Who is the male god of the national drama in the year of the fight?
There will definitely be these names in the answer of ordinary people: Wang Lei, who has just received the Flying Heaven Award, is like the emperor in the sky;
Yu Hewei, whose acting skills have gradually entered the peak state;
Zhang Jiayi, who has not broken a good drama;
Jin Dong, who returned to the peak of his form with "The Bottom Line";
There is also Lei Jiayin, whose national popularity soared after "The World".
But I also have an unpopular name in my heart, in terms of TV series awards and ratings appeal, he may not be able to match the above, but in the acting skills and drama selection, you can always believe Qin Hao.
In fact, Qin Hao can be popular early in the morning, when the first casting of "Step by Step" was to find him, and the four masters and eight masters can choose, play any one, he will definitely be able to play well, and he will definitely be popular after acting.
But he just doesn't act, and he plunges headlong into the rivers and lakes of literary and art films and doesn't come out.
Until 2017, there was really no good movie to act, ran to act in an online drama, just happened to run into another "White Night Chase" of the same theme that year of fire, although the series has a good reputation but the light is covered, that is, "Crime Without Evidence".
Since then, Qin Hao has basically maintained the rhythm of one new drama a year, and the next four dramas, "Sand Sea" in the second half of the word-of-mouth collapse, but his Wu Xie was well received, and the ratings of "Wolf Hunter" were mediocre, but the reputation was quite hard.
"Hidden Corner" is on fire, Zhang Dongsheng and his mountaineering terrier are hot, and the recent "Dear Child" has become the domestic urban ethical drama with the best ratings, popularity and word-of-mouth comprehensive results in the past year.
To put it simply, after a drama is branded as "starring Qin Hao", the quality is basically inescapable.
Even if it doesn't become "Hidden Corner" and "Crime Without Evidence", at least it is "Dear Child", even if the reputation of the series collapses into a sea of sand, the most unfortunate is Qin Hao's acting skills to watch.
Last night, Qin Hao shot again - "The Great Game".
Behind this business war drama, there are not only Qin Hao, but also two resounding names: screenwriter Mason Zhou, producer Zhang Li. The top national dramas that the two have at hand, "In the Name of the People" and "Daming Dynasty", which are at least five.
Look at the cast again, it is all powerful, and you can't count it on two hands -
Wan Qian, Tian Yu, Tan Kai, Ding Yongdai, Liu Lin, Du Yuan, Luo Haiqiong, Period, Tian Lei, Li Hongtao, all of them can perform. Of course, there is also Lei Jiayin, who is not on the cast list.
The broadcast is also not an unusual road, and an episode will be released in the first broadcast, but just such an episode, on Douban, which has always been strict with national dramas, there was a lot of friendly comments on the Internet.
The ratings are also close to the first place in satellite TV, and the ratings of Zhejiang Satellite TV soared by more than 50% compared with the previous one, and finally caught the ratings king bomb.
This uncommon genre of business war dramas, really? This look doesn't matter, into the mind, after watching an episode, the strength is very strong, a second up, the resonance around the beam.
How to look at it, this "Great Game" has excellent potential for dark horse dramas, and it also has excellent quality in the game with Qin Hao's first two national dramas.
Whether the drama will work or not, I don't count, what you see is believing -
1. Enter the play: A Lei Jiayin appeared in the opening scene, and a Southeast Asian street shootout was staged, so exciting?
A good drama can use the fastest speed to let the audience into the play.
The opening of "The Great Game" is old and exciting. The first scene: a night rainy alley in a country in Southeast Asia.
The first character: Song Jinyan, a Southeast Asian merchant played by Lei Jiayin.
Next to appear: Sun Heping, deputy director of the North Machinery Factory and general manager of the overseas sales company played by Qin Hao.
What is this doing in the opening scene? In order to further improve product quality and carry out sales work, Sun Heping personally caught mice for experiments.
Lei Jiayin couldn't help but complain, "You said that if you can't do it, there won't be a horse boy or something." A company boss who catches his own waste. ”
"I said Song Sang, do you want my engine, or the medicine."
And at the same time, at the headquarters of the Northern Machinery Plant, a fierce discussion of cadres was going on.
