Zhao Liying's acting skills are worthy of the Magnolia Award, but she lost to Wu Yue unjustly

The dust of the Magnolia Award has settled, but the reverberations have not stopped.

As one of the three awards in the mainland TV category, the Magnolia Award has always been extremely influential in the industry.

And this year's awards are a little different, it seems to be particularly out of the circle, and it has caused various heated discussions since the nomination.

A big reason is that the gold content of the shortlist is too high!

Take a look at the shortlisted TV series - "Opponent", "The Wind Blows in Half Summer", "The Wind Rises in Longxi", "Meritorious Service", "Police Honor", "The Beginning", "Crazy", "Ideal City", "Menghualu", "The Road of Life", "The World", "The Three-Body Problem", "The Long River of the World", "The Courtyard of the County Party Committee", "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes"...

This magnolia was called "the strongest in history" by netizens, holding a calculator and pinching it, the average score of Douban exceeded 7.9, almost all of them are good works with a double harvest of word of mouth and ratings, which is indeed strong.

Competition for the acting award is also fierce.

Actors such as Guo Jingfei, Zhu Yilong, Zhao Liying, Yin Tao and others have proved their strength.

And everyone's most optimistic "The World" was also expected by everyone, winning 5 awards, and Lei Jiayin won the emperor.

Coupled with Wu Yue's coronation with "County Party Committee Compound", the two leading actors of "My First Half of Life" met at the peak of "Magnolia".

And "The World" Ding Yongdai and "The Beginning" Liu Dan won the Best Supporting Actor and Actor awards respectively, etc., are also convincing.

Of course, there are regrets.

For example, "Crazy", which received 5 nominations, did not receive anything in the end, and Zhang Songwen was not nominated for acting.

There are also such excellent actors as Xin Baiqing in "The World", who did not even enter the shortlist for Best Actor.

And Zhao Liying, who has the highest voice of the heroine, lost the award, which also made countless audiences "uneasy".

However, the flaws are not hidden, this Magnolia Award is definitely worthy of being called a fairy fight.

And almost all important awards are spent on realistic themes, and costume dramas such as "Menghualu" did not win at this Magnolia Awards ceremony, which seems to secretly indicate the development direction of future TV series.

Next, let's comment on the key awards of this year's Magnolia one by one, to see if these winners are worth it, whether they deserve it, and those who are the losers of the big hit, are they wronged?

1. Best Chinese TV Drama Award: "The World" and "County Party Committee Compound"

To be honest, from the Douban score alone, whether it is "The World" with 8.4 points on Douban or "County Party Committee Compound" with 6.7 points, they are not qualified to take this "Best Chinese TV Series", because dramas such as "Crazy", "Three-Body Problem" and "Police Honor" have higher ratings than them.

However, in terms of cast, story content, and production level, the two dramas can be used as masterpieces of the same type of domestic dramas.

And the competition between the two dramas in various awards is very fierce.

There is the "involution" between the powerful actors of "The World", in addition to Lei Jiayin, Yin Tao, Ding Yongdai, and Sarina, Xin Baiqing, who plays Zhou Bingyi, did not appear in the nomination list, which is also "uneasy".

And Ren Chengwei, who performed amazingly in "The Courtyard of the County Party Committee", did not even get the nomination side, which is also helpless.

It can be said that from the nomination, "The World" and "County Party Committee Compound" will become the "big winners" of this Magnolia Award, which is expected by everyone.

To everyone's surprise, "Crazy" eats white fruit.

But if you look at "Crazy" and "The World" together, you will find that this result is actually very reasonable, because in addition to the villain played by Zhang Songwen who can compete with several leading actors of "The World" in terms of performance, whether it is story, average acting strength, texture or production, "The World" is slightly better than "Crazy" in every sub-discipline.

If for example, "The World" is the one with the strongest comprehensive strength in the annual Chinese drama examination, then "Crazy" is an obvious partial student, and once its most excellent subjects do not enter the big exam, then its actual competitiveness will naturally decline.

With its strong comprehensive strength, "The World" won five awards for Best Screenplay Adaptation (Wang Haiyu, Wang Daou), Best Actor (Lei Jiayin), and Best Supporting Actor (Ding Yongdai), becoming the biggest winner.

