At the beginning of 2024, the ratings of the most "hot" TV series "Ice Hunting" became a hot topic, and it became a topic of ridicule among netizens for a week. "Ice Hunting" has achieved a very novel "reverse out of the circle". Netizens "ridiculed" the acting skills of the heroine Yao Anna in the play, and chased Zhang Songwen's role at the same time, which can be described as a very wonderful experience of watching the drama. Gao Qunshu, the director of "Ice Hunting", has a very good reputation in the circle, and has filmed the very hardcore police drama "Conquest" and the spy war movie "The Wind". Zhang Songwen, the actor who starred in "Ice Hunting", has become an old actor unanimously recognized by the audience from a "cost-effective acting school" since the hit of "Hurricane" last year. Therefore, in the early stage of publicity, the combination of Gao Qunshu + Zhang Songwen caused a wave of popularity before the TV series started, although this drama was filmed before "Hurricane", and it was a small cost investment of less than 40 million, but this did not affect the audience's expectations for the showWhat's more, it was previously said that this is a drama of "China's version of Breaking Bad", which has raised the audience's appetite in all aspects. 
Ice Hunting" stillsThe story of Ice Hunt is not complicated to tell, but it is a typical cat-and-mouse game structure. Huang Zongwei, a genius drug producer, produces and sells drugs, and the police follow him and will inevitably bring him to justice. It is said that the prototype of the story is Liu Zhaohua, the "drug genius" who shocked the world back then. Back in 2017, an interview about him went viral, and he once claimed that "my drugs are not consumed by domestic people, only sold to foreigners," he once claimedPeople once used opium to open the door to China, and I can also use ** to open their door", this dramatic scene is also used in the role of Huang Zongwei in the play. 
Two days after the TV series was launched, Zhao Younan, a policewoman played by Yao Anna, became the object of the most complaints in the short **. In the first episode, the policewoman Zhao Younan went undercover to disguise herself as a spiritual sister and went deep into the drug dealer's den, at this time, the focus of netizens was also to discuss the discomfort caused by Yao Anna's appearance and her running posture in the play to chase the murderer. To be honest, the first time I saw this part of the plot, I felt at first that the audience's reaction was too intense, and the acting was discussable, but personal attacks were not necessary. After all, Gao Qunshu explained,chose Yao Anna to play the heroine because she took a fancy to her simple and amateur state with no traces of training. 
Director Gao Qunshu responded on Weibo However, after a few more episodes, when I saw the close-up of Zhao Younan chasing in the pagoda with a gun, his erratic eyes, stiff gun-holding movements and out-of-control expression management, I have to admit that this somewhat magical acting skills really make people laugh. At this point, Yao Anna's audience popularity accumulated in the TV series "Going to a Windy Place" has been shattered, but she is active on various short ** platforms in the form of "explosive stalks" that are imitated by the audience. In particular, the saying that Huawei's second princess "brought capital into the group" was once circulated on the Internet. 
Gao Qunshu once personally explained that the choice of Yao Anna had nothing to do with capital, he just wanted to create a strange perception in the film and television effects. The setting of this character is a female policeman who has been a female soldier, has just joined the anti-drug brigade, and is a bit of a "tiger". Perhaps, even director Gao Qunshu, who originally did not invest much, did not expect that this online drama would cause such extensive discussion because of the casting. The reason why this drama can reach such a strange popularity, on the one hand, is that after Zhang Songwen "Hurricane", "Ice Hunting" is the first TV series he has taken the lead alone, and the audience's expectations are very high. On the other hand, Yao Anna's background as a rich second generation and the blunt acting skills of the heroine have triggered and conformed to some current social emotions. "Ice Hunting" keeps the audience in a first-class viewing experience at all times. On the one hand, Yao Anna's acting skills make people play, and when I saw the story line of the drug maker Huang Zongwei, I felt that the character story was a bit interesting. Compared with the role of Gao Qiqiang he played in "Hurricane", the role of Huang Zongwei skipped the process of turning from white to "black", but was set up from the beginning as a criminal who took risks to make drugs in order to make his wife and children (triplets) have a better life. Zhang Songwen has added a lot of daily and advanced processing to this role, and moderately exposed the inner world of a villain in front of the audience. 
There is a scene, when he found out that there were workers in his drug factory stealing **, he was first angry, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and then he said a few polite words to the worker, and also sent a red envelope to the people according to the rules of his hometown, but hinted to his subordinate uncle that the worker will not be used in the future, "send him on the road", turned around and hid behind the door, and when the uncle solved the thief, he vigorously opened the door and pun on it, "I said a long time ago to let you fix the door." Zhang Songwen's performance brought a lot of highlight moments to this villain, every time he escaped and won, he would quietly snap his fingers, take the arrogant steps of six relatives and not recognize him, and play the villain's caution and madness, bringing a strong stimulation and pressure to the audience. At the same time, Wong Chong Wei's inner reverence for gods and ancestors, his friendship with his fellow villagers and elders, and his kindness to his wife and children make this character full of complexity. The scene where I was conquered by Zhang Songwen's acting skills was when he decided to leave home, his babbling son suddenly shouted "Dad", Zhang Songwen did not look back, the expression was seven points of joy and three points of sadness, and then he decided to leave home for a futureA close-up of the micro-facial expression in less than five seconds undoubtedly reveals the tender side of Huang Zongwei. 
