"Xianxia is dead", this topic is about to be rotten, right?
But the actual situation is that when there is no hit drama, it has to be the one who carries the effective broadcast volume.
Compared with urban dramas and suspense dramas, Xianxia dramas are easier to operate from novel adaptation to film and television.
But here's the problem, stereotyped stories can be mass-produced, but actors can't.
Although the 85 flowers were ridiculed for being born in Xianxia and dying in Xianxia, leaving them, the 95 flowers and 00 flowers with collagen on their faces made the Xianxia drama childish and intellectual, and the audience did not pay for it.
As a result, the market forced 30+ actresses to follow the trajectory of 85 flowers and continue to walk on the road of Xianxia - pretending to be tender.
The recent "Four Seas Chongming" is the hardest hit area, 36-year-old Jing Tian was pulled to play a girl, and Zhang Linghe, who played a couple with her, was only 26 years old. What's even more puzzling is that Gao Lu, whose actual age is only 5 years older than Jing Tian, plays her mother.
Netizens complained: Foolish!
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It was not a good time for "Four Seas to Shine" to be broadcast, during the Olympics, there was no publicity, and it was airborne on major platforms in the early hours of the morning, and I felt that my father didn't love my mother.
If it weren't for the popularity of Jing Tian and Zhang Linghe, I'm afraid there would be no splash at all.
Xianxia dramas have tried to break the game and reverse routines over the years, but the story has become more and more chaotic.
The relatively popular "Embers of the Long Night" is not enough to play in three lives and three lives, and in the end, the gods and demons are completely messed up.
When "Shen Yin" starring Zhao Lusi was broadcast, everyone found out how good the first part of "Shen Yin" was, and was ridiculed by the group for how good "Eternal Jue Chen" was, although the little yellow duck Zhou Dongyu acted a little more down-to-earth, but at least he played a character, unlike Zhao Lusi who blinked her eyes and pretended to be cute with a kindergarten doll voice.
Now it seems that Xianxia dramas should not be innovative, and telling an old-fashioned story in a decent way can make the audience feel more at ease.
The story of "The Four Seas Chongming" is more old-fashioned, adapted from the novel "I Have Three Dragons and Three Proud Bamboo Horses", as the name suggests, it is a story of a big heroine with one woman and three men. After being adapted into a play, it became that the male and female protagonists were evenly matched, and there was two-way redemption.
Nan Yan played by Jing Tian was a disciple of Yangyue Sect who was not very strong in spiritual power but had good medical skills. Yangyue Sect is a small sect in the world of cultivating immortals, Nanyan is good at making drugs, and has treated many people with the method of fighting poison with poison, but it is not known, and she has a bad reputation as a little poisonous woman.
But Nan Yan didn't care, the only purpose of her research on pharmacology was to treat her mother's heart disease.
The grassroots soft girl with the cold male god is the standard combination of Xianxia dramas.
The male protagonist played by Zhang Linghe, Emperor Jun Shaocang, is the No. 2 person in the first sect of Dao Shengtian in the world of cultivating immortals. His master was the number one person in Dao Shengtian, and he witnessed Shaocang's cultivation of secret techniques fall into the Demon Dao, and he also slaughtered his fellow disciples. So, after he was convicted, he was imprisoned at the bottom of the glacial lake.
At the beginning of the story, Shaocang had already escaped from the ice lake, and on the way, he met Nanyan, who encountered the demons, and rescued him.
Shaocang was seriously injured, and he fainted after saving people, Nanyan didn't know who was secretly helping, and picked up a half-dead Shaocang on the road, and found that he had the same disease as his mother when he was diagnosed and treated, so he happily took Shaocang home as a drug tester.
In order to attract people, Xianxia dramas often bury huge mysteries in the early stage, and there must be a sense of fate between the male and female protagonists.
"The Four Seas Chongming" is completely in line with the routine, Shaocang found that half of the "Seven Floating Creation Karma Book" he was looking for was in Nanyan's body, and half of it was in the filthy valley where the Demon Venerable died in the past, but the plot did not explain why Shaocang risked the world's disapproval to practice secret arts, betray his master, and find the "Seven Floating Creation Karma Book" that could subdue the Demon Venerable.
