Written by Zheng, directed by Zhang Xiaobo, starring Ou Hao and Wang Yanhui, and starring Wang Yuwen, Zhou Zheng and Hou Wenyuan, "Cowards" will meet the audience. Adapted from Zheng Zhi's original novel "Raw Swallow", "Coward" will take the ten years of life changes of the four teenagers as the main axis of the story, from two highly similar murders across time and space as clues, through the process of solving the mystery to glimpse people's hearts and witness the power of bravery.
Innovate to create a campus "heart" suspense The original author interprets the deep value expression
A few days ago, "Coward" released a special series of creators. The original author and screenwriter Zheng Zhi, director Zhang Xiaobo and other members of the main creative team spoke out to expound the core expression. Different from previous suspense dramas, "Cowards" abandons the traditional presentation of most genre dramas with crime as the main body, and instead focuses on the story of "people" in the process of youth growth. According to zheng zhi, the original author and screenwriter of "Cowards", he adjusted the handling of some of the characters and relationships in the original book in the series, in order to achieve the effect of making the protagonists' youth and friendship before the baptism of reality more moving.
In addition to the beauty, the profound intention in the original work is also what the creators want to focus on film and television. "We have more or less made more or less cowardly decisions, but it is precisely because we are afraid of something that the word bravery makes sense." Screenwriter Zheng Zhi's exposition allows the audience to have more understanding of the title of the play, that is, "Cowardly Ghost" represents The teenagers represented by Qin Li (Ou Hao), Huang Shu (Wang Yuwen), Feng Xuejiao (Zhou Yu) and Wang Wenyuan (Hou Wenyuan) in the process of growing up because of "timidity" left a hidden pain that could not be said to others, to reveal the value expression behind it in the deep sense: through the choices of "retreat" and "concealment" that most people can understand, they can effectively show the rarity of "lone brave". As director Zhang Xiaobo said: "We want everyone to step on the cowards, and this is what I think the scene of "Cowards" ultimately wants to achieve." ”
"Cowards" Highlights The four protagonists first got together, and the two mystery cases restarted the past
In the premiere plot, major changes occurred in the home of high school student Qin Li. Because of his father's crime, he became the "target of everyone" on campus, was called "the murderer's son" by his classmates, and encountered serious discrimination and bullying. In the hazy moment of Qin Li's youth, the beautiful transfer student Huang Shu, Qin Li's hair Xiao Wang Wei, and the lively classmate Feng Xuejiao stood firmly with him. The four people accompanied and helped each other, becoming the enviable four-person "Spark Family". But behind the seemingly beautiful and flawless friendship, there are still hidden dangers: can the young Qin Li calmly withstand the "colored glasses" of the outside world? Why are there more and more mysteries in Huang Shu's body? Why did Feng Xuejiao and Wang Wei, who were reunited ten years later, say bluntly, "We are all sorry for Qin Li"? What kind of friendship test will the four people who came together because of the courage of their youth face?
Ten years later, two cases with the same modus operandi occurred in the same place, does this mean that the murderer who has been arrested that year is actually someone else? In the face of the earth-shattering reversal of old cases, how will Feng Xuejiao's father, Feng Guojin (Wang Yanhui), deputy head of the criminal police of the Public Security Bureau, solve the mystery as the person in charge of the two cases? How are these two cases related to the four teenagers? Get the attention of the audience.