01
Recently there is a TV series called "Mountains and Rivers Yueming", about the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang's family, the lineup is very luxurious, playing Zhu Yuanzhang is Chen Baoguo, the supporting cast is quite decent: Zhang Fengyi, Wang Jinsong, Wang Qingxiang ...
But pointing into the marketing clip of this drama, it is Zhu Yuanzhang arguing with the founding hero Liu Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang said bitterly, "Water can carry a boat and can overturn a boat, and all the officials are in this boat, offending the common people, and all the boats are overturned and killed!" He even shouted out a slogan: "My Great Ming Dynasty, the Son of Heaven and the people share the world, not with the scholars!" ”
Then Liu Shanchang was so angry that he pointed his crutch at Zhu Yuanzhang and scolded his only husband.
It was very emotional when I watched it.
In the 2007 TV series "Daming Dynasty", Chen Baoguo played Jiajing, which also had party strife and corruption, but Liu Heping used a line to nakedly point out the crux of the Ming Dynasty .
Jiajing and Yan Song, who used it very well, finally turned their faces because of the problem of money.
The treasury was empty, and Jiajing naturally thought of collecting taxes.
He sent Yan Song's close associate Yan Maoqing to patrol the salt to collect taxes, and at the same time found a Jinyi guard to follow behind, and finally Jiajing found that in addition to the 1 million silver that Yan Maoqing had brought back to the capital, there were two boats that secretly hid more than 2 million taels, one to Yan Song's hometown and one to Yan Maoqing's home.
Jia Jing was furious!
This may be the biggest temper he has in the play, and he has no manners and no manners, and he scolds:
What kind of party strife, what kind of loyalty and adultery, the emperor does not care, what he cares about is -
The TV series 15 years ago dared to make the meaning of "family world" clear:
The emperor regarded the world as his own, and the crepe phrase he said to his courtiers, "The golden cup drinks together, and the white blade is not spared", is nothing more than another version of "cunning rabbit exhaustion, good bow hidden".
And 15 years later, our so-called "historical drama" has made the emperor of the feudal dynasty a "Ming Jun" and put Li Shanchang's kind of "Xun Gui" on the opposite side of the people.
Shan He YueMing wrote Zhu Yuanzhang as if he were a preparatory party member
At the same time, the plot and promotional points are infinitely low childish, and the promotional tag bought is:
Zhu family men can be treated;
The love between Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma was good
……
Now there are many places in the country in the sealing control, at this time it is actually easy to produce explosive dramas: in 2003, when SARS, the gold powder family became popular, and also took advantage of the opportunity to break the ratings record of CCTV in the past two years. But now the film and television industry is visibly depressed.
After thinking about it, I still recommend the old drama of 13 years ago to my friends who are nestled at home: "Latent".
02
Lurking was a 2009 drama, when I was facing the middle school entrance examination, and my parents strictly controlled the time I watched TV, so it was reasonable to miss it. So for a long time I didn't understand what kind of charm Sun Honglei really had, wasn't this just an actor with small eyes?
Until I clicked on it on Youku.
Another point of surprise is that the label lurking on Douban is actually not a spy war, but a domestic love drama.
After watching it, you will find that it is indeed the most criticized way to "fall in love in the name of work" - so in fact, the audience does not hate to fall in love, the audience hates the inexplicable and grinding love.
The last point of surprise is that this domestic drama, which is supposed to be an absolute male lead drama, has almost no negative, instrumental female characters that arouse the disgust of the audience.
03
First summarize the plot for the audience who have not seen it -
Yu Zecheng, played by Sun Honglei, was originally an agent of the Kuomintang military command.
The military command and the central unification are the two major secret services of the Kuomintang, and here is a gossip, the boss of the military command, Dai Kasa, or my high school alumni... After the plane crash, Mao Renfeng took over the shift, and soon after the military command declined.
Yu Zecheng's girlfriend Zuo Lan, played by Shen Aojun, when I was a child, I saw the divine doctor Xi Laile, she played Sai Xi Shi in it, I was shocked.
Everyone's skin in the lurking area was not filtered, the makeup artist did not give a flawless base makeup, and the small bumps and pores on the face were clearly visible, but even so, Zuo Lan was still very beautiful.
