I was drawn to a few lines from the trailer.
"As long as human greed and color are there, they will always be guests in our industry."
"Just one night, I lost, 450 million."
"The Internet is not a place outside the law, and the law of the Internet cannot be touched by the bottom line."
This line comes from the new drama "Public Prosecution", and the amount of information in the line is quite large. The scale of "Public Prosecution", from the very beginning, showed the background.
Some viewers immediately felt the taste of CCTV dramas, indeed, since the beginning of this year, CCTV has contracted almost all national dramas.
A "Crazy" at the beginning of the year can still make waves in the awards season. "Mature Year" and "A Generation of Craftsmen" have led the recent Chinese dramas.
But at the same time, we also found that since the beginning of 2023, satellite TV dramas seem to have fallen silent.
May is nearing the end, and the only satellite TV dramas that can set off ratings popularity seem to be Jin Dong's "Even with the Wind" and "Infinite".
In many cases, the ratings of new dramas broadcast by satellite TV are even better than replaying big dramas such as CCTV's "Crazy".
Could it be that all national drama explosions have to rely on CCTV to carry them? Once a popular first-line satellite TV, there is no big drama launched? Can only rely on the broadcast of CCTV's second-round drama to attract viewers?
Don't worry, on May 29, that is, tonight, another 40-episode suspense crime drama, "Public Prosecution" starring Di Li Gerba and Tong Da is about to be broadcast. Zhejiang Satellite TV and Beijing Satellite TV 2 simulcasts, Tencent and iQiyi joint webcast, 4 major platforms to promote.
It is also a key project of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Undoubtedly, this should be the strongest and most powerful satellite TV drama after "Infernal".
Theme, China's first female prosecutor-themed TV series, and a strong realistic plot to combat cybercrime.
The lineup not only has the top stream, but also Gao Xin, Feng Lei, Tan Kai, Liu Zhibing, Lei Han and many other powerful people to help.
Genres, themes, stories, and platforms are all standard for big dramas.
But the biggest challenge is: as a rule of law drama, can "Public Prosecution" truly combine story, reality and jurisprudence like last year's "The Bottom Line" to give the audience a new viewing experience?
Can't wait tonight, now, uncover the mystery.
1. Story: female prosecutor, fight against new cybercrime, transnational trial, this story is meaningful and emotional
The biggest lesson brought to the audience by this year's Chinese drama is that no matter how luxurious the lineup, without a good story, everything will go to zero.
It can be seen that "Public Prosecution" has put a lot of effort into the plot.
The play tells the arduous process of repatriating a large number of transnational cybercriminals hidden overseas to China through cross-border tracking, judicial cooperation, and locking evidence, and reproduces the wonderful story of the national prosecutor represented by prosecutor An Ni who sent the masterminds and organizers of transnational cybercrime groups hidden at home and abroad to court one by one through active performance of duties, accurate case handling, and intelligent case handling.
Combined with the trailer, the story has at least three highlights:
The first is to expose new types of cybercrime.
Since it is a rule of law drama, the core is, of course, the case.
"Public Prosecution" selects ten real cases of cybercrime as the core of the story. It adopts the method of staggering large and small cases and combining new and old cases to advance the plot.
The biggest feature of the case is that it focuses on typical cases of new cybercrimes, taking the perspective of prosecutors as the starting point to expose how criminals use various means to empty the pockets of ordinary people in the context of frequent and high incidence of Internet crimes.
The cases involved include online trust fraud, online gambling, campus online loans, cross-border online fraud, etc. It can be said that the most common and harmful online fraud methods at present are all wiped out.
For example, Xiong Ziqi's character confessed during the trial, "Let's pretend to be a beautiful woman on the Internet to commit fraud." ”
The trailer also has a whole room of personnel simultaneously carrying out telecom fraud, criminals greeting the elderly with a smile, groups of deceived elderly people beating their chests, using online romance scams, transnational crimes and other scenes.
It can be said that this is not only a crime suspense drama, but also a law popularization drama, the criminal means that appear in the play, it is very likely that at some point, will fall on everyone, and the process of chasing the drama is also equivalent to a simulated exercise to prevent being deceived.
