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I didn't expect to see such a wonderful financial business war TV series after "The Wind Chaser".
This urban financial workplace drama "City in the City", directed by Teng Huatao and starring Yu Hewei, Bai Yufan, Xia Meng, Long Ni, Wang Xiao, Wang Jinsong, Tu Songyan, Yang Zishan and other powerful actors, immediately surpassed other TV series broadcast at the same time and became the top of the ratings list as soon as it was broadcast.
The series focuses on issues in the financial industry.
Because the financial circle in the past two years is indeed closely related to the lives of many people, and it has also brought unexpected phenomena to many people, so broadcasting a TV series with this theme must not worry about the popularity of the topic, and it is difficult to think about it.
Sure enough, after the TV series was broadcast, the ratings went all the way to the city, rising steadily, the popularity of the Internet soared, and the number of discussions remained high.
In addition to the theme type keeping up with current affairs, why is it so popular?
Although the actor Bai Yufan is not a representative of traffic, before this TV series, he has had successful out-of-the-circle high-reputation TV series "Mountains and Seas", "The Beginning", "The Fog of the Octagonal Pavilion", "Under the Prosperous City" and so on.
Spread out to see the supporting roles, and the top performers are fighting in the gods.
From the first episode, I briefly explained the background, after President Dai began to die in a car accident, various characters appeared in turn in the second episode, and the character characteristics and contradictions were displayed in front of me one by one.
Zhao Hui played by Yu Hewei, Miao Che played by Wang Xiao, Su Jianren played by Feng Jiayi, and Xie Zhiyuan played by Tu Songyan, these were once President Dai's protégés, and they had the friendship of college colleagues.
Before chasing the drama, I was worried about the quality of this drama, after all, financial dramas are not easy to film, will it be suspended and ungrounded, and the plot will be water-injected.
However, when I watched the first 4 episodes, all my worries disappeared.
Judging from the 4 episodes broadcast, the plot is compact, with ups and downs, the joys and sorrows of each little person, combined with the work of the financial industry, the highlights and conflicts are very strong, and they are not dragged in the slightest.
A TV series can get out of the circle, in addition to the plot and picture texture, there is also a very key point, of course, is acting.
A good performance may not be able to contribute to a TV series that breaks the circle, but a TV series that breaks the circle will definitely have outstanding group acting skills.
After watching the first four episodes of "City in the City", in my mind, the top ten acting skills in this TV series are roughly as follows.
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Tenth place, Xia Meng: Tian Xiaohui.
In this TV series, Xia Meng, as the heroine in this TV series, plays a local girl in Shanghai with financial dreams, and is also the girlfriend of the male protagonist Tao Wuji.
As an actress born in 2001, although she has not debuted for a long time, she is still in school.
However, because when he took the art examination in 2020, Xia Meng won the first place in the performance major of Beijing Film Academy, Shanghai Theater Academy, and Communication University of China at the same time, and also the fifth place in the performance major of the Central Academy of Drama, which caused a lot of sensation in this circle.
Before this TV series came into the audience's sight, he participated in the filming of many TV series, such as partnering Ni Ni and Bai Yu in "West Out of Jade Gate", playing Ding Liu.
But because the characters created are not impressive enough, they are not enough to be out of the circle.
In this TV series, Tian Xiaohui played by Xia Meng, as a little girl, has a very good grasp of the greasy and crooked when she fell in love as a teenager.
For example, after finding a job, when he went to his boyfriend Tao Wuji's bank to handle the salary card business, he dressed up in a fancy way. When handling business, just holding Tao Wuji's hand and not letting go, it was full of the little fun of a little couple.
The girlish side of Tian Xiaohui's character was shown by Xia Mengdu, and the performance was very even, but it was not outstanding enough.
Tian Xiaohui played by Xia Meng has not occupied a lot of scenes in the four episodes currently broadcast, as an important role in witnessing the turning point of the actor's life since then, although she has completed the role, but in a lot of dramas, her sense of existence has been greatly reduced.
Ninth place: Lonnie: Zhou Lin.
Lonnie appeared relatively late in this TV series, until the end of the first four episodes, with only a few short shots.
The first appearance was at President Dai's funeral, Lonnie wore glasses, a professional suit, and a bright red hairstyle.
