Author: Shi Wenjing
Recently, the contemporary spy war drama “Opponent” starring Guo Jingfei, Tan Zhuo, Ning Li, Yan Bingyan, etc., was broadcast. Although it is not loud, the ratings are good. The drama focuses on the “spy” hidden in the corner of life. There are many highlights in the creation of the drama. The biggest highlight is the expansion of the themes and elements of the spy war drama, but retains the strong plot and suspense creation of the spy war drama. feature.
Genre drama counter-routine creation
“Opponent” is actually a contemporary Guoan drama. Previously, “The Eye of the Storm” starring Yang Mi portrayed the national security personnel from the front, telling the story of their efforts to detect technology theft cases and protect the country’s rare resources from being smuggled and traded by foreign forces. It stands to reason that the dramas that reflect the various struggles of national security personnel in maintaining national security in various fields are called Guoan theme dramas, but “Opponent” has packaged Guoan theme dramas into contemporary spy war dramas. In the process of “reverse” packaging, the works of this kind of theme were created in a way that broke the pattern.
Focusing on spies hidden in ordinary life, the integration of life-stream narrative methods allows the audience to resonate more quickly. The contemporary spy war dramas familiar to the audience, the first is the American spy war drama, which focuses mostly on high-level agents who do not eat human fireworks. The themes are mostly anti-terrorism and war, with big scenes, big hands, big themes, and strong plots. The second is an anti-intelligence drama featuring national security personnel in domestic dramas. For example, “Spy Sea Tracking”, which talks about fighting international spies to ensure the safety of aircraft carrier research and development, and “Guardians Surfaced”, which protects national defense secrets and homeland security, are all frontal portraits of national security personnel, focusing on major national security events. . “The Opponent” focuses on spies hidden in the corners of the city. Ding Meixi, played by Tan Zhuo, is a teacher in life, Li Tang, played by Guo Jingfei, is a taxi driver, and Lin Yu, played by Ning Li, has various social roles, but This “iron triangle” is a spy who has been hiding for 18 years and has been engaged in sabotage activities. They are engaged in ordinary teaching and taxi driver jobs, ordinary people who have various networks and details of life in their lives, but they have the task to kill and decisively, the means are vicious, and the destructive power is strong.
When Ding Meixi appeared on the stage, she was a teacher at home tutoring students’ Chinese homework. She had various life “difficulties” with her rebellious daughter, which was very life-like, but when she turned around, she talked with her husband Li Tang about actions, tasks, and how. “Go back” and other topics. In life, Ding Meixi and Li Tang are a pair of ordinary middle-aged couples. They have work crises as well as the trivial lives of their parents. One of the most powerful aspects of the play is that an important part of their crisis life is worrying about money. “Going online” swallowed funds, and the two of them can only live their lives in poverty. Ding Meixi kept urging Li Tang to ask for money from “online”. This kind of content is very detailed and life-like, and deeply shaped the image of this group of spies. Criminal activities, they are pawns at the mercy of espionage organizations, and they have a great vigilant effect on the world.
The play breaks the inherent character structure model. Most contemporary anti-spy dramas focus on groups of positive characters, and focus on shaping a group of intelligent national security personnel. The structure of the characters in “The Opponent” is inclined to the negative characters, which not only penetrates into the life and inner level of the negative characters, but also explains in detail the history of the “iron triangle” spies and the love triangle. However, the drama highlights the creation of the villain, and does not weaken the role of the national security personnel. In the drama, Yan Bingyan, the head of the detective operation team, has a strong sense of responsibility, strong action, and fear of evil forces. He has been chasing after 18 years. Through clues, he keeps targeting espionage activities, confronts them head-on, fights wits and courageously, and finally wipes out all the cunning enemies. The character Duan Yingjiu portrayed in the play is very distinctive and also portrays her family life and life crisis in detail. The pros and cons in the play can be said to be equally hard. They are not empty, symbolic characters, but characters with details of life.
Don’t take too much innovation
This drama has a good reputation. The most fundamental reason is that it has modified the spy war genre model, but at the same time retains the core things of the spy war genre-strong plot and heavy suspense.
What is the mission of these spies? Including forcibly looting business leaders and aerospace scientists, installing cameras and listening devices for high-tech experts and laboratories, stealing all kinds of information, assassinating people who know their identities, etc., with concealed methods and cunning actions. In the pros and cons of the “cat and mouse” game, the plot of the drama conforms to factual reasoning, the details are rigorous, and the atmosphere of suspense is strong. The retention of the core things of these spy war genres makes the drama very eye-catching.
Genre drama innovation is the current screen creation trend. Whether it is a suspense drama or a spy war drama, a variety of different styles and different elements are being mixed and matched, and creators use their own artistic techniques to make innovations in genre dramas. Various efforts. However, no matter whether it is a suspense drama or a spy war drama, in the process of fusion of various elements and genres, the core elements of the genre drama can be retained to make the work more brilliant. The suspense dramas “Double Detective” and “Octagonal Pavilion Mysterious Fog” are all works that have made relatively large strides in the exploration of genre dramas, focusing on portraying the depth and emotional connection of the characters, focusing on the exploration of visual art, focusing on the integration of local traditional cultural elements, and focusing on the right The exploration and presentation of the sense of reality, but the insufficient story strength of the two genre dramas and the weakening of the genre core have led to the collapse of word-of-mouth.
“Opponent” may not be a big hit, but it has a certain enlightenment for the creation of genre dramas, that is, to keep the core of the typified mode first, and then do the superposition of various elements and types. (Shi Wenjing)
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责编：崔益明 ]
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