Recently, the more I brush up on various domestic new dramas, the more I sigh, the entertainment industry is really a magical place.
It is unchanged, and after so many years, it is still those who can be called "drama bones";
At the same time, it is extremely fickle, and the way it tortures the audience is changed very quickly.
Glaring acting, draft idol invasion, ugly men in ancient costumes, funeral costumes... Counting the past is the blood and tears that torment the audience's visual nerves.
Nowadays, there is one more means for internal entertainment to destroy the audience's dual purpose - acting with the mouth.
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In-house entertainment acting
The mouth steals the play more than the eyes
The concept of "acting with your mouth" was actually complained repeatedly by Er Dongsheng as early as two years ago in "Actor Please Take Position 2".
He has repeatedly hated iron and steel to persuade some young actors: "Acting with your mouth is the lowest level of things." ”
At that time, Er Dongsheng expressed too conceptual, and the audience couldn't get anything to act with their mouths for a while, didn't they have to open their mouths to say lines when acting?
Until I experienced round after round of bombardment in many dramas, I regretted that I didn't put Director Er on the hot search at that time and let him scold him a few more times.
"Acting with the mouth" textbook-level actors, the most nominated by netizens are Bai Lu and Wu Jinyan.
Coincidentally, it's all under Yuzheng.
Bai Lu in a dispute scene in "Long Moon Ember Ming" some time ago, with his mouth rising and falling, his mouth flew up and down, and was spicy comments by the audience:
If you don't read the lines, think that her mouth shape is to scold "Xiba".
Wu Jinyan was still nominated for the famous scene of "eating noodles" in "Yanxi Raiders".
The opening and closing of the upper and lower lips seem to be exhausting the possibilities of the face, and it is difficult to imagine any scene in real life that requires such force.
Compare the upper and lower faces separately, and you will find that the nomination of netizens is really not wronged by them.
The nose is up, standing still.
Nose down, wonderful.
The expression between the eyebrows is not completely unchanged, and there are still regular frowns, glaring and so on, but compared with the change in the mouth, it is a small witch.
If we talk about the range of motion of the upper half of the face, it is the state of contemporary college students after running 800 meters.
The range of motion of the lower half of the face must be the state of Su Bingtian after the starting gun of the Olympic Games.
Before, I thought that the performance mode of "acting with the mouth" was just a personal habit of some actors.
After all, after this concept became popular, some netizens turned out the performance clips of Bai Lu in other dramas, and the mouth movements were similar when they were emotional.
Wu Jinyan also has this problem in other dramas.
However, after horizontal comparison, it is easy to find that "acting with the mouth" is not the personal habit of several actors at all.
It has long spread around like a cancer cell, and it is alive and well in the body of internal entertainment.
In "The Road of Life" broadcast some time ago, Li Qin's neat big white teeth are particularly eye-catching.
Obviously, it is just daily communication and speech, but the corners of the mouth grin the arc that ordinary people only open when they check their teeth at the dentist in the clinic.
"Changfeng Du", which is currently broadcasting, is not low because of the scandal between the male and female protagonists Bai Jingting and Song Yi.
Many netizens opened a hot search with the rumored "true couple" for desserts, and found that Bai Jingting's acting skills were a little high and low and unstable.
In good times, coquettish dramas and outbreak scenes are not bad, but when they are bad, there is also a problem with acting with the mouth.
For example, the male protagonist in the plot is jealous, when Bai Jingting is confronting the supporting role, the other facial features seem to suddenly fall into a state of downtime, leaving the upper and lower lips still output.
Zhao Lusi, who has been criticized many times for her staring acting skills, now also shows signs of excessive mouth movement.
The heroine she played in "Back Waves" is a big, unobtrusive character who occasionally has verbal conflicts with others.
And most of these manifestations of conflict are assimilated into glaring + mouths flying quickly like machine guns.
Last winter, she starred in "Alley", in which the characteristics of "acting with the mouth" are more prominent.
Although there is an expression change, the expression of the upper half of the face is almost carried away by the lower half of the face that moves too much, and it looks a little hideous.
The line "This is a new society, the people are in charge" should have been biased towards a sonorous and powerful texture.
