Recently, a drama called "Detective Jack" became popular.
Hearing this name, most viewers must be able to react, 11 years ago, Brother Tom had a movie of the same name, and 4 years later, a second one was released while the iron was hot.
But most people didn't expect that in the face of the handsome and capable Tom brother, the two movies were more popular than the other.
The first part only had a passing score of 6.4, and in the second part, it dropped to 5.9.
In 2022, this IP will launch a drama version of the same name.
What people didn't expect was that in the film and television works of the same IP, the role played by the global superstar Tom Cruise was played by a big man with a height of nearly 2 meters, and it was also popular in the United States.
As soon as the drama version of "Detective Jack" was launched, it quickly became Amazon's highest-grossing drama series of the year, and there was no one.
While Douban scored 8.0 points, "Detective Jack" became popular all over the Internet.
The male protagonist Alan Richson also quickly became famous through this drama and became the hottest "big guy" in Hollywood and even the world.
Recently, with the release of the second season of "Detective Jack", the name Alan Richson quickly entered the field of vision of Chinese audiences.
The sound of "I can" under the handsome stills is a comment on a big guy who likes it the most.
We all know that Hollywood is rich in big guys.
Over the years, handsome muscular guys in Hollywood have sprung up into movies of various genres and themes, harvesting the audience's wallet and dazzling the audience's eyeballs.
Alan Richson's fire reminded Mr. Tomato of the big guy who also suddenly exploded, "Aquaman" Jason Momoa.
The new muscular man who rises, like the back waves, swells up on the beach.
And the aging Schwarzenegger, as well as Dwayne Johnson, who has not had any films released this year, seem to have disappeared all of a sudden, and there is no shadow to be found.
You know, three years ago, Johnson was the most popular and highest-paid actor in the world.
In just three years, not only did it fall off the altar, but in the whole of 2023, only one "Fast and Furious 10" that did not make a splash will be released.
The big guy's ability to absorb gold is still there, why has Johnson plummeted?
After watching the second season of "Detective Jack", Mr. Tomato seems to have found the real reason behind it - in this, there are not only the aesthetic crux of European and American audiences towards muscular beautiful men, but also the objective law of big actors making stars.
It is inevitable that some people will gradually fade away, but the new person replaces the old person, which seems to come a little too fast.
To see why Johnson fell so quickly, we have to look at why he rose so quickly in the first place.
Johnson was not an actor at the beginning, and he didn't even think about being an actor.
At the age of 17, he wanted to pursue a career in sports, but in his first year as a rugby player, he suffered an injury.
After becoming a professional athlete, he was paid only $250 and was fired.
At its worst, Johnson only had 7 steel hammers in his pocket.
It was for this reason that his company was later named Seven Bucks Production.
It wasn't until he was 26 years old that Johnson's life suddenly opened the second pulse of Ren Du and began to open.
This was the year he was introduced to WWE.
Joining WWE allowed Johnson to inadvertently touch the first step in the popularity of American muscular handsome guys, that is, the accumulation of original fans.
In the aesthetic system of Europe and the United States, there is a yearning for muscular aesthetics, and this concept is deeply rooted.
On the one hand, European people are martial and aggressive, and force and conquest run through the entire history of Europe and the United States.
Therefore, in European history, the admiration of muscles has been throughout the history, from Greek mythology to Hollywood stars, all of them, Schwarzenegger ("The Terminator") and Stallone ("First Blood"), who were the first to take the world by storm, are all big guys.
On the other hand, because of the influence of many factors such as racial genes, physiological structure, dietary Xi, European and American races are already stronger, and they are generally tall, with large skeletons, vigorous hair and muscular development.
The systematic fitness culture, scientific diet, and the admiration of various physical confrontation sports continue to emphasize and consolidate this aesthetic preference to Europeans and Americans.
Over time, liking muscular men and preferring "big guys" has become an important part of the aesthetic system of Westerners.
Hollywood film and television works that are popular all over the world are constantly consolidating this aesthetic by creating big muscular men, which has led to the difference between European and American audiences and Eastern audiences in terms of aesthetics.
Of course, this is also the need of entertainment star-making culture.
After all, the muscles of the big man are more hormonal, and the collision of muscles with muscles is more visually impactful.
Compared with Xiao Xianrou, there is a super-large big man who is rampage on the camera, giving the audience a completely different impression.
Some people like the feminine beauty of small fresh meat, and some like the muscle hormones of big people.
