Over the years, there have been many military dramas focusing on military life. A key reason is that it has become a springboard for the transformation of many young actors with traffic. The strength and bravery of the soldier's image will help to change the audience's impression of the traffic star "cream", and it will also help them change from "drama throwing boyfriends" to actors with stable appeal. What's more, military dramas are "like the main theme", which can make the star's personal image appear more "positive energy".

"Special War Glory" poster

However, I have to say frankly that many viewers can watch "Soldier Assault" over and over again, but few of the idolized military dramas over the years can be seen from the beginning to the end, and there are few works that can be called out of the circle. It is a pity not to say. Where is the crux, it is worth a good review. The recently broadcast "Special War Glory" starring Yang Yang has become an opportunity for us to observe.

Yan Poyue (played by Yang Yang)

Personally, I think "Special War Glory" is relatively high-quality among idolized military dramas. The first impression it gives is: be attentive and not fooled.
The shooting cycle of "Special War Glory" is very long, up to 274 days (9 months), and there is still 1 month of training before the launch. The show has 45 episodes, and the shooting cycle of a single episode is nearly 1 week. This is very rare in domestic dramas. I deliberately checked the shooting cycle of other idolized military dramas in recent years. The number of episodes is similar, and the shooting time is only half of "Special War Glory", and even only one-third of it.
"Special War Glory" has a long shooting cycle, a large part of the reason is that there are many hard-core military action scenes in this show. For example, the opening chapter is a 10-minute Southeast Asian drug cave battle. Actions, gunfights, blasting, etc. are all available, and the scheduling is also very organized, which immediately shocked the audience. Just when you thought it was just relying on this action scene to support a drama, then soon there was a wonderful confrontation with drug dealers, psychological warfare and gun battles went into battle, filling the tension.

great action scene

In addition to the real gunfight scenes, various trainings and exercises in military life, "Special War Glory" also spends a lot of space to present, as close as possible to the real.

Large-scale exercise screen

In short, "Special War Glory" does not focus on falling in love like other idolized military dramas. Falling in love is the easiest way to shoot; it honestly takes a more difficult road, and it is also a A real military drama.
As an actor with traffic, he is willing to honestly shoot a drama for 10 months. This should be his duty. Internal entertainment is almost a luxury. Yang Yang's seriousness is worthy of recognition. His performance in the play has also improved. On the one hand, his image is tough. Many idolized military dramas will give people this feeling: the male protagonist just wears a military uniform, but the creamy taste is still very heavy, and he always looks weak. Yang Yang is much stronger, he has practiced his body, and he personally performs many training movements in the play, and he executes them carefully.

Yang Yang is not so heavy creamy

On the other hand, although sometimes it is still a bit rigid and the performance traces are very heavy, but some key scenes, it can still be seen that Yang Yang is in the play. It's not just tanned skin, it's unyielding eyes, unyielding shouts, and emotional crying.

Some scenes were handled well

In terms of advantages, the action scenes of "Special War Glory" are very eye-catching, and Yang Yang's handsomeness is very eye-catching. The problem with it is that the male protagonist Yan Poyue played by Yang Yang is too eye-catching.
"Special Warfare Glory" tells the story of a recruit's growth. Yan Poyue, who was born in a military family, joined a certain detachment of the Armed Police in order to prove himself to his father. After that, he grew up all the way in his military career and eventually became an excellent armed police special forces member.
Unlike Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault" who is a real "rookie", the recruits in the idolized military drama are all "super soldier kings". They are strong, proud and arrogant. ". Some netizens summed up the plot mode of the idolized military drama very accurately: "Recruit training, polishing the thorns, talking about love, entering the selection, layer-by-layer screening, individualism, several exercises, and finally actual combat, success, and love and career. Harvest."
"Special War Glory" is much the same. As soon as he arrived in the recruit company, Yan Poyue became the most dazzling existence, breaking records in various trainings, and many skills were better than those of the veterans; It is the implementation of discipline); he advocates individualism, believes that personal strengthening is the most important, and lacks the spirit of collectivism...

