"Killing is killing, it's not that much. ”
Blame a ** case on a person who has been missing for five years, why?”
Disciple, not a man, you have seen him before. ”
As soon as these dialogues come out, everyone should know what story this drama is about.
This is the beginning of the trailer of the Taochang criminal investigation crime drama "The Depths of the Murder" on December 8th, which will be broadcast at noon tomorrow.
In recent years, what is the most popular and most disappointing type of national drama?I think it's a criminal investigation drama.
On the one hand, criminal investigation dramas are undoubtedly a national genre.
Until now, "Six Groups of Serious Cases" is still regarded as a masterpiece by criminal investigation enthusiasts, the "Liu Huaqiang" in "Conquest", and the "Wang Baoshan" in "Criminal Investigation Case No. 1", which are still often mentioned by the audience.
After a period of silence, in recent years, criminal investigation dramas have also made a comeback, and "Sweeping the Black Storm" and "Icebreaker" have both entered the hot dramas of the year.
"Punishment" with anti-black elements, "Ice, Rain and Fire" with anti-drug themes, and "Crime Hunting Guide" from the perspective of a portraitist to solve the case, etc., have received a lot of responses.
It's been more than 30 years, and the basic plate of criminal investigation dramas is still there.
But on the other hand, there are not many pure criminal investigation dramas that have been out of the circle in the past two years, and "Hurricane", the anti-crime element accounts for a heavier proportion. "The Long Season" is more like a period drama than a criminal investigation suspense.
2023 is about to be combined, is there still a truly enjoyable criminal investigation suspense crime drama?
Murder Depths" on what basis?starring Ma Sichao and Liu Yitong, they are not big names.
How do you look at the series, it's more like a small and medium-sized production?Just by it?
What attracted me to the series was the purity of the genre.
Director Li Yutong, whose last work "Traces of Disappearance" is also a small production with limited actor fame, has become a dark horse in the 2023 criminal investigation suspense drama.
"The Depths of the Murder Case" is obviously to go to the end of the most authentic criminal investigation suspense genre.
Although the leading actors are generally popular, the supporting cast composed of powerful actors such as Yang Zihua, Chun Yu Shanshan, Qian Yi, Zhang Haoran, and Zhao Yansong is quite eye-catching.
At the end of the suspense is criminal investigation".
From the ancient "Six Groups of Serious Cases" series to the "Forensic Qin Ming" series, and then to "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" and "Crime Hunting Guide", what attracts the audience the most is never the big name and cost, but the story itself.
In the last month of 2023, can you really run a dark horse of criminal investigation suspense dramas?
Let's go to the "depths of the murder" together, and then talk about it.
The story of "The Depths of the Murder" mainly revolves around a ** major case in Xia Cheng that spans 5 years, with the frequent occurrence of murders of women, a young criminal policeman who came to Xia Cheng to track down the truth of his wife's murder case, and an avenger who secretly investigates gradually joined forces to uncover the truth in the depths of the murder.
Combined with multiple versions of the trailer, there are three highlights of the plot:
The first is the urban criminal investigation of the original style.
The number of domestic criminal investigation suspense dramas this year is not low, but a common feature is that elements of period dramas are generally added, and the genre is convergent.
Zhang Yi's character in "Who Is He" has been tracked for many years, and the stories that are drawn out in "The Long Season" are all broken cases, although they attract attention at first glance, the audience will be aesthetically tired after watching too much.
"The Depths of the Murder Case" interweaves four independent cases with the main line cases, including both tense and exciting unit cases, as well as exciting major cases that span 5 years.
Among them, there is a suspected suicide case of a young girl, a case of a kindergarten teacher who disappeared in the night, and a case in which a popular actress was tragically dumped in the wilderness, and with the deepening of the investigation of the case, the clues of the unsolved case five years ago have also reappeared.
There are many highlights of the case itself.
Compared with period dramas, when the protagonist group is faced with complex cases, they start with criminal investigation methods such as scene investigation, suspect portrait, electronic forensics, and psychological analysis, and use scientific and technological means and criminal psychology to solve mysteries.
Victims, perpetrators, law enforcers, and avengers compete with each other, and desire, hatred, and emotions are intertwined, and topics, scales, and reversals are reversed. The road is more open.
The second is a social suspense detective.
The biggest suspense has always been the human heart.
Behind each murder case, there are multiple elements such as family emotions, social topics, and female victims.
On the one hand, each case is full of suspense and mystery, allowing the audience to always maintain a state of tension and excitement during the process. But what the truth leads to is human desire itself.
For example, the bizarre falling case at the beginning of the story, in the interlocking suspense, there are continuous reversals, and the source of all this comes from the twists and turns of the fate of the suspects in each case.
