At the beginning of 2023, Zhang Yi hit Wang Fried "Crazy", and the popularity has not decreased.
The residual heat is not exhausted, and this time he came again with "Who is He".
Once broadcast, the rating broke 1.1, occupying the first position in the national ratings after prime time, revealing a good explosive potential.
In addition to the super high ratings, the popularity of the whole network also continues to rise, Maoyan Professional Edition data shows that the real-time live broadcast attention of the show is as high as 1.29%, and the market share exceeds 10%, ranking first.
Interestingly, the second place is "Crazy", and the only one who can defeat Zhang Yi can only be Zhang Yi himself.
Where is "Who Is He" so good, so that the audience likes it so much, and it has caused such super heat?
Today, Sister Pickpocket will talk about it.
【I】
Large scale, adapted from real cases
After brushing 4 episodes in one breath, Sister Pickpocket dared to say confidently-
Rest assured to rush and do not lose money when you enter the shares.
In just 4 episodes, a number of clues were laid, multiple cases were intertwined, interlocked, and the sense of suspense was directly full.
In 1988, criminal police officer Wei Guoping (played by Zhang Yi) witnessed his comrade-in-arms/master Chen Shanhe being cut his throat during the operation, but the murderer fled, and this incident also became Wei Guoping's most unwilling knot, unable to forgive himself, and almost never slept a good night's sleep.
Eight years have passed, the forensic doctor "cut the throat", Wei Guoping's memory seems to have been "restarted", and his spirit is instantly sober.
As a suspense drama, Sister Pickpocket is very concerned about the scale of the plot. If it is just a suspenseful cloak and a dragonfly is revealed in a watery manner, then the point of view will be greatly reduced.
But "Who Is He" really dares to write and shoot.
The first 4 episodes alone draw on 3 real cases.
First, the case of the butcher on a rainy night in Hong Kong.
In "Who Is He", the murderers follow the victims on rainy nights and then commit crimes, because rainy days can basically wash away the traces of crime at the scene.
And the real murderer Lin Guoyun, who was a night taxi driver before committing the crime, mostly on rainy days, killed four women who returned to the night and was sentenced to death according to law, but because Hong Kong has not carried out the death penalty since 1966, the sentence was changed to life imprisonment by convention, allowing him to escape death.
Second, the silver city serial murder case.
In the 14 years from 1988 to 2002, 11 women were murdered in Baiyin City, Gansu Province, and some of the victims were sexually assaulted. This case was listed as one of the "Top Ten Unsolved Cases of the Founding of the People's Republic", which also indirectly shows how difficult it is to solve this case.
In March 2016, the investigation was resumed.
On August 26, 2016, the criminal police arrested the criminal suspect Gao Chengyong in a small store of Baiyin Industrial School.
On January 3, 2019, Gao Chengyong was executed, bringing an end to this unsolved case of the century.
Gao Chengyong will cut the victim's neck, which corresponds to the throat cutting method used by the murderer in "Who Is He".
In addition, one of the victims of the silver case escaped, and it is said that the murderer was looking at her with the hellish eyes at the time, and the window smiled strangely at her, and the case had witnesses, so there were three portraits of the suspect.
In "Who Is He", there is a victim who looks out of the window and sees the details of the murderer, which is truly restored in the play.
Third, the Nanda corpse crushing case.
The crime occurred on January 19, 1996, and the victim was Diao Aiqing, a first-year female student at the College of Adult Education of Nanjing University, who was brutally murdered by the murderer while she was in school.
In order to destroy the corpse, the murderer heated the body until it was cooked and cut it into more than 2,000 pieces. Fragments of the victim's body were found by a cleaner on Huaqiao Road in Nanjing nine days after his disappearance.
The victim of this case in "Who Is He" is called "Ai Qing", which corresponds to the real victim Diao Aiqing, and the discoverer is also a sanitation worker.
In the play, there are many shots that are very challenging and have a great impact.
