After 4 consecutive days of ratings breaking 1, CCTV's war drama finally "started", and the big drama is still to come

Stamina, came out.

The drama I want to talk about, the screenwriter has long been a god - Lan Xiaolong.

A domestic military theme, a name that cannot be bypassed.

Recently, his new drama, the drama version of "Changjin Lake", is being broadcast in Yangyi. The protagonist of the story: Throughout "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", the Seventh Company of Steel.

Under the anticipation, the drama debuted.

I put it bluntly, as soon as it started broadcasting, it encountered word-of-mouth controversy. Some Douban netizens said: After four days of broadcasting, not a single shot has been fired.

Really didn't fire? The seventh company of steel did not fire a single shot.

However, last night "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" was updated to 6 or 7 episodes.

Audiences who have been chasing the drama must have found that after the fifth episode, the seventh company officially entered the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the pace accelerated abruptly, and various dramatic conflicts, one after another, the seventh company has not yet shot, because the seventh company in the play is interspersed, what is interspersed? Deep behind enemy lines.

If you fire too early, won't you expose the target? Although we haven't fired yet, the enemy has already opened fire. And as the goal gradually approaches, the battle will also be "fully fought" tonight.

The first few episodes of peacetime literary dramas, I was also a little anxious to watch, but last night's two episodes can be said to burn from beginning to end.

After reading it in one breath, I felt even more breathless.

In fact, "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" has been a tough battle from the beginning, after all, the "Changjin Lake" series has won more than 10 billion box office.

Pearl jade in front, how does a TV series compete with a war blockbuster with an investment of 1.3 billion? And how can we surpass the works of Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian?

But don't forget, the bottom of the series is Lan Xiaolong.

One "Soldier Assault" and one "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", Douban all broke through 9.5 points, Lan Xiaolong wrote the prequel of "Soldier Assault", it will not be bad.

And with the official "start" of the Seventh Company of Steel in the play, the story will inevitably gradually enter a climax.

Not only do I think so, but TV viewers also give the answer. After the first episode broke one, the ratings of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" have broken one in 4 days, and the ratings of yesterday's latest episode rose sharply and won the first place in CCTV live broadcast ratings.

Next, can it make the "domestic war drama" reproduce the highlights and come to a "Jedi counterattack"?

The key lies in these three words.

Whether this "sharp knife" is hard enough depends on the quality of these three words.

01. "Insurance"

If we say that the plot of the first few episodes has been completing the plot of the seventh company entering the Korean battlefield.

Then, with the opening of the sixth episode, the temperament of the series finally has the pattern and atmosphere of a war drama.

This "risk" word is well presented in two aspects of the play.

The first aspect is the intense river crossing action scene at the beginning of the sixth episode.

The seventh company, which plunged into the enemy position like a sharp knife, finally encountered American aircraft while crossing a pontoon bridge.

After discovering the whereabouts of our troops, US fighters did not hesitate to drop a number of bombs in one go. Suddenly, there was smoke around the seventh company.

This scene, in a very pressing atmosphere, brings you into the scene.

In the empty wilderness, the pontoon bridge, a group of volunteer soldiers were originally crossing the bridge at a constant speed.

Until Wu Qianli raised his eyes, the enemy plane roared towards him, coming from far and near.

Without moving, the seventh company, which has already abandoned heavy weapons and does not have any air supremacy capabilities, will be beaten into a sieve by the bombs dropped;

If it moves, it is more likely to be completely detected by enemy aircraft.

Dilemma, how to choose?

There is no time to think about it, so I can only speed up the speed to cross the river.

Fireworks, bullets, in unison.

Shrapnel splashed, gunsmoke billowed out, and Wu Wanli, who saw this situation for the first time, was frightened and shouted his brother's name.

The smoke cleared, and he was directly blown up and separated from the seventh company.

Deep behind enemy lines full of dangers and bullets in the ice and snow battlefield, "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" uses a thrilling opening to set the tone of the whole drama after the seventh company entered the DPRK to fight.

