The author | Ear East Chen
Editor| Wu Shuyi
In 2017, the famous scene of "The Birth of an Actor" frequently went out of the circle, Ouyang Nana Huang Shengyishe died at the scene, On Monday, Lan Yingying emerged, Zhang Ziyi did not match his passion, and his acting skills walked into the center of the topic with a "sense of faith".
Since then, the acting variety show has come out one after another, and most of the people out of the circle are the intimidating scenes of the acting mentors, Er Dongsheng reprimanded the traffic stars, and Li Chengru was blunt.
However, a few years have passed, and the acting variety show has not fished out a few good actors who have lost their pearls. Looking at internal entertainment, the acting skills of the traffic artists who have gone forward and followed are still difficult to improve, but some acting schools that have long been identified have been asked whether "acting skills are overrated".
What went wrong?
01. Craftsmen and actresses are obsessed with self-imitation
The summer hit TV series, "Ideal City" and "Sweeping Black Storm", starring Sun Li and Sun Honglei have all been questioned for their acting skills.
Many people think that Sun Li plays zhen huan, and Sun Honglei plays the underworld forever a set of expressions.
The superficial reason for this feeling is that the identity/personality similarity of the characters they play is too heavy, in the final analysis, because when they act, they use a set of established performance templates, and after a long time, this mask grows on the actor's face and becomes "everyone who plays like the actor himself".
Stanislavsky called such actors craftsmen in "Self-Cultivation of Actors" and called their expression of roles "rubber stamping methods".
Take Sun Li, Zhen Huan is a transformation, out of the circle, highlight the work, when playing Zhen Huan, Sun Li borrowed the flower pot bottom shoes to be worn in the play in advance, do long nails to find the character feeling, half a month before the start of filming, the crew gathered all the actors to Hengdian to find the feeling.
That was the first time Sun Li played a costume play, and it was also the first time to play a role with such a large age span.
Prior to this, sun Li played most of the roles of white moonlight young girls, the first time to face such a complex role as Zhen Huan, it is destined to spend a lot of energy into the heart of the character, and then design the action to express it.
After Zhen Huan, Sun Li acted in several big female protagonists of the same type, once born and two times mature, the story polishing of "The Legend of Mi Yue" and "That Year the Flower Blossoms and the Moon is Round" is not fine enough to be "Zhen Huan's Biography", so the difficulty of the actor's interpretation is relegated on the basis of proficiency.
A few times down, the repetition of the same type of role makes it easy for the actor to go into the self-imitation track.
What expression to use when you are a little sad, what expression to use when you are very sad, how to express when you are aggrieved, how to express anger, when an emotional point comes, the actor thinks not of the mental state that is most in line with the current "role", but the expression that subconsciously shows the routine.
In this way, whenever Sun Li opened her eyes and argued with reason, even if she was wearing short hair and dark circles instead of Zhen Huan with exquisite makeup, the audience still played a play - she began to perform again.
Sun Honglei is the same.
Since his debut, most of the characters who have come out of the circle are underworld big brothers and tough guys, and that set of expressions has been used skillfully.
When I first watched it, I had a fresh feeling, and I saw more in different characters, and it was inevitable that I felt that there were thousands of people.
When we watch the play, although we know that it is fake, when we watch it, we forget that the actor is acting, and we will bring feelings and feel that the actor plays well. If with the development of the plot, we have already predicted what expression this actor has, the good look of the play will be greatly reduced.
02. The strength faction is delayed in variety shows
Sun Honglei's acting skills have been questioned, and there are more than too many homogenized roles.
Many netizens said that now they watch Sun Honglei acting and dancing.
For young audiences after 00, knowing Sun Honglei began from "Extreme Challenge", where Sun Honglei is not a "big brother", and Huan, funny, and Yan Wang are labels.
Sun Honglei's personal characteristics were amplified in the variety show, and the audience was initially surprised by this image that was diametrically opposed to the film and television drama, which made the actor's personality more three-dimensional in a short period of time.
With the broadcast of variety shows season by season, after the personal characteristics are continuously strengthened, and then return to the film and television dramas to shape the role, the audience who have become accustomed to the image of Sun Honglei in the variety show will find it difficult to enter the drama.
Deng Chao was the same.
As an actor who tries multiple types of roles, Deng Chao did not have a very fixed role type before "Running Man", which can be controlled by period dramas, ancient costumes, suspense can be acted, and comedy can also be done. Poor boy he can, local tycoon is OK. Compared with Huang Xiaoming Chen Kun Lu Yi in the same period, Deng Chao did not look so idol, and compared with Huang Bosun Honglei, an actor with obvious emotional appearance, Deng Chao looked particularly "calm".
Therefore, playing a role full of fireworks and changeable, his play path is actually very wide.
The problem is that it is not easy for the audience to remember.
"Running Man" amplifies Deng Chao's comedian characteristics, makes "comic" Deng Chao deeply rooted in people's hearts, and also blurs his actor attributes.
When Deng Chao filmed "Shadow", he lost 40 pounds, just to create the difference between before and after the characters, with good intentions and suffering, and his body also suffered. Enough dedication, good performance.
Stills from "Shadow" above; screenshot of "Run, Brother" below
However, after the broadcast, there were not many comments on Weibo that "I am so afraid that Deng Chao will suddenly start to be funny in the next second".
Deng Chao completed the role, and when it was presented to the audience, the Deng Chao in the variety show became the obstacle ball of actor Deng Chao.
The personal brilliance displayed by an actor on a variety show is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, completely overshadowing the light of the role he painstakingly created, and the variety dividend eats the actor's own job, for Deng Chao, the exposure given by the variety show is excessive.
