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Recently watched the anti-war spy war film "On the Cliff" directed by the famous director Zhang Yimou, I personally feel that the storyline of the whole movie is very mediocre, especially the ending, there is no feeling at all, a little bit incomprehensible. However, with Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, Ni Dahong, Qin Hailu and a bunch of other drama bones, the explosive acting skills of each role have hard supported this drama.
Spy dramas have always been a type with the most Chinese characteristics in domestic TV dramas. What he depicts is a group of people who are willing to hide their names in anonymity, throw their heads and spill their blood, but not for their own fame and fortune, but only for the strong faith in their hearts and the people who suffer all over the world.
Time flies, the years change, and even after decades, we still have tears in our eyes for those nameless warriors. Today, Xiao Hao is here to take stock of my personal favorite five super classic spy dramas.
I. "Dark Calculation"
Classic lines from "Dark Calculations":
I don't believe in Buddha. Buddha is my spiritual sustenance, not my faith. Faith is the goal, sustenance is the need, it is helpless, it is the last resort. Faith is that you are at your service, sustenance is that it is at your service... It allows all my confusion and pain to find a place to stay in order to work hard and strive for the realization of my faith! Life is a breath, faith is a thought!
Man must die once, but he does not know when and how he will die. Those who are alive will die, and those who gather will disperse. This is the principle of the eternal growth of all things. Life is as impermanent as the clouds of autumn, and no one knows whether death is waiting for them at this station or the next. That's why it's painful, confused, scared, panicked. As soon as you master the time and manner of your own death, you will become fearless. Use your life to prepare for death and calmly approach the end!
Comrade Ann, I want to go home, my mother has no firewood to burn.
Deciphering codes is the hardest thing in the world, harder than rubbing a rope with sand, harder than casting a sword with air, harder than lighting ice with fire, and it takes you to understand all the highest mysteries and all the lowest mysteries in the world, in addition to the necessary knowledge, technology and experience, but also good luck far beyond the stars.
Love, oh, terrible love, once it falls into the red dust, it will be doomed.
"Dark Calculation" was released in 2005, adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous domestic writer Mai Jia, directed by Liu Yunlong, the godfather of espionage, starring Liu Yunlong, Wang Baoqiang, Chen Shu, Gao Ming and so on. The drama is divided into three chapters: "Listening to the Wind", "Watching the Wind" and "Catching the Wind", which mainly tells the little-known legend of a group of special intelligence workers in China.
Before the broadcast of this drama, the spy drama was more called "anti-special drama", mainly depicting the counter-espionage work of the public security department in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, as for the real spy means, it involved less.
Perhaps today, the specific technologies of telegraph code, Morse code, and code-breaking in spy movies, as well as the working status of our underground workers, are things that all spy dramas have long been playing, but before "Dark Calculations", these plots have never been on the screen in full light. So if you ask who started the espionage boom after 2005. Then the answer is "Dark Calculations".
For me, the most impressive shot of "Dark Calculation" is the end of the whole world, when the solemn and majestic international song is played, and the young father and the elderly son look at each other beyond time and space. Alas, tears welled up in my eyes, and I was embarrassed by myself.
II. "Latent"
"Latent" classic lines:
There are a lot of people there like me, it's another world, a good place, a good scenery. You're so young, so pretty, you can choose. If you think about it, in late autumn, you stand in a majestic line, striding forward, singing standing songs, to change the whole of China. What's that momentum? A small Yu Zecheng is a send-off on the side of the road. You saw him, he saw you, you waved your hands and passed. Further on is a more meaningful life. Frustrated? It is nothing more than the disease-free moaning of a little Bourgeois, and nostalgia for it is a high degree of myopia! Sometimes when you look a little farther, don't you have everything, including love!
Station Manager: Gather the will, defend the leader, these eight words I have studied for fifteen years, from the Revival Society to the present
Yu Zecheng: What did you research?
Station Manager: The result is that people do not do it for themselves, and the heavens are damned.
There are two gold bars here, and you tell me which one is noble and which one is dirty.
Yu Zecheng: If there is money to earn, there will be people who will fight hard
Cuiping: We are not to make money, we also dare to fight
Yu Zecheng: Yes, because we are people of faith.
Like "Dark Calculation", Lurking is also adapted from a novel, released in 2009, "Latent" is directed by Jiang Wei and Fu Yi, and starring Sun Honglei, Yao Chen, Zu Feng, Shen Aojun and so on.
