Can Zhao Liying get out of the circle with "The Wind Blows Half Summer" and win the Magnolia Best Actress Award?

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Zhao Liying, who debuted for 17 years, was shortlisted for the Magnolia Award for Best Actress with her transformation work "Wind Blowing Half Summer", which is her second nomination after "Flower Thousand Bones" in 2015.

Also competing for the award this time are Sun Li of "Ideal City", Tan Zhuo of "Opponent", Wu Yue of "County Party Committee Compound" and Yin Tao of "The World", which can be said to be extremely competitive.

 Not only are the shortlisted dramas all the blockbusters of 2022, but the shortlisted actresses are also well-known drama bones in the circle.

As an actress who has been nominated for the Magnolia Award twice in a row in the post-85 generation, Yingbao's efforts and determination to transform can be seen by everyone.

So, why can Zhao Liying be popular again with "The Wind Blows Half Summer"?

Where is the charm of Xu Banxia?

Let's talk about it today.

(1) Three story lines cross, depicting the image of a businesswoman in the 90s: not only profit, but also righteousness

"Wind Blowing Half Summer", which will be broadcast at the end of November 2022, can be described as a fire out of the circle.

In addition to the major platform broadcast to create momentum, Xiang Tai is even more powerful to play CALL, which shows its popularity.

Even a strong woman like Xiang Tai couldn't stop looking at it!

"The Wind Blows Half Summer" with a Douban score of 8.2 is another collaboration between Fu Dongyu and Mao Li after "Ideals Shine on China".

The play is adapted from Anai's novel "No Death", with the wave of reform and opening up in the 90s as the background, with the time axis, telling the story of a group of aspirants seeking survival and development in the tide of the times.

In such a drama with the genre of reality and business, what we see is a northern five-person group with Xu Banxia (played by Zhao Liying) as the core, Zhao Lei (played by Li Guangjie), Xu Banxia's left arm Tong Xiaoqi (played by Ou Hao), and the right-arm Chen Universe (played by Huang Chengcheng) engaged in scrap steel to open a steel mill business line, which is interspersed with various personal emotional lines and even lifelines.

At the beginning of the story, the grassroots origins of Xu Banxia, Tong Xiaoqi, and Chen Universe are explained.

Tong Xiao rode his mother seriously ill, Xu Banxia and Chen Cosmos took him to pull scrap steel to share money when he was cornered and had to secretly dig a manhole cover to save his mother, and Tong Xiao rode when Xu Banxia's husband cheated, unintentionally injured and crippled, and was sentenced to five years in prison, and after being released from prison, he partnered with her to start a business of reselling scrap steel.

Later, the northern five-person group Wu Jianshe (played by Liu Wei), Feng Yu (played by Ren Chong), Qiu Bizheng (played by Feng Jiayi), Guo Qidong (played by Song Xi) and Xu Banxia shared through Wu Jianjian's channels at the exchange meeting, and went to the north to import scrap steel together, but they did not expect that what awaited them was a scam.

Xu Banxia was very difficult at this time, she did not want to return to China empty-handed, she could only stay and fight.

At this time, Feng Yu gave her a meal at the Chinese restaurant downstairs, which made her a little warm in the cold north, which is why later, Xu Banxia and the other four had a fight, but they always remembered Feng Yu and were willing to pull him in Feng Yu's predicament.

From the entire story line, it can also be seen that whether everyone is in partnership to collect scrap steel from the north for resale, or later to partner to open a steel mill, they are all strong, Xu Banxia from the scrap channel in the north to give a share to the other four people, pull them to work in partnership, not only there is a commercial component, but also friendship.

There is also a native family line interspersed in the play.

Xu Banxia's father has been dissatisfied with her since she was born, because her mother had a difficult birth and failed to survive. So her father named her Banxia, which means to give birth to Banxia, poison.

This point is actually a bit similar to "Flower Thousand Bones".

It can be said that this parent-child relationship is relatively distant.

When she grew up, Xu Banxia only fulfilled her children's obligations with money and did not place excessive feelings, and his father Xu Youren (played by Wang Jinsong) called her sister.

It's just that the relationship between the two has slowly changed in the process of accumulating over time.

