Spy war drama.
A national drama genre that lives almost only waiting.
Waiting for Liu Yunlong's "The City of Ding", the crew made a moth.
Looking forward to "Infernal", Jiangsu Satellite TV even released the trailer, but "Infernal" was not finalized in the end.
Seeing all kinds of Chinese dramas, you sing and I appear, all kinds of wonderful, all kinds of lively.
Just a Zhang translation, the opening year of a "Crazy Race", anti-black drama reached its peak. Immediately following a "Who Is He", the criminal investigation drama is popular again.
On March 20, Yang 1's "The Road of Life" sent the period drama to the audience.
Chinese dramas are blooming on all sides, and fans of various genres have their own place.
Only spy war drama fans, can only wait alone?
But spy war drama fans are also wide.
Counting from Liu Yunlong's "Dark Calculation" in 2006,
Spy war dramas have gone through 17 years. Counting from "The Oath is Silent" in 01,
That's 22 years.
Subsequent spy dramas such as "Lurking", "Before Dawn", "Red" and "Kite" have all triggered a boom and are well known.
But in recent years, there have been only a handful of excellent spy war dramas, and there are even fewer explosives.
The year before last, there were also "Rebels" and the modern spy war drama "Opponents" to support the scene.
Last year, the legendary "big year of spy war dramas" with more than a dozen spy war dramas to be broadcast, only "Feng Qi Longxi" and "Faith" really landed.
The former has high reputation and low ratings, while the latter has good ratings.
The most amazing is Liu Yunlong's "The City of Ding" and Sun Honglei's "Shocking Strings", whether the former is finished filming has become a suspense, when the latter will start filming, whether it will be filmed or not, is also a mystery.
Large-scale and large-scale spy war dramas can't wait, but fortunately, there are small and medium-sized spy war online dramas to meet the audience.
Recently, there is one, which makes people feel the stimulation of a long absence.
On March 21, that is, today, a spy war drama "Butterfly Shadow" with a backlog of 8 years will be launched on three major online platforms such as iQiyi and Tencent.
In the past, most of the spy war dramas were male as the protagonists, and the growth of the male protagonists was the main story line.
But this drama has a different way, with women as the core, somewhat new.
Judging from the cast, there are also powerful people such as Zhang Chenguang and Huang Weide.
From the perspective of the main creative team, Zhang Ruoyun's father Zhang Jian produces, and the heroine of this play, Feng Yue, is Zhang Jian's wife.
So, can this spy war drama with young women as the main perspective reach the passing line in popularity and word of mouth, and boost the sluggish morale of spy war dramas? Take a look, and then talk.
1. Story: spy war anti-war drama
"Butterfly Shadow", as the name suggests, is a female spy war story.
The whole plot mainly revolves around the personal growth experience of our female agent Lin Qiuyan.
And this super strong female character who uses both swords and guns can basically be understood as a female version of Yan Shuangying.
The TV series tells the story of the Japanese army launching the "Scorpion Beauty Project" in Shanghai in 1941, using "counterfeit banknotes" to disrupt the mainland's financial market and plunder the mainland's precious cultural relics and ancient books.
In this process, Lin Qiuyan, Zhang Zimo, and a group of chivalrous and courageous young people such as Lin Qiuyan, Zhang Zimo and Tang Twenty-three, Fatty, and Thin Monkey formed an anti-Japanese group because the treasure "Qiqin Diagram" was coveted by the Japanese army and their families were destroyed.
And Lin Qiuyan originally joined the military command agent, codenamed "Gray Goose", and was sent to Shanghai to destroy the "Scorpion Beauty Plan" of the Japanese.
In the process of a mission, Lin Qiuyan reunited with his former lover Zhang Zimo (Wei Daxun). At that time, Zhang Zimo was ostensibly the director of the Wang Puppet Economic Bureau, but in fact he was an agent of our side hidden inside the enemy.
This role can basically be understood as a copy of Jin Dong's role in "The Pretender".
After the baptism of battle, Lin Qiuyan finally joined our camp with his sister Lin Qiuyue and anti-Japanese soldier Zhou Tianhao, and finally smashed the conspiracy of the Japanese invaders in one fell swoop and grew into the backbone of the anti-Japanese salvation.
The core focus, how will the world of female spy warfare unfold in "Butterfly Shadow"?
The answer is: divine drama unfolding.
