It is no exaggeration to say that the 2024 Spring Festival will rewrite the box office story of domestic movies.
I’m not talking about it. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Spring Festival show with such a strong comedy atmosphere.
This is not to say that Jia Ling may become a director with a box office of tens of billions with just two movies.
Of course, there are more. "Let's Shake the Sun Together" announced its withdrawal from the Spring Festival schedule five days after its release.
What I am saying is that in the past Spring Festival, the world has always been dominated by male actors.
Even last year's summer and National Day shows, to a large extent, there were no actresses at all. The box office was mainly dominated by male actors.
But this year’s Spring Festival stalls are different.
Judging from the data, " is hot and hot ", which has exceeded 2 billion in box office, is almost certain to become the box office champion of this Spring Festival. The film's box office is mainly supported by actresses.
counterattacked "Bear Bears" and rose to the third place with " Article 20", achieving a continuous box office decline and a very promising future. Although the film is a standard group drama, Zhao Liying , Ma Li , Actresses such as Gao Ye definitely deserve the credit.
In short, during the Spring Festival this year, the actress made a turnaround at the box office, which also allowed the market to see the value of actresses.
There has always been a shortage of good actresses in domestic entertainment, but the reality is that in the film market, actresses have gradually become mere foils.
We will choose to watch a movie because of Shen Teng, Wu Jing, and Lei Jiayin, but rarely watch a movie because of actresses.
But when actresses took the lead in Spring Festival movies, the audience saw the different charms of the actresses. The Spring Festival period has naturally become a large-scale drama competition for powerful domestic entertainment actresses.
This Spring Festival, which actress’s acting skills surprised you?
I selected the 8 actresses with the best acting skills in my mind to see what wonderful performances they had in the Spring Festival episode of Fighting Gods. Although
is ranked in order, this wonderful Spring Festival film belongs to all outstanding actresses.
Eighth place: Li Xueqin "Hot and Spicy"
Li Xueqin's biggest achievement in this drama is to completely break her label as a comedian, allowing us to see how malleable an actress is.
The first time I noticed Li Xueqin's acting was in last year's comedy dark horse "Keep You Safe".
Li Xueqin is hilarious as soon as she appears. She is the kind of female comedian that God will reward her with.
She is still funny in "Hot and Spicy", even because Jia Ling put a lot of effort into the inspirational drama, many funny tasks were given to her and Qiao Shan.
I think the funniest scene in the whole film is when the enemy honey played by Li Xueqin intervenes. The moment Le Ying saw the chat records on her mobile phone, she dunked and Li Xueqin knelt down, and the laughter came out.
’s lingering scene with Qiao Shan, and those charming little eyes, even I couldn’t stand.
Jia Ling is also afraid that Li Xueqin is very good-looking. An ordinary and somewhat good-looking best friend steals your boyfriend and invites you to be the bridesmaid. This is convincing enough.
Lily is a character who has some selfishness and cowardice, which are actually very common in life, and are particularly unpleasant in movies. However, Li Xueqin played the role with a layered sense. We can have pure "bad women" in our comedy movies "of.
Finally, I want to praise her and Qiao Shan for finally acting as my mouthpiece: "I think we should also go for a run."
"That thing hurts the knees."
Seventh place: Lin Xilei's "Mr. Red Carpet"
"Mr. Red Carpet" did not have high visibility during the Spring Festival. The box office has not exceeded 100 million so far, and many people have ignored Lin Xilei.
But Weichi Lau’s ex-wife in "Mr. Red Carpet" can definitely be regarded as an iconic figure in Xile Lin's acting career after her comeback.
This film does not leave much room for Lin Xilei to perform, but she still accurately captured every appearance of the character. The most exciting performance of
is the performance of the tiredness of marriage.Especially the opening sentence: "You don't make it public when you get married, and you don't make it public when you get divorced?"
Lin Xilei said that the kiss scene with Andy Lau in "The Gambler vs. Las Vegas" was her "first kiss" in the industry ".
