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Recently, there have been many domestic dramas, one of which has attracted the attention of Bo Guangjun, that is, the spy drama "The Forerunner". The director team and cast of this drama are really good, and it is definitely a kind of top domestic drama.
Director Gong Zhaohui has filmed "Patriot" starring Zhang Luyi, Nie Yuan starred in the forensic drama "Forensic Doctor of the Mind", this drama is to bring together two actors, screenwriter Lang Xuefeng has written "Soldier Saint", "Heroic Expedition", "Red Dawn", "Tang Lang Detective" and so on, this director and screenwriter can be said to have rich experience in military and spy dramas.
The cast is even stronger, in addition to the starring Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan, there are also Han Xue, Guo Xiaoting, Cao Weiyu, Huo Qing, Zheng Luoqian, Lu Gongzhen, Du Gonghai, Wang Cong, Zhao Yang, Zhang Fan, etc., absolutely a strong lineup, there is no traffic star dragging their legs.
The quality of this drama is also quite strong, and the audience who has seen it is mostly praised. At present, more than 20 episodes have been broadcast, and on October 28, the ratings of "The Forerunner" were close to 2.1, accounting for 7.4% of the market share. This result is still quite good, and I hope to continue to work hard.
For me personally, that is, I did not expect that there would be excellent domestic spy dramas so soon after "Rebels".
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If we distinguish between war dramas and Republic of China dramas, if we simply count spy war dramas (those dramas have spy war elements but are not spy war dramas). The development of domestic spy dramas I have personally written a lot of manuscripts for analysis.
The peak of the previous serious spy drama was filmed by the big director team of the mainland, and the year was a period with the historical drama "Daming Dynasty" and the period drama "Breaking into the Kanto". "Latent", "Cliff", "Before Dawn", Liu Yunlong's "Dark Calculation", "Blood Mist", "Meritorious Service", "Kite" and so on.
These spy dramas have several similar characteristics, the protagonist group and the villain are usually a group of middle-aged men (the heroine has a young), the costume is relatively realistic, the rhythm is usually slower, around the "spy war" This element in addition to the brain-burning good and evil war, may also explore the political issues at that time, social environment and some of the beliefs of both good and evil sides.
After 2010, like historical dramas, period dramas and other serious dramas in the mainland, spy dramas also declined rapidly.
There are many reasons for the decline, too many classic serious spy dramas before it is difficult to surpass is a problem, the most important problem is that China has entered the era of "traffic economy", and the market is all "Gong Suo Xin Yu" kind of Ah Bao se, traffic stars gathered together works.
At this time, the kong sheng team that originally filmed serious dramas broke away from the noonday sun of Mountain Shadow, and the idol spy drama "The Pretender" filmed was a great success, which was the same as the impact of "Langyabang" on historical dramas, which is to shoot idol dramas in the way of shooting serious dramas!
The production level of Fu HuaDao is also very good, but it is more fashionable; the protagonist has been replaced by a popular actor, even a traffic star, and the male protagonist is the mode of growth of the Shuangwen novel; the villain and other important actors use strength to support the play, as for the plot design and core expression around the "spy war", it is certainly not as good as before, but it is still like that.
Just like in "Langyabang", you say that whether it is power or politics, you are not qualified to go and "Daming Dynasty".
However, in the "traffic economy" environment at that time, it successfully found a new way out for domestic spy dramas, and the later "Sparrow", "Rouge", "Autumn Cicada", including "Get Out", "Sting", "Seamless" can be regarded as continuation. The problem is that times are changing, just as the later costume power plot dramas of "Langyabang" are difficult to replicate.
The idol spy war drama after "The Pretender" is also difficult to copy, the problem is the same as the film and television drama under the "traffic economy", the production level such as Fu Hua Dao is becoming more and more glamorous, the male and female protagonists love scenes are too much and dog blood, and the core of the original "spy war" is even more messy.
Most viewers disliked this kind of idol spy drama and began to scold them for being too fake and completely ungrounded.
How can the later spy dramas get out of this path? It needs to draw on the strengths of serious spy dramas like Latent because they're too high-level. It's also important to avoid falling into the quagmire of the "Pretender" idol spy drama, because the audience is starting to dislike it; it has to find a balance between the two.
This road is usually a return to realism in production, but it is still fashionable; someone breaks through in the theme and looks for different entry points, and the core creation of "spy war" is more rigorous, but there must be a love element; the actor selected in the end is more powerful, but does not reject the market popular young actors.
Later, there were many domestic spy dramas on this road, such as "The Sound of the Wind" adapted from a well-known novel, "Aiming" with sniper gun battles, "New World" with a limited time to take suspense to solve cases, "Hidden and Great" from the perspective of a small person, and "Rebel" in line with the idol spy drama model in the first half of this year.
In addition to "Aiming" is too floating, "New World" is too procrastinating, and the reputation of other works is quite strong.
"Rebel" is not as good as fans say, in my opinion, similar to "The Pretender" and "Sparrow", it is still a careful spy plot arrangement, mixed with the emotional drama of the male and female protagonists. Although we still can't compare with serious spy dramas, it belongs to a pretty good spy war idol drama.
What is the difference between The Walker and The Rebel? It is a return to the traditional serious spy drama of "Latent", at least closer in mode.
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This may have something to do with the director team, the director's previous works are more traditional spy dramas, and there are few idol spy dramas.
First of all, the production is above, whether from the props costumes, scenes or pictures are exquisite but relatively grounded, the actor chooses Nie Yuan, Zhang Luyi, a middle-aged male protagonist, the heroine Han Xue is not a small flower Dan, plus the strength actors who are now accustomed to being supporting roles and villains.
