"The Road of Life", starring Chen Xiao, Li Qin and Zhang Jiani, once launched, aroused the expectations of the audience.
After all, as a masterpiece of Lu Yao's work, this TV series adapted from "Life" has been given too many expectations in terms of script quality and post-production quality.
However, judging from the broadcast of the current episodes, the evaluation shows a mixed situation.
What everyone is more optimistic about is mainly based on the blessing of the original work of Youlu Yao. Although there will be certain differences between the script of the TV series and the original novel, in the final analysis, it is necessary to rely on the story structure of the original work.
Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the meaning of the existence of the word Lu Yao can already escort the quality of this work.
However, the audience's disparagement is mainly the questioning of the main creator's acting skills, which on the one hand is because of the problem of image construction, and on the other hand, it is completely the acting skills of the actors.
If the makeup of the former, the production team of the TV series can still back the pot, then the acting skills of the actors of the latter are completely undeceived, and it is also a fair and comfortable thing.
With the broadcast of the TV series "The Road of Life", more and more discussions about this TV series have been set off on the Internet, and one of the focal points of controversy is the heroine Li Qin.
Even the hot search of "current village flower vs former village flower" appeared on the Internet.
Before you click, you may not imagine the contrast between the two.
But after waiting to see the photos shared by netizens, you will find that Li Qin's failure in this TV series is not only her makeup problem, but more importantly, it exposes the problem of an actor's basic skills.
What is the problem with Li Qin's acting method, we will analyze it from several aspects.
01 Rigid image shaping
Lu Yao's "Life" was created in Shaanxi in the 80s, where Gao Garin, who was born into a peasant family, was encouraged by Liu Qiaozhen to gradually come out of the shadows in the face of repeated losses in his career development.
Among them, Gao Garin has the opportunity to pursue his dream in a broader space with his own writing, but at this time, the silent persistence and dedication of his hometown Liu Qiaozhen and the enthusiastic unrestrained Shanghai girl Huang Yaping put Gao Garin in a dilemma.
Finally, in the turn and persistence again and again, Gogarin finally found his direction in life.
From the outline of the story, it can be found that the background of this "Road of Life" is in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi in the 80s, so it set the tone for this work from the beginning, that is, period dramas and rural dramas.
But when you think of these two points, many people may have the impression that in the vast northwest land, a group of farmers are working with their backs facing the loess.
And this is also what the production team of this TV series hopes to present to us, but now people, let alone actors, may not have many ordinary people who have lived in the countryside, let alone farmed.
Therefore, the production team adheres to the concept of insufficient experience and makeup, which can be said to have put a lot of effort into the makeup of Chen Xiao and Li Qin.
First of all, it is necessary to bury the urban atmosphere of the two actors, and the current stars are all fine skin and tender meat, if they really let them experience life in the ground, few people are willing to work hard all day long.
So a relatively fast shortcut is to first use black powder to blacken the skin, so this also appears as Chen Xiao and Li Qin in the TV series.
Although the two actors are willing to work their faces, it is obviously not enough to truly present the rustic feeling of the peasant.
Just to say that Li Qin's porcelain teeth showed when he laughed in the TV series made people watch it was quite dramatic.
And it's true that the actor's skin is dark, but it doesn't mean that you have to look malnourished.
In many people's impressions, the farmers in the northwest should be vigorous, not to mention that each of them is big and round, at least if they look at it, they are very energetic, not as skinny as Chen Xiao and Li Qin performed.
Such a rigid behavior pattern, when you watch Chen Xiao and Li Qin acting, there will be a situation where the characters are out of touch with the background.
Originally, there may not be so many people who care that the peasant image they play is not in place, but under the background of inappropriate makeup, people pay attention to the external image of the character.
A good period drama was ruined by the painting snake.
The right way to open a 02 period drama
So speaking of this, many people will begin to think back, but in recent years we can't make a good period drama, this is not the case.
