Spy drama has always been a relatively special drama category, this type of work is more intense and exciting than the plot of anti-war drama, even in the previous years of the "anti-war drama" was hit in the environment, the domestic spy drama still maintains a good amount of creation.
For example, some time ago, the spy drama "Infinity" starring Jin Dong was rumored to be broadcast, and recently the drama directly released a trailer, which basically can be concluded that this drama will be broadcast this year.
Not surprisingly, just releasing the trailer, many netizens have expressed their expectations for this spy drama, from the current evaluation, "Infinity" is optimistic for three reasons:
1. Cast
Spy war dramas pay more attention to the acting skills of the lead actors, so the cast can not be too bad, the early "Cliff" in recent years of "Kite" casting is to see the ability not to see the fame.
We can see from the actor structure of the whole play that there is almost no shortcoming in the actor level of this play.
Male no. 1 Jin Dong, a newly promoted national first-class actor, a middle-aged powerful faction from a drama background, although he may have been spat on because of modern dramas before, but as long as Jin Dong plays a decent role, he has never lost his hand.
For example, "The Pretender" was also a spy war theme, and later "Ode to Joy", "Together", and "The First Half of My Life" were all decent characters, and Jin Dong was well done.
Female number one Wang Likun, many people may think that Wang Likun belongs to the idol faction because of the ancient puppet drama, in fact, she first became famous by acting in anti-war dramas and spy dramas.
At that time, there was a good play in the works of "Agent No. 5", "Youth Blindness", "Serial Set" and other works, and it is worth mentioning that in the "Serial Set", Wang Likun had cooperated with Zhang Zhijian, the male number two of this "Infinity", and the two people were already handy.
Male number two Zhang Zhijian, this has long been recognized as an old drama bone level actor, the role of Lao Dong in "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes" was played by him to be fascinating, and later "The Sound of the Wind" and "The Name of the People", the performance in each work can make the audience shine.
Male number three Wang Zhiwen, recognized as the ceiling of domestic actors' lines, the business ability of young people is the best among actors of the same age, and now the older the acting skills, the more fierce.
Supporting actor Cao Lei, at present, it is not clear what role Cao Lei portrays in this drama, but he has seen that he is in the same frame as Wang Zhiwen, and the game of acting skills of the two people must also be one of the highlights of this drama.
Although Cao Lei is not famous, his supporting role brings too many surprises, and the supporting role of Lu Xun in "The Age of Awakening" alone is enough for the audience to remember him for a long time.
In general, Cao Lei, Zhang Zhijian, and Wang Zhiwen played Jin Dong, which is really enviable and allows the audience to have more reasons to look forward to this "Infinity".
Second, the protagonist's growth plot has something to see
Most of the current spy dramas use the "protagonist growth" model, such as "Gu Yaodong" in "Hidden and Great", from a small white who knows nothing, to finally having his own faith.
And Lu Feng, portrayed by Jin Dong in "Infinity", has a similar personality to Lin Nansheng portrayed by Zhu Yilong in "Rebel", Lu Feng was originally a two-sided agent of the Kuomintang and Wang Fei, and in the process of experiencing various tasks, he realized that his lineup had been corrupt, and finally he secretly joined our party and became a three-sided agent.
As a three-sided agent, Lu Feng obviously faces more difficulties, the tests and doubts of different bosses, and maintaining high vigilance anytime and anywhere, which can undoubtedly drive the tense rhythm of the whole drama.
Such a role setting can often make the audience have a more sense of role substitution, follow the protagonist's perspective to complete the task, to adventure, so that the audience can be substituted into the role, such film and television works are more likely to be recognized.
Third, the theme comes with its own advantages
As mentioned earlier, the plot of the protagonist's growth is very attractive, in fact, this is also one of the characteristics of spy drama film and television works.
Whether it is a drama or a movie, the audience will easily integrate into the role because of elements such as patriotic feelings, and the audience will always prefer to win decently, which is also the advantage of the main theme of film and television works.
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It is not difficult to find that the number of spy dramas in the past two years is very large, Li Yifeng's "Hidden and Great", Zhu Yilong's "Rebel" and the current "Infinity" have all brought surprises to the audience.
However, in the era of traffic stars, spy dramas are mainly "youth idol faction" spy dramas, of which the more typical "youth spy dramas" are "Autumn Cicada", "Spy War Deep Sea Sting", "Seamless" and so on.
This type of spy drama is mainly aimed at the audience group of star fans and some young audiences who pay attention to appearance, so it is not difficult to find that only one of the high rated "youth spy dramas" in these "youth spy dramas" is "Hidden and Great", and most of the others are moderate works above and below the passing line.
The obvious contrast with the "youth spy war drama" is the "middle-aged spy war drama" that most audiences recognize, as the name suggests, it is a spy war drama starring a group of middle-aged people.
There are more such masterpieces, such as Liu Yunlong and his "Dark Calculation" who came out in 2006, and "Latent", which made Sun Honglei embark on the peak of his career that year, and the best work in the years after "Latent" was "Before Dawn", a high-scoring spy drama with some American drama elements.
Later, for a few years, the cards of domestic spy dramas belonged to the "Pretender" and "No War in Peking" under the noonday sun, until "Kite" in 2017, and the era of middle-aged spy dramas seemed to have come to an end!
After "Kite", I personally did not see the signs of the revival of domestic middle-aged spy dramas, and even the "Godfather of Spy War" Liu Yunlong later launched "Odds of Victory" for various reasons is not highly evaluated.
As for whether "Infinity" will become Liu Yunlong's opponent, it does not matter anymore, because the title of "Godfather of Spy Warfare" was given to Liu Yunlong by the audience, and for himself, he just wants to do a good spy drama.
What the audience is more looking forward to is whether "Infinity" can carry the banner of Chinese spy dramas, and whether it can rely on innovation to break the routines of previous spy dramas to bring a new atmosphere to the entire market, everything is unknown.