cover news reporter Wang Yili
When some big-traffic and large-scale productions were overwhelmingly promoting and building momentum, "Mo Yu Yun Jian" launched without warning and broke out. The popularity of the show exceeded 10,000 in the first three days, making it a dark horse, setting a record for the fastest drama to reach 10,000 views on Youku this year. At the same time, the audience also saw that Wu Jinyan had changed.
Wu Jinyan’s picture according to @武jinyan Weibo
After the “sister dragging” Wei Yingluo, Wu Jinyan, who was once questioned for saying that her lines were like “eating noodles”, has greatly improved her acting skills in this refreshing drama about a revenge heroine. She not only overcomes In addition to his previous acting habits, he also gave the character more layers.
Just as the audience was surprised by Wu Jinyan's transformation, her boss Yu Zheng revealed in a recent interview that Wu Jinyan attended Hao Lei's acting class three months before joining the group. For a time, Hao Lei’s acting class became popular, and the topic #Hao Lei Acting Class 300 一# also became a hot search topic. Wu Jinyan's "re-enrollment" seems to have achieved initial results. Is the acting training class opened by the star really a panacea?
Who is running star performance training courses?
Tuition fees vary from 20,000 to 120,000
Hao Lei is a graduate of the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy and won the 47th Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her professional skills are naturally beyond doubt. As for her creation of an acting training class, there are actually traces of it. When she served as a performance instructor in a variety show, she once said: "Acting requires systematic training."
In 2022, Hao Lei, Wang Hongwei, Yang Chao and other senior Filmmakers co-founded "a film", and the full name of its acting course is "Hao Lei's Drama Healing Workshop". In April this year, the studio account announced a recruitment for a summer performance training camp. The training camp lasted for 20 days. The conditions for recruitment were students who had a certain acting foundation or who had appeared in film and television works. In the end, only 20 people were admitted out of a team of more than 400 people who registered.
In addition, the training camp mainly consists of four aspects: general courses, professional courses, salon lectures and a specific creative guidance. The training camp has three levels of courses: elementary, middle and high. Students must pass the test just like taking the test for level 4 or level 6 before they can advance to the next level.
Regarding the "Hao Lei's performance class costs 300 per session" discussed by netizens, the reporter also asked the staff again for confirmation. The other party said: "Except for the registration fee of 200 and the tuition of 29,800, there are no fees. The class is not closed." And the performance There are a total of 136 class hours, so the average class price is actually 219 yuan.
Staff members of Hao Lei’s acting training class responded
Before Hao Lei’s acting training class, the “Mountain School” co-founded by Chen Kun and Zhou Xun was also the choice of many actors in domestic entertainment. Yang Chaoyue, who guest-starred in "Mo Yu Yun Jian", also participated in training at Yamashita Academy.
But unlike Hao Lei's "Observation", Yamashita Academy has classes for newcomers, as well as customized courses, crew performance guidance, etc., which basically cover all needs. Some students can directly sign contracts with Dongshen Future, such as Zhang Jingyi I have participated in training at Yamashita Academy. However, perhaps due to the difference in curriculum settings, some data shows that the training fee for a newcomer class costs 120,000 yuan a year. The relatively cheapest "Birth of a Character" themed workshop also costs 20,000 yuan for 12 days of training.
In addition to the above-mentioned acting training classes founded by powerful actors who have been active in front of the screen, there is also the "Liu Tianchi Acting Workshop" founded by Liu Tianchi, associate professor of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama, where ordinary people can also order online and experience it. , including two months of one-on-one guidance, the tuition is about 66,000 yuan.
Why do celebrities gather together to "make up extra classes"?
Audience aesthetics are constantly improving
The era of looking at faces is over, and traffic is not a panacea. As early as this year's Spring Festival, four of the eight films were withdrawn, including "Mr. Red Carpet" starring Andy Lau and "Let's Shake the Sun Together" starring popular actors Peng Yuchang and Li Gengxi. Obviously, even if there is a lot of investment in publicity and the joining of traffic stars in the early stage, as the audience's rationality in watching movies gradually returns, the attractiveness of traffic actors is no longer as good as before.
Aesthetic education is gradually becoming more popular, and the audience's aesthetic appreciation is constantly improving. Yang Mi's new drama "Harbin 1944" this year attracted attention. In an interview before the broadcast, Yang Mi claimed that she had put in a lot of effort. However, after the broadcast, aside from the plot issues and the controversy over the character setting of the film, what Yang Mi said The characters he plays are still criticized for lacking realism and making it difficult for people to relate to him.
As the entertainment industry becomes increasingly saturated, what kind of actor can avoid being overwhelmed by the torrent of market competition? Perhaps the "Shen Ma Combination" has already given the answer to "You need to be tough to make iron." In March this year, according to data from Beacon Professional Edition and Maoyan Professional Edition, Shen Teng and Ma Li jointly aspired to be the highest-grossing male and female lead in Chinese film history. In addition to the support of good works, their success is also inseparable from their hard skills, which have been tested from thousands of dramas to the big screen. Even if they appear in comedy movies, their accurate experience and expression of the characters' emotions have all shown the drama Professional background as an actor.
Star performance training class is not working?
Some people are out of the circle and others are embarrassed.
You can know the effectiveness of actors' classes by looking at his works. As Wu Jinyan mentioned above, "In the Clouds" is her first work after "re-enrollment". There is a scene in which Jiang Li is beaten seriously. Wu Jinyan's frowning brows are full of emotions from the beginning. Her eyes showed self-blame and distress, but after learning that Jiang Li had been framed, there was a little more hatred in her eyes, and the emotion of revenge spread immediately. Wu Jinyan's crying scene perfectly depicts the character's emotional changes, and her progress is obvious to the audience.
Coincidentally, Chen Duling, whose acting skills have been criticized many times, once again became popular last summer with his role as Ye Bingshang in "The Moon". Although she doesn't appear in many scenes and even dresses in plain colors, she can still vividly interpret the character's gradual "blackening" process after being bullied. Behind Chen Duling's progress, he also privately participated in acting training at Yamashita Academy, and also started the "question-sea tactic" to take notes on the script.
However, there is an old saying that goes well: "The master leads the way, and practice depends on the individual." In a class, not all students have digested the same knowledge after class. Ji Lingchen, who is a model, has also participated in Hao Lei's acting class training, but the final effect must have been glimpsed in the popular performance and competition variety show some time ago, and even "No one can catch me" appeared. The famous scene of the play.
Obviously, actors attending star performance training courses are only a way to improve their profession, and it does not rule out that it can be a tool for popular artists to build momentum. However, acting is an artistic discipline that requires both talent and hard work. If an actor does not work hard enough or uses his energy in the wrong place, no matter how good the professional teacher is, he cannot change the current situation of such actors.
