What is the charm of the original Trident, which has been remake into many movies and TV shows？

Special feature of 1905 film network The average age of the three leading actors is 51 years old, the ratings are 2, and Douban is 8.3 points.No bizarre cases, no traffic blessing,chen jian bin、Dong Yong、Hao pingThe drama involved in the starring roleTridentCompleted a "counterattack" with excellent quality.

The audience wrote in the comment area: "Three wrinkled old men together are much more pleasing to the eye than small fresh meat that can only play handsome."

In addition to the gripping plot, the three "mr. six" also succeeded in getting out of the circle with their fireworks and unique comedy temperament.Netizen joked: There is "next door"The windSister who breaks the waves ",there are" uncles who cut through thorns ".

Trident is adapted from the novel of the same name by public security writer Lu Zheng, and won the best novel in suspense category of Flintstone Literature Award, and was shortlisted for Mao Dun Literature Award. Zhang GuoliOnce commented on the original work: "Lu Zheng’s works are tortuous and caring for people’s hearts, describing the police with both true feelings and positive energy."

At the same time, the film version of Trident, directed by Gao Qunshu and starring Huang Zhizhong, Jiang Wu and Guo Tao, was also finished at the beginning of this year, waiting to be released.

From explosive TV series to movies, what is the charm of Trident, what reservations and adaptations have been made by the creative team, and what new ideas have been provided for the creation of film and television dramas involved?

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Mr. six’s Ideal and Reality

　

20 years of police career, 16 years of experience in economic investigation and 14 novels.This is the resume of Lu Zheng, the original author and screenwriter of Trident. Rich first-line work experience also provides him with inexhaustible creative materials and sources of inspiration.

　

This Trident is a novel based on several masters since Lu Zheng entered the profession. The young policeman named "Lv Zheng" is also like Lv Zheng’s self-projection."I am a policeman first, and then a police writer … Write the real never to lose and let more people know the real police. " Lu Zheng has repeatedly mentioned his initial creative intention in the interview.

The realism of this "grounding gas" is also the consistent temperament of the original Trident and the TV series.

　

The protagonists are three police "mr. six" who are nearing retirement. They used to be all-powerful "Trident" in those days, but now they have become marginal figures.One is a handyman in the police department, one is a patrolman in the police station, and the other is "doing nothing" in the pre-trial department, which is nicknamed "three tea tables".As soon as the description came up, it laid the background color of the characters: they were not heroic detectives with infinite scenery, but just three ordinary "uncle" policemen.

Lv Zheng is an out-and-out Beijinger, and his characters are always following the "local flavor" of Hutong:"mr. six people" don’t like big fish and big meat, preferring to stew and burn; When we get together, we always have two drinks, and from time to time, we have a few authentic "Beijing curses".

After decades of hard work, they are full of "smooth hands", not used to rules and regulations, and sometimes some rely on the old to sell the old.

Lu Zheng said that this is the original ecology of the police. "The police are complex, not as faceless as many film and television dramas, or hard and cold, or particularly embarrassing."In the original work, the three "mr. six", like their nicknames, have their own distinctive personality and expertise."Big Back" Cuiiron army—invincible armyLike a "dog", well-informed, loyal to the organization, can knead the team together;

Xu Guozhu, a "big stick", is like a "wolf". He is unyielding and does not talk much. Pan Jianghai, the "big sprayer", is a "fox", exquisite in all directions and good at dealing with people.

In the novel, Cui Tiejun has a saying: "If you want to be a good policeman, you have to be fiercer than a rogue, more cunning than a liar, and stronger than a criminal."From this perspective, "Trident" embodies the characteristics of a truly experienced good policeman in reality. They are not perfect, sometimes they have strange temper and minor faults, but in the face of sin, they can always quickly twist into a rope, show their unique skills, punish evil and promote good.

"This drama does not describe the image of the policeman perfectly, but regards him as an ordinary person with flesh and blood. We don’t have to avoid his shortcomings or deify his advantages, but measure him according to the ruler of life and treat him as a’ person’." This is why Chen Jianbin chose to star in Trident.

Gao Qunshu, the director of the film version, also took a fancy to the authenticity and fullness of the characters in the novel Trident. "When the three fierce people appeared on the stage, they were all depressed, very calm, very daily, and they didn’t show their mountains and rivers. Later, they smelled the meat like tigers and suddenly woke up."

Behind the flesh-and-blood characters, the novel Trident points to the theme of how mr. six, seemingly abandoned by the times, "saves himself" in a materialistic and rapidly changing society.There is a saying in the book: "The word ideal is extravagant. When you are young, it looks sunny. After 50, it makes people laugh."

