Movie Boy Upper Position

Author|Weinika

Editor|Li Chunhui

Originally thought that Wang Yibo would become famous through the Spring Festival file "Nameless" and become a new student in the film industry. Today, it seems that the gap is not small.

Although it has stamina in the post-Spring Festival file, coupled with the efforts of the film side, "Nameless" finally barely sold back the book, but the work obviously brings very little bonus to the actors. Especially director Cheng Er, who was originally popular in Wen Qing's circle, this work also has a satisfactory reputation on Douban, with only 6.7 points.

Of course, the Douban score also has the problem of not being objective and fair. Especially after the pink, black and black data war, the official no longer directly displays short comments, but prompts "the current audience has a large difference of opinion, randomly display some short comments, please refer to carefully".

Wang Yibo's road to promotion to a first-line film student is not smooth. According to industry insiders, the number one movie boy who is now being coaxed by the director is still Yi Yangqianxi, and last year's new Golden Rooster Award actor Zhu Yilong is close behind. Although the two are a generation apart in age and are not the same type, Zhu Yilong is still suspected of taking on some projects that were originally scheduled for Yi Yangqianxi.

Naturally, an actor's time is limited, and Yi Yangqianxi, who has a full schedule, lacks skills, and it is impossible to shoot all good projects. But how did Zhu Yilong become Yi Yangqianxi's "replacement" in the film industry? Could it be that they are already the best choice in today's movie circle? And the directors seem to have forgotten the former movie students Liu Haoran, Jing Boran, Huang Xuan, Peng Yuchang, Ou Hao, Huang Jingyu, Dong Zijian...

Film students, who have always been considered to have a relatively solidified pattern, have quietly rearranged their seats. Who is upstream and midstream, and who is helplessly retreating or trying to move forward?

How do Yi Yangqianxi stay upstream?

Hard Candy Jun has discussed that the film industry is more and more like a "game on the top of the tower", and many head projects are the arrangement of head actors. It seems that a project, as long as the lineup of head actors is built, wins at the starting line. Among the head actors, in addition to Wu Jing and Shen Teng, who have achieved fame, the younger movie students are also the targets of robbery.

How did Yi Yangqianxi and Zhu Yilong get full recognition from this circle? First, because they have their own commercial and acting masterpieces, and have won praise from the film festival. Yi Yangqianxi has "Young You", nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for two times and won the Best New Actor Award at the Academy Awards; Zhu Yilong has "Life Events" and won the Golden Rooster Award actor.

The second is to continuously cooperate with well-known directors and authors, and there is quite a trend of "philately" guidance, which is a sign of the rise of film students. After Yi Yangqianxi cooperated with Zhang Yimou, there were Lou Ye directed "Three Words", Ning Hao directed "The Two Heroes of the Great Han", Han Han directed "Triple Gate" and Wei Shujun's "White Crane Bright Wings", and it is rumored that some big directors are contacting him, and he is definitely the number one sought-after movie celebrity.

And Zhu Yilong, not only has the upcoming suspenseful masterpiece "Disappearing Him" supervised by Chen Sicheng, the main theme production "Great Victory" directed by Chen Kaige, but also cooperated with Yi Yangqianxi's Cannes Film Festival "regular" Wei Shujun's "Mistake by the River", and the rise has become unstoppable.

There are many people who have been called "movie boys", but in fact, there are very few film works that form a strong relationship with the actors themselves and can be called their masterpieces. For example, Liu Haoran, a popular movie student in the past, attracted countless fans in the role of "Young Qin Feng" in the popular movie "Detective Chinatown" series, making it easy to classify it as Liu Haoran's commercial masterpiece.

But in fact, in this series of movies, Wang Baoqiang's ability to carry the box office cannot be ignored. And Liu Haoran's real movies - "Four Seas" and "Home at One Point" did not perform well at the box office.

