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Since the day it was announced that Li Gengxi played Jiang Ni, the mood of netizens has fluctuated like a roller coaster.
In the first round, Qiao Yingzi passerby's popularity and the doubts and dissatisfaction of the original fans were temporarily tied, until the stills were issued, the public opinion reversed, one was jiang mud drifting snow looking back, full of sadness; a riding photo of the male and female protagonists, the shape was flowing, the wind and dust and wanton of the rivers and lakes were all coming, and the atmosphere was fascinating.
For a time, praise such as "Sister is excellent" and "good plasticity, this is the drama throwing face" will be full of expectations, so fans look forward to the stars and the moon, waiting for a year in an excited mood, and finally opened the positive film on a very ritual day, but found that it was not the same as imagined.
After Xu Fengnian returned home, Jiang Ni first staged an assassination like a child's family; and when Xu Fengnian and Nangong servants talked, there were almost no jiang ni's plays and lines, Li Gengxi played with money strings in the background, and the reaction was like a new crowd performance; and almost every few episodes, there was Xu Fengnian's new red face on the line, and Jiang Ni was even more unremarkable...
Jiang Ni, the third-most beautiful woman on the "Rouge Review" list, was a "woman who really poured out of the country" in her past life, and had "a skin bag that naturally makes men see me with pity". Leaving aside the high requirements of the original party, starting from the episode itself, Li Gengxi's portrayal of Jiang Ni is also unconvincing.
Li Gengxi looks fresh and cute, her expression, posture, lines and actions in "The Sword Line in the Snow" are all alive and free of an adolescent chick, stumbling, love to make trouble, laughing and a little embarrassed, you tell me that this is the princess of the fallen country of Xichu, a hidden woman who bears the hatred of the family and the country? Chen Luyu looked at it and said, "I don't believe it, really."
"Ying Zi is not very suitable for costume dramas, at least not to bring the way of acting in life dramas to costume dramas," commented one netizen. It can be seen that Li Gengxi is still playing the cold, ungrounded classical beauty of Jiang Ni in the way of playing a modern chick, which also makes Li Gengxi and Zhang Ruoyun lack a sense of CP, and the two are more like brothers and sisters.
History is always similar, half a year ago, Zhou Dongyu played the role of the ancients in "Ancient Dust" also encountered a similar public opinion situation, which is not only a matter of acting skills, we will find that the two play a modern chick on the glow, and once to the costume beauty here is not satisfied, why these two roads are so compatible?
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Ghost horse girl, why doesn't the costume work?
Li Gengxi has a pale face, this kind of dull appearance and the grounded role in modern drama is relatively easy to compatible, will appear fresh and natural and unpretentious, but in the system of costume drama, the taste is not quite right.
In the role setting of "Snow In the Sword Line", the title of the heroine is loud, she is the princess of the fallen country of Western Chu, is the confidant of Xu Fengnian, the king of Northern Liang, is the person who will be the female emperor in the future, it can be said that the collection of thousands of auras in one, therefore, Jiang Ni should first be a role that can hold the scene, although she is only a servant of Xu Mansion at the moment, but her princess status gives her nobility, and her tragic life gives her a sense of heaviness and brokenness, so although Jiang Ni is young, her bone noble temperament is outstanding.
Li Gengxi's body is relatively thin, the skeleton is thin, the overall appearance is more juvenile, the clothes in the play often hang down along the thin skeleton, the line is still Qiao Yingzi's tone, very green, which makes her play the noble heroine, lack of the aura that the protagonist should have, and when expressing the strong emotions of love and hate, her performance lacks appeal.
At present, in the emotional interaction with Xu Fengnian, Li Gengxi handled it somewhat lightly, perhaps this is related to the relaxed performance inertia of her previous performance when she played the costume sweet pet light comedy "Flowers Good Moon and Round", but the two dramas are obviously different genres. The relationship between Jiang Ni and Xu Fengnian is like a grand drama of fate, love and hate are too intense, and it is the emotion that the actor can not express by rolling his eyes and pouting.
Zhou Dongyu's appearance in "Ancient Dust" was dissed for the same reason: the appearance lacked a sense of preciousness, and the ancient she played was the most noble existence in the ancient world, the first of the four true gods, the second generation of gods with inheritance, not ordinary little fairies. In fact, for their cuteness and aura, the audience is recognized, but the looks of Li Gengxi and Zhou Dongyu are small and jasper, plus the heroines of these two dramas are minimalist, which is very challenging to the actors' own foundation, which together leads to their light image not being able to support the thick characters.
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As soon as you arrive at the modern chick, you will shine
Unlike the traffic artists who eat by the face, Li Gengxi is a person with acting skills, but her acting skills are only played in specific roles.
A thousand faces is a performance realm that few actors can achieve, many actors who become popular with a type of role will always be said to "act in a way", just like in the eyes of the audience, Zhang Ziyi is always stubborn, Bai Baihe is always energetic, this is not a negative affirmation, a trick to eat all over the sky, Zhou Dongyu and Li Gengxi also occupy a place in their respective fields.