The North Machinery Factory is facing bankruptcy pilot of the city government due to poor management, and the old factory director wants to urgently recall Sun Heping, played by Qin Hao, as the "last factory director", hoping that he can turn the tide and take off the hat of "the last generation".
The staff was reading Sun Heping's resume, and Long Xin, the deputy secretary of the Beijing Machinery Factory played by the period, just started "yin and yang strangeness": "Don't read it, General Manager Sun, who sells consumable medicine, who doesn't know." ”
The old factory director immediately spoke: "But Sun Heping's profit from selling a package of rat poison exceeds the money of a single-cylinder engine."
"He's not doing business." "But his engine sells more, and we're all feeding him now."
"Then you tell me, there is no money in the factory, what will pay the workers, what will they eat and drink? Who in this room can do it, do you or can I do it? “
As soon as the old factory director output, Long Xingang finally shut up.
The old factory director then ordered: Stop talking nonsense, call -
The phone called, and it was over there.
Lei Jiayin and Qin Hao were talking about trading and crosstalk, when suddenly in the rainy night, a police car chased a thief car into the back alley,
The thief's car was forced to nowhere to go, and several outlaws with live ammunition got out of the car.
The police SWAT team over there also appeared, saying that the crosstalk duo looked, this good guy, the beam of the sight was aimed at the body.
A fierce police and bandit battle was about to break out, and the two immediately got under the car to avoid bullets.
"Just do what you say" "local characteristics".
"What are you doing here?" "Don't you also rely here."
"I'm a local" "Get a bite of Northeast slag".
The roof of the car was a whistling bullet, and Lei Jiayin under the car exclaimed: Are you injured?
Qin Hao wiped his shoulder: It's over, my mouse has been shot.
Coincidentally, the phone rang, and the old factory director urged him to return to China to take up his post.
Sun Heping refused to be ineffective, and simply took out his mobile phone and broadcast the police and bandit war in Southeast Asia to the old factory director.
The people in the factory were shocked: You said that Sun Heping would not die over there tonight.
Of course, the protagonist can't die at the beginning, and a fierce gun battle finally came to an end, Sun Heping's rats were all innocently shot, and the gunfire stopped.
Qin Hao asked Lei Jiayin to go out to see, Lei Jiayin: Why don't you go out?
"This is your land" "My Huludao's". Hahahahaha, the barrage is already laughing crazy.
It must be said that the plot and lines of Qin Hao and Lei Datou catching mice in a foreign country encountering a police and bandit war, and Sun Heping's shooting battle scene are too funny.
But just funny? Found no, more than 10 minutes of shootout scenes, the director did not delay a minute.
From the dilemma of the old machinery factory facing the destruction of the factory, Sun Heping's order in danger, to the relationship between the characters in the factory, Sun Heping's reputation for being complained of selling rat poison is all clear.
And Sun Heping's ambition is hidden in a conversation between him and Lei Jiayin after the shootout - "Anyway, your factory is almost finished, sell me the agency." "With me, this factory can't be finished."
People can't help but sincerely sigh that a Qin Hao and a Lei Jiayin perfectly supported the opening scene and perfectly led the audience into the play.
"Manager Sun, who sells consumable medicines", returns to China, and a good show of a big game is about to begin.
2. Entry: Industrial stories are not easy to tell, but the angle of Mason Zhou + Zhang Li "breaking the problem" is eye-catching
"The Great Game" is the work of Mason Zhou, who has long been clear, "The Great Game is different from "In the Name of the People" and from "The People's Property". ”
What do you want to write about this work? Face the arduous, complex and tragic road that Made in China has traveled over the past two decades. "The whole story is magnificent and reverberating, and it is a bright sword-style work."
And the starting point of the story must be that Sun Heping brought the bankrupt North Machinery Plant back to life, and there will be the next big game.
But industrial stories are not easy to film.
If you shoot big, it is easy to appear false and empty, not grounded; If you are stingy, it may become a love drama cloaked in an industrial drama.
Only by filming the old machinery factory from poor to rich can there be a sense of story, which is also the plot charm of the play itself.
Fortunately, Mason Zhou and the original director Zhang Li (who later became the producer of this play) have long chosen a sharp angle to solve the problem, and in only one episode and three characteristics, the story and characters are engraved in the hearts of the audience.