The same goes for Jing Boran. Although he has the "Monster Hunt" series of blockbuster works, Bai Baihe, the spokesperson of the chick movie, plays a role in the film cannot be ignored. And in the movie "Later Us" that he served on, there is the credit of Zhou Dongyu. Since then, although Jing Boran also starred in Lou Ye's movie "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", he still failed to win an acting award that could establish the status of the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, in the past few years, Liu Haoran and Jing Boran seem to be first-line film students and have cooperated with many big directors, but they are actually somewhat famous. The cleverness of the newly rising Yi Yangqianxi and Zhu Yilong is that they are not eager to play supporting roles in big projects, but to find small projects that suit them.

For Yi Yangqianxi, if "Changjin Lake" came out first, no one would count it as his masterpiece, after all, Wu Jing is a powerful existence. Only "small and beautiful" films such as "Young You" and "Life Events" can verify whether the title of "movie student" is true. In this kind of film, they are the ones who have a strong sense of presence, and there is a lot of room for personal performance.

Returning to the origin, the acting skills of these young actors are not good enough to open a big gap with their peers. As long as the role is suitable, the director can adjust the actors, and the script is of high quality, the road to film students will be twice as effective with half the effort. All in all, taking the small-cost dark horse route is easier to produce masterpieces.

Wang Yibo's midstream ups and downs

Wang Yibo's first battle on the big screen was not smooth, in addition to the huge controversy brought by the work itself, there are author-type directors like Cheng Er, whose works themselves do not highlight acting actors, but serve the director's personal style.

Cheng Er's work style is considered to be "Wong Kar-wai + Nolan", in fact, this kind of fragmentation and jumpy editing techniques leave little room for actors to perform consistently. Of course, the upside is that it also allows post-editing to help cover up the lack of performance.

An industry insider once revealed that many idou actors want to cooperate with director Wong Kar-wai. They seem to have decided that through the transformation of such directors' films, there is no need to "play ugly" to present acting skills, not only can "play handsome" to appear quite stylish, but also can make up for the lack of acting skills through post-editing.

But in fact, the actors who shine in Wong Kar-wai's films have accumulated deep acting skills in other movies, so that they can give the accurate performance in Wong Kar-wai's shots at the moment of fragmentation, which is by no means achieved overnight.

Of course, since Wang Yibo is recognized by Cheng Er, the two can continue to cooperate. If the two form a fixed match, Wang Yibo can gradually improve, and even become an indispensable element in Cheng Er's works, and it is not impossible to be promoted.

Through the transformation of visual works of directors such as Cheng Er and Wong Kar-wai, if it is called the "dressing up" route, the opposite is the "ugly" small character literary film route. Dong Zijian, Yin Fang, and Peng Yuchang can be regarded as having walked this road.

After starring in a series of literary films, Yin Fang finally won the best actor at the Pingyao Film Festival with "Gentle Shell"; Peng Yuchang initially attracted attention by acting in the Golden Horse Award for Best Film "Elephant Sitting on the Ground"; Dong Zijian was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor with "De Lan", but Yang Mi starred in the same director Liu Jie's work "Baby" but still did not receive anything.

Therefore, this "playing ugly" route, in the final analysis, is still a test of the potential of the actor itself, and it is not possible to solve the problem by "playing ugly" alone.

In addition to literary and artistic young people and low-level little people, the tough guy route taken by Taiwanese film students before has also inspired many mainland students. For example, the "professional households" who often appear in Bona's main theme films: Ou Hao, Huang Jingyu, Han Dongjun, etc., are all considered to take this route. But this transformation is not much related to the actors themselves, even if the word-of-mouth box office of the work is good, it is difficult to add to the actors themselves.

Peng Yuyan's development path fully demonstrates the gameplay and upper limit of this genre. Even if he has starred in the works of big directors one after another, Peng Yuyan is not a veritable box office movie student, but it only increases the public's confusion and even disgust with his "good resources". Only after he collaborated on three Lin Chaoxian's works in succession, it seems to have become an indispensable combination element in a commercial genre film, forming a "selling appearance" with commercial bonuses.

