I have discovered that there is a common problem with the Republic of China dramas in recent years:
biting off more than one can chew.
The drama opens with all the money being spent, the actors are filing in, the plot is intricate, and the identities of the characters are even more unpredictable. I wish every character had a triple identity, plus the factions and factions -
is so exhausting to watch. That's called tiring.
After all, there are huge elements of the era background. The theme of the Republic of China needs to be slowed down to let the audience feel the pace. Only by doing it steadily can it be fascinating.
is like the popular drama "Storm Chaser" some time ago.
abandons the common problem of "getting great success" and opens with the daily lives of small people, reflecting the entire era from the perspective of ordinary people.
Only in this way can the audience keep watching and following it, and they will be fascinated and unable to stop.
And recently another drama series was launched.
"When the Stars Shine" starring Li Xian, Ren Min, Zhou You, and Wang Zixuan. After
was launched, it set off the entire Internet. Not only did the online broadcast data easily exceed 200 million, but Hunan TV station's star broadcast ratings also won the Japanese crown for three consecutive days. Good news came from TV and streaming media.
The reputation is even more impressive when you look at it.
amazed everyone in just one episode, showing a different Republic of China.
"Real", "cute", "life", "attractive"...
are the keywords that appear most in the comments.
What is the magic weapon that can make the audience so happy?
has been showing off for 8 consecutive episodes, and it is still not enough. If I were asked to comment on the biggest feature of this drama, then I can only say one thing:
I feel the rhythm of life.
Who could have imagined that I could see suspense + comedy + workplace and other types of movies in a drama about the Republic of China?
is so cool!
The second-generation official rushed to Shanghai for 23 yuan, accidentally got into a murder case, and met a pig teammate by chance.
Different from other works, the protagonist of this drama "Hua Zhen" is the second son of the deputy minister of the Military and Political Department of the Kuomintang. Although
is a proper "second generation official", this guy has a bit of a problem.
His father wanted him to follow his father's footsteps and join the army, but he chose the navy instead, which made his father and brother helpless and sighed in turn.
But the navy's days have not yet begun, and Hua Zhen is in trouble again.
On this day, his father celebrated his birthday. Hua Zhen was not interested in worldly things, so he ate alone in a locked room.
Unexpectedly, "Deng Mingyuan", a teacher who once worked in the navigation department, suddenly appeared at the birthday party. It was natural to be happy to reunite an old friend. Hua Zhen hurriedly ran forward to reminisce about the past, but could not close the conversation once it opened.
But how could he know that the teacher's true identity is the leader of our party's underground group, and he is being chased by the police at the moment.
Just as he was talking, Captain Wei of the security team also entered the venue.
Seeing no way out, the teacher gave Hua Zhen a book "When Human Stars Shine" and asked him to give it to a friend in Shanghai, who was later taken away by the police.
You asked me to give you a book as soon as we met?
Think of me as a courier?
Forget it, the teacher must be right. Hua Zhen just stepped on the train in Shanghai. Once he left, he would never come back.
Just arrived in Shanghai, before Hua Zhen entered the hotel, he saw someone climbing the wall to change rooms outside the hotel window.
Hey guys, you Shanghainese are really having fun.
Then he entered the hotel. The teacher said that his friend was in room 311, but before he got to the room, he saw a pistol sticking out of the door.
Looking carefully, there is already blood flowing inside the door...
No, I just gave you this book, how can I witness the murder of the family?
While he was meditating, a little girl was held up by a gun at the door, her life hanging by a thread. Hua Zhen had no time to think about it, and while the killer was distracted, he grabbed the little girl and hid in another room, finally escaping the killer.
The little girl lost her parents. Hua Zhen couldn't bear it and could only keep her by his side.
No, I am obviously a courier, why did I suddenly become a temporary father?
No matter what, what happened now is a bit difficult to digest, but Hua Zhen didn't bother to delve into it, he just wanted to settle the girl.
I wanted to bite the bullet and spend a huge sum of money to rent a room for the girl and leave, but the girl actually borrowed all her classmates privately, used 23 yuan and a pair of plastic necklaces, and guaranteed me a month to find the murderer.
joke, I am a second-generation official, can I be captured by these 23 yuan?
If she wasn't so cute, I would have left long ago.
After thinking about it for a long time, she still felt uneasy. Hua Zhen chose to stay in Shanghai and promised her to find the murderer and resolve the crisis. However, the only information currently known is that the Fourth Police Station handled the case.
doesn’t care! If you can't beat it, join.
Hua Zhen had a flash of inspiration and decided to take the police exam for fun first.
But Hua Zhen was so smart that he scored perfect marks in two of the three subjects. The examiner laughed and said that Hua Zhen would have no problem getting into the General Administration.
