There is an old saying that the female protagonist of Qiong Yao drama defines the standard of beauty on the screen, and the male protagonist of Haiyan affects the aesthetics of mass women.
In a previous issue, we systematically talked about the unique Qiongyao makeup of the Qiongyao heroine, the iconic air bangs, the poor tearful eye makeup of Chuchu, only emphasizing the eyebrows and lips, and between the movements and the movements are all my pity.
What is strange is that the heroine of Qiong Yao occupies an aesthetic place in any era. Almost all of the heroine's face, and then take it out to appreciate will make people feel admired, the beauty of the water spirit is too moving.
There are many female stars who have become a line of fire, and the role filter that became famous in the first world war is "Qiong Yao heroine", their faces are changing in temperament, but the beauty of that year has not faded at all.
In the early years, there were Qiong Yao female protagonists and female partners, why did they rarely hear of so-and-so male protagonists? Yes, there is. Qiong Yao is unique in female portrayal, and the former Haiyan is also a wonderful pen and flower in male portrayal, poignant and moving. As he wrote in Death of Youth, "it is a glass of transparent spirits, in the shape of water, wrapped in a fiery soul."
Melancholy and affectionate to the bones of the sea rock male protagonist
Some male stars who are now active in the front line are famous because of the gold medal screenwriter of that year - Haiyan. Like Liu Ye, Lu Yi, Tong Dawei, Zhou Zhouwei, and Yin Xiaotian, they became popular because they starred in Haiyan's well-known works, so they were called "Haiyan Male Protagonist".
Some people may be unfamiliar with the name Haiyan, but his works must have been seen by many people. In 1985, Haiyan's first novel "Plainclothes Policeman" came out, and then it was adapted into a TV series, and the theme of police + love was popular all over the country. The picture below shows the sea rock.
Hu Yajie, the protagonist of "Plainclothes Policeman", is the first real Haiyan male protagonist, before Haiyan, the public's aesthetic of men at that time was still stuck in the Tang Guoqiang style thick eyebrows and big eyes manhood, or the later Qiong Yao-style romantic Mary Sue male protagonist. At this time, Haiyan quietly entered the public's sight with a group of melancholy and literary and artistic male protagonists.
In "Never Look Away", Lu Yi and Yuan Li's sister-brother love, anti-drug police and undercover brother and sister's entangled love, to say whose TV series in those years is the most tear-inducing? Haiyan must be in first place. The plot arrangement of that year was also quite bold.
At that time, Lu Yi was melancholy and young, and the three points of purity and seven points of sadness and melancholy in his expression had almost become the benchmark of the male protagonist of Haiyan since then. When Haiyan first selected Lu Yi, he only said one sentence: As long as you can read the lines, you will definitely be able to be red.
At that time, Chen Kun also competed with Lu Yi for this role, and in the end, Lu Yi won. Because the characters in the play need to go undercover and eventually accidentally become addicted to drugs, the director frankly admits that Lu Yi's slightly naïve and sunny image is more suitable for this contrasting role. Lu Yi also quickly became popular with the role of Xiao Tong.
Soon Liu Ye and Yin Xiaotian became a new generation of Haiyan male protagonists, all of Qiong Yao's love stories are "male perspectives", and even Zhang Ailing's red roses and white roses are also male-centered. Following the theme of sister-brother love, Haiyan interpreted the "red and white roses" under the male role with "What to Save You, My Lover".
Lawyer Han Ding accepted Luo Jingjing's commission and promised to help death row prisoner Long Xiaoyu defend himself. One is the first love boyfriend, the other is the hot love boyfriend who just met, the murder truth is ups and downs, and the love of the three people is also heart-wrenching. Haiyan's romance stories all carry a surging and difficult burning feeling, and the story twists and turns, and people can't stop.
Liu Ye's melancholy and gloomy sad temperament is also vividly displayed in this drama, and people who have seen it should be able to understand why Liu Ye can later grow into a movie emperor? Because the temperament of his body is really too heart-wrenching, complex and contradictory characters, in this temperament can be very empathetic.
Haiyan's tragic trilogy also has a "Jade Guanyin", starring Tong Dawei, Sun Li, and He Rundong. Tong Dawei's role as the affectionate policeman Yang Rui almost became a popular lover, and the single eyelid and warm male aesthetic also quietly became popular.
In addition to the above, the male protagonist of "Five Star Hotel" Junning is also a veritable haiyan male protagonist, And Zhou Wei also starred in the protagonist of "Sunshine Blooms Like a Flower", but these two did not have the good luck of the above several, although the reputation of the work was good, but it lacked opportunities for later development, and people were not hot.
To sum up, Qiong Yao drama seems to be about the author Qiong Yao's lifelong imagination of love, the female protagonists are chuchu pitiful delicate beauty; and Haiyan drama seems to be telling all the understanding of love in the author's life, the police and rule of law elements in the play are from Haiyan's life experience, as for the haiyan male protagonist, Uncle Oxygen believes that to a certain extent, it is also Haiyan's idealized self.