Why is "The World" so popular?

In the final analysis, it is because it uses the creative method that is most suitable for the masses.

The creation of period dramas with the main theme should be created for the public, and should be down-to-earth, elegant and popular.

Is "The World" considered elegant and common appreciation? Of course it counts.

The play spans fifty years of social ecology and has created dozens of wonderful characters, and audiences at all levels can get what they want.

Its popularity, its out-of-circle, and its popularity have made the best demonstration of all the main theme era dramas.

It is good that under the premise of such a grand theme, it can be understood and engaged by ordinary audiences.

And the most exciting part of the whole drama is to create a group of mortals.

They will have such and such little problems, like ordinary people around us.

But there is also the ordinary Chinese indelible kindness and tenacity.

In the end, the winner was not only about strength, but also about the strong audience of the series.

Of course, it is not a kind of luck for the Chinese audience to see such a scene of immortal fighting.

Compared to the tall one in the short, what we like more should also be such a strong showdown.

2, Best Director: "The World" Li Lu

"The World" won several of the most heavyweight individual awards of this Magnolia, and Best Director is one of them.

On the surface, Li Lu is not the director with the best technique, nor is he the best director in genre narrative.

But "The World" may be the best period drama with the main theme we have seen in the past decade, and it is also the best drama that tells the story of ordinary people.

On the surface, the director's personal play is not so obvious, and the director's style is not so strong, but he puts some of the best actors into the story and allows the actors to bring out the best in them. That's awesome.

And really good creation, avoid slogans, do not brag.

Self-satisfied, exaggerated, the audience will not buy it, even if the critics blow it to the sky.

In the past, there have been many period dramas, with large investment and excellent production, but they are not out of the circle.

The reason is that they are easy to be superficial and reduced to the director's personal lyricism.

And "The World" is different.

It's a period drama, but it's not addictive.

It is an epic of the people, but it is small and big.

The skillful skills of the screenwriter and the sophistication of the line skills are really amazing.

From a professional point of view, whether it is playing, filming, or acting, "The World" is a textbook level.

And his pattern is equally grand.

Because it captures the most common qualities and strength of the Chinese people.

3, the best actor: "The World" Lei Jiayin

With the role of Zhou Bingkun, Lei Jiayin fought the siege and won the crown among the powerful male stars.

It is worth mentioning that the five actors nominated are not general: Guo Jingfei, Hu Ge, Zhu Yilong, Zhang Yi.

But Lei Jiayin still won the 28th Magnolia Best Actor again with "The World" after winning the Golden Eagle Vision Emperor.

How well does this role work?

One is the face.

Bingkun is an ordinary person, a rare domestic drama, the male protagonist most like our small people.

He not only shouldered the burden of the family, but also suffered from his father's misunderstanding, and did not achieve much in his life, and even his fate faltered.

But because of this, this character is even more moving.

Bingkun is an ordinary person who can no longer be ordinary, an honest person who is not bright in everyone's eyes, but this honest person also has persistence and kindness that everyone cannot see.

We often see outstanding actors of Chinese operas performing the style bones of great people and heroes, but there is rarely an actor who plays the kind of style bones of the common people.

The second is the point.

Lei Jiayin in "The World" has several famous acting scenes.

Just say two scenes.

One is his conflict with his father at the train station in episode 20.

Counted down by his father, Lei Jiayin's head raised, writing emotions in his eyes, no need to explain more, that kind of years of suppression, grievance, not being understood grievances and even resentment, suddenly overflowed the screen.

In the face of Ding Yongdai's outbreak, Lei Jiayin did not slam back, but his lips trembled slightly, and his head did not go back.

But the high-level performance is restrained, and Lei Jiayin, who is quietly braking, does not fall behind at all in the face of the old drama bones, and this play is also full of tension, which is one of the most classic passages in the whole play.

Another scene is that after his father Zhou Zhigang passed away, his mother Li Suhua also sat next to the body of the Spirit Hall and passed away.

Zhou Rong, who was previously in charge of his father and mother, and Bingyi, who has been busy with his career for decades, cried heartbreakingly, but Zhou Bingkun did not immediately kneel down and cry like his brothers and sisters, but stayed in place, shedding tears with his own care, and many netizens also criticized Lei Jiayin for not entering the play.

