Blessed are the friends of the drama famine! Recently, there have been really good dramas, including "Good Life", "Meritorious Service", "Breakout", and then "The Forerunner", which has just started.
On the TV screen in the second half of the year, there is finally a wonderful spy drama online. It is a modern revolutionary THEME TV series "Forerunner" directed by Gong Zhaohui, produced by Dong Jun, and starring Zhang Luyi, Nie Yuan, Han Xue and Guo Xiaoting.
The TV series "The Forerunner" depicts the historical picture of the selfless and fearless revolutionary pioneers of the Communist Party of China fighting heroically for the country during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and shows the revolutionary deeds of the unsung heroes who can sing and cry.
As the third batch of 100 key film single plays of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the gift drama of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, "The Forerunner" has achieved excellence from script creation, behind-the-scenes team to the cast.
A good script and a production team are the prerequisites for the birth of high-quality film and television works. The planner of "The Forerunner" is Long Yi, the author of the word-of-mouth explosive spy novel "Latent"; the screenwriter is Lang Xuefeng, who is experienced in writing, and it took four years to complete this work; the director is Gong Zhaohui, who came from the Chinese opera class and has directed "Patriot". The two male protagonists are the powerful actors Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan.
Such a luxurious configuration has played an escort role in the quality of the episodes of "The Forerunner".
"The Forerunner" mainly tells the story of the early 1930s, when the shanghai underground party organization was seriously damaged, the revolutionary cause fell into a white terror, and the underground party member Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping, a classmate who participated in the secret service organization "Revival Society", engaged in a wonderful contest.
Like the character settings of previous spy dramas, "The Walker" has made a regularized article on the relationship between the two male protagonists. Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping were good classmates and comrades in arms who lived and died together, but because of different ideas, they eventually embarked on different paths and had to become opponents.
This kind of relationship between the protagonists is not new at first glance, but "The Forerunner" puts a lot of effort into storytelling and narrative style, breaking the stereotypes defined by the audience for spy dramas with a cinematic texture.
In the previous episodes, there is no shortage of spy elements such as double males, wit fighting, gunfights, undercover agents, and suspense... The smell of spy dramas rose up in an instant.
The two male protagonists who are "enemies and friends", played by Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan respectively, are the decisions made by the crew at the beginning.
Zhang Luyi, a "regular" actor in revolutionary dramas and spy dramas, is already very familiar to everyone. He has starred in the acclaimed and acclaimed "Patriot", "Burning Love Earth" and "Sparrow". It is up to him to play Ma Tianmu, a righteous and heroic revolutionary in "The Forerunner", which is a mastery.
However, the "villain" Tang Xianping in the play is played by Nie Yuan, which gives people a fresh feeling. Nie Yuan is a "rare guest" of spy dramas, and the drama he has starred in the most before is the costume drama, and he was originally named "Costume Boy".
When he was young, Nie Yuan was well known to the audience for "Marrying the Wrong Flower Car to the Lang", and later starred in many costume dramas such as "The Granary of the World", "The Four Young Men of The Capital", "The Great Han Towel", "Zhenguan Changge", "Zhuangzhi Lingyun Bao Qingtian" and so on, and was rated by the media as "China's New Four Little Students".
When his career fell into a trough, in 2018, the 40-year-old Nie Yuan became popular for the second time with the annual blockbuster costume drama "Yanxi Raiders".
Nie Yuan, who is handsome and handsome and has a righteous face, plays the "villain" Tang Xianping, who has a complex and changeable personality, which is a highlight of the play.
At the beginning of the series, Tang Xianping, played by Nie Yuan, had a "hard battle" with Ma Tianmu, played by Zhang Luyi.
Tang Xianping is the chief of the investigation department of the Shanghai Police Department and a member of the Revival Society, and he is fierce, fierce and decisive, and does not talk about personal feelings. He was ordered to arrest Pan Mingyue, a secret party member who had been exposed, but unexpectedly met his former friend and classmate Ma Tianmu.
Ma Tianmu, an underground member of the CCP, used his identity as a manager of a foreign firm in the French Concession as a cover to carry out intelligence work, the "Document Zero" of the secret operation.
One side hides in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to act; the other side is alone and dangerous, deep into the dangerous place. Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan, as soon as they appeared, "did not fight and did not know each other". The two were fighting passionately, and when the atmosphere was tense, the next second after finding out that it was an old classmate, they immediately joked with each other and hugged each other happily.
This "battle to peace" plot reversal is also really interesting.
After the two male protagonists met, a duel between the two males began.
Tang Xianping is a person who is both right and evil, and has a complex side in his personality. He and Ma Tianmu will eventually drift apart due to differences in positions and ideas, until the two duel.
For Ma Tianmu at the beginning, Tang Xianping was still the good comrade-in-arms who was born and died with him on the battlefield, and the combat cooperation between the two was so tacit.
But when things happen to people, human nature will eventually change. The later Tang Xianping was not only Ma Tianmu's reliance in Shanghai, but also the most terrifying and unpredictable opponent hidden.
From making friends to enemies, the emotions and relationships between the two male protagonists make people sigh, how this story will be staged is worth looking forward to.
"The Forerunner" has also made some efforts in the quality of the picture, and its director of photography Yu Xiaochen has experience in shooting American dramas, so the visual style of this spy drama is biased towards the tone of the American drama, the picture has a cinematic artistic texture, and also has a bit of oil painting, which is believed to bring a different feeling to the audience.
In addition to the two male protagonists who are brilliant, the two female protagonists in the play are played by Dan Hanxue and Guo Xiaoting.
Lu Yi, the wife of a foreign businessman played by Han Xue, is beautiful and fierce, and her identity is mysterious; Jiang Yunqing, a female student played by Guo Xiaoting, is innocent and kind, cute and straightforward. The two heroines have different styles, forming a sharp contrast between people, adding a lot of color to this man's play.
With a good script, a good actor, and a good creation, who says that the current domestic drama has regressed? I believe that "The Forerunner" will not lose to the previous spy dramas, bringing you a different viewing experience.