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"Yuanfang, what do you think?"
"I bet there are no bullets in your gun..."
Actor Zhang Zijian has portrayed classic roles such as Li Yuanfang and Yan Shuangying, and his famous lines have made the audience enjoy it and gained a large number of loyal fans.
But now, Zhang Zijian has become a "bad film professional".
In "Detective Bao Qingtian", he showed his great feats and won the exhibition, "offending Bao Zheng and still wanting to run";
In "Shi Dangdang's Majesty Facing Tiandong", he "has three eyebrows on the head of the immortal"; In "Flying Tigers", he even interpreted the routine of the anti-Japanese drama to the fullest, flying on the top of the train to defuse the bomb with bare hands...
In the face of such a big contrast, some people lamented that "Yuanfang" had fallen.
Some people are puzzled, Zhang Zijian's acting skills have not regressed and have always been superb, why would he be reduced from a good actor to a "thunder drama screener"?
In fact, in today's entertainment industry, there are acting skills but are in a "dilemma", not to mention Zhang Zijian.
And these "Zhang Zijian" have exposed the most "sad" truth in the entertainment industry at present.
1. Hand in hand with your best friend to chase the dream silver screen
In 1968, Zhang Zijian was born in Tianjin, and spent his childhood in learning cross-talk and playing allegro. His father, Zhang Zhikuan, as a famous opera artist, naturally hoped that his son would inherit his mantle, so Zhang Zijian took the stage with his father when he was five years old.
In 1987, Zhang Zijian was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy with excellent results. Here, he met his best friend Qian Yanqiu.
And this close friend, in the next twenty years, profoundly influenced Zhang Zijian's acting path.
Qian Yanqiu is knowledgeable, quick in thinking, and has a deep literary foundation, which makes Zhang Zijian very admired; Zhang Zijian has a bold personality, and a good hand of allegro also makes Qian Yanqiu, a music art lover, very interested. The two are like-minded and often talk about the world.
After graduating from college, Zhang Zijian smoothly embarked on the road of martial arts because of his tall and handsome appearance and flexible body movements, and successively participated in film and television works such as "The Great Man with White Eyebrows" and "Gan Nineteen Sisters", and gradually emerged.
On the other hand, Qian Yanqiu was disappointed.
With a low appearance and a slightly fat body, he can only receive the role of the dragon suit, and there is no room for a class skill. Seeing that the actor Lu was dead, Qian Yanqiu had the idea of switching to directing and screenwriting.
Zhang Zijian is very supportive of his friend's choice. Qian Yanqiu was talented and impressed him as early as his university days, and he was very confident that his friends were engaged in the creative industry.
To encourage his friends, Zhang Zijian promised: "What you shoot, what I play!" ”
The promise of a close friend is like a reassuring pill, and Qian Yanqiu decided to change careers.
In 1998, Qian Yanqiu's first self-directed and self-edited work, "Beloved", was launched, and Zhang Zijian played the male protagonist.
The ratings and word-of-mouth of this debut film were not satisfactory, but Qian Yanqiu was not discouraged and still insisted on creating. In 2001, the first "Hero" of the "Yan Double Eagle" series came out.
The show was well received as soon as it first aired, and there have been sequels since then.
Zhang Zijian's popularity as the male protagonist Yan Shuangying has greatly increased, and Qian Yanqiu's creative ability has also been recognized by the audience, and he has been evaluated as a "ghost screenwriter".
In 2003, Qian Yanqiu began to prepare for the filming of "Detective Di Renjie", and the supporting role of Li Yuanfang was delayed, and finally he decided to ask his best friend Zhang Zijian to save the scene.
Zhang Zijian originally felt that this character was thin and did not have an independent story line, and he was not interested. But in order to make a promise and to save his friends, he still pushed off the film contract in his hand and took over the role of this "background board".
However, "Detective Di Renjie" was a great success, and the ratings and word-of-mouth were both harvested.
However, the dividends of this drama are almost all concentrated on "Di Renjie", and as for Zhang Zijian, it is still tepid.
But no one expected at the time, something to happen a few years later.
It will make Li Yuanfang surpass Yan Shuangying and become the most representative role in Zhang Zijian's actor's career, which is not one.
2. From overnight popularity to "bad film professionals"
In 2012, a netizen imitated the tone of Di Renjie in "Detective Di Renjie" and commented in the message area of social news: "Yuanfang, what do you think? ”
In an instant, this line swept the whole network, and many netizens followed suit, from international news to small milk tea shop punching cards will keep up with a sentence: "Yuanfang, what do you think." ”
For a time, the "Yuan Fang Body" exploded.
