Is the elite public prosecutor the ice breaker?

The real case is far more complicated than the current film and television presentation, because its complicated clan relationship and the number of public security personnel involved in the case detection are much higher than those reflected in the play. "

Ice-breaking Action is a film and television market blockbuster with public security as its theme and anti-drug investigation as its element, especially adapted from the real background of Guangdong Thunder's "12.29 anti-drug special action" in 20 13, which once made public opinion boil. However, when it comes to the degree of restoration of real cases, Director Liu Zhangmu said frankly.

In fact, Action to Break the Ice is also Liu Zhangmu's first directorial work. Before that, he was better known as the photography director and executive director of Wolf Warriors 2. As a big drama jointly directed by many people, Liu Zhangmu is mainly responsible for the Waterfront Branch Line and the French Branch Line, and he wrote most of the action dramas-the opening explosion of Night Attack on Tazhai and Song Yang Died in a Chicken Farm.

"The pressure is relatively high, the film volume is very large, and the pattern is also very large." Recalling the project that I contacted in 20 17 and later became a director, Liu Zhangmu said. Fortunately, the reaction of the audience in the betting market is the best recognition: the popularity of the whole network remains high, Douban leads the 20 19 domestic drama word-of-mouth list with 8.4 points, and CCTV ranks first in the whole network for many days. The ice-breaking operation can be said to have achieved remarkable results.

Recently, as Li Weimin was taken away, Li Fei broke into the tower house at night, and Zhao Jialiang and Lin Yaodong tested each other. Breaking the ice and catching fish was upgraded again, and a little drama reading also contacted the behind-the-scenes trader to understand the shooting situation of the play. In the one-hour communication, he mentioned the word "truth" 4 1 time, and it is not difficult to find that this is the key to the "ice-breaking operation" to break the market.

"Big Pattern": Film and Television Expression of Real Cases

"How to put these side branches together and let the audience know that when shooting, I really have no bottom in my heart." Although Liu Zhangmu admits that film and television have been "slimmed down" on the basis of real cases, the numerous branches and complicated relationships of the characters in Action Breaking the Ice still make him quite nervous. -Shooting by the feeder line is the first step of the "ice-breaking operation" in an orderly manner.

"When shooting, I have to understand this line first and figure out what role each line and scene plays in the whole drama." Liu Zhangmu further explained, "You must do your homework in advance, make a text shot of each scene, and accurately divide the work of each department, so that you can be handy when shooting."

Taking Linshuibo branch line as an example, Liu Zhangmu broke down his shooting ideas for us. "As an anti-drug theme, where is the poison? The branch line of Lin is the person who is really harmed by drugs. " Based on the positioning analysis of the plot, he also pointed out that from the experience of watching the drama, after experiencing the large-scale "werewolf killing" of the public security branch line, the clan relationship of the Tazhai Village branch line and the wits and courage of the Hong Kong branch line, the audience also needed to "take a break" and "slow down".

"I don't consider whether it is sensational or not, but I just want every character to come alive, not a single color, and any character is multifaceted." This is the guiding ideology of Liu Zhangmu's shooting. To this end, he studied a lot of materials and videos, observed arrested drug dealers, studied local gangs in Guangdong, and restored this "reality" with the help of modeling and performance.

So, we saw such a picture of the people at the bottom who were harmed by drugs: Lin helped his son get rid of drugs, and he was still kind even if he was caught in drugs; Selling medicine to save his father has a complicated side, but he is also struggling to win Lin's favor. There are also pockmarked people who have emotional breakdown during the trial and prawns who have been resisting to death. They are the most vivid miniature of the seabed.

Compared with Lin's branch line, the other branch line he is in charge of, the French branch line, is more inclined to "hardware difficulties". The most difficult thing is that the communication cost is too high and the French have a strong sense of time. The shooting time of each scene is planned, and overtime is not allowed.

Make a detailed plan in advance, from how to shoot each sub-scene, the cooperation between departments, and the distribution of Chinese and western actors, we need to rehearse in advance. In addition, Liu Zhangmu also needs to consider the running-in of Chinese and western actors' performance styles, and how to show the famous scenic spots such as the Seine River and the Eiffel Tower in a limited time.

"It's really an attempt to shoot according to the sideline, then adjust it through editing, and finally present it to the audience. I really don't know if the audience will like it, and it took a long time to adjust later. " Fortunately, Liu Zhangmu's "Awkward" is very expensive for the audience at present.

Infernal affairs: hide the role, hide the actor.

Who is a werewolf is a crime-solving frenzy set off by the "ice-breaking operation". Behind the whole network carnival of "ice-breaking fishing in the play, werewolves killing infernal affairs outside the play", it needs to be reflected that the market has never lacked the theme of police and bandits sweeping drugs, and elements such as "protective umbrella" and undercover are not uncommon. Why did Operation Icebreaker break through successfully?

"In the anti-drug part, the script pays great attention to rendering the feeling of infernal affairs, hiding the characters and leaving suspense for the audience. Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy? " Liu Zhangmu's words may be regarded as a way to solve the problem. Of course, in the final analysis, it depends on the importance attached to "truth" in the script.

On the other hand, as the final presentation of film and television, it is particularly important whether the actor's performance can convey the feeling of infernal affairs. "We should hide the actors and control their performances. Good people can't play well, bad people can't play well. But try to convince the audience through some actions and details. " Actor selection is the key.

Although he is the first director in the field of TV series, Liu Zhangmu has his own set of actor selection criteria. "Actors had better not play a role, he should be this person. Being close to the characters when casting can often get twice the result with half the effort. " -Cai Yongqiang, who caused a heated discussion on the Internet because of the reversal of characters, plays Tang Xu highly recommended by Liu Zhangmu.