In the Dirty Valley, Shaocang, who had high spiritual power, died to save Nanyan. "Qifu Creation Book" recognizes Nanyan as the main one, and Nanyan, who lost Shaocang, hated the demon clan so much that he broke his love and wanted to practice the exercises in the book, and turned into a bloody hand Shura to eliminate demons. And the soul of the Demon Venerable was resurrected in the Filthy Valley through Shaocang's body, and Shaocang woke up and lost his memory, becoming the half-human and half-demon Huangquan Prison Master.
In the second half of the story, when Nanyan and Shaocang meet again, one is the big devil and the other is the demon slayer, and the sense of fate of life and death is full again.
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Jing Tian was a strong shame in the entertainment industry before "Sito", "Sito" was popular, and since then, Jing Tian has been bound to the role of the heroine with a cold and glamorous temperament, and finally has a place with her strength.
After "Sito", the costume dramas "Scorching Qihua" and "Le Youyuan" starring are not masterpieces, but they have a good reputation.
Jing Tian's facial features are not exquisite, but she has the skills of a dancer, her body demeanor can easily control costume dramas, her skin is clear and full, and the rich flowers in the world and the characters with a sassy personality are very suitable for her.
But in the early stage of "The Four Seas", she played a quirky grassroots girl, similar to Zhao Liying during the period of "Flower Thousand Bone", and the sense of disobedience rushed out of the picture every minute.
Netizen comment: Jing Tian's acting skills were learned from Yu Shuxin.
Tilting the head, puffing out the cheeks, blinking the eyes, and the tender three-piece set is used.
She is afraid that she has to try to recall herself 20 years ago, and she performed lively, but she still overturned.
In the middle and late stages of "Heavy Brightness in the Four Seas", Jing Tian's performance is not superficial.
Nan Yan lost his lover and slay demons with bloody hands with unhealable wounds, and when he met Shaocang again, he was already half human and half demon, and he had lost his memories of the past. Jing Tian performed the entanglement and sorrow in Nanyan's heart at this stage, and through her expression and body language, she judged Nanyan as a girl. In other words, the state at this stage is more suitable for her and has more room to play.
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The popularity of "Heavy Sight in the Four Seas" is not as good as expected, and it has a lot to do with the actors. After all, Jing Tian and Zhang Linghe are 10 years apart, according to the plot, the male protagonist should be calm and the female protagonist is lively, but in fact, they give people the feeling of being in tune, Zhang Linghe is like a young man who pretends to be deep, and Jing Tian pretends to be pretty.
Is it difficult to find an actor who matches the age of the character to play in a Xianxia drama?
Xianxia dramas do not rely heavily on the acting skills of actors, but actors still need to have a high degree of fit with the roles they play in order to accurately grasp the characteristics and emotional direction of the characters. The audience of Xianxia dramas is mostly female, and the male protagonists in the play are often cold and restrained gods, immortals, demons, etc., so it is especially necessary for the heroine to have a strong emotional expression ability in order to bring the audience into the role and empathize with it.
After 85 flowers, Yang Zi and Di Lieba can still carry the banner of Xianxia dramas, but they are also more than 30 years old, and no matter how young the post-95s and post-00s Hua Dan have a dismal record, in addition to Yu Shuxin's masterpiece "Canglan Jue", Bailu has "Long Night Embers", Zhao Lusi, Zhou Ye, Ren Min, Yang Chaoyue, Wang Churan, Li Landi, and many others have acted in more than one Xianxia drama, but not only did they not have a masterpiece that could be played, but they also played Xianxia dramas more and more like kindergarten dramas.
Xianxia dramas are becoming more and more naïve, and a very important reason is that the heroine's emotional expression ability is too poor, and she can control the cute and loving light comedy part, but she can't act affectionately, she will only yell when she is sad, and even if she is in tears, she is like a child crying for candy.
There is no harm if there is no comparison, and the return of 85 flowers is still an ancient puppet, which seems to be ironic, but the loss of them Xianxia drama has declined since then.
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