On the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Beijing Renyi Academy, a series of specially planned online live broadcast activities look back on the 70 years of development and pay tribute to the theater and the audience, which has deeply shocked many audiences who love stage performances, and once again experienced the great appeal of stage performances.
Vivien Leigh once believed that only stage plays and classical dramas were the most valuable artistic practices. After becoming a world-class star after starring in the classic roles of "Gone with the Wind" and "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge", she still returned to the stage and seriously played various roles. Indeed, the process of performing a theatrical performance on stage is a very important place of cultivation for all those who have a career in theater, especially actors. After a long and long stage training and performance process, when they enter the field of film and television performance, they can show more advantages.
Regardless of Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng, He Bing, Xu Fan and other actors who have long become famous in the field of film and television, from this year's popular works alone, we can see many such examples, such as Hu Jun (Beijing People's Art Theater) in "The Knife in the Snow", Guo Jingfei in "Opponent" (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center), Yin Tao in "The World of People", Xin Baiqing (China National Drama Theatre), Lei Jiayin (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center), Wang Yang (Beijing People's Art Theatre), "Meet the Season" Yuan Quan (National Theatre of China), Duan Yihong in "The Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" (National Theatre of China), Jin Dong in "Lin Shen Sees Deer" (China Coal Mine Cultural troupe)...
The nourishment of stage performance and the exertion of the advantages of "moving" and "static"
Many stage actors become famous late and become late, but the performance vitality is particularly strong and lasting. The most typical examples are Guo Jingfei and Lei Jiayin. Both are from the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and the road to acting is somewhat similar: the era of commercial small theater drama boom, active on the stage, won many awards; After entering the film and television circle, he started from a supporting role and won industry recognition for his down-to-earth acting skills.
After guo Jingfei graduated from the Department of Opera Performance, as soon as he entered the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, he became a pillar of the stage, did not experience the process of running dragon sets on the stage, and has starred in more than a dozen big plays, such as "Deer Ding" and "Wulin Wai biography", which have created a national 160 million yuan theater box office legend. In 2006, Guo Jingfei won the Best Newcomer award at the 10th Zuolin Drama Art Award for starring in the drama "Cow Fly", the best actor of the 12th Zuolin Drama Art Award for starring in the drama "Wulin Waichuan", and the 19th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award for his drama "Romeo and Zhu Yingtai" in 2009.
Guo Jingfei dedicated his youth to the drama stage, and only after the age of thirty did he gradually begin to take over film and television dramas. In 2011, he played the ex-boyfriend of the heroine in the movie "33 Days of Lost Love", although he was a scumbag, he left a deep impression on the audience. As a drama actor, the advantage of his performance is "moving": there is a strong explosive force, the stage is full of energy, the scene is rushing, and the line advantage is extremely strong. But this explosive power is slightly weakened in film and television dramas, so when he first entered the field of film and television performance, he did not have a particular advantage over male actors of the same age. What really makes him brilliant is Su Mingcheng in 2019's "All Is Good" and Yu Huanshui in the 2020 web drama "I Am Yu Huanshui". Both of these characters have emotional externalization and explosive roles, so that Guo Jingfei's advantages can be highlighted, he played Su Mingcheng from the beginning of the arrogance and extremism, to gradually know himself and grow up with difficulty, but also successfully grasped the sadness, powerlessness and Jedi counterattack of Yu Huanshui's little people. At this time, more than a decade had passed since his time on the stage in the center of the drama.
As a colleague of Guo Jingfei Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Lei Jiayin won the most promising newcomer of the 15th Zuolin Drama Art Award in 2011, but he has not been popular on the drama stage, and most of them are supporting roles; After entering the film and television circle, although there is a good role in "The Great Golden Robbery" "Little Northeast" as a starting point, it has not become famous, and it has been cultivating for many years because of the supporting role in the TV series "The First Half of My Life", and in recent years, he has played the position of male lead in many film and television dramas with steady acting skills.
Lei Jiayin in the film and television drama has won the love of many audiences with her steady and changeable, witty and sincere acting skills. Unlike Guo Jingfei, who is good at "moving", Lei Jiayin's performance can be summed up in one word, that is, "jing". He is not an explosive actor, and is good at creating the vividness of the character in a "quiet" performance, but there are also many emotions in this quiet, vibrant and calm and meticulous. The "ex-husband brother" in "The First Half of My Life", although derailed, it is difficult to be called a "scumbag", but the superficial grievances and struggles, deep helplessness and efforts are all mixed in his performance level; Yu Min, the "father of the hydrogen bomb" in "Meritorious Service", has a deep emotional side to his colleagues and family while taking responsibility for his career; In the movie "Living Together in Time", Lu Ming, who has two completely different eras and personalities, is in place, the father who is looking for a daughter in the fantasy movie "Assassination of a Novelist" is both painful and indomitable, and Zhou Bingkun, who spans decades in "The World", interprets the thickness and deep love in the slightest. The trunk grows upwards, the annual rings are changing, and Lei Jiayin, as an actor, is brought from the stage to the screen to persevere and freeze, like a tree in the spring when everything grows.
