I don't know if it's a coincidence or intentional, although the two TV series "City in the City" and "The Wind Chaser" are broadcast before and after, although the time background is nearly 100 years apart, the main stories of the two dramas take place in Shanghai, and the main plots are financial themes.
As a result, "City in the City" and "Wind Chaser" can be compared with each other in many places, don't you say, from the plot to the characters to the story connotation, there is not only a comedic effect but also a profound lesson.
1. Tungsten sand doctor
"City within a City" Zhao Hui took his daughter with eye disease to a foreign doctor for a check-up, Dr. Carr, a well-known ophthalmologist at USC, diagnosed Zhao Hui's daughter's disease.
When Dr. Karl turned his head to explain his condition, many viewers who were chasing the drama recognized that this guy had just played Hans of Rheinmetall in "The Wind Chaser", and traveled thousands of miles to China to buy tungsten sand.
So many viewers ridiculed in the barrage: "Mr. Hans, you don't buy tungsten sand and become a doctor?" and "Is it reliable to find someone from Rheinmetall to see eye diseases?"
There is no way, there is only a day between the two dramas, and the audience's energy to chase the drama has not completely turned over.
The actor who plays Dr. Carl is the American Ke Guoqing, who has starred in more than 20 film and television dramas in China, including some big productions, Zhang Yimou's "Sniper" in the U.S. Army's No. 2 Sniper Jack, "Disappearing Her" bar owner Kreese and so on.
Second, Aunt Zhou returned to her soul
The male number one in "City in the City" is Tao Wuji, he and Tian Xiaohui, a local girl in Shanghai, are a couple, but Tian Xiaohui's mother does not support the relationship between the two of them, she still hopes that her daughter can find a local.
One day, Tian Xiaohui's mother went to Tao Wuji's anti-fraud lecture site to inspect Tao Wuji, and the two talked about buying stocks, and Tao Wuji suggested that she throw away high-level liquor stocks and invest in new energy stocks.
Tao Wuji's suggestion had a result the next day, new energy stocks rose sharply, Tian Xiaohui's mother was very excited, and pulled Tao Wuji to confess her identity, trying to ask Tao Wuji to recommend stocks to herself as a future mother-in-law, and which one to buy.
Tian Xiaohui's mother's expression and attitude are very similar to Aunt Zhou in "The Wind Chaser", they all hope to make a lot of money in the stock market, and they all catch Tao Wuji and Wei Ruolai, who work in the bank, and they all express their obedience, and they all hope to marry them.
However, Aunt Zhou didn't always listen to Wei Ruolai, and made her own decisions at critical moments, but in the end she lost her family and property, it didn't matter if she lost herself, she had to complain about Wei Ruolai.
If you guess correctly, Tian Xiaohui's mother in "City in the City" should also have a few personal disturbances like Aunt Zhou in "The Wind Chaser", and she will complain about Tao Wuji if she loses money.
No way, whether it is the stock market routine or the laws of human nature, the Shanghai stock market a hundred years ago does not seem to be much different from a hundred years later.
3. Cannon fodder little people
The female number one in "City in the City" is Tian Xiaohui, who went to her cousin Shen Jie in order to find a finance-related professional job, Shen Jie is the vice president of the trust company and the wife of the boss Xie Zhiyuan.
Shen Jie has always been worried about Xie Zhiyuan's cheating, she had arranged for the president's secretary to be her eyeliner before, and now she has arranged for her cousin Tian Xiaohui to do this work, and she has also drawn a big pie for her.
In order to keep this job and repay her cousin, although Tian Xiaohui was very reluctant to do this kind of thing, she still cared very much about Xie Zhiyuan's every move, and one day she accidentally found that Xie Zhiyuan was going to Beijing to meet customers under the guise of going to Beijing to meet customers, but he and a woman Zhou Lin booked a room in a club in Hangzhou at the same time.
Tian Xiaohui decisively told her cousin this information, and Shen Jie went to a club in Hangzhou that day to "catch the rape", but she didn't expect to make a fuss, Xie Zhiyuan really didn't tell the truth, but it was Vice President Su Jianren who was dating Zhou Lin, and Xie Zhiyuan wanted to use this bureau to curry favor with Su Jianren.
After the rape failed, Xie Zhiyuan began to fight back against Shen Jie, scolding her for not believing her husband, and Shen Jie could only remain silent.
When she returned to the trust company the next day, Shen Jie, who had lost face, vented her anger on Tian Xiaohui, who "lied about the military situation", and forced her to write a resignation report.
Xie Zhiyuan, who was proud, rushed to "retain" Tian Xiaohui, but in fact he came to see the excitement, and finally Tian Xiaohui angrily rejected Xie Zhiyuan's letter of recommendation, and after denouncing her cousin for taking herself as a vote, she turned around and left the company.
Tian Xiaohui is really wronged in this matter, and there is no problem with the information she provided on the surface, after all, what is the inside story in the middle is not something that her assistant can grasp, and it is Shen Jie who decides how to act after analyzing and judging the information.
Shen Jie asked her cousin Tian Xiaohui to monitor her husband, and she was at a loss first, but she was angry when she made a mistake in judgment and failed to act, and forced Tian Xiaohui to resign in order to save face.
However, there is no way, from another point of view, Shen Jie and Xie Zhiyuan are not only husband and wife but also partners, the interests between the two are too close, and she can only choose a secret war for the sake of common interests.
Once the secret war fails, the two sides can't tear their faces, then they must need a scapegoat to take responsibility, unfortunately, Tian Xiaohui, the weakest and most innocent in this matter, became the sheep, and of course it was also Shen Jie's "name" to her husband.
For viewers who have watched "The Wind Chaser", Tian Xiaohui's experience is simply not too familiar, because Lin Qiaosong has also encountered this situation.
Lin Qiaosong's boss Kang Shaojie and Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebol Yu Shiqing jointly engaged in counterfeit money and tobacco business, behind this business is the eldest sister of the Song family, Mrs. Kong family, the detective captain Lin Qiaosong is just a small person in front of them, he doesn't want to do this kind of work that hurts nature and is easy to lose his head, but he has to participate under the pressure of Kang Shaojie.
In the process of Shen Tunan's resolute investigation and punishment of the counterfeit money case, Lin Qiaosong could not be said to have worked hard or played with his life, but he was still captured alive by Niu Chunmiao in the end, which became one of the evidence of the counterfeit money case.
Counterfeiting coins and selling tobacco are both unsightly businesses, even the eldest sister of the Song family can't stand up and take this responsibility, and while she doesn't bear it, the chaebol Yu Shiqing won't bear it, and Kang Shaojie, the head of the Military Law Division of the Garrison Command, is naturally unwilling to bear it.
However, in the face of Mr. Song, the higher levels and the general public, there must always be an explanation, so Lin Qiaosong, who worked personally in this matter, could only take this responsibility and be the scapegoat.
Lin Qiaosong was indeed wronged, he was unwilling to do it from the beginning, but he was forced to do it, and as a result, he worked hard to be a scapegoat, and was almost shot.
This is the sorrow of the little people, the tragic encounters of Tian Xiaohui in "City in the City" and Lin Qiaosong in "The Wind Chaser" are warning us, if you are a small person, then try not to get involved in the dark war between the big guys, once the dark war becomes a bright war, the big guys will find scapegoats in order to protect their own interests and face, and the last unlucky person must be the sad little man.