This May 1st file, Zhang Jingyi has two movies released in theaters.
One is "Life is Unfamiliar" by the box office champion of May 1st, and the other is "Changsha Nightlife" with a score of 7.6 on Douban. In the same period, two young girls in their twenties have to fight with love and life, purely from the perspective of character shaping, a little inattention will fall into the trap of Facebook.
For Zhang Jingyi, this is undoubtedly her "challenge" to herself. Two characters PK in the same schedule, what is the result? In the highly competitive 95 flowers, did she hand in a satisfactory answer?
She used time, works and the progression of different characters to give her own answer.
Two her
- "Contrasting girl" Zhou Weiyu in "Life is Unfamiliar"
Playing a non-comedy role in a typical comedy movie is the biggest challenge that "Life is Unfamiliar" brings to Zhang Jingyi. On the surface, she plays Zhou Weiyu is an ordinary girl in her twenties, with high appearance, gentle and understanding personality, and the most "violent" part of her body is to hide her personal skill: judo.
After the end of the 100-minute film, you will find that although Zhou Weiyu, who "doesn't talk much", does not laugh much, it gives a road comedy full of laughter and anger a gentle undertone: her father-daughter relationship with Zhou Donghai (played by Qiao Shan) is even more caught off guard and pokes everyone's tears.
Stability is Zhou Weiyu's character throughout the whole process, and when she first appeared, she used a neat over-the-shoulder to subdue the troublemaker on the bus, and also won the love of Wan Yifan (played by Fan Chengcheng). Such a "good skill" appears several times in the film, and you will be amazed at how well-behaved and elegant Zhang Jingyi, who is well-behaved and elegant in most roles, plays "beating women". The rest of the time, Zhou Weiyu is quiet, gentle, and appears at the right time, and Zhang Jingyi does not add even a little useless design to the character.
There are two highlight moments in the film, one is when she shows her tattoo to her father and bluntly says "I've never been afraid of you, I just care about you"; A wedding that is the ending, she faces her father who is caught in memories, with both parting reluctance and a warm smile of "I will be happy, please rest assured". Zhang Jingyi's performance in "The Road of Life is Not Familiar" does not have the tension of opening and closing, but it can dive into people's hearts in the deep flow of still water.
In fact, Zhou Weiyu is a character with a complete growth experience, and there are flashbacks in the film about her childhood, and her behavior is full of "tomboy" temperament, and Zhang Jingyi, who wants to play the adult version of Zhou Weiyu, did not continue this boyish style in style, but wrote this temperament into her bones. A teenage girl who dares to track down a fuel guzzler alone, a girl who insists on being with her father on his father's birthday at the risk of being scolded, when she grows up, care is indispensable, love is indispensable, and so is courage in critical moments.
Zhang Jingyi steadily caught her teenage self and completed the moving growth path of a likable girl with her performance.
- "Meituo" He Xixi in "Changsha Nightlife"
He Xixi in the movie "Changsha Nightlife" is a standard Changsha sister. is also in his twenties, speaks with the spicy taste of "choking", has his own ideas, has a bit of skin, but is a warm and righteous person in his bones. She will lie about Jing as an event guest, and will make up a history of being bullied on the road in order to help strange girls pretend to be someone's ex.
There is a scene in the film where she and Jing Weiwei (played by Yin Fang) take a walk at night, the two tell their stories one after the other, and after this seemingly "aimless" night tour, there is He Xixi's late-night "bold move", knowing that Jing Weiwei has been the shadow of her heart for many years, she took the initiative to jump off the bridge, giving the other party and giving herself the opportunity to "redeem".
"Redemption" is He Xixi's biggest proposition in this "Changsha nightlife", and it is not until the second half of the movie that the audience discovers that the reason why this seemingly fearless girl insists on leaving Changsha is her love for her half-brother, the biggest concession she made for her brother, and the true self she met in the process of finding herself: kind, full of love.
Unlike Zhou Weiyu, He Xixi has many lines, some of which are even full of philosophical thoughts, which is a bit difficult to say. Such lines are actually very compatible with Zhang Jingyi's literary and artistic temperament, but she deliberately erased the "literary and artistic energy", changed to a more down-to-earth acting method, and became a native Changsha Meituo.
At first glance, Zhou Weiyu and He Xixi are very similar, young beautiful girls in their twenties, and boys of the same age stage a touching emotional story, every setback on the road of life is the driving force for their growth. After watching Zhang Jingyi's interpretation, you will feel that it does not really matter whether these two characters are similar or not, their experiences, lives and the growth stories derived from them are unique.
For Zhang Jingyi, there are thousands of girls in their twenties in the world, and she herself is one of them, girls in their twenties seem to be very similar, but they each have their own joys and sorrows, and how to tell (act) the story of "each of them" is more important than anything else.
Steadily and steadily on the road of 95 flowers that bloom at multiple points
This May 1st show is not the first time that Zhang Jingyi has met the audience on the big screen this year.
