Recently, a suspense drama has been broadcast, which is "The Gate of Rebirth" starring Zhang Yi and Wang Junkai. After watching four episodes, Mr. Eight felt that this drama could be chased down, after all, the direction of the story was not vulgar, but at the same time it had an obvious shortcoming: Zhang Yi, an acting powerhouse, couldn't move Wang Junkai, who wanted to transform from an idol to a powerful faction.
Suspense dramas have now become a tool for traffic stars to try to prove their acting skills, but they are still very few, and their transformation failures are partly due to poor scripts (such as mysterious plots, loopholes, etc.), and partly because their acting skills are lagging behind.
"The Gate of Rebirth" tells the story of the criminal investigation team leader played by Zhang Yi, in the process of investigating the theft of famous paintings, he met a talented college student played by Wang Junkai, and the two have since joined forces to solve strange cases. The script is not bad, but Wang Junkai's acting skills are lagging behind.
Genius teenagers are not good at acting, after all, acting too much will appear to be pretend, acting too introverted will appear wooden, Wang Junkai belongs to the latter.
Although this talented teenager is intelligent, observant, and adaptable, he has a relatively withdrawn personality because of the early death of his parents. Probably Wang Junkai just grasped the point of loneliness in his personality, and he would play a genius teenager into a teenager who would only put on a "poker face" most of the time.
When he thought about how the famous painting was stolen in the art museum, he had no expression on his face.
When he returned home and suddenly found that three strange men had appeared in the house, he had no expression on his face.
Even if the police suspect that the theft of the famous painting is related to him, when he lies, he still can't see any waves on his face. The audience can't tell from the facial expressions and lines whether he is deliberately trying to suppress his panic or really not panicking.
In order to let everyone intuitively feel what is acting, it is still necessary to take out Zhang Yi and compare it. Although Captain Luo, played by Zhang Yi, was relatively calm when investigating the case, he did not act like a piece of wood.
When the genius teenager revealed that he copied 17 paintings of "Water Lilies", Captain Luo was a little surprised, at this time Zhang Yi did not simply use his eyes to express, but slightly expanded his eyes while his body also leaned back slightly, and then took a deep breath to quickly sort out his emotions. This series of actions is subtle, allowing the audience to feel what kind of emotions the actor wants to express.
Indifference is only a kind of personality, but people have emotions, and there will be expressions when there are emotions, so indifference is not equivalent to poker face, and Wang Junkai's acting skills need to be improved. However, his performance will make people wonder, obviously a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, what did he learn in four years of college? Why is acting only a little better than those idols with facial paralysis?
In fact, in addition to Wang Junkai's acting skills are a bit dragging his feet, "The Gate of Rebirth" is not bad in other aspects, at least the plot is anti-routine.
If you follow the routine shooting method, it will become that everyone's behavior cannot escape the eyes of the genius teenager: the villain is a big fool, and even the ability of the police is inferior to him. The protagonist's aura is too strong, it is very uninteresting. The good thing about "Gate of Rebirth" is that it shows the three-way contest between the genius boy, the policeman and the thief, which can be described as a balance of strength. (Minor spoilers included below)
The genius teenager can see with the naked eye that the famous painting "Water Lilies" displayed in the school art museum is a fake, because he found that the coloring order of this painting is opposite to the real thing, and the hanging position is also one centimeter away from usual.
The loss of "Water Lilies" led to the police' involvement, and they soon discovered that someone on the fake had written the name of the genius teenager in "invisible ink". At the same time, the gang of thieves put the real "Water Lilies" in the home of the genius teenager and tried to plant the booty for him.
Of course, the thieves are not simply to pit an innocent college student, but hope that the talented teenager can cooperate with them to sell "Water Lilies" to a rich local merchant, taking this opportunity to let "Water Lilies" enter the private treasury of the rich merchants. The purpose of the thieves is precisely for the countless collections in the vault.
In order to make the genius teenager submit, the thief is stalking and threatening, but the genius teenager still finds an opportunity to tell the truth to the police - he draws the thief's human pixel sketch, sends the food, the human pixel drawing and the real "Water Lily" to the police station in the form of takeaway, and secretly calls Captain Luo when the thief threatens himself.
After the thieves took the genius teenager away, they not only let him put on an eye mask to prevent him from seeing the road, but also did not drive the car directly to the base camp, but instead changed a car with a different color and shape in the pre-arranged parking lot, and deceived the police. It can be seen from here that the anti-reconnaissance ability of the gang of thieves is very strong and will not be easily tracked by the police.
Although the police lost the thief's car, Captain Luo was sure that the thief would go back to the home of the genius teenager to take the real "Water Lilies", so he arranged in advance to put the real thing back, and also put the miniature headphones in the corner of the box where the painting was hidden. In this way, the police established contact with the talented teenager and have been cooperating.
But the thieves are not vegetarians, they have installed machines to interfere with the signal in the base camp; at the same time, when the rich merchants who buy paintings meet with the genius teenager and the thief, they will let the bodyguard check with a metal detector, and the genius teenager has to throw away the headphones to escape the security check. In the end, the police couldn't eavesdrop on too much important information through the tiny headphones.
However, the prepared police dispatched a drone to photograph the scene of the genius teenager meeting with the rich businessman, so they arrested the rich businessman for questioning after the transaction was over, and also took back the real "Water Lilies". When the police examined The Water Lily again, they found that the scrolls had a timed igniter installed, concluded that it was set up by thieves to disrupt the vault's security system, and speculated that they would go to the vault at the set time to commit the crime.
When the police laid a net near the vault and waited to catch the thieves alive, they found that the thieves did not appear at all. What is the real purpose of the thief? How will the genius teenager cooperate with the police next? Will the police finally catch the thieves? You have to read all this to know.
At present, the plot setting is still doing a good job, if the thief is really caught, it is a bit routine, and if it cannot be caught, it will make people have the motivation to chase down.
In general, the advantages and disadvantages of "The Gate of Rebirth" are more obvious, Wang Junkai's acting skills will be deducted points when he drags his legs, but the careful plot setting will add points, and everyone still chooses not to watch this drama according to their own preferences.