Zhou Dongyu once said in an interview:
"I'm not the kind of big-eyed beauty, let me play a role that doesn't suit me at all, a traditional beauty in ancient costumes, I can't play." 」
As a result, I never expected that the punch in the face was late but arrived.
In 2021, Zhou Dongyu's first fairy drama "Ancient Dust" starring Zhou Dongyu "Xia Fan" was launched, in which she played a beautiful and moving fairy.
On the day of the premiere of the drama, the popularity rushed to the second place, and it was on a number of hot searches, causing a lot of attention.
So, how did Zhou Dongyu's first Xian Xia drama perform?
Judging from the early word of mouth, it seems to disappoint many people.
It can be seen that at present, the drama has received all the bad reviews in Douban, and many netizens have said:
Zhou Dongyu, who looks like a little girl who has not grown up, plays the first beautiful woman in the Immortal Realm, is bullying me, an ordinary audience, who has never seen a fairy?
Another film café who acted in a TV series exposed the shortcomings of his acting skills.
The topic of "how bad is "How bad is the dust of the ancient world" about the performance of the whole drama has become the first place in the hot list, causing many controversies.
Seeing this, I can't help but wonder:
In the end, is Zhou Dongyu dragging down "Ancient Dust", or is "Ancient Dust" dragging down Zhou Dongyu?
Let's start with the basic situation of the whole play.
The drama is based on the fairy tale novel "The Ancient" written by Xing Zero, which tells the story of the deep sadistic love between Bai Jue (Xu Kai) and Shanggu (Zhou Dongyu), the four true gods of the ancient world, after three lifetimes.
Among them, the heroine will grow from a rookie with low spiritual power to a main god who shoulders the life of the world, and takes the route of a growing heroine drama.
The director of the play is Yin Tao, who has directed explosive romance dramas such as "Under the Golden Dress" and "Liu Li", and the original author Xing Zero personally participated in the creation of the script, plus Zhang Jiani, Liu Xueyi, Li Zefeng and other actors.
Whether it is the plot or the main creative team, "Ancient Dust" seems to be a "normal can no longer be normal" fairy drama, why will it cause such a big controversy?
Mainly boils down to the following three reasons.
First, under the fame of "Three Golden Shadow Queens", it is actually difficult to match the sense of gap.
Since starring in two films directed by Zeng Guoxiang, "July and Ansheng" and "Young You", Zhou Dongyu has become the youngest "Three Golden Film Queens" in China.
And "Ancient Dust" is Zhou Dongyu's first new work after holding the title of "Three Golden Shadow Queens", and it is difficult for everyone not to have high expectations for her works.
With such high expectations, I opened the first episode of the new series, but many people began to be disappointed from the beginning.
First of all, "Shadow Queen" Zhou Dongyu actually needs to be dubbed, and the dubbing is still very unattractive.
In the play, Shanggu, played by Zhou Dongyu, was still a naïve little girl at the beginning, but the voice voice for her was Ji Guanlin, who had a bit of royal sisterhood, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she had a sense of violation.
Because of the dubbing and can not hear Zhou Dongyu's line skills, listening to Ji Guanlin's voice with countless big heroines, every minute makes people have a sense of drama whether it is Zhen Huan or Bai Qian.
Coupled with the crookedness of dubbing Xu Kai, and the addition of Gu Jiangshan who dubbed Liu Xueyi, it seems to have come to the scene of the ancient puppet cv circle team building.
Secondly, Zhou Dongyu's appearance can't support the big heroine, and she is killed by the female partner every minute.
Zhou Dongyu, who is 1 meter 62 tall and weighs 70 or 80 pounds, is petite and slender, and there is no sense of violation when playing a female high school student, but she cannot support the fairy dress with long clothes and fluttering clothes.
As the head of the four true gods, the ancient one appears with the star moon god Yuemi (Luo Qiuyun), and it looks like Zhou Dongyu is more like a small god.
After that, Shanggu also accepted Wuhuan (Zhang Jiani) as a mount, and the two were in the same frame, as if they were exchanging identities with their masters.
