At the beginning of the year, Wang Fried "Crazy" not only has a fierce plot, but also a strong momentum among the actors. Among them, Zhang Songwen, who plays Gao Qiqiang, has become the top of the new uncle circle and ushered in the highlight of his acting career. With this negative character in the play as the center, an archaeological boom about the actor Zhang Songwen is spreading in the public opinion field. It can be said that Gao Qiqiang and Zhang Songwen are another typical case of the mutual achievement of characters and actors in recent times.
The appearance of the negative character on the screen of the national drama has been iterated several times. In the general environment, from the protagonist to the supporting role, it has returned to the center of the stage, following the development trajectory of the industry to release different signals. The negative characters who appear in various themes have also broadened their radius and bearing connotations.
But as a negative character, the audience's attitude is different. Gao Qiqiang, who turned from a fish seller to a gangster, made people hate, and Xiao Sanlin, who destroyed people's families, was scolded on the hot search. Character characters and actor performances are just some of the factors that determine audience preference, and what other reasons lead to the polarization of wind reviews? If an actor wants to use the negative role to empower himself, what is the right way to open it?
Ancient and modern villain guide
The negative characters that appear in various themes are rich in types, and even with the development of the times and the transformation of public aesthetics, some fresh genres such as beauty and misery, femme fatale and so on have been expanded.
If the male N female N in the ancient puppet drama bears the responsibility of intervening in the feelings of the male and female protagonists or contrasting the protagonist's highlights, they will generally be given more extreme settings such as black and evil men and crazy beauties. For example, Runyu, who is infatuated with the heroine in "Xiangmi" but later cannot be blackened because of love, Shunde, who is crazy for forbidden love in sharp contrast to the heroine's great love, Er Qing, who is in love and has a very deep city in "Yanxi Raiders", and Sujin, who has a black belly and cruelty in "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", are all negative character representatives out of the circle.
This kind of negative characters with love as the source can become eye-catching responsibilities in addition to the male and female protagonists, not only contributing to the sadomasochism of the protagonists, but also enriching the audience's viewing experience. But as a non-protagonist, to a certain extent, it is difficult to escape the shackles of tool people.
The negative characters that appear in urban dramas are closely related to the subdivision of the theme track. If it is an urban emotional drama, then the negative characters are concentrated in the category of touching public order and good customs, and the junior green tea that challenges the bottom line of morality and the cheating scumbag are the focus of easy to trigger public fire sniping.
Netizens once ridiculed that the male characters of "Thirty Only" are all "scumbags" except for Xu Ziyan. Xu Fengshan cheated in marriage, Liang Zhengxian was amorous, and Chen Yu was indifferent. In addition to male characters who hit women's emotional pain points, juniors such as Lin Youyou in the same drama and Ling Ling in "My First Half of Life" who have deep skills also make female audiences extremely disgusted and regarded as public enemies.
In addition, with the popularity of the topic of the original family, some fathers and mothers also frequently appear in urban emotional dramas, laying the groundwork for the protagonist's inspirational growth arc. This kind of negative role played by the bones of the old drama is injected with symbolic meaning, and even because the actor's pure acting skills are derived from the synonym of the "evil" of the original family.
Su Daqiang, the selfish father in "It's All Good", Fan Shengmei's mother, who prefers sons to vampires in "Ode to Joy", and the mother of the heroine of "An Home", who is similar to him. Their words, deeds and values reflect the outdated concepts pursued by the typical Chinese families supported by the older generation, and fiercely collide with the current young people, setting off waves of public opinion.
In urban workplace dramas where the protagonist focuses on his career, the negative characters tend to stand on the opposite side of the protagonist and cause various troubles. Lu Binbin, the director of the advertising department in "Dressed Up", saw the wind in the factional struggle of the fashion magazine, and fell into the hole for the unpowerful heroine and unpleasant colleagues. In "Ideal City", Wang Mingyu, who has seen the floating and sinking of the business sea and become shrewd and calculating, sets obstacles for the protagonist's road to fighting monsters and upgrades.
If the negative characters in urban emotional dramas can remind people of the various pits lurking in the emotional field or heal after "crossing the calamity". Then the negative characters in urban workplace dramas bring people a demonstration of workplace textbooks and survival rules with practical significance.
