If you want to choose the most anticipated drama of 2022, then the new noonday sun drama "County Committee Compound" is a name that cannot be bypassed. But now a suspense drama is being staged outside the play.
Originally, everyone was looking forward to it. The drama did not start filming, first fire.
After all, Director Kong Sheng, Wang Xiaogun as screenwriter, Hou Hongliang producer.
Director Kong Sheng's last "Mountains and Seas" 380,000 viewers scored a high score of 9.2 on Douban, no matter which is placed in any year, it can be ranked on the top. "Parental Love", which has a score of 9.5, still stands at the top of the national drama rating pyramid.
There are two kinds of noon dramas: those directed by Kong Sheng and those not directed by Kong Sheng.
The latter may be the "Beginning" of the double explosion of word-of-mouth ratings, or it may be the "Meet season" with good reputation failure, and Kong Sheng, for example, has no false hair.
The type of drama, the ace combination, how to see, are all proper national drama king explosion booking?
But a big drama that is as wonderful as the play itself is staged outside the play - the casting drama.
From the beginning of the series to the agenda, netizens have speculated who can get the favor of noon, and there are those who have appeared in the list of leading actors in the series: Lei Jiayin, Hu Ge, Wang Kai, Liu Yijun, Xin Baiqing, Huang Xiaoming. It has become a Mesozoic "military parade".
However, the crew has never been officially announced.
By the 21st, the online drama has been set as the male protagonist Hu Ge, as well as Zu Feng, Kan Qingzi and so on.
The shooting started in mid-to-late April and the shooting cycle was 100 days.
But Hu Ge's fans' doubts followed: Hu Ge only officially announced the film produced by Cao Baoping on March 18, where is the time to shoot?
There are also out-of-sync netizens who ask: Isn't Hu Ge filming "Blossoms"?
Strange, good drama, good director, good actor, why cause controversy?
Compared with the pie circle drama that Hu Ge can't play in the end, I am actually more concerned about the three major issues. It's time to make it clear.
1. The noonday sun "falls on the altar"?
Although the drama side has not yet been officially announced, under the news of the start-up, some netizens have expressed their attitude towards the problem of the legend of Hu Ge's starring role: do not recognize.
Even the noonday sun social platform has also "fallen", and there is no shortage of doubts at the bottom.
You know, now in a piece of spit in the noonday sun, two months ago was still in another peak of word of mouth, a "beginning" amazing four seats: originally, the noonday sun can also shoot time loops, science fiction themes?
Why is word of mouth reversed in the blink of an eye?
In my opinion, there are two main reasons:
First, it was affected by the word-of-mouth controversy of "Meet the Season".
Although it achieved good ratings and network popularity, this noon drama starring Lei Jiayin only scored 4.7 points on Douban in the end, becoming the lowest-rated douban drama produced by Noonday Sun, and the plot was too bloody, which not only lowered the rating, but also affected the reputation of Noon.
Second, the big cake of "The Compound of the County Party Committee" has been left for too long.
Since the official announcement of the series, almost all the students in the middle of the play have been rumored to participate in the news, and the protagonist name of "Mei Xiaoge", the first word is the same as the "Mei Changsu" performed by Hu Ge, and finally there is Hu Ge's "song", it is difficult for fans not to think about it.
The delay in official announcement also touched the fans' reverse scales, deriving such a series of doubts and battles that swept the whole network.
From the perspective of word-of-mouth management, official announcement as soon as possible is the best way to solve the word-of-mouth dispute, if it is really Hu Ge performance, then all disputes will be solved. This is also his follow-up to "Langya List" and "The Pretender" to make a noon drama.
But, will Hu Ge really star?
2. Does Hu Ge act or not?
This question is actually divided into two parts: First, should Hu Ge play it? Second, is there a schedule for Hu Ge?
The answer to the first question: the show.
Although, many suspected Hu Ge fans questioned in their speeches that the role was inappropriate, Hu Ge, there was no need to act in this play.
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If you can perform this big drama, it will not do any harm to Hu GeBaili.
First of all, this play is just right for Hu Ge.