The second appearance was in the office where Su Jianren applied for a loan, and with his good looks, he successfully passed the original non-compliant approval.
Both appearances were won by looks. But because the character of Lonnie will have a lot of rivalry with Yu Hewei in the later stage, the later scenes must not be light.
In view of the outstanding performance of the role of Gao Qilan in "Hurricane", I still have great expectations for Lonnie's follow-up performance.
Eighth place: Yang Zishan: Shen Jing.
Yang Zishan plays Su Jianren's wife Shen Jing in this TV series, and the two have a lovely son.
It looks like a sweet and happy family, the wife is white and beautiful, the son is smart and smart, and the husband is famous, but in fact, Shen Jing does not fully trust her husband.
As Su Jianren, who is very good at making money and even very good at exploiting all kinds of loopholes, Shen Jing played by Yang Zishan often can't contact her husband, and when she contacts her husband's secretary, she often can't get the answers she wants.
In desperation, she arranged her cousin Tian Xiaohui, who just asked for a job from her, into her husband's company, which was regarded as an eyeliner for herself.
After inserting the eyeliner, Tian Xiaohui expressed her gratitude to Shen Jing and bought an expensive watch for this.
After seeing the watch, Shen Jing said that she didn't need these, but she needed Tian Xiaohui to help keep an eye on her husband and help her find the source of the red hair found on her husband's body.
In just a few back and forth, Yang Zishan interpreted the doubts and uneasiness in the situation of housewives very well. Yang Zishan also faded away from the shyness of a girl, and grasped the charm of a young woman very well.
Seventh place: Wang Jinsong: Wu Xianlong.
Wu Xianlong, played by Wang Jinsong, is the eldest brother of Zhao Hui played by Yu Hewei, who has a life-saving grace for Zhao Hui and is engaged in the real estate industry.
After the company had a financial problem, he once wanted to ask Zhao Hui for help, but Zhao Hui refused.
Wang Jinsong wears a Chinese-style suit, lives in a quaint brick house, loves to drink tea, and interprets the image of a successful real estate predator in just a few shots.
As a representative of both good and evil, Wang Jinsong has an aura of hidden but not revealing and profound skills, which gives him the confidence to play the role of a real estate predator.
Although the protagonist of this TV series is not Wang Jinsong, and the highlight is not him, but as an inducement to pull Zhao Hui into the water, when he was playing with Yu Hewei, his reaction was extremely accurate.
Sixth place: Feng Jiayi: Su Jianren.
Su Jianren, played by Feng Jiayi, is in the bank in this TV series, engaged in the same type of work as Zhao Hui and President Dai, and has the love of comrades and teachers and students respectively.
Feng Jiayi's father is the vice president of the head office, a proper rich second generation and the second generation of officials.
Although as a second-generation, he loves to play, spend his heart, and love one when he sees one, but in his work, he still has his own principles.
Before meeting Zhou Lin played by Lonnie, his good friend Xie Zhiyuan begged him to do something, but almost all of them were unsuccessful. But after meeting Lonnie, he made an exception and gave him approval.
After his son Cheng Jiayuan was arranged into his own department, he gave Cheng Jiayuan a dismissal in front of everyone in the company, which seemed to be not giving face, but in fact he was secretly protecting.
After attending President Dai's funeral, his wife commented that he "seems to be out of tune, but in fact he has a true temperament".
Although as a second-generation, he is bluffing on the surface, but he actually has a scale in his heart. He is not absolutely innocent, but he is not absolutely black either, he wanders in the gray area and has his own set of rules and norms of conduct.
Fifth place: Tu Yansong: Xie Zhiyuan.
Xie Zhiyuan, played by Tu Yansong, is a relatively complex character in this TV series, who loves money extremely and is extremely good at using money.
After graduating from university, Xie Zhiyuan, played by Tu Yansong, established his own trust company, and the company grew in scale day by day.
After the outflow of one billion yuan approved by Dai Bank, through the trust company established by Tu Yansong, it fought against Wall Street finance. But Tu Yansong said, I'm here to make money.
First, he used the billions of funds to make a lot of money, and then flowed to Jiaxiang Industry.
