Yongmei won the Berlin Film Festival, is it spring for middle-aged actresses? The story may not be so optimistic.
"Many domestic self-media reports that Yong Mei uses the title of "Being a heroine for the first time, take the Berlin actress", but from another perspective, why are outstanding domestic actresses who have the ability to take international actresses until now? Acting as the heroine once?" A film critic pointed out that "the middle-aged actress has no play to play" is still a dilemma that domestic actresses are facing.
actor Xiao Tao Hong once explained that Asian culture is mostly girls, so āwhen actresses reach a certain age, there will be fewer roles that can be found to play.ā
and in Hollywood, despite the new generation of actors Is also on the rise, but middle-aged actresses are still ruling Hollywood, and in Japan and South Korea, middle-aged actresses are also constantly achieving new successes. Even some long-lost actresses can quickly "turn over" with their excellent works. .
Why does the situation of domestic middle-aged actresses seem to be particularly difficult? The domestic film and television industry's respect for traffic stars and the short-sightedness of the market are considered to be the main reasons. "But why the market gets such a wrong perception? This is the key." Hollywood is not without age discrimination. The famous 50-year-old actress Catherine Zeta Jones once condemned Hollywood for lack of opportunities to star in movies. But why, from the perspective of industry status, awards and box office, Hollywood middle-aged actresses still play the mainstay role.
With Yongmei winning the international award and the rise of a group of middle-aged actresses in China, can middle-aged actresses usher in the Mood for Love in the film and television market?
acting middle-aged actress is "youth" in Hollywood?
Hollywood middle-aged and elderly actressesā resistance to ageism has continued, just as the 74-year-old Helen Mirren once complained: āWe sat and watched the Bond series. He became older and older, his girlfriend They are getting younger and younger."
But is the middle-aged Hollywood actress out of play? Open the list of nominations for the 91st Oscar heroine. Glenn Close was born in 1947, Melissa McCarthy, who was previously known as a comedian, was born in 1970, and Olivia Coleman was born in 1974. In 1986, Lady Gaga was born in 1986, but it is clear that middle-aged actresses dominate most of the country.
Among them, the 33-year-old new Hollywood actor Lady Gaga is also a "half middle-aged actress" by the standards of domestic film and television circles, but their careers in Hollywood are on the way. The female stars who have won Oscars over the years are mainly middle-aged actresses.
is mostly capable actresses who can win important acting awards. This may not be enough to explain the status of middle-aged actresses in Hollywood. Let's take a look at the top ten list of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses published by Forbes in 2018. : 34-year-old Scarlett Johansson, 43-year-old Angelina Jolie, 50-year-old Jennifer Aniston, 28-year-old Jennifer Lawrence, 42-year-old Reese Witherspoon, 35 Mila Kunis, 51, Julia Roberts, 49, Cate Blanchett, 48, Melissa McCarthy, 48, and Gail Gadot, 33.
In Hollywood, the income of actresses reflects the comprehensive strength of industry influence, box office appeal, reputation and awards. To a large extent, this is the most direct Hollywood actress power list. According to the domestic film and television industry The 35-year-old dividing line of middle-aged actresses, except for Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, and Gal Gadot, all of the above-mentioned popular Hollywood actresses can be classified as middle-aged actresses.
Even Gal Gadot, who became popular in the United States with the DC superhero movie "Wonder Woman" last year, is 33 years old and will soon star in Marvel's "Black Widow" single movie with a high pay of 15 million dollars. The goddess Scarlett Johansson is also 34 years old, but she can still star in a movie featuring them at the age of a "middle-aged actress".
āāAre these Hollywood pillar-level actresses from young red to now? But there are many actresses who counterattack. For example, this yearās Oscar-nominated comedy fat sister Melissa McCarthy used to imitate celebrities as comedians in "Weekend Night Live" for a long time, and was once in a soy sauce position in Hollywood. The performance in "Bridesmaids" won the 84th Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.It was the 2015 box office dark horse "Female Spy" that established its position in Hollywood. This year Melissa McCarthy was 45 years old.
similar examples of middle-aged actress counterattacks are not uncommon in Hollywood: "Superman: Man of Steel", "Master" and other films, the heroine Amy Adams only became famous when he was 33 years old with a "Magic Romance" .
In recent years, the actress Jessica Chastain, who has been in the limelight in Hollywood in recent years, won the 70th Golden Globe Award for the best drama in the film category at the age of 36 with the role of Maya in the movie "Hunt Bin Laden" Heroine.
"If you are in the domestic film and television industry, these actresses in their 35s are likely to have begun to encounter the predicament of no acting, let alone become famous with an important role and rank among the first-line actresses." Domestic film critics pointed out that for middle-aged Hollywood actresses, it seems that there will always be a chance to usher in the late spring, and domestic actresses can only accept the role of mother-in-law when they reach their age. Even if the acting appearance is online, How can you break through?
Why are the Japanese and Korean film and television industries not superstitious about traffic actresses?
Why do domestic middle-aged actresses need to make a choice between no play to play and mother-in-law role, 66-year-old Meryl Streep can still continue to compete for Oscars, once in the live-action version of "101 spots Glenn Close, who is familiar to the audience in the role of Kuila in "Dog", can also become the top two favorites of this year's Oscar heroine at the age of 71 and Lady Gaga, 33?