When the truth is revealed, human nature is also exhausted.
The third is the duel between the two heroes.
"The Depths of the Murder" is a two-male lead drama, which runs throughout, is the secret contest between the criminal policeman Xiao Yi and the avenger Bai Zhe, one is to move forward bravely for the truth of the crime, and the other is desperate to avenge his father. But in the end, together they figured out what was really going on behind the scenes.
That's right, just looking at the story of "The Depths of the Murder", you know that this is not the most common criminal investigation drama this year, but an urban criminal investigation, and the core of the whole drama is murder, criminal investigation, and suspense, and it is precisely because of this that this drama is more interesting.
The criminal investigation dramas of the era, anti-crime and anti-drug elements are good-looking, but they are a little tired of watching too much, and finally there is a criminal investigation drama that really focuses on solving cases.
For viewers like me, who like to watch solve crimes, it's finally time to wait.
The director of "The Depths of the Murder" is Li Yutong.
At first glance, you may not be familiar with this name, but the audience who has watched "Disappearing Traces" should be impressed by this director.
In fact, there are not many domestic directors who are good at controlling the criminal investigation suspense genre, and there are even fewer new generation directors, and Li Yutong has proven his strength.
Look at the actors again. "The Depths of the Murder" is a standard young actor with an old drama bone.
Especially in terms of powerful supporting roles, it can be said that it does not lose many big dramas.
It is not surprising, because in criminal investigation suspense dramas, when the story is wonderful and the performance is in place, the villain character often has a screen charm that is completely different from the decent character because of its obvious destructiveness and complex multifacetedness. Especially in recent years, the group portraits of villains with a large number of people and different personalities have become a major feature of criminal investigation suspense dramas.
The Depths of the Murder", I will also talk about the gold medal supporting role first, and then talk about the starring role.
I'm looking forward to the most, there are five of them
The first place, Bao Dazhi.
The older generation of audiences should recognize him as Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in the old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he is also the Duke of Qi and Fucha in "The Eastern Zhou Kingdoms: Spring and Autumn Chapter".
But the new generation of audiences knows him definitely because of a drama, "Hurricane".
"Hurricane" mainly has 2 villains, one Gao Qiqiang, one Zhao Lidong, one "business", and one official.
The former gives the audience the impression that the sin is unforgivable but affectionate and righteous, and is full of affection for his adopted daughter, friends, and even An Xin, while the latter seems to only have interests in his eyes.
No matter who it is, as long as it damages his own interests, Zhao Lidong will ruthlessly give it up.
Under the shaping of Bao Dazhi, the character presents an absolute coldness. Every expression reveals scheming and ruthlessness, and I have wanted to beat this character countless times when chasing the drama, which proves the success of the performance of this drama actor of the Beijing People's Art Theater in China.
Bao Dazhi is actually in the same class as Liang Guanhua, Wang Ji, and Song Dandan, and his acting skills have been stable. But even if it is a supporting role in the entertainment industry, it depends on luck if it doesn't succeed.
After Bao Dazhi's acting skills were finally seen by the audience, his role in this play is likely to be a villain again. The trailer has a look, and the tension is already full.
It's been a long time since I've looked forward to a villain's performance.
second place, Qian Yi.
This veteran powerhouse has collaborated with Zhang Jiayi in "Cliff" and "Installation", with Zhang Yi in "Wenzhou Family", and with Yu Hewei in "Ideal City".
In "Ideal City", Qian Yi brought his own aura as soon as he appeared, and in many rival scenes with Sun Li, he showed his acting strength, and there were not many scenes, but he left a deep impression on the audience.
He is no stranger to suspense dramas, in the popular suspense drama "The Beginning" in 2022, as well as "The Daughter Who Came Back", Qian Yi has a stable acting output.
In this play, he calmly replied in the interrogation room, "I am a scholar, not a butcher. ”
It seems that eighty percent of them are related to women, and it seems that the main murder villains of this drama are all played by these old drama bones, and the pressure on the young protagonist group is great.
third place, Yang Zihua.
Yang Zihua, who was known for playing a policeman in the past, seems to be playing a villain this time.
In 1988, Yang Zihua started his career in the movie "Martial Arts" by chance, and in 1996, Yang Zihua finally bid farewell to "Martial Arts" and began acting, and the first drama was "The Legend of Jianghu", which was popular on the screen at that time. In 1998, Yang Zihua was remembered by the audience for playing the people's policeman "Song Tao" in the TV series "The True Colors of the Criminal Police".
In recent years, he has been featured in big dramas such as "Icebreaker" and "All About Dr. Tang".
Yang Zihua is a well-tempered national drama acting school, his acting skills are not visible, full of life, and he took a sip of tea at that station, and he performed the role.
