Guo Qilin plays ordinary people with two brushes.
This time, he turned into a trainee lawyer in "Ordinary Road", fought with a group of teammates, and walked out of his own path of struggle. For the first time in a modern drama, Guo Qilin performed the struggle and helplessness of workplace workers. And "Ordinary Road" also relies on the idea of restoring the contemporary workplace guide, and has achieved good performance.
The workplace of ordinary people
From the title of the play, it is not difficult to see that this is a story about ordinary people. A phone rings to start the story, climbing down from the top bunk of a narrow rental house, and Pan Yan, played by Guo Qilin, urges his mother who is washing to hurry out of the toilet. Without exquisite dressing and no top-notch academic background, ordinary ones seem to be able to plunge into the sea of people at any time and disappear without a trace.
As the protagonist of "Ordinary Road", various types of "trainee lawyers" are typically presented in the play. There are Zuo Na, an intern senior who is serious but has a cold personality, Shu Yinan, who has a high degree and a good family but does not know how to deal with people, and three colleagues who are keen to hold meetings and pull small groups to talk about gossip and have not mixed up for several years, all kinds of existence in the workplace have gained more or less ink in the play.
Pan Yan, one of the Three Musketeers of Rongke, is a character with the least background and presence, and because he does not have any external advantages, the meaning of this character becomes ordinary and precious: from him, most of the "unknown people" in society can be reflected. Guo Qilin's image is neither mysterious and cool that people feel unattainable, nor is it difficult to classify him as a handsome guy who has been around for 10,000 years. When he wears shorts and a T-shirt and pulls on his slippers, the intimate feeling is like the next-door neighbor brother he meets when everyone goes downstairs to take out the garbage, and he will greet him with "have you eaten". It is this image that makes him more convincing when portraying ordinary people in the workplace.
Pan Yan's character personality happens to be two extremes with his partner Shu Yinan. One IQ and theory are indisputably excellent, but the other can use empathy for others and strong flexibility to establish a benign communication with society.
This is particularly evident in the divorce case between Zhang Rumei and Sun Jianye. When discussing how to promote the smooth progress of the divorce case, Shu Yinan believed that it was necessary to collect evidence to prove the breakdown of the marriage between the two parties, while Pan Yan insisted on using actions and words to influence Zhang Rumei and open her heart. He will insist on sending chicken soup for the soul, and will not give up communicating with Zhang Rumei after repeated rejections, and in the final face-to-face dialogue between Zhang Rumei and Sun Jianye, he even appeared in time every time the talks were about to collapse, defuse the crisis, and finally successfully complete the divorce case.
Talking about the reason why Guo Qilin did not violate the harmony when he played Pan Yan, the comments in the barrage broke the sky: Pan Yan is Guo Qilin himself. Although he is far from the elite sense of lawyers in people's hearts, and he can't talk about high-end suits and leather shoes, he can accumulate and grow in trivial cases like most small lawyers who are on the go. The focus of Guo Qilin's "Ordinary Road" is not on lawyers, but on the ordinary.
The origin of a comedian makes him work his mouth, and he accidentally comes to a "stand-up" in the play, which has a subtle connection with the lawyer's ability to speak and eloquent; The education he received since childhood and long-term experience in the big family of Deyun Society have allowed him to hone his vision and know how to turn around in the relationship of people, which coincides with Pan Yan's flexibility and human touch.
Change the suspension of the workplace drama in the past, the homes of newcomers in the workplace in "Ordinary Road" are no longer small western-style buildings or large flats in first-tier cities, there is no sudden "overlord falls in love with me" to help the career soar all the way, daily commuting is not luxury car transfer or taxi every day, overtime to really see the pink morning at 5 a.m., will not be in love day by day without doing business pure skipping work, these attempts to make workplace dramas land, so the play's Douban score reached 7.5.
Telling the true chapter of life from parents is the main theme that this drama tries to express. But a lot of times, what is rare is the realism of performing that trivial day. Guo Qilin's actor qualifications are not very rich, but fortunately, he can achieve the rare relaxation of the new generation of actors, which allows him to integrate into the tone of the entire drama, and does not seem nervous in the face of the racing scenes of the previous actors.
When playing against Niu Li's "mother", the words in the two are so loose and ordinary like the dialogue between every son and mother. When he saw Liao Songting, played by Li Naiwen, come over to grab customers, he would smile and say "Liao Daxiang". And when he choked with Du Lu, played by Zhang Zixian, he said the most tongue-dropping counterattack with the most respectful posture.
Guo Qilin, who starred in a workplace drama for the first time, realized his self-expression with a sincere and simple performance, and also successfully completed the role conversion from a costume drama to a modern drama.
"Extraordinary" growth
Although Guo Qilin can play the little character Pan Yan vividly, this does not mean that Guo Qilin is really mediocre. His father is Guo Degang, the class leader of Deyun Club, and his master is a well-known Yu Qian, who dropped out of school at the age of 15 and held his own personal crosstalk special performance at the age of 16. This resume is not the same as the ordinary.
But a closer look at his development path shows that he is not satisfied with only seeking his own acre and three points in crosstalk. As a way to quickly gain popularity and show his personal style, variety shows have become Guo Qilin's first step into domestic entertainment. And his gradual career can even be seen in the choice of variety show genres. The first shows he participated in were "Comedian League" and "Happy Comedian" related to crosstalk, and it must be a good choice to start a new copy of his career in the business he is good at.
