During this time, the new drama with the most noisy drums and firecrackers is "Lady Hu Zhu".
Before it started broadcasting, the crew of "Lady Hu Zhu" has been lively like buying a house on the hot search.
The front foot has just announced the date of the file, and all the actors have introduced the role in a fancy way; the back foot has been arranged with the protagonist's contemplative version poster, the double version of the beautiful version of the poster, the refining version of the trailer, the OST full lineup, special effects, tidbits and other hot searches.
Is this a constant residence on the hot search list?
Not to mention, the "main dish" has not yet been launched, and the number of broadcasts of tidbits and trailers has reached 180 million times, so the huge popularity has been ridden in the domestic drama.
The precursor of "Lady Hu Zhu" has a trace to follow. The starring lineup of first-line small flowers and popular male actors, the production of a number of explosive costume idol drama genres, and the original novels with small achievements in the online literary circle -
Success stories of this combination of punches abound.
Among them, Yang Mi, the heroine of "Lady Huozhu", is a winning general in this field. However, how did Yang Mi, who once shouted to be a "people's art actress", return to the hotbed of ancient puppet dramas?
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Is this Fanghai City or Bai Qian?
Just kidding: "Lady Hu Zhu" is actually a "cross-over drama".
The shape and makeup of the heroine Fang Haishi seem to have traveled back to "Fu Shao" three years ago; and when Fang Haishi shouted the male protagonist "Master" 132 times in the first 6 episodes, he had the familiarity of dreaming back to "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms".
As for the picture of Yang Mi and Chen Weiting in the same frame, under the blessing of the two people's unremitting and unchanging performance methods over the years, there is a sense of Feng Qingxue of "Ancient Sword Qitan" and the sense of the master brother Lingyue continuing the frontier.
Coincidentally, every time Yang Mi plays a new ancient puppet heroine, he often carries traces of his past roles, perhaps this is not forgetting his original intention.
Whether it is women dressed as men, past lives and this life, master-apprentice sadism and other bridges, or the beautiful scenery with melodious lyrical background music with flowers and flowers flying at every turn, Yang Mi has performed ancient puppet dramas over the years, and each one is a random mix and match of the above elements.
Comes with BGM: Cool Sansheng III suddenly like a dream...
It seems difficult to say whether Yang Mi's popularity created the great success of the ancient puppet dramas she starred in, or whether these ancient puppet dramas achieved Yang Mi's gradual rise in commercial value.
But what is obvious to all is that whenever she picks up her own handy theme, what follows is the brilliance of traffic and data -
"Ancient Sword Qitan" took two months to break the record of the number of views that "The Biography of Zhen Huan" took one or two years to reach, and the story of Feng Qingxue and Baili Tusu's change of life against the sky was noisy for a whole summer;
"Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" became a phenomenon-level hit in 2017, with more than 50 billion plays making the same period of dramas beyond reach, and the theme song "Cool" was even more resounding through the streets;
Under the premise of flat rating and word-of-mouth performance, the ratings of "Fu Shao" stood out from the summer files of each magic, and there were 8 keywords dominating the weibo hot search in one day...
If you don't look at the male protagonist, is this white or shallow or fu sha?
In the past ten years, ancient puppet dramas have almost boosted Yang Mi to climb to the small peak of every popularity, and the myth of Yang Mi", "carrying dramas" and "carrying ratings" has also been staged tirelessly. The male actors who partnered with her, some became popular, and some ushered in the second spring of their careers.
It's just that in the increasingly homogenized roles, passers-by can't forget Yang Mi's early performance in costume dramas, such as the delicate and agile Guo Xiang in "Divine Eagle Hero", or Tang Xuejian with clear eyes and straightforward and bright eyes in "The Legend of the Paladin Sword 3".
From the fledgling Guo Xiang and the up-and-coming Tang Xuejian to the overnight popular Luo Qingchuan, the ancient puppet drama records Yang Mi's journey from lonely and nameless to a line of Hua Dan, and also left her best years.
But when they arrived in Fanghai City, people found that even if the 35-year-old Yang Mi wore exquisite makeup, he could not cover up the fine lines in the corners of his eyes and could not find the light in his eyes.
And the girl who called herself "Little Fox" on the blog and occasionally sent some sad words has become a mother and has transformed into a powerful power that is good at self-blackening and has a strong heart.
Yang Mi's blog diary in his early years.
Because of this, after "Lady Hu Zhu", when another ancient puppet drama "Jiaozang" officially announced that the heroine was Yang Mi, people were talking about it: Yang Mi, who is about to enter middle age, can he still play a teenage girl?
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Leave the ancient doll
Is the big power OK?
The fear of not being able to receive the drama when he first debuted made Yang Mi once refuse to turn away the opportunity to be accessed.
She once shot five plays in four months, shuttling back and forth between different crews, trying to replace quality with quantity, "Maybe I've done more, and everyone will pay attention to me."
How fierce is Yang Mi of the "Desperate Three Ladies"? In 2011, when she became popular all over the country with "Palace Lock Heart Jade", she was present in a total of 10 TV series and 2 movies. It can be said that every month you can see Yang Mi on TV.
How many people stayed up late to watch the show's finale?
For Yang Mi, whose number of works has been several streets away from his peers, the proportion of ancient puppet dramas is really insignificant, and it probably maintains the frequency of one film every two or three years.
But if you want to say Yang Mi's masterpiece within three seconds, in addition to the famous "Little Times", the first thing you can think of may be an ancient puppet drama.