When Yu Zecheng was eavesdropping on the Communist Party gathering, he accidentally discovered that Zuo Lan was actually a Communist Party, and because of love, he let go of Zuo Lan and other party members who were assembling, and his superiors, worried that he would be suspected of this, quickly took him to Nanjing to assassinate the traitors who had defected to Wang Jingwei.
After Yu Zecheng killed the traitors, the organization also wanted him to continue to lurk in the Japanese puppet government, but not for official purposes: the Japanese puppet agents seized a whole ship of Dai Kasa's personal belongings, and the military commanders provided the Japanese with eighteen thousand quintals of grain and information on the New Fourth Army in exchange for their belongings.
That is to say, the military commander asked Yu Zecheng to risk exposure to stay in the puppet government, asking him to escort Boss Dai's personal belongings.
The chill and disappointment of the military command, coupled with the love for his girlfriend Zuo Lan, this is why Yu Zecheng initially defected to the Communist Party.
After joining the party, he continued to lurk at the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, where station chief Wu Jingzhong was his teacher, and Station Chief Wu proposed to let the subordinate section members take over their families.
To say that it is good to hear is to share the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance, and to say that it is ugly is to take hostages.
When Yu Zecheng filled out his resume, he made up a wife for himself called Cuiping, and now he needs to organize a wife in order not to show the stuffing.
This Cuiping sent to him by the organization is far from Yu Zecheng's aesthetic, with a loud voice, illiterate, unseen, and extremely grumpy, but the two must disguise themselves as husband and wife and live together in the same room for a long time, ah, what a routine "first marry and then love"!
The whole drama is about Yu Zecheng and Cuiping, through constantly resolving the crisis, providing intelligence to the organization, gradually understanding, knowing and loving each other.
I understand the routine, but after many years I still think: the shooting is really moving.
04
The first thing that touched me was the conversation between Cuiping and Yu Zecheng after Zuo Lan's death.
After Zuo Lan and Yu Zecheng were reunited, she was both happy to see that her boyfriend had joined the party, and she was also dismayed to find that Yu Zecheng had more Cuiping around her - but she was hindered by discipline and could never come forward to question her boyfriend:
Are you a real couple, or are you a fake?
Cuiping already had a good feeling and possessiveness for Yu Zecheng at that time, Yu Zecheng and Zuo Lan took the opportunity to pass on information to each other to exchange heartfelt feelings, after returning to "home", Cuiping found that he had a woman's hair on his shoulder, she forgot about emotional management for a while, shouted like a real wife, and denounced his chaotic life style.
But it was cuiping, who had a "very low consciousness" and loved to "pick acid and eat vinegar", after Zuo Lan's death, asked Yu Zecheng and said, Are you two good friends?
Yu Zecheng admitted.
According to the road number of ordinary TV series, Cuiping should have a little "luck" here: the legitimate girlfriend is dead, which is to make room for her, she has hope.
But the lurking place came, and Cuiping slapped Yu Zecheng on the arm and said, "If I knew that you were in this relationship, I would tell her before she sacrificed, I am a fake with you, and you only have her in your stomach." She had a name before she closed her eyes, and her heart would be beautiful! ”
When I saw this, I was really shocked, and Cuiping's simplest kindness to others easily overcame her little jealousy.
In the past two years, the theme of "girls help girls" has been very popular, and I have watched the very popular Spanish suspense drama "The Best of Innocence" during that time, which also has several stories of strippers hugging the group to save themselves, but frankly, a lot of female mutual aid themes have made me feel a bit contrived - how is lurking filmed?
05
Yu Ze became a helper to collect wealth from Wu Station Chief to gain the favor of the Station Chief, deliberately approaching Mu Wanqiu, the niece of the traitor, and the two of them walked around and kissed each other.
Mu Wanqiu looked delicate, could play the piano and write poetry, and the whole person was shrouded in a foggy sadness, indeed within the aesthetic range of Yu Zecheng—just crashed into the muzzle of Cuiping's gun.
Because of her unhappy marriage in the late autumn, she has repeatedly expressed her admiration for Yu Zecheng, and even more surprisingly expressed her "willingness to be a little wife".
These episodes, four people, two families, eyebrow lawsuits are good to watch.