Some people say that Guo Jingming prefers to find the kind of face he yearns for when filming, and Haiyan seems to have this meaning. He himself is a person with an upright and somewhat melancholy temperament, and he also prefers the male protagonist with a melancholy temperament of literature and art. Was The early Zhou Wei very similar to Lu Yi? There are youths who are pure and somewhat stubborn, and there are young literature and art and there are gray glooms of adults.
However, why is the Haiyan male protagonist who once made a big production + a big masterpiece look less impressive than the Qiong Yao female protagonist today + red? Qiong Yao female protagonist still has the era filter today, while the Haiyan male protagonist is much weaker, why is it?
Qiong Yao female protagonist and Haiyan male protagonist
Many people like to attribute the unpopularity of the male protagonist of Haiyan to the decline in the level of Haiyan's works, but Uncle Oxygen does not think so. After carefully reading the works of these two people, you will even feel that haiyan's story is more enduring and thought-provoking than Qiong Yao's story, and even the love in it is more unforgettable.
Qiong Yao's love story is stormy, and the beginning of the light flutter has a dramatic hysteria; Haiyan's love story is more soft and bitter, and the leisurely regret and pain make these loves extremely strong.
Why is the story good, but the people are not hot? Comparing the male protagonist who becomes a movie emperor and a completely unpopular actor, the development plan after the masterpiece is equally important for a male star. Liu Ye took over many literary and art films after "What to Save You, My Love", and was late to the dividends of the literary and artistic aesthetics of the times, and finally went to the road of the film emperor.
Lu Yi and Tong Dawei, on the other hand, are relatively more famous, but their development plans are also unconfident. After the Fire of Lu Yi, because there was no good film, he directly debuted on the record, which consumed popularity and wasted time; Tong Dawei was even later in the fire, and later also took over some urban literary and artistic films, and the public reputation was good.
Unfortunately, there are too many descendants, and the public aesthetic has begun to shift from literary and artistic young men to exquisite faces.
The change of male aesthetics and the stabilization of female aesthetics. The difference in the development of the male protagonist of Haiyan and the female protagonist of Qiong Yao is also reflected in the difference in the aesthetics of men and women. For the aesthetics of beauty, from ancient times to the present, almost unchanged, Qiong Yao casting is almost set on the most basic beauty standards, smooth silhouette and bright eyes and teeth.
Qiong Yao's heroine's face is a face that can stand the test of time, no matter who among them, they are standard great beauties. Can eat the aesthetic dividend of the face value for a long time, the future drama road is also relatively broad, the development prospects are good, almost a lifetime of red.
And the male protagonist of Haiyan is not a handsome man in the standard sense. Lu Yi, Tong Dawei, Liu Ye, and Zhou Zhouwei are handsome men, but they are all relatively special handsome men. The standard handsome men in our aesthetic are almost all thick eyebrows and big eyes, while the haiyan male protagonist's face line is thinner, the temperament is more literary, and it is almost a new niche male aesthetic category.
Once Haiyan with big productions and big IP can win these special temperament of handsome guys, but with the change of the male aesthetic market, fewer and fewer plays can tolerate such a face, and the frequency of this face on the screen has also decreased. Instead of a more youthful and more delicate male face, the male protagonist of Haiyan naturally declined.
In addition, the rise of love beans and women's economy has led to an acceleration of the change of male actors and male stars. There are also many female stars and female love beans, but rookie female stars can hardly be divided into the market of their predecessors, and the value fault and the work fault are placed there. But male stars are different, the top male stars from the previous few years to change, to a few months a change, male stars of the appearance and value of the competition pressure is greater.
The rise of the female economy, to a certain extent, has also made the society's aesthetics of men a great change of the times, and the haiyan male protagonists seem to be the aesthetics of the last century, and the definition of male aesthetics in this century is determined by a new generation. These male stars, some charming and some exquisite invincible, the entire aesthetic from the type of male literary male, changed to gentle and exquisite.
There is a final factor, the male aesthetic market is more inclusive. When it comes to the types of handsome men in the entertainment industry, there are too many types, and even the faces of male celebrities that the public feels are general or even a little ugly can be divided into a maverick aesthetic. The more variety, the faster the change, and the less attractive it will be.
And female stars, serious faults, aesthetic inclusivity is not strong, and the beautiful women who turn over and over are all types in the early years. The beauty of that year is still a beauty today, and the type of fire of that year is still the king of appearance today.
Cecilia Cheung has been said many times that she has a face and no brain, but as soon as she stands up, she is still beautiful and convincing.
Although the male protagonist of Haiyan is no longer brilliant, this male star debut method is also quite convincing, and the existing works have later brilliance and development, and the industry and people are more realistic. Unlike now, there is nothing, only love beans debut has endless aura glory, the industry and people are impetuous, cattle ghosts and snake gods are redundant.