Variety show, the "hidden resource" of the film and television industry

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Article | Edited by Founder | Park Fang

If there is a chain of contempt in internal entertainment, the variety show group must be firmly at the end of the chain, and even the name "variety show" is often used to ridicule those who have a funny career Destroyed the professional actor.


Internal Entertainment's contempt for variety shows is really puzzling. You must know that in Japan, South Korea or Europe and the United States, the status of variety shows is often comparable to that of first-line film and television artists. The examples of the big guys in the shadow circle are even more numerous.


The industry seems to have woken up recently.


Recently, the TV series "Hometown, Stay Safe" released its first Polkadot and made it to the hot search. The appearances of Li Xueqin and Shi Ce have been hotly debated. In fact, in the previous work " I'm good in another country " produced by Fangmaite Culture, Jin Jing once played a subversive role of Hu Jingjing who jumped from a bridge to commit suicide.



Over the years, there have been many examples of variety shows feeding back into the film and television industry: Yoko (now known as Li Jiaqi) created the most lovable character of Wu Yuehong in "Yu Lou Chun"; from "Annual Comedy Contest" "(hereinafter referred to as "Yixi"), Wang Hao Shice, who came out, added luster to the emotional drama of " Twenty Do Not Confused 2"; Fu Seoul's quarrel between Sister Mei and Su Xiao ( Sun Li ) became the ideal of "". One of the famous scenes of "City ".


In the eyes of Rhino, the "inclusion" of variety shows in the film and television industry is likely to be a win-win business. As far as variety shows are concerned, at the moment when the priority of developing drama projects on long video platforms exceeds that of variety shows, it is a safe choice to have two feet in parallel. For the platform side, it is a cost-effective choice to cooperate with a variety artist who is strongly bound to a series or even a movie project.


Acting, the "Battle of Rectification" of Variety Shows


It has never been easy for variety shows to chase dreams in the film and television industry.


For a long time, out of more or less prejudice against variety show artists, film and television dramas have used them more instrumentally. For example, "The Man Taken By Light" asked Li Dan and to act as an emotional mentor in the apocalypse, while " Walking Alone on the Moon " simply followed Xu Zhisheng's role as a talk show actor and let him make a cameo appearance for 3 seconds.


In other words, these projects do not sincerely use variety show artists as actors, but simply copy their variety show personalities on the big screen. But in recent years, some variety show artists have chosen to bravely strip away the well-known variety show characters, and won the respect of the audience with their performances that are not inferior to professional actors.



The first to be nominated is Jin Jing's performance in "I'm Good in Another Country". In contrast to the funny personality on the variety show stage, Jin Jing played a social animal girl Hu Jingjing in the play. Jingjing, who is used to smiling and showing people, jumped on the flyover after accumulating countless adult collapses. Jin Jing was restrained and restrained. The performance impressed the audience.


"I think comedians have masks, they like to laugh with others, but if you become friends with her in life, you will find that she is not like this. This sense of contrast is exactly what we need." "In the reason why producer Li Mo chose Jin Jing, we can see how the sense of contrast in variety artists helps them transform into good actors.


Although many netizens have different opinions on whether "Yu Lou Chun" is good or not, Yoko Ramu's performance in the play has almost won unanimous praise. The Wu Yuehong she portrayed was a victim of a feudal family marriage. In the play, she tried her best to please her husband, but she had to make a lot of jokes. How funny Wu Yuehong acted, the audience felt so sad.



In fact, before "Yu Lou Chun", Yoko Rame has already shown good acting skills in " I am an actor ". In the show, her interrogation scene against "The Thief Family" Ando Sakura has infected countless audiences. It is worth mentioning that in that variety show, there was also E Jingwen , who was also a variety show artist (the champion of the first season of "I Am a Comedy Maniac"), who was also playing with her in the variety show, and was once selected by star to play The star girl of " new comedy king " is also a proper acting school.


is a variety show performer and is highly praised by the platform.


Last year's "Yi Xi"'s Hao Shicheng double CP was selected by Ningmeng Pictures to star in "Twenty Do Not Confused 2", which can be called the strongest CP after-sales of the year in the movie comprehensive linkage. Guo Qilin , who has been active on the variety show stage a few years ago, was favored by the platform because of his small test in " Celebrating More Than Years ", and " Son-in-law " in which he played the leading role gained popularity and reputation of unprecedented success.



However, if we want to talk about the "Battle of Rectification" of variety shows, Jia Ling scored 5 billion + box office "Hello, Li Huanying " does my part. Although Jia Ling and Zhang Xiaofei and started on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but after " Happy Comedian ", they have been stationed in various variety shows all the year round, and they definitely meet the definition of "variety show" in a broad sense. The two of them plus Shen Teng Ma Li strongly "spoiled" the film circle, which constituted the most powerful refutation to the perennial popular opinion in the public opinion field that "variety artists can't act".