Hua Zhen was confused when he heard this -
What kind of job is this? I'm going to the Fourth Police Station, and I don't like the General Administration!
then took the initiative to miss the third course and blinded the audience with scores of 100, 100, and 0. Then he asked his brother, who was the secretary of the attendant's office in the Military and Political Department, to go through the back door and enter the Shiliupu Branch of the General Police Station. Fourth Police Station.
Cannonball mosquitoes, don't ask, asking is just willful.
Entering the police station, Hua Zhen was dumbfounded. Is this a circus?
There were four new police officers in the same period.
A rich second generation "Sun Hongfa" who is experiencing life, is the young master of a local restaurant owner.
Three sentences are inseparable from "restaurant, dad, and my family is rich".
"Tian Dongbao", the son of a chicken farmer, has a loud voice and a bad temper. The director of
asked him to introduce himself, and he almost shouted out the director.
There is also the only female police officer "Luo Minmin".
entered the police force with the lowest score. He is carefree and naive. He is responsible for 70% of the jokes in the show and is also the heroine of the show.
reported that not only was there no one to receive them that day, several old policemen also got into a fight in front of them, tearing off their heads in front of them.
Don't say it, you really don't say it.
plus the angry police officer Erbai, who only knows how to cook and eat, and is good at running away when something happens.
Good guy.
Xiaofu, Daodaofa, Powerpuff Girls, brainless + unhappy.
You told me this is the protagonist team? How about playing
?
To be honest, I really feel sorry for Hua Zhen.
and the little girl performed ", the killer is not too cold ", he went undercover alone in " Infernal Affairs ", and finally rehearsed "The Story of the Cooking Class" with his pig teammates.
experienced "magic realism" on the subject of the Republic of China for the first time.
I want to see what development can happen with this kind of brain expansion, and the more you look at it, the more exciting it will be. The screenwriter is very good at understanding people's hearts.
Underneath the laughter, there are undercurrents, two heroes vs two villains, no one is a good person when it comes to serious matters.
Playing is about to play, and trouble is about to make trouble, but business has to be done.
Hua Zhen finally locked the target through information collection and operational tasks in the police force.
It turns out that on the day he first arrived in Shanghai, the "overalls" who climbed out of the window of the hotel witnessed the murder scene. It was obvious that he saw the true face of the murderer.
After a chaotic plainclothes operation, Hua Zhen caught the overalls, but as soon as the interrogation began, he was taken away by a more senior section chief...
Immediately afterwards, the overalls were found in the forest late at night. , was shot to death by a man wearing a police hat.
allows the section chief to kill witnesses and cut off clues without asking a question.
Obviously, this killer is extremely powerful and of a very high level, and can even easily subvert the entire Fourth Institute.
On the other side, Captain Wei of the security team was also pressing forward step by step.
Yuan Wangchun from "Story of Yanxi Palace" once again plays the villain. He has a complicated identity and has experienced name changes. He has made huge mistakes, but his ambitions have not diminished even after changing his name.
Although he is a squad leader of the garrison, he dares to attack the deputy minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal. Once he finds the target, he will not let go.
Captain Wei, who is waiting for opportunities to act, is more terrifying than the killer.
One is the evil tiger entrenched above the police force, and the other is the greedy wolf lurking in the shadows.
At the same time, the girl's father was confirmed to be a patriotic businessman who helped our party. Behind their deaths was the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Huazhen has been involved in the tide of the times and is in a precarious situation. How to break the situation?
Fortunately, Hua Zhen is not alone.
"Chen Hao", the captain of the Fourth Institute, is the only "normal person" in the institute.
He hates evil and fulfills his responsibilities. Although he has a low position and is looked down upon by all his colleagues, he never feels sorry for himself and fights on the front line despite being cold-hearted.
In Chen Hao, what I see is the helplessness of being sophisticated and worldly, and the "sinking" of having to join the world in order to achieve his goals.
Hua Zhen, on the other hand, is a pampered second-generation official who strays into the waves of the times and breaks through the thorns with the inner energy of his identity and education.
is a free and easy person who knows the world but is not sophisticated, and is a "brave" who is not involved in the world.
One is calm, one is brave, one has a low status but is tough, and one has a noble status but is not arrogant.
Chen Hao and Hua Zhen are one and the same, and they are also Mr. Deng Mingyuan's students at different times. The two went from hostility and misunderstanding to mutual acquaintance and companionship, working together to fight against the wolves, tigers and leopards.
I just love watching two brothers beat up the villain!
There is no one else out there who can give you the thrilling and exciting feeling of playing through Shanghai with two dragons!
