Boy! The online drama filmed the taste of "Let the Bullets Fly", and the ceiling of the 2023 spy war drama is here
There are so few spy war dramas in 2023!
July is already halfway through, this national drama genre that should be an annual explosive manufacturing machine, but there has never been a boutique blockbuster drama.
Several eagerly awaited spy war dramas have not been broadcast, but several spy war "divine dramas" that have been backlogged for many years have been raised.
How God is, we will not repeat it here.
Finally, the good news came, the absence of high-quality spy war dramas was broken on July 15.
Because on this day, "Huan Yan" "killed" and directly broke the game.
"Huan Yan" is the second drama in Penguin Film's X Theater to meet the public.
X Theater is a cluster theater that launched a Chinese short drama on 4/26/23, and the theater's opening work is almost scheduled for the best Chinese drama of 2023 "The Long Season".
The first shot shot out the name of the theater, and this second film naturally attracted much attention.
Judging from the main creative lineup, "Huan Yan" can indeed catch it.
The screenwriter and director of "Huan Yan" is Xu Bing, the most "lazy" film and television person in the field of Chinese dramas.
Anyone who has seen Xu Bing's directorial or screenwriter's works should know that in the world of Xu Bing's screenwriting, Xu Tian is a very important name.
With his years of accumulation of works, he created a "Xu Tian Universe".
From "Red" to "New World", from "Gun" to "The Best Arrangement", whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, the frequency of appearance of the name Xu Tian is called a high.
However, it is undeniable that whether it is a spy war drama, a criminal investigation drama, an urban drama or even a martial arts drama, Xu Bing's skills are still obvious to all.
This time he wrote and directed himself, and the male protagonist is still Xu Tian.
It tells the story of Xu Tian, a 21-year-old young man, who set out from Nanyang to Guangdong because of his father's faith and instructions, passed through Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and finally arrived in Shanghai, and finally succeeded in sending the materials that funded the revolution to the Communist International.
From the plot point of view, such spy war dramas are rare, fresh!
And on the more sky-defying starring lineup, it can also be described in one sentence: grabbing it casually is a movie king.
Liao Fan, Zhang Luyi, Zhang Yi, Tian Yu, Dong Zijian, Wu Xiaoliang...
In fact, to be honest, this drama can attract so many heavyweight actors, and it depends on the script.
There are two platform tags for "Huan Yan", one is spy warfare and the other is era legend.
And friends who have seen this drama have added another label to it - "era road drama".
Either way, it seems to be different from the traditional spy war drama of you going back and forth to fight psychological warfare in our cognition.
And "Huan Yan" relies on such a "tiger" operation to make domestic spy war dramas go on another avenue.
How to come specifically, let's talk about it.
First, dare to play the "clear card" at the beginning of the play, and only one scene can catch people to death!
"Huan Yan" is quite bold in the story structure.
At the beginning, a paragraph of Xu Tian's background narration was used as an introduction to introduce it, and the whole drama was completed with "spoilers" in 3 sentences, and a "clear card" was directly thrown out.
First sentence.
I went to Nanyang with my parents at the age of two and returned to my hometown in China in 1930.
One sentence points out the background and explains the identity of the protagonist.
Xu Tian, a rich young master who returned from Nanyang.
Second sentence.
From here, it is necessary to go north, out of Fujian, through Jiangxi, through Zhejiang, to Shanghai.
I felt like I was fully prepared to put my faith into practice and to meet my loved ones I had never met.
In a word, explain the main line of the whole drama, this is an escort task.
A task related to face and faith, escorting Xu Tian and 3 gold bars of revolutionary funds to Shanghai.
People are important, and so is gold.
Third sentence.
Lao Sun, the first person who made me start to disappoint myself, followed by four.
They rushed by in the spring of 1930, leaving me with no peace for the rest of my life.
This last sentence is a direct spoiler and explains the ending of the story.
If it is a careful audience, combined with the poster, you can almost guess the plot.
In addition to the male protagonist Xu Tian, there are 5 people on the poster, which exactly correspond to the old Sun and the next four in Xu Tian's words.
So dare at the beginning, how should it be performed later?
A short confrontation scene on the train gave us a textbook answer.
Lao Sun took the task and went north with Xu Tian and three gold bars.
In 1930, it was really "chaotic".
