On January 9, the TV series "Shangyang Fu" starring Zhang Ziyi finally started broadcasting↓
From the perspective of the classification of the coffee position in your circle, "Shangyang Fu", which was first experienced on the international chapter screen, is considered to be the "lower mortal" work of this film queen.
In addition, costumes are Zhang Ziyi's strengths, from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Ten Faces Ambush" to "Night Feast", with her eyes closed, you can also think that her performance is difficult to make mistakes.
So, "Shangyang Fu" has naturally attracted much attention from the beginning of filming.
But the work is a bit of a fate.
At the end of 2016, it was rumored that Zhang Ziyi, who has been in the industry for more than 20 years, was going to enter the television circle, and her first shot was the big heroine of the costume drama.
Not long after, the official announcement finalized the "Imperial Industry".
The name sounds a bit done, but it is very domineering, and the feeling of the heroine sitting on the invincible loneliness of the heroine's whole-time career is very suitable for the film and television image of the early stage of the late stage of hidden tolerance that Zhang Ziyi has always shaped.
It's a pity that you think you're writing about Wu Zetian's struggle, but in fact, people are just a sweet text.
Friends who have read the original novel of "The Empire" should know that this is a proper Mary Sue story.
Originally, everyone wanted to see the international chapter play a real female BOSS to let the audience have fun, but in the end it was inevitable to fall into the cliché, which naturally attracted dissatisfaction.
Then, the male lead candidate began a career of slipping fans, from Hu Ge, Peng Yuyan, Zhang Zhen, Liu Ye, Zhao Youting... Finally fell on Monday Wai ↓
In the first season of "I Am an Actor", Zhang Ziyi showed great admiration for Zhou Zhouwei and finally sent him to the championship throne.
The cooperation between the two naturally became expected.
The wind evaluation of that meeting on Monday was very good, and the performance in "Embroidered Spring Knife" was very fan-like, and the acting skills were also obvious to all.
But the situation soon took a sharp turn for the worse.
Zhou was criticized by the Internet for his straight male cancer attributes when he got along with his wife Zhu Dan and the scandal of drinking a cup of milk tea with his assistant, which consumed a lot of passers-by.
After several controversies tossed down, when "Shangyang Fu" started filming in 2018, everyone's expectations and enthusiasm had already cooled down for a long time.
At the same time, the original title was also changed again and again, from "Imperial Industry" to "Emperor Huangye", then changed to "Jiangshan Old Man", and finally changed to "Shangyang Fu".
Then there was no news, and no material flowed out for a long time...
According to past experience, if a work appears to be delayed in the release time, the title is changed repeatedly, etc., most of them are either yellow or the quality is worrying.
But just after 2 years of silence, on January 7th, the tightly covered "Shangyang Fu" actually unveiled the Lushan lineup and released the first trailer ↓
I have to sigh at the pomp and circumstance of the international chapter, the trailer has almost no other people's shots, it is completely her personal show.
All kinds of costume play back and forth, all-round three-dimensional surround display of the beauty of the film ↓
Acting highlight moment freeze frame is also not less ↓
A large-scale production of the first trailer only to the heroine booth is more or less overbearing and unreasonable, but the costume is beautiful, the big scene is magnificent, it is indeed the level that S+ big production should have, and the texture is standing.
But the success of a work, just with a golden appearance is not enough.
Just like many films with their own appearances, no matter how good the packaging is, the story is a mess, and it is difficult to escape the fate of the bad film.
For the quality of the play, the melon-eating masses basically have reservations.
After all, the trailer does not show many flashpoints in the plot, and also exposes a serious shortcoming - the 41-year-old Zhang Ziyi plays a 15-year-old girl, which is too contrary.
The acting skills do show the shyness and innocence of the girl, but the senses are difficult for people to replace...
Sure enough, on January 9, "Shangyang Fu" was officially broadcast online, and the spit of "welcome Zhang Ziyi officially joined the Yatou Sect" was incessant.
Note: "Yatou Jiao" refers to the general name of actors whose age does not match the role they play, which originally originated from the spit on the heroine of "Ximen No Hate"
"Shangyang Fu" tells the story of Wang Yan, the lord of Shangyang County, who was born in a noble country, with a difficult mission, after being separated by his biological father and first love, married the unloved Yuzhang King, and the two experienced misunderstandings and tribulations, knew each other, and finally achieved a hegemonic party.
The main character cast of the play is strong - Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Zhouwei, Yu Hewei, Zuo Xiaoqing, Yang Youning, Sui Yuan, Shi Ke, Liu Duanduan, Yuan Hong, Zhao Yazhi, hui Yinghong.
