"The Eternal Radio Wave" as a classic drama has many versions, in addition to the old movie version starring Sun Daolin, there are also the film version of "Secret War" (formerly titled: New Eternal Radio Wave) starring Aaron Kwok, Zhao Liying and Zhang Han; the spy dance drama "The Eternal Wave" and the TV drama version of "The Eternal Wave" starring Zhao Lixin. Among these versions, it is the most influential TV series, and today I will introduce how this TV series "Eternal Waves" has been successful.
In 2010, the TV series "The Eternal Wave" was broadcast in a central set of prime time, this spy drama directed by ZhiLei, starring Zhao Lixin and Jiao Junyan, received praise as soon as it was broadcast, and the Douban score was as high as 7.8 points, which also made the drama an excellent spy drama work that was talked about by audience friends.
For the success of this TV series, I think there are mainly several reasons, one is that the choice of actors is very in line with the role of the persona, the degree of fit is high, the actor's performance is smooth and natural, as the lead actor Zhao Lixin, Jiao Junyan, Shi Jingming, Yan Na and other people have shown a very good state of interpretation, making the audience unforgettable. The second is the credit of the choreographer and producer, the director Zhilei is actually not well-known, he is also a director with a photographer background, and his film and television works are more well-known than the works he directed, such as the films "Hurricane Action" and "Thunderbolt Action" shot by Zhilei as a photographer. These two films can be said to have created a precedent for domestic entertainment films, especially the 1986 film "Hurricane Action", which can be called the pioneering work of domestic fashion action films. Its action scenes such as gunfights, martial arts, flying cars, and explosions are completely inferior to the Hong Kong and Taiwan police films of that time. In addition, the TV series "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round" that he served as the cinematographer also won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Cinematography, which is also a TV series that everyone likes very much. And the TV series "The Eternal Electric Wave" as a very successful TV series directed by Zhilei, but also because there is a big celebrity around Zhilei to help him, that is, the producer Teng Wenji.
As a representative of the fourth generation of directors in China, director Teng Wenji has shot a number of familiar film and television drama works, such as "Symphony of Pots and Pans" in 1983, "Hurricane Action" in 1986 and "Operation Thunderbolt" in 1986, "Let the World Be Full of Love" in 1987, "Rhapsody of Spring" directed in 1998 and "Fatal Blow" in 2001, and Zhilei is also his royal photographer. Therefore, when filming this TV series directed by Zhi Lei, Teng Wenji did not let go of the role of escort.
Director Teng Wenji has a strong spirit of innovation, especially for the development of domestic entertainment films have played a forerunner role, but limited by the backwardness of the film production industry at that time, as well as limited experience, although his works have a sense of innovation, but also have more obvious traces of imitation, in the rhythm grasp and narration ability is lacking, which is clearly reflected in the film he directed "Fatal Blow". It was after that that he began to move more into the field of television dramas, and this "Eternal Radio Wave" is an ambitious work that he assisted Zhilei to complete. Therefore, many scenes in the play, photography production, the design of literary and martial arts dramas, and even the choice of actors have a clear directional style. And the lead actor of this drama, Zhao Lixin, is the "Li Xia" candidate hand-picked by Director Teng.
The script of "The Eternal Wave" after 3 years of creation, changed 4 screenwriters, six drafts before the final draft, in the process of script creation, the screenwriter read a large number of historical records, a lot of real historical "lurking" stories introduced into the TV series, but also make this TV series more exciting, more authentic.
The third reason for the success of this drama is the setting of the characters in the play, and careful viewers should be able to find that almost all the characters in "The Eternal Wave" have two sides, they either have different disguised identities, or have entangled good and evil sides, and even polarized extreme human nature. It constitutes the intricate and complex, entangled character relationships and contradictions and conflicts of this TV series, and also forms the biggest feature of this drama.
The protagonist of this drama, Li Xia, is a telecommunications master of our party who has been lurking in the No. 76 Courtyard of the Japanese Army and the military command, he has fought wits and courage with the enemy through his disguised identity, he is bold and careful, his mind is quick, he is not in danger, he has been in danger many times and has turned danger into disaster, making outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of our party. His prototype was The Shanghai underground worker, revolutionary martyr Li Bai, who was arrested on December 29, 1948, when Li Bai was filming the Kuomintang's top-secret River Defense Plan to the Central Radio, when the location of the radio station was measured by the secret service. On May 7, 1949, he was secretly killed by agents.
Jiao Junyan plays He Lanfen, who became a real wife after Li Xia started as a "fake wife", she is a character with a completely different superficial personality and true temperament, this woman who shows ignorance and fearlessness in front of everyone, with a big grin, is actually a strange woman with a straight personality, dare to love and hate, and the cruel underground work makes her more and more mature and introverted, and the atmosphere is calm.
Zhao Ziqi, a military commander played by actor Lü Xing, was initially upright, brave and responsible. He was like Li Xia, but after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he became a military commander executioner who acted recklessly and regarded the Communist Party as a flood beast, and later killed Li Xia's wife, becoming an absolute villain all the way to black.
In addition, Feng Xiaokun, a secret agent of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, who initially gave his life for the Japanese and then defected to military command, was a complex figure with no principles; after falling in love with Li Xia, he approached Zhao Ziqi and was mistakenly killed by Zhao Ziqi; Jiangkou, a Japanese who had awakened his conscience by Li Xia's ex-wife Lu Menghui, became more ruthless and ruthless after Lu Menghui's sacrifice, and his human flaws were also revealed; after the military commander Ye Xingcheng defected to the Communist Party, and then turned to the Japanese intelligence department, becoming a multiple spy, and is a typical figure of the wall. Li Xia's telecommunications teacher, Zhao Dayuan, was cautious and cunning, and he worked for the Japanese because he was caught by the Japanese, and finally changed his mind and wanted to be a man again, but he was killed by the Japanese.
Through the above characters, we can see that the complex background of many characters in the play and their split humanity are precisely the setting of these characters that cause the plot reversal of the story of the play and the ups and downs of the fate of the characters. At the same time, it triggers dramatic conflicts and life-and-death games between multiple camps of the enemy and us. Making the story of this drama full and vivid, the plot fascinating, catching people's attention, this drama vividly shows the complex hearts of various characters and the emotional life and dedication of underground workers, with a strong color of the times and the brilliance of human nature, so it is reasonable to receive praise from the audience.