On April 20, 2004, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) issued an emergency regulation requiring a prime-time ban on criminal investigation dramas.
At first glance, this provision is somewhat incomprehensible, but behind the ban is actually the 15-year "barbaric" development history of Chinese criminal investigation film and television dramas.
The domestic criminal investigation drama began in 1987's "Plainclothes Policeman", which was relatively stable at the beginning, and the villain role was easy to accept.
However, the following year, director Zhou Xiaowen boldly tried a series of fresh elements when filming the criminal investigation movie "The Price of Madness", not only incorporating nude scenes, but also using "big scenes" such as flying cars and gun battles to depict the madness of criminals, from the circle to the audience are shocked.
With such inspiration, the creators of criminal investigation TV series have gradually explored a new doorway.
On the one hand, they began to pursue the most extreme truth, not only the story must have a case prototype, but some dramas have also appeared a lot of large-scale crime scenes, which directly present the shots of drug abuse, assault, and violent crimes in front of the audience.
On the other hand, criminal investigation dramas have also begun to re-create characters in order to pursue artistic depth, because the positive characters are tall types, and the creative space is too small, so the main creator has put pen and ink on the villain character shaping, so some actors have won the full house by interpreting the villain role.
In this way, from the 90s of the last century to the beginning of this century, domestic criminal investigation dramas entered a period of vigorous development.
But the problem is that the purpose of filming criminal investigation dramas is to expose the ugly behavior of criminals, so that there are opposition voices, some people accuse the picture of scaring underage children, some people criticize criminal investigation dramas for filming criminals into flesh and blood tyrants, and even many viewers have admiration for them, which is contrary to social moral order.
So it all came to an abrupt end in 2004.
In December 2004, Beijing Television 4 premiered the criminal investigation drama "Plum Blossom Archives" in the golden file, and the drama party was extremely bold, ran to the dissection room to pioneer the use of "real corpse shooting", which caused ethical and moral controversy, and was urgently stopped on the day of broadcasting.
This incident has also become the fuse for the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to demand thorough rectification, under a paper ban, the TV series with the theme of "involving cases, anti-corruption and terror" of various TV stations have been withdrawn from the golden file, and Chen Daoming's "Winter Solstice" playing a villain has not been spared.
Because there is no support for the golden file, after that, domestic TV drama workers began to actively explore other themes, and the creation of domestic criminal investigation dramas has gradually "entered the right track", but we can also see that "task-oriented" projects have begun to occupy the main proportion.
Later, the mouth of the criminal investigation drama was reopened, and the "Mekong River Case" in 2014, the "Enigma Sand" in 2016, the "Police Flower and Police Dog" in 2017, and the "Moscow Operation" in 2018 were all good criminal investigation dramas.
But the problem is that the positive roles are more solidified, and the negative roles cannot be too brilliant, which makes it difficult for such dramas to be classics when creating.
It wasn't until last year's "Silent Truth" fire that we saw a new way out of criminal investigation dramas.
Looking back over the past 30 years, no matter what kind of madness or restrictions criminal investigation dramas have experienced in the past, no matter what new roads will be embarked on in the future, different eras have always had their own classics, perhaps each type of classic is not the same, but it is a specific product of that era.
Today, Pigo will take you to review the 10 highest-rated criminal investigation dramas in the past 30 years, and experience from them what kind of growth and changes domestic criminal investigation dramas have experienced in more than 30 years.
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Black Ice
In 2001, Douban scored 8.0 points
"Black Ice" premiered in 2001, and now it seems that the scale is amazing, this drama is a TV series with the villain as the protagonist, telling the story of Guo Xiaopeng, a drug lord played by Wang Zhiwen, who wants to use drugs to control the entire human race, and finally is brought to justice.
The whole drama is full of all kinds of sexual innuendo, foul language, and smoking shots of swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the lines involving organs and departments are also explicit to the extreme.
At that time, Wang Zhiwen was a brother of mainland TV dramas, and his ability to control lines had reached the level of pure fire, and this drama was almost his own performance show.
In this drama, the roles played by Jiang Wenli, Tian Hairong and other actors are more facial, only Wang Zhiwen's role is very avant-garde, good and evil, making people love and hate.
He destroyed many families with drugs, but he had a self-justifying theory about it.