This combination, I am afraid that everywhere is a proper lifetime high match, but the data says it all: the audience rarely buys for the powerful drama bones.
The initial score of "Shangyang Fu" in Douban was only 5.8, and now it has risen to the passing line ↓
"Yatou teaching", "pretending to be tender", "no sense of resonance", "embarrassing"... Drama chasing parties have expressed some acceptance of incompetence.
Zhang Ziyi plays Wang Yan, whose name is Ah Fei. In the original book, this character is relatively short-lived, hanging in his early 30s.
Generally, female BOSSes must have a pre-hidden development period to grow up and eventually go to the peak of life.
And Ah Fei's wild period is the girlhood, starting from the age of 15 and the beginning of the year.
Like Zhou Xun in "Ruyi Zhuan", The International Chapter did not find a real girl actor to play, but personally played.
I have to say that the face of the shadow queen is still beautiful ↓
The shape makes people wear "Night Feast" for a second↓
The two works are separated by 14 years, and the international chapter has not aged much, and the maintenance is very good.
But even if you eat your sister's face again, and ask someone to substitute this face for the role of a 15-year-old girl, it is really "a concubine can't do it"!
15 years old is the most flexible and carefree age for girls, not to mention the county lord who grew up in thousands of loves! It is even more eccentric and energetic.
The play does spend a lot of ink to describe this beautiful girlish atmosphere, but the effect is very difficult to describe...
Ah Fei danced awkwardly without a word, and every cell in her body seemed to say, "Look how simple and lovely and kind I am."
In fact, the girlish girl who has not yet been embarrassed to blow dance skills in the side of the stars has a girlish feeling↓
This hard and playful tongue almost didn't send me away...
Sprinkling it up is not delicate at all, but it makes people feel that this girl is somewhat wrong
Is the shoulder swing serious? The next second you can hammer a cow to death!
The girlish crying scene cannot be integrated with her looks.
Is this a timid little white rabbit frightened and begging for protection? No, I feel like I'm silently plotting something in my heart!
The rivalry with the elders in the film is even more embarrassing to cut out a villa on the spot.
Whether with father ↓
Or with uncle ↓
If there is no plot substitution, it is completely the sense of déjà vu between the emperor and the young pet concubine! Whoever looks at it doesn't say a word of general matching!
Of course, the lack of girlishness is not because Zhang Ziyi's acting skills are not good or the interpretation method is not right, there are many small movements of spitting out the tongue and loving to jump, which is indeed a feature of lively and beautiful girls.
If you change a young actor, there is no problem in acting according to Zhang Ziyi's performance method.
It's just that compared to the age group of girls, Zhang Ziyi is beautiful, but she is also really old: the eye lines that can't be hidden, the vicissitudes that eighteen layers of skin grinding can't be eliminated, the sharp facial lines, and I really don't feel a little girlish.
The age does not conform to the girl's design, nor does it mean that the actress cannot play a girl, after all, there are many people in the entertainment industry who play girls in the 30s, and some of them are also interpreted very well!
Zhao Yazhi, who also played a role in "Shangyang Fu", was 38 years old when she first played the young girl Hu Meiniang in "White Lady", and there was nothing wrong with it
40-year-old Zhou Xun plays the girl Jiu'er like holding ↓
"The Tale of Ruyi" collapsed...
There is also 40-year-old Liu Xiaoqing, the young girl Wu Meiniang has even become a classic...
But these actors, acting skills do not have to pick, temperament and appearance also have a girlish and cute feeling, even if they are old, through the improvement of makeup and manners, they can still retain that girlish charm.
Regardless of the age level, Zhang Ziyi's temperament and appearance are fundamentally not a girl, especially a sweet Mary Sue girl type!
The girl's face with a sweet and flexible feeling is full, and the contours of the face are smooth and soft. Zhang Ziyi was originally superior in bone, and his skin was sharp, with a stubborn feeling of not accepting defeat.
In "My Father and Mother", Zhang Ziyi, who is only eighteen years old, has a lot of collagen, which is indeed very girly↓
But as she grew older, her facial contours became more and more sharp, and her aura was fully open, and she was completely a royal sister, and she had nothing to do with the girl.
More than ten years ago, she was more beautiful and younger (of course, playing a girl back then was still more suitable than now)
Well, it's really temperamental offense! You can step on her girlishness, and it is not necessary to mock the acting skills and performance methods of the international chapter.
