2 On February 26, the first 4 episodes of the TV series "Fighting City" can be watched on many genuine video platforms. This TV series stars Du Jiang, Pubajia and other well-known actors, and tells the story of a spy war during the Republic of China. The play has been broadcast on multiple terrestrial channels. The earliest broadcast was in 2018, which has been 6 years now.
The launch of multiple genuine video platforms this time can be regarded as the first meeting of "War in the City" with audiences across the country. Terrestrial channels like TV series about spy wars and gun battles of the Republic of China. This type of TV series are basically of low quality, shot at a low cost, and focus on conflicts but not authenticity. Drama fans also like to refer to this type of TV series as divine dramas.
"The Battle of the City" tells the love story of a young master and a young lady in the Republic of China. The main plot also includes espionage content. Du Jiang plays the male protagonist in the play, a young master with family power. And this young master fell in love with a female classmate. This female classmate is the heroine of the play and a spy agent of our party. Obviously, the young master must follow the young lady's footsteps and join the just cause.
In the opening plot of "The Battle of the City", the Kuomintang reactionaries are trying to wipe out our party's espionage forces everywhere. And our party's transportation lines are suffering heavy losses. Under this situation, the heroine insisted on sending the contents of the telegram, but encountered the treacherous plot of the Kuomintang reactionaries. On the side of the reactionaries, the female spy leader personally deployed and launched an extermination operation against the heroine and other espionage personnel of our party. A shootout ensues.
Our party's espionage personnel fell into the enemy's plan, and almost all of them were wiped out. At the critical moment, the heroine escapes from the scene of the report and uses the hero's identity as a wealthy man to conceal her identity as a spy. The female villain was not a vegetarian, and immediately launched a hunt for people suspected of being members of our party. She would rather kill by mistake than let them go. On the verge of life and death, the male protagonist starts a protective mode for the female protagonist.
In the beginning of the play, the heroine, a progressive comrade of our party, obviously looks down on the hero, a rich young man. The male protagonist played by Du Jiang can be regarded as one of the important roles before Du Jiang became. This character is indeed quite vulgar, he is laughing and joking, and it doesn't look like he has any acting skills. On the contrary, Du Jiang later became a lot more serious and looked like a traffic niche.
This spy war drama is called a divine drama by drama fans because there are many witty plots in the story content of the drama. For example, the female villain could obviously kill her by mistake, but she still had to let the heroine go. As for the heroine, when she goes to the hospital, she can identify any patient as her third uncle, but the villain has no way of noticing. This kind of randomness makes the whole TV series full of nonsense.
The essence of the Young Master spy drama is to let the male and female protagonists fall in love under the guise of a spy war. Many of our TV dramas, no matter what type they are, are ultimately of an object type. In "The Battle of the City", the heroine looked down on the rich young man at first. Later, through the gradual contact and use, she discovered the good qualities of the rich young man and took him to engage in espionage work.
The intended audience of this TV series should be middle-aged and older men. Broadcasting on terrestrial channels is the most suitable choice. Because terrestrial channels are the favorite of middle-aged and elderly men. "Fighting City" lacks the rationality of the story, the conflicts are far-fetched, and the characters' IQs are not online. For some middle-aged and elderly men, they don't care. As long as they see guns and cannons fired, they will be happy. The happiness of the elderly is actually that simple. It is precisely because of their existence that a large number of bad dramas have a market. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
