The CCTV premiere of "Fearless" is approaching, Wang Yang has teamed up with Reiza, can the domestic legal drama work this time?

The end of the year is approaching, and the national drama market is warm and cold.

Speaking of warmth, there are indeed a lot of new dramas, and the CCTV dramas "Pearl River People" and "Ding Baozhen" are on the air.

The spy war drama "Plum Blossom and Red Heart" in Beijing and the East has entered the climax of the plot.

New dramas such as "Years of Qinglian" and "Demolition of the Case" are on the ground one after another.

said that it is cold because although there are many new dramas, they lack a real hit.

For the audience, there is still a bit of a drama shortage. It's time to zoom in.

The current national dramas, period dramas, spy war dramas, and historical dramas are all available, but there is still a lack of a type of theme that can be eaten by all ages, urban dramas.

If you want to talk about the most popular urban drama genre in the past two years, legal dramas must have a place.

From Jin Dong's "Elite Lawyer" sweeping the ratings, to CCTV's "Lady's Law", "War of the Roses", "Ordinary Road" and other high ratings one after another, legal dramas have become one of the most stable types of national dramas in recent years.

Ratings, drought and flood protection, and network popularity will not be too bad.

But when it comes to word of mouth, it's always bad.

"War of the Roses" led by Yuan Quan dropped from 5.1 to 4.7, and gold medal director Liu Jin and Guo Qilin's "Ordinary Road" had the best score, which was only 7.2 on Douban.

Compared with TVB classic legal dramas such as "No. 1 Royal Court", it is still far away.

The report card of domestic legal dramas in 2023, that's it?

CCTV Eight Sets Shot Again-

A blogger broke the news that from November 3, another 40-episode urban legal drama will be broadcast on CCTV 8, "Fearless", which will be followed by "Ding Baozhen", which is simulcast with 4 episodes every night.

Wang Yang, Reyiza starring, Chen Jin, Zheng Xiaoning, Cao Zheng, Zhu Shimao and other powerful factions to help.

There is also a hidden trump card, screenwriter Zhao Dongling, in the past two years, the urban drama of this gold medal screenwriter has not been lost.

What's even more exaggerated is that the first part of the central eight has not yet started, and the second season is said to be about to start soon, and the original leading actors such as Reyiza and Wang Yang continue to participate, and have been selected for the 2024 Beijing Radio and Television Key Boutique TV Drama Project.

Why does this domestic legal drama have such confidence?

Dare to be "fearless".

1. Story: A beautiful legal woman and a yuppie lawyer, as soon as these two collide, a spark comes out

Urban legal dramas have always been fertile ground for women's growth stories.

"Fearless" is about the heroine Luo Yingwei (played by Reiza).

She was originally a staff member of the government, and she studied law by herself and passed the judicial exam, but she suffered a critical blow in life, her husband Liu Ming owed a huge amount of usury, and she also took advantage of the law to let Luo Yingwei bear this debt.

As a newcomer to the law firm, Luo Yingwei is burdened with huge debts on the one hand, and has to face workplace pressure on the other, but fortunately she met like-minded partners - Qiu Hua (played by Tinni) and Xia Shu (played by Shen Yujie).

They eventually grew into "gold medal lawyers", and the fraud crisis was resolved.

Combined with the trailer, the story of "Fearless" has at least three major highlights:

One is the inspirational growth of the heroine.

The main narrative line of the series is that after the heroine enters the lawyer industry, she receives one case after another, and the heroine also completes her personal growth in the process.

A beautiful woman who looks like Reyiza can fight her way out in the legal industry, how to repay huge debts to deal with scumbags, and finally fight back to drive the scumbag crazy, of course, there are highlights.

The second is various social realities.

The reason why legal dramas are popular is because legal politics is a mirror, and all kinds of social realities and human stories can be reflected in.

Just the trailer can already see the multiple realities refracted by this play.

For example, when Qiu Hua (played by Tini Ni) was sorting out the information, he was hugged by the director Han Zhitong (played by Feng Hui) from behind, Qiu Hua dodged away in a panic, but the other party looked obscene as if nothing had happened.

Some parties are deeply involved in a serious case of human life, but refuse to compensate.

There are also family members who roar in court.

For another example, a beautiful woman held the hand of the male protagonist Chen Shuo and said, "You help me", Wang Yang rarely showed a frivolous expression in the national drama, I am looking forward to this scene too much.

The third is the joyful rivalry of the male and female protagonists.

Although old-fashioned, this kind of noisy kissing and hugging of the male and female protagonists is always popular.

