A role and an actor .. Youssef Al-Sharif, a "different" drama in "Covid 25"

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Once again, the Egyptian actor Youssef Al-Sharif is going through a unique experience in Arab drama by moving away from stereotypical roles and recurring themes in most of the Ramadan works and series, trying to complete his successful experience in the field of science fiction drama, which he started in the series "The End" last year, to return from the middle of Ramadan 2021, to present a new experience in the series "Covid 25" with his wife, writer and broadcaster, Engy Alaa, who had previously dealt with her in previous works of art.

The artist Youssef Al-Sharif renewed this year his cooperation with director Ahmed Nader Jalal in this series, which is co-starring Ahmed Salah Hosni, Ayten Amer, Edward, Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, Muhammad Adel and Randa Al-Beheiry, and a group of young faces.

After "Covid-19"

It seems clear that the makers of the work have insisted from the beginning on investing the idea of ​​the spread of the new Corona virus, to present a "imagined" scientific vision of what will happen years after the spread of the new virus, which we have seen is more deadly than its predecessor, not only considering the transmission of its infection by eyes, but its direct effect as well on cells The brain, and then caused by cases of general panic and mass suicide, while Youssef Al-Sharif, who plays in the series the role of the doctor and the famous "YouTuber", reveals its danger, so he rushes to meet solutions and hurries to return to work to find the treated vaccine and then reveal the company that manufactured it. Despite his difficult situation and his presence outside the circle of the profession, which he was suspended for years from practicing, after his inability to save his son, and the problems that haunted him from his divorce from the journalist “Manal” (Ayten Amer) and his failure to take responsibility for their daughter.

Wholesale criticism

Despite his success in “controlling” his performance of the character of Doctor Yassin, and the artist’s keenness to devote a different style to Arab drama, the new series was not without criticism of its basic idea, which was clearly taken from the movie (Bird Box) of the star “Sandra Bullock”, Which was based on the idea of ​​the transmission of a strange virus through sight and causing mass suicides. Meanwhile, the work was also accused of quotes from the movie "World War Z", which starred "Brad Pitt", a former investigator who is trying to find a way to stop the "zombie" epidemic.

On the other hand, the directorial efforts of the work director Ahmed Nader Jalal are clear, who seriously sought to try to present an Arab drama with world-class specifications and evidence in the work, which came again in the contents and in the various directorial techniques that were used in it, the most prominent of which was the cinematic flashback technology and the moving camera techniques around Actors, the choice of quick shots, and a clear cinematic montage for the 15 workshops, which, although not exceeding half the television hour, have succeeded in attracting the attention of viewers and critics in Egypt and entering the raging Ramadan competition at the forefront, by leading the "trend" in the lists of the most tweeters on the Twitter platform. »In Egypt, since the presentation of the fifth of its episodes, it is expected that the work will constitute a surprise to the audience and establish, if the capabilities are available, a new type of Arab drama.

• It seems clear the insistence of business makers from the beginning on investing the idea of ​​the spread of the new Corona virus.

• The series was not without criticism regarding its main idea, taken from the movie (Bird Box) by "Sandra Bullock".

• The director of the work, Ahmed Nader Jalal, seriously sought to try to present an Arab drama with international standards.