The second is strong suspense, strong rhythm, and large-scale scenes are full.
If Jin Dong's "The Bottom Line" is more like an industry life drama, then "Public Prosecution" can be completely defined as a suspense crime drama in terms of genre.
Flat direct prosecution to shoot out cybercrime cases, a bit tedious?
Don't worry, the screenwriter directly puts the intensity on the plot.
The series uses a combination of on-site case handling and court debate to show the whole process of the case from investigation to trial. Under the adaptation of some real cases, the play also presents many strong genres and large-scale shots.
For example, the heroine played by Di Li Gerba launched an investigation with her own risk, one second, just passed by an undercover agent, stepped on the clue that the undercover agent deliberately dropped underground, and the next second, the beauty has died under the wheel. Someone, want to extinguish.
For example, the heroine went abroad to participate in a cross-border trial, and as a result, she encountered a shootout on the spot?
There is also a scene where the criminal police played by Tong Dawei are involved in handling cases abroad, go deep into the tiger's den to find a group of victims, and launch a rescue on the spot, "I am a Chinese policeman to save everyone." ”
Looking at this series of shots, the full tension of the painting style makes people gasp.
I have to say that the scale of this "Public Prosecution" is indeed enough, and it is also a standard strong type route, simply put, it is to look good.
The third is a strong enough villain.
Compared with other types of dramas, villains are more important in crime suspense dramas.
After all, if the villain is too weak and unilaterally crushed by the protagonist group, this drama is really not enough to watch.
From a practical point of view, criminals who can plan large-scale cybercrime are not easy to deal with.
The villain camp in "Public Prosecution" will not make people have such concerns, such as the villain of the whole drama that has been called out in the trailer, "Old A".
In the trailer, the male and female protagonists respectively represent the public prosecutors, in order to find out the cancer that harms the property interests of the people, and work together to investigate and handle cross-border online fraud cases abroad, and the first offender is the "old A" who is unknown to the man and woman.
If I guessed correctly, the actor of "Old A" is Chen Zihan.
Then this is also both a domestic crime drama and a high-IQ female villain.
It will also create a chess game between the heroine played by Di Li Gerba and the female villain played by Chen Zihan.
In the face of a watertight opponent, how can our personnel break the game?
How can the public prosecution and prosecution work together to solve the case?
The huge amount of information, all kinds of doubts, will slowly emerge between this starting point and the end point.
Only by seeing through the routine, detecting the danger situation, and removing the "fog" can we block the reason for criminals to exonerate themselves and initiate public prosecution.
Is this story a little interesting?
2, actor: led by Di Li Gerba, the strength is gathered, and 7 supporting roles can be expected
Friends who are familiar with rule of law dramas know that this kind of drama is extremely testing acting skills, but it is also easy to show good acting skills, and Jin Dong has won the highest acting evaluation in recent years with "The Bottom Line".
What about the Public Prosecution?
The director of this drama Yu Ding has a habit of using acting skills, and will also use acting skills, he directed "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", which made Zhang Yi and Yin Tao win the trophy after the emperor at the same time, and in recent years, works such as "Beautiful Days" and "Counting Merry People" are also crowded with acting schools.
This time, he hired Di Li Gerba to play the key role of a female prosecutor, and also configured an extremely gorgeous supporting cast for the entire show.
Come, say one by one.
The first one, Gao Xin.
At that time, Gao Xin was Lu Erhao, who fascinated thousands of girls in "Deep Love".
But after successfully accompanying his wife to recover from illness, he returned to the entertainment industry, and there was no place for him in the Xiaosheng world, but he entered the acting school with the delicate performances in dramas such as "All Very Good" and "Langya List".
In "Langya List", he plays the cowardly and greedy prince, and his mustache is glued, if he hadn't read the cast, he really wouldn't recognize it.
In "It's All Good", he plays the eldest brother Su Mingzhe, who is too disappointed with everyone, and the more disgusting the audience, the more proof of the success of the role.