But the formation of this "selling appearance", the actor does not play an absolute role. In other words, it's just the "tough guy" image at work, and the actor is too fungible. The appearance of Huang Jingyu divided a lot of resources in the hands of Peng Yuyan in the hands of Hong Kong genre film directors. And in the end, none of them are irreplaceable in themselves.

Former students and new students, who still has a chance?

The strong lead of "Nameless" in the early stage of the Spring Festival pre-sale made people notice Wang Yibo's big-screen transformation. The popular student of the TV series tries to transform into a movie student, which seems to be the only way for the career of the actor of domestic entertainment traffic, and it is also the entire imagination of his team and fans for the beautiful star road.

Yang Yang is still trying the movie road after completing the dragon with his partner in "Pioneer". Although the box office reputation of this movie is not good, his later works are still continuing the model - second appearance, partner with the movie seniors, quite a bit of a sense of relying on the seniors. "Poker" with Andy Lau, "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow" with Hewei, and "I Am Not a Panda" continue to ride Jackie Chan.

But in the foolish opinion of Hard Candy Jun, this kind of traffic double to the route of movie celebrities, even if the work is successful, the box office and word of mouth are difficult to attribute to the traffic students, which is not the ideal road for transformation.

For example, Wang Junkai's "Journey Home" starred with Zhang Yi not only became the box office champion of last year's National Day, but also won a good reputation. This can be regarded as a turnaround battle for Wang Junkai's acting, right? But judging from the public's discussion, his brilliance was completely covered by his predecessor Zhang Yi, and he was not promoted to a hot movie boy because of this movie.

The circle of movie students comes and goes, some people want to come in, and some people want to come out. Huang Xuan and Jing Boran, who used to "stamp collect" many big directors, have now switched to the field of TV dramas.

Hu Ge and Li are now popular and willing to pay the price of career stagnation to brave the film industry, but the result is as if the entire film and television industry "disappeared". Hu Ge never released the next film work after Diao Yinan's "The Party at the Southern Station". After waiting for Wong Kar-wai's "Blossoms" to be difficult to produce for three years, he was forced to return to the field of TV dramas to seek exposure.

Li is now after the movies "Red Fox Scholar" and "Antiques Bureau Middle Bureau" are muted, there are still a bunch of author-directed works that have been released indefinitely. For example, Xin Yukun's "Chinese Criminal Police", Mei Feng's "Love Song 1980", and Lou Ye's "Three Words". After not having his works exposed for a long time, he also recently regained a sense of existence by returning to the TV series "Go to a Windy Place".

There are risks in the mixed film circle, but the first-line students of active TV series are still difficult to press the impulse, as if from drama to movie is a standard upgrade road from section chief to section chief. Tan Jianci took over the film "Wang Jinjin Who Was Lost Twice by Me" with Zhang Jingyi, and Xiao Zhan interacted closely with director Weng Ziguang during the release of "When the Wind Rises Again", and it seems that there is a possibility of cooperation. Hard Candy Jun's friends in the industry revealed that a certain top idol, also contacted director Wong Kar-wai. In addition, Hu Xianxu, Chen Feiyu, and Wu Lei are also movie junior reserves with many films to be screened.

But no matter how you transform, in the final analysis, it is to find a good book and suitable role. According to industry insiders, Zhang Yi and Zhou Dongyu, who have a good reputation, are all recruiting people with film and television reporters, film critics, and planning backgrounds to specifically screen suitable scripts. Many times, blindly superstitious big directors and author directors, it is better to choose a suitable little dark horse.

Hard Candy Jun sat and waited for the film industry to continue to change. Although the successful movie "Familiar Face" has appeal, over time, the audience still needs freshness. After all, look at the drama circle next door, but the last ancient puppet will be "subverted" once.