Before the official broadcast of the drama "Xuanwumen", it had already firmly sat on the throne of the potential dark horse, and after the broadcast, it proved its strength with amazing ratings, recording a high rating of 0.4, easily climbing to the third place in the satellite TV ratings gold list. People are looking forward to whether "Xuanwumen" can continue to retain the hearts of the audience in the next few days, and the ratings trend will be a key test.
However, although the first two episodes of "Xuanwumen" are bland, and the plot and acting skills are a bit mediocre, this is also an indisputable fact. In the play, except for the powerful actors Siqin Gaowa and Zhang Fengyi, the performance of other actors can be described as unsatisfactory.
Wang Zijian adopts a talk show-style performance style, and every time he speaks, he has strong Beijing characteristics, so that the audience can feel a sense of "I am playing the old Beijingers". When playing against Siqin Gaowa, Wang Zijian's accent adds a bit of dramatic tension, so that the audience can feel the subtle relationship between the characters.
On the expansive stage of "Xuanwumen", the dubbing seems to make the voice float in the air, in stark contrast to the deep division of the actors' looks and tones.
Despite this, the acting skills and expressiveness of all the actors are impeccable. However, the audience's acceptance of the 44-year-old Tong Lei is surprisingly low. Tong Lei, an actress who has reached the age of middle-age, closed her eyes to casting, and her image in the hearts of the audience is still stuck in the early TV series such as "Bright Sword", when she was full of aura.
Despite today's unpretentious makeup and simple looks, the clean and pure style combined with the background of the story shows a powerful persuasive power. But in "Xuanwumen", Tong Lei's image is completely different. She still plays a woman with braids, although Tong Lei 19 years ago, her eyes are pure, her skin is delicate, and she is full of girlishness, but now she still plays that role.
She is 44 years old, but her dress is not only carefully selected braids, but also includes some elaborate styling treatments.
This sense of texture exudes a sense of delicacy from the grass, and in the earthy legendary period drama "Xuanwumen", there is a taste of a hair salon. However, Tong Lei's efforts in this drama are not surprising. After all, she is now 44 years old, and she does not rely on modeling and post-production filters, how can she persuade the audience that she is still a strong woman. In the picture, Tong Lei obviously looks very thin, but she has a feeling of a tumor with a big head.
The poor proportion aggravates the deviation of her image, and the sense of age that can't be concealed is also clearly shown in various details. For example, Tong Lei's loose air bangs have obvious forehead lines, as long as she is slightly wrinkled, the traces of forehead lines will completely expose her 40+ age. In the ever-changing entertainment industry, "Xuanwumen" is undoubtedly an eye-catching drama this year.
In the play, the choice of actors is highly controversial, especially the actor who plays the heroine, and her performance has become the focus of heated discussions.
The actress's facial features reveal the traces of age, with fine lines around the eyes, loose skin, and deep nasolabial folds on both sides of the nose bridge. The woodcut-like wrinkles of the laughing horn and the sagging skin around the chin make people sigh at the ruthlessness of time.
Audience reactions to her performance were mixed, with some praising her performance for a unique and mature charm, while more expressed their dissatisfaction through social media, believing that her image did not match her role and was difficult to convince the audience. The barrage has become the main front for the audience to complain, and the doubts and ridicule on the screen show the audience's dissatisfaction and disappointment with this kind of casting.
The actor's title "Female Baby" seems to imply a certain irony of her performance style in the play. In the face of such a controversial situation, how the crew and the actors themselves need to adjust and deal with it has become a problem that needs to be solved urgently. This is not only related to the final success or failure of the drama "Xuanwumen", but may also affect the careers of the actors. Although the audience's feedback was sharp, it also reflected the market's desire and expectation for high-quality performing arts.
In the current TV drama industry, there is a significant contradiction between age setting and the realistic performance of the character. It can often be seen that a senior actress such as Liu Jialing needs to play a role far less than her actual age in the play. In the TV series "The Origin of Love", 50-year-old Liu Jialing portrayed a 30-year-old young Gu Manlu, a role setting that challenges the audience's traditional view of the actor's age and role adaptation.
