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"Yuanfang, what do you think"
"I bet you have no bullets in your gun..."
Actor Zhang ZijianHis role has created classic characters such as Li Yuanfang , Yan Shuangying, etc., and the famous lines made the audience talk about it with relish and gained a large number of loyal fans.
But now, Zhang Zijian has become a "professional bad movie user".
" Detective Bao Qingtian ", he performed his great achievements, "offended Bao Zheng and wanted to run away";
" Stone Dandang: The Majestic Tiandong ", he "has three eyebrows on the head"; in " Flying Tigers ", he interpreted the routine of the anti-Japanese drama to the fullest, and it is no problem to fly on the roof of a train and dismantle bombs with bare hands...
Faced with such a large contrast, some people lamented that "Yuan Fang" had fallen.
Some people are puzzled. Zhang Zijian's acting skills have not regressed and have always been superb. Why did he become a good actor to a "thunder drama discriminator"?
In fact, in today's entertainment industry, it is not just Zhang Zijian who has acting skills but is in a "defense".
And these "Zhang Zijian" exposed the most "sad" truth in the entertainment industry at present.
1. Work with close friends to pursue dreams and screen
1968, Zhang Zijian was born in Tianjin and spent his childhood learning crosstalk and playing quick-pronged . As a famous folk artist, Zhang Zhikuan naturally hopes that his son will inherit his legacy, so Zhang Zijian will perform with his father when he was five years old.
1987, Zhang Zijian was admitted to Beijing Film Academy with excellent results. Here, he met his close friend Qian Yanqiu .
And this close friend has profoundly influenced Zhang Zijian's acting career in the next twenty years.
Qian Yanqiu is well-informed, has agile talent and a deep literary foundation, which makes Zhang Zijian admire him very much; Zhang Zijian is generous and has a very quick-handed style, which also makes folk art enthusiast Qian Yanqiu very interested. The two have similar ambitions and often talk about each other and talk about the world. After graduating from
, Zhang Zijian successfully embarked on the road of martial arts because of his tall and handsome appearance and physical activities. He participated in film and television works such as " White-Browed Hero " and " Gan Shijiu Mei ", and gradually made his mark.
On the other hand, Qian Yanqiu was frustrated.
He has a low appearance and a little fat figure, and he can only get the role of supporting role, and has no room for display in his professional skills. Seeing that the actor was dead, Qian Yanqiu had the idea of changing careers as a director and screenwriter.
Zhang Zijian supports friends' choices very much. Qian Yanqiu is very talented and left a deep impression on him as early as college. He is very confident that his friends are engaged in the creative industry.
To encourage friends, Zhang Zijian promised: "What do you shoot, what do I play!"
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In 1998, Qian Yanqiu's first work "Love" directed and edited by himself was launched, with Zhang Zijian playing the male lead.
This debut work has both unsatisfactory ratings and reputation, but Qian Yanqiu was not discouraged and still insisted on creating. In 2001, the first " Hero " in the "Swallow Eagle" series was released.
This TV series was praised as soon as it started, and it continued to sequel.
Zhang Zijian has become more famous for playing the male lead Yan Shuangying, and Qian Yanqiu's creative ability has also been recognized by the audience and was rated as a "genius screenwriter".
In 2003, Qian Yanqiu set out to film " Detective Di Renjie ". The candidate for supporting role Li Yuanfang has not been decided for a long time, and in the end he decided to ask his best friend Zhang Zijian to save the scene.
Zhang Zijian originally thought that this character was thin and had no independent storyline, so he was not interested. However, for the sake of his past promise and to help his friends, he turned down the film contract and took over the role of this "background board".
However, "Detective Di Renjie" was a great success, with both ratings and reputations.
However, the dividends of this drama are almost concentrated on "Di Renjie", and as for Zhang Zijian, they are still lukewarm.
But no one expected something that happened a few years later.
will make Li Yuanfang surpass Yan Shuangying and become the most representative role in Zhang Zijian's career, no doubt.
2. From becoming popular overnight to being a "bad movie professional"
In 2012, a netizen imitated Di Renjie's tone in "Detective Di Renjie" and commented in the social news message area: "Yuan Fang, what do you think?"
In an instant, this line was popular all over the Internet, and many netizens followed suit, from international news to small milk tea shops to check in, they would follow: "Yuan Fang, what do you think."
