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Emma Watson is becoming less and less of an actress.
Despite "Beauty and the Beast" at the box office, few people will give credit to her.
On the contrary, she has been in trouble lately.
The first was the hacking of computers a few days ago, which led to the outflow of a group of exposed private photos. The official response said it was a photo taken during a fitting trial 2 years ago, while stressing that "Emma has never taken nude photos."
As soon as the voice dropped, the hacker immediately sent out a set of nude photos of Emma to punch her in the face.
Further ahead, in early March, Emma took a set of large-scale sexy photos for Vanity Fair magazine and was slammed as a "hypocrite": talking about feminism while showing her breasts.
Further ahead, in the awards season, when "Philharmonic City" shined in the awards season, Page Six magazine broke the news that Emma missed the movie because of too many requirements and "playing big names".
Emma Watson and Miles Taylor missed "Philharmonic City" because they asked too much.
After a month of rumors, Emma finally clarified that she was preparing for Beauty and the Beast and had no time to consider other projects.
But perhaps because the performance of another Emma (Emma Stone) was too good, some netizens were glad that she did not take "Philharmonic City".
Reddit: Watson would have ruined the movie
Reddit netizen: Emma Watson doesn't act well. She was as stiff as unopened cardboard, and lacked emotion and was ungrounded.
These comments are mean, but not false.
Believe it or not, look at yesterday's Beauty and the Beast, where the poisonous tongue was topped by the highest reviews.
There is also the third comment of Douban.
@Meow Camel Sauce ° Thank goodness Watsons did not play Lala Lan, the whole face was paralyzed and single-handedly confronted, and Disney Dad was really rich!
It is not difficult to find that in recent years, Emma's good fortune seems to have come to an end, fake feminism, poor acting skills, playing big names, and all aspects have been questioned.
We can't help but ask, when did people start to dislike emma, the goddess?
Once she was, her life was blessed with an aura all the way.
At the age of 9, she successfully auditioned for Hermione and subsequently became famous with 8 Harry Potter films.
At the age of 19, he dropped his wand and went to Brown University for further study, turning from an actor to a "beautiful girl".
At the age of 24, he was appointed Un Goodwill Ambassador and spoke at the launch of the UN HeForShe Feminist Movement, becoming a new generation of Hollywood feminist representatives.
At the age of 26, he announced that he had enriched himself for a year. Including the establishment of feminist book clubs, requiring themselves to read at least one book a week, and carrying out "book throwing activities" in London, New York and other places to encourage people to pursue the spiritual world.
Emma tweeted: "Just launched a book loss operation at the Blue Stocking bookstore in New York! ”
But — and the praise she received , high-profile, positive social activities raised more questions about her.
At the time of the death of Professor Snape's playing Alan Rickman, Emma quoted Alan on Twitter as saying in favor of feminism, "There's nothing wrong with supporting feminism as a man, it's good for everyone — Alan Rickman," accused of consuming the dead for feminism.
At the height of Europe's refugee flows, Emma tweeted welcoming refugees.
"#欢迎难民"
Foreign netizens directly launched a petition campaign, hoping that Miss Emma, a "white feminist" who stood and spoke without waist pain, would personally go to the refugee camp for a week.
What is even more worrying is that regardless of the positive and negative news headlines, her name still carries "Hermione" in front of her.
Yes, in addition to a series of labels such as "child star", "school bully", "feminist" and "United Nations Goodwill Ambassador", when you think back to Emma Watson's masterpieces, except for "Harry Potter" and the recently released "Beauty and the Beast", you may only vaguely remember that she seems to have worked with a famous actor...
and...... And Prince Harry's gossip.
Hermione's glory was in the past.
Turning to Emma's IMDb page, since the end of Harry Potter in 2011, she has strictly starred in only 6 movies, and the highest rating is "Wallflower Boy" (IMDb 8.0) in 2012. Compared with the Hollywood little flowers (Emma Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence) in the same period, the quality and quantity are not superior.
After Harry Potter, there is no longer a work that people remember, which is a very dangerous signal for the actors.
In terms of acting, it seems that there has been no breakthrough barrier.
Even in the highest-rated, Wenqing's beloved "Wallflower Boy", the limelight of male number one and male number two also overshadowed her. Netizens joked that "the teenager is very wonderful, emma is responsible for the wall flower".