Back then, she was the goddess of Hong Kong movies at the turn of the century.
's unique charm and sexiness made her reveal a different kind of beauty under Wang Jing's lens.
She made her final appearance in "Flowers", playing the role of Taiwanese wealthy businessman Mrs. Lin. He is the key figure who determines the outcome of the final business war.
Under the guidance of Wong Kar-wai, Lin Xilei’s face looks very story-telling and vital on the small screen. In contrast, photographing the beauty of female celebrities has never been Ning Hao's strong point.
But she still uses the mature beauty brought by the years to leave a beautiful female figure in a comedy full of irony, which also seems to hint at the romantic and romantic days of the golden age of Hong Kong films.
Many viewers still want to see her perform more.
Sixth place: Zhang Xiaofei's "Hot and Spicy"
It's hard to imagine that if it weren't for Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei, who has already established a foothold in the film industry with "Rescue the Suspect" with a box office of nearly 600 million, would have played a role in a comedy movie Such a "bad" character.
In the past, domestic movies, especially Spring Festival movies, portrayed women as either beautiful "vases", femme fatales, or selfless virgins.
The role of Le Ying's sister Le Dan played by Zhang Xiaofei is good because she plays the common "evil" in life: I am afraid that you will be good, but I hope you will be bad.
always mocks Le Ying every time they meet.
The trigger that triggered Le Ying to leave home was that her words at the dinner table became more and more unpleasant, and they got so heated that they started fighting each other.
's fist force was not used at all, and the sisters were completely torn apart.
But why does she say that Le Ying has not contributed to this family?
She sent her children to school and asked Leying to transfer the house in her name.
For such a big thing, she took it for granted, as if Leying deserved to be sacrificed.
Le Ying decided to pursue her dream. She laughed at Le Ying for being "sick" and was so jealous that she was speechless after seeing her succeed.
Jia Ling is also ruthless enough, and she doesn’t allow any reversal of roles at all, and she is as bad as ever.
Even though the character is annoying, after watching "Hot and Spicy", I was really happy for Zhang Xiaofei.
She really let the audience see her super plasticity with this bad woman role.
Fifth place: Gao Ye's "Article 20"
To be honest, it is not easy for any supporting actress to stand out in the group drama "Article 20".
Due to Zhang Yimou's extraordinary appeal, the film has almost half of the outstanding actors in domestic entertainment. A large number of outstanding supporting actors have strong expressive power even if they only appear a few times.
For example, the "bus driver" (played by Yang Haoyu) who feels aggrieved and insists on petitioning for himself, the dean (played by Zhang Yi) who uses unique black humor to show an annoying personality, and even the village chief (played by Fan Wei) who is behind the evil forces. The Douban score of
's film is 7.8. Regardless of whether it is underestimated or not, this is another high score after Zhang Yimou's "Return". It is largely due to a textbook-like group performance demonstration.
In addition, the role of Lu Lingling is particularly difficult to play.
Lu Lingling, as the host female prosecutor, resisted pressure from all parties and persisted in searching for evidence to determine self-defense. From another perspective, she was unlikable and incompetent. When she acted out of character, she was a self-righteous and inflexible stereotype.
But Gao Ye just acted out the character's gritted teeth and the determination to achieve results.
is even more chivalrous.
In the film, the key evidence of the coercion of the mute couple - Liu Wenjing's knife could not be found. She would rather encounter repeated doubts and negative comments from her superiors, other departments, and even colleagues, to find the end for those who were bullied. In the end She paid the price for her career.
But she said: “Yes, there is a price to pay for doing the right thing."
"Article 20" is Zhang Yimou's most successful creation of female characters in the past few years. Every female character has weight and shines.
On the surface, it is Lei Jiayin's character who finally succeeds. .
But if there had not been such a chivalrous female prosecutor at that time, nothing would have happened.
Every time I think of her stubborn eyes, confused expression, and firm tone in the film.
I am convinced that Gao With this role, Ye has broken out of the siege of sister-in-law.
