"Thin Ice" premieres tomorrow night, led by Peng Guanying, with the help of many powerful parties, the opponent of "Infernal" is coming?

When it comes to "spy war drama king", who can everyone think of?

From the perspective of data and performance in all aspects, 3 of the "spy war drama kings" in domestic dramas in the past 17 years have performed very eye-catchingly.

The first is "Dark Calculation", which opened the wave of spy war dramas.

Before Liu Yunlong's work that appeared at its peak, although the national drama also had spy war dramas such as "Oath Silent", it was generally not a climate.

However, "Dark Calculation" was not particularly optimistic, and the ratings on Beijing TV soared all the way to 14%, and the spy war drama trend began. The king of spy warfare is really not a wasted name.

The second is "Lurking" in 2009.

This work, originally scheduled to be starred by Xin Baiqing and his wife, although the protagonists were replaced by Sun Honglei and Yao Chen, it was still a hit, and the premiere ratings exceeded 8, and related topics such as thick black studies in the workplace and official wife culture have continued to this day.

It is its success that has boosted the establishment of many subsequent spy war dramas, because there are creators other than Liu Yunlong who have succeeded.

The third part is "The Pretender", which was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV in 2015.

Although in this process, there are also many high-quality spy war dramas with a lot of reputation, such as "Cliff", "Before Dawn", "Red" and so on.

But in terms of ratings dominance, "The Pretender" is the strongest performance, especially in the network momentum, setting off another climax of spy war dramas.

However, in recent years, the performance of domestic spy war dramas has gradually weakened.

Not only has the number fallen off a cliff, after Liu Yunlong's "Kite", there are no more than 5 spy war dramas that can be called masterpieces, which are "Rebel", the drama version of "Wind Sound", "Feng Qi Longxi", and "Opponent". By last year, only one "Faith" appeared on first-line satellite TV throughout the year.

Fortunately, entering 2023, the momentum of spy war dramas has returned.

First of all, a spy war drama "Butterfly Shadow", to the audience to appetize, the next "Infernal", as soon as the broadcast ratings soared, the latest cool cloud ratings have surpassed the same period of CCTV eight sets of "Love Only", can be said to be very good, but also once again proved the rating potential of spy war dramas, unfathomable.

However, the polarized reputation also makes this spy war drama led by Jin Dong basically bid farewell to the competition for the annual spy war drama.

Before Zhang Songwen's "Lonely Boat" was broadcast, was there a spy war drama that sent the ratings and reputation of spy war dramas back to the peak at the same time?

Tomorrow night to open the book - "Thin Ice".

On April 5, this spy war drama with a lineup that is not inferior to "Infernal" will land on Hunan Satellite TV prime time.

Although the starring is young actors such as Peng Guanying and Chen Yuqi, the supporting cast composed of Fu Dalong, Wang Jinsong, Wu Yue and others is even deeper and thicker than "Infernal".

When the two powerhouses meet, what I care about is not who wins and who loses, but whether this spy war will be able to send the domestic spy war back to the peak?

1. Another candidate for the "spy war drama king"? This time it's going to come for real!

This is a drama that can feel its weight from the title, life and death spy battle, like walking on thin ice.

Looking at the story, there is no lack of similarities with "Infernal".

The play tells the story of Chen Qian, an ace agent codenamed "Lü Bu" in order to sabotage the shocking conspiracy of the Japanese army, disguised as a Japanese envoy undercover Mei organ, went deep into the enemy camp, and joined hands with CCP agents to successfully thwart the Japanese conspiracy.

Threefold identity and multiple lurking, Chen Shao saw the efforts and beliefs of communists in dangerous situations again and again, gradually strengthened his inner beliefs, transformed into an excellent communist member, and finally joined hands with his companions to usher in the liberation of Chongqing.

Combined with the trailer, let's talk about the three highlights of the series:

First, the classic spy war elements, with its own sense of spy warfare.

As we all know, if a spy war drama wants to explode, it must first have the smell of that spy war drama.

