The drama "Latent", Zuo Le started the project in the first half of last year, and planned to start filming after finishing "Charlotte's Troubles", but later due to Tian Yan's pregnancy, it could only be delayed again and again.

However, during this period, Zuo Le didn't do anything, and the preliminary work of the crew was basically done.

Changqing Film and Television Base specially vacated two Republic of China streets, and in accordance with Zuo Le's requirements, restored the scenes of the Secrecy Bureau, Yu Zecheng's home, and the contact point of the bookstore in the play.

The props in it are almost all processed according to the characteristics of the Republic of China era, making the props appear more real.

Nowadays, many ancient costumes and Republic of China dramas, obviously the quality of props and costumes is not bad, but it always gives people a feeling of cheapness and shoddyness, mainly because of filters and no processing.

To put it bluntly, the crew doesn't care.

Everything is brand new, it is obviously an ancient countryside, the walls are white, modern products such as plastics and some props that obviously do not fit the scene abound, and it is naturally difficult for the audience to substitute.

The mountain and river drama has done a good job in this regard, not seeking perfect restoration, at least ensuring that it conforms to the scene in the play, so that the audience will not watch the play.

After the training of many TV dramas, historical dramas may not be guaranteed, but in the Republic of China drama, Shanhe has also filmed several dramas before, and he has long been familiar with it.

Zuo Le went to the real scene and props and costume warehouses to see it before, and found that the preparation was better than the original, and he was very satisfied.

In addition to various real-life preparations in the early stage, Zuo Le also completed the casting of "Latent" during this time.

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The drama "Latent" mainly talks about Yu Zecheng, the small leader of the special agent of the Guodang Military Command (Secret Bureau), who abandoned the darkness and joined our party because of his lover Zuo Lan.

Then he was ordered to lurk in the Jinmen Secret Bureau, experienced all kinds of swords and swords, thrilling spy battles, and became a high-level agent of our party step by step.

How does it sound like an introduction to the spy war web article......

However, the online article highlights a cool word and kills all sides, but Yu Zecheng, the male protagonist of "Latent", is not so comfortable, he can be called frightening step by step, dancing on the tip of the knife.

Almost every episode is dangerous, two or three episodes are a big crisis, and if you are not careful, it will be a catastrophe.

In the current domestic film and television market, spy war dramas are actually not unpopular, and the annual output of dramas is still very impressive, but in terms of word-of-mouth quality, there are some good and bad.

Excluding some good boutiques, many spy war dramas have been filmed as Republic of China love dramas, or superhero themes.

Zuo Le does not exclude that spy war dramas have love scenes, and even in "Latent", love is a major main line of the plot, but note, the premise of this main line is to assist the spy war plot, and the two advance together.

And the most important thing is that the two main lines are well combined with each other, real and infectious, and the audience not only does not make a play, but is moved by this hard-won underground revolutionary love.

And most spy war dramas can't do this, and they cling to love scenes.

In the end, it became a group of handsome men and beautiful women who were jealous of the love triangle and pentagonal love together every day, and they didn't care about spy warfare or anything, what kind of family and country revolution, what Lao Tzu needed was love

When the toss is almost over, when it comes to the end, just forcibly kill one or two of them, let them "sacrifice heroically", and the other characters will be sublimated.

Then there is the spy war "Wonder Hero/Superheroization", the protagonists are fiercer than the other, as if they have special functions.

A small pistol is comparable to a howitzer, and one person is tough on two devil squads, easily killing a large area, and then calmly retreating.

Such a fierce man, if he is not sent to the front line battlefield, he has to be asked to assassinate those enemy high-level officials, and stay in the rear to engage in intelligence, which always feels particularly condescending.

Such a TV series, to put it mildly, is that the filmmaker confused undercover and 007 agents are two completely different concepts, and the creation is not well understood.

To put it mildly, it is selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and putting on the skin of a spy war drama indiscriminately, which is actually a bloody love drama and a wonder hero drama in the Republic of China.

Blind and blind......

In contrast, spy war dramas like "Latent" are real.

