"Did you’fly ‘today?"
"My’addiction ‘has broken again, please update it quickly."
"It’s not on the way to visit relatives and friends, it’s on the way to chase’Hurricane ‘."
Since CCTV’s eight sets of broadcasts, the country’s audience ratings have topped the list, and it has also become the new "drama king" of the exclusive broadcast platform iQIYI. This is the anti-black drama "Hurricane", which has rushed to the forefront of almost all communication platform topics and traffic. According to CCTV Sofrey data, CCTV’s eight sets of "Hurricane" have a balanced age distribution of viewers from 1 to 27 episodes, which can be said to be eaten by young and old.
This is a Zhejiang-produced TV drama supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Culture and Art Fund, co-produced by a film and television culture company in Zhejiang. Why can a "traditional" anti-black TV drama stand out and top the chart? Where does "addiction" come from?
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To answer the above two questions, let’s first talk about the meaning behind the title of "Hurricane". What is it about Hurricane?
Some viewers say that the scale is surging. Compared with most traditional anti-crime films and television dramas that mainly focus on anti-black heroes, "Surging" defies the original narrative angle and boldly adopts a two-line narrative technique of one good and one evil. It does not shy away from depicting the family history of the underworld boss in depth and detail, and vividly tells the story of how an honest and dutiful petty citizen went to the dark step by step. When the underworld boss is no longer just a stereotypical "foil", it can better reflect the difficulty and long-term responsibility of the anti-crime operation itself.
Some viewers also said that justice was surging. For example, the justice representative in the play, Police Officer An Xin, in the past 20 years, although he has been bruised and exhausted in the fight against the evil forces, and even betrayed and fell into despair, he has always stood at the forefront of the anti-black struggle. Even if he became a "lonely brave man" in Jinghai, he did not change his original intention.
In addition, more people will feel that the acting is going crazy. There is no doubt about this, and it can even be said that it is one of the key reasons why "Hurricane" broke the wall and broke out of the circle. Just looking at the cast and crew of the TV series is enough to make people "feel at ease". Zhang Songwen, a famous movie star, and a large number of old actors such as Zhang Zhijian, Wu Gang, and Ni Dahong performed together. It is not surprising that all the acting staff are online, and the audience is immersed in it.
In this regard, the biggest highlight of "Hurricane" is the actor Zhang Songwen, whose "Brother Qiang" has almost covered more than half of the show’s traffic topics. Zhang Songwen’s acting is so realistic that many bullet comments called for "suggestion to check". "It’s not like it’s acting, maybe there is a real problem." Others, after watching "Hurricane", confessed that they have "post-hurricane syndrome", so that when they go out and see a small stall peddler, they vaguely feel that they are a hidden underworld boss. Some fans even commented: "’Brother Qiang’s acting is so good that across the screen, I can smell the fishy smell of Qiaoyuqiang and the smell of cologne after blackening."
In fact, there is a certain inevitability behind Zhang Songwen’s popularity and fame.
The external environment provides an opportunity to break out of the circle. In recent years, the domestic film and television drama market has been flooded with all kinds of "little fresh meat" and "little fresh". The acting skills are grandiose, but they can play the starring role of big dramas by virtue of popularity and traffic. Fans continue to brush the charts and impulse, resulting in extremely high ratings for the repertoire. After a long frenzy, the market needs to return to rationality; after a long frenzy, the audience naturally calls for acting skills.
Internal driving forces create their own value. Zhang Songwen’s title of "play crazy" has a long history. After more than 20 years of professional downturn, Zhang Songwen has completely conquered the audience with the role of Zhu Yongping in "Hidden Corner". Every smile and every move is a play. In order to play Gao Qiqiang, "life observer" Zhang Songwen specially went to a local vegetable market in Guangdong early to observe the daily life of fish traders, and recorded it in his heart and engraved it in his mind.
Zhang Yi, who played opposite Zhang Songwen, is equally brilliant. In him, we see different "An Xin" of different ages and stages. From the fledgling and blood-pumping in his 20s, to the ideals in his 30s and still sticking to the mission, to the sophisticated and down-to-reality in his 40s, the "An Xin" police officer at every stage makes us feel that such people exist in real life.
With its storyline and its acting skills, how could the audience not suffer from "addiction"?
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Why is "Hurricane" superior to ordinary anti-black film and television dramas? In addition to the acting skills of "hard-core" actors, the power of "Hurricane" lies in finding the right narrative angle and presentation method.
Speaking of anti-black theme film and television dramas, many people’s minds will emerge a set of fixed scripts, a preset plot: righteous, upright political and legal officers disguised, deep into the tiger’s den, follow the cane to lead out the umbrella company behind the evil forces, after a battle of wits and courage, successfully sent the bad guys to prison, and everyone was happy and ended successfully.
"The underworld and evil forces have original sins, and the bad guys are bad guys from the beginning of the story." Compared with "Hurricane", ordinary anti-underworld film and television dramas lose by prematurely framing the villains, profiling the villains, and shaping each villain into an unscrupulous and cunning person. Not only that, but the good and evil factions in the plot are always two parallel lines, with no intersection, no transition, and no so-called "gray area".
