fell from a 10 billion actress to a box office poison because Zhou Dongyu stepped on the three minefields of the entertainment industry

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2024-05-27 23:14Posted in Anhui film creators

Zhou Dongyu and Fan Wei are husband and wife, and they are in the new film "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" directed by Zhang Guoli.

The difference of 30 years is to play husband and wife! Do you dare to think? Anyway, I couldn't suppress the curiosity in my heart and went to the cinema to watch the original film.

How to say the mood after reading it, to borrow the words of netizens, is: extremely unwell, very disgusting, and want to call the police immediately.

01. Zhou Dongyu is not working, the new film is full of highlights, and the box office is on the street

In terms of highlights, Zhou Dongyu's new film "Morning Clouds and Dusk Rain" is definitely full of gimmicks.

The difference of 30 years between the old husband and the young wife is surprising, not to mention that the story is also based on reality, and the male and female protagonists are also the identities of felons and prisoners.

In addition, the lines in the trailer "If you have a child, you won't be able to run away" and "I want a bride price of 184,400".

It is also intended to show that this is a couple full of entanglements of interests.

In addition, in the poster, Fan Wei pushed Zhou Dongyu in a wheelchair with a smile in his eyes.

The accumulation of these highlights, it is difficult not to make the audience curious about what happened to this couple who can't have children and can't die.

In terms of word-of-mouth, after the release of this film, although it was accused of chaotic logic and the setting of old and young love was a bit spicy, Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu's acting skills still received unanimous praise.

Especially Zhou Dongyu, in the film, portrayed a vegetative person with brain damage and hemiplegia.

After watching it, many viewers exclaimed that she didn't look like she was acting.

Even Zhang Guoli, the director of this film, also came forward to say that Zhou Dongyu used a self-destructive performance to create a rare vegetative image on the big screen.

The teacher of Chinese opera also praised in the program, and Zhou Dongyu contributed a "leap performance" in the new film, performing the layering of the characters.

If you want to have a topic, you have to have acting skills, and it stands to reason that the box office of "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" should be okay.

But what is very strange is that the box office of the film only broke 18 million in 10 days after its release, which is really pitiful compared with those movies that cost hundreds of millions at every turn.

This can't help but make people curious, as the "leader" among the post-90s actresses, why can't Zhou Dongyu bear the box office?

02. Zhou Dongyu has made four films in a row, from a 10 billion movie queen, to a box office poison

Zhou Dongyu's achievements in the film and television industry are unique among the new generation of Xiaohua.

First of all, her acting skills are visible to the naked eye, which means that the role is grasped.

Jingqiu in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", the hair salon girl in "Heart Flower Road", as well as An Sheng in "July and Ansheng", and Chen Nian in "Young You".

These characters are three-dimensional and vivid, and they are impressive.

Secondly, her box office results are also very good.

acted in a movie for the first time, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" with a box office of 144 million, refreshing the box office record of domestic literary films at that time.

Since then, the box office of the movies starring her has also been higher than the other, "You at the Same Table" 456 million, "Later Us" 1.36 billion, and "Young You" 1.558 billion.

With such a cumulative, she successfully became the first post-90s actress with a box office of more than 10 billion.

In addition, she has received many honors.

Looking at the entire history of Chinese film, only three actresses have won three gold Grand Slams, and Zhou Dongyu is one of them.

Before her, Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi won this honor at the age of 35 and 34 respectively, but Zhou Dongyu was only 28 years old when he won the Grand Slam.

And at the age of 29, she served as a judge in the main competition unit of the Shanghai Film Festival.

It can be seen that her status and influence in the industry are still very good.

Sadly, these achievements are a thing of the past.

In fact, long before "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", Zhou Dongyu's box office appeal frequently aroused questions from the audience.

The successive failures of "Burning Winter", "Parrot Killing" and "Hot Search" are the best proof.

The total box office of these three films combined is about the same as "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".

In other words, counting "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", in the past year or so, the four films starring Zhou Dongyu have all been pounced.

No wonder, "Solid as a Rock" directed by Zhang Yimou almost completely ignored Zhou Dongyu as a "fourth" when doing pre-publicity.

So, what is the reason why the "tens of billions of actresses" who existed like box office elixir in the past have become "box office poison"?

03. Zhou Dongyu became a box office poison because she stepped on the three minefields of the entertainment industry

First of all, the vision of choosing the script is not good.

