Chen Xiao fell off the altar because of "The Road of Life"? Netizen: He plays Brother Gongzi the most

Before Chen Xiao played "Gao Garin" in "The Road of Life", he always thought that he might be the future Pu Cunxin, at least Zhang Jiayi [laughing and crying].

After all, Lin Pingzhi of the 2013 version of "Smiling Rivers and Lakes" is amazing.

Later, "The Legend of Lu Zhen" became popular, and Chen Xiao was still not arrogant or impetuous.

When the heroine of "The Condor Heroes" was scolded so much that the whole world was disgusted, he was unmoved, still insisting on his own judgment and respecting his love... In Chen Xiao, we have rarely seen the calmness and restraint that his generation of actors lacks.

Shen Xingqian in "That Year the Flower Blooms and the Moon is Full" and Gu Qianfan in "Menghualu", Chen Xiao's performance is not bad, in the past 15 years, Chen Xiao has steadily shown his solid and personal acting skills.

However, the "Gogarin" in "The Road of Life" is really unsatisfactory! This...... What is the act?

With a gloomy face, self-defeating, each episode must be "giant baby" like a "giant baby" incompetent and furious, must rely on women to calm down to think normally.

The eyes were dull, as if a rich second generation from the city was suddenly sent to the countryside to starve for a few days, and was about to steal chickens to eat.

Is this still a strong and healthy rural intellectual youth Gogarin? Or is it the same Gogarin who tempered suffering into a proud life?

Perhaps, you don't feel deeply about the above description, just compare the eyes of "Gogarin" in the movie "Life" at a glance.

This is the Gogarin who really grew up in the countryside, loved the land deeply, and longed to get out of the mountains and nirvana in suffering!

This time, Chen Xiao's acting skills are not a star and a half worse, but it feels completely wrong. Netizens complained:

"Showing my unwillingness in a daze, frowning and fierce when crying... Chen Xiao's acting skills have declined seriously. ”

"Zhou Lijing's eyes are resolute and heroic... Chen Xiaogongzi is brotherish, and it is okay to play the young master. ”

Netizens are so right, Chen Xiao's version of Gao Garin's brother is more than angry, the character is simple, and the sense of heaviness is insufficient... Could it be that Chen Xiao, the leader of the post-85 male actors, is really going to fall off the altar this time?

Why is Chen Xiao not like "Gogarin"? No experience

In the 14th episode of "The Road of Life", Qiao Zhen came to the county to see Gogarin on a tractor with double stars. The two little lovers reunited after a long absence and hugged each other happily. In this paragraph, Chen Xiao and Li Qin both acted very vividly.

Gao Garin came to the county to work as a reporter, and in the face of the "temptation" of Huang Yaping, who is fashionably dressed, can be aesthetic, and loves literature, his sense of resentment, excitement and freshness, are all very subtle.

Even when he was an elementary school teacher, the scenes he taught the children were particularly vivid, and you can see his careful design of the plot.

All the scenes that come to life are part of Chen Xiao's life experience – he has talked about unforgettable love, he has work experience, and even he has been a teacher (he was a teacher at the Hefei Art School before he became famous, and he loved that life).

The parts that are not satisfactory are also the parts where Chen Xiao has no life experience.

First of all, Chen Xiao's gaze was too dull, and he could not feel the simplicity and sunshine of the peasants.

I grew up in the countryside and still occasionally return to the countryside for holidays and weekends.

Although no one in the village knows me, I like to talk to the villagers very much, because they have less anxiety and scheming, happiness comes simply, and there is a beautiful simplicity and sunshine on their bodies. In the old version of Gao Garin and Liu Qiaozhen, we can still see the temperament of rural people.

The reason why Chen Xiao can't act is probably related to the fact that he grew up in a family of urban civil servants and has no rural life experience at all.

Secondly, he always showed discrimination against rural people, which was impossible for Gogarin in the original work.

The original book of "Life" has a sentence describing Gogarin:

"He never despised any peasant, but he himself was never mentally prepared to be a farmer."

Although Gao Garin later left the countryside, he calmly accepted the temptation of power, used his second father's official position to enter the county party committee compound, and wanted to use Huang Yaping to go to Shanghai for development. But this is due to Gogarin's idealism, cowardice and vanity fighting, and not because of inner ugliness.

Finally, from the point of view of tutoring and psychoanalysis, Gogarin cannot have feelings of arrogance or discrimination.

In the original work, Gao Garin's teaching position was replaced by Gao Minglou's son, who had to go to someone to fight for life because he was angry, but his father Gao Yude persuaded him:

"Not only can you not go to him, but you will have to call him uncle when you meet him in the future, and if the person lives low, you have to come according to the low."

This is the typical survival philosophy of the older generation in rural areas, and it is also the wisdom of Gao Yude.

Growing up in such a family, whether Gao Garin entered the county or dumped Qiao Zhen to climb the high branch, his heart should be sorry and contradictory.

But Chen Xiao's version of Gao Garin, while accepting Qiaozhen's love, repeatedly expressed his impatience with rural life and discrimination against Qiaozhen.

Including when competing with other teachers for the advanced, he behaved arrogantly and condescendingly...

