Many people have seen the "Langya List", but they do not necessarily know that Huang Xiaoming is the first candidate of Jiang Zuo Meilang's "Mei Changsu".
In 2011, Hou Hongliang, who was still working at Shanying, bought the copyright of "Langya List" through the strong recommendation of friends, and contacted his Shandong hometown Huang Xiaoming at the first time.
Coincidentally, Huang Xiaoming had just taken over the new drama "Splendid Adventure" at that time, and could only politely refuse the kindness of Hou Dao. This unremarkable work only adds a bit of infamy to the "Jack Sue" personality of the Yellow Sect Lord.
The role of "Mei Changsu" only fell on Hu Ge, who was the first in the net investment and the expectations of everyone.
The gears of fate are so ingenious, "Mei Changsu" has achieved Hu Ge, and Hu Ge has also achieved "Mei Changsu", which shows that the creation of classic plays and classic roles is the result of favorable times and places.
"A roll of storm clouds, full of the world's talents."
In 2015, a "Langya List" completely polished the golden sign of "noonday sun". And the "helmsman" Hou Hongliang, as well as the "soul figures" Kong Sheng and Li Xue, have also become recognized by the audience as a new generation of domestic drama "Iron Triangle".
The Douban score of the costume power plot drama "Langya List" is 9.4, even surpassing historical dramas such as "Yongzheng Dynasty" with a score of 9.3 and "Kangxi Dynasty" with a score of 9.2.
The market popularity of the entire series of IP of "Langya List" has risen to fame, and it is still the peak of the quality and reputation of online adaptations.
How much momentum does this show have?
Even after six years, classic characters such as Mei Changsu, Fei Liu, and Jing Wang are still "active" in the costume editing of major video platforms. Turn on the player late at night and you will find that the person who revisits the "Langya List" still has a basket.
Sure enough, time is the only criterion for testing classics, and the appeal of classics is always timeless.
Huang Xiaoming was not so lucky, and when the noonday sun threw an olive branch at him for the second time, he did not hesitate to seize the opportunity.
However, although director Kong Sheng supported Huang Xiaoming many times in interviews, he could not resist the overwhelming scolding on the Internet.
Therefore, when the official announcement of "Langya List 2" (Wind Rises Changlin) was launched, it was rejected and dissatisfied by many fans and book fans.
The first one has been sealed, and the characters in this story have become "sacred and inviolable" in the hearts of the audience, and the risk of making another "rollover" is too great.
If you can't continue the classic, the "dog tail sable" will ruin the classic.
After all, there are too many examples of "sequel curses", such as "Ode to Joy 2" with a cliff-like rating, "Hong Kong 囧" with double box office reputation, etc., which are all "blood and tear lessons" saved by the audience for big IP.
In the sequel to "Langya List", the news of Huang Xiaoming's starring role is even more "worse", so that a group of drama fans have "turned the road". Before the work began filming, "Langya List 2" has been pushed to the cusp of "public opinion singing decline".
Years have passed, and now four years have passed since the end of "Langya List 2", and "Langya List 3" is also in the list of preparations.
The comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the first and second lists has not stopped so far.
And Huang Xiaoming and Hu Ge, as the souls of the two major dramas of the "Langya List" series, naturally they cannot avoid being taken out and compared repeatedly.
The indisputable fact is that "Langya List" made Hu Ge a god in a battle, and also allowed Huang Xiaoming to regain his confidence as an actor.
After missing the first "Langya List", when the noonday sun threw an olive branch to Huang Xiaoming for the second time, he did not hesitate to seize this opportunity.
The reason why the "Yellow Sect Lord" has been so strongly resisted and dissatisfied is not that the audience is deeply prejudiced against him personally, but that he has indeed pit himself in recent years.
With the "Great Han Tianzi" became a hit and the starting point was quite high, since the performance of "Eagle Hero" in 2006, it is as if the "greasy switch" has been turned on.
Under the interpretation of his evil charm and madness, Yang Guo, who was arrogant and arrogant and extremely affectionate, entrusted the Hong Fu of the Sect Master and became a street who was a wandering skeleton and did not learn any techniques.
