The suspense drama "Long Season" was launched in surprise, and the main creative lineup alone was enough to surprise people:
In addition to the strong alliance of Fan Wei and Qin Hao, the emergence of excellent actors such as Chen Minghao, Liu Lin, and Ren Suxi also provides quality assurance for the work.
And strangely, in this work in which the protagonists are "ugly", the performance of the supporting roles is very amazing.
What is even more rare is that they are all old faces of "suspense dramas", and in a compact and poetic narrative, they restore a wonderful life suspense film for us.
1. The main creator all dresses up ugly, and the proper drama throws faces
"The Long Season" has only 12 episodes and is currently more than halfway through the air – although the response is polarized:
Some people think that this play can directly "seal the gods", but some people think that the pace is too slow.
But in fact, perhaps the "sense of length" is exactly the watching experience that the creators of this drama want to bring to everyone.
Director Xin Shuang said in an interview that the title of the play had twists and turns, from the original "Guest in the Snow" to "Winter Blade", and finally "The Long Season".
At first glance, the name itself has nothing to do with the word "suspense", but it "vaguely" expresses many very meaningful life philosophies.
At present, the score has been released, and half of the audience who have seen it have scored a 5-star high score, and the score of 9.0 has also successfully "crushed" "Hidden Corner", preparing to "seal the gods".
Under the background of the original cast of "Hidden Corner" and the loose and unconventional path, the protagonists such as Fan Wei and Qin Hao began to play solidly and wantonly.
First of all, Qin Hao, who has the most "sincerity":
His first appearance has a "sense of magic", and it can be seen that the makeup team has put a lot of thought into showing his state after aging and blessing.
This kind of ugliness is mainly to cater to the sense of "timing disorder" created by the product itself, giving the audience a different visual experience.
As the "male god of literary films" in the audience's impression in the past, Qin Hao was refreshing and melancholy.
But in "The Long Season", his "melancholy prince texture" is all broken, greasy but unobstructed.
In terms of acting skills, Qin Hao's performance is also very eye-catching, in order to shape the characteristics of the character, he is sloppy, tacky, prodded and pretending, with an inexplicable sense of joy.
Also ugly is Liu Lin, who is treating actress Ma Yili, who is 2 years younger than herself, as a "third aunt" in the popular TV series "Dragon City" at the same time.
Turned around and appeared in "The Long Season", interpreting Li Qiaoyun, the owner of the massage parlor.
But the lady of this massage parlor is not the amorous look you imagine, but an old woman who is a and has an "intention" for the male protagonist Wang Xiang played by Fan Wei.
In fact, Liu Lin, who is only 49 years old this year, looks like this in reality, but in the play, she has become the appearance of "being rejected when she sends her to the door", which can be regarded as a huge sacrifice for the role.
In addition to Qin Hao and Liu Lin playing ugly, Fan Wei's appearance is not much better.
However, Wang Xiang's acting skills played by Fan Wei can still be played, and the image that appears in his opening scene is a sad father with white hair who pursues the truth of his son's death.
To be honest, this look is old and black, but because of the acting skills, the audience will not imagine that this father has been the "Fan Debiao" or the "Chef Fan" who has been fooled by us for many years.
As we all know, Fan Wei is famous for comedy, and once partnered with Zhao Benshan to perform many classic sketches:
From his first appearance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1995 to the completion of the sketch "Kung Fu" in 2005, he also performed works such as "Liu Laogen" and "Ma Dashuai".
For 10 years, he has been spinning on the comedy stage almost all the time.
But after acting in sketches, Fan Wei began to transform, and successively took out "Aromatic Journey", "Tracking Kong Lingxue", "No Problem Problem" and so on are classics, and also completely reversed his own drama path.
In "The Long Season", he once again let the audience see a different actor in a life-like way of performance.
2. The heroine returns to her comfort zone and her acting skills are natural
In addition to the above few big coffees who can be called "old drama bones", "The Long Season" boldly uses the "00 Little Flower" Li Gengxi, who is not very popular with passers-by.
Li Gengxi's previous experience is a bit of "a good hand of cards playing sparse":
She is an actress favored by "Big Flower" Xu Jinglei's company, there is no one, her debut work is starring, and soon after she encountered the blockbuster "Little Huanxi", because the role of "Qiao Yingzi" successfully gained attention.
The role of Qiao Yingzi in the play is complex, but Li Gengxi firmly took the role, expressing her depression, collapse and other emotions to the fullest, and the crying scene was very moving.
When she was the most popular, she was labeled as the "light of post-00s acting" by the outside world, but what no one expected was that she went downhill after that.
After that, Li Gengxi began to soar in resources, starring in "Twenty Not Confused" and "Rabbit Violence" in a row, and then became the heroine and appeared in the three ancient puppet dramas "The Green Mountains in the Moon Are Picturesque", "The Flower is Good and the Moon is Round" and "The Knife in the Snow".
But obviously, she is not suitable for images such as "stunning beauty" and "princess of the dead country", so she overturned one after another, causing group ridicule.
Especially in "Knife in the Snow", the role of Jiang Mu played by her was also questioned by netizens as "the acting skills are too bad", and was even summarized as a three-piece performance of "frowning, pouting, and bitter melon face".
