Dangerous Mind is a 2006 Taiwanese drama

Taiwanese drama

Taiwanese Drama refers to dramatic programming of television programming extended stories usually dramatizing relationships through the general range of ten to forty one-hour episodes. They are produced in Taiwan and have gained increasing popularity in the Mandarin-speaking community...

 starring Huang He

Huang He (actor)

Huang He is a Taiwanese actor. He is the first actor signed by the director Yee Chin-yen. He won the Best Actor of the Golden Bell Awards in 2007. In 2009, he starred in a Sweden/Taiwanese film, Miss Kicki. And in 2010, he starred in Juliet, a Taiwanese film inspired by the tragic love story Romeo...

, Guang Yun, Lee Lieh, Jack Kao

Jack Kao

Jack Kao is a Taiwanese actor. He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien.-Filmography:*Daughter of the Nile *Rouge of The North *A City of Sadness *Island of Fire *Dust of Angels...

, Cai Can-De and James Wen

James Wen

James Wen was born on 22 February 1978. He is a Taiwanese actor, model and former reporter. He is known for his supporting performance in Taiwanese drama My Queen, for which he received one of his four Golden Bell Awards nominations...

. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by Taiwanese writer Hou Wen Yung. The series focuses on the conflicts among teachers, students, and the parents during the Taiwanese educational reform from the students' aspects.

In 2007, Huang He

Huang He (actor)

Huang He is a Taiwanese actor. He is the first actor signed by the director Yee Chin-yen. He won the Best Actor of the Golden Bell Awards in 2007. In 2009, he starred in a Sweden/Taiwanese film, Miss Kicki. And in 2010, he starred in Juliet, a Taiwanese film inspired by the tragic love story Romeo...

, won Best Leading Actor in a Television Series

Best Leading Actor in a Television Series (Golden Bell Awards)

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 and Dangerous Mind was awarded Best Television Series

Best Television Series (Golden Bell Awards)

Golden Bell Award for Best Television Series is one of the category of competition for the Taiwanese television production Golden Bell Awards. It is presented annually in October by the Government Information Office, Republic of China ....

 at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards

Golden Bell Awards

The Golden Bell Awards is an annual Taiwanese television production award, founded in 1965, presented by Government Information Office, Republic of China . It is usually presented in October or November each year. It is the first television production award in Chinese circulation and Taiwan's...

, Taiwan.

Plot summary

Xie Zheng-Jie (Jay) is a senior in Taipei Municipal Li Ren Junior High School. He has to take the national senior high school entrance exams in the near future. One day, a school inspector from Taipei Education Bureau abruptly goes to Li Ren and tells them that there is a report on Mr. Zhan, a math teacher in Li Ren Junior High, who uses the music class period to give students math exams. After hearing receiving this news, Mr. Zhan is very angry. Later, he finds out that those letters were sent by Shen Wei, a student in his class. Hence, Sheng Wei is forced to transfer to another class. After Jay refuses to participate in Mr. Zhan's cram school after school, he is forced by Mr. Zhan to move his desk to the hallway outside and participate in the class from the hallway all day long because he reads comic books during class. Mr. Zhan calls to Jay's mother, wanting her to come to school and deal with the problem, but he humiliates Jay's mother in front of Jay. Jay loses his temper and shoves Mr.Zhan which causes a small physical altercation between the two. The school gives Jay a harsh warning, which is comparable to a three-strikes-your-out type of punishment. Jay and his mother disagree on the warning and this leads to a conflict between Jay's family and the school. At the same time, Jay's parents face the problem of divorce. Jay is also given the elbow by other students. All of these consecutive incidents cause Jay to think of the real meaning in the daily routine-taking tests, going to cram school, studying hard, and what he really needs in his future life.

Characters

• Xie Zheng-Jie (Jay) played by Huang He
  Huang He (actor)
  Huang He is a Taiwanese actor. He is the first actor signed by the director Yee Chin-yen. He won the Best Actor of the Golden Bell Awards in 2007. In 2009, he starred in a Sweden/Taiwanese film, Miss Kicki. And in 2010, he starred in Juliet, a Taiwanese film inspired by the tragic love story Romeo...
  
  : The protagonist in the story, a fifteen-year-old boy in ninth grade. He used to get good grades and study hard. He is also considered to be a witty student in school. But after meeting Shen Wei, Eileen, and Gao Wei Qi, there are a lot of incidents happening in his life and makes him to think the real future he wants to have.

• Zhang Xin-Ru played by Zhi Pei-Huei: A schoolmate of Jay, and also the girl Jay has a crush on. Actually she has a good feeling toward Jay, too.

