"Everything that seems to be accidental has a certain necessity. ”
Don't you think that here, the abnormal mortality rate is too high? ”
Hollowing out everyone's fate, even life and death, is his greatest satisfaction. ”
Yes, that apprentice of "Tang Ren", Lin Hei Dog, the fourth ranked detective in the Tang Detective Universe, Lin Mo, is back.
The web drama "Detective Chinatown 2" landed in Taochang tonight.
In the years since Tang Tan was away, domestic suspense dramas have ushered in a round of blowouts.
Far from it, let's take 2023 as an example.
First of all, Zhang Yi's suspense drama "Who Is He", which became the fastest suspense drama on the platform to exceed 10,000 at the beginning of the year.
After that, Fan Wei and Qin Hao's "The Long Season" became the No. 1 national drama in 2023.
"Under the Prosperous City" has completed the word-of-mouth breakthrough of costume suspense dramas.
However, let me tell you the truth, the biggest success of "The Long Season" is to use a suspenseful shell to present the joys and sorrows of the characters under the torrent of the times, which directly raises the artistic level of domestic suspense dramas to a new height.
But only in terms of suspense and ontological reasoning itself, the fact is that in the 4 years that the online drama "Tang Detective" has been absent, no national drama has surpassed the drama in terms of suspense presentation.
It seems that to complete this task, Chen Sicheng still has to come by himself, tonight, this is coming.
The online drama "Detective Chinatown 2" is still produced and written by Chen Sicheng, and Qiu Ze, Zhang Junning, Zhang Yishang, Shang Yuxian, Tony Jia, these old acquaintances of the Tang Detective series have returned collectively.
Old acquaintances who made cameos, as well as Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang, who "I always speak", and Xiao Yang, who is "arrogant".
The newly added starring lineup of unit dramas includes Yang Jinhua, Xiong Dailin, Zhong Zhentao, Lu Songxian, Deng Enxi, Du Dewei, ** and others, I have to say that Chen Sicheng really loves to use old Hong Kong stars.
Is the first suspense drama hit in 2024 coming?
Let's take a look.
The online drama "Tang Detective" series is, of course, a derivative of the movie.
From the 2016 movie "Detective Chinatown" to the present, Chen Sicheng's plan to create the "Tang Detective Universe" is extremely clear.
As an important part of the "Tang Detective Universe", the first online drama version of "Detective Chinatown" was broadcast online on January 1, 2020, 4 years ago.
The first Chen Sicheng personally served as the producer and chief screenwriter, Ke Wenli, Dai Mo, Yao Wenyi, and Lai Mukuan directed, and Qiu Ze played the core character, Lin Mo.
One year after the launch of the online drama, "Tang Detective 3" was released, although the film was finally counterattacked by Jia Ling's "Hello, Li Huanying" during the Spring Festival, Chen Sicheng still won a box office of 5.4 billion with the Chinatown Detective Trilogy.
Among them, "Detective Chinatown 3" won 35600 million at the box office.
There is no doubt that behind the huge success of the movie version, there is also the word-of-mouth and continued popularity of the online drama "Detective Chinatown".
The play introduced characters other than Qin Feng and Tang Ren as the protagonists in the "Tang Detective Universe", and it was a great success, Qiu Ze created another classic role of his own, and Zhang Junning's femme fatale role was also successful.
On the other hand, just as Chen Sicheng himself **, the "Tang Detective" series of big movies is more and more like a comedy family carnival for commercial reasons, but it is an online drama series, which is closer to detective movies and Benge reasoning.
This series also created a new creative model: Chen Sicheng retreated to the background as the chief screenwriter and producer to control the overall situation, and different units were directed by young directors with different characteristics, and the same web drama could have multiple reasoning styles.
In addition, the supporting roles found are also old acquaintances of everyone, such as Zhang Songwen and Gao Ye have participated in the online drama version
Zhang Songwen's Wen Song can be said to be the best acting skills in the supporting cast of the online drama version.
Although many people have watched online dramas, it has been a long time since then.
