anti-war dramas.
"Courageous Forward" is based on the January 1, 1938, led by the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the armed uprising of the Liaoshan Mountain, the plot highly restores the real historical scenes such as the Oath Ofe uprising in The Lailai Mountain, the great victory of the Japanese army in The Stone Forest Village of YatouZhuang, and the battle of Wuyangshu Village that killed the Japanese army. The anti-Japanese armed uprising in Laolaishan was an uprising directly initiated and led by the Shandong Provincial CPC Committee, which played the role of the source of the Shandong War of Resistance and the seed role of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Contingent; for the first time in Shandong, it played the banner of the Eighth Route Army, fired the first shot of the Shandong Provincial CPC Committee's independent leadership of the Shandong War of Resistance, and unveiled the prelude to the independent leadership of the Shandong Provincial Party Organization in the War of Resistance, which is of great historical significance. In addition, the character image in the play is also interpreted according to the real historical figures, showing the revolutionary spirit of the people from all walks of life in Tai'an who are not afraid of sacrifice and stubborn resistance.
The drama takes the fate of Yang Dongliang, a peasant's disciple, as the main line, and through the ups and downs and growth and changes of the fate of the small characters, it creates a bloody picture of the war of resistance, the whole drama has a bright rhythm, a compact plot, and a story of ups and downs, which not only combines espionage warfare, military techniques, quick warfare, and mountain warfare, but also expresses the revolutionary spirit of the martyrs of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression who are not afraid of imperialist power and courageous in struggle in a simple, delicate, and bloody realistic way, and conveys the revolutionary positive energy of "the unity of the military and the people as one person, and to see who can be the enemy in the world" in a simple, delicate, and bloody realistic way!
Yang Dongliang is the second son of Yang Shounan, the mayor of Yatou Village at the foot of the Laolai Mountain, who has learned to punch and kick since he was a child, has a quick hand, and has a clear love-hate personality. After yatouzhuang was washed in blood by the Japanese army, he, his new wife Hu Lamei and several surviving villagers, led by their brother Yang Dongshan, entered the four detachments of the Eighth Route Army, which had just sworn an uprising, and an ordinary villager became a soldier of the Eighth Route Army.
Judging from the development law of TV dramas, works that correctly tell the history of the anti-Japanese resistance and adapt stories in common sense must be the mainstream. Presenting the history of the War of Resistance with a sense of awe has formed an absolute consensus on film and television adaptation. As presented in "Courageous Forward", the painful time of the War of Resistance Against Japan condensed the spiritual temperament of a nation's self-reliance and self-improvement, and I hope that "Courageous Forward" can make everyone face up to China's suffering process.