Zhu Yilong, from becoming traffic to rejecting traffic
Zhu Yilong completed the leap of an actor, but also fell into the trap of the acting paradigm. When "improvement" becomes a problem, transformation or career change may not be a matter of choosing one or the other.
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After "Life Events", Zhu Yilong was very busy.
He first followed the crew of "Mistakes by the River" to Cannes, but he fulfilled his wish to "walk the red carpet with his works"; and immediately ushered in the release of "Disappearing Her".
Although "Disappearing Her" was a good box office, the audience's reputation went all the way down, failing to replicate the double harvest of "Life Events".
Now Zhu Yilong is stuck in an awkward position. On the surface, he has transformed into a "high-quality actor", but in fact, the underlying logic of his film selection and casting has not departed from the original popular "Soul Town". One trick is no longer fresh, and it cannot be eaten all over the sky. How to go in the future is still unknown for Zhu Yilong.
Thirty is not confused
A life where everything goes well seems to be encounterable but unattainable. But because of chance, in the forced space of the jump and jump, there is probably a future grass snake gray line. Zhu Yilong, it seems, fortunately and unfortunately, embarked on the road of acting.
If you turn back the time to Zhu Yilong's student days, you can find that the performance was originally my mother's expectation.
When he was a student, Zhu Yilong did not want to act, his goal was mathematics and physical education related majors, but under the big bag of parents, Zhu Yilong had no right to speak. So, under the arrangement of his mother who had an acting dream, he applied for the Beijing Film Academy.
Zhu Yilong, who had no special skills, temporarily held the Buddha's feet and studied kendo for two months. During the exam, he failed twice, but even so, he was successfully admitted and became a student of the acting department in 2006.
He once asked his teacher why he was admitted. The teacher laughed and said because you don't know anything. "No" means that the mind is not yet open, and it also means that the future is limitless.
After graduation, Zhu Yilong walked the set, and in a bunch of miscellaneous film and television dramas, it was not so much to "hone his acting skills" as to "fill his stomach". But this low-quality digital film is the easiest to consume the patience and original intention of the actors. It's easy for them to get stuck here and never turn over.
Life is like upgrading and fighting monsters. Some people are trapped in the novice village, wandering for the rest of their lives; Some people got out of school after leaving the novice village and soared into the sky.
There is no doubt that Zhu Yilong belongs to the latter.
In film school, his teacher once encouraged him: "You are very good at acting". Zhu Yilong believed it and rehearsed the play with high morale every day. In his own words: "I'm slow and not social, but boys always have a desire to win."
Finally, this desire to win or lose is reflected in "Soul Town".
This is Zhu Yilong's first work that "breaks the circle" in the strict sense, and it is also a work that has established a good audience for him. In the play, he plays the triangle - Shen Wei, the black-robed envoy and the night zun. The most difficult thing here is the Night Venerable. For this role, Zhu Yilong constantly retraces the novel from the script to look for clues of the characters.
In the play, Zhu Yilong gave up his inherent habit of acting, saying: "Yezun has some inferiority and can only break out in constant oppression to protect himself. "Outside the play, Zhu Yilong forced himself to constantly enter the play, write a short biography of the character, and find the possibility of presenting the character in the character - self-performance.
With "Soul Town", he saw the performance potential in himself. Thus, this blank piece of paper opens the door to performance; That's why he saw acting as a career rather than a job. This year, he was 30 years old.
Thirty is a watershed moment for an actor. Before thirty, actors could act on intuition and instinct. After thirty, more rely on experience, accumulation and a strong sense of purpose to walk the rivers and lakes.
Thirty-year-old Zhu Yilong is no longer confused, he has a goal, that is, to be an undefined film actor.
Dead acting skills on the set
It is widely believed that Zhu Yilong, who is close to the entertainment industry, is quite Buddhist. This is just wishful thinking. On the contrary, he is an actor with a strong internal drive.
After graduation, Zhu Yilong signed a small company, and the agent Li Chan had and only one person under his name.
When his peers were squeezing their heads to find big productions, Zhu Yilong chose to look for possibilities in small productions. He said he didn't want to wait a few years for a play, let alone believe that opportunities would fall from the sky: "I believe in practicing on set, not waiting at home."
Not expecting a hit, he began to "go away". In the ten years since he entered the industry, Zhu Yilong has made 21 TV series and 37 movies. Many movies are not famous, have a small cost, are shoddy, and don't even have broadcast resources.
In ten years, he has tried almost all the roles, and someone asked him, after acting for so long, he is not popular yet, is it uncomfortable? Zhu Yilong smiled and said: "There is nothing uncomfortable, no one recognizes it, it is that you are not good at acting, practice slowly." ”
If the four years of study in film school gave Zhu Yilong a "technical understanding" of acting, then working with old actors gave him a "real cognition" of acting.
On the set of "Hu Yang's Summer", Zhu Yilong and Chen Peisi had a clinking scene in a Xinjiang restaurant. In the script, the end of the touch. But on the set, director Zhu Shimao did not shout to stop. Chen Peisi continued to perform on his own. Seeing this, Zhu Yilong also quickly followed.
