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Recently, Ouyang Nana has been praised for her performance in the new drama "Ice and Snow Ballad". From Douban comments to Weibo entries, it seems that she has redeemed herself for her acting skills.

High EQ: SisterHis acting skills have really improved.

Low EQ: The heroine’s acting skills are very suitable for playing a blind person.

Did you notice that although these two sounds seem to be compliments at first glance, they lead to a question:

Has Ouyang Nana’s acting skills really improved, or does it appear she has improved because she played a blind person?

From the setting point of view, there are two points that are indeed quite pleasing.

First, it relies on the blind girl setting.No more being ridiculedEye Skills。

"Blind Acting"If it's placed somewhere else, it will be sprayed into a sieve, but I have to hold it back when it comes to her.

Of course, playing a blind person would be a greater test of one’s acting skills, but that’s another topic, so let’s not discuss it for now.

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Secondly, the character of the "beautiful, kind, and miserable" little white flower is too destructive.

In the drama, Mi Lan, played by her, was beaten to a near-death state by her own mother.The #loose feeling# of marketing also has some clever ideas. Don't rush to brag about "explosive acting skills" and invite criticism, but instead pursue "the right state" and focus on a sense of atmosphere.

Outside the play, the actor herself can also beautifully market herself as a "broken beauty", making her so lovable that she can easily control herself.

In the past, we have seen many fans shouldering the public relations work for their idols, and they come up with all kinds of face-saving rhetoric.

How about the actors themselves?Strengths and weaknesses, to achieve the amazing effect of "improvement in acting skills", is it simply due to personal efforts and abilities?

Not necessarily.

For actors who have been criticized for their poor acting skills, if they want to achieve stunning results in a short period of time, in addition to taking classes to retrain, hiding their shortcomings is also a shortcut.

After all, the former always takes time to hone, but the latter only requires controlling variables in acting.

Avoid shortcomings first.Past performance slots,Continue to improve.

The simplest method is to cooperate with a director who is good at filming people.Visually aestheticize, magnify your beauty.

For example, this time Ouyang Nana met Li Muge(Directed by"Eastern Palace" "Sito"）。

Ouyang Nana's face has a rather folded shape, so the director avoided the fatal angle and adjusted different camera positions to highlight the three-dimensionality of her facial features.

A scene where the heroine locates the position by listening to the sound was filmed by him to look like a beautiful music video.

Meng Ziyi, who also became famous under Director Li's lens,The new version of Mei Chaofeng is so beautiful that it subverts a generation's impression of this childhood trauma.

Huang Wenhui's version of Mei Chaofeng in 1983

She has black eyes, red lips, skin as white as snow, delicate eye makeup and passionate eyebrows, and a soft and broken feeling all over her body.

When she appears in the same frame with the male actor, she instantly switches to the style of an idol drama, without any of the ghostly aura of the Black Wind Twins.

Under the impact of this visual beauty, even if the contribution of performance is only 20%, it can cause a good response.

Don’t underestimate the added effect of visual beauty on actors. This most intuitive tool for attracting fans is hard currency in the entertainment industry.

After all, a certain amateur is still the confused white moonlight ex-wife in many people's hearts.With the power of a face alone, even bad acting skills and bad deeds can be offset one by one.

In addition to the meticulous work on the appearance,Create a superb atmosphere,can alsoIt serves to attract attention and make people ignore the discussion about the role or acting itself.

Bai Lu's Xie Shiyi jumping off the building, Peng Xiaoran's Xiaofeng committing suicide, the famous scene of red clothes in the snow, any clip of it brings up a beautiful atmosphere that fills the screen.

The aesthetic atmosphere can also "save acting skills".

In the past, Yang Chaoyue’s “sleepy crying scenes” were always criticized. Her eyelids were so heavy as if she had been up for three days and three nights, and she looked like she was yawning when she took a breath in the middle of reciting her lines.

A while ago, I played a crying scene in "Mo Yu Yun Jian", but was suspected of secretly enrolling in classes。

The candlelight flickers, the hair flutters, a sickly beauty that I feel sorry for, in line with the dramaJiang Li was beaten to death by the stick, and no one cared whether she was sleepy or not.。

The scene where he dies under the pear tree is the most atmospheric.

