In the not long-concluded "Sweeping Black Storm" and "Children of the Qiao Family", there are two actresses with special fates: Mao Xiaotong and Jiang Shuying - they and Tong Yao are called "Three Beauty" because of the popularity of "Thirty Only".
At that time, there was a saying that Tong Yao was the role of Gu Jia, who was missing Tong Liya. Unexpectedly, Tong Yao seized the opportunity, and after "Dajiang Dahe" was widely praised for playing Song Yunping, she once again entered the ranks of first-line actresses with the role of "Gu Jia". Not to mention that the career has gone up the ladder, it has completely stolen the limelight of the "female number one".
You must know that "Female No. 1" is Wang Manni, played by Jiang Shuying! This can be seen from the position on the poster of the play, and in the red background poster where "Three Beauty" stands side by side, Wang Manni is the C position.
In "Thirty and Standing", Wang Manni is a standard urban woman, with ideals but also vanity, not willing to be mediocre and do not want to work hard, and "Sea King" to talk about love, there are still some calculations in the bottom. It is reasonable to say that this "exquisite and poor" Wang Manni, playing well, should be able to resonate with many people.
However, in the end, it was "Gu Jia" who caught fire - Tong Yao became the "Magnolia" in one fell swoop with this role modeling, and "Wang Manni" became a foil together with Jiang Shuying.
In fact, Jiang Shuying is almost a female star with no slots. Outstanding looks, low-key behavior, never hype, she is most complained about is the acting skills, as an actor, this is precisely the most fatal.
Since Jiang Shuying's debut, every opportunity has been very good, but every time it is a drama fire, other actors are on fire, she has no fire. In 2014, "One Servant and Two Lords" partners Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni, the drama played up to 2 billion, and also won the Huading Award, she did not fire; later, starred with Jin Dong in "Mr. Love", she did not have fire; Zhong Hanliang, Yang Yang, Li Yifeng and other male stars with very good fan-sucking ability have played with her, none of them have brought her up; in the noonday sunshine of "Qing ping le" to play a generation of wise and stoic generation of sages Cao Danshu, at first praised, but then was spit on acting skills too embarrassing, always expressionless, Can't play the inner waves of Empress Cao.
So there is a saying that she is an actress who is "not popular", and she herself posted self-deprecation after the broadcast of "Qing Ping Le".
Finally, "Sweeping The Black Storm" came.
On the theme, the drama can be comparable to "The Name of the People"; on the team, Sun Honglei, Liu Yijun, Liu Zhibing, Wang Zhifei, which one is taken out is the male number one who can stand alone. As soon as the drama was broadcast, it dominated the throne of ratings, and the degree of discussion remained high.
In such a drama, even the unknown actors are easy to be brought up. Su Ke, who played Dajiang, as a long-unknown classmate of Sun Honglei at the Central Academy of Drama, successfully turned over this time; Sun Hao, a singer who played the head of the police station, Hu Xiaowei, received praise from the bullet screen that "he was originally an acting school that was delayed by singing"; Wu Xiaoliang, who played Sun Xing, also stood in the spotlight from the nameless eighteen lines; Xu Yingzi, who only appeared in a few episodes, was praised like Jing Tian; even Sun Honglei's wife, Wang Jundi, an amateur actor of a TV series who sang soprano. He also showed a full aura in the role of Zheng Yihong, the adopted daughter of Gao Mingyuan.
However, in such a full-length highlight series, Jiang Shuying, who played a key role, was spat on again.
Let's take a look at her character settings. Female reporter Huang Xi, beautiful and brave, does not fear power and dares to go undercover, the main villain He Yun is her sister-in-law, and finally she broke the mother-son relationship between He Yun and Sun Xing. This is a character who directly promotes the development of the plot, but under Jiang Shuying's interpretation, it seems to become a rampage of silly white sweetness, which only makes people feel superfluous and does not arouse any resonance.
One of the highlights of the play is that on He Yun's birthday, Huang Xi carries a cake to the door and accidentally bumps into Sun Xing celebrating He Yun's birthday. To say that the acting school is the acting school, Wu Yue, who plays He Yun, has a really stunning look in jiang Shuying's eyes when he enters the door. This eye has been a thousand years, and the five tastes under the eyes are mixed: shock, cover-up, contradiction, fear, despair... The level of the play is clearly explained. At this time, Huang Xi's normal psychological reaction should be unbelievable - the little aunt who has been worshipped all the way since he was a child actually has another face! However, in addition to showing surprise with his wide eyes, Jiang Shuying stood still in the same place. And her wide-eyed look, even if it is changed to an idol drama, does not have any sense of violation. Isn't it too calm?
