has been an actor for more than 30 years, Zhou Xun ushered in his worst role: the laughter.
In the fifth season of " talk show conference ", Zhou Xun's "not laughing", forgetting to shoot lights, and not being able to say professional and beautiful words have become the reasons for her to be spit out. Netizens commented on the variety show performance of the laughing leader Zhou Xun with "What's different, it's just no culture."
Zhou Xun forgot to shoot the lights
starred in " Daming Palace Ci ", " Suzhou River ", "If Love", " Li Mi's Conjecture " and many other high-quality film and television works, and many honors of the actress—— It seems that in the public perception, such actresses must be "cultural", expressive and empathetic, so they cannot accept Zhou Xun's untimely moments on variety shows.
's good acting skills and culture are not the same thing. In " round table ", Zhou Xun personally said that he bought a lot of books but did not read them. "GQ Report" also mentioned in the article that the book list posted on the staff's display wall "is recommended by Sister Xun. "Yes", while Zhou Xun himself widened his eyes and said that the book list is not hers, "If I have a book list, then I will really become another Zhou Xun".
At the end of the last century, Zhou Xun, who had just debuted not long ago, also suffered controversy because of her technical secondary school education and non-major background. The way she regained public recognition was by her agile performances and memorable roles. In many reports, people who have worked with Zhou Xun commented that she has "few words" and "does not rely on performance theory" - as a professional actor, Zhou Xun's expression is not in his mouth, but in his role.
"Li Mi's Conjecture"
"Fairy" fell into the world, and behind the "Waterloo" where the actor Zhou Xun became the laugher, is actually the embarrassment of a 48-year-old actress. After all, in the current film and television industry, Zhou Xun " There are too few opportunities to use the role to speak".
Follow the feeling
In the show "Performer's Words", Zhou Xun said that she has rarely prepared in words since filming, "I don't remember much after watching it", and the way to enter the role is mainly by feeling.
feels like an overly abstract word, and for theoretical actors, feeling can't be trusted because the feeling can go away at any time, and the method is fixed and secure. But for Zhou Xun, feeling may be the most dependable thing.
's father was a projectionist in the cinema, and Zhou Xun started watching movies in the cinema at the age of three. When she was in school, she liked to sing and dance. She was an activist in literature and art in her class. After graduating from junior high school, Zhou Xun chose to go to an art school to learn dancing instead of continuing her exam-oriented education. In the 1990s, almost every household hung a calendar composed of the faces of beautiful women, and Zhou Xun, who was only a teenager, was one of them.
The first from the right is Xiao Zhou Xun
is also because of his appearance on the calendar, Zhou Xun was selected by the director of Xie Tieli , and went to Beijing to shoot the movie " Ancient Tomb Desolation ", and has since stepped into the entertainment industry. But at that time, Zhou Xun didn't know what acting was. Her dream seemed to have more to do with music: in 1993, nineteen-year-old Zhou Xun worked as a resident singer in a bar in Beijing, earning 150 yuan by singing three songs a night. Earn more than other singers in the same bar. Zhou Xun frequently sings in different restaurants and discos. With the dream of becoming the lead singer of a rock band, he is immersed in the freedom brought by rock music .
relied on singing, Zhou Xun was discovered by Chen Kaige , and took her to try the scene of " Fengyue ", the line of that scene was "women are more beautiful than girls". Without anyone to guide, Zhou Xun shed tears when he said this sentence. In later public reports, Zhou Xun said that he did not know why he cried at that time.
Although Zhou Xun did not play the protagonist of the movie because she was too young, she had a further perception of the performance when she was on the set: the protagonist Gong Li played a mahjong play by hand which made Zhou Xun deeply remember, she suddenly It turns out that the hands can also act.
"Fengyue"
Although "Fengyue" did not catch fire, Zhou Xun, who returned to the bar and continued to sing, was seen by director Lou Ye who was preparing to shoot "Suzhou River" at that time. In Lou Ye's eyes, the combination of Meimei and Peony, the protagonists of the movie, is Zhou Xun: both mature and a little girlchild. In "Suzhou River", Zhou Xun sings, Lou Ye pats, and Zhou Xun starts to cry when he pats --
does not need to learn to act, Zhou Xun just needs to be himself and feel the feelings that Zhou Xun will have, which is the most suitable way of acting for the role .
This is the case with many talented actresses. Those roles that make them famous are not based on acquired learning and training, but, when they are found by the director, the roles seem to be tailor-made for them. As long as you are yourself, you can complete a hearty performance. Zhou Xun is such an existence.
"Suzhou River"
So in "Da Ming Palace Ci", as long as Zhou Xun is like herself, jumping when she is happy, laughing and crying when she wants to laugh, she can create a smart Princess Taiping. And this role was only obtained because during the audition, director Li Shaohong found that Zhou Xun's acting was all based on feeling, "there is no such thing as academic dogma", the role of Little Princess Taiping must be hers -
Zhou Xun's "feeling" ", is her lore.