He did not recognize his relatives for money, but in the case of being wanted by the police, he still risked his life to go to his mother, prostrate to her mother, and perform the last filial piety.
Such a charismatic and chilling role was vividly played by Wang Zhiwen.
Wang Zhiwen is not very handsome in appearance, but after watching his performance, you can be deeply fascinated by him.
You don't even have to watch his performance, just listen to his lines, and the magnetic voice can hit your soul.
I still remember two lines he said in the play.
One sentence is: "A name is just a symbol." ”
One sentence is: "The low crime rate in the backcountry does not mean that the people are noble, but because they have no choice." ”
These words now have a taste when they are thought about.
There are many scenes in the whole drama, the most classic is the 11-minute monologue scene after Guo Xiaopeng was arrested, this paragraph is recognized as a film and television drama performance textbook, friends who do not have time to watch the drama can go to the Internet to find this clip to enjoy.
Wang Zhiwen shaved his bald head, as a prisoner of the order but his temperament did not decrease, with a sonorous and powerful voice to make the most profound exposition of the Babylonian money slavery system, even if he did not read the subtitles, his lines can be words in the ear, sentences are shocking.
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"Captain Criminal Police"
In 2015, Douban scored 8.1 points
In 2015, the criminal investigation drama "Criminal Police Captain" starring Yu Hewei and Zu Feng was broadcast, in which Yu Hewei played gu Ming, the captain of the criminal police team, who even solved strange cases, but there was a case that had been hidden for many years has always been his heart disease.
Until 15 years later, new clues surfaced, and Gu Ming and Hu Deqiang, played by Zu Feng, began a cruel cat-and-mouse game.
This drama is adapted from real people and real events, the protagonist prototype is Gu Ying, the captain of the criminal police detachment in Nantong City, who has repeatedly solved big cases and won the titles of "Pioneer of the Times", the first-class heroic model of the Ministry of Public Security, and the detective of Jianghai, and died in a car accident in the process of handling the case in 2010.
In order to make this drama well, the main creator went to Nantong for many times to interview, the crew also experienced the life of the criminal police in the Nantong Criminal Police Detachment, and made in-depth exchanges with Gu Ying's former comrades-in-arms and relatives, and the director of the play was a criminal investigation expert who had worked in the front line of public security for more than 30 years.
It can be said that the whole drama has done enough homework in restoring real scenes and characters.
However, "the deceased is big" is an inspiration, but also a bondage, Yu Hewei in the role of the protagonist, the performance space has been greatly limited, acting into a tall and complete type, too selfless and desperate image but let the deceased hero and the audience between the distance.
On the contrary, the villain played by Zu Feng is eye-catching, and his transformation from good to evil is somewhat similar to Qi Tongwei in "The Name of the People".
In the play, he said a line: "I have done two things in my life, one is to be a policeman, the other is to be a big prison, and now the first thing can't be done." ”
This line is a misguided heroic lament, which can arouse strong sympathy from the audience, and Hu Deqiang has become the most brilliant character in the whole play.
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"The True Colors of Criminal Police"
In 1999, Douban scored 8.5 points
In 1999, when the 33-year-old Wang Zhiwen was already a TV brother, Li Youbin at that time was gradually known to the audience, and the two powerful factions played a drama, and it was difficult for them to star in this "Criminal Police True Color".
At that time, there was a set of books called "Documentary Series on the Investigation of Major Cases in the Nineties", and the stories in the book were all based on real cases, and one of the stories, "The Devil and the Tao of the Kingdom of Heavenly Palace", was adapted into this TV series.
The design of the whole plot is very attractive, three young people graduated from jiangzhou police academy chose three completely different paths after entering the society, some people did not forget their original intentions, some people gradually succumbed to the world, and some people broke out in repression, their choices do not matter right or wrong, but they are thought-provoking.
One of the young people is Xiao Wen, played by Wang Zhiwen, who has become a criminal police officer with a sense of justice, and Li Youbin played the gangster boss Zhou Shiwan in the play, and Xiao Wen is his meat nail.
The whole play unfolds slowly in a contest between two drama bones, in which the two have a parking lot confrontation is a classic, this clip is nearly 5 minutes, the two actors show us what it means to meet the opponent.