Actors must have a keen perception of the script, so that they can choose the role that suits them according to their own conditions, but Zhou Dongyu's ability in this regard is obviously not good.

Therefore, the script she chooses will frequently step on thunder.

Take the upcoming "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" as an example, the topicality of the story is really enough, but the logic is very confusing, especially in the second half, the stories seen from different angles are simply different.

From the perspective of the male protagonist, this is an extremely warm love story, but from the perspective of the female protagonist, it completely becomes a horror story.

In short, the feeling of the male and female protagonists is right, but this pair of male and female protagonists who are 30 years old are mixed together, it will make people feel extremely uncomfortable, very disgusting, and even want to call the police immediately to rescue them.

And this kind of situation, which is rich in topics and full of emotions, but very logical and confusing, often appears in Zhou Dongyu's works.

In addition to the nondescript love between old and young in "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", the inexplicable love triangle in "Burning Winter", the sudden sense of justice in "Hot Search", and the virtual and real love in "Parrot Killing".

These stories that don't follow the routine, as well as the brain circuits of the protagonists who are different from ordinary people, will make people see in the clouds and don't know what the director wants to express.

And Zhou Dongyu himself seems to be extremely obsessed with this kind of script, which emphasizes the state of the characters and ignores the logic of the story, and always plays some characters who "the whole world doesn't understand me".

If she doesn't improve her vision for selecting scripts and continues to linger on the emotional characters she is obsessed with, it is estimated that her future works will continue to overturn.

Secondly, Zhou Dongyu is constantly repeating himself.

Constantly repeating oneself is also one of the minefields in the entertainment industry, and it is difficult to make progress by resting on one's laurels.

What's more, Zhou Dongyu's own appearance is also limited, so although she has acting talent, due to her personal appearance characteristics, her acting path is still very narrow.

Looking back at the representative works that made her famous, most of them are literary films, and most of the roles she plays in her works are stubborn and a little unwilling to admit defeat.

From the initial Jingqiu, to the later An Sheng and Chen Nian, this is the case.

But once she gets out of this kind of work and this kind of character, her acting skills are like being sealed.

This is particularly evident in her two TV series "Sparrow" and "Eternal Jue Chen".

Zhou Dongyu is small and looks very small, she wears the costumes of the Republic of China period in "Sparrow", like a child stealing the clothes of an adult, how awkward it looks.

Moreover, her face is full of immaturity, and she doesn't seem to have the slightest scheming and city government that an undercover agent should have.

In "Eternal Juechen", her identity is the peerless ancient true god, but her appearance does not have the charm of a classical beauty.

The iconic small eyes, small mouth and small body, coupled with inappropriate bangs and clothes, are clearly a fairy maid who is like a fake.

No wonder some people say that she really single-handedly changed the public's traditional aesthetics of fairies.

What's even more unacceptable is that Zhou Dongyu's performance in this play is also very perfunctory, not only does he use the original lines, but even the performance is visible to the naked eye.

Especially in the crying scene, she always has her facial features flying around and her expression is hideous, which is easy to make people play.

Compared with the infectious crying scene in her "Young You", it is simply a difference between cloud and mud.

This also leads to the third reason for the frequent failures of Zhou Dongyu's works: the attitude is not good, which leads to the audience's popularity.

A literary film can sprint for awards, so it is performed very seriously, and a commercial drama does not add much to status, so it takes a perfunctory salary.

This kind of differential treatment is a taboo for actors, but Zhou Dongyu doesn't seem to care.

Moreover, in addition to the attitude of the two of them when acting, Zhou Dongyu's attitude towards people and things is also different from time to time.

When receiving the award on the same stage with Ma Sichun, the speaker may have no intention, but it will always make people think about it, and it will connote the other party's powerful resources.

When she starred in "Young You", she also forced people in the crew to shave their heads with her, including the bride-to-be who was about to get married.

Even if he was presenting the award on the same stage as his predecessor Ge You, Zhou Dongyu's demeanor and tone had no respect at all.

All of this has greatly damaged her popularity as passers-by.

The audience is the actor's food and clothing, and the audience doesn't like her anymore, how can the box office and ratings of the work be high?

It's good to make up for the problem of ability, but if there is a problem with attitude, it is difficult to reverse.

After all, it's hard to wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.

I hope that Zhou Dongyu can realize her problems and make changes, only in this way can she become more and more stable and go further and further in the entertainment industry. (Written by: Ye Shi)

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