The domestic drama finally has a convincing protagonist who is willing to give up the money.
Love letters are flying all over the school, flowers are flowing from admirers downstairs, Pu Xinnan thinks he can win her heart, and he abandons his girlfriend of seven years.
Even if she kills the boy, she is surrounded by girls wherever she goes. Even her cold-faced female boss was flirted with in her last class.
When encountering this kind of Mary Sue scene, the audience will definitely curse. When they see it, it is Liu Yifei (played by Huang Yimei in " The Story of Rose ")...
Forget it.
In real life, it’s not surprising that people with beautiful faces are treated like this.
When Fan Bingbing was in middle school, she made a report in the morning, which caused a sensation in the whole school in the afternoon. The teacher found out from behind the holly tree more than 60 boys who came to see her, and some people put a flower on her door every day.
Therefore, if an actor has sufficient hardware and can play a stunning beauty and maintain his true character, he can be accepted by the audience.
This type of actor is rare, and this type of character is favored by domestic entertainment.
So if you can’t look like Liu Yifei, how can you stand up as a stunning beauty?
first asked, what does a peerless beauty look like?
remembers someone criticizing Jin Yong's lack of words for his appearance. Everything he wrote about was "stunning" and "beautiful," making it impossible to imagine a specific image.
Unlike classical masterpieces, for example, "The Plum in the Golden Ping" describes Pan Jinlian's mouth as "a cherry mouth with a smiling face full of flowers" and "a sandalwood mouth that is light and seductive, making the peaks and butterflies fly wildly", etc. When you see the words, you feel like you are seeing the description of the person.
The word "peerless beauty" is also an example of lack of words. It is roughly equivalent to "the most beautiful in the world" and "the beauty among beauties". The use of this word mainly has the effect of stunning everyone.
But "beauty" is subjective. For example, in "The Story of a Rose", Zhu Zhu, Wan Qian , and Liu Yifei are in the same frame. There is no unified answer as to who is more beautiful.
So it is "peerless" far beyond everyone else, or it has a crushing advantage in terms of cost and comes with a buff that stands out from the crowd.
This group of beauties are often seen in Western movies.
Fellini is good at photographing human desire. In " Sweet Life ", the person who acts as the carrier of desire is the Swedish sex goddess Anita Ekberg with a strong body and exaggerated proportions.
She is taller than most men, and her charming aura is as if she has a protective shield. If she takes a second look, she feels that a pariah has offended a goddess, but she really can't look away.
In another work "Three Beauties", Fellini further amplified her sense of oppression, turning her into a giant in the protagonist's erotic dream.
This posture of looking up brings the sense of peerlessness to the extreme.
In fact, Chinese aesthetics don’t like to go to such extremes, and they prefer to appreciate the charm.
Therefore, "Peerless" mostly focuses on temperament. Only when the temperament is not like a human can it be distinguished from others.
Take the Naran version of Daji in "Fengshen" as an example.
In fact, Naran herself is not an eye-catching beauty, and she has a shy personality. Director Wu Ershan was a little disappointed when he first met her.
The final effect of Daji is stunning, which highlights her inhuman (and a fox herself) temperament.
's face is pale, her eyes are clear but indifferent. When she looks at the human figure, she is looking at someone different from her. Her movements are like those of a fox, but her face and facial features are as beautiful as modeled ones. It is the heterogeneous beauty that is different from ordinary human beings that
catches people's attention.
In addition to Naran's version of Daji, another unique model of beauty is " Legend of the Demon Cat " Zhang Rongrong version of Yang Guifei. I have talked about this before.
Yang Guifei's "Looking back, smiling, and being full of charm" exists in poetry and imagination, and it is difficult to embody it. If you find a beautiful woman to "look back and smile", it will destroy the artistic conception.
The clever thing about "Legend of the Demon Cat" is that it does not turn from fiction to reality, but uses fiction to convey fiction. Various light sources such as candles and LED lights are placed around the actors. In this way, the moment Yang Guifei appears, it instantly makes people feel like they are in a dream. The
lighting also gives the actors a divine nature that no one dares to blaspheme, making people forget the vulgar world.
To establish "peerless", the finishing touch is to have a refined and unrestrained temperament, but it must also be supported by a decent model.
Due to the changes in Internet aesthetics, the stunning beauties on the screen now generally have Western looks and Eastern looks.
