Gong Jun Fails to Get Another Hit C-drama with Rising with the Wind and is Fully Banking on Fox Spirit Matchmaker

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• I'm not surprised. The general consensus is that male actors whose breakout role was in a drama where they weren't 1st billing usually can't carry a drama on their own, but there are exceptions of course.

  • Me too, I am not surprised either...

  • Hmm that’s sound explanation

• Well at least he's tall and handsome.

  • Yes and his acting skill is good. Especially his eye expressions, much better than most famous Chinese actors.

• I was going to check this out but now I might not due to the not so good review here. But yeah GJ looks good in here. Probably his best look from any of his dramas.

  • honestly, I thought this was a very refreshing drama and absolutely loved it! infact I eagerly waited for each episode, the main leads have perfect chemistry,the story stays on plot....

• He needs to stop himself from being casted as a perfect model and/or prince. Have some actual flaws and work through them to earn a happy ending.

  • In order to act a character with flaws he would have to be a much better actor than he is. Complexity in character requires real acting skills. It's why he is picking these bland dramas. He can't do anything else.

    • They just gotta pair his acting with the right voice actor if he’s not gonna strengthen his line delivery. “Word of Honor” showed he could with depth, but his voice matched soooo… Just Waiting!!

  • He doesn't have enough acting chops to take flawed characters. It's kinda a gift to turn a flawed character likable. He just doesn't have that charisma cos he can't even make perfect characters mesmerizing YET. LOL

• He looks great in the drama. :) He needs to get back to a role that made him--a teasing, flirty, bold and slight devilish man (in costume or not), with a dark side. I miss his pursed lips and side glances. Yeah, he's good at those.

  • Pursed lips and side glances are not acting. And that's his problem.

    • Eh. You do you. I enjoy what I enjoy. We make the world go round, cool?

    • @Gennita lol the commenter didn't even say you can't enjoy visuals over good acting, you can enjoy whatever the heck you want. He/she was just correcting you that doing pursed lips and side glances don't make for great acting. So many people on this site need to work on their reading comprehension lmao

    • @Heh You're saying I'm also Lol? Okay, you can think what you like, I won't waste time convincing you otherwise. But find any other argument, won't you? Because even if I'm Lol or not doesn't make me wrong. Pursed lips and side glances are not good acting. If you enjoy bad acting as long as the visuals is good, good for you, but don't pretend it's good acting. But go ahead and enjoy your handsome, bad actors, I guess 🤷‍♀️

      Some people really have low standards lmao

    • you are right. spot on!

  • Lol. Pretty sure u and that commenter are the same person

    • Heh,
      I understood them fine. I was just happily talking about what role suited him (imo) and certainly wasn't handing out acting advice to him :). Obviously they wouldn't like him in those roles either, but I would!

  • Please ignore these people. These are some pathetic Zhang zhehan fans. After Zhang zhehan was banned in china because he visited Yasukuni Shrine, all Zhang zhehan fans somehow believed that Gongjun made all this happened, and become Gong Jun's lifetime haters. All their lives are wasted in making up rumors, taking shit and critisizing Gong Jun. If you said Gong jun played a good role, they will be angry as if you murdered their parents.

• It will flop too. He will pour water but it's not real data.

  Lbr, he can't act. Everything else is a side issue. He was at best decent in WOH as well, all the drama moments were badly done and ZZH carried that show.

  He hasn't improved at all, in fact in this last drama he has regressed. So he will longer in web and idol flops until he ages out.

• Despite the amount of dramas he's starred in, he's still THIS BAD? I really should lower my expectations from "traffic" actors/actresses in China other than a very select few.

  • To be honest, as a fan of liulang actor, I can’t defend criticism to his acting

• I have watched some of this vs Dylan Wang's new drama, although I lean more towards a casual Dylan fan, this is actually the better drama that doesn't make me cringe every 10 mins? I see the money in the quality, certain scenes' cinematography are film-like even. The acting isn't bad, and for once I even like Zhong Chu Xi and her styling here. Their chemistry is eh but isn't off putting either. Overall, slow but ok.

  I would think Gong Jun was banking on An Le and now Fox Spirit for another hit under his belt, both with more star-studded casts. I doubt he expects this to be a huge hit, this is probably just his modern drama quota, lol

  • Hmm true nobody thought anle would tank (the result is not that bad, but considering it has two liuliang actor as the lead, it tanked)

    I feel like chinese dramaland is so unreliable, sometimes when I see the director track record, I think “oh it will be good” but it’s not. Same goes for screenwriter and actors. Whether it’s just because the investor changing things too much, too much nepo baby side actor, or the effortless shooting. Because cdrama always takes only 3-4 months for works that could span 30+ ep, that means 1 ep/3 days. Not counting the amount of days actors need to go for other commercial deals. They’re churning out whatever without quality.

    • yea, i think censorship/SARFT also hugely affects the reliability of quality too. A production team can have a great track record but then literally be ordered to cut or replace scenes/actors/screenwriter with no regard to the cohesiveness of the storyline :(

    • So true. Agreed with all the weakness of Cdrama you guys pointed out. I literally checked almost all the modern dramas of Gong Jun in the past cos he's tall and not bad looking and I confess myself a visuals freak. LOL. But have to be honest those dramas were all banal to me. I still think most of the problems lie with scriptwriting/directing/editing etc. Without good scripts, actors have little chance to hone their acting skills and grow. I think that might have been the situation to Gong Jun given that he had been very popular and were given a lot of high-profile projects.

• this is one of the best drama i watch in 2023. my take on this drama is a nerd guy trying to with the it girl. i think the whole cast make sense. the storyline is much better than the others. i watch drama for entertainment factor not how someone perform.

• this is one of the best drama i watch in 2023. my take on this drama is a nerd guy trying to with the it girl. i think the whole cast make sense. the storyline is much better than the others. i watch drama for entertainment factor not how someone perform. as for only for love. i like dylan wang. i like bai lu. i dont like them together. after the 2nd episode, i stopped watching. the whole storyline is really bad and awkward. its unwatchable for me.