The first characteristic is strong tension.
At the beginning of the story, a very tense drama scene is thrown: a century-old factory, facing bankruptcy. The old factory director persuaded the male protagonist to accept the order and come back to be this "donkey pulling and grinding".
Originally, Sun Heping didn't want to take on this mess.
He did a good job in overseas sales, and was preparing for the Hong Kong listing of the overseas sales company, so he sent the old factory to stamp an official seal.
The old factory director looked like a mirror in his heart, and when he saw that he flew to Hong Kong first, he understood that this was the submission of listing materials.
The old factory director also has a way: come and invite Jun into the urn.
Let him hurry back and hold a factory meeting overnight, a group of people over there waiting, and here urgently persuade Sun Heping to enter the bureau and save the factory.
It must be said that Du Yuan played the role of the old factory director too well, how Ren Sun Heping refused in every way, and made a reasonable "call": "As a child who grew up in the North Machinery Factory, can you bear to watch our factory go bankrupt"? With another tear, Sun Heping could only obediently take the hot potato.
But to take over the potato, the difficulty has just begun: how to pay employees' salaries? How to break the situation in the old factory?
There is no absolute villain in the series, but every obstacle that stands in the way of the rise of the old factory is a villain. With such a shot, there is a scene.
The second feature is realistic enough.
Audiences who have experienced the era of that old state-owned factory should feel more empathy.
How poor is the old factory? From three angles, the director shows this "poor" helplessness and bitterness into three points.
One is that wages cannot be paid.
No matter how beautifully the blueprint of the new factory director is planned, it belongs to the future after all. For the employees in the factory, they must focus on the present:
The wages in the factory have been in arrears for more than half a year, how to live?
So that the old factory director could only take Sun Heping to find the former deputy director of the factory, who was also Sun Heping's classmate and one of the "three masters of Han University", Liu must borrow money.
After Liu Biding left the machinery factory, he created Red Star Heavy Truck, and the development was booming, and the investment was one billion yuan. But to borrow money, is it so easy?
Second, the house leak coincides with "overnight rain".
The factory was already very poor, and at the critical moment, Long Xingang, who had previously provoked Sun Heping with all kinds of thorns, smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran away. Not only did he run, but he also stuck a knife in his back.
At a critical moment when facing bankruptcy, the YT production line is on fire again.
Third, people are distracted, and the team is not easy to lead.
The series uses real shots and sharp angles to deeply show the reasons behind the difficulties encountered by the old factory.
For example, in order to open source the factory to survive, the factory opened a winery, and the employees also found their own ways out and made many side businesses. There are commissaries, those who sell churros, those who sell buns.
In the past, the main theme drama gave the audience the impression that it was mostly "Wei Guangzheng".
But Mason Zhou's "The Great Game" does not play cards according to the routine.
Not afraid to uncover some of the "disgraceful" past, put the camera on the ordinary, struggling, and future anxious individuals who were the same as us, and achieved deep empathy with us in front of the screen.
Regrouping begins with finding these ills.
The question is, when a cavity of blood enters the ice pool of interests, how to break the game?
The third is the use of comedy elements.
Generally speaking, industrial dramas have a distinctive feature, that is, "difficult narrative".
But in the drama "The Great Game", suffering is not the background, and striving and hard work are the background.
Therefore, a lot of comedy elements have been added to the play to dissolve the seriousness of the difficulty.
For example, the old factory director "forced" Sun Heping to take over the position of factory director, triggering a master-apprentice bag robbery scene - Qin Hao flew up and wanted to grab his own bag.
Du Yuan: I pressed it.
Qin Hao shot again, Du Yuan: I'll press again.
Another example is the humorous lines of the old factory director's daughter played by Wan Qian who spit on Sun Heping:
"If you don't do your business, serve the dog meat on the big banquet, I'm duh~"
"Sun Heping really can't do it ~ what Han Da Sanjie, I only know Han Da Shuangxiong."
"Is this 62-degree wine that Dad sells?" Let him stop drinking."
"Who said it was industrial alcohol?" I've been drinking for a year, am I dead? Am I blind?"
Realistic themes, grand themes, but can explain the plot with tears and laughter, but also amuse the audience, this is the ability of directors and actors.