Similarly, other people have also been given fresh flesh and blood by the screenwriter-
Hua Zhen's brother loves Hua Zhen deeply and feels responsibility. He hopes Hua Zhen is happy and does not want Hua Zhen to be involved in disputes.
He has noticed something, but he does not want to interfere with Hua Zhen's life.
The love that the elder brother has for his younger brother almost overflows the screen.
The heroine Luo Minmin seems to be careless and crazy, and she is not suitable to be a police officer. However, in order to protect her family who was harassed by gangsters, she joined the police force and applied for a few years and finally put on a police uniform.
's courage to do something even though he knew it was impossible, ignited Hua Zhen and the audience in front of the screen.
Who says that women are inferior to men, and who says that female characters must be beautiful symbols?
Ren Min used a different kind of performance to portray an extraordinary female image.
Luo Minmin is kind-hearted, dares to love and hate, and is never sloppy in the face of right and wrong. This kind of passionate heroine with a sense of comfort makes me extremely happy.
This is the real "big heroine"!
Others in the Fourth Institute also have their own life ambitions.
Rich second generation Sun Hongfa and chicken farmer Tian Dongbao have a huge identity gap, but they have the same goal to realize their self-worth. Director
behaves submissively and is willing to burn himself to preserve the fraternity of the four institutes. Rather than being in the limelight, he hopes that his disciples can stand out.
One person cannot change the times, but what about five or six? What about everyone in the country?
points form a line, and the line forms a surface.
When the stars shine, the times will naturally have echoes.
A life-flowing drama with different opening methods
During the viewing process, I always had a feeling of deja vu.
checked the information sheet and suddenly realized -
Aren't these the two screenwriters of " Secret and Great " Huang Chen and Pu Wei?
"Secret and Great" was launched in 2020, with 2.6 billion views, reaching the top of the charts for 19 consecutive days, and even being a star on CCTV. The ratings continued to break 2, and the screenwriter was nominated for Magnolia's Best Original Screenwriter. , it can be said to be a great success in terms of traffic, ratings, and awards.
The magic weapon to win is a unique lifestyle.
does not pretend to be profound, nor does it seek perfection from a macro perspective. It only outlines a corner of the era through the perspective of a small person.
uses qualitative change to defeat quantitative change. Every line and every character is lifelike.
And "When the Stars Shine" also follows this style and carries it forward.
Of course, in the play, you can see the overt and underhanded partisan struggles, the changes in identity and camp, the cycle of night and day, and the swords and halberds as if walking on thin ice.
can also see the agents fighting desperately behind the crowd, punches to the flesh, swords to the flesh, lives like grass and grass.
What makes me remember even more is that behind every life-threatening task, there are natural expressions of emotion, and an inadvertent moment of relaxation under intense stimulation.
For example, the design of Chen Hao sneaking into the police station archives.
He climbed over the wall, climbed the stairs, and moved around on the rooftop. He was almost discovered in the middle. The scene was so impressive that people didn't dare to watch it.
finally read the information, but found that the door was locked. He could only wait on the rooftop until the cleaning lady opened the door during the day the next day before he could leave.
Haha, I was so good when I came here, I can’t go back.
This sudden sense of surprise gives a great sense of life. Not every task can be perfect, but not every accident is a bloody disaster. This kind of trivial thing will also happen to
. It is harmless, but it is full of "laughing fruits".
The same goes for Huazhen. Because he didn’t know how to braid his hair, he brought the little girl to Luo Minmin for help. As a result, the family of 6 people and 4 dishes sat in a circle.
Some people are bickering and some are doing the cooking. It’s so lively.
On the other side of the police force, we work nine to five. We eat and live together. We can go on missions to catch thieves together, and we can also wear aprons to cook.
And when Hua Zhen checked all the information and was about to leave the fourth institute, he discovered that -
it seemed that part of himself had been integrated into this place, how could it be so easy to let go?
Conclusion
To describe an era, you don’t have to stick to grand narratives. From the perspective of every family, unit, and individual, you can also see the great waves of the era.
"When the Stars Shine" is set in 1936.
It was the eve of Japan's full-scale invasion of China. Our party issued a declaration to "stop the civil war, resist Japan and save the nation." The entire China was on the brink of danger.
And those who can save all this in the future are the new generation of young people who were still young at that time, but ambitious and full of ambitions.
Serve the country to the best of your ability, no matter how big or small it is, you are a shining star for the country.
And when the stars shine, China will naturally shine brightly, and the country will be prosperous and the people will be strong.
This is a drama with a unique style of the Republic of China. It has both a slow-flowing background of life and a tense and passionate struggle. No wonder it became an instant hit when it was released.
I believe that "When the Stars Shine", just like his name, will continue to shine.
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