All this makes the audience feel the sense of violation of the character.

Not to mention riding a 28 bicycle at the beginning, how could a child from a poor family like Gao Yude be so violent and have such a son-in-law habit?

"Experiential actor" Chen Xiao, "on paper" once?

Generally speaking, the performance methods of actors can be simply summarized into the following four categories: natural color performance, experience school, expressionist and "super BT" mimicry school.

Most of the true color performances refer to the amateur actors in documentaries, such as children in poor mountain villages, military personnel and so on.

Expressionism refers to the actor substituting part of his own personality into the role and exaggerating the performance. For example, Brother Hu in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Jing Tian in "Si Ten", Liu Yifei in "Go to a Windy Place", and Song Dandan's role in "Family with Children"... It's all typical expressionism.

Experiential school is almost not substituted into one's own character, but integrated into the emotions and character of another person to perform.

This kind of acting is very tiring, requires more imagination and related experience, and it is necessary to perform the realism that they believe in order to be successful, Chen Daoming and Li Bingbing belong to the experience school.

Super BT's "mimicry" actors are few, but they are also the highest level of actors.

That is, they have not experienced a second to enter a character opposite their own personality, and those who can act in this realm are old drama bones.

For example, Teacher Feng Yuanzheng, "Star Master" Stephen Chow, Liu Qingyun, Liang Jiahui, these people, the characters they perform have nothing to do with his own personality, and they are divine.

And Chen Xiao is also a representative of the experience school. The reason why he can rank high among post-85 male actors is because most of his previous roles are realistic.

Chen Xiao has a good family and has cultivated a lot of hobbies since he was a child: calligraphy, dance, painting, basketball (he has also won the national second-class athlete), etc., these experiences and inspirations have helped him in his previous performances.

For example, the martial arts scenes in "The Condor Heroes" and "Menghualu" make good use of his athletic talent.

In "That Year's Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full", Chen Xiao did not use "hand replacement" and directly wrote calligraphy by himself.

This shows how important life experience is to experiential actors - either the icing on the cake or the "shortest board" in the barrel principle. This rule not only applies to Chen Xiao, but also to other experiential actors.

For example, Li Bingbing, in order to play the purser in "Ordinary Heroes", took the initiative to ask for professional training in the airline. She said:

"No matter how intense the shooting is, I am willing to take this time to do training, and if this cannot be done, I would rather not act."

For an actor, only after experiencing life will he make a structured logical conception of the character's image, character, way of thinking, and behavior, otherwise it is "on paper".

And Chen Xiao this time, I am afraid that he will "talk on paper" once.

The actor becomes a talent to see the role breakthrough, and the role breakthrough must precipitate himself

Chen Xiao is talented, talented, and focused enough, and his mistake this time is to "ignore the homework to be done to break through the role".

From the perspective of age and strength, Chen Xiao, who was born in 87, has reached the time to "pick the big beam" in the industry. He also happened to have the opportunity to come across the script of the "main drama", but he did not wait for it.

The filming time of "The Road of Life" is March 2022 ~ September 1, 2022. A famous story of Lu Yao was filmed in just 6 months, which was originally controversial. Also a famous IP, "The World" was prepared for 3 years and filmed for nearly 10 months.

And in 2022, Chen Xiao has too many films: five dramas have been broadcast and participated in a variety show... As you can imagine, he simply did not have time to experience rural life. However, you know, the more realistic period dramas (especially famous IP) are difficult to perform, the more you must experience life.

In order to play this role well, Zhou Lijing, the actor of Gao Garin, went to the countryside in advance to experience life.

Therefore, he can feel and figure out the living environment of Gogarin. When he showed his anger, he would go to the field and wield his hoe and vent his anger with his labor.

There is also a scene in the movie "Life" where Gogarin goes to the county town to sell steamed buns - he is afraid that his classmates will see him, he feels ashamed, humble, and forced by poverty, and he carefully squats in the corner of the market and does not dare to raise his eyes to look at people... In such an environment, how could Gogarin have the slightest arrogance?

And Gogarin in "The Road of Life" pulled the cloth from the supply and marketing cooperative, was looked down upon, and was so angry that he jumped off Qiaozhen's tractor on the way back to the village ... It is impossible for the real Gogarin to act like this, and before he can get ahead, Gogarin's words and deeds must be cautious, and it is impossible to vent his emotions to outsiders at will.

Just as netizens said, what is so willful is not the hoeing youth who have grown up in the countryside for generations, but the "rural youth" or brother who are in distress in the city.

Of course, we can't be too harsh on Chen Xiao, and the further back you look at "The Road of Life", the more Gao Garin's image gradually becomes fuller. He is both overly self-respecting and idealistic, and conceited, selfish and vain. He has a compromising side and a rebellious side to his destiny. It's just that Chen Xiao's performance in this drama can only score 6 or 5.9 points after all. For a professional actor, Chen Xiao's precipitation is not enough to be competent for "Gao Garin".

Lu Yao once wrote in a book: "Although the road of life is long, the critical moment is often only a few steps away. ”

I sincerely hope that Chen Xiao can make up his mind after performing "The Road of Life" and successfully leap forward in his most critical years, and the audience still has enough patience and confidence in him.