Today's introduction to you is a series of films known as the creation of domestic "divine dramas", known as the "Yan Shuangying series" of spy dramas, which have filmed a total of six films, and its starring actors are the actors Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian, who are very familiar to everyone.
In 2002, director Qian Yanqiu began to create the work of "Detective Di Renjie", as a screenwriter, Qian Yanqiu integrated a lot of his own ideas into this drama, in 2004, he began to shoot this costumed reasoning detective TV series "Detective Di Renjie" with producer Zhang Wenling, actor Liang Guanhua, and his classmate Zhang Zijian, and filmed four in one go. These four Di Renjie include "Detective Di Renjie 1-3" and "Divine Judgment Di Renjie". Because of the filming of this drama, Liang Guanhua, Zhang Zijian and Qian Yanqiu are also known as the "Iron Triangle" combination, which is well known to the audience.
"Detective Di Renjie" has achieved great success after broadcasting with its unique reasoning plot, mysterious serial cases, eerie atmosphere creation and wonderful performances of actors, and the first three parts have entered the top three of CCTV's annual ratings. In particular, the first part also won the ratings championship of the year. The image of Di Renjie and Yuanfang is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Di Renjie said: What do you think of Yuanfang? It became the most widely circulated meme that year, so the iron triangle combination also became the guarantee of TV series ratings, which also paved the way for the cooperation of the three of them later.
In fact, the cooperation between Qian Yanqiu and Zhang Zijian has a long history, in 1989, Qian Yanqiu, as an actor, cooperated with classmate Zhang Zijian for the first time to star in the TV series "Youth Without Seasons" directed by Wang Wenjie, and in 1998, Qian Yanqiu wrote and directed the TV series "Beloved" to find Zhang Zijian as the main actor. This is because the two people are both classmates and like to talk about crosstalk, Qian Yanqiu and Zhang Zijian and because of crosstalk and become friends, the two have cooperated in a number of cross-talk, and there are more TV drama works that they have cooperated with.
As early as 2000, Qian Yanqiu and Zhang Zijian filmed a TV series called "Hero", a spy war drama written and directed by Qian Yanqiu, which tells the story of a young Yan Shuangying who bears a blood vendetta, fights alone against evil forces such as Japanese pseudo-remnants and bandit bullies, experiences hundreds of battles, experiences all kinds of dangers, and finally embarks on the revolutionary road, becoming a true hero. The biggest feature of this TV series is that it not only maintains the seriousness of the revolutionary historical theme, but also meets the style and standards of genre films, which is essentially different from the previous TV series of similar themes. The proportion of action dramas in the play is very large, and it can even be turned into an action martial arts drama, at that time this TV series is definitely a trendy alternative work, so after the broadcast of this drama, it has received super popularity and praise, and the Douban score has reached 8.5 points, especially to meet the sensory stimulation of many audiences for bloody action and gun fighting, so that the audience is greatly addicted. And this "Hero" has become the pioneering work of the "Yan Double Eagle Series".
With the successful broadcast of the four parts of "Detective Di Renjie", Qian Dao's eyes returned to the "Hero" filmed eight years ago, at this time, the iron triangle combination was at its peak, after the end of Di Renjie's story, the three turned to spy dramas, through different themes to avoid the audience's aesthetic fatigue, while the good reputation of "Hero" continued to ferment, it was a brilliant idea, so in 2008, the second part of the "Falcon 1949" "Yan Double Eagle Series" was broadcast with the gimmick of Di Renjie's original team.
What is rare is that "Falcon 1949" not only continues the dazzling action scenes of "Hero", but also draws on the advantages of the Di Renjie series, that is, the peak circuit of the plot and the suspense. Under the packaging of a large number of action dramas, it tells a thrilling story of "spy in the spy" and "infernal affairs", showing the essence of a spy war drama, a novel perspective, a rich scene, the game between the enemy and me, and the reversal of the plot makes the audience fascinated by this "undead little strong", the douban score of the drama is 7.1 points, which is definitely a successful work.
In 2011, after a lapse of three years, director Qian Yanqiu struck again, directing the revolutionary-themed spy drama "Flying Tiger Condor" (the third part of the Yan Shuangying series) starring Zhang Zijian, Liang Guanhua, Qu Zhazha and Liu Yajin, which told the story of Yan Shuangying, a member of the Communist Party of China, who broke into the enemy alone and successfully smashed the conspiracy of military command agents in the early days of Shanghai's liberation. The battlefield of Yan Shuangying was transferred from Chongqing to Shanghai, and after disguising his identity, Yan Shuangying fought with the enemy to fight wits and courage, dug out internal traitors, and finally successfully completed the task.
Liang Guanhua in the second part of the role of a secret agent, continue to play the negative role, it is worth mentioning that in this play Liang Guanhua played the role is known as "military commander-in-chief" one of the four killers Duma, he is not only treacherous and cunning, but also strong in martial arts, which is definitely a big challenge for Liang Guanhua, who is more than 200 pounds, he once joked: "As far as my big fat body is concerned, let me flash and move, the cat pounces on the beaver, and also brings a big fight." There are not many martial arts actors like this in the world. ”
The drama continues the characteristics of the previous part, in addition to being the element that should be used as a spy drama, this drama still takes the main route of martial arts, which is also a major feature of the "Yan Shuangying Series" as a whole, especially for the background of the spy drama based on the wisdom game, the characteristics of the "Yan Shuangying Series" are indeed unique, but they do increase the ornamentality. Some people say that "Flying Tiger Condor" is a divine drama, but it is different from other divine dramas, other divine dramas are trying to tell you that it is a positive drama, but in fact it is a divine drama, pretending to be clumsy and unbearable, and the Yan Shuangying series told you at the beginning that it is a divine drama, the fresh and unconventional, eclectic, people are not disgusted, and it is cool to watch. This is also the unique feature of the Yan Double Eagle series.
