In my impression, Wang Baoqiang has not seriously created a character in the field of TV dramas for more than ten years. This time, he suddenly had a high IQ crime film "Chessman", which is interesting.

　　"Silly Gen" is never stupid

　　There are some crime-type films that Wang Baoqiang has never been involved in, such as the famous work "The World Without Thieves", and the "Detective Chinatown" series that made Chen Sicheng make a fortune. "Detective Chinatown" was said to be a mystery detective at the beginning, but the more it became a copycat, and Wang Baoqiang played Tang Ren in the series had no IQ at all. It can even be said to be dedicated to low intelligence and funny, which is an overdraft shaping that even Wang Baoqiang movie fans do not want to be despised. In turn, Feng Xiaogang, who is full-time sketch-making comedy, suddenly tried to be in "The World Without Thieves" in 2004, and since then, he started a transformation of his serious narrative. At that time, Wang Baoqiang was still a blank piece of paper in the entertainment industry, but because of his stupidity, he presented a paradigm of innocence to this complex world.

　　The image of Sha Gen has been solidified on Wang Baoqiang's head for many years. Whether it is Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault", Niu Geng in "Lost in" or the big mouth in "Favorite", it is hard to get rid of the label of silly, geng and silly. Until 2011, Wang Baoqiang was a clone of two groups, all the way in the art film "Hello!" In Mr. Shu", he successfully won the role of Mr. Shu and became a performing teaching staff member in major film and television schools. He has been performing his skills in action film fields such as "Cai Lifo Boxing" and "One Man's Martial Arts World" and fulfilling his dream of a star in martial arts practice in Songshan when he was young. Once these two roads open, it is like opening up Wang Baoqiang's Ren and Du meridians. He is no longer the lucky grassroots lucky person in the entertainment industry, but Wang Baoqiang, a filmmaker who combines resources and strength. Especially in recent years, under the dual crises of divorce lawsuits and Golden Broom Awards, Wang Baoqiang's career cornerstone has become increasingly solid, which makes us suddenly realize that "Silly Gen" has never been stupid, and its IQ and EQ are higher than ordinary people.

　　Highly flexible character in "Chess"

　　In front of the subtitles and main film of the first episode of "Chess", the voice-over broadcasts the robbery news. Immediately afterwards, Cui Ye, played by Wang Baoqiang, knelt down to worship the grave and burned money. The camera was slowly promoted and combined with strange music. Cui Ye slowly turned his face and hit the audience with a penetrating look mixed with elements such as horror and ruthlessness. This character suddenly turns to the camera to establish direct contact with the audience, which can be traced back to Ingma Bergman's 1953 "The Bad Girl Monica". At the end of the film, Monica turned around and looked at the camera and stared at the audience. Some say that Monica's gaze "has an irreversible power of separation" and declares that "a film period ends here." "The Chess Master" was the first appearance in Cui Ye, and he borrowed the profound mirror of the movie master - one is a structural metaphor, and the other is a clear ambition.

　　Unlike Bergman's gaze with the theme of separation at the end, Wang Baoqiang's gaze at the beginning of "The Chessman" is a typical eagle-eyed and wolf-eyed look. The word "Eagle's View of Wolf Gu" was first from "Book of Jin: Emperor Xuan Ji": In order to verify Sima Yi's ambition, Cao Cao once asked him to turn around unexpectedly. As a result, Sima Yi turned his face back and looked back without moving, revealing the appearance of Wolf Gu. In addition, the 91st chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mentions that "Sima Yi looks at the wolf and cannot be given military power; it will be a disaster to the country for a long time." "The Chessman" borrows Cui Ye's kneeling and turning his face to look at the audience close-up shot, and directly looking at the audience, which means that the ruthless person in the play is never simple; however, when he turns to the main film, the character is an honest and complacent bag. Combined with his high IQ chessman's identity, it indicates that the person cannot behave like a person, and will be a character with a huge psychological span.

