In 2004, "Ma Dashuai" sparked a ratings boom as soon as it was launched, with an average rating of 3.6%.
The play can achieve such a huge success, in addition to the huge appeal of Zhao Benshan's drama that year, we cannot ignore the credit of Fan Wei, a supporting role.
It was the role of Fan Debiao that he played, which left many famous quotes that year, such as a Liaoxi accent with a mouth with a rising tail - "Big brother, fate!" "I used to be young and frivolous, fighting and killing, and I can be called a famous ruthless person in northern Liaoning."
These wonderful performances not only made the series that year, but also formed a new trend many years later - "Biao Xue".
The rise of "Biao Xue" can be said to be the right time and place, and it is indispensable. The most important of these, of course, is Van der Biao's charisma.
This Northeast uncle has a magical magic in him, how many years can still make countless post-90s young people come up, obediently call "Brother Biao", and shout: "There is an inner taste!" ”
Carrying a large gold chain and wearing a skull sweatshirt, Biao Ge is always twenty-nine, clicking an eagle scratch.
As vertical as Biao Xue, there are also Northeast film and television dramas.
Northeast themed film and television dramas have always been in the Chinese-language film and television circle, and they are a very special existence.
As the years progressed, several distinct genres gradually formed.
The first is a suspense drama.
From "Cliff" to last year's "Daughter Back", the cold climate and unique environment of the northeast are naturally the best venues for suspense stories, and such works are often full of drama charm and make the audience want to stop.
The second is Northeast comedy.
From "Ma Dashuai" and "Liu Laogen" to today's "Country Love Story", Northeast comedy can be described as enduring. And one of the biggest characteristics of Northeast comedy is that the laughter is often brought out by plump and three-dimensional characters, and the characters are the core of the rhythm and the driving force of the story, which amplifies the audience's pleasure of chasing dramas.
The third is a small character sentimental drama.
When watching Northeast theme film and television dramas, you can always experience the special Northeast temperament, when the audience watches the drama, just by looking at the scene lines and the background of the times, it is easy to distinguish whether it is a Northeast theme drama, and it is easy to be infected by the feelings in it.
However, over the years, with the gradual aging of the older generation of Northeast film and television drama creators such as Brother Biao, Northeast film and television dramas seem to be less popular than they were back then.
Really turned off? On February 10, a standard Northeast suspense comedy was launched, "Meritorious Northeast Old Things" is not only the taste of the year, the most important thing is that you have to watch the starring actor -
Fan Wei, Yu Nan, Da Pan.
Brother Biao is back? Douban audience comment: Fan Wei in the old affairs of the northeast is really old Fan Debiao, and he is also very medicine.
Look at the story again.
It is another suspenseful detective of the golden murder, another Northeast comedy that Fan Wei and Da Pan nag out in minutes, and another little character story of Fan Wei.
The chemical reaction between this comedian and the traditional suspense theme, zilazi.
To put it bluntly, suspense, comedy, and feelings are all present in "Ligong".
But here's the bigger question – can this mashup really work? Won't split?
After chasing two episodes, I basically completely agree with the evaluation of netizens: the script is not bad, the acting skills are not pulled, the uncle is called, and the eight points cannot run away.
Sure enough, this Northeast suspense comedy is only worthy of him to play like this. The point is, it also let him play.
In a word, Teacher Fan Wei is really old, but Jiang is still old and spicy.
01, into the play: 3 people died in 2 episodes, but Fan Daipan was happy as soon as the audience came out, which is called an episode into the pit
Unlike other suspense dramas, "Ligong" does not cut into the case at the beginning, but starts with people.
The story opens with the opening meeting of the thermos bottle factory, and the leaders on the stage speak hotly, and the old businessman of the security department played by Fan Wei is taking notes offstage in a serious way.
The leader said the first half - do you have confidence? The old merchant replied more imposing than anyone: Yes!
Then the camera turned - in fact, he drew aliens in his book.
The thinking is completely the question that Liu Cixin wrote about the three-body thinking: Will our lives be better when we explore alien civilizations?
Witty character? It's not that simple.
This is the 90s of last century, the old businessman originally lived in the city with a family of three, he worked as a driver in the factory, and he was awarded three years of safety without accidents, but because his wife cheated and eloped.
He came to this small city of Pisces River with a population of only 20,000 people alone, originally living a dull life, but his heart was inevitably a little restless, and he had to be transferred from the bottle warmer factory and transferred to the police station to fight back for his own life.
In those years, the Public Security Bureau entered as soon as it wanted?
After a depressed drink, the nephew played by Da Pan who is a criminal police officer in the Public Security Bureau finally gave him a suggestion: make meritorious contributions.
Make a contribution, maybe there will be a drama in this matter.