As his wife commented on him: "You are the smartest of the few, but you are also too smart."
He is very good at using the weaknesses of human nature to break through, for his college friend Su Jianren played by Feng Jiayi, he uses Lonnie to get things done;
The cleverness and calculation of this character are vividly interpreted by Tu Yansong.
Fourth place: Bai Yufan: Tao Wuji.
Tao Wuji, played by Bai Yufan, is a recent college graduate, full of ideals and enthusiasm for the future, and full of incompatibility with this society.
As a three-no-person with no background, no money, and no relationship, Bai Yufan vividly shows the embarrassment of survival in the workplace.
When I wanted to catch the two lines of Dai Xing and Zhao Xing several times, especially when I wanted to take Dai Xing's note to Zhao Xing in the bathroom, the embarrassment and helplessness were like many fledgling students.
Tao Wuji, played by Bai Yufan, was slapped in the face by the cruelty and ruthlessness of the workplace, while cheering himself on.
As netizens said, Bai Yufan is so much like a migrant worker that netizens say that he has a "class flavor".
is different from several other actors in the uncle circle, the helplessness and heaviness of middle-aged people conveyed by their bodies, Bai Yufan's Tao Wuji is full of plasticity and ideal blood.
Bai Yufan played against many immortals in this TV series, and when he didn't play or couldn't catch it, it was still very amazing.
Third place: Wang Xiao: Miao Che.
Miao Che, played by Wang Xiao, went to Wall Street, and after returning to China, he could have easily gone to the position of the president of a branch, but he chose the audit department of Qingshui Yamen.
Unlike the complexity of several other actors, Miao Che plays the auditor, which requires perseverance and ideals.
When something happened to Jiaxiang Industry, Miao Che immediately called Zhao Hui, played by Yu Hewei, and asked him to persuade his teacher not to meddle in this matter.
At President Dai's funeral, his wife commented that he was "the most patterned".
After the funeral, his college classmates asked him why he chose such a Qingshui Yamen, and he replied: "It's like this mud snail, you don't like to eat it, I like to eat it, it's just a different taste." ”
Wang Xiao has a sense of heaviness that he has seen tall buildings and clouds, but he has voluntarily chosen the most low-key, down-to-earth, and stable lifestyle.
This kind of deep understanding of life and insight into life is difficult to control without strong skills.
Second place: Yu Hewei: Zhao Hui.
Zhao Hui, played by Yu Hewei, as a student with the best relationship with President Dai, is a teacher and student, a brother, and a confidant.
When President Dai asked Yu Hewei to approve a non-compliant loan, Yu Hewei was at a loss, crossed his hands together, first complimented President Dai, and then carefully dissuaded President Dai not to do so.
In this dialogue, Yu Hewei will treat an old leader who has such a weight in his heart, and when he makes such a request, the kind of shock, helplessness, confusion and wanting to persuade, these emotions are very well interpreted.
After President Dai's accident, his wife was lying on the bed, and the bank came to inquire, Yu Hewei endured his crying rebuttal, and portrayed the unspeakable grief in his heart quite profoundly.
For a TV series, Yu Hewei is responsible for acting skills, and the audience is convinced.
First place: Chen Jin: Teacher Ouyang.
Chen Jin plays the wife of President Dai in this TV series.
After learning that his husband had an accident, Chen Jin stood at the door of the hospital, holding the door with one hand and almost falling down. This kind of reaction in the face of a major blow is like seeing the collapse and disbelief of those who have lost their loved ones, as if all the strength of their body has been drained.
Lying on the hospital bed, hearing the bank's internal investigation, Chen Jin's eyes were full of tears, and a drop slipped silently from the corner of his eye, this tear was simply godly.
Among these tears, there is grief over the death of my husband, dissatisfaction with the banking department, and stubbornness for not being able to embarrass my husband.
Then she sat up, straightened her clothes and hair, and said to Zhao Hui, "Let them in." ”
It's hard to imagine that this is the actor who once interpreted the suffocating mother of the little grandfather in "Know", and he can't see the slightest shadow at all.
is worthy of being an old drama bone.
Looking at it as a whole, this TV series is basically all the acting skills online, and there is no chain yet, the director's skills are profound, and then it will be up to see how the plot develops after that.