For a moment, "Yuan Fang's body" became popular.
screenshots of the original drama are forwarded by nearly 100 million yuan, and the lines are spoofed everywhere. Zhang Zijian also became popular and won the "Breakthrough Power Award of the Year" on Weibo that year.
Interestingly, Zhang Zijian didn’t have a Weibo account at all at that time.
Zhang Zijian doesn’t understand social networks and devotes himself to filming.
In order to film, he was wet from the rain for several hours at 19 degrees low temperatures, and he also fell from a high place and injured his cervical vertebra.
At that time, he naively thought that acting was just "acting", as long as he had good acting skills, it would be fine.
The result is that Zhang Zijian, who doesn’t know how to follow the trend and play with memes, missed the opportunity to take the traffic bonus.
"Yuanfang Body" passed out, and he returned to a tepid state.
At first, Zhang Zijian did not care about the disappearance of popularity. Until December 2012, Liang Guanhua withdrew from the filming of the sequel to the "Detective Di Renjie" series, and no public explanation was given.
With Liang Guanhua's departure, the follow-up of the "Detective Di Renjie" series was weak, while the "Yan Shuangying" series, as the review policy was tightened year by year, the difficulty of starting was getting greater and greater.
's representative works have encountered storms one after another, which inevitably made Qian Yanqiu a little discouraged.
At the same time, years of high-density script creation exhausted the aura of the "genius screenwriter", and Qian Yanqiu began to sell his feelings and stir up rehabilitation.
In 2015, "Detective Bao Qingtian" was released, and Zhang Zijian played the male lead Bao Zheng, officially embarking on the road of "a male lead in a bad drama".
Viewers turned on the TV with their longing for the "Detective Di Renjie" series, but saw the inappropriate "Kung Fu Master Bao". The sequel to the "Swallow Eagles" series in the same year also suffered a reputation Waterloo.
sentiment can no longer be sold, so Qian Yanqiu began to specialize in the sinking market. The mythical drama "Shigandang: The Great Seizing of Tiandong" and the anti-Japanese drama "Flying Tigers", all the bad things that surprised his fans, and Zhang Zijian participated in them.
Many people feel sorry for Zhang Zijian, thinking that these bad movies have buried his good acting skills.
Zhang Zijian felt that he was lucky enough, at least he still had a scene to shoot.
What's more, in his opinion, the duty of an actor is to improve his acting skills and film carefully. As for the quality of the script and the broadcast effect, it is not something that the actor can control.
3. The dilemma of "Zhang Zijian and others"
Even though Zhang Zijian has been acting in bad dramas for many years, he still cherishes every role and conscientiously contributes his best acting skills.
The audience criticized the drama for being bad, criticized the plot, and criticized the director, but they all admitted that Zhang Zijian is a good actor.
, in the current entertainment industry, if you want to make a good show, it is no longer just "being a good actor".
In 2014, online capital poured into the entertainment industry, and the mainland entertainment market gradually showed the characteristics of "high efficiency, industrialization, scale, and unstable finished product quality".
film and television works shooting cycles have been greatly shortened, and the budget is unlimited to the pay and promotion expenses of celebrity artists. The quality of film and television works will inevitably be full of sand.
This has led to the rampant number of bad movies, and the impact of actors' business ability on the quality of film and television works has become smaller and smaller.
From the moment an actor receives the script, he knows that he is about to make a bad movie.
But actors can't change anything. If they don't want to act, they don't have to act. If they don't want to do it, they have to replace others, so they can only do it with their teeth.
Just as Zhang Zijian himself said, he is already lucky enough.
Although the label of "a professional bad movie" is attached to it, a close friend of the director has been using him for 20 years and can still maintain a stable workload and try various types of roles.
and other good actors who are "labeled" don't have this kind of good luck.
Ma Li is the well-deserved box office queen in the Chinese film industry, but it is difficult for her to prove herself in the non-comedy field with the label of "comedy".
Last May Day, the movie " Sunshine Robber " directed by Li Yu and starring Ma Li, had a total box office of less than 50 million.
" Parental Love " and " Knows or Not Knows or Not Should I Be Green, Fat, Red, Thin, " and other well-known works have allowed the audience to see the strength of actor Liu Lin , but also made her bear the label of "a professional mother".
In recent years, Liu Lin has never played a role that is not a mother.
Actor Zeng Meihuizi has won the Film Award Best Actress, but since the winning role is Fengchen Woman, she almost all plays Fengchen Woman after winning the award.
