Recently, the controversy about Yang Mi's acting skills has been boiling. Whether it is a movie, a drama or an ancient puppet, her film and television works have been pounced one after another.
In the entertainment industry, Yang Mi's starting point is quite high, she was born as a child star, she has cooperated with big names since she was a child, and she is still the youngest star girl, and she has been appreciated by the director as "talented".
Later, he was admitted to Beiying with the first good score in cultural classes, and won the role of Guo Xiang with Zhang Jizhong's version of "The Condor Heroes", which was smart and cute, and was deeply loved by the audience.
Decades later, Yang Mi, who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, suddenly had a declining reputation, and was ridiculed by the whole network for his programmed performance, which could not resonate emotionally with the characters, and his neck, exaggerated expression, and even breathing did not feel like acting. Lian Yang's mother personally went out to point out the problem that Yang Mi's acting skills were not solid.
Even her recent attendance at events has been particularly low-key, first becoming a foil to the international chapter in Cannes, and then changing her previous high-spirited appearance when the new drama was announced, cautious and submissive.
Yang Mi, who was once incomparable, why did he become like this?
At the end of 2023, Yang Mi mentioned an award on a certain platform, and when she won the award, she raised the trophy and released a bold statement to the audience and fans: 2024, see you in the work.
This determined tone + full of confidence, fans shed tears, and passers-by looked forward to it.
I privately thought that Yang Mi wanted to give everyone a big trick and present his best work in the new year.
Unexpectedly, when the works were broadcast one after another, Yang Mi once again entered the "group ridicule period" of his acting career. Everyone laughed at the rapid decline in the reputation of a top actress who was desperately transforming.
The most controversial "Harbin 1944", as the first spy war drama on three satellite TVs, some netizens gave a high prediction in advance that the ratings would break 1 and the average episode would be 50 million+.
Yang Mi is not the only female star who shoots spy wars, but it is rare to get such a good configuration.
Why? First of all, the team of "Harbin 1944", Zhang Li, is one of the top ten directors of popular TV, and he is a masterpiece as soon as he shoots, and his masterpieces such as "The Right Way in the World is the Vicissitudes of Life" and "Young Marshal" are like thunder, and he is full of experience in the filming of dramas.
is also a group of supporting actors, each of whom is a drama bone, the actor is Qin Hao, and the quality of the film and television dramas he has selected and performed in recent years is quite high.
What's even more rare is the breakthrough of the character. Screenwriter Wang Xiaogun is a spy war professional, the main line of this drama is in the early stage of the liberation of Harbin, the intelligence officer Song Zhuowen played by Qin Hao, secretly infiltrated the secret service section to rescue the trapped comrades, and was detected by Guan Xue, the head of the special service section played by Yang Mi, who had an internal ghost.
Guan Xue launched an investigation on this, Song Zhuowen fought in a dangerous environment, resolved the crisis in many confrontations, and Song Zhuowen finally successfully left Harbin under the cover of the organization. Some people say that the screenwriter is even better because a woman does not rely on men in troubled times, but only on herself.
The role of Xie Yue in the play is to reflect Guan Xue's past, especially the plot where Xie Yue was bullied by her classmates on the sofa, and the director interspersed Guan Xue's gray memories, suggesting that Guan Xue's experience was unsightly.
Therefore, Guan Xue has an independent growth line and a complete character logic. In spy war films, the character of the male protagonist is more common in spy war films, but it is the character of the heroine, Guan Xue is a rare villain female boss in domestic dramas, femme fatale: ruthless and unscrupulous. Speaking of similar villains, it is inevitably reminiscent of Wang Manchun in "The Pretender". I never thought that after this drama was broadcast, there would be a joke: because of Yang Mi, Wang Manchun became popular again.
Having said that, from the behind-the-scenes team to the screenwriters and actors, as well as the traffic actresses, such a configuration seems to be how "Harbin 1944" will be successful. But Yang Mi just dropped the chain.
At the beginning, one of Zhang Li's few failures was to cooperate with traffic male stars to shoot ancient puppets.
This time, he felt that sticking to the subject matter he was good at, what he really wanted to change was a female artist who was used to the performance of idol drama Hua Dan.
It happened that Yang Mi had this intention, and the two hit it off. Before joining the group, Yang Mi ruthlessly made a radical change: throwing away the performance habits that he had developed over the past 30 years (what habits, I will expand on them in depth next) and seeking some breakthroughs. So she chose an acting teacher among many resumes: "The one who bothers me the most, and I have to pay the most energy."
