With the approach of the Spring Festival, the fight in the TV drama market has also entered a white-hot stage.
The Goose Factory urban love drama "in Blizzard" won the first place in the network within a few days, and the competition was in full swing as it belonged to two "Xianjian" series on two platforms.
CCTV, as a distribution center for explosive funds, is even more powerful. Two new year's blockbuster "Flowers" and "The Years of the Great River Like Song" have just ended, followed by two king bombs: a large-scale detective drama "Da Tang Di Gong Case," a very explosive potential era drama "South to North," two plays on the same day on the sixth central eight, in the prime and sub-prime to launch a double drama cluster, really can be said to be a good drama to come, chase can not catch up.
In particular, this contemporary drama "going from the South to the North", directed by Zheng Xiaolong and starring Ding Yongdai and Bai Jingting, won the national TV championship with only two episodes on the air one day, which can be said to be a blockbuster drama with great potential.
In addition to the explosion of heat, this "South to North" Douban reputation is also good. Just a few days after the broadcast, many netizens gave four-star and five-star comments.
So what is the standard of this contemporary drama, which is made by Director Zheng Xiaolong and joined by no less than dozens of powerful actors? After chasing the just released episodes in one breath, 77 already has the answer in mind.
As an era drama about the lives of ordinary people and showing the faces of people in train cars, "going from South to North" opened with only three scenes and firmly caught the audience's attention.
The first is the real presentation of train carriages in the 1970s and 1980s.
The episode opens on a train that travels north and south. Just like the real scene of that era, the carriage was crowded and there were all kinds of things.
Someone lost their wallet,
There are people and chickens flying about in the car.
There are also people who have no seats and sleep directly on the luggage rack of the train compartment.
The scenes are so real that they let people into the play in a second.
The second scene is the first meeting between male host Wang Xin and old criminal policeman Ma Kui.
One of them was a newbie police officer who had not graduated from the police academy for a long time, and the other was an escaped prisoner. A fight was very exciting, and it also successfully aroused the curiosity of the audience: What happened to Ding Yongdai? He actually acted as a criminal. Could it be that he was the number one villain like Bai Baoshan?
The third scene is the simple and natural courtyard life.
In addition to the true portrayal of the stories that took place on the train cars, the series also has a true presentation of the life of railway workers in the 1970s and 1980s.
There are seven or eight families living in a compound, all of whom are the families of railway workers, so the relations between the families in the compound are very close and harmonious.
Whose family raised a few chickens, whose daughter made new clothes, whose husband and wife were particularly affectionate, everyone in the compound was clear.
This scene is real to the bone of the fireworks, let people instantly go through, go back to that era, think of the laughter of that month, simple neighborhood relations, as well as those unadorned people.
As a drama with no or magnificent pictures, no suspense thrillers, only ordinary fireworks, "going from South to North" attracts the audience deeply and makes people enter the play in a second by virtue of these three scenes with a great sense of age and substitution.
2, more than 30 powerful actors joined, the lineup can be called luxurious."from South to North" almost gathered, half of the good actors in the entertainment industry, 77 slightly counted, the name of the star actors alone, more than 25.
First, Ding Yongdai.
Ding Yongdai, an old actor, came out of the circle in 2005 with Bai Baoshan, the villain of "China Criminal Investigation No.1 Case." Since then, he has created a number of classic characters successively, such as Liang Di of "Lang Ya List," Zhou Fu of "World," Bai Minghan of "Hua Mei," each of which can be called a classic.
In "going from South to North", Ding Yongdai plays Ma Kui, an old criminal policeman, and Wang Xin, a young criminal policeman played by Bai Jingting, is a pair of resentful master and apprentice. At the beginning, the master and apprentice did not like each other. The mutual respect between master and apprentice is also one of the highlights of the whole play.
Ding Yongdai's acting skills are even more traceless, so naturally they don't look like acting.
The second is Bai Jingting.
Young actor Bai Jingting can be regarded as one of the hottest actors in the past two years. "beginning", "Qing Qing Daily" and "Changfeng du" can be said to be a hit.
In "going from South to North", Bai Jingting plays the young Interpol Wang Xin, who is the apprentice of the old Interpol Ma Kui (Ding Yongdai).
Not to mention, Xiaobai's image temperament fits this role very well, coupled with his solid and characteristic acting skills, the role of Wang Xin, a new air marshal, was played alive by Bai Jingting in the 1970s and 1980s.
Third place, Jin Chen.
Jin Chen in 1990 came out of the circle with the corner of Li Yueyao, an unintentional mage. Since then, she has starred in many dramas: "Legend of Green Hill Fox", "Yulou Spring" and "ordinary Road". Jin Chen's acting skills and popularity are rising step by step.
