film and television industry, namely Ma Yili, Yao Chen, Song Jia and Hai Qing.
They are naturally beautiful and beautiful as flowers.
However, many male viewers expressed that they really have no feelings for these people. The reason behind
is actually very simple. The four of them,
, are all drama stars and have played many classic roles.
When the audience sees them, the first thing they think of is their works and roles, and naturally they are not that interested in the actors themselves.
When you mention Yao Chen, you will think of Guo Furong in "Wulin Gaiden" and Cuiping in "Latent". They are full of humor attributes, so naturally they cannot be linked to great beauties.
When you mention Song Jia, you will think of the troll Gu Qiuyan in "The Cliff", and when you think of the annoying Zhou Rong in "The World", your surging hormones will instantly cool down;
When you mention Hai Qing, you will think of the people. Wife, I can only think of the word virtuous and virtuous, which is almost insulated from sexy.
There is also Ma Yili, whose works such as "The First Half of My Life", "Myth of Love" and "Flowers" make people forget that she once starred in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" as Ziwei.
Being an abstinent actress is superficially derogatory, but in fact it is the greatest compliment to a good actor.
However, after reaching middle age, these four actresses all encountered the 30+ actress crisis.
Among them, Song Jia's appearance is still outstanding, and she has continued to appear in several dramas with leading heroines.
Yao Chen moved behind the scenes, fine-tuned his tactics, supervised and participated in the literary film "Send Me to the Clouds";
The most exaggerated one is Hai Qing.
She talked about the crisis of middle-aged actresses at the first film festival, which caused huge controversy.
After the popularity passed, Hai Qing successively starred in important works such as "Into the Dust" and "I am a Mountain".
tore off the label of national daughter-in-law and ushered in a radical change.
And Ma Yili is not far behind.
She once had a happy marriage with Wen Zhang, and she once retreated behind the scenes to support her husband and raise her children.
Later, after her marriage changed, she came out again, and her set of boxing combinations ushered in a new transformation.
"My First Half of Life" made her declare the return of the king;
"The Myth of Love" made her enter the literary and art circle;
"Flowers" made her stand out among the stars and win the queen of TV series. ;
Recently, she has reached a higher level with a new drama, which is CCTV's new drama-"My Altay".
How powerful is this drama?
was launched not long ago. In just a few days, it relied on word-of-mouth to break out of the entertainment industry and conquer a large number of young viewers.
It opened with a score of 8.5 on Douban and has now risen to 8.8, surpassing "Flowers" to become the highest-rated Chinese drama in 2024.
It is worth mentioning that the two dramas with the best reputation in 2024 both star Ma Yili.
As the name suggests, the drama "My Altay" tells the story of Altay, Xinjiang.
In the past two years, many places such as Shandong Zibo Barbeque, Harbin Ice and Snow, Tianshui Malatang, and Kaifeng Wangpo have become popular in inexplicable ways.
With the popularity of this drama, Xinjiang Altay is likely to become the next hot potato.
What is the magic of this drama?
To put it simply, the story is more beautiful with beautiful scenery and beautiful people. I haven’t seen such a healing drama in a long time.
First of all, it is adapted from the essay collection of the same name by writer Li Juan.
It’s easy to imagine how difficult it is to turn prose into a TV series.
Fortunately, the director, through careful arrangement, used fascinating plots to connect the soul of the entire novel.
We can not only appreciate the magnificent scenery of Altay, the northwest frontier, but also glimpse the sparks and passion of multi-ethnic integration.
Interspersed among them are the pure love stories between Li Wenxiu and Batai, the father-son reconciliation between Sulitan and Batai, and the tenacity of Token's brave life after losing his husband.
Between different paragraphs, meaningful and warm words from the novel emerge from time to time.
For example, Li Wenxiu’s confession at the beginning:
“During the coldest long days of winter, not a single line of footprints could lead to my home. In the silence surrounded by heavy snow, I read the words of these years over and over again, and felt very warm. , I wrote and wrote slowly in this way, and I became who I am at this moment."
The wind of nostalgia suddenly rises, making people instantly travel back to the era when literature was supreme and white clothes were fluttering.
For example, there are a lot of descriptions of grasslands in the book:
"Looking up, the sky is blue. It seems that ripples will spread out with the touch of a finger. The surrounding fields are quiet, and the sounds of wind and rivers are so clear. I am in this world On the ground, it is clear that it is stepping on the ground, but it is like having its feet off the ground, suspended in the middle of the world. "
Such words can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
But fortunately, the director captured it all -
herds of cattle and sheep, rivers and houses, blue sky and white clouds, and awakening vegetation.
can smell the fragrance of earth through the screen.
