Brushed to a good spy drama, watched 12 episodes in one breath, watched the male protagonist Ma Tianmu being hypnotized by the villain, ran out of the window and fell, smashing the broken glass. This plot is really a rhythm that people can't stop.
Director Gong Zhaohui has previously directed two dramas, one is the 2017 "Patriot", starring Zhang Luyi, and the other is the 2019 forensic drama "Forensic Psychic", starring Nie Yuan.
"The Forerunner" is the third TV series directed by Gong Chaohui, this time Gong director invited Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan, the two male protagonists, the two played the opponent, both brothers and sworn enemies, the two actors resisted this wonderful battle with full skill.
In the French Concession of Shanghai in 1931, beautiful foreign cars and rickshaws full of sense of age shuttle through it. There are graceful And colorful Shanghai women walking in the Huajie Lane, and the Shanghai atmosphere of the 30s is coming to the face.
The series began with a cinematic texture and charm, so that I was used to watching dramas at double speeds, preferring to maintain the original normal speed.
A good drama has this charm, so that you can't help it, don't dare to slacken off, slow down in this fast-paced era, the heart is also quiet, immersed in it, and double speed, as if it is a kind of blasphemy, afraid that it breaks the original rhythm.
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Ma Tianmu, played by Zhang Luyi, returned from Paris, France, and worked as a foreign comprador at the Bierre Bank, which was opened by the French. This is just a superficial identity he uses to hide his eyes and ears, and his real identity is that of a newly joined member of the ccp's underground party.
Tang Xianping, played by Nie Yuan, was then the head of the Investigation Department of the Shanghai Police Department, and was loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and went all out to hunt down the Communist Party in Shanghai.
Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping stood in an incompatible position as soon as they appeared, who knew that these two people still had a lifelong friendship.
Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping used to be classmates of the Whampoa Military Academy, and together they participated in the Northern Expedition and aspired to serve the country, and on the battlefield, Ma Tianmu blocked the bullets for Tang Xianping.
After many years, old friends meet again, but they have different positions, life and death are opposed.
Tang Xianping, who had not recognized the communists, did not have any soft hands in the face of his second uncle, and once he became suspicious of his old classmate Ma Tianmu, he naturally bit down on it.
And Ma Tianmu is not a vegetarian, he is bold, courageous and strategic, coupled with the help of the old COMMUNIST Wu Chongxin, he has turned dangers into disasters in several operations.
Zhang Luyi played the role of Ma Tianmu into three points, his apparent identity is a foreign comprador, mercenary, and when reunited with Tang Xianping, he actually spent a lot of money for a bottle of broken red wine, for which Tang Xianping lost him a bottle of fine red wine.
Behind this, Ma Tianmu deliberately picked up the bottle and smashed the red wine in order to save the Communist Party member hiding in the cargo box to cover up the blood of the injured comrade who dripped on the ground.
Ma Tianmu actually hurried away in order to please the boss lady for a promotion and salary increase when he was having a drink with Tang Xianping, leaving Tang Xianping alone and stunned, with an expression of "you will not be able to do it".
The fact is that after Ma Tianmu learned the news that his comrades were in trouble, he immediately went back to contact his superiors to find a way to save people.
In Tang Xianping's view, what kind of degeneration has Ma Tianmu, who used to be enthusiastic about serving the country, degenerated into now? Relying on the reason of leaving a back road for Tang Xianping, he guaranteed the release of the suspect, and incidentally also accepted a large bribe from Director Chen of the Patrol Fang.
But behind all this was the meticulous planning carried out by Ma Tianmu and Wu Chongxin to rescue comrades, and Ma Tianmu got the money and turned it over to the party organization for funding.
What Tang Xianping saw was that Ma Tianmu actually sold the country's precious cultural relics and bronzes overseas for money, and even after the cultural relics were captured and confiscated by him, Ma Tianmu also remembered thief, "When you are convenient, help me get it out."
In fact, this is exactly what Ma Tianmu designed, through Tang Xianping's hand to intercept the opium and prevent the loss of national cultural relics overseas.
Nie Yuan's acting skills are also excellent, he plays the Kuomintang villain in the play, but he plays a kind of foolish loyalty full of a sense of justice, holding patriotic loyalty, doing things rigorously and persistently, and even because of impartial law enforcement, he has repeatedly ruined the good deeds of the bureau chief.
