Liao Fan can’t save Snowstorm. How can extreme characters be a blockbuster？
Special feature of 1905 film network Liao Fan, who committed crimes in extreme weather, said: No one can remember all this after the heavy snow.
Nowadays, the movie Snowstorm has just been released for four days, and the box office has just exceeded 15 million. Under the influence of it, it seems that no one can remember this movie.
Not only is the box office poor, but so many works joined by acting schools have not received ideal praise in word of mouth.
Fans complained that the story was not remembered except for the freezing location.
Equally hard to remember are the performances of several villains in Snow Storm.
In the setting of Snowstorm, Liao Fan’s role is a thug who kills for money, robs a gold truck in a northern border town and shoots all those who stop him from taking the gold.
When Liao Fan said "I am a robber", the audience in the cinema laughed. The acting actor who is closest to this criminal suspect in appearance has become a literary youth in an instant.
In Snowstorm, even if the time span is as long as one year, the robber boss has always been very angry with a straight face, the background of the character has not been explained at all, and the relationship with his younger brother has been designed to be superficial. In the constant shooting, the boss tried his best to send everyone to the point of no return.
Years of acting career have exposed Liao Fan to a lot of roles, such as "vicious" ones, which Liao Fan also took over. Zhu Qianlong in the movie, the third child in the middle school, and even Brother Bin wandering in the gray area have won him a good reputation.
Liao Fan said that his favorite characters are not so simple, simple and clean. He prefers to watch the reaction of characters in extreme situations. "In the extreme, human instinct, potential good and evil will come out of generate."
By his own admission, not all the roles are well played. "Sometimes I don’t remember anything after filming, and sometimes I don’t forget every detail." I remember it, even the weather during filming, how many pictures I took, and what mistakes I made.
Brilliant villain characters can always arouse people’s curiosity. How did the actor shape such extreme characters and how did the screenwriter write them?Several professional actors and screenwriters, as well as experts and scholars in the industry, gave the answers from their own perspectives.
Professional actors say
Young actors Li Jiuxiao and Wu Haochen have played extreme roles in films, and these roles have been recognized by the audience. They have their own views on how to get close to extremist characters.
Li Jiuxiao: To create a role, you need to understand the logic of role growth.
Li Jiuxiao, an actor, once showed the greedy and fierce side of the robbers incisively and vividly in the movie, which was impressive.
Li Jiuxiao believes that in order to create characters, it is necessary to understand the logic of character growth. If you want to understand the different aspects of the characters, you must choose different books and film and television works to get close to them.
He cited the robber Bajie in his own "Hot Pot Hero" as an example. "When I understand this role, I think Bajie is probably a person who robbed money and went to Las Vegas to eat a big lobster and see beautiful women."
In order to have the same vision as Bajie, he specially found magazines with tourism and beautiful women, and cartoons gave him greater help in shaping Bajie’s feisty body shape.
Wu Haochen: Be attached to the facts and try your best to use your imagination.
In the film, Ma Yili’s breakthrough and change in image brought great subversion, and her boyfriend role in the film was also established under the interpretation of Wu Haochen.
The gangsters in the movie "Finding You" are not only sloppy but also affectionate. Wu Haochen, an actor who grew up in the Northeast and spent his adolescence in third-and fourth-tier cities, was deeply impressed by the "small town youth".
These familiar images were used for reference when portraying the gangsters in Finding You. The unique aesthetics of "small town youth" is also projected in the role through the design of some unique and cheap ornaments and tattoos.
Wu Haochen believes that the typical characters in the news are also worth learning. "These nutrients will nourish you continuously, and the influence on the judgment of roles, the mastery of human nature and people’s inner activities is subtle."
In Wu Haochen’s view, creating an extreme image cannot be regarded as extreme subjectively. "The extreme image is also a human being. No matter whether it is extreme or hasty to distinguish between good people and bad people, no matter what the background of the role is, we must find the inner good thoughts of the role, and the behavioral logic behind the good thoughts should be as reasonable as possible. We should not do anything beyond the understanding of ordinary people for extreme reasons. We should attach ourselves to the facts and try our best to give full play to our imagination when creating extreme images, without worrying about creating too much, because the truth in life is more colorful than drama."