Whether it is Xue Ying, played by Liu Mengmeng, or Feng Yan, played by Hani Kezi, it seems that all the female partners who appear in the play are more like fairies than Zhou Dongyu.
Perhaps, Zhou Dongyu wants to create a different fairy image and make everyone shine?
After all, compared to the previous image of the fairy goddess, Zhou Dongyu's ancient looks much more grounded.
And when you continue to look down with such curiosity, you will feel that the more you look at it, the more wrong it is, and the more you look at it, the more you feel that something is strange.
When the male and female protagonists meet for the first time, Zhou Dongyu makes a big fuss, and the tactical retreat is accompanied by a sentence of "what are you doing" as if the little sister is on the upper body;
When the male protagonist expelled the female protagonist from the palace, Zhou Dongyu was angry and his expression flew wildly;
When the male protagonist accepted the female protagonist as an apprentice, Zhou Dongyu, who was unwilling but had to obey obediently, swung his stiff little fist wildly;
When The Elder changed into a red coat and said that he was very beautiful, he stirred his bangs and dragged them to the sky...
Whether it is a wanton micro-expression or an exaggerated body movement, Zhou Dongyu's interpretation is like a modern person playing a costume cosplay.
It turned out that Zhou Dongyu was not playing a fairy, she was playing herself;
Moreover, it is not acting enough to enter the play.
When The Ancients read the invitation of the Demon Zun Xuanyi to the "Hongmen Feast", she seemed to be reading the good news happily, and she couldn't see that she was very afraid to meet with the Demon Zun at all.
Whether it is the desire to cover up when the male protagonist finds that he wants to run, or as the first number of the four true gods to give orders, Zhou Dongyu always has a smiling expression, and always feels that the next second will be laughed.
In addition, whether it is for the male protagonist, or for the good sisters, or for the green plum bamboo horse, Zhou Dongyu launched the universal smirk template, innocent and cute, and even a little silly.
Seeing Zhou Dongyu's performance like this, it is inevitable to make people doubt - after the three golden shadows, this is it? That's it??
The second is the "assembly line" type of fairy tale drama, which has long made people aesthetically tired.
Rather than saying that "Ancient Dust" is a fairy drama, it is more like a "fairy love drama", and love becomes the core of the whole drama.
The male protagonist who looks cold as frost must have a tragic childhood, usually "even the mother mosquito does not let you get close", but in fact, he is a pure love boy who "you don't know love in Fahai";
And the naïve heroine has become the only exception for the male protagonist, and the deep-rooted male protagonist can bear the disaster for the female protagonist, a night of whiteheads, and even ashes.
From the "white tofu" in "Paladin 3" in 2009, which is not close to the female color, to the "white ice cube" in "Ancient Dust" 11 years later, the male and female protagonists are also old-fashioned settings.
From the ascetic system of "Flowers and Bones" "teacher-student love", to "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Three Lives three pillow book" and "Chen Xi Yuan", sadomasochism must be three lives three, during which it is also interspersed with the amnesia, misunderstanding, and self-moving sacrifice of the male and female protagonists.
Night, is that you?
Bai Jue, is that you?
The male protagonist is injured for the female protagonist, the female protagonist is injured to save the male protagonist, the female protagonist is injured by the male protagonist, and the two people lie in bed one by one and redeem each other.
Rather than opening up the "divine pulse", it is better to open the "love vein", in the play, The ancient and Bai Jue are almost without laying the groundwork and progressing rapidly, obviously they still dislike each other not long ago, and then they pull and pull, cuddle and hug, and force industrial saccharin.
In addition to the male and female protagonists, the other male and female partners are almost all "love brains", Yuemi loves Apocalypse, Apocalypse loves Gu, The Ancient Loves Bai Jue, and Bai Jue is loved by Snow...
And the female supporting is more "evil girl", Su Jin in "Ten Mile Peach Blossom" and Xue Ying in "Ancient Dust" are benchmarked, from beginning to end, they stalk the male protagonist and make all kinds of bad moves, which is impossible to get rid of.