Still in this scene, Sun Xing, played by Wu Xiaoliang, was ready to draw his sword and kill her before going out. In the shot, He Yun is playing "Animal World" on the TV set behind him, and a leopard is about to bite the neck of an antelope. This setting was obviously carefully arranged to set off the current murderous spirit in the room, but as a performance of Jiang Shuying, who was about to be extinguished, he could only see the surprise of the characters.
After Sun Xing left, He Yun confessed everything to Huang Xi, and Wu Yue's crying scene in this performance was a must, his eyes were red, he looked haggard, and he choked up several times when he spoke. But when the camera shifts to Jiang Shuying's face, her gaze goes down, except for a few tears on her face, she can't see what the character's emotions are.
It can be said that for the drama thrown by Wu Yue and Wu Xiaoliang, Jiang Shuying did not catch it at all!
I have to say that Jiang Shuying's current situation is a bit embarrassing. The starting point is not low, the resources are not weak, the female protagonist has acted one after another, but in the "head" echelon of 85 flowers, she has never found her own position. Some commentators say that Jiang Shuying's acting always stands outside the characters to examine the characters, and always plays the result rather than the process, how can the audience empathize?
On the other hand, looking at Mao Xiaotong, another actress in "Thirty Only", the growth in these years is obvious to all. In "Children of the Qiao Family", which was popular at almost the same time as "Sweeping The Black Storm", Mao Xiaotong played Qiao Sanli. Judging from the audience's reaction, everyone likes this sensible, well-behaved, and sweet-looking "third sister" of the Qiao family. In fact, Mao Xiaotong's acting skills are already good. Previously, in "Splendid Wei Yang", she successfully created a weak-looking, but scheming second-room concubine, and the light almost covered the "female number one" Tang Yan. This time in the performance of "Children of the Qiao Family", Mao Xiaotong interpreted the role of Qiao Sanli, who was easy to ping, unusual.
Qiao Sanli's unfortunate childhood encounter became a scar buried deep in the heart of this character. This made her instinctively resist all the kindness of the opposite sex to her as an adult. Even if she met Wang Yiding, a boy she liked, it was difficult for her to let go of the past. There is a scene where the two people chatted in the rain after watching the movie "The Great Satan", the more they talked, the more speculative they were, and the more they talked, the more they found that the other party was the right person. Feelings to this point, Wang Yiding involuntarily wanted to kiss Sanli, but it was because of This natural action of Wang Yiding that suddenly brought Qiao Sanli back to the shadow of childhood again, and from Mao Xiaotong's electric shock-like bouncing action and frightened eyes, it can be seen that her vigilance against people and the shadows of the past have never been released, and it can be said that Mao Xiaotong's performance is quite in place.
Through introverted performance, Mao Xiaotong expressed Qiao Sanli's heart rich and layered, giving the audience a kind of resonance, and when the third sister was struggling in the face of love, her performance could make people involuntarily feel both heartache and sympathy for this character.
In fact, when it comes to resources, Jiang Shuying is much superior to Mao Xiaotong. But over the years, it feels that Mao Xiaotong has been making progress, while Jiang Shuying has gone farther and farther on the road of "wooden beauty". This may be related to the latter's rational personality, about her "experiential" acting skills, Wang Yaoqing, who has played with her, has disclosed that Jiang Shuying needs to really drink half a kilogram of liquor when acting in a drunken state; she herself said in an interview that because she has not been a mother, she cannot feel the mood of the role of a mother. Once, Jiang Shuying analyzed himself, saying that he might not be suitable for acting. Scenes that others can easily control, she has to take a long time of psychological construction to act. She also said that it is difficult for her to act well without experiencing things because there is no way to experience those feelings.
This statement also explains from one point of view why her audience has been poor. Rationality is a must for actors, but being too rational is a shortcoming, because the life that a person can experience is limited after all, and shaping characters sometimes requires imagination. The result of everything is experienced, and the audience always sees Jiang Shuying playing himself over and over again.
Beauty, figure, temperament, conversation, education, foreign languages, Jiang Shuying are all top-notch, but also received strict professional training, in the same age group of actresses, the comprehensive conditions are better than her is really not much. For such an actress with outstanding conditions, to get rid of the fate of "not being popular" for many years, she can only rely on herself to figure out how to open and expand the boundaries of performance, which day may suddenly open up, then her future will be unlimited.
Author: Paparazzo
Editor: Fan Xin
Planner: Chen Xihan