It's time to talk about it: Hao Lei's 42-year-old appearance is controversial, but is the problem really in the mature actress's appearance?
On the surface, yes.
Many articles have mentioned that Hao Lei recently played a 20-year-old Gege in the play, a yellow flower girl in the word boudoir.
But it was complained: the waist was round, and the neck was gone.
Actors acting, appearance is the first threshold, the first level can not be passed, the audience can not be substituted, no matter how good the acting school can act?
Compare hao lei's speech on many actresses playing girls in the variety show "I am an actor 3": "What kind of age should an actor play, what age should he play, and he still plays a girl in his 40s, what do you let the girl play?" ”
Controversy cannot be stopped.
However, if you look more closely, what is the common denominator behind the controversy over Hao Lei's dress, or those post-film rearview people who have been questioned into the Yatou Sect? Or is it that behind the controversy, only actresses play tender?
What I saw was four words: episodes fluttering the streets.
The common feature of these episodes is: episode trailer, expectations are full.
At first glance, they all have fantastic teams.
Let's say that Hao Lei's "East Fourth Arch Building East" can put these actors together in a drama: Hao Lei, Fu Dalong, Yu Zhen, Liu Peiqi, Li Chengru...
Relying on the high score expectations of "Big House Gate" director Guo Baochang's "Big House Door" after twenty years of grinding a sword.
Everyone decided before the episode started that there could be anything wrong with the show?
The effect?
A handy cut of Douban hot short comments——
Two big words are visible to the naked eye – embarrassment.
And such a big battle, until now, Douban has not yet opened a score...
Who is to blame?
I know that there is a good chance that you have heard enough about Hao Lei's groove.
But with the latest episodes on the air, the characters in Hao Lei's drama gradually came out of the girlhood and entered the mature period, and you found out that -
It turns out that what embarrassed the actresses was never just tender.
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As soon as the series began, the most criticized thing was the age of the leading actors.
Fu Dalong is 45 years old, playing the role of the last wangsun nobleman who holds his mother's thigh.
Hao Lei is 42 years old and opens as an uninformed Gege.
Dou Xiaoxuan is 36 years old and plays the popular Peking Opera Hua Dan.
Only Liu Peiqi honestly played the old man, and three episodes went offline.
But first of all, to make it clear, Hao Lei's role is not a 20-something unmarried Gege from beginning to end?
From the role point of view, at least not a girl, but an elderly unmarried character.
Before marrying the unsuccessful male protagonist, she had studied in Japan alone, majoring in 3 languages (proficient in four Chinese dialects), and at the same time had achievements in culture and academia, and even caused a sensation, this experience may be based on the last Gege of the Qing Dynasty when he was 19 years old, because of the outbreak of World War II, forced to interrupt his studies in Japan and return to Beijing, until 1954, when he was 36 years old.
Therefore, many marketing numbers say that Hao Lei plays a young girl, and this accusation is not right.
But doesn't it mean that Hao Lei is not dressed up? No, obviously it's still tender.
The play does not say how old Gege is from beginning to end, but it is obvious that it is not completely referred to the setting of the last Gege of the Qing Dynasty who married at the age of 36, and the age of this Gege should probably be around 25 years old.
The 42-year-old Hao Lei came to play the stage of the role to be married, or it was too difficult. Although the role of the early role is not much, many viewers have been dissuaded from coming in, so Hao Lei will inevitably bear the fierce gunfire.
I have to say that Hao Lei's appearance is still online. The facial features are very exquisite and three-dimensional, the refined stills are still very charming, and the sense of discord disappears after the late and characters are close to the age.
It can even be said that in the performance of dressing up, Hao Lei is a high score.
In the past, many famous actresses played young roles, how to act? Spoiling, tugging at sleeves, pouting, spitting out tongues.
Where's the embarrassment? It's not that the actors are too old, and it's not that the actors don't have acting skills. It's deliberate performance.
Because deliberate, so greasy. Because she emphasizes to you with an expression all the time - "Look, I'm so young." ”
And Hao Lei's acting skills are good in that they are very real and lifelike, without any deliberate effect of dressing up.
Especially after the role is married, Hao Lei's performance is more natural -
Playing the role of a "resentful woman" whose husband elopes with a mind and Xiao San, whose mind is completely absent from himself, Hao Lei does not have any lines and large expressions.
Just by a pair of eyes, and the corners of his mouth fluttered slightly. The anger of betrayal is performed, and even the sadness and discouragement of the matter has reached this point.
The performance of superficial restraint actually has internal tension and strength.
In other words, Hao Lei's acting skills are not only still there, but also continue to dilute the embarrassment of the role.
But, can we say it was a successful performance? Still can't.
Because no matter how Hao Lei acts, her performance is still full of a kind of empty space where there is nowhere to focus.
This kind of arrogant, tough character should not be suitable for Hao Lei to play?