The two actors mentioned above, Zhang Rongrong and Naran, one is of Chinese-French descent and the other is of Mongolian-Russian descent, both have broad foreheads, deep eyes and high noses, sharp Western facial features, and subtle and soft Eastern skin.
Its exquisiteness and exoticness directly widen the aesthetic distance. It is attracted at first glance. It is indeed different from the common people we have seen.
Another one that I think fits the essence of this beauty pageant is Zhang Yuxi from the short-form drama "Guess Who I Am".
Zhang Yuxi plays a heartthrob in it. As long as she looks at a certain group of people, she will become an ideal type in that person's eyes and fall in love with her.
With such an exaggerated setting, Zhang Yuxi’s face is still convincing. After all, Zhang Yuxi looks like a floating figure, giving people the look of an exquisite doll-like dummy (I don’t mean to say bad), which is just right for this kind of person. A lovable, down-to-earth character.
The above three kinds of "peerless beauties" are all based on incomplete foundation, and the atmosphere is combined, using standard beauty + non-human touch + exoticness to create a stunning effect that is far away from the world.
The peerless beauties in life dramas cannot, of course, be tricked by lighting, simulating fox demons, etc. What is needed is a real beauty's temperament, appearance, and makeup.
Let’s talk about Liu Yifei in "The Story of a Rose".
Liu Yifei’s beauty no longer needs to be said. In her early years, Wang Yuyan, Zhao Ling’er, Xiao Longnu, etc. laid a broad mass foundation for her “beauty god image”.
In today's situation where the aesthetics of domestic entertainment have been downgraded, and any ordinary woman can claim to be a beautiful woman, Liu Yifei's acting in a drama has become a bodhisattva act that washes the eyes of the audience.
Although no one dares to chase Liu Yifei in real life, she is chased by people from all walks of life in the drama, which helps the audience to complete the imagination of "not daring to make mistakes".
But having said that, Liu Yifei’s facial features are actually not very exquisite, and they are not the same as the breathtaking beauty of Michelle Reis and Cecilia Cheung.
Her performance as Huang Yimei, who is loved by everyone, was convincing. I thought it was because of her beauty's charm.
This kind of charm is first of all in line with Chinese aesthetics. Although it is cold, it is approachable, and although it is gorgeous, it is elegant. You can use Chinese painting to outline her charm in a few strokes.
The second one is the arrogance and self-admiration that have been brought up since childhood by being admired by everyone. You don’t need to be overly decorated or scheming to get attention, so you will have eye-catching relaxation.
In the play, Zhou Shihui ran to Huang Yimei's school holding flowers in hand to confess her love. Her upset and helpless expression was so small that it was almost invisible.
It’s true that she doesn’t need to make any big moves. Flowers are delivered to her downstairs every day. She will probably witness such a scene in a few days.
Faced with Zhou Shihui's grandness, Huang Yimei seemed much more rash. She fiddled with the tools at hand during the process, and looked at him a little surprised when she heard the other party's enthusiastic confession.
There is no need to be scornful or playful. All of Huang Yimei's expressions and movements do not contain too much emotion. When facing other people's eyes, likes and enthusiasm, they are just light and airy.
After all, the trouble Zhou Shihui caused to the beautiful woman was like accidentally choking on drinking water, coughing twice and then continuing to drink.
The relaxation in Huang Yimei's body is the politeness that makes her unfazed by the outside world's pursuit of her, which is similar to Liu Yifei herself.
She couldn't control the attention of the outside world, and gradually developed the trait of introversion. When placed in a crowd, she would inevitably feel aloof and out of place.
Look in reality, those peerless beauties recognized by the audience, their independent temperament far outweighs their reliance on beauty to commit crimes.
Shu Qi and Ni Ni are both recognized as "catfish type" beauties, but compared to the two, Shu Qi is more suitable to play a peerless beauty.
Ni Ni is indeed beautiful, but by this measure alone, she still cannot escape the universal aesthetic.
's so-called "peerless", her temperament is more superior, her eyes somewhat reveal the loneliness of self-admiration, making it difficult for you to find a second substitute.
Comparing Monica Bellucci (when she was young) and her daughter, who have the same delicate face, you feel that compared with Bellucci, her daughter lacks a charm that makes the whole face come alive - this Maybe it's the independence of a peerless beauty.
