It is safe to say that "Cliff" and "Kite" are two very good spy dramas. As an audience, for the same type of film and television dramas, they are willing to compare. Just like actors, without comparison, how can you distinguish between stars and ordinary actors? This is true of the film and television industry, it is also true of the cultural world, and it is true of all walks of life.
The author is also a general audience, when "Cliff" and "Kite" were just broadcast, they were shocked by these two spy dramas. Maybe it was infected by the plot and did not taste carefully. However, some time ago, I watched these two dramas twice, and the heart of comparison was born.
As a spy drama, the focus is on the word "spy". Frankly speaking, "Cliff" is almost perfect in terms of the word "spy". At the beginning, Zhou Yi got off the train and pretended to be his wife Gu Qiuyan and almost made a mistake to expose, and in the end, Zhou Yi designed to die to save Gu Qiuyan's mother and daughter, and the whole drama was heavy and gripping, and it was not so mysterious, making the audience want to stop and watch it again.
And "Kite", in the "spy" word seems to have little ink, more like a legendary drama, should be called "Kite Legend" is more appropriate. At the beginning, Zheng Yaoxian led Zhao Jianzhi and others to arrest Zeng Moyi, and Zheng Yaoxian secretly got a list of 73 agents lurking in Yan'an in the electric fan, which was a real spy war. Later, until the end of the 19 episodes of Zheng Yaoxian's days of military unification, it evolved into an infighting between the central unification and the military unification, coupled with the mountain city guerrillas, forming a "three-legged standing" trend, especially the central unification, every time the guerrillas were used to get rid of Zheng Yaoxian, although thrilling and exciting, the audience was praised, but it was very unrealistic. From episode 20 to the end of episode 46, it is more like Zheng Yaoxian's personal performance, the Kuomintang agents lurking in the mountain city have searched for and longed for the sixth brother, Zheng Yaoxian's clever calculations in prison, and after ten years of catastrophe, although Zheng Yaoxian always uses the name of Zhou Zhiqian, he is in a very high position.
In terms of characters and details, Zhou Yi in "Cliff" is not only watertight, but also the whole drama is neglected. Zhou Yi's meticulousness, Gao Bin's treachery, Gu Qiuyan's transformation from inexperience to maturity and excellence, and Sun Yuejian's steady and introverted, including some supporting roles, from the conversation and expression to the heart, the performance in detail is impeccable. If you have to find some omissions, such as Zhou Yi in the process of rescuing Sun Yuejian was found by Lu Ming's classmates who were police officers in the security bureau, and was followed and investigated by Lu Ming before the evacuation, these Zhou Yi are unconscious, which is extremely incompatible with his personality. So these are all reminiscent, are they omissions and flaws? If zhou yi is eager to save people and proud to leave, then these are not the common feelings of people. As the saying goes, "Tigers also have a time to fight."
And "Kite" is confusing in terms of characters and details, to give two examples:
1. Because the list of 73 lurking agents was not found when Zeng Moyi was arrested, Dai Kasa wanted to shoot the arresting personnel of the military command, including Zhao Jianzhi, zheng Yao first came out of the hospital with injuries to prevent each other from rescuing, and the conversation with Dai Kasa really made people feel like a joke.
Dai Kasa: "As I just said, who is Zeng Moyi's communist accomplice, who only added wood as a coffin, are you the communist accomplice?" ”
Zheng Yaoxian: "Boss, I am the Communist Party." ”
Dai Kasa: "You are a communist." ”
Zheng Yaoxian: "Don't you believe it yet." ”
Dai Kasa: "Old Sixth, you are a Communist Party, and if your Sixth Elder is a Communist Party, I am afraid that those who have lost faith in the Three People's Principles will block the entire Jialing River within this day." Old six, let's not make such jokes, oops, oops, laugh so much that my stomach hurts to death, you dead old six, if I laugh out of a good villain, you have to serve me for a lifetime. ”
Arresting Zeng Moyi and losing the list of 73 agents, Zheng Yaoxian was the most suspicious. Although Zheng Yaoxian was injured by the Communist Guerrillas, it was not excluded that it was a "bitter meat plan", even if he was bent on killing Zheng Yaoxian, it was also the work of those unsuspecting Communist Guerrillas. However, Dai Kasa made such a play, which was both funny and ridiculous. In addition, Dai Kasa told Zheng Yaoxian that the shadow was so high in top secrets, indicating that he had great faith in Zheng Yaoxian. Instead, he asked Gong Shu to go to Yan'an to spy on Zheng Yaoxian, who was suspected by the Communist Party and immediately brought justice on the spot. This in itself is contradictory.
2. Lu Hanqing and Yuan Nong, secretary of the underground organization of our party who was in Shancheng at the time, said it, but they did not say who it was. When Yuan Nong organized the Shancheng guerrillas to assassinate Zheng Yaoxian, Lu Hanqing hurried to find Yuan Nong, but Yuan Nong avoided him. After the assassination, Lu Hanqing went to Yuan Nong and said something inexplicable, and Yuan Nong speculated that Zheng Yaoxian was probably a kite. In Yuan Nong's view, Zeng Moyi was his subordinate, and Zheng Yao first shot Zeng Moyi, even if he was a kite, he was also a traitor's kite.
However, after liberation, Yuan Nong was the deputy political commissar of the Shancheng Public Security Bureau, and at least he should mention the kite to the director Chen Guohua, and Yuan Nong was in Shancheng at that time. However, when Zheng Yaoxian, Chen Guohua, and Vice Minister Qian from Beijing mentioned that he was a kite, not only did Chen Guohua excitedly say, "This is impossible, how can you possibly be a kite," but he also seemed to have no knowledge of our party's entry into the military command code kite, and even had to go to Shanghai and find Jianbing to examine it, and Yuan Nong could fully confirm that our party did have a special agent called a kite in the military command.
"Kite" also has many characters and details, such as Zheng Yaoxian has obtained the top secret of the kite, but Mao Renfeng has not checked; Jiang Xin and Chang Zhikuan inexplicably came out, and inexplicably died, and so on.
The devil is in the details. "Kite" was originally a great spy drama, but it was eclipsed due to the omission of details.
"Cliff" makes this spy drama more humane through Zhou Yi's rescue of Sun Yuejian and his death to save Gu Qiuyan's mother and daughter and Gao Bin's feelings for Sasha. And Zheng Yaoxian in "Kite" has almost no true feelings for Cheng Zhen'er, Lin Tao and his daughter Zhou Qiao. Although Zheng Yaoxian and Han Bing have said that they cannot have feelings in this line of work, no matter how good the agents are, they are all people. There is a lack of humanity in "Kite".
"Cliff" tells the story of the spy war in Harbin in the northeast from 1938 to the beginning of 1945; "Kite" tells the story of the spy war spanning more than 30 years from 1946 to 1979 in the mountain city of Chongqing. This north and south are more like "North Qiao Feng, South Murong" in spy dramas.
The story of "Cliff" is compact and undulating, the characters and details are not leaky, it has a strong "internal skill", and the thrill is like Qiao Feng's "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon"; the story of "Kite" is scattered and grand, involving many characters and stories, and like the "Bo" of the Murong family, and the spy battles before and after the liberation of "Kite" are like Murong Fu's "returning to the other body in the other way".
Zhou Yi in "Cliff" is willing to die between Sun Yuejian and Gu Qiuyan and Zheng Yaoxian's last lonely man, why not like Qiao Feng and Murong Fu himself?
"Cliff" and "Kite", watched alone, are quite excellent spy dramas, but comparing the two dramas, just like Qiao Feng and Murong Fu are really compared to Wulai, there is a gap.