Even in the face of his own savior, he was not bound or blinded by the deep friendship, let alone opened a net, but repeatedly asked for verification, and even when Ma Tianmu passed the level of Pei Ruhai and others no longer doubted Ma Tianmu, Tang Xianping did not dispel his doubts about him.
How meticulous is Tang Xianping's heart?
The Communist Party's forged resume of Chen Lie looks impeccable, but Tang Xianping does not let go of every suspicious person easily, and he even finds a real Hong Konger to let him read what Chen Lie has said sentence by sentence.
In the end, Tang Xianping actually found a flaw in Chen Lie's casual remark that "the catfish is a crucian carp", deduced that Chen Lie was not a Hong Konger but had forged his identity, suspecting that he was either the Communist Party or the Wang Party.
After Ma Tianmu and Wu Chongxin analyzed the situation, they found a breakthrough that could save Chen Lie: Tang Xianping suspected that Chen Lie was Wang Dang, so he deliberately misled him to make a wrong judgment.
Wu Chongxin forged a letter from Hong Kong and sent it to Chen Lie's residence, where he was intercepted by Tang Xianping's men.
The letter contained a photograph of Wang Jingwei, and on the back of the photo was inscribed a "Golden Wisp Song" that imitated Wang Jingwei's handwriting.
After the police intercepted the letter, Zhao Tianliang determined that Chen Lie was Wang Jingwei's person, but Tang Xianping did not think so: What if the letter was forged?
Tang Xian's heart was as delicate as a hair, and he had a doubt about any superficial thing, like an old wolf, his eyes were like a torch, and he held on to his prey.
However, under the gaze of this wolf, Ma Tianmu still relied on his firm belief and excellent wisdom to dispel Tang Xianping's doubts, and gradually guided Tang Xianping to believe that he Ma Tianmu had become a foreign comprador with a mercenary interest because he was desperate for the world and had no hope of serving the country, and under the surface of his mercenary intention, there was still a heart of blood boiling to serve the country.
When the two were preparing for the revival meeting with Hou Zichuan, a teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, Tang Xianping recommended Ma Tianmu to enter the revival meeting. Hou Zichuan invited Pei Ruhai, an old treacherous giant, to teach them a secret service class.
Pei Ruhai hypnotized Ma Tianmu in class, and Ma Tianmu's mind was actually strong enough to resist this hypnosis, and he forcibly woke up from the hypnotic state, not only did not reveal his identity as a communist, but used Pei Ruhai's hypnosis to pull a panic, listening to Pei Ruhai's hints and breaking through the window and falling.
Ma Tianmu finally passed all kinds of tests, escaped Pei Ruhai's legal eyes, and also reassured Tang Xianping's doubts, and his career as a spy had just begun.
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Behind a cracked TV series, there is an excellent script.
The plot of "The Forerunner" is too wonderful, step by step, carefully designed, but designed without a trace, the actors act very realistically, naturally bringing people into the plot.
The underground party action represented by Ma Tianmu in the play brilliantly presents the complex situation of various forces in Shanghai at that time.
In the play, according to the atmosphere of power, Shanghai is divided into the French Concession and the Chinese Border.
The authority of the French Concession is the French Concession Patrol House. Chen Hengli, director of the political department of the patrol house, obeyed the orders of Fan Yiting, the inspector general of the patrol house, and Fan Yiting's boss was Mr. Brattini, the director of the patrol house, who was known as the most powerful man in Shanghai.
The force in China is the Shanghai Police Department. Tang Xianping, the chief of the detective department of the police station, and Zhao Tianliang, the deputy director of the police department, Tang Xianping is the righteous son of Yu Duxing, deputy chief of the police station, and Above Yu Duxing is Director Yang.
The Public Security Bureau, mentioned many times by the characters in the play, is the highest municipal organization and leading institution in the French Concession in Shanghai.
The French Concession Patrol House and the top brass of the Shanghai Police Department colluded with each other to do the opium business and illegally make huge profits.
In the opium business, these two forces were the main forces, and at the same time used the sea transportation lines provided by the Foreign Company set up by the French.
Therefore, when Biel, the boss of Bier's foreign firm, is suspected of murder and fraud, Fan Yiting, the inspector general of the patrol house, will shield him, because his cargo is still on Biel's ship.
The opium business also involved the local gang organization, the Green Gang, and Tian Kuosheng of the Green Gang was under the orders of Inspector General Fan Yiting, who was responsible for transporting opium from the port to the French Concession.
