Not long ago, Huang Xiaoming and Yuan Quan's new drama "The Battle of the Roses" landed on CCTV's eight sets, causing a huge controversy.
In the words of netizens, the drama is "both good-looking and ugly".
Its good looks lie in the theme and story, the original drama is the American drama "Proud Wife", a total of 7 seasons, each of which has a Douban score of more than 9 points.
The original quality is there, you take it directly to remake, it's hard not to look good.
Its ugly point is that the localization of the main creator is not done well, and many designs are directly copied over, which seems very contrary.
For example, the heroine played by Yuan Quan in the opening scene lives in a private house, and Huang Xiaoming's hobby in the play is to play baseball, which is very common in the United States and very contrary to peace in China.
When it comes to actor acting skills, it also makes people feel like a fish in the throat.
Almost all of the leading actors are online.
For example, Yu Feihong.
She played the boss of the law firm, taking a high-cold style, and it is difficult to associate this role with the goddess Yu Feihong;
For example, Yuan Quan, combing a long hair is gentle and lovely, combing a short hair is shrewd and capable, she is the most suitable to star in this kind of workplace drama;
For example, Wang Zhifei, worthy of being a drama bone, plays a bad divorce lawyer in the play, which is angry and funny.
But there is only one actor, which is elusive.
He is Huang Xiaoming.
Huang Xiaoming plays a partner of the law firm in the play, which is half a boss.
In the face of such a role, Huang Xiaoming should be familiar with it.
From the perspective of identity, Huang Xiaoming is a capital tycoon in reality, and playing this role should be held in his hand;
From the perspective of achievements, Huang Xiaoming holds 5 film emperor trophies, or the first actor to be crowned emperor of the Golden Rooster Award for the second time, and his acting skills are recognized by the mainstream;
From the age point of view, Huang Xiaoming is just 45 years old this year, in the early years he was criticized for being greasy, and at this age, he also precipitated, and the performance should be more free.
But the actual effect is not the same.
As the male number one of the play, the legal elite, how to look at the play is like a silly white sweet "vase".
Huang Xiaoming has lost weight madly in the past two years, his appearance has rejuvenated, and he in the poster of "The Battle of the Roses" looks like a descendant Yang Yang at first glance.
In the past, Huang Xiaoming was said to be greasy, and we can also say that he has poor body management.
Now he has successfully slimmed down, that greasy, but still like a shadow, every time the camera finds him, it always feels like he is saying to the camera, "I'm a good cow, I'm so handsome."
In the play, Huang Xiaoming is the owner of the law firm, but he often appears in a shirt, and deliberately loosens a few buttons, holding a baseball in his hand and throwing it back and forth.
We can understand that he wants to create a different image of the boss, but the dress of this street slipper is also too outrageous.
More importantly, other characters are working hard, but his role only does two things: posing and flirting with the heroine.
So when this "War of the Roses" was broadcast, the ultimate question of "cliché" was put on the table again.
Does Huang Xiaoming have acting skills in the end?
Today, Pi Ge will talk about this topic with everyone in a serious way, "disassemble" Huang Xiaoming, and see how much gold his acting skills have.
I. Huang Xiaoming has "Schrödinger's acting skills"
Evaluating acting is a very subjective and illusory thing, and we measure an actor's business ability, in the final analysis, it is still based on the work.
Does Huang Xiaoming have any representative works that he can get his hands on?
You may be a bit surprised to say that.
Huang Xiaoming has been debuting for more than 20 years, and each period has a strong reputation of representative works.
Don't you believe it? In this way, we count them one by one.
In 2001, he just debuted in the TV series "Han Tianzi", in which he played the Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che, who was not more than a thing, and his heroic appearance was very stunning, and Huang Xiaoming also became popular by this drama.
In 2007, he and Sun Li starred in the TV series "New on the Beach", which was popular in Southeast Asia, and the position of Huang Xiaoming's first-line actor was further consolidated, and he was also named "one of the top ten male actors in Asia" by the Japanese media, and he was also the most popular Xu Wenqiang after Zhou Runfa.
In 2009, Huang Xiaoming starred in the movie "The Sound of the Wind", which became the ceiling of spy movies, the big names in the film, Huang Xiaoming was not inferior in it, he played the cold, gloomy Japanese officer Takeda the depth of human nature.
In 2013, Huang Xiaoming starred in "The Chinese Partner", which is the peak of his acting skills.
