The two spy dramas "Autumn Cicada" and "Man in the Bureau", which began broadcasting in 2020, have not reached the passing line.
Compared with these spy dramas, there is a drama that was filmed as early as 5 years ago, but many people are thinking about it and looking forward to broadcasting.
After 5 years of hardship, this drama finally met with the audience.
It is:
Odds of Winning
The drama is a spy drama directed by Yin Fei, supervised by Liu Yunlong, written by Cheng Lin, Wei Ren and Deng Yuan, and starring Liu Yunlong, Su Qing, Liang Guanhua, Li Liqun and so on.
As early as 2015, the show was already produced, but because of censorship, deletion, role changes and other issues, it was not until July 2020 that it finally met with the audience.
To say that the reason why this drama is so much in the spotlight, a large part of the reason is due to the existence of Liu Yunlong, the "godfather of spy drama".
From "Dark Calculation", "Blood Mist", "Meritorious Service", to "Informer" and "Kite", Liu Yunlong single-handedly contracted half of the high-profile spy dramas, and many people said:
The first person in the espionage war was none other than Liu Yunlong.
In fact, not only has "Odds of Winning" encountered difficulties in broadcasting, but the previous "Kite" from 2013 to 2017 has also been extended for 4 years.
Since it is so hard to come by, how does this show perform?
Let's first take a look at the main plots of the first four episodes.
The material for "Odds of Victory" is taken from the Soviet military archives that have been sealed for many years and first appeared, and the story in the play originates from the elite westward advance of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East during the Defense of Moscow in 1942.
The empty Far East of the Soviet Union was identified by the "Northward Faction" of the Japanese Kwantung Army as an opportunity to take advantage of it, intending to send troops. In order to relieve the danger of being attacked by the enemy, Chinese and Soviet intelligence personnel jointly implemented the "On Protracted War Plan."
Therefore, Tang Fei, played by Liu Yunlong, is ordered to carry out the secret plan, incarnating as an agent code-named Vajim to infiltrate the enemy.
This attracted the attention of the Japanese Forces Security Bureau and the Special Agent Section of the Police Agency in Manchuria, who actively rounded up Vajim and regarded the Soviet businessman Boris as a suspect.
In order to prevent Li Zilong, an informant of the Special Services Division of the National Police Agency, from stirring up trouble, Cai Meng, chief of the Security Bureau, used Tang Fei to arrest Li Zilong in order to contain Li Zilong's actions.
In fact, Boris was indeed a Soviet spy, and Tang Fei, in order to clear his suspicions, planned to let him go to the police station and be put on a show.
However, when the police department came to arrest him, Boris chose to run away at a critical moment, confirming the identity of the spy.
As a result, Tang Fei, chief of the criminal section of the Linhe Police Department, who participated in the whole process, aroused the suspicion of the Security Bureau and the Special Services Section.
After experiencing the severe torture and interrogation of the Secret Service Division, Tang Fei, who seemed to have cleared his suspicions, was still suspected by Director Fukuhara after being transferred to the Security Bureau, and tried to order his execution...
It can be seen from here that the main focus of the drama is the story of Tang Fei, a communist spy, who wanders between the police department and the security bureau, is on the verge of being exposed, fighting wits with the enemy army, and obtaining intelligence for the Soviet army.
In the first four episodes, we can see one of the more significant advantages of this show:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > from the protagonist to the supporting role are all powerful factions, the plot has a more solid spy drama skills. </h1>
In addition to Liu Yunlong, the supporting roles of this drama are very eye-catching.
Fang Shibao, the director of the Linhe Police Department played by Li Liqun, seems to be easy-going and actually beats the thief with his inner abacus.
In the face of Tang Fei's persuasion to induce him to carry out the action of arresting the spy suspect Boris, Fang Shibao did not agree to the lack of evidence to arrest people directly, but instead let the Criminal Division lure Li Zilong, saying that Boris instructed him to murder Cai Meng.
In this way, Boris, who became the "mastermind" without evidence of espionage, is more justified than arresting people without evidence of espionage.
If Boris is a spy, then the criminal department has made a contribution, if Boris is not a spy, it is Li Zilong framed, can cure his crime, Fang Shibao can be described as a brilliant move, even Tang Fei can't help but sigh:
"Old Fox."
Hearing this, Fang Shibao first smiled thickly, and then yawned expressionlessly after Tang Fei left, and the image of a cunning and cute living director stood up.
In addition, he will also sing a harmony with Liu Yunlong, and when Tang Fei stumbles when he speaks, Fang Shibao will "patch" him in time, with tacit understanding, very vivid.
And Fukuhara, the director of the Lin River Security Bureau played by Leung Kwan Wah, is also impressive.
With a round head and fleshy face, a pair of round-rimmed glasses, squinting eyes from time to time and the corners of the lips with a smile, the dexterity and majesty that cannot be resisted.
It is worth mentioning that we can also see many old faces.
He has been in "The Cook of the Leper Drama" and "Nanjing! Hiroshi Otsuka, who plays a Japanese officer in many films such as "Nanjing", has become a "Japanese ghost professional" in many film and television dramas as a Japanese who lives in China.
In particular, Hou Yu, who played Song Xiao'an in "Kite", Liu Mingyang, who played Zhao Jianzhi, and Liu Yunlong, who played Zheng Yaoxian, reunited.