Next, I'll briefly review the first season to help you get some memories back.
The first season of the "Detective Chinatown" web series has 12 episodes and is divided into 3 units, "Mandala Dance", "The Name of the Rose", and "Ghost Invitational".
The Douban score of the first two units reached 81 point, after the launch of the 3rd unit, the score was reduced to 70。
Let's focus on the first eight episodes.
As soon as the story opened, Tang Ren threw the mess to Lin Mo and asked him to pay off the investigation debt owed to the police station for himself.
The first case is the first unit "Dance of the Mandala".
As we all know, whether a suspense drama is good or not, the creation of a sense of suspense is very important.
The director of this unit is Ke Wenli, the director of "Manslaughter", who is the best at creating atmosphere and image language.
The first scene of the opening scene is the scene of the protagonist Awen telling the camera eloquently, with a slow pace and no fast and fancy editing. It is completely the opening of a suspense movie, but it fills the suspenseful atmosphere.
This unit is a standard "reasoning + thriller" genre collocation, whether it is from the lens scheduling, sound effect art, the integration of elements such as thriller and supernatural, or the trick design of the reasoning part, it can be said that it is seamless, and even as a complete detective independent movie, the level is not inferior to "Manslaughter" and "She Who Disappeared".
Although Ke Wenli did not direct other works supervised by Chen Sicheng, he not only completed his rapid growth as a director of commercial genre films, but also gained a goddess girlfriend: Zhang Junning.
There is also a supporting role in this unit, which is Di Nan among the four sisters played by Gao Ye.
The second unit "The Name of the Rose" is directed by Dai Mo and Yao Wenyi.
It happened before "Dance of the Mandala", when Lin Mo was not Tang Ren's apprentice, but a scavenger - a crime scene cleaning expert, helping to kill people ** destroy evidence and cover people's eyes.
Being a scavenger is not his goal, he wants to find the real murderer of ** and his parents through one crime scene after another.
The overall level of this part is lower than that of the first part, and except for the truth of Q being revealed at the end, the rhythm in the early stage is too draggy.
The reason why it can still maintain a high rating is actually because of a radiant supporting role-
Zhang Songwen, who was still unknown back then.
The role he played was honest and honest in the early stage, and the last scene was directly reversed into a big guy.
But the ending is reversed, the little brother of the rose boss is still a love brain, and Zhang Songwen's performance back then has repeatedly proved that he is by no means a thing in the pool.
It was his and Zhang Junning's perfect performance that directly raised the level of this unit, so that the logical flaws in the reasoning part were ignored by the audience.
The third unit of the play has created a new model, that is, all the young actors favored by capital are packaged at the end to form a five-person group, and as for whether the audience watches it or not, it is up to them to choose.
I still say the same thing, there is a reason why Chen Sicheng's suspense works have repeatedly exploded, he is so smart.
Now, let's take a look at the story of this one.
First of all, this part has a total of 16 episodes, and it is still a unit of 4 episodes.
Qiu Ze starred in the two units of "Angel's Melody" and "Devil's Breath".
Kiko, played by Shang Yuxian, is led by the two units of "Amusement Park" and "* City".
Kiko has appeared in Tang Detective 2**, she is a genius girl, proficient in computer technology, she does not have many roles in the movie version, and her popularity is not low, Liu Haoran's cameo should also be in her two units.
Judging from the trailer, although the main story is not clear, Chen Sicheng's thinking is the same as always: ontological reasoning.
The core is human greed, hatred, ignorance, and desire.
Judging from the preview, the scale is still not small.
Someone fell from the building. Some people were put in body bags.
** Organizations with mind control.
and Lin Mo's reasoning to break the game.
And, of course, old acquaintances we are familiar with.
is still always doing what he says, but he can't find Tang Ren.
Ivy is still full of mystery.
and Jack Jia who appeared in "Tang Detective".
The online drama "Tang Detective" actually still leaves a lot of tails.
What kind of unknown past does Lin Mo have?
What is the secret of IVY?
