The noon sun is carefully cast, and the adult version of the young actor is highly compatible
This is a story that happened in the film and television industry. Things have to start with the noon sunshine crew. When the crew was filming the costume drama "Mountains and Seas", in order to show the growth process of the characters from teenagers to adults, a lot of effort was put into casting.
The director hired a professional portrait analyst to compare the juvenile version of actor Guo Feige and the adult version of actor Huang Yao one by one, the facial features and figures of the two are extremely similar, and even their personalities are lively and enthusiastic. Guo Feige passionately interprets the flamboyant and domineering personality of the young Mai Miao in the play, and his face is full of unruliness; And Huang Yao perfectly inherited this role stereotype, adding more delicate emotional changes in his heart as an adult.
The young actor lays the foundation for the cheerful personality of the character, and the adult actor enriches the inner world on this basis, and the two are perfectly connected, and the role is three-dimensional and full. This careful choice of actors makes the audience feel that the characters are very appropriate and coherent with each other.
Even Ma Defu, a supporting actor with few scenes, chose a child star who is exactly the same as adult actor Huang Xuan to play the juvenile version. It can be said that Noon Sunshine has achieved the highest standards in the industry for the age locking and temperament matching of actors, which has become a model for other crews to learn later.
The casting issue of "Scorching Romance" sparked criticism from the audience
However, not all production teams are as carefully considered as the Noon Sunshine crew. After the premiere of the new drama "Scorching Romance" starring Jing Tian and Feng Shaofeng, it received a lot of negative feedback. Because the 78-year-old Feng Shaofeng plays the middle-aged male protagonist in his 40s, there is a generation gap with the younger heroine Jing Tian.
As a veteran artist, Feng Shaofeng's slow and steady performance style is obviously inconsistent with the image of a vibrant middle-aged man in the play, which makes the audience always have a sense of disobedience when watching the play, "they are embarrassed and panicked across the screen".
Feng Shaofeng wanted to pretend to be young and passionate to interpret this incompatible role, but what was revealed from his wrinkled face and cloudy eyes was the vicissitudes of life, which was far from the character in the play.
In addition, the 14-year-old actor Pei Jiaxin, who plays the girl Princess Roujia, is too beautiful and moving, and her lively and lovely acting skills have successfully created an image of a smart and clever girl, which is deeply loved by the audience. And when the plot turned to Princess Roujia's adulthood, the nearly 40-year-old actor Wang Likun appeared in the camera, and the audience couldn't help but gasp.
Wang Likun's immature girlish temperament has long faded, replaced by a haggard face and stiff acting skills, which is very different from the impression laid by the young actors before, making it difficult for the audience to accept this change. Wang Likun will inevitably feel pressure in the face of the high popularity laid by the young actors.
This kind of casting and plot setting that goes against common sense makes the audience feel that the whole drama is "embarrassing across the screen".
The fragmentation of the character design of "Our Days" has led to a decline in perception
A similar problem also appeared in the drama "Our Days" starring Li Xiaoran. Li Luoyi, who played her daughter when she was a child, performed excellently and successfully created the image of a smart and eccentric little girl, her clever and cute appearance and innocent dialogue deeply moved the audience, making the audience full of expectations for this girly character.
Li Luoyi's wonderful acting skills laid the foundation for this girl's lively and cheerful personality. The audience was impressed by her cute and touching acting skills, and was full of imagination about the future growth experience of this character.
But when the plot shifted to a few years later, the girl grew up, and the new actor Zhou, who played the role of the youth version of the daughter, still appeared in the camera, the audience was dumbfounded. Zhou is still delicate but introverted, revealing restraint between his gestures, and the cheerful and clever girl in his memory is like two people.
Zhou's expressionless wooden acting skills also surprised the audience, and it was difficult to accept the original cute and lively character settings. How did a clever and smiling girl become this reserved and restrained young woman? The audience watched the sunny and cheerful little girl in their hearts become another person, and their hearts inevitably fell apart, and their original expectations for the follow-up plot were gone.
The character was torn in half, causing the perception to plummet.