Zhang Ziyi, like them, has gained a wave of good feelings through the variety show circle, and has also been repulsed by the variety show to a certain extent.
Acting as a mentor in acting programs, using past works to certify the acting school, pulling the audience's expectations to the peak, but when entering the variety show context to reenact the classic, "Rouge Buckle" is difficult to chase Mei Yanfang, and "Green Snake" is difficult to match Maggie Cheung.
Objectively speaking, in the face of classics that are difficult to surpass, the public has long been preconceived, and it is difficult to subvert the impression. Moreover, the variety show scene is not like the real filming, after a long time to interpret a complete story, and in the short term into the most intense drama paragraph of the story, it is not a category of things. To compare, it is actually unfair.
But variety shows are hilarious conflicts, and in this context, many so-called objectives can be ignored.
The performance of the variety show is a small overturn, and after the variety show raises the expectation value, the performance in the new drama "Shangyang Fu" is a real overturn.
Even the best actor can't play who is who, this is an objective fact.
But once her good enough acting skills are deeply rooted in people's hearts, the audience will expect her to really play who is like whom.
As early as ten years ago, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea had a clear division of labor in film and television variety shows, and specialized variety artists brought joy to the audience with funny and humorous speech, rich talents or funny imitations in the program, also known as "announcement artists".
Internal entertainment uses cross-border people to do professional things, and the short-term results are very good, and the long-term hidden dangers are many.
Becoming a resident guest of variety shows amplifies the personality of actors but consumes the potential of actors, and the lack of professional variety show literacy cannot provide nutrients to variety show IP for a long time.
Short-term win-win, long-term lose-lose.
03. Teenage girls are stuck on social platforms
After the broadcast of "Children of the Qiao Family", Tang Yixin's acting skills were criticized.
In one scene, learning that Qiao Yicheng (Bai Yu) was terminally ill and dying soon, Tang Yixin held Bai Yu in front of the hospital bed, his eyes were full of tears, but the curvature of the corner of his mouth was the curvature of Tang Yixin's logo smile that could appear in a casual search on the Internet.
"Your lover is going to die, how do you have this expression?" Netizens hate iron not steel.
Tang Yixin tried her best to dress up in makeup to that era, but the expression was too "betrayal" that she was a star rather than a character Xiang Nanfang.
It is difficult for people to forget the "smile healing" and "the girl who married love" in the overwhelming draft, and believe that she is one with the bitter love character in the TV series.
Acting skills are really not enough on the one hand, and the star himself is too heavy on the role is also an important reason.
Her people are set up in press releases, in love stories that are widely circulated on social platforms, so that when she acts, the audience is more willing to believe than the role itself, this is the female star out of work.
Once the audience has this awareness, is there a big difference between the actor acting and the cosplay in the costume?
Not only Tang Yixin, there is no excellent masterpiece, and the female star who has become popular through social platforms is not easy to let people enter the play.
Netizens have seen too much of the exquisite life they show from vlogs and plogs, when these face that looks like an 18-year-old who has not experienced the emotions of human suffering, walk into the story outside the idol drama, there is no rough texture of real life, too new and too modern faces, will be a constraint on career development.
The girly star who eats the beauty dividend is the one who can't leave the burden and dare not play ugly.
They do not have excellent acting skills, which means that it is difficult for the work to add commercial value, so what can maintain commercial value is only to continue to output beauty on social platforms, so as to get attention and get the favor of advertisers.
In terms of making money, this is a good idea of short and flat.
But to be an actor is actually a vicious circle.
Social media is quickly exposing people at the same time, but also quickly labeling people, when the same label is repeatedly pasted, it means that the star design is becoming more and more certain. On the contrary, as an actor, the difficulty of breaking through stereotypes has increased.
Qiu Tian was a communication soldier in "King Kong Chuan" when he was not out of the circle on the red carpet, and after relying on the red carpet to continuously circle into the latest generation of "red carpet killers", when there were new plays, the audience's focus would first deviate, which began to consume works and characters from the source.
04. Actors need to remain mysterious
In the final analysis, the professional attributes of actors need to be kept mysterious.
Which actor often jumps in front of the public and shows himself too much will consume the audience's curiosity about ta.
Nowadays, people miss the good actors in the past, and the actors take all the plays seriously. They keep their distance from the audience, which is also the reason.
Take Chen Daoming, an old drama bone without controversy, when filming "Black Hole" in 2001, Chen Daoming's personal temperament was so hard that the crew wanted to re-write the villain role he played according to his image according to Chen Daoming's characteristics.
Some of the behaviors of the villain entrepreneur in that play are the same as those of the entrepreneurs in 2020's "Golden Years".
Chen Daoming did not take on too many homogeneous roles, nor did he appear in front of the public from time to time to show himself and consume personal characteristics excessively. Therefore, when the audience sees Chen Daoming interpret this role, they will feel different from other people in the market, and they will be in the same vein and refreshing.
The audience knows the actor through the work, and then deepens the understanding of the actor through the new work, and realizes the actor's ability to control different roles.
Actors want to continue to let the public see their breakthroughs, and they must learn to keep their distance from the audience.
The distance is gone, the freshness is gone, during the release/broadcast of the new play, it is necessary for the actor to show his face and increase the exposure of the variety show, and it is also necessary for the actor to create a work that best represents himself.
But there must be a clear understanding of enjoying and giving up the "sweetness of the stage".
No matter how good the drama will be, no matter how popular the person is, there will always be a day when the aura will be reduced, and no matter how deep the old book is, it will be eaten when it is eaten.
Actors are a creative profession, once the performance falls into the routine, the creation does not rely on feelings, it will fall into internal friction. In this way, the acting skills that are pushed into the hall will also be pulled back to the ground.