　　Wang Baoqiang's previous character creation was mostly symbolic, such as Sha Gen of "The World Without Thieves", Baby in "Lost in Thailand", Tang Ren in "Detective Chinatown", etc., even if they are growing, such as Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault", Chen Guocheng in "Cai Lifo Boxing", He Anxia in "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", etc., Geng, Han or the axis is still in the pocket. Even Mr. Tree, who is the most successful in character creation, is a life case that blooms in the corner. The director and actors are just like crazy and magical land, layer by layer, and petals are spread out for you. "Hello! "Mr. Shu" is so good. Those who like art films and those who don't like art films are respectful. But that happened in 2011 after all. Wang Baoqiang at that time would remove the childishness of a young man. Now he is in a middle-aged state, but he can only look for the shadow of Mr. Shu in "The Octagonal Cage". In addition, he is Tang Ren who has been overdrawing his reputation endlessly.

　　To put it bluntly, Wang Baoqiang needs an unprecedented new character that is rare in the entire film and television industry to determine his character's shaping power after middle age, which is probably the reason why "The Chess" emerged at the right time. Cui Ye, who is middle-aged in "The Chess", is a chess player in his career, a abandoned child in marriage, and his son is also terminally ill. The unit leader bullies him, the boss plays with him, the police brother eliminates him, the high-paying wife dislikes him, and even the son is towards the uncle. The midlife crisis and life bottoms out, providing sufficient conditions for the growth or mutation of the characters. In the plot, Cui Ye was swept up by a sudden credit cooperative robbery, and his life changed from then on to the wrong path of evil. The stern genius chess player is different from ordinary people's human computer computing power. For his criminal partner Xia Sheng, he is simply superman. For his police brother, he is also a person who is one foot taller than one foot taller than one foot taller. When an atypical genius merges with the devil, a highly elastic character is about to emerge.

　　Don't worry about villains as the main perspective

　　Unfortunately, Wang Baoqiang is not the only one in this period. The three major platforms alone have games involving "Yellow Bird", "Sandstorm" and "Chessman". "Yellow Bird" led by Guo Jingfei and Qin Lan takes the lead, and the non-linear era of time-traveling and mixed editing has caused many unwilling audiences to shout "downtime". The battle between "Chess" and "Sandstorm" is a battle between two powerful actors, Wang Baoqiang and Duan Yihong, and Wang Baoqiang maintains a certain advantage in terms of topics. All three dramas involved in the case try to move closer to realism and pay attention to the villain. Especially the anti-themed "Yellow Bird" takes the perspective of investigation and looks at a group of high-IQ thieves among the crowd with the identities of doctors, watchmakers, etc. This is somewhat consistent with the anatomical narrative of honest people's mutated high-IQ criminals.

　　The dramas involved in the case, which take the villain or criminal as the main perspective, have been on the rise in recent years. The popular "Storm" in the past few years and the popular "Border Water Past" last year are the same. Even last year's "I Am a Criminal Police" have also strengthened the creation of villains such as Zhang Kehan. Many people are worried that these dramas will encourage bad people and bad things to rise up. In fact, they are over-thinking. As long as the whole drama is in a correct way, no matter how strong the villain is, he will not be able to resist the saying "The net of heaven is wide and not leaked." TV series like "I Am a Criminal Police" are even more great because of the existence of difficult high-IQ criminals like Zhang Kehan, which has been pursuing the police for decades. Similarly, no matter how intelligent Cui Ye is in "The Chessman", he can fool the smuggling group and deceive the police brother Cui Wei into being seamless, he can't escape the net that raises his head three feet.

　　Judging from Cui Ye's character interpretation in "The Chessman", Wang Baoqiang has completed the creation of the character Zhang Li well. His ruthless new image is enough to make him rampant in the Middle Ages film and television industry for several years, basically meeting the expectations that the drama can touch. As for the phenomenon that netizens are keen to find loopholes in "The Chess", it is the norm for suspense dramas. Some are right to dig out, and some are wrong to dig out. In addition, the script of the drama is indeed quite limited, which is not enough to allow the role of Cui Ye to release the brilliance of Xu Sanduo back then. Wang Baoqiang still needs to invest more energy and opportunities than his ambition to look at the film and television industry. (The author Zeng Nianqun is a film critic)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]