Recently, a "fantasy theme" ancient puppet drama "Mirror Twin Cities" has been brushing the screen one after another!
Li Yifeng, worthy of the costume male god and one of the first generation of "four top streams", "Mirror · Twin Cities" once broadcast, the heat burst, the first broadcast broke 100 million, the male protagonist Li Yifeng connected to 4 hot searches, the first generation of top stream is worthy of the name!
However, this phenomenon is not a good thing for Li Yifeng personally, but it is very ironic.
I thought that Li Yifeng's "Mirror Twin Cities" is another blockbuster drama after Zhang Ruoyun's "Knife Line in the Snow", and I watched an episode with great interest, which is the so-called costume drama? It's hard to put into words!
Say good yin dove handsome, amazing Su Mo, said good delicate and resolute, I see the pitiful white Ying?
Not to mention the ordinary audience, even the original author Cangyue will be disappointed to see this drama!
In other words, Zhang Ruoyun's "Sword In the Snow" premiered and failed in martial arts instruction, and the whole drama was crushed by the drama, in addition, other actors, scripts and other factors did not have too many hard injuries.
And "Mirror · Twin Cities" first does not talk about the actor's acting skills, script lines, just talk about playing, even directly with a stroke, shooting is not filmed, although it is "mysterious", martial arts action is completed by special effects, the so-called mirror flower water moon, but also rely on the combination of imagery. This unfazing general storyline is not only a huge "insult" to the original party, but also a cloud of fog and confusion for the drama chasing party.
"Mirror Twin Cities" is so perfunctory, it is no wonder it has been ridiculed by the crowd!
To tell the truth, Li Yifeng and Chen Yuqi, these two actors are quite liked, but in this play, the performance of the two really dare not compliment.
The heroine Chen Yuqishan from the appearance point of view, the appearance is indeed a bit stunning, can meet Tang Yan, the "boss", really can be regarded as a fortunate thing in life, high-quality resources one after another, such as "Yi Tian Slaughter Dragon Record" partnered with Zeng Shunxi, "Two Worlds Happy" partnered with Yu Hazy, and "Heavy Fire on the Moon" partnered with Luo Yunxi, even the supporting roles are top resources ("Splendid Wei Yang" and "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost").
Facts have proved that like Li Yitong, it is difficult for Chen Yuqi to play no matter how many big heroines.
Not all actors can be popular, and some actresses are "born cold"!
On the day of the launch of "Mirror Twin Cities", not only Li Yifeng was on the hot search, but the heroine Chen Yuqi was also controversial and became the object of ridicule by the netizen group.
29-year-old Chen Yuqi, beautiful and beautiful, but the role of Bai Ying, who she played, somehow appeared so "tasteless" in the play, there was not much progress in acting, it could only be said that it was mediocre, cookie-cutter ancient puppet routine, and the shape did not feel any aura or immortality.
Li Yifeng, who is 34 years old, has traces of age on his face, and there is indeed some unspeakable sense of violation in re-acting in ancient puppet dramas.
Judging from the poster, Li Yifeng and Chen Yuqi are very stunning, and the costumes can be described as equal, but after watching a few episodes, I have to admire their strength and acting skills, and their courage is commendable!
The storyline of the script is in the clouds, as if there is a head and a hand, the contradiction and conflict is like IQ arrears, the thrilling, gripping cloud famine story in the original work has been changed into a pool of stagnant water, and the plot depends on the audience's own brain.
The male and female protagonists have no sense of CP, how to see how embarrassing, whether it is a plot problem or an acting problem, it is impossible to accurately identify.
In this way, "Mirrors of Twin Cities" is already helpless!
After Jin Daxia (Jin Yong), the martial arts fell lonely, the xianxia rose, a large number of fantasy dramas one after another flourished, unfortunately, whether it is martial arts, or xianxia, the "chivalrous" is getting lower and lower, the reputation of the costume film and television market is getting worse and worse, from the current development trend, the ancient puppet drama has almost become synonymous with "bad drama".
Today's ancient puppet dramas can be called "domestic horror films", and the hot-eyed plot is not impressive!
Why don't today's young actors have acting skills?