Coincidentally, she and Liu Lin both participated in the new work "Broken Bridge" directed by Li Yu.
Even director Li Yu, who is best at filming female subjects, did not give these two good actors the chance. The characters they play are mistresses and heroine mothers, both of them are their comfort zones and supporting roles.
Their performances have not received much discussion. The main theme of "Broken Bridge" is always the male lead, because his actor is the traffic actor Wang Junkai .
Zeng Meihuizi and Liu Lin's performance received one or two positive reviews, and there was no follow-up.
Actors’ tagging, frame-based, and even affect the opponent’s scenes.
When a work receives positive reviews, the next collaboration between the male and female protagonists will inevitably continue the same plot mode in order to replicate successful experience. " Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky " starring
Zhang Yi and Yin Tao won the Golden Eagle Award , and the second partner immediately followed.
This time, they participated in the National Day movie "The Road to Return" to protect Wang Junkai.
Actors are parts of major entertainment factories, and they also have grades.
The top artist is at the top of the pyramid, able to get in touch with the best performance "machines" and cooperate with the best team
. Ladies can only choose mediocre resources. As for the lower-level artists, they can only seek more blessings in the "cold wave" environment of the entertainment industry.
starred in the crime-themed art film "Broken Bridge" and the main theme production "The Road Back", and rushed to the crew of the "Hedgehog".
This time the team is also good. The famous director Gu Changwei personally took charge, and his partner is the actor Ge You .
The market has tolerated the market to give traffic actors like Wang Junkai many opportunities, and is so stingy that the waist actors such as Zeng Meihuizi and Liu Lin have been spinning around on the spot.
They may never wait for a role that breaks through themselves.
4. The most "sad" truth in the entertainment industry at present
In the past decade, the mainland entertainment market has expanded year by year, the number of users of video websites has been rising steadily, and the box office records of movies have been constantly refreshed.
The broader market certainly brings more film and television works and roles, but it also means more practitioners and more fierce competition. In this case, having a widely recognized "tag" can be remembered by investors and casting directors at the first time. It seems to be a good thing for many lukewarm actors.
Therefore, many actors know that they are deeply burdened by the "label" and their roles are seriously solidified, but they can only stay in the comfort circle defined by the "label" and try to seize the hard-won opportunity.
After all, compared to having no scenes to shoot, the role-solidation and addiction movies look good, and at least there is still a job.
The audience is well-received as Chen Chuang , portraying "Fugui" and "Xiaotian Dog" to a full extent. Once the popularity of the work is over, it is still inevitable that it will be forgotten. This person has gradually been found in the entertainment industry.
acting skills are as superb as Feitian Video Emperor Zhang Tong . He has created classic characters such as Wei Monk and Li Dazhao. He still cannot do it in the way to break through himself. He gradually has no play to film, so he has to return to the field of drama.
It is recognized that this is the case for those who are powerful, let alone others?
So, we are seeing more and more "copy and paste".
Which film and television drama is popular, and then a series of the same series will sprout like mushrooms after a rain, such as the popular fairy tale drama in recent years.
At first, everyone thought " Legend of Sword and Fairy " was the beginning, but who would have thought it was the top.
The movie " Fragrance " became popular, and the following several dramas followed its pattern of nesting dolls.
The same white clothes fluttered, the same life of abusive love, makes people wonder: Are the gods doing nothing but falling in love every day?
The most speechless thing is that these fairy tale dramas are almost the same as posters.
Which character of the actor became popular? All the characters he received next are the same character.
is afraid of being eliminated by the market, so he is eager to replicate successfully.
But repetition means the role solidification, which means that the comfort zone is getting narrower and the chances are getting fewer, and thus falls into a vicious cycle.
When did it start? In our film and television dramas, there are only a few people going back and forth?
actors play the same role over and over again, and the audience looks at familiar faces and similar plots again and again.
When it comes to comedy, you think of Huang Bo , Shen Teng ; when it comes to rich and elites, you think of Wang Yaoqing , Jin Dong ; when it comes to soldiers and tough guys, you think of Wu Jing , and Zhang Yi; when it comes to white-collar workers, you think of Liu Tao , and Yuan Quan .
But after all, is anyone doing it wrong? It seems that no one did anything wrong.
can only be said that this vicious cycle is the tragedy of the current entertainment industry.
has obviously improved technology, but the things you shoot seem to have lost the taste of the past.
The actor's acting skills have improved, but he always seems to have lost a little surprise when filming in his comfort zone.