"Go down to the world"
In 2006, the 32-year-old Zhou Xun became the Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best Actress. The one who
brought her the posthumous crown is the role of Sun Na in "If Love". Beipiao's Sun Na wanted to be a singer and dancer, and finally became a big star. This is almost set according to Zhou Xun's life trajectory. Later, Zhou Xun also said, "The emotion in the play is what I experienced together with young girl ."
"If Love" Source: @Feeling_Right
and later works , whether it is "Painted Skin", " Wind ", or "Li Mi's Conjecture", Zhou Xun's recognition for his performance is related to "reiki" and "talent". She can perform well by relying on her feelings, and the audience will naturally think that she has aura and talent for acting. What has been overlooked is that this star-studded road followed by feeling is because in those years, Zhou Xun always found a role that suits him. If
has been so lucky to meet the same role with his own life and emotional experience, Zhou Xun may continue to play in the public's inherent understanding of her until retirement. However, the cruelty of reality is that actresses with aura will also age.
"Someone told me that women in the East are like this, they don't become mature, they don't become gorgeous, they just grow old." Zhou Xun also mentioned this in an interview. In the domestic film and television industry, there are basically only two roles of a girl and a mother. It seems that as long as an actress enters middle age, she can only play someone's mother. The
industry has not evolved to provide a steady stream of aging actresses. To the point of providing good scripts, powerful characters. The reality is like this, talented and feeling actresses like Zhou Xun rarely have the opportunity to age gracefully on the big screen, and fairies can only go down to earth.
launched " Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace " at the end of 2018, and the 44-year-old Zhou Xun ushered in the first large-scale word-of-mouth controversy. When the audience unceremoniously mocked her for "pretending to be tender", "playing a play" and "having no aura", it ignored a crucial point: no matter how bright and dazzling an actress is, as long as she grows old, she may have nothing, not only women Actors, all women have suffered the same malice in this environment.
Zhou Xun is also a "victim". In the interview, she mentioned that she was anxious because of the loose flesh and wrinkles on her face, and she was also sad because of the audience's evaluation. In the " Reader " program, Zhou Xun also had no choice: "We (and the audience) have been together for so many years, how are you saying this to me?"
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Of course, Zhou Xun will not let himself Trapped in the anxiety of powerlessness, her decision was to break through herself. Whether it is Iwai Shunji 's "Hello, Zhihua" or Chen Jianbin 's " Eleventh Chapter ", Zhou Xun is breaking away from the role that suits him originally and trying different styles. In the public interview at that time, Zhou Xun said that he wanted to meet face-to-face with directors of different styles, and wanted to come into contact with relatively new and untouched things before.
"Want to break myself."In the era of
variety shows, the collapse of actors
's attempt to break through is Zhou Xun's subjective will, but after taking practical actions, the effect is not obvious. In recent years, Zhou Xun, who has appeared in the public eye, has few well-known masterpieces as popular as in those years. Until
appeared on "Talk Show Conference", which caused criticism of "uncultured" and "ungrounded", Zhou Xun's image seemed to be suffering a second "collapse".
She rarely expresses her opinions in public, nor does she have the eloquent golden sentences that many actresses are frequently screenshotted and forwarded on the Internet; Zhou Xun in public reports, even with close friends, is not good at using words to show affection. and comfort each other.
It's just that this trait has become unworkable in front of variety shows and the public.
In the era of Zhou Xun's popularity, the most important way for audiences to understand actors is through film and television works. What is the image and performance in the works, they will think that the actors themselves are the same, and Zhou Xun's "immortal spirit" is also in the public's perception. formed naturally.
But nowadays, the Internet has brought distant "stars" close at hand. Stars are fully exposed on Weibo, Xiaohongshu and many other platforms, taking vlogs, posting photos, and sharing their lives all the time - always exposed to Celebrities under the scrutiny of the public, some have established their personalities because of sharing their lives, and some have lost their filters because they walked out of the screen. Zhou Xun, after
"played" the laughter, is obviously the latter.
When the scolding hits, some people will still remember that at a star-studded ceremony that year, several stars answered the questions in an interview "in time", but Zhou Xun just smiled and said: "A lot of people!"
If this sentence happened after the "Talk Show Conference", there may still be netizens commenting: Zhou Xun's ability to organize language is so poor that he can't even speak a complete long sentence.
But in the Zhihu Q&A area on this topic, a netizen told a story:
"The performance teacher asked everyone to play a chicken that was about to be killed by the missile . All the students racked their brains to figure out this one. The inner activities of chickens have profound theoretical support behind them. Only Marlon Brando did nothing there. Someone asked why Brando did not perform? Brando replied, because this is a chicken, chicken what? I don't know."
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