Lin Xinru's acting skills have rejuvenated.
In "The First Illumination", she plays a Japanese izakaya mother, Sangro Yunong, and quite accurately grasps the external texture and dare to love and hate the background of this character.
For example, this scene in the play.
The scumbag Jiang Han proposed to Luo Yunong to break up, and entrusted the other party's good sister Su Qingyi to pay him back, indicating that the two would be clear.
Luo Yunong coldly counted the banknotes, "I want him to owe me in this life, owe me in the next life, and go to the grave to be a ghost or owe me." ”
Despite her efforts to hide her emotions, the mirror in the dressing room revealed the truth—in order not to lose her attitude, she secretly clenched her teeth and twitched slightly at the corners of her mouth.
As she spoke, she couldn't help but lower her head and sob quietly, "I always meet rotten men, what am I doing wrong?" ”
At this time, Sue had not yet thought about how to answer the call, but she wiped away her tears sharply, raised the money in her hand, and decided to take her sisters along and go to the next bar to consume male sex fiercely.
In less than 2 minutes, numbness, resentment, mourning, and various complex emotions are staged in turn, but in the end, they fall back to the freedom and decency they deserve.
When she arrived at the bar, she first cooperated with Niu Lang and staged a drama of spending thousands of dollars for blue faces.
Then he lazily leaned back on the couch, put his arms around him, and watched the other party get up to go to the wine, smiling charmingly and his eyes flowing.
But a closer look, her expression showed three points of ridicule, a look is a mixed scene, used to make a scene of the old jianghu.
From the release of intense emotions to the control of the eyes and facial muscles, it can be retracted freely.
Compared with the state of having a pair of big eyes but not understanding discharge and only emptying when he was a fledgling many years ago, it can be said that the progress is remarkable.
But what's even more noteworthy is the new identity she has now—
In addition to starring, Lin Xinru also served as the chief producer of "The First Light".
Incidentally, the show set a new record for Netflix's investment in Taiwan, with an opening price of nearly NT$300 million (production cost of about NT$250 million).
Projects of this scale, without diamonds, really can't be won.
Of course, the Internet has a memory, and it is impossible to wash whitewashing.
Since you choose to talk about Lin Xinru, you must not avoid many controversies and negative events.
But putting aside the controversy, I am curious, how did Lin Xinru get to this day step by step?
What can we see behind the "paste coffee" turnover?
Is it a mixture of gossip and inspirational stories in your circle, or is it some kind of new weather vane?
01.
What is Treasure Drama?
On the one hand, it can be understood that the quality of the series is excellent, and it is worth brushing up on hundreds of millions of times, focusing on details.
On the other hand, it is also reflected in the amount of gossip behind the scenes, and a few random pieces are a 10W+.
And "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" belongs to both.
Although it is not comparable to the "Biography of Zhen Huan" that has freed up a number of "Zhen Xue Tenth Grade Scholars", the lace news related to it has always been hot.
Just like during the hit of "Dear Inn 3", the old melon about casting was turned over again.
According to the original plan, "Ziwei" was played by Zhao Wei, and what was left for Lin Xinru was the role of Princess Saiya.
Due to the absence of the original Xiaoyanzi Li Tingyi for some reason, Lin Xinru temporarily topped the top and starred as Ziwei.
It was difficult to get the role, and as a result, not long after the filming began, he was dismissed by the director as having poor acting skills and almost out of the lineup.
At that time, she was ready to leave the crew, and even the souvenir photos were taken.
Thanks to Aunt Qiong Yao's intercession, saying that she would give the young man more opportunities and leave some time for her to enter the play, which saved Lin Xinru's position.
In theory, Ziwei, who is more in line with Qiong Yao's aesthetic, is the heroine of "Huan Zhu", but Xiao Yanzi, an eccentric and unusual character, is anti-guest-oriented and has won the love of the public.
Perhaps due to fate, the sisters reunited in the crew of "Deep in the Rain".
In the play, Ruping (Lin Xinru), who is quiet, chuchu pitiful, pure and kind, is once again robbed of the limelight by her sister Yiping (Zhao Wei), who has a flamboyant personality and has a warm vitality.
Outside the play, Lin Xinru used the aura of "Qiong Girl" to scenery for a while, but he failed to set off too much splash.
In 2008, because he could not ignore the sense of gap in his heart, Lin Xinru chose to run away from Huayi and set up a personal studio.
Compared with Lin Xinru's loneliness, the other two good sisters lived a dashing life.
Since relying on "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" to become popular all over the country, Zhao Wei's career has also climbed all the way to the peak like the stock market of that year.
