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The first hit drama in 2024 is "A City in the City" launched by CCTV, and since the TV series was launched, the financial theme has become popular again.
The audience's expectations for this drama are benchmarked against "Flowers" and "Wind Chaser", urban themes, realistic plots, and the popularity of "City in the City" is completely in the audience's expectations.
With the update of the series, "City in the City" has indeed launched a lot of highlights to retain the audience. The phenomenon of corruption in the financial industry that breaks through the scale, the unspoken rules of the industry under the undercurrent, and even the process of some protagonists falling step by step and moving towards corruption have all become the eye-catching highlights of "City in the City".
But it's a pity that "City in the City" gathered the most anticipated cast of the audience and performed the most exciting financial story, but the TV series has many hard injuries in the casting that the audience can't accept.
Actor Bai Yufan, with young acting skills, can't carry the banner of the protagonist, how much the audience is interested in He Wei's performance, how disgusted they are with Bai Yufan's portrayal. As the big male protagonist of the whole drama, Tao Wuji played by Bai Yufan has been completely reduced to the male protagonist of the camera, with no male protagonist charm and no sense of protagonist's existence.
In addition to this, actor Lonnie is also the failure of "City in the City".
After the launch of "Hurricane", Gao Qilan played by Lonnie became a big hit, and her long hair and gold-rimmed glasses made her feel like a royal sister.
In "A City in the City", Lonnie once again reproduced Gao Qilan's style, and the audience felt fresh at first, and sighed from time to time that the explosion of "Hurricane" gave the treasure actor a bright future.
But not long after "City within a City" was launched, Lonnie's hard injuries were exposed.
Her facial features are hard and bruised a lot, the upper court is too long, the lower court is too short, the presence of teeth is too strong, and the bone sense of the face also leads to the face shape is not smooth enough, when she creates some female characters in a low-key manner, she can still rely on her aura to attract attention, but once she plays a role that attracts attention by beauty, it will be unconvincing in an instant.
In the plot, when Lonnie plays Zhou Lin, she will always magnify all kinds of charming small actions infinitely, and she can't wait to throw her hair into the sky when she appears, and the expression of "the old lady is beautiful is dead" on her face is so embarrassing that people pick their toes on the ground.
In the scene where Su Jianren confessed, Lonnie made a lot of outrageous small movements, pinching her chin, holding her elbows, and touching her slender arms with her fingertips from time to time.
Facing the comedic character Su Jianren played by Feng Jiayi, Lonnie didn't hold it, let alone partner with Yu Hewei.
In the plot, Zhou Lin is a beauty trick used by Xie Zhiyuan to catch Zhao Hui for the bait, Zhao Hui in the early stage has been restraining himself, no matter what kind of offensive Zhou Lin has, he looks like an iron wall.
But Bai Yueguang is Bai Yueguang, Zhou Lin and his deceased wife look too similar, Zhao Hui is really hard to resist. By the 12th episode, the relationship between the two has almost been broken, and the ambiguous atmosphere almost shows the feelings that are difficult for adults to declare.
This scene can be said to be the key scene for Zhao Hui to lower his bottom line again.
But Yu Hewei and Long Ni in this scene are completely in two states.
Zhou Lin, played by Lonnie, walked in the rain, looking frustrated and lonely, which made Zhao Hui feel distressed, he followed behind, approached silently, and then gave half of the umbrella to Zhou Lin.
In these few seconds of scenes, Yu Hewei had no lines, but he performed a hesitation that wanted to get close but didn't dare to get closer, and actor Lonnie suddenly rolled her eyes and looked up obliquely at the moment when the black umbrella appeared.
At this moment, the audience is about to cry for the relationship between the two, but the camera is on Lonnie's face, but she looks uncomfortable with her contact lenses, and she can change the background music with her eyes to a horror movie.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Lin began to laugh at herself, and Zhao Hui comforted Zhou Lin: When the child grows up, the child will definitely understand Zhou Lin's hard work. As she spoke, Zhou Lin cried aggrievedly.
At this second, Yu Hewei's tone was full of the gentleness of a man's restraint, his voice was very low, but his expression was painless in order to keep his distance, but the audience could see the emotion of the character from Yu Hewei's eyes.
But actor Lonnie couldn't catch Yu Hewei's play at all, her crying action was very stiff, her trembling shoulders were so large that it was comparable to the vibration of a mobile phone, her head was lowered, she was grinning, and the sudden crying scene had no emotional foreshadowing and rendering, and the main theme was a step-by-step "until I cried".
Not only that, but this scene also requires Lonnie to cry while outputting the lines, "Do you know what I'm most sad about?", as soon as this line came out, the audience's ears were pricked up, and then Lonnie broke the work, her lines were completely unclear, and the sticky saliva sound made people frown, and the inexplicable rhythm of speech made this line, which was supposed to show the weak side of women, did not achieve the desired effect.
Fortunately, Yu Hewei has his own rhythm. He gritted his teeth, with tears in his eyes, his eyes drifted to Lonnie from the side, a rough breath was distressed, unbearable, he was silent with an umbrella, but with delicate eyes, he performed a deafening sense of love, and the fortress that had been established before had completely collapsed.
At this moment, the emotion of Yu Hewei's performance made it gradually clear to the audience that the character Zhao Hui was destined to become corrupt and destined to be hooked because of Zhou Lin's entry into the game.
But it is also this scene that proves that actor Lonnie really has limited acting skills and lacks shaping power. Many netizens couldn't help but say "Zhao Xing is a good Su" and "Gao Qilan can't catch Uncle Huang's play" when they saw this scene.
At present, Zhou Lin played by Lonnie is a very key role in the play, she has more rivalry with Yu Hewei, and the character has a strong sense of existence, but every time she plays against a powerful actor, she has completely removed the actor Lonnie's lack of acting expressiveness.
It can only be said that Gao Qilan in "Hurricane" really gave actor Lonnie a very thick filter. In "A City in a City", Lonnie has also fallen to the point where she can't hide her strength. Netizens commented spicily, "Lonnie really eats the benefits of the character, how can her acting skills be like this", and some netizens complained that "the biggest failure is to find Lonnie, her acting skills are embarrassing, her voice is embarrassing, and she is tired of Mr. He Wei".
In fact, Fan Longni's acting skills are maintained at a passing level without playing, and the two roles of Zhou Lin and Zhao Hui can create a wave of CP, but now it seems that it is all supported by Yu Hewei alone.
It can only be said that Lonnie was scolded miserably in "City within a City", and she was not wronged.
Finally, what do you think of the show "City within a City", and what do you think of Lonnie's performance?