The premiere rating broke 1, and "News Network" spent 22 seconds to push, and the war drama of Yang 1 is about to explode again

This opening, absolutely not.

Fighters take off and soar into the sky.

"I am the commander of the Air Force Aviation Brigade, report on the nature of your mission."

"I am the commander of the Chinese Air Force Air Corps, and we are destined to send the remains of the martyrs of the volunteer army back to China."

"Welcome the return of the loyal martyrs of the volunteers".

At this time, the air flow under the wing of the aircraft was turbulent, and the thick cloud quickly swept back.

As the airport gets closer and closer, the sky is raining, the rain is getting denser, and the clouds are increasing. In the end, fighters emerged from the cracks in the clouds, and the formation appeared neatly and majestically over the airfield.

At the airport, neat rows of vehicles and personnel lined up to greet them.

The soldiers held urns containing the remains of martyrs, each with a bright five-star red flag.

All the soldiers who greeted them took off their hats and fired shots to pay tribute to the heroes. The scene was tear-jerking.

At this time, the camera turned, and the elderly Wu Wanli in front of the TV couldn't help but cry, and he trembled and opened the old photos.

Blowing the military whistle that Wu Qianli had blown over, he slowly began his memories - "The story of me and my second brother and the seventh company begins in the summer of 1950. ”

This drama is the war drama on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea that CCTV's "News Network" used a full 22 seconds to report - "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company".

Written by Lan Xiaolong and Chen Qiongqiong, directed by Gao Xixi, starring Du Chun and Wang Ziqi, adapted from Lan Xiaolong's original work, "Winter and the Lion".

This is undoubtedly the most important drama in the entire summer.

For a long time, there has only one "bearer" in Chinese dramas, that is, CCTV.

Any genre, as long as it is in the hands of CCTV, can always shoot new tricks and shoot explosive models.

For example, the year before last's "Age of Awakening", which is obviously a period drama with a serious theme, in the hands of Yang's mother, it has become a well-known hit.

Last year's "The World", ratings and word of mouth exploded, and Lei Jiayin won the Magnolia Emperor with this drama.

This year's "Crazy", as soon as CCTV launched, it was a "phenomenal" national drama, creating the highest ratings of CCTV's eight sets in the past nine years. Zhang Songwen finally became popular.

Even if the subject matter is not flattering, CCTV can always make it surprisingly successful.

So, what if it is the type that CCTV is best at?

What type of CCTV is best at? Naturally, there is no one else, other satellite TVs and platforms can't take it down, only CCTV has this top drama with courage, resources and strength.

War drama.

From "Across the Yalu River" 3 years ago to "Armageddon" 2 years ago, CCTV's war drama is a ratings guarantee.

After waiting for two whole years, Yang's mother finally made another move, this time, the weight was extremely heavy, and there was pearl jade in front.

The "Changjin Lake" series of movies, also adapted from Lan Xiaolong's novel "Winter and Lion", has already won more than 10 billion box office, and when "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" once again creatively tells the story of the soldiers of the "Seventh Company of Steel" climbing ice and snow, fighting bloody battles, and defending the country during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, how to surpass the previous work?

Can this prequel of "Soldier Assault" in the eyes of netizens become another war drama classic?

After only one episode, the audience has already expressed their expectations with the remote control: the premiere rating easily broke one, and it was the first in the country.

Over the years, CCTV dramas have become popular with so many people. This time, the "Steel Seventh Company" was on fire.

01. Wu Wanli, who harmed the neighborhood of the fishing village, and Wu Qianli, who returned home with his brother's remains, collided, and sparks came out

When talking about "Winter and the Lion", the audience will immediately think of the Changjin Lake battlefield in the ice and snow, the magnificent battle, and the heroic sacrifice.

However, the beginning of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" was the short period of peace after the victory of Wu Qianli and others in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

As Wu Wanli recalled, it was the summer of 1950.

Wu Qianli, who has been fighting for ten years, embarked on a journey home to visit relatives with Baili's ashes.

