With the continuous success of CCTV period dramas, the audience has high hopes for the new year's big show "South and North". Director Zheng Xiaolong uses ingenious narrative techniques and a talented cast to create this epic life on the train. Among them, the wonderful performances between master and apprentice Ding Yongdai and Bai Jingting are exciting.
However, among the many heated discussions, the selection of some heroines in "Southern and Northbound" triggered an in-depth discussion on the impact of "plastic surgery" on character creation and plot texture. The audience's focus on the character creation in the play fell on the three actresses Jin Chen, Hu Ke and Zuo Xiaoqing.
They have accumulated rich performance experience in the entertainment industry with their respective talents. However, in this drama, they caused heated discussions due to suspected traces of plastic surgery. The audience who originally expected their wonderful performances could not help but turn their attention from the plot to their faces.
first focuses on the young and powerful actor Jin Chen.
Jin Chen has left a deep impression in many film and television works since her debut. For example, she played the role of Crescent Moon in the TV series "Wuxin Master". She has won the love of the audience with her simple and kind-hearted image and vivid and natural acting skills.
However, in "South to North", the character she played, Ma Yan, was in sharp contrast to the image of a tough and poor woman set in the script because her face was too delicate and lacked traces of time.
Although Jin Chen often receives praise for her performance in modern dramas, in this period drama, her facial features appear particularly abrupt, especially the narrow bridge of her nose, the obvious prosthetic chin, and the difficult-to-disguise plastic surgery. The traces make it difficult for the audience to invest in the character she interprets.
The performance of veteran actor Hu Ke was also unsatisfactory.
Hu Ke has shown profound acting skills in many classic TV series such as "Beijing Smoke and Clouds". Among them, the most praised is her role as the mother Lu Li in "Child Slave", with her delicate emotional expression and life-like expression. The performance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
However, in "South to North", Hu Ke plays Shen Xiuping, who is quite different from her actual age. The husband and wife team formed with veteran actor Ding Yongdai aroused the audience's doubts about the large age gap.
Although Hu Ke is well-maintained and has firm and smooth skin, this modern face seems a bit out of place when portraying the role of a wife who has gone through vicissitudes of life.
The audience cannot ignore her plump apple muscles, European-style double eyelids, and makeup that is not in line with the background of the era. These factors have virtually weakened the sense of aging that the character should have, resulting in a discount in the emotional resonance of the audience.
Finally, let’s talk about Zuo Xiaoqing, who was once known as the “Oxygen Beauty”.
She is well-known to the audience for her outstanding performances in TV series such as "Chinese Divorce" and "About Winter". Especially the role of Hu Xiangjun in "Battle of Changsha", with her gentle and elegant temperament and affectionate and restrained performance, she successfully created the image of a woman who understands righteousness.
However, in the drama "South and North", Zuo Xiaoqing played a female character who is proficient in medical skills, but her face was swollen and her contours changed significantly, which aroused discussion among the audience.
With her overly plump apple muscles, slightly stiff jawline and profile that has lost its original charm, it is difficult for the audience to think of Zuo Xiaoqing, who once conquered the screen with his fresh and natural appearance. This not only affected her sense of role in the play, but also caused subtle changes in the audience's goodwill towards her accumulated in previous works.
The casting issue of "Southern and Northish" triggered an in-depth reflection on the artistic effect of plastic surgery culture on film and television dramas. Although Jin Chen, Hu Ke and Zuo Xiaoqing have all had commendable highlights in their respective acting careers, in this specific historical context, their overly modernized or suspected plastic faces have undoubtedly brought a loss to the authenticity of their characters. challenge.
Director Zhang Yimou once mentioned in an interview: "Thousands of muscles on the human face are interconnected, and small changes will have a huge impact."This view has been vividly confirmed in front of the big screen. Even if the actors' fine-tuning may seem to outsiders just to pursue beauty, under certain circumstances, these changes are enough to make a work that should be vivid and real lose its originality. It has soul and charm.
Faced with such a situation, in the follow-up plot of "South to North", the audience is all looking forward to seeing Jin Chen, Hu Ke and Zuo Xiaoqing be able to gradually resolve this situation through acting skills and a presentation that is more suitable for their characters. to regain the audience's recognition and empathy for their characters.
This also sounds a wake-up call for the entire entertainment industry. On the road to pursuing beauty, actors must always remember that the soul of shaping a character is always more important than all appearances. Carving. What do you think?
