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On January 27, the New Year's Eve drama "Reconnaissance Hero" ended perfectly on Beijing Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV at the same time, with the highest rating of 05%, ranking first among all David TVs. This is not easy for a war-themed TV series.
The advent of Scout Heroes tells the market:The theme of the main theme war has been filmed, and the audience still feels fragrant!
In recent years, due to the ravages of various anti-Japanese dramas, the audience has a deep prejudice against the main theme TV series of the war theme. "In the Name of the People" and "Awakening Age", which are the main theme TV series that are popular, are not war themes. The main theme of the war-themed TV series seems to have stinked on the street.
In fact, if you watch a few more anti-Japanese dramas, you will know that this kind of TV series has a common slot, that is, the protagonists are all smart and witty and excellent in martial arts, and the villains are bad, stupid and vulnerable; The protagonists are "in the bush of thousands of bullets, and the soil does not stick to the soil", and the villains are "bullets can turn and cover is also in vain". This is no longer just a serious problem of facial profiling, but a disregard for basic facts. This is a fool of the audience's intelligence, but also an insult to the martyrs, and a disrespect for history.
The key to the success of Scout Heroes in terms of ratings and the reputation of the audience is to respect the opponent.
The villain in the play, Baek Chang-ho, is a well-trained scout in the South Korean army, and our protagonist Liang Chen, the head of the reconnaissance section, can be described as a chess opponent.
Such a terrible opponent instantly made the audience sweat for the protagonists, and instantly drove the tension of the plot of the whole play, and in the repeated battles, our reconnaissance heroes finally defeated such an opponent, which showed the greatness of our reconnaissance heroes. This kind of greatness is not rendered by empty sensationalism, but what the audience really feels from the plot, which is the director's cleverness and the success of this drama.
When your opponent is a pig, you are a dog at most, and when your opponent is a wolf, you can be a tiger.
Another success of "Scout Heroes" is the portrayal of individual volunteer officers and soldiers, this drama is different from the macro narrative of the general strategy in general war dramas, but starts from a few soldiers in the reconnaissance class, vividly showing their personalities and thoughts.
The portrayal of their sacrifice in the play is no longer a stereotypical depiction of a gun in a positional battle. For example, the deputy chief of the reconnaissance section, Shu Min, died because he accidentally stepped on a mine in the battle behind, and he was hit in the neck by flying shrapnel when he had already walked out of the minefield. It reflects the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war from the side, and fully shows the dangers lurking on the battlefield.
And our volunteer soldiers, who stayed in such an environment for three years, were in a state of physical and mental tension for a long time, which caused people to reflect on the real war, and such dramatic tension was no weaker than a positional war of wild bombardment.
Of course, "Scout Heroes" is also controversial, especially the wedding plot at the end. Some people think this is very cliché, and at the same time, they also think that it is too unreasonable to fall in love on the cruel battlefield.
But when the humble wedding, Zheng Yushu, Yu Xiaoshan, Jin Zhe, Bi Lei Needle, Li Wanfu, Da Niu and other sacrificed soldiers appeared one by one, and sent blessings to the bride and groom, and then their voices and smiles disappeared into Liang Chen's tears one by one, I believe you will definitely burst into tears like most of the audience.
Then we will find that the TV series ends with this wedding, which is not inappropriate at all, but an emotional sublimation, which is the finishing touch.
The whole play depicts war, but the theme it wants to express is that the Chinese people hope for peace. Not only did we focus on portraying our desire for peace on the side of our volunteers, but also arranged a dialogue for the villain Baek Chang-ho that was just right for his confidants, and the two sides echoed each other, embodying the theme of peace to the extreme.
Scout Hero is directed by Zheng Xiaolong, when it comes to Zheng Xiaolong, everyone thinks of the classic "The Legend of Zhen Huan". In fact, Zheng Xiaolong, as a top TV drama director in China, has written many books.
"Longing", "Beijinger in New York", "The Biography of Miyue", "Red Sorghum" and so on are all his proud works. But on the theme of war, Zheng Xiaolong also made a masterpiece like "Scout Hero" after an attempt, and this short attempt is the chapter of "Nengwen Nengwu Li Yannian" in the hit drama "Meritorious" in 2021, when "Meritorious" was broadcast, the audience liked Li Yannian's chapter very much, and now it seems that this is Zheng Xiang's clarion call to march into the theme of war.
"Reconnaissance Heroes" has ushered in the finale, friends who like to chase it to the end in one go, or can't enjoy it, let us follow this drama back to the battlefield filled with gunpowder again, follow the reconnaissance heroes from birth to death, and re-recognize the precious peace!