Cai Yongqiang was the first person to be called a "werewolf" by the protagonist Li Fei and the audience. All the spearheads were aimed at him, but with the development of the plot, he gradually cleared his suspicion, and there were countless super tacit understandings with Li Fei and high-energy dialogues with Li Weimin. This super reversal also puts forward requirements for the actors' performance: how to make the audience follow the plot at different stages and believe in this role?

"What I fear most is that the actors themselves are too famous to impress the audience. It is best to choose someone who plays well but is not familiar with it. To put it bluntly, those good actors are not big fires. " In Liu Zhangmu's view, as a classmate of Wang Qianyuan and Liu Mintao, Tang Xu has excellent acting skills. What he lacks is a role that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Cai Yongqiang is an opportunity.

Under Tang Xu's interpretation, Cai Yongqiang's role is deeply rooted in people's hearts, especially in the dialogue between him and Li Weimin broadcast a few days ago. When he confessed the life danger and temptation risk faced by the anti-drug police, tears filled his eyes and his eyes firmly infected countless people. "Every night after work, he would come to me and talk to me about roles and performances. I was moved by this scene, and my nose really felt like crying, "Liu Zhangmu revealed.

Also according to this standard, Wang Jinsong, the actor of Lin Yaodong, and Qian Bo, the actor of Lin, were selected. In Liu Zhangmu's view, these two characters are multifaceted. For example, the former is a deputy to the National People's Congress, a clan leader and the boss of a drug trafficking group. The latter needs a highly plastic actor to realize this complexity from intellectuals to rag collectors.

In fact, this way of "hiding characters and actors" has also broken the lack of visibility of the characters brought about by the clear and black-and-white settings in the previous anti-drug dramas, but it has made the audience "lose" God's perspective and increased the sense of participation in the plot trend as never before. This is a benign incentive to the market. After all, domestic dramas have too many offline IQs.

"De-normalization": Actions and scenes face reality.

As a hardcore anti-drug drama, the overnight popularity of Action on Breaking the Ice is closely related to the opening of two classics, Night Attack on Tazhai and Death of Song Yang in Chicken Farm. As the photographer of the two scenes and the person in charge of the whole drama, Liu Zhangmu obviously has a say-"As an adaptation of a real case, all our styles are truth-oriented".

According to Liu Zhangmu, "Night Attack on Tazhai" was inspired by the real scene of criminals violently resisting the law to contain the police in Boshe Village, and this "terrible" that moved him was also filmed and passed on to the audience. After explaining the geographical environment of Tazhai Village and the ferocity of the villagers, how to make the protagonist Lin Yaodong appear?

With the sound of "Uncle Dong is coming", the noisy scene instantly quieted down, and the people in the way quickly gave way. Many big black umbrellas came into view first, and then the characters under the camera reversal were the real content. The appearance of this figure paved by the crowd and the camera is Liu Zhangmu's ingenious thinking-rendering the mystery of Tazhai Village and Lin Yaodong's existence as a "local emperor" in it. Of course, Wang Jinsong's acting skills are beyond doubt.

"At that time, it was the integration of three villages, and it was raining everywhere. I have high requirements for rain scenes. I can't sprinkle water with sprinklers like ordinary sailors. This must be a big scene with professional showers, "Liu Zhangmu explained, and more than 100 extras also had a headache. But fortunately, these were finally overcome, and the audience's high praise is the best recognition.

In The Death of Chicken Farm Song Yang, the crew set up a chicken farm in Shantoushan, designed plastic sheets and chicken coops, and rented thousands of chickens, trying to restore the truth and shock people. However, unlike Yao's "few words", this performance is mainly acting. "Fight to be real, not routine. I hope the feeling I make is fighting, not armed action movies, "Liu Zhangmu said bluntly.

Even if it is mainly about the angle and the shaping of small people, Action to Break the Ice pays great attention to depicting this sense of reality. The capture of Bao Xing and the death of chan kwong wing are both representatives. According to Liu Zhangmu's recollection, this pursuit of truth always runs through some later arrests-"All our arrests, all police forces, including land, sea and air, are really the cooperation of police forces, that is, we are worried that the extras can't play the temperament of the police."

Talking about this, Liu Zhangmu also shared a behind-the-scenes story. The shooting of a blasting scene lasted until four o'clock in the morning. At this time, a special police officer came and asked the director when to call it a day, saying that he would attend the wedding at eight o'clock. Only after learning this did he know that he was going to attend his wedding, and most of his peers were groomsmen. But later, the special police said, "Take your time, Chief, we support you. It is a big deal for us to go to the scene dressed like this. " Only then did I know that Liu Zhangmu's wife is also a policeman.

This scene was also called "the best wedding gift ever received" by this "lovely person". In fact, there are many such lovely people in Action to Break the Ice. It is their help that ensures the high-quality completion of this drama and brings the audience a shocking real drama experience and positive energy. "Thanks to all the actors and staff, and all the police who participated in the performance. Thank you for your assistance and support, "said Liu Zhangmu.

"Our tone is true, true and true. All the details are true and will conform to the real case. We must enlarge the word "truth" and highlight the truth with all the details. This passage, which uses seven "true" words in a row, may be the way to break the ice in Action Breaking the Ice. Back to the plot, what kind of game will the public security departments represented by Li Fei and Li Weimin play with the drug trafficking groups represented by Lin Yaodong? You may wish to continue to lock in the "ice-breaking operation".