Since "Sweeping The Black Storm", the popularity of the TV series seems to have sunk to the bottom at once, and the only thing that can mention the audience's desire is "Meritorious".
As a tribute drama, "Meritorious Service" not only shoots the tension and excitement of war films, but also shoots the responsibility and destiny entrusted by the times to the predecessors.
The chapter-style playback mode, coupled with the unknown story background, has won the favor of many viewers.
Judging from the first four chapters that have been released, Li Yannian, played by Wang Lei, has made a good start to passion, Yu Min, played by Lei Jiayin, has pushed the plot to a climax, Zhang Fuqing, played by Guo Tao, has accumulated strong feelings, while Huang Xuhua, played by Huang Xiaoming, has dragged the hind legs of "Meritorious Service".
In the same era background, the same scientist identity, Lei Jiayin and Huang Xiaoming played by the role is very different.
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Curious, is it because they are all surnamed Huang, the director found Huang Xiaoming to star?
Huang Xiaoming's appearance is too modern, no matter how to wear makeup, it is difficult to hide his delicate appearance, it is really not suitable for playing a role like Huang Xuhua.
Especially the confrontation between him and his wife (played by Chen Hao), the two of you and I are in love with each other in an instant, which is out of that era.
Although Chen Hao's unique appearance full of feminine charm is very compatible with Huang Xiaoming, there are too many eye dramas, full of ambiguity and seduction, which is incompatible with the common concept of love at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic.
On the other hand, looking at Yu Min, played by Lei Jiayin, who is also a scientist, the confrontation between Yu Min and his wife (played by Ni Ni) is particularly real.
The exchange between the two without feelings has mobilized a strong conjugal love in ordinary life, especially the independent and strong new Chinese woman portrayed by Ni Ni has left a deep impression on the audience.
Even if you give birth to a child, you walk to the hospital alone with a big belly, which shows the tenacity of women in that era.
And Lei Jiayin's Yu Min is more in line with the appearance of scientists in that era than Huang Xiaoming's glamorous appearance.
Decadent hairstyle, bloated face, under a large mirror frame is always frowning and pondering problems, even when I get home, I never stop calculating.
The same "egg story", Huang Xiaoming's plot is that the child leaves eggs to supplement the father's nutrition, and finally the mother hides the child from killing the chicken to create a contradiction.
And Lei Jiayin's "egg story" is much more advanced, an IOU took away the eggs that children were reluctant to eat, but it turned out to be a prize for researchers, which not only reflected the character's strong emotions and the shortage of materials in the era, but also deeply integrated into the plot.
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Let's take a look at the gap between the two plots in terms of character building.
Yu Min and Huang Xuhua both belonged to the same era and experienced the most difficult period of New China together, but their circumstances were completely different.
In Lei Jiayin's play, he fully showed the sense of urgency after the famine in New China, and people did not have enough to eat and wear.
Yu Min always appeared on camera wearing a worn-out blue Zhongshan suit, which was exactly the same as the workers at that time, and he could not see his identity as a scientist at all.
The Yu Min family also lived in a simple bungalow, and the stove and furniture in the house were exactly the same as in that era.
In contrast to Huang Xiaoming's plot, the house where Huang Xuhua lived was too modern, the shape was full of romantic style, not only a small courtyard but also flowers, was there no stove in the house to be central heating?
The dress of the two wives is even more obvious, Ni Ni has always been a blue high-necked dark mountain suit, dressed like a man.
And Chen Hao, not only has a white base shirt with broken flowers, but also a delicate woolen shoulder.
When the two plots are compared, it feels like they are the same as the characters of different eras, and the gap is obvious.
What is even more exaggerated is that Huang Xiaoming always dresses up in a suit, with a shirt with Maokan shoulders, completely out of the feeling of that era.
The feelings of the two in the working state are also very different, Lei Jiayin has created an image of a madman, willing to pay in obscurity regardless of life and death, black and white are upside down, and patients are entangled, which is impressive.
Although Huang Xiaoming showed a strong sense of mission, he lightly ignored the various states of this character at work, and appeared in several work details only to promote the plot, resulting in the lack of emotion of the characters.
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Although Huang Xiaoming has won many awards in recent years and made many excellent works, there has always been controversy among the audience about his acting skills.
This time in "Meritorious Service", under the same background and identity, the gap between Lei Jiayin and Huang Xiaoming's acting skills is really too obvious.
It can even be said that Yu Min's image cannot find a little shadow of Lei Jiayin, while Huang Xuhua is like another Huang Xiaoming.
Can't get rid of his own actors, it is really difficult to make a breakthrough in acting, look forward to Lei Jiayin can create more excellent works, but also look forward to Huang Xiaoming can get more inspiration on the role of Huang Xuhua.