I was attracted by these lines -
"I need to exercise, I can be a real actor."
"It piqued my desire and urge to perform."
When I saw Huang Zitao say these lines with a serious face, my heart was involuntarily moved by the series - really, too humorous.
But think about it, there is only Huang Zitao left in the top of the first generation, and he is still working hard to act.
Others either did not act themselves, or were kicked out of the entertainment industry, and even worse, they were directly imprisoned and staged a "prison storm".
and couldn't help but sigh at the vicissitudes of the entertainment industry.
So this drama suddenly has a deeper practical meaning -
Tonight, Beijing Satellite TV will broadcast this 40-episode reality drama, "Spring Warm Sun".
I don't know the name of the play, in fact, the main line of the plot is that the traffic student has grown from an actor with insufficient strength to a recognized acting school.
After a successive round of "Crazy", David TV finally began to launch new dramas.
Oriental Satellite TV broadcast "Love at the Corner" performed by Jiang Wenli Mingdao.
Jiangsu Satellite TV is rumored to broadcast "Infernal" alone tomorrow,
and "Who Is He", which was broadcast that night, competed for suspense audiences.
Hunan Satellite TV's "Homecoming" starring Jing Boran and Tan Songyun will also be launched tomorrow night.
But in this wave of dramas, "Spring Warm Sun" still has a unique value: that is, it unveils the fig leaf of traffic in the entertainment industry.
The blockbuster "Crazy" at the beginning of 2023, in addition to excellent dramas and not afraid of scale, a major success key is not to invite a traffic star, but to choose a group of powerful actors, and in the end, almost every supporting role is outstanding, just watching the actors' acting skills is a pleasure.
It can be said that the success of "Crazy" has once again hit the face of the traffic law of the entertainment industry, if the role of An Xin or Brother Qiang is handed over to a top streamer, it may increase a group of fan audiences, but can the series still impress the national audience regardless of men, women and children?
And the truth is exactly what "Spring Warm Sun" wants to convey to the audience, through the play, the audience will also see a bizarre entertainment circle.
Not to mention, it really has the potential of a dark horse.
1. Tell the showbiz's own story? This time it was true
In fact, there are not many national dramas that tell about the entertainment industry, such as "Blame You for Being Too Beautiful" led by Qin Lan, "Above the Clouds" by Chen Xiao and Yuan Shanshan, and "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" starring Huang Zitao.
But there is no Chinese drama that directly enters into the acting skills of traffic stars and tells the story of an old drama bone and a traffic star.
And this play tells the story of the old drama bone Ding Kemang (played by Wu Gang) and the top student Song Yang (played by Huang Zitao) to make a drama together, and throw away the battle of vanity fair in the impetuous entertainment industry, precipitate acting skills, and inherit the professional quality of literary and artistic workers.
In the play, Ding Kemang, played by Wu Gang, is an old drama bone of both virtue and art in the drama industry, and Song Yang, a student played by Huang Zitao, is a popular traffic star, and the troupe invited back Song Yang to star in the drama "Father and Son" to ensure the box office. However, under the pressure of Vanity Fair, the quality of the play has become the standard that capital fancy, and Song Yang, under the guidance of Ding Kemang, has learned to be in awe of performing arts and his acting skills have been improved.
Song Yang finally grew from a traffic star with good looks and no acting skills to a powerful actor. The master and apprentice duo also won the opportunity to appear in the movie of the same name with well-known actors. Two generations of actors have experienced career crises, emotional tempering, and finally achieved a metamorphosis in their lives.
It is not difficult to see the two major characteristics of the plot, one is to directly put the industry reality on the table, when the audience begins to realize the phenomenon of the vicious circle in the entertainment industry, the series directly shoots the contradiction between traffic dividends and strength acting skills.
Second, it will definitely expose the inside story that the audience does not understand.
Plays that show the theme of the show business industry are hard bones.
Not because there is a lot of expertise involved, nor because the public is unfamiliar with the industry, but precisely because the public is too familiar with this industry.
Filming deeply, the episode may not come out.
The shot is shallow, and it can't impress the audience at all.
But it is difficult to return, not without a solution, the solution idea of this play is: find the right person.
Second, Liu Jiacheng + Wang Haiyu's golden partner, the quality is stable
The choreographer and director of "Spring Warm Sun" is another pair of powerful people in the national drama.
The first director is the period drama master Liu Jiacheng.
Over the years, from "Under the Zhengyang Gate", "Little Women Under the Zhengyang Gate", "Love Man Courtyard" to the latest "Love Man Nine Bends", Liu Jiacheng has become synonymous with Beijing-style period dramas in Chinese dramas.
The biggest style of his drama is full of dramatic tension, no matter how much controversy the audience has about the plot, once you watch it, it is difficult to make a play, even if the story is troublesome, you want to see the finale.
Asking him to direct this drama instead of a traffic drama director also shows that the choice of the drama party is a drama rather than a romantic drama with an entertainment industry theme like "Strange You Are Too Beautiful".
However, to turn the theme of the entertainment industry into a TV series that ordinary people love to watch, it is definitely not possible without some skill.