Recall carefully, in the film and television works that have been popular in recent years, there are often one or two amazing period dramas, such as "Hidden in the Dust", "Mountains and Seas", "The World" and so on.
In the presentation of actresses' makeup, why don't they make people disconnect from reality and drama.
Here, please don't say that it's because Yin Tao and Haiqing's acting skills are already quite superb, so no matter what role they play, they can be captured.
Then let's take a look at Huang Xuan and Reyizha, who are also young actors, and the two of them can still act in both fast food dramas and period dramas that can act in the Eight Classics.
One of the reasons is that in the makeup, no one deliberately looks ugly, nor does it have the idea of deliberately highlighting their beauty.
When you see Huang Xuan's face, you can instinctively substitute into the image of him as a simple rural boy, and his figure and the vigorous feeling he shows are like people living in that era.
Reiza's performance in "Mountains and Seas" back then can be said to amaze everyone, except for the blessing of someone's own acting skills, the rest is the intention of makeup.
The same are actresses who are white to glowing on weekdays, but look at the people when shaping the characters, one is not excessive, the other still maintains the original beauty of the characters, compared with the two, Li Qin's Liu Qiaozhen has a feeling of four unlike, really no wonder the audience can't enter after watching it.
Therefore, for the main creative team of the TV series, we must understand a truth, when doing scene reproduction or character shaping, we must not deliberately do it in order to cater to the times. "Natural" and "reasonable" are the insistence that a period drama should have.
03 Can the idol drama acting method not stick to the side of the period drama
In addition to the relatively jumpy character shapes, the performances of several main creators in this TV series are also criticized.
If Chen Xiao's Gao Garin was originally a person with some baggage in his heart because of his ill-fated, there were not so many big performances in the interpretation of the characters, which helped some actors cover up their acting defects.
But Liu Qiaozhen, played by Li Qin, is completely different. Although Liu Qiaozhen is a rural woman, because of her kindness and optimism, she is like a little sun.
When facing Gogarin, she has the spirit of giving everything for her lover, and she also has the openness of desperate for love, and the frankness and enthusiasm become a light that lights up Gogarin's dark heart.
But apparently Li Qin thought of the problem simply when playing this kind of role.
The beautiful and generous village flower does not mean that she can only be a silly optimist, but Li Qin's "Kazilan big eyes" and feigned vigorous posture make people feel that she is simply coming to experience life after watching it.
Although Li Qin mastered rural life skills such as how to drive a tractor in advance in order to fit the characters, which is also what makes many people very happy, these are just the basic skills that an actor should do.
Why Li Qin's Liu Qiaozhen makes people unable to melt into it, another reason is that she is too thin. It's not that girls living in rural northwest can't have slender bodies, but Li Qin's version of Liu Qiaozhen can't support this image.
This overly shriveled body makes this image look not so full, and if she adds a little fat before shooting, the effect may not be what it is now.
Moreover, when actors play this type of role, it is very important to have the precipitation of time.
Although Liu Qiaozhen and Gao Garin in the story are in their early twenties, they will not have so many inner thoughts, but as the plot evolves, the characters themselves will have some ups and downs.
Among them, Li Qin did not reflect the growth of the character, feeling that he was just changing a different outfit, but the person was still that person.
The right way to open a 04 period drama
In fact, with the increasing improvement of the production process of film and television works, we should see more and more excellent works, rather than finished products with many slots.
When the filter was not so developed, our period drama production team still maintained a fairly good level, but in recent years, the more I shooted, the more I felt like I was going back.
In addition to TV series such as "Mountain and Sea Love" mentioned many times above, such as Zhang Ziyi when he first debuted, he also played mostly rural roles.
At that time, Zhang Ziyi was also just starting out, but why did he look so pleasant, so that watching Zhang Ziyi's acting skills in the later period was not comparable to when he first debuted.
The main reason is that the current her, whether it is state or makeup, is the most suitable for the character, only by maintaining this innocent attitude can we create works that do not fool the audience.