But interpreted by the exaggerated mouth acting skills, if you don't read the lines, the expression is more like brutal and fierce.
How ridiculous you say, the old drama bones have said for many years that acting needs to feel life, be diligent, observe and learn more, and I haven't seen many people comprehend the essence.
But this "acting with the mouth", which has no benefit, has rushed to become a textbook one by one.
02
"Acting with your mouth"
The mouth is not the biggest problem
When Yu Zheng recorded the show with Zhang Songwen on the variety show "Acting School", he personally stamped Wu Jinyan's acting with too much mouth movement.
At that time, he realized this, and the opportunity was that after a young actor in the show finished the play, everyone's intuitive feeling was just that the performance was not brilliant, a little woody, and it seemed that there was no character.
But Zhang Songwen, who served as a mentor, quickly saw that her problem was that she was speaking her lines too hard, and the focus of her whole face was on the change in mouth shape when saying lines.
It looks like acting, but in the end, only the mouth is acting.
Yu Zheng, who was observing, suddenly reacted and said that his own artist Wu Jinyan also had this problem.
Zhang Songwen also imitated a scene on the spot, and this inferior elementary acting skill appeared on his face and was even a little out of place.
However, this temporary imitation, which is convenient for us to compare it with Zhang Songwen's regular state.
Zhang Songwen once temporarily demonstrated a scene of "video with family after failed audition" in "I am an Actor", without any scene sets, and only a mobile phone for props.
He said his lines in the most ordinary tone, and the audience could see a little tear in his eyes, solemn brows, nasolabial folds with a wry smile, and constantly shaking his body and head, symbolizing lack of confidence and weakness.
But at a glance in the mouth acting, there is only an exaggerated mouth shape.
(It is recommended to repeatedly swipe the screen up and down here to see the gap presented by the actor.) ）
The biggest problem with acting with your mouth is not that your mouth shape is exaggerated when you say your lines.
It's about what else is left in the picture besides the mouth that must move when saying the lines.
Take the old drama "On the Wrong Flower Sedan and Marry Lang" as an example, Li Yuhu in the play is a big grinning, lively and active character, and his expressions and movements will be more exaggerated than others.
When Huang Yi played Li Yuhu, he often grinned to the root of his ears as soon as he said his lines in a state of excitement, but he didn't feel contradictory at a glance.
Because compared to paying attention to how many centimeters her mouth opened and how many teeth were exposed, Li Yuhu's eyebrows fluttering, looking left and right and her delicate and cute movements were obviously more noticeable.
In "Pink Girl", Liu Ruoying played the "marriage maniac", and the makeup artist designed a bucktooth for her.
This setting originally made her mouth movements easy to grab the scene, but in the play, there will be no "acting with the mouth" look.
This is because the director is cleverly scheduling, in addition to deliberately showing the scene of buckteeth, he rarely shoots "marriage mania" with a big head close-up, and puts small mouth movements.
Second, in the process of acting, compared with other characters, the expressions and body movements of the "marriage maniac" will be richer, and he will always dance and have a rich voice.
It is obviously a bucktooth that people can't help but glance at, but it is lower than those mouth-style acting skills.
In contrast, mouth-style acting is often the only eye-catching point on the whole body, only the mouth.
The audience has nothing to see, nothing else has changed, and they can only focus on the mouth that is reading the lines and outputting some information.
In this case, unless you have a pair of sexy lips like Angelina Jolie to keep the audience's eyes open, it will only invite irritation and disgust.
Please read Yu Hua's famous quote - "The place without scenery in the world is the human mouth." ”
At that time, one of the main reasons why Yu Hua abandoned medicine and became a writer as a dentist was that he felt that it was too boring to face people's mouths and teeth every day.
But the domestic drama is good, and the upper one rushes to shoot and roar, showing the actors' mouths to the national audience.
03
Mouth acting
Internal entertainment collective fig leaf
The concept of "acting with your mouth" first appeared in acting variety shows, largely because it was a "novice village problem".
For novice actors who know nothing about acting and have little experience, acting with their mouths is the easiest acting skill to master.
They want to mobilize their five senses, but they don't know how to coordinate.