Professional writers say
Finding the logic and behavioral motivation of the characters in his works is the most important part for professional screenwriters in shaping the characters. Du Pei and Dai Yanhui, two screenwriters, found some methods in their own creation.
Du Pei: It is necessary to understand the reasons why the characters act.
As a professional screenwriter who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, Du Pei will first adhere to the rule that motivation is both human and nature. Find out why the characters act. "As a screenwriter, it is necessary to make this motivation reasonable. It is not easy to find an angle that is not in the previous works."
Yanhui WangexistBurning heart in the hot sunThe performance is comparable to the real interrogation video.
As for the role’s reaction in extreme cases, Du Pei revealed that he usually looks for prototypes from news materials and makes research and analysis in combination with psychological books.
Dai Yanhui: I tend to know the lives of strangers around me.
Dai Yanhui, who owns a studio and has been engaged in scriptwriting and scriptwriting training for a long time, has her own specific creative habits. When creating extreme characters, he hates looking for "marginal people" and magnifying their lives. He prefers to look for strangers around him to understand their lives, and look for places where the surface conflicts with the actual truth, so that the authenticity of the people who fit in will be higher. If you want to achieve a role related to the times, or make it fatalistic or fatalistic, you must make some designs from the background of their birth and events.
Fireworks in the daytimeLiao Fan in China
Dai Yanhui believes that, no matter the characters whose appearances are extreme or whose appearances are normal but their hearts are divided, in the final analysis, they should look at their actions and performance from how they live and how they attach themselves to their lives.
Experts and scholars say
Drama and performance are two important parts in the teaching of the Film Academy. Professor Zhong Dafeng and Associate Professor Zhou Bing of the Beijing Film Academy combined their teaching work and gave their own suggestions from two aspects: script creation and performance.
Zhong Dafeng: There must be reasons and logic that lead to extreme behavior.
Professor Zhong Dafeng of Beijing Film Academy gave some suggestions on creating extreme characters from the perspective of school teaching. "We may emphasize the roundness of characterization in teaching, which is extreme in some aspects, and on the other hand, it should conform to the behavior and psychological laws of ordinary people."
Blizzard is cominghit the target/markDuan Long
Zhong Dafeng emphasized that there must be reasons and logic leading to extreme behavior, otherwise it will easily bring too strong artificial feeling. For the extreme image in film and television works, Zhong Dafeng summed it up in one sentence: "In fact, it is a single-minded character and an intractable dilemma."
Zhou Bing: The main thing is to capture the characteristics of the role through the script.
Zhou Bing, an associate professor at the School of Performance of Beijing Film Academy, has been engaged in performance teaching for a long time and is very familiar with the training methods of actors.
Zhou Bing said that drama performance training is very helpful for actors to appear in movies and TV series, which can help actors learn the methods of shaping roles and find the personality characteristics of the characters. However, the performance on the stage is also very different from that in front of the camera, and the intermittent performance in front of the camera requires the actors to deal with some details more vividly.
Jiang WuexistBurst into silencePlay the violent mine owner Chang Wannian.
Zhou Bing believes that this kind of extreme image of gangsters can be divided into internal and external types, the external type is more obvious in external characteristics, and the internal type is more prominent in psychological activities.
The characteristics of different kinds vary according to the script. "If we say that we are outstanding externally, we need to work harder on the design of appearance and action. If we are rich in inner activities, we may need to design more details."
taking tiger mountain by strategynautical/sea mileTony Leung Ka FaiSubverting the image and starring in a mountain carving
Zhou Bing was deeply impressed by Tony Leung Ka Fai’s subversive image in the movie "Taking Tiger Mountain Outward" and the distinctive robber gangs in "Hot Pot Hero". However, Zhou Bing also said that the proportion of extreme roles in film and television works is not very large. To create success, it is mainly necessary to capture the characteristics of roles through scripts and do more homework in the external image.