As soon as Yan Poyue came up, he was always in the limelight

The audience can easily guess the direction of "Glory of Special Warfare": this soldier who lacks the spirit of collectivism slowly polishes the edges and corners in the military camp (for example, he was assigned to the cooking class at the beginning), removes impetuousness, and continues to enter the selection all the way. He also gradually felt the power and value of collectivism, better fulfilled his responsibilities and missions as a soldier, and finally became an excellent soldier.
Ai Qianxue, played by Li Yitong in "Glory of Special Warfare", has a lot of rivalry with Yan Poyue. The director gave the audience a vaccination: they have no love, but they have a fraternal friendship. But frankly speaking, deleting the emotional scenes between the two will not affect the progress of the plot, and may be more realistic and concise.

Ai Qianxue (played by Li Yitong)

This is where people are puzzled: why are the idolized military dramas all "king of soldiers" and "king of dragging"?
In the final analysis, idolized military dramas have not really gotten rid of "idolization" after all. As for the setting of the male protagonist, even if the character is a "newcomer", he must be a newcomer who is attractive, cool and awesome. He is destined to shine when he appears, instead of the earthy, vulgar and "stupid" Xu Sanduo when he appears. grass roots.
It's not that this model is impossible, but if idolized military dramas use this model, the audience will inevitably feel aesthetic fatigue. The audience's sense of substitution has also declined - after all, in real life, many newcomers are "Xu Sanduo" with nothing, rather than born "pull kings".
Just drag it, but if you drag it too far, it will weaken the convincing feeling of the show. "Special War Glory" is not afraid that Yan Poyue will be eye-catching, but that his eye-catching will overshadow logic and common sense and become a "Long Aotian"-like existence.
The plot of "Special War Glory" is showing such a tendency. For example, Yan Poyue strayed into another company's exercise. As a newcomer, he went straight to the Lanfang headquarters and captured the headquarters, causing the Lanfang operation to fail. Soldier friends told me that the command headquarters was easily destroyed, which is completely unimaginable in the actual exercise. If it is a real war, how can such an army have combat effectiveness? In order to highlight Yan Poyue's ox fork, "Glory of Special Warfare" shoots such an incredible plot.

Yan Poyue went straight to the blue team's headquarters, and the red team won

In the subsequent plot, Yan Poyue is still open. He practiced shooting with a slingshot, and soon became a first-class shooting skill; in the actual combat exercise of the recruit, he broke the whole regiment record again; at first, he did not know how to cook at all, but the cooking class taught him to make tofu once, and he became a cook Great God, braised tofu is his specialty, and it has also become the specialty of the special service company. The recruits must eat braised tofu (this paragraph really blinded me); when the tunnel collapsed, he bravely went backwards to save people. At the beginning He is still egoistic, and after just a few episodes, he has become a hero who sacrifices himself for others...

Yan Poyue breaks the record

All kinds of protagonist halos are put on Yan Poyue's head. After that, the plot lost its suspense. Yan Poyue will definitely encounter all kinds of small setbacks, but it doesn't matter, he will hang on to the end.
The military drama in the era of "Soldier Assault" is a "poor child" mode. The protagonist is an ordinary person, and each group portrait is brilliantly written (comradeship in war should also be the focus of military dramas), and every ordinary audience can participate in it. ; It also has the aura of the protagonist, but the protagonist wins the halo by virtue of his courage, endurance, and persistence, rather than being born powerful. What the audience sees is the military life, but also the life of ordinary people who break through in adversity.
In contrast, idolized military dramas seem to fall into a common rut: "Idolization" of the protagonist - a soldier is worthy of being an idol, but it does not mean that the protagonist must be like an "idol" in the army all the time. Open hanging, dazzling all the time, all the time without being surrounded by the stars. Therefore, almost all of the idolized military dramas are not good for group portraits - group portraits exist more to highlight the male protagonist, and sometimes even just functional roles.
"Special War Glory" was shot very carefully, but it was only a relatively good work in the framework of idolized military dramas, and failed to surpass the framework.