Although her eyes were still as big as bells and she did some stretching exercises the moment she fell, it did not stop her from falling beautifully. She was so beautiful that she created an "unrivaled track of beautiful death".

Wu Jinyan in the dramaThe famous piano duel scene was so crazy that he didn't care about the life or death of the audience.

In the middle of the piano-playing duel, the flying Dunhuang suddenly transformed into a battle with Godzilla after accidentally touching the high-voltage power grid. The whole scene was like randomly sprinkling a handful of poisonous mushrooms on everyone present, creating a hallucinogenic effect for everyone.

But after all these changes, has her acting really improved as much as people say online?

It seems not.

It turns out that the criticized performance mode will still come out from time to time and make you laugh for no reason.

As for the best at creating a gloomy atmosphere, it must be AB, who can be called the movie version of Ju Jingyi.

The smiling lips and stiff big eyes that were once criticized would inevitably look abrupt in other roles, but when playing a corpse, the bright and eerie ghostly aura would definitely scare people to the point of brain short circuit.

If you can't play a living person well, then switch to playing a corpse. How can this not be considered a way of overtaking others?

In addition to the superb atmosphere,Abandon the starlight and pretend to be ordinary or even uglyIt is often mistaken as a shortcut to prove one's acting skills.

Almost every actress who intends to transform herself will play the role of a peasant woman.

This type of role was indeed a stepping stone for big stars to rise to fame, but subsequent 85 flowers have tried it, but not necessarily added depth to their works.

What was thought to be a shortcut may not work for some people.

Liu Yifei's version of the village woman won the 9th Golden Broom Award.

Yang Mi's version of the village woman, DoubanThe top comment was "She tried very hard to act without makeup, but her acting was so awkward!"

After three consecutive flops this year, Yang Mi attempted to transform herself into a peasant woman in her new film, but was criticized as soon as the Reuters news came out.

It’s no wonder that netizens find it hard to buy into this. To borrow a phrase from Xin Zhilei:

For an actor

The so-called bare face, how beautiful you are

It's not subversive

In addition to external visual effects, a more advanced method is to use character settings to reduce the difficulty of one's own performance.

One is to take advantage of the character's imperfect beauty, which is both labor-saving and pleasing.

Ouyang Nana's Mi Lan and Meng Ziyi's Mei Chaofeng are both blind girls, so they escaped being judged by their eye drama;

Huang Shengyi played a mute girl in "Kung Fu" and did not have to speak any lines about being judged.

Or rely on the character's masochistic situation.

This kind of situation often comes with a tear-jerking buff, and the actors do not need to give too much performance response, it can naturally mobilize the audience's simple emotions.

One is to switch the role type and subvert the personality.

Ju Jingyi and Chen Duling played villains, relying more on freshness, and unexpectedly refreshed everyone's inherent impression of their acting skills.

The actors' choice of role types also divides them into two different paths.

One is to use one trick to succeed everywhere, repeating the successful routineUntilThe audience rebelled.

For example, Bai Lu has beenAfter tasting the sweetness of crying scenes and abusive scenes,Both "The Eternal Moon" and "Ning'an Rumeng" are set up with the story of a peerless beauty suffering the consequences.

As a result, the crying scene that was once so proud of has become a joke on the Internet."Scream Actress Award". He was also mocked for creating a track for villains in the domestic entertainment industry, and his so-called "textbook acting" was immediately exposed.

Since Luo Yunxi played "Runyu" he has only been playing around in idol dramas and he has unknowingly worn out the novelty of the drama.

Half the sweetnessThere are alsoZhang Yixing received a lot of praise for his role as the little sheep in his first movie "A Good Show".

Later, when he played a crazy man in "Meeting Time", he directly played a "epilepsy man".

The other is to try other paths and then be beaten back to the original form.

Wang Hedi's "Cang Lan Jue" andGong Jun's "Word of Honor", it was only a flash of inspiration, and there was no subsequent work that continued to live up to its reputation.

Instead, new flaws are constantly exposed in new works.

Wang Hedi's bubbling lines and Gong Jun's "grass-chewing acting" both give people a sense of disillusionment that the expectations that were built up with great difficulty suddenly collapsed into ruins.

It's a good thing to be determined to step out of your comfort zone, but is it possible that it was not your comfort zone in the first place?