On the one hand, he turned his back on her husband Huang Youlong and began to throw money around for investment, and talked and laughed with various big guys.
On the other hand, the transformation director's debut "To Youth" won a high box office of 720 million, a spring breeze.
In the same period, Fan Bingbing was also an infinite scenery.
In 2010, after winning the Tokyo International Film award for "Guanyin Mountain", she excitedly kissed director Li Yu at the celebration banquet.
In the same year, she was on the red carpet in Cannes in a dragon robe.
And, the most classic sentence - "I don't marry the rich, I am the rich.".
Fan Ye's heart is well known to passers-by.
All of this, the glorious deeds of the two are almost a portrayal of the past grandeur of the entertainment industry, or the bubble.
But fate, sometimes it's so weird.
After the two heavenly thunderbolts, the two great powers of the crossing period who should have soared in their careers and achieved positive results fell, and the last person to land safely was the scattered cultivation with mediocre qualifications.
This feeling is a bit like the top-notch class leader/school committee who studied at the time of reading and became a passerby when he grew up, and the "special hardship students" who sat in the back row of the classroom came later.
Although he escaped the disaster and will not be "sealed", if you judge and summarize Lin Xinru's performance in the mainland entertainment industry in the past decade, four words are enough to describe: defeat and retreat.
The first series of confused (lacking) confused (moral) behaviors that were first discovered:
Like what to paste the boy's love letter on the bulletin board, engage in public execution, and steal the classmate's bento, after eating it, pretend not to know.
There is also the Za Villain incident.
Many years ago, the program group of a certain ancient funny variety show went to Lin Xinru's home to shoot, and as a result, a doll with Zhao Wei's photo was found in the cabinet, and it was pinned.
Afterwards, although the producer of "Huan Zhu Gege" came forward to refute the rumors, saying that the dolls were only arranged for the effect of the show, it was too late.
The roof leaked during the overnight rain.
There are good people who turn over old accounts all the way, and even the material of 14 years has been dug to the bottom.
According to the keywords mentioned by Yu Zheng: Taiwan, past actresses, anti-eyes and enmity, melon-eating masses instantly entered the seat.
Then, in 2016, the relationship between the two was exposed.
Other couples do not say strong combination, one-on-one "poverty alleviation" is also the bottom line, this pair is good, directly a wave of reverse circle powder:
"The fans have run out."
"Our official [support committee] ended up losing tens of thousands."
What is even more tragic is that after marriage, Huo Jianhua's career was also implicated, and he visibly followed flop.
In addition, according to anecdotal rumors, during the filming of "Huan Zhu Gege", the crew was biased toward Hong Kong and Taiwan artists, and the mainland artists suffered a lot of grievances.
In conjunction with Zhou Jie's counterattack on the tongue kiss incident (Lin Xinru accused Zhou Jie of forcibly tongue kissing in "Kangxi Coming", resulting in the other party being scolded as a "sex wolf"), a set of combos was directly played, which became the last straw that crushed the camel.
Jokes such as "The Evil Ones of the Whole Crew of "Huan Zhu" and "Grandma Rong did not pierce the wrong person that year, we owe her an apology" and so on, which were very popular for a while.
During the downturn in his career, Lin Xinru made various attempts, such as participating in reality shows.
But losing the shackles of the script, Lin Xinru instead exposed his shortcomings, which was equivalent to a showdown with the public:
Sister is low emotional intelligence, do not understand what is the art of speaking.
On the "Happiness Trio", just now said that he was Yan Control, turned his head and said that Xu Fuxiang could catch up with Chen Yihan is a very remarkable thing, which means that Xu ('s appearance) is not worthy of Chen Yihan.
If chen Yihan had not reacted quickly and immediately began to praise her husband, it is estimated that this meal would not be able to eat.
There is another issue, Deng Jie complained that Zhang Guoli's boiled dumplings were not cooked, originally everyone lightly exposed the past, play a haha, even if it is, the result is that she insisted on interjecting, "I think the skin is a little uncooked", and the other party could not get off the stage.
In "Dear Inn 3", he was careless when filling out his resume, paddled when he was working seriously, and just thought of copying other people's homework, and the result was that he was intimidated by the big boss Liu Tao.
Later, she was criticized by the audience, saying that she relied on the old and sold the old and could not move.
The road to acting is not smooth, plus black materials are entangled.
Over time, Lin Xinru's popularity and wind evaluation fell all the way and went straight to the bottom.
