“啪——”煙頭落地，火光衝天！王寶強飾演的圍棋老師崔業，用一根煙引爆修車鋪的瞬間，彈幕炸了：“這還是那個憨笑的許三多？”3月25日，懸疑劇《棋士》登陸央視，首播收視破1.5%，微博話題#王寶強扔煙頭炸車#閱讀量一夜破3億。這一次，草根影帝用“黑化”演技，撕開了國產懸疑劇的新賽道。

In the play, Wang Baoqiang changed his honest image in the past, and played Cui Ye as a Go teacher who was forced into a desperate situation by life. In order to treat his child, he changed from a credit union hostage to a criminal planner, using Go strategy to lay out serial crimes. Netizens commented: "Seeing him smiling and smoking, my back is cold!" This extreme contrast is just as director Han Sanping (producer of "The Hidden Corner") said: "Wang Baoqiang turned the despair of the little people into a slice of the times." ”

The most unique setting of "Chess Warrior" is to use Go logic to deconstruct crime - robbery is like a chess game, and every move is a calculation. Cui Ye used the "encirclement and suppression" mentality to help the robbers escape, and used the "robbery" tactics to kill the owner of the car repair shop. There is even a real chess game designed in the play: the black piece represents evil, the white piece symbolizes justice, and the final game of the sibling duel, the chess piece is the answer to human nature. This new way of playing "intellectual suspense" is called "the game-breaker of genre dramas" by professors at Tongji University.

The crew filmed more than 20 places in Jiangmen, turning old neighborhoods such as Xinhui Gurong Road and Taishan Haiyan Wharf into "crime scenes". The mottled arcades, damp alleys, and cold-toned shots combine to create a depressing southern town texture. Some viewers discovered: "The street where Cui Ye blew up the car is the way I buy vegetables every day!" This sense of regional immersion gives the suspenseful narrative a more realistic crudeness.

When traffic dramas relied on "industrial saccharin" to gain fans, "Chessman" used "grassroots blackening" to play a contrast card. The data shows that in the 45-year suspense drama market, the number of clicks on "atypical villain protagonists" surged by 0% year-on-year. As screenwriter Qiqi (author of "In the Octagon Cage") said: "The audience has long been tired of 'Wei Guangzheng', what they want to see is how people who have been run over by life can fight back with wild ways." ”

Although the first broadcast was a good word-of-mouth, the controversy of "whether the villain protagonist can pass the trial" also followed. In the play, Cui Ye walked on the edge of the law, and even designed a "perfect crime". In this regard, producer Han Sanping responded: "We are not shooting a crime guide, but a spectrum of human nature in the predicament. This kind of creative courage may be the "dangerous chess" that national dramas need.

Wang Baoqiang once won the "Golden Broom Award" for "Havoc in Tianzhu", and now he has returned to the drama circle with "Chess Warrior". This is very similar to Cui Ye's game of chess: he has lost and suffered, but he has no regrets. As netizen @suspense fan Xiao Zhang commented: "He used a cigarette to blow up not only the car, but also the routine ceiling of domestic dramas." ”