Therefore, we can find that many actors are just Schrödinger's "improvement in acting skills", and the real subtext behind it is unstable acting skills.

The more an advantage is boasted about on a daily basis, the more likely it is that it is just a fig leaf to cover up the actor's true level.

The first sister is as calm as a chrysanthemum and has a superb demeanor. On the red carpet, she is the most beautiful white swan in the domestic entertainment industry.He showed his weakness when it came to the main film.

His eyes were indifferent and his demeanor was tense. It would be an exaggeration to say that he was a cautious assassin.

In the past, fans would always try to save face by claiming that taking clips to talk about acting skills was an awkward criticism and could not represent the actors’ true level.

But if we just take a clip and praise the acting skills, can it represent the real acting skills?

As mentioned at the beginning, a smarter way for actors to hide their shortcomings is not to directly market their acting skills as "excellent" which are fake at first glance, but to promote their beauty and skills, which can be called fraudulent marketing.

I still remember when Cheng Xiao's "Good Words and Beautiful Writings" was first aired, she advertised that her "acting skills have improved a lot", but in the end, a crying scene in the rain where she witnessed her father falling from a building was like this——

For actors whose acting skills are not good enough, the longer they are given to perform, the more shortcomings will be exposed.

So now the new drama has started marketing itself as #a drop of tear acting##Cheng Xiao’s crying scene was controlled for 10 seconds#.

It seems that as long as the crying time is short enough, the complaints will not catch up.

Of course, this kind of marketing has always only worked on fans.

Previously, there was Ju Jingyi’s “broken feeling crying scene” in “Legend of Jianan”, which could be praised as a good crying scene with tears of a god as long as she didn’t shed artificial tears.

Later there was the "Two Tears Acting" in "Flower Order".

But to be honest, if the entry was written as "two tears hanging on the eyelashes at the same time", I might still click on it out of curiosity.

Compared to acting, this is obviously more like a personal skill and has little to do with the role and plot.

In fact, an actor’s unstable acting skills are not a sin.

The key is whether you can look straight ahead and whether you have the ability to overcome this problem.

Zhao Liying has also played the roles of a village woman and a mute girl. As a top star, she has been criticized for her acting skills before, so she may have thought about taking shortcuts to transform herself.

But what’s important is that these types of roles will not become a fig leaf for her acting skills when she handles them, but rather a series of works with increasingly higher levels of completion.

Furthermore, these types of roles that seem to be able to hide one's shortcomings are actually more difficult to interpret and are more likely to reveal one's weaknesses and fail.

If actors only treat it as a shortcut to success, the biggest problem is that it will inevitably be suspected of exploiting and oppressing the disabled and other vulnerable groups.

In addition, this kind of speculative behavior also desecrates the value and significance of such roles representing the minority.

In 1988, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who was still a young star of TVB, starred in the epic film "A City of Sadness". Because he could not speak Taiwanese dialect at all, director Hou Hsiao-hsien changed his character directly into a deaf-mute.

This move seems to be to hide one's shortcomings, but in fact it is a harsh test for Tony Leung when he was a rookie.

In the dark times of great ups and downs, everyone can speak their mind, but he is the only one who can express his endless grief and indignation with just his eyes and expression.

The beauty of this role setting is that he reflects the position of ordinary people in the historical changes more deeply.

People are filled with anger, pain and sadness, yet they are always mute, silent and hesitant to speak.

The defect of "deaf and dumb" is not a tool or packaging for the actors, but rather it adds depth and height to the work.

It’s a pity that people nowadays often lack respect, allowing various vulnerable groups to become labels used by actors and a fig leaf for their acting skills.

Stars often gain temporary praise for their "improvement" or "progress" in acting by using these various tricks to hide their shortcomings, but upon closer examination, this is actually a form of degeneration.

It's like a normal test paper. If they fail based on their actual level, they can just delete all the big questions and get 80 points by just using the formula. This essentially does not bring them close to the standard of "good acting".

Once the fig leaf is torn off, taking shortcuts is lamentable, and being short of money is pathetic.

Deliberately avoid disadvantages,Exaggerating one's advantages and even sacrificing the role for the sake of personal achievement will have no long-term benefits for either the actor or the work.