When faced with any setback, men are somewhat better off, but women, besides crying, can do almost nothing.
Jiang Ling, at only twenty years old, confronted by a full-net blackening and a dim future, was not only unbroken but reborn from the ashes.
Such tenacious confidence and conviction not only shamed men of the same age but also made so-called top male stars, who couldn't endure the hardships of filming and cried at the slightest scratch, feel utterly ashamed.
As a result, after Jiang Ling signed her platinum contract, the entire internet proclaimed: "Even Jiang Ling, whose acting is the worst, has become a实力派 (shílìpài - power faction/skilled actor). How dare you not work harder?"
Thinking of how Jiang Ling had worked herself to the bone filming for the past two years, stuffing herself until she vomited every day to embody Hua Fei, many netizens couldn't help but feel sympathetic.
【The past Jiang Ling did indeed have this or that flaw, but she has corrected them all. Is it not too much to repeatedly bring up old matters and continually blame a twenty-year-old girl?】
【I checked Liu Tian'er's Baidu Baike introduction. She's two years older than Jiang Ling, yet she's so childish and dramatic. The entertainment industry is truly going to the dogs!】
【A soldier's rifle, a chef's soup, an actor who doesn't memorize lines is like a soldier going to battle without a rifle—aren't they asking for death?】
【You have the audacity to be so self-righteous about not memorizing lines. Liu Tian'er, even Jiang Ling, who is two years younger, can provide voiceovers for other characters, yet you can't even memorize the most basic lines. What a disgrace!】
【Hahahaha, if I were you, I'd be so ashamed I'd find a crack in the ground to crawl into and never come out, you wretch!】
The public opinion was almost entirely on Wang Jianzhong's side, praising Jiang Ling's voice acting skills while fiercely criticizing Liu Tian'er's lack of professionalism.
Facing the nationwide condemnation, Liu Tian'er was both angry and wronged.
She didn't understand what she had done wrong. Acting roles were clearly divided; dialogue was the job of voice actors.
Wasn't it normal for her not to memorize lines?
Why was everyone scolding her?
Was it simply because Jiang Ling was beautiful and had high traffic, and everyone's values followed their looks, ganging up to bully her?
Liu Tian'er gnashed her teeth in hatred.
With capital intervention, the entertainment industry adhered to the principle of traffic supremacy, elevating the untalented to pedestals.
These beautiful but useless vase actors, male and female, were incapable of doing anything properly and were accustomed to using body doubles and voice actors for their filming.
Over time, habit became second nature, and they began to believe that body doubles and voice actors were essential for actors.
Actors didn't need to memorize lines; they just needed to look pretty. Voice acting was so arduous, and fight scenes so dangerous; they should be left to the voice actors and body doubles.
It wasn't just Liu Tian'er; most of the so-called top stars in the industry thought this way. Using voice actors for filming was normal; it was sick not to.
Liu Tian'er's ignorance was precisely the greatest tragedy of the film and television industry.
The exposure of the voice acting video not only showed netizens surprises beyond Jiang Ling's looks and acting but also revealed a lesser-known aspect of performance—voice actors!
In fact, netizens had known about the existence of voice actors for a long time, and they also knew that many characters on screen didn't use their own voices.
However, they naively assumed that the job of a voice actor was very easy, requiring only a standard and fluent Mandarin to qualify.
They even believed that voicing actors was like elementary school poetry recitations; all one had to do was read the script and lines, earning money with ease.