The new drama "Gold Rush" premiered and tells the story of the Chinese gold diggers in the Arch Horse Country (fictional, referred to as K Country in the play).
Gold, the chemical element symbol Au, is one of the oldest elements in the universe and one of the most valuable.
Therefore, at the Four Woods Gold Mine in K Country, a group of gold diggers with endless desires and dreams of wealth came here to pan for gold. Here, gold diggers sell their gold dust in three ways:
One is to sell to the company at a very low price, the second is to sell to the smuggler "owl" at a high price, and the third is to bring out the gold market by himself.
In order to prevent private storage and private sale, the K Country Gold Mining Company organized a "mine protection team" to control gold prospectors. Once it is found that it is hidden and sold, it is punished lightly, and the heavy is imprisoned, which is the rule.
But the temptation of gold is too great, and there are still many people who are desperate to take risks. In addition to the gold mining company, the "owl" is the ruler behind the four wooden fields.
The gold mining company monopolized the open trade, he monopolized the black market trade of the entire gold market, so no one could get past him to take the gold placer away from the gold market.
If you want to sell the placer gold to the "owl", you can only wait for him to deal cards, and if you violate it, you will die.
But the gold diggers who have been corrupted by gold are all outlaws. The plot of the first two episodes of "Gold Rush" explains the background of the whole story, and two "king explosions" are thrown by the way.
The first "King Explosion": The theme is novel, but the core is old and deep, interspersed with suspense with primitive desire
In the past, the theme of gold panning rarely appeared in domestic film and television works, and many viewers saw the duel of gold, women, and guns through Hollywood movies ("Green Blood Sands") and American dramas ("Klondike", etc.), and were shocked.
It can be said that the "gold rush" is almost a form of wealth creation that accompanies the history of the United States. Because this form of obtaining wealth that can be obtained directly without complex technology, can be seen, touched, heavy, and golden is too primitive. So in the face of this naked primitive desire, the greed and desire of the characters will be infinitely magnified.
And human nature is universal, so this type still works in domestic dramas. Moreover, in the 1980s, there was also a gold rush on the mainland. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country were thrown into the "crazy gold rush" that year.
The story of "Gold Rush" unfolds in the context of this era, the fictional arch horse country is a neighboring country of the mainland, referred to as the K country in the play, where the gold mining district of Shimuchang, there are a large number of gold diggers from the mainland and the local gold diggers to find more placer gold before the rainy season, and then go home to live a good life.
As far as the current plot is concerned, there are five forces entangled.
The first force is Wu Jianchao (Liao Fan), a Chinese boss who contracts a section of the river.
The second force is the local boss Who contracts another section of the river, Lao Shan (Shàn) (Su Ke).
Lao Shan wanted to win over Wu Jianchao and merge the two river sections in order to activate gold mining boats, reduce manpower, and become bigger and stronger. Wu Jianchao believes that even if the merged river section is still those gold, so he has no intention of cooperating.
And among them there is a local woman, the mine head Ah Qiu (Lu Xiaolin). She seems to be Wu Jianchao's woman, but she is talking to Lao Shan in the open and in the dark.
Although the negotiations did not break up, both sides were exercising restraint. At night, Ah Qiu continued to blow the pillow wind to Wu Jianchao.
The next day, Lao Shan personally sent warmth to Ah Qiu.
It was clear that this woman was the lubricant they had been before and a double agent. Under the interests, where is there any emotion to speak of? But in the end, it is not known which side she will fall to.
The reason why Lao Shan and Wu Jianchao fought secretly instead of openly was because the two river section bosses, no matter which country they were, needed to consider their own interests and fight against the third and fourth forces together.
The third force is the gold mining company, which requires that all gold from the river must be collected by them, and the price of gold given is particularly low in order to maximize profits.
When the balance of interests appears high and low, human nature naturally seeks benefits and avoids harm, so the fourth force comes into being.
The fourth force is the gold dealer "owl", who collects gold from gold prospectors at high prices, infringing on the interests of gold mining companies.
Therefore, the gold mining company organized a "mine protection team" to look for "owls" while strictly investigating the gold panners who sold gold privately.
The gold diggers are the fifth force and the weakest.
But with the arrival of a young gold digger, Chen Baojin (Chen Feiyu), to inquire about the truth about his brother's (gold digger)'s death here, this force has become the biggest "variable" in the five-party struggle.
Because of all the people, he is the only one who is not to get rich, but to find the truth about his brother's death. Then his brother's death must also be caused by the conflict between two forces, or even the conflict between multiple forces. If Chen Baojin wanted to find out the truth, he had to find an alliance among these five forces.
His first ally is Lao Wei (Wang Tonghui), the captain of the "Mine Protection Team", on the condition that he act as Lao Crooked's eyeliner.
The second alliance is most likely the gold digger Alai (Fan Shuaiqi), a young girl who eats and sleeps with a group of rough gold diggers and has not been discovered, so her identity is also mysterious.
Now let's summarize that the food chain in this play is like this:
The gold miners are afraid of Wu Jianchao, and the bosses of the river section are always not given face, and the river section bosses are restricted by the gold mining company, and the mine protection team sometimes does not give them face.
At the same time, the river bosses also have their own calculations, such as the old shan wants to swallow all the river sections, for example, some people also want to cross the company to sell gold at a high price.
Therefore, the primary opponent of the gold mining company is to fight the "owl", and the secondary opponent is to control the river section boss.
