Yibao public number | Reporter Jin Liwei
Eight years ago, a divine drama "The Pretender" changed the fate of the three male actors.
Previously, Hu Ge, Jin Dong, and Wang Kai were originally deeply trapped in their respective quagmire, and since then, they have all become first-line male stars in Chinese dramas, and their status has not changed so far.
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the three brothers of the former Ming family had new works presented at almost the same time, and it was inevitable that they would be compared. CCTV's "County Party Committee Compound" starring Hu Ge has just been broadcast, CCTV's eight sets of "Walking to the Wind" starring Wang Kai and followed by Beijing Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Even If the Wind Rises", starring Jin Dong.
The three dramas are completely three types, which is difficult to compare, but from the actor's personal point of view, on the strength of acting skills alone, some people stay in place, some have become immortals, and some people catch up with the latecomers step by step.
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At that time, "The Pretender" was just a small-cost drama for the beginning of Noon Sun to test the water commercially, and in order to achieve the ultimate in genre, it ignored many logical loopholes. At that time, "Langya List", which was filmed before "The Pretender", was the main play, and "The Pretender" almost followed the starring lineup of "Langya List", and was broadcast before "Langya List", and its success was equivalent to a warm-up advertisement for "Langya List".
"The Pretender" officially announced the two male protagonists, Hu Ge's Ming Tai and Jin Dong's Ming Lou, and Wang Kai's Ming Cheng ranked third.
Internal entertainment has not yet fully entered the traffic era, although Hu Ge has the status of "ancient puppet brother", but he is also limited to ancient puppet dramas, he is extremely eager to break through the positioning of idol stars and eager to become an "actor". Hu Ge once recorded his bleak state of mind on Weibo: he ran around the Hongkou football stadium more than a dozen times in one breath, and today he ran around the park, and his thoughts were particularly clear when it was dark, but he still couldn't figure it out. After so many years, how am I still going around in circles.
Contrary to Hu Ge, Jin Dong is a recognized acting school in the industry, and before the age of forty, he won all the domestic awards related to drama, including the "Golden Lion Award", the highest award for drama. In order to keep the bottom line of not making bad dramas, he only rehearsed plays in theaters for many years, and lived for his ideals in financial distress.
Wang Kai is Jin Dong's junior brother and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, but his famous work "Ugly Woman Invincible" is not only a famous thunder drama, but also a piece of his black history.
"Ugly Girl Invincible" has a total of 4 seasons, and his girly Chen Jiaming is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there were even rumors that Wang Kai was starring in his true colors. In the years that followed, except for characters such as "pseudonym", there were no scenes to film. When "The Pretender" and "Langya List" were on the air, it was popular to call young high-value male stars "little fresh meat", and Wang Kai was always embarrassed because he had been debuting for almost ten years and was over 30 years old.
Before "The Pretender" entered the group, someone told Wang Kai that you must act well after entering the group, otherwise Brother Dong will scold you, and Jin Dong's explanation is: "If there is an actor who can't remember the lines well, he shouldn't stand opposite me." ”
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Before "The Pretender", the three brothers of the Ming family had their own difficulties, and after the hit of this drama, almost all of their dreams in their careers were realized.
Hu Ge jumped from an ancient puppet brother to a national male god with both acting skills and appearance, and in the following five years, he made a drama and a movie, he is not in the rivers and lakes, but the rivers and lakes always have his legends. Before the broadcast of "County Party Committee Compound", a hot search about Hu Ge was that he drove a Wuling electric car down-to-earth, and was worshipped as an environmental protection god, and it didn't take long for everyone to understand that this turned out to be an endorsement soft advertisement.
In any case, Hu Ge has become a legend, not a work, but also a memorable one.
In the days when Hu Ge retired to the rivers and lakes, Jin Dong was the actor with the most ratings guarantee for domestic dramas, and this guarantee was directly transformed into a right to speak that could intervene in the production. He is both a starring actor and a producer, and plays all the roles into his ideal appearance: either a workplace elite with a refined life style, or a counterattack hero who is downcast and lives for his ideals.
In short, no matter good times or bad, Jin Dong's character will always be a life mentor.