As long as she is not embarrassed to play a young girl, Zhang Ziyi's acting skills are not wrong, especially in the later stage of the character and temperament gear stitched, she is still the acting queen that everyone loves ↓
In addition, the makeup and hair design of the young girl in the film is more or less perfunctory, basically a loose batch + simple coiled hair on the top of the head + hairpin ↓
It's really a chivalrous woman, who would have thought that this picture alone was a scene of a young girl being punished, it was simply Jing Ke stabbing the King of Qin!
Or it is to make it magnificent, and it is even more domineering than Zhen Huan's return to the palace...
Makeup and hair are not the core driving force for successfully interpreting a role, but it must not be ignored, and doing a good job will add a lot of points.
Just like the young girl played by Liu Xiaoqing, Mao Geping's mysterious makeup and hair technology is indispensable ↓
No effort was made in styling, age mismatch, and key temperaments were not integrated, which eventually caused the international chapter girl's dream to shatter.
She acted hard, and the audience was embarrassed to watch.
In fact, the actors who encountered the age or embarrassment of appearance in "Shangyang Fu" are not only Zhang Ziyi, but even almost all of them are embarrassed.
Playing the heroine's first love is the actor Yang Youning ↓
How not to discuss the acting skills, this appearance temperament is definitely described in the original work as "the first talent of the wind and gorgeous extraordinary warm and jade and melancholy beautiful teenager" ???
Are you sure it is the white moonlight of the heroine's heart?
Well????
The reason why Yang Youning encountered embarrassment is the same as Zhang Ziyi's special journey: age is secondary, mainly because the appearance and temperament really cannot be integrated with the role.
Isn't Yang Youning handsome? Proper sunshine boy↓
But the role of Zi Tong is first of all a beautiful man in ancient costumes, and the most attractive thing is the dust and Su feeling, which can be found in the sunshine muscle man Yang Youning!
The brother's sense of strength was about to come out, and he felt that when he was under siege, he should go up and show the eight-pack abs to the Assassins and beat them to death 223333
The director of the play invited the famous Hou Yong ↓
Hou Yong is one of the representatives of the fifth generation of Chinese directors, graduated from the 78th class of the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and is also a classmate of directors Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Gu Changwei and others.
Directed by him, "Jasmine Blossom", "Lying Down to Taste Courage", "One Man's Olympics", "Breaking into Kanto Novella" and so on, are all excellent masterpieces.
It is worth mentioning that the heroine of the second work directed by Hou Yong, "Jasmine Blossom", is Zhang Ziyi, and Zhang Ziyi is also sealed again at the 13th Golden Rooster Awards with this film.
The director of photography for "Shang Yang Fu" is the famous French photographer Philippe Lessell.
Philip Lessell was the director of photography for the film "Generation Grandmaster", winning numerous awards and sweeping the Best Cinematography Awards including the Oscars.
Many of the drama chasers of "Shangyang Fu" also reflect that the photographic composition in the film is very excellent.
The composition of the play is Mei Linmao, a master level.
Over the years, Mr. Merlin has been responsible for more than 30 Hong Kong and Japanese films, including Morita Yoshimitsu's "After", Wong Kar-wai's "Fancy Years" and "2046"...
In addition to the above, it also includes Zhang Shuping, Yip Kam Tim, who are responsible for styling, and others are responsible for Wong Kar-wai's production team.
It can be said that behind the scenes of "Shangyang Fu", everyone who can say the name is a big winner in the industry.
Even if these masters made a slight mistake, it was a skinny camel that was bigger than a horse, and there would be no big difference.
At present, the controversy over "Shangyang Fu" on the Internet is more around the acting skills of individual actors and the issue of age, and the production texture of the film is basically positive.
As the absolute star of this drama, Zhang Ziyi, who was invisibly pinned high hopes on by the audience, did step on the thunder point and naturally became the target of spitting.
I have to admit that the shadow queen is indeed embarrassed this time, but it will not be completely pulled off the altar.
It's just that the embarrassment caused by Zhang Ziyi this time has exposed many of her shortcomings, and it also proves that she is not an all-round acting genius.
I can't help but think of the words that Zhang Yimou once said to Zhang Ziyi - never act in a TV series.
Although they are advocating that actors should not stereotype themselves and try to challenge different roles, each actor has his own core characteristics, has a stage suitable for his own play, and no matter how many different characters are portrayed, they will always have a foothold of their own.
Obviously, the Mary Sue heroine is not suitable for Zhang Ziyi, there is no problem with her acting skills in this drama, but she has lost the charm of bringing an audience in the movie, like a kite with a broken line, floating unstable, and not knowing where her soul belongs.
It's not wrong to listen to your mentor's advice!