The train they were on was robbed, and the robbers, armed with long guns, took control of the officers on board, and then scraped the belongings one by one on the train.
When I encounter something I don't want to give, I treat it violently, I see good-looking women, and I even want to drag off the train.
Xu Tian couldn't stand it, but Lao Sun didn't move, and let Xu Tian also bow his head together.
Lao Sun has to endure. Because he has a wall in him, "the road is uneven", and more important things.
But Xu Tian couldn't bear it. He is a rich young master, who has learned more theoretical knowledge and seen less sinister ways in the world.
He talked to the robbers and demanded to get his wallet back.
Because it contained photos and letters from his fiancée. It was a token and an item valuable to him.
Piggyback feet, but also want to rescue oppressed good family women.
But in this chaotic world, even the officers and soldiers of the Eight Classics dare not manage it, how can he, a rich son with no chicken power, manage it.
Finally, Lao Sun made a move.
The robbers were driven out of the car, during which the fire broke out and injured his stomach.
Fortunately, the gold bar was fine, but the wallet was still lost.
And one didn't pay attention, the picture of the two checking the gold bar at the door of the carriage was seen by the woman who had just rescued, and when he turned his head, everyone in the carriage knew.
And this also laid the groundwork for the accident behind.
In order to retrieve the wallet and continue the mission north, Lao Sun and Xu Tian had to jump out of the car and came to Shuangxi Town.
Once in town, the story line really unfolds.
The gang that robbed the car was actually deserted soldiers who actually robbed the common people in order to make money.
They came to town with stolen goods to sell them, and chose a pawnshop with "great origins".
Those who come do not refuse, but there is also a lot of oil and water pumped, 10 into 50%, net profit 50%.
A bunch of stolen goods arrived at the pawnshop, only 50 pieces were exchanged, and the two were unwilling, and decided to take a soft one first and then come hard.
The two people who also came to the town through Lao Sun's reasoning happened to see this scene.
I originally thought of returning my wallet through reasoning, but I forgot that Fujian, where the warlords were fighting, how can there be any reason.
It was then that they met a "nobleman".
This "nobleman" and the two took a car, one was robbed, and also "just" came to the pawnshop.
Seeing that the two were suffering for 10 yuan, the "nobleman" generously paid for it, used 10 yuan to redeem the wallet, and made friends with the two by the way.
But in fact, making friends is fake, and immortal jumping is real.
He heard the woman's words on the train, and he fancy the 3 gold sticks on Lao Sun's waist.
Taking advantage of the gap between Lao Sun and Xu Tian in the medicine store, they put a drug in Lao Sun's medicine.
When they reacted, the gold was lost.
That's the big thing!
Speaking of this, the "nobleman" came to the pawnshop with the stolen gold and immediately exchanged it for a receipt from a neighboring province.
Before he had time to have fun, the previous robbers rushed in with guns and a burst of strafing.
Under the melee between the two parties, the pawnshop "won".
Two robbers died, and the "nobleman" also lost his life in this melee.
Hearing the gunshots, Lao Sun and Xu Tian, who had rushed in, were only left with a bill from a neighboring province.
This round trip takes less than 1 hour, and 3 gold bars become 1.5.
Right now, getting back the three gold bars is the most important thing, and the curtain has begun.
And this is only the plot of the first episode of "Huan Yan".
The three lines advance at the same time, and the four parties move forward together in pursuit of their own goals, and finally converge at the pawnshop.
Wonderful!
After 40 minutes, there is no wasted pen, and the pace is fast and good.
How Lao Sun manages to get the gold after that is the biggest attraction of the first three episodes.
After that, how the story of Lao Sun and Xu Tian should develop, and leave it to everyone to taste in the play for themselves.
Second, the characters are more "strange" than the other, like a hook, hooking you to look down.
How weird!
After watching the 5 episodes of "Huan Yan", Qingshi has such a feeling for all the characters that appear in the play.
And this is precisely the charm of this show.
Anti-routine, unexpectedly, is the label of all the characters in this drama.
Lao Sun, who occupies an important scene at the beginning, because of the trust of a lifelong friend and the yearning for a better new life, he took over the task of escorting Xu Tian and 3 gold bars.
He looks awkward, and on a train, a flying hat movement can knock people down.
At a distance of one meter, the kung fu of grabbing a pistol is also very human.
Xu Tian followed him, looking full of security.