The old businessman's blood boiled when he heard it, and there is a chance for us to join forces!
So the story runs all the way in the direction of comedy?
But the series immediately took a sharp turn in style.
Riverside, morning fog, boats.
Five big men came out of the boat, stretched out their waists at the head, and several people rushed forward.
The last person left quietly came behind the shipwright.
As soon as the cable is smacked, it chokes its throat, and if the other party's legs flutter in the air, it will send the boatman on the road.
Looking at the first few more, the head does not turn back, as if nothing happened.
After a while, the boatman swallowed, the back caught up, the camera shot from the boat, and the figure gradually faded away.
There was not a single line during the killing, and before I could react, the figure had disappeared.
A group of murderous bandits and five tigers, for them, killing the boatman to eliminate their smuggling is only the first step in the whole plan.
Next, in only 2 episodes, a total of three people were sent offline by them.
A small-town gold puzzle has just begun.
So, suspense is the main course?
Don't worry, the story is about to take another sharp turn.
Yes, Fan Daipan, the unfortunate relatives, appeared again.
Because Da Pan caught the thief carelessly, he was deceived by an uncle, and was forced by the leader to carry the necessary need for visiting the disease in the 80s - canned fruit to find his family to settle things.
As a result, an important clue was harvested in the toilet - someone was in ambush on the Pisces Town Railway, specifically harvesting coal from the coal train.
Good fellow, this is not a godsend - arrest people, make meritorious contributions, and you will be able to transfer from the archive room back to the front line of criminal investigation.
Originally, the plan would have gone very smoothly, until the famous ruthless Biao brother in the northeast region, ah no, it was the old businessman who volunteered + coercion and coercion, and had to follow to help.
Along the way, he also nagged his nephew: to hold steady.
As a result, when he saw a group of people preparing to do things from afar, he shouted loudly that the police were coming, and his nephew was forced to go ahead to arrest people, and he was so shocked that he did not move at the scene, and watched Da Pan alone against the other party.
Looking at the expression of the old businessman, you can know that this must have been beaten.
Such a scene was changed to being played to be scolded to death by the barrage, but as soon as Fan Wei made a move, the audience only laughed.
Coupled with the perfect cooperation of Da Pan, it is even more funny, and I can watch a hundred episodes of these two mutual dramas.
The two seem to be mindless and unhappy, and this comedy effect will not come out immediately.
But just funny?
Pay attention to the last action of the old merchant, that is, when he left, he accidentally pushed a wooden board set up to steal coal into the middle of the train track.
Then, by coincidence, the fifth of the five tigers who were sleeping on the coal train had just woken up and stretched, and was knocked out of the train by this wooden board.
In this way, the five tigers folded one tiger, and the money and guns prepared by the five tigers were all on the old five, and now they were all gone.
At the beginning, the suspense was buried first.
From here, the story will pull back and forth between the five tigers winning gold and the pair of nephews who are eager to make meritorious achievements, and black humor is not ready.
I have to say that "Ligong" is playing a very new suspense comedy.
It is not the kind of joke that deliberately shakes the baggage and tickles the laughter, nor is it the suspense of the clouds and mountains shrouded in fog.
It's about combining the two into one.
In the depression and tension, Leng Buding gives you a release of emotions, and the audience laughs out loud as if they were panting.
Next, it is the reverse "peeling the onion", the onion is peeled to the end, and the story is solved.
And what glues comedy and suspense together is the key character played by Fan Wei - Lao Shang.
To put it bluntly, there is Fan Wei, definitely. There is comedy, but only under the guise of guise.
Revealing its comedic face is even more seductive.
In just two episodes, suspense wins gold, nephew comedy, little character fate, just one episode, all the elements are included, making people instantly into the pit.
And the good show has just begun.
02. Entry: game in the game, case within a case, intricate clues, comedy suspense crossing, northeast taste is too positive
Here, let's sort out the plot, it can be said that as soon as the story begins, it uses comedy and suspense to divide the story into two plot lines -
One is the old demon mountain gold unsolved case.
The old demon mountain of the Pisces River is covered in clouds and fog, and there is a legend of gold on the mountain, and the murderous five tigers in the previous article were invited by the local song and dance hall owner to "enter" the gold panning.
This group of outlaws smuggled from the border, Dahu is calm and ferocious, and can speak Korean and Northeastern dialect. Erhu is a technical type that can make bombs. Sanhu is a lewd-looking womanizer. The Four Tigers don't say much. The Five Tigers are the youngest.
In order to complete the task, this group of people regarded human life as grass mustard, first killed the boatman who sent them to smuggling, and then robbed the truck driven by the old merchant apprentice, burned the car to kill people, although the old merchant apprentice escaped death, but also murderous.
According to the original plan, the next step was to go up the mountain, look for gold, and count money.
