There is an old saying: chess meets the opponent, will meet the good talent. What is an opponent? Naturally, in a certain field, people with equal ability compete with each other, and compete to win or lose! In the spy war drama, everyone also hopes to see: the high-IQ duel between the enemy and us is not crushed by strength but wit and courage, and the strength of the enemy can show our cleverness, which will lead to a wonderful scene of equal strength...
"Rival" is a spy drama directed by You Xiaogang and starring Feng Yuanzheng, Zhao Wenxuan, Huang Weide, Wu Qianqian, Shi Xiaoqun and other actors, and premiered in July 2009.
The drama tells the story of the end of World War I, Wen Weijun studied mathematics at Princeton University in the United States, he and his classmate Yasuo Yamamoto from Japan fell in love with the same woman, a descendant of the Japanese royal family, Hideyoshi Aota, and in order to get love, they each made sacrifices. After the outbreak of World War II, they threw themselves into the battlefield and became the story of their opponents.
Taiwanese actor Zhao Wenxuan plays Wen Weijun in the play, a doctor of cryptography who abandoned his pen in times of national crisis, Wen Weijun once gave up love for friendship, but now he can no longer ignore the hatred of the country and family for the sake of friends! Zhao Wenxuan once admitted that he was very tired when he played this role, as a good person who pays attention to the overall situation everywhere, he wants to think a lot about the role, and he needs to understand all the behaviors of Wen Weijun in the play, in order to find the state that the role should have. From the perspective of its own conditions, the elegant and upright appearance is also very suitable for the characteristics of the character, it can be said that Zhao Wenxuan's interpretation of Wen Weijun is reasonable and portrayed into the wood.
The powerful drama bone Feng Yuanzheng played Wen Weijun's "opponent" Yasuo Yamamoto in the play, compared to the male protagonist, the psychology and personality of this character are more complex, Feng Yuanzheng in the play to show the transformation process of a scholar to the invaders to the fullest, in the face of the contradictions and sympathy of his former friends, in the face of his lover's entanglement and true love, he lacks opinion, but has superb professional skills, but unfortunately, eventually became a victim of militarism. Feng Yuanzheng and Zhao Wenxuan are not only opponents in the play, but their opponents perfectly play their superb acting skills.
In addition to the "opponents" introduced above, the tit-for-tat confrontation between the Japanese spy Keiko Aota (played by Wan Nien) and my underground party Wang Pujiang (played by Liu Can), as well as the love-hate love and hatred between Lin Ping (played by Hai Lu) and Lin Qin (played by Shi Xiaoqun), coupled with the intricate struggle between China and Japan, between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, between the Secret Power Institute and the Secret Bureau, all of which constitute the rich and wonderful content of "Opponent". Many of these characters have real historical archetypes, and many events are also documented, which makes this play more important to its sense of heaviness as a period drama.
This play analyzes the damage and profound impact of the war of aggression on their hearts caused by the unique relationship between the intellectuals of China and Japan, and the duel after confrontation in the play is actually a duel between the protagonist and his soul, and the ruthless war changes their relationship and changes their destiny. This is a play that goes deep into the perspective of human nature, and all the characters are either adhering to their beliefs or being distorted and alienated in the environment of war...
The drama currently has a rating of 7.1 points on Douban, in general, even if this TV series has a large proportion of emotional descriptions, but interlocking, suspenseful password wars, different camps of wisdom and courage and mental confrontation, are very in line with the characteristics of spy dramas, is a good work worth watching.