The kind of male sexual tension and sexual charm that emerges has a huge and broad niche market among European and American audiences, especially female audiences, which also contributes to the unspoken rule that Hollywood male stars "must have eight-pack abs to become famous".
Then the question arises again, Europe and the United States have never lacked big guys, why can Dwayne Johnson stand out?
The answer couldn't be more obvious, because he is too good at "acting".
WWE itself is a performance competition, and compared to other players, Johnson, who is 195 centimeters tall and weighs 118 kilograms, should have been a "ruthless character".
But in the game, Johnson often used his acting talents, making the audience laugh, and thus accumulating countless fans.
He has a wealth of body movements, a signature method of juggling, and a wealth of facial expressions, and is the first generation of American Internet celebrities and contributors to "memes".
The performances are all the same, so if you can act in WWE, why can't you do it in Hollywood?
Therefore, after the WWE fire, Johnson was discovered by Hollywood director Fan, and after his predecessors Schwarzenegger and Stallone, he starred in "The Scorpion King", won a salary of 5 million US dollars, and became the highest-paid Hollywood newcomer at that time.
"The Scorpion King" premiered and won the North American box office with $36.2 million, and by the way, it also broke the all-time best record for a film premiere in April at the North American box office.
The audience who walked into the cinema to cheer for Johnson was precisely the "first generation of fans" he accumulated in WWE.
This made Johnson jump into the first echelon of Hollywood movie stars, and also made him the hottest big guy in Hollywood.
In fact, if you look closely, Alan Richson and Jason Momoa have the same road to fame as Johnson.
While they didn't go to WWE to play an exhibition match, they both jumped at a chance to make a name for themselves, which allowed them to amass their first wave of followers together.
And these fans are all "high-net-worth fans" with high stickiness.
This step of Alan Richson is "Detective Jack".
In the original book, Detective Jack is a muscular man with a height of nearly 2 meters, and the reason why Tom's movie version is not rated is high has a lot to do with his image not matching the original book.
But Alan Richson is different.
This big muscular hunk is not only handsome, but also has a height of nearly 1.9 meters, and his tendons make him have an explosive hormonal atmosphere.
On the screen, the visual impact of this actor is very strong.
In particular, Alan Richson also has the unique rugged temperament of a Hollywood tough guy, and with the director's camera movement and action scene packaging in the play, he naturally has a layer of "Detective Jack" filter on him.
In a popular drama, with such a figure, face, muscle mass and male security, it is basically done.
It is no exaggeration to say that Alan Richson's first step was to climb up on Tom's shoulder.
Jason Momoa, the same.
Jason Momoa's first popularity accumulation was when "Game of Thrones" was a hit.
He played the horse king Zhuogo Kao, who gained a lot of audiences because of his wild and tense style.
The infatuation of the King of Horses also made Jason Momoa wear a layer of "King of Horses" filter.
It has become the perfect partner in the minds of thousands of girls.
After that, Jason Momoa struck while the iron was hot, joined the DC Super British Universe, and starred in his first single superhard work "Aquaman" in 2018.
Obviously, Jason Momoa is famous thanks to Wen Ziren.
In order to show Jason Momoa's muscular hormones and wild temperament, Wen Ziren created a lot of shots for him.
For example: this kind of looking back in general;
Another example is this kind of shot full of wild sexual tension.
A "Aquaman" not only raked in $1.1 billion, but also made thousands of girls around the world lick the big screen and confess to Jason Momoa: I can!
You see, muscular male nova, isn't this made?
After "Aquaman", Jason Momoa jumped into the first echelon of Hollywood male movie stars, and even ranked among the "100 most handsome faces in the world" for consecutive years.
The audience's obsession with muscles comes not only from the temperament of the actors themselves, but also from their fit with the characters and the commercialization of the works.
In this sense, Alan Richson and Jason Momoa have taken a very steady first step.
So these muscular men are famous, how can they maintain their image and continue to be exposed to the next level?
Then I have to say that the second step of the American muscular man's popularity is to set up a crazy character to create a sense of contrast and affinity.
Dwayne Johnson is so famous in the United States because of his unparalleled personality.
In addition to exaggerated expressions and cuteness, Johnson has many qualities that muscular hunks do not have, that is, a sense of contrast and affinity.
Unlike many other Hollywood superstars, who are cold and cold, Johnson is very down-to-earth, never minds playing a clown, and even likes to be embarrassed in public.