And the screenwriter of this play, Wang Haiyu, is not a general.
Last year's annual hit "The World", she was the first screenwriter responsible for adapting the original work, which proved to be a very successful adaptation.
The delicate emotional shaping and three-dimensional presentation of the characters make the originally more grim story more acceptable to the general audience.
This combination of strength should be able to eliminate the biggest risk of the series to the greatest extent: levitation.
Of course, another characteristic of Wang Haiyu is that he is very good at writing family life scenes. She is known as "China's first writer of marriage". The screenwriter's TV series "Holding Hands", "If You Don't Marry", and "Chinese Divorce" have all been very popular. Therefore, in addition to the master-apprentice growth line, this play also adds a large number of emotional lines of Huang Zitao and Sun Yi, as well as the family lines of Wu Gang and Liu Bei.
Especially the latter, see the synopsis: Ding Kemang's family has been unstable, and it is difficult for him to get along with his strong wife, but fortunately, they both know how to be more tolerant and save the marriage.
According to the screenwriter's creative habits, this part is likely to be the focus of the ink.
Third, Wu Gang and Huang Zitao starred, and 5 powerful people joined, and the main creator did his best
Come to the key part that supports a play, the actors.
Especially for a drama that tells about performance, the requirements for acting skills are higher.
So what is the cast of "Spring Warm Sun"? Two words: heavy.
In addition to Huang Zitao and Sun Yi, Yishui's strength.
Okay, let's start with heavyweights.
The first one, Wu Gang.
Before "Crazy", as a national first-class actor, whether it was the cunning villain Lu Qiaoshan in "Lurking" or the honest and selfless Secretary Li Dakang in "In the Name of the People", Wu Gang had never been suspected of acting skills.
After being complained about European-style double eyelids by the audience in the TV series "Crazy", Wu Gang's performance in "Daming under the Microscope" somewhat won back a city for himself.
This time, Ding Kemang, played by Wu Gang, is stable and atmospheric, and has the ultimate artistic pursuit for performance.
He could not agree with the phenomenon that the industry was too market-oriented and commercialized, and initially opposed the participation of the top Songyang with limited strength. But with contact with Songyang, he saw the fire in Songyang's eyes, and eventually became Songyang's acting teacher, guide, companion, and father-in-law.
For Wu Gang, the role itself may be the best response to the previous controversy.
The second place, Han Tongsheng.
Contrary to Wu Gang, this old actor has just gained a wave of acting fans because of the performance of "Crazy".
He played Li Youtian to the bone in the play, which made young audiences marvel at his acting skills.
But every role he has played over the years has been extremely solid, every expression, every movement, impeccable.
This time, he played the role of Rorschach as a theater company manager who fully compromised with business, and he played the philistine and utilitarian side of the role, which is really unreliable.
The third place, He Bing.
Another top actor, another national first-class actor.
He Bing and Liu Jiacheng can be described as old partners, the two have collaborated on two big dramas "Love Man Courtyard" and "Sesame Alley", He Bing can be said to be the director's royal male lead.
It's just that he has gradually given way to the market in recent years, and he has to give the position of actor to young actors with more appeal to young audiences.
This time he played Chen Jiange in the play, which is a guarantee of the box office in the eyes of capital, so the film side hopes that he can star in the film version of "Father and Son" to replace the role of Wu Gang in the drama.
Over the years, He Bing's acting skills have been well known, and the "Great Song Ti Criminal Officer", "Love Man Courtyard" and "White Deer Plain" led by him are all representatives of word-of-mouth Chinese dramas, although they have gradually been squeezed out of the Chinese drama stage by the market, but no one can question his acting skills and artistic ethics.
He plays a powerful box office star who can replace Wu Gang's role, which is both stable and embarrassing the helplessness of reality.
The fourth place, Liu Bei.
From "The Story of the Editorial Department", "Party A and Party B" to "Addiction", Liu Bei used to be a first-line star in the entertainment industry, but as she grew older, she gradually withdrew from the ranks of the first line of Chinese dramas, and the last impressive performance was in "Sesame Alley" directed by Liu Jiacheng.
It is indeed very convincing for her to play a passing female star who has experienced the ups and downs of the show business in the play, and the line "Look at me and know that the market is not only art", the line is as heavy as a thousand words.
From the perspective of aura, she is also the best candidate to play the strong wife in Wu Gang's play, after all, how many actresses in China can overwhelm Wu Gang with aura.
Finally, let's talk about the only traffic star in the whole drama - Huang Zitao, who plays the traffic star.
True Colors Starring.
Over the years, Huang Zitao's development has been tepid, but it can be called stable and steady among the four sons who have returned to China, and Huang Zitao has also acted in a lot of film and television dramas, but most of them are idol dramas, and the most impressive is the hair of Xue Yang Mi in the play and the comedy performance in "Walking on the Moon Alone".
This time, she played Songyang, who is also a traffic star eager to improve her acting skills, and her role positioning is right.
But Songyang's character is polite, diligent and upward, and can burst into tears when reading the script, as well as a large growth drama, although his true colors are starring, acting skills are still a test, see how Huang Zitao plays.