The wonderful traditional spy war dramas in the past few years, whether it is "Rebel" by Zhu Yilong and Wang Zhiwen, and "Forerunner" by Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan, are mainly based on male agents.
The only exception is the drama version of "The Wind" starring Zhang Zhijian and Wen Yongshan, which can basically be regarded as the ceiling of female spy war dramas in recent years.
But "Butterfly Shadow" obviously does not plan to take the brain-burning route, but the cool drama route of the anti-war drama.
Looking at the plot, you don't have to worry about what advantages female agents have and what disadvantages the drama can't shoot, how to play their strengths at work, how to avoid their own disadvantages, etc.
Because the main creator didn't plan to shoot these at all. What the main creator wants to shoot is the standard spy war drama.
Especially the role of Lin Qiuyan.
It is still the stage of the rich lady, and she can already fight one against ten, which can be called the ceiling of the combat power of the rich lady of the Republic of China.
After engaging in spy warfare work, he was even more skillful, not only single-handedly hitting high-ranking Japanese military officials on their knees,
You can also have a "Kill Bill"-style duel with the Japanese female ninja.
This bloody undercurrent is a familiar taste of spy war dramas.
2, the main creator: Zhang Jian + Wang Lixing, the ace combination of the anti-war spy war drama shot
Can shoot spy war dramas with a strong atmosphere of anti-war dramas, there is obviously an experienced team behind it.
As soon as I looked at the director, I understood, Wang Lixing's masterpieces, "Blue Wolf", "Black Fox", and "Pistol Team", are all anti-war spy war drama themes, and they are a spy war drama.
Looking at the screenwriters and producers, I understand better - Zhang Ruoyun's father, Zhang Jian.
Masterpieces, "Snow Leopard" and "Black Fox", is also a professional in anti-war spy dramas.
Although the reputation of works has remained stable at this level in recent years -
But Zhang Jian also made "Snow Leopard" with 8.2 points.
His familiarity with the theme of spy war and anti-war is undoubted, this trump card combination shot, the quality of the work does not dare to guarantee, but the taste of the anti-war and spy war drama is definitely generous.
3. Actor: The queen of the anti-war drama picks the beam, and the three powerful people are worth looking forward to
The male and female protagonists of "Butterfly Shadow" respectively found Feng Yue and young Wei Daxun, who have performed many anti-Japanese war dramas. The main supporting roles are Zhang Chenguang, He Ziming, Huang Weide and so on.
For the question of why domestic spy war dramas repeatedly use young actors to play the protagonists, Haifei once gave an answer at the creative level:
"The spy war dramas we watched before were older, but we have to consider what is the real age of the prototype characters in spy war dramas?
They may be very young and sacrificed very early. Now it is reasonable to use young actors to act in spy war dramas. ”
Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, anyway, the main creator of this spy war drama thinks it is reasonable, then it is reasonable to think that existence is reasonable for the time being.
Among the two leading actors, the relatively reliable is Feng Yue.
Feng Yue and Zhang Jian are husband and wife, 5 years younger than Zhang Ruoyun.
When "Butterfly Shadow" was filmed, she was only in her early 20s, and it can be said that the stars held the moon.
Over the years, Feng Yue has participated in a large number of works of Zhang Jian's team, from "Blue Wolf", "Snow Leopard Strong Years" to "Black Fox Jedi Rescue", etc., spy war dramas and anti-war dramas are definitely rich enough.
No matter how her acting skills are in this play, at least in terms of skill, she has met the requirements of the anti-war drama.
As for Wei Daxun, although he has starred in a large number of film and television dramas such as "All About Doctor Tang", "Chrono Big Player" and "Gardenia Blossom". But what the audience is most familiar with is still his performance in variety shows, as well as his identity as Yang Mi's former gossip boyfriend and Qin Lanxian's gossip boyfriend.
In this play, he plays the director of the Economic Bureau of the Wang puppet government and the president of the East Asian Reserve Bank.
The real identity is the underground party of the CCP lurking in the Wang puppet government, and the person is thoughtful, calm and rational, which can be called a strengthened version of Ming Lou. Then in broad daylight, the heroine admitted to the street that she was a member of the Communist Party.
Whether Wei Daxun's acting skills can hold such a weighty role is not to say, at least in contrast, I think Jin Dong's acting skills are better.
Compared with the protagonist, I am more looking forward to the play of the three supporting characters.
The first one, Zhang Chenguang.