So you don’t have to be beautiful, as long as you perform the charm of a peerless beauty, you can also catch people’s attention.
Maggie Cheung, who has felt that she is not beautiful since she was a child, can still use her body, her posture, and her mouth to play Ruan Lingyu, the most beautiful woman in the Republic of China.
Maggie Cheung is an actress that God loves to eat. She rarely reads scripts and likes to act with feelings and intuition. Every time she puts on the clothes and makeup for the play, and stands in front of the mirror, she suddenly realizes that she has become People in the play.
Take Ruan Lingyu's makeup as an example. The biggest problem at that time was her eyebrows. Ruan Lingyu's eyebrows should be thin and long, but Zhang's eyebrows were a bit thick. The makeup artist used glue to glue her eyebrows very thin, and it still worked. Not similar enough.
Maggie Cheung couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so she chatted with the makeup artist. While chatting, she suddenly asked him to shave off her eyebrows immediately (to prevent regrets the next day), draw Ruan Lingyu's eyebrows, and then shook Guan Jinpeng awake, holding her hand. He said "Aguan, look" on his forehead and took his hand away, revealing slender eyebrows like Ruan Lingyu's.
seems to have touched the charm of Ruan Lingyu this time.
Maggie Cheung is a special case. She is not a great beauty in the standard sense, but she has the self-consciousness of a great beauty. This is similar to Kim Min Hee. They are both used to indulging in themselves and have the feeling of exhaustion after their desires are satisfied. This is what great beauties call Relaxed, advanced, solitary and self-admired. Actors like
can support stunning beauties regardless of their temperament or skills.
On the contrary, Bai Lu does not have the self-consciousness of a great beauty. When Zheng Shuyi, who played the role of the all-powerful actress in "Love as a Camp", was praised for "bringing disaster to the country and the people", just looking at her eye movements, I felt that she was about to blurt out "Is it true?" Then she secretly rejoiced that she didn't have the airs of a great beauty.
The key thing about Bailu is not that she is not beautiful enough, but that she has no belief in beauty at all, or her temperament is not related at all.
However, the texture of actors like Maggie Cheung is too thick, and it seems to overshadow the role. If you want to give a truly vivid example, it has to be Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Yuhuan in "Tang Minghuang".
This version of Yang Yuhuan is not like Zhang Rongrong's version, which relies on making people virtual to achieve ultimate beauty, but relies on obeying the Tao and relying on the actor to gain 50 pounds of weight to achieve similar appearance and spirit.
White base makeup and spread peach pink blush highlight Yang Yuhuan's health and luster. The cloud-like bun with big flowers on her head shows her grace and elegance.
The crew had limited funds at that time, so Yang Shuyun made ten kinds of large peonies in different colors at the Beijing Silk Flower Factory, costing 100 yuan each, using gauze materials imported from Japan. After taking them back, he was reluctant to give them to Concubine Yang to wear.
It was only in the 1980s and 1990s that such efforts were made to restore the shy beauty in the minds of the audience that only the prosperous Tang Dynasty could nurture.
There is nothing wrong with being dazzling, but sometimes dazzling is too easy to become the target of those who are interested.
In "The Story of Rose", both Zhuang Guodong and Fang Xiewen fell in love with roses at first sight.
This romanticized "love at first sight" is nothing more than finding the most beautiful person among the crowd and pursuing it as a goal.
Zhuang and Fang are both dormant. One quietly watches the rose take the bait, while the other works step by step to please the rose. Fang Xiewen's pursuit of a rose would comfort his self-esteem, but after he caught it, he was afraid that the dazzling light of the rose would sting his inferiority complex, so he tried every means to make her dim, so that he could feel balanced.
Having seen so many beautiful girls in the industry being targeted, Daniel Wu hoped that his daughter would not be beautiful, but just ordinary.
What's more, the four beauties in our ancient times were all tools and victims in a certain sense.
Chen Hong’s version of Diao Chan and Jiang Qinqin’s version of Xi Shi
For this reason, we always see them with a hint of admiration and compassion.
The reflection of this look on them will increase their own self-admiration.
But dazzling has never been a problem. The problem is how to face your own dazzling.
is dazzling, what is needed is doubled wisdom to turn the shackles into real gifts.