Fourth place: Xu Fan's "Let's Shake the Sun Together"
Although the film has been withdrawn from the Spring Festival schedule, this film with a Douban score of 7.9 still left a lot of Brilliant performance.
Choosing Xu Fan as the representative of the acting school in this film does not mean that the two leading actors are not good at acting.
Especially Li Gengxi, she not only appears on the big screen with a bare face, thin and dull body, she is quite close to her. A real ordinary patient, he also contributed the best acting skills since the movie. The chemical reaction between the two young actors is very good, with an explosive power that burns life.
But Xu Fan’s performance is really great.
The male protagonist she plays is Lu Tu's mother confused me as soon as she appeared on the scene, because this is a character who is completely different from the family members of patients in previous works of the same type, with a cheerful personality. Just like her inconspicuous son, she does not regard herself as an outsider at all.
She helps the heroine take a bath In that scene, the very life-like lines and extremely silky movements made the whole theater burst into laughter.
This kind of out-of-the-box characters and life-like joy made the originally heavy story more interesting.
But we all know how could Xu Fan come and play a comedy and then leave?
The most amazing scene in the whole film is when Xu Fan smiles and says the saddest thing. With a few expressions and tiny movements, the audience is The emotion was pushed to the extreme, it was extremely restrained sadness, but the effect was so explosive.
Xu Fan neither cried nor made a fuss, but as soon as she opened her mouth, all the sadness came out, and any audience could feel the emotion of a mother. Helpless.
Chinese traditional culture emphasizes that words are exhaustive but meaning is endless.
Xu Fan’s simple lines contain too many complex thoughts, and he performed the softest and toughest aspects of Chinese family love. It’s great. !
Third place: Ma Li "Article 20"
In "Article 20", the actress Zhang Yimou used most brilliantly is Ma Li.
"Article 20" combines comedy, family and society Questions and other subjects were mixed together and photographed together.
Comedy is the surface, reality is the inside, and the end point is the popularization of the law and the discussion of fairness and justice.
If someone else takes the photo, 90% of the time they will snap.
Because it covers everything, it is easy to fail to cover everything.
The wonderful thing is that Zhang Yimou solved this problem with his profound skills.
For this play to be successful, the stage must be stable enough, the logic of the story must stand up to scrutiny, and the actors' performances can be performed with different accents, but they must be perfectly matched and there must be no shortcomings.
is like running in a relay race on a narrow theme track. It has to be funny, let the audience be emotionally involved, and in the end it has to be the finishing touch. It doesn’t matter if any of the sticks fall off.
Of the three actresses, Gao Ye is the first one to carry the plot forward, Zhao Liying is the finishing touch, and the one in the middle belongs to Ma Li.
Her mission is to retain the audience with comedy.
If she drops the stick, the movie will not reach the end, the audience will be disillusioned, and the story will be difficult to follow.
Ma Li completed the task perfectly.
Lei Jiayin and Chen Minghao are excellent and capable actors, but they are not comedians.
But it's very funny when Ma Li is around. Whether it's the couple's daily bickering or Chen Minghao getting involved, the three of them chatter to the point of irritation, and the audience can't stop laughing.
The same line, without Ma Li, I can't imagine such a funny result.
There are very few actors who can do a movie without her, but "Article 20" is a big drama without Ma Li.
has its own comedy points but can make people laugh without being embarrassed. She naturally and smoothly integrates baggage into the character's personality, which is the most outstanding part of her performance.
A very common sentence, if put in other people's mouth, it is just a line, but if put in her words, it will become a joke.
Coupled with Lei Jiayin who was brought up by her, tension and joy always arose in every family scene where the couple battled wits and courage.
At the climax of the whole comedy, the mother played by Ma Li fought hard against the asshole father played by Zhang Yi and gained the upper hand.
Zhang Yi has been filming for so many years. He has beaten serial murderers even harder than foreign mercenaries, but he has never been beaten so badly.
