On the night of the opening broadcast, "The Walker" rushed to the second place in the ratings list. After ten episodes, its ratings are directly close to "Breakout", and it is more likely to catch up.
Recently, a forty-episode spy drama has quietly won a lot of praise, and many people have commented that it is "durable and chewy".
It's "The Forerunner."
In the early stage of the drama, there was no overwhelming publicity, no traffic blessing, and Beijing Satellite TV and iQiyi premiered on the day of the official announcement, so that many people did not pay attention to it.
As a result, the ratings quietly "exploded".
After ten episodes were broadcast, the ratings of "The Forerunner" ranked second, directly approaching the hot drama "Breakout" starring Jin Dong and Yan Ni, and it was more like catching up later.
More importantly, the Douban comment area is full of praise, and in the tone of many netizens, there is a burst of "finally let me dig up the treasure again" snickering joy.
It is reported that the original novel of "The Forerunner" is called "Party Group", and the script was written for four years.
Ryuichi, the author of "Latent", is one of the planners of the show.
"The Forerunner" tells the story of Tang Xianping and Ma Tianmu, played by Nie Yuan and Zhang Luyi, who were once the same people of the Whampoa Military Academy, fought side by side in the Northern Expedition War, and had a lifelong friendship that handed over their backs to each other. The fiddling of fate has caused the two to belong to different political camps, and the quality of professional agents with equal strength has made the contest between the two rise again and again.
Nie Yuan plays Tang Xianping, chief of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Police Department, with outstanding shrewd and strong professional ability. Unfortunately, the environment in which he lived was corrupt, the Kuomintang was partially disintegrated, and he was caught between the "Tingjiang faction" and the "Tingwang faction" and had an empty heart to serve the country but it was difficult for him to exert his skills.
Ma Tianmu, played by Zhang Luyi, is an underground COMMUNIST Party that was developed in a foreign country. Under the cover of his identity as a foreign banker, he hides his secret identity under the face of Lang Dang. As a result of the betrayal of traitors, the ccp's underground party organization in Shanghai was greatly damaged. Since Ma Tianmu had just returned to China, the traitors did not know him, and provided an opportunity for him to mediate and help our party carry out its work. And the first thing he had to break through was Tang Xianping's suspicion of him and his step by step.
Although there is a rare "double male protagonist" lineup, the hot topic of audience discussion is focused on a few supporting characters.
This silent spy drama accidentally creates a wave of good dramas in which hidden masters such as tigers come out of the cage - in particular, the supporting roles and protagonists play one after another, pushing the high-energy acting skills of "spy dramas" to the front of the stage again.
Why did "The Forerunner" actually impact the "ceiling" of the collective acting skills of this year's spy drama?
In fact, through a high-standard performance, the audience can see at a glance what the character has experienced, what the current emotions and state are; a good performance will also infect the audience in an instant, pushing the audience's emotions to change with the changes in the actor's mood.
Pei Ruhai (played by Huo Qing): The walking dead with the "spy face"
Pei Ruhai, the number one traitor in "The Forerunner", is precisely because of his existence that my Shanghai underground party organization was almost overthrown overnight. In the play, Huo Qing, who plays Pei Ruhai, contributed "face-changing" acting skills. In fact, this Lu Su in the new "Three Kingdoms" and Ma Baoping in "Dajiang Dahe 2" have a standard "decent face". But in "The Forerunner", Pei Ruhai, who he played, has a gloomy atmosphere that accompanies the shadows.
Huo Qing firmly grasped Pei Ruhai's suspicious and sensitive characteristics, and "split" different personalities on his face--a smiling Sven gentleman and a cunning and ghostly traitor. And so, a sinister and cunning walking dead appeared.
His arrival completely changed the situation in which Ma Tianmu relied on intelligence and friendship to scare Tang Xianping, who was serious about righteousness.
With ease, it has become like walking on thin ice.
The plan of "Document Zero" to darken Chen Cang, also because of the arrival of this traitor, suffered a complete failure, and Chen Lie (Zhao Yang) sacrificed heroically for this!
This kind of villain that makes the audience hate to the bone is the most test of the actor's acting skills. The villain is easy to face, and Huo Qing uses meticulous performances to reveal the psychological state of the characters.
For example, the innermost fear, uneasiness, stress, and panic of the characters.
It has to be mentioned that between Pei Ruhai in the play and Ma Tianmu, who has successfully entered the interior of the "Revival Society", the opponent scene of hypnosis teaching is extremely exciting.