Screenshots of the original drama were forwarded nearly 100 million, line spoofs can be seen everywhere, and Zhang Zijian also followed the fire and won the "Annual Breakthrough Award" on Weibo that year.
Interestingly, Zhang Zijian did not have a Weibo account at all.
Zhang Zijian does not understand social networks and concentrates on his own work filming.
In order to shoot the scene, he had been raining for several hours in a low temperature of 19 degrees, and he had also fallen from a high place and injured his cervical spine.
At that time, he naively thought that acting was just "acting", as long as the acting skills were good.
As a result, Zhang Zijian, who does not understand the heat and does not understand the trend of playing with the terrier, just missed the opportunity to eat the traffic dividend.
As soon as the "Yuan Fang Body" passed, he returned to a tepid state.
At first, Zhang Zijian did not care about the disappearance of heat, until December 2012, Liang Guanhua withdrew from the filming of the sequel to the "Detective Di Renjie" series, without giving any public explanation.
With the departure of Liang Guanhua, the follow-up of the "Detective Di Renjie" series is weak, and the "Yan Double Eagle" series, due to the tightening of the censorship policy year by year, is becoming more and more difficult to start.
The masterpiece has encountered storms one after another, which inevitably makes Qian Yanqiu a little discouraged.
At the same time, years of high-density script creation exhausted the aura of "ghost screenwriters", and Qian Yanqiu began to sell cold rice with feelings.
In 2015, "Detective Bao Qingtian" was released, and Zhang Zijian played the male protagonist Bao Zheng, officially embarking on the road of "bad drama male protagonist".
The audience turned on the TV with a longing for the "Detective Di Renjie" series, but saw the "kung fu master Bao Daren". In the same year, the sequel to the "Yan Double Eagle" series also suffered from word-of-mouth Waterloo.
Feelings can no longer be sold, Qian Yanqiu began to specialize in the sinking market. The mythological drama "Shi Dangdang's Majestic Heavenly East" and the anti-Japanese god drama "Flying Tiger Team" were all rotten enough to surprise his fans, and Zhang Zijian participated in every department.
Many people feel sorry for Zhang Zijian and feel that these bad films have buried his good acting skills.
Zhang Zijian felt that he was lucky enough, at least there was still a scene to shoot.
What's more, in his view, the actor's duty is to improve his acting skills and shoot the drama seriously, as for the quality of the script and the broadcast effect, it is not something that the actor can influence.
3. The dilemma of "Zhang Zijian"
Even though Zhang Zijian has been acting in bad dramas for many years, he still cherishes every role and conscientiously contributes his best acting skills.
The audience criticizes the bad drama, criticizes the plot, criticizes the director, but all admit that Zhang Zijian is a good actor.
However, in the current entertainment industry, if you want to shoot a good scene, it is not simply "being a good actor".
In 2014, online capital poured into the entertainment industry, and the mainland entertainment market gradually showed the characteristics of "high efficiency, industrialization, scale, and unstable quality of finished products".
The shooting cycle of film and television works has been greatly shortened, and the budget has been infinitely inclined to the remuneration and publicity costs of star artists, and the quality of film and television works will inevitably be muddy.
This has caused bad films to run rampant, and the impact of actors' business capabilities on the quality of film and television works has become smaller and smaller.
Many times, actors know from the moment they receive a script that they are about to make a bad film.
But the actor can't change anything, he doesn't want to act, he doesn't have to act, and if he doesn't want to do it, someone else can do it, so he can only do it hard.
As Zhang Zijian himself said, he has been lucky enough.
Although the label of "bad film professional" is attached to the body, there are close friends and directors who insist on using him for twenty years, and can still maintain a stable workload and try many types of roles.
And other good actors who are "labeled" do not have this kind of good luck.
Ma Li is a well-deserved box office queen in the Chinese film industry, but the "comedy" label is attached to her, and it is difficult for her to prove herself in non-comedy fields.
Last year's May 1st, the movie "Sunshine Robber" directed by Li Yu and starring Ma Li had a total box office of less than 50 million.
Word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "Parental Love" and "Do You Know If It Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" let the audience see the strength of actor Liu Lin, but it also made her bear the label of "mother professional household".
In recent years, Liu Lin has never played a role other than a mother.
Actress Zeng Meihuizi has won the Academy Award, but because the winning role is a wind and dust woman, she played almost all the wind and dust women after the award.
