Text | Rhino Entertainment, author | Fangzheng, editor| Xia Tian
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As the national responsibility of the play, Sun Honglei has fallen into the two poles of word-of-mouth this time: some people think that he has taken out the consistent and stable acting output of the "black boss professional household"; some people feel that in the play, he frequently blinks, deliberately fake smiles, and his expression is exaggerated, which is easy to remind people of his variety show image.
The saying that "variety shows ruin actors" has been prevalent in the market for a long time. Frequent appearances in variety shows cause actors to be too deeply rooted in people's hearts, making it difficult for the audience to "enter the drama" when watching him perform the main drama, such cases are indeed many, such as Deng Chao in the movie "Shadow", Sha Yi in "On the Cliff" have been complained by the audience that "the more serious he is, the more I want to laugh."
In the face of the curse of "variety shows destroying actors", the industry usually gives the suggestion that "actors are less on variety shows", which is quite pertinent in itself. But if you think about it carefully, is it a conservative and backward actor training concept to block the actor's variety show way out and advocate all actors to take the "ascetic" route at present?
Regarding whether variety shows "ruin" actors, in fact, there are too many questions that have not been clarified: will frequent variety shows inevitably lead to actors' acting skills flops? Can actors use technical processing to minimize the traces of variety shows during the performance of the play? "Performing arts" and "entertainment" are destined to be a pair of irreconcilable contradictions?
<h2>Sun Honglei or "Sun Pretty"? </h2>
"In your choices, your talents are illustrated", this is a classic expression of the American realist performance master Stella Adler. Whether an actor can "choose" the "action" and "subtext" performed by "selecting" the characters to make the characters logically consistent, the emotions in place, and the audience convinced, is a standard for screening acting skills.
Rhino Jun's professional level is limited, but if you carefully study Sun Honglei's performance in "Sweeping The Black Storm", some questions may even be tasted by amateurs, and we can open up to discussion here.
For example, if he designs frequent fake smiles and eyebrow squeezing for the characters, will the "choice" affect the audience's understanding of the complex inner hearts of the characters? After all, Li Chengyang, who he played, was framed and expelled from the police force fourteen years ago, and the truth of the inexplicable death of master Lin Han is still difficult to find, and the resentment in his heart can be imagined.
For another example, Sun's "choice" of the external acting method, in the face of Wang Zhifei and Ning Li's introverted acting method of mutual "opponent play", seems to be more complete Gao Mingyuan's cold cunning, highlighting Ma Shuai's fierceness to himself, in contrast, the audience is difficult to get Li Chengyang's personality traits.
Undoubtedly, Li Chengyang, who is also right and evil, is the most difficult to perform in the whole play, and Rhino Jun actually recognizes Sun Honglei's control of the emotional tension of the characters, such as the bottle that suddenly fell when he threatened Xiang Tian in episode 2, which made the show a famous scene.
However, many of his acting methods and action details for Li Chengyang's role "choice" still reveal the regression of his character analysis ability and performance and the ability to establish dialogue between performance and camera, so that some audiences cannot believe the character.
It can be said that the controversy over Li Chengyang's role is not only the factor that the audience is influenced by Sun Variety's personality, but also the influence of Sun Honglei's "acting skills" (acting skills include all the abilities mentioned above). In other words, Rhino Jun believes that if Sun Honglei comes up with the technical processing level of the peak period, he can erase the sense of variety so that the audience does not play.
In the "Latent" Yu Zecheng, Sun Honglei can do the details of the performance "unexpectedly", for example, in the farewell scene with Cuiping Airport, he interpreted the layered sense of multiple smiles for the characters, each laugh is full of different emotional energy, jumping out of the standard performance framework, this scene can let the audience appreciate what is "acting".
The light of the national variety show "Extreme Challenge", which was broadcast in 15 years, successfully shaped Sun Honglei's "variety personality" - Sun Meimei. In the show, he presented himself as "the first of the three fools of the extreme" and "King Yan", transforming into a "silly thunder" who was a bit silly, loved to make trouble, and loved stinky beauty, completely subverting his previous cold-faced image in the main drama.
In the following years, his "addiction to variety shows did affect the audience's evaluation of his role in the series, especially "Take Dad to Study Abroad" and "New World" as representatives. The former, in particular, almost "consumes" its variety artists to perform, and this slight disrespect for performance adds a stain to his acting career.
However, the same as the "extremely picky period", in 16 years, he starred in the role of Lu Yuan created by "Mr. Good", which was more successful and won the recognition of the audience. Therefore, in contrast, frequent variety shows may not necessarily "ruin actors", perhaps sometimes this is just an excuse to cover up the actors' lack of dedication and declining acting skills.
<h2>"Variety show cafes" who are delayed by acting</h2>
Just when Li Chengyang was ridiculed by the group, many netizens may have forgotten that Sun Honglei has played at least 3 roles that can be recorded in the history of domestic TV dramas: Liu Huaqiang in "Conquest", the source of the B station "This Melon Bao Ripe Terrier", Yu Zecheng in the domestic spy drama yyds "Latent", and Yang Liqing in the high-reputation war historical drama "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes".
