I haven't seen such a hard-core military drama for a long time, and I didn't expect Yang Yang, who was inching back to the barracks, to be so energetic.
A lot of people should know what I'm talking about, and tonight, the audience has been waiting for three years for "Special Combat Glory" to explode.
Oriental Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV golden file simulcast, 3 major network platform network broadcast, this card surface, quite large.
"Red Sea Action" screenwriter + "Indelible Fan" director + Yang Yang, how much does the audience want to see through?
To group data, iQiyi, Youku's episode reservations have exceeded 2 million, goose factory, the episode has not started, the early material playback volume has exceeded 100 million.
Why? The ace lineup, of course, is a big reason.
But there is another reason: after the 2009 "Soldier Assault" and 2012 "Special Forces" series, how long have the audience not seen a vigorous military drama?
"Special Battle Glory", is it worthy of this expectation?
Director Xu Jizhou left the next sentence: "We have no love in this play, only comradeship, no love, until the point is reached, more is to feel sorry for each other." ”
Many netizens said that after listening, the expectation value soared. However, can military dramas without love dramas still attract female audiences?
But who says female audiences don't like to watch military dramas? True blood, its own power.
1. True military brigade: military drama without love, is it not fragrant?
The theme of military dramas has always been the backbone of domestic film and television dramas. 13 years ago, "Soldier Assault", is still constantly being watched, and its popularity can be imagined.
However, in recent years, the market performance of military dramas has been somewhat fragmented. Chen Xiaowanglei's "King of Land Wars" has a good rating, winning the same period ratings championship many times, but the Douban score is only 4.5.
Xiao Zhan and other starring "Ace Troops" have a good reputation, but they are not traditional hardcore action military dramas, and they are finally out of the circle.
On the one hand, there is still a huge market for military dramas, on the other hand, the market is in urgent need of a real military drama to come to town, and "Glory of Special Warfare" is just in time.
The biggest problem of military dramas in these years is that everyone knows, that is, military dramas are like love dramas, the overall idolization, youth, even the picture is a powder and white filter, the action scenes will be on the verge, there is no inner flavor of the year.
Therefore, when I saw "Special Combat Glory", I couldn't help but be shocked.
Just the final trailer, you can find that the military drama has finally come to life. The overall style is very sharp, all kinds of hot blood scenes, cruel training, actual combat fighting, field training, are only small meanings, and multinational joint exercises, people watching the blood boiling.
The line is directly explained: it is equivalent to actual combat.
Watching the joint acting action scenes in the play, it is not the kind of bullets that cannot be beaten and the flower fist embroidered legs cut out by the green screen + special effects, but the real scene, the actor's face is blackened, one by one gasping for breath, the real knife and real gun are dry, and even have the feeling of "Red Sea Action".
One look at the screenwriter, it is really the screenwriter of "Red Sea Action". Director Xu Jizhou also has a lot of experience in anti-war dramas, and "The Indelible Number", which he is the screenwriter and director, has always been at the top of the same period when it was broadcast in 2011, and won more than 20 awards such as the Golden Eagle Award and the Magnolia Award. Dramas such as "Killing the Tiger's Mouth" and "War Thunder" are also well received.
In addition to "Red Sea Action", the screenwriter also has many military works such as "Decryption", "Fire Blue Blade", "Deep Sea Sword", "Boat of Peace" and so on.
Two connoisseurs of military themes meet together, and the audience finally does not have to be ashamed of the dizzying bugs of domestic military dramas.
The series is adapted from the novel "The Special Kind of Chinese Special Forces" by The Dancing Demon Ji, the author netizens are very fancy, in fact, a hard-core military fan.
The story tells the military growth experience of the recruit Yan Baoyue.
In order to prove himself to his father, Yan Baoyue gave up the college entrance examination and joined the army as an armed police soldier.
Although he had excellent personal ability during the recruit training, Squadron Leader Li Qiang saw that he was like a lone wolf, without teamwork spirit, and directly assigned him to the cooking class after the training.