Audiences who have watched Ma Li's acting can easily find that she possesses a kind of everyday cuteness. This cuteness can turn an unremarkable character into a punchline in a not-so-perfect script. This is Planting something is called comedy talent.
Second place: Jia Ling's "Hot and Spicy"
It's a bit redundant to praise Jia Ling again. She is undoubtedly the biggest winner in the entire Spring Festival, and may even be the biggest winner of Chinese movies in 2024.
"Hot" was a hit at the box office, taking her all the way to become the number one female director at the box office in film history. Sony Pictures, one of the top five in Hollywood, officially announced that it has won the global distribution rights of "Hot".
This is Jia Ling’s era.
Prior to this, Chen Sicheng was the most understanding of the audience among Chinese film directors, and now Jia Ling will be added.
But apart from directing, she was also extremely good as an actress in "Hot and Furious".
can be summed up in three words. The first word is joy.
In the first half of the film, Jia Ling added a lot of joyful designs around the daily interactions between the heroine Le Ying and the hero Hao Kun.
For example, taking time to touch your nose while working out.
The second word is bitter.
I really like the movie. After the storm, Le Ying cried in the mirror after her failed suicide attempt, "It hurts so much, but there's no wound at all." It was both funny and heartbreaking.
There is suffering and hatred, and the next character counterattacks, which is exciting.
The third word: burning.
In the second half of the film, after suffering a series of blows, Le Ying, who had been numb for many years, was finally awakened by the pain. She decided to practice boxing and participate in the competition.
=Le Ying, the heroine at this stage, has actually become one with Jia Ling. In the
movie, the heroine practices during the day, at night, and in rainy days... she runs and punches every time.
Jia Ling, who is outside the camera, is also practicing day and night to lose weight, losing 100 pounds.
In the end, Jia Ling completed her transformation and Le Ying stepped into the ring.
As the final boxing match, Jia Ling used a long lens to film it, and the person she found to fight was a professional athlete who had been practicing boxing for 13 years.
And Jia Ling’s performance in this really hard-fought boxing match is still impressive.
The greatest strength of Jia Ling’s movies has always been the empathy brought by sincerity.
This is why the role of Le Ying allows the audience to truly feel her strong inner drama and firm sense of belief.
This kind of acting skills that exist beyond the story itself is Jia Ling's weapon to conquer the audience.
Let's put it this way, if Zhao Liying's performance in "Article 20" hadn't given her a shocking sense of nirvana and rebirth, I would have given the number one spot to Jia Ling without hesitation.
First place: Zhao Liying's "Article 20"
In fact, Zhao Liying is not only the best actress in the Spring Festival, but also the best among all actors.
As mentioned before, "Article 20" is the textbook for domestic film ensemble acting in 2024. There are too many good actors.
But Zhao Liying is the one who adds the finishing touch to the movie.
She first gave the character a sense of energy. Hao Xiuping is a stubborn person who does not bow to fate, so Zhao Liying's performance is always breathtaking. The initial setting in the
script is that the daughter is deaf-mute, but the mother is not.
But after Zhao Liying got the script and researched it, she approached Zhang Yimou and said that since her daughter was deaf-mute, why wasn’t her mother?
Zhang Yimou seriously considered this suggestion and quickly agreed.
But this dug a big hole for both the movie and Zhao Liying.
How can a deaf-mute mother act with strong emotional ups and downs and emotional changes?
The performance must be very precise and thoughtful to draw the audience into the story.
Zhang Yimou later said that this was the first time he had collaborated with Zhao Liying, but she gave herself a huge surprise.
Zhang Yimou would see Zhao Liying every day when he went to the set. As soon as he entered the set, he put on earplugs and did not talk to anyone, experiencing the life of a deaf-mute.
The final effect is extremely stunning. Zhao Liying did not have a single line in the entire film, relying only on her eyes, body parts, and crying scenes. Just impress everyone.
If this is just a bullied mother, that's not enough.
