After watching "Yi Nian Guan Mountain", maybe everyone has different feelings.
Costume idol dramas have always been "traffic harvesters", but what follows is that the quality of film and television dramas is uneven. In this wave of trends, actors who are obviously decent in acting skills and appearance, but they always squint their eyes and pretend to be handsome throughout the whole process, as if they are imitations of Jiao Enjun and Louis Koo.
The problem is not limited to "ugly men" and "ugly women", and the deeper problem is the downgrading of aesthetics.
The white thin and young aesthetic has now become a weapon for destroying dramas. When watching the movie, the actors all looked thin and rugged, even if they played the generals, their armor couldn't hold up, and they lacked manliness. Wearing a layered robe, as if a child is wearing adult clothes, it is awkward and sickly.
For example, Li Tongguang, played by Chang Huasen in "Yi Nian Guan Mountain", is portrayed as a mighty young general in the play, but his small body is not even thick enough with a knife handle, and he looks like a malnourished middle school student.
Similarly, the master in the play is also weak. The static picture is extremely beautiful, but in fact, it has become difficult to hang a Weiya, and as soon as the scene opens, the posture and temperament are gone.
Not only male actors, but also female stars in order to pursue extreme thinness, showing the same right-angled shoulders and ant waist. Thin like a bamboo pole, with a small face and big eyes, men lack masculinity, but they are advertised by the market as delicate and photogenic.
Looking back at the ** era of martial arts movies in the last century, film and television dramas are full of tough guy hormones, and the audience pays more attention to plot and action. For example, Hu Jun in "Dragon Babu", although he is not a fierce man with five big and three thick, but he makes people feel the harmony of the heroic demeanor and the role.
The beauties also have their own characteristics, the owner is the master, and the maid is the maid, which is clear at a glance.
Aesthetics don't have to be too refined, but they have to make people feel comfortable, distinctive, and temperamental.
Men need to have a strong character and bearing, not be reduced to a stereotypical aesthetic template. In the current Chinese film and television drama market, those characters full of tough guy atmosphere seem to be outdated.
But I hope that with the passage of time, the aesthetic will return to diversification and present a more diverse splendor.
Aesthetic diversification of film and television dramas is a thought of Guan Shan.