There are always many evil things in domestic dramas. Recently, the anti-corruption drama "Sending Spring Home" is being broadcast on TV and websites. The acting skills of a group of powerful actors are acceptable, only the face of the villain Yu Zhongjun is so awkward that there is a lot of noise in the Internet barrage.
Take a closer look, this is a backlog drama five years ago, and on the poster when the show started five years ago, Yu Zhongjun was still played by Zhao Lixin. For well-known reasons, the actor was replaced by today's Yu Zhen, and the roughness of the face-changing technique makes the series look somewhat strange.
For example, it is easy to understand if the face change is the whole replacement, but the face change method in this play is only to change parts. Actor Yu Zhen originally did not look very similar to his predecessor, with a longer face, and the face changing technique only changed the eyebrows and facial features below the actor's forehead, and still retained the hair and face shape of the previous actor.
This kind of synthetic face looks very discordant, giving people a sense of synthesis of fake faces, looking at Yu Zhen is not like Yu Zhen, and looking at others is not like others.
And in the long-range shots that flash from time to time, the faces of the former actors often appear, and the face change work is not thorough enough.
This way of changing faces makes it difficult for the audience to enter the play, and the shaping effect of the characters is obviously discounted. What's worse, the role of the face-changing character in the play is not yet a supporting role, and Yu Zhongjun's setting is the comrade-in-arms and brother of the protagonist Zhao Dasheng, who has become an opponent in the anti-corruption process, and the scene is relatively heavy.
The artificial face that often appears really affects the look and feel of the entire play, and the online barrage is full of bad comments from various audiences about the face changing effect.
On Douban's play webpage, there are still early stills of the play, and through the comparison of stills, you can actually clearly see the changes before and after the face change. Yu Zhen's relatively tall figure was placed in the relatively thin skeleton of his predecessor, and the whole seemed incongruous.
Film and television dramas frequently appear face changing dramas
The face-changing problem of "Wind and Snow Sends Spring Home" is not an isolated case.
In fact, since the beginning of standardized management of film and television dramas, the phenomenon of actors changing faces due to the influence of bad artists has occurred frequently.
Before "Wind and Rain Sends Spring Home", because the artists have exploded thunder, there are also works that have been changed faces. Like the TV series involved in the changed actor Zhao Lixin in the play, including "The Wind", "Breakout" and "Glorious Times", the broadcast episodes were changed by actors Zhou Wei, Li Zhiqiang and Huang Zhizhong respectively.
"The Wind" is weekly
"Glorious Times" Huang Zhizhong
"Breakout" Li Zhiqiang
Many face-changing dramas have also been adjusted and broadcast, such as "Three Thousand Crows Kill", "Time is Sweet with You", "Chang'an Twelve Hours", "Amazing Pediatrician" and other dramas, all of which have been rediscovered through AI face-changing technology.
Among them, "Three Thousand Crows to Kill" is also too clumsy because of the face changing technique, and the character images are cut and disjointed or even suspended after the face change, creating a lot of image oolong.
According to incomplete statistics, in 2022, there will be four more young bad artists in the film and television industry, and there are as many as 11 works to be broadcast. At present, actor Xu Kaicheng's upcoming drama "Apocalypse" is remade by Han Dongjun, and other film and television dramas may be removed or deleted from the scene. And these young actors also have many starring works, which have not been broadcast as scheduled.
There are high and low levels of face changing techniques
The bad artists affected the drama after the review and broadcast, and re-launched after changing their faces, which was originally an inclusion of film and television dramas as collective works. However, in the currently broadcast episodes, the face changing effect is mixed, reflecting the film and television creators' own requirements for images.
Taking "Wind and Rain Sending Spring Back" as an example, the drama replaces the actor's face, retains the original artist's head shape, and lacks in-depth consideration in the coordination of the proportion of facial features, which brings a bad look and feel to the audience. The play even retains the voice of the original actor, and for the audience familiar with the actor, the face is originally unsuitable, and even the voice is misplaced, which looks really uncomfortable.
"Three Thousand Crows to Kill" was criticized by the audience at that time for the rigidity of AI face change, which also reflected the lax requirements of creators for artistic creation. Just changing faces for the sake of changing faces, without caring about the appreciation of film and television art, actually hurts the feelings of the audience.
If domestic dramas want to achieve a better face-changing effect, they still need to work hard at the same time from both technical and aesthetic aspects. In the previously broadcast "Glorious Era", actor Huang Zhizhong refilmed all the scenes, and the overall performance was not a violation. The TV series "Buy Sure and Leave I Love You" is also a face change in the whole drama, and the successor actor Yang Shize and his predecessor are very similar in face shape and facial features, which is difficult to find without being reminded by the audience.
Some voices in the industry pointed out that the technical cost of face replacement is different, and the final presentation effect is also very different. Based on the current cost of changing faces of domestic dramas, the price of AI face changing technology is about 15,000 yuan per minute, while the price of manual face changing is more than 100,000 yuan per minute, and the price difference of nearly ten times will bring a huge difference in technical costs, and how much the producer is willing to pay for the budget determines the final presentation of the image.
If film and television dramas hope to exchange for the qualification to re-review and broadcast through remakes, then the basic requirements and bottom line of the image must be retained, and such works are works worthy of audience viewing, rather than film and television commodities that are rushed back to the book. Returning to the starting point of everything, film and television practitioners should actually be more cautious in their words and deeds, and should not have any fluke mentality in the face of public supervision. When a bad artist falls, the works and investments behind it are almost lost, and the audience is forced to watch such flawed works, which is really far-reaching.