At the beginning of the story, the female protagonist who went to work in the law firm on the first day chased the male protagonist and let the male protagonist play - "No one cares about this matter!" ”

It's just funny to watch Reyiza run down the street in a fit of rage.

I can watch a hundred episodes of watching the two bickering, "Why do you keep biting me and not letting go?" "I've got a crush on you." "Phew."

"Are you stalking me, pervert?" "If I were to lust you, wouldn't my aesthetic be over?"

Entering the lawyer industry, the competition between the two can't stop, "you use those despicable means".

"I still have a lot of useless means, I'll talk about it if you win first."

To be honest, it's not uncommon for me to watch urban dramas with any kind of love and love, but after watching the trailer, I just want to say that I chased this pair of CPs.

2. Actors: Led by Wang Yang, sitting behind the two eyes, and gathering powerful factions

If you want to revitalize a legal drama, the performance of the actors is also very important.

Successful legal drama actors play real people, and failed legal dramas play the boss Mary Sue.

So, how is the cast of "Fearless" in terms of strength?

starring Reyiza , Wang Yang, the main supporting roles are Feng Hui, Chen Jin, Zheng Xiaoning, Cao Zheng, Zhu Shimao, etc., the main lineup has no flaws.

The first place, Wang Yang.

It only took four years for Wang Yang to complete the jump from a gold medal supporting role to a big male protagonist.

In 2019, he collaborated with Zhang Ruoyun in "Celebrating More Than Years", Teng Zijing, a small role whose presence in the original work is not strong, was successfully played by him with affection and righteousness.

also made him famous in the hearts of the audience for the first time.

In the next "Rebel", Chen Moqun played by Wang Yang looks domineering, but in fact, he is ruthless at both ends. The audience knows that he is a villain, but they are reluctant to take him offline because the character is too charming.

In "The World", he played Cai Xiaoguang as the gold medal spare tire in Chinese dramas, and a role that was almost impossible to please made him the ideal type in the hearts of female audiences.

In the past two years, Wang Yang has watched Shengka all the way, and cooperated with Zhang Ruoyun for the second time in "Da Ming under the Microscope", he played the second male lead, and the role of the teacher is still amazing.

"All the Way to the Sun" has a high reputation and goes low, but his boss audience is still reluctant to scold.

This time, Wang Yang played a role that he had never played before, the poisonous lawyer Chen Shuo.

The legal elite has an extremely high IQ, has means in the workplace, and is a prodigal son in love.

The difficulty of this kind of role is actually extremely high, and in most cases, the male protagonists of Chinese dramas want to play yuppies, but the result is that they use too much force and become greasy men.

But looking at Wang Yang in the trailer, he is stinky and narcissistic, and he is proficient in rolling his eyes, but you just can't hate it.

I hope Wang Yang can really break the curse of the hegemony of national dramas this time.

second place, Reiza.

Before becoming popular, Reyiza played most of the costume drama roles, from "The Legend of Zhen Huan" to "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", with outstanding acting skills, but not popular.

What really made her shine was the splash in "Mountains and Seas".

Although she is a supporting role, she is the most brilliant heroine character in national dramas in the past few years, with a sad fate, but she can control her own destiny.

Every time Reyiza cried, countless viewers cried, and this drama also brought Reyiza a flying queen.

"Fearless" is the first time that Reyiza has taken the lead in a real sense since she became popular, she is good at playing a sassy woman, she plays the legal beauty, not disobedient at all, wearing a white professional outfit is capable, and there is a kind of neat, unambiguous, and fearless energy.

The ex-husband was furious with her and slapped her. The male protagonist played by Wang Yang teased her and went back directly.

I think this will be the representative role of Reyiza's urban drama, and I'll see if I don't believe it.

third place, Chen Jin.

There is another queen, Chen Jin, who is the queen of Feitian and Magnolia.

She has played well in movies such as "Born Out of the Sky" and "Eighteen Cave Village", and in recent years, she has begun to frequently shine in national dramas, and in "It's All Good" and "Fireworks in My World", she played an oppressive mother image.

The acting skills are certainly wonderful, but the role is too simple for her.

It was the elderly Ye Wenjie in "The Three-Body Problem" who really showed her acting skills.

From appearance, temperament to every move, it's like Da Liu wrote according to her.

This time she should play the role of the heroine, standing in the dock but her aura is invincible, it is too comfortable to watch the two Feitian watch each other.

fourth place, Feng Hui.

is also a proper strength actor, maybe the audience is unfamiliar with this name, but when they see the role he created, they should remember it-

Shen Chai in "Langya Bang", Director Cheng in "Dajiang Dahe", Wei Guangjun in "I Am Yu Huanshui", and the villain Li Lixing in "Stalker".

