On November 21, the eighth episode of "Actors Please Seat 2" was broadcast as scheduled. The second work directed by the four directors was screened in turn, and this time the work brought by director Guo Jingming was "The Birth of a Star". This work is based on the film of the same name, director Guo Jingming with his own knowledge of the work and story, adapted, but completed a superficial interpretation of the original. Without further ado, let's analyze this work together.
The Birth of a Star
Director: Guo Jingming
actor:
Ellie – Mengziyi
Wei An - Yan Zidong
Mary – Li Xirui
Guo Jingming's "The Birth of a Star" is adapted from the 2018 film of the same name directed by Bradley Cooper, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, although the film has achieved great success, receiving nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, and winning the award for Best Original Song, but there is still controversy about this work. As an Oscar work, this film and "Green Book" and "Roma" have obvious gaps in both intention and lens language, but the addition of Lady Gaga not only adds a lot of classic and beautiful music to this film, but also brings a unique temperament.
When director Guo Jingming watched this movie, he had a lot of feelings. I don't know whether from this movie, Guo Dao saw the growth process of a star, or saw the touching love story of the male and female protagonists, in short, in Guo Dao's brain, this work may bring him a variety of soul-triggering feelings, but really to the point where he wants to express this feeling, there is only a simple and cheesy love story left. Because in Guo Dao's aesthetic and directorial experience, this kind of storyline is the best and easiest to express.
Once the style of the work is determined, many other contents will be inseparable. Because the director is the core of the creation of film and television works, once the director's creative concept is determined, other types of work need to serve him, so that the three actors are pitiful, just like the Oscars, simple love films, compared with those works that pay attention to society and pay attention to human nature, have lost from the pattern.
Let's talk about the three actors, first of all, Let's talk about Li Xirui, who plays Mary, although she has the fewest appearances in this work, the fewest lines, and the least prominent personality, there is no doubt that her performance is the best. Because her performance is the most natural, but also the most devoid of performance traces, and it is the most in line with the character. If the performance is natural, in fact, frankly speaking, the performances of Mengziyi and Yan Zidong are very natural and very lifelike. But the problem is that the roles of the two of them are either popular stars or former stars, and in this role setting, if they behave like ordinary people, they do not fit this role. Therefore, the role of Li Xirui is relatively easy, and it is relatively not easy to shine.
The biggest problem with Yan Zidong and Mengziyi is basically the same. If this is the life of two ordinary people, then they will not have any problems performing like this, and when they meet a director like Xu Anhua, the rhythm is very slow, but it will make them perform particularly well. But it is a pity that they play a star, a star who shines on the stage, this unique temperament that has been cultivated on the stage for many years, this kind of powerful aura that can call the wind and rain on the stage, the two actors can't understand, and the director can't understand it either.
From this point of view, in fact, this is the sadness of the actor. It took several years for the original film to finally choose Lady Gaga as the heroine, but how important a successful casting is, and how careful the director and producer need to be. And just because of a momentary impulse, regardless of the difficulty of the actor in the performance, but also in such a competitive program, but also to choose such a work, that is irresponsible performance.
In a relatively short period of time, the director could not complete the analysis of the depth of the work, the actor could not complete the cultivation of the character's personality, and the creators rushed to the battle, and finally completed a helpless work of a superficial interpretation of the Oscar movie.
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