The improvement of the strength of young actors puts pressure on senior actors
In recent years, a group of child star actors has risen, such as young actors like Xu Weiluo, who can already take charge on their own, and some of their acting skills are not even inferior to professional old actors. Xu Weiluo started his acting career at the age of 7 and played the leading actor in many hit dramas when he was a teenager.
His delicate control and in-depth portrayal of the characters' emotions made the audience deeply impressed by the juvenile characters he created. For example, in "Jade Face Peach Blossom", Xu Weiluo successfully created a heroic and sassy young image, with a tall posture and bright eyes exuding a youthful atmosphere, which was deeply loved by the audience.
And when this role became an adult, he was replaced by a senior actor to interpret it, and the actor's blunt performance did not match the teenager portrayed by the young actor before, which surprised the audience. The audience watched the high-spirited teenager in their impression become a middle-aged man with a blank face and stiff movements, and it was difficult to accept this change.
This puts pressure on veteran actors who rely too much on appearance packaging and can't keep up with their acting skills. They are more likely to be "compared" and questioned in the rivalry with young actors. The improvement of the overall strength of young actors has undoubtedly sounded the alarm for many adult actors.
They must keep up with the times, keep learning and improving themselves in order to gain a foothold in this increasingly competitive industry.
The casting of the director is professional, and the actors need to cooperate and cooperate
Therefore, it is a great challenge to achieve the perfect connection and transformation of young actors and adult actors. This requires a multiface, temperament, and acting skills to match, which not only tests the director's professional ability, but also tests the tacit cooperation between the actors. In order to carefully select the actor who is most suitable for the role, the director needs to comprehensively judge the actor's appearance, performance style and acting control ability, and choose the best candidate who can interpret the character's growth trajectory.
The actors should also devote themselves to the filming, establish tacit understanding with other actors, cooperate with the requirements of the director, constantly adjust the state through rehearsals and test shoots, and interpret the inner growth and changes of the characters with more professional acting skills.
For example, in "Mountains and Seas", according to the character setting, the director chose Guo Feige and Huang Yao, who have very similar facial features and figures, and both have a sense of hot-blooded youth, to play the juvenile and adult male protagonists Mai Miao respectively. During the filming, the two also discussed their roles with each other, and Guo Feige passed on the youthful and energetic personality traits to Huang Yao, so that Huang Yao could embody this personality in the adult version of the character; At the same time, Huang Yao also fed back his understanding of the inner growth of the characters to Guo Feige, so that Guo Feige added some adult stability when creating the image of a teenager, and the two reached a high degree of unity.
In the end, the director's careful casting was appropriate, coupled with the fact that the two complemented each other's strengths and weaknesses in the shooting, and successfully presented a three-dimensional and expressive character image. The importance of casting actors cannot be overlooked, and it is necessary for the industry to learn from them and continuously improve the casting mechanism to present better works.
The casting is three-dimensional, and the actors weave the story of life
The director's careful casting, coupled with the tacit cooperation of the actors, will eventually weave vivid characters and deliver wonderful stories. Just as in "Mountains and Seas", the flamboyant and domineering personality of the teenager Mai Miao has gained a calm and introverted inner quality in adulthood, and the growth process of this character is real and touching due to the precise fit of casting and acting skills.
The audience watched as a lively and cheerful teenager gradually grew into a steady and introverted adult, and the whole process was very coherent and natural. This is due to the fact that the director found two very similar actors to interpret Mai Miao at different stages of growth, as well as the mutual run-in and improvement of the two in filming.
On the other hand, looking at the absurdity of the characters in "Scorching Romance", the 78-year-old artist plays the 40-year-old middle-aged actor, and the glamorous and moving young actor plays against the haggard and old middle-aged actor, which makes it difficult for the audience to accept. The growth trajectories of these characters are extremely incoherent, which also seriously restricts the appeal of the story.
Therefore, the casting consideration of the actor directly determines whether the character is three-dimensional and plump and whether the audience can follow the plot. This requires the industry to recognize the importance of casting, learn from successful or unsuccessful cases, and continuously improve the level of production.