In today's entertainment industry, it has become a trend for traffic to be greater than acting. But we can still find so many people, who do not rely on handsome blushing, but deeply impress the audience with their amazing acting skills, showing what a real person has a thousand faces.
This article intends to review several acting masters, and see how they turn the "impossible" into "possible" through the switching of different roles, and present the most real life situations to the audience.
In a Spring Festival Gala in 1995, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan co-performed the sketch "Uncle Niu Tigan" and became famous in one fell swoop, and the role of "Uncle Niu" also became a household name.
Debuting as a comedian, Fan Wei was originally classified as a "label" that could only play funny, but he later proved through a large number of wonderful works that his acting skills are not limited to this.
In the Spring Festival Gala, Fan Wei can not only amuse the audience with various local dialects, but also perform touching sketches like "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala". From funny to serious, he can handle it with ease. This is due to Fan Wei's enthusiasm and persistence in performance. For 25 years, no matter what the role, he has put his heart and soul into it, giving life to the characters with his understanding.
In 2007, Fan Wei starred in the comedy movie "Ears Are Blessed", in which he played an optimistic and open-minded old man. The scene of dancing with ** enthusiasm has become the best footnote to his acting skills. The audience couldn't help but be infected by his cheerful attitude when they saw this gray-haired old man expressing his youthful passion with body language on stage, and laughter and applause came one after another.
The process of Fan Wei's performance of this solo dance was not easy, he repeated the **dance of the elderly** in advance, and the excitement of the community aunt. He also hired a professional dance teacher to guide him on how to make his body movements more rhythmic. Even so, in order to present a light-hearted effect, Fan Wei still missed countless times during the shooting and sweated a lot. But in the end, this scene became one of the classic images of the movie.
In recent years, Fan Wei has frequently broken through himself in film and television dramas such as "Broken Bridge" and "The Long Season", changing freely from joy to seriousness, showing his growth and progress in acting. His 25 years of acting career has allowed him to accumulate rich acting experience and deep insight into the characters. This allows him to navigate all types of characters with ease, whether they are funny or serious, they are equally persuasive and infectious.
Unlike Fan Wei, Liu Xun is best at the interpretation of villain roles. He can portray a wicked person vividly and vividly. In the classic Hong Kong film "Mr. Zombie", the villain eunuch played by Liu Xun is ruthless and inhumane, and his murderous behavior is even more outrageous, without the slightest detachment or drama.
In order to create this villain image, Liu Xun made a large number of gangster movies in advance to study how real violent people live and commit crimes. He also hired a friend to play the role of the victim, and asked the other party to film his malicious expression from various angles. Liu Xun repeated **these** information, simulated the picture of killing people in his heart, and finally found the core of Shi Jian, the villain.
While filming the murder scene, Liu Xun threw himself into this cruel role. He will try to suppress his compassion, making every muscle in his face reveal cruelty and distortion. Once, when a friend came to visit the group, he was even frightened by his eyes, thinking that he had seen a real demon.
The audience even wondered if this villain was Liu Xun himself, because he had fully integrated into the role, which made people doubt the act of "acting". This is where Liu Xun succeeded, he disappeared into the character of Shi Jian, blurring the line between actor and character.
In contrast, as long as Liu Xun grows a beard, he can instantly turn into a decent character. For example, in "Jiupin Sesame Official", he played Li Lianying as a righteous and awe-inspiring image. "A beard is a good person, and a beardless person is a bad person", which has become a major characteristic of Liu Xun. He used this contrasting acting to reflect his plasticity and mastery as an actor.
If Fan Wei is an all-round actor, then Wang Yanhui is better at playing those "villain" roles - whether it is a good or a bad person, he can play a humble or cunning little person vividly.
In the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Wang Yanhui vividly interpreted a ** who sells fake medicines. His various tricks are so realistic that people can't help but scold. In order to create this ** image, Wang Yanhui deliberately investigated the real case of a black-hearted businessman. He found that these people were often good at verbal deception, and they were gentle on the surface, but extremely dishonest in their bones.