But their misfortune is to meet Pisces and a former famous ruthless man in the northeast - Lao Shang.
The second clue is that the old businessman tried his best to make a contribution.
If there is a suspense line in front, this one is undoubtedly a funny line.
In order to make a contribution, the old merchant resolutely stopped the little boy who was robbed of five yuan by three middle school students. "Go, see the righteous and brave"! After speaking, get in the car and preside over justice.
It's just three middle school students, and my famous ruthless man in the northeast can't clean up?
As a result, when I looked over, the three members of the high school wrestling team of the University of Malaysia said in one sentence: I robbed it, you just got it?
Lao Shang is not a soft persimmon, if you don't convince, just do it!
Then he was twisted by someone's wrist, kept a cigarette with one hand, took the little boy home on a bicycle with one hand, and did not forget to give the boy five yuan in hush money - don't talk about it.
The little boy said that he could not afford to lose the man.
This meritorious service does not seem to have been established, but in fact, the old businessman has no intention of neutralizing one great achievement after another.
Previously on the railway, he had inadvertently turned five tigers into four tigers.
Then the fourth of the five tigers was ordered to come out to purchase, and came to the old acquaintance of the old merchant, the noodle shop owner He Xueqin's shop, to eat noodles, and when he left, he touched his pocket and was blackened, so he had to eat the overlord meal running list.
Someone didn't give money for dinner, Xueqin shouted and chased all the way behind, and ran into an old businessman who came over by bicycle,
This is not a coincidence, the old merchant who was nibbling on sweet potatoes swung his tail with a divine dragon, and half of the sweet potatoes flew out at once, just landing at the feet of the old four,
The old four slipped, and the back of his head fell to the ground and fell into dementia.
Five tigers become three tigers.
It's not over yet.
The old merchant discussed with Xueqin, let Xueqin take the opportunity to write a letter of thanks, make a pennant and send it to the security department, saying that he was "seeing righteousness and courage", but on the day that Xueqin brought the Suona team to deliver the letter, there was a female employee bathhouse voyeur incident in the factory, and it was the third who was ordered to find the fourth and fifth old.
Although the third is safe for the time being, there are still 10 episodes to come, and I have no doubt that he will soon be planted in the hands of the old businessman again.
So how wonderful this line is, on the one hand, the old businessman desperately tries to find a way to see the righteous and brave, and on the other hand, he inadvertently dismantles a gang of bandits who kill people without blinking.
Although the two story lines occur separately on different parallel lines, they are actually constantly colliding and influencing each other.
It is precisely because of the unexpected existence of the old businessman that the five tigers still have to do everything, there are two less members, and the money is gone, the gun is also lost, and they are forced to go out to commit crimes and make money, which increases the risk of exposure.
Why don't you ask the owner of the cabaret where they came to ask for funds? The bandits can't afford to lose this person.
At this point, it can be said that various forces have entered the game, various clues are intertwined, and in the fast-paced progress, the story is not only full of suspense atmosphere, but also full of the pleasure of watching the drama that does not know the direction, does not guess the story, and cannot touch the clues of the Northeast comedy drama.
It's coming.
03, acting: Fan Wei is another actor-level acting skill, Da Pan is a surprise, and Yu Nan is too beautiful
Audiences familiar with Northeast film and television dramas should know that Northeast film and television dramas basically do not take the traffic route, what they want is a solid strength, but in terms of actor acting skills, it never disappoints, and the same is true of "Ligong".
The director of "Ligong" is Cha Muchun, starring Fan Wei, Yu Nan, Pan Binlong, the main supporting roles are Danni, Yuan Jing, Han Yanbo, Liu Guancheng, Luo Ji, etc., is this acting skills told?
But it's too good to hold up the scene.
First of all, you must praise it, Fan Wei.
Needless to say, Fan Wei has been promoted to a real powerhouse.
In addition to the actor, "One Second" cooperated with Zhang Yimou won the best supporting actor for him, basically as long as a drama has Fan Wei, play the protagonist that is stable, and play the supporting role The protagonist must be careful, because Fan Wei is too capable of acting.
In "Ligong", Shang Quanliang played by Fan Wei can be said to have gathered the characteristics of many classic roles of Fan Wei in the past, in the words of netizens, Fan Wei playing such a twisty little character is as simple as Schwarzenegger playing the terminator, just stand there and interpret the role for eight points.
But the show was still a surprise.
First of all, Fan Wei's comedy is too comfortable, watching villains learn detectives, learn qigong, etc., frequently reminiscent of Brother Biao who is obsessed with dream interpretation, his comedy is not hard at all, not squeezing eyebrows at all, the audience laughs forward and back.
Especially with Da Pan's comedy combination, it is simply a good match, how to act hard.