In August 2021, with the news of Lin Xinru's studio's cancellation of Weibo, there was speculation that this might mean that Lin Xinru officially abandoned the mainland market.
02.
In the field of public opinion, the car has been overturned one after another, and the cause has not improved.
From the outside world, it is really a disgrace.
But if you want to say that she has been devastated since then, not really.
On the contrary, after returning to Taiwan, Lin Xinru seemed to have unloaded her invisible baggage.
She not only began to challenge difficult roles, but also bid farewell to Mary Sue, and participated in many serious workplace dramas and suspense dramas as a producer, such as "Who is the Victim", "Those Things They Started a Business", and "The First Lights".
Gradually, her reputation improved.
According to Internet thinking, this is called choosing the right track.
Looking back, the 50th Golden Bell Awards is more like a prophecy.
In 2015, Lin Xinru, as the lead actor of "Sixteen Summers", finally missed any acting awards, but took the stage as a producer representative to win the Best Drama Program Award.
Later, this matter was also ridiculed by Su Youpeng, saying that he thought Lin Xinru was just a beautiful female star who would make money, who thought that he was now a producer.
Then again, what exactly is the position of producer?
In this regard, the general audience (mainly referring to me) often has a half-understanding and seems to understand it.
Here, I also have to thank the popular science of "Director Please Advise":
The main task of the producer is to manage money and people, as well as to plan and coordinate the operation of the entire project, and to assist the director by the way.
To put it more generally, the director is responsible for the art, and the producer is responsible for the reality.
It just so happens that Lin Xinru himself is very realistic.
Most notably, she knows exactly how to use the resources and connections at hand.
Filming "Sixteen Summers", Ruan Jingtian, Xu Ruoxuan, Cai Kangyong, Zhao Youting and a large number of other voters were invited to read the opening statement.
If it weren't for the dubbing too much trouble, it is estimated that I would hate to pull all the friends in the circle to support the field.
The face brushing maniac arrived at "The First Light", which was even more out of control.
Click on the castor of this drama to see, good guys, half of the Taiwan drama has arrived:
Yang Jinhua, Guo Xuefu, Yang Youning, Zhang Xuanrui, Wen Shenghao, Wu Kangren, Zheng Yuanchang, Xu Guanghan, Lin Baihong, Li Liren, Xiu Jiekai, and Huo Jianhua, who flashed in the finale.
Allow me a little drama, the third season, but if you can put together another Jia Jingwen / Zhang Xiaoquan / Xie Yingxuan, then it will be a dream all-star lineup.
Intuitively, everyone may think that the producer only needs to be responsible for throwing money to finish the matter, no matter how big the wrist, anyway, in the end there will always be "real incense" and "he gives too much".
In the past two years, we have seen all kinds of movies under the scene, and we are not surprised.
But what if you meet someone who doesn't eat this set?
At this time, it is necessary to test the producer's response (face) to change (skin) energy (thickness) strength (degree).
In order to ask Huo Jianhua to perform "The Imperial Princess of the World", the two had a crazy bargain, and the process was quite joyful.
The first time, Huo Jianhua refused on the spot.
The second time, Huo Jianhua repeatedly waved his hand, saying that he would take up to three days to make a cameo, and if it was a big deal, it would be regarded as charity and no money would be charged.
The third time they met, Lin Xinru had to go out: please, there is no one else to choose for this role, you must.
I was happy to see this.
Don't look at people are big stars, the way people do things and we usually pull people to cut a knife, send a circle of friends to ask for praise is actually similar.
In the end, he really couldn't carry the other party's soft and hard bubbles, and Huo Jianhua reluctantly agreed to play the male second Liu Liancheng.
In front of the host, she also dared to tell the matter of "almost kneeling for Huo Jianhua" as a joke, and did not feel ashamed at all (when the program was broadcast, the two had not yet officially announced).
If nothing else, I admire this perseverance spirit and the attitude of being able to bend and stretch.
There are also details in this interview that impressed me.
Talking about the topic of money, Lin Xinru, who was still smiling and smiling just now, instantly switched to the mode of "yili yiqi".
In her, art and reality will never be confused.
No matter how good the scene is, investors must not lose money.
Holding party A's script and doing party B's work is probably the first meaning of becoming a qualified producer.
From this point of view, Lin Xinru is not yet a gold medal producer, but he is indeed a business ghost.
The way she meets the needs of the golden lord's father has always highlighted a combination of soft and hard.
For example, in "Sixteen Summers", the female protagonist is the cashier of RT-Mart, and the male protagonist is the designer of HTC.
From brand exposure to brand promotion, one step in place.
