Special feature of 1905 film network The 2024 Spring Festival file finally ended with 8.016 billion yuan, which not only set a new box office record, but also the overall quality of the film was widely recognized by the audience.
In the strong lineup of the Spring Festival, many people have also dedicated wonderful moments that impressed everyone on the big screen. Let’s follow the Spring Festival special program "Performance Appreciation Class in 2023" of China Film Report, and see if the "performance closing time" that hit you in the past year is among them.
Realistic films achieve "daily aesthetics" performance
Looking at the new films at the head of the Spring Festival, realistic themes and ordinary people are still the "main theme" of creation. The director’s new film, which continues to decline at the box office and gains good reputation, is undoubtedly the representative work.
From the main characters to the supporting roles, every character in Article 20 finally presents the most realistic life texture. Obviously, this is the director’s core appeal at the beginning of "organizing the bureau".
In the casting stage, Zhang Yimou made a special request to find the actors who left a deep impression on him in the film and television works in the past year. Therefore, in the story of Article 20, we saw the big bang and the best actor nominated for the Golden Rooster Award.
Although the scenes in this work are not important, it has not affected the wonderful performance of the two. For example, Zhang Yi’s "Angry" performance of Director Zhang in the face of Li Maojuan’s repression and details, and Yang Haoyu’s reversal of joy and sadness that almost made the audience exclaim, all show their skill.
Looking back on the past 2023, Zhang Yi and Yang Haoyu were both active in film and television creation. In addition to the drama The Knockout, three films of Zhang Yi have landed in the cinema. According to Li Hong, a professor in the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama, a performance worthy of being called Zhang Yi’s "life fragment" comes from works.
At the end of the film, "Stone" played by Zhang Yi dances with the feeling of paying tribute to "Singin’ in the Rain". "There is the logic and emotion of the character here, which expresses his attitude towards life. As an actor, his (dance) movements are not good, but his emotions are the best. Combining with his movements, he has made the image of this character. This fragment can be a fragment of Zhang Yi’s life." Professor Li Hong explained.
The nomination of the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor has, to some extent, proved Yang Haoyu’s accuracy and Excellence in handling the role of Tang Zhijun in Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department. The director once said that among the four nominations for his work, he was most expecting Yang Haoyu to win the prize.
Li Hong also interpreted the goodness of "Tang Zhijun" from a professional point of view: "He is a widowed and lonely person, his eyes are always evasive, and his language is also very distinctive. Every time he finishes, he must be’ hmm’." But when he mentions the science he believes in, the universe, aliens, and the daughter he deeply loves, he will become stuck and firm. "This is an emotion that runs through, and there are many (detailed) micro-expressions."
Three generations of actors, old, middle-aged and young, have different performance "sense of strength"
In addition to the above-mentioned two actors whose acting skills broke out again during the Spring Festival, Professor Li Hong also paid attention to several representative figures with full sense of strength in acting among the three generations of actors in the past year’s big-screen works.
In the film, he has dedicated two characters with different qualities but full of texture to the audience, and his performance has been selected into the annual "appreciation class", which is well deserved. Li Hong analyzed teacher Li Xuejian’s shaping of Zhou Zhezhi and Xibo Hou Jichang from two aspects.
"Actors should pay special attention to their faces, beautiful and imperfect. Such as wrinkles and the sag of the corners of the eyes. Teacher Li Xuejian’s expression in Wandering Earth 2 is very subtle. This requires the actor to control his face very accurately, and there are stories in his drooping eyes. "
The scene of the confrontation between Ji Chang and Zhou Wang in the dungeon of "Feng Shen I" shows the actor’s control of emotions in addition to the details: "This kind of first suppression and then promotion is like a boxer’s punch. This stagnation increases the unpredictability of the whole scene, which is a process of accumulating strength and makes the outbreak of Ji Chang more impactful."
Similarly, in the way of restraining first and then promoting, there are also Chinese court plays that enhance the sense of performance strength. "I think this monologue can be used as an actor’s training material," Li Hong gave a very high evaluation. "The tone, intonation, logic and justice are angular. There is irony in his tone, and the character’s attitude towards justice appears."
In addition, Sun Yang is another actor who gives the audience a sense of strength by shaping the change of roles.
The former created many different characters in the past year, and successfully won the Golden Goblet Awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival with its subversive performance. At the end of the year, it successfully combined the comedy and ambivalence of Zhuang into one;
The latter became famous as a "pure love warrior" in the summer, and Sun Yang’s incisive performance also showed Li Hong the new possibilities of this young actor.
In Li Hong’s view, the audience’s re-recognition of good works and good actors is a positive signal: "The perspective of our overall concern is changing, which is the aesthetic change of the group. These daily temperament characters have become the male masters on the screen. They are closer to ordinary people and can shape the lives of ordinary people. "
