Liu Tao is indeed prolific. She and Qin Hailu and Liu Yuning's new drama "Be Your Own Light" has started broadcasting.
In the play, Liu Tao is set as a middle-aged hostess. From the plot to the attire, she follows her previous path of a strong woman.
In recent years, Liu Tao has been in this comfort zone, and the characters in the performances are similar, so much so that he is called a "play bastard".
This time her new play not only has similar characters. The plot is also close to "sibling love". She and singer Liu Yuning, who is 12 years younger than herself, acted as a sister and brother love. The overall setting is not optimistic when I think about it.
In fact, the setting is not bad, Liu Tao doesn't need to pretend to be tender and naive, he plays the mother of a 7-year-old child, lives in a villa and drives a luxury car, and his temperament and behavior are all right.
At the beginning of the story, Liu Tao's seemingly loving husband took all the cash at home, took his passport, and ran away on the day of their wedding anniversary celebration, leaving tens of millions of debts to Liu Tao who was kept in the dark.
Liu Yuning is one of the creditors. In order to ask for the debt, he kept wandering around Liu Tao's house.
Liu Tao had to go into hiding after a sudden accident, and finally sold his car and house to pay off his debts. The beginning of the
story has a climax and suspense, but it is also very similar to many story settings in recent years. For example, Haiqing's "Sweetness" with heavy responsibilities also begins with her husband having an accident, leaving a pile of debts to Haiqing, who has always been an idle wife who doesn't know much about the world.
Peng Guanying and Cai Wenjing's "Unexpected Arrival" has the same opening, with the husband missing and the wife in trouble.
Although the specific storytelling methods are different, it is almost 100% certain that after the characters of Liu Tao and Liu Yuning go through twists and turns, there will be lovers who will eventually get married.
The tone of the story is set, and it is not easy to tell a good story by attracting people.
As the main character, Liu Tao's looks and temperament remain the same as before. How should I put it, she is definitely not ugly, but she is still a bit good-looking if you take a closer look. She has an elegant figure and a good temperament. As a middle-aged man, she can even kill many young girls in seconds.
But this image is still in her comfort zone, not too different from all her previous images.
Andy in "Ode to Joy" and the elite women in "Holiday Warm Ocean" are similar with minor differences.
Although some people say that her performances in "The Beginning" and "County Party Committee Compound" were not so satisfactory, in fact, her appearance and character design in these two films have made breakthroughs.
Liu Tao herself belongs to the type whose bones and skin are relatively resistant to aging. Although she looked a little mature when she was young, but after she got older, this face shape allowed her to maintain her appearance for decades.
She may not be the most beautiful, but in terms of bone appearance, she is absolutely resistant to aging. In April this year, her appearance was even on the hot search, and it was said that she used medical beauty, and she hit the faces of many celebrities.
But to be honest, Liu Tao's face has always been pretty good. Even if she is criticized for a few works that pretend to be tender, she just doesn't look like 20 years old, but she is still much better than her peers.
is just an actor, Guangnai is not enough. In the new drama, Liu Tao's performance cannot be said to be bad, but both emotions and performances are suspected of being stylized. Cry when you should cry, and laugh when you should laugh. I can't fault it, but I always feel that the drama is not deep enough and lacks contagion.
Especially when the plot is intense, her body language is more in place than her facial expressions. I don’t know if it’s because the dramas have been too intensive these years. With the habitual way of acting, you know that she is acting in pain. You can also see her frowning and sobbing, but there are no tears, no collapse, and everything is just tasted.
will even have frequent blank eyes, which have appeared in several dramas.
Even pain and anxiety smack of insouciance.
The male protagonist Liu Yuning is an Internet celebrity and singer with a sense of humor. The overall temperament is not bad, but how should I say it?
Even if you look at the refined stills, you can see that the temperament between the two is not in harmony. Liu Tao has a strong sense of virtuousness from the previous generation of actresses, with a gentle atmosphere but obviously a "mother". Of course, she also plays a mother in the play.
