After the summer season, another suspense drama was aired. On the evening of September 3rd, the suspense drama "Snow Maze" produced by Zhang Yimou and directed by Lu Xing was launched. The series restores the fierce black-and-white competition between anti-drug police and crimina

After the summer season, another suspense drama was aired.

On the evening of September 3rd, the suspense drama " Snow Maze " produced by Zhang Yimou and directed by Lu Xing was launched. The series restores the fierce black-and-white competition between anti-drug police and criminals in the Northeast in the 1990s, as well as the pyrotechnics-filled daily life of the anti-drug police.

Lu Xing has directed the strong-paced suspense drama "Undocumented Crime", but this time he wants to make the suspense drama "Snow Maze" a "dinner drama". He even hopes that the audience will be attracted by the iron characters in the drama. Stewing in a pot, growing grass on a chicken stand, and preparing to order a takeout of the same style while watching it, "This is a relaxed, interesting, and exciting criminal investigation story that can bring the audience a relaxed and interesting sense of daily companionship."

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in "Snow" In the play "Maze", the criminal police captain Zheng Bei (played by Huang Jingyu ) is a lone hero. While driving a yellow van selling chicken racks, he complains, "The smell of chicken is too strong, no one buys it, only sell it to me." "Gu Yiran (played by Wang Ziqi), a highly intelligent police academy professor, studies and analyzes the ingredients of various drugs. He wears a windbreaker and comes to the northeast from the south. Faced with Zheng Bei's question of "Are you not afraid of the cold?" The answer was "This is my thickest piece of clothing, isn't it already April?", and then he started sneezing from the cold. In addition, there are many scenes of Northeastern people cooking and eating in the play, and the dialogues also contain humor unique to Northeastern people.

Lu Xing said that these life-oriented contents were actually determined by the creative team from the beginning, because "Snow Maze" is not a story that is completely focused on the anti-drug incident. "I am a Northeasterner and I hope to show the story of us Northeasterners." Optimism, wisdom in life, and hope that everyone can see a story that is both tense, relaxed and interesting. "

In order to make these life-oriented content more textured, the crew also asked the actors to integrate into the Northeast in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation in advance. "In preparation. At that time, I took everyone to eat Northeastern barbecue and iron pot stew. We tried our best to experience the regional characteristics through food. For example, the crew was equipped with a guide in Northeastern dialect, and we communicated in Northeastern dialect together every day. Their language habits."

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When Lu Xing read the script of "Snow Maze", he was very interested in the description of the life scenes of Zheng Bei and other police officers. He thought that he could make a Northeastern suspense drama that was different from the past without heavy snow. , cold wind, countryside and dilapidated factories, some of them are smoky cities, living neighborhoods and a noisy but united anti-drug team. "Undocumented Crime" has achieved the ultimate before, so I hope to counter it By doing so, he hopes to allow the audience to see a new type of Northeastern criminal investigation drama, a criminal investigation life drama. "

In his opinion, whether it is a suspense drama or a life drama, it is a way of telling stories. When the actors were communicating, Lu Xing emphasized that they should never play it as a suspense drama. "Suspense is not staged. If you perform a suspense drama according to a suspense drama, it would be very scary. I hope they can relax as much as possible and be as relaxed as possible." They became familiar with each other, which is very good for performances."

Lu Xing recalled that for example, Zheng Bei's sister in the play said that she had just permed her hair, which was a popular style, but Zheng Bei directly added, Does fashion make you look older? This sentence was actually not in the script originally, but the actors often stayed together in the early stage, were very familiar with each other, and joked as they pleased, and the actors showed it on the scene.

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In 2017, the suspense drama "Undocumented Crime" directed by Lu Xing was a hit that year, especially the scene in which Li Toyota ( Ning Li) lights up his cigarette holder and smokes, which has become a classic among domestic suspense dramas. One scene. After "Undocumented Crime" was aired, many film and television investors asked him to continue filming suspense dramas, but Lu Xing chose to film the workplace drama "Ordinary Glory", and then returned to the suspense track to film "The Returned Daughter".

From "Undocumented Crime" in 2017 to "Snow Maze" in 2024, Lu Xing found that he had a new understanding of suspense dramas in the past seven or eight years. "At that time, I was filming "Undocumented Crime" ”, I don’t know the audience very well. As I film more and more dramas, I will watch the audience’s feedback and discussions on various social platforms, and gradually understand how they view the characters and stories in the drama, so slowly. The slower I get to know the audience better, now I will take some of the audience’s feelings into the drama.”

How will I shoot future suspense dramas? Lu Xing’s answer is to find some new angles in previous themes, and then blend different contents together to give the audience a new perception. “For example, in “Snow Maze,” we superimposed criminal investigation dramas and life dramas. "The same goes for Lu Xing's recent suspense drama "The Imperative", which he collaborated with Youku on, placing characters in prison. "This is different from previous suspense dramas. There are prison guards, disciplines, and all kinds of prisoners in this space. There will definitely be a difference in the perception of the story.”

Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng editor Su Jing