The Boston Globe commented: "Although the biggest selling point of the whole film is that this is Watson's first starring role after ending Harry Potter, her performance is not very powerful. Like Sam, she's a bit confused about who she is. ”
For example —
When you are happy, your heart is not very strong.
Slightly green when seduced.
Slight stiffness when agitated.
In 2013, she starred in "Pearlescent", directed by Sophia Coppola, a famous talented woman who won oscars and Venice Golden Lion Awards, but the quality of the film was not good, and the media evaluation of Emma was only "it is fun to see her play a bad girl away from Hermione's identity".
But watching "Hermione" overexert and pretend to be broken, there is always a feeling that the painting style is not right
In 2014, in "Noah's Ark", he played an anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connery, Russell Crowe and other gods; the first short review of this Douban was as follows:
Oh my God, who can teach Miss Hermione what acting is!
Can you see that this pompous sadness occurred in the desperate moment when the father-in-law wanted to kill his own child?
In 2015, the first attempt at the historical drama film Colony of Dignity grossed just £47 in the first weekend in the UK.
By the time of 2017's Beauty and the Beast, NPR still commented: "[Watson's] voice is not enough to support the film, and the performance is very distant." ”
The production team and co-actors of these films are actually not bad, especially after the same drama has been out of the film, and she has not won a mainstream or independent film award so far.
Michelle Williams won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy category for My Week with Monroe.
Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for "The Theory of Everything."
Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention another actress of the same age: Kristen Stewart.
Also a child star who starred in commercial big IP movie debuts, Christine's treatment has been much worse than Emma's.
At the age of 18, "Twilight" made her gain a world-renowned boyfriend and a group of fanatical fans, but she also withstood the acting skills of "can't wake up", "face paralysis", "any expression is like spitting out in the next second".
Netizens mocked: Every emotion is manifested as facial paralysis
In 2012, he cheated on the married director during the filming of "Snow White and the Huntsman", and the human setting collapsed and the image collapsed.
Boyfriend Robert Pattinson broke up with her, and she came in second in the 2013 "Hollywood's Most Annoying Actor" poll.
During this painful time, she began to reflect on her acting path.
After the dormant period, Christine carefully selected the role and tried to break the acting ceiling. As she herself said: "I set my world on fire and watched it burn to ashes." ”
Most of the roles she plays are in line with her own personal characteristics (for example, they all have a very "mournful" gloomy side), but she will control the expression of different emotions through the adjustment of micro-expressions.
Coupled with the selection of films that have been online, there have been many wonderful works in recent years. And her performance in the film can be recognized by most media.
After Twilight, she had the comic-sculptural commercial comedy American Extremes;
There is also a delicate and warm family drama film "Still Alice";
In the film and Oscar-winning actress Julian Moore played
There is also the literary film "Sils Maria", which explores the relationship between art and reality;
"Sils Maria" made her the first American actress to win a César Award in France
And with 3D/120 frames and 4K resolution, it became a representative of the film's technological innovation of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime War".
The change in shooting technology actually requires a lot of performance on the actors
Moreover, the directors loved her very much.
In 2016, she worked with Woody Allen, Assayas, and Ang Lee; none of them paid attention to Twilight.
Ang Lee's impression of her came from the 2007 low-budget film "Survival in the Wild"; Asayas praised her for having a modern temperament rarely seen among American actresses; Woody Allen initially did not believe that she could play the brightly colored female secretary in "Coffee Commune", and only expressed satisfaction after auditioning in person.
There is a female secretary Vani in "Coffee Commune" who has a complicated relationship
This is the importance of the work.
Qian Zhongshu said: "After eating an egg, why do you want to see the hen that lays the egg when you think it tastes good?"
The same principle applies to the actor's profession.
Even if Christine has occupied the news page for a long time because of her leg splitting, coming out of the closet, posing a stinky face, strange costumes and other lace, directors have always recognized her strength to "speak through the work".
Behind the successful character development is working six days a week, working 18 hours a day and his own "exhaustion"; it is also a 26-year-old who has tasted the taste of the top Vanity Fair and has also suffered a grand betrayal, ridicule and ridicule.
