debuted for 30 years, and when she was about to celebrate her 45th birthday, Jia Jingwen won the Golden Bell Award for the role of Song Qiaoan in "The Distance Between Us and Evil".
Some viewers began to move around, taking this as an excellent case to criticize the "middle-aged actress crisis". But it must be said that there is a difference between the small screen and the big screen. The TV drama market is popular for major female lead roles. When Xiaohuadan came forward and emerged, the movie field is still dominated by men.
Five years ago, Gong Li said in an interview: "Actress is an evergreen tree, as long as you want to act, you can continue to act." But the real dilemma is that it is difficult for clever women to cook without rice. Actresses want to, but with There are too few films with a female perspective as the mainstay.
In heavyweight films, women are reduced to functional roles.
The Chinese film market is already the world’s second largest film market, but relative to the annual output of nearly 1,000 films and the annual box office of more than 60 billion yuan, it is strictly domestically produced. Female films are lacklustre. Especially in the Spring Festival stalls, National Day stalls and other head movies tit for tat, it is basically a battlefield for male actors.
Among the six live-action films in the 2019 Spring Festival file, "Flying Life", "Wandering Earth" and "Crazy Alien" are absolutely male-dominated works; "Incorruptible Government" and "Detective Pu Songling" although there are Lin Jiaxin and Zhong Chuxi A red flower can only serve as a green leaf. From the content of the "King of Comedy", the protagonist is undoubtedly E Jingwen, but the fan and propaganda tend to favor Wang Baoqiang, and even after the box office has exceeded 600 million, there are few people. I remember E Jingwen and her acting like a dream.
In the National Day file just past, the flight attendant played by Yuan Quan in "Chinese Captain" is the most discussed, gentle and firm, soothing people in crisis, low-key calm interpretation of the unique charm of women.
Unfortunately, this is still a work dominated by male power. It is the male who fights on the front line and finally solves the problem. The female is very good but it is only an auxiliary. Before the release of
, Zhang Ziyi in "The Climber" is the most anticipated role of the audience. As the only female in the mountaineering team, she is curious about how her perseverance, persistence and sense of mission will be interpreted differently from the male perspective.
does not want to. The film not only focuses on the two male characters of Wu Jing and Zhang Yi, but also portrays the meteorologist played by Zhang Ziyi as an aid to the love scene. It not only weakens the charm of the characters, but also hurts the completion of the work.
As for "My Motherland and Me", which is composed of seven stories, only the last unit of "Convoy" is dominated by women. Reproduced the military parade on September 3, 2015 commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan with the unique perspective of the "prepared for flight" female pilots.
The policewoman played by Hui Yinghong in "Return" and Fang Min played by Ren Suxi in "Encounter" are characters with memory points, empathy and functionality. In the other four stories, female characters are basically missing.
French New Wave director François Truffaut believes that "film is the art of women". Obviously, the current domestic films are far from it.
The lack of female subjects
Some people plainly believe that the lack of female roles is closely related to the subjective consciousness of the creator. Most of the current film and television creators are men. They will design the plot and shape their characters based on their own aesthetics and growth environment in the creative process. Either the female characters lose their edges and corners and become the products of male fantasy, or they are directly flattened and do not have much depth and topical effect.
all say that Hollywood is the highest level of industrial film at present, but there are few female creators in Hollywood, and few female directors can be named. In order to promote gender equality, many filmmakers in the United States use various methods to help women develop in the field of film. For example, Nicole Kidman decided to participate in at least one work directed by a female director every year.
This is certainly a reason, but not an absolute reason. The lack of female roles is basically the lack of female subjects.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the degree of openness was not high, and the people were still awakening. Although the women on the big screen were weak, they symbolized the struggle against feudalism and self-salvation, becoming ChinaThe film is a business card for the international film scene.
Take Zhang Yimou as an example. Chen Mo, director of the China Film Critics Society, once said, "Zhang Yimou's film world is a sloping world, which is tilted to the female side." His success is closely related to his good at shaping female images. From "Red Sorghum" and "Raise the Red Lantern" to "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling", when the outside world praised the "Mou Girl", they also expressed their love for the female characters in their films.
Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun and other outstanding actresses took advantage of the trend and became the backbone of the film industry. However, since 2011, China’s film industry has undergone major changes in the market, discourse power, and the type of themes. When comedy, action, science fiction, and suspense continue to emerge, the proportion of masculinity has naturally increased, and the power of women has declined. , Even the love movies of chicks that have been loved for a few years have begun to disappear.
Seeking truth from facts, action movies are indeed more suitable for actors to play. There are not many domestic actresses who are eye-catching. Zheng Peipei, Michelle Yeoh and other predecessors are considered quite famous, but the younger generation does not pick up. In comedy films, domestic male comedians have emerged in large numbers. The older generation of Ge You has been able to play, and the Mesozoic Huang Bo, Shen Teng and Xu Zheng have all matched each other. Female comedians can hardly think of other people except Ma Li and Jia Ling.
Realistic themes help female characters
Nothing will always be in trouble. Realistic themes are undoubtedly out of the ordinary in the entertainment-to-death commercial film era. From the data point of view, from 2015 to 2016, the audience's reading habits are still inclined to fantasy films and comedies, such as the top box office "Monster Hunt", "Mermaid", "Kung Fu Yoga" and so on.
However, since 2017, with the release of films such as "Wolf Warriors 2", "I Am Not a Medicine God", and "The Nameless Man", realism themes have been deeply affected by the reality and various social issues covered and revealed. The audience loves it.
With the rise of realism themes, more and more high-quality female-themed movies have emerged one after another. "Carnival" which focuses on teenage sexual assault cases, "Find You" which reflects the survival of women in the workplace, and "Send You to the Clouds" which highlights the plight of native families and women. Use different roles to present the existence and emotional status of "women" from different angles.
In "My Motherland and Me", "Win the Championship" with the Chinese women's volleyball team's championship as the background is relaxed and pleasant and surprising. Also based on this, "Chinese Women's Volleyball" directed by Chen Kexin and starring Gong Li returns to the perspective of women. Through the blood and youth of several generations of volleyball players, it shows the women's volleyball girls' perseverance and perseverance.
is also directed by Chen Kexin. The movie "Li Na" of the same name is based on the story of the first Chinese tennis player Li Na. While expressing the spirit of sportsmanship, it also shows that the characters stick to their dreams alone.
In addition to these two sports-themed movies, "She Kills" directed by Cao Baoping is also very exciting. It is one of the few crime suspense themes that focuses on female groups as the main target.
starred by Fan Bingbing, Wang Ziwen, Xin Zhilei, and Li Qin, tells a story of human entanglements under different life situations and emotional states starting from the poetic years of youth on campus.
I still remember that Zhou Xun used the plain-looking and somewhat neurotic female taxi driver in "Li Mi's Conjecture" to lively and vividly, which was heartbreaking. Looking forward to "Killing Her", and also looking forward to more and more female-themed films, while gaining public praise, they can also enter the prime time and become a hit.
