The Box Office of Chinese films in 2021 rose and fell with the ups and downs of the epidemic, and finally earned 47.258 billion yuan. The 34th Golden Rooster Awards ceremony at the end of December also presented trophies and honors to filmmakers who worked hard this year.
Bin Ge found an interesting phenomenon from the list of winners of the Golden Rooster Awards.
The four actresses competing for best actress, Liu Mintao is after 70s, Zhang Xiaofei is after 80s, and Zhang Zifeng and Liu Haocun are after 00.
In the clip of the contest movie that was played, all four had crying scenes.
Zhang Zifeng and Liu Haocun's crying scene has a faint girlish sadness, which has a lot to do with their shallow life experience.
Zhang Xiaofei's crying scene is naturally real and just right, which is related to the background of the era in which the characters in the film are located.
Liu Mintao is one of the four people with more rich acting experience and life experience, and a scene in the hospital is easy to put away, and can well show the inner world of the character, with a strong sense of layering.
Bin Ge predicted that the jury should award the best actress trophy to Liu Mintao, but the fact hit Bin Ge's face, and the best actress award was awarded to Zhang Xiaofei.
Throughout the establishment of the Golden Rooster Awards in 1981, the list of best actresses in the previous Golden Rooster Awards is mainly composed of actresses after the 60s and 70s, and the number of post-80s actresses is pitiful.
In addition to the award-winning Zhang Xiaofei, the other two award-winning post-80s actresses are Song Jia and Fan Bingbing.
Song Jia, born in 1980, won the 29th Best Actress Award in 2013 for "Xiao Hong".
Fan Bingbing, born in 1981, won the 31st Best Actress Award in 2017 for "I Am Not Pan Jinlian".
Zhang Xiaofei, who was born in 1986, is in the year of his establishment, which belongs to the age when his career is on the rise in the traditional sense.
Can Zhang Xiaofei's award represent the re-emergence of post-80s mainland actresses?
The big-screen performances of post-60s and post-70s mainland actresses are really wonderful, which is closely related to the era of Chinese film creation blowouts in which they live.
After the 1980s, a group of actresses after the 90s have grown up in the secular era of the literary and art circles and the decline into the entertainment industry.
The film circle is full of impetuous atmosphere of meals, circle money and entertainment supremacy, and now it has degenerated into an idol ecosystem dominated by bad trends such as fan control, mutual stepping, and canvassing.
Bin Ge analyzed that the current post-80s mainland actresses are mainly divided into the following three types, and they all have certain shortcomings, hindering and limiting their development on the big screen.
Young fame, performance ability prematurely overdrawn, representative actors: Jin Ming, Li Xiaolu and Yang Mi.
Among the post-80s actresses, the earliest actress to be active in film and television dramas should be the child star Jin Ming.
In 1990, at the age of 10, she starred in a large number of Qiong Yao dramas, such as "Wan Jun", "Xue Ke", "Qingqing Riverside Grass" and other popular dramas in the 90s, becoming a well-known child star at that time.
However, after growing up, she lost the smart and cuteness of her childhood and gradually faded out of the film and television circle.
In the movie "Chongqing Forest", Jin Chengwu eats expired pineapple canned food, child stars are also afraid of expiration, adolescence is the terminator of child star acting careers, far away there are Xiulan Temple, McCaulay Carkin, near Shi Xiaolong, Hao Shaowen, Jin Ming.
Li Xiaolu is the best actress after the 80s.
In 1987, li Xiaolu, who was only six years old, was lucky enough to star in the movie "I Only Shed Tears Three Times".
In 1991, she was only ten years old, and she played the young Xiaolian in the Taiwan television drama "Young Zhang Sanfeng".
In 1998, on the recommendation of director Chen Chong, she starred in the heroine wenxiu of the movie "Heavenly Bath" and won the best actress at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards that year, and was also the youngest actress in the past Golden Horse Awards.
After 2001, he starred in many love dramas such as "All Angels Are Troubled", "Fairy Tales of Youth" and "My Naughty Angel" have a good reputation. Li Xiaolu's lively and cute appearance coupled with a pleasing character setting has become a favorite of millennials.
However, since marrying Jia Nailiang, Li Xiaolu's painting style has become a bit uncertain, high-profile show of love has become the daily standard, she and rapper PGone in the hotel intimate co-production set as a private gesture dance video flowed out, deeply involved in the marital cheating storm, fame plummeted.