• Shen Wei played by Zhang Shu-Hao
  Zhang Shu-Hao
  Chang Shu-hao is a Taiwanese promising young actor. He has won the Mini Drama Series Best Actor Award of the Golden Bell Awards in 2007. He is now a student in Ming Chuan University.- Filmography :- External links :...
  
  : He used to be Jay's classmate, but he is forced to transfer to another class due to the "Blackmail" incident. He is diagnosed with brain tumor. He has the spirit of revolution which makes him positively fight against authorities and query various systems and unreasonable phenomenon.

• Gao Wei-Qi played by Hu Huan-Wei: A troublemaker and rebel in Li Ren Junior High. He was cultivated into a rebel because of bad domestic atmosphere.

• Zhao Ru-Hao played by Deng Sheng-Yao: A classmate and good friend of Jay. He is always a goody-goody with perfect grades. He is not an ambitious boy and just want to enter Jian Guo High school and a good university. The relationship of him and Jay has also been challenged after the conflict between Jay and Mr. Zhan

• Zhang De-Cai played by Guan Yun: A dean in Li Ren Junior High School and also the father of Zhang Xin Ru. No matter what happened, he only wants to remain the prestige of school and deal with the problems as quickly as possible.

• Zhang Mei-Li played by Lee Lieh: Jay's mother. She is an editor working in Taipei News Daily. And she is in a marital crisis.

• Xie Xian-Tang played by Jack Kao
  Jack Kao
  Jack Kao is a Taiwanese actor. He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien.-Filmography:*Daughter of the Nile *Rouge of The North *A City of Sadness *Island of Fire *Dust of Angels...
  
  : Jay's father. He cannot stand the aggressive attitude of his wife Zhang Mei Li, therefore the marital relationship is likely to break.

• Zhan Chao-Wei (Mr. Zhan) played by James Wen
  James Wen
  James Wen was born on 22 February 1978. He is a Taiwanese actor, model and former reporter. He is known for his supporting performance in Taiwanese drama My Queen, for which he received one of his four Golden Bell Awards nominations...
  
  : The ace among the math teachers in Li Ren, a strict math teacher who is supported by many parents of the students. After he has a conflict against Jay, he only want to assure his benefits and the status quo in Li Ren Junior High; therefore he unscrupulously go on the attack on Jay.

• Peng Qi-Wen (Ms. Peng) played by Cai Can-De: An English teacher in Li Ren Junior High School. Her teaching ideas is totally contrast to Mr. Zhan and treats her student very friendly.

• Eileen played by Kwai Lun-mei
  Kwai Lun-mei
  Kwai Lun-Mei is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in the movie Blue Gate Crossing as Meng Ke Rou. Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Kwai acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with...
  
  : An eighteen-year-old dropout who makes a living by selling drugs and being a prostitute. She often has a "don't care" attitude toward others when she actually feels lonely.

• Lawrence played by Lan Zheng-Long: Eileen's boyfriend. He is very skillful at computer and Internet. He sometimes uses his talent to be a hacker and helps out Jay.

• Professor Hao played by Xie Li-Jing: An educationist who is unsatisfied with the educational system today in Taiwan. She often participates in call-in talk shows and preaches about her ideas of educational reform.

• Qiu Xian played by Guo Shi-Lun: Jay's mother's colleague who is also an editor in Taipei News Daily. He likes Jay's mother and also support the protest held by Jay's family.

Differences between the novel and the series

• In the novel, Zhan Chao-Wei has been teaching for 20 years, while in the series, he is much younger.

• When Zhan Chao-Wei is at university in the TV series, he has a record of dueling. This does not occur in the novel.

• In the series drama, Zhan Chao-Wei finally duels with Xie Zheng-Jie, and gets married with Peng Qi-Wen. In novel, he resigns.

• In the novel, the duel has to amplify to Ministry
  Ministry (government department)
  A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or...
  
   of Education
  Education
  Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
  
  's door, and it is hardly quashed by police. But in the series, the duel has only in the Li Ren's door.

• In the novel, Shen Wei sings a song and kills himself. But in the series, his life is spared.

• Zhang Xin-Ru is a fictional character
  Fictional character
  A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
  
   that appears in the series.

Music

• OP:I dream of (我希望)
  • Songwriting: Wang Chiyao, Hou Chihchien
  • Singer: Lin Kuanyin
• ED:Ode to Joy
  Ode to Joy
  "Ode to Joy" is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller, enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood and unity of all mankind...
  
  
  • Original:Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
    
    
  • Songwriting:Hou Chihchien
  • Singer:O.Jay
• Interlude:教室環遊
  • Songwriting:Wang Chiyao,Hou Chihchien
  • Singer:Huang He,Hu Huan Wei、Deng Sheng Yao、Zhuang Hsiangwei