In the film, he put down the burden of idols and played an untrimmed entrepreneur Cheng Dongqing, who surprised the audience, and he also won the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, the Huabiao Award, and the Film Emperor of the Changchun Film Festival with this role.
In the same year, he also starred in the TV series "Jingzhong Yue Fei", handsome appearance and superb acting skills once again conquered the audience, and he also won the golden eagle festival most popular actor nomination.
In 2017, Huang Xiaoming starred in "The Wind of the Langya List", before the start of this drama, many viewers could not accept Huang Xiaoming, clamoring to abandon the drama, did not expect that after the start of the broadcast, Xiao Pingzhang, played by Huang Xiaoming, was too brilliant, and it became the biggest motivation for everyone to chase the drama.
When this role was offline, many viewers directly abandoned the play, and this transformation was the biggest affirmation of Huang Xiaoming.
In 2019, Huang Xiaoming starred in "Heroes of Fire".
In the film, he played a fire fighter who sacrificed his life and forgot his life, playing a role of Guang Weizheng more brilliantly, and he was also crowned the Golden Rooster Award Film Emperor again with this film.
What is even more touching is that under his promotion, Yin Xiaotian, who has been silent for many years, has the opportunity to star in this film, and also successfully won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor, and has since turned over.
Looking at these glamorous report cards, and thinking about the classic roles he has created, we can definitely say that Huang Xiaoming not only has acting skills, but also has excellent acting skills.
But reason tells us that this is not all Huang Xiaoming.
He has many classics, but he has starred in more bad films.
In the words of netizens, every time Xiao Mingge finishes performing a good work, he will reward himself with several hegemonic dramas.
For example, after he finished filming "The Great Han Tianzi", he immediately filmed "Tang Bohu, a young man with a popularity", with a Douban score of 5.9;
After filming "New on the Beach", he immediately filmed "Deer DingJi", with a Douban score of 5.8;
Immediately after filming "The Sound of the Wind", Tang Bohu was played, and the film Had a Douban score of 4.0 and received 56.09 million at the box office;
Immediately after filming "Chinese Partner", "Magic" was filmed, and the Douban score was only 2.9.
Therefore, what Huang Xiaoming has is "Schrödinger's acting skills".
Whenever the audience felt that Huang Xiaoming bottomed out and rebounded after the acting skills broke out, he immediately let go of the evil charm of self-contribution and smiled;
Whenever the audience felt that Huang Xiaoming was completely rotten, he used a good work to swell our faces fiercely.
How high the upper limit of his acting skills is, how low the lower limit is.
He is the standard "linear actor" and "variance actor".
Second, huang Xiaoming's performance has three fundamental reasons for the ups and downs
Does Huang Xiaoming know such a problem?
Pi Ge thinks that he is shrewd in business, it is impossible to see clearly in this kind of thing, and he must know the evaluation on the Internet.
So why is he still acting like this, with so many ups and downs?
In Pigo's view, there are three main reasons.
First, Huang Xiaoming does not cherish feathers.
As we all know, Huang Xiaoming has a good reputation in the circle, has a warm heart, who encounters difficulties he is willing to take the initiative to help, and most of the entertainment circles when they get married are present to congratulate them.
But the side effect of this personality is that it does not know how to refuse.
So whenever Huang Xiaoming performs a good work, the film is like a snowflake flying, and his own personality is that he does not refuse, so it has caused him to follow several bad films after every good work he plays.
After 2010, he left Huayi Brothers to set up his own studio, and the focus of his career also moved from actors to businessmen, then the film contract is no longer a film contract, there are many people who are sophisticated, and Huang Xiaoming is more difficult to cherish his feathers.
The opposite example is Chen Kun.
After Chen Kun performed "Painted Skin 2", his film remuneration directly doubled, and the film contracts also came and went, and as a result, Chen Kun himself pressed the pause button, gave himself a vacation, and ran to practice on foot without acting.
After a few years off, he starred in "Finding the Dragon" and set a box office record again.
On honor alone, Chen Kun is not as good as Huang Xiaoming, but in the public impression, Chen Kun's acting skills are obviously higher than Huang Xiaoming's, which is the consequence of not cherishing feathers.
Second, Huang Xiaoming lacks enough aesthetic power.
Many people are strange, Huang Xiaoming looks very handsome, when he was admitted to Nortel, he relied on his appearance to conquer the interview teacher, but he acted, and seemed to be playing handsome, giving people a greasy feeling, which seriously affected the perception.
The reason is that Huang Xiaoming does not understand aesthetics.