Zhang Chenguang has been famous for a long time, and won the Golden Bell Award for "Best Actor in Television" in 1992 for "Four Young Men in Beijing", and won the "Drama Actor Award" at the TV Golden Bell Award in 2004 with "Rizhengzhong".
As a Taiwanese drama actor who entered the mainland market earlier, he played an outstanding role in "Struggle" very early, and in recent years has become the representative of the rich daddy of domestic film and television dramas.
After watching his acting skills in "The Blooming Moon That Year", you will feel that his role has been overkill in recent years, similar to Bai Baihe's father in "Our Marriage", Ji Yu in "Punishment", and Zhou Qiuhai in "Trek Kunlun Market", which is too simple for him, and the role is not enough.
However, in this play, judging from the trailer that has been released, the role he plays between various forces is sometimes domineering and sometimes treacherous, making people unpredictable, and it feels like he has finally found a role to play.
The second place, Huang Weide.
In 2004, he participated in "Jinghua Smoke" and entered the mainland market.
Over the years, he has played well in dramas such as "New Three Kingdoms" and "New Meteor Butterfly Sword",
In particular, the honorary king in the "Langya List" is impressive.
In this play, he plays another treacherous role, and he plays it.
The third place, He Ziming.
As He Jie's ex-husband, He Ziming has performed in dramas such as "Fire Blue Blade", "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire" and "Qing Yu Nian",
Although it is not a strictly sense of acting, He Ziming's performance in the anti-Japanese war drama can be called calm, and with him playing the role of a tough guy, whether it is outstanding or not, at least it will not go wrong.
Although the creators of spy war dramas insist that the casting of "younger" spy war dramas is the right direction, and believe that fresh meat like Wei Daxun can attract a new generation of audiences, in my opinion, the powerful is the bottom of spy war drama acting skills.
4. Spy war: The spy war king is far away, first quench your thirst
It can be seen that most of the word-of-mouth masterpieces in spy war dramas are concentrated from the turn of the century to the 10s of this century.
And the last medical drama with deep memories in many people's hearts was still stuck in 2017's "Kite".
In fact, in terms of genre dramas, spy war dramas have innate advantages.
First of all, its own story is thrilling enough to have an attractive natural charm.
Secondly, the spy war type comes with various highlights such as official power struggles, wisdom fighting suspense, and action gun battles, which are easy to make a national explosion and attract multiple viewing groups.
After years of development, spy war dramas have also formed their own style genre.
The first is "Benge-class" spy warfare.
The representative figure is the "godfather of spy warfare" Liu Yunlong.
This kind of work often relies on logic, bridges, details, and reasoning to win, full of treacherous wisdom fighting scenes,
The clues are peeled off layer by layer, and the story is progressed layer by layer, which looks very enjoyable.
His "Kite" and "Dark Calculation" are such masterpieces.
The second is life spy warfare.
This kind of spy war drama integrates spy warfare into daily life, with both literary and martial combat, and it is easy to produce top acting skills.
Representative works are "Lurking", "Cliff" and so on.
The third is action spy warfare.
This kind of spy war drama is often driven by fast-paced plots, intense action scenes and upgraded missions to fight monsters.
The representative work is Jin Dong and Hu Ge's "The Pretender".
There is also a category that Zhang Jian's team is best at - spy war drama.
This type of drama often pays less attention to the rigor and logic of the plot, but more emphasizes the coolness of the plot and the legend of the characters.
Therefore, such dramas also tend to be surprisingly successful and achieve very good ratings.
But it may also go further and further, not only the details are worn, but also gradually spectacular, becoming a war drama dressed in spy warfare.
However, before the launch of the following highly anticipated spy war dramas, this kind of spy war drama has its own meaning-
Jin Dong and Wang Zhiwen's "Infernal".
"Thin Ice" by Fu Dalong and Wang Jinsong.
"Lurkers" by Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Xin and Wang Zhifei.
Liu Yunlong and Zhang Luyi's "The City of Might".
"Lonely Boat" by Zhang Songwen and Zeng Shunxi.
"City Without Me" directed by Zhang Li, starring Qin Hao and Yang Mi.
Of course, we know that "Butterfly Shadow" is difficult to compare with these big productions, strong teams to create, and it is likely to be a blockbuster spy war drama.
But at least, the existence of these spy war dramas makes "spy war dramas" become the present tense again.