In addition to Wang Zhiwen and Li Youbin, there are a lot of familiar faces in this play, such as Liu Wei, Duan Yihong and Li Chen.
At that time, Duan Yihong was still called Duan Long, and he played a heroic killer in the play, which left a deep impression.
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The Black Hole
In 2001 丨 Douban 8.5 points
The screenwriter of "The True Colors of Criminal Police" is Zhang Chenggong, who wrote the famous "Black Trilogy" after writing this drama, namely "Black Ice", "Black Hole" and "Black Mist", the most famous of which is "Black Hole" played by Chen Daoming.
Like Wang Zhiwen in "Black Ice", Chen Daoming also played a villain role nie Mingyu in "Black Hole", which is more profound and introverted.
The villain played by Wang Zhiwen in "Black Ice" has the same big pattern as Thanos and wants to rule mankind by drugs.
And the role played by Chen Daoming in "Black Hole", he was defeated by his father when he was young, he grew up in the discrimination of others, and when he grew up, he was injured in order to save people, lost his sexual function, and became an incomplete man, so he used drugs to retaliate against society.
In comparison, Nie Mingyu's criminal motives are more convincing.
Over the years, many people have asked, who is also playing the villain of Confucianism and evilness, Wang Zhiwen and Chen Daoming, who is better.
In Pigo's view, the acting skills of the two are indistinguishable, in terms of voice and lines, Wang Zhiwen is better, and the plot of "Black Hole" is much better than "Black Ice".
Watching "Black Ice", you can only enjoy Wang Zhiwen's performance alone, and watching "Black Hole" is a hundred flowers.
Many people mention "Black Hole" only know that this is Chen Daoming's masterpiece, and Pi ge tells you a few Easter eggs that you must be surprised.
First, the director of this drama is Guan Hu, that is, the Guan Hu who filmed "Eight Hundred" and "Old Cannon", and the "Winter Solstice" that was temporarily removed from the golden file in 2004 mentioned at the beginning of the article was also directed by Guan Hu.
Second, one of the screenwriters of this drama is Lu Chuan, who filmed "Coco Xili" and "Nine-Story Demon Tower", that Lu Chuan, Lu Chuan also came to prominence in the circle because of this drama, and in the same year he invited Jiang Wen to be the male number one and filmed his personal directorial debut "Looking for a Gun".
Third, this drama brings together Guan Hu's ex-girlfriend, current girlfriend and future wife at that time, namely Kong Lin, Ma Yili and Liang Jing, all three women are cameo roles in the play.
Fourth, the drama was filmed in Qingdao, and the director found a lot of local actors to make cameos, one of whom was Huang Bo, who was still a dragon set actor at that time.
Fifth, the most outstanding acting skills in this drama are not even Chen Daoming, but Liu Bin, who plays Zhang Feng, who really performs the momentum of the gangster big brother.
It can be seen that "Black Hole" is not only a criminal investigation drama, but also a treasure drama buried everywhere.
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"Wings Can't Escape"
In 2002, Douban scored 8.6 points
This 2002 drama was not well-known at first, because it was a low-budget TV series itself, and there were no star names in the drama, and Zhao Yanguozhang (also called Zhao Yanguo at the time) who played the male number one was a student of the 88th grade of Beiying, and Jiang Wenli and Xu Qing were in the same class, or the class leader of their class.
Despite the low cost and touching picture quality, the actors in the whole show are both physical and mental, so that you can completely ignore the sense of clumsiness brought by low cost.
The whole drama takes the villain Zhang Shihao as the protagonist, details how he has gradually become a thief in Jiangyang from the grassroots, the play shows his numerous crimes of robbing and extorting and smuggling arms, and also vividly tells the love-hate relationship between him and his wife for 20 years, which is a fascinating and good drama.
And the role of Zhang Shihao, played by Zhao Yanguozhang, has also become the childhood shadow of many people, and last year, Zhao Yanguozhang broadcast live on the Internet, and the slightly "evil" face still reminds people of the classic bandit Zhang Shihao.
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"Six Groups of Serious Cases"
In 2001, Douban scored 8.6 points
In the past two years, Li Chengru has frequently participated in performance variety shows, and he has really caught fire by daring to tell the truth.
Many people asked him what masterpieces he had.