It was this scene that made Zhu Yilong understand that the camera can shout to stop, but the characters will never stop.
And to Shen Wei, the black-robed envoy and the night lord in "Soul Town", the trinity of characters allows people to see Zhu Yilong's potential in creating complex images. The character is full of contradictions and tears. Beneath the mysterious exterior is a fragile and deep heart. According to Tu Suoji, to Wu Xie of "Reboot of the Extreme Sea Listening Thunder", this sense of contradiction in the surface is more vividly displayed.
Zhu Yilong's performance combines the calmness of a middle-aged man with the jumpiness of a teenager; After experiencing the period of the evil emperor and returning to innocence, the sadness of life, trust in friends, fierceness towards enemies, gathered in one person.
For this role, Zhu Yilong has to add a scar to his neck every day.
He said that Wu Xie was a decadent person when he reached middle age and achieved nothing; But when he knew that his life was coming to an end and decided to go out again, he was completely new. Zhu Yilong also designed a meme for Wu Xie to play with matches - life is burning, and there are fewer and fewer left.
It's a brilliant cognition, a paradoxical logic, and a genius design. As a result, the character of Wu Xie was truly established, and the image was steadily landed.
It is precisely this time and time again that Zhu Yilong's acting skills have finally slowly entered the public's field of vision, and he has slowly explored a Zhu Yilong performance paradigm.
Falling into the "paradigm trap"
Chinese is taboo to talk about death, but in "Life Events", the director uses comedy to deconstruct the proposition of death. In the process of narration, the third brother of the funeral master played by Zhu Yilong is only "serving the dead" on the surface, but in fact, he is comforting the living.
After this goal was clear, Zhu Yilong's performance had traces to follow. What he has to do is to constantly imitate the life and work of real undertakers, and continue to refine his own "contradictory person" performance paradigm.
The same paradigm was also brought to the set of "Disappearing Her". In the complicated clues, clues and suspense, Zhu Yilong grasps the contradictions and fragmentation of the characters; The secrets of the past and the survival of the present, the character mask and the real face, are still the only rules for him to shape the character.
However, this set of performance methodologies is not universal. But whenever the film needs Zhu Yilong to provide more details of life and people's sense of materiality, the methodology of "dead knock" is difficult to work. It's like Ma Zhe in "The Mistake by the River". He carried more of the burden of conformity, hoping to clamp down the dark door, but did not usher in the light of hope.
This is the bottleneck for every actor who wants to go further. Gaining weight and losing weight, experiencing a career, and even living a character's life are things that every outstanding actor does. But quantitative efforts do not always bring a leap in acting skills. Losing ten pounds and losing fifteen pounds will not bring essential differences to the performance.
Some people have changed their lives by the characters, and some people live in misery because of the characterization - this is the pain that belongs to top actors and professional performers.
Ma Zhe may not represent Zhu Yilong's ability and stature, but he is still a case of Zhu Yilong's attempt to transform and unsuccessful transformation.
Attempt to unbind traffic
From traffic, to actors, to awards, Zhu Yilong and Yi Yangqianxi have similar career paths.
They are all keen on dead roles, actively away from Vanity Fair, quiet, deep and steady. They experienced the transformation from leading traffic to rejecting traffic, and then in this entertainment industry, they harvested traffic.
The changing world is always paradoxical, but the only constant is people's pursuit of quality works.
In the final analysis, the capital operation mode of the traffic star a few years ago is becoming more and more declining. The collapse of the idol cultivation system is the collapse of the word-of-mouth of the work on the one hand, and the collapse of the idol itself on the other hand.
Star collapse, internal entertainment shuffle; This is a bridge that the audience loves to see. Zhu Yilong's classmate Zhai Tianlin was picked up for paper fraud because he "didn't know the Internet", and has since lost the entertainment industry.
The picture shows Zhu Yilong participating in the Cannes Film Festival fan pick-up picture
At this point, an adjective from an ancient official discourse system has reappeared in the public eye: both virtue and art.
Whether Zhu Yilong is worthy of "virtue and art", I will not discuss it here, but he is indeed in a strange position at present. There have been affirmations of awards and a good accumulation, but while "Disappearing Her" was good at the box office, the film's reputation collapsed all the way. For actors, overdrawing their credibility does not seem like a wise move. Xiaolongbao can generate electricity for love, but what about the general public?
Becoming popular, for Zhu Yilong, is just an experience. He took a path of "de-trafficization". He said: "The red thing, it is good to experience it once, and it is difficult and not a good thing to maintain a height for a lifetime." ”
From becoming traffic to rejecting traffic, from the nameless eighteenth line to the Golden Rooster Award, Zhu Yilong used his sense of purpose, performance tempering and methodology to complete the leap of an actor. But when "improvement" becomes a problem, transformation or career change may not be a matter of choosing one or the other.
How to go the way back, probably even Zhu Yilong himself does not know. Xiaolongbao hopes that he can act until he is 80 years old. In this regard, Zhu Yilong did not express his position. But if the Golden Rooster Award is the ceiling for this actor, then "acting and directing" may be his next goal.
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