The era of spy war dramas has always been said to be the ratings code of TV series, often out of the explosion, such as the earlier "lurking", "pretender", "kite", "dark calculation", "Peking no war" and other classics.
After the peak, because of factors such as fresh fading and story similarity, in the middle few years, whether it is Ren Jialun and Li Man's "Autumn Cicada", Zhang Yishan, Pan Yueming's "Man in the Bureau", or "The Odds of Victory" by Liu Yunlong, the "Godfather of Espionage", the popularity, ratings, and reputation have declined.
Until the past two years, "Hidden and Great" and "Rebel" have once again triggered a certain "spy war fever". It can be said that spy dramas are gradually becoming popular again.
Recently, there is a red spy drama "The Forerunner" starring Zhang Luyi, Nie Yuan, Han Xue and Guo Xiaoting, which was broadcast on Beijing Satellite TV on October 22, 2021, and broadcast simultaneously on iQiyi and Tencent Video.
The drama belongs to the promotion of broadcast, basically did not do the preliminary publicity, coupled with the fact that it is a renamed broadcast, so it is still a bit cold when it starts, and even many viewers do not know the existence of the show.
However, the audience who have seen it is still quite praised, and there are messages on Douban: "Straight to the point, tight rhythm, unexplained, good drama", "movie texture, good acting" and so on. And after laying the groundwork and laying suspense in the previous episodes, the subsequent episodes are more attractive to the audience.
After the broadcast, it did achieve very good ratings, and even won the second place in the CSM63 city ratings when the 5th and 6th episodes were broadcast, which can be said to be very eye-catching.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="10" > show the brutal struggle on the hidden front</h1>
"The Forerunner" is directed by Gong Zhaohui, dong jun as the producer, Zhang Luyi, Nie Yuan, Han Xue, Guo Xiaoting starring, Cao Weiyu, Huo Qing, Zheng Luoqian, Lu Gongzhen, Du Gonghai, Wang Cong, Zhao Yang, Zhang Fan and so on.
The play tells the story of the early 1930s, due to the betrayal of traitors, the underground organization of our Party in Shanghai was seriously damaged, and the revolutionary cause fell into a white terror. Ma Tianmu (Zhang Luyi), a young party member who was injured in the Northern Expedition to France, was ordered to complete various arduous tasks and save the story of the underground party under the eyes of secret agents, the Japanese army, and the Shanghai police station under the guidance of his superior Wu Zhongxin (Cao Weiyu) and the cooperation of the comrades of the party group, as the manager of the French Concession foreign bank.
Moreover, Ma Tianmu also went undercover to organize the "Revival Society" undercover Kuomintang secret service, and launched a hard-core contest with Tang Xianping (Nie Yuan), director of the Shanghai Investigation Department...
At the beginning of the plot, it is explained that the underground party was almost facing extinction at that time, because the appearance of traitors exposed important members of the underground party and confidential documents. In addition to completing the task, Ma Tianmu also needs to find and eliminate the traitors.
The rhythm of the series is very tense and bright, as soon as the game begins, Ma Tianmu arrives in Shanghai, and the contact person has been sacrificed. In white and terrifying Shanghai, Ma Tianmu's start is hellishly difficult.
For example, when he pretended to be the manager of a foreign bank, he had to be wary of his foreign boss who wanted to kill people and cheat insurance, and externally he had to face the suspicion and review of the secret service organization "Revival Society", and at the same time, he also had to communicate extensively, establish various social relations, build a network of relationships, and use this network to carry out intelligence work. It is also necessary to coordinate the organization of the comrades of the underground Party to complete their tasks. But it is precisely this difficult goal that makes the plot more real and tense.
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Most of the plot of "The Forerunner" revolves around Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping, both of whom were once high-caliber students at the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, they were born and died together on the battlefield, and Ma Tianmu was injured in the arm for protecting Tang Xianping. In the task of covering his comrades-in-arms, Ma Tianmu was fierce, sniping at the enemy at a high place, saving the lives of more than a dozen brothers, but now the two brothers who had passed the life were already on a completely different path when they met again.
Ma Tianmu used the cover of working in a foreign firm to secretly establish contact points to complete the tasks assigned by the party organization. At that time, Tang Xianping had been on a steady track, becoming a senior official in an important department of the Kuomintang, capturing many Communist Party members and doing many wrong things.