Even though Yang Mi tried to restrain herself from the cliff after becoming famous, stressing several times in interviews that "the mentality of wanting to be a good actor has not changed", her several riveted efforts to transform have had little effect.
The first attempt was 2015's I Am a Witness. In order to play the role of the blind, Yang Mi walked into the blind experience hall, asked the blind masseuse for advice, and observed the life of the blind, but still failed to save the lack of stamina of the movie, and ended in a hurry with 215 million box office.
Later, she gave up her usual bright and beautiful image and played a marginal person in "Baby"; in "Rescue Against Time", she played three roles with very different personalities; challenged the cold female villain in "Assassination of a Novelist"...
The Slayer of Assassination of the Novelist.
On the one hand, Yang Mi can't wait to show her determination to transform, and on the other hand, her stylized performance has repeatedly failed on the big screen.
No matter how much she thinks about the selection of themes and characters, when her performance is specifically presented in the work, people can still see the shadow of Lin Xiao in "Little Times".
At that time, some media pointed out that the word-of-mouth box office loss of "Baby" "sounded the alarm bell for traffic stars", and the film critic "Water Monster" made a sharp evaluation:
"Traffic stars used to make money through various commercial films and variety shows, excessively overdrawing the public image, and now want to seriously perform a literary and art film, everyone has not trusted much, it is easy to have a rebellious psychology."
Can the world's Andrew Shuangquan law not only overdraft itself for the traffic that can be realized at any time, but also gain a good reputation as a "people's artistic actor"?
When Yang Mi rolled between multiple crews and developed a set of assembly line copy and paste expressions, this set of roots has been laid, "so that when she finally thought about her brain, she didn't know how to live."
Li Shaohong commented on Yang Mi.
More than ten years after becoming a first-line small flower, Yang Mi has never stopped his pace, and even in the year of production, the works are still released one after another.
The flood of job opportunities has made Yang Mi no longer flustered because she can't receive the play, but she has never been able to find a role that really breaks through herself.
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"85 Flowers" that have been red for ten years
Go?
The comparison between Yang Mi, Liu Shishi, Liu Yifei, and Tang Yan, who was born a few years earlier, these actresses collectively known as "85 Flowers" is a common topic on the Internet.
A history of the Immortal Sword, half of the history of the "85 Flowers". Liu Yifei's Zhao Ling'er has become the white moonlight in the hearts of a generation, while Yang Mi, Liu Shishi, and Tang Yan have all initially experienced the taste of soaring popularity from "The Legend of the Paladin Sword 3".
This batch of small flowers that survived from the Xian Xia drama caught up with the last glory of The Chinese TELEVISION media and greeted the first dividends of the traffic era, but they have not been able to regain their original reputation in the development of the next few years.
Zhao Ling'er played by Liu Yifei. /The Legend of Paladin
Tang Yan went around in a group of silly white and sweet roles, and Zi Xuan in the Xianjian period is still regarded as the peak of her acting career;
Liu Yifei first turned to the big screen, but repeatedly stumbled in the role of mediocre response, returning to the ancient puppet drama "Dream Hualu" this year;
Liu Shishi was low-key and Buddhist after marriage, and in recent years, she starred in the drama "Dear Myself" and "Flowing Golden Years", and the score hovered below 7 points...
It is quite embarrassing that when the post-90s Xiaohua has been promoted to the "three gold" film queen, the post-00s Xiaohua has mushroomed, and these post-85 actresses are still competing with the latecomers for the same type of drama.
Zhou Dongyu is the first post-90s "three gold" film queen. /"Young You"
If the age of the role played by the post-85 actress has been downward compatible, they will squeeze the living space of the latecomers, resulting in more difficult for post-90s and post-00 actresses to contact roles with similar age and big IP.
So you will find that although the number of post-90s and post-95 actresses is piled up, and many of them have been groping for many years, they have not yet formed a climate that competes with the "85 Flowers", such as Guan Xiaotong, Song Zu'er, Yang Zi and so on.
These first-line "85 flowers" that have been popular for more than ten years are weak, on the one hand, it is closely related to their own strength is not hard enough and the screen image is solidified, on the other hand, it is because the good roles suitable for "30+ actresses" in the market are more monks and less porridge.
Looking at domestic dramas and movies in recent years, there are only a few outstanding middle-aged female characters. Two years ago, Haiqing called for more opportunities for middle-aged actresses at an awards ceremony, which resonated widely with actresses of the same age.
The real dilemma of "middle-aged actresses" fell on "85 Flowers" one step ahead of time, and in the face of a sense of crisis, they also experienced struggles.
Some people become part of capital to promote new people in their own company; some people choose to give more time to their families after many years on the screen; they may also refer to the practice of the previous generation of small flowers, when the director hides behind the scenes...
As a post-90s audience who witnessed the "85 Flowers" all the way, what makes me most emotional is that internal entertainment has always been talented people in the jiangshan generation, only to see new people laughing, not to see old people crying.
Reference articles
[1] "Ancient Sword Qitan" ranked first in the network with 2 billion views, breaking the record for the synchronization of hot dramas / people's network entertainment channel
[2] "Fu Shao" ended with tens of billions of traffic, and the big data explained the road to the explosion / Yien Network
[3] Yang Mi's "Baby" box office word-of-mouth double loss to traffic stars sounded the alarm bell / Beijing Daily
[4] Easy time 20151025: The dream of being a good actor has not yet been realized