Although Hu Ge has obviously switched from the field of television dramas to the film industry in these years, he has also achieved good results.
However, whether it is Diao Yinan's "The Party at South Station" or Shunji Iwai's "Hello No Hua", they are all works of partial literature and art.
Among Hu Ge's to-air works, there is the TV series "Blossoms" directed by Wong Kar-wai, followed by two literary and artistic films "Reindeer" and "Worth the Trip", which are still partial to literature and art.
Forced, really good, this road, is also hu ge chose. However, the excessive emphasis on literary and artistic genres may also represent the gradual loss of huge audience popularity. It can even be said that if it is not Hu Ge but others, with such an acting rhythm, do not take the popular variety show, only occasionally on the high-reputation unpopular variety show, the heat has long run out. Even if Hu Ge's popularity has declined compared to its peak, it is a fact.
If "County Party Committee Compound" can be won, it is obviously the best consolidation of Hu Ge's audience popularity, and it is the best solution.
Secondly, who said that Hu Ge was not suitable for participation? Thinking that Hu Ge is not suitable is nothing more than thinking that hu Ge's temperament, acting in "The Courtyard of the County Party Committee", the temperament is not right.
However, before the "Langya List" with a score of 9.4, how many people are sure that Hu Ge's temperament as Mei Changsu is right?
A really good actor is always eye-catching. What's more, director Kong Sheng is not only a top master who is good at era dramas, but also a top master of adjusting actors.
Under her, Reiza can play the peasant woman Splash, and Hu Ge can't play "Mei Xiaoge"?
Compared with this question, I am afraid that the real doubt is the most realistic schedule.
There is news that this "County Party Committee Compound" will be filmed in mid-April without accident, and at noon he also sent out an actor recruitment, the production cycle is about 6 months, the whole drama is 30 episodes, and Kong Sheng's habits are known to everyone, once it is taken over, there is basically no possibility of drama.
And Hu Ge's new film "Worth the Trip" has only begun filming, even if it is seamless into the group, whether it can be filmed in a month, whether it can catch up with the "County Party Committee Compound", is still a big problem.
However, this may also be the most non-problematic problem, after all, not every literary and art film director is Wong Kar-wai, as long as the noon determines the role of Hu Ge, participation is not a problem.
But why Hu Ge?
3. Behind the battle for the horn, who is the most suitable for "County Party Committee Compound"?
Then it depends on what kind of drama "County Party Committee Compound" is, and what kind of character is the protagonist Mei Xiaoge?
Judging from the plot summary, the play tells the story of Mei Xiaoge and his two colleagues in the compound of the new and old county party committees in the new era, working hard, and realizing their ideals vertically and horizontally.
In short, drama is the main theme of the drama, the character, is a people's cadre.
At the same time, the new and old county party committee compounds may also reflect the different styles of the new era.
This character, most likely, must not only be brave and courageous, but also steady and steady.
Just like the two voices in a chorus, the melody is independent of each other, but it reflects each other, contradictory and unified.
Not only does director Kong Sheng have the usual qualities of male number one in his past works, such as perseverance and hard work, but at the same time, he must have the unique temperament of the leader of the county party committee compound.
Who is the best fit?
Wang Kai, can act. But the angle of impact.
Song Yunhui in "Big Rivers" is interpreted very well by him, and the more he goes to the back, the more he gradually enters the better situation, but Song Yunhui's performance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and in a sense, it has also become an obstacle for him to act - string plays.
Don't forget, "Big Rivers 3" is still ready to go.
Xin Baiqing can also act.
Although he has not yet cooperated with Noon, he played a vice mayor Zhou Bingyi with two sleeves and a clean wind in "The World of Man", but the problem is still that problem, the freshness of the role.
Relatively speaking, the only middle students who currently appear in the candidate list are Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge, who have never played such a role as a local person in charge.
But from the perspective of acting skills, anyone can act, and anyone can act well.
In other words, regardless of whether the final role is determined, Hu Ge and Lei Jiayin are the best candidates to play the role.
4. Why I care more about these three keys than Hu Ge's acting or not
However, in the current casting controversy, I can only sigh.