Filming "My Boy", through the heroine is the person of the advertising director, shoot the advertisement in a bright and upright manner.
But the best thing is "The First Light".
Each episode opens with a retro light sign that reads "New Dongyang".
I guess most people should be like me, but I didn't expect it to be a soft wide.
"New Dongyang" is actually the name of the sponsor
Think about it again, the domestic drama is pervasive, and the hard breadth that people are caught off guard by -
A serious case-solving scene, the policemen each have a cup of cold spirits, the camera turns, and the outer packaging is a big close-up;
Halfway through the discussion of the case, the character inexplicably diverted the topic, naming cue colleagues to buy the self-hi pot/nut snack needle without poking;
The heroine and the girlfriend are chatting about the day, cold but ding heard a knock on the door, open the door to see, is the courier brother holding a certain product will be express delivery;
Obviously it is a costume drama, but the character brings out a box of skin care products from so-and-so Fang, and he does not change his color to say that it is the latest research exclusive secret recipe.
Oh, yes, almost forgot to say, and there is also a patch advertisement called "soft rice hard eating" at the beginning of each episode called "soft rice hard eating" (bitter for honest people who are too lazy to jump the progress bar).
Obviously, members did not buy less, but in the end they became "genuine victims", and the user experience was extremely poor.
Let's say that some filmmakers occasionally consider the audience's feelings, and have time to learn more from the scriptures.
03.
There is still room for a comeback for a "paste café" like Lin Xinru who has lost the mainland.
On the other hand, internal entertainment.
There are only two shortcuts for middle-aged actresses to become popular.
The first one, riding on the east wind of feminism, on "Sister Lang" is inlaid with phnom penh.
For now, this trick has really worked, and many sisters have taken this back to the public eye.
The problem is that the reality is not The resurrection of Sister Lang, and the audience will vote for whoever they like.
If you always rely on the sympathy of the audience, it really can't go too far.
If nothing else, after watching the two seasons of "Sister Lang", the lang sisters in the group have come up with any new masterpieces in addition to the variety shows and evenings?
The so-called "Xsister" is not a waste, and it is discarded when it is used up.
Take tranquility.
Without much reminder, everyone must have noticed that the quiet resume form is thin enough to only be a pure variety show.
If not unexpectedly, her image in the minds of the audience will be temporarily fixed on "Shizuzuko".
Oh, I really want to sigh.
Both works and qualifications.
However, when the experience is most mature, it is impossible to receive any suitable books, and can only waste the most precious life cycle of the actor, is this outrageous?
In another context, can you imagine Hollywood superstars like Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kate Blanchett, and Kate Winslet not making films all year round, relying on SNL (Saturday Night Live) brushing their faces?
Second, run to the major acting variety shows and look forward to a bright future.
The most typical example is Ni Hongjie.
How many audiences did her performance in "Actors Please Take Place"?
She played Mulan, performing a different tiredness and forbearance than before, and even with a bit of anger, which is very in line with Mulan's long-term state of the battlefield.
Many people commented that this 20-minute "Mulan" hung other versions.
But so what, in the eyes of capital and the market, she is still a B-grade "back to the pot meat".
No matter how much acting skills are gained, she still repeats the cycle of "acting variety show - short out of the circle - past - continue to be on the variety show".
Typical applause is not applause.
You say, these marginalized female artists, what they lack is acting?
Discerning people know the answer – what they lack is not acting skills, but opportunities.
Some people will say, harm, really not, consider the next performance and excellent guidance, this is not a lot of successful cases.
Words are light.
First, most of the directors who have successfully changed careers are male actors, and they themselves enjoy the resource tilt within the industry.
Second, the threshold of the director's line is placed there.
Without systematic learning, it is difficult for laymen to get started easily.
Cases like Jia Ling's, which are in good hands at the right time and place, are almost impossible to replicate.
What's more, even knowledge cannot be equated with the strength of the director.
Jun did not see a certain director with the surname of Bi Mingke from a class, and he would only show off in "Director Please Advise", thinking that more than a little more film-like shots could make a good film.
Producers, by contrast, are a business that requires no talent, but only connections and resources.
Lin Xinru's transformation and the Renaissance of Taiwanese opera actually pointed out the same direction:
Since you can't change the environment, change yourself.
If the market is small, then take the international express train and pursue a broader world.
In the face of structural difficulties and imbalances in market resources, instead of obsessing over the Red Sea, it is better to try to change tracks and realize the freedom of filming as soon as possible.
Where is the road, you ask?
All I can say is that the road is under your feet.