When he was studying, Chen Kun didn't like to play with Huang Xiaoming, just because he thought he was childish, like a child, and as a result, Huang Xiaoming ran to the class teacher to complain in anger, which made people cry and laugh.
He is the kind of person who was born with a good skin bag, but he lives in a comic in his heart, and the temperament he presents is also silly and silly.
In the early days, his appearance was too high, and this defect was covered up. Later, when collagen is lost, the problem is exposed.
When a character needs to show charm, and its own temperament cannot stand up, Xiao Mingge can only force the handsome, which creates a greasy feeling for the audience.
On the contrary, some roles do not need to be handsome, Xiao Mingge does not have to perform too hard, his own appearance advantage is highlighted, and the audience feels that he is handsome.
Some people on the Internet joked that the audience and Huang Xiaoming, only one party always thought he was handsome. This is not false.
This lack of aesthetic power affects not only the appearance, but also the judgment of the script, in addition to not knowing how to refuse, the more important point is that it is impossible to distinguish which are really good books.
Third, Huang Xiaoming needs someone to "manage it."
It is precisely because Huang Xiaoming lacks appreciation and does not pick scripts, which requires someone to manage him in order to produce good works.
Let's look at some of Huang Xiaoming's classic works.
The director of "Chinese Partner" is Chen Kexin, the producer of "Langya List 2" is the noonday sun, and "Dahan Tianzi" is partnered with Chen Daoming....
It can be seen that if there are one or two big names in a work who can suppress him, push him behind his back, tell him how to perform, how to pinch the measure, Huang Xiaoming will become an obedient good student in seconds, and can contribute wonderful performances with great precision, and good works are born.
On the contrary, in some works, Huang Xiaoming is not only an actor, but also a producer, and even a capital ontology.
Because there is enough right to speak in the crew, no one can suppress him, and the people around him have to say "Xiaoming Brother is really good", at this time he is easy to drift, and the effect of the performance is a mess.
Let's still take "City of Roses" as an example, this drama Yuan Quan is an actor who temporarily saves the scene, Huang Xiaoming's wrist in the crew is the largest, and Huang Xiaoming's aesthetic that no one cares about is deviated.
Huang Xiaoming's role in "City of Roses" is called Fengsheng, and the role in the original "Proud Wife" is called Will. Xiaoming completely copied Will's way of acting when acting, and the details of playing baseball and unbuttoning the shirt were copied from the original, which was aesthetically unaware, but also lazy in performance.
Xiao Mingge, if he has a little aesthetic, should be flexible, a middle-aged Chinese man in his 40s, even if you wear a vest thermos to soak goji berries in a cup, holding a ping-pong ball in your hand is more convincing.
But he is Dong Shi Xiaoyi, directly cos the old beauty of that set, the original version of Will charm is infinite, this version of Xiaoming Brother can only carry out the greasy to the end.
Third, "linear actor" and "variance actor" Huang Xiaoming has not yet opened the trick, he needs to "shine" himself
Remember that Huang Xiaoming bluntly said that he was angry when he was a guest in the live broadcast room 2 years ago, he said that in the past, others begged him to shoot a drama, and now he asks others in turn, people are only superficially polite, but they don't necessarily use him.
Huang Xiaoming said very sincerely, in the past two years, he has really worked hard to change, he has lost weight, and his appearance has returned, but unfortunately he still has no tricks in performance.
Acting is a passive skill for Huang Xiaoming, it needs others to trigger, and when he encounters a good director and a good script, he will passively shine.
These lights are also stimulated by others, when others put away the flashlight and pat their butts and leave, Xiao Mingge is exposed.
Huang Xiaoming, a "linear actor" and a "variance actor", has not yet opened up in self-awareness.
What are "linear actors" and "variance actors"?
That is, in a type of role field, it can be stretched linearly and come up with better performance.
But out of this field, to the category of "non-linearity", the acting skills will be more extreme, appearing very discrete.
What Huang Xiaoming needs to do now is not only to make a face, but what he needs is to shine on his own.
To put it more bluntly, he needs to know the advantages and disadvantages of his performance, cultivate deeply in his own field of expertise, do not blindly take over the drama, and have his own temperament and charm, which is the killer of middle-aged men.
You see Shen Teng is younger than him, and his face is full of folds that still can't stop the audience's liking.
Finally, huang Xiaoming's own sentence is used as the end: "Don't you feel, want the audience to feel!" ”
After all, compared to the good popularity in the circle, good works are the foundation of the actor's standing.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken
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