Although Tang Detective 3 has unveiled the mystery of Q, what kind of secrets does this organization hide?
may appear in the second part.
At least, in terms of reasoning, Chen Sicheng and his team are still trustworthy.
The directors of the second part of the online drama Tang Detective are Yao Wenyi from the first part and Wang Tianwei from the newcomer.
Ke Wenli and Dai Mo, the main directors of the previous film, did not continue to direct.
The starring roles are Qiu Ze and Shang Yuxian, and the main supporting roles are Yang Jinhua, Zhong Zhentao, Yu Haoming, Zhang Yishang, Xiong Dailin, ** and so on.
Among these actors, I care the most about the performance of 4 people.
First place: Qiu Ze.
Qiu Ze is undoubtedly a treasure excavated by this series, and it is with this series that his acting skills have been widely recognized by mainland audiences for the first time.
The role of Lin Mo was endowed with his soul by Qiu Ze, his eyes always carried scrutiny and observation, and his casual and crazy temperament was vividly interpreted.
This character can act in both comedy and suspense dramas. Qiu Ze's interpretation method is very advanced, you can switch between the two anytime and anywhere, with him, the second part will be interesting.
Second place: Zhang Junning.
As mentioned earlier, the quality of the first and second units is largely supported by Zhang Junning and Zhang Songwen.
The biggest advantage of Zhang Junning's role as a femme fatale is that the audience can't guess that she is a femme fatale, but the role has enough power, and the audience can understand why Lin Mo is fascinated.
I also want to see the next story of this femme fatale and Lin Mo, and she really appeared again this season.
Third place: Yang Jinhua.
Among the new roles, I look forward to her the most.
After "Queen of Defeated Dogs", Yang Jinhua's acting road is getting wider and wider.
can play the evil mother Sang in "The Beginning of the Lights", or you can play the good mother.
In this play, she plays another femme fatale, and at the age of 47, she is still not difficult to play, she is so beautiful.
Fourth place: Zhong Zhentao.
Judging from the position, Zhong Zhentao's role this time is not light, at least the main role of a unit.
In the era of Hong Kong films, Zhong Zhentao is actually a star with popularity. In recent years, he has still appeared in various film and television dramas in domestic entertainment, and the god of food he played in "Flowers" is impressive, it can be said that the sword is not old, and I still look forward to his play.
Of course, the cameo performances of Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang and the super handsome Liu Haoran are also worth looking forward to.
However, viewers who like the first "Five Spirit Boys" may be disappointed, none of them appear in the starring list of this season, but once again co-starred in another Tang Detective spin-off.
If you want to use one word to describe the domestic suspense in recent years, I think it is: momentum, high open and high go, suspense level, high open and low go.
In retrospect, what really brought the suspense level of domestic suspense dramas to a new level was the web series "The Hidden Corner", "The Silent Truth" and "Tang Detective".
With the advent of these high-quality suspense dramas, the audience's expectations for suspense dramas have been infinitely raised.
For a while, the suspense themes on the market became sweet, and a large number of suspenseful film and television works were broadcast one after another.
It's a pity that although there are masterpieces like "The Long Season", most suspense dramas are not satisfactory in terms of plot and production.
In particular, the cases of most suspense dramas are not "suspenseful", and those who follow the original reasoning route will not pass the case, and the audience will not feel the fun of solving puzzles; Those who take the line of social reasoning are obsessed with telling the truth through cases, and reasoning is only an element, but it is not enjoyable.
Therefore, the appearance of the second season of the online drama "Detective Chinatown" is actually just right.
Audiences who like Benge's reasoning will definitely put their hopes on Chen Sicheng.
Whether "Tang Detective 2" will become a hit, and whether the signboard of this series of online dramas can be kept, depends on whether the show can tell another high-quality reasoning story like "Dance of the Mandala".
The Dance of the Mandala begins with a quote from the Sutra of Huayan, "All the negative karma I created in the past was caused by beginningless greed and hatred."
People's hearts and humanity are always the biggest suspense, I hope this time, Chen Sicheng will not disappoint the audience.