For espionage fans, "Lurking", "Cliff" and "Kite" are definitely three peaks that stand tall, neither circumvented nor can they be ignored. These three dramas can be described as their own characteristics, although each fan's preferences are different, and the ranking in their minds is also different, but this is not the focus of the author today. I wonder if anyone has ever thought about what it would be like if these three dramas were fused together? Some people may think that this is a dream, but what I want to tell you is that this is not a dream, but there is already such a drama, called "Borrowing a Gun"!
The screenwriter and director of this drama is Jiang Wei, the choreographer of "Latent", the male lead is Zhang Jiayi, the actor of Zhou Yi in "Cliff", and the female lead is Luo Haiqiong, the actor of the shadow Han Bing in "Kite", which can be described as a strong combination. Of course, at this time, Zhang Jia and Luo Haiqiong, like Sun Honglei of "Latent", are all first involved in the field of spy dramas, and they have not yet had much fame. "Borrow a Gun" was filmed in 2011, and the time point in the story is between "Latent" and "Cliff", continuing the style of "Latent", set in the Tianjin French Concession during the Japanese occupation period. Different from the middle and upper-class routes of Yu Zecheng and Zhou Yi, the identity of Xiong Kuohai, the male protagonist of this drama, is only a small person in the lower class of society, with no power, no power and no money. From beginning to end, he was suffering from lack of money, running around for money, on the one hand, he could not even pay a dollar for the tuition of his children's schooling, and on the other hand, he had to spend hundreds of dollars in order to get important information from the Japanese. In reality, Xiong Kuohai, who was extremely embarrassed, dreamed of establishing his own intelligence network, and even dared to plot against Japanese officers. However, the orders of his superiors were very different from his philosophy, and the so-called "beheading operation" was to assassinate a vicious Japanese gendarmerie commander, Keiji Kato, at all costs, to use his intelligence group as an action group, burying all the internal lines he had worked so hard to run.
Zhang Jiayi portrayed Xiong Kuohai, a small person who first learned cross-talk and then threw himself into the revolution, vividly and vividly, and his tongue was like a spring, even if he did not have enough to eat, he could coax his wife and children to be happy. But the reality is too embarrassing, and the comrades on the entire intelligence front are poorer and poorer, and they often quarrel over money. The activity funds applied for by the superiors could not be obtained for a long time, and the Japanese lion who had mastered the intelligence opened his mouth, and Xiong Kuohai, who had long been unemployed, could only turn his left and right, and opened his face, dragging the female protagonist Pei Yanling's rent on the one hand, and defrauding money from Yang Xiaoju, the leader of the Kuomintang military command. The most ridiculous thing is that in order to assassinate Kato Keiji, the superiors did not even have a suitable gun, and could only fraudulently rent a crooked machine gun from the hands of the Imperial Allied Forces in the countryside, and the Imperial Allied soldiers who sent the guns wanted to eat a dog and ignored the buns and had no money to buy them, and finally even gave half of the negotiated price, which made people cry.
Pei Yanling, played by Luo Haiqiong, was originally an operator in the telephone bureau, and because she rented out the house to Xiong Kuohai but could not get the money for the house, she had a series of entanglements with her. At the same time, due to the particularity of her work, yang Xiaoju, the military commander, also wanted to absorb her to join the organization, and she gradually leaned towards the CCP side in her contact with Xiong Kuohai and Yang Xiaoju, and grew from a small woman who only recognized money in her eyes and was frightened by the devil's scream to a brave anti-Japanese fighter.
In addition to the protagonists, the supporting characters are also outstanding. Xiong Kuohai's wife Zhou Shuzhen, played by Yan Bingyan, the star of the movie "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", is a kind and virtuous woman, and when her husband's heart is shaken, it is she who knows the righteousness and sacrifices her life.
Yang Xiaoju, the leader of the military command, is a comic and is responsible for being a serious funny person. Speaking of the great truth is awe-inspiring righteousness, and the head is the Tao, but the actual action is not like that. However, in the end, he was still inspired by xiong Kuohai's spirit and asked him to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
The villain Keiji Kato is played by Shibuya Tenma, a Japanese actor who has starred in many film and television dramas with the main theme in China, and can also be regarded as a ghost professional. However, in this drama, his performance is decent, it is not false to attract hatred, but it is not to be feared.
There is also Li Yuanfang, who is famous in "Detective Di Renjie", who also plays a patrolman of the French Concession in the play, singing and fighting with Xiong Kuohai, all of whom belong to the kind of people who are rotten and hard-mouthed, which is very ridiculous.
Wang Jinsong, the villain lin Yaodong in this year's hit drama "Icebreaker Action", played the underground party cadre "Hammer" Yu Ting in this drama, who was dismissed and transferred because of the unfavorable task of "beheading action", and finally ran back in order to kill the target of his heart, Kato.
In another popular drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Zhang Xiaojing played Lei Jiayin, in this drama is Xiong Kuohai's younger brother Xiong Luocheng, a hot-blooded patriotic young man, who died heroically in the first "beheading operation".
There is also the Imperial Allied soldier Lao Man, who once played the landlord Wang Zhanjin, who was provoked to raise his knife and chase the secret agent for more than twenty miles in "Latent", and is also a very bright character in this drama.
The time from this drama is before "Latent", and the Wu station chief of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, which occasionally shows several faces, should be Wu Jingzhong. Since the original novels of these two dramas were written by the writer Long Yi, it is not an exaggeration to say that "Borrowed Gun" is a prequel to "Latent"! At the same time, this drama is the same as another drama starring Zhang Jiayi, "Cliff", and the protagonists at the end are dead. The difference is that "Borrow a Gun" died violently after completing the mission, while "Cliff" died a bit of a nest, which made many viewers dissatisfied, including the author. However, after the comparison between the two, I still think that the treatment of "Cliff" is more memorable, and although the treatment of "Borrowing a Gun" will make some viewers feel very cool, it makes a drama that originally felt quite real become a divine drama. Maybe this is the embarrassment of the creators of the TV series, how to shoot at the end will be dissatisfied.
In my opinion, the first 20 episodes of this 30-episode TV series feel extremely real, but in the next 10 episodes, Xiong Kuokai, who understands the significance of "beheading action", is forced to openly challenge Kato, which is simply the opening of the divine drama mode. Because of this, the drama has not reached the level of "Latent", "Cliff" and "Kite", which is a sigh!
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