The spy drama market in 2024 will be more lively than in previous years.
Before that, "Storm Chaser" had a double success in terms of ratings and word-of-mouth ratings, giving viewers hope for the revival of domestic spy dramas.
Immediately afterwards, the two spy dramas "When the Stars Shine" and "Harbin 1944" added fuel to this revival.
And this year’s trend of screen spy wars has not stopped yet.
Recently another spy drama " Lost in the Lost City " directed by Xie Ze and starring Huang Jingyu and Xin Zhilei was launched. The series
was an instant hit at the beginning. It won three championships on the platform’s rising list, spy war list and era list as soon as it was launched.
As the plot progressed, the drama also won the top spot on the platform’s popularity list for 4 consecutive days.
Judging from the data, this drama is expected to become another hit spy drama this year after "Storm Chaser".
Qingshi also finished the 8 aired episodes in the first time. Let’s talk about it with everyone based on the plot actors.
1, lurking, assassination, and rebirth, "The Lost City" firmly caught my attention at the beginning.
Is the spy drama good to watch? Plot is the key.
As for "The Lost City", the male protagonist Ou Xiaoan (played by Huang Jingyu) brings the three major spy elements into it at the beginning.
not only manipulates the audience, but also makes the spy war atmosphere so rich that it almost overflows the screen.
first: lurking.
Let me first talk about the background of the play. This play takes place near the end of the Anti-Japanese War.
At this time, in order to win the victory, Japan tried to use poison gas bombs to fight the war, and planned to implement a "Cherry Falling Plan".
As an elite of the military command, the male protagonist was sent to Shanghai to lurk within the Japanese army to obtain relevant information on the Japanese army's biochemical poison gas research.
In order to make the Japanese believe that the male protagonist was really a traitor, the military commander created information that the male protagonist killed two military commander colleagues.
Afterwards, with the help of the hidden agents in Shanghai, the male protagonist successfully infiltrated into the Japanese army.
During the mission, the male protagonist also saved the life of Ohashi, a senior Japanese military officer, and gained the trust of the other party.
At this point, the male protagonist’s lurking has been successfully completed.
Second: Assassination.
After successfully lurking, the male protagonist collected information about the Japanese army and passed it to the Chongqing military commander, and on the other hand cooperated with Shanghai agents to obtain information about the Luoying Project.
After a long period of hard work, the male protagonist finally collected information about Qi Luoying’s plan and prepared to leave Shanghai with the information.
As a result, the Shanghai agents working together were captured by the Japanese army. Because the male protagonist had contacts with the other party, the Japanese army also began to doubt the male protagonist.
So the male protagonist handed over the information about the Luoying Project to another biochemical officer lurking in the Japanese army, and arranged for him to leave Shanghai with the information.
At the same time, as the agents in Shanghai were arrested, other potential military agents in Shanghai were also captured and killed by the Japanese.
The military commander believed that the male protagonist had betrayed him, so he arranged for the anti-rape team to kill the male protagonist and Japanese officer Ohashi.
Third: Rebirth.
The time comes to 1945, the China-Myanmar border on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
The heroine Qin Moqing (played by Xin Zhilei) is a military agent. When she and her troops cleared a Japanese base in Myanmar, they found an injured person.
After a sudden outbreak of the local virus, the heroine discovered that the other party might have antibodies, so she took him back to the military camp.
Through investigation, the heroine believed that the virus was poisonous gas released by the Japanese army, and the wounded kept talking about the Japanese army's biochemical base 810 when they were unconscious.
The heroine concluded that the other party probably escaped from the 810 office and was closely related to the outbreak of the virus.
The other party suffered a head injury and lost his memory after waking up. What is even more surprising is that the injured person turned out to be the male protagonist who was raped by the military commander four years ago.
I have to say that "The Lost City" really brought the audience an immersive spy war drama.
uses spy war to bring the audience into the drama, while also burying suspense, firmly attracting the audience's attention.
Why did the male protagonist betray the military commander back then?
was clearly assassinated, why did the male protagonist come back to life?
What did the male protagonist experience at the Japanese Army’s 810 Base? Why run away again?