And the "owl" is a "rich man" and a "god of death" for the gold miners, because they all want to sell gold to him at a high price, and the people who betray him are gone.
So from a certain point of view, gold mining companies are also "constrained" by gold miners, as long as such transactions exist in the interests of the company (either lose gold or lose people) will be seriously damaged.
Thus, the food chain of the five forces perfectly forms a closed loop, constraining each other, changing the wind and clouds, deceiving and cheating, and entangled together.
The suspense and variables thrown out so far are:
There were many gold diggers smuggling gold before Shikiba, but since the owl arrived, these people seemed to disappear overnight. The owl is not a simple person, and there are only two people who can reach such a point in the four wooden fields. One is Wu Jianchao, and the other is Lao Shan.
Some people speculate that Wu Jianchao will not be an "owl"?
And du Maochai of the mine protection team is the "owl".
And more importantly, if the "owl" wants to make a deal, it will install its own eyeliner in the river section and the gold mining company, and this eyeliner will not be Alai who dresses as a woman dressed as a man?
Gold mining companies are also not vegetarians, so these people will also have the eyeliner of gold mining companies.
There is also, which side will Ah Qiu, who is entangled with the feelings between the two men, eventually fall to?
Gold, woman, gun duel!
Who can not love such a story? There is a great tendency to catch up with American dramas.
The second "King Fried": the actor's hormones exploded
Let's start with Su Ke. Not long ago, Dajiang, who played in "Sweeping The Black Storm", made the audience's eyes light up.
This time, he became the boss of the Jinchang River section, Lao Shan, when negotiating with Wu Jianchao, his tone was easy-going, but his eyes were unusually sharp, which could be called "eagle-eyed wolf".
Play a ruthless role that covets profits, has brains, and has means to the extreme.
When comforting Ah Qiu, his eyes became very gentle again, so that everyone could feel his love for Ah Qiu, and the apology for letting Ah Qiu sleep in Wu Jianchao... Make this character both sinister and affectionate.
From body movements to facial expressions to speaking a less standard Mandarin. This should have been designed by himself, in line with the character is the identity of K countryman. Let the audience listen to the accent and enter the play.
During the negotiation, Yun gently ate the food handed over by Ah Qiu, chewing and spitting out the skin.
It is like a bad look of "eating people without spitting bones".
It can be said that Su Ke's performance is simply amazing, wild and affectionate hormones bursting
Then say Ah Qiu, played by Lu Xiaolin.
Although actor Lu Xiaolin did not have a fire, his acting skills were first-class. The characters who impressed everyone the most should be the forensic doctor Gao Yanan in "White Night Pursuit" and Guan Hongyu's girlfriend.
Recently, in the "Silent Truth" cooperated with Liao Fan, he played the criminal police officer Ren Yueting.
Has always given people a professional, wise, capable temperament.
In "Gold Rush", in the eyes of gold panners, she is a professional miner, who can judge where there is gold by her own experience, and her personality is cool and her big sister style.
When faced with the loss of her son, her fragile side can only be seen by the old shan.
When she heard Lao Shan say that the child might be kidnapped by hostile forces, her expression was fierce in an instant, and she revealed her "fangs" as a mother and son.
There is also the emotional entanglement between the two men, although Lu Xiaolin is not a charming and beautiful woman, but her acting skills are very feminine.
Especially the scene with Liao Fan "blowing the wind in the ear" can only be said to be a hormonal explosion
Liao Fan's acting skills naturally do not need to be said.
When entangled with Ah Qiu, the body is expressing love, but the mouth is saying words that show that he already knows that Ah Qiu and Lao Shan have "colluded", and he can maintain absolute sobriety and sanity while indulging his desires.
When passing by Chen Baojin's side, he deliberately looked at it a few more times, and it could be seen that Wu Jianchao was actually impressed by Chen Baojin's brother, and Liao Fan's eyes interpreted the vigilance of this role.
Through the change of eyes, Liao Fan played Wu Jianchao's calm and introverted performance to the fullest. Therefore, this Wujian overtime, which ostensibly says that he is content and does not want to merge with Lao Shan, is not a fuel-saving lamp, and its real purpose is not yet known.
The last one is Chen Baojin, played by Chen Feiyu.
First of all, it is certain that in the play, Chen Feiyu has changed from a "gongzi brother" to a "little dirt child", with a slightly stubble face and strands of hair, a dark complexion, and a dirty face that makes the whole person look dirty and sloppy, which is a breakthrough in the previous image.
Secondly, although in front of a group of old drama bones, the acting skills are slightly green, but they are also remarkable. When the child of Ah Qiu was wrongfully kidnapped and a finger was chopped off by the old shan, the patience and struggle could be accurately deduced. Directly dragging the audience into a tense atmosphere, there is a sense of substitution.
However, there is indeed a lack of rich changes in the eyes, and the most is still a frown, but people can't feel the content of his heart at all. There is also the fact that the lines still carry the tone of the idol drama, and there is a sense of pinching, which is unremarkable.
Comparing Liao Fan and Su Ke' one look, the audience can see his complex mood, the tone of each line changes, and the sound texture. Chen Feiyu still has a lot of room for improvement in acting skills.
At present, it can only be said that it can still hold up, although the performance is not brilliant enough, but it is not too delayed, at least it does not seriously affect the perception of the series.
Obviously, the theme of "Gold Rush" is enough to "king fried", and the actors are also enough to "king fried", from the current trend, it will also be a story of human nature chaos, and it is expected that it can be "fried" all the way.