Among the three, Wang Kai had the lowest starting point. The two years after "The Pretender" and "Langya List" are Wang Kai's most busy two years, two years and ten plays, behind the continuous output is when he is all year round and the clockwork is tightest. Later, after experiencing the death of his father and his own physical problems, he left a message to fans: "Sick, need to rest, everyone must take care of their body." In the following six years, Wang Kai disappeared from major award platforms and fashion events in the entertainment industry, and even fans did not know his whereabouts.
Unlike Hu Ge, Wang Kai is still rhythmically and continuously exporting works, appearing on the screen at the frequency of one play a year, two "Ode to Joy", two "Great Rivers", "Qingping Le", "Fox Hunting", "Mountains and Seas" and "Ideals Shine on China". On the one hand, Wang Kai already has the qualifications to choose the best production team for each drama; On the one hand, the dramas he starred in are not purely commercial operations, there is no "explosive" atmosphere, seemingly plain, but also solid. Dr. Zhao, Song Yunhui, Song Renzong... Wang Kai can always fit the plot and characters without overly highlighting personal characteristics.
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Of the three dramas at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the cast of "County Party Committee Compound" is the strongest, but the reputation is far from meeting expectations. The audience did not question Hu Ge's acting skills, but Mei Xiaoge, the secretary of the county party committee, played a little reluctantly, and the local parents and officials who did their best were too far away from the city people, and although Hu Ge acted seriously, it was difficult to bring the audience into the play.
It can only be said that performance is an art, but first and foremost a technology. Any technique needs to be tempered repeatedly, experience and vision are indispensable, Hu Ge has practiced too little in recent years, he needs to shoot more works non-stop.
Jin Dong's "Even with the Wind" is very violent, but the plot is really far-fetched, his performance is still a big oil field after all, for details, please see Yi Bloomjun's previous "A Little Crash, the first wave of word of mouth in Jin Dong's new drama is out". As long as Jin Dong still has the right to speak, he will always play the imaginary himself, and no one can wake up a man who loves to make dreams.
Wang Kai's "Walking to the Wind" is a standard workplace idol drama, who would have thought that this drama's current report card is capable of taking the lead. Traditional TV viewers and online viewers bought it, and the peak rating exceeded 2%, and the major online platforms that reflected the preferences of young people also ranked first.
"Walking to the Wind" tells the working life of civil aviation pilots, and when studied carefully, the plot still revolves around the story of how the heroine played by Tan Songyun broke the inherent prejudice against women in the aviation industry and was successfully promoted to captain. And Gu Nanting, the cold noodle captain played by Wang Kai, is the first challenge faced by the heroine.
At the beginning of the broadcast, "Walking to the Wind" had a general reputation, the script was a standard idol drama routine, the female protagonist went on the rampage and had no sense of workplace at all, and the male protagonist was cold and harsh, and the male god was paralyzed and abstinent. But as the plot progresses, the "strength" of the actors begins to become dominant, modifying the unreasonable plot. It is obvious that the barrage message gradually changed from Yan Control to lamenting that Wang Kai's performance has a sense of substitution.
The audience found that Gu Nanting, the paralyzed male god in the script, has a rich micro-expression, and can convey feelings without too many lines, which makes people empathize with him and feel sorry for him, because this abnormal personality is not self-regarded elite, but has a poignant experience behind it.
Later, I watched an interview with Wang Kai, he talked about the characters in the script who are very distant and do not eat human fireworks, and the acting is a little awkward, and the director often asks him to make some "abnormal human" performances during filming. In order to make the role grounded and make the audience feel more comfortable, he often "confronted" the director, and the director slowly compromised more times, which made Gu Nanting's character no longer screwed.
The final result that the audience sees is that although in the god-making idol drama, Wang Kai's Gu Nanting is believable and in line with the realistic image of the pilot.
Actors are passive professions, constantly selected, become first-line stars, although they can have more choice and voice power, but still shaped by the audience's preferences and influenced by the market environment. In fact, people will always be in the limit, who can go further, stand higher, and not forget the original intention is the right solution. The original intention of the actor, in addition to the pursuit of performance, should also have the audience in mind.
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