Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Liu Yuhan
Works such as "White Night Pursuit", "Undocumented Crime", "Hidden Corners", "Silent Truth" and other works have raised the ceiling of crime suspense dramas, and "Beginning" in 2022 has detonated a new field of "infinite flow" theme, which has put a lot of upward pressure on successors. However, the new drama "Crime Hunting Atlas", which aired in March, still found another way to find a way, and revealed the backbone of high-quality suspense dramas in meticulous and solid details.
In recent years, the crime suspense dramas that have been able to go out of the circle have their own unique narrative methods. "White Night Pursuit" is a twin brother's bright and dark doppelganger; "The Hidden Corner" is a cat-and-mouse game between criminals and witnesses; "The Silent Truth" exposes the mystery around the death of the prosecutor and becomes a masterpiece of social reasoning; "Who is the murderer" adds a new main line from the perspective of accomplices. Another innovative way is to bring new jobs and new skills to crime suspense dramas, such as the previous American drama "Don't Lie to Me" popularized micro-expression science, "Criminal Psychology" revolves around psychology, "Forensic Qin Ming" shows the behind-the-scenes story of forensics, and detective Lin Mo in the web drama "Detective Chinatown" relies on sensitive smell to solve the case. This time, the "Crime Hunting Picture Book" cuts from the new career perspective of simulating the portrait painter, telling a new story of "painter detective".
Simulating portraiture is an obscure and mysterious profession, but the public has seen and heard in the social news before. Simulated portraits have all played a crucial role in the disappearance of Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying, the silver serial murder case, and the abduction and trafficking of traffickers "Aunt Mei." Portrait painter is a special profession spanning the fields of criminal investigation, art, medicine and psychology, although it has a realistic basis, but there is no film and television work that can be referred to in this genre, and the aesthetic style and tone of the whole play must be explored by itself. Jia Dongyan, the screenwriter of "Crime Hunting Atlas", revealed that some drama parties wanted to apply the script role to the name of an IP protagonist, but their screenwriting team still wanted to make an original work. "Originality is an adventure in the wilderness, and we're like kids with no maps, no navigation, just a compass. In a daze, he stepped forward and turned back, not knowing the way forward. Our compass is that sentence: twists and turns, eternal human nature. "The score of the "Hunting Crime Book" on Douban has risen from 6.9 points to 7.0 points, and the second season has also been arranged, which shows that excellent original works themselves can be built into new IP.
Three-year-old painting old, mask restoration, diary debater... These seemingly imaginative, godly portrait investigation methods in the "Hunting Picture Book" have a lean in the meticulous details: even if the suspect wears a mask, he can also push out the position of the five facial features according to the three courts, five eyes, and fifteen grids; there are the most important 36 bone points in the human facial bones, after connecting like constellations, the muscle trend can be determined by the soft tissue thickness measurement method, and the human face appearance can be restored according to the skull; "the appearance is flat" In the eyes of ordinary people, the four words mean that a person has no characteristics, but in the eyes of the portraitist, this is an important information to show that the five senses are evenly distributed. There are also knowledge points such as judging the weather conditions through the brightness and darkness of the sketch, and human beings using the whites of the eyes to express emotions, so that many viewers say that "this drama has something", not to fool the layman's brain hole. The protagonist Shen Yi was given the title of "Picasso in Uniform" by the audience, and netizens praised it in the bullet screen, saying that "art students are crazy about scoring" and "they want to trick me into learning art". Shen Yi's paintings depicted in the play will also make people have to sigh, although there is now a dense "sky eye" system monitoring and advanced AI simulation technology, but it is still inseparable from relying on the human eye and the human heart to detect the truth.
At the same time, the combing of art history in "Hunting Crime" also brings a high-level texture to the play, leading the audience to open the daily investigation from an artistic perspective. The opening chapter explores the three lies contained in the classical famous painting "The Death of Mara", the technique of Vermeer, the author of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring", who uses two white paints to deceive the world, as well as the introduction of Caravaggio, who is also a painter and a criminal, and the comparison of the paintings of the same theme in "Judith Kills Herofonis", etc., all bring visual enhancement and cultural heritage to "Crime Hunting Atlas". Some viewers said that watching this play has a "renaissance" feeling.
Screenwriter Jia Dongyan said that combining aesthetics and criminal investigation is the style that "Crime Hunting Atlas" wants to establish from the beginning. When the screenwriting team was collecting wind in the public security system, they visited the portraitist's independent office, and the room was not only filled with sketch portraits of various criminal suspects, but also a small reproduction of Van Gogh's "Sunflower" on the wall. "It's a far cry from the police I imagined, where there was art in a world adjacent to crime. What was even more surprising was that art history had been recording crime history. So the screenwriters took the famous paintings as inspiration, looked for the crime scenes in the famous paintings, stored a large number of simulated portrait materials, art history materials, went to different work departments of the Public Security Bureau to collect styles, delved into no less than 50 professional books, and then combined with real cases and social issues, they wrote a unique crime suspense drama such as "Crime Hunting Atlas".
The cases of each unit of the "Hunting Crime Atlas" are also not left behind, and they also integrate hot issues in society and are thought-provoking. In the murder of the plastic surgery dean, the thinking about "appearance anxiety" was substituted. Female designers want to emerge in the professional arena of men through good looks, but they are held back by evil people and become deeper and deeper. Finally, Shen Yi gave the female designer a portrait of Madame Curie, intending to tell her that women can rely on their own abilities to stand in the workplace. The problem of school bullying is discussed in the playground burial case, because of the sensitive personality, because of the maverick, it will become the object of exclusion and bullying, and finally make a flower girl lose her mental support and end her life. In the kidnapping of a rich woman, the criminal is also a victim of the "stolen" life because of the change of candidate's identity. There are also ex-wives and current wives who murder their violent husbands, and the mutual help between women has led to regrettable tragedies. The criminals in the play are not all heinous bad people, they are often desperate and helpless to choose to take risks. The "Crime Hunting Atlas" does not point the spearhead at a few evil people, but thinks about the profound problems behind the evil deeds, which makes the intention of the whole play improve.