Tonight, I will write about the variety show that has been the subject of the recent hot search:
Infinite Transcendence Class
Knowing that this show is on the air, it is an overwhelming hot search.
The most recent one is Yan Xujia mentioning Deng Chao in front of Hao Lei. The reason for this hot search is that student Yan Xujia mentioned in the interview that he had remade the role played by Deng Chao, and the hot search only carried Hao Lei's face and turned out the old news about her and Deng Chao.
And when the first episode of the show was broadcast, Jinsha interviewed and talked about taking her boyfriend to a variety show before, and then Jinsha and her boyfriend's meeting with their parents at the end of the year also became a square entry.
This is the 13th actor competition variety show from 2017, from the first 54 points for "The Birth of an Actor", to last year's same 54 points of "We hit it off", which naturally includes "Infinite Transcendence Class" 35 points in the first season. Aside from the second season of "Infinite Transcendence Class", which has not yet been scored, in 5Of the average score of 2, only 3 have a score of 6 or more.
But even in such a smoky genre, "Infinite Transcendence Class" still has something special about him-
Compared with those other shows, it is more frank and unrestrained, most of the hot searches on it are content that has little to do with performance, and its indifference to performance and its desire to create topics are even more undisguised.
Compared with those past "predecessor" variety shows, it is more like a result, the result of the fig leaf of this variety show type being gradually torn off over the years.
So to criticize the show, it must not be enough to just talk about it, we need to start before 2017.
The soil for this kind of variety show to become popular at the beginning is that the entire market is permeated with the mood of "the world has been suffering for a long time".
If you still have an impression of the domestic film and television market in those years, you may remember that in a series of IP relay races, traffic became the password for box office ratings.
This is already a commonplace topic, and the traffic is in the direction of investment, subject matter preference, script creation and even the choice of actors, all have a priority above all else. In the process of gradually tightening the closed-loop of capital operation logic, the powerful actors who really rely on acting skills have been eliminated, and the bad money drives out the good money.
So when actor competition variety shows appeared under the banner of going against the social wind, and they wanted to fight for market gaps for powerful actors, standing at that stage, this seemed to release a good signal.
The show itself is also doing something concrete to prove this starting point.
Like yesDiscussion of the performance itself.
I am the "New King of Comedy" clip in "I Am Actor 3", the mentor will comment on the quality of the performance, and will also propose a better way to deal with the detail of the actor's "blowing out the candle".
There is also the clip "1942" of Ren Suxi vs. Zuo Xiaoqing in "I Am an Actor", Zhang Ziyi, Xu Zheng and others have disagreements on two different performance methods. The controversy and disagreement about the performance itself, and the openness that extends from it, are all good in themselves.
And the show also awarded the champion to the good actorsUse the title of champion representing acting skills to add glory to the "actor".
For example, Niu Junfeng won the championship of the first season of "Actors Please Be in Place" with his acting skills. Regarding his acting strength back then, let's take an example, playing the autistic patient Dafu in the "Ocean Paradise" segment.
This role is very difficult to play, there are no lines in the whole process, and there is no ordinary thinking and logic. The actor can only interpret the character and his emotions between the state of perception and the unconscious.
And Niu Junfeng relied on expressions, movements and details to complete this role. Use the transformation of eyes to express the different states of the characters, as well as adjust the speed of eating apples, showing the "sobriety" of the characters at this moment and the perception of the difficulties of life.
From this point of view, there are indeed some highlight moments that allow the actors and the stage to fulfill each other, to confirm the sentence - "The spring of actors is coming".
But if we are nowWatching the results of the show, the above statement will be re-marked with a question mark.
Let's take a look at these firstThe current state of the cast
After winning the crown, many show champions did not get enough works and role support, and some even returned to supporting roles and returned to marginal positions.
Like the aforementioned Niu Junfeng, after that, he continued to participate in works as a supporting role, and the few starring works did not stir up much splash for him.
In addition, actors like Myolie Wu in "Actors Please Be in Place 2", the popularity of the champion of the year is far less than Ding Chengxin and Xiao Zhan, who appeared in the same show. After winning the championship, most of her Douban works are variety shows.
They became "stars" at that moment with the honor of "good actors", but in the market where commercial logic continues to encroach on cultural production, as soon as the heat passes, they will return to the past that were emotional, with the gimmick of "good actors".
