In 2019, Swedish actor Zhao Lixin was banned for inappropriate remarks, making him another star who was proud of the spring breeze but suddenly fell into hell after Wu Xiubo and Zhai Tianlin. The great future was ruined, and a number of TV dramas could not be broadcast, including "The People's Property", "The Sound of the Wind", "Nan Yan Zhai Transcript", etc., and another "Glorious Era" was later broadcast by changing heads. You can imagine how much the film and television production companies that have been affected by it have lost!
In fact, it is not only these TV series that have been affected by it, including some TV series filmed by Zhao Lixin before, which have also been beaten into the cold palace, including the two spy dramas he shot in 2015, "Red Sherlock Holmes" and "Abandoned Pawn". And today I will briefly introduce these two TV series for you.
"Red Sherlock Holmes" is a spy drama directed by Wang Wensheng and starring Zhao Lixin and Bai Qinglin. The drama is adapted from Zhang Hailu's novel "The Divine Detective", which tells the story of Mao Ding and others in the Yan'an Border Protection Department who fought with the enemy wits and courage, foiled various conspiracies, and finally defended peace in the border area.
The story takes place in Yan'an during the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1940, the Wang puppet government was established, with anti-communism as the main program, and Gu Longquan, the director of the Wang puppet secret service station lurking in Xi'an, was ordered to carry out a sabotage war called "Panyang Operation" in Yan'an. In order to strengthen the security forces of Yan'an, Mao Ding, an expert in cracking cases, was sent to Yan'an by telegram and served as the chief of the reconnaissance section of the border security department. For a time, strange incidents occurred in Yan'an one after another, the enemy lurked, set up a situation, and released a heavy fog, and Mao Ding, Lao Xiong, Huang Yu, Zuo Ling, An Jian, and others in the Yan'an Border Protection Department, under the leadership of Director Wu Hansheng, detected, reasoned, fought wits, and even met with white blades, and interpreted a story that could be sung and wept. The enemy's deliberate earth-shattering conspiracy was broken one after another, Mao Ding and his comrades finally won the victory after arduous efforts, and his love with Huang Yu was finally cultivated and tied to the knot.
In her early years, Manchu actor Bai Qinglin twice starred with Ma Jingtao in "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang" and "The Secret Envoy of the Crown Prince". After that, he also continued to shoot You Xiaogang's "Secret History" series "Kangxi Secret History". At the same time, she also participated in the filming of many spy dramas: in "The Oath of This Life", she played the beautiful spy of the Kuomintang Yang Fei; starred in the revolutionary drama "Mission 1915" (formerly: Yunnan 1915), playing Qiu Yueying, who was bent on revenge; co-starring in the spy drama "Fighting on the Tip of the Knife" with Zhang Zijian and Liu Weiwei, playing the CCP intelligence officer Jin Zhizi; starring in the youth inspirational spy drama "Decryption" starring Chen Xuedong, playing Lei Ting, director of the 701 Operations Department and chief instructor of the training camp; and Sun Li starring in the workplace drama "Fighting on the Tip of the Knife" broadcast in 2020. She also played a role in "An Jia". In this play, Bai Qinglin plays Zhao Lixin's partner Huang Yu, who not only works with him to solve the mystery case and find out the internal adultery, but also has a relationship with him and finally cultivates positive results.
From the introduction of the content of this drama, we can see that this TV series is still very interesting, the combination of reasoning detection and undercover espionage, high-IQ game and enemy and self-confrontation as one, telling a very legendary and very grounded story. In particular, in the play, the enemy is treacherous and cunning, attacking the heart, and is good at framing people by planting bribes, and we have also suffered serious losses. From the arrangement of this plot, it can be seen that this drama is not a "divine drama", wantonly exaggerating our invincibility and highlighting the stupidity of the enemy. On the contrary, through this kind of true and objective description, it shows the difficulties and dangers of fighting wits and courage with the enemy, thus convincing the audience more. However, unfortunately, I went through all the materials and did not find the news of the broadcast of this TV series, and it is estimated that this drama has no connection with our audience at all.
Another spy drama starring Zhao Lixin, "Abandoned Pawn", was also filmed in 2016, which was directed by director Chen Lijun and starred actors He Long, Zhao Lixin, Wang Yimeng, etc. Is a work with the theme of the War of Resistance and the theme of brotherly righteousness. The male protagonist of the story, Jiang Yingfeng, intercepts the secret telegram of the Japanese army, and undergoes countless tests in order to find out the ghosts in the military command station, the death of relatives, the pursuit and killing of the military command, and even the betrayal of close friends. But his loyalty to his work made him always firm in his faith, but eventually he was suspected by his superiors and became an outcast, joined the Communist Party, and found out the internal ghost, destroying the Japanese headquarters. He made an indelible contribution to the War of Resistance.
The plot of the play is ups and downs and confusing. The whole drama takes the pursuit of internal traitors as the theme, experiences layers of dangers and obstacles and many tests, and finally completes the story of the task, identity disguise, undercover lurking, spy secrets, and various dark war elements of the game between the enemy and ourselves are filled with them, with distinct spy war drama characteristics, Jiang Yingfeng, played by Zhao Lixin, was abandoned from a military command agent who was highly responsible for his work but was abandoned due to high-level suspicions, became an "abandoned pawn", joined the Communist Party after seeing through the true face of military unification, completed the tasks he had been working hard but could not complete, and pulled out the internal ghost. Greater losses were avoided and great contributions were made to the War of Resistance.
The identities of many characters in this play are confusing, they have multiple disguises, and even sometimes they can't distinguish between the enemy and us, which also improves the watchability of this play, while the plot of the play is full, the character image is vivid, and the actor's excellent performance interprets the delicate reality of this suspenseful "infinity" drama, which is very interesting. But this drama is also the same as the previous work, although it is written to be broadcast in 2017, I still have not checked the relevant broadcast information, which also makes this work an obscure spy drama.