Yesterday, Zhang Meng, who participated in "Sister Lang" and invited people to act everywhere as a producer, posted a small video on Weibo, with the theme - do actors need to be literate?
Her argument is simpler, and her point is clear - of course, you need to ah, so that you can better study the script and understand the characters, otherwise it will be very difficult to act and rely heavily on the director.
Of course, this logic is fine, but before discussing this topic, I think it is necessary to clarify the question - what is the concept of "literate"?
Education? It seems that not necessarily, the high education content in the actor is not high, and many doctorate-level contestants have performed mediocre, such as Yu Entai, who played Lu Xiucai, and Zhai Tianlin, who was beaten into the cold palace a few years ago and has not come out to act...
Knowledgeable and exportable? But pull it down, Jin Dong, who was keen to create a Kochi character a few years ago, was ridiculed by the group, and the joke of the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics" is still in his ears. If you don't have dry goods in your belly, you can only become a laughing stock, and if your main business is not a writer, debater or the like, you can only use it as a blessing.
It can be seen that academic qualifications, knowledge and talents, achievements and personality are not completely positively correlated.
Looking at Zhou Xun, whose acting skills have been widely recognized by the public and the industry, she herself personally admitted that she was a little stuttered when she was a child, and last year on the "Talk Show Conference" we also saw her fluent language expression ability, and she also expressed the fact that she didn't like to read very much in Dou Wentao's talk show "Round Table Party".
But did this delay her from taking the film? The Spring Festival movie "Nameless", in addition to Tony Leung, her acting skills are most praised by her Zhou Gongzi.
Not to mention the Hong Kong movie stars who have grown up with a generation, many of them are from humble backgrounds, came out to mix entertainment rivers and lakes in their teens, and graduated a lot from junior high school and primary school, but they can still steadily take up the bowl of actor's rice.
It is said that Gu Chai graduated from junior high school
Therefore, if literacy is defined as having a high degree and reading a lot, then having culture can be a plus for becoming an actor, but it is not the core element of being a good actor.
A basic truth – doing different things requires different inputs and outputs, that is, different preparation and presentation.
Let's start with the input:
For example, to do star fighting, you need to hone your skills day after day to strengthen your limbs' expressiveness and sensitivity; And if you shoot a literary drama, the sensitivity must be delicate and accurate enough, which requires some talent, acquired training, and corresponding life experience, not purely by reading.
Here take Zhou Gongzi as an example, as we all know, she likes to fall in love, from the perspective of her original family, she is not much lack of love, but is accustomed to understanding the world in this way, everyone communicates with the world 'language' is different, and people are notes, and people are brushes, not necessarily words.
Look at the output again: after all, performance is the art of presenting pictures and images, so for an actor, whether he looks good, whether he is photogenic enough, whether his expression is rich enough, and whether his body coordination is good enough is indeed more important than whether there is more ink in his stomach.
No matter which industry, it is all specialized in the art industry, and it is "the layman looks at the excitement, the insider watches the doorway". It's like those of us entertainment critics and film critics babbling at other people's works every day, really want to let ourselves on, I first say - I can't, similarly, you have to randomly pull an actor to write thousands of words of articles, without labeling the author, without putting out fierce materials, I am afraid that it is difficult to break through the 1,000 reading mark.
In this era of academic qualifications, we can require actors to have good cultural literacy, but there is no need to put the cart before the horse, let alone hold too thick filters for the so-called "cultured". There are many players with high education, rich knowledge, logical thinking ability, and language expression ability in "Strange Words", and if you let them act and sing, it may not work!
It is that the whole society is generally too thick on the "cultured" filter, so that those who dangle less than half a bottle have the opportunity to use Kochi characters to put gold on themselves.
"Take it the other way around!"
Reading is just a way to understand the world, explore yourself and even pass the time, it may help to cultivate elegant speech, decent upbringing, and broad horizons, but it may not make a person super competitive in a certain vertical field.
It is said that Liu Yifei, who usually loves to read
But then again, why are there so many "desperate illiterate" in the entertainment industry so disgusting?
Let's start with why it's offensive. Because they earn 208W a day, fans blow them to the sky! Whether in terms of material remuneration or social status, you have to be talented! Otherwise, it makes people's hearts very unbalanced!
Yes, everyone has a time when they forget to write, and everyone has a time when they suddenly clumsy when they don't play well on the spot, but you are a successful person and a shocking god in the mouths of fans, how can you make mortal mistakes?
Yes, the completion of many idols acting is not bad, but just not dropping the chain should be your pursuit? Should you be satisfied just with progress? We think you'll have to take a Grand Slam to be worthy of the top resources that you smash at you?!
That's it, standing tall, you naturally need to bear more expectations, bear more criticism, and not be wronged, and you can't blame others for being harsh.
What is the actor of the famous scene of Cunzi? ”
The second is why "illiteracy is everywhere."
Because as we all know, the primary criterion for selecting actors in many projects is not acting skills, but traffic, which means that whether you are from a professional class or not, whether you have received corresponding training, whether the role suitability is high enough, as long as there are many fans, you are qualified to play the male number one and female number one.
So we see that many singing and dancing idols have come to act, and many Internet celebrities have also come to act.
And watching singing and dancing idols is a fast-food and impetuous job in itself (at least for now), and the boss wants you to make money right away, so it is more practical to invest in plastic surgery than to encourage them to read more. And cultural heritage is something that takes time to cultivate slowly, and of course it cannot come out in the environment of seedlings.
Remember the little idol Ding Zeren who shouted "You are my sister"? At a young age, I know that if I ask someone to do data for myself and have no intention of improving my profession, if there is no immersion in the surrounding customs, how can this be so?
Looking at Internet celebrities, products in the era of fragmented information must be eye-catching and constantly updated to survive. Yesterday's high-traffic videos will soon be covered by today's hot spots, the pace of the industry is not waiting for people, and the industry requirements will only define you with numbers. People who are in it naturally do not have enough time and space to expand their knowledge and accumulate cultural heritage.
In this atmosphere, not only is it the norm for young actors to show timidity, but the audience is also presented with a lot of superficial and stylized performances.
So instead of brushing a little sense of superiority by complaining about how much "desperate illiteracy" the entertainment industry has, it is better to call for the pace of the entire society to be slower. I hope that everyone can have more space and patience to make themselves thick and rich, instead of being pushed by money and traffic all the time.
If you stay in such an environment for a long time, the little cultural heritage that you have accumulated will sooner or later be exhausted.
Author: Miss Bovary
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