This kind of doubt about the delay in casting and concentration not only affects the normal publicity of film and television works, but also affects the early reputation of the series to a certain extent.
However, the real success or failure of the series may be in these three points:
First, the degree of tacit understanding between Kong Sheng and Wang Xiaogun.
Kong Sheng's level does not need to be discussed.
In the national drama industry, there is a saying of "Grand Slam". And the director's award grand slam winners, there are currently only three.
The first is Zheng Xiaolong, who filmed "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and so on. The second is Liu Jiang, who filmed "The Beautiful Age of Daughter-in-Law" and "Before Dawn".
The third place is Kong Sheng.
In 2015, he won the Feitian Award. In 2016, he won the Magnolia Award with "Langya List". In 2020, "Big Rivers" won the Golden Eagle Award.
The above-mentioned award-winning works, the Douban score is basically 9 points upwards.
Coupled with the "Breaking into kanto" and "Parental Love" starring Li Youbin and Sarina in the mountain shadow era, Kong Sheng has never lost his hand in the theme of period drama and drama.
But there is one point, that is, the screenwriters cooperated by Kong Sheng are relatively stable, most of them are old screenwriters such as Gao Mantang, Yuan Keping, and Haiyan who have cooperated with noonday sunshine for many years, and although Wang Xiaogun has a screenwriter's masterpiece such as "Opponent", the cooperation with noonday sunshine has just begun.
Second, the pattern of the work.
As a realistic theme of the film, the theme of "County Party Committee Compound" is relatively large, and the level touched will be very wide, even including plots such as county government debts, how to grasp it well, quite a test of the main creative ability.
And the sense of realism has always been a major key to the success of Kong Sheng's works.
A "Great River" also grasps the sense of contradiction of that era very well, combines the fate of the individual with the wind and clouds of the times, and comprehensively interprets the tortuous and brilliant changes in the past 40 years of reform and opening up.
"Mountains and Seas", with simple images and emotions, shoots the scene of three brothers wearing a pair of pants, and also shoots the changes in people and the changes of the years.
Of course, there is also "Parental Love", but behind the love between officer Jiang Defu and his wife Anjie, it is also a static way to show the big era, even including the suffering of those characters in that era.
Every time, Kong Sheng's works can stab the most critical and painful places, so they can inspire the most resonance, but this time, the subject matter is more difficult and the pressure is greater, in the end can you shoot the real county party committee compound? It also determines the final success or failure of the series.
Third, the degree of engagement of the actors.
Taking "Mountains and Seas" as an example, a group of actors came to the local area in advance to experience life, skin, tanning, dialect, and learning. Only then did I have a wonderful drama, but how to integrate such a theme as the county party committee compound into the story and how to experience life?
Whether it is the male protagonist Hu Ge and Lei Jiayin who are rumored on the Internet, or the female protagonists Wang Ziwen and Kan Qingzi, they all have considerable role control, but to play this role well, they still need to be fully devoted - always adhere to their professional qualities, invest in stories and roles, so that the audience can see a sincere heart that has not changed from their works.
This is obviously especially precious in today's era of entertainment.
But will the current storm bring good actors?
Of course, we allow the existence of rice circle culture, and also accept the fact that the cake circle is expanding day by day, and more and more fans are accustomed to measuring everything with resources and cakes.
But inclusive, rational, objective evaluation and communication are always the premise of the benign development of a good drama.
The hustle and bustle outside the play should never grab the hustle and bustle inside the play.
So hu ge in the end can not play "county party committee compound"?
My answer is: Hu Ge has a high probability of entering the final range of noon casting, but whether to participate in the performance or not, just wait for the official announcement.
And whether it is Hu Ge, Lei Jiayin, or another starring, noonday sun, it should also be officially announced as soon as possible to calm the speculation.
The last thing the series needs now is the extra noise. The popularity of Kong Sheng drama does not need to be manufactured.
As for Hu Ge, he himself has already said a passage - "Be a pure actor." Make acting a simple thing. "He did it, so Hu Ge became Hu Ge."
Don't make a good play complicated.