The number one cinema understands Miss (topcinema original, strictly prohibited to reprint)
The most concerned domestic drama at the beginning of the year is "The Beginning".
At present, it is updated to 8 episodes, Douban has more than 90,000 comments, and the opening score is as high as 8.2, giving a beautiful "beginning" for domestic dramas in 2022.
This drama, produced by the famous Noonday Sun, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jinjiang Literature City Prayer Jun, has exceeded 100 million in just two days after it was launched, and "watched 6 episodes/8 episodes in one breath", becoming the most common comment under the list of this drama.
If you want to say why "Beginning" is so popular with the public, the most important point is to be "new".
It tells the story of game architect Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting) and college student Li Shiqing (Zhao Jinmai) who are resurrected again after encountering a bus explosion, repeatedly falling into the cycle of "bus explosion", trying to find the real culprit and stop the explosion.
This kind of "time loop" type of film, although not a minority, "Source Code", "Groundhog Day", "Horror Cruise", "One Day"... However, in domestic film and television dramas, it is rare to dare to open the time loop setting and challenge the logic of super intensity. And "The Beginning" is the first TV series of this genre in China.
Therefore, as soon as "Beginning" was launched, the freshness brought by this "one-day loop" with reasoning and suspense blessing made countless infinite stream fans can't help but get on their heads, and quickly attracted the attention of the public.
Most importantly, "Beginning" also carries the audience's expectations for more genres and more novels with fresh themes in the future, adapted into film and television dramas. Therefore, it is not only to find the "beginning" of the bus bombing in the story, but also the "beginning" of infinite streams or other "crossing" and "parallel universe" theme film and television dramas.
In addition to freshness, the reason why "Beginning" is widely acclaimed is that the actors' performances are delicate and firm, and they make the audience more convincing about the development of the entire storyline. Li Shiqing, played by Zhao Jinmai, faced with a sudden explosion, when the first death entered the cycle, his body trembled and he was in a cold sweat, which was the appearance of falling into extreme fear.
Xiao Heyun, played by Bai Jingting, when calculating who on the bus was most likely the murderer of the bomb, found that the detonator was an aunt who was sitting by the window and was a little indifferent, and the pot she was holding in her hand was the hiding place of the bomb.
In order to make the bus no longer explode and rescue the people on the bus, Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing wanted to throw the pot out at all costs, but the rest of the people on the bus did not dare to come forward to help the two, so that Li Shiqing almost died under the murderer's dagger, Xiao Heyun was full of anger, desperate and desperate to kill, and took Li Shiqing to escape from the bus.
The whole performance is full of water, his eyes are full of hope and filled with despair, so that we who are off the screen can't help but be angry and anxious.
Zhang Cheng, a policeman played by Liu Yijun, can detect his carefulness and sensitivity with one action and one look, and there is always a strong sense of oppression in the face of "suspects".
But I never expected that among the powerful actors, the one with the most slots and the most dramatic scene was Liu Tao, who played the director of the Public Security Bureau, "Du Bureau".
This role should be serious and capable, a short hair, heroic posture, calm and calm, but Liu Tao has become the most contradictory character in the whole play - frowning, pretending to be serious, not smiling, every shot is like a copy paste, almost the entire play is this expression.
In the play, the wig worn by Liu Tao is particularly dramatic, and it has also been complained about by many viewers.
But Liu Tao makes people play, not to mention a wig.
As the person in charge of the entire explosion case, the director played by Liu Tao should have a keen perception, decisive decision-making ability, and is an imposing and leading figure, but in the whole performance, the temperament is too weak and seems particularly rigid.
The thick wig set makes her overall style become very jumpy, and the temperament of Liu Tao's domineering female president is condensed clean, but it is more like a flat, passerby ordinary policewoman.
Some viewers even said, "I really didn't recognize Liu Tao without looking at the cast list."
Especially in the recent past, there are two powerful actors who also play female police, and the female policewoman played by Liu Tao is even more dull and tasteless.
One is Wu Yue, who plays the two-faced character He Yun in "Sweeping the Black Storm".
At work, she has a full aura, and in the face of interrogators, she has the ability to be meticulous in logic, and she can get useful clues in three words.
Calm and self-sustaining, the ability to control human nature is extremely strong.
But on the other hand, she is also the umbrella of the fierce and vicious black forces, and when her son Sun Xing, who has done all the bad things, comes to bring her a birthday cake, she meets her niece, a righteous Huang Xi.
The three of them met, He Yun initially tried his best to control himself to remain calm, persuaded Sun Xing to leave, his body could not help but tremble when he made a wish, and when Sun Xing went out, he stared at him deadly, and when Sun Xing picked up the knife and faced Huang Xi, He Yun's emotions finally broke out, making him roll fast.
Before and after the judgment of two people, the performance tension is extremely strong, on the one hand, she is a mother, on the other hand, she is a policeman, the double "role" makes her face different characters separated, and the emotional outburst also indicates that there is no room for all this to be recovered.
It is also this complex and diverse role that makes Wu Yue, who plays He Yun, once again attract attention with his strength.
"Playing 'He Yun'", "Acting benchmark", "Underrated acting school"... It has become the label of her acting career, like a flower of appreciation, blooming with great affection.
The other is the female policewoman "Old Duan" Duan Yingjiu in the recently well-known spy drama "Opponent" - Yan Bingyan.
Old Duan was very busy and did not have time to take care of her family, so she put all her energy and time into her own work and arrested spies. Her husband, children, and mother became the people she owed the most, because she was addicted to work, her husband filed for divorce, and the children were almost unwilling to communicate with her too much.
In order to work, she can put on tattoos and go undercover on the ground floor; in order to catch suspects when she has the opportunity, she exercises daily.
"Old Duan", for his own police career can pay for life, and Yan Bingyan, who plays "Old Duan", is also willing to pay everything for his acting career.
She said, "Duan Yingjiu is a leader of the action group who can chase, run and fight, so I went to the gym." I usually have all aspects of physical fitness, I have also practiced boxing, and I am a dancer, so I have no problem playing. The only problem is that I am not tall, only 163 (centimeters), if the fight scene encounters a slightly stronger person, I flip my hand and shake the person to the ground, who believes? I hired a fighting coach and wanted to practice tendon meat. In order to better fit duan Yingjiu's busy image, she appeared in the camera completely plain and cut her waist-length hair short.
Becoming Duan Yingjiu is Yan Bingyan's pursuit in "Opponent". She said: "The more transparent you are, the cleaner you are, the more you throw into the crowd without features, the more likely you are to get close to the character itself for every role you get." ”
Therefore, instead of changing the shape, reading a few lines is equivalent to the people in the play, the audience needs a sense of substitution, and what is needed is the integration of actors and characters. Good characters shine, good actors make people reminisce, and the audience's eyes are shining.