This has just entered the battlefield, and without being exposed, they have been greeted by enemy fighters like this, and next, how many dangers await the seventh company?

Thinking of this, can you still resist not watching it...

The second aspect is the difficulties and dangers of penetrating deep behind enemy lines.

The "Changjin Lake" series is a standard war blockbuster, visually fierce and fast-paced, but it is necessary to make the necessary compression of Lan Xiaolong's original "Winter and Lion".

In the movie, the audience cannot see the full picture of Lan Xiaolong's original book, but the TV series can.

After the plot of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" entered the battle mode, the most direct feeling for me was how to fight.

For example, what the seventh company is fighting now is a standard "secret war", a rapid march of 80 miles, and it is not necessary to fire, but not to fire.

Among them, there are both conflicts between enemies and friends, as well as dangers encountered by individuals.

Let's look at the individual first.

Because Wu Wanli had the unique skill of throwing stones in one hand, he was sent by his brother to find some game for everyone.

In the ice and snow, he really found a hare.

This bastard, as soon as he chased the hare, forgot his shape and chased directly to the depths of the dense forest. But as soon as I turned around, I came across a bigger - wild boar.

Playing game suddenly became chased by wild boars.

What's more, the patrols of the US military have already followed the sound of the surrounding area.

What to do? Wu Wanli was in a hurry, and a flying body led the wild boar to the pursuing American troops.

But this time, the whereabouts were still exposed.

Look at the collective.

The thrilling battle that follows reminds you unequivocally - this is war.

A contact battle in the woods, filming the suffocation of war.

Our side, having already locked the enemy's scouts, aimed, did not dare to move.

But Wu Wanli has already attracted the attention of the enemy, and he can't fight if he doesn't fight. A few shots go down and annihilate the enemy with precision.

But as soon as the gunshots rang out, the position of the seventh company was exposed.

In an instant, enemy fighters immediately took off.

A new round of bombing came immediately.

Is this difficult? There are more difficult and dangerous ones.

As the battle began in full swing, the Seventh Company soon discovered that it had gone backwards.

However, between mistakes and collisions, it was found that Commander Xiao's troops were under heavy siege.

Wu Qianli decided to divide the army into two ways, advancing all the way according to the plan, and he led a small group of elites to meet the enemy on a narrow road and win the brave.

Fist to flesh, knife to blood.

The prelude to the battle to annihilate the polar bear regiment began.

As the plot gradually enters the climax, there are many such tragic battles in the play.

The battle began one after another, stimulating the nervous nerves of the audience at all times.

The war drama still has to be fought, only to burn enough.

02. "Difficult"

But the action scenes are not all of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company".

War dramas should really be filmed well, not only to fight well, but also to let the audience understand how this battle was fought.

In episodes 6 and 7, director Gao Xixi used a few strokes to outline an extremely difficult and complex and extremely moving war situation for us.

This "difficulty" is embodied in three characteristics.

One is snow and ice.

Audiences who have seen the movie know that the local area has experienced extremely cold weather, and the temperature has dropped to a rare minus 40 degrees.

The movie has shown this, but the TV series shows it more comprehensively and more heartfelt.

In the sixth episode, Mei Sheng, the instructor played by Zhang Bo, had a line that moved me: But after such a round of bombing, there is also a benefit, it is finally warmer.

One line reflects the difficulties of the commanders and fighters of the Seventh Company in the Battle of Changjin Lake wearing thin cotton clothes to fight in Korea.

But even more shocking, in the back.

From Mei Shengwu's dialogue, the audience learned that the seventh company gave up a lot of cotton clothes to the fifth company, which was the first sharp knife company.

Then he adopted the strategy of wearing cotton clothes backwards and marching during the day. All the way to follow the footsteps of the fifth company.

But when the seventh company saw the soldiers of the fifth company, they were stunned.