Finding broken bodies in garbage dumps and garbage dumps is still a small scene.
Zhang Yi was in the sewer to retrieve the corpse, and he was so sick to his stomach that he couldn't eat.
Wei Guoping, who got into the sewers, gradually turned pale, and the stench made him rush out, followed by unstoppable vomiting, so real that he seemed to smell it across the screen.
This simple method of investigating cases is too immersive.
Of course, the large scale of "Who Is He" does not mean that it is all bloody, but also has its advanced features.
Some large-scale scenes, it is expressed in plain text. But even so, Sister Pickpocket still felt terrified.
The cleaner picked up a bag of meat and went back, and after thawing it, he found a piece of human tooth inside the meat.
Just a piece of text shows a case in front of the audience, no less than the camera, and even the picture imagined according to the text, everyone's feelings are different.
This is where the most fearful comes in.
Coupled with the timely background music, gray sky, cold rainy night, the whole plot looks like a documentary work, and there is a sense of déjà vu of watching "Red Spider".
【II】
The pace is fast and the details are highly reproduced
The pace of "Who Is He" is fast, the old case is unsolved, and the new case is restarted, with high reversals and interlocking.
In addition to the main line "throat cutting case" and "shredded corpse case", there are many other important cases as branch lines, which are very in line with the rhythm of police handling cases in that era, and there are not enough personnel, and it is impossible to set up a special task force to investigate a certain case.
According to this rhythm, there will be no fewer cases in the future, and many old cases and new cases will be closely linked, and high-energy scenes will be one after another.
As soon as the multi-line narrative mode is opened, the tense suspense atmosphere, coupled with the huge amount of information, the pickpocket sister is watching frame by frame, for fear of missing any details.
Sometimes I think that I have found the truth, but suddenly there is a reversal, and in the end I can complete the closed loop, which follows the process of Wei Guoping's investigation of the case, and it is addictive and up.
The point is that the details of the show are also very well done.
In 1996, for many viewers now, they may have a vague memory or don't know what it was like at all. The crew of "Who Is He" basically copied the street scene of the 80s and 90s, and the olive green public security police uniform also made people familiar and warm.
There is a scene of buying shoes in the mall, and the degree of restoration is also quite high.
The beauty of "Who Is He" is that it returns criminal investigation to the perspective of "people". All stories revolve around people, and people are the most important condition for solving cases.
Without the Skynet system, it is impossible to find victims with comparative information in minutes;
Without GPS, if you want to find the trajectory of criminals, you must check and narrow down the scope one by one;
There are no aids to detect DNA, so you have to use a flashlight to keep searching in the room, testing your eyesight and patience.
If suspense is the packaging of "Who Is He", then criminal investigation is the soul and charm of this drama. The play spends a lot of space to depict the criminal police's case-solving process.
When entering the sewer to retrieve the corpse, vomiting must not be vomited in the sewer, otherwise it will pollute the scene.
Find a bag of organs, immediately reason the suspect's thinking logic, and go backwards to the hiding place of other corpses.
There were two important information in the plot of the on-site investigation, both of which were completed by relying on years of investigation experience and judgment of human nature.
Once to the cleaning aunt.
Finding that her expression was different, she asked her to say the correct information after a pause.
Another time was for male leaders.
When I went to the police station to investigate, I found that the male leader was fishing in troubled waters and was not gullible.
The fact that these details are described in such detail shows that the director/screenwriter/actor has a lot of understanding of criminal investigation, and it is by no means perfunctory to show.
【III】
The cast is luxurious, and the team behind the scenes is top-notch
The casting vision of the actors of "Who Is He" is also very accurate.
Zhang Yi, a "universal card" to retain the audience.
This time in the play, he plays a policeman again, but instead of simply repeating it, he gives a unique core.
Take "Crazy" to compare, An Xin is gentle and delicate, and Wei Guoping is more bold, cool and dragging.