It can be said that in Christine, we can see how an actor fades her youthful rebellion and precipitates into a passion for acting.
Emma Watson, on the other hand, is on her side.
For so many years, even her famed Hermione, and the series of roles that followed, more or less can see two words - feminism.
You can think of these characters as a person who is largely rational, independent in values, or intelligent or excellent, and who never bows to power even when in difficult circumstances.
These characters are like replicas of the same concept, and you certainly can't say they're wrong, but the more you look at them, the more you feel like something is missing.
Yes, a must have a sense of vividness in an actor.
That kind of real flowing emotion.
The ultimate purpose of the performance is to impress the audience's emotions, so the actors should be sensitive and engaged in emotions.
In Beauty and the Beast, we once again see a fake actor.
For example, when the wolves pounced, Emma made a frightened expression.
But can you feel the tension that hangs in the balance?
Emma's dragonfly-dotted performance makes it difficult for the audience to be heart-tied by the ups and downs of the plot.
With another chestnut, Bell and the Beast meet for the first time.
Notice the change in Emma's expression —
Suddenly taken aback, then the expression of surprise became weaker and stunned.
This contradicts the psychological processes of the characters.
The real reaction should be —
Because of the dim light, the first sight of a vague strange face reflexively retreated; the next second the consciousness came over, it was a monster, which began to be surprised.
Emotions go from weak to strong.
This point, the original animation showed very well -
Bell first stepped back, covered his mouth, and then twisted his head to the side in horror.
Some people will say that Emma is not afraid of wolves, not afraid of monsters, it is her interpretation of the bravery of women in the era.
Sorry, this is not bravery, it is insensitivity.
Bravery is that he is obviously too scared to do it, and he is willing to stand up and rescue his father.
But looking at Emma you have the illusion that she seems to know from the beginning that wolves can't kill her, that the monster is the prince of Dorkin, and that the prince will be resurrected when he dies.
Therefore, she was never afraid.
There is always a wall between Emma and the character.
This wall is the person she has set for herself.
We know that the difference between "actors" and "idols" is that the former sells works and the latter sells people.
"Human design" is mostly unrelated to performance (such as "appearance", "personality", "origin" and other characteristics), and the main selling point is the "empathy" with fans.
And the unity of human design also determines its high risk. Although the powder is fast, once any behavior that is inconsistent with the human design is made, it is easy to cause fans to regurgitate;
For actors, the biggest harm of human design is also that it restricts the way of play. The deeper the audience's impression of his own personality, the less he feels about the image of the work.
Emma's constantly agreed selection criteria have to make us wonder whether she is interested in this role or the meaning behind this role.
What is she more concerned about?
Don't get me wrong, I'm also a Hafan, and I like "Hermione", and even people who don't love Emma Watson anymore must acknowledge her beauty, talent, and contribution to the feminist movement.
However, even if you love Emma Watson, it is difficult to say that she is a good actress.
In my opinion, what an actor should really put his or her mind into is always his or her work.
The work is 1, and the sounds outside the work are 0.
There is a 1 first, and then a 0 is meaningful.
Audrey Hepburn devoted herself to the common good in her later years, running for children in Latin America and Africa, but when we think of her, we also think of "Roman Holiday", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and "Lady of the Woods".
Natalie Portman is equally intelligent and vocal about feminism, but she admits that the fear of the "vase" has plagued her for a long time, "even 12 years after graduation, I still have doubts about my own worth." In the end, it is with a "Black Swan" that faces up to inferiority, dispels doubts and completes the transformation.
In this era, a traffic idol who "you know how hard he works" only needs to calculate, create momentum, and produce a good actor who speaks by his work, which is inseparable from sincerity and heat.
What Emma Watson lacks now is not abstract, decent values.
What she lacks is an irrational, even runaway sense of substitution for a specific, eccentric character.
It's like Hello! Mr. Tree" Wang Baoqiang's hand that cocked from time to time but had nowhere to put it.
It's like Matthew McConaughey's cries in "Interstellar" that landslide.
Just like the disheartened tears of Zhu Yin in "Journey to the West".
At the end of the day, we love a person (an actor) by loving his or her real and perceptible flesh and blood, not the concept of love attached to him or her.
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