"The Forerunner" is very much in line with the new era production model, but returns to the traditional spy drama model.
First of all, to introduce the background, the background of this play is Shanghai in 1931, because of the betrayal of traitors, the underground organization of our party was seriously damaged. Ma Tianmu, a young party member who was injured in the Northern Expedition and went to France, was ordered to complete the impossible task under cover. The strongest opponent Ma Tianmu faced was Tang Xianping, a classmate of his military academy at that time, which was a typical spy war double male drama.
The second is the production level, it is a relatively realistic but very fashionable style, look at the above picture of the art, photography, scenes, actors and light to create a sense of atmosphere, but the role's costume is very good to see the type of kind, certainly not absolutely realistic (domestic film and television drama art costumes, have not yet reached the audience will be absolutely realistic time), this will not be analyzed.
Finally, the most important thing is the story plot, character building and settings about "spy war", and the current situation of twenty episodes belonging to the spy war "cool" drama is still quite good.
The male protagonist Ma Tianmu in the first 20 episodes is simply possessed by the protagonist's aura, left and right, and plays the other characters around. The plot is constantly reversed, reversed and reversed, and the setting of the spy war plot is still enjoyable for the audience to watch. Of course, the problem is also buried, this reversal of the plot is certainly good-looking, but there is no pit in the back, and the details are not in place.
Now the audience feels that Ma Tianmu is a bit of a goldfinger, relying on various relationships and cleverness to upgrade and fight monsters all the way. The only drawback is the shaping of female characters, if the female characters are well set up and the actors act well, it is also a relaxed spy war cool drama.
Unfortunately, as soon as the female student appeared, she didn't mention it.
The latest two episodes of Pei Ruhai's Death still have a lot of flaws on the surface, but the bugs are actually not a problem, because you can look at it as digging a pit. The most critical thing is to look at the pit filling and details, the story plot is barely back to it is a cool drama, the plot collapsed not to say.
I personally envisioned two endings for the show, which determined the upper limit of the show.
First, it can fill the pit more properly, the details are handled in place, and there is no big problem in logic. In the end, it was Ma Tianmu who fought monsters all the way to the background, the Japanese invasion of China, and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists. In the end, the male protagonist and Tang Xianping join forces to fight the villain, and this villain is Pei Ruhai and Lu Yi.
In the end, of course, he got the Confession and eliminated Pei Ruhai and Lu Yi. However, Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping turned against each other, Ma Tianmu was arrested and imprisoned, Tang Xianping tortured and forced a confession, and finally organized the rescue of Ma Tianmu and successfully left, and finally took the female students to Yan'an, which was the end of the reunion.
The second is that the front is almost the same, but in the face of the hatred of the national enemy and the family, the villain Tang Xianping was finally whitewashed by Ma Tianmu' influence, and he successfully stole the "Confessions" to dedicate to the organization, which is a very cool spy drama.
Although these two plot directions are not perfect, it is also a good drama that is not a bad ending.
The third is to fill in the pits and the details are in place, and the direction of the ending is more in-depth and thoughtful, such as the rebellion of Chenguang, which led to Pei Ruhai destroying the Shanghai organization and Wu Chongxin sacrificing. Ma Tianmu executed the traitor, but no one could prove his innocence, and the newly sent leaders of the organization became suspicious of him.
At this time, Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping joined forces to resist the Japanese, and may betray them again in the process. In the process, the female students went from doubt to trust in him, but the evidence that could prove his innocence was destroyed by Lu Yi. In the end, Ma Tianmu successfully escaped and took the female students to Yan'an, along with a secret file, which believed that Ma Tianmu's defection was not credible.
This is the way to go with "Kite", although the risk is greater, but the reputation will be much better.
If you want to go a little deeper, then take human nature and the political problems of the time to the extreme, and directly let Ma Tianmu rescue the new underground party leader, the result was that Tang Xianping put it together, Tang Xianping killed the leader who re-believed in Ma Tianmu, but the leader had already sent out the information that Ma Tianmu had collaborated with the enemy and rebelled. Then Ma Tianmu was killed, and Tang Xianping finally won.
Tang Xianping: You are already a traitor in the organization, not a hero!
Ma Tianmu: So what, I am the one who moves forward, and countless latecomers will step on my corpse.
This will make "The Forerunner" from a spy war cool drama, into a reflection of the real countless revolutionaries of the past (positive meaning), character shaping and plot can also be called a god turn, absolute reputation burst, originally a medium-to-high spy war drama because of the ending to turn the tide, and finally became a classic domestic spy drama.
In the end, whether it will go or not can only depend on how the end of the play continues.
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"The Forerunner" No matter what kind of ending is the direction, all the actors in this drama are very wonderful, the shooting is also very meticulous, the rhythm is very stable, although there is not much thrilling, but the sense of involvement is still good, so that the audience can watch it episode by episode.
If you really want to pick the shortcomings of female characters really like the domestic spy war has always been wrong, the director and screenwriter believe that the naïve and simple female characters represent the beauty and innocence of that era, but the audience now sees this kind of female roles, really only feel that they are unpleasant "silly white sweet".
This drama is currently quite good in quality and word of mouth, although compared with the serious spy drama is definitely a lot inferior, but still hope that the final story plot can turn the tide, this year's spy drama "Rebel" has been good, I hope it can be better than "Rebel".
Finally, I hope that domestic spy dramas and domestic film and television dramas are getting better and better!