Chen Hengli, the patrol house, also opened his own opium museum, Yunge, because it was his own business, and the patrol room that handled the case of smoking bans would never be found here. Therefore, Wu Chongxin, the head of the Shanghai underground party, saw the safety of this place and hid here, occasionally connecting with comrades here.
At that time, the domestic situation was that there was the Chiang Kai-shek clique on the Nanjing side and the Wang Jingwei clique in Hong Kong, and the Kuomintang forces were divided into two, and the situation was unclear, and no one knew which side would take power in the future.
Occupying the largest sphere of influence in Shanghai was naturally the Kuomintang of the Chiang Kai-shek faction, while those who quietly operated in Shanghai were both the underground communist party from Yan'an and the Wang party from Wang Jingwei.
The head of the underground Communist Party in Shanghai was Wu Chongxin, the first traffic station in the antique shop, but because of a traitor Pei Ruhai within the Communist Party, the traffic station was destroyed, and many party members were in danger.
Later, the traffic station was transferred to the Hujiang apartment, Chen Lie was arrested and imprisoned, and Wu Chongxin docked Chen Lie's subordinate, Jiang Jiqing, the owner of the Hujiang apartment, and Shi Dachuan.
Wu Chongxin developed Ma Tianmu to join the party in Paris, France, and the first task Ma Tianmu faced after coming to Shanghai was to assist in the rescue of Chen Lie and the transfer of Document Zero. This is also the first highlight of Ma Tianmu's battle of wits and courage with his former classmate and comrade-in-arms Tang Xianping.
The plot is a wave of uneven, a wave of rise, under the complicated situation of various forces in Shanghai, the CPC underground party around the core task, launched a wonderful spy battle drama of mediation struggle with the Kuomintang.
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The supporting roles in the play are mostly old drama bones, and the acting skills are simply pure, shaping the characters into distinct personalities and three-dimensional images. Whether it is the Shanghai Police Station, up to Deputy Director Yu Duxing, down to Deputy Director Zhao Tianliang, or to the French Concession Patrol House, up to Inspector Fan Yiting, down to the head of the hai squad, the Portrait of the Kuomintang Police Officers is vividly interpreted.
Wu Chongxin, Qiu Shaolin, Chen Lie, and others on the communist side showed the abundance of underground PARTY members, and even those who did not appear much, such as Qiu Shaolin, left a deep impression.
Several old drama bones are even deeper into the essence of their respective roles, and the different personalities are interpreted very expressively.
Cao Weiyu, who has participated in "Don't Talk to Strangers", "The Legend of Chu Han" and "The Identity of a Father", has a very good performance.
Wu Chongxin, the old underground party of the Communist Party of China, played in "The Forerunner", is a strong-willed character, full of wisdom, capable of handling things, with rich experience in underground work and struggle, and also the leader of the male protagonist Ma Tianmu.
Zhang Fan, who played Chen Jiaying's boss in the spy suspense drama "Peace Hotel", this time played Yu Duxing, deputy director of the Shanghai Police Department. This man was impatient, serving within the Jiang faction, and at the same time loyal to his teacher Wang Jingwei, secretly preparing military expenses for Wang Jingwei.
Huo Qing is an old drama bone, with many works, has always been steady and steady, and has been praised by the industry as an extremely hard-working, extremely potential, and extremely low-key strength actor.
In the play, he played a communist traitor Pei Ruhai, who was an old traitor who suffered heavy losses to the underground communist party in Shanghai because of his rebellion. Later, he was invited by Hou Zichuan to teach a special affairs class at the Fuxing Society. Huo Qing took this fierce and sophisticated high-level traitor very well.
"The Walker", a spy drama that looks good and makes you give up double speed. Whether it is the acting skills of the actors or the production team, they are very outstanding and very attentive, and they have achieved a well-made and wonderful drama.
But there are also some flaws in the play, such as being criticized by netizens, Tang Xianping found evidence of Bier's murder and fraud, all by coincidence. Another point is that the female character image in the play is slightly weaker, such as Jiang Yunqing, a female student played by Guo Xiaoting, whose personality and behavior are a bit exaggerated and unconvincing.
After all, the flaws are not hidden, the overall plot is still very exciting, especially the spy battle between Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping, which is full of tension and tension, and the follow-up plot is worth looking forward to!