In the contrast of such a powerful villain, the plot of the police chasing Huang Zongwei presents a kind of emptiness and powerlessness. On the police side dominated by Yao Anna, every time the clues are obtained by coincidence and accident, there will even be some very "intellectual" pursuit bridges. Zhao Younan is always like a divine helper, and he is often able to override public opinion and predict Huang Zongwei's prediction. In the pursuit, it doesn't matter if you lose the drug dealer, just ask a villager to find the drug dealer's lair. The most outrageous clip is that in the process of tracking the raw material of drug production, Phenylacetone, she not only suddenly disguised herself as a porter, but walked into a room separated by a wall under the nose of drug traffickers to call the headquarters to ask for reinforcements, and when she was discovered by drug dealers, she just understated that her family was sick, and she was able to get out of danger, not only swaggering to receive the handling salary, but also smoothly changing clothes to continue the pursuit. There are many scenes like this that can be unexpectedly successful without any logical reasoning in the play. There is a scene where Huang Zongwei and a group of other drug dealers are playing mahjong, and he revealed the two lines of defense set up when transferring raw materials for drug production, which was finally easily cracked by the "detective" policewoman Zhao YounanIt can be said that the more the villain's cleverness and wit are written, the more the ease of the detection link seems to be playing a game. Putting aside Yao Anna's acting skills, "Ice Hunting" has endless mistakes at the script level. In the chase scenes, Zhao Younan's parkour performances all over the village neither promoted the witty inflection point of the plot nor reflected the personal growth of the policewoman. One of the few strokes in the play depicts Zhao Younan's pressure on his sister who was subjected to domestic violence, and it is difficult to understand the character's psychological changes and personal charm when chasing drug dealers. Director Gao Qunshu also confessed his emphasis on the script on social **, he said that at that time, Huang Zongwei's line screenwriter spent pen and ink writing, but the description of ** group portraits repeatedly encountered bottlenecks, and finally because of insufficient budget, there was no money to change the screenwriter to change the draft, and finally rushed to the shelves for filming. 
"Anti-narcotics" is a very brilliant genre film, it can be shot with a sense of suspense, a tense battle of wits and courage, and the greed and desire in human nature shown by the pros and cons in the fierce competition. The classic anti-drug TV series is inseparable from the power of "confrontation". More than 20 years ago, Wang Zhiwen also played a "hateful" drug lord Guo Xiaopeng in "Black Ice"**, a Kochi drug maker and drug trafficker who looks gentle and elegant"The reason why my fate is miserable is because I have no power".Under the construction of this crazy underlying logic, an "elegant" criminal who constantly outputs golden sentences has become an iconic role in Wang Zhiwen's career, and the heroine is Wang Jingwen, an undercover policewoman played by Jiang Wenli, who is not only brave, but also has extraordinary courage and intelligence. The mutual temptation, suspicion and pull between the two made the process of anti-drug a feast of equal strength, although Guo Xiaopeng finally turned into the gutter of "love brain", but the audience can also watch it convincingly. 
The stills of "Black Ice" are also like "Icebreaker" a few years ago, the big drug lord Lin Yaodong is played by Wang Jinsong, who seems to be a "Confucian villain", but it is his out-and-out disguise. Li Fei played by Huang Jingyu, although he is a decent character with many shortcomings, young and vigorous, not calm enough, in the first episode, he was besieged by drug-making villagers, even if he later caught the drug dealer, the drug dealer was released on bail the next day, and later, Li Fei was framed, charged with drug trafficking and murder, and was forced to flee in embarrassment. From another point of view,When justice is faced with unsolvable frustration, reality whipping and pain, the audience can empathize with the "difficulty" of anti-drug more. However, back to "Ice Hunting", the group portrait is not only blurred, but also deliberately magnified the "miracle" of Zhao Younan's pursuit of drug dealers in the blur, under the accurate prediction of the policewoman Zhao Younan, the villains are not only easily terminated, but also defeated on the way to escape, which weakens the dramatic tension of this drama, and the positive and negative characters do not achieve an evenly matched struggle in terms of resourcefulness. At the same time,Zhang Songwen's portrayal of the small details of the role makes Huang Zongwei's role dominant, but the group portrait represented by Zhao Younan looks pale, and it has become a background board for drug traffickers and drug makers. 
Even if you haven't watched "Ice Hunting", the various famous scenes of this show are also on fire. Although Yao Anna's acting skills are problematic, she can't be the one who takes the blame. The biggest flaw of this drama was ignored in the waves of heated discussions about Yao Anna's acting skills. As the two sides of the "cat and mouse game", the imbalance of power between the villain and ** in the competition is the real failure of this show. But don't be discouraged. No matter what, black and red are also red, and going back and honing your acting skills to enter the comedy circle is promising.