The summer hot is actually "Meng Yanchen", why does the supporting role beat the protagonist?
(Wei Daxun. Visual China / Photo)
In the drama market of this summer, all kinds of top S+ dramas have been brought out. For example, iQiyi's "Changfeng Du", Tencent Video's Xiao Zhan's "Jade Bone Yao", Youku's Di Li Gerba and Gong Jun's "An Le", Mango TV's Yang Yang's "My Human Fireworks"...
It's just that no one expected that these S+ episodes would really become a national hit, with 0. And the most out of the circle is Wei Daxun's special role "Meng Yanchen" in "My Human Fireworks", the popularity not only crushes the protagonist of the play, Yang Yang, but also higher than a series of top roles in the summer.
Why do the supporting roles overwhelm the protagonist? And what enlightenment does it bring to the drama market?
The protagonist is too "Wei Guangzheng"
Wei Daxun is only a "special star" in "My Human Fireworks", more than twenty episodes of the plot have passed, Wei Daxun's scene is less than an hour, and the popularity actually crushes Yang Yang, who has the most scenes. Even data from multiple third-party platforms shows that Wei Daxun's "Meng Yanchen" is extremely popular among all the characters in the summer S+ dramas.
Why do the supporting roles overwhelm the protagonist?
In fact, many viewers who follow this character have never even clicked on "My Human Fireworks", they learned about the role of Meng Yanchen through the "second creation" on platforms such as Station B. And the reason why Meng Yanchen has become the "new favorite" of some UP lords is mainly because his personality is particularly "sensual" - he has a taboo crush on the heroine Xu Qin played by Wang Churan.
"Pseudo-orthopedics" is a niche but popular genre in online articles, which refers to the fact that although the male and female protagonists are not related, they are nominally brothers and sisters or brothers and sisters, and love is born in one or both of them. On the one hand, love is frantically growing, and on the other hand, they are bound by the ethical relationship of nominal siblings, and the more taboo they are, the more forbearant and affectionate.
The affectionate taboo implied by "pseudo-orthopedics" pokes at the inner sensitive points of many young audiences, and they especially prefer such characters who are suppressed or even dark because of love.
Meng Yanchen is such a character. When Xu Qin was a child, Meng Yanchen's parents adopted her, and he grew up with Xu Qin as a brother and sister, and his feelings for Xu Qin also germinated unconsciously, and eventually took deep roots. Although there are not many scenes of Meng Yanchen in the play, netizens make this character more rich and three-dimensional through the exquisite presentation of Erchuang and a large number of brain supplements - although he is not perfect, his love is fiery, forbearing, deep, silent and noisy.
In contrast, the character image of the male protagonist Song Yan seems very correct, correct to "boring". And this is actually not just a problem with the role of Song Yan, but a problem with almost all the top characters on the market at present - they have no "flaws". Sometimes it is not necessarily that the screenwriter deliberately makes the protagonist "Wei Guangzheng", but as a top-notch actor, he cannot tolerate any imperfections in the characters he plays, as if the imperfections of the characters will also destroy their "perfect" personalities.
For example, "Disappearing Her", Zhu Yilong, who has now been promoted to acting, dares to leave his personal image baggage to play the villain, but many of the top players in the drama market can't do this. They don't even have the basic qualities of an actor - to distinguish their own image from the image of the character.
(Yang Yang. Visual China / Photo)
The "baggage" is too heavy when performing
In "My Human Fireworks", the starring Yang Yang was criticized by the audience for being too dignified and always looked "handsome and self-aware". Many of the character's behaviors are ergonomic, because the actor is holding his breath all the time when performing, and he must ensure that he is always the most handsome in front of the camera. With such heavy idol baggage, can you still act well?
And this is also a common problem of many top performers. Although they are not as exaggerated as Yang Yang is "handsome and self-aware", many top people do pay too much attention to their appearance in front of the camera - handsome is the first.
So we will find that some of the top performances in the summer file always make people feel that they are "military training". "Lying like a bow, standing like a pine, not moving or shaking sitting like a bell, walking in a gust of wind", if the actor is filming advertisements and pictorials, it is of course good to pay so much attention to manners, but in the specific situation of the performance, if the actor is always "holding", always caring whether his posture in front of the camera is the most decent, whether it is upright, it goes to the inversion of the cart before the horse - the performance is for "handsome".
In some cases, this "handsomeness" is out of place. For example, in leisure moments such as drinking water and resting in bed, still use all your strength to tighten the muscles, so that the body appears an "elegant" line, the audience will not feel that the character is very "handsome", only dumb smile - are you so holding, not tired? Acting in a play, not to go to the battlefield, can you relax a little?
Just as the top characters can't be flawed, many top performers have to make sure they are "handsome", a large part of the reason is to cater to fans, please fans, and make themselves always "perfect" in the eyes of fans. Passers-by are not fans, and whether the audience can like a character depends on whether the character is full and whether the actor's performance is relaxed and delicate.
If you can't get rid of the burden of idols, it will be difficult to really improve your acting skills, and it will be impossible to become an acting school recognized by the public, and the drama will be reduced to a "fan drama" - it is impossible to become a national hit.
(Chen Turin. Visual China / Photo)
Rebellion is the embodiment of the audience's awakening
Meng Yanchen is not the first supporting role to fire the protagonist, Chen Duling in "Long Moon Ember Ming" and Ma Boqian in "Can't Hide Secretly", the momentum on the Internet has overwhelmed the protagonist. So much so that some fans of the protagonist broke their defenses and launched crazy attacks on the supporting characters and the characters they played. Top fans thought that the actors in the supporting roles were less famous and could not be beaten, but they did not expect to arouse the strong disgust of the passers-by audience, and passers-by and the rice circle control comments to the end, suddenly let the fans find their teeth.
The main force that made Meng Yanchen popular this time was not Wei Daxun's fans, and many passers-by who liked Meng Yanchen did not convert into Wei Daxun's fans, because Wei Daxun can't talk about how good his acting skills are in a limited clip, but in contrast, his character and performance are pleasing. However, passers-by are still happy to participate in one topic after another about Wei Daxun and Meng Yanchen on Weibo's hot search, in order to resist the head-to-head marketing of drama parties or top fans.
This is the "rebellion" of the audience, but also the embodiment of the audience's awakening and sobriety, they have demonstrated the powerful power of passers-by, to say "no" to the same "Weiguangzheng" role of the top stream, to the top stream of the "holding" speech, but also to express protest and dissatisfaction with the capital market holding the top stream, the top stream centered production mechanism.
In the drama market of this summer, many top S+ actors have been muted, except for fans shouting "burst", passers-by and viewers mostly showed coldness. And a special appearance of tens of minutes of a scene, the popularity crushed all the top characters, and also sounded the alarm for the drama market - although the top stream can bring traffic, but don't blindly obsessed with the top stream, don't let the top stream play any role as himself, don't let the top stream take the role as an extension of his "personality", such a top stream will only drag down the popular popularity of the series, don't do it.
As a top streamer, you must also have a real sense of crisis, don't think that fans' criticism can "cover the sky with one hand", and the vast voice of passers-by can represent the most real perception.
Once ridiculed by the crowd and abandoned by passers-by, the top stream is already on the downhill.
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