Yang Mi is also a child star debut, in 1992, at the age of six, she played one of the group performances that flashed by the camera in Chou Xingchi's movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", and had no sense of existence.
Guo Xiang, who starred in the 06 version of the Jin Yong martial arts drama series "Divine Eagle Hero", and Tang Xuemi and Xi Yao, who starred in the 06 version of the Jin Yong martial arts drama series "The Legend of the Immortal Sword", began to become famous.
In 2011, the cross-costume drama "Palace" made Yang Mi truly become one of the post-80s hua dan, and the young girl she played, Luo Qingchuan, accidentally crossed to the Qing Dynasty, using her rich historical knowledge to turn the crisis into safety in the strange ancient times, many fans felt that Yang Mi's performance was in line with such a character personality after watching it.
After that, Yang Mi also starred in a series of costume dramas such as "Ancient Sword Qitan", "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Fu Shao" and "Lady Huozhu", while the ratings were high, but the reputation was polarized. From playing a young girl in her twenties to her thirties and still repeating the role of a young girl, she felt that she was not bored, and the audience was tired.
Yang Mi has tried to develop into the film circle, but looking at the movies she acted in, Bin Ge felt that Yang Mi was still suitable for acting in TV dramas.
The "Little Times" quadrilogy, "Why Sheng Zhenmo", "Embroidered Spring Knife" series, "Rescue Against time" and "Baby" reputation collapsed, not to mention that some movies did sell well at the box office, but Yang Mi's acting skills still stayed in the archaeological stage of "Palace".
As Zhang Xiaofei's North Film fellow window, Yang Mi not only became famous quickly, with over 100 million fans, but also had large traffic and high attention, and was the most popular traffic star at the moment, but the performance of the helpless movie was always inferior to the TV series she played.
The performance is highly malleable, but unfortunately the stamina is insufficient, representative actors: Zhang Jingchu, Wang Luodan, Ni Ni.
Zhang Jingchu was one of the most malleable actresses in the 1980s.
The 2005 movie "Peacock" made her stand out after years of dormancy, playing her sister Gao Weihong, who was obsessed with romantic love but could not be obtained, and finally stumbled on her youth, which made people regret. Zhang Jingchu's performance is pure and flexible, playing the stubbornness and persistence of this role with a human touch, and is also one of Bin Ge's favorite screen roles.
She is also one of the most favored and appreciated by Hong Kong directors among the post-80s mainland actresses.
Er Dongsheng asked her to play a drug addict in the movie "Disciple", and she immediately agreed, allowing dirty rats to wander on her.
Lin Chaoxian asked her to star in the movie "Witness" in the single mother Gao Min, seeing her daughter being killed by mistake, she was tormented by emotion, and played a mother who lost her daughter very measured.
Hui Anhua asked her to play "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai", she can bring her identity as a mainlander into this role of Beigu who is abused by her Hong Kong husband, the acting is real and simple, but it also shocks the heart.
Zhuang Wenqiang asked her to play Ruan Wen in "Peerless", one person played two roles, and she could still grasp the differences in personality to shape the role.
However, after "Peerless", Zhang Jingchu has no breakthrough works, and it is unknown when the movies she starred in, "Twenty Years of Northeast Past" and "Three-Body Problem", will be released.
The character played by Wang Luodan can be salty and sweet.
You can play a lively and simple girl, like Millais played in the drama "Struggle" and Qian Xiaoyi in "Who Decides My Youth".
Women who can control complex hearts, such as the abducted girl in the movie "Border Storm" and the lost girl Sumy in "After Forever".
Although she has not won the award of female number one, she has also won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 29th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film for the movie "Search".
It is such an actress who can be regarded as a powerful faction who has always behaved decently in the movie, and every actress wants to become the female number one, but the reality is that Wang Luodan's performance ability cannot be fulfilled for the time being, and playing every supporting role or small role can also be regarded as the accumulation of a performance.
Ni Ni became a girl because of the role of Yumo in Zhang Yimou's movie "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
Just when the audience expected her to become Gong Li and zhang Ziyi's next actress who could make a breakthrough in the film, she was surprised by the movies she starred in, "The Year of Hurry", "The Bride Battle", "28-year-old minor" and "The Legend of Wukong".
None of these movie characters are recognizable, just the kind of mediocre characters who don't have a ripple after they have been adrift.