He is Guo Ertai, who has taken Yang Mi to re-study since before entering the group. After the acting course opened, Yang Mi asked to rehearse the scene with several actors in the rehearsal room every day, and after practice, he had to complete his homework, which was observation.
The personalities of each character, the way they speak, and the relationship they relate to. After watching Yang Mi's performance, the teacher commented: "She has a set of acting skills.
laughed, and she immediately laughed; Crying, her tears will fall. But what is deeper behind the laughter and crying is what she lacks the most. ”
After a period of study, after joining the group, Yang Mi also brought the acting teacher to guide him. When the official shooting, the lighting and photography were quite pleasantly surprised, just give a light, and Yang Mi can shoot well. But after a few days of filming, the crew felt that it was not right, and it was not right no matter how it was filmed. Because, they suddenly discovered that this kind of good-looking is Yang Mi's personal, not the characters of this drama. It turns out that the habit of acting in idol dramas for a long time seems to have become muscle memory, and as soon as Yang Mi is filmed, he subconsciously looks for the camera, and then reveals his more beautiful side face or angle.
Don't open your mouth when you say your lines, and purse your lips as soon as you finish speaking, so that you are beautiful in front of the camera. There are also habitual small movements, such as clicking on the table, clicking on the arms, etc., that is, there are a lot of hand movements, which sometimes ruins the interpretation of the role. What's even worse is the eyes, no matter what the scene, Yang Mi's eyes are the same sparkling. Zhang Li patiently analyzes the characters: Guan Xue, ruthless, cold-blooded and suspicious, and the city government is very deep.
Therefore, the eyes are extremely important, and the right eyes are the soul of the characters. It seems that these basic problems of performance should not be in a qualified actor who has debuted for 34 years and has filmed more than 80 film and television dramas. What's more, Yang Mi's original advantage was precisely the water spirit and eyes. Especially at the stage of playing Guo Xiang and Xue Jian, his expressions are rich, and he can't close his mouth when he speaks.
Later, she chose a track with higher commercial value, and the film and television dramas she participated in one after another were homogeneous, and she seemed to find that filming was so simple, and she was also familiar with beauty in idol dramas.
Until the filming of the literary film "Baby", the transformation was already in sight.
However, when the film came out, she was still playing Yang Mi herself, and her performance had not changed much. Every time I try to take a step to change, I quickly retreat after a little failure, for fear that the word-of-mouth will affect my traffic if I don't catch it.
The consequence of such a focus on business value is to jump back and forth between transformation and traffic.
When a traffic star decides to transform, it means that he needs to abandon traffic and take another track to fight for acting strength.
This will not change overnight. The actors who go on this track, in addition to the precipitation of acting skills, also have high requirements for the script, and the audience is willing to believe that as long as his and other works are not bad, this will be word of mouth.
And now traffic is king has become a thing of the past, such as Yang Ying and Yang Mi, who used to be able to easily and casually act out of the circle, but now the wind direction has changed, and the reputation has plummeted.
After all, the audience is also growing.
may have experienced the changes in the general environment in recent years, as well as the ups and downs of life, instead of chasing some illusory stars, it is better to think more about how to live your life.
Because of this, when the craze of showbiz traffic faded, Yang Mi cleverly and keenly captured the need to change the way of creating his own traffic.
She has always been very shrewd, and in the past, traffic was in charge, and she created momentum for personal traffic by creating a big hostess and a strong inner label. Today's way out is good works, good characters. Former best friend Tang Yan sharpened her sword for three years, and with "Flowers" Miss Wang became popular and successfully transformed. Always strong, can she sit still?
However, the most fundamental problem is that there is no qualifications in vain. How to get the quality is what really needs to be studied and changed, and the cognition of a character and a work should be pondered and treated, and life should be experienced.
Even director Zhang Yimou's performance is most particular about experiencing life, in order to interpret the image of the villagers, he went to the mountains to eat and live with the villagers for more than half a year.
After all, laughter is not only hahaha, but there can also be a hundred or even a thousand ways to act. Since writing this article, I have become more and more aware of the importance and power of quality, and if I expand it a little more, no matter what kind of field, quality needs to be steadily improved.
In the end, the road to acting is long, and Yang Mi has to continue to seek it up and down.