Even Mr. Jin Yong did not shy away from commenting: "The actor who plays Yang Guo seems to be playing a very pompous young man, as if he is seducing his master, then I don't like it." ”
And "Deer Ding" and "Summer of Bubbles" successfully brought his "hegemonic" acting skills to the extreme.
The performance is exaggerated, contrived, too strong, and the evil charm smiles semi-permanently.
When encountering a "hegemonic" role, Huang Xiaoming can always make the audience feel physiological discomfort.
As Yu Zheng said: "Actors who want to show their personal charm in the performance process will be called greasy." ”
The greasy performance is weak heart, narcissism, eyebrow squeezing and exaggeration; behind the greasy is Huang Xiaoming's extreme lack of confidence in his acting skills and ability.
Returning to the topic of "Langya List", with Hu Gezhuyu in front, Huang Xiaoming's lack of optimism has become a reasonable established fact.
How deep is Hu Ge's Mei Changsu deeply rooted in people's hearts?
Because the "Mei Changsu" in the play is weak and cold poison, so many viewers now see Hu Ge and will subconsciously feel that he is not in good health.
The reason why Hu Ge can make people so eye-catching is also because the role of Mei Changsu is so different from all the costumed characters before him.
This role is difficult in his "multi-faceted":
In the eyes of the people of Jinling, Mei Changsu was a weak and gentle scholar; in the hearts of the people of the court, he was a fierce and talented strategist; in fact, he was a "national soldier" who had the world in mind and wanted to avenge his father and uphold justice.
But after several years of drama precipitation, Hu Ge is no longer a hairy boy like "Li Xiaoyao", and his performance in "Langya List" has become truly thick and deep.
The whole performance is "convergent", there is no open and closed expression, no exaggerated body movements, and all the changes in emotions are written in Hu Ge's eyes.
Obviously, there is no change in expression, but whether it is a forced smile, a desire to cry without tears, or a nervous depression, pretending to be deep, the audience can immediately feel it. How can such superb processing skills not be impressed.
Hu Ge used his own eyes to embody Mei Changsu's word "hidden forbearance" to the extreme, and completely integrated himself and Mei Changsu in the hearts of the audience.
Through Mei Changsu alone, the audience can hear the sound of Mei Ling's wind, see the 70,000 Red Flame Army fighting the battlefield, and feel the Lin family's loyal and fierce zhengzheng pride.
So that when Mei Changsu finally wrapped ma ge's body and died on the battlefield, countless viewers were immersed in sadness and could not extricate themselves, and they shouted to the screenwriter to be resurrected.
Under the premise of Hu Ge's first battle to become a god, Huang Xiaoming's pressure to pick a beam in the second part can be imagined.
Perhaps "the smaller the expectation, the greater the surprise", after the broadcast of "Langya List 2" in 2017, Huang Jiaobo successfully made everyone drop their jaws: "This person with normal acting skills is actually Huang Xiaoming?" ”
I have to thank director Hou Hongliang, it is his repeated persistence that makes us see that Huang Xiaoming does have acting skills, and also allows him to regain the confidence of the actor.
For Huang Xiaoming, the role of Xiao Pingzhang is like a magic "dish soap-style" oil removal experience.
A good director can train good actors, and Huang Xiaoming in the play is neither "evil charm and madness", nor "hegemonic greasy", but deep and introverted, old and heavy, quite a general style of both culture and martial arts.
Whether it is the brotherly love with Liu Haoran or the love affair with Tong Liya's children, he interprets it just right.
The top director's vision is also poisonous, thanks to director Hou Hongliang's insistence on only looking at the suitability of actors and roles when casting, which makes the godhead have this valuable opportunity to "remove oil", and at the same time save his reputation on the verge of collapse and his rapidly declining acting career.
Compared with Hu Ge's "Mei Changsu", Xiao Pingzhang, played by Huang Xiaoming, does not account for a heavy proportion in the whole drama, sacrificing his life in order to save his brother in 27 episodes, gloriously "offline", and the development of the later plot is based on the growth experience of Xiao Pingjing, played by Liu Haoran.
The entire drama of "Langya List 1" revolves around the main line of "Mei Changsu" to rehabilitate unjust cases, rectify Chao Gang, and Kuang Fu Mingjun, so Hu Ge's role is more important and the test of the actors is also greater.
