Although the Spring Festival has passed, the smoke of the Spring Festival file is still continuing, and the box office of several films is still catching up and continuing to climb. The movie "Nameless" directed by Cheng Er can be said to be one of the most controversial films in the schedule, in which the performance of the starring Wang Yibo has become the center of the vortex, praising and scolding, and the discussion is very lively.
It is no wonder that Wang Yibo is now the "popular fried chicken" and "top student" in the entertainment industry, and the attention is already high, and "Nameless" is his first big-screen work to meet the audience, and the importance can be imagined. In recent years, "fresh meat and flowers" has been controversial in the industry and in the hearts of the audience, and many people feel that the traffic will not act, Wang Yibo's big-screen debut entered the much-anticipated Spring Festival file, not only the top production of talented director Cheng Er, but also with the actor Liang Chaowei (Wei Zai's acting skills see this →
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Today, let's put aside various off-site factors, only from the performance in the movie "Nameless", not blowing or black, let's talk about Wang Yibo's acting skills. In order to write this manuscript, Yi Bloomjun also deliberately went to brush "Nameless", the first time mainly read the plot, the second time to watch Wang Yibo carefully.
Let's start with the overall evaluation. Yi Bloomjun subjectively believes that the tone and style of Wang Yibo and the movie "Nameless" are basically the same, completing the character shaping of his character Secretary Ye, and there is no lack of remarkable. Overall, it has withstood the test of the big screen.
But there is a premise for saying this, that is, the work of "Nameless" director Cheng Er must not be ignored. Cheng Er's works belong to the category of directorial scheduling far greater than the actor's personal performance, and the actor in his films, like the story, scene, modeling, music, etc., is just an element to achieve his artistic expression. He definitely has the greatest say on the set, and how the actors act and say the lines are all under his fiddling.
Therefore, the state in which Wang Yibo appeared in "Nameless" this time must have been carefully manipulated and adjusted by Cheng Er. How to shoot Wang Yibo, which angle of his appearance is better, how can he perform better... Cheng Er must have put a lot of thought into it. For example, his various suits and trench coats in the movie, combined with exquisite light and shadow and lenses, are indeed very eye-catching and very toneal.
This is also related to Wang Yibo's own advantages. Tall (official 180), good head-to-body ratio, and really good looking in clothes. So "Nameless" gave Wang Yibo and Wang Chuanjun, two tall people, a lot of full-body shots, but not so much like Liang Chaowei and Dapeng, hahaha.
Wang Yibo speaks Mandarin, Shanghai dialect and Japanese in the film, and Yi Bloomjun can only understand Mandarin, so he thinks his lines are okay. Reading the news reports that he learned his lines quite quickly, it shows that he has a certain talent for language, which is also a big advantage for actors.
So what are his disadvantages?
First of all, although he is thin, he has a little more meat on his face (baby face?). ), the face has more white space, looks more swollen on the big screen, and may make a big expression easy to collapse.
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Then there are his three white eyes, which are also complained about by many viewers. However, Yi Bloomjun felt that his three white eyes were quite suitable for the role of secretary in the film.
In addition, it is the lack of performance experience and idol baggage. inexperience, which can be made up for the day after tomorrow; The burden of idols depends on him adjusting his mentality.
In the film, Secretary Ye is ostensibly a staff member and thug of the Wang puppet government's secret agency, and his real identity is a member of the underground party of the CCP. How to shape the superficial steadiness, ability, and violence of this character and the inner forbearance, firmness and idealism is a major difficulty in performance.
I think Wang Yibo has done a good job of forbearance and affection.
It is mainly reflected in the emotional line between him and his fiancée Miss Fang (played by Zhang Jingyi).
Miss Fang is a naïve and simple hot-blooded revolutionary youth who lures Japanese soldiers in the dance hall every night and takes them to a remote alley, where several male classmates ambush them do their work. Secretary Ye knew about the secret operations of Miss Fang and her little friend and had been secretly protecting. He wanted to dissuade Miss Fang, but was misunderstood by the other party as a traitor.
In the film, Wang Yibo and Zhang Jingyi have a quarrel scene, and the dramatic tension is quite strong. Wang Yibo played the kind of depression and helplessness that was misunderstood by lovers but had to be hidden for the sake of the revolution. More importantly, the two look quite CP, and it is estimated that there will be many clips of this famous scene on station B in the future.
Secretary Ye collapsed after learning of his fiancée's tragic death, and Wang Yibo cried and coughed violently, acting fine.
When he finally confronted his friend Captain Wang, who killed his fiancée, when Secretary Ye heard his friend's shooting from behind (no bullets), Wang Yibo converted his inner emotions into a performance, first shock, then sadness, anger, and tears in a second. The beloved lover is killed by his best friend, and the good friend still wants to kill himself from behind, and this character is also too miserable.
However, Yi Bloomjun feels that Wang Yibo's most outstanding performance is that he has performed his temperament of being both good and evil as an undercover agent.
For example, when he replaced Director He played by Tony Leung and became the new director, he looked ambitious.
And he smiled at Tony Leung's evil charm in the truck, full of deterrence. Using his hands to make a headshot with a gun and provoking Tony Leung, many fans felt that there was a clown's madness and evil nature. At this point, his three white eyes have become an advantage, making this character seem more unpredictable and charming.
Another point that has to be mentioned is that Wang Yibo's fight in the film is very hard, and the viewing effect is also very good. He came from a dance background, his coordination and flexibility are much better than ordinary people, and he may wish to shoot more action scenes in the future, which should be very suitable for him.
In short, Wang Yibo's gains from making a "Nameless" are more than all his previous film and television works combined. From the perspective of acting skills, he must have greatly improved his previous self, but compared with other actors such as Tony Leung and Zhou Xun in the film, the gap is still obvious.
For example, Cheng Er dared to give Tony Leung and Zhou Xun long shots and large close-ups.
There is a long shot of Tony Leung persuading him to surrender in the film, and his eyes, expressions, and lines are all very accurate. What's even more amazing is that even if Tony Leung speaks non-standard Mandarin lines, it sounds particularly convincing.
And Zhou Xun's big close-up allows us to see that she even has "eyelashes acting". In the scene where she and her husband reunited, her face, eyelids, and eyelashes were trembling in the camera, which was very moving.
And such a shot, it is estimated that he does not dare to give Wang Yibo at present.
Of course, having said that, as a newcomer in acting, Wang Yibo took a good step on the road to film, but this is inseparable from the director's adjustment. If he wants to go better on the road of actor, he needs to further lose the burden of idols, think more, read more, and make steady progress.
Reporter and editor of this issue: Yuan Yuner
Executive Producer: Jia Wei