The history of web dramas is less than a decade old.
But few people know that at the beginning of this history, there was a web drama known as the "king of web dramas" - "Mao Deception".
How good is "Fur Deception"? In a total of three seasons, the Douban score is: 8.6 points, 9.4 points and 9.7 points.
What is even more shocking is that the director of Mao Deception, Li Hongsi, and the main actors An Ning, Yang Yu, Xing Dongdong, Shao Zhuang, etc., were still students of Hebei Media College when filming "Mao Deception".
When filming "Mao Deception", they had nothing, Fu hua dao all relied on their own, supporting roles all relied on classmates, the instruments were rented and borrowed, and the venue was either the school interior, or the streets and alleys of Shijiazhuang and the wilderness.
The protagonist kills Matt, the painting style is shoddily made, not only the clarity is insufficient, but the reception is not good.
Under such conditions, the creators created the myth of Chinese web dramas.
Ten years later, they came back.
The original team of people, a shot is 8.7 -
The Edge of the City
Deception within deception, innings, ingenious deception design, unexpected reversals, high-IQ games, are on full display in this "Edge of the City".
An episode of 10 minutes, a total of 30 episodes, watched in one breath, enjoyable, refreshing!
This is probably the best suspense drama this year, and it also deserves the high score of Douban 8.7:
Bai Fumei in the bar, a man in a suit on a business trip, the two were successfully paired on the dating software.
After an awkward chat of earthy love words, the two immediately decided to run to the scene.
After a few moments of greeting, we began the first step of dating: eating.
At the dinner table, the man's spring heart sprouted, and he kept looking at the "prey" on the other side.
The woman's calmness is as usual, and the visitors do not refuse.
"Go to my hotel room to rest?"
"Okay, shall we have a drink?"
After three rounds of drinking, the man hurried to check out. Looking at the bill, I was dumbfounded.
I ate more than two hundred meals, but this bottle of red wine will be 2999.
The man immediately understood that he had been deceived, and this was a wine tray.
It was too late to leave, a few big men surrounded me, and I was afraid that I would not be able to leave without checkout.
Before leaving, the female wine trustee also left a harsh word, killing people and condemning their hearts.
Deceived, can only admit planting, the man in the suit has no way, can only obediently check out, scold and grin away.
You think that's the end of the story? Far from it.
Xiao Bao (played by Yang Yu) on the side saw it in his eyes and took the initiative to pair with the wine tray woman successfully.
He drove a BMW to date the bartender and walked into the same restaurant.
The wine tray girl repeats the same trick: open the bottle of wine, help the fun.
Xiao Bao not only agreed, but also ordered a large table of dishes, which was very luxurious.
After ordering, the phone ran out of battery.
Xiao Bao borrowed the wine tray girl's mobile phone to make a call. Afraid of the prey escaping, the big man watching the scene in the hotel has been looking at the tiger.
After eating and going to checkout, XiaoBao's mobile phone has been on the table.
Eight thousand eight hundred and five, this time more fierce than the previous one.
But Xiao Bao was not in a hurry and took out cash from his leather bag.
Just as he was about to check out, someone came in and said that XiaoBao's car was in the way, asking him to go out and move the car.
Because the purse was on the counter and the phone was on the dining table, no one in the hotel suspected him.
As soon as he got out, he got in the car and ran.
The big man who watched the scene did not catch up, came back to turn over the leather bag, and found that it was full of paper, and the mobile phone that was thrown down was also a model machine.
The middle of the game, the liar, was deceived.
Xiao Bao ate and drank a meal in white, and also got an Apple mobile phone for white, and earned.
The same is a liar, Xiao Bao is different, he only deceives the "liar".
In one neighborhood, two fake gas workers are cheating.
They used fake detectors to issue fake invoices to defraud money on the grounds of a natural gas leak. 200 per household, more than 20 households were deceived in one morning.
The next family entered the door, and there were two people in the room, a pregnant woman pregnant with Liujia and a locksmith.
Scammers have a standard set of procedures: shoe covers, testing, invoicing, asking for money.
When I didn't want to turn off the gas switch, something went wrong: the valve fell off, and the gas popped out.
The two panicked and hurried to open the doors and windows for ventilation.
But the door couldn't be opened.
The pregnant woman was frightened and fainted.
The deceiver is frightened, the deception is small, and it is impossible to take the life of a person.
Let the unlock master outside the door open the door, who knows that this master lion has a big opening, and does not open it without giving 5000.
The scammer had no choice but to transfer money and open the door.
After the door opened, the pregnant woman woke up, and she thanked the two crooks and said that she was not only willing to give the 5,000 yuan, but also gave them a little more to thank them.