"Thin Ice" is adapted from Chen Dong's gun novel, and like "Infernal", it is based on the Anti-Japanese War period as the narrative starting point,

The male protagonists were all agents of the military system at first, and they were all ordered to infiltrate the Japanese army, but one infiltrated No. 76, the other was pretending to be a Japanese special envoy, and the ending of the two protagonists was to eventually become our agents, infiltrate Chongqing, and welcome the liberation of all China.

The disadvantage of this story is that it is relatively familiar, but the advantage is that it can quickly bring the audience into the play, and it perfectly covers various classic spy war drama elements.

In particular, the story setting of the three-way duel not only gives the plot setting a huge space for wit, duels and psychological games, but also gives the acting skills of the series a huge space to play.

The second is a strong action style, where handsome men and beautiful women gather.

Like "The Pretender", the play has many literary dramas in which the male protagonist meets the beautiful agent, which is visually pleasing to the eye.

At the same time, the play also has a large number of action gunfight scenes, and even many action scenes of big scenes, as soon as the two sides fire, the audience's adrenaline is also raised.

The third is the atmosphere of suspense and brain-burning, like walking on thin ice.

At the beginning of the story, Chen Asao, a military commander, fell into the trap of Yujiro Ida, the head of the Japanese Mei agency, and after being rescued from the grave by our personnel, he disguised himself as a Japanese envoy and visited the Mei organ again.

It can be said that from the beginning of the second incubation, it was doomed to danger, because the Japanese agent who "killed" Chen Shao for the first time did not die.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to be pointed at by a Japanese agent with a pistol and fell into the situation of nine deaths, and the arrest and sacrifice of many military commanders and our agents will also drag the male protagonist into the foggy spy sea again and again.

One after another, the temptations and the appearance of characters whose identities are unknown one after another make the plot more confusing.

For the audience who enter the play, this spy war journey is destined to walk on thin ice.

Second, the golden partner of Haifei + Jin Chen, the absolute spy war explosive guarantee

The play is the second cooperation between screenwriter Hai Fei and director Jin Chen, and after the broadcast of "Sparrow" that the two cooperated for the first time, although there was a word-of-mouth controversy over the acting skills of male and female protagonists, it still set off a national drama chasing drama, and it was also the first spy war drama in history with a broadcast volume of more than 10 billion on the whole network.

The drama is also the first part of the Haifei spy war trilogy, and then "Sting" led by Zhang Ruoyun has achieved ratings success again.

And the director of this play is Jin Chen, who has returned to the Haifei spy war universe, Jin Chen's directing level in recent years has been a little erratic, but in the type of spy war he is familiar with, there should be a stable play.

Judging from the trailer, a familiar smell of "Sparrow", the soundtrack, filters, lens language and costume of the classic spy war genre have not collapsed.

Compared with the cool-tone filters and a large number of gray and dark scenes in "Infernal", Jin Chen still prefers the shooting of warm colors and daytime scenes, which also visually distinguishes the two spy war dramas.

Judging from the past achievements of Haifei + Jin Chen, "Thin Ice" is at least stable in ratings, can it explode? Here's the key.

Third, a new generation of potential actors starring, with the help of 9 powerful people such as Wang Jinsong and Wu Yue, and their acting skills are stable!

Come to support a key part of a spy war drama, the actors.

Spy war dramas are easy to show good acting skills, but also easy to expose bad acting skills, so that the most obvious difference between good acting skills and bad acting skills happens to be the previous work of the main creator, "Sparrow".

"Thin Ice" starring Peng Guanying and Chen Yuqi, the main supporting roles are Fu Dalong, Wang Jinsong, Wu Yue, Dong Jie, Chen Xiaoling, Yao Anlian, Song Jiateng, etc., there are indeed many powerful people, in order to facilitate the audience to distinguish, this time we introduce the main actors according to the camp of the characters.

Let's start with the actors of the military camp in the play.

Let's start with heavyweights.

First, Wang Jinsong

Whether it is in the field of national dramas or in the subdivision of spy war dramas, this is an absolute trump card.

From Yang Jinshui in "Daming Dynasty 1566", to Uncle Dong in "Icebreaking Action", Chiang Kai-shek in "Armageddon", etc., Wang Jinsong has left too many classic roles to the audience over the years.