Cuiping has both hatred for his love enemy and pity for the fallen people of the end of the world:
When she said to Mu Wanqiu, "You are stupid, he doesn't have you in his heart", she is also trying to persuade herself - although late Autumn is not a play, her nominal wife is not Yu Zecheng's true love.
But in addition to robbing men, they also have real empathy and sympathy for each other: they were beaten by their husbands in late autumn, taking sleeping pills to commit suicide, it was Cuiping and Yu Zecheng who sent her to the hospital to rescue her, and they jointly planned the way to Yan'an for her, at least for the late autumn at that time, it was the best way to live.
06
I really like the part where Mu Wanqiu went to Yan'an and said goodbye to Cuiping.
Mu Wanqiu dressed as a boy, the car stopped, she said to Cuiping, sister-in-law, you get out of the car, I want to hug you.
She finally admitted that Cuiping was "sister-in-law".
And "sister-in-law" Cuiping smiled and said, you hug him.
CuiPing knew that this step was taken, and Yu Zecheng and Late Autumn would most likely not see each other again, and she wanted to fulfill this girl's little wish as much as possible: "It's okay to hug it, I'm glad to see, really." ”
In the end, they hugged.
Mu Wanqiu first advised Cuiping not to always be a fake couple, so many years, do you lose money? He also gave her an idea: sleeping in a bed, there is always a way.
Cuiping said, I soil.
Late Autumn said that the people in the city are too snobbish, he doesn't like it, he likes you like this.
Finally she tearfully encouraged Cuiping and said: Listen to me, grab him.
07
The last time I saw the drama of "Main Room" and "Little Three" joining forces, it should be the line of housewives in the 60s in Deadly Women, but I think the lurking is still better:
In the deadly women, they leave hand in hand a man who is not worthy, and lurking, both of them know that Yu Zecheng is worthy of love.
"Making" a worthy man is much harder than leaving a trash man together.
I later combed through why such a bridge section in the lurking made me feel real and moving: Cuiping and Late Autumn are both women, but they are not "female" to forget that they and each other are personal.
08
In the lurking, even the emotional line is set very advanced. When I write novels, I am often confused by a question, that is, why does the male protagonist fall in love with the female protagonist?
On Weibo, in the emotional blogger's submission, a man's choice of a woman is mostly based on various practical considerations;
In idol dramas, the male protagonist loves the female protagonist and can't do anything, but he still has to rush to do it;
In our current big female lead drama, the male protagonist usually loves "the beautiful and sassy heroine exposed a vulnerable moment in front of him".
But when did Yu Zecheng find Cuiping very attractive: when she showed her marksmanship, she really jumped at Luqiao Mountain from a distance.
When I saw it, I thought, "Wow."
It turns out that a long time ago, the straight man in our play would really appreciate a woman's ability, rather than having to exude a "fragile and confused" look.
It turns out that a long time ago, the straight men in domestic dramas would love a woman's strength, courage, wisdom and firmness.
This kind of "one person to another" feelings has not been seen in the romance drama for a long time.
09
The very interesting point of lurking is that Yu Zecheng has been touched by three women in this play, but no one will question his feelings, and the audience of the diode will not think that he is a "scumbag".
There are a lot of "no feminist" lines in the play, and Yu Zecheng will tease Cuiping and say, "You should be big, and you should be small in late autumn", but no one will feel that he does not respect women.
In the "big female drama" blowout, everyone wants to dip a little female theme dividend today, I still feel that the audience is not as stupid as many creators think. There is a very pithy line in the latent drama called "Impersonal politics is short-lived", and I think the same is true of the drama:
The audience can actually best discern whether the creator really releases kindness to women or just wants to rub a little heat.
10
Finally, I would like to say a very inconspicuous little detail in the lurking.
Ma Kui's wife had an affair with Wu StationMaster's secretary and was caught by Cuiping, and Secretary Hong, out of weakness of heart, indirectly helped Yu Zecheng get out of danger.
This secretary Hung genuinely likes Mrs. Matthew.
After Ma Kui's death, it is specifically mentioned in the play that his wife has returned to Shanghai, and since then, Secretary Hong has not appeared again.
I think the two of them went back to Shanghai together.
I really like this meticulous stroke. This is a kindness that cannot be disguised, and when telling the story of the big times, the main creative team still remembers to carefully arrange a proper ending for a little woman with no name and no name.
- End -
Welcome to follow me