Personally, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is a landmark movie and role for Xu Zheng's acting skills.
1. Get rid of Zhu Bajie and Li Wei
About ten years ago, when I was still in high school, I watched Xu Zheng's play Das Kapital because someone from my parents' unit gave me a few tickets. How popular this drama is, probably won all drama awards that year, Xu Zheng was named the first person to talk, the little prince of drama (d, of course, had this title before), the story design of Das Kapital, The character design, the most commendable, is that kind of realism that you can't tell the difference between the real and the fake, allowing the audience to go deep into it, participate in it, and the theme is profound, and it has a natural soil in the financial city of Shanghai. Then there is Xu Zheng's acting skills and stage performance in it, which makes people completely forget that he is the Li Wei who is ahahahah and the pig brother who is chasing Xiaolongnv. Yes, at that time, his masterpiece was still fixed in the glorious spring Zhu Bajie and Li Wei as officials, and even made fun of this in the drama.
Everyone regards him as a comedian, including many people now think he is a comedian. But at that time, he was eager to get rid of such a fixed frame. In his impression, after that, he had very few TV dramas, and seemed to have disappeared in front of the TV screen, and his fame was far less than that of his wife Tao Hong. Similar experience, the distress of being frozen, this is probably what Wang Chuanjun is also experiencing now. An actor who dares to put aside the character and past roles is the real actor. One role is not enough for you to eat as an actor for the rest of your life.
In those few years, he made several small-budget movies, which were not very sensational, but had excellent reputation. One was a nightclub and the other was a no-man’s land.
2. The first attempt of a nightclub and the tragic core of no man's land
At the time of the nightclub, Xu Zheng should not have reached the age of a middle-aged greasy man, but the role of Brother Shui was a typical middle-aged greasy man. Xu Zheng has changed his usual temperament and delicate appearance of a Shanghai-style man (no derogatory meaning, I am a Shanghai native), and it seems to me that this is the first time he has made g himself unshaven. But as of now, I think this movie is better than the Jang series, and I turn it over from time to time to see, Xu Zheng's performance in it is very delicate, sleeves, masks, hats, a look, a hand, just right, never let people feel Exaggerated and overdone. But the fire is the main reason why I like Xu Zheng's comedy performances. Wang Baoqiang's very exaggerated style is really not my thing. I would be very embarrassed to watch it. In fact, I can watch the first part of the 囧 series, but Thai 囧's In my opinion, the funny is a bit too much (no diss Mr. Wang's meaning, just a matter of personal taste), in my eyes, it is not as funny as a nightclub.
As for no-man’s land, some people say it’s black humor. I’m not a professional, and I can’t understand what black humor is. I just feel that this film is brutal, and it’s probably the beginning of this film. I always feel that Xu Zheng’s core is definitely not comedy. , Combining with what he said to our audience in the capitalist drama before, I suddenly felt that this person's acting in a drama is by no means worse than a comedy. He has a deeper story to tell, and more attempts to do, but due to the capital And the market demand, he must be a good "comedian".
3. Comedy is tiring
Probably after Tai 囧, Xu Zheng's comedy film fell into some kind of bottleneck and strange circle. In fact, I personally feel that his personal performance in each film is quite stable, but it is probably a script problem. The frequency of being hacked and attacked is very high. There is a "private life" that has begun to be criticized but has never been solidified, and Xu Zheng has become a "businessman" and a "stained" cunning director from the altar of rising star directors that Tai Jong has inexplicably promoted. This made me very disappointed with him for a time. I hope he can be a good actor. He is one of the few Shanghai-born actors who can compete with the Beijing faction. I hope he will take good care of his "feather" The series is over, stop doing thankless and money-losing things like a director.
And comedy is so difficult to shoot, not everyone's sense of humor in life is on the same scale, Stephen Chow has made comedies all his life, I think his comedies in recent years are still good to listen to, but many people still say that he is exhausted, saying He makes money. Everyone says that the core of comedy is tragedy, but how can one person write such tragedy and comedy, how can there be so many memes that make everyone feel funny, how many years has Mr. Feng Gong been on the Spring Festival Gala, the former thief company, leader colon How brilliant, but how many "tragedies" can be used as comedies in this "harmonious" society now, this road is really getting narrower and narrower.
Fourth, the profession of an actor is actually "advance or retreat"
Because of this, after the negative comments from the mysterious player came out, my heart was heavier, and I always felt that his acting skills were commendable in every movie, even if that movie had problems of one kind or another. But since he became a director, no one seems to pay attention to his acting skills anymore, because after everyone gets used to it, no matter how stable you play, there will be no plot flaws that attract more attention. For an actor, stability is actually "" Backwards", you are standing still, the audience is moving forward, there is nothing to blame for your performance, but it seems that there is nothing to praise. Only breakthroughs can make everyone remember that you are a "good actor".
"I'm not the God of Medicine" puts the story background in Shanghai, I think it's because of the consideration of performance skills. This story takes place at the civilian level. Both Xu Zheng and Wang Chuanjun have lived in Shanghai for many years. There is no environment more familiar to them than Shanghai. The alleys, husband's rooms, and clothes drying poles derived from the balcony are the most popular in Shanghai. face. The conversation between Xu Zheng and his father in Shanghai dialect, one look and one voice are very similar to the way my uncle takes care of my grandfather in real life. A filial son may not have no complaints. Taking care of the elderly requires a lot of patience. , this is the first time I have seen this kind of restoration of reality on the screen. There is also the conversation between him and his wife, one staring, one swearing, one reaching out, so much like a diarrhoea man who ran out of "Uncle New Old Lady", it even made me wonder if Xu Zheng had carefully observed such people before acting. behavior.
In fact, this character is easy to overdo, and it will feel fake if you overdo it. Why would he take the risk to do illegal things? Great good and great evil are often hidden in people's hearts. It is a simple and small choice. He is not the savior of the world. First of all, he is an ordinary man in Shanghai. He has little culture, dirty mouth, and fear in his heart. At the same time, he is touched and thinking about life and death. He has always been an ordinary person, but he just did an unusual thing, and in this case, he didn't even know how to fight guerrilla warfare like that Academician Zhang. This time, Xu Zheng used as few body movements and exaggerated expressions as possible to create such an ordinary person who lives beside you and me. Also this time, this role seems to be the most revealing, most arrogant, The most vulgar person, I almost dare not recognize him.
Is this still Xu Zheng? Is that Xu Zheng, who plays the elitist tone of Das Kapital? No, this is Cheng Yong, an ordinary Shanghai man who runs a sex health care product store in a Shanghai alley, swears swear words at life, but still lives on.
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