In 2023, spy war dramas will emerge one after another, but the quality will be uneven. "Thin Ice", "Infernal", "Stalker", "Hive" ......One is more speechless than the other. Now, another spy war drama called "Thrush" is on the air. At first, there were high hopes, but the results were suffocating.
"Thrush" finally made a breakthrough in the era, jumped out of the background of the Anti-Japanese War, and turned into the stage of anti-special struggle in the fifties and sixties.
The play is based on the research of protection experts and the "Water Drop Project", which tells the story of Pang Hongmei and Ji Danyang fighting wits and courage against the enemy, and after going through the test of life and death, they successfully adhered to their beliefs and completed their revolutionary dreams, and deduced a period of national protection in the fifties and sixties of the last century.
Judging from the plot synopsis, the tone has been set for the show, and the main line is to protect the expert anti-special, but this time there is no need to be incognito and pretend to be various identities, but it also gives the hero and heroine more room for development and triggers more emotional entanglements. Therefore, the emotional drama in the play has also attracted much attention, although it has just started, it has already revealed many subtle feelings.
As a spy war drama, character makeup has always been the focus of heated discussions among the audience, because the makeup of most spy war dramas is too delicate, and even a little too avant-garde. However, even if the audience has long been surprised by this, they can't stand the tights that the heroine is wearing.
Not only is it too **, but it also seems too public, in the mainland in the fifties and sixties, as an anti-special public security, such a dress is obviously out of place, how can such avant-garde clothing and makeup not cause discussion. The delicate makeup and costumes of the hero and heroine are more like the products of idol dramas, not to mention that there has been a little ambiguity, emotional collision and friction.
As a spy war drama, the plot is the most critical. The contest between the pros and cons and the struggle of high IQ are what the audience cares about the most. However, there are many loopholes at the beginning of the show, which is incredible. As a returned expert, Ji Danyang studied national defense technology, and such an important role, but the plot when the train picked up the station was handled too sloppily and simply.
Although the chief of the public security bureau personally went out, he did not conduct a sufficient investigation of the surrounding environment, resulting in the enemy elements almost causing a catastrophe. Although the captain of the public security team also conducted an investigation in advance, he was alone, and although he stopped the assassination of the enemy agents, he was knocked unconscious and let the enemy agents escape.
The safety of defense experts is at stake for the survival of the entire country, and it is inconceivable why they are so hasty and negligent. What is even more absurd is that the enemy agents have already opened fire, but no one has been alerted and has not taken any evasive action. Although someone went to protect the experts, if the captain did not investigate and stop it in advance, the consequences would be unimaginable.
It was only after some time that the chief ordered the evacuation of the protection specialists. In addition, another incident happened, when the heroine Pang Hongmei went to check the situation, the first thing the actor Ji Danyang worried about was not his own safety, but called Pang Hongmei's name. This is actually a bit abrupt, although it is to pave the emotional line, but it is too idolized.
Maybe this drama lacks manpower, so only one person is dispatched for each investigation and protection. Especially the ** incident at the train station, first the captain was the captain, and then the heroine, without the assistance of others. Especially after the enemy escaped, the camera was only aimed at the heroine Pang Hongmei, and it seemed that she was the only one investigating the enemy agents in the whole process.
However, the plot earlier explained that someone was secretly cooperating, but now there is only one person. Even if there is no covert protection, there should be the cooperation of the local public security, but it is Pang Hongmei who stands out. This laid the groundwork for the bizarre plot later. Pang Hongmei and Ji Danyang went out to buy goods, and when they found the enemy, Pang Hongmei went alone, leaving Ji Danyang alone.
Pang Hongmei's side failed to catch the enemy, but Ji Danyang's side bravely saved a child. From the perspective of character creation, this makes the male protagonist more three-dimensional and plump, after all, he is not only an expert, but also a down-to-earth hero. However, in terms of the plot, there is a big loophole, which is extremely unsafe for experts.
Either the spy was too stupid, or the screenwriter was too shrewd, so that the expert in such a situation escaped the catastrophe, won a reputation, and even cured his throat. This drama shows personal heroism everywhere, playing cool and handsome, which is obviously out of place with the era at that time, not to mention the logic and reality of the plot.
This is not a serious spy war drama at all, it is just an idol drama of the era that the director has created by himself. It is really disappointing to make spy war dramas into divine dramas and idol dramas. Although the ratings of the premiere were good, it directly broke 2, and the highest was 28%, but more of a subject matter advantage, which has nothing to do with the actors and the plot.
When it comes to excellent spy war dramas, people will think of classics such as "No Regrets Tracking", "Latent", "Before Dawn", "Red", "Secret Calculation", "The Verge", "Kite", "The Pretender", "Cliff" and other classics. However, the current spy war dramas are unbearable, although a large number of spy war dramas come out every year, most of them end in failure, which is deeply regrettable.
The problem is not that high-quality spy war dramas cannot be filmed, but that some works are self-righteous, even reckless, ignoring details and logic, and even ignoring basic historical facts, lacking due awe and enough sincerity, so they have repeatedly hit a wall.
Spy war scripts should be based on history and supported by realistic logic, but current spy war dramas often ignore these elements and only cater to their own cognition of spy war dramas, but they have repeatedly failed. Innovation is important, but it is also important to respect facts and be logical, not self-talking.
The result is a smash of the film, which is not only a waste of resources, but also disrespectful to history and ancestors. Directors and screenwriters, you might as well study the classics of the past and see how people shoot spy war dramas. If you can learn Xi with an open mind, master the essence, and produce it with your heart, why worry about not being able to make a wonderful spy war drama?