In domestic dramas, spy dramas have an extremely important position.
Although this genre started late, it has developed rapidly and there are many high-quality works.
With "Dark Calculation" as the pioneering work, followed by "Latent", "Before Dawn", "Cliff", "Red", "Kite", each is a "divine drama" with a Douban score of 9 points.
Although in the past 5 years, the development of spy dramas is not as rapid as 10 years ago, but it is still very marketable.
When it comes to spy dramas, I have to mention a character - "Yu Zecheng".
This is the protagonist of "Latent" broadcast in 2009, and it is also one of the most brilliant characters in the spy drama, and behind this role, there is also a "miracle".
In 2008, Sun Honglei held a dinner party out of his own pocket.
This year, Sun Honglei has become famous with the role of Liu Huaqiang in "Conquest", and he has a lot of books for him to choose from, but he has painstakingly thought about getting another role.
Yes, it is "Yu Zecheng" in "Latent".
At that time, "Latent" was in preparation, and director and screenwriter Jiang Wei was an old friend of Sun Honglei, who spent 10 months adapting the novel that was originally only a collective volume into a 400,000-word script after reading the original novel.
Although it is a spy drama, it shows the essence of "Thick Black Science" to the fullest.
In the play, the intricate relationship between the enemy and us, the power struggle with the knife hidden in the laughter, and everyone's lines are words in the words, which is very worth playing.
By chance, Sun Honglei saw part of the script and was very interested in the role of "Yu Zecheng", so he "went through the back door" to invite the director to dinner and wanted to take this role.
However, when he asked his old friend about the role, Jiang Wei said that because of the limited budget, he was afraid that he would not be able to invite the "big name" Sun Honglei.
This is easy to do, Sun Honglei lowered his salary and successfully got Yu Zecheng.
Facts have proved that Sun Honglei's vision is very poisonous, "Latent" has been broadcast for 13 years, and there are still new viewers to rate it, and netizens have only five words to evaluate it:
"The Pinnacle of Spy Drama".
And Sun Honglei's "Yu Zecheng" role has also become one of the most dazzling characters in spy dramas.
After "Latent", Sun Honglei rarely touched spy dramas again, except for an anti-traditional new type of spy war drama "New World" at the beginning of the year, there were no works of the same genre.
Until the appearance of "Shocking Strings".
"Shocking Strings" appeared on Mango TV's 2022 China Merchants Film List and belongs to one of the core episodes of next year.
From the genre point of view, this is a Republic of China spy war drama that we are very familiar with, the whole drama has 40 episodes, and Li Chenguang production, the director is Yang Dong, and the literary director is Liu Heping.
In the currently known news, in addition to the plot summary, there are only two leading actors, but just by revealing this information, netizens have been unable to sit still, put down the bold words: This spy war drama is a must-see in 2022!
Sun Honglei we have already talked about it before, let's talk about other noteworthy parts of this series.
First of all, the script, friends who are familiar with Chinese opera, must be familiar with Liu Heping's name.
Liu Heping is a national first-class screenwriter, who has worked in the masterpieces "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Daming Dynasty 1566", "No War in Beiping", and has won the Magnolia Award and the Feitian Award for Best Screenwriter for many times.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the field of national drama, as long as his name appears, it means that this drama will be a high-scoring national drama.
"Shocking Strings" is that he is the literary director, presumably the script is guaranteed.
So what story does "Shock Strings" tell?
In the summer of 1941, harbin was under the rule of the Japanese and the puppets, and Zhang Fan was a policeman in the puppet police department, and his true identity was a dark sword that we planted among the puppet police.
At the same time, there was a high-level defection within our side, and there was a single line of contact with the secret agent Zhu He, code-named "Duke". The existence of the "Duke" always threatens the safety of other comrades.
In order to clear this threat, we sent an assassination team into Harbin.
However, the action group enters the pseudo-Manchuria and falls into Juhe's trap, and Zhang Fan secretly helps them escape, and finds out the identity of the "Duke".
In order to protect Zhang Fan, Gu Nian, a female agent of the action group, lurked with him as Zhang Fan's wife. The two help each other, fight the enemy in the darkness, and look forward to the dawn together.
Judging from the plot summary, this is a typical spy drama, the familiar undercover plot, the classic fighting wisdom bridge section, and the psychological game between the positive and negative sides are the highlights of the series.
Although the plot routine does not look "new", Zhang Yimou told us in the movie "On the Cliff" that the spy story that is not a classic routine has no head, and whether the series is good or not depends on how to shoot and how to act.
Here it is necessary to mention the other lead actor of this drama, Zhang Songwen, who has textbook acting skills.
Zhang Songwen is an old drama bone, but it was not until these two years that he was seen by the audience.
A "Hidden Corner", a "Revolutionary", completely let us see the strength of this hidden film emperor, I have to say that Zhang Songwen is delicate in his performance to the point of amazement.
In "The Hidden Corner", Zhu Yongping, the father played by Zhang Songwen, went to the wonton shop to eat wontons.
The background of the story in the play is that his youngest daughter Zhu Jingjing has just died unexpectedly, and he sits in the seat where his daughter Jingjing usually sits, bows his head, and with tears in his eyes, swallows the bowl of wontons one by one.
The whole performance was completed in one go, and the audience was immediately substituted into his role.
During the broadcast of this drama, there was an online vote, and Zhu Yongping, played by him, received 41% of the votes and was named the most popular actor in the show.
Not to mention this year's movie "Revolutionary", in the case of makeup and extra points, he relaxed and injected true feelings into the interpretation, so that Li Dazhao completely walked out of the textbook.
So this time he joined the "Shocking String", or played with Sun Honglei, think about it and feel very much looking forward to, or that you can book a hit.
In addition to "Shocking Strings", there are already projects, and there are still many spy dramas to be broadcast in 2022.
And in addition to the classic Republic of China spy dramas, such as Jin Dong and Wang Zhiwen starring in the spy drama "Infinity", "the father of spy drama" Liu Yunlong shot again, Yu Hewei and Zhang Jiayi starred in "The City of Ling".
There are also the modern ones whose story is set in the modern era, starring Guo Jingfei and Tan Zhuo in the Guoan spy drama "Opponent", and adapted from Ma Boyong's novel, chen Kun and Bai Yu starring in the costume spy drama "Wind Rises longxi".
But even if it is such a "strong enemy around", there is Sun Honglei's "Shocking String" that came out of the mountain after 13 years, it is still the "king explosion" among them.
It seems that 2022 will be a big year for spy dramas, good dramas are not afraid of many, and the audience is blessed.
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