In this play, he said to people with a mysterious face, "I don't have much time to help you." A single line triggers a huge sense of suspense, which is the performance tension of a good actor.
fourth place, Zhao Yansong.
is another criminal police face, Zhao Yansong, who wrote, directed and acted in the public security-themed TV series "Boundary" in 2018, has always been known for his steady and elegant temperament.
Some Chinese drama actors can label genre dramas as soon as they appear, because the character style is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Zhao Yansong is.
His role in this play should be the director of the Xiacheng Public Security Bureau, it depends on how he governs the boys in the play.
fifth, Zhang Haoran.
Seeing this face, I suddenly had the illusion of watching "Opponent".
This young actor has starred in many spy war dramas in recent years, he is a young spy Hsinchu in "Opponent", and he plays Li Beiwei in "Aiming".
It's not unreasonable to star in spy war suspense dramas one after another, Zhang Haoran has a mysterious temperament, and his role in this play seems to be related to the big case that ran through the whole play five years ago - "disciple", who is it?
He will play this kind of role, okay.
Look at the main character again. Let's talk about Ma Sichao first.
starred in the movie "Reversal of Life" and entered the showbiz, signed a contract with Hunan Satellite TV, and joined the "Happy Boy".
In the past few years, he has also appeared in urban youth dramas such as "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You" and "Daydream Me", which belongs to a new generation of young students who are steady and steady.
This is the first time he has played the criminal investigation suspense genre.
Can you hold it?Look at himself.
Let's talk about Liu Yitong.
It must be said that after Chen Yuemo's acting skills in "Pearl River People" turned over, the pressure has been handed over to Liu Yitong.
As Liu Yijun's son, Liu Yitong has had good resources since his debut.
successively participated in dramas such as "Crane Pavilion", "Sword Dynasty", "Three Thousand Crows Killed", and also cooperated with Liu Yijun in "Double-Faced Detective". In this year's word-of-mouth costume suspense drama "Under the Prosperous City", he played a role in Gao Shicong.
But Liu Yitong used to give people the impression that his acting skills were not bad or top-notch, and he still lacked a role that the audience really remembered.
In this play, his role exudes an evil spirit, he is an avenger rather than a policeman, and he is very brilliant when he plays it well, but if he doesn't play it well, he will be superficial.
I hope that this time, Liu Yitong will seize the opportunity.
In the end, it's still the question, can it explode?
In the current domestic film and television drama market, there seem to be a lot of hot dramas, but the popular ones are basically ancient puppets like "Yi Nian Guan Mountain" and current puppets like "I miss you very much", and there are not many popular dramas that are really suitable for all ages.
This is the best time for the dark horse of criminal investigation dramas to break through.
Criminal investigation dramas have always been the easiest genre to attract audiences of all ages, the mode of confrontation between police and bandits, coupled with the main line of case detection, can not only give creators great space for expression, but also naturally accommodate suspense, emotions and other topics that attract the audience. It's easy to make a national hit.
Whether "Murder Depths" can break through and become a dark horse depends on two points:
First, is the sense of suspense enough?
In a sense, "The Depths of the Murder Case" is actually a return to the style of criminal investigation dramas in the early years, with vicious criminal cases as the main body, and the mode of duality between police and bandits, to tell the investigation process of the case.
Although there have been many criminal investigation dramas in the past two years, there are really not many cases that can present several cases so completely, as long as the story is enjoyable, the audience can enter the play.
The second is whether young actors can catch the play?
This kind of criminal investigation suspense drama that integrates real events in real society usually creates more characters, and roughly divides them into two camps: the positive and the negative. The peel-off case handling and various conspiracies and conspiracies can make the story full of dramatic tension and the charm of the characters.
But the premise is that the good and evil camps are equal.
For example, the competition between the police group portrait represented by Liu Yijun in "Sweeping the Black Storm" and the "underworld force group portrait" represented by Gao Mingyuan played by Wang Zhifei and Sun Xing played by Wu Xiaoliang is because not only the villain is portrayed effectively, but Liu Yijun's decent power is also weighty.
The lineup of "Murder Depths" is characterized by the gathering of powerful factions, and the villains are definitely something to watch.
But if there is a criminal investigation, there must be a police.
In the criminal investigation suspense drama, the police group portrait is not only the absolute protagonist and positive force, but also reflects the theme and soul of the whole play.
In the face of Yang Zihua, Chun Yu Shanshan, Bao Dazhi, Dong Xiangrong, Qian Yi, Zhang Haoran, Zhao Yansong and other old actors, whether the two young actors can shine may determine whether the audience can enter the "depths of the murder case".
At the end of 2023, can this dark horse of criminal investigation drama run?