A more consistent view in the industry is that because of the different film and television cultures of the two countries and the different social cultures of East Asia and Europe and America, European and American middle-aged actresses are more likely to get important roles.
Then the Japanese and Korean film and television industries, which are also rooted in East Asian culture, are not as superstitious as traffic actresses in China. In the popular Korean drama "The Mist" last year, Kim Nam-joo, who is nearly 50 years old, regained popularity with a strong middle-aged female character.
and this year created a miracle of "Castle in the Sky" from its first broadcast of 1.7% to a breakthrough of 20%, which brought another wave of middle-aged actresses such as Lian Jingya and Li Tailan to a new peak.
In Japan, it is expected to break 4 billion yen in the box office in 2019. The heroine Nagasawa Masami, starring Kimura Takuya and the opening of Higashino Keigoās new reasoning series "Masked Hotel", is actually 31 Years old.
In the Japanese film industry, there are a lot of actresses like this 30+ who are still popular, not to mention the 73-year-old senior box office actresses who are still at the forefront of the box office with every new film like Sayuri Yoshinaga.
"In the final analysis is a kind of commercial inertia", film critics pointed out that it is not that domestic middle-aged actresses are not as appealing as traffic actresses, but capital has formed a blind pursuit of traffic stars, easily reducing the number of actress fans and business The value is equalized, leaving middle-aged actresses with fewer and fewer opportunities to prove their strength, which in turn affects their creation. Insiders pointed out that from Hollywood to Japan and South Korea, the market prospects of middle-aged actresses are actually determined by their personal strength, commercial appeal, and capital's business expectations for actresses in this age group.
In Hollywood, the Netflix movie "Blindfold Your Eyes" starring by 54-year-old Sandra Bullock alone can break the record of Netflix original movies.
In Japan, middle-aged actresses such as Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuki Amami, and Ryoko Yonekura are box office and ratings guarantee; in South Korea, dramas starring Mesozoic actresses such as Kim Nam Joo and Yeon Jingya, who are nearly 50 years old, can repeatedly create ratings miracles. These commercial successes, in turn, have influenced the capital to develop more stories and themes around middle-aged female protagonists, thereby providing more middle-aged actresses with new opportunities. All of this ultimately constitutes a virtuous circle of middle-aged females. Star commercial value chain, on the contrary, the more domestic middle-aged actresses lack opportunities, the less opportunities there are.
The domestic middle-aged actress has no drama, don't blame the audience who should blame?
But the domestic middle-aged actress has no acting, can you blame the audience? "It's not that domestic audiences don't know how to appreciate middle-aged actresses, but that the industry and capital misjudged the commercial appeal of traffic actresses and underestimated the audience's aesthetics of this era." On the occasion of Women's Day in 2018,
The netizen named "SUM Fuji" was inspired by the Korean drama "A Gentleman's Character" and proposed the "Lady's Character"Creative idea, the story mainly tells the 40-year-old life of four unmarried older women, and gave the starring lineup of Yu Feihong, Chen Shu, Zeng Li, and Yuan Quan. This idea has not only received enthusiastic feedback from netizens on the hot search. In the end, the series was officially approved, and Chen Shu, who was in the list of fictional starring actors by netizens, also entered the list of starring actors in the series.
From Charmaine Sheh, whose acting skills in The Story of Yanxi Palace were sought after by the audience last year, to Tan Zhuo, who quickly became popular with the villains of the play "Gao Guifei" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine", to this year's hit Noon Sunshine "Farming Drama" "Liu Lin, who played "Ms. Wang" in "Knowing whether it should be green, fat, red and thin", is precisely the audience who gave these middle-aged actresses who had excellent acting and unique charm but were silent in the years. On the forefront of your career.
However, traffic stars are experiencing a negative vote from the audience. "The reality of China's film and television industry in 2018 is a fierce slap in the face of traffic superstitions. Movies and movies starring traffic stars with super-high fans The episodes have repeatedly encountered heavy sands and halves. It is the audience saying no to this kind of capital superstition."
Hollywood has also experienced such a process of conceptual reversal. Elizabeth, the producer of films such as "The Fantastic Drifting of the Youth" Ā·Gumbler believes that in the 2006 film "Fashion Devil", the 57-year-old Meryl Streep played a powerful fashion queen not only suppressed Anne Hathaway in the story. , The value created at the box office is also better than the latter.
Although "loving the new and disgusting the old" is the nature of Hollywood, but when the facts are in front of us, more sequels and major productions choose middle-aged female stars.
After Yongmei won the Berlin Film Festival, will domestic middle-aged actresses win the market that should belong to them? Many people in the industry are not optimistic, "Even if the Chinese film market enters the era of word-of-mouth, traffic thinking still has great inertia. Many capitalists would rather give opportunities to middle-aged powerful actors than to powerful actresses. In the final analysis, it is unwilling to take a little risk.ā A film critic at
believes that the process of middle-aged actresses actively seeking performance opportunities to prove themselves is also a process of changing this concept. Only the upgrading of domestic film and television industry concepts will stimulate more The emergence of excellent works led by many middle-aged actresses eventually constitutes a virtuous circle of art and business for middle-aged actresses in the industry, and domestic middle-aged actresses can really "have a show."