The immortals were all tall strands of long hair and dressed in plain gauze clothes, and the aesthetics of the entire immortal world seemed to span time and space.
Two handfuls of bangs on the brain door, shallow? ancient times?
It can be said that from the plot setting to the service road are like a copy-pasted "Ancient Dust", the early plot is almost no surprise at all, as if you can guess the ending at a glance, which is a standard assembly line product.
And just as when the play was first broadcast, the ending song said that Mao was not easy to sing but put on the version sung by others, the traces of the whole drama were obvious, and the setting of the fairy world also revealed bugs everywhere.
For example, when Shanggu wants Toyang (Li Zefeng) to help teach Bai Jue, she protests with a hunger strike if she does not agree.
Good fellow, it turns out that the immortals are also afraid of hunger strikes.
Whether it is a half-written line such as "the duck in hand flew" and "the meat bun hits the dog and has no return", the laughter in the play is too "grounded", rather than "receiving immortal gas"——
It is inevitable that people wonder whether this is the immortal world or the human world?
Third, there is a risk of "breaking the wall" between movies and TV series.
Zhou Dongyu, the "girl" who debuted in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", until 2016's "July and Ansheng", made her successfully transform from a pure girl into a ghost horse elf, and many people began to feel that Zhou Dongyu "opened the trick" and "had an aura".
Whether it is Zhou Dongyu's improvisational question "I'm not sexy" when filming "Like You", or film critic Zhou Liming once praised her:
"The small pause in the lines in 'Later Us', not like memorizing lines, more like improvisation, an actor can act out a love film like this, it's amazing."
For Zhou Dongyu, who can always give unexpected reactions through improvisation—
Her "Reiki" often stems from her "irregularities".
However, compared to the film director can shoot many strips over and over again, one after another large close-up to grind, emphasizing the efficiency of the TV series shooting assembly line, often over and over again;
Under such circumstances, Zhou Dongyu's expression in the play is a little confused, and it is no wonder that he has been complained about as "Schrödinger's acting skills".
In addition, Zhou Dongyu is not a "changeable faction" who plays what she looks like, on the contrary, she is often brilliant in the role of a stubborn little girl, and the play path is more limited by the appearance conditions.
If Zhou Dongyu, who was previously in "Sparrow", has been regarded by many people as "the most dramatic female agent";
Then for a fairy tale drama, many people are rushing to "high value, cp, exquisite costumes and special effects".
However, "Ancient Dust" is difficult to satisfy.
On the one hand, Zhou Dongyu's dull appearance cannot withstand the 360-degree shooting of the camera, and her "grounded acting method" and Xu Kai's "ai-style acting" also have a sense of conflict.
On the other hand, in the face of the skinny Zhou Dongyu, Xu Kai, who is 1 meter 85, is also somewhat rounded, and the CP sense of the two people is also relatively weak.
I have to say that there is really a barrier between movies and TV series, and not every movie café can "go down" to success.
For example, in 2019, Tang Wei, who was "pulled off the altar" by "Daming Fenghua", her clear soup and watery appearance and acting skills were incompatible with TV series;
For example, in 2021, Zhang Ziyi, who was ridiculed by the group for "playing a girl" in "Shangyang Fu", failed to grasp the unmatched role of the TV series and the outdated plot.
Unfortunately, Zhou Dongyu's "Ancient Dust" stepped on the thunder that Tang Wei and Zhang Ziyi had stepped on again.
The "bad comments" that Zhou Dongyu encountered because of "Ancient Dust" may not be a bad thing for her in the rising period;
This may make her understand that actors still have to take care of their feathers.
Of course, "Ancient Dust" is not bad to the extreme, the special effects and art in the play are useless, and Zhou Dongyu also performed the cuteness of the ancients, maybe it will gradually get better after that.
But for many viewers, in fact, we just want to see a better Zhou Dongyu.
Bluestone Film Editorial Office | Morning
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