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Before watching "Article 20", I believed the "poor box office because Zhao Liying stole the marketing limelight" circulating on the Internet.
After watching "Article 20", I admit that the statement that the marketing is off track is not unreasonable, but the biggest problem of the movie is not Zhao Liying, but that its own quality is not good enough.
In order to cater to the Spring Festival, he chose to use comedy to dilute the tragedy of the movie's theme, resulting in a serious separation between the front and back stages of the movie.
failed to specifically show the process of advancing the case, but arranged for the tool man to appear at the right time.
did not go into the social significance of the ** case, but at the end of the movie, through a large number of lines from Lei Jiayin, bluntly deducted the topic.
The line between Ma Li and her son is meaningless and even slightly redundant. This family of three quarreled at every turn, which directly answered my question about why this movie was so long before the movie.
Zhao Liying's role is indeed small, but who can deny that she is one of the most brilliant characters in the whole movie?
has created the character of "Hao Xiuping" so completely and devotedly, what's wrong with people's marketing?
2023 is Zhao Liying's second time in the film industry.
This year, she filmed "The Road of the Tiger and Wolf", "Article 20", "Qiao Yan's Heart", and "Sauce Garden Lane" to be filmed.
Throughout the year, she was immersed in various film crews, and she did not participate in any activities at the end of the year.
She concentrates on filming, no matter how many scenes she has, once or three times.
After the success of "The Wind Blows in the Summer" and "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", it can be seen that Zhao Liying is more ambitious and confident in her career.
This time, the script she chose for the movie was very different from the last time.
From 2016 to 2017, Zhao Liying also filmed a lot of movies.
Among them, "Riding the Wind and Waves", "The True Love Formula of a Female Man" and "Journey to the West" have left a strong mark in her film history.
But among these three movies, the two leading movies have a very poor reputation, and the only "Riding the Wind and Waves" with a good reputation is only a cameo, and it is not a real achievement according to the rules.
Such achievements made Zhao Liying unable to break into the film industry, and her acting skills were not recognized.
It's a pity, but it's to be expected.
After all, Zhao Liying, who is used to acting in TV series, is not familiar with the rhythm and method of filming movies, and she is not yet 30 years old at the time, and she is even more unable to play multi-layered characters with ease.
Even in an undisputed bad movie like "Journey to the West", Zhao Liying's thin body and aura can't support a role like "The King of Daughter Country".
Some people say that Zhao Liying grew up quietly in a place where no one saw her.
I think that Zhao Liying's every step can be traced, if you are willing to understand her.
Marriage is very important in Zhao Liying's life, which makes her understand that she has to rely on herself.
Since the comeback of her son, in addition to "You Fei", which had to be filmed because of the favor of the platform, from "Who is **" to "The Wind Blows in the Summer", Zhao Liying is no longer satisfied with the role she plays is completely confined to an idol drama with no depth at all.
She practiced with TV dramas, and slowly adjusted herself from Hua Dan to an omnipotent Tsing Yi.
The change of an actor is the clearest in the industry.
When the time comes to 2023, the movie scripts that Zhao Liying has come into contact with have nothing to do with the so-called "bad movies".
She dared to give Zhang Yimou advice, so that "Hao Xiuping", who has few scenes, will be remembered by the audience to the greatest extent.
She had dinner with Chen Kexin, but chose to be invisible during the controversy over the position of "Sauce Garden Lane", just to preserve the role.
She finally got the heroine of the movie again, and stayed in the crew of "Qiao Yan's Heart" for a few months, giving up the limelight of the year-end activities to other actresses.
Now, "Article 20" is Zhao Liying's film debut after being reborn.
I think she's done with a satisfactory answer.
Before watching "Article 20", I was worried that such a character would be out of place in the comedy elements carefully set up by director Zhang Yimou, and I was even more worried that she would be too sensational and cause the audience to be disgusted.
Fortunately, Zhao Liying's performance was not abrupt, and her natural acting skills with a sense of breathing also made the role of "Hao Xiuping" successfully play her role as the finishing touch.
If you want to say that Zhao Liying played the best part, I think it is the scene of suicide on the rooftop.
When Hao Xiuping jumped cleanly from the rooftop, I was shocked.
Lu Lingling (played by Gao Ye) said: "How desperate is a woman to leave her husband, a 5-year-old disabled daughter, who is facing the death penalty, and choose to die." ”
If Zhao Liying hadn't been able to grasp that degree of despair, Yu Lingling's words would not have been so deafening.
On the rooftop, Hao Xiuping's emotions were pushed to the highest point, the bullies in the village bullied her family for a long time, the physical and mental damage to her, the anxiety of her daughter being kidnapped, the case could not be advanced, and her husband was facing the death penalty.
So that a rural woman who can't even speak, and can only keep the pain in her heart, has no way to escape.
She's not stupid, she knows that maybe only blood can evoke the little conscience that some people have left.
Her tears flowed endlessly, the sign language that grew stronger and the bruises on her face broke down so much.
Zhao Liying's proposal to portray "Hao Xiuping" as a deaf and mute person is a stroke of genius, and it is precisely the inability to speak that allows this character not to exaggerate suffering without a bottom line, but to infect the audience's emotions from the inside out.
When she jumped from a height neatly, many audiences in the theater subconsciously exclaimed.
This is an exclamation for Hao Xiuping's bumpy fate, and it is also a recognition of Zhao Liying's acting skills.
This earth-shattering jump not only reversed Hao Xiuping's predicament, but also shattered Zhao Liying and reorganized a new her.
I remember that Zhao Liying once said in an interview: "If people don't fight, then what kind of life is there." ”
Judging from this sentence, Zhao Liying and Hao Xiuping have the same character background.
They are tenacious, even if their fate is like duckweed, they will desperately grow their spines.
The inconspicuous little girl who was born in the countryside and graduated from a technical secondary school has become a big star now.
Speaking of Zhao Liying again, no one will remember her "black history". The audience will remember that she is Hua Qiangu, Chu Qiao, Lu Zhen, and Xu Banxia.
Now, Zhao Liying has another name, her name is "Hao Xiuping".
This is the best compliment for an actor.