When a big man who is close to 2 meters tall is a "comic" in his daily life, the audience will unconsciously like him.
In order to match his character, Hollywood film directors have designed many funny scenes for Johnson in all of Johnson's films.
These episodes continue to feed Johnson's character outside the play.
Back and forth, in everyone's minds, Johnson has become the big guy with affinity.
In this regard, Johnson also paid close attention to the fact that he once had a fan of a little boy, once his younger brother drowned, and he learned to rescue his younger brother in the movie "Doomsday Collapse", and actually saved his brother's life.
Johnson, who learned the news, not only visited the little boy's family in person, but also filmed a public welfare video with them, calling on everyone to learn more about first aid measures.
After this wave of operation, even if the audience is indifferent to Johnson, the popularity of passers-by will basically not be bad.
Every time Johnson has a conflict with others, there are basically the majority of Johnson on the Internet.
This makes Johnson's movies have extraordinary appeal, his films basically make money, and Hollywood investors naturally like and favor him, and complete intertextuality in and out of the play.
You can take a closer look, in fact, Alan Richson and Jason Momoa took the second step, which is the same as Johnson.
In "Detective Jack", Alan Richson has an oversized body, a lot of value for his strength and an unbeatable hormonal atmosphere.
But when there are no action scenes, his temperament is gentle, introverted and calm, and sometimes he even writes the word "honest man" on his face.
Not only that, but in order to strengthen this sense of contrast, in the play, Jack also has a dog.
and his infinite intimacy with his female companion, all of which emphasize this contrasting character of being rough on the outside and gentle and honest on the inside.
The audience watched it, and it was hard not to like it.
Jason Momoa, too.
In real life, Jason Momoa is simply a gentle and sunny boy, which is a huge contrast to his wild appearance.
He usually likes to wear "Death Barbie Powder" and make funny expressions to the camera.
In the movie, Wen Ziren also designed a lot of funny scenes for him that did not match his image.
For so many years, Jason Momoa has always wanted to act in romance films and comedies, but because of his image, these scripts have not been with him.
He also often complains that he is "trapped in a big, bulky body".
When you go out on the street, you can't tell who is protecting whom between him and the bodyguard.
The King of Horses in "Game of Thrones" is so serious and cold-blooded, but the stills of the camera turned, the group photo looked like this.
Walking on the red carpet, all kinds of bewitching poses have to be repeated.
Social media, just tie a double ponytail if you have nothing to do.
Even on formal occasions, he did not forget to tease his brother Superman.
Who can refuse such a Jason Momoa?
And the two hottest muscular hunk big men at the moment also completed their cooperation in "Fast and Furious 10".
In the film, the director designed the image of Jason Momoa like this......
In comparison, Alan Richson, who complained a few words, is much more normal.
Being able to join the "Furious" club and become a member of the "Family Hero" has already shown the recognition of these two big men by the market and the audience.
In the future, they may have to challenge Dwayne Johnson's position.
Originally, as long as these two steps were guaranteed, a successful Hollywood muscular male movie star would basically be completed.
It's just that the height is unbearable, and compared to these two, Johnson has consumed his reputation a little too much in recent years.
On the one hand, the audience has watched this bald tough guy for 20 years, and they are more or less aesthetically fatigued.
And Johnson's characters are almost all homogeneous and funny muscular male images, which also makes him unable to break through on the road to play.
Johnson, on the other hand, is too "prolific", with an average of 3-4 films a year, and the shooting schedule has been scheduled until 2030.
What is not matched by this is the decline in the quality of his work, so far, Johnson's highest-rated movies are still stuck in more than ten years ago.
In the past five years, the highest-rated "Titan Game" is still a reality show.
"Furious 10" scored 6.1 points, "Black Adam" scored 5.6 points, "Jungle Voyage" scored 6.1 points, and "Jumanji" scored 5.9 points......
Johnson fell into the vicious circle of "performing himself", unable to get out of the confinement of the image, he gradually dimmed, which is an inescapable fact.
Perhaps this is also the law of the entertainment industry, when a new person emerges, the old person should give way.
But for these "big guys", how to maintain "freshness" in front of the audience is a constant topic.
Predictably, with the consumption of image and the rise of age, it is an indisputable fact that Johnson has taken a back seat.
So how long can Alan Richson and Jason Momoa be popular?
Let's wait and see!
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miao Miao) #文章首发挑战赛#