There is a scene in the trailer where Yang Yang angrily asks: Why not me?
The answer is that such a soldier, even if his individual ability is strong, is not a qualified special combatant on the battlefield, because the glory of special operations units is not individual heroism, but the glory of the collective.
In the cooking class, Yan Baoyue found that this place was also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and achieved a smile service. Later, he gradually integrated into the team and completed his self-growth, and naturally entered the special combat team with his strength.
In the test of life and death, Yan Baoyue continued to grow, and eventually became a real warrior king.
You can see that this is a standard soldier king growth story.
Some netizens also summed up the story mode of the king of soldiers in recent years of domestic military dramas: "Recruit training, polishing the thorn head, talking about love, entering the selection, screening layer by layer, individualism, several exercises, and finally actual combat, cultivating positive results, and double harvest of love and career." ”
The popularity of the "King of Soldiers" story model has its objective reasons, and it can also be seen that the audience's biggest dissatisfaction with this model is not the routine itself, but the endless love talk.
Why do the creators of Chinese dramas think that the audience likes to watch military dramas and fall in love? "Soldier Assault" has no love scene.
Fortunately, Xu Jizhou is a well-known hard-core director, in the past, his drama did not talk about love much, this time it is more direct: there is no love, only war friendship, the so-called scenes that look like love are also point to point, it is the sympathy between heroes, not the love of men and women.
After listening to the audience, they were relieved that they finally did not have to watch the military theme idol drama.
After focusing the story on the training, training and growth of the special combat team, the audience found that the original special combatants were really not so good, the training process was almost fighting with their lives, and their tension was no less than that of actual combat.
There is a scene in which Yan Baoyue and the team members participate in a multinational joint exercise, in which he accidentally found a dirty bullet, and in the case of a very urgent situation, he directly rushed to the scene to cover the retreat of his teammates, making people worry about the accident.
In the process, the two exercise teams clashed, and Yan Broke Yue's voice broke the deadlock and also shouted out the spirit of the domestic military drama.
Domestic military drama, this time reliable.
2. True soldiers: Female audiences don't like to watch tough guys and female soldier kings? Wait for the punch in the face
Director Xu Jizhou had a very obvious characteristic in the past, that is, he was good at shooting tough guy scenes and also good at shaping tough guys, but this time in "Special Battle Glory", it was not only tough guys who flashed, but also female soldier kings.
The cast of the series is very strong, and among this group of actors, I am most looking forward to the performance of the 5 actors.
The first, of course, is Yang Yang.
Yang Yang, who graduated from the military academy, has his own military aura, and he is even more heroic after changing into military uniform. Of course, some netizens said that how can fresh meat play a good special combatant.
I don't agree with this, the audience who has watched the National Day military parade live broadcast knows that there are never many handsome soldier brothers, and the new generation of young soldiers does not look for young actors to play who to play? The question has never been whether young actors are acting in military dramas, but whether they are seriously acting!
And Yang Yang has actually been waiting for such a play.
Many people's impression of Yang Yang is still stuck in the idol drama, it is indeed a pity that Yang Yang's appearance does not act in the idol drama, but this is largely the choice of the market, not necessarily the choice of the actor himself, and it is very dangerous to stay in the comfort zone all the time, so Yang Yang has been waiting for a complete breakthrough.
The director revealed that the script of the play was tailored to Yang Yang's personal characteristics. It is said that after the two people ate a meal, they confirmed the cooperation, and it should be Xu Jizhou who saw Yang Yang's inner turmoil, "Every literary and artistic soldier has a dream of a special soldier in his heart."
Yan Baoyue came from a military family, but his personality is not the traditional obedient type, there are contradictions between father and son, and he wants to prove himself. But from a lone wolf to a warrior king, it is necessary to complete a difficult transformation.
Under extreme circumstances, squeezing out the power in the bones of the characters, the characters will bring the audience an unforgettable experience.
In the past, many domestic dramas in the bing wang were too routine, too fake, lack of that real sense of sting, and could not substitute for the tribulations and growth of the characters.
