The first quarter of 2022 has passed, and realist themes such as "The World of People", "Xiao MinJia", "Heart Residence", "Beginning", "Opponent" and other realist themes have continued to explode, and "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming", "Our Marriage", "Meet the Season", "Chasing the Love Family", and "Outside the Drum Tower" have carried the mainstream platform schedule. These works bring the audience a prominent feeling that middle-aged actors have become synonymous with acting skills, and they have contributed the empowering value of a mature actor to the role without exception in the play, and together they have achieved a high degree of completion of the work.
Middle-aged actors usher in spring
Progress towards the head segment
Once, the actor who entered middle age helplessly sighed, "The times need traffic, we will go wandering"; with the comprehensive management of the regulatory authorities and the self-elimination of the market, the only traffic theory has been significantly corrected in the national drama market. On the one hand, the producer and the film purchase platform are more cautious about the use of young traffic actors for the sake of broadcast safety factors, on the other hand, the routines of the big heroine and the big male lead have become outdated, and the group portrait drama with equal characters has become a new hot spot. The chances of middle-aged actors who do not rely on their appearance and strength have greatly increased. According to the current trend, if the script can continue to compress the suspended bubbles and abandon the creative direction of customized topics for hot searches, middle-aged actors with life accumulation and business capabilities will have more room to play, and the good works worth looking forward to will continue to flow.
In 2019, Haiqing, Yao Chen, and Liang Jing said at an award ceremony: "Actresses have reached a certain age and need young directors to support, please give directors a chance." After three years, Haiqing has repeatedly appeared on the hot search with her most comfortable "foreign daughter-in-law" Feng Xiaoqin, and it is not the young director who "gives her the opportunity", but Teng Huatao, who gave her the opportunity to become famous 15 years ago. Let's take a look at the other actresses who have been most discussed since the beginning of 2022: Yin Tao, Song Jia, Song Chunli, and Sarina of "In the World", Liu Dan, the "pot sister" of "The Beginning", Qin Hailu, the funny director of "Xiao Minjia", Tan Zhuo and Yan Bingyan of "Opponent"... Both the protagonist and the supporting characters have successfully gone out of the circle with their own aura.
The spring of middle-aged male actors has also arrived. Wu Gang, Lei Jiayin, Yu Hewei have completed the head rank advancement, hot needless to say, the first echelon is also full of talents, remarkable: Guo Jingfei, Zhang Songwen, Qin Hao, Nie Yuan, Zhang Luyi, Wang Xiao can be alone, even the father-flavored Sha Yi is also a drama and variety show, which is called "ten years of drama no one asks, once the world knows about Satay".
Not only modern dramas "change the sky", but also costume dramas that have been dominated by young faces for a long time. The "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming" that is being broadcast is all old drama bones, and national actor Chen Baoguo plays Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in the play. This time it is Chen Baoguo who plays Zhu Yuanzhang again after 6 years, as he himself said, "I play the emperor without blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, not shouting much." This time, he skillfully integrated Zhu Yuanzhang's majesty as an emperor with his "grounding gas" as a father, and also endowed him with a very pyrotechnic soul. Xu Da, the founding military commander of the Ming Dynasty, was played by Emperor Zhang Fengyi. Zhang Fengyi's own tough guy temperament is very suitable for the temperament of the great general who conquered the desert north, and his interpretation of Xu Da's role contrast sense of "mighty general outside" and "kind old father at home" has found a clever balance point, breaking the public's sense of distance from historical figures. In addition to the "Double Vision Emperor" configuration, there are Wang Jinsong, who plays Liu Bowen, Wang Qingxiang, who plays Li Shanchang, the Korean gong, as well as Yao Qiu, Du Yuan, and Zhang Guangbei.
Stay up until the end of the traffic
It is the determination to cultivate for a lifetime
In the era of traffic, even if the small fresh meat and small flowers have no acting skills and rely on cutting pictures, as long as they have the appearance and fans, there are a lot of opportunities. The traffic era ends, middle-aged actors can bloom in fact, it is not natural, can withstand loneliness, keep the original intention, have the determination to constantly break through themselves, these points must be done. Yuan Quan said that he has never had a midlife crisis, "anyway, acting this thing, is to do a lifetime, different stages to play different roles"; Zhang Songwen all day long calculating, from the age of 70 years old can play how many different types of characters; Liu Mintao experienced withdrawal and comeback, Liu Lin, Liu Dan are young and obscure, people to middle age by relying on a supporting role opportunity to finally be remembered by the audience, become a trustworthy acting role.
Perhaps it is especially cherishing the opportunity to shape the role, after the middle-aged actors have more opportunities to appear, they can obviously feel that they are trying to avoid the similarity of the role, and they are not willing to be only a "tool person" who has passed the acting skills. Since the beginning of this year, Guo Jingfei has contributed two completely different characters from the poorest spy in "Rival" to the stereotypical university professor in "Chasing Love Family"; Lei Jiayin is an ordinary person Who earns enough to sigh in "In the World"; "Meet the Season" has transformed into a president of a listed company worth more than 100 million; Song Jia has also crossed from an intellectual with a sense of the times, Zhou Rong, to a fashion celebrity with professional feelings in "Dress".
These actors have more or less said that acting is a lifelong thing, not urgent, not anxious. Maybe a person's words will deceive people, but their state cannot deceive people. If a person is not planning to cultivate in a field for a lifetime, how can he survive these years of traffic, and how can he be willing to be lonely to cultivate acting skills, or live streaming goods or simply changing careers to make money, and has long since quit the show business.
Turning red speaks by works
Remember to be cautious about picking dramas and avoiding pitfalls reasonably
Behind the popularity of middle-aged actors is the embarrassment of traffic actors: empty and popular, no works. However, the sense of crisis of middle-aged actors is that since every time they go out of the circle, they must rely on the work to speak, so a good script, a good team, a sober creative idea, go all out to treat every role, and every link must not drop the chain, otherwise it will be immediately beaten back to its original form.
Liu Tao played Director Du in "The Beginning", and felt that she was really just "cameo", frowning and saying lines throughout, stereotypical performances were serious, and her acting skills were hung all the way by Liu Yijun.
Jin Dong in the middle-aged male actors, whether the work or popularity was once unmatched, but he has been in the commercial drama elite settings over the years, aesthetic fatigue is serious, the main drama "Breakout" plays a central enterprise cadre who is not ambitious, on the surface is a kind of "breakthrough" that breaks the comfort zone, but in fact does not come out of the inertia of perfect human design, this drama leaves the impression that the depth of human nature and the performance are more angular Huang Zhizhong and Yan Ni, jin Dong, who lacks the aura of the male protagonist, has no advantage to speak of.
Pick the drama cautiously and reasonably avoid the pit. It is not easy for everyone to understand the big truth, for example, even actors such as Lei Jiayin and Yuan Quan, who have a reputation for cherishing feathers, are not spared.
The just-finished "Meet the Season" has hurt Lei Jiayin and Yuan Quan's reputation a lot. In "The First Half of My Life", one of them turned on the popular mode by "ex-husband brother", and one gave a sample to a strong woman with a real sense of high-end. "Meet the Season" comes from the noonday sun, the screenwriter and director have a successful foundation for the previous work, but the strong twist of the "strong plot" story can not justify itself, even if Lei Jiayin and Yuan Quan seriously interpret the so-called "contemporary Romeo and Juliet", it can not save the reputation of this work from falling to the bottom.
Text/Reporter Yang Wenjie
Co-ordination/Full Of Yi