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"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

Hadori

Note: This article contains spoilers

Brushed more than thirty episodes of "Acts 3", the author is a heart attack. As a "Apostle Walker Tenth Grade Scholar and Sippi Powder" who broke into the pit six years ago and exploded Seed × Nail Sister, seeing this effect in the third part now, it is really like a fish in the throat, not spitting out unhappy.

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

Acts 3 poster

This IP-derived series focuses on the undercover life in the gray area, struggling to solve the crime. The story mainly takes place in 2010's Acts 2, a prequel to Acts 1, while Acts 3, which aired in the third quarter of this year, takes place between 2019 and 2020, a decade after the prequel. In terms of timeline, it is 2-1-3, such an order.

Lin Feng, Miao Qiaowei, ma Guoming, played by Burst Seed, Zhuo Kai, and Wei Zuorong, are the main characters of the third part, and in the second part, Xu Tiantian and Zheng Shumei, who surround Zhuo Kai, qin Huanxi, who runs through the three parts, also returns. The newly added Zhang Jizi, Dou Yaxi, and Pang Haoyang also have very important scenes in the play, especially Madam G, played by Huang Zhiwen, as a CIB chief inspector with social disorders, he has an emotional line with Miao Qiaowei and Ma Guoming, and is a key figure who affects the advancement of the main line.

Whether it is the starring lineup or the cameo list, you can see the intention of "Acts 3", but why is such a big IP drama that is eagerly anticipated, only 7 points in Douban, and is also pointed out by netizens that the main line is chaotic, there are too many emotional dramas, and the water injection is obvious?

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

Wei Zuorong, played by Ma Guoming, is a key figure in this season.

Judging from the episodes that have been broadcast, Acts 3 is mainly divided into three parts: the human organ trafficking case, the Chonglian News Agency Zakan election case, and the "Game of Thrones" of the Security Bureau vs. Criminal Intelligence Division.

The screenwriter's intention may have been spent on the case of selling human organs on the black market, the scene is compact, the pace is bright, and all the people and horses appear one by one, fighting you to the death. Whether it is Han Jianyi's ostensible socialite, but actually a black-hearted doctor who hides dirt and grime; the "blackening" of Superintendent Fan Xiaohua of the Commercial Investigation Bureau, the emotional line of Zhuo Kai and his wife Mo Xianqing; or the trial twist that triggers a small climax... All of them play TVB's best criminal investigation, power plot, and court drama to the end.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the case of Pang Haoyang vs Nine Fingers Strong Selection of the Siting Pavilion, it took more than ten episodes to tell the pure love drama between a candidate who tried to whitewash the underworld and led his subordinates on the right path, and the silly white sweet undercover little police flower. Not to mention the very absurd mission impossible of washing the underworld, how small is the possibility of actual operation, just look at one person and one vote, who invites guests to dinner and more big guys, just support who sits in the museum This election system is really no different from family wine.

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

The "Arctic Ocean Couple" composed of Cai Sibei and Zhang Zhenlang.

The most bizarre thing is that after talking about more than ten episodes of the sit-in election, it was hard to get close to the ultimate goal of "whitewashing", but Madam G caught Haoyang Gor and sent him to prison with the "ledger" photographed by the small police flower. The cat and mouse game that has gone around such a large circle hastily ended, neither completing the so-called "whitewashing business", nor fundamentally attacking the operation of the Chonglian Society, in addition to the role of attracting overseas buyers of online casinos, which has contributed a little to the main line, a lot of time has been spent on the "Arctic Ocean couple", and it is really a lonely choice. If you want to watch falling in love, you can go to see a small sweet drama, and watch what criminal investigation drama! What's more, Pang Haoyang's online casino is also illegal, selling it to the next underworld, where is the significance of whitewashing... This kind of "water injection drama" that is useless with the social ji and useless with the main line, in addition to the pair of Sipi Cai Sibei and Zhang Zhenlang, I can't think of a second reason.

To tell the truth, the screenwriter could have deleted four or five episodes of the selection of the sitting hall, focusing on how to establish a relationship between the undercover agents of the ten-year trilogy and Ma Guoming's dual personality. In particular, the mystery of Ma Guoming's life can be done more, and it can also enhance the interaction and stickiness between the main actors. Undercover controversy, how to fake the truth in the black and white gray world, and maintain the original intention, this is the real essence of the existence of "Acts".

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

Exploded's private life is also explained in this season.

Although the characters in the first two films have returns or flashbacks, some of the bridge sections seem to be more for the sake of creating stems. For example, the ex-girlfriend and son of Burst Seed, such as Wang Yongxiang and Zhang Yuxuan, the small characters who once glimpsed a glimpse in the prequel, their undercover stories need more screenwriters to enrich and enrich, and they need to spend more energy to straighten out the logical relationship between them. Only when the details of these characters are established, can the theme of "undercover life" stand. Unfortunately, from the actual broadcast effect, they are more like tool people, whether it is the character or the plot twist, they are quite blunt.

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

Madam G, played by Huang Zhiwen, is also very old-fashioned in love.

Equally blunt is the character of Madam G. Although there are certain bugs in her character settings, it is inevitably too unreasonable to deal with specific cases and human circumstances. From her way of doing things, it can also reflect that there are indeed many problems in the CIB department. Take Adu and Exploded Seed for example, it seems that anyone can contact the undercover, often four or five people to hold small meetings, the number of people can make up a table of mahjong. Handler's rights and responsibilities are unknown, and Madam G, as part of Game of Thrones, has obvious weaknesses, and the whole article is more like her growth history and Sir Zhuo's teaching classes.

In addition, if you want to talk about undercover, talk about the mental process of undercover; if you want to talk about power, you should orchestrate the interest struggle between different departments. However, the screenwriters are sloppy at both ends, focusing on love. Love is just that, gangster love is filmed like a campus drama, undercover love is filmed like a nightclub style, which is confusing.

"Acts 3": A good undercover scene, how to make a small sweet drama

The "Game of Thrones", which should be unfolded in detail, is very sloppily choreographed.

Overall, "Acts 3" has many disappointing places, the people are hollow, the turns are blunt, every line wants to be grasped, but each one is not grasped, and the script is like a flying paper boy pieced together. Unfortunately, the episode has been broadcast for most of the time, there is no hope of saving the scene, just ask the ending not to be too hasty, otherwise it will really waste these hard-won golden lineups.

This issue is edited by Xing Tan

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