The 38-year-old Yang Mi can be said to be "sharp" recently, and since the launch of "Harbin 1944", she has been on more than a dozen hot searches in just a few days, which undoubtedly confirms her strength as a "top 85 flowers in domestic entertainment".
But behind the traffic, there is a lot of controversy, the reason is very simple, Yang Mi's performance in "Harbin 1944" is really unconvincing.
Zhang Li, the director of "Harbin 1944", is a person who has made high-scoring dramas such as "Ming Dynasty 1566" and "The Right Way in the World is the Vicissitudes of Life", and the actor is the powerful actor Qin Hao.
It can also be seen from Yang Mi's willingness to play the second heroine that the weight of the drama "Harbin 1944" is also a drama that Yang Mi has high hopes for.
As early as last year, Yang Mi said that she hoped to make this drama well, and she had always said that she hoped to be a good actor, but she was really too content with the status quo, so this time she hoped to prove that she could be a good actor through this drama.
For this reason, Yang Mi also invited an acting teacher to practice her lines hard at home, because in "Harbin 1944", she used the original voice.
The actor's use of the original voice in the play is a plus point, but it has become a "minus point" here in Yang Mi. Many netizens said that Yang Mi's original voice was vague, and he didn't know what he was talking about without reading the subtitles, and he didn't have momentum when he said ruthlessly, so it was better to use dubbing.
As for Yang Mi's acting skills, not to mention, Yang Mi's "Guan Xue" is actually a very brilliant role, a "femme fatale", if she plays well, she can get out of the circle like Wang Ou in "The Pretender", but Yang Mi smashed it.
The first is that his acting skills are not up to par, Yang Mi has been in the crew since he was a child, although he is less than 40 years old, he can definitely be called a "senior" in domestic entertainment, and there are also masterpieces such as "Palace", "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" and "Three Lives and Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms".
But in "Harbin 1944", Yang Mi's acting skills seem to be too violent, and almost all kinds of expressions are interpreted with "hideous faces", and the flying facial features prove one thing, that is, Yang Mi's acting skills are too "superficial".
In fact, Yang Mi herself knew this, so she hired an acting teacher, but she didn't expect it to be of little use. Director Li Shaohong once commented on Yang Mi's acting skills, she said that Yang Mi's performance is too "programmed", laughing is hahaha, crying is wow, wow, wow, acting skills are just brains.
Yang Mi cried that he knew where the problem was, but it was difficult to change.
The second is "Beauty Twilight", "Guan Xue" played by Yang Mi is a femme fatale, beauty is naturally indispensable, and this character is really careful in makeup, but unfortunately the direction is a bit off.
First of all, the 38-year-old Yang Mi is not in a good state in the play, in the case of general light, the nasolabial folds on the face, the corners of the mouth are obvious, the tiredness on the face is full, and the whole face is sagging, which looks very old.
The expression is even more obvious when she makes a big face, the wrinkles on her face betray her real age, and her mouth is pursed, and her sunken eye sockets make her look even older.
Moreover, Yang Mi's posture in the play is also a big problem. She should play a "big heroine" who walks with the wind and is resolute, but Yang Mi leans forward and hunched over her neck in the play, and her walking posture is even less imposing.
Either that, it's over-exerting movements and expressions.
Looking at the makeup again, Yang Mi's big wavy curly hair and various gorgeous clothes were evaluated as a little less capable, not so much a "female officer" as a "courtesan".
It can be seen from this that Yang Mi really has a lot of problems in "Harbin 1944", but for Yang Mi today, this is no longer a problem of a drama, but a "problem" of her career.
Yang Mi is one of the top 85 flowers in domestic entertainment, among the domestic entertainment traffic actresses, her status belongs to the top, and she has many masterpieces in her early years, but she has entered middle age, and "transformation" has become her biggest problem.
Now Yang Mi has no advantage in acting in ancient puppet dramas or modern idol dramas, as evidenced by the previous "The Twenty-Eight Law of Love" and "Mrs. Huzhu".
In fact, not only Yang Mi, but also middle-aged actresses such as Zhao Liying, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan, and other middle-aged actresses who belong to the same "85 Flowers" as Yang Mi are actively seeking the road of "transformation".
For example, Tang Yan turned the tables with "Flowers", Zhao Liying transformed one step earlier, filming "The Wind Blows in the Summer" and "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", and now she has entered the film industry, filming "Article 20" and "Sauce Garden Lane" in the future.
On this year's Weibo night, Yang Mi no longer sat in the C position, but sat with Zhang Xiaofei. The seats on such a major occasion as internal entertainment can best reflect the coffee seat.
For Yang Mi, "Sauce Garden Lane" may be her biggest opportunity, but judging from her performance in "Harbin 1944", it seems that there is little hope.