In "going from South to North", Jin Chen plays Ma Yan, the daughter of old criminal policeman Ma Kui, who is also Wang Xin's girlfriend. I have to say, Jin Chen's acting is still very good. A northern girl in the seventies and eighties was interpreted very naturally by her.
Fourth, Liu Jun.
From "do you know" and "Red Wolf" to "County Party Committee Courtyard" Li Guochun, the strength of Liu Jun, the actor, is finally seen little by little.
In "From South to North," Liu Jun plays Wang Yongge, the father of Wang Xin, a middle-level cadre of the railway system, and a single father with his son alone. Liu Jun's acting skills, old to steady, middle-level railway cadre temperament, was held by him to death; love for his son, although rarely revealed, but can be felt from many details.
Fifth, Liu Guanlin.
Since Cai Badou came out of the circle with "Longmen Escort Agency," Liu Guanlin has participated in many episodes successively. Qing Qing Daily Third Prince, Yun Xiang Biography Jin Biao, Immortal Sword IV Feng II, each of them was full of joy and very recognizable.
In "going from South to North", Liu Guanlin plays Niu Li, a railway worker who helps with chores in the train cab. Liu Guanlin's own temperament is very approachable, and it can be said that he can play the role of an ordinary worker.
In addition to the five major actors mentioned above, as a major drama at the beginning of the year, "from the South to the North" gathered a lot of strength to play for several leading actors.
The first is Ni Dahong, who became famous by virtue of Sima Yi of the "New three Kingdoms".
In the play, he plays a blind man who has no children and lives in a train carriage for a living.
The second place is Wu Yue, the only surviving martial arts star in the mainland entertainment circle.
He plays Director Yang, a middle-level cadre of the railway system in the play, and is also full of aura.
The third is Song Jiateng, who plays the four treasures in the Great Rivers.
He plays Cai Xiaonian, the conductor in the play. Acting is real and natural, and eloquence is good.
The fourth is Wang Xiaoli, who comes out of the circle by virtue of Liu Neng's role in "country love".
In the play, he plays the core member of the swindler gang who cheats with the help of Errenzhuan on the train.
In addition to the nine actors mentioned above, the play also has powerful actors such as Wang Jinsong, Fang Zibin, Zuo Xiaoqing, Bao Beier, Jiang Yan, Li Naiwen, Hu Ke, Wang Xun, Tu Yansong, Wang Helun, Wang Yuanke, Gan Tingting, Yang Haoyu, Wei Qing, Kong Lin, Yang Kun, Li Qinqin, Mu Liyan and so on. After counting, there are no less than 30 powerful actors, and the lineup is quite strong.
03, three bright spots, has shown the strength of popular style drama, the King of the year booked?
First of all, it is the innovation of the theme.
The biggest innovation of this play is the theme. It puts the main position of the story on the railway industry-trains from south to north.
The scenes common in train carriages in the 1970s and 1980s have been almost perfectly reproduced:
Overcrowded carriages, mixed crowds, frequent petty theft and all kinds of scams
There are also many sad or sad stories behind the passengers.
It can be said that as long as the audience from that era, all feel familiar with this scene.
In addition to taking the train carriages as the main position, the show also takes a look at the group of railway people. In the 1970s and 1980s, the trivial daily life of the railway compound and the joys and sorrows of the railway people are all presented in detail in the play.
Second, it is full of sense of age.
As an era drama, "going from the South to the North" is very worthy of the name. Every frame in the play can be said to be full of age.
True and simple railway staff compound in the 1970s and 1980s,
State-run shops available only in those days
A train ride police uniform with a special sense of age.
The overcrowded train carriages, the ridiculously real train faces of the 1970s and 1980s
Household furnishings with a sense of age
A tearful ordinary family bedroom
It can be seen that the crew really spent a lot of money on details and made great efforts to create a classic drama that really suited that era.
Third, the portraits of the characters are true and full.
In terms of characterization, "going from south to north" has also been a great success.
The play revolves around railways and trains, shaping a lot of characters.
For example, the group portraits of train passengers in that era
Group of train drivers.
Group of train policemen and attendants
The women in the railway workers' courtyard.
Each group of portraits are natural and three-dimensional, almost like moving the lives of railway people in the 1970s and 1980s directly to the screen.
In the past two years, there have been a lot of popular styles in the field of era drama. The King of the play in 2018 is "Great Rivers 1" and "the World" in 2022, while in 2024, this film has a novel angle, a strong lineup and few rivals, and the details of the "Journey from the South to the North" has just been broadcast for two episodes. Has revealed the potential of the King of Drama.
It seems that in the field of era drama, there will be another classic worth watching over and over again.