Coincidentally, she and Liu Lin both participated in Li Yu's new work "Broken Bridge".
Even director Li Yu, who is best at shooting women's themes, did not give these two good actors a chance, and the roles they played were mistresses and female mothers, both of which were their comfort zones and supporting roles.
Their performances have not been discussed much, and the center of the topic of "Broken Bridge" is always the male protagonist, because his actor is Wang Junkai, a traffic student.
The performances of Zeng Meihuizi and Liu Lin received one or two praises, and there was no follow-up.
The labeling, framing of the actors and even affects the opponent's play.
When a work is well received, the next collaboration between the male and female protagonists must continue the same plot pattern in order to replicate the successful experience.
"Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" starring Zhang Yi and Yin Tao won the Golden Eagle Award, and the second pair immediately followed.
This time, they jointly participated in the National Day movie "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming" to escort Wang Junkai.
As a part of an entertainment factory, actors also have grades.
The head artist is at the top of the pyramid and has access to the best performing "machines" and works with the best team
。 Waist artists can only choose mediocre resources, as for the bottom artists, in the entertainment industry's "cold wave" environment, they can only ask for more blessings.
Wang Junkai, who starred in the crime-themed literary and art film "Broken Bridge" and the main theme of the production "Ten Thousand Miles Home", rushed to the "Hedgehog" crew non-stop.
This time the team is also good, the famous director Gu Changwei personally handled, and the partner is the film emperor Ge You.
The market has been tolerant to give traffic students like Wang Junkai many opportunities, and they are stingy enough to let Zeng Meihuizi and Liu Lin and other waist actors have been spinning in the same place.
They may never wait for a role that breaks through themselves.
4. The most "sad" truth in the current entertainment industry
In the past decade, the mainland entertainment market has expanded year by year, the number of video website users has been rising, and the box office record of movies has been continuously refreshed.
Although the broader market has brought more film and television works and roles, it also means more practitioners and more fierce competition.
In this case, having a widely recognized "label" that can be remembered by investors and casting directors for the first time seems to be a good thing for many tepid actors.
Therefore, many actors know that they are deeply burdened by the "label" and the role is seriously solidified, but they can only stay in the comfort zone delimited by the "label" and strive to seize the hard-won opportunity.
After all, compared to no drama to shoot, character solidification and addiction to bad films already look very good, at least there is still a job.
The audience is as good as Chen Chuang, portraying "Fugui" and "Heavenly Dog" into the wood, and the popularity of the work is still inevitably forgotten, and gradually there is no such person in the entertainment industry.
His acting skills are superb such as Feitian Emperor Zhang Tong, who has portrayed classic roles such as Wei Monk and Li Dazhao, and if he wants to break through himself, he still can't do it, and gradually has no drama to shoot, so he has to return to the field of drama.
This is true of those who are recognized as powerful, let alone others?
So, we are seeing more and more "copy and paste".
Which film and television drama exploded, and then a series of the same style will spring up like mushrooms, such as the Xian Xia drama that has been on fire in recent years.
At first, everyone thought that "The Legend of Paladin Sword" was the beginning, and who could think of it as the peak.
One "Xiangmi" is on fire, and the next few dramas follow its pattern matryoshka dolls.
The same white clothes fluttering, the same sadistic love, can't help but make people wonder: Do the gods and immortals do nothing but fall in love every day?
The most speechless thing is that these fairy tale dramas are even similar to posters.
Which role of the actor is on fire, and all the roles he receives next are the same persona.
Afraid of being eliminated by the market, it is eager to reproduce success.
But repetition means character solidification, which means narrower comfort zones and fewer opportunities, leading to a vicious cycle.
Since when did our film and television dramas go back and forth with so many people?
The actors played the same roles over and over again, and the audience looked at familiar faces again and again, watching similar plots.
When it comes to comedy, I think of Huang Bo and Shen Teng; When it comes to rich people and elites, they think of Wang Yaoqing and Jin Dong; When it comes to soldiers and tough guys, I think of Wu Jing and Zhang Yi; Speaking of white-collar workers, I think of Liu Tao and Yuan Quan.
But at the end of the day, has anyone done it wrong? No one seems to have done anything wrong.
It can only be said that this vicious circle today is the sadness of the current entertainment industry.
Obviously, the technology of production has improved, and the things that can be photographed always seem to lack the taste of the past.
Obviously, the actor's acting skills have improved, but he has been filming in the comfort zone, and it seems that there is always a little surprise.