Mei Sheng, who was covered in injuries, was finally discharged from the army and wanted to go back to see his wife Jingqiu, who he had not seen for ten years.

Lei Gong sent Wu Qianli out of the barracks all the way, telling him how to tell his parents when he went home, at this time, the parents of the Wu family did not know that Wu Baili had sacrificed.

At the other end of the story, Wu Wanli, who was lying leisurely on someone else's boat, basking in the sun and listening to the play, was drinking the porridge that his beloved girl cooked for him.

Seeing the girl's father drinking with the theater class foreman, talking about giving the girl a blind date, Wu Wanli immediately performed his stunt of throwing stones and passing through Yang at 100 steps, giving the theater class foreman two stones, and then slipped on the theater class boat with the girl and fiddled with the costume.

Seeing that he was discovered, Wu Wanli did not panic at all, and immediately came to a fishing village parkour, all the way he knocked people into the water, and knocked over the fruits and vegetables of the villagers, when watching the movie, I was also curious about how Wu Wanli "harmed the village", which is considered to be fully understood.

This hairy boy is a little bully of Yuzhai as a whole, there are no people he dare not mess with, things that he dare not manage, even the bullies who began to run amok in this area before liberation, he dares to govern.

With a few fish, he made a move to hit the east and west, and took the brothers to unload the sugar cane from the bully's boat.

It was not until one of the soldiers stopped drinking that they returned home with sugar cane. Wu Wanli also casually threw a big fish to the soldier brother on the boat.

Ten years later, Wu Wanli and Wu Qianli on the ship did not recognize it, this is his brother.

Until Wu Wanli took his brothers to surround Wu Qianli, who was returning home, and wanted to borrow his gun to play for a few days.

Only then did Wu Qianli recognize from the shouts of his companions that this was the younger brother who had not been seen for ten years.

With a scold, Wu Wanli, who finally recognized his eldest brother, immediately followed his eldest brother home like a chicken.

These two brothers can be regarded as completing the first recognition of the whole play.

At this time, they did not know what kind of arduous test awaited them next.

For Wu Qianli, the most difficult task at the moment is how to open his mouth to his parents and tell the fact that his eldest brother Wu Baili has died in the Battle of Huaihai.

Just when the Wu family's elderly mother was crying by the river, Mei Sheng had returned to his hometown Shanghai, and in a Kuomintang harassment bombing, he met his wife Jingqiu in the bomb shelter.

Runo's confession is being taught a lesson by his "father-in-law".

At this time, the soldiers of the Seventh Company were enjoying the rare peace in peacetime, and Wu Qianli wanted to discipline his younger brother and prevent him from going astray. It was decided to take him away for the army and go the right way.

Mei Sheng decided to stay and live a good life with his wife and children.

Destiny is looking for his marriage.

None of them knew that the next big war would change everyone's fate.

Soon, they will be heading north by train, crossing the Great Wall and crossing the Yalu River.

At this point in the story of the first episode, it seems that there is no war.

However, the character of the character stands.

The skills of the characters, showed.

Character relationships, established.

The audience was able to understand what kind of experience and past the heroes of the Seventh Company of Steel had before they boarded the Korean battlefield.

More importantly, the TV series explains a question that the movie does not have enough space to explain: Why are soldiers willing to sacrifice their lives to fight this battle?

Because of "home".

In fact, the entire first episode has been telling the story of home.

And we Chinese, the family and the country are one.

Thousands of homes are our country. And without a country, there is no home.

As far as the episode released so far is concerned, this story is stable.

Next, the audience will follow the footsteps of recruit Wu Wanli and follow the "Steel Seventh Company" to the ice and snow front line there and start a battle that shocked the world - the Battle of Changjin Lake.

There, the lions in winter let out a shocking roar.

02, Du Chun's sense of story, Wang Ziqi's youthful spirit, and Wei Qing's tears give the play a soul

CCTV has no weak dramas, especially such war dramas, there must be a reliable creative lineup.

The screenwriter and original author Lan Xiaolong is the greatest guarantee for the quality of the series.

