"Special Warfare Glory" "Getting through the beginning, the more you watch, the more fragrant"
Yang Yang, who does not fall in love but only engages in career, has made progress!
Directed by Xu Jizhou and starring Yang Yang, Jiang Luxia, Meng Asai, Jiang Long, Li Yitong and others, the contemporary military drama "Special War Glory" is premiering on Dragon TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV, and simultaneously broadcasts on iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video.
The play is adapted from the online novel "Special Species of Chinese Special Forces" by the Dancing Demon Girl.
With the help of the high popularity of the original work and the joining of the traffic star Yang Yang, the show has gained a lot of attention since its inception.
Right now, more than halfway through the broadcast of the plot, Tencent Video announced that "Special War Glory" has received more than 1 billion views on the platform.
The audience's evaluation of the show is also polarized: those who don't like it said "Douban failed to score a reservation", "It's crazy and cool again", "The protagonist's halo is too much"; After the beginning, the more you watch it, the more fragrant it is." There are also many fans who said that "the hard work is visible to the naked eye" and "Yang Yang is cruel enough to himself".
This time, Yang Yang, who "doesn't fall in love and focus on career" in the play, is really not bad.
Image: Turned into a tough guy, this Yang Yang is a bit fierce
As a first-line traffic niche, Yang Yang is undoubtedly the biggest attraction of "Special War Glory".
Before the broadcast, Xu Jizhou, the director of the play, said without hesitation in an interview that "Special Warfare Glory" was tailor-made for Yang Yang, who graduated from the People's Liberation Army Art Academy: "It seems that every literary soldier has a special soldier in his heart. Dream. I think this heroic dream has always been in Yang Yang's heart, and I am very happy to help him realize this dream."
Yang Yang's fans are one of the main audiences for the show.
As soon as "Special Warfare Glory" opens, "Where is Yang Yang?" The barrage of "Looking for Yang Yang" floats by.
Don't blame fans for their clumsy eyes, Yang Yang in "Glory of Special Warfare" is really hard to find - different from Jia Baoyu, who is full of powder in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Zhang Qiling, who is mysterious and cold in "Notes on Tomb Raiders", and "You Are My Glory". "Yu Tu, the elite scientific research god in "Glory of Special Warfare", Yan Poyue played by Yang Yang in "Special Warfare Glory", has a slender head and dark skin, which has nothing to do with exquisite and handsome, and is often covered in sludge, oil paint and blood plasma. In order to complete the task, he would often hide and pretend to be "grandma doesn't know".
It is reported that in order to be competent for the role, Yang Yang received training in lying position with gun, rifle standing shooting, tactical sign language, CQB combat (indoor close-range combat) and other training before joining the group.
Under the high-intensity training, Yang Yang's originally slender and long body has become much stronger, and the "inverted triangle" body is full of muscles, which is more suitable for the role.
Most of the blasting scenes and fighting scenes in the play are mostly played by Yang Yang himself.
The original author of "Special Warfare Glory", Wuwu Yaoji, was impressed by this.
He once wrote on Weibo: "I knew at first that Yang Yang played Yan Poyue, and I felt that this IP was going to be scrapped...'Xiao Xianrou' is difficult to resonate with the shadow reflected in my inner world..." After he came out, he admitted that he was "slapped in the face", "Yang Yang's military actions are very standard when they should be standard, and cool when they should be cool. Seeing this, he has worked hard to keep his physical condition at its best. , just because of this, my view of him has been reversed by 180 degrees."
Role: repeatedly abused, the protagonist's halo has subsided
Jumping out of the circle of idol dramas and sweet dramas, looking for room to play in hardcore themes, in order to hone your acting skills and break through your personal image. In recent years, military dramas have become a "transition platform" favored by some traffic artists, such as Li Yifeng starring in "The Trumpeter". In Place", Huang Jingyu starred in "Falling in Love with Special Forces", and "Ace Trooper" starring Xiao Zhan is also listed here.
Under the "idol star + military drama" model, the old-fashioned characters and plots have also been criticized by netizens. The protagonists in such military dramas are often the "king of soldiers", who are often "strong, arrogant and arrogant." "Drag", the play is called "Drag soldiers grow up".
"Special Warfare Glory" also failed to completely jump out of the rut: as soon as he joined the army, Yan Poyue became the "most dazzling" existence - his ability was amazing, and he broke records in various training; Dare to "fight against" the company commander; he advocates individualism, and only wants to "become stronger", and the spirit of collectivism is lacking...
However, viewers who "survived the first few episodes" found that Yan Poyue's halo didn't last long - after entering the military camp, the comrades and leaders of Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger made Yan Poyue suffer.
