Kang Kai, the actor, should not feel strange to all children's shoes.
Some people call him a "fierce general professional", because many of the roles he plays belong to that kind of fierce character, such as Zhang Fei in "New Three Kingdoms", Li Kui in "New Water Margin", Fan Duo in "The Legend of Chu Han" and so on.
However, it is interesting that most of the audience has a very low evaluation of him, thinking that Kang Kai is the same no matter what he plays, and some say that Kang Kai is an actor who can "play Zhang Fei, Li Kui, and Fan Duo as himself".
In fact, from the perspective of film and television production, the evaluation of the roles in those dramas is so low, Kang Kai does have to bear a certain responsibility, but the producer cannot get rid of the relationship.
First of all, let's talk about the disadvantages of Kang Kai himself.
What do characters such as Zhang Fei and Li Kui have in common?
It is "fierce".
Or you can add a "black".
The so-called fierce, from the appearance of the words is very simple, is to see whether a person has momentum, like not like a macho man.
Kang Kai himself is relatively tall, and he also has muscles, but his image really can't be associated with "fierce".
He has a chubby face, and his innate appearance is not related to the appearance of a fierce man like "leopard head ring eyes".
Because Kang Kai's facial expression management is not very good, even if he frowns, it seems to be a small temper, and he does not give people any fierce feeling at all.
Not to mention the skin color, to be honest, Kang Kai is quite white, and Zhang Fei Li Kui is a fierce person with a dark skin.
Don't say that the skin color is not important, a white and fat, fat face and frown like a character who is making a small temper, not a "fierce man", but a "cute man".
Specific to its own performance, Kang Kai also obviously has problems.
The most typical is in the "New Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei violently beat Lü Bu's cousin in Xuzhou (the original work is father-in-law, the TV series changed to a cousin for Lü Bu's monogamous relationship with Sable Cicada) a plot of Cao Bao.
This plot belongs to the original work, but what you want to show is not that Zhang Fei cheats on good and fears evil, but that Zhang Fei has a straightforward personality, because he hates Lü Bu, so when Cao Bao moved out of Lü Bu to ask him to give face, he was very angry.
In other words, when Zhang Fei hit Cao Bao, his expression was very angry, and what was angry was that Cao Bao actually took the person he despised the most and hated the most to ask him to give face, as if he was afraid of Lü Bu.
And when Kang Kai performed this scene, what was that expression?
Just look at the pictures.
Very happy and enjoyable.
The original "New Three Kingdoms" Zhang Fei's personality is very problematic (as will be mentioned below) Kang Kai's happy expression exacerbates this phenomenon, making most viewers feel four words when they look at it.
Villains win.
Not only in this scene, but in many other episodes, Kang Kai always has that strange smile on his face, and this is also true on some occasions that should be serious.
That's the problem with actor expression management.
When playing Li Kui in "New Water Margin", there were also big problems.
Li Kui everyone knows that The Heavenly Killing Star, a rude man, the lines of this kind of character should belong to the kind of word-by-word, very powerful, and loud and loud.
But Kang Kai reads the lines very quickly, so that it seems that the "strength" is not enough, in other words, it is like breaking the thoughts.
This is completely unable to reflect the "fierceness" of this role.
Of course, although Kang Kai's own acting skills do need to be further studied, he is not the only responsible person for the failure of several roles such as Zhang Fei, Li Kui, and Fan Duo.
The greater responsibility lies with the producers, who have completely confused these characters.
The common denominator of these characters is only fierceness and loyalty, but there are many differences.
Zhang Fei is a bold personality, that is, love and hate, admiring you is admiring a lifetime, hating you is to be incompatible with you.
Although there are impulses, but not a pure recklessness, but also make a plan or something.
As a result, the director and screenwriter of "New Three Kingdoms" set Zhang Fei as a person?
A reckless man without any upbringing.
For example, when the princes met the alliance, they shouted without Liu Bei's permission on the official occasions of many warlord deliberations.
Is this bold? This is a manifestation that not even basic etiquette.
Zhuge Liangming had already shown his ability by burning Bowang, but Zhang Fei had always suspected him, and even said that he wanted to stand on his own, and he was eager to stab Kong Ming to death with a spear.
What is it that a person who admires will admire for a lifetime? inexistent.
Pang Tong tested Liu Bei, and after showing his talent, he said that he wanted to leave, and Zhang Fei actually persuaded Liu Bei to kill Pang Tong to avoid the trouble.
This Zhang Fei is afraid that Wu used his upper body.
And the whole drama will stab people with ten thousand holes at every turn, giving people a feeling that they don't have to do anything without a brain.
This kind of persona is not to say that you can make the audience feel good if you let the actor "sell a cute", in fact, even if it is not Kang Kai to act, it will be scolded if other actors come to play.
But then again, Zhu Sujin, the screenwriter of "New Three Kingdoms", bluntly said that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" could not be watched by himself, so it is no wonder that Zhang Fei's personality is all made up by his own brain.
As for Li Kui of "New Water Margin", in fact, the gap with the original work is also very large, but this is understandable.
Why?
Because li kui in the original work is too fierce, eating human flesh, killing children, and almost no evil, this image and human settings are impossible to put on the big screen.
So it had to be changed, so it became the so-called simple mind, the feeling of innocence.
Therefore, among these roles, the criticism encountered by Kang Kai in playing Li Kui is relatively small.
As for Fan Duo of "The Legend of Chu Han", he is basically the same way as Zhang Fei of "New Three Kingdoms".
It looks like a, fierce when it is fierce, pure reckless.
The same rogues are in terms of human design.
For example, the woman who robbed her brother Lu Xuan for sports, and then kept saying that she just didn't hold back for a while, ran over and pretended to give people a stick, saying that she would hit it casually.
As a result, Lu Xuan picked it up and didn't hit it a few times, this Fan Duo directly roared and roared that you still hit, I just do it to make an example, do you really dare to beat me?
This person estimates that the off-screen audience is eager for him to quickly receive the box lunch.
Then, the title of Liu Bang turned out to be the same as Zhang Fei and Li Kui, a big brother in one mouth.
It can be seen that the producer positioned Fan Duo as the same as the previous two characters.
But this is really ironic, Zhang Fei, Li Kui, Fan Duo, the same actor, the same kind of acting, the same kind of personality, the same kind of title, the fierce general becomes cute, neither growth arc, personality is not pleasing.
The strength of the co-producer and the actors finally destroyed these roles, so that now when it comes to the most hated roles in these dramas, Zhang Fei, Li Kui, and Fan Duo must be on the list.
It can only be said that I hope that there will be other films and televisions in the future, justify the names of these characters, and eliminate these bad influences.