Another result, yesMemories of our audience
Let's try it briefly, without recalling and retrieving it, and then mentioning this kind of variety show, we react subconsciouslyIt's more about the quarrels between mentors, concocted topics and **, bad acting skills out of the circle.
For example, in "The Birth of an Actor", the comment "If 19-year-old Zhang Ziyi stands here, I must be inferior to her (similar words)", in the speculation of praise or depreciation, has earned enough attention for the show. Another example is Ouyang Nana, who single-handedly set off an Internet frenzy of "Ant Race Walking for Ten Years".
and the show "Actors Please Be in Place", the most searched for it is not the performance, nor the actors, but the mentor Guo Jingming, and his disputes, his tears.
These memories that form a strong association with the program have become some kind of signs, to reveal what this kind of program pays more attention to and tends to, or the familiar set of general rules, topics and **, popularity and traffic.
The actor's spring is gone, and the facts are becoming more and more prominent"A show is not a market, it is always just a product of the market. ”
There is a big paradox here.
The attention to the topic and the attention to the performance have crowded each other in terms of dissemination and retention.
In the absence of this paradox, a large number of programs began to replicate the success of "Actors Please Be in Place" in batches, and then such programs embarked on an increasingly narrow path.
Last year's "We Hit It Off", hung a "sheep's head" looking for a tacit partner to complete the performance, but in fact, "performance" was used as a tool for "love drama". filmed the chat and dinner between the actors and actresses, and also filmed the guests in the observation room coaxing the choice of both men and women.
There is also the first season of "Infinite Transcendence Class".
You may not know the performances inside, but you will know some fragments of information, such as Shen Yue's emotions losing control at the interview scene because of nervousness, Meng Ziyi introducing himself with his red carpet fake fall**, and Hui Yinghong and Xu Shaoxiong left the table angrily after an argument.
Now the second season of "Infinite Transcendence Class" has reappeared with what seems to be the same road.
For example, the hot search mentioned earlier, Wu Zhenyu's poisonous tongue and black face, and when the tutor interviewed Jin Sha, the focus was not on performance, but on private topics such as love and marriage, which happened to be the most concerned issue among netizens.
We will see more and more obviouslyEvery choice in the show and every time out of the circle outside the show constantly exposes the pathology of the entertainment market.
This kind of program is increasingly cooperating with the public's initiative and emotional catharsis, producing topics and **, colluding with Weibo Square to form heat, cater to traffic, and embrace traffic.
When they have made such a choice completely undisguisedly, when we look back at this kind of variety show, we can find it more easilyThese preferences and purposes have existed since the beginning of the show, but they are hidden in the high-sounding grandeur of speaking for good actors at the beginning.
For example, in "Actors Please Be in Place", Guo Jingming crossed his acting skills to issue cards to his appearance, and the show used Li Chengru and Guo Jingming's verbal sword to ferment the network** to meet market preferences.
The Birth of an Actor" let Zheng Hao and Ouyang Nana, two actors with very different strengths, perform on the same stage, and finally made the choice of "young people need opportunities".
The commercial value of traffic stars leverages the fairness of the entire program, and the public sentiment caused by this completely transcends the performance evaluation itself, allowing the audience to skip the performance and join the crusade against mentors, judges, stars, and the program itself.
The mood and volume brought heat to the show, and the "performance" that was originally expected to be valued cooled down.
And today's competitive shows,has completely detached from the industry and become a variant of reality show.
is typical of "Infinite Transcendence Class" here, the first season spent a lot of time on TVB nostalgia, such as recording the 50th anniversary blessing for Xu Shaoxiong**, and invited Charmaine Sheh to write a letter to Xu Shaoxiong.
In the back, there is also a party performance between the instructor and the students, as well as the blind audition of the actors and actresses in the tent camp, and the instructor observes in the observation room. The further you go, the more vague the definition of the program becomes, and the more obvious the thirst for topics.
The mentor also cooperates with the effect of the show, either touting his acting skills, or scolding people with a poisonous tongue. Everyone conspires to complete a large-scale reality show, as if everyone is "acting", which is more of an acting competition than the real "performance" in the show.
What's even more ironic is that the program itself was produced in order to oppose traffic, and here the ontology became the traffic logic they opposed at that time.