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Recently, the Chinese film market is still relatively depressed, but immediately there is a movie that has attracted the attention of Bo Guangjun, that is, the suspense film "Door Lock" starring Buick director, five hundred producers, Bai Baihe, Bai Ke, Fan Chengcheng, Wang Zixuan, Ma Yuke, Liu Huan, Liu Wei and so on.
This is a suspense film, mainly about the film about Fang Hui (played by Bai Baihe) who often feels uneasy when she lives alone at home, she feels that someone is spying on her life, and then various encounters have occurred around her, and finally reveals a terrible truth...
The biggest selling point of "Door Lock" in addition to the suspense element, probably is to directly hit the social topic, the plight of women living alone, this realism pain point, but because the film has not yet been released these two aspects can not be unfolded, here still want to write a white Baihe.
This fast-growing Chinese film market really needs Chinese actresses like Bai Baihe.
This is mainly from the perspective of Chinese film actresses, since the box office of Xu Zheng's "Tai 囧" in 2012 broke through one billion, the Chinese film market has developed rapidly, but those years have fallen into the era of group magic dancing. After Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" in 2017, Chinese films began to get on the right track.
The box office of Chinese films is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more Chinese actors who have exceeded 10 billion yuan at the box office. For example, some time ago, because of the box office explosion of "Chosin Lake", the media promoted tens of billions of box office actors.
As shown in the picture above, it is basically dominated by male actors.
In any case, the results of most actors are there, and the results of Chinese actresses are much worse, for example, among the tens of billions of actresses, there are not many actresses who can be on the list.
We start from the tenth place to look down, in fact, until the twentieth place there is no Chinese actress figure, until the 21st and 22nd, finally there is a Chinese actress figure, ranked 21st Zhou Dongyu, 22nd Bai Baihe, both of the current cumulative box office are 9.5 billion.
However, analyzing the achievements of the film starring the two participants, we will find that Zhou Dongyu is actually the king of the current Chinese actress market.
Because she absolutely starred in many movies (big heroine), Zhou Dongyu can get his hands on "Young You", "July and Ansheng", "Later Us", and several youth films in the middle like "You at the Same Table" and "Like You" have also achieved good results, and Zhou Dongyu is the leader of the current Chinese actresses.
But the movie starring Zhou Dongyu has one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, the works are mainly youth romance films.
She is very short of other genre films, not to mention the resources of the heroines of top commercial blockbusters. That is, like Wu Jing in "Wolf Warrior 2", "The Wandering Earth" and "Changjin Lake", and then To Shen Teng in various comedy blockbusters, Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran in "Tang Detective", and then to Huang Bo, Zhang Yi' kind of male actor-based commercial blockbusters.
Zhou Dongyu is not without such resources, but the films handed over are not very good in terms of word of mouth or box office results. From the perspective of commercial blockbuster heroines alone, it is not as good as Ma Li, Tan Zhuo and Yuan Quan, because there are quite a few commercial blockbusters where they play the heroine.
Ma Li has several comedies such as "Charlotte Troubles", Tan Zhuo has "I Am Not a Medicine God", "Fire Hero", "Manslaughter", etc., Yuan Quan has "Chinese Captain", "Chinese Doctor", "Hong Kong 囧", etc., and even Chen Shu has risen from "Chang'an Road" and "Peak Explosion".
The results of these actresses in this commercial blockbuster are really much better than the current results of "three dan and one ice".
In addition to Zhang Ziyi coming up with a "Climber", there is also a unit of "My Father and Me" directed this year. Li Bingbing had a "Megalodon Shark" a few years ago, and others included Zhou Xun, Xu Jinglei, Tang Wei and other Mesozoic generations, and the movies they starred in were getting worse and worse, not to mention the heroines of commercial blockbusters.
In any case, there are now more than 10 billion male actors in the Chinese film market, and several of them are breaking through the 20 billion box office, and they are real absolute male protagonists. The achievements of Chinese actresses in the field of film can really only be described as "not a single one who can fight".
Many people have to talk to men and women about what problems are cited above, in fact, the main thing is the rapid development of China's commercial blockbusters, mainstream commercial blockbusters in the market, whether it is a special effects blockbuster that breaks through the Chinese film and television industry, or a genre blockbuster that establishes the Chinese film and television industry, you will find that it is mainly male themes.
I've written about this personally before, so I won't expand on it here.
Chinese movies, why do Chinese film actresses need Bai Baihe? Because this actress is very special.
Bai Baihe has excellent acting skills in the "Four Dan Double Ice" period of her generation, and also acted in the image of Dahua Dan in many excellent movies; there are zhou dongyu and Zhang Zifeng, who are not inferior to the younger generation, and zhang Zifeng, who absolutely starred in youth films and romance films; at the same time, she can afford the heroine of commercial blockbusters such as Tan Zhuo and Yuan Quan.
First, compared with the "Four Dan Double Ice", Bai Baihe definitely lost a lot, but she was a dark horse
The best time for the mainland's "Four Dan Double Ice" was after 2000, because of the rapid disappearance of Hong Kong film actresses, they rose to the top. On the one hand, he starred in the literary and artistic films of the fifth and sixth generation directors of the mainland, and on the other hand, he starred in the literary and artistic films and commercial blockbusters directed by the Taiwan University of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the north.
Just as the so-called "Four Dan Double Ice" Tang Wei Gao Yuanyuan, the development of the Eight Great Flower Dans of the Mesozoic Era is this vein.
Bai Baihe's rising work "33 Days of Lost Love" is a romance film made by mainland TV series director Teng Huatao, with interesting characters and the story of Chinese society at that time, in fact, it was "a dark horse" at that time, much like the black comedy "Crazy Stone" that was out of place in previous years at that time.