In my opinion, the weakness of Hao Lei's role is not because of her tenderness, but because she has worked hard to play a role that is compatible with her husband, but she has made a lonely one.
There is no plot support.
How Hao Lei uses her acting skills to be hard and concave and domineering, after all, she is strong in the outside world.
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In fact, older actors playing young roles is actually common in the industry in recent years.
It seems that Zhou Xun in "Ruyi Zhuan" has good acting skills, Tang Wei in "Daming Fenghua", Tang Yan in "Yan Yuntai", and Indeed Zhang Luyi in "Great Qin Fu" and Liu Jialing in "New Half Life".
And "East and West ArchWay East", which has long been filmed but is a latecomer, unfortunately took over the mainstream audience who has not yet calmed down the doubts.
Audiences who frequently play the drama are puzzled as to why they have to use older actors to play roles
In your youth, can't you arrange young actors separately?
From the perspective of the industry, in fact, it is excusable.
From the perspective of the investor, it is a relatively safe choice to ask the actors with high coffee positions to perform from the beginning to the end to ensure the continuation of the popularity of the series.
From the perspective of the creator, it may be believed that the role includes the life course from youth to maturity, and there are various risks at the level of expression with young actors in the early stages.
From the perspective of the actor himself, he may think that the role of the young age is not much, not a foul. Therefore, Hao Lei will say those words on the variety show after acting in this drama.
The problem is that in recent years, the audience's threshold for the "sense of violation" of the young has gradually decreased. This may have been something that Hao Lei had not expected at that time.
But another thing that may be more unexpected by these acting schools is that the failing plot eventually pushes their performance to a more embarrassing situation.
Let's talk about this drama, look at the plot summary: The play tells the story of a delicious and fun instigator, Belle Halan, who is delicious and fun in the 1920s and 1940s, and gets a secret secret that records the treasure of the imperial tomb, and since then his fate has suddenly changed.
"Set in Beijing, the play incorporates eye-catching elements such as Peking Opera, food, gangsters, adventure, and family ethics, and paints the sacrifices and struggles of small and medium-sized people in the change of the times into a desolate and tragic legendary picture."
But after watching the play, how to describe the plot of this play?
Over-aged Mary Sue. Adventures at a young age.
In the general direction, to put it bluntly, most of the plot is difficult to convince the audience.
The story lays out a number of strategic lines triggered by treasure hunting.
But these strategic dramas are almost to the point of child's play. Almost all the characters in the play often have a lot of confusing behaviors that lack logical support: Wang Gonggong saw his dry son Wang Sihai begging for "secrets" from himself, and without saying a word, he took out a dagger and stabbed it, and was killed instead.
The Habel family was inexplicably wiped out, which was even more incomprehensible.
Of course, the biggest problem is still the male protagonist.
The brain circuit of the main creator is also very magical, insisting on shaping a legendary figure who "guards the national treasure" into a strange thing, and never playing cards according to reason.
First of all, he has a provocative persona. As a clumsy boy who loves Peking Opera, the male protagonist has not been in a round house with his wife Tong Lihua (Hao Lei) after marrying the heroine he does not like, but instead he is on good terms with his friend Lou Xiaoyue (Dou Xiaoxuan) of his green plum bamboo horse, and has his own children. But he did not dare to take Lou Xiaoyue home.
Secondly, this character is not only instigated, but also stupid.
In the play, he came to find Xie Shen Chef, and when he picked up a jar of old soup, he found that Xie Shen Chef had collapsed in a pool of blood, and his first reaction was: Uncle Xie, don't make trouble. Then he ran all the way back to the palace until he took the altar and fainted.
The third is to love to take the posture and start singing at every turn. The director may want to shape the temperament of the old and the young in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, but the result is to make the audience hate.
Fu Dalong was also a little unsure at the beginning of this acting, and asked the director if I could act like this? Guo Baochang said that it was like this.
Since then, he has never doubted himself again. I see that there are quite a few criticisms of his acting on the Internet, but I admire him. This is an actor who can open up for the role, and his way of acting is much more difficult than normal acting. ”
It is indeed difficult, but it is much more difficult for the audience to resist not changing the stage than normal.
Of course, it can't be said that Fu Dalong acted wrong, because this may be the male protagonist that the director wants, the question is, the male protagonist is like this, how is the story logic self-consistent?
Hao Lei's Gege Tong Lihua is not only proficient in the four Chinese, but also has the experience of studying in Japan, and has academic achievements, such a woman who is ahead of the times is married to a woman who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, which makes it difficult for the audience to understand.
If it is said that because of feudal etiquette to marry such a person, the normal mental activity is: well, marry a bastard, I admit it.
But this character who understands everything, seems to be particularly powerful everywhere, has his own ideas, has patriotic feelings, and will never go along with his brother, but resolutely and resolutely supports each other with his husband in ordinary life, moves forward for the common goal, and interprets the true meaning of life. As long as there is a mixed ball husband, the years are still quiet. Sorry, it's more difficult for the audience to understand.