Variety cafe, compound acting talent? The film and television value of


variety show has been overestimated.


Taiwan's senior TV personality Ni Minran once said, "Thousands are easy to get, but ugly is hard to find". In fact, a variety show artist is often a multi-talented talent. First, he has to read poetry and books and have goods in his stomach before he can form his own attitude towards various things; second, he has to be observant and gag. , entertaining everyone in a very simple way.


In other words, a variety show artist needs to be harmonious, knowledgeable, and online, as well as reaction speed, imitation ability, empathy ability, and field control ability. Many of these abilities are exactly what a good actor needs. have the advantages.


Variety cafes have at least three genetic advantages in acting.



First of all, variety show artists tend to have good audiences and high nationality. Their innate affinity makes the film and television characters they create easily loved by the audience. Whether it is Charlotte of " Charlotte Troubles " or Dugu Yue of "Lonely Walking on the Moon", audiences can easily have a natural favorable impression of these characters because of the charm of Shen Teng, a national actor.


variety show cafes are also good at liberating their nature, and can express themselves and show themselves more relaxedly in front of large and small screens, and this "relaxation" happens to be a necessary feature of being a good actor.


Here's a very intuitive comparison case from the variety show "Acting School", placing Yoko Rame in a studio environment surrounded by academies of small flowers, the variety show stage gives her a sense of wildness and relaxation that makes her perform well She is unique in the field. In the campus drama, she played the secret lover with a thousand words with just a few eyes. She was praised by her tutor Yu Zheng as a "future superstar".


Furthermore, it is said that "the core of advanced comedy is tragedy ", the variety show shows the extreme contrast with the personality of the variety show when performing serious dramas, but it can bring the audience a sense of surprise that goes against their expectations.



noneWhether it's Jin Jing in "I'm Good in a Homeland" or E Jingwen in "The King of New Comedy", they both subvert their variety show personalities and go deep into their lives to delicately perform the joys and sorrows of the low-level little people. The cruelty of the fate of hilarious self-injury 800 may be the reason why Xing Ye chose her for the role.


However, the shortcomings of variety shows are also fatal. The fate that


variety show fans can't escape is that if their variety show personalities are too strong, and their performance skills are not enough to make the audience get rid of their habitual impressions, the audience will easily make plays when they watch them.


For example, in "We Are Real Friends", she talked about the little S who was crying in the acting. For many years, because she has been unable to get rid of the image shackles of "Kangxi little S" in acting, she starred in " "eat food" love " and other film and television works are hardly successful.



Variety Cafe, a bonanza to be mined on the platform


But variety cafes still have a lot of performance possibilities.


Last year, the finals of Mi Wei's "Yi Xi" invited the bosses of major drama companies to watch the scene, and successfully "sold" Hao Shicheng's double CP to appear in "Twenty Do Not Confused 2". The action of acting on behalf of the actor resources highlights the diverse possibilities of variety show galloping in the film and television industry.



In the most recent season of "Er Xi", talented actors Tudou and Lu Yan explored the huge and profound theme of human destiny with the absurd fable of the "human awakening" of two zoo orangutans. Propositions that are only discussed in classic movies such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" make people see the infinite upper limit of the expression of variety shows.


But unfortunately, the second season of "Er Xi" has been broadcast until now, and it is the basic norm that "the work is not popular", and few actors can get the degree of discussion out of the circle. Although "Yi Xi" and "Er Xi" are committed to boosting the middle waist actors in the industry, the occupational conditions of most of the variety show artists who came out of "Yixi" have not been significantly improved.


Therefore, although Jin Jing's performance in "I'm Good in Another Country" is amazing, it seems that the industry has not paid enough attention to the "hidden resource" of variety show. Many times, people have not abandoned their stereotyped prejudice against variety shows. It is often difficult to consider the category of variety shows when casting roles for film and television dramas.



Of course, there are also some variety show artists who can barely gain a firm foothold in the industry, such as Wang Zijian who has guest-starred as a middle-aged person in " Settled Home ", " Thirty ", " Ode to Joy 3" over the years , and Fan Tiantian , who has appeared in " I am Yu Huanshui ", "River God 2", and "Superhero Romance", but they only accept "doing work", and the development bottleneck in the field of drama is also the naked eye. visible.


Compared with Japan, South Korea or Europe and the United States, variety show is regarded as a profession that is "fully recognized and respected by the society", and it has produced mixed artists such as Kitano Takeshi, Jim Carrey, etc. The variety show of Neiyu is still in the initial stage of "struggling for identity".


Maybe when the variety show can "slap" everyone with good performances and works recognized by the market, or when both inside and outside the industry have fully established awareness and respect for the "funny artist" profession. Circle embraces spring.