2, Xin Zhilei, Dong Xuan and other actresses brought out the "sexiness" of the spy drama as soon as they appeared on the scene.
As a spy war drama, "The Lost City" brings together actors such as Huang Jingyu, Ma Sichao, Guo Qiucheng, Zhang Xilin, Zhang Zijian, Yao Anlian and other actors.
Every actor in the play performs online, which can keep the audience from missing the show.
Ou Xiaoan, played by Huang Jingyu, is brave and strategic, Daqiao Heye, played by Guo Qiucheng, is sinister and vicious, and Ye Xuanmin, played by Yao Anlian, is righteous.
But the most stunning thing about Qingshi is the actresses in the drama. They show their "sexiness" as soon as they appear in the spy drama.
For example, the heroine Xin Zhilei.
In the new year's " Blossoms ", Li Li played by Xin Zhilei is sexy and charming, capturing the hearts of many viewers.
In "The Lost City", Xin Zhilei challenged herself to play the role of "female spy". The appearance in the trailer alone amazed a large number of viewers.
is wearing a slim-fitting black leather jacket, cool and sassy, with neat and fashionable hair, and the image of a female agent instantly stands out.
When fighting the enemy, his skills are so agile and his aura is so strong that it makes people feel suffocated unconsciously.
Moreover, the heroine she plays, Tan Moqing, has multiple identities. She is both an agent of the military command and a latent agent of our party.
Xin Zhilei's performance of such a double-sided character is also online, performing different temperaments of the character in different plots.
When getting along with American soldiers, she smiled brightly and drank freely.
But the next second she took a flashlight and sneaked into the database of the American soldiers. At this moment, Xin Zhilei performed the temperament of Agent Tan Moqing.
The scene turned to the sudden epidemic in Myanmar, and many American soldiers were recruited.
Xin Zhilei, wearing a mask and looking serious, changed her identity again, transforming from a spy war temperament to a professional doctor image.
No wonder Xin Zhilei is so popular among netizens that she has found a suitable track. The sassy female agent is really charming.
For example, Dong Xuan, in the play she plays the fourth female lead Wang Qiushui.
Wang Qiushui is the proprietress of a tailor shop on the surface, but her true identity is the main person in charge of the Shanghai underground party.
Because it was Wang Qiushui who led the heroine to join the Communist Party and find faith, she is also the heroine’s guide to a certain extent.
Dong Xuan also interprets the contrast of the characters very well. When
appeared, she played a charming and charming boss lady.
faced the interrogation by the Japanese military agents, with a bright smile on his face, his answers were flawless, and his eyes were full of charm.
However, when these agents left, Dong Xuan's face changed in a second.
turned around and wiped off his lipstick, pulled up his hair, his expression was cold and serious, and he emerged as a dignified and intellectual underground worker.
and her brother, who was also a comrade, came to see her on a mission.
Dong Xuan not only performed the test and confirmation of the other party's identity, but also performed a sister's concern and worry for her brother.
I have to say that the director was very discerning in finding Dong Xuan to play this role. Qingshi also predicted that as the fourth female lead, she would soon become popular across the country.
In addition, the eldest lady Feng Jingxian played by Ma Yue and the military agent Miao Jiang played by Luo Qiuyun are also eye-catching.
One gives the series a pure white color.
Another one that fills the episode with black.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of these female characters that this spy drama has more colors and highlights.
3. The weakness of "The Lost City": the plot logic is not rigorous enough!
In addition to the above highlights, "The Lost City" also has many problems. The most obvious one is that some of the plots are full of loopholes.
For example, the heroine is in a US military camp in Myanmar. In order to obtain intelligence, she sneaks into the place where the other party stores information.
In such an important place, the US military did not leave anyone standing guard, and let the heroine get it casually.
Moreover, the US military did not hold the heroine accountable after she was discovered. They just let the military commanders criticize the matter casually.
The heroine was a military doctor in the US military camp, but after discovering that the US military was infected with the virus, she did not even wear a mask during treatment.
Then as expected, something unexpected happened, the heroine was infected.