In fact, if we put ourselves in the situation of Zhou Bingkun's character, we will find that his performance is very real.

He was his mother's "old pimple", and now that his father is gone, so is his mother. He suddenly didn't understand.

This is the most life-oriented acting.

That kind of ordinary, that kind of life, that kind of understanding of the people at the bottom, that kind of firm belief in ordinary years, Lei Jiayin played well.

4, the best heroine: "County Party Committee Compound" Wu Yue

This is perhaps the most controversial one in this award, because there are two names in the nomination for Best Actress: Zhao Liying and Yin Tao.

You must know that before, Yin Tao won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress with "The World". And Zhao Liying is expected by everyone.

But I think Wu Yue's performance is not overrated, Zhao Liying and Yin Tao play very well, but Wu Yue is a little better.

Grassroots cadres are inherently difficult to perform.

Female cadres are even more difficult to act.

And the grassroots female cadres played by Wu Yue are particularly representative. Wu Yue's first scene is already different because she performs the "shape" of the character.

To put it bluntly, there is "official temperament".

The momentum of the factory when directing the rectification work, the reproach and urgency, is very similar to the local leader who is in charge of a certain work.

There is also a play for the female worker who was subjected to domestic violence, Wu Yue just relied on his eyes to create a sense of oppression, and he performed the character's aura.

And the last scene of her whole play, in the face of Hu Ge's character's farewell, Wu Yue's expression was first surprised,

Then a slight nod, and finally a smile, and everything is clear.

A few micro-expressions brought to life a deputy county magistrate of a poor county who had been working hard in the officialdom for many years.

Judging from the other four nominees, Yin Tao has completed the Grand Slam behind the scenes, and the Golden Eagle has also won the queen, considering the principle of award balance, it should not be won again this time.

And Tan Zhuo's chances of winning the award with "Rivals" are not high.

In fact, Wu Yue's biggest competitor is Zhao Liying, and Zhao Liying's performance in the play is amazing enough.

Even if she didn't get the TV, the drama is still very critical for Zhao Liying, because she has completed the real sense of acting transformation with this drama.

In fact, since "Do You Know", Zhao Liying has started the transformation to the acting school, which can be said to be the most sober and determined transformation among the top flowers.

It is also because Zhao Liying transformed in time, just in time for a new wave of reality dramas, and ancient puppet dramas quickly ebbed after she withdrew.

"Do You Know" works with high quality, bright ratings, good reputation, and long stamina, is one of the most stable old dramas on the Internet in recent years.

However, Zhao Liying's acting skills in this play have actually been questioned, and as a work of transformation, this step is right but only half of it.

"Do You Know" successfully pulled Zhao Liying out of the quagmire where she can only play ancient dolls. She took over "Who is the Murderer", and only half of the success, this drama Zhao Liying played not badly, but not good enough to completely convince the audience.

"Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" is the first breakthrough.

The role of He Xingxing, a rural woman who revitalized her hometown, made her further strip away her idol attributes.

It also proves that Zhao Liying's strength in carrying dramas is not only able to carry ancient puppets, but even rural theme stills.

"Half Summer Blown by the Wind" is the second breakthrough.

The role of the domineering, resolute and resolute female entrepreneur Xu Banxia is like it was prepared for Zhao Liying.

Zhao Liying is the only first-line actress in the same period, the fastest out of her comfort zone, and the only one who started from the trick, these experiences also gave her a grassroots resilience.

This role Zhao Liying played particularly into the play, and also perfectly performed a breaking word in the era drama.

It can even be said that changing a powerful actress to play may have equal acting skills, but the series will not be so successful, because Zhao Liying's sense of substitution is too strong.

Compared with the previous two nominations for "Flower Thousand Bones" and "Do You Know", this is the closest Zhao Liying has come to the award.

But I say that fans don't like to hear, although Zhao Liying's acting skills have obviously surpassed the other 85 flowers, but compared to the real top acting actresses, Zhao Liying's performance is almost hot.

Especially when playing against a powerful party like Wu Yue, if the judges are completely measured by acting skills, Zhao Liying really can't take advantage.

But one thing is obvious, every time Zhao Liying is nominated, the odds of winning the award are higher than the last time.