For the undercover agent, force is only a small auxiliary, and his task is to get intelligence from within the enemy, and at the same time not to be discovered by the enemy, and mediation and wit are the norm.

As for the specific actions such as rescue, assassination, hoeing and rape, someone else will deal with it, everything is picked up by the protagonist, and what the rest of the underground party does.

Besides, you do things everywhere, once or twice once in a while, but too many times you really think the enemy is blind, as long as you don't have alibi.

I'd rather kill by mistake than let go.

This sentence is not for fun, you can't just block it with the protagonist's aura, otherwise you will really fool the audience as fools.

Back to the drama "Latent" itself, although it is not very long, only 30 episodes, it is fast-paced and has a lot of characters, and there are more than ten main characters with weight alone.

Although these characters have many or few scenes, each role has its own characteristics, and there is no room for sloppiness.

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Let's talk about the male protagonist Yu Zecheng first, there is no doubt that he is the first important role in this play, and he connects the plot of the whole play.

This role is easy to play and difficult to play.

is easy to act, which means that the character setting is very introverted, as long as you grasp the logical motivation of the character, you can restore this deputy stationmaster.

It is difficult to act, because it is easy to paint skin and difficult to draw bones, and Yu Zecheng has an introverted personality, which does not mean that he has no mood swings, on the contrary, because of his profession, his surface and heart are two completely different states.

In other words, it is easy to play the "smiling tiger" Deputy Stationmaster Yu, but it is not so easy to grasp the character mentality when playing the underground party Deep Sea in the heart of Deputy Stationmaster Yu.

In addition, Yu Zecheng also has emotional scenes with Zuo Lan, Cui Ping, and Mu Wanqiu, and each woman also needs a different emotional state and psychology.

This role is not something that ordinary actors can take.

In fact, Yu Zecheng is also the most difficult character to cast in the Shanhe version of "Latent", and he has changed his candidates many times before and after.

At the beginning, the initial actor was Gu Xiaoge, but later Zuo Le felt that Gu Da Male God was too handsome and radiant, which did not fit Yu Zecheng's undercover personality, so he passed.

Later, Zuo Le fell in love with Yu Entai again, but chatted with Yu Entai, and felt that Yu Entai was too bookish, and Yu Zecheng was no problem when he played Wenjing and introverted, but he couldn't accurately reflect Yu Zecheng's smooth and ruthless side.

Although Yu Entai's acting skills are not impossible to make up for this, Zuo Le thinks that acting skills alone are too floating, and he wants to find an image that directly conforms to it.

Yu Entai was included in the selection, Zuo Le took a circle among the mountain and river artists, and if he didn't meet the requirements, he put his eyes on the outside world again.

Zuo Le's status in the field of TV dramas is not covered, and his new drama is that there are a lot of people grabbing the supporting roles, not to mention the male lead.

Soon, many artists used various channels to contact Shanhe and even Zuo Le himself, including an old friend of Zuo Le, Huang Sanshi Huang.

However, Zuo Le didn't take a fancy to Mr. Huang, he was too fat.

It's okay to play a party official or businessman, but the male protagonist Yu Zecheng is really too far from the image in Zuo Le's heart.

Teacher Huang didn't care after being rejected by Zuo Le, the relationship between the two sides was good, Zuo Le had two trips to the capital before, and was invited to dinner at home by Teacher Huang.

Last time "Detective Di Renjie" was before Liang Damin, Zuo Le wanted to find Mr. Huang to play Di Renjie, but unfortunately Mr. Huang had no schedule, so he became Liang Damin.

It is estimated that this time it is also Mr. Huang who is watching "Detective Di Renjie" so popular now, and he regrets it a little, so he has such an experience.

He didn't think he could play the male lead, but Yu Zecheng couldn't succeed, so Mr. Huang asked for a businessman role.

is the local tyrant big fat sheep that Stationmaster Wu fancies, Mu Wanqiu's uncle Mu Liancheng, is a cunning old fox who escaped smoothly under the joint efforts of Yu and Wu, which is more in line with Mr. Huang's personality.