This time there was a foundation for the original work, Yang Yang also went out to make a breakthrough and change, a sharp head and a firm and unyielding look, and the image of a "lone wolf" who was sharp, stubborn, and did not care came out.
It can be seen that the actor really participated in professional training, in addition to the blemishes and beads of sweat on his face, one detail is Yang Yang's eyes.
In the past, watching domestic military dramas, many military fans had a basic standard: it was to see how the protagonist the guys, whether he was cool or really practiced, a gun and a aim were all seen, and Yang Yang's aiming eyes, I dare to say that he was not timid.
The shape has been, the shape has been, and the next thing is to see if Yang Yang can perform the soul of the character this time.
Second, Jiang Luxia.
In the play, she plays the female soldier Wang Guo Xiaoxiao. In the past, the audience's deepest impression of her was definitely the female soldier in "Red Sea Action", and her role as the female soldier king was too perfect in both her skills and sense of substitution, and there was a feeling of transferring from the Dragon Commando.
This role is also really heroic, skilled, is a dazzling fierce person in the special combat team, the strength can not be underestimated, three times five divided by two can knock over several opponents of the male team, mg3 can fight the wolves at any time.
Watching the story, the audience is more relieved, in the past, many national dramas appeared to be big heroines, shouting slogans and clanging, but in fact, they were full of all kinds of female competitors and girlfriends pulling their heads. Either it is a deliberate emphasis on female gender or beauty.
But the female soldier king of this drama is the female soldier king, and there is no need for any gimmicks, but with real ability and men in the same arena.
Third place, Li Yitong.
Although after Huang Rong of the 2017 version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Li Yitong does not seem to have too many very out-of-the-loop roles, but from "Crane And Hua Ting" and "Amazing Girl" all the way through, her acting skills are actually very stable.
This time, she played Ai Qianxue, a high-cold knowledge army, and came up to pour a basin of cold water on the male protagonist's team, "No, it will be eliminated." ”
Looking at the stills Li Yitong's appearance and state are good, what is more reassuring is that this is finally not a full-time role to talk to the male protagonist, and it can also be brilliant after acting in a good literary drama.
Fourth place, Gao Xin.
Many people still remember Lu Erhao, who was full of noble spirits in "Deep Rain and Rain".
Later, his career went up and down, and by 2014, he was remembered by the audience again with the absurd prince in "Langya List". In "All Is Good", Su Mingzhe, played by him, left a classic line.
This time, his role is the superior of the male protagonist, leading the team to participate in the multinational force joint exercise, which should be a guide-like role that promotes the growth of the male protagonist, and Gao Xin's acting skills have long been not limited to the positive and negative factions.
Fifth place, Jiang Long.
Although he has starred in such a Douban 2.2 "God" level work as "Pure Heart and Dream Showbiz", he almost quit the showbiz circle at the worst time, but in the finals of the "Annual Comedy Competition", he and his partner teamed up to win the first place in the annual comedy partner, and finally stayed.
Although Jiang Long has played supporting roles, but it is a rare lack of licorice-type supporting roles in domestic dramas, "Wind Rises Luoyang" from the beginning of the suspense to the end, I am most happy to see Jiang Long's role appear, for the story of tightening into a string to add a little laughter.
Many of the small roles he played have flesh and blood, very expressive, watching the trailer he should also be the pistachio of the play, a handful of expectations.
3, true glory: I don't target anyone, but the real military drama should be filmed like this
Reading the message on the Internet, there is a saying that makes me very uncomfortable, saying that the girls who chase the drama are all face control, which is for Yang Yang's appearance. Yang Yang is indeed handsome in this drama. But to say that the audience chases the drama just to see the face is too small to watch the female audience!
The truth is who doesn't love the thrill of an adrenaline rush? The tense and exciting plot, the texture of the real costume, the fist to the flesh action scene... These elements can attract not only men, women also love to watch.
Xu Jizhou said that although "Special Battle Glory" is starred by Yang Yang, the overall temperament is not idolized.