The end result is often that only the mouth that usually eats, talks, and is the most active is successfully mobilized.
Often the upper half of the face is only responsible for frowning, and the mouth of the lower half of the face is straining.
There is a sharp enough contrast between the drama version and the movie version of "July and Ansheng".
The two heroines of the drama version invited Chen Duling and Shen Yue to play, both of them are not from science classes, they are both amateurs who entered the entertainment industry after being excavated.
The effect of the two in the play is also extremely unified, the regular calm scenes are okay, and when they reach the part with a little more lines or emotions, their mouths are flying.
The scene where Chen Duling and her boyfriend in the play are angry and angry is completely carried away by large lines.
The mouth was busy spitting out lines and keeping up with the rhythm, and the expression of the eyebrows was only nervous.
The same is true of Shen Yue's scene of learning that her mother died and collapsed in front of the spirit.
Inexperienced and unable to undertake the big scene, the whole person's expression froze, only his mouth was still performing his duties as an actor, opening and closing up and down like a robot, swallowing lines.
Compare the movie version of "July and Ansheng", even the most-for-tat bathroom fight scene, the actors never grinned and shouted lines.
The way to express emotions is long-term eye contact and tentative provocation, and physical pushing and attack.
In theory, this novice problem should be improved with the enrichment of acting experience.
After Chen Duling played a series of female supporting brushes in many plays, his performance in "Long Moon Ember Ming" was much better than before.
It is not good acting, but it has learned to control his mouth and act in other ways.
And now the flood of mouth acting skills is absurd here-
Those actors who are questioned about "acting with their mouths" are not newcomers, they are all old actors who already have sufficient acting experience and even masterpieces.
Bai Lu had a crying scene in "Zhou Shengru" that made fans empathize and be abused, and tears can be shed like faucets.
When Zhao Lusi was on "Acting School", she was once certified by Zhang Songwen to have crying potential.
In "Long Song Line", her character insists on carrying a sick and dead child on foot and fleeing back to her hometown, paralyzing herself and saying that the child is not dead.
This plot spread widely on short videos, and the heart-rending crying scene when he finally had to face the truth of death also left an impression on many people.
Li Qin not to mention, now online nomination of the role of "Princess of the Dead Country" must have her.
And Bai Jingting in the same play, obviously there are other scenes to perform is natural and vivid.
They are not newcomers who do not have the ability or experience to control the five senses, but they have invariably returned to the simplest but also the roughest mouth acting skills.
Such a result can only show - the director or actor, there is always one party who is lazy.
Either the actor is lazy and feels that it is enough to cope with this clip with his mouth acting skills;
Either the director is lazy and unwilling to bother to correct every awkward and eye-catching detail, the control standards for key scenes are stricter, and ordinary scenes acquiesce in the existence of the most mouthful acting skills.
To some extent, mouth acting is also a manifestation of domestic dramas falling into aesthetic slackness.
Shoot pain, anger, excitement only know to open your mouth and yell, shoot cold, gratified, proud only know to crooked smile.
Shoot temptation, shyness, maturity only know to bite the mouth with teeth, shoot sadness, grievances, helplessness only know to pout and cry.
Whether it is an actor or a director, the imagination of emotion and expression has reached a rigid and lacking level.
Only then did "acting with the mouth" become a model play for the new era.
There was once an eye play challenge on the short video, and only the eyes were used to interpret the scene where the former lover got married.
Among them, the best performers are all veteran TVB actors.
The decency of strong laughter, the helpless sadness, and the silent blessing ending, all in the 15-second eye play.
These experiences were honed by TVB's decade of low-paid cruel sets.
But now, it seems that no matter how windy and rainy the outside public opinion is, the rain of criticism cannot blow into the closed door of the entertainment industry.
Under the discussion of the audience scolding "acting with your mouth", some fans of the actor complacently replied:
What's the use of your scolding, my actors still produce blockbuster dramas every year, which shows that the audience likes this kind of acting skills.
You see, there are always people who only provide garbage to the guests and leave everyone with only swill to eat.
On the contrary, you can also deceive yourself and blame all the fault on the guests——
Claiming that this is a free choice is an attempt to brainwash the dregs that humans love to eat the most.