In this play, he plays Zhao Jikai, the general manager of Hui Quan Games, with a straight suit and sanctimonious appearance, questioning the professional ethics of his subordinates, in fact, he is extremely greedy in his heart, good at taking risks, and carefully set up a Ponzi scheme, which is one of the villains of this play.
This villain has something to watch.
The second place, Feng Lei.
In the past, most of the most deeply rooted roles played by Feng Lei were villains, but this time he dropped one by one and played a strong backing of the male and female protagonists.
As a senior veteran actor, before "In the Name of the People", Feng Lei played mostly positive roles, not very popular, but an arrogant villain Zhao Gongzi who contracted half of the golden sentences of the whole play, and evolved into the hearts of the audience.
In "Circuit Inspection Group", he shined again with a very iconic interpretation style.
In "The World", he played obviously a villain, but he injected human touch and the ability to see through the world into the villain. It can be said that Feng Lei is one of the domestic powerful actors who are best at playing complex villains.
But this time he put on the prosecutor's uniform symbolizing justice in the play, and it was interesting to watch Feng Lei play a positive role in fighting crime.
The third place, Han Dong.
As an actor with both good looks and acting skills, Han Dong's star road is not smooth, and his "Luding Ji" that he picked was a recognized relative failure, and a drama did not rise, and there were not many scenes to find him to play the protagonist.
But over the years, Han Dong's most direct feeling is that he has been challenging himself and constantly playing various types of roles. Costume dramas can be performed, modern dramas can be performed, emotional dramas can be performed, fantasy dramas he can also play, although there are not many opportunities to take on the right, but roles like the most handsome Wang Chongyang still make his acting skills widely recognized.
His character Xiao Muen in this play seems to be between positive and negative, this role involves opening online casinos, intentional homicide, online fraud and other cases, but it is also he who protected the heroine in the transnational shooting, I estimate that this is a character who is involved in the storm and turns back to the shore, although it is a supporting role, but there should be room to play, and Han Dong's acting skills will not be wasted.
The fourth place, Xu Wenguang.
When it comes to this national first-class actor, many people immediately think of Ding Yizhen in "In the Name of the People".
In fact, he is still Yuan Shao in "New Three Kingdoms", Zhao Gao played in "The Legend of Chu and Han", and he also starred in the recent CCTV drama "A Generation of Craftsmen".
Of course, this recognized old drama bone, the best at the villain role, this time he played the head of the fraud group, the luxury car is imposing, it is not difficult to play the villain, it is difficult to play the villain as soon as it is a classic, it is right to find Xu Wenguang.
The fifth, Rehan.
Another low-key acting. In fact, Lei Han acted very early, in 1980, Lei Han was still a student in the physical education department of the university, and was photographed by the director in front of the school's library, so he starred in his first movie "Our Field" two years later.
When he was young, Lei Han resembled Shen Teng at the peak of his appearance, but unfortunately the star path was like a star.
Older, Lei Han left an impression on the audience with the father role of Yu Chuhui in the "Ode to Joy" series, this irresponsible and lazy father character should also be the most successful supporting role in the later part of the series.
Lei Han belongs to the kind of real green leaf type actor, when playing with the protagonist, he is not obtrusive or prominent, which can not only reflect his acting skills, but also bring out the opponent, which is impressive.
I hope that this time Lei Han will continue to shine with his acting skills.
Sixth place, Tan Kai.
He, like Rehan, is also a treasure actor. He is also an actor whose acting strength is much higher than his fame.
In "Sweeping Black Storm", he played Dong Yao, who was originally another official who lost his bottom line common in anti-black dramas. But this role is shaped by Tan Kai, with a three-dimensional image, and has repeatedly overwhelmed the male protagonist Sun Honglei in the opponent scene.
Recently, he participated in "Thirteen Years of Dust", a role of a big brother with limited scenes, still played by him as flesh and blood, high-profile when proud, lonely when frustrated, and the pathos of sending his life to keep the money for dinner for the male protagonist, all just right.
Tan Kai is the kind of actor who has delicate acting skills and can grasp the core characteristics of the character every time, and he is also the actor who makes you sigh that there are too few of his plays every time.
