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Three recent events:
The stock market fell, and the shareholders fell;
The cinema is about to open, and the fans are hi;
And the TV series "Odds" was launched, and TV series fans directly turned the sky upside down.
Why? Because this spy drama is a thousand calls to come out.
In fact, as early as 2015, "Odds of Victory" was finished, and within five years, this drama experienced many turmoils of file withdrawal and role change, and even was once rumored to have died, but recently it finally officially landed on the golden file of Beijing Satellite TV on July 16.
Good food is not afraid of late, not to mention that the cook of this meal is Liu Yunlong, the "father of espionage" who has never lost his hand.
The expectation value is full, and the opponents have given way at the same time, which should have been the return of the king, but did not think that it was the hero's twilight, and the response after the premiere of "Odds of Victory" was very general.
Tomato Jun watched the first episode for the first time, the mood is somewhat complicated, and the simple summary of the perception is: flat and stable, the rhythm is slightly slower - to be more direct is the lack of surprises.
Whether the drama can continue the myth of Liu Yunlong's last spy drama "Kite", Tomato Jun is cautiously optimistic
Of course, for a 40-episode TV series, it is too hasty to make an assertion based on the first episode alone, and we still analyze from multiple angles, what are the odds of winning in "Winning"?
There is a slogan on the poster of "Odds of Victory": This battle has almost no chance of winning.
This sentence is used in "Odds" is very appropriate, in the play Liu Yunlong played by Tang Fei and the enemy to fight wits and courage, outside the play Liu Yunlong as a producer and starring is also facing a huge test.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > not worrying about winning, worrying about losing first - the shortcomings of "Odds" are mainly threefold:</h1>
First, this is a 2015 TV series after all
No matter how Liu Yunlong and his team tinkered with it in the past five years, the main structure of the show was built five years ago.
In the past five years, there have been TV dramas such as "The Name of the People" that have aroused the popularity of the whole people, and there have also been network dramas with zero bad reviews such as "White Night Pursuit" and "Hidden Corners", the production level of TV series is increasing, the aesthetic level of the audience is increasing, and what new wine can be put in Liu Yunlong's old pot? Can he board our passenger ship with this old ticket?
Time back to 2006, Liu Yunlong with "Dark Calculation" to open the boom in spy drama shooting, followed by "The Sound of the Wind", "Latent", "Before dawn" and a number of excellent film and television dramas surged up, and then "Cliff", "Qipao" and other dramas remained undiminished, and by the time of "Kite", it was the dusk of the gods.
In the past, the audience's favorite "inside the ghost" link has been repeated countless times, and there is nothing new to say: anyway, the audience can see that he is undercover, that is, his boss and colleagues can't see it, and it is better to play a game of werewolf killing.
In "Kite", Liu Yunlong knew that the traditional spy war drama could not attract the audience, so it was valuable, talking about feelings, and the story directly extended to after the founding of New China, and the color of espionage warfare in the later period became weaker and weaker.
The success of "Kite" lies in the fact that the spy war drama is directly sublimated from the game of werewolf killing to the big pattern of history and human nature, which is good or good, but directly blocks the road after that, because the valuable things are often the last bottom card, the audience will be enthusiastic the first time they see it, and the second time they watch it, they may have a rebellious psychology.
This year's two spy dramas "Autumn Cicada" and "Man in the Bureau" have not passed the passing line, the pressure has reached the "Odds" here, leaving Liu Yunlong with not many cards, and even if he still has no cards to play, we have to play a question mark.
Second, the heroine's AI face change affects the perception
Friends who pay attention to this drama probably know that the original heroine of this drama is Korean star Han Caiying, the TV series has just been filmed, the "Limited Korean Order" was released, the main creator has been pressing this drama, waiting for the wind to pass, did not expect to wait for a few years, seeing that the backlog of inventory is going to rot in the hands, Liu Yunlong and his team had to use the courage of the hero to break his wrist and start a major operation.
They found an actress With a similar figure to Han Caiying, Su Qing, and used AI face-changing technology to replace Han Caiying's face with Su Qing's face, and it was difficult for the audience to see the beginning without paying attention.
