In October 2021, this year's iQIYI "Mist Theater" finally opened.
Last year, "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth" two Douban 9-point word-of-mouth explosion dramas have completely launched the brand of "Mist Theater", and also made countless first-line celebrities and powerful well-known actors willing to yield to this short 12-episode network drama and add a word-of-mouth work for themselves.
Among them, the first to broadcast "Octagonal Pavilion Mist", which was originally the most anticipated drama of this season's "Mist Theater".
Duan Yihong, Zu Feng, Hao Lei, Wu Yue, Arya, Da Tao Hong, Huang Xiaolei, Xing Minshan, Wen Zhengrong... This is what a powerful film emperor tv queen, immortal drama bone lineup, even the newcomers who run the dragon set, are in another popular word-of-mouth drama "Shan Hai Qing" played the role of the male number two "Debao", the widely acclaimed Bai Yufan.
The general director is Wang Xiaoshuai, 2 years ago at the Berlin Film Festival, a "Long Day", so that Wang Jingchun and Wing Mei two teachers won the international film emperor and film queen.
I believe that in addition to the golden sign of the Mist Theater, if it were not for the director, a 12-episode web drama would not have been able to put together such a luxurious lineup.
However, the show has been broadcast for more than half of 6 episodes, not only the topic of popularity, far less than "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth", or even less than the last season's "In the Doom", and only 6.3 points on the Douban platform, for a network short drama with word of mouth as the main goal, it can only be said that it is a squib.
But the core character of the plot: the heroine "Xuan Nianmei", how to pick the actor?
What is the heroine's character in the play?
Beautiful, tall, quiet temperament, entangled by small blocking the door, secretly loved by many boys in the class, jealous of female classmates including girlfriends...
At the beginning of this drama, I believe that 100 viewers, 100 will think that the target of the little is her girlfriend,
And her girlfriend before seeing her, but also specially elaborately dressed, and because of jealousy of her, go to class to upload her bad words this kind of plot, with the actor's appearance, is there any convincing?
Recall that in recent years, Zhou Xun's performance of "Ruyi Zhuan" "Girl" was ridiculed by the group,
Zhang Ziyi's performance of "Shangyang Fu" "Girl" was ridiculed by the group,
Zhou Dongyu's performance of "Ancient Dust" "Fairy" was ridiculed by the group,
In today's Chinese film industry, the only three "three gold slam" film queens, once forced to play a role that is completely unsuitable for their current appearance, are still completely unacceptable to the audience, which directly leads to the direct collapse of the word-of-mouth wind evaluation of the entire drama.
As for some film critics who may like these actresses too much, the marketing number is also good, although the post tries its best to save respect, saying that "the audience should not superficially only look at the appearance, do not look at the acting skills" Yunyun, I am sorry, can only provoke disgust, attracting more bad reviews.
——Filming film and television dramas, in the final analysis, is the entertainment service industry, the audience is the food and clothing parents who provide for the super high salaries of the stars, and no one is qualified to educate or "guide" the aesthetics of the vast audience.
Not to mention the heroine of "Octagonal Pavilion Mist", this kind of newcomer who debuted.
Yes, the heroine of each film and television drama does not necessarily have to be a beautiful woman with a super high appearance, but also can be set to be an ordinary person with an ordinary appearance.
But since the drama "Octagonal Pavilion", the heroine's appearance and attractiveness are precisely the key factors that determine the direction of the plot, then the casting failure is unconvincing, of course, directly let the plot logic of the whole drama collapse.
There is also the plot setting of "The Xuan family sisters are all famous and beautiful women" revealed in the lines, compared with the state of the actors, is this a joke?
The heroine "Xuan Nian Mei" sets the appearance exactly the same as her sister-in-law "Xuan Zhen", needless to say.
Aunt "Xuan Min":
Aunt "Xuan Zhu":
Yes, Hao Lei and Wen Zhengrong were indeed recognized beauties when they were young,
But their current maintenance status, among actresses of the same age, to put it mildly, is really not good, just two extremes.
With Hao Lei's appearance in this play, Huang Xiaolei's husband in the play is also unconvincing to chase her with a mind to divorce her...
Check the relevant news, when the drama started in April this year, the heroine of the network was Ouyang Nana.
Then a group of netizens spoke out against it, believing that it was too contrary to Ouyang Nana's acting skills and the names of these old drama bones and powerful actors in the same drama.
Then, in May this year, when the starring list was officially announced, there was no longer Ouyang Nana.com. Is it difficult for the producer to really listen to the opinions of these netizens, afraid that her "famous acting value" will affect the wind evaluation of this drama?
When the film is broadcast, I have to say that Ouyang Nana's "Deer Xiaokui" no matter how the acting skills are ridiculed, she plays this role, which is far more convincing than the heroine of this drama.
This kind of use of old drama bones and strength actors, "stars holding the moon" to make newcomers famous, is indeed commonplace,
For example, the three small actors of the last season of "The Hidden Corner", Rong Zishan, Shi Pengyuan, and Wang Shengdi. Nowadays, my personal career has soared, and I have received very good resources:
Rong Zishan got the double male protagonist of Chen Sicheng Huang Bo's film "Mozart in Outer Space",
Wang Shengdi is already the heroine of the Spring Festival special effects blockbuster "Assassination of a Novelist",
Shi Pengyuan has just participated in an important supporting role in the military blockbuster "Chosin Lake".
However, the premise of making newcomers popular is to first do a good job of the drama, after the fire. Participants, including newcomers to the "resource café" who want to be praised, can rise to the top.
Just kidding,
20 years ago, the newcomer known as the "resource café" was a 15-year-old girl who had never acted before, and parachuted into the female number two of "Golden Powder Family" and the heroine of "Tianlong Babu".
10 years ago, the newcomer known as the "resource café" was a 22-year-old Graduate of North Film who had never acted before, and the "fringed vase" heroine of many first-line big coffee movies.
Regardless of their acting skills, at least their appearance is recognized as a top-level beauty in the entire film and television circle.
And looking at this "Octagonal Pavilion", I have to say that this year I want to praise new people, and even my vision has deteriorated seriously...
The initial impression of the previous episodes is already like this, how should the subsequent word-of-mouth be salvaged?