Zhang Yi's walking posture of An Xin and Wei Guoping is completely different, especially the back.
An Xin is a relatively heavy stride, although thin, but feel that the body is difficult to lift, there is a feeling of being crushed, the shoulders are collapsed.
Wei Guoping is different, he carries his shoulders most of the time, is a tough guy, and has a strong aura.
The above is a comparison of the two characters in the two dramas. Returning to the role of Wei Guoping in "Who Is He", 8 years ago and 8 years later, he is not the same.
For example, the former youthful blood was swept away, and it became calm and restrained, and the captain's temperament was instantly close to his face.
For another example, Wei Guoping has an obsession beyond ordinary people in investigating cases because of the sacrifice of his friends, but he seems to be unsmiling, and he also hides a funny side in his heart, and he is annoyed by his apprentice, so he will say "shut your mouth".
The skill of a good actor is here, obviously the appearance has not changed much, but a look and an action can make the audience feel like two people.
Therefore, even if Zhang Yi plays a lot of police roles, the audience will still not have aesthetic fatigue.
That's the plasticity of an actor.
2 days after the drama was launched, Yang's mother praised Zhang Yi on the hot search,
"The silent performance, the 'eye skills' with eyes like a torch, Zhang Yi's walk shows what stability is, and the emotional explosion at the meeting shocked everyone."
After 8 years of searching for clues, it was not easy to detect the traces of the murderer in the "shredded corpse case", but the leader gave the command to others, his nonchalant expression changed, and the undercurrent in his eyes was unfathomable.
Guoping went from questioning to slapping the table and roaring, his lips trembled, his emotions deepened, and finally even the choked voice made people feel empathy.
Zhang Yi really played the role alive.
The success of a drama cannot depend on one person alone. Full blooming is the right way for a blockbuster drama to open.
Gu Changwei, the leader of the Public Security Bureau played by Ding Yongdai, is sometimes kind and kind-eyed, and sometimes angry.
Liu Shunkui, played by Fan Lei, can be salt or sweet. When he went out on a mission with Wei Guoping, his front feet still smiled and showed a cute face, and when he saw those punks, he immediately turned cold and looked tough.
There are also experts Wu Ke, played by Shi Liang, Nie Xiaoyu, the black boss sister Nie Xiaoyu played by Chen Yustront, Nie Baohua, the black boss played by Zhao Yang, and Yu Haoming, who has not yet officially appeared, all of whom have contributed their due acting skills.
"Who Is He" has created a very attractive group portrait of the criminal police, and it is not a high-energy one-man show by the male protagonist.
When he went to search the butcher's house, it was not Wei Guoping who found the bloodstains, but Liu Shunkui.
The communication between Wei Guoping and Liu Shunkui often relies on ideas, usually a single look can understand each other's needs.
Not only the two of them, but also within the criminal police team there are differences and contradictions, but in the matter of investigating the case, everyone's cooperation is tacit. The criminal police and the forensic doctor discussed the plot, and the criminal police constantly asked the forensic doctor to provide accurate information, but the forensic doctor said that the physical evidence was too little and too true.
Such a group portrait, too much love.
In addition, in addition to the cast, the post-production team is also a top match.
Ding Hei served as the producer of the play, Bao Chengzhi as the director, art director Ding Guoli, and styling director Ren Manli, which is another cooperation between the four after "Police Honor".
The screenwriter is Wu Di and Li Fang of Daydream Drama Creation Studio, and his masterpiece film "Above the Cliff" is familiar with the creation of suspense and criminal investigation stories.
Investing in a team with such strong strength is a blessing for the audience.
【IV】
It is said that with the small and the big, "Who is He" did it.
The content of the first 4 episodes made Sister Pickpocket feel the charm of criminal investigation dramas, coupled with the detailed polishing of the crew, the overall performance of the actors, and the reliable production team, there will definitely be more surprises in the later part of this drama.
I still have confidence in Zhang Yi and can rush.