Copywriter | Yiran Editor | Coriander Essence Use one word to describe the Chinese drama market in 2024 - open high and go low. Looking back at this year's Chinese dramas, there were many hits. Dramas such as "Flowers", "Traveling with the Phoenix", and "Celebrating Mor

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Use one word to describe the Chinese drama market in 2024 - open high and go low.

Looking back at this year’s Chinese dramas, there were many hits.

Dramas such as "Flowers", "Traveling with the Phoenix", and "Celebrating More Than Years 2" have achieved double harvests in ratings and word-of-mouth, but some attentive viewers have discovered that most of these hits are concentrated in the first half of the year.

In the second half of the year, there were not many popular dramas, but the only real hit seemed to be "Once Upon a Time on the Edge of Water".

In November, the audience has a drama to follow -

"Alley People". After

was launched, it was worthy of the title of a hit in terms of ratings and off-screen discussion. The Douban score was as high as 8.2, which is indeed very good.

But looking through the comments, there are many one-star negative reviews:

"Dementia Human Machine" He has no good looks, and he needs acting skills but no acting skills." "One piece of shit ruined the whole drama."

It is not difficult to see that the negative reviews are all pointing at the actor who plays Zhuang Tunan - Fan Chengcheng.

This time, it was Fan Chengcheng’s turn to overturn.

If you watch these three scenes together, you will know why the audience is so angry.

In the first scene, Zhuang Tunan had a problem with his physical examination.

Zhuang Tunan was found to have weak academic performance and would probably not be admitted to the architecture department of his ideal university.

In this scene, Yan Ni and Guo Xiaodong performed extremely accurately.

Huang Ling, played by Yan Ni, knew the news and looked at her son cautiously. Tears fell involuntarily. She was afraid that her emotions would affect her child, so she quickly lowered her head. Her inner emotions were self-evident.

Compared with his wife’s more outgoing emotions, Zhuang Chaoying, played by Guo Xiaodong, pretended to be calm, but when comforting his wife, he couldn’t help but let out a long sigh, as if nothing he said could comfort him.

Zhuang Tunan, who should be in the lowest mood in the audience, was like this:

It can be said that Fan Chengcheng's performance was effortless, and he performed the character's unwillingness and loss with only his eyes. The only drawback is that the audience cannot see his eyes.

That's enough, I can't edit it anymore. Fan Chengcheng is like a hairy piece of wood, he won't move, his face doesn't change at all from beginning to end, even if he secretly falls asleep, others can act for him.

The second scene, leaving home to go to college.

After the small episode of physical examination, Zhuang Tunan was admitted to Tongji University.

On the day he left home, everyone in the compound came to see him off.

At this moment, Yan Ni is the character herself, her eyes are full of worry and reluctance, her eyes are red and swollen from crying, and she is staring at her son's back.

The eyes of the young actor on the side are also very dramatic, conveying a touch of sadness.

Zhuang Chaoying is more like a father in a traditional family. He is unwilling to express his emotions. He can only express his reluctance by calling Tunan's name over and over again and asking him to write letters.

Guo Xiaodong's performance is very restrained, expressing his inner emotions with just a few lines.

Even the air is filled with sadness at this moment, but Fan Chengcheng made the audience laugh with just one look back.

I saw him grinning with a row of big white teeth, waving the luggage in his hand, smiling like a silly son of a landlord.

If I were Huang Ling, I would cry even more sadly than she did. After all, looking at Fan Chengcheng like this, he is still drooling even after being cured. Who can not worry?

Moreover, looking at Fan Chengcheng's dull and careless appearance, he doesn't look like a top student. There is no one in the domestic entertainment industry to let him play the role of a top student.

In the third scene, the conflict between the dealers escalated.

Zhuang Chaoying planned to take the children to his parents' house. The children's reluctance made him furious. Xiao Ting, who had always been tolerant, couldn't help but explode after being scolded by her father.

There is one thing to say, Guan Xiaotong 's sharp voice is a bit confusing, but her emotional state during the performance is all right.

Big teardrops fell like broken threads, and the hysterical roar made people intuitively feel the character's grievance. The tearful eyes were also full of stubbornness. Who wouldn't feel distressed after watching this.

In this scene, Guo Xiaodong's performance was also extremely exciting.

Zhuang Chaoying first reprimanded the children in a self-deprecating manner, with helplessness that was not understood in his eyes. Seeing that the children continued to shirk their intention of leaving with him, his anger could no longer be suppressed and he yelled at his daughter.

From expressions to body movements, every detail makes the image of the character's ignorance and incompetence vividly appear on the page, even the hair is acting.

After Xiaoting resisted, surprise replaced Zhuang Chaoying's anger. He paused and looked at his daughter in front of him, as if he never expected that Xiaoting, who had always been docile and obedient, would refute him.

has both emotional outbursts and detailed handling. Guo Xiaodong's performance is extremely delicate.

When the camera kept switching between Guan Xiaotong and Guo Xiaodong, the audience's emotions also fluctuated. However, when it cut to Fan Chengcheng, the audience felt inexplicably disappointed.

Zhuang Tunan saw Xiao Ting's grievances and her father's unspeakable secrets. He wanted to persuade her but didn't know how to speak. He was anxious and at a loss.

Fan Chengcheng acted like this -

It was just like he didn't act. The audience watching the movie in front of the screen were more emotional than him. I don't know, they thought the director had put the camera on the poster.

Wang Anyu , who has almost no lines and a single scene, does not say how good his acting is, at least in the role, he is blocking Xiao Ting and Uncle Zhuang, and the bewildered state is played well.

Xiao Ting was slapped hard by Zhuang Chaoying and ran out in anger. A normal person's reaction would be to stop her quickly.

But Fan Chengcheng acted as if he had been slapped on him and knocked him unconscious. He shook his head tremblingly and bent down, giving the impression of a blind man picking up corns.

To be honest, I watched this clip several times, but I still didn’t understand what Fan Chengcheng wanted to do.

It doesn’t matter that the acting of veteran actors was hit by dimensionality reduction and his acting skills are not as good as those of actors of the same age. Even the young actors in the drama can beat Fan Chengcheng, so he should stop being an actor.

Faced with the controversy on the Internet, Fan Chengcheng said that he has received a lot of mixed reviews recently. After thinking and reviewing, there will be changes in the future.

I just want to ask: Who praised him?

Traffic actors who want to transition into acting in serious dramas should stop immersing themselves in the mindless praise of fans and read more comments from passers-by.

Conclusion:

After watching "Alley People", I truly realized the feeling of "one person ruining the whole drama".

If Fan Chengcheng were played by someone else, it would not be a problem for this drama to score more than 9 points. After all, most of the one-star negative reviews are for his acting skills.

As the series is updated, the main line of the story will also transition from life in the compound to the emotional changes of the children. In other words, Fan Chengcheng will have more roles in the future, and no matter how good the acting skills of Yan Ni, Jiang Xin, etc. A piece of wood.

Directors of Chinese dramas should no longer be blinded by traffic. Actors' acting skills are the criterion for casting. Don't ruin the reputation of the whole drama because of one actor. It is not worth the loss.

Traffic actors also have a clear understanding of themselves. They know how much they weigh and dare to accept any script.

So, what do you think of Fan Chengcheng’s performance in the play?