With the classic role as the foundation, you are the "three grand slam emperors", Sun Honglei's acting skills have been double tested by the people and the industry. The poor interpretation of Li Chengyang, who is more difficult to perform this time, does not mean that he is really "late and not guaranteed", rhino jun looks forward to the day when he finds his state.
In addition to Sun Honglei, to really take stock of the "actors who were destroyed by variety shows", in fact, their "ruined" situation is also very different. Some are "unable to receive a good script on the variety show transition", some are "deliberate transformation of the acting school", some are "acting skills are not enough, variety shows to make up", and some are pure "natural variety show coffee who has been delayed by acting".
Deng Chao is the existence that must be mentioned when taking stock of such actors, and his situation is the most complicated. On the one hand, he did plant an indelible comic in the hearts of the audience because of the classic national comprehensive "running man", but he still contributed to the film emperor-level performance in "Burning Heart of the Sun" in the "running man hot period", and the father image created by "Galaxy Tuition Class" in 19 years is also more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
On the other hand, he simply borrowed his variety show to deliberately take the "comedy route", and together with his friend Yu Baimei created theatrical movies such as "Breakup Master" and "Villain Angel", and starred in Xingye's "Mermaid", although the reputation was not satisfactory, it achieved certain success at the box office. By last year, he was also involved in the big project of "My Hometown and Me", and strictly speaking, his acting career was not "ruined".
The same as the "running male actor", Li Chen's flop is more obvious. In the early years, he starred in classic works such as "Soldier Assault", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Beijing Love Story" and so on, and the early development was smooth, but after he came out of the circle with the image of "running male big black bull", he never came up with a decent masterpiece, and the audience talked about him the most was not acting, but his gossip as "Fan Bingbing's boyfriend".
Chen He, Sha Yi, and Wang Yaoqing are the types of "destroyed actors" that can be discussed together, and all three belong to the variety show image after the people's hearts are deeply rooted, and the audience can't control them and can't laugh. As a result, as actors, they have received fewer and fewer invitations from film and television crews, but variety show invitations have been overwhelmed. Perhaps, variety show coffee is their fate.
Chen He has almost taken root in the ecology of variety shows since "Running Man", even if the ratings of the participating episodes are far from "Love Apartment"; Sha Yi had the honor of participating in Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff" this year, but was shouted by netizens that "he wants to laugh when he sees him", he is no longer the "little student" who has starred in classic dramas such as "Marrying the Wrong Flower Car and Marrying Lang" and "Three Kingdoms"; Wang Yaoqing, who was once a "domineering president professional household", has not had a new work for a long time since last year's "Blame You are too beautiful", and his biggest work is now a variety show. It is a live stream with goods.
<h2>How to break the curse of "variety show upper body"? </h2>
Variety shows are cool for a while, and variety shows have always been cool. In fact, in the current era of pan-entertainment, actors such as Chen He and Sha Yi choose to use their personality advantages to "deeply cross-border" variety show circles, which is essentially transforming into a "full-time variety show café", and this is not a wise choice for them.
In the Japanese entertainment industry, there is a group of "comedians" and "funny artists" who are purely active in variety occasions and can live by funny arts, and their status and voice in the circle are not at all lost to entertainers. In today's internal entertainment ecology, for Chen He and Sha Yi, it is not so much that they are "destroyed" as it is that the times have given them another professional world.
For the actor group who want to focus on the performance, Rhino Jun does not feel that "going to the variety show" will become their burden, at the moment any artist can earn money on the variety show track, the real good actors will not be deviated by the variety show, they can completely break the curse of the "variety show upper body".
With the deep participation in "Extreme Challenge", Huang Bo seems to have never been questioned "influenced by variety shows". This may be related to his choice of personality in the variety show, he shows a high IQ and high emotional intelligence in "Extreme Pick", rather than over-showing off funny, and the audience who comes back to play the movie will not have a "sense of drama". It can be seen that the "human management" of actors on variety shows is a major cracking method.
Good actors can also effectively balance the weight of film and television performances and variety performances. For example, Zhang Zifeng, a young actor who is stationed in "Longing for Life", first, she knows how to cooperate with variety shows that suit her personality tone, and second, she knows that she knows that she is an actor and will not be "tough in variety shows", and her increasingly sophisticated acting skills can do "what is like acting", and the audience will never think of any variety show when she looks at her acting.
"Actors are less on variety shows" is indeed a kind and constructive reminder, but it does not mean that variety shows are "flood beasts". Performing arts and entertainment are not irreconcilable contradictions, first, good actors can indeed balance the relationship between the two; second, they may be able to use various performance systems, performance methods, or cultivate a strong sense of performance belief, so that the audience can enter any role they interpret.
Please stop using "too much on the variety show" as an excuse to cover up the regression of the actor's acting skills, and the really good actors will not be "destroyed" so easily.