At the beginning of the year, the movie "Nameless" directed by Cheng Er was released in the Spring Festival file, in which she played the progressive young Miss Fang disguised as a dancer, the same in her twenties, but a beauty of the Republic of China who was looking for prey in the Ten Mile Ocean Field, and was wrapped in a natural sense of story as soon as she appeared. She has a marriage contract with Mr. Ye (played by Wang Yibo), a thug of the Wang puppet government, and her ideal is to build a new world of labor. In Cheng Er's group portrait of the times, Miss Fang is a young and bloody female figure who was eventually swept into the torrent of the times and died.
This is a character without much white space, two highlight moments, one is her contemptuous rejection of Mr. Ye's marriage contract in the bathroom, and the other is that she is killed by Mr. Ye's colleague. In a few scenes, Zhang Jingyi makes the audience feel a short but bright life: she must have a good background, she will not worry about her livelihood in the process of growing up, but there is a fire of justice in her heart to save the world.
In less than half a year, playing roles in three different types of movies (spy war, comedy, city) and leaving a good audience evaluation, you have to sigh that Zhang Jingyi is taking a route of more than a little blossom, not just youth pain.
Recalling that the first time the opera paid attention to Zhang Jingyi, it was in the youth-themed TV series "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy", the dignified and atmospheric facial features and calm temperament almost made the audience remember the then 20-year-old Li Anran for the first time, and the white moonlight in the boy's heart also opened the audience's expectations for each of her works and roles. For Zhang Jingyi, starting an actor's career through such a role is like a secret combination of some kind of fate, blunt beauty and ladylike on her body will allow her to open the door to a certain type of role for the first time.
In the first film work "I Want Us Together", it is not only her natural good appearance that can withstand the test of the big screen, but also her understanding and interpretation of the role that makes her first big-screen heroine deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Ling Yiyao is still the "most difficult first love girlfriend" in the minds of many people.
And in the movie "All About My Mother", Zhang Jingyi has already begun to change on the road of the play. She and Xu Fan, Xu Yajun, Wu Yanshu, Chen Minghao and other old drama bones, playing a girl in her twenties, love career life is always full of problems, and the family relationship with her mother "not understanding each other" is the biggest attraction of the film. After the release of the movie, many people said that they saw themselves or their children from Xiaomei played by her, the hard work of Beipiao, and the sense of distance that can never be dissolved from her family. The interpretation of life allows each role of Zhang Jingyi to follow in the audience's empathy.
By last year's small fire "Light Me, Warm You", Zhang Jingyi has begun to control Zhu Yun, who has a span of nearly 10 years, from the innocence of entering college, encountering great changes in love and career, and reuniting again a few years later, you can gradually see her ability to shape roles becoming fuller and richer, and the "princess" flower name is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
As a 95 flower, she has been playing a role "the same age" as herself since her debut: a youth in her twenties, even if she is enthusiastic and unassuming. But savoring each character reveals surprising differences. From the intelligent and skillful Mu Wanqing in the Republic of China drama "Love at First Sight", to Zhang Huamei, who endured hardships and stood hard in the "Buttons" unit of the period drama "Ideals Shine on China", to the contrasting girl Zhou Weiyu in the comedy movie "Life is Unfamiliar", and the brave and fearless He Xixi in the literary film "Changsha Nightlife", Zhang Jingyi's growth is embedded in each role, she seeks breakthroughs in obviously different genres, and playing every role living in her "twenties" youth to the extreme is a "shortcut" she seeks to polish her acting skills. And this polish will always show its effectiveness and create surprises through the next character.
I have always liked to listen to Zhang Jingyi's understanding of her performance and role: "Many times, the relationship between me and the character is more like a fate, I go to play her and then fall in love with her, and every role that is related to me can work hard to play her well after coming." And the so-called label is everyone's cognition of your past roles, such as at the beginning everyone called me Enron, later called me Ling Yiyao, Li Xiaomei... I'm still happy that every character is recognized. Labels are more of an encouragement to me, and I wish I had more names and labels to be remembered. ”
As an actor who will look for different voices in praise, Zhang Jingyi has an effortless sense of beauty and relaxation, but she actually enters the play as a "desperate three lang". Director Desert, who has worked with Zhang Jingyi, described her as "a good actor who really can dig out her heart and act with her life", and the screenwriter of "Ignite Me, Warm You" described her as "seemingly very well-behaved, but in the process of getting along, she found that she had a stubborn state, which was very suitable for Zhu Yun's feelings." She has more than 900 scenes in the whole play, and the difficulty of creating and shooting is a very big test for young actors."
In the current fierce competition of 95 flowers, Zhang Jingyi has her own "time and place favorable people", a well-suited appearance with both the big screen and the small screen, a clear understanding of her own performance route, the determination and patience to "eat through" different types of characters of the same age, and the courage to "challenge"... At present, the 95 flowers breakthrough road belonging to Zhang Jingyi is to play every "peer" well and complete the challenges brought to herself by every girl in her twenties.