There are many masters in the barracks, and the unremarkable "chef" squad leader turned out to be a "great god" who is skilled in marksmanship and proficient in minelaying; finally obtained the qualification to participate in the cheetah selection, Yan Poyue was also competed by his comrades Bai Long and Guo Xiao. Laughing strength crushing...
Xu Jizhou said that the character setting of "Special Warfare Glory" is different from many previous military dramas-many military dramas are about an ordinary person or a person with many shortcomings through special training, tempering, beating, and eventually become. A "soldier king" process, and "Special War Glory" is about Yan Poyue's process of gradually letting go of his personal heroism and becoming an "ordinary soldier".
Some Douban netizens commented: "A person who wants to be a hero finally becomes a qualified member of the group. Not only does the aura of the protagonist converge, but also the idea of the story is brought to a higher level, not bad."
Plot: Don't fall in love, focus on career collectively
In pursuit of real battlefield effects, almost all of the mountains, tropical rainforests, urban street battles and desert battles in "Special War Glory" are shot in real scenes.
To this end, after completing the main shooting tasks in Tengchong and Yingjiang on the Sino-Myanmar border, the crew also went north to Dunhuang to complete the shooting of desert scenes.
"Special Warfare Glory" is not like other idolized military dramas that "hang the sheep's head and sell dog meat". With the military as the background, the main plot is on love. Instead, it chooses to give up the love story and make a movie. Hardcore military drama.
Xu Jizhou said, "It's the easiest way to shoot when you're in love", and revealed that in the initial design, regiment staff Ai Qianxue (played by Li Yitong) and Yan Poyue had some emotional buds, but in the final presentation, "even the buds were cut off. ".
Judging from the currently broadcasted plot, it is exactly as the director said, most of Yang Yang and Li Yitong's rivalry scenes were simply taken with a few scenes, only chatting, writing letters, "I will invite you to dinner when you come out" and other comrade-in-arms styles. interactive.
Between Yan Poyue and Guo Xiaoxiao, played by Jiang Luxia, there is a mutual sympathy among comrades-in-arms based on strength.
It is worth mentioning that although there is no love scene, "Special War Glory" still has created many outstanding female characters with different personalities: female killer Mia, sniper Guo Xiaoxiao, cheetah veteran calm, battlefield female reporter Gu Meng... The characters are distinct.
In addition, the male group portraits are also very vivid: Li Xiang, the old company commander who is tough on the outside and soft on the inside, the elder dog of the cooking squad who is secretive, Lu Xiaotian, a military comedian with business acumen, and Xiao Yunjie, who is loyal and emotionally intelligent. Qin Feng, captain of the Cheetah, who is ruthless but always emphasizes friendship and unity, and Bai Long, who has already become a legend in the army but enlisted for the second time... all left a deep impression on the audience.
Style: hard-core painting style, the lens pursues a sense of reality
The behind-the-scenes team of "Special Warfare Glory" should not be underestimated. Director Xu Jizhou has directed military and police-themed works such as "Fighting the Black Storm", "Killing the Tiger's Mouth", and "Eternal Name", while screenwriter Feng Ji has directed the explosive war film "Red Sea". action".
This time, the two teamed up to make "Special War Glory" extraordinarily "willful": the 45-episode TV series took 274 days to shoot, and it can be said that the cost of human and material resources is not spared.
Xu Jizhou revealed that the reason why it took a long time was not only because of the many scenes and on-site shooting, but also because of the pursuit of excellence in action scenes and the pursuit of punching to the flesh: "Jiang Luxia's 'One Hit Five' took more than 50 shots. Over and over, it took less than a minute and a half to cut out... The main scene of the opening was cut out in about a little more than an episode, and the actors played for 38 days!"
In terms of image style, in order to pursue the sense of realism, "Special War Glory" also uses a large number of hand-held shooting methods. However, many viewers frequently feedback "the picture is too shaking" and "look dizzy".
In this regard, Xu Jizhou apologized in a long post on Weibo.
He said that "Special War Glory" was originally positioned as a hard-core military action drama. When determining the photography style, the drama team referred to some excellent works at home and abroad, and thus determined the way of hand-held shooting, but "the current It's a pity to see it come true."
"First of all, the main audience of TV dramas is different from that of movies. The audience of TV dramas has a wide age range, which does affect the perception of some audiences. Secondly, our actors were excited at the scene, and in that mood, the staff were also more excited. , I used a large-screen monitor at the scene, and I didn't notice this problem."
In the end, Xu Jizhou said that when shooting similar themes again, he would "stabilize the literary drama part, recycle the martial arts part, or replace some stabilizers to follow the shooting, and consider the needs and acceptance of different audiences. Technically We will be more fully prepared."
Reporter Ai Xiuyu