Bai Baihe's classic works, awards and popularity at home and abroad are not comparable. In this regard, the fifth generation, the sixth generation and the same generation of NTU directors in the mainland are the pinnacle of the entire Chinese film. Bai Baihe rose in the cracks, and the audience thought it was a flash in the pan at the time.
But people not only opened up the drama road, but also in the follow-up development in the film is better than many big flowers.
In the Mesozoic Dynasty, there were only a few people in the Great Flower Dan except Zhou Xun and Hao Lei. Bai Baihe's play path is even broader than that of Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei, Tang Wei and Gao Yuanyuan. Zhang Ziyi's most outstanding movies are stubborn women, Xu Jinglei is a talented woman, the work is not much, Tang Wei is a Wenqing-style romance film temperament, and Gao Yuanyuan is a simple and beautiful big beauty.
Bai Baihe several love films do not mention, others have "Get Out!" The terminally ill optimistic girl of "Tumor Jun", the deep but kind heroine of "Hotpot Hero", the female catcher in "Catch the Demon" and so on.
Second, compared with Zhou Dongyu's student sister and Zhang Zifeng's national sister, she is not only a spokesperson for XiaoYi.
Zhang Zifeng really starred in only one movie, "My Sister", and she did not need to mention it in the national sister stage.
Zhou Dongyu's "Young You", "July and Safety", "Later Us" and other youth films and romance films, but commercial blockbusters like "Wulin Monsters" and "Qimen Dunjia" are not OK. She was born in 1992 and is immediately 30 years old, but her image and positioning are still schoolgirls, young lovers of romance films.
The current Zhou Dongyu is still good, but with the growth of the future drama road will definitely be limited.
In addition to "Thirty-Three Days of Lost Love", Bai Baihe's romance films include "Breakup Contract", "Plastic Surgery Diary", "The Five Years That Were Stolen", the quality and results of this movie are honestly not as good as Zhou Dongyu, but she also has a "Get Out!" that can be taken out! Tumor Jun".
The third is that Bai Baihe has a commercial film with an absolute heroine, and even a commercial special effects blockbuster.
This is a bit like Tan Zhuo, Yuan Quan and Ma Li (Ma Li comedy film big heroine positioning is very scarce), Zhou Dongyu currently does not have this kind of work, "three dan one ice" this kind of movie is really getting less and less.
Bai Baihe has the police film "Hotpot Hero" and "Get Out!" "Tumor Jun" this kind of reputation, box office are good genre films, and she absolutely starred in the commercial blockbuster and a "To Catch a Demon", this achievement is currently no Chinese actress has done.
If you count "Hello Lee Huan Ying" may be close, this comedy is not a commercial blockbuster.
Therefore, Bai Baihe's positioning in the Chinese film market is indeed very special, and she really needs an actress like her to come back, so to speak. Bai Baihe is one of the very few Chinese actresses who can play the heroine of love films, the heroine of genre films, and can also pick a big beam to play commercial blockbusters.
I know, many people may say that her image and acting skills are quite similar in these movies, but what about everyone changing their thinking? Is Bai Baihe's style actually versatile? Does the audience watch the play at all?
This kind of image acting is simply unique in the situation of the wild work, and there are other Mesozoic actresses, but chinese actresses who can play the main role of genre films and pick commercial blockbusters are really rare.
Bai Baihe was born in 1984, 35 years old in 2021, her image is beautiful but by no means a big beauty, and she has a pretty but not aggressive "chick" temperament. After several years of precipitation, now we have to add the temperament of a middle-aged woman.
She can take a step back and play the role of neutral women in modern consciousness, such as urban white-collar workers with emotional problems and life problems, family women, etc. (TV dramas have like nursery rhymes, Jiang Shuying movies are really very few), and further can play the heroines of suspense films, reasoning films and other genre films with a more fragile temperament.
This kind of temperament is not possessed by Tan Zhuo, Yuan Quan, Chen Shu and "Three Dan Yi Bing", because their temperament is stronger and more beautiful. At first glance, everyone thinks that they don't look like ordinary urban women who are stalked, insulted, and then spied on, right?
Finally, there are all kinds of commercial blockbusters, and at present, in addition to playing women and comedies, Bai Baihe can definitely hold up.
Of course, when we talked about the development of Bai Baihe, that thing was always avoided at the beginning. She can star in film and television dramas normally, which proves that at least the general direction is not a big problem. That thing is big and small, as long as the business ability is strong, it is actually not a big deal. Bai Baihe's audience base is still there, but because of private matters, he has been defeated by the audience.
The "audience-type" market environment is normal and benign. The previous "fan-type" market environment was much more deformed, acting skills were not as important as brainwashing ability, and good works were not as important as the ability to carry goods. Even if the audience who only buys a movie ticket is large and relatively rational, it is far less than the small number of brainless fans who have the right to speak in front of capital.
Because the public will not rush to the sales volume to participate in what kind of criticism for the stars who have a good feeling, in the fan-type market environment, a male artist will fall sharply because of the normal interaction with his girlfriend, and the bad film has countless fans whitewashing. The current domestic film and television drama is this environment.
This has led some people from normal actor backgrounds to start learning the flow of that set, otherwise it is difficult to survive.
At this time, some people will definitely say that this is not "worse than rotten", as mentioned above. I personally feel that Bai Baihe can rise again not because of how good she is, nor because the current environment is "worse than rotten", but because the current Chinese films really lack her versatile Style Chinese actress.
Finally, I hope that "Door Lock" has a good reputation, quality and box office, and Chinese movies are getting better and better.