Following the 54-year-old Jiang Wenli talking with Ming Dao about the toe-gripping uncle love in "Love at the Corner", 46-year-old Ma Yili was not to be outdone, playing Zheng Dongni, who is in her twenties, in "Dragon City", which will be released this Saturday Yangba, as soon as the news came out, the hearts of book fans broke a lot...
Open the Douban comment, almost all the screen is full of rejection of this casting capitalized and bold, everyone looks up to the sky - "Why Ma Yili?" ”
Wouldn't this wig be too thick
I summarized, the main reasons, two main reasons:
First, Miss Ma's overall image temperament is not very compatible with the role.
The best in the hearts nominated by netizens are Zhang Yuqi, Ni Ni, and Song Jia, all of whom are arrogant and beautiful types, their eyes are full of ambition, and their bodies exude aggression in all directions.
And Ma Yili has always given the impression of being subtle and gentle, with her own stubbornness but not too ostentatious, and her face is a little more bitter than those nominated by netizens, so Miss Li, who speaks Wu Nong's soft language, soft sensibility and mature charm in "The Myth of Love", is very outstanding played by her.
If Ma Yili is light, restrained and water-like, Zheng Dongni gives the impression of being exactly the opposite - intense, outward, like fire, book fans do not buy it, it is inevitable.
Second, the mismatch of age, youth drama changes into middle-aged drama.
If the discrepancy in the image can still be made up by acting skills, the difference between appearance and external state caused by age can not be covered by makeup and filters, moreover, the eight layers of thick filters will inevitably lead to blurred faces, which will eventually affect the overall presentation of the series.
Saggy skin, wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, you told me she was twenty years old... How is this convincing the audience who are staring at the high-definition LCD screen?
Why did TV series become their "girl's dream factory"
It seems to be an extremely absurd thing, but counting the film and television works in recent years, the phenomenon of age mismatch has become very common.
Zhang Ziyi's role as a girl in "Shangyang Fu" caused an uproar in public opinion. Zhang Yinghou's first test from the big screen to the small screen chose the hot costume big female theme at that time, with all the popularity and acting skills, but did not usher in the expected praise, why? "All staff are tender" is the main reason.
A group of middle-aged people pretend to be young and playful, they may be very enjoyable, but the audience can watch it, it is called a complicated mood - "This is, the middle-aged team building party with the theme of ancient puppets?" ”
There is also Liu Tao, who started from a seventeen or eighteen-year-old working girl with a double ponytail in "The Sea of Stars", and Lin Feng, who is also over forty, composes a middle-aged sadomasochistic relationship of "the domineering president falls in love with me".
This soft light is really a little bigger
and Zhou Xun. A few years ago, Zhou Xun starred in "The Legend of Ruyi", she was a delicate girl who did not know the world, although her acting skills were good, but the deep nasolabial folds and no longer firm skin did not provoke a critical gaze, after all, she is a flexible Zhou Gongzi who grew up with a generation, and she may be in excellent condition compared with her peers, but who let her pearl jade in front when she was young?
The twenty-five-year-old Xiao Taiping is still alive in our memories, and when we look up, she is now playing a girl with a forty-year-old face... Compared with the two boxes, the audience will inevitably have a gap and will inevitably sigh.
Of course, there are some players who bring more than sighs, they are already frightened. Typical representative - Aunt Carina Liu in "The Origin of Deep Love".
You may not be familiar with the title of the play, but the original work it adapts is designated to be familiar - Zhang Ailing's novel "Half Life". The heroine of the novel is a pair of sisters in Shanghai in the thirties of the last century, the sister is called Manlu, the younger sister is called Manzhen, Manlu style, Manzhen is elegant. Looking at the previous adaptations, the most famous are Anita Mui's film version of Wu Qianlian and Jiang Qinqinlin's drama version, just looking at the stills is very amazing, those old images can be called the record specimens of their youthful beauty.
But in this "Deep Love", it was Sister Jialing, who was in her fifties at that time, who played Manlu, and Jiang Xin, who was in her early thirties, as sisters. When she was young, she was naturally suitable, full of style, swaying, but at that stage, would it be more appropriate to play a mother?
Comparable to the outrageous is Aunt Liu Xiaoqing, who has reached the age of being a grandmother, but she prefers to play a girl, and is called "girl" by young actors in costume dramas...
At this point, do you think that the aunt and grandmother pretending to be tender is the pinnacle of outrageousness?
No! Only thirty or forty mature women are already going to be the mother of a half-old young man, and the actor who plays the young man is not a few years older than himself!
For example, Zhu Zhu in "Great Qin Fu", a beautiful sister in 84, actually gave Zhang Luyi in 80 years a mother. Isn't it possible for women to maintain it so well in the days of BC? What kind of skin care products are used here?
For example, "Summer Flower" released this year, Yan Chengxu ran away for half of his life, and returned to be the male protagonist who takes love as his "main business", but Huang Yi, who is the same age, has already played the mother-in-law of the male protagonist.
I really don't know if I don't summarize, I frowned, why can't I let actresses middle-aged and above play some roles that match their age, and leave young flowers with more opportunities by the way?
I also seem to understand why Big S can take Wang Xiaofei's "wool", fade out for many years and return to the film industry, either pretend to be tender or play Wang Continent's mother, there is no C option, how to choose is embarrassing. What's more, even if she wants to pretend to be tender, she may not be ranked first.