When the pregnant woman went out to get the money, the two people did not know that they had become the prey of others from the moment they walked into the house.
The so-called valve screwing, natural gas leakage, pregnant women passing out, are all well-designed bridge sections.
Not only were they tricked into opening the door for 5,000 yuan, but they were also deceived into 2,000 yuan later...
As for why some people are eyeing the liars, why the deceitful liars are toyed with applause, it is left to everyone to see for themselves.
As a part of "Mao Deception", "Edge of the City" released 30 episodes at a time, which is not only good-looking, but also enjoyable.
At the same time, it carries a layer of emotional filters, and those half-grown children in "Fur Deception" have now grown up and become independent.
We who first followed web dramas such as "Mao Deception" and "Spicy Next Door" also went out of school and into society like them, and became a part of the whole society.
However, even if these feelings are put aside, from the perspective of quality alone, "The Edge of the City" is also a valuable suspense work.
And next year, "Mao Deception" will also produce a big movie, and everything in the final chapter will be revealed.
Frankly, such an excellent script, performance and story design, put on the big screen will also be a pleasure.
After watching "The Edge of the City", everyone can actually notice that it is very similar to the structure of American drama-style web dramas such as "White Night Pursuit".
The use of the "unit drama + main line" structure method, on the one hand, can give the director and screenwriter a full play of the space, on the other hand, it also takes care of the audience's curiosity to peel back the cocoon and decrypt the secret.
After eleven years, the director is more mature in the operation of the mirror, which also makes the process of revealing the deception have a sense of excitement of watching the magic show.
Props like the small treasure money in the liquor saucer scam,
The control of the psychology of the scammer in the drunk driving scam,
And in the tractor scam, the name difference between the names of the deceived "Ma Zhiqiang" and "Ma Zhiqiang".
This makes each episode of this 10-minute story have a sense of inversion.
Obviously, we see the plot of the protagonist being deceived, and when you think that he must be planted this time, the story can immediately reverse and subvert your opinion.
No matter how experienced you are, he can always catch on to the direction of the story that you can't guess.
In an episode of a deceptive small case, the creator is actually using the volume of 30 episodes to lay out a big story.
The "both redemption and return" in the poster has already been a bit of a topic.
Thirty episodes, from layout to entry, from elaborate design to layer by layer, are actually wrapped in a bigger secret.
The secret is about a chicken bloodstone that has been lost for years, is worth millions and involves two lives.
Maybe it's a dusty past, maybe it's a mistake you made, but what exactly is the so-called "redemption", Tomato Jun first does not break it.
Only when you look at it for yourself can you have a taste.
There is a "Fur Deception" as the foundation, so "The Edge of the City" is very careful in detail.
In the episode of the burglary safe, the child's lollipop soiled the sofa, in order to restore the original furnishings in the house, Xiaobao not only washed the sofa cover,
Also carefully blow dry,
Even the Rubik's Cube that the child had moved was twisted and put back in its original form.
The "Anti-fraud Manual for the Middle-aged and Elderly" in the counterfeit drug scam is even more intentional.
There are no superfluous characters in the series, and there is no water-injected plot.
Every person who appears has his role in the play.
Stubborn little girl,
The elderly with Alzheimer's disease,
The lawyer played by Shao Zhuang,
These people and things, which seem to have little to do with the plot, are actually the indispensable knots in the complex web of "The Edge of the City".
These knots have their own role, have their own mission, and will eventually complete their own value in the play.
Compared with "Mao Deception", in fact, "City Edge" is sublimated at the core.
It connects as much as possible to social reality, showing endless social care and the arc of humanity.
Liquor trust scams, counterfeit drug scams, drunk driving scams, consignment scams...
Although each episode is only ten minutes long, it has a cruel social reality as a starting point.
Pregnant women, the elderly, small children... "The Edge of the City" is aimed at the vulnerable groups in society.
Although the theme is about "cheating", it will eventually give them humanistic care.
This is the real charm of "Edge of the City".
You can say that the happiness and revenge of "Mao Deception" for money is a kind of suspense characteristic of dashing, but you can't say that the emotion poured out on the vulnerable groups in "The Edge of the City" is a burden to the series.
As a "chivalrous deception", for the country and the people for the society, this drama has broken away from the simple storytelling and risen to another level.
It is better to say that it is the main theme or that it has compromised, but ten minutes of time cannot hide its brilliance and grandeur.
I hope that there are more and more such dramas, and naturally I hope that there are fewer and fewer scammers in the drama.
Because we have been deceived too many times.
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Yang Yang)