But for this audience, Wang Jinsong's first role out of the circle is Wang Puchen in the spy war period drama "No War in Beiping".

There are not many scenes in this role, it looks weak and uncontrollable, as if it may cough and cough to death at any time, but it is ruthless, and a look makes people shudder, and even the smoke ring is full of acting skills.

In recent years, Wang Jinsong can be called the most active supporting role in the field of Chinese dramas, every drama wants to use him, and there must be bad dramas, but Wang Jinsong may act in bad dramas, but there are no bad roles, even in the unsatisfactory spy war drama "Autumn Cicada", his performance is still full of weight, every expression, every action, impeccable.

This time, his role is Guan Yongshan, director of the Military Command Intelligence Department, simply put, he is the number one person in the military command in this play.

One raises his eyes to kill, the other listens sideways, all full of charm.

Although quiet, his eyes are full of stories.

And there is no shortage of fierce generals under him.

Second, Wu Yue

To be honest, just in terms of acting content, I do pinch sweat for actors in other camps, because the military camp comes up with two acting king bombs.

Wu Yue, who is middle-aged, has ushered in his own explosive period in recent years.

From the third party in "My First Half of Life", to the crown princess in "Daming Fenghua", to He Yun in "Sweeping Black Storm", the types of roles played by Wu Yue span a large range and the obvious differences in roles are beyond the reach of ordinary powerhouses.

Especially "Sweeping Black Storm", her performance is delicate, playing a complex role to the slightest, not convinced.

In last year's "County Party Committee Compound", she broke through with her acting skills among the powerful people.

This time she starred in "Thin Ice" military agent Qiu Yingxia, should be the first time to play the role of spy war drama, look at the stills, although the character has a thunder in the heart, but the face is like a flat lake, is an aura, but also literacy.

As soon as the door opened, Wu Yue's eyes were full of drama.

Considering that the male protagonist Chen Shao will switch camps in the middle of the story, it also means that he is destined to go head-to-head with Qiu Yingxia, and now the biggest question in my heart is: How to make the audience believe at the acting level that Peng Guanying alone can fight Wang Jinsong + Wu Yue?

Next is the cast of the Japanese camp.

First, Fu Dalong

Yes, I really have a headache for Peng Guanying, it's not that his acting skills are not good, it's that I played opposite him this time, all of them are top powerhouses.

Fu Dalong and Wang Jinsong are different types of first-class actors, Wang Jinsong is versatile, can play any type, can control any role.

Fu Dalong is the king of specific types of acting.

It's easy for the audience to feel the domineering and arrogance that comes with his performance, which is an obstacle for him to play some roles, but fits into a particular genre.

For example, King Qin in "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire", Emperor Sui in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", and "Purple Sun" and "Tengu" in the early years. Among them, "Tengu" won three major awards for him: "Golden Rooster Award", "Huabiao Award" and "Chinese Film Media Award".

Once Fu Dalong finds his state, other actors can easily be robbed of their brilliance by him, because the presence of Fu Dalong character is too strong.

This time, he played the villain Yutaro Ida who is obviously within the range of his acting skills.

On the surface, the character is gentle and proficient in Go, but in fact, there are words in words, and there are knives hidden in laughter, which makes people guess.

There is a scene in the trailer where he leads his subordinates straight to the male protagonist's room, a sentence of "whether it is him or not, you will know soon", and the audience's heart has already mentioned the eyes of the throat.

Second, Song Jiateng

There are people on the military command's side, and there are many good hands here.

Song Jiateng is a standard treasure supporting role. He debuted very early, but he really came out of the circle and became popular with "Crazy", and his role as "Mazi" was also remembered by the audience.

Song Jiateng is a standard powerful green leaf, there is a drama when the small eyes turn, this time playing the agent of the Japanese pseudo, it is estimated that it will cause a lot of trouble for Chen Shao.

Third, Sun Zhihong

This name may not be familiar, then I will change it, "water artesian" in "The World".