In the same year, Zhang Zijian, Qu Zhazha, Yuan Ran, Liang Guanhua starred in the spy drama "Lonely Island Flying Eagle" (the fourth part of the Yan Shuangying series) was also filmed, such a high efficiency and the output speed of the previous three films formed a strong contrast, may be director Qian foresaw that the peak period of the Yan Shuangying brand is coming to an end, so the pace of shooting was accelerated, but the efficient output will bring quality can not be guaranteed, starting from "Lonely Island Flying Eagle", the Yan Shuangying series began to enter a process of disconnection from the first three parts.
As the fourth part of the Yan Shuangying series, the drama tells the story of the Falcon Assassination Team led by Yan Shuangying to defend the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this time the Yan Shuangying is not fighting alone, but began to attack in groups, and the plot in this drama began to move towards entertainment, while the design of the action still maintains a unique characteristic, but the overly avant-garde surreal style leads to the separation and suspension of the plot, forming a serious mismatch between literary drama and martial arts, so that the audience is never credible to unbelievable, from this time on, The obscure problems of the Yan Double Eagle series began to appear, and the pot lid of the spy war drama could no longer cover the pot of this Yan Double Eagle.
At this time, the plot that people did not want to see finally appeared, due to the disagreement between Director Qian and actor Liang Guanhua, after the fourth Yan Shuangying series, the iron triangle of Director Qian Yanqiu, "Yuanfang" Zhang Zijian, and "Di Renjie" Liang Guanhua was scattered. The reason is that director Qian Yanqiu insists on the innovation of revolutionary themes, while Liang Guanhua hopes to return to costume plays like Di Renjie, and the creative concepts of the two have diverged. Where will the Yan Double Eagle series go?
Director Qian Yanqiu is obviously not an easy person to lose, in 2012 he once again directed the action suspense drama "Desert Gun God" starring Zhang Zijian, Yuan Ran and Qu Zhazha ("Hero" remake, the fifth part of the Yan Shuangying series), which tells the legendary story of the desert at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia in 1939, the hero Yan Shuangying experienced many hardships and finally smashed the Japanese army's "virus war" conspiracy, and fought with the Kuomintang and local bandits.
I don't know if the audience friends have noticed that at this time, Yan Shuangying is no longer the character in the first three films, he has become more of a symbol, whether in time or place have traveled through time and space, seems to have entered a parallel world, and the Yan Shuangying series has also begun to enter a downturn, the Douban score is getting lower and lower, the storyline is becoming more and more ungrounded, and everyone seems to have seen the ending of Yan Shuangying soon after.
After the general response of "Desert Gun God", Director Qian temporarily shelved the project, but Director Qian did not idle, he then filmed the anti-war drama "Flying Tiger Team" and the spy drama "Iron Blood Condor", continued to adhere to his own creative style, in the blink of an eye, nearly three years passed, on November 29, 2015, after a period of precipitation, Director Qian once again directed the counter-special revolutionary drama "Jinmen Flying Eagle" starring Zhang Zijian, Tao Huina and Chun Yu Shanshan (the sixth part of the Yanshuangying series). And this TV series has also become the last part of the Yan Shuangying series.
The drama tells the story of Yan Shuangying, commander of a reconnaissance battalion in Siye, who was ordered to organize a small detachment to infiltrate Tianjin on the eve of the liberation of the whole territory of northeast China, and managed to obtain the combat plan of the Kuomintang army guarding Tianjin, draw up a military deployment map and the deployment of troops, and pave the way for the liberation of Tianjin by the large army. The drama, which premiered in 2017, is the closest to our Yan Shuangying series, and throughout the birth and end of the Yan Shuangying series, its creative process has gone through 17 years. The six works from the peak of the beginning to the subsequent popularity, and then to the last three of the response is flat, the broadcast effect of the Yanshuangying series also follows the market law of TV drama works, and the last "Jinmen Flying Eagle" Douban score of 7.5 points, we can call it bottoming out, we can also think that it comes more from the audience's feelings for this series of plus points.
Although The Yan Shuangying played by Zhang Zijian is called "the king of X" and "captain of China" by the audience, it has become a different kind of divine drama and has endured for a long time, and its subsequent quality has declined, and the story has become more and more suspended, but it has not affected the good feelings of many viewers for it, it can be said that the Yan Shuangying series absolutely belongs to a unique and individual existence in domestic TV dramas, and it is also a rare successful work. Interestingly, director Qian Yanqiu has made cameo appearances in the six Yan Shuangying series, whether it is the big villain in the play or a passerby who plays soy sauce, it can also be seen that Director Qian's love for this work. The character of Yan Shuangying was also created under the heroic complex of director Qian Yanqiu, who represents the collection of all revolutionary heroes, with many excellent qualities and special skills, just like the Chinese version of Agent 007, which is also the fundamental reason for the success of this series!