Even if the gold bar is deceived and robbed, he looks unfazed and strategizing.
Gold bars robbed? Take it back again.
Taken by scammers? Then find someone from the pawnshop to come back.
What if the pawnshop asks for a ransom? No, no money, no reason, if you don't give it, you insist on it.
You think he is omnipotent from heaven to earth, but in fact he is just a "bluff" paper tiger.
You think that he is really not strong, and people can organize a bureau to directly find someone to blow up the pawnshop.
People who say "think more about the consequences before doing everything", "don't offend me", "just make a friend", give people a look that is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality, and cannot understand the details.
In fact, he is an outsider, a newcomer, no one has no money.
Fooling people to do big things together, using the "postpayment" method that no one expected, the essence is really fine.
In terms of fist and foot kung fu, there may be a little, but it is not comparable to the barrel of a gun and a long knife.
As netizens said:
Before he was hanged, they thought he was bullish.
But Lao Sun has a spirit in him, and in this spirit is a commitment to himself, a vision of the future, and a belief in the revolution.
There are not many words of Lao Sun in the play, but every sentence is very worth pondering.
Although they only got along for 3 days, he taught Xu Tian a profound lesson.
In particular, the story he said about "why revolution" made Xu Tian have a real sense of revolution.
The road is taken step by step, and when you die, it is right to still be on this road.
There is also Yu Yixiu, who met in the village, who is also a strange person.
He was the head of the three towns and three villages, but he stayed in the village for five years and never left.
He learned the knowledge of the book thoroughly, and reading ten thousand books in his case is not an exaggerated adjective, but it is.
He knows the social etiquette of Nanyang people and knows how to speak English.
This "far away" accent is trying to laugh at whom.
He knows the specialties of any place at home and abroad, and he also knows that the best camelina in a few months.
He is a contradictory man, thinking of leaving the village to live a free life, seeing mountains and rivers that he has never seen, but he has always been attracted by the power in the position of the head man, and he cannot make up his mind to leave.
He has been at home for 5 years, not knowing "what time it is".
His existence represents not only the symbol of power in the decaying old society, but also the symbol of longing and yearning for the new world.
After all, Xu Tian's Tubo borrowing troops can make him moved, and his heartache after seeing the real life of the people is also true.
Even the soul figure Xu Tian is also a "strange" person.
The innocence in him is hard to believe, but on the road to revolution, we need such clean and pure people.
He was not just a person, but a symbol, the faith of all those who participated in the revolution.
Third, the real "all-star" lineup, none of them dragged their feet, and the character performance that appeared only 2 minutes was extremely amazing.
Of course, the story is good, and someone has to be able to perform it.
From the beginning of the project, the main feature of this series was an "all-star" cast.
After the broadcast, it also confirmed the importance of a good drama and good actors.
All the characters in the play, the acting skills are immersive, here Qingshi will talk about the five who impressed Qingshi.
The first one: Liao Fan
Liao Fan appeared very early, and at first glance, his role is quite good to play.
An "old jianghu" who shoulders a mission, does not like to talk much, and does not like to do more senseless things.
Liao Fan's performance in the first episode highlights one word: forbearance.
As the plot progresses, the story of his grandson is also unearthed.
When he talked about his views on the revolution, talking about his family, he said that he had a son, about the same age as Xu Tian.
He revolutionized so that future generations could live a good life.
As he spoke, there was light in his eyes.
The "confrontation" with the owner of the drug store, one second fierce, the next second relaxed, the two states are in place.
The performance of being hung on the street and being suspended by a rope is also empathetic.
Of course, the highlight of Liao Fan's acting skills was a conversation between him and Xu Tian before his death.
He talked about his dead son and the handover of tasks, and after saying this, his gaze towards Xu Tian was gentle.
In just a few minutes, this scene can make people cry.
Second place: Yang Haoyu
Yang Haoyu didn't have many scenes, but he played a small character alive.
Pengju, played by him, was originally a guy who played with his life, pursuing excitement and not doing anything practical.
The house leaks, he won't fix it.
There is no rice at home, he will not earn.
The part of licking the overturned rice wine on the table can completely show his character.
After that, he did big things with Lao Sun, and he played very well, and when he really did things, he was not ambiguous at all.
In the end, he was shot, and he thought about buying rice for his wife and children with the 8 yuan he earned.