A few years after Ma Tianmu disappeared, the two brothers met again, Tang Xianping did not suspect Ma Tianmu's identity on the surface, and Ma Tianmu wanted to win Tang Xianping into the organization.
Therefore, after the reunion of the two old classmates, they could not confirm each other's identity and position, and the two opened a short contest, and it was this constant battle of wits and courage that made the rhythm of this drama tense and breathless.
Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan are both powerful acting schools, the opponent play of the two people is very exciting, at present, tang Xianping, who seems to be both good and evil, is a person with a great sense of justice inside, and in the end, can Ma Tianmu transform Tang Xianping and win over? Or is Tang Xianping the biggest boss of the whole drama, in the next game of super big chess? Who are the pawns? Who are the chess players?
These suspense are also the plots that will be elaborated in the future of "The Forerunner", and such a scene of two males loving and killing each other is also worth looking forward to.
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Zhang Luyi plays Ma Tianmu, who is polite and gentlemanly, and has the astute and decisiveness of Huangpu, Zhang Luyi's voice is low and magnetic, and the overall image is still very appropriate.
Zhang Luyi has previously starred in spy dramas such as "Red", "Sparrow", "Patriot", etc., and has also starred in film and television works such as "The Dedication of Suspect X", "Three Brothers in the Line of Fire", "New World", "Old Nine Doors" and so on.
It can be said that he is a very mellow and solid actor with good acting skills, although he has recently encountered a certain "Waterloo" in "Great Qin Fu", but that is basically irrelevant to acting.
Zhang Luyi's performance in "The Forerunner" is still remarkable, for example, he filmed the ass of Lao Fan, a Chinese inspector in the French Concession, saying that "the boundary style of the French Concession is not correct, to cover up the official style of the inspection room under the inspector's seat", while not caring about sarcastically accompanying the careful, deliberately showing a cunning and clever side, making people believe that he is an eight-sided and exquisite foreign firm manager.
Tang Xianping (played by Nie Yuan), played by Nie Yuan, is Ma Tianmu's classmate and comrade-in-arms, the two have had a lifelong friendship in the Northern Expedition War, and the current plot development of the two people is not in the same camp, so the most played by the two people is the game of "guessing identity".
Nie Yuan can be said to be a very famous actor in China, and his representative works include "Marrying the Wrong Flower Car to the Lang", "The Granary of the World", "Zhenguan Long Song", "Yanxi Raiders", "Journey to the West", "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" and so on.
Nie Yuan's acting skills have nothing to say, and this time Tang Xianping's role is very suitable for his own temperament. Tang Xianping had a side of saving the country with blood, and he also had a ruthlessness that was not soft on the "hostile elements" that fell on his hands.
Tang Xianping himself is a character with a variety of personalities, unpredictable and unpredictable, struggling between ideals and beliefs. Therefore, on the one hand, he will suspect that Ma Tianmu, who was once his brother and saved his own life, on the other hand, he can also talk about wine and snake.
Han Xue played the role of the hostess of the foreign bank in the play. She reused Ma Tianmu as the manager of the foreign firm, which provided great help for Ma Tianmu's latent and later operations.
Han Xue played the underground party is not the first time, there is a very stable play, the appearance can still play. There is also Cao Weiyu, who has had impressive performances in popular dramas such as "Will Night", "Angry Qing Xiangxi", and "The Silent Truth";
There is Guo Xiaoting, a progressive female student who plays a naïve and kind girl who dares to "face up" with Tang Xianping;
There is also Zhao Yang, the actor of Chen Lie, who is quick-thinking, decisive, and imprisoned for protecting "Document Zero", and finally sacrificed. These powerful actors have contributed their wonderful acting skills, adding a lot of color to the overall quality of "The Forerunner".
In various ways, "The Forerunner" is a "slow and hot" spy war drama, after the first two episodes were broadcast, many viewers said that "looking incomprehensible", but in fact, many of the plots at the beginning are "foreshadowing", all for suspense service, with the continuous deepening of the plot, we can gradually see the wonderful degree of the show, it can be said that it is a spy drama that will gradually enter a better state.