3. Acting: 15 powerful starring actors, the acting skills of the opening three actors have been brightened
Many Chinese dramas choose actors, "only pick the expensive, not the right".
But watching "In the Name of the People" and "Daming Dynasty" you know that the dramas of Mason Zhou and Zhang Li have always only chosen the right ones, and they are powerful.
And this "Great Game" gathered at least 15 powerful actors.
The first one, Qin Hao.
Many audiences discovered Qin Hao's acting treasure from "Hidden Corner".
But literary film audiences and suspense drama lovers have long seen Qin Hao's amazing acting skills.
In "Dear Child", he played a very unpleasant husband role, but he could make the audience watch.
Qin Hao's performance style is to de-routine, whether it is playing Zhang Dongsheng or middle-aged Wu Xie, he must perform the real life state of the characters, so each role has its own style, but it is by no means the same.
Domestic actors can play this part, one is him, the other is Lei Jiayin.
Sun Heping, played by him in this play, is a character who turns the tide, according to the audience's impression, naturally it should be a strong demeanor.
But Qin Hao came to play, but he wanted to play the weakness of the characters.
For example, after the old factory director played by Du Yuan persuaded him to take over the factory, he immediately took him to the general meeting, and after a round of applause, the new factory director spoke.
A blood-boiling, imposing inaugural speech? On the contrary, Qin Hao's first step was the hesitation of the performance characters. "This factory director, I'm really not prepared."
But then the conversation changed - "But the old director's words made me change my mind." ”
The third step is to compare hearts to hearts, "The old factory director said, you are a child who grew up in the North Machinery Factory, can you bear to watch our factory go bankrupt?" Can we? Suddenly, the applause was thunderous.
A scene shows Qin Hao's characterization of the main character Sun Heping.
Not directly to play a hero, but to let the audience watch him from selling rat poison to being in danger, and then taking the factory out of trouble step by step, all the way to growth.
It's not about making the character a perfect person.
On the contrary, it often shows the "complex" side of human nature, making the characters' personalities more three-dimensional.
Zhang Li's picky eye is really not wrong.
The second place, Wan Qian.
Her last work "Outside Court", directed by Zhang Li.
The female villain Chen Manren played in the play does not talk much, and sends his subordinate Lerojin's neck if she doesn't agree with a word, and she feels bad to mess with across the screen.
This time, her character Qian Ping has become a king of the spit world. She was Sun Heping's youngest child, and when she went home to hear from her mother, her father wanted to invite Sun Heping back to be the director of the factory.
Immediately all kinds of complaints could not be seen. Can't really see it?
In the play, she is Sun Heping's only consistent comrade-in-arms and one of the key figures in the old factory's extrication.
As soon as Wan Qian appeared, the simple beauty came to her face.
His eyes rolled, and his eyes flashed with a full of clever light. But speaking of her boyfriend's illness, several pauses in speech cast a layer of sadness on the character.
In the next scene, our factory flower instantly became a dirty and sharp sister.
Wan Qian is an actor who plays more and more difficult the role, and this time she should finally be able to play it to the fullest.
The third place, the old drama bone Du Yuan.
Last time "Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight", he played Hu Weiyong in the play, a scheming, treacherous villain Hu Weiyong, several expressions, one look, are unforgettable.
This time, he played the old factory director Qian Jianguo, but he was too outstanding.
On the one hand, full of feelings for the factory, in order to prevent the North Machinery Plant from bankruptcy, it can be said that he has exhausted his efforts and tried his best.
On the other hand, one mouth is full of human feelings, this head said to the city leader that Sun Heping was full of confidence, and the other said to the hesitant Sun Heping that the city leader had high hopes for you.
Especially the rivalry scene between him and Liu Lin as Mayor Chen Lijuan.
When the big lady in "Know or Not", Dehua in "Parental Love", and Mrs. Li Dazhao in "The Age of Awakening" turned into a female mayor who seriously discussed the bankruptcy of the North Machinery Plant with Qian Jianguo, this aura came out.
One is talking about making the factory pilot bankrupt, while the other is pushing the new director Sun Heping to win the last hope for the factory.
How does Liu Lin act? Soft in the middle, soft with hard.
And then directly state the position: separate the trading company, and the Northern Machinery Factory will not be saved.