"Yamashiro F4" lacks one of the three, and instead Lei Han, who plays Lu Hanqing, is also involved.
It is the wonderful interpretation of these powerful actors that makes the spy battle of the whole drama real and perceptible and more convincing.
Whether it was Fang Shibao's pressure on Li Zilong's father to say a set of official words, or Fukuhara spying on Tang Fei to try to make a secret contest.
There is no fierce confrontation between the two sides with guns, no handsome and cool style, doing underground work, playing psychological warfare, this is a spy war drama with an inner flavor!
After talking about the advantages of this play, I have to say that there are still some regrets and deficiencies, which are mainly concentrated on the three characters:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first, And Cai Meng, played by Su Qing, is out of place. </h1>
In 2015, when the "Korean Wave" was in full swing, "Kite" also found Korean actress Han Caiying to play the heroine Cai Meng.
As a result, once the "Korean restriction order" was implemented, it was undoubtedly worse for this drama with a sensitive theme.
The scene has been filmed, and Mo has no way but to find Su Qing, who played Erqing in "Yanxi Raiders", to make up for it.
Facing the green screen performance + adding late AI face change, although ai technology is not a drama, it is still visible to the naked eye that does not match the skeleton, and the expression is relatively stiff.
Whether Su Qing was spying on the phone or interrogating Tang Fei, he seemed to be light and breezy, without a sense of wit and nervousness, and his acting skills also dragged his feet.
Coupled with slow voice acting and modern makeup, there is a sense of incompatibility throughout the play.
Judging from the plot summary after that, Su Qing is ostensibly a section chief of the Security Bureau, but in fact he is an anti-Japanese democrat who sneaks in because of the hatred of the country and the family, and the role cannot be said to be unimportant.
And the heroine's performance makes people helpless and worried!
The second, Tang Fei, played by Liu Yunlong, has a new image that is not as good as before.
Whether it is An Zaitian in "Dark Calculation", Wen Kang in "Blood Mist", or Long Fei in "Informer", the role played by Liu Yunlong is always double-quoted, cool and handsome.
And this time in the new drama, he just appeared, with an earmuff to line the big face, fat and old, handsome value has dropped significantly.
As the director said, in order to create a "de-elite" spy image, Tang Fei in the play has also become a slow-talking, old stuck shell, looking a little embarrassed stuttering.
However, Liu Yunlong's presentation is not satisfactory.
On the one hand, the setting of stuttering is Liu Yunlong's clever move in the process of playing, temporarily added, the design is that he often stutters when facing the enemy, trying to create the illusion of an honest person.
In the face of friendly forces, it is a normal speed of speech, but sometimes it also stutters, and there is a relatively large sense of separation and arbitrariness.
Coupled with Liu Yunlong's not very clever stuttering way of interpretation, it is more tiring to listen to, and it also makes people a bit dramatic.
In fact, it is okay to "de-eliteize", but such a setting in the play is inevitably superficial.
Just let Liu Yunlong pretend to stutter instead of really stuttering, the character is not inherently weak, in the end it is still a perfect person.
The appearance is not better than before, and the role does not conform to his temperament, Tang Fei in the sequence of roles played by Liu Yunlong, but exposed the shortcomings of his acting skills.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third, Li Zilong, played by Yin Fei, is funny but loses the plot logic. </h1>
Many people may not know that Li Zilong, who plays an informant of the Special Agent Section of the National Police Agency, is Yin Fei himself, the director of this drama.
Wanting to add more laughs to the whole drama and ease the calm atmosphere of spy warfare, Li Zilong became a funny person.
As a secret policeman, secretly investigating Boris, Li Zilong, who was caught by Tang Fei and sent to the police station, sat on the tiger stool and staged a comedic dialogue of adding ten or eight bricks to the legs.
Not only is this interrogation method slightly childish, but Li Zilong also seems to be too stupid.
Not to mention the ease with which the identity and tasks of his secret police were revealed, especially when Wu Peng, who was under Tang Fei, confessed, and a few simple words were on the way.
How does this straw bale take on an important task as an on-line person?
You want to say that there are people on the head of Li Zilong, of course, you can go through the back door, but the image of a high-IQ bad guy is one of the necessary cultivations for an excellent spy drama.
The appearance of Li Zilong made more laughs, but it damaged the level of confrontation in espionage warfare.
What is not optimistic is that this drama premiered on Beijing Satellite TV and Guangdong Satellite TV, and the ratings of the segment were only sixth, and the popularity was relatively dismal, and the above three roles hindered the possibility of this drama becoming a hit.
Judging from the first four episodes, Tang Fei was suspected to be released and then suspected, and although the entire means of entering and escaping was more reasonable, it was somewhat simpler.
It is worth mentioning that the main task of the whole drama is to help the Soviet Union get out of trouble, Tang Fei is more like a Soviet spy, and in the current international pattern that has not been laid out enough, his role has somewhat lost some sense of identity for the audience.
In general, the rhythm of this drama is flat and stable, the plot is flat and straight, and the spy battle is still and deep, which is a bit bland and not surprising for the audience who have now watched various reverse narratives.
Next, the spies of the Soviet Intelligence Bureau will also obstruct it, and all the forces will appear in unison, and Tang Fei should have a lot of masochistic scenes.
Tang Fei in the play, Liu Yunlong outside the play, what are the odds of winning this time?
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