Throwing away the burden of idols and pretending to be ugly, can Luhan turn around with this drama？

The poor acting skills of popular celebrities seem to have become a recognized fact, and as a former top-class, Lu Han became the spokesperson of bad movies last year with the "Shanghai Fortress" that penetrated the earth. The film and television dramas starring him are basically rated below 5 points.

However, in a recent new drama, Lu Han changed his previous image of a beautiful man and took the route of a sloppy ruffian, which made people think that his acting skills had improved?

"Crossfire."

This article contains spoilers.

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The drama revolves around two young people who are passionate about e-sports.

In 2019, China’s electronic sports market is very prosperous, so there are countless large and small e-sports clubs, and the most influential of which is the attractive force club, they will hold the annual cross-fire selection competition, from thousands of choose the first signing.

Lu Xiaobei, who dreamed of joining a professional team, passed all the way to the final.

Seeing that victory was just around the corner, he was "interviewed" by the captain.

It turned out that the so-called selection competition was just a cover, and the signatory had long been determined. He was the son of the boss of a listed company.

On the condition of signing a replacement, the captain asked Lu Xiaobei to deliberately lose in the final. However, Lu Xiaobei, who only wanted to join the team, was not "obedient" and shot the opponent in the head and won the whole game.

However, winning the game did not bring him a chance to sign. On the contrary, the black pot of cheating fell from the sky, and no team in the league would want to sign him.

Lu Xiaobei was frustrated in chasing his dream, and Xiao Feng, the other male protagonist, was not having a good time either.

Riding out on his bicycle, he came across his ex-girlfriend Peaches’ wedding car. Because of his tattered clothes, he was insulted by his ex-girlfriend’s husband, kicked his bicycle to the ground, and took out a few hundred-dollar bills and sprinkled them on the ground.

The reason why Peaches became his ex-girlfriend was precisely because he was too poor to do his job properly and was obsessed with playing games.

Usually, Xiao Feng’s main job is to take the four brothers to the Internet cafe to play the game "Appointment Rack", and if he wins, he can earn money for skewers.

As the runner-up team of the Internet Cafe Tournament in the whole province, Xiao Feng wanted to lead the team to the professional competition. However, the reality was cruel. Because there was no income, the three teammates proposed to break up, and several people fought for this.

Lu Xiaobei and Xiao Feng, who were equally frustrated, met in a game. Just as the two were about to decide the winner, the computer suddenly went black, and only the voices of the conversation between the two could be heard.

From Lu Xiaobei’s mouth, Xiao Feng learned that he was the champion of the first National League in the future.

It turned out that this was a conversation across time and space. Lu Xiaobei in 2019 and Xiao Feng in 2008 met in Crossing the Line of Fire.

In this way, two young people from different eras encouraged each other and embarked on a dream-chasing road of dual space-time linkage.

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It is not easy to adapt the e-sports IP Crossfire into a TV series.

Crossfire, referred to as "CF", before "Eat Chicken" was not popular, this game could be said to carry the "dream of 300 million mice" and was a legendary existence. Today, Crossfire is still in the top five of the most profitable games in the world.

Such a popular game with a large number of users can easily be scolded if it is not careful.

The game scene presented in "Crossfire" made many netizens say that it exceeded expectations. First-person perspective shooting, real people acting as characters in the game, giving people a strong sense of immersion and immersion.

The tension and excitement of shooting combat games are also well restored. The bullet shoots out the bullet hole, hits, and falls to the ground, the whole process is neat. The grenade is thrown forward with a boom and sparks are scattered, which is enjoyable to watch.

In addition to the game scenes, the more important thing in the TV series is of course the characters and stories. The sparks sparked by the two very different male protagonists in this play add a lot of interest to the plot.

Xiao Feng, played by Lu Han, appeared with a chicken coop head and flip-flops. His untidy and slovenly appearance was completely different from the image of a delicate and beautiful man in the previous drama, and it was a bit eye-catching. Lu Han’s acting skills, which many people cared about, seemed to have also improved.

However, there was still a part of "playing a stable role". For example, when trying to persuade people to fight, their entire face wrinkled up, which made them feel embarrassed.

But there is also a stunning part, a collapse and roar in a rainy night, showing self-blame, guilt, frustration and other emotions.

Wu Lei, who played Lu Xiaobei, also had a good performance in the play. As a disabled teenager, he was silent most of the time, and his eyes were full of determination and confidence when facing the game, and the characters were quite full and three-dimensional.

The restoration of good game scenes and the qualified acting of the two young actors made this drama finally get rid of the curse of "starring Luhan, it must be a bad drama".

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In recent years, the TV series with the theme of e-sports, whether it is "Full-time Master" or "Dear, Love", are inseparable from one word: dream, and this drama is no exception. The two teenagers’ inspirational pursuit of dreams is indeed inspiring.

In 2008, Xiao Feng was in the early days of Crossfire, and video games were considered unprofessional in the eyes of the world at that time. Xiao Feng, who was determined to embark on a career path, was a complete loser in everyone’s eyes.

His girlfriend ran away with the rich man who speculated in stocks, and he couldn’t pay the rent. His parents clamored for him to find a serious job every day. In the end, even his teammates who had been fighting side by side had to make a living.

In addition to the pressure from the outside world, Xiao Feng’s own age has gradually become a problem. Most of the e-sports players are young people of seventeen or eighteen years old. Xiao Feng in his twenties not only can’t keep up with the reaction speed, but also his ability to stay up late is obviously reduced.

In 2019, although Lu Xiaobei lived in a good e-sports environment and had a brighter future, there was a new problem – the manipulation of capital. Because with capital and a backstage, Lu Xiaobei, who had no backers, could only be blamed for cheating and blacklisted by the league.

But it is precisely because of these challenges that their perseverance is all the more valuable.

Xiao Feng was born at a bad time, gave up love and stable life, and resolutely embarked on a "road of no return" in everyone’s eyes; Lu Xiaobei, a senior high school student, gave up the opportunity to enter the university and chose a more difficult road than the college entrance examination.

The TV series allows two generations of e-sports people to meet through time and space. They talk to each other and establish friendship, which not only shows the rapid development of the e-sports industry and the whole society in the past ten years, but also shows the persistent pursuit of dreams by the two generations.

No matter what era it is, if you dare to overcome obstacles for your dreams, you still have to say to them: Your courage is commendable!

The pictures in this article are from the Internet

@Moviebase

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