It can be said that as soon as they arrive at the role of chicks, they seem to have entered their own territory and are familiar with the road. Zhou Dongyu needless to say, the aura of the girl and the fame of the three golden shadows are enough to prove her star path and light and heat, and Li Gengxi is the object that netizens will miss every time they take stock of the new generation of small flowers.
People often compare Ouyang Nana, Zhang Zifeng, Guan Xiaotong, Wen Qi, and also pay special attention to Zhou Ye and Zhang Jingyi, who have gained good momentum in recent years, and when it comes to Li Gengxi, the starlight seems to have faded a little, and the audience pays more attention to her role than the actor himself. Therefore, Li Gengxi's ascent road is more dramatic than human.
In the 2019 blockbuster drama "Little Joy", qiao Yingzi, played by her, is a role that has long been overwhelmed by Chinese-style parents, with an introverted and depressed personality, whether it is the opponent scene with Tao Hong in the early stage or the crying scene in the later stage, it is natural and appreciated by the audience. Li Gengxi once said in an interview that "his personality has a place like Qiao Yingzi", and part of it is "starring in his true colors", and he does not feel much pressure.
After that, Li Gengxi continued to "play the true color" in the urban women's group portrait drama "Twenty Not Confused", playing a rich family, a salted fish, playing games as the first priority of the housewife Luo Yan, with a short hair, very boyish, and a femininized Liang Shuang in a dormitory.
It can be said that Li Gengxi and the image of the rebellious student are very matched, her temperament is clean and simple, the slightly drooping corners of the mouth give people a sense of melancholy, she can act in many realistic family dramas, meet the strong, the small universe is explosive, and can also show the delicate and sensitive side under the playfulness in the literary film "Rabbit Violence".
Casting circles have always had a saying called "no matter how good the acting skills are not as good as the actors and roles are similar", if the actors and roles are like, then a role is half successful, under the blessing of acting skills, the actors will form a unique infectious aura with the roles to attract the audience; if the actors and roles have almost no similarities, through the performance to hard concave, it is too difficult, of course, to reluctantly, for the cultivation of acting skills of masochistic actors to say another, obviously Li Gengxi has not yet reached this step.
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Costumed beauties also have mainstream looks,
"Non-mainstream" actresses are not flattering
We will find that whether it is a heroine in a martial arts film, a goddess in a fairy drama or a concubine in a court drama, although their temperament is not the same, there are heroic royal sisters hanging or gentle and dignified hanging, beautiful and charming or sweet little white flower face, but in the end it has little to do with the appearance of youth and childishness.
In addition to looks, most of the modern life dramas belong to the realist system, which requires grounded actors and grounded performances; costume dramas, especially the romantic colors of xianxia, martial arts, and court dramas, are beyond the existence of normal life, and require actors to be as less grounded as possible whether they look or perform, and to pinch some classical, dramatic tones and postures, and other actors in a performance system, will convince the audience.
If the mature classical beauty and romantic performance system is the basic method of playing a good costume beauty, then actresses who look and perform very modernly are actually difficult to get benefits in costume dramas.
In addition, there is no harm without comparison, small cost network dramas are also counted, money is spent on the blade, basically there will be no situation where the main actor is robbed of the limelight, but the S-class network drama is different, and the casting and makeup of the supporting roles are almost the same as the protagonists. It can be seen that whether it is Zhou Dongyu's "Ancient Dust" or Li Gengxi's "Sword Line in the Snow", it is a proper big production, the stars are gathered, and it is really difficult for the two of them not to be "yan pressure" in the costume drama of beautiful women.
In "Ancient Dust", there are Wuhuan played by Zhang Jiani, Yuemi played by Luo Qiuyun, Feng dye played by Zhang Yaqin, and Fengyan of Hani Kezi, although their identities are not as noble as the ancients, but their appearances are exquisite and beautiful.
There are more strange women and beauties on the red face list of "Snow In the Sword Line", The Nangong servant played by Zhang Tianai is a cold female knifeman, the sweet potato played by Mengziyi is bright in temperament, Ding Xiaoying plays the cold blue bird, Wen Yongshan plays Xu Fengnian's second sister Xu Weixiong, and the costume professional Li Chun has not yet appeared, in addition to Shu Shy, Yu Youwei, Princess Sui Zhu, Pei Nanwei and other female group portraits, each with its own style.
In a male frequency drama, Jiang Ni, played by Li Gengxi, wants to compete with these female characters on the same stage, and indeed the win is not big, and it is not strange that the audience is difficult to balance.
As the saying goes, the image is not enough, the acting skills come together. In the late broadcast of "Ancient Dust", Zhou Dongyu won the recognition of the audience with his crying scene, reversing a wave of word of mouth, I don't know if with the advancement of the plot of "The Knife In the Snow", Li Gengxi's performance can gradually enter a better state and reverse the unfavorable start?