In the sixth issue of the "Actors, Please Get In" just launched, Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong, Zhao Wei, Guo Jingming, these four directors led the actors in the group to shoot 4 short films in a very short time and compete on the same stage.
Finally, after hundreds of on-site judges voted, Guo Jingming won Chen Kaige and Zhao Wei won Li Shaohong. Both the process and the result raise topics. Is the update of Chinese movies predicted in this small variety show?
Director Guo Jingming's "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
has a few words about the show "Actors please take their place".
Singing, dancing, bands, traveling, engaging in objects, opening restaurants, etc. can all be variety, so can actor performance be variety? Of course, no problem. In recent years, several acting variety shows have continued to refresh the screen. Among them, "Actors Please Get In" has been popular since the beginning of the broadcast and often occupy the top spot in the hot search list.
uses popular phenomenon-level figures such as Guo Jingming and Zhao Wei to attract traffic, and uses industry seniors such as Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong to stabilize the quality of the program. From the mutual selection of actors and directors to running-in with each other, a short film is completed in a very short period of time, including adaptation, setting, shooting, editing and production, and then accepting the "popular" test of hundreds of judges. This is like the market competition between movies in the same period, and the whole process also seems to restore a miniature industry chain of the film and television industry. There is a stark difference between
and other acting programs: the director's perspective and the director's shaping of the actors' performance. In the sixth program, this positioning is even more obvious. It is not only the placement of "director" and "actor", but also the placement of "work". This issue of
set up a "director's mutual shooting" link, divided into two groups AB, Chen Kaige changed the film "Sadness Against the River" adapted from Guo Jingming's novel, and Guo Jingming filmed Director Chen's "The Legend of the Demon Cat". Zhao Wei filmed Li Shaohong's classic "Daming Palace Ci", and Li Shaohong filmed "Dear" starring Zhao Wei. Then two pk.
Director Li Shaohong "Dear"
Some viewers called the two directors Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong "academic" directors, and Guo Jingming and Zhao Wei called "marketing" directors. In fact, this distinction has long lost its meaning. All directors must accept the harsh test from the market. Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong came to participate in this show. It also shows that they are not sitting comfortably on the top seat in the movie hall of fame, but are brave enough to enter the water and accept the judgment of everyone on an equal footing with young people and face the market. challenge.
first talk about the duel between Chen Kaige and Guo Jingming. The program team arranged the two directors together, which can be said to be well-intentioned. Not to mention that Chen Kaige, as the leader of the fifth generation of directors, and Guo Jingming are not known for a few generations. There is also a great contrast between the styles of the two.
Chen Kaige's "Sorrowful River"
Chen Kaige has always been regarded as a humanistic and reflective intellectual director among Chinese directors. He is used to discussing the relationship between personal destiny and history and nation in his works; while Guo Jingming is regarded as It is the newly emerging representative of personal sensory in our consumer era. He focuses on portraying a "small era" that focuses on one's own experience.
One is heavy, one is simple; one is art, one is business.
is not surprising. The announcement of this matchup was posted on the Internet early in the morning, which triggered intense discussions among netizens.
As Guo Jingming, who is in charge of the "topic" of the show, he has been subject to some fierce shelling after he argued with teacher Li Chengru about the youth romance film, which made the show "break the circle".
Someone predicted the result of this duel: if Chen Kaige loses, it is because "Sorrows Become a River" itself is too bad and was pitted; if Chen Kaige wins, it means that Guo Jingming is completely unable to control the weight of "The Legend of the Demon Cat". In any case, it is right to scold Guo Jingming.
Watching Guo Jingming's "The Legend of the Demon Cat" again, is it convincing to win? I don't like it myself, but in all fairness, I don't think it is unreasonable to win.
In a short time and under extremely limited conditions, he wanted to make an extremely sophisticated historical drama not shabby. Guo Jingming chose an angle that suits him. His "The Legend of the Demon Cat" is completely different from the original, but it is logically self-consistent. It is a "Little Era" with a changed form. The duration of
is nearly 20 minutes, which is nearly twice as long as the short film directed by Veuve. Although length is not equal to representative worksGood, but as the director of Victory said, the increase in length means more attention to structure.
The multiple transitions of time and space and scenes, the continuous transfer of memories and reality, the fancy MV-style slow motion, the handsome and beautiful boys, and the youth full of love and pain, are reminiscent of the usual elements in Guo Jingming's works.
But it is undeniable that many people’s youth is full of these elements.