This caused two special temperaments in her to keep fighting, one moment was a gentle and virtuous housewife without imposing manner, and the other moment was a swaying white-collar beauty.
is probably to correct this kind of characteristic. She has used too much force in many places, and her emotional outbursts are the five senses flying around. She can see the action but not the emotion.
Although Liu Yuning is over 30 years old, but because of the long-term live broadcast, he has a sense of fashion, and he is also a handsome guy with single eyelids, a bit Hanfan.
The girls are handsome and the boys are handsome, but they just don't look like people from the same era.
viewers didn't seem too impressed with this either.
In recent years, the film and television drama "Love in the New Year" and "Sister and Brother Love" have become popular. Qin Lan, Yang Mi and others have filmed a lot. Different people have different opinions. Liu Tao has also been involved before, but whether it is Zhou Yumin's "Da Song Gong Ci" or Lin Feng's "Stars and Seas", they are only a few years younger. The temperament of
is also quite good.
But since Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao's "Love at the Corner", the audience has become somewhat rebellious towards this kind of sibling relationship with a huge age difference.
In fact, the selling point of this film could have been Liu Tao himself, instead of focusing on love after the year, this kind of person who pays off debts for her husband and strives to make progress coincides with Liu Tao himself, but the film has already been filmed.
Liu Tao used to have many good screen images. Her performances in "Tian Long Ba Bu" and "White Snake" are all remarkable.
It was only later that her plays became more and more, but her performances became less and less distracted, less and less into the drama.
The hit drama "Hurricane" once rumored that Liu Tao was invited to play the role of sister-in-law, but there was a lot of opposition. The audience said that if she would not be a hit in the drama, they would be tired of watching her, and their dislike and knowledge were beyond words.
Today's drama, if Liu Tao is still a stylized performance, it may not be easy to win word of mouth.
In the play, Qin Hailu, who plays Liu Tao's friend, is also a best friend with Liu Tao in real life. This play is more like a special show for the two sisters.
Since her debut, Qin Hailu has always been an acting school. She won the best actress in college. She was called the "ugliest" actress back then, but she didn't seem to care about this title, and kept filming on her own.
She is very calm about her appearance. She once said that because her small eyes and single eyelids are not good for filming, she specially cut her double eyelids, but it is not for looking good at all, but for work.
has been in the powerful circle for a long time. Qin Hailu has an excellent reputation for her acting skills. Compared with when she was young, her facial features have not changed, but they have gradually stretched out, giving her a sense of calmness and leisure.
Zhang Yimou used her in "The Cliff". Zhang Yimou once said that he would not use plastic surgery actresses, because the facial muscles are a whole.
I thought that Qin Hailu would continue on the road of original face, but unexpectedly she changed her way halfway.
In "Be Your Own Light", her face is no longer what it used to be, full of swelling everywhere, especially from the side, she can't see the normal lines of the face at all, she just feels plump and her skin is too plump.
Especially in places with good lighting, her forehead still showed obvious bumps, and her whole face was no longer as agile as before.
This is not the first time her face has attracted attention. Her face has already attracted attention in "City of Youth".
At that time, her face was already a little swollen, especially when making facial expressions, the stiffness was obvious, and the face was uneven, but it was not repaired.
It is particularly obvious that the face is clearly full, but the decree lines are surprisingly deep, which is obviously not what should happen in a natural state.
Her acting skills were originally natural and clear, and she rarely yelled, but now she has to jump between deadpan and exaggerated, which is really not worth the candle.
There is nothing wrong with actors staying in the comfort zone. After all, not everyone is capable of playing thousands of faces, but how can I put it? Staying in the comfort zone and repeating the same character design and performance method is obviously inappropriate if it is too slick.
Appearance is one of the most important weapons of an actor, it should be well maintained, but if it is over-medicated and affects the performance, it is somewhat a pity, after all, the most beautiful is to age gracefully and naturally.