How does Du Yuan play this? All kinds of smiling faces, pretending not to hear, lick an old face and beg the leader to give the new director a chance.
The final scene is even more moving.
Liu Lin couldn't bear it in her heart and threw out her hole card: Comrade Jianguo, let's talk about something.
And Du Yuan almost supported the sofa step by step, moved to the table, and lifted the pilot bankruptcy material that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
This detail acting is amazing!
These powerful people are the high-quality foundation of "The Great Game", and there is no upper limit to the bonus of good actors to the theme drama, and the drama of these actors is also destined to become the best annotation to the story.
As the story unfolds, Tian Lei plays the "hidden" of the deputy director Tian Ye.
Full stop plays the "slippery" of Long Xingang, deputy secretary of the Beijing Machinery Factory.
It has gradually become apparent.
Looking at the trailer, the other two of the "Three Masters of Han University" are about to appear.
Liu Biding, played by Tian Yu, does not play cards according to the rules, which is both arrogant and cunning.
Yang Liu, the boss of a state-owned enterprise played by Tan Kai, is upright and has a moderate advance and retreat.
Both of them want to pull Sun Heping to their own enterprises, one offers a million annual salary, the other gives a manager position, and Sun Heping, who insists on staying, will eventually start a wonderful game with the two.
There are also many actors with excellent acting skills in the play, Ding Yongdai, Luo Haiqiong, Liu Xiangjing, Zhang Meng, etc. will appear one after another, with recognizable faces, characters with different personalities, people from all walks of life gather, each with their own purpose and heart, a wonderful show, all lived.
4. Break the game: the domestic business war drama, it's time to fire
These two years have been the spring of domestic dramas.
Various types take turns to become popular.
But the main theme drama of industrial themes is probably the most difficult to shoot and the most difficult to see genre.
Because of this type, there is a barrier between natural and general audiences.
"Song of the Lushan Mountains", which ended on CCTV a while ago, is a heavy industry-themed TV series filmed with the equipment manufacturing industry as the background.
The ratings have broken 1 many times, and the Douban score is 7.8, but it is not counted as a circle.
The industrial drama is unpopular, but it does not mean that there is no market, the key is how to break the game.
These big dramas such as "Song of the Mountains" have opened up a way for industrial dramas, and this "Great Game" will continue to inherit and develop.
Inheritance, of course, is to continue the advantages of previous industrial dramas.
For example, while the plot is exquisite, the texture is real.
The main framing of the "Great Game" factory is borrowed from the factory of Weichai Power, and even the extras are also cameos by employees of the Weichai factory.
Some shots of heavy trucks, the crew was taken on the spot in Shandong Heavy Duty Truck.
Even if it is a life scene, from the old and simple furnishings of the director's office of the North Machinery Factory, to the warm water bottle for drawing water, to the shredded potatoes that Sun Heping went to the old factory director's house to eat, the environment and scene are real and down-to-earth, with a sense of age and fireworks.
But to break the situation, we must not only inherit, but also develop.
The breakthrough of this play lies in how Mason Zhou sees through the three-person game between Sun Heping and Liu Biding and Yang Liu to see through the subtle humanity and outline the texture of the times.
The story of a century-old factory in bankruptcy and revival is understood, and filmed into the hearts of the audience.
The fate of an individual can always attract the attention of the public, and the sorrow and joy of the individual can always drive the common feelings of the public.
As long as the story is filmed well, even if it is a remote industrial theme, the people still love to watch it.
Judging from the follow-up episodes, Beiji will not only rise again, but also Sun Heping will also start to acquire the Red Star Heavy Duty Truck Company controlled by Liu Biding after completing the listing of the company, and Yang Liu will intervene to stop it.
Qin Hao has a dialogue: "Yang Liu is not an enemy, but a game opponent." Next, there will be life and death suspense, fierce gun battles, and the plot of Liu must be imprisoned.
As Yang Liu, played by Tan Kai, said: The next game will be very exciting.
No matter what kind of game, the essence is to start from the most pyrotechnic and ordinary individuals, and use their stories to tell about life, society, the torrent of the times, and the development of the country.
And all good dramas, in essence, are a win-win game between the series and the audience.
The key to successful gaming is always the same: intention.