To say that the "prolific first actress" in the entertainment industry is Liu Tao, she has acted in dozens of dramas in the past two years. No matter what the theme of the play is, Liu Tao does not pick, there are always roles that are "suitable" for her.
But the more she acts, the quality is not guaranteed. "The Sea of Stars" starring Liu Tao finally scored 4.7 points, and "Great Song Palace Words" scored 3.8 points, which can be regarded as a bad drama.
Liu Tao has always stayed in her comfort zone, has not made any changes, and the roles she plays are nothing more than strong women, and a set of "sleepy" acting skills are universal to all dramas, consuming passers-by.
It is rumored that the "sister-in-law" of "Crazy" was originally scheduled to be played by Liu Tao, and netizens thanked her for her "grace of not acting", which shows that she is not optimistic.
Liu Tao has not broadcast a new drama recently, and the one who has been tried by the "drama bastard" has become Zhang Yi, who has brushed his face many times this year. Some people say that he is the "male version of Liu Tao", and some viewers bluntly said that they "don't want to see Zhang Yi".
What did Zhang Yi do, which the audience felt was similar to Liu Tao, and "offended the anger of the public"?
First, the role is homogeneous, and there is little difference in playing a police officer many times
There is a strange phenomenon in the current drama, the villain is more popular than the decent one. Zhang Songwen, who played the underworld boss in "Crazy", even surpassed Zhang Yi, who played a policeman. How popular Teacher Zhang Songwen is now, everyone has seen it.
Compared with the complicated experience of "selling fish strong" from being bullied to becoming a "gangster in the underworld" in Jinghai City, An Xin's role is not very flattering. However, Zhang Yi's performance in the play is actually good, and he still attracted a lot of fans.
With the end of "Crazy", Zhang Yi has a new work to broadcast, but it is a contest between the underworld and the white way, and Zhang Yi plays the police again. "Who Is He" went high and low, with a score of 8.2 in the first week of broadcasting, and finally only ended up with a rating of 6.0, which can only be said to barely pass.
Compared with the high score of 8.5 in "Crazy", Zhang Yi's new drama obviously disappointed the audience. Although the ending of "Who Is He" has to be blamed, Zhang Yi has not been able to save the score.
The important thing for actors is to have a sense of mystery and not be limited to one role, and the routine of "Who Is He" is the same as "Crazy". In just three months, Zhang Yi played a police officer twice.
The characters are similar, they are all lonely, somewhat reckless, and insist on justice. The main line is nothing more than investigating and solving the case, so that the audience can call it "Crazy" 2.0, there is not much novelty, you can know what he is going to do.
After all, "things are scarce and precious", seeing Zhang Yi's performance in "Crazy", and then watching "Who Is He", the roles are similar, and the audience will not watch a drama repeatedly except for the drama they particularly like.
(Can the following two pictures tell who is An Xin and who is Wei Guoping?) ）
Even if there is a difference between Wei Guoping and An Xin, the police are so good that they are "cookie-cutter" and will not be as bad as bad people with "different means". The former drama is a policeman, the latter drama is also a policeman, and the characters are similar, which makes the audience feel that Zhang Yi "plays everything the same".
In fact, Zhang Yi himself is a literary soldier, and he is a decent look, and playing a police officer is just his true color. But in the past 4 years, Zhang Yi has played a police officer for 4 consecutive times, Qin Chi, deputy captain of the Kansai Detachment of "Rebirth", Luo Jian, captain of the criminal investigation team of "The Gate of Rebirth", etc., can be regarded as "police professionals".
In the 20 years since he entered the industry, the role of police has increased. One after another "police Zhang Yi" appeared, the characters were homogeneous, the hairstyles and expressions were similar, Zhang Yi stayed in the comfort zone, and the audience had to "find the difference" with a magnifying glass to watch the drama.
Second, there is too much filming and lack of mystery, and the audience is tired of aesthetics
Zhang Yi filmed too much, which is the same as Liu Tao, Huang Lei and others frequently on variety shows, brushing their faces in front of the audience, although they can make the audience remember themselves, but lose their "sense of mystery".
Some netizens have counted Zhang Yi's entry records in the past four years, and from 2019 to the end of 2022, Zhang Yi has entered the group 16 times.
Among them, there are movies "Above the Cliff", "Sniper", "Manjiang Hong", as well as TV series such as "Crazy" and "Rebirth", with an average of nearly 4 works per year, basically seamless into the group.
This astonishing number is worthy of being translated by "model workers" Zhang. Many of the dramas he filmed have already been broadcast, and the spy war drama "Huan Yan" is rumored to be broadcast this year. However, looking at the promotional poster of this play, is there a familiar taste? Is this not "Anxin" 3.0?
And Zhang Yi high-density filming, to say that a person plays seven corners in a drama, that is a challenge to acting skills, and acting well can naturally be affirmed by the audience. But if a person broadcasts seven or eight plays a year, the audience will be "bored" if there is less freshness.
Zhang Yi is now almost "seamless into the group", even if he has good results in the past and has his own understanding, but the less time to understand the script, the interpreted characters may be "cookie-cutter".
Third, the acting skills were "overrated", standing tall and falling miserably
Zhang Yi's acting skills are actually "overestimated". It's not that his own strength is too bad, the main thing is that the audience expects too much from him.
It is said that those who act in TV series may not be able to act in good movies, and those who can act in good movies may not be able to act well in TV series, but Zhang Yi has developed very well in both aspects.
Zhang Yi won the Magnolia Emperor with "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", and also won the Golden Rooster Award for "Above the Cliff", and the movies he starred in were very good at the box office, second only to Wu Jing and Shen Teng.
This year's "Crazy" is a blockbuster drama like a "list of gods", the actors in the play have all tasted dividends, Zhang Yi has also received extremely high attention, coupled with his previous wonderful performance in the torture scene of "Above the Cliff", everyone is very optimistic about him.
The higher you stand, the worse you are likely to "fall". Zhang Yi in the spotlight does not seem to have withstood the "closer look", and the bad comments such as poor lines and bland acting skills come at Zhang Yi.
His accent is different from that of others in the play, and he has always been complained about by the audience.
Liu Tao's expression as a "strong woman" is not much different, the deputy director of the public security bureau of "The Beginning", discussing the major bus explosion case, a listless look, feeling like he is about to fall asleep, and one expression plays all the scenes.
Zhang Yi also often pouted in "Crazy".
Although he performed an unorthodox performance other than An Xin's seriousness, he always pouted and "sold cute", which seemed very deliberate.
From Zhang Yi's early works to the present, the crying scenes actually have similar expressions.
Zhang Yi frowned and pouted to express sadness, and it was inevitable that there would be less layering.
And Zhang Yi played the forbearant policeman An Xin in "Crazy" a little patterned, and he has always been a little stubborn. The image of the "gas bag" stands, and the tenacity of the police is missing.
The vicissitudes of Wei Guoping and An Xin, the character image is also similar, it seems that the hairstyle is not the same, and even looks a little dull.
The characters do not have the highlights of torture scenes like "Above the Cliff", and they are homogenized and serious. The audience said that the expectations were full before watching it, and after watching it, they felt that Zhang Yi's acting skills were exaggerated, and the expression was still the same in different situations.
In the entertainment industry where excellent middle-generation actors are lacking today, Zhang Yi has achieved "fame and fortune", perhaps he slows down and precipitates, steps out of his comfort zone, challenges more diverse roles, and will go better in the future.