"Little Drama Bones: Water Margin" (film and television stills/photos)
In recent years, many classic film and television dramas with the prefix of "small drama bones" have entered the public eye. Unlike the general remake, the actors in the play are all children aged six to twelve, is this a new attempt or a spoof gimmick?
"Know" (nz_zhidao) tells you why "small drama bones" have become a hot spot in the current film and television industry?
Since "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", which is also one of the four famous works of Classical China, has finally ushered in its "villain version". In recent years, the classic film and television drama series of "Small Drama Bones" series of classic film and television dramas that became popular due to the remake of "The Legend of the White Snake" have entered the public eye and have repeatedly become a hot topic of discussion among netizens.
Since December 2015, Pan Liping's team has filmed a series of classic works such as "Little Drama Bone Liu Sanjie", "Little Drama Bone Supplement pot", "Little Drama Bone White Haired Girl" and so on. Among them, the broadcast of "The Legend of the Little Drama Bone White Snake" has made more and more eyes begin to pay attention to the "Little Drama Bone" brand drama, which has been forwarded by Weibo netizens and reported by various media, and "The Legend of the Little Drama Bone White Snake" has been praised countless times with its moving acting skills and the "conscience production" in place. Subsequently, "Little Drama Bone Dream of the Red Chamber Of Liu Grandma Enters the Grand View Garden" (hereinafter referred to as "Little Drama Bone Dream of the Red Chamber") is a work of victory and chase, with a Douban score of 9.1 points, which is close to the 9.6 points of the classic 87 version of the Dream of the Red Chamber, far exceeding the 6.0 points of Li Shaohong's version of the Dream of the Red Chamber. With so much recognition from the audience, "little drama bones" seem to have become an irresistible new cutting-edge force in the film and television industry.
<h3>Can "small drama bones" afford the word "drama bones"? </h3>
In fact, child stars in the film and television industry, the modeling industry or other fields, are a group that should not be underestimated, and the talent of the young age will inevitably make everyone look at it. But now that "traffic stars" are prevalent, in the ever-expanding bubble of the entertainment industry, how many people have misinterpreted the phrase "fame should be made early" and blindly created stars, allowing children to embark on the shortcut that seems to be a shining star. As a result, the public has long been numb to all kinds of drafts, and gradually lost the expectation and trust in new faces.
In the comment area of many reports on the "small drama bone" brand drama, there is no shortage of voices of doubt. "Can a bunch of kids really understand these classics?" "Do kids really act?" In the face of these question marks from the adult world, the actors of the "little drama bone" gave everyone an exclamation point with their own performance.
Guo Feige, who played Wang Xifeng in "Dream of the Red Chamber in a Small Drama Bone", is only 10 years old, but she vividly expresses Feng Jie'er's shrewdness and pungency between the flowing eyebrows. Before filming began, Guo Feige took the 87 version of Deng Jie's Wang Xifeng as a teaching material, and spent more than two months to learn Wang Xifeng's laughter, starting with her distinctive laughter and approaching this character. The same is true of other young actors, diligent in their research, creating real, flesh-and-blood characters.
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In fact, performance is not based on age, as long as you have talent and add acquired efforts, the performance of child stars can also be fully recognized by the market and professionals, naturally enough to afford the word "drama bone". In 2015, the talented child star Jacob, who played Jack in the popular movie "Room", won the Best Newcomer Actor Award at the 21st Critics' Choice Awards, which was unanimously recognized by the industry.
Just like the adult world, child stars have good and bad acting skills. If we can avoid the "child drama" evaluation vision when looking at child stars, we may be able to make a more targeted and fair evaluation of the acting skills of child stars.
<h3>Whose face did the high score hit? </h3>
The average score of the Douban score of the "Little Drama Bone" brand drama is 8.3 points, of which "Little Drama Bone White Haired Girl" has 9.0 points and "Dream of the Red Chamber of the Little Drama Bone" has 9.1 points, which can be described as an impressive record. In contrast, Li Shaohong's version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is only 6.0 points. Children around the age of ten acted one by one, but full-time "actors" are difficult to act decently, with ratings as an intuitive carrier, such a strong contrast, "small drama bone" brand drama in the end hit whose face?
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Nowadays, in the entertainment industry, acting skills no longer become an important scale, and appearance and traffic are the best labels for producers. As a result, "actor" becomes a palpable identity label. As long as you become a traffic star and have your own strong and solid fan base, whether you are a fledgling and inexperienced new generation actor or a singer and dancer who does not match the performance, you can receive the script of the hit drama. At the same time, the agent team will package you, promote you, and fans will also take all the orders for the stars. This series of internal and external factors has prompted such a vicious circle to accelerate wildly in the entertainment industry.
The emergence of "small drama bones" is precisely to return our attention to the performance itself.
Liu Tianchi, who works in the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, said in an interview, "About ten percent of the actors are now qualified. "At the end of the day, young actors are reluctant to spend time honing their acting skills. Once they encounter the audience's doubts about their acting skills, they will always use "young age", "not long in the industry", "inexperienced" to hide themselves in the safe zone of "growing up".
If this kind of excuse can be a perfect excuse for the acting skills are not as good as the old drama bones, then the performance of the "small drama bones" gives them a loud slap. It is understood that "Dream of the Red Chamber of the Little Drama Bone" was cast for two months, and after the role was fixed, the actors took the script to watch the old version of the video for more than two months before filming began. Looking at today's TV series production cycle is getting shorter and shorter, the whole crew will be completed two months after the start of filming. Filmmaking has become a speed contest, is the TV series really just a money-making machine that can be quickly made? If the main creative actors and the production unit are so "tacit" to each other, then the strange phenomenon of low-quality movies and TV series can be understood.
<h3>"Little Drama Bone" is a textbook in the Chinese film and television industry</h3>
In terms of material selection, the current TV series is more like simple leisure and entertainment, and the theme is nutritious and difficult to be innovative. It is becoming increasingly difficult for audiences to see three-dimensional and plump characters in the play. In order to pursue efficiency, the director simply did not have time to carefully read the script, let alone the all-round shaping of the character image. In terms of lines, it is extremely pursuing low-level forms of expression, constantly weakening the audience's appreciation ability, and exporting the plot and interpretation of the characters in the most simple and violent form.
In the selection and adaptation of the script, it can be said that "Small Drama Bone" is a qualified textbook in the Chinese film and television industry.
Pan Liping, the producer of the "Little Drama Bone" brand drama, talked about script creation in an interview. He said that he chose to remake the classic in order to better choose the theme that society needs, and it is not a subject matter that is easy to attract attention and easy to be popular. Just as the original intention of Pan Liping's team to create "Little Drama Bones" is to promote Chinese culture and let children influence children, the script materials of "Little Drama Bones" cover a lot of excellent traditional culture, and build a cultural exchange bridge between the old, middle-aged and even young. When filming "The Legend of the White Snake of the Little Drama Bone", due to the fear that the young actors could not understand the love between Xu Xian and the White Lady, Pan Liping adapted the script to retain the human touch of the flesh and bones, and tried his best to make each character vivid and complete.
However, no matter how hard you talk, the flow of small students does not move. It is difficult for the flow of small fresh meat students to become drama bones, and what is missing is not textbooks, but the professionalism and artistic bones that stand still in the face of capital hot money.