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In the recently launched TV series "Wishful Thinking", the audience found two old drama bones, they played a couple 31 years ago, and now they have become a screen couple again.
That year, the TV series "Longing" that the two of them collaborated on could be said to be popular all over the streets and alleys, and once became one of the audience's favorite TV series.
She plays "Liu Huifang", beautiful and generous, with the unique charm of oriental women, traditional and virtuous, she has a selfless and dedicated heart, and the kindness revealed in her bones makes her a good wife and mother image in the hearts of men.
Since then, she has become popular overnight, she also won the Best Actress Award for her role, and she was one of the top ten actors in that era.
Time has passed, her new drama is broadcast on CCTV, and after the cooperation of "Longing", she and her partner of that year have cooperated again, and the audience is also full of expectations, hoping to have another classic interpretation.
The domestic drama "Wishful Thinking" is a work recommended by CCTV, which is to go with the momentum of the explosion, just launched 2 episodes in the cheers expected by the audience, and the powerful sisters with high appearance in the play have become the highlights of the whole drama, and the ratings and popularity rank first.
However, the big drama that was praised by the central vision has plummeted in word of mouth.
Where is the failure of this TV series?
The plot is divorced from reality and is relatively controversial
The plot tells the story of two sisters who want to rely on their own efforts, keep fighting, and finally realize their dreams, but the audience just watched 2 episodes and was questioned about being divorced from real life.
The two sisters in the play are authentic Beijingers, their mother is a retired teacher, and their father has no stable source of income, and usually plays cards and chats with a group of elderly people.
The family lives in a delicate courtyard because the eldest daughter has had a congenital heart disease since childhood, and the family does not have much savings.
Her dream is to change her destiny through her own efforts, get out of the courtyard and live in a building.
So the audience's question comes, how can an ordinary poor family afford to live in a valuable courtyard? And the furniture of the room also reveals a sense of luxury.
As soon as the TV series was broadcast, the audience was very curious, there were people in the family who wanted to buy a courtyard, but they wanted to buy a palm-sized unit building, which was a bit unrealistic.
Although there are 2 girls living in a room, the room not only has 2 single beds, 2 desks, but also has their own dressing table and wardrobe.
It doesn't look like the arrangement of a poor child's room.
The background of the story takes place in 2015, when it was no longer an ordinary family to have a house of tens of square meters in Beijing, and daily necessities did not match identity.
In fact, if you look at it, you will find that this yard does not belong to their home, but to the public housing originally allocated by their grandmother's unit, and they only have the right of residence, but they do not have the right to own.
The reason why it makes everyone have an illusion should be that the venue that the crew found for everyone is too good.
In the hit drama that has just been broadcast, the house where the protagonist lives can be regarded as a house where the poor live, with broken furniture, open stairs, and even the simplest exhaust fan in the kitchen is not installed.
There is no sense of contradiction in building up with the plot.
In addition, the two of them also tried their best to save money, crowding buses, walking, part-time jobs, and wanting to buy a mobile phone second-hand.
The screenwriter of such a plot also wanted to inspire the resonance of the people at the bottom, and the result was full of loopholes.
One second is still selling miserably, the next second, the sister who has no money directly transferred 6,000 yuan to buy a mobile phone, I have to say that the screenwriter is not thoughtful.
Originally, the TV series was a struggle drama full of pyrotechnics, but it turned out to be a "dreamy" feeling, which is not very grounded at this point.
In the main plot line, the screenwriter wanted to deliberately create contradictions, and would forcibly insert some of the hotter female topics in today's society, such as her sister being unspoken by the boss in the workplace, her sister being blackmailed, etc., which will inevitably attract the disgust of the audience.
The audience's evaluation is the key link in testing a play, and such an upside-down plot is one of the factors that has attracted a lot of controversy.
The acting skills of the old drama bones have not improved for thirty years
The biggest failure of the whole drama is the national mother Zhang Kaili, and even the audience is complaining: the same person, the gap around 30 years ago is the difference between clouds and mud.
The old drama bones of the past, why was she disliked by the audience with the title of "first-class actor"?
31 years ago, her famous work was the most sympathetic role of the audience, and the male protagonist she partnered with was also a role that was abused by countless people, and after many years, playing husband and wife again has become a major attraction of the show.
This time, the personalities of the two in the roles were reversed, Liu Huifang turned over and became the hostess, but the other party was a wife and strict management, and everything had to look at his wife's face, and he didn't even dare to speak loudly.