In the end, it's still "pinching the tip"
Let's recount the actresses who have played young girls over the years - Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi, Liu Tao, Liu Jialing, Ma Yili, Jiang Wenli... It is not difficult to find that they all have the following characteristics:
1. When he was young, he was one of the best in Qingyi, with both appearance and acting skills;
2. After middle age, it is still relatively active, and at least one of the works with high topic and national degree accounts for it.
3. Properly maintained, no longer looks young, but not old either.
All in all, it is a group of people who are in the first echelon from popularity to ability, and have always played the heroine, and the audience is also accustomed to watching them play the heroine.
How many such people can there be? Of course, it can only be the tip of the pyramid.
Compared with the invasion of the film and television industry, this represents a more demanding requirement for the market: on the one hand, the audience has suffered for a long time, and young people who lack a solid professional foundation cannot guarantee the quality of the work when they come to take important roles, so consider using people with acting skills; On the other hand, the traffic cannot be completely absent, otherwise no matter how good the shooting is, who will watch it?
Therefore, the market has also been seeking a way to balance, and drama bone + top stream is a more commonly used model, just like Tony Leung + Wang Yibo in "Nameless". But this may not be able to cover a wider group of older people outside of fans, and we add the top stream in recent years to step on the red line without contending, and "combining traffic and strength" has also become a common game.
To put it bluntly, whether you are a sister, an aunt or a grandmother, whether you are a movie queen or a TV queen, in the eyes of the market and capital, you who combine these characteristics are just a more effective pass, or a better type of traffic. Since you are selected, then you are a good brick, where you need to move, whether it is 100% matching is second, the key is that we first brush this face representing acting skills and national popularity, the traffic password is mastered, and it can become suitable if it is not suitable.
Jialing is obviously a proper stepmother
Of course, the market has spontaneity, fat will always cause people to scramble, good movie scripts are not available every year, and the queens are also happy to "go down" to get a piece of the pie and make money, right?
But then again, there are really very few actresses who meet the above conditions, and not every actress has the qualifications to relive the girl's dream in the play.
Like Liu Lin, she became popular relatively late, and she gradually opened up her popularity with supporting roles, and her appearance was not childish or beautiful, but quite aunt-simple and kind, so she could only play the third aunt for Ma Yili, who was two years younger than herself;
Like Huang Yi, in the early years, he was also a household name as a popular dan, with masterpieces such as "On the Wrong Flower Palanquin Married to Lang", "New Female Horse", "Huan Zhu Gege Part III" and other masterpieces, but due to some well-known reasons delayed for several years, follow-up development is weak, these two years in variety shows frequently brushed face to continue to become popular, like her actress who did not do a good job in the connection before and after, and did not have the blessing of heavyweight awards, reappeared in the rivers and lakes is almost only a mother.
So a "strange status quo in the film and television industry" that looks absurd, behind it hides a cruel truth - "pretending to be tender" actresses are the result of the market pinching. It seems that the spring of middle-aged actresses has arrived, but in fact, traffic is still first, data is king, and the "incredible" we see is the "optimal solution" carefully calculated by the market.
Why do you want to let Zhu Zhu, who looks very young, play Zhang Luyi's mother? It's the same thing.
First, this character is called Zhao Ji, there are some affair events in the play, and she also takes a variety of routes, and Zhu Zhu happens to be the most popular actress in this genre in recent years; Second, considering that the audience also likes to watch young beauties, Zhu Zhu has become the best choice, which is a process of precise positioning, and then repeatedly squeezed dry and then replaced with the next one.
During this period, creativity was secondary, and the action listed first was "pandering". To meet the multiple needs of most people, so choose a "nondescript" common divisor; Catering to the style of the times, so "pretending to be tender" is regarded as the highest treatment for actors.
If this model and atmosphere continue to intensify, the "three defeats" will also become more serious: actors cannot be rationally allocated, and their own potential cannot be maximized; The ascent of young new actors is blocked, and it is difficult to emerge, unless they are willing to make trouble for themselves (I didn't say anything if they have a background); The strange phenomenon is very rushed, and the audience who has been thundered again and again will eventually abandon the show.
In fact, male actors are also difficult to escape the shackles of the market, but because men are not so strict in their age and appearance, even if they want to play a young man in their teens and twenties (Zhang Luyi plays a teenage Yingzheng) or fall in love with a young actress in the play (Chen Jianbin, who is in love with Li Yitong), you don't have to deliberately pretend to be tender, simply rough, anyway, the audience is embarrassed.
brief summary
Maybe it's old, whenever I see the current black smoke miasma, I can't help but remember the past:
Whether it is the protagonist group of "Huan Zhu Gege", or the above-mentioned "On the wrong flower sedan marries to Lang", or Zhao Baogang's "Never Blind", "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind", "Jade Guanyin", etc., filmed young people's dramas, using young actors who can pinch out water, before that, those later Hua Dan students almost did not find this person, because the play was recognized, the audience remembered these people.
It can be seen that at that time, it was the drama that held the role, not the corner; It's the work that's big, not the flow first.
Under that soil, newcomers and good works emerge one after another, those with poor talent can shine with real suitability, and old actors can also find their place in works that suit them, without having to enjoy top-notch treatment in places that are obviously unworthy, while consuming their own aura and the patience of the audience.
Finally, I would like to make a suggestion, in the future, on the drama of the growth heroine, can we change to a real girly actor at the beginning?
In "Kangxi Dynasty" that year, let Chen Daoming play a teenager, how catastrophic it should be
Author: Miss Bovary
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