Because the commanders and fighters of the fifth company walking in front were unable to advance due to their lack of experience in frost protection, dozens of fighters suffered frostbite on their hands and feet.

They told the soldiers of the Seventh Company not to take off their shoes, to pay attention to protect their hands and feet to prevent frostbite, and finally blessed with a military salute, just watching the Seventh Company go away.

This battle, the enemy more brutal than the enemy army, is the weather.

Another detail was filmed in the play: snow blindness.

In the play, a soldier suddenly fell to the ground and said that he couldn't see it.

Instructor Mei Sheng also blinked his eyes desperately.

Using these details as an incision, you can see how bitter that war was.

The second is the "sharp knife".

This is also the part of the movie that is not enough to show in detail: because it is a sharp knife, a single soldier advances, fighting in a different place, and not familiar with life.

For the Seventh Company, this was a mortal battle without air support, without logistical supplies, and more seriously, without even a guide.

A detail in the play is that Mei Sheng studied the map along the road and found that the map was too simple, and many hills were not marked, and even had mistakes and omissions.

For the seventh company, which needs to hide from the US Air Force, this means doubling the danger.

It is even possible to encounter a large group of American troops at any time.

This battle is destined to be full of dangers, and the road ahead is full of suspense.

Third, there is the equipment gap.

The Battle of Changjin Lake was a battle known as the battle between will and steel.

The 9th Corps of our Chinese Civilian Volunteers faced the US ace unit of the 1st Marine Division and the 7th Infantry Division.

The two armies are facing each other, and the equipment can be very different.

The U.S. military is a weapon with superior performance, warmly dressed and well supplied;

Our side also uses "made in all nations" guns and wears single clothes.

The only Soviet-made anti-tank gun of the seventh company that could penetrate enemy tanks was picked up by Wu Wanli from the battlefield, and there were only four rounds.

How else to fight this battle?

But if you look at the movie, the first to get angry and corrupt is the US military.

The battle of Changjin Lake was a battle of all kinds of difficulties, but it was our volunteer army that won the battle that could not be won.

03. "People"

When the war drama is filmed to the end, it must be filming people.

Whether it is the opening and peacetime foreshadowing or the thrill after entering the battlefield, everything is designed to shoot, this group of "loveliest people".

As the story deepens, the character shaping of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" is gradually fleshed out.

Especially under the interpretation of several old drama bones, it is full of story.

The first one, Wu Qianli, played by Du Chun, is interspersed with the commander of the seventh company.

Compared with Wu Jing's version, Du Chun's Wu Qianli is more serious and deeper, and his love for his younger brother is hidden deeper.

When Wu Wanli caught a hare and exposed the position of the seventh company, he yelled at his younger brother, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

But when it really comes to the critical moment, the younger brother who is mixed up must not be protected.

There is also a scene, it is the seventh company of the road encountered by the US fighter blown up by the truck to transport materials, thousands of miles of the old driver to deliver the material is already dying, Wu Qianli first thought of saving people, but the old man pointed to the truck hard and said: It's not easy to send over, you can take it, try to take it.

At that moment, Du Chun's eyes held back tears, and his heart seemed to be heavy, but after hesitating for a moment, he still said firmly: Take it.

I think after seven episodes, Du Chun began to put Wu Qianli and perform his own taste.

There is also the artillery platoon commander "Lei Gong" who Hu Jun once played.

Compared with Hu Jun's domineering, Yu Zhen's version is more cordial.

Hu Jun's version is a daily temper, but when it comes to his own soldiers, he becomes "Daddy Thunder".

Yu Zhen is also a "thunder daddy", but this daddy is more protective of cubs.

There is a scene in the play, it is Lei Dad who divides the insoles to the soldiers, and in the end, only one is wet, the soldier said it was okay, but Yu Zhen said: How is it okay, don't freeze it, I'll cover it for you.

After speaking, he blasted the warrior away, and directly pasted the frozen hard and wet insole to his chest.