Hao Xiuping is still a tough, brave and extremely smart woman who can still make rational judgments when forced into a desperate situation and dare to jump for her family.
I was shocked by Zhao Liying's performance at least three times.
The first time, it was the village bully Liu Wenjing who tied her husband to the door like a dog and then raped her in the house.
When she stood at the door of her home wearing torn clothes, her face covered with tears and scars, turning her back to her husband with a despairing heart, the silent shock was deafening.
The second time, she entrusted her daughter to Li Maojuan and went to Dayong to find Liu Wenjing's knife.
But the bully in the village found Hao Xiuping earlier than Han Ming and forced her to sign an agreement. At this time, she knew that her daughter was lost and her emotions broke out completely.
Throughout the whole process, although Zhao Liying opened her mouth wide, she could not say a word. She could only use her strength and kept expressing in sign language, asking Han Ming and Lu Lingling where their daughter had gone.
Even if there are no lines, the audience can't help but empathize with the character's complex emotions of guilt, despair, and helplessness.
The last time, and the most shocking acting scene in the entire Spring Festival, was the rooftop jumping scene.
In this scene, Hao Xiuping ran to the roof of the construction site, preparing to die.
In just one scene, Zhao Liying performed a triple reversal.
The first level is despair.
When she rushed to the top of the building with endless grievances and despair, she only had one thought of death. The hearts of the audience also sank to the bottom of the water.
The second level is hope.
Han Ming, who arrived, assured her that her husband could be released from prison early due to excessive self-defense.
At this moment, the shot of Zhao Liying crying and holding hands with Lei Jiayin, the glimmer of hope in despair, was so shocking that when I think about it now, I still can’t get over it.
The third level is to live toward death.
Standing on the rooftop, Hao Xiuping finally realized that her daughter could only be completely safe if she died. Only her death can help her husband the most.
So when she spent her whole life "speaking" the last few words in sign language, her eyes were calm, and she jumped up.
At that moment, Zhao Liying performed the most profound maternal love and the most shocking acting tension.
The whole theater was quiet at first, and the audience couldn't believe it. After reacting, there was a sound of sobbing.
As mentioned before, Zhao Liying plays a wise and martyr woman, and her sacrifice has indeed become the key to unlocking the case.
Because the mother committed suicide, the case caused a greater sensation and the superiors paid more attention to it. Only then did Han Ming gain the confidence to do things and get the opportunity for the last "passionate speech".
A hearing-impaired mute mother was unable to protect her daughter or save her husband while she was alive. She could only use her body to declare war on the evildoers who harmed them. The role of
also completely overturned my impression of Zhao Liying. Those ancient and modern puppet shows in the past may have been a huge waste of her acting potential.
Only in the hands of Lao Mouzi, when she plays such a truly important role, will her expression potential burst out like a volcanic eruption.
The actors' sincere dedication shows respect for the audience. Her refinement of life as a mother was condensed into the most realistic and shocking performance.
is written at the end:
The above 8 actresses all performed well in the Spring Festival film.
Among them, there are powerful actors who became famous in idol dramas, new actors who are emerging, and veteran actors who have been in the entertainment industry for many years.
But regardless of age or experience, they all contributed superb acting skills to the audience within the scope of their abilities.
Since "Hero" in 2000, we have entered the era of commercial films. The market has become more and more commercialized, and the status of film actresses has actually gradually declined. In the past, in the domestic entertainment film market, special effects blockbusters, action films, and crime films were popular, rather than emotional themes that women are relatively good at.
Our screens seem to only be able to accommodate young and beautiful skins, but there are few rich and multi-faceted female characters. Our good actors have been wasted for a long time.
But the market is changing.
When heart-wrenching movies like "Article 20" and "Hot and Spicy" appeared, the audience suddenly discovered: We do not lack outstanding actresses like Zhao Liying, but what we lack is to carry their stories, explore their roles, and accept their market.
In this battle for the 2024 Spring Festival, the actress won beautifully.
But I hope this is just the beginning of a new story.