At the end of the day, traffic is the original sin!
In 2005, a "Legend of the Paladin Sword" came out, directly opening a "new era" of domestic ancient puppet dramas, and latecomers flocked to it and followed suit, but they tried and failed, and failed repeatedly.
Second, it is Yang Mi and Li Yifeng's "Ancient Sword Qitan", And Li Yifeng's Baili Tusu, played by Li Yifeng, has become the standard template for the male protagonist of the ancient puppet drama, and the latecomers have also failed.
Third, Zhao Liying and Huo Jianhua's "Flowers and Bones", this time Zhao Liying has become the heroine of the public eye, and has become the imitation object of the heroine of the ancient puppet drama, which has continued to this day.
Since the above two dramas exploded, the ancient puppet drama no longer reproduces the glory of the "Immortal Sword" of that year, as for the martial arts drama, not to mention, the more it is filmed, the worse it is, the remake is, and a classic is destroyed, such as Zhang Yishan's remake of "Deer Ding" in 2020, with a Douban score of 3.2, directly refreshing the lowest record in history!
Do today's ancient puppet dramas need acting skills?
In the past, in the show business circle, directors would let actors personally experience the bottom life for a drama, and truly achieve the so-called "virtue and art double xin"!
The times have changed, the actor's "original intention" has changed, most of the current traffic actors lack life experience and acting skills, before shooting a drama, the director first found the most suitable actor for the role, like Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu, Weng Meiling's Huang Rong, are still insurmountable classics. Now, in order to maximize the interests of investors, they usually consider the actors with the largest traffic first, and the actor's acting skills are secondary, as long as their fans pay the bill.
With this "Mirror • Twin Cities", Li Yifeng wants to return to the glory of "Ancient Sword Qitan" that year, which is impossible. You know, whether it is a man or a woman, after 30, it will be "deformed" (getting old, getting fat, becoming greasy), which is an established fact, and the actor is no exception, and the most basic conditions for actors who shoot ancient puppet dramas must have a figure, appearance, age is best to keep below 30, so that the audience looks like a feeling, otherwise it may become the object of the audience's complaints, Yang Mi's partner Chen Weiting's "Lady Hu Zhu" is an example.
Where "Xian Jian" was filmed, Hu Ge was 23 years old, Liu Yifei was only 16 years old (some people say 18 years old), the two were full of collagen, and their slightly naïve but natural acting skills, which made it an irreproducible classic.
Today, the 34-year-old Li Yifeng has killed back to the ancient puppet drama, once again playing a personable teenager, the sense of violation is self-evident, and the netizens have complained vigorously, for li Yifeng, who was a former costume male god and one of the four top streams, it is a great irony, and it is also the sadness of the domestic ancient puppet drama!
As the saying goes, success is also traffic, and failure is also traffic!
People to middle age, if there is no hard work to get their hands on, the red actors, will also be eaten by traffic, no one is stupid, from the perspective of Li Yifeng's works in the past two years, Zheng Kaisi in "Animal World" in 2018, Gu Yaodong in "Hidden and Great" in 2020, as well as "Trumpeter in Place", "Revolutionary", etc., have gradually got rid of the label of traffic actors and moved closer to the powerful acting actors, it can be said that his transformation is basically successful.
Why did he eat back grass again? Word of mouth is gone?
Obviously, li Yifeng is also helpless to shoot this "Mirror Twin Cities", in other words, this "Mirror Twin Cities" is just Tencent's human drama, not a drama he chose himself, and the platform needs him to come out and bring new people. Xian Xia and ancient puppet dramas are all old with new, which is the usual trick used by investors, such as Yang Yang taking Zhao Lusi, Xiao Zhan taking Ren Min, this time it is Li Yifeng's turn to take Chen Yuqi, which is also beyond reproach.
In fact, netizens complained about Li Yifeng's performance in "Mirror Twin Cities", Li Yifeng, really not wronged, no matter what drama is filmed, what role to play needs to have acting skills, in order to make the audience interested, acting skills have nothing to do with the plot content, what to act like, no performance traces of the performance, this is the king!
For Li Yifeng's "Mirror • Twin Cities", what do you think?