The second is this character similar to the combination of Yang Hongqi in "Please, Praise Me" and Fan Debiao in "Ma Dashuai", and at the same time a loser in life, with a rich inner drama.
Whether it was his wife cheating and running away, the old businessman, in order to fear that his daughter and mother would never recognize each other, silently said that he drove his wife away, and as a result, he was silent in the rain that was misunderstood by his daughter, and the smoking hand that had been trembling all the time.
Or was he so excited when he confided in his nephew that he couldn't hold the peanuts.
Or maybe Lao Shang's apprentice drove over to see him, but he was loved by Wuhu, unconvinced in the hospital, and Lao Shang trembled when he visited him.
Every scene is enough for the audience to break the defense.
The most powerful thing about Fan Wei is that he performs the unique stubbornness of the small people in the small county, and allows the audience to understand where this stubbornness comes from.
Because he performed the kind of self-contradiction that floats in the torrent when the small individual faces grand changes.
The so-called meritorious service, the important thing is not the meritorious service itself, but the miracle of the little person completed by the old businessman in the two sides of bravery and cowardice.
It is Fan Wei's actor-level acting skills that make people feel that the character of Lao Shang is very real, and it also makes people believe that he will do so many things that seem out of tune for the sake of inner dignity.
The second place is Yu Nan.
Although she didn't have many scenes in the first two episodes, she had a unique sexiness.
The lady of the dumpling shop she portrayed, there is no exaggerated body movement, but the eyes are transparent, there is hidden sorrow, a look, can make you instantly into the play.
And one appearance can hook the eyes of all the audience.
The third place is Da Pan.
Pan Binlong brought to life a criminal police officer in an unambitious small town.
To be honest, originally, like many people, I thought that Pan Binlong played the criminal police and played the fur thief in "The Nameless".
But in a chase scene, he is through a series of body movements, he brings to life the frustration and helplessness that boiled his blood at the beginning to the point of causing trouble.
Especially the rivalry with Fan Wei, he leaned against the wall so much, his mouth was so grinning, it made people feel the city spirit and warm human touch on his body, and the acting skills are enough to make you instantly forget that this is a comedian.
This story with strong contrasting styles can be established, and it is inseparable from the excellent performance of several main actors.
Every actor has his own shining points, and these shining points come together to form a good drama.
04, meritorious service: Northeast suspense comedy, really has to be supported by "aging Fan Debiao"
Since the beginning of 2023, from anti-black dramas to science fiction dramas, there is not a single traditional suspense drama in the true sense. Behind this is actually the caution of the market, because many of the suspense dramas in these years have been overheaded, and finally completely reduced to a complete bloody drama.
Behind this is actually the exhaustion of suspense drama creation, which is deeply mired in the audience's aesthetic fatigue.
And the beauty of "Ligong" is that it uses the style of Northeast suspense comedy to pull the suspense drama out of the quagmire.
And for the Northeast film and television dramas that are also somewhat silent, at this juncture, the appearance of "Ligong" is undoubtedly a shot in the arm.
On the one hand, it is the culmination of Northeast comedy and suspense drama, with various elements, the story is simple and direct, does not drag mud and water, and the pure Northeast flavor is also particularly attractive.
Speaking of direct perception, I basically laughed a lot throughout the process, but this drama can also make you cry if you are caught off guard.
What I have to praise is the proper sense of age of this drama.
Whether it is the duty room of the bottle warmer, the assembly, or the public newspaper kiosk, the dance hall, or even the police played by Da Pan when catching thieves, a group of people hide in the dark-lit room to watch unhealthy videos.
Oh ma, that age is just barbaric.
On the other hand, it also captures the soul of Northeast Film and Television.
The soul is the character.
In "Ligong", the little people are making big calculations.
The biggest comedic contrast in the series is the struggle between two forces.
On the one hand, the old businessman with a strong mouth and a king. On one side are the murderous Five Tigers.
But the nobody, but can be righteous.
And the seemingly arrogant Five Tigers will be eliminated by the old businessmen one by one like a game of entertainment sooner or later.
As a suspense drama, "Ligong" has a very frequent reversal.
But if a suspense film is just reversed for the sake of reversing, it is nothing more than a tired brain teaser.
The beauty of the reversal of the story actually lies in the presentation of small characters.
Little people, old businessmen have nothing.
But he has one belief: meritorious service.
And the self-redemption of small people, the power is endless.
The story lays out such a big game of bizarre cases, with comedy and suspense darkness, comedy is funny, suspense catches people, and can also impress the audience with the story of the little person itself without deliberately sensationalizing.
The key behind it is Fan Wei's performance.
Some viewers said that they still can't forget Fan Debiao.
But the old Van Debiao can also make meritorious contributions.
You can trust Biao.
You can also trust Fan Wei.