Wang Yanhui integrates this trait into the character, revealing a kind of hypocrisy and treachery in his language and dress. On the set, he often took the initiative to talk to the staff and praised each other with all kinds of rhetoric. Slowly, everyone was afraid of Wang Yanhui's "**", and Wang Yanhui also completely entered the play.
But from another angle, Wang Yanhui can play an obscure passerby unforgettable. He specializes in this kind of marginal characters who don't have a strong sense of existence, but his acting skills can always "slap the face" of the protagonist. In "Scorching Sun", he successfully attracted the audience's attention with a small three-minute role.
This is Wang Yanhui's strength, he can use his rich life experience to feel the inner world of the little people. Although there are few scenes, he can always portray a vivid and three-dimensional small role. This expressiveness has also earned him many nominations and awards for "Best Supporting Actor".
This person is so familiar, why did he come out so quickly?Many viewers saw Wang Yanhui in reality, and they all had a strong "face blindness" effect, thinking that he was a real little person. This is where Wang Yanhui succeeds, he can completely "transform" into another self, blurring the boundary between actor and character.
Compared with Liu Xun's spicy and serious villain style, Ning Li is more impactful in playing the villain. He is good at interpreting the cruelty and madness of a villain to the fullest. In "Undocumented Crime", Ning Li interprets the villain Li Toyota as a devil without the slightest humanity.
In order to create this villain, Ning Li made a lot of documentaries about serial killers in advance. He found that such cruel criminals were twisted in their hearts and had a terrible disregard for life. In order to free the devil within, they can mutilate anyone at will.
With this insight, Ning Li gave full play to his imagination in the shooting, placing himself at the scene of the murder and experiencing the process of seizing a life in the first person. He turned himself into a demon without reason and goodness, and killing became instinct.
This kind of immersive" acting skills suffocated the audience, and also achieved his unique style in playing the bad guys. Ning Li eliminated the boundary between himself and Li Toyota, and completely turned into a monster with no humanity.
But at the same time, Ning Li can also easily play a decent role. For example, in "The Silent Truth", he is perfectly transformed into the image of a righteous university professor. In stark contrast to the cruel demons.
No matter what kind of play, Ning Li can interpret it to the extreme. It is this contrasting expressiveness that has achieved his status as a powerful actor. He proved that the plasticity of the actor is almost limitless.
Relatively speaking, Zhang Tong's popularity is not as good as the previous ones. But looking back at his works, we can also find a lot of wonderful characters. As early as the classic drama "Bright Sword" in the 80s of the last century, Zhang Tong successfully attracted attention with the role of Monk Wei.
Although he is only a small person, Zhang Tong excavates the inherent qualities of this character. He portrays Monk Wei as an honest and unpretentious and helpful persona, in stark contrast to the main characters in the play.
Through this small role, Zhang Tong enriches the story threads and also provides a new perspective for the audience. Although there are not many scenes, Monk Wei has become a hot topic for the audience to talk about. This is precisely Zhang Tong's strength - even if it is just a small role, he can make the audience's eyes shine.
In recent years, Zhang Tong's role as Comrade Li Dazhao in "The Awakening Age" has also been widely praised. Unlike the little people in the past, this is an important historical figure. But Zhang Tong also gives this character a unique character through his own understanding.
He captured the spiritual core of Li Dazhao's noble temperament and passionate dedication. Under heavy pressure, this great man did not bow his head, and this firm will was well interpreted. In the end, he won the reputation of "acting ceiling" and successfully portrayed a three-dimensional image of a revolutionary.
A good actor is not about the size of the role, but about whether he cares about it. This is exactly what Zhang Tong, an old drama bone, has taught us a lesson. He proves that actors should always be ready to challenge different types of roles, which is the best exercise for themselves.
Fan Wei, Liu Xun, Wang Yanhui, Ning Li, Zhang Tong, they all showed in their own ways what it means to be a person with a thousand faces. These acting schools use their hard performances to tell us that an excellent actor should have master-style acting skills, and have the courage and enthusiasm to challenge different roles.
Maybe they are not as dazzling as traffic stars, but they are the real pillars of the movie. Let us pay them the highest respect!I also hope that more young actors can learn from them, continue to break through themselves, and show the infinite possibilities of acting skills with a thousand faces.