But it is difficult to see, does not mean that it is not visible, the first episode of a closer look can see some sense of violation, Su Qing's role in the play body proportions are very uncoordinated.
A more serious problem is that AI technology can only replace a small number of lenses with Han Caiying's close-ups, and more han caiying's face-revealing lenses AI cannot capture, what to do? Can only be reshooted.
It is impossible for the actors of the scattered group to regroup, they can only re-shoot a part, and the remaining parts that cannot be filmed will be painfully deleted, which directly hurts the structure of the whole play.
You see, it is impossible to fry the taste of the year after a few years of cold cuisine and stir-fry with some ingredients, can Liu Yunlong not know this theory?
The last "Kite" did a similar small operation, all of which tossed him enough, and on the eve of the start of "Kite", Liu Yunlong sent a Weibo "There is no time to look back" to suggest that he was tired.
And this time, until the night of the launch of "Odds of Victory", he remained silent, and the unspeakable secret behind it was only known to him.
Third, the first episode is difficult to say surprises
Having said all that, we have to go back to the first episode that has already aired.
To tell the truth, the drawbacks of our previous analysis have been verified, and in the first episode, we can see Liu Yunlong's efforts, and we can see his fatigue.
The main actors are all drama bones, ensuring that the acting skills are online.
However, the outdated large head close-up plus compositional photography, the slow narrative rhythm, a closer look can still be seen full of "sense of age".
In the first episode, Liu Yunlong's role in the play is not much highlight, and the role of Su Qing, who changes his face by AI, is also deliberately compressed, and the Director Fang played by Li Liqun and the Japanese officer Fukuhara played by Liang Guanhua become the role of picking the big beam.
In the next few episodes, it remains to be seen whether Liu Yunlong's knotted bat worker can snatch the scene from the old drama bone, and whether this film can gradually enter a better state.
However, we should perhaps be optimistic, Liu Yunlong is after all the "godfather of espionage", and under many unfavorable factors, he can still fight back.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Liu Yunlong's "odds of winning" can also be divided into three points:</h1>
The first is to throw away the perfect persona.
In the play, the protagonist Tang Fei becomes Mu Ne's stutter.
It is said that the role of Tang Fei was originally in good health, Liu Yunlong acted, and felt that he could not get rid of the shadow of the past spy drama, so that the protagonist became a stutter, and he immediately found the feeling.
Liu Yunlong said, I don't want to play a liu yunlong-style Liu Yunlong, the protagonists of ordinary spy dramas are exquisite, and this Tang Fei is a stutter, which will lower the psychological defense line of others, and he has more time to think.
The second is to add humor.
The Fang Tingchang, played by Li Liqun, has become a snippet hand that spits out lotus flowers, and in the past, such roles were the sinister faces of the city government.
The big boss has become a laughing point, will the audience see the play?
Director Yin Fei confidently said that there is no provision that spy war scenes can not have a sense of humor or comedy factors, on the basis of not affecting the tone and expression of the story, some places are slightly lighter, but more able to shape flesh and blood characters, which is also our firm direction at the beginning of creation - "de-labeling" and "de-eliteization".
Third, the story is set on the international battlefield.
"Odds of Victory" has also been comprehensively upgraded in the background of the story, the domestic battlefield has been transferred to the Soviet battlefield in World War II, the underground party members have been upgraded to international agents, and this spy drama is more atmospheric from an international perspective.
Director Yin Fei said that the core events of the whole story are relatively international, it is not limited to the simple confrontation level, and the narrative of Sino-Soviet cooperation against the enemy has an international perspective.
Compared with the shortcomings of "Odds of Victory", the three major changes made by Liu Yunlong are somewhat "changing the soup without changing the medicine", but it can still be seen that he has made efforts to this end.
Finally, Tomato Jun concluded:
Because Liu Yunlong's brand is there, the lower limit of this drama is not low;
But because the spy drama is gradually declining, the upper limit of this drama is not high.
"Odds" should end up being a 7- to 8-pointer, but it's almost impossible to become a classic on par with Kite. #影视杂谈 #
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