If "Dark Calculation" is the pioneering work of spy drama, then this "Latent" can be called the peak of spy drama. For this drama, I have personally watched it more than ten times, and I would like to say what I feel:
First, the IQ of both the enemy and us in this drama is very online, and the turn-based duel between you and me is very online. Unlike the previous spy movies, it is always our wit and bravery, and the enemy is stupid and incompetent. In this drama, the good and evil sides are full of confrontation and climax. When I watched, I had to concentrate every minute, afraid of missing some wonderful passages, and I couldn't understand it when I looked at it again.
Second, this drama breaks the usual serious atmosphere in the previous spy war dramas, mixed with a lot of funny and relaxed plots in the gap, Yu Zecheng deals with the relationship between husband and wife, colleagues, and leaders, like a life drama, so that we have a sense of substitution for workers like us.
Third, the protagonist's appearance is subversive, Sun Honglei and Yao Chen are not winning with their appearance, more like a group of ordinary people with flesh and blood. The dress in the play is also very simple, with a sense of the times of that era. It is precisely because the appearance is not high, so they need to conquer the audience with superb acting skills.
III. "Kite"
You wait, and maybe one day you don't want to see a situation where some Chinese will have nothing. Proletarian, ignorant, ruthless, unable, virtuous, beautiful, and finally become scoundrels, talking with their eyes open, talking with their mouths open, and lying with their conscience. Ridiculous and shameless to not know what one's soul is. What is integrity and shame? What is the comity of justice? The class struggle turned into a struggle for interests. No trust, no responsibility. Moral degeneration, even greed and corruption, mercenary intentions, intrigue, deceitfulness. All these are the results of today's people exposing each other, criticizing each other, betraying each other, and fighting people as a whole person.
Women, always overconfident. I always thought that under the pomegranate skirt, men were stupid pigs. In fact, men are the most cunning animals in the world.
Without faith, there would be no motivation, and there would be no new China. Faith comes from the toiling masses, who bravely give their lives for the establishment of a nation of equal freedom, freedom, oppression and exploitation. Such faith is the true faith.
In our line of work, anything can be fake, and only if you don't get it is true.
Another work directed by Liu Yunlong, the godfather of domestic spy dramas, was banned for four years, and after a large number of modifications, it was finally released in 2017, liu Yunlong, Luo Haiqiong, and the era spy drama starring in the lead.
The drama takes the life and emotional experience of Zheng Yaoxian, a Communist Party member who lurks within the military command, code-named "Kite" as the main line, and tells the story of a Communist Party intelligence officer who insists on his faith.
The theme of the play "Kite" is more sensitive, not a cool drama of the agent playing handsome, on the contrary, there are many plots in the play, expressing the heartache of the intelligence personnel, this group of people who dance on the tip of the knife, but also ordinary people with flesh and blood, they are many times, in complex situations, what they do, have nothing to do with right or wrong, but in specific historical situations, in different camps, made different choices, but also need to understand and care.
IV. "Before the Dawn"
"Before Dawn" was released in 2010, directed by Liu Jiang, wu Xiubo, Lin Yongjian, Lu Jianmin, Haiqing and other leading actors, a good spy drama, plot and characters are indispensable, "Before Dawn" changed the previous domestic drama dragging plot, absorbed the tense rhythm of American dramas, almost every episode has a burst point, and then left a suspense at the end of each episode, plot twists, refreshing.
And the drama in the shaping of the character is also impressive, Wu Xiaobo we will not say, today mainly talk about the villain leader Lin Yongjian, as a comedian, starring in a serious spy drama, itself is a test of his own acting skills, but in this play, he starred in a villain, but created a flesh and blood image, this image is not like the vicious, dirty villain of the previous TV series, but has its own faith, and in the real life of the play, is a good leader, a good father, The role of a good husband is not out of the drama at all, and the acting skills are really good.
V. "Red"
"Red" was released in 2014, directed by Yang Lei, and starring Zhang Luyi, Tao Hong, Zhou Zhouwei, Li Tianzhu and other anti-war spy dramas. This drama may not be seen by many people, but it is indeed a very good domestic spy drama.
Many people see "Red", which is similar to the title of "Liberation" with the main theme color, and may feel that it is another very grand film, but in fact, it is not like this, "Red" is not a simple spy drama like "Dark Calculation", it is a unique spy drama, it is more like a reasoning drama, a romance drama, a life drama.
He focuses on the story of the multi-structural forces in the Shanghai Concession, an isolated island behind the enemy lines, and the life of the city in Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the story of the protagonist, as a small accountant who was once timid and afraid of things, bravely struggled with the Japanese invaders for the sake of his family and the country.
Since the end of "Kite" in 2017, the climax of spy dramas that has lasted for more than a decade has gradually declined, there are too many people on the old road, but the new road has been slow to be reclaimed. However, I believe that the motherland will not forget that period of history, the people will not forget, and there will certainly be more and better spy war TV series in the future.