From the beginning, Xu Banxia borrowed money to go home to prepare for the construction of the yard, her father insisted on not making a move, and under the signal of her stepmother, she insisted on mortgage the house before she was willing to borrow money, and the feelings she showed during the period were cold;

Until later, Xu Banxia Steel Mill had difficulties in operation, and Xu Youren was worried that he had to send her money.

From being unwilling to make a move, to taking the initiative to solve the siege, you can deeply understand the big difference in her father's attitude towards her.

Xu Banxia did it, let her father put down the mustard and be sincere with her.

The so-called sincerity for sincerity is also conveyed to us by this drama, and the importance of love is not only reflected in friendship and love, but also in family affection.

And Zhao Lei's line deduces for us what is the ultimate ambiguity of adults.

At the beginning of the exchange meeting, he was attracted by Xu Banxia's promise and sincerity.

The other four did not receive his funding, and he only gave Xu Banxia a share of 10,000 Wu Tong to buy steel.

As Wu Jianjian said, it was Zhao Lei who forged Xu Banxia's empty gloves white wolf, and it was also Zhao Lei who witnessed Xu Banxia's steel ascension journey.

Xu Banxia used her three-inch golden tongue to gain Zhao Lei's trust, and later Zhao Lei liked her because of his personal charm and never abandoned her.

When bidding for the second steel province, he couldn't bear her falling into the illusory predicament of the old steel mill, risking a break to give up the bidding, never wasting Xu Banxia's trust, but he could also know how much Zhao Lei was in love.

Trust and camaraderie go both ways, both in business and in life.

When is the time for retribution, everyone can not take advantage of each other's calculations, only by uniting to help each other, everyone can achieve a win-win situation in it.

Xu Banxia's love, family affection and friendship lines are all very plump and handled very well, which is also the reason why Xiang Tai praised, like her when she was young.

This picture, in some ways, is really very similar to when Xiang was too young.

(2) Xu Banxia's career line tells us that success requires strength, ability, courage, and luck

In a clip widely circulated on the Internet, Xu Banxia did enough work to participate in the exchange meeting, not only prepared a bunch of native products, but also pulled the children, knocked room by room, reported himself to the door, and then prepared gifts to leave a deep impression.

This is also why she was able to befriend the big brother Wu Jianjian at the exchange meeting, accounting for the share, and pulling the little foreigner Zhao Lei into the group.

These are her business abilities, and a person must have excellent abilities in order to get along with the big guy and gain trust.

Then there is teamwork, Xu Banxia and Chen Universe and Tong Xiaoqi have a clear division of labor.

Xu Banxia is responsible for pulling business, raising funds, borrowing money everywhere to open a yard, building a dock, it is a skill to raise money, and it is a kind of courage to dare to let go of his hands. And here, luck is also needed.

Xu Banxia can succeed precisely because she has the ability to dare to think and do, and also has the luck created by not admitting defeat.

She followed everyone to the north to enter scrap, everyone was deceived, the deposit was nowhere to be found, and when they returned to China, she was alone, knowing that the pressure was huge, and she must find scrap channels.

It was also her persistence and luck to meet the previous con Nina, who got Nina's uncle's army scrap channel, bringing life to her steel kingdom.

Later, she opened a steel mill with everyone, and it was also her love and righteousness that she wanted to fulfill Xiao Chen's wish.

Faced with the dilemma of capital turnover, she let Xiao Su do the Internet, which is also a leader's vision.

In the end, Xiao Su returned her 20 million, as well as her equity gift, all of which belonged to the style of a senior.

Chen Universe is looking for a venue, managing finances, and overseeing workers. Tong Xiaoqi led a group of brothers who were released from prison to run a convoy, pick up work when there is work, pull goods when they have goods, and work for free labor for the yard, during which they cannot pay wages, making noise.

Even the wild cat (Sun Qian) is wondering why Tong Xiao rides so protective of Xu Banxia, whether it is because he likes her.

Tong Xiaoqi admitted that the three of them were already relatives.

If an entrepreneur is like Qiu Bizheng of the old times, then he will not be able to go far.