However, the female protagonist Jiren has her own destiny. The male protagonist who was brought back from the jungle had virus antibodies, so she directly drew a tube of blood and gave herself an injection.
The male protagonist’s blood is truly a “magic medicine”. After the female protagonist used it, her red rash went away and her fever subsided.
To be honest, if you dare to write it as a screenwriter, I won’t even dare to read it.
It’s okay to transfuse serum without looking at the blood type. Isn’t the effect too fast?
As the intelligence leader of the Chongqing station, the daughter of webmaster Feng was engaged to the male protagonist.
When the subordinate came to report the news that the male protagonist was not dead, Webmaster Feng was afraid that his daughter would be sad when he heard it, so he pulled the subordinate aside.
Unexpectedly, they were just "conspiring loudly" at the door of the next room, and naturally their daughter heard them.
The male protagonist's comrade-in-arms was caught by the Japanese. When his identity was suspected, he accepted the interrogation arranged by the Japanese army to interrogate his comrades-in-arms.
When he saw his comrades who were tortured beyond human dignity, the male protagonist actually shed tears in grief. Was he afraid that the Japanese would not know that you were accomplices?
Moreover, the two arrests by the Japanese army in the play are too incomprehensible.
One time was to arrest the hero's accomplice. The Japanese army came to the other party's dance hall. Instead of searching immediately, they waited downstairs for the other party to come down.
The behavior of the male protagonist's companion is also very confusing. Seeing the Japanese army coming means that he has been exposed. If he doesn't run away quickly, he will go down and let the Japanese army take him away.
As a latent agent, the male protagonist communicates with his companions openly and openly without any concealment.
Another time, the Japanese army arrested Ye Xuanmin, a member of our party.
In order to save the captured patriotic students, Ye Xuanmin went to negotiate with the Japanese army, but was captured by the Japanese army on his way back.
Our party members clearly knew that the Japanese had evil intentions towards Ye Xuanmin, but they did not provide any protection to Ye Xuanmin and allowed the Japanese army to track and arrest him.
A plot like this is really full of loopholes, which makes the quality of the whole drama hard to describe.
In addition, the plot content uses two parallel lines, with constant flashbacks on two timelines, which can easily make people confused.
Therefore, "The Lost City" is destined not to become a masterpiece of spy dramas.
Finally, Qingshi would like to talk about domestic spy war dramas again.
As we all know, spy war dramas were once a popular theme in the Chinese drama market and the mainstay of ratings.
From "The Plot" and "Latent" to " Kite ", one series has become popular, and some of them are still watched repeatedly by everyone.
But in recent years, the glory of spy dramas has begun to dim.
Except for "Rebel" and " rivals " and other works that have received good reviews, most of the spy dramas broadcast have no splash.
The decline of spy dramas is an indisputable fact.
Although the spy war dramas of the past two years have not produced high-quality products that have been popularized by word of mouth, compared with the previous shoddy productions, the quality has improved significantly.
Take the spy war dramas in the first half of this year as an example. We have seen the innovation and change of spy war dramas.
"Storm Chaser" looks at it from a financial perspective.
On one side is a tense stock market business war, on the other side is a fierce espionage war. This not only makes the plot more complicated, but also broadens the story boundaries of spy war dramas.
"When the Stars Shine" mainly shows the revolutionary story of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s from the perspective of the police. The biggest innovation of
is that it has a romantic life flow temperament, creating a unique viewing experience.
"Harbin 1944" has a high-energy setting of twin agents and the villain heroine.
The strong plot, fast-paced narrative style and intricate plot structure enhance the readability and topicality of the story.
And this "Lost in the Lost City" also opens up a new perspective.
takes the poison gas war during the Anti-Japanese War as the background, allowing us to see the cruelty of the Japanese army's biological and chemical weapons, and staged a thrilling spy battle.
It can be seen from these that although the highlights have not been reproduced, domestic spy dramas are still working hard to break through and develop in a good direction.
Qingshi believes that in such a creative atmosphere, the spy drama, once a dazzling star in Chinese dramas, will regain its luster after experiencing a low ebb.
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