So I think the only thing Zhao Liying needs to do is for her own response to the three words of the three accompanying runs: continue to run.

5, Best Actor: "The World" Ding Yongdai

Ding Yongdai was elected Best Actor, which is hardly controversial.

Of course, Ning Li, Wang Jingchun, Wang Xiao, and Wang Yang are all acting masters, but with the role of the old father of the Zhou family, who is very tense under the characteristics of the times, Ding Yongdai wins without fear, and others lose unjustly.

In fact, Ding Yongdai's acting skills are obvious to all, the early criminal investigation dramas are not counted, in "Across the Yalu River", he played Peng Dehuai, known as one of the best Peng Dehuai in recent years, although the shape is not similar, but Mr. Peng's spirit is completely performed.

This time he played the backbone of the Zhou family, and he played Zhou Zhigang's cold outside and hot inside.

It is also said that there are two scenes, one scene is that she crosses thousands of miles, carries 20 pounds of white noodles on her back, and goes to Guizhou with a dog to see her daughter.

In the scene of the father-daughter meeting, Ding Yongdai's tears dripped on the dog, perfectly interpreting what is called Chinese fatherly love.

There is also a scene, which is a scene before the death of the character, counting Bingyi and Zhou Rong, who stand and talk without backache and wronged Bingkun, and there is some majesty of the head of the family in that look.

At night, after sleeping with my children, my frown stretched, my eyes were full of love, and every word was moving.

Facing his daughter, wife, eldest son and youngest son, Ding Yongdai's acting methods are different, which shows the depth of his acting skills.

Zhou Zhigang is the backbone of the Zhou family, and Ding Yongdai also supports the fundamentals of the entire "World".

He doesn't take the prize, who does?

6, the best actress: "The Beginning" Liu Dan

Liu Dan won the best supporting actress for the role of "Aunt Guo" in "The Beginning", defeating Sarina, Yan Bingyan, Huang Xiaolei, Ren Suxi, such a luxurious lineup, no wonder Liu Dan himself was overjoyed.

But Liu Dan won reasonably, because Sarina and Yan Bingyan's performance in the play is already full score, but Liu Dan has created a desperate mother image and is also the core "Aunt Guo" who promotes the development of the whole play, and can score 120 points.

Not as simple as perfect, but transcendent.

The character who has been almost silent in the first half of the story was played by her to the slightest, and a single look made the audience shadow.

She can accurately express the subtle excesses of emotions with the micro-movements of her facial features.

The most successful part of her interpretation is that it allows the audience to see how "extremes" are formed. A line from Feng Shen: "You can understand, even I don't understand." ”

Liu Dan's award is actually a good sign: those powerful actors whose acting skills do not match their fame are ushering in their best era.

When the era of "only traffic" and "only popularity" passes, what remains after the big waves should be such real actors.

Written at the end:

In a sense, this Magnolia set off audience acting discussion is a good thing.

When the audience is accustomed to discussing the gains and losses of awards within the scope of acting skills, our film and television circle, internal entertainment, can really enter a virtuous circle.

Some people say that this year's magnolia "made powerful actors usher in spring", I think this sentence should be reversed, powerful actors ushered in spring, and only then did this magnolia who spoke with strength.

Although, the fact that the main theme work has become a big winner still makes the Magnolia Award still maintain its own mystery.

But among all the awards, the controversial results such as Tong Yao's defeat of Reiza that year did not appear.

And this year's Magnolia also shows the development of Chinese dramas in the next few years: the main theme and realistic theme will be fragrant.

And the success of many works in the past also tells us that the main theme and business are not clearly separated.

Realistic themes can also be explosive excavators.

And ordinary little people will be a shortcut for all actors to compete for awards.

Of course, the biggest revelation is actually the simplest, that is, what the audience needs is actually very simple:

A good TV series with heart, that's all.

The most important thing is not traffic, not IP, or even more than the lineup. It's about telling a good story.

Of course, this is not easy.

But as long as you understand this truth, the national drama will only get better and better.

"The World" will never be the culmination of the mountain of the national drama.

There is reason to believe that this wave of powerful national drama time will be a long season.

The story of the next Magnolia will depend on who is qualified to compete with "The Long Season".