Compared with the top director lineup composed of Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian, the director of the series, Gao Xixi, has also made war dramas such as "Armageddon".

This time, Ghosh didn't use an All-Star lineup, and the most important criterion for casting was: fit.

But after the movie has created a group portrait of Chinese-style heroes, how to shape the group of volunteer heroes such as Wu Qianli, Wu Wanli, Mei Sheng, Bu Zhenmei, Ping He, Lei Gong, and Yu Congrong in the TV series is undoubtedly a challenge.

After watching the first episode, the character shaping piece was relieved.

In addition to several main actors, the ubiquitous old actors ensure the performance quality of the series.

The first thing to say is Du Chun.

In "Changjin Lake", Du Chun also participated, but this time, he played the core role played by Wu Jing, Wu Qianli.

Du Chun is good at playing soldiers, and the performance in "Eight Hundred" is unforgettable.

Du Chun, who has been tempered by many war blockbusters in recent years, raises his hands when playing the role, and his expression and eyes reveal a sense of story.

This sense of story is not the kind of direct, so-called explosive performance, but hides behind the experience of the characters.

Who is Wu Qianli? A famous combat hero of the whole army, the company commander of the seventh company, but at the same time, he is also a son who feels guilty, and the eldest brother who is worried that his younger brother will not follow the right path.

And the parting of instructor Mei Sheng, what is the reaction of ordinary people? Reluctant, nostalgic.

But Du Chun, it's different, his first reaction was to pretend to complain, but he still couldn't bear it when he was parting, hugged Mei Sheng and said, "Qilian will always be your home"!

This reaction contains two meanings.

The first layer, if you really treat each other as brothers, you will complain.

The second layer is to tell the other person that even if you leave, you are still a brother.

That's the sense of story.

But the best scene is to go back with the ashes of the eldest brother and meet the father.

First kowtowing to his parents on the boat, he said: "I didn't protect my eldest brother."

Then he knelt down with tears in his eyes.

Don't need too many lines, don't need too much deliberate performance, Wu Qianli, a character full of thick feelings, stood up.

Of course, the Wu family brothers must be a combination of the old and the new, and with the complexity of thousands of miles, the sense of youth is indispensable.

Forming an intertext with Du Chun is Wu Wanli, played by Wang Ziqi.

We can see that as soon as Wang Ziqi came up, he played a standard stunned Qingwu Wanli, and some audiences may question his Leng and his ruffianism, but with the immaturity at this time, there will be a shock that after he enters the battlefield, from a "stuffy egg who can't shoot" to a mature fighter.

There are also several main actors, which cannot but be mentioned.

For example, Lei Gong played by Yu Zhen.

Compared with the Hu Jun version, it is a little less domineering, more easygoing, and even nagging.

Mei Sheng, played by Zhang Bo, has not yet encountered the test of war and fire, and the role has more tenderness.

After completing the salute with company commander Wu Qianli, he left in tears, showing his acting skills.

But to say that the acting skills are the best, you have to count the old actors in the opening.

For example, Bai Zhidi, who plays the old father of the Wu family, has a hidden sense of grief after losing his son, which is moving.

I think the best actor so far is the old drama Bone Weiqing, who was born in 1948.

In "I Am Not the God of Medicine", she is the old lady who wants to live.

In "River God", she became the funny Zhang Shenpo. In "The World", she plays Zheng Juan's mother.

This time, she played the old mother of the Wu family, and she could touch the audience's heart as soon as she appeared.

The scene where Wu Qianli kowtowed to his parents, when Wu Qianli put his eldest brother's ashes on the boat, looking at her expression, he couldn't believe it, and sadness came from it.

The next action of Wei Qing made people unable to help but be moved, she did not walk over to hold her son's ashes, but collapsed on the boat and crawled over step by step.

It wasn't until she hugged her son's ashes that she cried completely, but the expression of holding her ashes was clearly like holding her son.

In this play, the performance of the old drama bones is like a perfect realm, and it is really good.