For example, in the first episode, Li Wenxiu went to attend a writer's lecture. The writer gave Li Wenxiu a piece of life advice:
Love, live, and get hurt!
This sentence is short and powerful. It runs through the whole play and is the main theme of the whole play.
Secondly, the whole story of the play is full of symbolic metaphors.
Almost every event can be summarized with a keyword.
For example, 300 yuan.
19-year-old Li Wenxiu came to Urumqi to pursue her dream of being a writer.
started out as a waiter, but was incompatible with the surrounding environment.
met Gao Xiaoliang. When she left, Gao Xiaoliang helped her get 300 yuan in severance pay, but pocketed 200 yuan of it.
The trust and deception between people is shown through this 300 yuan.
For example, a knife.
The Sulitan family in the play is a typical nomadic people, and they are the adherents of nomadic culture.
He took the train to find his son. The security inspector asked him to hand over his saber. Sulitan refused decisively and turned around to leave the station.
Guns and knives are status symbols of hunters and cannot be discarded. The conflict between nomads and modern civilization is expressed through this knife.
Like a washboard.
This was a gift that Token cherished deeply. Her husband could not bring her back a washboard until his death.
After her husband passed away, the kind-hearted Batai failed to understand his sister-in-law's difficulties. He helped his sister-in-law deliver goods many times, but every time he missed the washboard.
In the end, Li Wenxiu easily gave her a washboard, and Token was overjoyed.
A washboard explains the cruel reality that women in nomadic tribes have been ignored for a long time.
and "bath scene", "circus shooting scene", and "remarriage scene" all have similar symbolic metaphors. Everyone can smack them when watching the drama.
In the end, the whole drama can be said to be full of acting skills.
Among the cast, there are Zhou Yiran who played Huang Bo's crazy daughter in "Crossing the Angry Sea", Yu Shi who played Ji Fa in "Feng Shen", Jiang Qiming who played the mute in "The Long Season", and There is Yan Peilun, the golden supporting role in the comedy competition.
Every actor's performance is remarkable.
But when it comes to being the best, it must be Ma Yili.
Her performance raised the entire show to a new level.
The character played by Ma Yili in the play is named Zhang Fengxia. The name
is very unique. More people of that era would call her Zhang Fengxia. The difference between
and
is huge.
Zhang Fengxia is an atypical mother who has almost never appeared in the history of Chinese dramas. She is a female knight who travels through ordinary life.
She was born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and she is basically a pretty girl.
later went to Xinjiang to support construction and has taken root here ever since.
The wind and sand eroded her cheeks, and the grassland nourished her soul. She possesses both the gentleness of a woman from the south of the Yangtze River and the fierceness of a man from the north.
When Ma Yili appeared on the stage, she spoke in an authentic Xinjiang style. Her face was as weathered as the bark of an old tree, and she looked like an old woman living in Xinjiang. This shows that she had done enough homework in advance.
This woman may look a bit earthy, but her words and deeds are shocking.
She lost her husband early, and with her mother-in-law suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she opened a canteen in a remote rural area of Altay, where she was the only Han Chinese.
My daughter didn’t live up to expectations. She didn’t get into college and her head was filled with unreliable dreams of being a writer. People like
will probably be losers in the secular sense.
But underneath her rough and dark face, she was shrewd and capable, and she played a bad hand in a different way.
came to Xinjiang and quickly integrated into the grassland environment.
's biggest pastime is to eat melon seeds and teach local women to say some Chinese curse words. He is like the king of children and lives a cool life.
When a daughter returns to her hometown without becoming famous, most parents will be very anxious and take her daughter home quickly to scold her for a long time.
Zhang Fengxia was different. She did not pick up her daughter, nor did she inform her daughter that she had moved.
Li Wenxiu spent a long time and stumbled to the distant Renxia Ranch. When she saw her daughter, Zhang Fengxia did not blame her at all.
You are you, I am me, we are mother and daughter, and we are also independent individuals.
This is Zhang Fengxia’s educational philosophy.
Zhang Fengxia's move was strongly opposed by her daughter, and the two sides argued.
Zhang Fengxia told her daughter directly, "You really don't want to live with me. Go back to your city. Why do you want me to take care of your sense of security?" Don't embarrass your mother!
This person is free and careless and lives a heartless life.
During the day, while walking between heaven and earth, I would pass by a small merchant and I would try two handfuls of melon seeds.