Mr. Huang agreed to play Mu Liancheng, Zuo Le thought it would be over, but he didn't expect that Mr. Huang found him again a few days later, this time to recommend actors to Zuo Le.

The terminator of the watermelon stall and the first bull terrier in the entertainment industry - Sun Lei.

Hearing this name, Zuo Le thought that Mr. Huang was joking with him, what he wanted was the underground party, not the big brother of the underworld, what should he do with this master of "acting is to save society".

But when Mr. Huang sent him a photo, Zuo Le immediately understood what Mr. Huang meant.

In the photo, Sun Lei is dressed as a literati of the Republic of China, wearing glasses, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and there is a kind of depressive power in his writing.

"Interesting, really interesting. ”

Zuo Le was really moved, he felt that Sun Lei's appearance was very much in line with the idea of Yu Zecheng in his heart, and Sun Lei had won the Golden Phoenix Emperor once before, and he had also been nominated for the Golden Dragon Actor, so he didn't have to say anything about his acting skills.

The only thing to worry about is whether there will be a gap between his age and the role, after all, Yu Zecheng is set in the play to be in his early thirties, but after Zuo Le sees Sun Lei's recent photos, this doubt is gone.

The years have treated Sun Lei "not thin", although it left traces on his face at the beginning, but he didn't do much after that.

From his youth to the present, his overall appearance has not changed much, and it is not a big problem to wear makeup and play a young man in his early thirties.

Zuo Le found an opportunity to meet Sun Lei under the mediation of Mr. Huang, but he was not decided at that time, but he was already inclined to let him act.

Then, Zuo Le went to participate in "Actors Come to PK", which amazed the company's artist Duan Long several times, and he began to wonder whether to let Duan Long play Yu Zecheng.

Zuo Le specially asked Duan Long to try the photos, put on glasses, and change clothes, which also felt quite successful.

Sun Lei & Duan Long

These two actors made Zuo Le struggle for two weeks, and in the end he chose Sun Lei.

The main reason is that the former has more acting experience, although Duan Long's acting skills are also very good, he has never picked the main beam alone, Zuo Le compares and weighs, and thinks it is more secure to choose Sun Lei.

Duan Long was not given up by Zuo Le, although he did not play the male protagonist Yu Zecheng, but won the second male Li Ya.

This character is outstanding, although he is in the position of a villain in the plot, the setting is not really a "villain".

Li Ya has his own beliefs, is loyal to the Guo Party, works hard, and can be called a public servant, from his standpoint, what Li Ya did is not wrong.

Li Ya has a very high IQ, careful thinking, keen observation, bold and ruthless, and is Yu Zecheng's biggest opponent in the play, and he has almost put Yu Zecheng to death many times.

But at the same time, Li Ya is arrogant, has average emotional intelligence, and the complex situation within the Secrecy Bureau leads to Yu Zecheng's frequent calculations or reversal and counter-killing, and he has countless black pots on his back, which can be called the first person to carry the blame in this play.

In the later stage, after Li Ya repeatedly failed to target Yu Zecheng, he was slapped hard by Yu Zecheng, and the scene of hiding in the office crying like a dead heart, the audience was distressed when they watched it.

This role is especially suitable for Duan Long, Zuo Le saw Duan Long in "Actors Come to PK", and wanted him to play Li Ya.

Duan Long lost in the "Yu Zecheng Role Battle", and it is difficult to say that there is no reason for this.

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In addition to Yu and Li, the Secret Bureau also has three important roles, namely the old fox Wu Jingzhong, the stationmaster of Wu, Ma Kui, and Lu Qiaoshan.

Ma Kui is easy to handle, a self-righteous reckless man, Zuo Le found Zhang Shui (cavalry company commander Sun Desheng).

Lu Qiaoshan is relatively more complicated, the surface is friendly and elegant, the dark center is deep, holding back the strength of the upper position, and likes to play intrigue behind the scenes.

Lin Yongjian and Fan Min are quite suitable in Shanhe, but the schedule of the two is too full, so Zuo Le found an actor in the outside world.