Although modern makeup techniques and post-processing can "rewind" time to a certain extent and make actors look much younger, this approach often makes the audience feel unnatural and even disagreeable. When Liu Jialing played a young man in front of the camera, although the double ponytail shape and elaborate makeup tried her best to restore the vitality of youth, the delicate skin texture and traces of time are still difficult to completely hide. In addition, Liu Tao in the TV series "Sea of Stars" also faces similar challenges.
Now in her 40s, she tried to play the role of a middle school student by wearing a school outfit, which caused a certain visual incongruity.
Even the most advanced filters and makeup techniques can only blur the boundaries of age in reality to a certain extent, and it is difficult to completely transform a person's sense of age.
Although the audience is attracted to the plot, they are also troubled by this obvious age-inappropriate role-playing, and feel a visual and emotional mismatch. This setting not only tests the actors' acting ability, but also challenges the makeup and VFX teams. And such an age does not match the performance, which often makes people sigh at the ruthlessness of the years while marveling at the technology.
Liu Miao's mature femininity is a world of difference from the freshness and innocence of her girlhood. Her unhurried attitude contrasts sharply with the immaturity of her youth.
In the TV series "Our Days", Li Xiaoran's role is full of layers and reality, and his performance in the play is not only impressive, but also outstanding in his interactions with his peers. Li Xiaoran's role makes the audience feel the precipitation of the years and the growth of the characters.
In addition, another character in the play, a young woman with a double ponytail, has a cunning and mischievous look on her face whenever she fiddles with her bun.
Her performance is not only unacceptable to the audience in terms of appearance, but also often makes the audience feel numb in the way she performs, as if she is watching a performance that is completely different from ordinary people.
In the drama "Father and Son", 45-year-old Kong Lin is also a middle-aged woman wearing braids. You will find that even though her character is a middle-aged woman, the audience will still be able to accept her performance.
However, Kong Lin's role in the plot is more of a delicate woman, her aging eyelids and face full of apple muscles in front of the camera, as well as the two deep nasolabial folds, really make it difficult for the audience to immerse themselves in the plot.
There are countless scenes of famous people in film and television dramas, and the babbling actresses in variety shows also focus on the word "brave". Dong Jie, who is 40+, reproduced An Jie in "Parents Love" in the variety show, she wore a plaid skirt in front of the camera, combed a double ponytail and wore a green head flower.
However, facing the camera, Dong Jie's eyes were dull, her eyes were tired, her nasolabial folds were deep, and her face was shriveled and bony, and there was no collagen that belonged to a young girl. It turns out that it's not that the audience can't accept that the actress appears on the screen with a young and lively image.
It's that the audience really can't get used to 30+, and 40+ actresses can't get rid of the "girl's aesthetics" in and out of the play. Last year, Ye Xuan, the former head of TVB, appeared in the live broadcast, she was almost makeup in front of the camera, wearing a tights, and combing two double ponytails.
It's not that her figure is not superior to women of the same age, but the subtle pregnancy smell she exudes is obviously not suitable for showing the innocence of a girl in front of the camera, she often unconsciously sticks out her tongue and occasionally rolls her eyes, which is particularly vivid.
During the live broadcast, the leaves occasionally show some peculiar expressions and demeanors, like a big head being blown by the wind, shaking his head, and his words are elusive and teasing, and these body languages eventually form a childish taste.
But this kind of naivety is particularly incongruous in the maturity and fullness of her face and the changes in the curves of her figure. In conclusion, some common phenomena in the entertainment industry are actually caused by a variety of factors.
The market favors young actors, and the space for Mesozoic actors to choose roles after becoming famous is getting smaller and smaller, which is not of high quality for scripts to create mature female characters, and even many actresses themselves find it difficult to accept their age and image.