The immersion of avant-garde drama and the literary temperament of the actors
There are some such actors, they have participated in experimental dramas or avant-garde drama performances on the theater stage, after entering the field of film and television dramas, they also play more artistic and literati roles, they have not left the stage at the same time as entering the film and television field, such as Yuan Quan, Xin Baiqing, Hao Lei, Zhang Yu, Ren Suxi and so on. By returning to the stage without interruption, they were able to re-examine their state and maintain some degree of alienation from Vanity Fair.
As an actor in the National Theatre of China, Yuan Quan won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress in his performance of "Rhapsody of Spring" on the big screen in 1999, and later starred in the film "Blue Love", which was also very popular, winning the Best Actress Award at the University Student Film Festival. Yuan Quan looks exquisite, three-dimensional facial features, she is a unique and fresh temperament to attract the attention of the audience, and after becoming famous in film and television dramas, she still participates in a large number of drama performances. She is very picky and plays the main roles of artistic dramas, such as "Amber" directed by Meng Jinghui, "Liang Zhu" whose plays by famous screenwriter Du Guowei were put on the stage, "Wild Ride" directed by Tian Qinxin, and "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" by Lai Shengchuan. Yuan Quan also won the "Plum Blossom Award", the highest award for drama, with the drama "Jane Eyre". Yuan Quan's stage state is "ethereal", an ethereal state like an elf fairy, long-term stage training, this unique temperament smelted on the drama stage, so that she can play many important roles, including not only the heroine of the love film, but also the female characters who are heavy in the main theme movies such as "Captain China" and "Chinese Doctor".
Xin Baiqing is known as the most bookish actor in the entertainment industry, he graduated from Chinese opera and entered the National Theatre of China to work, successively played Clarence in the drama "Richard III", played Tian Han in the drama "Crazy Race", and once won the Golden Lion Award for Performance, the highest award in the Chinese drama industry, for starring in the drama "Gu Wenchang", and won the 29th China Drama Award Plum Blossom Performance Award. He is an actor who can "speculate" on the stage, that is, to put away the emotions in the state of the performance, which is the kind of weight that is lifted lightly, but the emotions are always carried, and this kind of carrying is that he performs calmly and calmly, and the audience still feels like thunder in the ears. This is a kind of calm and calm brought about by long-term stage training.
So far, Xin Baiqing still spends more time on the stage, and his attitude towards film and television dramas is to prefer refinement to abuse. He once played the poet Li Bai in the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat", which is a supporting role that has not appeared for a long time, but in that short time, Xin Baiqing played Li Bai's temperament of drunken and crazy singing. In the TV series "Human World", he played the role of Zhou Bingyi, a city leader with a literati temperament, very well.
Zhang Yu was admitted to the Guizhou Provincial Repertory Theatre after graduating from Guizhou University, and his solid acting skills allowed him to act as the male number one within a few years, and the repertoire he performed also won the national award. After entering the film and television performance career, Zhang Yu starred in films with literary temperament, such as "Elephant Sitting on the Ground", "I Am Not a Medicine God", "The Unknown Generation", "The Wind and Waves" and so on. Zhang Yu's temperament is "min", which is not only a quick hand on the stage, but also a reaction of performance sensitivity, which will be released once the right role is encountered. For example, the emotional reaction of the thief after encountering the paralyzed girl in "The Unknown Generation", or how a person with the burden of murder in "The Wind and the Waves" evades feelings and is about to explode.
The same is true of Ren Suxi, who has been living in Beijing as a small theater drama actor before becoming famous, starring in the Deyun Society stage play "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" and also participating in the drama "Three People Can't Do It". Ren Suxi's performance state is "take", she plays any role, there is a kind of ease and ease, just like holding the role steadily and confidently, and integrating with the role.
The rivalry between Ren Suxi and Zhang Yu in "The Unknown Generation" is therefore very good. Two people who have been trained on the drama stage for many years are like watching two masters in a confrontation, and every serve is received.
(The author Cui Chen is an associate professor at the School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Source: Wen Wei Po