Compared with previous spy dramas, such as "Insidious", " Cliff ", "The Pretender", " Stalker ", etc., "Storm Chaser" has achieved breakthroughs in both plot innovation and character image. Previous spy war dramas mostly focused on intelligence in the military field, and occasionally involved the economic field.
If spy war dramas continue to stay in the field of military intelligence, it will be difficult to innovate and shine.
Compared with these spy war dramas, "Storm Chaser" chooses the financial field as the main battlefield, taking the financial war between the Nanjing Government's Central Bank, foreign banks, and comprador banks as the main line. The plot covers all aspects of banking, stock markets, tariffs, etc., and involves characters From Chiang, Song, Kong and Chen, down to the common people.
This is the first time that a spy drama has such a broad scope. Through "The Storm Chaser", the audience has a window into the finance and economy of the Republic of China.
During the Republic of China, especially before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, major Western countries had investments in China, including banks and agents. The complex relationship between these countries is reflected in the financial field, which is the brutal financial war between them.
If you want to defeat the opponent in the financial war through short selling and gain control of the opponent's banks and other companies, you must understand the opponent's strength, strategy and trump cards. To know the other party, you must obtain the other party's intelligence, and you must place intelligence personnel around the other party's core figures to keep track of the other party's movements at all times.
In "The Storm Chaser", Chiang's Nanjing government, although nominally the central government, actually only controlled Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, northeastern Sichuan and other places, and Chiang could hardly insert a needle into it.
These places respect Chiang and Nanjing on the surface, but in fact they still go their own way and do their own thing. Chiang wanted to annex them, and they also wanted to annex Chiang.
Even the newly established central bank is relatively weak. In Shanghai, the financial center of the Far East, there are many foreign banks and comprador banks that are stronger than the central bank. Shen Tunan has to defeat so many opponents and reform tariffs. You can imagine the difficulty and pressure.
None of these big bosses in Shanghai is a good person. Didn’t Shen Tunan almost get killed by a bomb when he first arrived in Shanghai?
Previous spy dramas were either Zhongtong Juntong or Agent 76 Headquarters. Shen Tunan is a big shot with direct access to Chiang and Song. He is a senior advisor to the Central Bank. Through his story in "The Storm Chaser", it is equivalent to holding a magnifying glass and you can see more details of the 1930s. .
If you know more about finance, you will find that the financial war in "Storm Chaser" is not much different from today's financial war. Soros's short selling methods in Southeast Asia and other places, and Shen Tunan's acquisition of Commerce Bank, are actually it's the same.
In "Wind Chaser", the relatively weak Nanjing and the Central Bank would spend a lot of energy and struggle just to fight against these financial giants in Shanghai, let alone expand overseas. To expand overseas, the power of the central bank must be strong enough.
Financial war is superimposed on spy war, plus the emotional line between Shen Jinzhen and Wei Ruolai. In this way, the plot of "Storm Chaser" has new ideas.
Wei Ruolai, played by Wang Yibo, is a very smart person. Shen Jinzhen and Xu Nuo already knew that Wei Ruolai was the younger brother of Lone Star Wei Ruochuan. The identity of the traitor Li Shengda was revealed and he was eliminated by Xu Nuo. In the following plot, Shen Jinzhen and Xu Nuo will develop Wei Ruolai into an underground party.
Although Shen Jinzhen is Shen Tunan's sister, it is not a problem for her to always ask her brother about things. If Wei Ruolai became an underground party, he would be able to obtain a steady stream of information on the Central Bank's movements and other information.
Li Qin Shen Jinzhen, played in "The Storm Chaser", refreshed the image of the heroine in spy dramas as soon as she appeared.Whether it is Cuiping played by Yao Chen in "Latent", or Gu Qiuyan played by Song Jia in "Cliff", or even the heroines in many other spy dramas, they were completely beaten by Shen Jinzhen.
Studying in Germany, military industry expert, concert princess, shooting master, Shen Jin is really beautiful and elegant. Pampered by his brother, coaxed by his sister-in-law, supported by his superiors, and surrounded by fans, Shen Jinzhen is all starry.
Even in the Anti-Japanese War spy drama, there is no such role. In addition to these, Shen Jinzhen also has stocks, jewelry and real estate. For such a beautiful, talented and wealthy character, everyone would want to pounce on him.
Cuiping in "Insidious" is carefree and chatty. If such a character were really put on the espionage battlefield, he would probably be offline within two rounds. In "Latent", Cuiping's ability to survive to the end was entirely due to Yu Zecheng.
Gu Qiuyan in "Cliff" is beautiful, but she is always self-righteous and does not follow discipline. Apart from being able to send reports, she is basically useless at other things. Gu Qiuyan was in "Cliff" from beginning to end. If it weren't for Zhou Yi, I don't know how many times she would have been offline. Gu Qiuyan also bought a piano in order to transport the radio station, but she had never played it from beginning to end. If Gao Bin knew about it, he would definitely be suspicious.
Shen Jinzhen in "The Storm Chaser" is not only beautiful. Although she also insists on her own ideas at work, she is rarely reckless. At critical moments, she still listens to her superior Xu Nuo and actively cooperates and obeys.
As an underground person, Shen Jin is really beautiful, smart and not self-righteous, which is perfect. No matter which spy drama the heroine is, no matter how beautiful she is, as long as she is self-centered and self-righteous, she will definitely be the focus of complaints from the audience.
Shen Jinzhen and Wei Ruolai did not catch up. Many viewers, especially fans of Li Qin and Wang Yibo, hoped that they would catch up as soon as possible and know each other's identities as soon as possible. It seems that fans are more anxious about the relationship between Shen Jinzhen and Wei Ruolai.
However, with a twist in the plot of "Wind Chaser", through Xu Nuo's intervention, the threat posed by Li Shengda was instantly resolved. Not only did he get rid of Li Shengda, he also took back the gold bars and rescued the arrested comrades.
From now on, if Shen Jin really wants to contact Wei Ruolai and develop Wei Ruolai, it will be easier and more natural than before.
After watching Shen Jinzhen in "The Storm Chaser", and then watching Cuiping and Gu Qiuyan, I almost didn't feel anything at all.
Although the show has some shortcomings and has many negative reviews, "Storm Chaser" has indeed taken a gratifying step in terms of plot and character innovation.