There is also a clear difference in the difficulty of the role's performance.
"Mei Changsu" is a typical "multi-faceted person", so it is more difficult to "stand" the role.
The "Xiao Pingzhang" has a gentle and loyal personality, steady and knowledgeable, which is a very traditional image of "a long family", and its relative personality characteristics are relatively flat and single, and it is easier to shape.
Although in the preparation of the repertoire, director Kong Sheng and Hou Hongliang were selected according to the principle of "the most suitable actor and role", it is obvious that Hu Ge and the role of "Mei Changsu" are more suitable, and Hu Ge, who has just experienced a car accident and a low point in his life, is simply Mei Changsu himself.
In the play, he changed from the unbridled, dashing and straightforward young genius Lin Shu to the deep and cold, Nirvana return of Mei Changsu; outside the play, he changed from the "Li Xiaoyao" who jumped off the spirit to a deep and introverted literary and artistic youth.
After enduring hardships and being reborn from the fire, Hu Ge understood it better than anyone.
Not only did he know how to "shape the beautiful", but he also knew how to "retain the beauty", so he declined the invitation of the second part: "Mei Changsu has completed the mission, received the box lunch, and it is not suitable for the audience to appear again in the second part."
"Langya List 2" is still produced by Hou Hongliang and supervised by Kong Sheng, but this time there is no ready-made "script", although it is a sequel, but everything has to start from scratch.
Hai Yan, the author of "Langya List 1", agreed to write the script herself, and she was very clever not to continue to write the story of the generation of the Lord of JingWang After Mei Changsu's death.
Instead, it is written directly from the next generation, so that the second and first lists not only have a sense of inheritance between the stories, but also express more themes and contents, so that the story is more watchable.
The more ingenious design is that although the second list is a brand new story, almost every character in it can reflect the characters of the first part, such as "Xiao Pingjing" and "Lin Shu", "Xiao Pingzhang" and "Mei Changsu".
And "Xiao Pingjing" played by Liu Haoran and "Lin Xi" played by Zhang Huiwen are finally the ending of walking away from the imperial court, as if the audience saw the "Lin Shu" and "Neon Phoenix" in parallel time and space: we cut thorns and thorns to protect the mountains and rivers for you, and you also realized the dream of double fate for us.
From the thematic point of view, although both parts are writing about power plots and using power plots to show "family and country feelings, children's feelings", the power struggle in the second part is more "real" and more "delicate".
In the first part, Mei Changsu can stir up the court storm by himself, and even pull several high-ranking officials to get off the horse, there will inevitably be some omissions in logic, so the dispute between the court and the hall in the first part is actually closer to the "cool drama".
In the second part, whether it is Xiao Yuanqi's blackening or the jealousy of the military generals by the civilian official clique headed by the prime minister in the DPRK, people feel real and heart-wrenching: there are no absolute bad people, there are no absolute winners, everyone is doing their best for the country and the people, but they still kill each other because of different positions, and finally the military generals are dusted and the loyal subjects are disgraced.
"In art, tragedies that are achieved by accidents, car accidents, accidents are not good tragedies, and the real good tragedy is that everything is logical, all people are normal, even good, things slide slowly and irretrievably to rout, no winners, no survivors." 」
Therefore, the rout of the Changlin Palace in the second part, the estrangement of Ping Jing and the Little Emperor, will seem so deplorable.
It can be said that in the interpretation of the relationship between monarchs and subjects, the first and second parts are opposites and opposites.
The first part talks about settling grievances and exposing the historical truth of the red flame marshal's loneliness; the second part talks about growth and exposes the logical truth of the relationship between kings and subjects. The two sides penetrate and complement each other.
Overall, "Langya List 2" boldly used new actors and a new story under the condition of ensuring the original team of the production team, and successfully broke the "sequel curse".
After the broadcast, the fans of the "second part of the singing decline" have been really fragrant, and the Douban score has also maintained a super high level of more than 8 points, which is really rare in domestic dramas.
Even if "Langya List 2" is not as good as the first one in terms of casting, structure, characters, soundtrack, logic, etc., it is still worth watching compared with most domestic Mary Sue puppet dramas.