I got very drunk at night and fell asleep. The bed collapsed in the middle of the night and my daughter fell to the ground in shock.
But she didn't even bother to raise her eyelids, muttering: "It's not like the sky is falling, but can it affect my sleep?"
When her daughter lost her grandma in the market, the average mother would have scolded her daughter to death.
But Zhang Fengxia said leisurely: "What's the matter? I often lose her and she can't run far."
As expected, they found grandma quickly.
is such a idle mother, but a life-oriented person with great wisdom.
The daughter was trapped by obsession and told her mother that she wanted to be a useful person.
Zhang Fengxia said:
"What does it mean to be useful? Li Wenxiu, you were not born to serve others. Look at the trees and grass on this grassland. Some people eat them and others use them, so they are called useful. If no one uses them, It’s fine just staying on the grassland like this.”
This sentence comforted my daughter and also cured the mental internal friction of many viewers.
My daughter has been insisting on writing and has repeatedly encountered obstacles. Zhang Fengxia’s attitude is neither support nor objection.
She pretended to be relaxed and asked her daughter how much she earned from writing. After
learned that her income was meager, she joked that being a writer does not earn much.
The daughter pouted.
Zhang Fengxia appears to be suppressing her daughter, but in fact, she is trying to relieve her stress.
Only dreams that can withstand the ridicule of others can persist longer.
Li Wenxiu helped her mother collect debts in Altay and witnessed many cultural conflicts. She once wanted to stop some phenomena that she could not understand.
But Zhang Fengxia said that everyone has a way of getting along with the world. You can disagree, but you cannot change them in a condescending way.
Read carefully what Zhang Fengxia said. Every sentence is in vernacular, but the meaning behind it is very profound.
But even such an extremely rational and sober woman can also show her soft, fragile and even stupid side.
After her husband passed away, for five years, she secretly kept her husband's ashes in a cookie box and called it baking soda.
During this period, she indulged in alcohol not to be dissolute, but to relieve the pain of lovesickness.
She took her daughter across the most dangerous Gobi Desert, with the goal of returning to Fairy Bay where she met her husband.
Unexpectedly, the biscuit box accidentally fell into the lake and floated away with the current.
She had always been strong and suddenly broke down and cried. She cried, "I haven't said goodbye to him properly yet!"
At that moment, her daughter understood her crazy mother.
Zhang Fengxia doesn’t have to cry. Isn’t this the best farewell?
Zhang Fengxia did not indulge in longing for her husband, she also bravely stepped out to pursue true love.
She met the dying Gao Xiaoliang in the wilderness. This is destined to be a story about an old woman falling in love with a bad man.
She believed in fate and pounced on it like a moth.
Before she met love, she was an unkempt old woman;
After meeting love, she became a shrewd and capable royal sister.
Unfortunately, life deceived him. This "right man" who fell from the sky was the same liar who defrauded her daughter of 200 yuan.
How could the shrewd Zhang Fengxia not know, but women in love can no longer think so much.
During this period, his daughter Li Wenxiu told him face to face to be wary of this liar, but Zhang Fengxia said calmly, so what if he is a liar?
For people who have been smart all their lives, even being cheated has become a luxury.
In the final ending, Gao Xiaoliang left with a cart of goods, and Zhang Fengxia calmly watched him leave -
She knew this ending from the beginning, but she did not regret it.
Faced with the accusations and confusion from the villagers, she calmly said that there is no shame in getting divorced, but there is nothing to be ashamed of if the man is gone and looking for another one.
Behind the light and gentle breeze, there is endless bitterness.
Being able to chew bitterness calmly is also a great wisdom in life.
Zhang Fengxia's shrewdness and foolishness make people feel distressed.
She is not a perfect person, but a woman with warmth and vitality.
Ma Yili used her own understanding of life to interpret such a vivid character.
Her philosophy of life is an antidote to modern tired people.
It is worth mentioning that the director of this drama, Teng Congcong, had previously filmed "Send Me to the Clouds" starring Yao Chen. This film generously showed women's desires from a female perspective.
This time "My Altay" is from the perspective of a young literary and artistic woman, capturing the unique customs and customs of Xinjiang's vast land.
The literary and artistic filter is just right, warm and healing without losing philosophical thinking.
At present, this drama has been completed, and the CCTV ratings for the last two episodes have also reached the first place.
Brother Pi boldly predicted that Zhang Fengxia will become another classic character in the history of Chinese dramas.
Ma Yili learned from Hai Qing this time and lowered her stature to play the role of a village woman. She blossomed into a dazzling flower in a humble role. She played like crazy and won a lot of money.
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