In the play, Li Guangjie plays Luo Jia.
In the play, Yuan Wenkang plays the prison guard Bai Zhenhe.
In the plot currently broadcast, the advertising implantation is considered by some viewers to be somewhat abrupt.
After the two Qing Palace dramas of "Yanxi Raiders" and "Ruyi Zhuan" have come to an end, a tough guy drama drama "Hum City" has been launched and is currently being broadcast on iQiyi, which tells the story of the mysterious male Luo Jia (played by Li Guangjie) and the prison guard Bai Zhenhe (played by Yuan Wenkang) turning enemies into friends, and the two brothers work together to fight against the enemy, while fighting wits and courage with drug trafficking organizations, while searching for the truth. Beijing News interviewed the director of the play Liu Shuqiao, chief producer Li Jing, director Liu Shuqiao said that "Humble City" is a play with all the elements of men's drama, whether it is a police theme, action type, or gang secret war, foreign pursuit of the story, "combined together is a screen of straight male tough guy drama." ”
However, after the show aired, some viewers thought that the advertising implantation was too frequent and blunt, and a drink and a game were inserted into the plot too often. The Beijing News asked about this, and the drama side said, "The advertising implantation with the plot can make the audience have an interactive viewing experience, then this implantation is also benign for the content itself, which will produce secondary dissemination and stimulate the audience's desire for expression." However, if this implantation makes the audience not have a good experience in the process of watching the drama, forming a groove or accusation, then it is also another form of feedback on the content, and the film and television industry and advertising implantation need to continue to work hard and explore in this field. ”
Casting
Both are "old artists"
Liu Shuqiao said that the difference between "Hum City" and other similar theme dramas is that "Humble City" is a group portrait drama, multiple characters form a crime city with an overhead background, and the identity of the characters is not fixed, there is no absolute good and bad people. "Everyone's growth line and story line have their emotional roots that can be traced back, and the difference in position is actually just the difference in their situation."
One of the biggest highlights of the show is the interaction between the two male protagonists. At first, Baek Jin-hyuk, as the inspector of the prison guard in Sipa Prison, was difficult to luojia everywhere. They came and went in prison, fighting wits and courage, and when the dark figures appeared, the pace of the two began to converge in a unified direction. The pair of "tough guy cp" composed of Li Guangjie and Yuan Wenkang have also been jokingly called "anti-drug version of "Zhen Soul"" by netizens. In Liu Shuqiao's view, the choice of these two male actors, first of all, is the fit of the persona, and the age is also particularly in line. "Secondly, this is a tough guy play, Luo Jia and Bai Zhenhe must have a certain sense of vicissitudes and mystery, these two points, Guangjie and Old Yuan have it." Both people are also 'old artists' who can compete with each other and achieve each other. ”
Action scenes
Rarely use a stand-in, the male protagonist exercises muscles
As a "tough guy" web series, the first few episodes of the show have no shortage of one-on-one fights and gang fights. After entering Sipa Prison, in order to meet Yu Yongyi, the core figure of the Seven Star Society, and investigate the cause of his brother's death, the male protagonist Luo Jia deliberately beat people in the prison, grinding keys in the confinement box, and stealing contraband. Zheng Taicheng, president of the "Seven Star Society", and Yu Yongyi, minister of the "Seven Star Society", have been in danger many times, and there have been many fights such as laundry attacks and bath assassinations.
In the play, Luo Jia had several fights with Bai Zhenhe and Yu Yongyi in Sipa Prison, which was called by netizens as "to a certain extent, defending the dignity of the action scene to the drama". Liu Shuqiao told reporters that in order to shoot the scene, the male actors all went to the crew in advance to do a lot of action training, "Guangjie and Old Yuan also spent a lot of time to exercise muscles because there are a lot of naked upper body shots, and strive to look good for the exposed parts." Because a large number of shots are face-bound, it is rare to use a stand-in, and it is done by the actors themselves. "In terms of action design, the crew wants to respect the rules of street fighting to the greatest extent, and in the case of ensuring the degree of viewability, it does not do a particularly multi-routine design, nor does it pursue gorgeous and cool, simply put, it is to take the realistic route."
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Features are also difficulties
Set in Malaysia, "Humble City" creates an exotic atmosphere, a nest of police and bandits, the integration of officials and businessmen, and the confusion of black and white, showing the ecological chain of Southeast Asian gangsters, with some Styles of Korean gangster movies and Hong Kong dramas. Liu Shuqiao said that when the script was written, a crime city called Lankupa was fictionalized. "Malaysian culture is diverse, and chinese make up a large proportion, and the audience has a natural sense of substitution. The ancestral halls of some malaysian societies, the humanistic things are well preserved, there are many scenes that cannot be seen in China, such as Penang Kek Lok Temple, Nyonya Museum, and Kuala Lumpur's horse farm, there are many textured and beautiful scenes, we all went to shoot. ”
Foreign filming is not only the feature of "Hum City", but also one of the biggest difficulties of the show, Liu Shuqiao said, because the important crew members are domestic teams, there are great obstacles to communication with the local team in Malaysia. There are changes in the shooting every day, and the scene involving art is too large, and it takes a lot of time to communicate. "Just like playing you draw I guess, you say a word, through the translation, and then after the Malaysian staff is not a meaning." And the local staff is more laid back and has a fixed commute time. I have been worried about time and progress, and finally I have overcome obstacles. ”
Liu Wei, chief reporter of the Beijing News