talked about works destroyed by traffic stars, netizens have many works in their hearts, but the most controversial one in 2019 is "Shanghai Fortress". At the beginning of the movie's release, it was hailed as the follow-up to "Wandering Earth." Some media claimed that it would continue the glory of domestic science fiction movies. However, after its release, the box office and word-of-mouth have both encountered Waterloo.
Many people blamed the protagonist Lu Han, and even the director Teng Huatao claimed that he used the wrong Lu Han. But is Lu Han really wrong?
We can find the answer in Chen Kaige's comments on "The Actors Please Take Place". In
"Actors please take their place", actor Huang Youming expressed emotion after the performance: There are some very bad phenomena in the entertainment industry. There are some directors and producers. The criterion for choosing actors is not the actor's acting skills, but the actor. Whether there is flow, whether there is a topic, whether there is a degree, formed a kind of "flow to the performance of the performance" orientation.
After Huang Youming made this remark, many actors in the audience Gillian, Li Bin, Niu Junfeng, Liu Yase, Duan Bowen, etc. responded positively, and said that they had also been directed or produced by the director or producer during the audition. Deprecated due to "not enough traffic".
Huang Youming’s complaints are not unreasonable. The most valuable asset of an actor should be "acting skills", but the audience chooses to watch a TV series or movie, really purely to appreciate the actors' "acting skills"?
Chen Kaige's response to the issue of "flow" and "acting skills" is more objective and convincing. He said: Choosing actors with flow and not choosing actors with acting skills is an inevitable situation in the market under capital control. Investors must want to make a profit, and traffic is an indicator of profit, and there is no need to criticize it. I think that if you want to use a traffic star, you can use it, because there are too many factors related to the success of a movie, not just focusing on the "traffic star". Not having a big traffic star can guarantee the box office is successful, this is a misjudgment. But one thing is very clear, no acting skills are absolutely inevitable.
From Chen Kaige’s comments, we can summarize five points:
1. Traffic stars are the needs of the capital market, and they are not wrong.
2. Traffic stars should be used, but you must learn how to use it.
3. There is no need to criticize traffic stars because of unsuccessful box office and word of mouth.
4. The quality of the work is not determined by traffic stars, and they should not be scapegoats.
5. Traffic stars will not go long without acting skills.
After reading Chen Kaige’s comments, looking back at Lu Han and "Shanghai Fortress", you will find that Lu Han's role as the actor supported the box office on the first day of "Shanghai Fortress" to a certain extent, and ultimately made this movie The reason why the word-of-mouth plummeted and the box office collapsed from the second day was that the story was "tugging", the special effects were "fake", and the editing was "chaotic". Lu Han was not the original sin.
is also the star of the traffic star, and the "Zhu Xian 1", which is two in one use, has not repeated the mistakes of "Shanghai Fortress". Xiao Zhan's acting experience is not as rich as Lu Han, and Meng Meiqi is the first heroine of a movie. Although "Zhu Xian 1" has a bad reputation, it is not as useless as the Shanghai Fortress. The reason is that "Zhu Xian 1" tells the story well, and the performances of Xiao Zhan and Meng Meiqi have also been recognized by most fans.
So, as Chen Kaige said, traffic stars should be used because they can bring benefits, but they should not be overly dependent on them. Use their strengths to avoid their weaknesses.
To succeed in a movie or TV series, there are many factors to consider. Traffic stars are just one, not all, and not a scapegoat.