On the first day of the "Revival Society" training, instructor Pei Ruhai experimented with Ma Tianmu under the guise of demonstrating hypnosis. In fact, he wanted to test Ma Tianmu's true identity through hypnosis. As a result, the two masters began a performance that they knew each other.
One knows that one is performing, and the other must cooperate to finish the play.
Finally, Ma Tianmu pretended to be hypnotized and broke out of the window at the juncture where the identity secret was about to be broken.
Zhang Luyi in this scene, the whole time his eyes were lost, the corners of his eyes were tearful, and his expression was sluggish, as if he was really hypnotized.
On Pei Ruhai's side, he was carefully seduced, step by step, and on the same "face", two different people were split.
Between you and me, although in a classroom, the two of them have performed a sense of urgency.
In fact, this is not the first time that Huo Qing has played a villain with a complex personality. From Fang Jinfu station manager in "Aiming" to Pei Ruhai this time, Huo Qing clearly grasped the psychological state of different characters.
Chen Lie (played by Zhao Yang): The performance is in a "Tibetan" word
Playing Chen Lie is actor Zhao Yang.
Zhao Yang once played the gentle And Jade Gongsun Ce in "Young Bao Qingtian 3".
In "The Silent Truth", Zhao Yang starred as Captain Zhu, Ning Zhi's "Pingkang White Snow".
In "The Forerunner", he is Chen Lie, an underground party member in a chaotic Shanghai who sacrificed himself for his lofty ideals.
Chen Lie's image portrayal focuses on a Tibetan character. His cover identity, is an antique dealer, looks honest, wooden, in fact, meticulous, calm and calm.
This character cannot have too many physical actions and few words. In the performance, you can't move too much, even when you are in prison and Ma Tianmu, your heart has been turned upside down, and the surface must not be revealed, which will test the actor's expressiveness and emotional communication.
Zhao Yang's performance is moody and angry, but it comes with a sense of tension.
In the face of Tang Xianping's interrogation and psychological warfare, Chen Lie has a calmness that is different from ordinary people, and the seemingly expressionless face is actually a static brake, which can still make the whole scene full of tension. In the end, due to an oversight of a detail, the "eel" of "Eel Spring" was not a crucian carp but a cuttlefish, and was caught by the more powerful Tang Xianping.
When he was shot several times by the traitor Pei Ruhai, you can see Zhao Yang's expression: the firmness, indomitability and fearlessness in his eyes are enough to penetrate the screen.
Cao Weiyu plays Wu Chongxin: face-changing acting skills, pure fire
Good actors can always change their faces and become unexpected.
If you don't look at the cast list, many people can't recognize that Cao Weiyu, who was in the same class as Chen Jianbin, Li Yapeng, and Wang Xuebing at the Central Academy of Drama, is actually Wu Chongxin, who is calm and low-key in the play, and before he was also Luo Laowei in "Angry Qing Xiangxi", the two roles were judged as two.
Wu Chongxin, known as "Old Wu", is the head of the Shanghai area of my underground party and the direct superior of Ma Tianmu. He is calm, alert, and plainly dressed to fall into the sea of people at any time, but the aura is strong enough to respond to all crises at any time.
Cao Weiyu did not turn the character face into "the person in charge of the underground party", but completely held the characteristics of the character, the eyes were sharp, the tone was calm, the speed of speech was not hurried, and according to the plot, the inner process of "Lao Wu" encountering one comrade after another was portrayed in every detail.
In one scene, Chen Lie died in order to cover the "Document Zero".
Although Lao Wu had a premonition in advance, when the news really came, he still couldn't suppress the pain in his heart. But in terms of performance, all he can give is a look. But it is this look, Cao Weiyu's emotions are very full, and it is not a word that makes people's liver and intestines cut off.
When the actor completely integrates with the role he plays through performance, in the eyes of the audience, he is the role, the role is him, then even if he is silent, the audience can still feel the sadness and joy of the role through the screen. Because a good performance does not need to be "acted", as long as you sit where you are, you are already a person in the play.
Wang Cong plays Chen Hengli: Se Li Nei, into the wood three points
At the first glance of this actor, my reaction was the same as many viewers: Xiao Zhanwu, the iron-blooded man in "Top Secret 543", became a "little white face"?
