In the post-traffic era, how to transform into a real actor is a problem in front of all the "traffic stars" who want to enter the film and television field.
There are many paths to transformation.
For example, the star team knows how to choose the script and find the role that matches their own state. Li Yifeng's appearance in "Hidden and Great" is a successful example. Gu Yaodong is a growth character, graduating from college and entering the Kuomintang police station, hot-blooded and reckless, persistent and ignorant, and then slowly transformed into a communist fighter with firm beliefs. Such a process from youth to maturity allows actors to achieve their own growth with the role while playing the role.
Another example is that the creative team equips the stars with a strong enough supporting cast to play a leading role in the performance. In the blockbuster sweet pet drama "You Are My Glory", Yang Yang's performance has made visible progress compared with "A Slight Smile is Falling City", which is largely due to this. When he and Wang Shihuai, Zheng Xiaoning, Pan Yueming and other actors performed against each other, it was obvious that his whole person was natural, and even had a vivid micro-expression, rather than just a walking sculpture with a face full of "How I look so good".
But either path has an important premise, that is, the star and the people around the star have a clear enough understanding of the performance ability of the person involved. But that's exactly one thing that's very hard to do.
For celebrities, who have been surrounded by endless praise from fans for a long time, it is difficult not to inflate themselves. There is a phenomenon that makes people pay attention: in recent years, as long as it is a film and television drama starring a traffic star, the bullet screen will brush out a water of "so-and-so can play any role!" "So-and-so's ability to shape characters is too strong!" "So-and-so always eats the character thoroughly!" "You can always trust so-and-so's acting skills!" For example, there is a set of vocabulary templates, you only need to change the name of the star to copy and paste.
The paradox is that many traffic stars who debut from idols have obvious deficiencies in acting skills. Netizens have invented a sentence for this purpose: there is an acting skill, which is only visible to fans.
The example in front of you is Ren Jialun, the star of the popular web drama "One Life".
"One Life and One Life" and another popular web drama "Zhou Sheng Ru Gu" are the sister episodes that have been broadcast in succession, and both episodes are from the online novel "One Life And One Beautiful Bone", which adapts the ancient and modern parts of the novel respectively.
"Zhou Sheng Ru Gu" is an ancient part, mainly responsible for abuse - the little Nanchen King Zhou Shengchen who voluntarily gave up the right to inherit the throne and swore in the court not to marry a wife and not to leave an heir, and the monk was accused of marrying the daughter of the prince's family when he was in the womb, and was destined to be a fatalistic two-way sadistic entanglement that could not be loved. In the end, Zhou Shengchen was sentenced to the punishment of bone removal, leaving a blood letter "Chen's life, not to live up to the world, but to bear the eleventh", and it is advisable to jump down from the city tower in a wedding dress on the day of the big wedding.
"One Life and One Life" is a modern part, mainly responsible for sweet - voice actor Shi Yi and chemistry professor Zhou Shengchen met in the vast sea of people, in this life, nothing can stop them from falling in love.
The reason why Ren Jialun is used as an example is not because he really has no acting skills. In fact, whether it is the previous "Under the Golden Dress" or "Zhou Sheng as It Was", it shows his advantages in the genre of costume idol dramas. The first is the look. At that time, "Four Beauty of Heaven" could become a good story because few male actors could withstand the test of ancient costumes, and Ren Jialun was one of the few idol artists in the new generation. The costume highlights the heroism between his eyebrows, which is quite similar to the former TVB actor Jiang Hua. The second is the look in the eyes. Needless to say, The King of Xiao nanchen said that Lu Xuan in "Under the Golden Dress", as the leader of the Jinyi Guard, is also a setting with a deep heart and no scribble, and the seven emotions and six desires are not above. Ren Jialun can use a pair of eyes to interpret the complexity and subtlety of emotions, saying that he is an "eye skill school", not an embarrassing blow.
