Playing crossover is nothing new in the entertainment industry, for example, an actor crosses over to become a host, an actor crosses over to become a singer, a director, a producer, etc., and it is not a new thing for a singer to be an actor and a director.
For example, Wu Qilong changed from a singer to an actor, and he was very successful. He starred in classic film and television works such as "Xiao Shiyi Lang", "Little Girl Breaking the Sky", "Six-Fingered Piano Demon", etc., which have become a good memory in the hearts of countless audiences.
However, playing crossover is not an easy task. Some succeed and some fail.
For example, actor Tong Liya is very successful, born as an actor, because of her outstanding temperament and beauty, she will become the host of the Spring Festival Gala in 2020. Playing crossover, there should be no one more powerful than Tong Liya.
Tong Liya is a precedent. After Tong Liya, the entertainment industry can be said to be a cross-border host of Daxing actors, and they are proud of it. Liu Tao hosted the National Day Gala across the border, and Wang Kai presided over the Spring Festival Gala of the Hundred Flowers Spring Festival Literary and Art Federation.
After relying on film and television works such as "The Legend of the White Snake", "Dragon Babu", and "Woman Flower" to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry, he devoted himself to the music industry.
Liu Tao found Xiao Ke, a famous Chinese musician and music godfather, who is also the songwriter of "Because of Love", and tailored the album "The Best Time" for himself, and the song "Brave Love" in the album won the Golden Melody Award at the 17th Global Chinese Chart.
Some people succeed, others fail. Obviously, Wang Xinjun belongs to the latter.
After graduating from Beijing Film Academy, Wang Xinjun participated in the movie "Yellow River Love" starring Ning Ning in 1999, in which he played the role of a sunspot who put aside personal grievances and defended national righteousness.
Although the movie "Yellow River Love" was a great success, winning five awards including Best Actress and Best Stunt in a Chinese Film in 1999, it was all missed by Wang Xinjun.
This movie called "Yellow River Love", when it was released at that time, all the focus was on the male protagonist Paul Kessey and the female protagonist Tranquility.
In 1996, the two got married because of the filming of the movie "Yellow River Valley", and in 1997, they fell in love for less than a year, and they quickly got married. In that relatively conservative era, the advanced behavior of the two can be described as a sensation.
In 1999, when filming "Yellow River Love", the child of the two was also born. Because the child is too young, Tranquility and Paul Kessey can only bring the child into the crew.
This also became the most popular gossip news at that time. Therefore, the young and vigorous Wang Xinjun, although he is dozens of times stronger than today's Xiao Xianrou in this movie, is still overshadowed by Paul Kesai and the Tranquility family.
And since "Yellow River Love", Wang Xinjun no longer has any works and roles to take. has been debuting for 24 years and has participated in more than 80 films, which can be regarded as the only role of Wang Xinjun that impresses the audience.
For more than 20 years, most of the time, Wang Xinjun has played some painless small roles in the play as a participant, and he has never made any splashes, nor has he had any masterpieces.
It can be said that Wang Xinjun's acting career is not smooth.
In fact, Commander Wang Xin is very decent and very suitable for acting in a drama. However, due to bad luck, many important roles were missed.
There is also the fact that Wang Xinjun is too one-dimensional in the process of creating the character, giving people an unnatural and unsmooth feeling. This also makes his performance mode seem a bit monolithic.
On the left is the sunspot in "Yellow River Love", and on the right is the black skin in "Beautiful Flowers in Bloom".
Wang Xinjun's performance is too single.
This is a still of Wang Xinjun playing the black skin in the TV series "Beautiful Flowers Blooming" starring Xu Qing. Compare his role as a sunspot in the movie "Yellow River Love" ten years ago.
Whether it is the eyes or expressions, they are exactly the same, there is no change at all, only the clothes and the background have changed.
This is much inferior to his wife Qin Hailu.
Qin Hailu's performance is very flexible and changeable, it is okay for her to be ridiculous, dignified and gentle, you can let her play the prostitute of the Qinglou, let her play the beauty of everyone.
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Throughout Qin Hailu's acting career, there are more than 120 works, and there are more than 100 classic roles alone.
It can be said that every work is a classic. In "Durian Piao", Ah Yan, who was forbearant and independent, made Qin Hailu reach the peak of her debut and won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.
In addition to movies, in terms of TV series, Qin Hailu's results are also far ahead of Wang Xinjun.
Qin Hailu starred in TV series such as "Red Sorghum", "White Deer Plain", "Old Tavern", "Louwailou", etc., which made her win the three grand slams of mainland TV dramas, and the Feitian Award, Golden Eagle Award, and Magnolia Award were won by Qin Hailu.
For Wang Xinjun, Qin Hailu is the only work he can get his hands on.
Seeing that Qin Hailu's career is getting better and better, but his career has no business. So, Wang Xinjun found a group of comedians, and then brought his wife Qin Hailu to direct an anti-Japanese light comedy "Dog Leftovers Run".
As a result, the launch of "Dog Leftovers Run" is a king bomb.
The actors in the play are very powerful, Gou Yu (played by Jiang Long) is an orphan who was abandoned by his family as soon as he was born, and his godfather Wang Daju (played by Li Mengnan) picked up Gou Yu home, adopted him, and sent him to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts.