The attitude of not being afraid of life and death is really good.
In fact, although he was a professional in supporting roles before, his acting skills have always been amazing.
In "Secret and Great", accountant Yang played by him also contributed super tears.
Third place: Dong Zijian
His Xu Tian this time is not good to act, and it is easy to be scolded if he does not act well. Because Xu Tian was too "clean" and "simple" at the beginning.
But Dong Zijian did a good job.
On the train, he had to confront the robbers because of his wallet, his eyes were firm, and he looked like a silly boy who didn't understand anything.
Later, when Lao Sun made a three-chapter agreement with him, he thought about the wallet that was taken out of the car by the robbers, and his eyes kept wandering.
He was thinking about the possibility of jumping out of the car to catch up with the robbers, and he didn't listen carefully.
This detail, Dong Zijian also presented, it seems that he has worked hard to ponder.
After that, several of his emotional outbursts were also well acted.
After experiencing Pengju's death, he was annoyed by his initial approach on the train and angry at his indisputability.
Those who experienced with Lao Sun in the village had the impulsive behavior of jumping their feet in a hurry, and there were also times when they were scared by Lao Sun's injury and could not speak.
When talking about his fiancée, he smiled, and he was saddened to see the end of Lao Sun.
His growth is very obvious in the 5 episodes that were broadcast, and Dong Zijian also performed it.
Fourth place: Zhang Luyi
Yu Yixiu, played by Zhang Luyi, is a weirdo, whether it is hairstyle or performance, Zhang Luyi has played this "strange" to the extreme.
Look at this Qi Ear student's head, look at this dress, and ask if you are strange.
Of course, the most extreme thing is his eye play.
In his eyes, he always gives people the illusion of "naïve cruelty".
In his conversation with Xu Tian's old sun, his eyes looked less familiar than Xu Tian's.
Talking to the good men in the village, the ruthlessness revealed in the eyes is indeed the taste of the lord of the village.
The switch between the two states did not have a trace on him.
Fifth place: Liu Min
Liu Min, who played just 2 scenes, also acted very well in the play.
She was angry with Pengju at first, and when she later learned that Pengju died, tears welled up in her eyes.
It's so empathetic.
There is a great contrast with the previous in "Red".
In fact, the performance of every actor in the play is above the standard, such a good actor, with such a good drama, domestic drama is really blessed.
Fourth, as soon as "Huan Yan" came out, I was convinced: domestic spy war dramas are going to go on another road!
The emergence of "Huan Yan" is definitely good news for domestic dramas, which represents another boutique of Chinese dramas.
At the same time, this drama's exploration of spy war dramas has also given us a great inspiration.
Spy war dramas have developed to today, routines and templates have become common problems in many spy war dramas.
Two-party or even three-way games are not uncommon in spy war dramas, and when we look at it now, it is just the same story shell, and a group of people are acting.
Of course, spy war dramas have also been explored in recent years, and more and more atypical spy war dramas have appeared.
For example, "Secret and Great", and "Rebel".
But spy war dramas like "Huan Yan" that condense the number of episodes into 18 episodes are indeed rare.
Because it is a short drama, the rhythm and plot of the episode are more critical.
In terms of plot and lines, this drama has been said by many viewers to have the taste of "Let the Bullets Fly".
One of the train robbers at the beginning of the book really has a bit of Jiang Wen's shadow.
The lines are short but worth pondering, and different people say it, and the meaning is different.
The plot trend seems absurd, but it is unreservedly presented in the state of urgent need for revolution in the chaotic world.
Sungai Town in the play is a microcosm of a decadent society.
The people live diligently, but they cannot resist the robbery of the local rich and powerful.
Killing, blood all over the ground, water rushing and nothing is done.
"Huan Yan" is presented from a small incision, when we have a more intuitive understanding of the era in the play through the lives of the ordinary people of Sungai Town.
Then Xu Tian's naivety, Lao Sun's faith, Yu Yixiu's new journey, all their practices have a reasonable explanation.
When spy war dramas dare to give up the exciting game, I am sure that domestic spy war dramas are about to embark on another avenue!
At present, the popularity of "Huan Yan" and its quality still cannot match, and Bluestone hopes that such a good drama can be seen by more people.
Only in this way can we have a deeper understanding of the "joyful face" of "Ande Guangsha Tens of Thousands, Sheltering the Cold People of the World".
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