This gold medal supporting actor is the guarantee of acting skills, and it is too right to watch him play a pervert in the workplace.

Fifth, Tinni.

has debuted for many years, and Tini has finally ushered in a rising period in the past two years.

In "Infernal", the sassy female agent she played made the audience worry more than the heroine, and the barrage was all praying that she would not die. "Thirteen Years in the Dust" she plays the perfect wife of the male protagonist.

This time, the female lawyer Qiu Hua she played is the heroine's colleague and best friend, who has been harassed in the workplace, and it should not be difficult to prove herself with her ability.

sixth place, Cao Zheng.

After watching the Wan heirloom he played in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", it should not be difficult to guess who he plays in this play.

That's right, it's the heroine's shameless husband who ran away in debt and cheated his wife.

Playing this kind of outright scumbag actually requires a sense of belief in acting, but fortunately, Cao Zheng has always been so free to play the villain, and every bad guy is at ease.

The scumbag is not scumbag enough, and the heroine's rebound is not strong enough, Cao Zheng is here to act, and the audience can rest assured.

seventh place, Zheng Xiaoning.

In "Sweeping the Black Storm", in addition to Gao Mingyuan on the bright side, the villain boss also has Wang Zheng, although this character does not have many scenes, but every appearance is full of weight.

He is brilliant in playing the villain, Liu Bowen played in Hu Jun's version of "Zhu Yuanzhang", and the heroine's father in "The Daughter of the Mountain", and the positive role is also three-pointed.

This time, the role he played is a big man, with the sentence "Who have we harassed", he said lightly and domineeringly, and this kind of old drama will not overturn when he appears.

In addition to these protagonists and supporting roles, even the guest actors are also powerful people like Zhu Shimao, Feng Lei, and "Aunt Kang", and the acting skills of the series are really stable.

3. The main creative team: Zhao Dongling is the screenwriter, and the script cannot be lost

In the past domestic legal dramas with a collapsed reputation, the problem is obviously not with the powerful actors such as Jin Dong and Yuan Quan, but the biggest problem is the script.

And the script is also the least fearful part of "Fearless".

Because the biggest trump card of this drama is not Wang Yang Reiza, but Zhao Dongling, the ace screenwriter of the national drama.

These ace screenwriters who have written "China Land" and "Red Sorghum" have been invincible in recent years, and "Police Honor", "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" and "Glory of Fathers" are all from her.

The biggest problem of domestic legal dramas is suspension, and the biggest feature of Zhao Dongling's screenwriter is that the plot is real and down-to-earth, the characters are vivid and individual, and they are good at showing the warmth and coldness of human feelings and the various states of living beings in the story, digging human nature in the plot and gaining insight into people's hearts.

She came to write domestic legal dramas, and she didn't dare to say that she would win.

But if she can't write well, no one in the country will write well about legal and political themes.

Looking at the director again, Tan Jiayan and Zhao Dongling have collaborated on "Cold Case".

Judging from the trailer, the urban atmosphere and texture of the series are still good, with a light sense of humor like a classic American drama legal drama, and the court scene is very tense.

If the finished film is also of this quality, it will definitely not be bad.

Written at the end: Can domestic legal dramas still cure suspension?

Since the beginning of this year, a number of urban dramas with legal and political themes such as "Ordinary Road" and "All the Way to the Sun" have continued to dominate the screen, to put it bluntly, the market accepts this genre, and the audience loves to watch it.

This "Fearless", from the perspective of story, main creator, cast, platform, etc., has the potential to be a hit in urban legal dramas.

The key to success or failure is whether it can defeat the suspension syndrome of domestic legal dramas.

In the past, as soon as domestic legal dramas appeared, there were obviously five words, and there was only one left in the eyes of the audience - "fake".

The lack or absence of professionalism, the confused narrative logic and the bloody love routine are all consuming the audience's patience and favorability little by little.

finally had a decent one, and near the finale, a hostess set collapsed.

It's no wonder that the audience complained while watching, do today's screenwriters really not know what the life of ordinary people looks like?

When those suspended domestic "realities" package the world only magnificently, the per capita cool text.

The real legal story is precisely the most realistic, as soon as the lawsuit is fought, you have to face the chickens and dogs of life, birth, old age, sickness and death, entanglement and confusion.

A good legal drama must also be the drama that is least suspended and can best shoot everything in the world.

I don't expect "Fearless" to catch up with the American dramas that have been filmed for decades overnight, but at least, I hope it will point out the real direction of domestic legal dramas.

When domestic legal dramas are really filmed, the audience can follow the drama and be really fearless.