She is also the mother of the two heroines in the play, and takes care of their daughters in every detail after retiring at home.
Although she is the most played "mother" type role, she is still complained about by the audience, especially her signature action - the performance style of squeezing eyebrows and startling is really disgusting!
There are many scenes of family members eating breakfast together in the play, she has to exercise her duties as a mother at the dining table, there is no big problem to talk well, the children suddenly raise their voices when they are a little windy, their eyes are wide as thieves, and their mouths are so big that they want to eat each other.
For example, when she hears that her daughter is going out with someone else, it seems that she has been stimulated by something.
Immediately stood up on the spot, pulled his voice and shouted, the strength of the whole body was used on the upper body, and the green tendons on the neck were clearly visible.
The question is such a small scene, does she need such a strong outbreak scene?
The daughter in the play did not know whether she was deterred, and the audience should have been taken aback.
There is also a plot where one of the students she taught almost ran away, and the family sat together to discuss countermeasures.
At first, she still sat very calmly, and after her daughter's casual joke, her emotions exploded instantly, her expression suddenly changed and her facial features twisted, as if she couldn't control it, shouting, like the state of a patient in a psychiatric hospital when he became ill.
A drama, once in a while, is normal.
But she was shocked by her acting performance no matter what the situation, and whenever everyone was just about to enter the play, she was pulled back by her loud voice.
With such a long-term performance design, the audience can also think of what she will do next.
In contrast, Sarina, who is also an old drama bone, is also a "professional mother" on the screen, but she always gives people a refreshing feeling.
In "The World", she faces her youngest son, a gentle and lovely mother, and in another TV series "Nine Bends of Love", she turns into a brutal mother-in-law.
When he quarreled with the child, her facial muscles were acting, her voice trembled from time to time, and when she was left alone, she wandered in front of the door, switching freely between the cuteness of an old man and the hatred of his children.
And Zhang Kaili always shouted and broke her throat, if it came to the scene of a cross-waist quarrel, her voice would be raised by about 8 decibels, and she had to raise her hand to gesture.
Coupled with the disdainful expression on the face, the audience can't understand what they want to express in such a state, and they have to wonder if this is a textbook-level performance of a first-class actor?
Some viewers have summarized the "three consecutive shots" performed by Zhang Kaili: staring, frowning, and shouting at the top of his voice!
Her acting skills seem to have been declining since reaching their peak more than thirty years ago, and there were obvious traces in last year's hit drama "The World".
In that drama, she played an old cadre who said everything and cared for her subordinates, this character is likable, but unfortunately, from the moment she appeared, she was a style with a gun.
No matter who she plays with, she is a leader and looks extremely awkward.
Her title of "old drama bone" is indeed vain! The words are not unreasonable, she belongs to the master who rewards food and eats the day after tomorrow, and does not have to work very hard the day after tomorrow.
However, she can use the dividends of the times to make a splash in the circle.
Looking back at each character she created, she happened to encounter a number of phenomenal hit works, taking advantage of the hot spots of the times to seize a wave of dividends.
Luck is so good!
In addition, her extensive resources are one of the factors that cannot be ignored.
The director of many phenomenal hit dramas is Li Lu, and she has been friends for many years, so once a new drama starts filming, the first thing that Director Li thinks of in the selection of roles is Zhang Kaili.
This all stems from the fact that she usually maintains a friendship relationship, and also paves the way for her daughter to become an actor, which is also reasonable and understandable.
Finally, I have to mention the character of a "performance artist" that she created for herself in front of the media.
"The World" was filmed in Changchun, as one of the actors involved, the director understood her difficulty in running back and forth in filming, and offered to gather all her scenes to finish filming, but she decisively refused.
Therefore, when she was shooting, she went to the field 9 times.
Dedication is the most basic professional quality, and actors are certainly no exception.
Her "dedication" has also been praised by major media headlines with the popularity of the TV series, and she can be seen in all the articles about the TV series to praise her for this incident.
Unknowingly, she has the image of an artist with both virtue and art in the circle.
During the interview, she also relied on the old and sold the old, telling her cognition of actors: actors should calm down and act steadily, think about role creation, and can't make money for money.
It sounds tall, but it is far from her actual performance.
She has many titles, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, national first-class actor, winner of the Golden Eagle Award...
But the weighty performance awards seem to be only the role of "Liu Huifang" more than thirty years ago, that is to say, after she became famous in one fell swoop, the awards in her acting career have not been received.
Now that she is disgusted by the audience, she should really reflect on it!