In the field of film, Li Chengru's most famous performance is the long shot at the end of Feng Xiaogang's movie "Big Shot", and the phrase "not for the best, but for the most expensive" will make people smile when they taste it now.
In the field of television dramas, Li Chengru's representative work is the "Six Groups of Serious Cases" series, which has been filmed for a total of 4 films, which was a reserved drama for many TV stations late-night slots, and the Douban score has all been 8 points, which is a rare classic.
This criminal investigation drama has two characteristics.
One is that the pace is fast-paced, often acting in two cases in one episode, and the two lines develop and intersperse each other at the same time, which is very enjoyable to watch.
The second is the large scale, to give a few examples.
In one case, the mother killed her 2-year-old daughter, motivated by jealousy that her daughter had taken away her husband's love.
In one case, the criminal killed his brother-in-law and burned his sister's nephew.
There is a case that imitates Hitchcock's "Train Freak", in which two people kill each other's wives and create a case of uninterested murder.
With so many large-scale cases, it is no wonder that many timid people watched TV and saw this drama and immediately changed channels.
After the second part of the drama was broadcast, the above regulations were made: criminal investigation dramas were not allowed to be played during prime time. The follow-up plans for the entire series were disrupted at once, so we saw that the third part waited 6 years to launch.
Later, the crew filmed "Serious Case Six Group 4", but did not make any money, and never made a sequel since.
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Conquest
In 2003, Douban scored 9.0 points
When I first watched "Conquest" as a child, I once thought it was a documentary, and Sun Honglei was Liu Huaqiang himself.
He wears a large gold chain, has a chilling look, and his performance is so natural that there is no trace, so that many years later, Sun Honglei is the representative image of the villain in my heart.
I believe that many people have had similar ideas, so that when recording "Extreme Challenge" a few years ago, Huang Bo ridiculed Sun Honglei for the audience: "You are fortunate to be an actor, and you are not good for society to do anything else." ”
However, in reality, Sun Honglei is a very good person, the harbin break dance king before his debut, and he also attended the Spring Festival Gala.
After starring in "Conquest", he challenged yu Zecheng with great contrast in "Latent", playing a superficial but very city government image, and also gained a lot of honors.
At this time, the audience found out how good Sun Honglei's acting skills were.
The whole drama of "Conquest" is based on real cases, the prototype of the black boss Liu Huaqiang is the infamous Zhang Baolin in Shijiazhuang, and many pictures of this drama also reveal the place names and building names of Shijiazhuang, it can be said that in addition to the character names are fake, the others are true.
After Sun Honglei starred in "Conquest", the role was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it was not until 6 years later that he completed the transformation through "Latent".
And the actor Liu Weirui, who plays Liu Huaqiang's girlfriend in the play, also encountered distress in reality, she often received calls from "big brothers" in the middle of the night, and the other party said: "Don't you like the black boss?" I'm the boss, you mess with me. ”
At its most exaggerated, someone would take a picture of her under the building with a flashlight, so that she couldn't sleep all night.
This TV series comparable to a documentary is a peak of criminal investigation dramas, and I still remember that at the end, Liu Huaqiang and his gang were all arrested, and I felt a little sorry for him when I was young, and now that I think about it, it is really outrageous to think about it.
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China Criminal Investigation Case No. 1
In 2002, Douban scored 9.2 points
In last year's "Crossing the Yalu River", Ding Yongdai played peng Dehuai, who had courage and strategy, and it is said that his acting skills have also been affirmed by the descendants of Mr. Peng.
But you would never have thought that in 2002, Ding Yongdai also played a gangster.
This drama is "China Criminal Investigation Case No. 1", and Ding Yongdai plays bai baoshan, the number one bandit.
This drama is adapted from a real case, the prototype character is called Bai Baoshan, and a pseudo-documentary shooting method is adopted during filming, giving people a strong emotional impact.
Compared with other criminal investigation dramas, its time span is longer, the protagonist Bai Baoshan became a labor prisoner in the 80s, ten years of imprisonment did not let him change from evil to righteousness, but after getting out of prison, he went to the extreme and became an outlaw.
He led his men to snatch guns, kill people and set fires, committing the biggest criminal case in Beijing since 1949, and the police were helpless to do anything about him for a while, but only with the help of xinjiang police did they arrest him.