Due to the high difficulty of creation and shooting, military dramas are destined not to be a big market type. Coupled with the uncertainty that comes with this genre, it is difficult to shoot and difficult to explode.
But the genre will always be there, and audiences will always be looking forward to another good drama like Soldier Assault.
The broadcast platform of "Special Battle Glory" is Oriental Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV, 2 David TV golden file simulcast plus Youaiteng, TV viewers and network viewers have exhausted, the conditions for going out of the circle have been there, and then look at Xu Jizhou.
From the perspective of drama, in addition to military service, this drama combines suspense, action, inspiration and other genre elements, with diverse elements.
Although the number of episodes is not short, Xu Jizhou's episodes have always been fast-paced, and he will not drag the scene.
The key is to watch the trailer to feel the quality of the series, very golden age military drama texture, vast distant mountains, fierce battles, tense rescue... In addition to the costume, the action scene is not ambiguous, fist to flesh, really hit and really fall, the protagonist has no gold finger, the attack should be attacked, the beating should be beaten.
There is a scene where the male protagonist is controlled by the other party, Yang Yang personally goes into battle, and the performance is green and violent,
There was even a brief syncope-vomiting reaction. Knowing that it was filming, I also pinched sweat for him.
The audience stands in God's perspective, seeing all this, and naturally immerses themselves in the sweating palms of their hands.
Behind the high-burning visual effects and fierce scenes is the real sense of military dramas returning.
Jiang Luxia said that Yang Yangshuai, who wears military uniforms, has exploded, subverting the previous cognition of him, "Every scene he is the most serious one, every fight scene is personally on the battlefield, injury is not painful or tired." ”
As for Jiang Luxia herself, the director said that she was knocked out of a tooth during filming and sent to the hospital for normal shooting the next day.
Whether it is a supporting role in the main role, such a performance is worthy of respect.
I believe that this drama will definitely attract a lot of male audiences on the basic plate of military dramas, and it will also attract many female audiences, who may have come for Yang Yang at the beginning, but they can stay and chase it in the end because the series is good.
Xu Jizhou carries the attitude of the creator of the old-school national drama, disdainful of using gimmicks to attract the audience, always respecting common sense, so he said, "The management of the army is quite strict, especially in the male and female soldiers, in the army to talk about love is a big taboo, so the public for the military works of love drama is also rejected, but some works disregard these, wantonly increase the love line, and even break through the scale, which is naturally not in line with reality, but also in violation of the law." “
But female audiences do not only watch love dramas, if you have to find out that the female audience and male audiences have different viewing tastes, it may be that women pay more attention to the depiction of human nature and emotions, and the roles do not change.
And "Special Combat Glory" is not a drama that piles up scenes, but to bring out the growth of the characters, to tell the glory of the special combatants, in addition to the hardcore action scenes, there must be moving paragraphs.
In fact, this is also the common characteristic of a large number of excellent military dramas such as "Soldier Assault", "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", "Bright Sword", "I Am a Special Soldier" and so on, these classics have been repeatedly watched and discussed by the audience, because the real high-quality military drama will not become obsolete, and the root that impresses the audience is the spirit in the play, which is the most authentic presentation of the quality of Chinese soldiers.
What the audience can't stand is not the "Growth of the Soldier King", but "ugly", rotten, and confused. It is a variety of rough compositions, simple and rough dramatic techniques, and messy emotional dramas.
And "Special Battle Glory" is a very rare military drama that makes people feel the beauty, and the spirit is permeated in the hardcore.
There is a scene in the play where Yang Yang's character raises a military flag in the light of the sun, and his eyes are so pure that people's blood veins are open. "Never defect from the armed police force!"
This is the glory of a soldier!
The real military drama is to rip apart those real flesh and blood and show the different textures in the quality of the soldiers.
Let you believe - what kind of Chinese soldiers, called special operators, how they are in the city of common will, show a different color of the flash.
Soldiers must assault, and special warfare has its own glory.