Justice deserves praise, but evil also needs objective analysis. The underworld does not fall from the sky, and the process of formation has an intricate social soil. Compared with ordinary anti-black film and television dramas, "Hurricane" wins by telling the story of an ordinary person walking into the abyss of evil and evolving into the boss of the underworld. In "Hurricane", good and evil are not mutually exclusive, but will intersect and even transform each other.
The protagonist of the story, Gao Qiqiang, was originally an ordinary fishmonger in the vegetable market. After losing his parents at the age of 13, Gao Qiqiang played the role of a "father", raising his younger brother and sister alone. After experiencing the beatings of society and the ravages of reality, Gao Qiqiang staggered from the bottom of society to the top, from a law-abiding citizen who was bullied to a underworld boss who dominated the world with one hand.
The writer Lu Yao once wrote that although the road of life is long, the key points are only a few steps, especially when people are young. For many people, justice is on the left and evil is on the right, and the difference of one thought may be a lifetime away.
When the Tang brothers humiliated and smashed the TV they had worked so hard to buy, Gao Qiqiang chose to fight; when the neighbors heard that the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau was his backer, Gao Qiqiang chose to remain silent and pretend to be a tiger; when faced with his brother’s desire to start a business that required 20,000 yuan to open a PHS store, Gao Qiqiang chose to take risks and become a thug, eventually leading to the abyss of crime.
What "Hurricane" presents is not only the battle of wits between good and evil, but also the floating of people’s hearts and human choices. The process of watching "Hurricane" is the process of the audience following the characters in the play, making choices again and again. From an honest fish seller, to a liar, to a criminal, each choice pushes the fate of the characters in the play to a new position.
The TV series "Hurricane" fully respects the IQ of the audience, depicts the history of a underworld boss’s fortune, and exposes the historical causes of the underworld hovering in Jinghai City for many years. Under the premise of sweeping away the underworld and promoting righteousness, the whole drama appears more flesh and blood, reasonable and logical.
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Of course, in addition to the superficial elements such as acting, plot, and scale, the reason why "Hurricane" makes the audience unable to stop is also because it reflects human nature itself, workplace ecology, and social reality to a certain extent, making people feel "so far away and so close" across the screen.
The time dimension of the story spans from 2000 to 2020. 20 years of rapid development, development means change, accompanied by problems, involving reform, especially the era proposition of how to move from a Chinese-style human society to a Chinese-style rule of law society. The play also carries, explains and embodies well.
Some film critics say that if Gao Qiqiang is the representative of the human society, then Anxin is the code name of the rule of law society, and the conflict between the two protagonists is actually the collision between the rule of law society and the human society. The author believes it deeply. It is particularly obvious in Gao Qiqiang that things depend on relationships and go out and take care of things. Acting according to the law and rules is the norm that Anxin police officer believes in. In his dictionary, the law is above all else. When human feelings meet the law, where is the road? How to achieve the rule of law? The plot is thought-provoking.
After talking about the big ones, let’s talk about the small ones. Why do so many young people love this drama? Because "Hurricane" also reflects the workplace ecology to a certain extent.
As the director introduced, the protagonist An Xin, whose name means "peace of mind", is a pure idealist. He is sharp, high-spirited, straightforward and strong but lacks workplace wisdom, and he offends people by hitting walls everywhere. The police officer Li Xiang is An Xin’s partner, which means "ideal", but he is a true realist, and his caution is vividly displayed in him. The underworld boss Gao Qiqiang is a complete opportunist. He will seize all the resources and contacts he can access, and magnify them infinitely, constantly finding opportunities for himself.
While the characters in the "Hurricane" play are hurtling, idealism, realism and opportunism are also constantly "hurrying". Gao Qiqiang is well versed in the human society, and he will bite and escape when he has the opportunity to go ashore; An Xin has been run by the human society, but she sticks to her ideals but is smashed to pieces by reality, and finally loses her head overnight; Li Xiang, in order to avenge his master and take down the evil forces behind him, resolutely chooses to take risks. Knowing that he has no good ending, he still pushes himself step by step to the end of his life.
Gao Qiqiang’s insidious and vicious, unscrupulous means is a kind of human nature, a sinking human nature. An Xin’s calmness, tenacity, integrity and kindness are also a kind of human nature, a noble human nature. As someone said, only by understanding Gao Qiqiang’s control of worldly sophistication can we understand how difficult and valuable it is for An Xin to maintain her original intention. It is because of the selfless efforts and even sacrifices of "An Xin" one after another that this society is full of peace and tranquility, and we can live in peace.
"Hurricane" is still on the air, and many viewers should not lose themselves in the "hurricane addiction" and hurricane with the show. When facing good and evil, facing right and wrong, how should each of us choose? There is a saying on the Internet that says, "No matter what life is like, stay awake and stay kind."