In short, the male protagonist is the supreme existence of this world. Two wonderful women can do whatever it takes for her, as long as they are with him is happiness.
Until the latest plot, Tong Lihua pulled Ha Lan to the river to find Lou Xiaoyue, and Ha Lan made the final choice between herself and Lou Xiaoyue. Well, it's finally growing.
As a result, our male protagonist jumped directly into the river, and everything returned to the original point.
But the answer to where the heroine loves him is, still can't understand.
Based on the current half-passed plot, this TV series should be the "growth history" of the male protagonist Baylor. Finally, there are several books by this Baylor on how to protect the royal family. It seems like that's the case.
But the problem is that a Mary Sue who is so routine, a fool who wants to rush into the screen and beat him up, even if he finally strives to be strong, he still can't convince the audience, because before the final effort, all he does is a "my best stupid husband".
Of course, Hao Lei's performance has tried to rationalize the role, but a successful role, which is always the same, is always "conquering the audience with feelings".
And when the audience looks at such an asshole's husband, it feels immediately wrong, how to watch it?
In the final analysis, what really makes the audience unbearable is not Hao Lei playing a tender, the plot of playing a tender has long ended, but Hao Lei "pretending to be stupid", not pretending to be stupid, a female character who is so powerful, why should she be dead set on such a stupidity?
Even Hao Lei's excellent acting skills could not convince me. Because actors can pretend to be stupid, the audience will not be really stupid.
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Hao Lei's performance does not need to question anything more.
Previously, she encouraged Zhang Meng (not Meng) on "I Am an Actor": "Even if I am fat like this, I still sit here very confidently, because no one can take away my acting skills." ”
Not to say that Hao Lei does not act in bad movies, fans who like Hao Lei may not be willing to admit that the movies that Hao Lei has starred in in recent years have more bad films than good films, similar to "Dream Partner", "Prison Dog Project", Douban score, about 4 points.
But it is also true that Hao Lei still maintains the heart and standards of a good actor.
Does acting in a TV series necessarily self-degrading?
Not to mention that there is no distinction between movie cafes and TV drama cafes. In 1997, when Hao Lei performed "Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry", she already explained what a genius is.
To the Jing Concubine in "Young Heavenly Son", she has reached the level of acting textbook-level acting skills at a young age.
Even in "Huang Feihong", the whole drama is in the style of Hong Kong drama, and the actors show a Hong Kong-style "exaggeration" from all aspects of the action language, but Hao Lei's thirteen aunts still do not make people uncomfortable. Instead, she ended up being one of the audience's favorite characters, because she was able to fit seamlessly into the entire plot style.
Even if it is only a glimpse in the play, her performance can still make an impression.
Although in the eyes of the public, she has never had anything to do with bad movies, she does not need this illusion. She admits she's made bad films. But the script is not ideal, and it will not hit Hao Lei.
"The script sucks, it doesn't suck on you as a person."
But is there really only bad drama, no bad actors? Wu Zhenyu, who said this sentence, really did not act in a bad movie? No way.
However, are good actors acting badly and humiliating? I don't think. After acting in a bad play, a good actor is still a good actor.
What's really scary? It is to use good actors to endorse bad plays.
Found that no, the recent two tendencies: one is the capital level, more and more filmmakers, find powerful actors, for the work to press the line, acting school = acting guarantee, become the propaganda point of the series.
Second, at the audience level, it is increasingly unacceptable to question the good actors acting badly.
Let's say that this one, to be fair, Hao Lei's acting skills are not bad. As long as you survive the first few episodes, at least it is the level that can make the audience enter the drama.
However, when she was obviously not in the best state, because of a few expressions, she was blown into "first-class" acting. All the flaws in the performance are attributed only to the use of dubbing. Above my head, a few question marks slowly arose.
I don't want to spray episodes to force the actors to dress up.
Because what is more questionable is who can help explain why a woman who has made state-owned academic achievements has to marry the original person of "Ha Lan"? And why should the good acting skills of good actors be used to fill holes in the strange behavior of such roles?
Hao Lei once said that she hoped that her name would appear in the acting textbook and believed that her spirit would be left behind.
I believe that with her acting skills, it can be done. But which of her most wonderful characters does not dare to break the rules and become a big woman who faces fate alone and is also incredibly strong?
With such a character in this play, this recognized goddess-level actor, can he still achieve his goals?
When the 42-year-old Hao Lei also joined the ranks of the young, I shattered all my fantasies about the acting school to save the rotten drama, but in the end I just wanted to say: It is a pity for Hao Lei.
So it's not worth the effort to play a young act, but who remembers? What the disciples left behind was, after all, a black picture that questioned her tenderness.
But the terrible thing is not that Hao Lei is playing a tender, but the film queen pretends to be stupid, the question is, what is it that makes our film queen willing to "pretend to be stupid" with her acting skills?