But fashion dramas have always been Ren Jialun's shortcomings. This has been shown in "Miss Crow and Mr. Lizard" and "Don't Say Goodbye" broadcast earlier this year, and the contrast is even more obvious because "Once In a Lifetime" and "Zhou Sheng As It Were" are broadcast in tandem. The audience's most intuitive discomfort comes from the lines. Ren Jialun's costume dramas are all dubbed, and in fashion dramas, perhaps in order to reflect the texture of life, the original voice is used. However, as an idol artist from a non-science class, Ren Jialun's original lines have obvious unstable breath, and it is easy to make people play. More importantly, if costume dramas are difficult to dress up, fashion dramas put forward higher requirements for performance, because the latter is more lifelike in the plot. And Ren Jialun in the fashion drama, on the one hand, lost the advantage of appearance, and there seems to be no effective way to accurately grasp the emotions of the characters and express the logic of the characters' behavior, which is regarded as a high cold fan and idol sense of extra points in the costume drama, and the fashion drama has become a kind of performance solidification and ungroundedness.
However, here's the problem: in the eyes of fans who wear filters to watch the show, such obvious flaws do not exist. After the launch of "Once in a Lifetime", each episode was stamped with various pokes by fans: empathy is so strong! Acting is getting better and better! The soundtrack is too good for the characters! A thousand faces are indeed worthy of the name!
The acting skills of "only fans visible" are like the emperor's new clothes, which will only make people hallucinate, and every traffic star who hopes to make a breakthrough in acting skills should have enough vigilance about this. Engaged in the acting career, if you can not realize your own subjective value in the field of performance by improving your acting skills, you can only act as an object that is watched and consumed - and this road is doomed to not last long.
Of course, in addition to relying on the self-consciousness of the stars, the improvement of acting skills also needs good works. The fan filter is a double-edged sword, not only shielding disadvantages, but also shielding advantages. When the viewing process is like a meeting between idols and fans, the focus of attention is on "the eyes are really beautiful", "the nose is charming", "the jaw line is clearer than my life plan", "This appearance is undoubtedly the ceiling of the idol drama", the subtext is: whether the drama is good or not, whether there is acting is not important, look at the face of my family's love beans! This set of logic makes it easy for production companies and broadcast platforms to bet on traffic stars, customize episodes for fans, and reduce the requirements for scripts. This will form a vicious circle: fans can only be embarrassed to blow their own love beans acting skills, because the plot and characters really have no room for discussion.
Still taking "Once In a Lifetime" as an example, although the original author personally adapted it, the play still has great problems in character shaping. According to the description of the novel, in addition to being a chemical genius, Zhou Shengchen in this life also has the identity of the only legal heir of the rich family who cannot escape the world but can affect the direction of the country's economy. Because he lost his father at an early age, the management of the family was temporarily handed over to his uncle, and when he met him, he was laying out the plan to take back his rights from his uncle. The plot sounds ridiculous, but the novel at least gives him a character trait that fits his identity: people don't talk much. In the TV series, Zhou Shengchen's identity has not changed, but he is stupid and innocent in the world. Such a role that is screwed up from the setting, how much space can the actor give to temper his acting skills?
From the perspective of personal career development, singing and dancing stars can expand their own stage by dabbling in performance; as far as industrial development is concerned, using stars with their own traffic can divert the flow of film and television works and expand their influence, which is not a bad thing. However, since entering the field of acting, we should accept the consideration of acting level, whether it is a star or a film and television content producer, need to realize that the traffic obtained through acting skills and works is a real high-quality and sustainable traffic; only good acting skills and good scripts can achieve mutual achievement. For celebrities, blindly immersing themselves in fan filters will eventually be short-lived, so that fans can see that they are not standing still, but have been moving forward, which is the meaning of "idol"; and for film and television drama creators, today's viewing mode does enable audiences to influence creators more and more, but many cases this year have shown that creators can also guide the audience.
Author: Brine popsicle
Editor: Zhou Minxian
Planner: Shao Ling
Editor-in-Charge: Li Ting
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