The update speed of "Armageddon" is the biggest slot point of this drama now.
As a TV series that shows the Liberation War in a panoramic way, it is originally displayed in a way that combines strategic discussion and tactical attack in terms of rhythm, which belongs to the slow-heat type, but it chooses turtle speed playback, according to the current update speed, it is easy to lose a large number of viewers.
At the beginning of the broadcast, in addition to the audience has long been familiar with the special actors, such as Tang Guoqiang as a great man, Liu Jin as Premier Zhou, Wang Wufu as Zhu Laozong, Guo Lianwen as Liu Shaoqi.
The biggest breakthrough should be that a lot of powerful old drama bones have been added, such as Wang Jinsong as Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Tao as Song Meiling and Yu Hewei as Lin Biao.
Wang Jinsong should be the biggest highlight, and Liu Tao and Yu Hewei are obviously not suitable for the characters in the play.
Even if their acting skills are indeed good, it is very difficult to grasp such a character who really exists in history and is not far away from us.
On the one hand, the proximity of looks and temperament is the key, but unfortunately, Liu Tao and Yu Hewei both lack a certain temperament.
To be honest, at the beginning, I didn't have much hope for Wang Jinsong playing Chiang Kai-shek, after all, from the appearance, I denied the possibility of Wang Jinsong playing Chiang Kai-shek.
But Ghosh's ability to boldly use Wang Jinsong, a non-special actor, shows that Wang Jinsong does have potential worth digging into.
The first time I met Wang Jinsong was the eunuch Yang Jinshui, who he played in "Daming Dynasty 1566", and the most impressive was Tang Qianming, who he played in "Qia Classmate Boy", and Lin Yaodong, who played in "Icebreaker Action".
These two negative characters always give people a chilling feeling, and this feeling also continues well to Chiang Kai-shek in "Armageddon".
Chiang Kai-shek, played by Wang Jinsong, even if the image does not match, he has a powerful aura, which is expressed in the grasp of emotions, which belongs to the introverted performance method.
That is, he can use the smallest voice, say the most hateful words, and then produce a powerful deterrent.
Previously, Chen Daoming played Chiang Kai-shek in "1942" and Zhang Guoli played Chiang Kai-shek in "The Great Undertaking of Building the People's Republic". These two films did not use special actors, in fact, they also went to the fame of Chen Daoming and Zhang Guoguo, and the appearance was not like acting skills that could be compensated, but the performances of Chen Daoming and Zhang Guoguo were too tight.
The best candidate to play Chiang Kai-shek, in fact, there are two, one is Sun Feihu, one is Ma Xiaowei, of course, now you can also add a Wang Jinsong.
However, Wang Jinsong was almost meaningless compared to Sun Feihu and Ma Xiaowei.
Sun Feihu is recognized as the best person to play Chiang Kai-shek, in 1981, Sun Feihu was invited by the director of the North Film Studio, Cheng Yin, to participate in the movie "Xi'an Incident" and play Chiang Kai-shek. With this film, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2nd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.
In 1990, Sun Feihu won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 10th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema and the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 13th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films for his role as Chiang Kai-shek in the movie "The Founding Ceremony".
Being able to win so many awards for one role is enough to show that Chiang Kai-shek, played by Sun Feihu, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Unfortunately, Sun Feihu died of illness in 2014. At this time, Ma Xiaowei became the best person to play Chiang Kai-shek, and he was also the most active actor on the screen in recent years.
Ma Xiaowei gave Chiang Kai-shek a different character, that is, the role is no longer on top, so that the audience can re-examine this historical figure from a heads-up perspective.
Now, Wang Jinsong stands out with "Armageddon", I guess, there may be the same type of characters looking for him later, but Wang Jinsong will most likely not blindly play, from his previous works can be seen that he likes to challenge and does not like to repeat.
But I have to say that Wang Jinsong is the most similar to Chiang Kai-shek that I have seen among the powerful actors. Although it is a little worse than Sun Feihu and Ma Xiaowei, it is much higher than Chen Daoming and Zhang Guoli.
Finally, I would like to say that the "Armageddon" update is faster, don't always hang the audience like this!