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Manga dramas can be said to be the craze in the past two years. From "Young Song Xing" to "Soul of Chess" and "Under One Person", they are all classics with excellent quality and recognition. Good drama. The highlights of dramas like
are that they are passionate enough, have excellent group portraits, have a certain IP popularity, and most of the plot highlights have been recognized by the market.
It is precisely because of this that Ren Jialun's comic drama "Fire of Fire", which will be launched in 2022, has become a high-profile potential dark horse.
Most viewers are looking forward to the effect of the collision between popular actor Ren Jialun and well-known IP.
Now, two years have passed, and the audience has finally waited for the broadcast of "Fire Flame: Wu Geng Ji". Judging from the feature films that have been released by the show, the style of "Fire of Fire" is very obvious, and the makeup and costumes all have strong comic-adapted characteristics. However, at first glance, it is indeed very cheap.
Jiang Xin got the villain script in "The Legend of Wu Geng Ji". She was dressed in black ancient costumes, with black and red costumes, and a dark evil spirit. However, the hair cover was too stiff and the fake hairline greatly reduced Jiang Xin's appearance. As for her appearance, her all-over eyeliner and plastic gold accessories make the overall image of the character look particularly plastic.
Actor Peter Ho also fell in love with the road. The character of King Zhou in the comics was changed to King Xin in "The Legend of Wu Geng Ji". His clothing style is very similar to the NPC in the mobile game interface. The armor with chicken feathers is slightly funny, the extremely high degree of skin exposure, the exaggerated fried hair hood, and square eyebrows all make people frown.
The supporting characters in the drama are like this, and the protagonist is not much better either.
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The male protagonist is so good-looking that his crotch is stretched, and the mother and son are in the same frame. It is embarrassing.
Ren Jialun’s appearance belongs to Zhou Zheng’s handsome man in ancient costume. His most outstanding portrayal is the heroic look with a slicked back in "The Lord Zhou Sheng Ru Gu" and "Under the Brocade". Role. But in "Fire of Fire: Wu Geng Ji", Ren Jialun wore thick bangs on top of his head. His face shape was originally biased, but with the help of makeup and hair, he directly transformed into a square head, and his appearance was greatly reduced.
Although the comic-book drama focuses on a passionate character, the audience must be attracted by the actors who are pleasing to the eye. Ren Jialun appears in this image, and it is really difficult for the audience to get attracted to it.
However, the most outrageous thing about "The Legend of Wu Geng Ji" is not the costumes and styles of the actors, but the 43-year-old Ma Su, who plays the 34-year-old Ren Jialun's mother in the play.
In the drama, Ren Jialun no longer has the so-called youthful look. Although Ma Su's style also stretched her hips, she looks like she is 40+. Ren Jialun calls Ma Su "mother" , the plot's persuasiveness dropped significantly. How could this be mother and son? Ma Su seemed to be Ren Jialun's eldest sister at most.
Especially when the camera cuts to the long shot, the way Ma Su holds Ren Jialun in his arms, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a couple.
In fact, the male protagonist in "Wu Geng Ji" was only 8 years old when he appeared. After his rebirth, he inspired to subvert the gods. The character setting is the positioning of a passionate young man. However, Ren Jialun's state in "Fire of Fire: Wu Geng Ji" has a sense of vicissitudes. It's hard to hide, not to mention his passion. In most shots, he looks slovenly and especially decadent.
Ren Jialun obviously has a sense of drama in playing a young girl in the drama, but Ma Su, who is over 40 years old, is able to put aside the burden of being an idol and play the role of a mother, which is really admirable.
After all, in the entertainment industry, there are so many actresses who can't bear the label of girlishness.
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Actresses have no bottom line when it comes to pretending to be young, and it hurts the audience so much.
Among the middle-aged actresses who have been frequently mentioned because of the topic of acting young during this period, Jin Sha is a typical example. The 41-year-old found a boyfriend who is 19 years younger than her. After showing off her affection on a variety show, netizens started to complain.
Not only that, Jin Sha is also confused about her own position. When someone asked her to play Xiao Zhan’s mother, her first reaction was disappointment because she could not accept her true age, but Zhu Dan in the same show My mother almost jumped for joy when she heard that she could play Xiao Zhan.
In the recent popular variety show "Infinite Beyond Class 2", Wu Zhenyu made a bold statement and asked Jin Sha if she could accept playing mother and son with her boyfriend. Jin Sha was stunned and used her expression to interpret what "broken" means.
The fact is that Jinsha is no longer the pure and beautiful girl who just debuted, but she is unwilling to accept it and deceives herself.
In the same situation as Jinsha, there are big S’s who are now fat. When they were young, they really loved beauty, but in middle age, their weight has been out of control. Their poor body management is partly related to their lack of work.
But from the thoughts of Big S in previous variety shows, we can see that it’s not that no job came to her door, but that she couldn’t think of it. When someone came to ask Big S to play Wang Dalu’s mother, she couldn’t accept it at all, so she didn’t The play was filmed.
In fact, at what age an actress reaches, she should act accordingly. No matter how well maintained, actors should find their own position, as Hao Lei said "You can act at any age... Then if you are in your forties and still play a girl, then what is your real role?" What do young girls play?”
Hao Lei’s perspective is not just a criticism of the wrong positioning of Mesozoic actors, but also from the perspective of the entire market.
Why is it that Xiaohua has been unable to make her mark? Why is the entertainment industry so weak? After some powerful actors have transformed, there are still some Mesozoic actors who have reached their age and are still hanging on. They use their accumulated fame to compete for the market and resources with young people. Young people want to I want to get ahead, but I don’t have access to good roles or good scripts at all.
It is enough to say that these projects can be performed by the Mesozoic generation. However, there are many works on the market that are of good quality, but a large number of audiences were turned away because of the age of the actresses.
Zhou Xun's "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" has a shocking opening scene. The fluorescent lipstick paired with Zhou Xun's duck-voiced performance as a girl was unacceptable to most of the audience.
Zhang Ziyi's "Shangyang Fu" has an S+ configuration, but Zhang Ziyi stuck out her tongue in a cute way with her sunken eyes in the play, and the audience just felt like their toes were digging into the ground.
Objectively speaking, these two dramas have the opportunity to become popular works, but the final results were far less than expected. At most, they were at the level of hit dramas.
can only say that some actresses' persistence in girls and their confidence in their ability to control have deeply hurt the eyes of the audience.
Therefore, I still hope that there will be more actors like Ma Su in the entertainment industry who are willing to let go of the baggage of idols. Ma Su’s wave of sobriety has really torn off the fig leaf of many Mesozoic actresses.
Finally, what are your thoughts on Ma Su's status in "The Legend of Wu Geng Ji"? Are there any other Mesozoic actresses in my memory who have no baggage, or who have too much baggage as a girl? Join the discussion in the comment area and leave your opinions.