In the interview, ni Ni, who is very knowledgeable about the movie, chose the movie that rotted so badly that people were speechless. If you want to give an actress award who sounds good but is not skilled in business, it is not Ni Ni.
Now when it comes to Ni Ni, people naturally still think of the yumo she plays, but looking at the long-term development, Ni Ni still has to work harder.
The performance of the series is eye-catching, but the big screen is hot-eyed, representing the actors: Tang Yan, Liu Yifei, Liu Shishi.
Tang Yan's role as Zi Xuan in "The Legend of the Paladin Sword 3" is eye-catching.
Zhao Mosheng of the drama "Why Sheng ZhenMo" is more delicate in emotional processing than Yang Mi's version.
However, the subsequent works are lackluster.
The episode "Cara Lovers" was stolen by Di Lieba.
The movie "Dream Partner" was overshadowed by the acting skills of Yao Chen and Hao Lei.
After marrying Luo Jin, Tang Yan's career temporarily gave way to the family.
Tang Yan's good girlfriend Liu Yifei debuted at the peak and starred in many good dramas.
Bai Xiuzhu of "The Golden Powder Family" was remembered by the audience as this young actress with cute baby fat and bright eyes and bright teeth.
The 03 version of "Tianlong Babu" Wang Yuyan's temperament is dusty, and the immortal qi is fluttering, which can compete with Li Ruotong's version.
Zhao Ling'er of "The Legend of the Paladin Sword" is pure and elegant, Liu Yifei captures the girlish feelings of the character, and it is very consistent with her own delicate temperament, which is the favorite of many immortal fans.
After the little dragon girl of the 06 version of "Divine Eagle Hero", Liu Yifei went straight to the big screen, and the film resources can not be described as rich.
In "The King of Kung Fu", he cooperated with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, two film giants.
In "Love Notice", he played a couple with Wang Lihong, a high-quality idol who has not yet broken the marital cheating scandal.
In "Ghost of a Woman", Gu Tianle and Hui Yinghong are paired.
In "Tongquetai", the ancient beauty Sable Cicada has a rivalry with the shadow emperor Fa Ge.
Even as far away as Hollywood to play "Mulan", let Gong Li, Jet Li and Zhen Zidan circle around her.
But the reality is that these movies are all bad films, it can be said that Liu Yifei's idea of wanting to gallop on the big screen ended due to dismal performances, and he had to return to the small screen to stabilize his popularity and acted in the costume drama "Dream Hualu", which has not yet been broadcast.
Liu Shishi played Ruoxi in the cross-costume drama "Step by Step" to usher in the spring of her acting career, and also met her later husband, Wu Qilong, a member of the Little Tiger Team.
At first glance, Ruoxi will feel that she is cold and dull, but as the plot unfolds, there is a deep tenderness of love under her cold ascetic appearance.
Liu Shishi has a cold face that is not close to anyone, and taking hard photos can look compelling, but it is a taboo for each role to act like déjà vu.
She has also acted in many movies, such as "Detective No Two" and "Embroidered Spring Knife", but unfortunately it is not satisfactory.
Not long ago, she and her husband Wu Qilong were photographed by reporters coming in and out of the hospital, but Liu Shishi has always been low-key, and she has no intention in her performance, and she feels that there is a mentality of being at ease with the encounter.
The collective weakness of post-80s actresses is that they do not treat performances as single-mindedly as post-60s and post-70s actresses, and spend most of their time on improving the level of performance business. Naturally, it is impossible to show such a charismatic and personalized performance as the post-60s and post-70s actresses, and the overall sense of performance existence is generally weak.
The current film and television environment allows actresses after the eighties to choose more exposure opportunities, shoot bad movies, can act in TV series, shoot variety shows without episodes, rely on advertising endorsements when variety shows have no chance, and even sell goods on live broadcasts.
There are also changes in the big film and television environment, the chaos in the early stage of the development of the film market, the intervention of capital, and more emphasis on the flow and fame of actors than the performance strength, which also forces these post-80s actresses to have to make compromises and changes.
Post-80s actresses want to complete the handover of post-60s and post-70s actresses and become the main force in today's Chinese films, and Bin Ge feels that it is still necessary to sharpen the acting skills and cultivate life.
2021 has turned the page, 2022 China's big screen, Bin Ge looks forward to seeing more post-80s actresses charming figures and moving performances, wait and see!