It is not an exaggeration to say that "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" has gathered three generations of high-quality actors from old, middle and young people, and this war drama has also been given a soul because of this vivid characters.

03, grasped the three key points, this drama will be popular throughout the country

With CCTV's broadcast platform, the high reputation of the original work, and the audience popularity laid down in advance by the movie version, "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" is an inevitable hot drama.

But in my opinion, whether this drama can grasp the important three characteristics of the war theme may be the key to whether it can be popular throughout the country and become a new classic of war dramas.

First, how to interpret Lan Xiaolong's script.

Actually, the first thing that attracted me was the drama of the series.

When you mention the Seventh Company of Steel, you must think of the screenwriter's famous name - Lan Xiaolong.

A "Soldier Assault" and a "My Regiment Commander My Regiment" not only made Wang Baoqiang, Duan Yihong, and Zhang Yi popular, but also made screenwriter Lan Xiaolong and director Kang Honglei popular all over the country.

For Lan Xiaolong, the word "seven links" undoubtedly has a special meaning.

His "Winter and the Lion" is a heroic biography of the Seventh Company of Steel, and his "Soldier Assault" has already explained the end of the hero.

"During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all of the Steel Seventh Company was killed in battle, and its number was canceled..."

Wu Wanli, on the other hand, was one of the last three surviving privates.

This paragraph alone is enough to make the scalp tingle.

To be honest, the story of "Winter and the Lion" is more suitable for adaptation into a TV series, not because the movie is bad, but because there are many characters, and the two movies are more than four hours, which is indeed not enough to portray each character fully, and a 24-episode TV series can do it.

From the opening scene, in addition to the Wu Qianli brothers, characters such as Mei Sheng and Zhimei also have their own story lines,

Next, it's up to the series to tell their story well.

Second, there is a sense of historical heaviness.

The various details of the series are actually hidden in the main story.

For example, the footage of the troops when Wu Qianli returns home at the beginning.

The soldiers are wearing single clothes and are spending the summer, and the whole army is still in a state of rest.

But entering the third episode, Wu Qianli, who brought thousands of miles back to the team, has already encountered the urgently assembled team.

The big war started suddenly.

The historical fact that the logistical support was not in place in the early days of the war has been implicit in the plot.

For example, when Mei Sheng returned to his hometown in Shanghai, he just got off the train and encountered the Kuomintang plane bombing, and people were full of hiding in bomb shelters.

This also allows the audience to seamlessly connect to the history of fighting Shanghai in Gao Xixi's last war drama.

Finally, it is necessary to photograph the connotation of winter and lions.

From the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to later. The soldiers of the Seventh Company created the spirit of the Seventh Company of Steel.

Discovering this "secret", you can understand where the epic nature of "Winter and the Lion" comes from.

It carries the inexorable spirit of the people's army for nearly a century.

A thousand words condensed into the classic six words - "Do not abandon!" Don't give up!"

"Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" goes deep into Baishan and other places in Jilin Province, and is a rare war drama filmed in China in the low temperature environment of ice and snow in Northeast China, staying for several months and shooting in full reality.

Judging from the trailer, there will also be famous war scenes in various movies in the follow-up, with sharp editing and tight rhythm, with the magnificent atmosphere and grandeur of the war drama.

Obviously, it is the handwriting of CCTV dramas.

Once the pattern of the war drama is mobilized by the sense of atmosphere in the play, the experience of watching the drama is unacceptable.

But the most moving thing about "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" is not just the wonderful war scenes.

Rather, - people.

If you only recommend "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" in one sentence.

I will say without thinking: it explains one thing, why the volunteers were able to win.

Because lions do not belong to winter, but lions in winter are still lions.

Filming this is the real reason why "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" can make the audience "worth the trip".

Dozens of years have passed since the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

The younger generation has never experienced it firsthand. But fortunately, the CCTV drama has recreated history.

When the story on the screen is staged, I believe that a new generation of audiences will also be moved.

This is the charm of war dramas, the meaning of CCTV dramas.

As the phrase on the poster of the episode says: "Victory needs proof."

And we will never forget.