Everything in the story starts with the return of the dog Shaolin Temple. Gou Yu returned from his studies, all because of the promise of his godfather Wang Daju that year, if Gou Yu could build three large tile houses, he would marry his flower-like Xing'er (Wang He) to Gou Yu.
The story revolves around the dog saving money to build a house and marry Xing'er. Wang Xinjun filmed like this, the main line of the story was there, and the whole story was established.
I have to say that Wang Xinjun still has two brushes.
Xing'er (played by Wang He) is the white moonlight of Gou Yu (played by Jiang Long), and Wang He, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, interprets this role very vividly.
Wang He was once photographed by Zhang Yimou and participated in the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games, and contributed a wonderful minute in the performance of "Folding Willows" in the memorial moment.
And Wang Xinjun's Xing'er (Wang He) is also very detached from the mundane taste, and it is really white moonlight. Especially in the play, the silhouette of Apricot under a few lamps reveals a kind of haze in the softness, and while conveying beauty, it seems to indicate the tragedy of Apricot's life that is both fake and true.
Of course, the good-looking nature of this drama is inseparable from Wang Xinjun's daughter-in-law Qin Hailu. Qin Hailu contributed textbook acting skills in the play. Gou Yu replaced Wang Mao to be a soldier, and the crying scene of Godmother (played by Qin Hailu) broke the hearts of many audiences.
On the one hand, he couldn't bear his own son and let a fool Wang Mao become a soldier. On the other hand, he is reluctant to let his adopted son and dog be left to be a soldier, after all, the artillery fire is ruthless and the bullets are not long-sighted.
Although the dog is an adopted son, he was also pulled by his godmother (Qin Hailu) with a handful of shit and urine, and the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, so he is reluctant to let anyone die.
In desperation, Qin Hailu had no choice but to give the relics left by his mother, a bracelet, to the dog, hoping to bless him with a safe return.
And the performance of another scene directly made Qin Hailu a god.
When Yang San (played by Jiang Yi) asked his adoptive mother Xiao Cuiniang (played by Zhou Xianxin) to propose marriage to himself and Xing'er, Qin Hailu's words were enjoyable, articulate and logical, so that Xiao Cuiniang had no power to fight back.
The audience was addicted and happy.
In addition to Qin Hailu, the performances of many actors in the play are also very eye-catching. For example, the comedian Jiang Long plays the male number one dog in the play. There is a scene from after returning from Shaolin learning, after learning that his rival Yang San (played by Jiang Yi) wants to let his stupid brother Wang Mao become a soldier, he asks Yang San to settle accounts.
A second ago, I saw Yang San angry, and his eyes were full of hatred: there was the hatred of bullying his younger brother, and the hatred of competing for his girlfriend. In the next second, after teaching Yang San a lesson, he was very happy, and his expression immediately switched to a smug look.
It can be said that Jiang Long's performance is too exciting, his expressions can be switched freely, and he can be literate and martial. It is much better than the facial paralysis traffic of many dramas on the screen with only one expression.
Another example is Ma Peizhong played by the old drama bone You Yongzhi, the homonym "horse breeding" makes the audience smile, showing the humor of director Wang Xinjun.
And You Yongzhi also portrayed a traitor county magistrate who is left and right and mercenary. It is very different from the image of "Little Xia's Father" in "Ordinary World".
Let the audience get hooked!
Liu Peiqi, a veteran artist who has portrayed countless classic roles in TV series such as "Yang Shanzhou", "White Deer Plain", and "Mansion Gate", played the role of "Braided Master" in "Dog Leftovers Run".
Although there are not many scenes, the image of a kind and nationally righteous grandfather jumps on the paper, which is admirable.
However, despite the fact that so many old artists have joined, this work directed by Wang Xinjun still inevitably makes the audience criticize.
For example, is it appropriate to add elements of comedy to anti-Japanese dramas? Will such a period of national hatred be displayed in the form of comedy?
Another example is the role of Xing'er played by Wang He.
Although it is Bai Yueguang, and although it is very beautiful, the TV series has been played for five episodes, and Xing'er actually said two sentences.
has a high-minded and cold style, which really doesn't look like a girl from a rural family.
This made the audience feel that director Wang Xinjun was playing tricks, and many viewers said that at first they thought Xing'er was playing a mute.
And Xing'er's final ending also made the audience suspect that the director deliberately wrote Xing'er to death in order to keep the heroine and the male protagonist together.
In the TV series "Dog Left". Xing'er's ending was that she was violated by Yang San and the Japanese, and then she couldn't bear the humiliation and ended her life with death.
The audience felt that Director Wang Xinjun's arrangement of this scene was a bit blunt, and Xing'er didn't need to die.
Even, some viewers felt that the director deliberately let Xing'er go offline in advance for the so-called protagonist halo, that is, to let the heroine Song Yutao played by Shi Ce and the male protagonist Gou played by Jiang Long stay together. After all, if Xing'er is not offline, Song Yutao and Jiang Yulong can't be together.
This damn protagonist aura!
It seems that Wang Xinjun's road to directing has a long way to go!