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Under thousands of calls, Zhang Ruoyun finally used a "persimmon" to lead out his second "Jack Su" role - Xu Fengnian, the male protagonist of "The Knife In the Snow".
"Qing Yu Nian" is a big hit, "The Knife Line in the Snow" is being broadcast, "Daming Under the Microscope" has only recently been completed, "Huo Go Disease" is to be broadcast, and the sequels of "Qing Yu Nian" and "Snow" are also scheduled early... Just looking at Zhang Ruoyun's works and inventory in recent years, it seems that he has become the best candidate for the "first male protagonist" of the male frequency costume drama.
Zhang Ruoyun's adaptation with the male protagonist of the male frequency drama is manifested in many aspects. When "Qing Yu Nian" was fixed, it impressed the director and producer by relying on the understanding of the role; after the broadcast, it successfully let the audience and the original fans recognize this version of the "Yun-style" Fan Xian with a "drunken poetry" play; Xu Fengnian's history was even more with a bit of the taste of gold fingers: as early as 2017, the original author of "The Sword in the Snow" The Princes of Beacon Theatre had already hand-picked Zhang Ruoyun on Weibo.
As an adaptation of a male novel starring Zhang Ruoyun and written by Wang Tian, "Knife Line in the Snow" naturally carries the high expectations of the audience of "Qing Yu Nian" for the same team. Only this time, Zhang Ruoyun's "hand-picked" male protagonist road is no longer as "Jack Su" as before.
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Zhang Ruoyun, a bit of "Jack Su" talent
The first thing that needs to be defined is the concept of "Jack Sue".
As can be seen from the name, "Jack Sue" and "Mary Sue" are of the same origin, referring to the characters in the artwork who are against the sky, omnipotent, and at the same time the opposite sex is too good to be reasonable. Unlike the protagonist aura of "Mary Sue", which is usually lit up in love relationships, "Jack Sue" will not focus too much on the love of children, relying on goldfinger to hang all the way to the peak of life is their main task. Open a harem? It is barely a small pastime on the road to fighting monsters and upgrading.
With this definition, the male protagonists of male frequency dramas are not all "Jack Sue", basically in addition to the adaptations of those ancient male frequency novels, most of the male protagonists of suspense, history, power plots, espionage and other themes still belong to the normal and acceptable category. In these few classic male IP adaptations, Zhang Ruoyun has formed a more or less fate with three of them.
As mentioned earlier, Fan Xian of "Qing Yu Nian" was won by Zhang Ruoyun, Xu Fengnian of "The Sword In the Snow" was hand-picked by the author, and the role of Ning Yi in the fire at the beginning of this year was also originally intended to invite Zhang Ruoyun to star. Coincidentally, if you only look at the types of episodes and original descriptions that Zhang Ruoyun has starred in in the past, none of the three protagonists is similar to Zhang Ruoyun.
In the original description, Fan Xian and Xu Fengnian are all world-famous handsome princes, and even Cat Ti also used sentences such as "handsome and matchless in appearance, especially better than women" when describing Fan Xian in the text, which is why Zhang Ruoyun was not optimistic in the early days of Fan Xian's casting announcement.
Zhang Ruoyun, who just debuted, basically played around in historical revolutionary dramas such as "Black Fox" and "Snow Leopard", and there was a difference of 25,000 miles with adjectives such as "Junxiu" and "Qinggui"; later he starred in works such as "Heartless Mage", "Sparrow", "Forensic Qin Ming" and other works to make a name for himself, but at the same time he was labeled as a "handsome man in uniform". The impression of military uniforms and suits on people or hormones or abstinence directly put Zhang Ruoyun on the opposite side of "femininity".
The audience's imagination of Zhang Ruoyun's character began in "Kyushu Sky City". In the play, Yu Huangfeng Tianyi, played by Zhang Ruoyun, is set to be "the first beauty in Lanzhou", which is beautiful to the point where the heroine blurted out "you are so beautiful" at the first time in the first episode. When zhang Ruoyun was first seen wearing blue beautiful pupils, the audience was confused, shocked, and did not accept, thinking that Zhang Ruoyun, who came to play such a "beauty", was not self-sufficient, and the terrier of "bumping face husky" also began to appear since then.
Unexpectedly, as the plot progressed, the audience not only accepted Zhang Ruoyun's "enchanting beauty" setting, but also spontaneously created two creations, so that His Majesty Yu Huang became a man who "changed the aesthetics of Station B" at that time, opened the video, licked the screen bullet screen paste several layers, and could hardly see the figure.
In the same situation, the ending of Fan Xian, who transferred to the "good-looking woman", is still the same, even without the blessing of Yu Huang's enchanting appearance, "Yun-style Fan Xian" is still the most accepted male protagonist in the male frequency IP adaptation. I have to say that Zhang Ruoyun has a little talent for holding this kind of role with some "Jack Sue" feeling.
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Bking is necessary, greasy is a must
I know what kind of person Xu Fengnian is in "The Sword In the Snow"? Under the question, the most concise answer is the word "forcing the king". The words are not rough, Xu Fengnian in the pen of the Princes of beacon drama has a gully, money and power, and a clumsy boy to do pie, which is a BKing with a full "Jack Su" flavor.
Since the news of the film and television of "Knife Line in the Snow", the enthusiasm of book fans for film and television casting has remained high. Judging from the results of the discussions on various platforms, the most vocal Xu Fengnian candidate among the book fans is Chen Kun in the "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" period.