What's more, Guo Jingming and his assassin are full of cruelty and warmth in the "pain youth" he is good at. In this short film, "don't ask whether it's worth it or not, just ask if you are willing", young people are willing to sacrifice for their loved ones recklessly, which is also Guo Jingming's good brushstrokes and a powerful tool for gaining popularity.
Director Chen Kaige’s adaptation of "Sadness Against the River" also brings its own style and becomes a deep and restrained romance. This style change is caused by personal interests and also by age experience. The original lines of
became concise and poetic. He chose the clip where the heroine Yi Yao wanted to commit suicide, which also fits the life and death theme he has been discussing in his works.
It can be said that Guo Jingming and Chen Kaige, one of the original works are reduced in dimensionality, and the other is upgraded, both of them have their own temperament. However, Director Chen's natural high-cold temperament, perhaps let the voting judges have a little sense of distance.
In another matchup, Zhao Wei defeated Li Shaohong.
Zhao Wei has been another eye-catching topic since the launch of "Actors, please". Countless people are boasting about her high emotional intelligence in the show. In addition to being a human being,
has high emotional intelligence, which is also reflected in her works.
The short film "Mask" she shot is also very popular. Faced with the "high mountain" of "Daming Palace Ci", she did not head-on, adopting a "tribute" approach, and also wisely chose the aspect that suits her.
She shifted her background to modern times. A couple of actors auditioned for "Daming Palace Ci", and then they split and merged. The work becomes a romantic drama, mixed with some comedic factors.
Funny and happy is the impression she has given to the audience since Little Swallow, and Zhao Wei has also brought her own acting style into the director.
In the previous adaptation of the "Pink Girl" clip, "find someone with connotation, such as director Chen Kaige." "Find Chen Kaige, marry Chen Feiyu" and other lines, not only praised the seniors, and invigorated the atmosphere. , It also eased the tension of competing on the same stage.
's sense of humor is really impressive.
In "Mask", Zhao Wei also "gags". This is based on her familiarity with the performance industry. She is well aware of the unspoken rules of this industry and the price that young people must pay to work hard in this industry. Expanding on
, this short film highlights the conflict between young people's pursuit of dreams and reality, emotions and careers, the choice between sticking to or giving up. These conflicts are common among young people.
Then, she was supplemented by many eye-catching elements, not to mention handsome men and beauties, and fashion and popular symbols such as long kisses and Nezha masks.
Director Li Shaohong showed a strong ability to train actors in her short film "Dear". Within a single scene, through the dialogue between several parents and a child, the psychological performance of parents losing their children and seeking children is thoroughly tangled, and the children’s emotional performance towards their parents is entangled. The emotional conflict is very strong, and the audience can see the history of each character and their inner struggle.
The old director is strong in strict control of character emotions and drama conflicts, and the new director is better in the use of popular elements.
In this reality show scene with dialogue elements of film and television works, each person has a distinctly different directing style. When Chen Kaige directed, he was steady and calm, asking the actors to break through the "shield" of the story and show the emotional power behind them.
And Li Shaohong feels rigorous and calm. In such a short period of time, she will let the actors go to the vegetable market to experience, while she will look on and determine the characteristics of the actors themselves. When directing, he also forced the actors to break through the boundaries through NG many times to reach the extreme of emotion.
Zhao Wei and Guo Jingming are desperate enough to adapt to long-term battles and sacrifice sleep. On the one hand, they are competitive and unwilling to admit defeat. It also makes people feel their dedication and enthusiasm for their work. Zhao Wei has acting experience and is very able to act with him when directingThe members are empathetic and can give the actors a clear and specific demonstration.
Guo Jingming at the scene is careful and hands-on, and strictly controls all links.
He was the latest in the industry, but he was called a "theoretical school", and his words were the best film and television theories. As for a senior director like Chen Kaige, in directing and evaluating actors' performances, many are details. I think this still reflects the difference in rank, because for Chen Kaige, the theory has become intangible in the concrete.
All in all, ginger is certainly old and spicy. But young people are also unique. Is
film and television works the art of director or performance? In this episode of the program, it is obviously more biased towards the director's art. The audience can clearly see how the director's perspective, judgment, and aesthetic taste strongly influence the performance of the actors.
In addition, as this program shows, what the film and television industry nowadays presents is also a situation where the old and the new are harmonious, and a hundred flowers bloom. In the competition for the market, no one is a permanent winner, and it is impossible to lie down to win; under limited resources, everyone is dancing in shackles; even a hall-level director must go all out .