Wu Dakang, a pillar-level actor of the National Repertory Theatre, is a colleague of Liang Damin, but he is much more famous, and he also won the best supporting actor of Jin Feng, which is a relatively active old actor in the circle.

The mountain and river drama brand is ringing, not to mention that "Latent" is directed by Zuo Le himself, and the salary is enough, Wu Dakang has no reason to refuse.

The rest is Wu Jingzhong, an old fox stationmaster who is well versed in the art of his boss.

Stationmaster Wu is Zuo Le's most admired character in the drama "Latent", not only has frequent golden sentences, but also the highest-ranking character in the play.

"Latent" is a spy war drama, and it is also a bit like a workplace drama, and a large part of the plot is the personnel struggle within the Jinmen Station of the Secret Bureau.

At first, it was Ma Kui and Lu Qiao Shan Dou, and then Ma Kui hung up, and Li Ya took his place, so it became Li Ya and Lu Qiao Shan Dou, and when Lu Qiao Shan was taken away by Li Ya, it was Li Ya and Yu Zecheng Dou.

But no matter how he fights, Stationmaster Wu will always sit firmly in Diaoyutai, watch the situation quietly, and come out at a critical moment to make a final decision or balance the situation.

The characters in "Latent" come out from beginning to end, whether it is the fruit party or our party, there are not many people who have a good end.

Especially in the Secret Bureau, Ma Kui, Li Ya, and Lu Qiaoshan were all killed, including the male protagonist Yu Zecheng, who was also forced to separate from his lover and was not allowed to be free.

Only Stationmaster Wu retreated, and he made a lot of money in his hands, and he was comfortably preparing to retire.

Zuo Le himself wants to play this role very much, but unfortunately he is not old enough, and his acting skills are enough to survive, so he can only find foreign aid.

Zhang Bei, who previously collaborated with Zuo Le in "Bright Sword", played Chu Yunfei in it.

Zuo Le feels that Chu Yunfei played by Zhang Bei has a temperament that is a bit similar to Stationmaster Wu, revealing a free and easy way to see through the world, and at the same time he is scheming, and there is a big gap in his chest.

The most important thing is that the two characters scold "their own people" to have a lot of taste, especially Stationmaster Wu, who has a poison in his mouth.

"During the Anti-Japanese War, Jinmen Station was called a fortress by Boss Dai, and now it's good, there are no secrets at all, like a/son, anyone can use it. ”

"I wanted to show my face, but I ended up exposing my ass. ”

"What bullshit did the Central Union change? Oh, the Party General Bureau. ”

"Take your head out of your heel and use it again. ”

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Zuo Le thought about it, among the actors he knew, only Brother Yunfei, who complained about "more than 50,000 pigs", could perform this different kind of cold humor.

In addition to the people in the Secret Bureau, there is also an intelligence dealer Xie Ruolin, who is also a wonderful person who believes in pragmatism, that is, money.

Zuo Le handed over this role to the company's artist Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze is considered to be an artist who joined the company relatively early, second only to the Kongwen Department, Gu Xiaoge, and Shui Miaomiao, and came earlier than Shen Teng.

But the career can only be said to be tepid, although he has played many supporting roles in mountain and river dramas, but the most effective role is Huang Tao of the "Six Groups of Serious Cases" series, and other than that, it has not caused any impact.

Seeing that Shen Teng, Lei Jiayin, Cen Kun, and others who joined the company behind him were all on fire, Zuo Le also intended to pull him and let Zhang Ze play this quite distinctive Xie Ruolin.

As for Zuo Le himself, he played the most handsome underground party Liao Sanmin in the original version.

The other two connectors of Yu Zecheng, Shopkeeper Qiu and Shopkeeper Luo, are played by old friends Bao Dayong (Shopkeeper Sun) and Chen Weidong (Heiteng) respectively.

In addition, Boss Dai, Yuan Peilin, Sheng Xiang, Wang Zhanjin and other supporting roles with slightly fewer roles are also played by Shanhe's own or good artists, and they are all good acting skills of Qing Yishui.