The TV series that will be launched so far in 2024 seem to have always been a mouthful of strength, "Flowers" is of excellent quality, but the threshold for chasing dramas is too high, and the movie-level art does not meet the appetite of the sinking market, "Dajiang Dahe 3" has no splash in the broadcast location, the ratings are good, but the network popularity is obviously insufficient.
As for the ratings performance of "Love for a Long Time", Yang Zi and Fan Chengcheng's status in the play is also unsightly.
At this point in previous years, there were constant hits, and "The Beginning" in 2022 and "Hurricane" in 2023 were all launched in early January.
In such a comparison, this year's audience is indeed being disadvantaged. But after waiting and waiting, I still waited for a work with explosive potential "Happy Parents Group".
The TV series "Happy Parents Group" focuses on family life and is a typical parenting theme. In the first few episodes, Zhang Jiayi played steadily, and the plot highlights were not only very down-to-earth, but also achieved constant laughter and high plot energy.
But so far, what has attracted the most attention from the audience is actually the actress's performance in the play.
Chen Hao and Wang Xiaochen have no beautiful faces, and their state is eye-catching
The audience has always had a layer of "heartthrob" filter for actor Chen Hao, and after so many years, Chen Hao has ensured that he is in place, and his state is **, and he can still see the charm of the past in the face of high-definition lenses.
However, after all, time is the pig-killing knife of the years, and even Chen Hao cannot escape the changes brought to her by age. In the camera, Chen Hao will also have obvious nasolabial folds, especially when she bows her head, two nasolabial folds and two marionette lines have appeared on her skin that is no longer firm.
The camera moved down, and you could even see neck lines on Chen Hao's neck.
Wrinkles are a medal of women's age, and on the road of anti-aging and anti-wrinkle, 45-year-old Chen Hao has done a good job. It's just that aging is a process that everyone must go through, and obviously Chen Hao doesn't care at all that his lost youth is seen by the audience.
In addition to nasolabial folds and puppet lines, Chen Hao can see tiny crow's feet even if he just closes his eyes in the play, and it can be seen from this alone that "Happy Parents Group" focuses on a reality in the post-production filter, Chen Hao is the state that a 45-year-old woman should be on the screen.
is as calm as Chen Hao and Wang Xiaochen, in fact, Wang Xiaochen has been creating a mature female image in the play in recent years, and this time she is the same in the play, playing a young mother, although the dressing style is more Internet celebrity than Chen Hao, but the aura exuded by the whole body is the sense of sight of a novice mother.
In the high-definition lens, Wang Xiaochen's facial flatness is not even as good as Chen's, and some dull complexion exposes her 35-year-old true age, the most surprising thing is that in the showbiz that is full of life and death, Wang Xiaochen is wearing an off-the-shoulder short top with a big grin, revealing the obvious swimming ring and even the midline of his abdomen.
However, Wang Xiaochen in this picture is not sloppy or greasy, on the contrary, her truth and nature are highly suitable for this TV series that focuses on family life.
Obviously, Chen Hao and Wang Xiaochen are very appropriate for their performances, they play the right roles at the right age, without idol baggage, and do not pursue the aesthetic of white and thin.
Now it seems that Chen Hao's wrinkles and Wang Xiaochen's fat, I don't know how many young actresses have been slapped in the face.
refusing to pretend to be tender is the most basic professionalism of an actor
In fact, actresses playing tender has almost become a norm in the industry, taking "Love for a Long Time" to be launched in 2024 as an example, Yang Zi, as a 90-year-old flower, has unlimited starlight, and her beauty sought after by fans has gradually become a label on her.
But it is a fact that she is not in a good state in "Love for a Long Time", hanging two deep nasolabial folds to play an adolescent girl in a school uniform, which is abrupt and dramatic, and it is a proper visual crit.
Yang Zi's overturn this time may be related to her state and makeup during filming, but in addition to Yang Zi, there are a lot of actors in the circle who are overconfident in their acting skills.
Zhang Ziyi in "Shangyang Fu" pouts and sells cuteness, pouts and pouts her neck, and her acting skills are expressive, but the sense of maturity that can't be blocked by filters overflows the screen. Her deep-set eye sockets and visibly drooping corners of her mouth are all fighting with her acting style.
Zhou Xun in "The Legend of Ruyi" used Barbie powder's lipstick and hoarse voice to dissuade the audience as soon as he appeared. Obviously, the plot quality of "The Legend of Ruyi" is good, but Zhou Xun's face is swollen, and he doesn't forget to pout and pretend to be cute, which can be shortlisted for her black history fragments.
The most outrageous is Carina Lau, Carina Lau, who is already 50+, let alone a girl, is unable to play **, but she just played the role of Gu Manlu in "The Origin of Love", and now I recall that she wore a double ponytail and seriously interpreted the picture of pure white moonlight, there is still an embarrassment that makes people pick their toes.
In fact, many actors' acting skills can catch the audience's eyes, but many actors are not clear about their image positioning.
Ma Yili, who has outstanding acting skills and outstanding expressiveness in "Flowers", vividly played the Shanghai femininity of Lingzi's style and Wu Nong's soft words.
But in the TV series "Dragon City", she played Zheng Dongni, who loves freedom all her life with big waves of bangs and folds and fine lines, is abrupt and strange.
Ma Yili is still the same Ma Yili, but colliding with different characters is a completely different perception. This is enough to prove how important it is for actors to find their own way and find their own positioning.
WasJiang Wenli, a powerful actor who won the Golden Rooster Award, is playing tender and overturning in "Love Around the Corner", and some actors feel that acting skills are all the conditions for shaping the role, so I can only say that he has a high probability of having an enmity with the audience, and the bias is not comfortable for the audience.
Hao Lei bluntly said on the variety show of acting, "At what age you are going to act", this attitude is not only sober, but also responsible for the audience and the work.
Of course, in many cases, actors may have no choice, in addition to the actors' own unclear heads, the entire film and television environment of domestic entertainment seems to have enmity with newcomers, big IPs dare not use newcomers, and original scripts dare not find nobodies, to put it bluntly, it is the works that have no confidence that have created a market environment in which domestic dramas are overly dependent on celebrities, and there is no splash without well-known actors.
If you want to change this status quo, you have to start with the audience and the actors, the audience boycotts, and the actors are screened, so as to gradually improve the number of ways for domestic dramas to let middle-aged women fall in love and pretend to be cute at every turn.
Finally, what do you think about the act of pretending to be young on screen? What other outrageous castings are particularly spicy in memory? Join the discussion in the comments section.