According to the reason, a role like Chen Hengli is not a core character and is easy to act as a cutscene. However, Wang Cong insisted on playing the face of the "first brother" of the French Concession Patrol House who saw money open, saw the needle in the seam, and saw the wind make the rudder come to life.
This role and several main roles have opponent plays, especially the male protagonist played by Zhang Luyi, so there are quite a lot of emotional changes, if you use too much force, it will appear too much, and you will steal the scene; too bland and will appear out of state. Wang Cong interpreted the character very naturally, and it can even be said that there is no trace of performance, such as how to perform for bargains? Nod, pout, laugh, everything in silence.
Pay attention to Wang Cong's eyes, compared to Xiao Zhanwu's fixed eyes, Chen Hengli's eyes are fluctuating from beginning to end, revealing the strength of a chicken thief!
Such a highlight performance is the best supporting role performance, not grabbing the protagonist's play, but with Zhang Luyi and Nie Yuan's opponents in the play without falling behind, in the end, it can also shine its own brilliance.
Zhang Fan played Yu Duxing: Wang Pseudo-fans, forward-looking and backward-looking
Yes, you read it right, this is the Xiuzhi father of "Shen Jilan" starring Jiang Xin in "Meritorious Service", actor Zhang Fan.
But in the drama "The Forerunner", Zhang Fan plays Tang Xianping's boss, a figure at both ends of the old Shanghai Jiang Wang tug-of-war and the various factions.
Yu Duxing's role is not much, but many viewers are impressed by him, because this role is really eye-catching. The character is set as a police chief who is not angry and arrogant, but in addition to the superficial domineering, there is a full little nine-nine. Zhang Fan embodies the solemnity, majesty, watertight talk and just right behavior of the leader, but in his bones he is despicable and small, and this contrast is dramatic.
Really good acting, no need to explode
Some viewers have rated "The Forerunner" as the strongest spy drama in recent years, whether it is really better than "Rebel", and I will not evaluate it here.
However, in my opinion, the advantage of "The Forerunner" is that there is hardly a weak point at the actor level. Especially the supporting roles, almost all of them are brilliant, and the villains have their own characteristics. In fact, the excellent supporting role of the play is also Du Gonghai's concession inspector Fan Yiting, who is a character who has been from the "gangster" boss all the way to the magnate, and the complexity of the character is very interesting to him; playing Wang Jingwei's envoy Lu Youxiang is Wu Xiaodong, the actor of Jia Yun in the 87 version of the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber", and a look will perform the character's gloomy performance.
In the man group drama of the spy war drama, "The Walker" also has a particularly comfortable supporting actress, she is Zheng Luoxi, who plays the apartment owner's wife Jiang Jiqing.
Jiang Jiqing runs an apartment inn, ostensibly as a lady boss in Xiuwaihui, known as "Sister Qing". The impression given to the audience as a shrewd Little Woman of Shanghai is a shrewd Shanghai girl, but in an instant it has become a calm underground party, and the seamless switching of character identities is presented by the actors very smoothly. As an underground worker, she is concise in every meeting, does not steal the scene at all, and looks very comfortable. In addition, hearing the news of the comrade's sacrifice, the red dots in QingJie's eye circles have come to an end, which also makes people see the level of Zheng Rosie's performance.
Do you think Rosie Zheng's face is a bit familiar? In the TV series "The First Half of My Life" starring Jin Dong and Ma Yili, Zheng Rosie is the workplace fashion strong woman Vivian, a character who dares to love and dare to hate, with a straightforward personality, who has a deep affection for He Han, played by Jin Dong, and the ending of final love is lamentable.
Previously, Zheng Luoqian also played Sun Xiaojing, a shrewd and capable and high-quality bad woman with a deep sense of the city government, in "Xia Family Three Thousand Gold". In order to regain her ex-boyfriend, she pretended to be sick in exchange for sympathy, and even killed her boyfriend's grandmother. Although the role is not pleasing, Zheng Rosie's acting skills have been recognized by the audience.
In summary, these supporting characters have almost no complete performance paragraphs, nor do they roar and scream emotional outbursts, but they can see the bottom by relying on only a few subtle expressions and actions.
It is also because of their existence that the smell of the long-lost spy drama suddenly returns. Because the real espionage war, in the final analysis, is a duel between people's intelligence and faith, and it is a real high-IQ confrontation. Under the background of these old drama bones, Zhang Luyi has regained his peak state, which is a story of mutual achievement.
Synthesized from China.com and Sohu Entertainment
Editor: Chen Xihan