Because of the talents of his subordinates, he investigates the other party behind his back, does not give trust, and does not have real money appreciation, so no matter how capable his subordinates are, they cannot be used.

The company's tax accident happened, but he shirked it twice and three times, so that Guo Qidong in the northern five-person group was guilty, even if he escaped for a while, he could not escape for a lifetime.

Moreover, he does not have his own strategy, relying on others for everything, ostensibly following and doing big things, but in fact he just sees the wind and steers.

The inevitability of success, when trying to build a good ship and borrow a good arrow, only owes an east wind.

It's not so much that watching "Half Summer in the Wind" is a good drama in a specific context, but that we are also watching people do things.

(3) Capital and conscience cannot be determined by law alone

Businessmen value profits, we know this, but once there is no conscience, it is destined to go far, and Big Brother Wu Construction is a counterexample.

He valued face and money too much, ignored environmental protection, and ended up eating the consequences himself.

After winning the bid for the steel mill, he aggressively signed the contract, and forced production despite the limited production capacity of the old equipment; At the same time, in order to save money, the water purification equipment is deliberately not turned on, so that the sewage flows directly into the Tian River.

This matter was finally exposed with the help of Qiu Bizheng, and the East Window incident occurred.

If he could listen to Qiu Bizheng's dissuasion and spend some money to update the water purification equipment and replace the old equipment, he would not directly discharge the unfiltered sewage into the river, causing the villagers' fish, shrimp, and domestic water to be polluted.

What a property loss this has for the people, discharging sewage and polluting the environment, and Wu Jianshe will eventually be sentenced to prison.

And if Qiu Bizheng can think independently, instead of listening to Guo Qidong's so-called advice, he will not go to the reporter to take pictures of the sewage well, and he will not go to sleep in the cowshed, and finally reduce his value, but also because of greed for money and bribes, he will be punished.

And such a mistake, Xu Banxia they also made once.

When they wanted to rent the beach to build a storage yard, the village chief and villagers raised the rent price several times, from the original 200,000 to 270,000 per month, which angered Chen Cosmos and Tong Xiaoqi.

The two concealed Xu Banxia and poured waste engine oil all over the beach, causing heavy damage to the fishery on which the villagers depended.

In the end, although they rented the mudflats as they wished, they had a bad conscience.

Later, Chen Cosmos guarded the yard alone and dealt with the construction party, because he had been guarding the contaminated yard for a long time, he suffered from a blood disease and had no cure, and eventually died.

This confirms the saying among the old people in the beach village: He must not die!

If Chen Cosmos and Tong Xiaoqi had not been forced to helpless, had no eager ambitions, and slowly discussed with the village chief, and the two sides rented them out at a discount, would all this be different?

Although Xu Banxia later built the Cosmos Primary School in the village, he could not exchange for Chen Cosmos's life, nor could he exchange for the ecological life of the beach.

These naked dark sides reveal that the unbright means and illegal transactions in the business field should not be above the edge of the law, but should be in the heart of every businessman.

No matter how ambitious the ambition is, it is also necessary to take into account the ecology and the law.

The law is boundless, and the conscience is crossed.

Xu Banxia, has always guarded the bottom line of conscience, heavy on righteousness, love, and profit, and is a living businesswoman image.

epilogue

The drama "Wind Blows Half Summer", in the realistic theme, has a realistic and commercial heavy tone, and also draws a strong color for the emotions of the characters.

From the middle view to the early days of reform and opening up, the epitome of entrepreneurs who are not easy to start a business, and find people who resonate from the characters.

Of course, the delicate emotional depiction in the play is a must.

Whether it is the love between Xu Banxia and Zhao Lei who has experienced several degrees of convergence of practical factors, the wild cat bravely recognizes Tong Xiao riding, or meets the girl who is forced to marry, and finally talks about Chen Universe, who is in love once, and Feng Yu, who seeks love and is married for the second time.

The real and complex emotional imprint of the times between them evokes the resonance of everyone, and the whole drama is rich in elements and complete with memories.

"The Wind Blows Half Summer" can be popular because of business, but not just because of career.

And Xu Banxia was played by Zhao Liying.

Looking forward to the announcement of the Magnolia Award for Best Actress!