"Don't do what you shouldn't do" "The big play is behind you, you can try"... In the web drama "The Gate of Rebirth", Luo Jian, the criminal police captain played by Zhang Yi, and Zhuang Wenjie, a college student who is both good and evil, played by Wang Junkai, test each other, leaving suspense for the cooperation between the two later.
The fast-paced and strong plot of "The Gate of Rebirth", the drama of Zhang Yi and Tian Xiaojie, and the interlocking suspense story have won the praise of many audiences. At the same time, Wang Junkai's performance has received two different evaluations: critics think that his performance is dull; praisers think that Zhuang Wenjie is an inferior and genius contradictor, and Wang Junkai uses a lot of eyes to act, capturing the character characteristics of the character.
For the casting, chief producer Dun Qi said that Wang Junkai was chosen not because of traffic, but because of suitability. "To consider the fit of the actor himself and the role, Xiao Kai's temperament is very compatible with Zhuang Wenjie in our minds." Director Yang Dong also told the Red Star News reporter that Wang Junkai came with a character state as soon as he entered the group, and the melancholy and uncertainty in his eyes had touched him, "Xiao Kai is not an idol, Xiao Kai is an excellent actor." ”
Wang Junkai
"The Gate of Rebirth" is the sequel to the suspense web drama "Rebirth" starring Zhang Yi, continuing the main creative lineup of the previous one, the director is still Yang Dong, and Zhang Yi is still playing luo Jian, the captain of the criminal police team.
"The Gate of Rebirth" begins with a high-IQ theft team that stole the famous painting "Water Lilies" in just 18 seconds, and "Water Lilies" was replaced by a fake painting, and the signature of the invisible ink on the fake painting was Zhuang Wenjie. Born in a family of thieves, Zhuang Wenjie is a talented college student, rational, intelligent, and meticulous, he refuses to "inherit his father's business", but is favored by the theft group. The reason why the theft group set up a situation to blame is that it wants to pull Zhuang Wenjie into the game. On the other hand, Luo Jian's master Fang Haizhong died unexpectedly in the theft of the famous painting "Roselle" 12 years ago, and the main culprit Zhuang Yaobai mysteriously disappeared with this painting. The police hope to guide Zhuang Wenjie to use his theft expertise to anti-theft, help them solve the case, and find out the black hand behind the scenes.
Wang Junkai and Zhang Yi partner
As a web drama, "The Gate of Rebirth" brings together Zhang Yi of the acting school and Wang Junkai, the current top traffic, and has senior actors such as Tian Xiaojie and Pan Yueming as the matching. Maoyan data shows that 8 days after going online, the drama ranked first in the popularity of online dramas, and it was also searched every day, which showed its high attention.
Dun Qi recalled that at the beginning, there was no plan to do the "Rebirth Series". In the late stage of the production of "Rebirth" in 2019, Dun Qi came into contact with a project called "Side Door Left Road", "After watching it, I was very interested in the element of stealing the family involved in "Side Door Left Road". The first part of "Rebirth" was broadcast in 2020, and Dun Qi told Yang Dong about a new project, invited him to create a rebirth series similar to the Marvel Universe, and continued to invite Zhang Yi to star.
Yang Dong told red star news reporters that continuing to take over "The Gate of Rebirth" is that when the first film was filmed, "I did not complete the ideal look in my mind, leaving many regrets." So I want to continue to do a suspense drama and get back the previous ideas and designs. He revealed that the script alone was made for a full nine months, and the team brainstormed together, "Now everyone says that the IQ of the villains in our play is online, in fact, when we think about the story, we first think about the motives of the bad guys, what is their core purpose?" How do they do it? We must first come up with the villain's plan, what tricks they have, be wise enough, have intelligence. After that, to do the story of the positive characters, we first have to do a dead end, and then think about how can the positive characters break this game? It's interesting to play between the two sides. ”
As a suspense drama, the suspense of "The Gate of Rebirth" continues to attract the audience to look down. Dun Qi revealed that the whole drama has a total of 26 episodes, with as many as 1827 scenes, "When I was filming "The Biography of Zhen Huan", 76 episodes of the play, Sun Li played Zhen Huan only more than 1100 scenes. This shows how fast the pace of Gates of Rebirth is. The intuitive effect of these 1827 scenes is to make the audience have a strong sense of tension and suffocation during the viewing process. In Dun Qi's view, the most important thing about suspense dramas is to have emotional resonance with the audience, so many of the cutscenes during filming have been deleted, directly and quickly presenting many results to the audience and increasing the amount of information in the story," I stressed with the director, that is, to bring up the sense of rhythm and give the audience an immersive sense of oppression. ”
It has to be mentioned that a major attraction of "The Gate of Rebirth" is that Wang Junkai starred in Zhuang Wenjie, who has low self-esteem but excellent IQ. In the play, Zhuang Wenjie does not say much, but his mind is constantly changing. Wang Junkai chose the most secure "expressionless" style of performance, critics believe that his performance is more dull and blunt, and partnering with Zhang Yi exposes his acting shortcomings; supporters believe that Wang Junkai uses a lot of eyes to act, and also adds a lot of small details, such as rubbing his fingers and occasionally tightening the corners of his mouth, showing the inferiority of the characters, and accurately finding the characteristics of the characters.
These doubts and criticisms, Dun Qi all looked in his eyes. "After the zhang translation is set, who will play Zhuang Wenjie has become the focus of our attention." They have interviewed a number of male actors, but they have not found a suitable one. "Until one day, when we met Wang Junkai, we found that his temperament was quite compatible with the role of Zhuang Wenjie, so we decided to let him play the starring role."
Dun Qi said that their choice of actors must be appropriate, rather than looking at Wang Junkai's influence and traffic, "Through this cooperation, we can actually see the potential of Wang Junkai." In fact, this is also the first time that Wang Junkai has played a similar role. For him, it was a big challenge. Happily, Wang Junkai did not flinch, he not only carefully studied the script, but also put forward some of his own ideas about the role. Dun Qi said that it is precisely because of his efforts that the audience can see a complex Zhuang Wenjie and feel his struggle and growth.
"Xiao Kai is not an idol, Xiao Kai is an excellent actor." Speaking of Wang Junkai, Yang Dong said, "Xiao Kai is a very hard-working and serious actor, on the day of the boot, I told Xiao Kai that you are zhuang Wenjie in my mind. At that time, when he saw Xiao Kai, Yang Dong was touched by the melancholy in his eyes, the uncertain, insecure look, "Xiao Kai should have done his homework after reading the script and came with the state of the character." Yang Dong recalled that not long after the boot, he filmed Wang Junkai's scene in the vault, "That scene gave me a small surprise, it was really not easy to act, there was no word, and he was knocked down by electricity later." Everyone has seen that Xiao Kai relies on his eyes and limbs to perform, and I am very satisfied. Xiao Kai didn't have any idol baggage at all, and crawled around on the ground. I think all this proves that Xiao Kai is not an idol, but a good actor with potential. ”
Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng
Edited by Li Jie
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