With the name of the Deyun boy group, many disciples of the Deyun Society slowly added some boy group idol attributes, and the charm of Guo Qilin himself was gradually captured by the audience. He began to try to find a breakthrough in more diverse variety shows, such as appearing as a guest in Guo Degang's "Fancy Boy Group" as a fixed MC, and will show his potential as an actor in "I am an Actor". But by this time, most of what he was asked about in the interview was related to his father, and for the audience, he was best known as Guo Degang's son.
Until 2019, the hit of "Qing Yu Nian" made many people remember the fan Sizhi who loved to sprinkle and roll, and actor Guo Qilin broke into the public eye strongly. Before the residual temperature of "Qing Yu Nian" disappeared, the "sister" became a "daughter-in-law", and "Son-in-law" starring Guo Qilin and Song Yi once again received cheers from the audience with the most ghostly ancient business war cool drama.
The two costume dramas have laid a good foundation for Guo Qilin's career as an actor. During this period, his variety show activities did not stop: he showed his life side as a guest in "Longing for Life", and successively served as a resident guest in "Run Season 4" and "Escape Room Season 2", and left many high emotional intelligence speeches in "Fifty Kilometers Peachblossom Dock" in 2021.
In "Ordinary Road", Guo Qilin is no longer limited to funny costume dramas, trying to broaden his theatrical path and find his foothold in modern dramas. At that time, when the audience saw him again in "Mao Xuewang" and "Hello Saturday", he had already faded the restraint of entering the entertainment industry, no longer hiding behind the aura of his father or Deyun Society, and began to calmly interact with others as a mature artist.
Now when it comes to Guo Qilin, it is more about his independent existence, and the prefix of Guo Degang's son and the young class leader of the Deyun Society has been erased with his growing fame. This confirms from the side that along the way, Guo Qilin from the music industry has a lot of clothing for the water and soil of the film and television industry.
Crossovers are silky
In Guo Qilin's historical performance, two qualities can be seen: authenticity and grounding. This is a style that many people deliberately shape and difficult to form among the new generation of artists in domestic entertainment, and Guo Qilin seems to be able to grasp this kind of lightness and breeze. With this characteristic, he also received additional gifts after successfully entering the film and television industry, and his growth and experience provided sufficient unnecessary conditions for every step in his future.
Cultivated in the environment of the crosstalk team since he was a child, Guo Qilin has developed a clever tongue, which not only allows him to speak his lines more quickly and accurately when performing, but also makes him more vivid when controlling those "love poverty" and "clever" roles. Although he dropped out of school early, he did not have much knowledge through physiognomic art, and he could quote scriptures and commentaries at the exit, without showing the disadvantage of cultural standards, and the reputation of Deyun Society and Guo Degang also gave him more topic than ordinary artists. Just looking at the background experience, his development starting point is already much higher.
But whether the "second generation of stars" can really play a piece of the sky, the key is not in their parents, or in themselves, after all, if you want to go for a long time, you must have the ability to make the audience buy it, not to mention, this point, he also has.
His audience base often benefits from his performance in variety shows. He always defuses situations when embarrassing topics arise on the show; When ridiculed, he can reply calmly, and even do not forget to laugh at himself; Also dare to express their true thoughts in the show and live from the heart... In front of an audience who has seen a lot of characters, competition, and scripts, it is difficult for such a person not to gain everyone's favor and favor by opening himself in a comfortable way.
Returning to the performance itself, it can be found that Guo Qilin has a clear positioning for himself and knows when to amplify his advantages. From Fan Sizhi to Ning Yi to Pan Yan, whether in ancient times or in modern times, the roles he chooses are mostly "ordinary little people" who suit him. He will not be hard to be a personable hero, nor will it be difficult for him to play a handsome and golden young master. A silly boy who does not learn and has no skills, a silly boy who relies on his mind to counterattack, and the most inconspicuous ordinary person in the urban crowd, among these seemingly unknown characters, through Guo Qilin-style interpretation, the character shines with a flexible brilliance.
For many actors, what they learn in school is the only way to guide their performances. When to cry and how; When to laugh and how to laugh well, many times there are their stereotypes and skills. But technique can get them into performance quickly, or it can make them stuck in technique.
Guo Qilin, who is not from a professional class, has only one magic weapon: with sincerity. There are no textbook performances, just rely on their own understanding of the characters and restore the characters with sincere interpretation. And he comes from a crosstalk background and has no baggage, daring to try all kinds of characters without a filter aura.
With accumulation, hard work, planning, and audience popularity, Guo Qilin's road to pursuing his dream in the entertainment industry will naturally go smoothly. At the same time, his existence also provides new ideas for artists in how to deal with themselves in the entertainment industry: when everyone is thinking about how to stand out and play highlight roles, he will have the courage to choose to take a step back, and in the fiercely competitive jungle battle, this surprising move seems to help him settle down.
However, the sustainability of the actor's path is a problem that all actors face. After all, stylized actors are also easy to be framed in style. At first glance, Fan Sichen was a surprise, and seeing that Ning Yi was sure, Pan Yan now is reasonable, so what about the future? Is he going to tell the little people in his own way all the time? Even if you enjoy it, the audience will get tired of it. This is probably the test question that Guo Qilin, who has already established himself in the film and television industry, will have to face in the next stage.
But now, he has come to this point to a position that many people take a long time to reach. As the head of the young class of Deyun Society, he grew up in his father's frustration education, and he may regard these more as attempts and self-proofs to pursue dreams in the entertainment industry, rather than a life and death battle that determines the fate of life and becomes a benevolent if he is unsuccessful. These are reflected in himself, which is one of the reasons why he always remains calm in life and performance.