Glorious Times： A firm belief and a rich historical representation

　　The TV series Glorious Times richly reproduces the true history of the underground party before the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the public security soldiers at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China defending the capital of new China. At the beginning of liberation, everything was in ruins, spies destroyed it, profiteers hoarded grain, hungry people looted it, and bullies bullied it. The new public security organs had to face a complicated situation, not only by waging a resolute struggle, but also by paying attention to the strategy and art of struggle. In the tortuous and complicated narrative, this drama has shaped the heroes of the early public security soldiers in New China in a three-dimensional and vivid way.

　　First, the division between brotherhood and faith

　　The main contradiction in Glorious Times is the struggle between the Criminal Investigation Team of the Public Security Bureau led by my younger brother Zheng Chaoyang and the "Taoyuan" Action Team of the Kuomintang secret service organization led by my older brother, but there is deep affection between the brothers and the organizations. How can this contradiction be expressed? China culture is a culture that attaches importance to family ties, and brotherhood is the most favorite part of Chinese film and television works. However, China culture has a rational example of "putting righteousness above family ties". This classic idiom represents a rational choice with principles higher than family ties in China culture. However, from family ties to family ties, there must be a process of thinking and selection based on faith. If it is not well written, it will easily appear blunt and false.

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　　Second, emphasize the intersection of narrative and genre

　　Glorious Times has made a serious exploration and innovation in the narrative of plays, and the screenwriter has crossed and integrated the types of anti-special dramas and criminal investigation dramas. The audience’s instinct is to watch the anti-special drama. Plays generally put the lives of underground workers in our party under the threat of the enemy. The audience who agree with the underground party has been worried about the protagonist, hoping that they can escape the capture of the enemy and hope that they can survive to complete the task and meet the victory. The film has described many times that Zheng Chaoyang is in crisis, being pursued and imprisoned by the enemy. Zheng Chaoyang escaped many times and saved the day, which greatly satisfied the audience’s expectation. The criminal investigation drama appeals to the audience’s curiosity. The audience is attracted by unsolved cases and suspense, and follows the scriptwriter’s layers to peel off bamboo shoots, remove all kinds of illusions and side details, and finally approach the truth through the author’s layers of reasoning. It is in this process that the drama constantly sets suspense clouds and raises the audience’s curiosity, such as who is the blind cat? Who is Taoyuan? Who is the Snow Mountain? The female ghost arson case, the female worker poisoning case, the factory explosion case, and the case of Gege’s murder, the audience followed the police in the play and cracked them one by one, and their viewing wishes were also met one by one, resulting in viewing pleasure. The mix of types has become the key to the high ratings of Glorious Times.

　　Another important exploration in the narrative style of this drama is to add light comedy elements to the close colleagues in the public security organs, which makes the narrative relaxed and ups and downs … …

　　Third, show strength and rich performance

　　In reality, anti-spy and criminal investigation originally need the verisimilitude of makeup and the likeness of performance, especially the anti-spy+criminal investigation type drama. These two types of hero designs provide a broad stage and rich channels for performance and role creation. As soon as Zhang Yi appeared, he showed his amazing skills and profound performance skills: he played the descendants of the Eight Banners who carried birds in cages, and when he appeared, he was like a descendant of nobles, with a straight waist and a full-fledged skirt when he sat down; He plays the grain store guy, simple and clever. Facing beggars, he shows mutual friendship between the bottom people and a little superior impatience. Performing Shanxi businessmen, not only speaks an authentic Shanxi accent, but also shows the style of foreign businessmen with crutches and arrogance towards the poor citizens in Beijing; When playing a small grain vendor who goes deep into the enemy’s camp, he first bends down and crosses his legs with his hands in his sleeves, which makes him look humble, but squinting at each other shows the cunning and calculation of the businessman; When talking with Xu Zongren, the stationmaster of Beiping Station of Secrecy Bureau on behalf of the organization, he showed calmness, confidence and deterrence. In the face of rogue spy Xian Dengkui, his action design is to stretch out his arms and shake his head, showing a rogue-like fight against evil, so that the other party has to bow their heads.

　　When expressing the intimate relationship with the superior, Zhang Yi does not fall into the model nest, giving the characters the expression of their character. For example, when the leader assigned tasks, he sometimes stood on the kang and raised one leg, sometimes squatted on the ground to show cheating, and sometimes lay on the bed. When the old superior lost his temper and said, "Don’t be shameless," he fell to the ground in shock and said in a pleading tone, "How can you not be funny?" In the police training class, he and Hao Pingchuan sat behind Bai Ling, completely like a pair of naughty students. It is also an exploration to let comedy show in the relationship between superiors and subordinates and comrades-in-arms in our army, which shows the intimacy between the old comrades in the army, but it is within the proper limits between superiors and subordinates.　 　

　　Huang Zhizhong’s "Cold Chess" spy Zheng Chaoshan shows the professional ethics of a surgeon, which is more like the basic camouflage quality of professionalism and specialization that an old-school spy should have. Huang Zhizhong combined the feelings of intellectuals with the cunning, great and vicious nature of latent spies. When expressing the contradiction between brotherhood and faith, he did not exaggerate the external movements and expressions, but let the audience feel the fierceness and pain of the inner conflict.

　　Bai Ling, played by Feeling Pan, vividly depicts Bai Ling’s intelligence, composure and thoughtful.

　　Xue Jia’ ning’s Qin Zhaodi, Zhang Juanyi’s Hao Pingchuan, Lawrence Wang’s Zong Xiangfang, Huang Pinyuan’s Luo Yong, Li Tian Nuo’s Qi Lala, etc. all have distinctive personalities and are remarkable.

　　The TV series "Glorious Times" shows the glory and brilliance of that era! (Zhang Wei, Executive Vice President of China Film Critics Association)