I hope that this time Tan Kai will have a good time.
The seventh place, Chen Zihan.
In the hearts of ordinary audiences, Chen Zihan will be classified as an immortal goddess.
But recall that Chen Zihan's acting performance has never been weak, this time she played Qian Tianxin, the head criminal of the fraud syndicate, in "Public Prosecution", who has been arrested, and is still calm and calm in the face of public prosecutors.
It's obviously a ruthless character.
The national drama is now too short of this kind of femme fatale villain, I hope Chen Zihan can create a new villain classic this time.
Finally, let's talk about the most critical male and female protagonists.
First of all, Di Li Gerba, the top actress has still been hot dramas in recent years, and "You Are My Glory" proves that her idol drama is still very popular. ‘
But this time she broke her comfort zone to star in "Public Prosecution", obviously to break through the drama.
Looking at the shape of Reba is indeed eye-catching. A female prosecutor's professional outfit was dressed by her sassy and beautiful, and the original lines in the trailer were not weak, and the words of legal terminology were sonorous.
But the real biggest test is her performance in the main play.
To break the audience's doubts about her acting skills, the best way is not to protect the fans, but to break the stereotypes of the audience by strength.
Let's talk about Tong Dawei.
Tong Dawei has already proven his acting skills in works such as "Jinling Thirteen", "Chinese Partner" and "Xiaoshede".
But his biggest problem in recent years is that the role type is too single, from "Disappearing Child" to "Our Marriage", acting is a good father and a good father, and the audience will get tired of playing more.
This time, he played He Luyuan is a criminal policeman, and Tong Dawei's innate righteous face is very in line with the image of the people's police, but whether he can put the aura of the criminal police into play, and whether he can play well in cooperation with Reba, this is the real test.
To be honest, the last thing I worry about in this drama is the acting performance of at least 11 powerful people such as Liu Zhibing, Sha Baoliang, An Amber, and Ma Yuan,
These powerful people can fully play the roles of these complex characters, and the real suspense is: can the male and female protagonists catch the dramas of so many powerful people?
Catch it, and the play will definitely be.
3, breaking the game: how to continue the popularity of the rule of law drama, watch this one
Leaving the episode itself, let's talk about the last advantage of "Public Prosecution".
Rule of law drama.
Taking the past six years as the dimension, the emergence of phenomenal works on the theme of rule of law can trigger good repercussions.
In 2017, "In the Name of the People", although it is a theme of anti-gang crime, it also contains strong rule of law elements, and finally became the annual hit, and created a number of classic characters.
In 2020, it was the turn of the sister article "Circuit Inspection Group" of "In the Name of the People" to take over.
In the play, the male protagonist Feng Sen played by Yu Hewei is like a sharp sword piercing the bond between officialdom and underworld forces, although the plot is flawed, but with the excellent performance of many acting schools, this refreshing national drama has also received a lot of praise.
Last year, the acting combination of Jin Dong, Zhang Zhijian and Wang Jinsong in "The Bottom Line" cooperated tacitly, and the cases adapted from multiple real cases frequently aroused the topic, and the final ratings were a win-win situation.
I have to say that the big drama of the rule of law is still very strong.
Look at "Public Prosecution" again.
There are good themes, there are also good actors, plus the recent relative shortage of this national drama, there is the potential to become a hit.
But what I am more concerned about is whether the play can continue the popularity of the rule of law drama. Hand over another super-standard "propositional composition".
Rule of law dramas have their own popularity, but it is really difficult to get out of the circle, because realistic themes are difficult to control, and rule of law themes are even more difficult to shoot.
But the harder it is to shoot, the more valuable it is.
It is not easy to achieve this goal, and "Public Prosecution" must also stand the test of the audience in 3 aspects.
First, there are no main characters that are holding back.
Second, the plot is logical, grounded and realistic.
Third, the plot is not water-injected, the rhythm is not dragged, and the suspense plot is logical.
In a word, to make the audience believe what the protagonist has experienced, so as to follow the protagonist into the texture of complex real cases, this is the French popularization drama that the real audience wants to see.