One person's performance dragged down the whole drama, and the male protagonist of "Daming under the Microscope" can be called a failure, and it is uncomfortable to watch

The first popular drama in 2023 is "Crazy", the popularity of this drama has made many treasure actors popular, and the period emotional drama "Our Day" that followed the online is also a popular theme in the past two years.

I thought that the high-quality drama in the first quarter of this year was contracted like this, but I didn't expect that the suspense drama "Daming under the Microscope" was launched and aroused widespread attention from the audience.

According to the data, the popularity of "Daming under the Microscope" soared after its premiere, not only winning the first place in the real-time popularity of Maoyan on the platform, but also receiving a lot of praise.

From the perspective of theme and content, it is a dark horse drama with great potential. Some netizens bluntly said: "After a few episodes, I accidentally felt that it was beyond imagination to look good... The plot is smooth, the rhythm is bright, the service is simple and real, and the whole is a comfortable one."

And as highly praised by netizens, "Daming under the Microscope" is a work with a lower threshold and a more explosive appearance among Ma Boyong's many works so far.

The author personally operates, and the comedic plot narrative makes the drama chasing experience better

Readers familiar with Ma Boyong are also familiar with his works, and several of his suspense books are known for their complex story backgrounds and brain-burning plot development. The previously successful filmed "Fengqi Luoyang", "Fengqi Longxi" and "Chang'an Twelve Hours" have made completely different reputations, but the three dramas cannot be called the blockbusters out of the circle.

One of the important reasons is that the threshold for chasing dramas is too high, especially the complex character relationships in "Feng Qi Longxi", the thick historical filter, which dissuaded many people at the beginning.

But "Daming under the Microscope" is completely different, the novel of the same name of this drama does not have too many fictional plots, and it respects historical facts more in content, or the author himself.

In terms of style, "Daming under the Microscope" combines suspense and light comedy styles, lowering the audience's threshold for chasing dramas.

The main plot line of the whole drama is that the handsome Jiamo played by Zhang Ruoyun discovered the loophole in the tax ledger by relying on his arithmetic talent, and in order to find out the truth, he began to investigate and determine the silk tax case. In addition to the fact that in the process of case development, there has always been foreshadowing, making the audience curious about the truth behind the silk case, there are really too many comedians in the play.

On the side of the court, Huang Zhifu, played by Gao Yalin, has his own purpose in everything he does, but his humble appearance and the plot of colliding with ordinary people who do not understand human feelings and the world like the male protagonist are particularly funny.

For example, when the county orders were uninvited because of tax cases, Huang Zhifu specially found the handsome family at lunchtime to ventilate. It's just that Shuai Jiamo this person does not know how to be a villain, he is honest, and when he sees the prefect, he does not salute, but it makes Huang Zhifu, who is standing in place, look helpless.

Looking at Huang Zhifu's expression at that time, the author also understood what is called "as long as I am not embarrassed, it is not me who is embarrassed".

The audience loves to watch the role of Huang Zhifu, and the other characters in the play are also interesting. Fang Xianling, played by Hou Yansong, is a doglegged, timid and fearful, and has nothing to do, and after the tax case is big, he disregards the suffering of the people, and would rather not investigate, rather than reduce the burden on the people in the county.

You say he is bad, he didn't do anything bad, but you say he is good, but he is really "cheap", such a mean comedy character, but also increase the light comedy atmosphere in suspense dramas.

The male protagonist's acting skills became the only bug, and the one-person performance dragged down the whole drama

Judging from the plot content, "Daming under the Microscope" really has the conditions to become a hit. In the shaping of actors, Wang Yang played by Cheng Renqing, Gao Yalin's Huang Zhifu is ambitious, and Wu Gang plays Fan Lao ruthlessly, but it is Zhang Ruoyun, which has become the biggest slot.

Some netizens bluntly complained: "I said bluntly that Zhang Ruoyun did not play very well in this film."

In terms of character setting, the handsome Jiamo played by Zhang Ruoyun is not normal, he has obvious emotional disorders, so he does not understand the world, and it is "staying" to see the audience's eyes.

Judging from the rhythm of the plot and the performance of other actors, everyone is in a fast-paced environment, the characters' lines are dense, and the characters' charisma is thrown quickly. But only Zhang Ruoyun always stays in a slow-paced environment, so that the audience cannot see the charm of the male protagonist, so that the male protagonist Jiamo, as a soul figure, is the thinnest character in the whole play.

When Shuai Jiamo faced Bo Gongtang, Zhang Ruoyun's state was to wander outside the public hall, and Feng Biyu played by Qi Wei on the side had a stronger sense of participation, but Zhang Ruoyun was a group performance throughout the whole process, and every time he opened his mouth to speak, he began to make various facial movements.

From time to time, he opens his eyes, arches his nose, glares, frowns his eyebrows, and pouts when he speaks, these redundant performances have departed from the original character's "abnormal" setting, and nakedly show Zhang Ruoyun's lack of acting skills.

And in the interpretation of the "abnormal" character, Zhang Ruoyun's state is not quite right, combined with the current plot, Shuai Jiamo is most likely a collection of "mental disorders", "fire PSTD" and "amnesia", and the abnormal performance is normal.

But this type of character often shows a sense of cowardice, which is why the official says that the handsome family is silent. But Zhang Ruoyun's performance effect is not cowardice, but paranoid and even conceited.

Many times, Zhang Ruoyun's empty expression with crooked neck gave the audience a sense of terror. But where the character is a naked madman, Zhang Ruoyun's performance is justified. But Shuai Jiamo is not, he is full of enthusiasm and justice, he is righteous and kind, and he has an amazing talent for arithmetic. Such a character may make the audience feel threatened.

What's more, in the plot, the plot where Shuai Jia Mo calculated what results did not need a sense of threat, whether it was for the character setting or the needs of the plot, Zhang Ruoyun's performance was too strong, and even completely did not meet the requirements of the script and characters.

What is even more disappointing is that this time, the handsome Jiamo played by Zhang Ruoyun once again let the audience faintly see Fan Xian's shadow. At the time of "Sword in the Snow", Zhang Ruoyun's performance was like a martial arts version of Fan Xian, and now the same problem arises, which shows that his drama style is too single, and he can't do thousands of people and thousands of faces, and he can't switch performance styles naturally.

Of course, the drama "Daming under the Microscope" is worth watching, but it is a pity that Zhang Ruoyun, as the starring actor, did not bring more surprises to the audience. Perhaps the starting point of "Qing Yu Nian" is too high, and now Zhang Ruoyun still has a lot of room for improvement in "Under the Microscope".

Finally, I hope that Zhang Ruoyun after this drama can find his own problems and break through the limitations of his acting skills in a targeted manner. As for "Daming under the Microscope" itself, audiences who prefer suspense themes can still try to take a look.