However, this is actually a self-mockery. In the face of temptation and difficulties, the mr. six people who stick to the bottom line and face difficulties show an almost idealistic blood and stubbornness.

When reading novels, Xiao Dianjun’s mind always sees the figure of Sixth Master’s decisive battle on the ice in the movie.

　

Just like the famous saying in The Old Man and the Sea: "You can destroy me, but you can never defeat me." No matter the Sixth Master or the Trident, what they have in common is loneliness and courage, which is not bound by the trend of the times. Perhaps it is out of date, but they are always full of sincerity.

Interpreting ordinary heroes with a true background color, so that heroism is no longer a castle in the air, but really falls into practice, which is the "soul" of the original Trident. Grasping this place, the film and television adaptation will be more than half successful.

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Characters add color to the core and comedy

　

Faced with the choice of events first or characters first, many domestic dramas involved in the case choose the former: highlighting the drama conflict with twists and turns of bizarre cases and attracting the attention of the audience, which is also one of the advantages of this type of drama.However, both the novel and the TV series of Trident decisively chose the characters first in the creation process. The TV series also adds more background stories and life descriptions to the three protagonists, which makes the characters more stereoscopic and full.

　

First of all, the TV series adjusted the character relationship of Trident. They are no longer a "veteran combination" improvised by their superiors, but comrades who fought side by side 20 years ago and later parted ways because of misunderstanding.The remolding of this relationship skillfully connects the past and the present, and also makes the feelings between the three brothers more intense and extreme.

　

Second, the characters have a stronger sense of life. The description of the family life of the three people in the original book is only a passing, but the TV series has spent a lot of space on the relationship between Mo Cuitiejun and Pan Jianghai.The powerful and powerful policemen are ordinary husbands and fathers when they come home, and they will also be "henpecked", and they will also break their hearts for their children’s schooling, marriage, job hunting and other issues.

The life pressure they face in the drama and their parents’ shortcomings are the true portrayal of many middle-aged men.As Chen Jianbin said, "I like that the policeman is living, eating, drinking, laughing and crying like all of us, experiencing all the things we have experienced, but at the same time he is expanding, experiencing life and death and making sacrifices.

As for the "old bachelor" Xu Guozhu, the TV series added his old frame "floret" (played by Hu Ke), which enriched the tender side of "Big Stick" and added a little cuteness to the characters.Changes in personnel design have also brought about changes in the overall style. Compared with the fierce and cold novels, TV plays have a little more warmth of life and temperature of human feelings.　

Liu Haibo, the director who directed "Chinese Relationship" and "The True Story of Hot Mom", also skillfully integrated light comedy elements into it: "Trident" echo each other always seems to be talking about cross talk; It is inevitable that the "three high" old policemen will be unable to do their best when they return to the rivers and lakes.

Wrapping the serious core with comedy atmosphere has made Trident a clean stream in domestic dramas involved, and it has also made many young audiences "really fragrant"."Trident is so funny" and "Trident Painting Style" caused a heated discussion in Weibo, and various animation and expression packs made many netizens outside the circle eat this "middle-aged group".

While emphasizing the characterization, Trident does not forget to ensure the brilliance of the case itself and the compactness of the plot.In addition to the main plot of the original work, he once wrote The Remaining Crime and The Secret Police.Shen RongTogether with Lu Zheng, they added more exciting side cases to the TV series, interlocking with each other, and jointly promoted the major case that has been linked for 20 years to surface.

　

Similarly, these feeder cases are not "case-by-case". The characters are always the internal driving force to promote the development of the case, and the process of cracking the case is also enriching and shaping the characters. Just as Lu Zheng summed up his creative experience: "Don’t ask for big scenes, ask for true feelings, and don’t fall into the thrill and surprise."

　

Ma Ke, the co-producer of the film and TV versions, once revealed in an interview that the film and TV versions of Trident will adopt different adaptation strategies.The film version will highlight the action elements, create the action effect of blood boiling, boxing to the flesh, and shape the image of a group of old and vigorous hot-blooded detectives, but realism will remain the same background.

Lv Zheng once said that at the beginning of writing Trident, he was reminded that "there is no flow in writing three stories about mr. six", but now, it is those three "mr. six without flow" who have completed a beautiful counterattack with solid scripts and excellent acting skills.

　

Whether it is a novel or a film adaptation, the key to the success of Trident lies in rooting in reality and reaching the audience’s heart with real and plump characters.

Since the beginning of this year, from online dramas to film works, the themes involved have exploded in concentration, ushered in a wave of "small climax". We believe that as long as the drama version of Trident takes care of the reality and polishes the characters, the domestic film and television works involved in the case are expected to be like the Trident Sky Group, where "the old trees sprout and the dead trees bloom again".