Has Guo Jingming's "Mid-aged Crisis" Arrived?

Wen丨A little drama reading, author丨Niu Jiaojian

Guo Jingming last time appeared in front of the media camera because of the release of the movie "Grand Trail". At that time, the film was suffering from double Waterloo at the box office and word-of-mouth. As the director, Guo Jingming came out alone to face the public debate and publicly questioned the objectivity of the public’s evaluation of the film. "Is it the only one who died? trace"". Although the words are slightly sad, they have not been able to save the "Legacy" that is "in the water and fire".

Suddenly, the remarks about "Guo Jingming was defeated" followed. Coupled with the issue of "Guo Jingming's company write-off" reported by the media at the beginning of this year, the title of "Guo Jingming with 1 billion net worth" is also swaying in the wind along with rumors. Then, is Guo Jingming really "dead"?

Recently, a variety show focused on the topic of "acting skills" "Actors Please Get In" has brought Guo Jingming back to the public eye. During the show, Guo Jingming transformed himself into a "mentor" alongside Chen Kaige, Zhao Wei, and Li Shaohong, and he screened, guided and commented on the actors who came to the competition. After the first episode of

was broadcast, Guo Jingming did not disappoint. Not only did he contribute to the show’s two hot topics on his own, he was also blocked by netizens because of his fight with "old drama bone" Li Chengru. As the "best debater".

Currently, I want to see Guo Jingming's topic in Weibo on Weibo. The reading volume has exceeded 200 million and more than 25,000 people have online discussions. Netizens left a message, "I want to see Guo Jingming participate in Wonderful Talk", and voted in favor of it.

seems to be middle-aged, not only actresses are under pressure, even Guo Jingming, who has always been evaluated as a "PPT director" by the audience, seems to intend to win this "word of mouth" as a "director". Battle.

"Actors please take their place": Guo Jingming's "Directing Theory"

There is no doubt that the biggest highlight of the first episode of "Actors, please take their place" is the battle of "Guo Jingming and Li Chengru". Looking back at the classic scene of the two "arguing", it is not difficult to find that the key to the problem lies in the actors' acting skills.

Li Chengru thinks this is an acting show that "can't even explain the lines", and points the problem at the work itself, that is, the novel and movie "Sadness Goes Against the River".

Guo Jingming showed his high professional ethics in facing this "temporary" quarrel, but he was not a director. First of all, he took retreat as progress and carried the problematic acting skills on himself; secondly, he elevated the original novels and movies as the youth theme of "the first domestic concern about campus bullying incidents"; and finally, "you can never like it The sensational ability of something you don’t like, but please allow it to exist. The MVP who won the game was named the “best debater” by netizens off the court.

can’t deny that Guo Jingming’s natural talent for “eloquence” expression, but the key point of this debate is that Guo Jingming is responsible for the responsibilities of “directing” and “reviewing” actors as a director. So how does Guo Jingming show his "director theory"?

First of all, as soon as he appeared on the show, he positioned himself as a new director in a very modest manner. The implication was that he was a director who was "learning"; secondly, in the process of guiding actors, he basically regarded himself as a new director. "Details" is the first important point, which can be drawn from the pilot film and Chen Kaige's comments, "He is a meticulous director who does everything by himself," Chen Kaige said.

Finally, the most important point. At the program review site, when Guo Jingming commented on each actor, he expounded a lot of "reason", such as drama-style performance, performance vanity and other professional terms, which left a deep impression on the audience. In contrast, Chen Kaige's "single-cut" and "single-word remarks" comments are more useful.

This also caused netizens to comment on Guo Jingming's director's argument of "theory is empty but not effective". However, as far as the incident itself is concerned, this is not a bad thing. At least the audience has realized that Guo Jingming has changed. "Theoretical knowledge is endless. Is this the Guo Jingming I know?", "I have already taken off fans, but now I have a bit of sit-ups." This year is 36 years old. Guo Jingming seemed to be serious.