The sense of the times presented in this play is particularly real, the accents of the characters in the play are mixed, you can hear the local dialects, many actors are vegetarians, they will not perform, the lines are not smooth, but they present a real texture.
Because it is too realistic, the police in the play are clumsy, tens of thousands of police can not fight a bandit, the security checks everywhere are useless, the Beijing police are hacked in the play, in fact, this is the era close to the real case, the police are also ordinary people, how can they all be expected like gods.
Through this drama, we can also feel that the popularity of cameras has largely curbed the occurrence of criminal incidents, and if Bai Baoshan lives in modern times, it will be clearly arranged by the surveillance probe in less than two days.
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The Silent Truth
In 2020, Douban scored 9.2 points
In previous years, criminal investigation dramas have gone into a downturn, but last year's "Silent Truth" has taken this genre to a new height.
This drama Pigo has mentioned many times, it is not a criminal investigation drama in the strict sense, but also contains reasoning, suspense, reversal, love, anti-corruption and other types, criminal investigation is only a form of it to show these themes.
This also provides a new idea for the creation of future criminal investigation dramas.
In the past, criminal investigation dramas have shown how good and evil are opposed, how the police judge cases, how villains make their fortunes, etc. There is more than enough curiosity, and there is not enough excavation of the social meaning behind it.
In recent years, with the broadcast of programs such as "Today's Sayings" and "Skynet", these detection methods are no longer new, and traditional criminal investigation dramas have naturally fallen lonely.
Under the shell of the criminal investigation drama, "The Silent Truth" really explores the fairness and justice of society, and it has been briefly treated for many criminal investigation methods.
The villain in the play is not a specific person like Liu Huaqiang and Bai Baoshan, but a group of powerful people who have the right to speak, and the protagonist wants to crack not a case, but a barrier between different classes.
In this way, the pattern of the whole drama suddenly came up.
"The Silent Truth" marks that China's criminal investigation drama has turned into a crime drama, and the core of the plot has shifted from how to solve the case to the social sense of excavating the motive of the crime.
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"12.1 Shooting Massacre"
In 1999, Douban scored 9.3 points
In 1998, US President Clinton visited China, the first stop was set in Xi'an, but on December 1 of the previous year, a policeman's June Fourth pistol disappeared, which then triggered a series of shooting and bloody cases, and people were panicked for a while.
If this case is not investigated, then Clinton's visit to China will be affected, which is extremely unfavorable to China's diplomacy, so the Ministry of Public Security asked the local police to solve the case within a time limit.
Finally, on April 1, 1998, the Xi'an police successfully solved the case, only two days before the deadline of the Ministry of Public Security, and four months after the date of the loss of the gun.
A year later, the Xi'an Film Studio made the case into a 20-episode TV series "12.1 Shooting Case", which premiered on December 1, 1999.
How appealing this show is can be seen from the poster.
The words "Clinton's visit to China" and "killing several people in a row" were put together, and the effect was directly full.
More importantly, the case has just passed a year ago, the news heat has not yet subsided, and the people of the whole country are paying attention to the details of the case.
In order to restore the truth, the main creator directly found a police officer who handled the case to star in this drama.
"Play yourself", this kind of performance is estimated to be unique in the history of Chinese television dramas.
This approach creates two extremes.
Because the actors are the parties to the incident, they are very familiar with the process of handling the case, and the performance is particularly real, whether it is the way of speaking, the action when catching the murderer, or the interrogation clips, or even the details of the smoke that cannot be left, which is no different from the documentary.
However, TV dramas are after all an art of performance, which must come from life, and it is even higher than life to reflect artistry, but the main business of the police is not performance, there is no performance experience, which causes them to behave very stiffly in front of the camera, so even if they "play themselves", it is difficult to perform the truth in life.
However, this TV series, still relying on its sword to go sideways, is recognized by the audience, and now Douban has scored a high score of 9.3.
Well, the above are the 10 domestic criminal investigation dramas with the highest Douban rating.
China's criminal investigation dramas have ushered in a new development direction after experiencing the process of satisfying the audience's curiosity, extremely enriching the villains, over-expressing criminal methods, and digging deep into the social significance behind crimes, and I hope to see more wonderful criminal investigation dramas in the future.
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