The reason why fans are optimistic about Chen Kun, in addition to the appearance of "factory flower" Chen Kun and Xu Fengnian's "feminine" and "northern and southern phases", Chen Kun himself and the ten-year BKing feeling of the roles he has played in the past are also one of the reasons for being favored, it can be seen that the "Jack Su" male protagonist needs BKing.
There are rumors on the Internet that the original author Beacon fire is to see Zhang Ruoyun's BKing performance in "Kyushu Sky City" and fell in love with him, and Zhang Ruoyun himself has labels such as "Zhang Senior" and "High Double Shang", which also makes him carry a bit of BKing temperament.
However, whether it is Yu Huang or Fan Xian, it is not an easy task to firmly hold the gap between BKing and "greasy". The reason why Zhang Ruoyun can come and go freely in the role of BKing has a lot to do with his own laxity.
First of all, Zhang Ruoyun did not have a cognition of his appearance beyond his own conditions. When Zhang Ruoyun was found in the script of "Kyushu Sky City", he joked with the director: "Do you see my face like a beautiful man?" "If self-awareness is not excessive, you can pay more attention to the use of acting skills to replace the characters in the follow-up performance process, rather than relying on innate conditions to "bully the face".
At the same time, although Zhang Ruoyun, who is not "beautiful", is different from the original image, it is very much in line with the expectations of male audiences for the male protagonist: not "idol", not "beautiful", but the shoulders and legs are long with a sense of Su, which is related to hormones.
Secondly, whether a BKing is in danger of falling into greasiness lies more in the daily personality displayed by the artist itself, and repeatedly jumping on the edge of greasiness without crossing the line is the basic quality of a qualified BKing. It just so happens that Zhang Ruoyun's daily life is often between "pretending" and "teasing".
In the variety show "Star Detective", Zhang Ruoyun tops the "Zhang Senior" personality, bears the expectation of "brain value", and walks the route of "nice body", how to see that it is a person who is very easy to overturn in the detective team, but at the same time he is also the "timid responsibility" of the Ming Detective, and the "lamp-controlled IQ" that comes from fear of darkness is famous. Pushing the murderer into the rational logic, retreating can be directly frightened by the NPC to kneel, this sense of relaxation that should take Fan NaFan, should admit it and admit it has greatly reduced the feeling of being "holding" as bKing, and guarding the "greasy" safety line.
Of course, the above "advantages" need to be based on the acting skills that can be obtained. Zhang Ruoyun's attitude towards acting has always been rigorous and serious, and each BKing character has been designed and shown certain characteristics outside of their BKing. Fan Xian in the original text is a teenager who "smacks his mouth and smiles with a little shyness", so the 30-year-old Zhang Ruoyun really performs Xiao Fan as a little cute; Xu Fengnian is a Northern Starling Shizi who grew up in the royal palace, in order to perform Xu Fengnian's noble youth, Zhang Ruoyun lost twenty pounds, and finally the effect presented in front of the camera was really as said in the play, "there is a little bit of nobility after washing".
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Fan Xian, Zhang Ruoyun's acting skills are capped?
The candidate is suitable, but Zhang Ruoyun, who fought against "Jack Su", was not treated as well as Xiao Fan. Judging from the feedback from the audience, most of them feel that Xu Fengnian and Fan Xian are too similar, and from Zhang Ruoyun's performance, they do not see a very sharp difference between the two roles.
A reader of the original book of "Knife Line in the Snow" told Xingfan that the reason for this perception was related to Zhang Ruoyun's treatment on the one hand, and on the other hand, he believed that the original work of "In the Snow" was different from the tone of "Qing Yu Nian" and was not suitable for the adaptation style of some comedy colors now. "If it was filmed like "Will Night", the effect might be better, and now it is too similar to Fan Xian's personality."
In any case, Zhang Ruoyun has played this kind of clever and funny, casual and somewhat serious role in the three dramas of "Qing Yu Nian", "Son-in-law" (cameo) and "Snow In the Sword Line", and the similar personality that follows not only makes the actor himself have the risk of falling into a stereotype in his performance, but also the audience's attitude towards him has changed from the wide recognition of the "Qing Yu Nian" period to "Is his acting ceiling to Fan Xian?" ”
Fortunately, however, Zhang Ruoyun was very aware of his situation. The explosion of "Qing Yu Nian" allowed him to grasp more initiative in casting, so it can be seen that after "In the Snow", Zhang Ruoyun obviously focused on the small people.
In the "Police Honor" that was just finished last month, Zhang Ruoyun changed the "Jack Su" male protagonist route and played a trainee police officer Li Dawei who was admitted to the police station at the bottom, dealing with the chicken and garlic of the neighborhood in the police station every day, and it seems that there should be no chance to achieve the plot of "big male protagonist counterattack".
In "Daming Under the Microscope", adapted from Ma Boyong's historical novel, although Zhang Ruoyun is also the first male protagonist to learn to bully, this time Shuai Jiamu lost the protagonist's aura protection, and he also had the various masters who escorted him around him, just a small grass-roots civil servant in the Huizhou Silk Silk Case, who could not fight the high-ranking people and could not stop the historical torrent of the building that would fall, and could only become a victim of political struggle, hiding in Tibet and fleeing from pursuit.
However, whether Zhang Ruoyun's BKing temperament, which is quite naturally integrated with male frequency dramas, is suitable for meeting small people, and it is still uncertain, and only after "Police Honor" and "Daming Under the Microscope" are broadcast can we see the real chapter. I believe that Zhang Ruoyun also looks forward to proving to the audience at that time that Zhang Ruoyun's possibility is not limited to Fan Xian.