In addition to the 4 powerful and only traffic actors mentioned above who must be talked about, there are also many actors with good acting skills in the play, such as Yu Mingjia, a big beauty who defeated Huang Shengyi in an acting variety show.
Yu Xiaoguang, who has been deeply involved in the turmoil of derailment before.
With so many powerful people gathered in one go, the weight of "Spring Warm Sun" is really not light.
But with so many acting skills working together, the final key depends on the chemical reaction between Huang Zitao and He Bing.
Success or failure, or depends on the acting.
4. How to film a drama in the entertainment industry? This drama may be able to make a sample
From "Blame You for Being Too Beautiful" to "Spring Warm Sun", dramas about the entertainment industry have become more and more popular with audiences in recent years.
But compared with the previous love idol drama dressed in the theme of the entertainment industry, how to film the entertainment industry, "Spring Warm Sun" may be able to make a sample.
Judging by the trailer, realism is the key word.
In fact, this is also the reason why Beijing Satellite TV, which mainly broadcasts the drama based on formal dramas and period dramas, is what Beijing Satellite TV needs.
In the next wave of national drama ratings war led by spy warfare and criminal investigation dramas, it is not impossible for the drama to emerge with the uniqueness of the theme.
And the biggest confidence of the play is the merciless exposure of the entertainment industry.
Just the trailer, it can already be seen that the show has unveiled several layers of fig leaf in the entertainment industry.
For example, in recent years, a "deformed" phenomenon in the entertainment industry: business first.
At the beginning of the play, the reason why the troupe wanted to let the roles of Wu Gang and Huang Zitao play father and son was not to consider the play, but the combination of this combination, which must be hot.
This is the reality of the entertainment industry: film and television works, as a product of the cultural industry, are essentially a commodity, so in the eyes of investors, they are far more commercial than artistic.
In order to maximize their commercial value, investors often regard "business first" as the first criterion of film and television creation.
Under this premise, the profit-oriented orientation has caused another deformed phenomenon in the entertainment industry: traffic is king.
Just like the traffic darling played by Huang Zitao in the play, traffic stars once became the market's sweet potato, because they had a huge number of fans, and capital once thought that these fans could really be converted into box office and ratings according to the number of people.
At this time, when choosing actors, many investors give priority not to the quality of acting skills, but to the level of traffic. This is the biggest reason why the first generation of top people once roared the entertainment industry.
It is also in such a market environment that all resources will move closer to traffic stars.
And this has led to the third deformity in the entertainment industry: the old drama bones are not acting.
The top stream of internal entertainment, collapsed one after another. But there are still people who flock to traffic.
And the old drama bones with acting skills will not find a place to use.
For example, Pu Cunxin, a former first-line male star of Chinese dramas, has not starred in any film and television works in the following 10 years since starring in the TV series "Men's Bottom Line" in 2013.
As early as 2018, he gave a clear explanation in an interview: The entertainment market does not have my job.
Many old actors with pure acting skills like him have long ushered in a career dilemma with no drama to act in the deformed film and television industry ecology.
Even He Bing, one of the actors of this play, who has contributed to classic performances in many film and television works, is the same.
On an interview show, he was asked if he was worried about being abandoned by the times.
He replied without hesitation that he had long been abandoned by the times, and this day had already been seen.
He Bing is not a false statement, think about it, after "Love Full Courtyard", how many dramas led by He Bing have you seen?
Chen Daoming, chairman of the China Film Association, also called on film and television creators at the Golden Rooster Venture Capital Conference not to just shoot young people.
also joked that his salary is not expensive, and I hope that the directors will find him to act more.
But even Chen Daoming, who is at the top of the market appeal in the older generation, the biggest role in recent years is only the Qing Emperor in "Qing Yu Nian", and Huayi Wang Zhongjun said directly: "Even if Chen Daoming is bullish, no play is dominated by him." You can't write about a 60-year-old, that's how the years are. ”
Chen Daoming is like this, Ge You is the same, in a film festival event, the former box office king also called on young directors to find him more filming.
In the end, he almost humbly joked: you can act anything.
In the final analysis, although the wind direction of the entertainment industry is generally improving, and the era of traffic stars is passing, from investors, to creators, to audiences, they are still too deeply affected by the law of traffic stars, and the market rules are inevitably changed, so that the old drama bones that represent a certain aesthetic height have gradually become "actors" that no one cares about.
The market will use the powerful, but still only use the powerful in the eyes of the market.
For example, Wu Gang, who has performed explosive performances one after another, and Han Tongsheng, who has risen in popularity with "Crazy", so I feel gratified that the old drama bones have a drama, and at the same time I can't help but feel a burst of embarrassment.
A reality-themed drama can't be separated from reality after all.
But it is a good thing to have a big drama that faces the reality of the entertainment industry.
And the disappearance of old drama bones, only traffic theory, is the sadness of the film and television industry, but also the sadness of the audience.
I hope that good dramas with realistic themes can also be accepted by the market, and I hope that the market can tell the market that in the end, what the audience really cares about is not traffic.
And it is the good work left after "going to traffic".