In addition, Li Gengxi also caused controversy for smoking and littering cigarette butts in public.
In short, in the years after becoming popular, she has been living in the embarrassment of being questioned.
Until she challenged to play the role of the heroine and girl Shen Mo in a bunch of powerful actors in "The Long Season".
Her appearance is bright and sunny, she is a 19-year-old medical student, and she is also a girl who fell in love at first sight with Wang Yang, the son of the male protagonist Wang Xiang.
Without exaggerated expressions and gorgeous costumes, Li Gengxi seems to have returned to the body of "Qiao Yingzi", and his acting skills are also very stable.
After all, in this work with a strong breath of life, the focus of each actor is not to restore beauty, but to serve the storyline.
Obviously, Li Gengxi avoided all shortcomings in such a story, and only used his young advantages and beautiful temperament to accurately shape the image of Shen Mo, which is comfortable and will not be dramatic.
Perhaps, "Long Season" can become an opportunity for Li Gengxi to turn around the popularity of the road, after all, her acting skills can, as long as she finds the right way to play in the future, she will make great achievements on the road to acting.
3. The supporting roles are full of dramas, and they have acted in suspense dramas
In addition to the excellent main creator, good works are also inseparable from the brilliance of supporting roles, such as the "Crazy" that hit at the beginning of the year, in which even the smallest role is evocative.
In "The Long Season", they are also familiar "old faces" to the audience.
First of all, Chen Minghao, who formed the "iron triangle of solving cases" with Qin Hao, played by Ma Desheng, is a criminal policeman with a rough surface but a delicate heart.
But he also has stories:
20 years ago, Ma Desheng left the police force because of a shredded corpse case, and then formed a funny CP with Wang Xiang and Gong Biao by mistake.
Chen Minghao is no stranger to this actor, who acted in the suspense drama "The Darker" in his early years, and later cooperated with Qin Hao in "Sand Sea" as "Wang Fatty", and in the crime movie "Flame on the Plain" starring Liu Haoran, he played businessman Zhuang Dezeng.
It can be said that Chen Minghao is a "frequent guest" in suspense works, perhaps in addition to his acting skills, his somewhat positive and evil face is also the reason.
But in "The Long Season", Chen Minghao also appeared with an elderly makeup, and the "gag" cooperation with the other two protagonists added a sense of joy.
In terms of young actors, director Xin Shuang boldly used newcomer Liu Yitie to play Wang Xiang's son Wang Yang - although he is not famous compared to other actors, his acting skills are also very stable.
Especially when playing against his father, he can convey a lot of information from his eyes, and it also makes the audience cry instantly, and he has a strong ability to empathize.
But in the staggered time and space, when he met Shen Mo, the girl he liked, he easily showed the appearance of a big boy with a fledgling relationship.
In addition, what is more surprising is that everyone saw the young actor Shi Pengyuan in "Hidden Corner" in "The Long Season".
At that time, he played Yan Liang, the "eldest of the three children" in "Hidden Corner", very scheming, but in fact, the background was also a poor person.
In "The Long Season", Shi Pengyuan has completely "grown", and Wang Bei, who plays Wang Bei, is another son of Wang Xiang, who does not appear much, but is sunny and handsome.
Moreover, the supporting roles in the play also include "gold medal supporting roles" such as Hou Yansong, Lin Peng, and Tang Zeng.
Hou Yansong's drama path is extremely wide, but the characters that leave an impression are basically warm-hearted images, such as Lao Jin, who wants to "take care" of the heroine Luo Zijun in "My First Half of Life", and Xia Chunsheng in the criminal investigation drama "Trident" and so on.
And this time, in "The Long Season", Shen Dongliang, played by Hou Yansong, is not a good person, he is Shen Mo's stepfather, and he cares about this daughter on the surface, but in fact has malicious ideas.
At present, the specific mystery has not yet been revealed, and it is not known what role Shen Dongliang played in the case, but he is a key figure.
Another actor, Lin Peng, also appeared in "Hidden Corner", I believe everyone still has the impression that he is the "scumbag director" Ma Decai, who has many rivalry scenes with Liu Lin.
After that, Lin Peng acted in works such as "Female Psychologist", "Meet the Season", "The Wind Blows in Half Summer" and other works, although they are all supporting roles, but their acting skills are also quite excellent, and each role is deeply impressive.
In addition, in the first episode, the audience also saw the "horse bolt" that came out of "The Road of Life" - he was played by actor Don Zeng.
Tang Zeng, who is 38 years old this year, has only entered the hearts of the audience in recent years with many popular works, but in fact, he has been debuting for 11 years.
Tang Zeng is a solid man in reality, but when creating characters in the play, he can always be unexpected.
For example, in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" cooperated with Zhao Liying, he played Wang Qinglai, who has a strong "small peasant consciousness".
In "The Road of Life", Tang Zeng hugged the beauty Li Qin home, but finally ended up at the scene of an unexpected death, and also held back tears.
In "The Long Season", he played the criminal policeman Li Qun, there are not many scenes, but he also holds it steadily with his acting skills.
At present, the play is on the air, but whether it can go high and go high still depends on the next plot, but I believe in the director's refreshing control ability, and I also believe in the full devotion of all the above actors.
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