Guo Jingming’s "Director’s Dream": Success or failure lies in "word of mouth"

There is a phenomenon in psychology called the "halo effect", which roughly means that people’s perception of others is first based on initial impressions.Later, other characteristics of the cognitive object can be deduced from this impression. Guo Jingming's "director's dream" seems to confirm this effect.

As everyone knows, Guo Jingming started his career by writing youth literature. Young fame and best-selling author with a net worth of 1 billion are brilliant achievements that young people envy and cannot surpass for the time being. But with the growth of Guo Jingming's youth literature, there are also negative labels such as plagiarism and excessive exaggeration. Although the success model of "Guo" youth literature is more outstanding, it has also caused great controversy in the literary world.

has a similar growth experience with Guo's literature, and Guo Jingming's film works have also gone out of a clear polarization. The four-part movie "Little Times" earned a total of over 1.8 billion box office results. "Guo Jingming made a lot of money" was also the focus of the news that major media reported at the time. But what followed were word-of-mouth issues such as "Guo's bad film", "money-making work", and the negative impact of domestic fan films.

Guo Jingming's "director's dream" is "Little Era" for both realizing and breaking the dream, but the one that breaks this dream further without leaving a trace of face is the "Grand Trail" released in 2016. Although the film is adapted from Guo Jingming’s IP novel, and has further expanded the domestic front line in the cast-invited to star or participate in many popular idols such as Fan Bingbing, Wu Yifan, Yang Mi, Chen Weiting, Wang Yuan, etc., during the announcement period, the film also adopted The "stars walk on the red carpet" mode for publicity shows the strong lineup.

but the ending of the movie was unexpected. Not only did "Jue Ji" be regarded as a "bad movie" by the public as always, it also broke the "fan movie dream" that Guo Jingming had always been proud of, and ushered in a commercial and public praise street. The reason is still the box office and market replacement ability of fan movies. Once "fan movies" leave the fan community, they will face a rush at the box office. As for word of mouth, fan movies are more difficult to achieve "acceptance" effects.

Can Guo Jingming make a qualified movie?

Can Guo Jingming make a qualified movie? This may be a concern of most viewers. In all fairness, judging from his current "director's transcript", this dream seems a bit far away. But in the show "Actors please take their place", he seems to see a trace of his "determination" to become a qualified director. In addition to the "professional knowledge" comments mentioned above, the biggest change of Guo Jingming comes from his unconventional operations in the program. Before choosing actors, Zhao Wei joked that Guo Jingming's team is a "handsome team", and it can also be seen from the side that Guo Jingming prefers actors with high values. This may be mainly due to the fact that the types of works are mainly based on IP and youth subjects.

During the PK of the three actresses in Zhao Wei’s group, Guo Jingming not only decisively chose to rob people, but also robbed an actress, E Jingwen, who was completely inconsistent with his own team. The original description is, "You (referring to E Jingwen) are the type of actress I have never worked with." In addition, he specifically mentioned in the program that he has been constantly summing up in the past few years, hoping to have the opportunity to challenge different types of works. The implication also revealed his desire to "change" mentality.

Can Guo Jingming successfully "turn over" in the field of director? Judging from the current effects of variety shows, there is indeed a suspicion of "whitewashing". But for a qualified director, the work is still in the first place. Currently, Guo Jingming still has several heavyweight film productions in his hand. Except for the release of "Grand Trail 2" due to the Fan Bingbing incident, he also holds "Onmyoji" (this "Onmyoji" is not for the game version, but Original novel) The two major movie projects of "Future Future", one focuses on magic mobile phones, and the other is science fiction.

It is worth noting that these two movie projects are no longer adapted from the IP of Guo Jingming’s own novels, but are adapted from the IP of two relatively mature novels that have been verified by the market. It can also be seen that Guo Jingming is in " "Director's aesthetics" is still based on IP as the core, but in terms of the subject matter, it is completely different from his previous route, taking the route of "heavy industrial production". Although

does not yet know about its follow-up development news and what Guo Jingming’s personal level of directing is, it can be noticed that Guo Jingming has started to be different from this series of subtle changes.

is just, can such a "different" support his career as a director? No one knows when the work is released.