The moment when he was bombed by enemy aircraft, it was also him, and he was still worried about the recruit Wu Wanli.

Although Yu Zhen used to have the title of a professional in the anti-war drama, I think he acted very well this time.

Of course, the most absolute thing is the old drama bones.

Especially in the opening scene, Wu Qianli returned to his hometown with his brother's ashes.

The old mother played by the old actor Wei Qing held Wu Baili's ashes and cried bitterly, the old tears ran rampant, crying several times out of strength, a crawling over and holding the urn, a sentence "mother's hundred miles", the grief of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person to the black-haired person was so that the audience had burst into tears across the screen.

And the same sad scene of losing his son, Bai Zhidi's performance, is different, there is no big movement on the surface, but the tight lips and shaking facial muscles show the sharp pain in his heart, but as the head of the family, he tries to endure the emotions.

When the people in the play come alive, the drama comes alive.

Finally, there is the sublimation of the kernel.

The core of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company", from the fate of the individual, to the mission of the seventh company, and then to the fate of the country, step by step, has the feeling of peeling an onion.

Why are we fighting this war that seems to be a pebble against a stone?

The play has hinted through a few words of dialogue from the soldiers of the Seventh Company: "The plane of the American devils has been bombing in the northeast for many days, saying that it was a mistake to blow up and fool the ghosts." ”

Behind the war is the territory that has invaded the mainland.

The enemy dares to cross the 38th parallel, who can guarantee that the next step is not the Yalu River!

War is not to die. But the three brothers of the Wu family came, Mei Sheng put down his wife and children, and the cute girl came with his fate.

They came to fight for the sake of those behind them to live better.

What is Winter and Lion?

The most direct embodiment is Wu Wanli, a naughty fishing village boy.

The recruits who joined the army with a passion for blood encountered the harshest battlefield.

At first, I was directly frightened by artillery fire and peed my pants.

But one day, the boy's eyes changed.

After experiencing the scene of life and death parting with his comrades in the Seventh Company, he understood that the hero is not to make others afraid of you and let you, but for the motherland behind him, he will not hesitate to sacrifice his life.

There are no heroes or myths on the battlefield, some are military souls under the flesh and fight for faith.

So Mei Sheng said: There are no living heroes in the seventh company.

Updated seven episodes, the story of "Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" gradually got better, not only the pace accelerated, the battle began, but also the series gradually filmed the theme of the story.

In Lan Xiaolong's works, the word "seven links" is particularly important.

And the fate of this seventh company has long been revealed.

"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..."

However, the "soul" contained in the "Seventh Company of Steel" has always been there.

In "Winter and the Lion", the 162nd soldier of the Seventh Company, Wu Qianli, the 677th soldier, Mei Sheng, the 135th soldier, Lei Gong, the 17th soldier, Yu Congrong, the 305th soldier, and Pinghe, the 623rd soldier, and in the end, only Wu Wanli survived.

In "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", Meng Wei, a member of the "Cannon Fodder Regiment", was captured by Niu Tengyun, a small soldier of the People's Liberation Army, in the Liberation War and became the 600th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel.

In "Soldier Assault", Wu Liuyi is the 4900th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel, Xu Sanduo is the 4956th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel, and Ma Xiaoshuai is the 5000th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel.

What is it that immortalizes the soul of the Seven Steel Company? A thousand words condensed into that classic six words -

"Don't abandon! Don't give up!"

Although lions do not belong to winter, winter lions are still lions.

"Ice and Snow Sharp Knife Company" is to reproduce that period of history to the current people.

But why is this not a reply to the group of heroes on the battlefield today?

This letter tells them: The story of the seventh company is our present.

When the story unfolds on the screen, a new generation of young people can be moved.

This is the biggest meaning of this war drama.

Lan Xiaolong once said: "Why did this war become like this? If "Winter and the Lion" makes this clear, this play will be. ”

The main play has begun, how much stamina there is, let's wait and see.