As the spy drama "Harbin 1944" reaches its halfway point, discussions about the plot continue to be in full swing.
"Harbin 1944" tells the story of Song Zhuowen (played by Qin Hao), a Communist intelligence officer, who is mistaken for his twin brother Song Zhuowu by the cold-blooded and suspicious Chief of the Special Service Section of the Harbin Police Department Guan Xue ( Yang Mi). With the help of Song Zhuowu and Guan Xue, Song Zhuowen sneaked into the Secret Service to try to gain the trust of Guan Xue and senior Japanese officials and strive for the final victory of the war.
What is the relationship between Guan Xue and Song Zhuowen? How will the "substitute literature" between brothers Song Zhuowen and Song Zhuowu unfold? How should we understand and interpret the role of Guan Xue? A few days ago, a reporter from the Beijing News exclusively interviewed Wang Xiaoqiang, the screenwriter of the play, to explain the plot and character settings of the play.
Song Zhuowen and Guan Xue battled wits and courage. How do the
twins create "substitute literature"?
There is a lot of foreshadowing buried in the scene of the brothers exchanging.
The story idea of "Harbin 1944" can be traced back to at least seven or eight years ago.
At that time, the work "White Night", which opened up the "twin literature" situation in film and television, had not yet been broadcast, and most of the "twin" jokes in the market in the past were "one positive and one negative" or only the younger brother survived from the beginning. Replacing his elder brother, just like Wang Xiaoqiang and Lu Lunchang, the director of " rival ", collaborated in the 2012 spy drama " secret envoy ". Therefore, the two people, who are well versed in the spy war genre, discussed whether they could challenge to write a script in which two brothers are in the same camp.
Qin Hao plays Song Zhuowen.
"The difficulty of creating twins lies in the 'high concept'. The creators have to spend extra time to make the two people's stories rich in details and grounded. It will be more difficult especially if they are in the same camp." Wang Xiaoqiang explained that if the brothers are facing each other, they will naturally be able to Countless conflicts arise, but like the Song brothers in "Harbin 1944" who have the same beliefs and goals, the screenwriter can only spend more time designing their differences, similarities and differences. Moreover, the twins always change and remain the same, so the drama must be "replacement", but what kind of replacement can make the audience unexpected? For two brothers who have not seen each other for many years and have very different personalities, what kind of substitution can make the audience feel ambiguous?
In the end, in Wang Xiaoqiang's writing, the two brothers Zhuo Wen and Zhuo Wu lived up to their names. One was gentle and thoughtful, while the other was rough and unruly. In addition to personality, whether it is facing Guan Xue or the way to deal with troubles, whether it is a life-threatening crisis or as small as eating habits and preferences, all have been carefully designed.
But the suspense of "Harbin 1944" does not stop there. Wang Xiaoqiang revealed that in the scene of the brothers exchanging, the screenwriters quietly buried a lot of foreshadowing. Perhaps after twenty episodes, the audience, like Guan Xue, misjudged whether it was Zhuo Wen or Zhuo Wu in some plots. "The two people will change in many different ways. Sometimes the audience may think he is the younger brother, but in fact he is the older brother. Later, through flashback, we will understand who is a certain link."
The spy leader played by Yang Mi deliberately made a man Are they jealous?
The so-called "ambiguous" scenes are more of Machiavellian tactics
After the broadcast of "Harbin 1944", Guan Xue played by Yang Mi triggered a lot of discussions. As the special agent chief of the Harbin Police Department, why does she seem to be both ruthless and nostalgic (for Song Zhuowu)?
Guan Xue leads a group of men from the Secret Service Section.
The discussion of actor image creation cannot be separated from the characters themselves. Regarding what kind of person Guan Xue is, Wang Xiaoqiang's answer is: "She must be a spy leader with blood-stained hands, a villain." Wang Xiaoqiang also saw some viewers' speculations about this character, For example, Guan Xue may have gone through many hardships to become a female spy who kills without blinking an eye, but in Wang Xiaoqiang's view, no matter whether Guan Xue was just trying to make a living, and there were many ways to eat, she must not have been killed. The Japanese were "forced to death." "Becoming a spy was her own choice, not the so-called human torture. Guan Xue is a person who thinks very clearly."
As for the emotional bond between Guan Xue and the Song brothers, the play spends a lot of space to show the "ambiguity" between her and Song Zhuowen. Wang Xiaoqiang explained that Guan Xue and Song Zhuowen and Song Zhuowu Most of the ambiguous pulls are just staged. He divides the emotional dramas in the spy war genre into two categories. One is where feelings really arise, such as Ding Meixi ( Tan Zhuo) and her daughter in "The Rival"; One type is like "Harbin 1944", "Guan Xue and Song Zhuowen have always been telling each other the truth and the truth. As the spy leader, Guan Xue's "ambiguity" or emotional expression must cover temptation, testing, verification, and playing hard to get. "
In addition, Wang Xiaoqiang explained that Guan Xue initially asked Song Zhuowen to join the Secret Service Section in order to break the original balance of power in the Secret Service Section. Guan Xue was one of the few women in the Secret Service Section. She was ruthless, but there was no one around her. For example, Hu Bin from the action stock is a supporter of Guan Xue, but he also tried every means to take advantage of Guan Xue; Pan Yue from the intelligence stock is even more scheming, "So some of Guan Xue's lines may not be what she has in mind. What you really think is often a means. Some of them may be to test Song Zhuowen, but maybe two days later they will talk about Pan Yue in front of Song Zhuowen, and Hu Bin in front of Pan Yue... I read some comments saying that Guan Xue seems to have deliberately let several men compete for her and be jealous. I think this is also a kind of Machiavellian plot on her part. "
The background of the story of "Harbin 1944" took place in Harbin in 1944. According to historical data, many people at that time actually realized that the Japanese might not live long. The year after the story took place, in 1945, Japan officially Surrender. In this context of constant change, Wang Xiaoqiang believes that Guan Xue’s mentality must be different in episodes 1, 20, and 40. “Guan Xue is a very smart person. With the situation changing, what was she thinking? This is subtle and complex. Does she really not know that there is something wrong with the Song brothers? Not necessarily. But why hasn't she revealed it yet? We have to break these into various stages of the plot to analyze. "
Wang Xiaoqiang revealed that when the story comes to the end, there will be an important conversation between Guan Xue and Song Zhuowen, which will reveal all the things between them in the past, which ones are true and which ones are false; Song Zhuowen and Guan Xue How do they view each other and their different views on the situation
Beijing News reporter Zhang He
Editor Tong Na
Proofreading Liu Yue
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