This is probably the most complex villain in the play, but Sun Zhihong plays it hard to make the audience hate.

And the last time this low-key powerhouse shined, it was also in "No War in Beiping".

The play originally starred Huang Xiaoming as the male protagonist Fang Mengao, because Sun Zhihong and Huang Xiaoming looked similar, so the director initially planned to let him play Fang Mengwei, Fang Mengwei, Fang Mengao's younger brother.

Later, Fang Mengao was replaced by Liu Ye, and Fang Mengwei was also replaced by Wang Kai.

The role that Sun Zhihong finally got was Sun Chaozhong with limited scenes.

This character is a thousand-year-old iceberg face from beginning to end, always calm, and his manners and speech make people feel not simple.

The audience ridiculed: "The TV series is over, I'm still guessing who Sun Chaozhong is?" ”

His role positioning in this play is obvious, that is, a person on the Japanese side, and one scene is that he points a gun at the head of the male protagonist and forces him to ask him his true identity.

Then next, it's up to the male protagonist.

Finally, let's talk about the actors who play our camp.

First, Peng Guanying

He plays Agent Chen Shao with multiple identities, and in the stills, he is dressed in a straight suit with gold wire glasses, and the pressure is good.

Peng Guanying's previous role in the circle was Feng Xiaosheng in "Under the Sun", and the evil charm touched many audiences. The latest collaboration with Wang Churan "I Heard You Like Me" was an unexpected fire.

Among the young actors, Peng Guanying's acting skills are definitely not weak, but this time is a huge test of acting skills, because the opponents with him, except for the heroine, are basically first-class drama bones, if Peng Guanying can carry it, the whole play will become.

Second, Chen Yuqi

Yu Chunyang, played by her, is a well-behaved Miss Shanghai Beach on the surface, but she is actually a female agent of our country who is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and it is she who saved the dying Chen Shao.

In the past, the young actress starred mainly in ancient puppet dramas, and the most out-of-the-loop role was Zhao Min in the new "Relying on the Sky".

At present, her biggest advantage is still her appearance, wearing a golden embroidered white dress, full of retro atmosphere, but whether her acting skills pass is a greater test.

Third, Yao Anlian

Finally, a powerful person came.

Yao Anlian is a standard spy war drama old face, in "Rebel", "Aiming", "Sting" have starred, can be called the best acting strength of our acting camp, from the plot introduction is not difficult to see that this character will most likely face the fate of sacrifice, in exchange for the growth of the male protagonist.

Yao Anlian's acting skills are completely worry-free.

In addition to these powerful people, there is Chen Xiaoyu, who plays the sassy intelligence officer Wu Ruonan,

Dong Jie, who danced with the male protagonist in the play and was tortured after being arrested.

Acting, appearance is not lacking, it depends on how the story is performed.

Fourth, can spy war dramas heat up again? This drama is key

No matter how the audience evaluates "Infernal", the fact is that this spy war drama has finally reheated the kang of the spy war drama that has been cold for more than a year.

And the next key baton is obviously "Thin Ice".

The market is always the rudder of the wind, and if the ratings of two spy war dramas are successful, then the follow-up Huang Xiaoming's "Lurker", Zhang Songwen's "Lonely Boat", Liu Yunlong's "The City of Might", Qin Hao Yang Mi's "City Without Me" may come one after another.

But the key to success or failure depends on itself.

Because "Infernal" is one step ahead, "Thin Ice" has lost the opportunity, and the audience's long-reserved spy war drama chasing enthusiasm has been given to "Infernal", "Thin Ice" not only has to face the same type of competition, but also must prove that it is indeed worth watching, in order to attract more spy war drama audiences.

Starting from "Sparrow", the combination of Haifei + Jin Chen has indeed achieved many successes in the spy war genre, but the audience's aesthetics are improving, and it may not be difficult to attract an audience of spy war dramas by relying on old drama bones, but to make people of all ages love to watch, the key is to tell a good story like Liu Yunlong.

In the face of a changing market, spy war dramas must capture the hearts of more new generation audiences, and the process is destined to walk on thin ice.

Tomorrow night, it's icebreaker time.