In contrast, the negative characters of suspense criminal investigation dramas are more "knife to flesh", and the feeling of coolness and pain is more obvious. To some extent, the ending of such gray characters using the legal net to restore and neglect reveals to the audience what is the right way in a society ruled by law.
In "In Calamity", Lu Han played Sven scum Zhao Binbin, the character's sick and perverted was portrayed very well, and the topic of #Lu Han playing the villain # on the night of the premiere was hotly searched. Qin Hao, who has a fire climbing terrier in "Hidden Corner", Zhang Dongsheng, a mathematics teacher who committed a crime with high IQ because of family disharmony, and Mei Ting's mother who hides secrets in "Daughter Back", all present the defeat of subtle humanity and evil.
The hardness of the villain will also increase with the hardcore of the theme. The Gao brothers in "Crazy", brother Gao Qi forced the times and became a bully covering the sky with one hand, and younger brother Gao Qisheng fell into the trap of being smart and being mistaken by cleverness, and finally embarked on the road of no return for drug trafficking. Lin Yaodong, the "smiling tiger" in "Icebreaking Action", and Li Fengtong, who was named "the first pervert of domestic dramas" by netizens with "Undocumented Crime", are all villains deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The same villain, why is the wind critic polarized?
The creation of negative characters in Chinese dramas has gone through the stage of a hundred flowers, and there are also times when they have become face-painted symbols. This is often tied to their scenes. When the negative character is the protagonist, whether it is an ancient or recent film and television drama, it is shaped into three-dimensional and full. And when it is a supporting role, it is likely to become flat and thin.
This has to do with character space. But more essentially, it depends on the thinking of screenwriters, directors, actors and other creators in front of and behind the scenes. Therefore, when we combine the internal and external factors that measure the success or failure of a character and disassemble it, we will find that the factors that determine the negative character style evaluation can be roughly summarized as: personality, actor's acting skills, audience aesthetics, and public opinion environment.
According to convention, the character of the negative character is not pleasant, so the key to being inclusive by the audience lies in authenticity, contrast and empathy. Sometimes appropriate "showing weakness" can relatively dissolve the hatefulness of the villain. The most typical is Gao Qiqiang in "Crazy".
On the one hand, this villain jumps out of the public's stereotype of the bloodthirsty and violent wrist of the gangster floating on the surface, but makes a fuss inside, and the polite appearance is his protective color, in fact, people don't talk much, the sense of contrast brings freshness, and also unveils the high-ranking villain.
On the other hand, Gao Qiqiang's trajectory is in line with the path of Disi's counterattack, a bit like the Shuangwen male protagonist who changed his life against the sky, but he went astray, but this cannot be denied, and his appearance of shouldering the burden of the family can cause empathy among ordinary people. It is precisely because of the weakness in the early stage that his ruthlessness after his rise has a fulcrum, and it also makes this villain have a tragic color.
The overlapping audience aesthetic and public opinion environment have made Gao Qiqiang jump out of the context of TV series text and evolve into a popular social currency. On the Internet, there are endless memes around characters and actors, on the one hand, the public's vigorous desire to express is realized through the second creation, and on the other hand, the public's curiosity is satisfied under the interest of archaeology. In this closed loop, Zhang Songwen is bound to Gao Qiqiang, and the humorous soul in the former's reality enhances the public's favorability of the latter.
The negative role of Gao Qiqiang in "Crazy" is deeply loved, and it is inseparable from one factor - actors. This is also the reason why most of the negative characters created by powerful people and old drama bones can receive praise. Zhang Songwen's skillful acting skills have added a lot of points to Gao Qiqi. His measured grasp of micro-expressions and his control of details fill the characters with flesh and blood and enrich their charm.
The negative role who also conquered the audience with his superb acting skills, and Qin Hao, who performed the essence of clothes and beasts in "Hidden Corner". Many famous scenes, such as wearing a wig in front of the mirror and pushing the old man and mother-in-law down the mountain indifferently, are chilling. He even left a shadow because the performance was too real, hiding the distorted psychological state reflected under the abomination, expressing the social pathology of this negative character, bringing warning and reflection to the audience.
And Su Daqiang, played by Ni Dahong in "It's All Good", although he is made in heaven and earth, he became an emoji out of the circle because of the improvised hand-ground coffee, adding a cute side to the main color of the character's selfishness. This is the skill of the acting school, no matter how big the performance stage is, it can be used as a dojo in a shell, and the performance has a touch of humanity to narrow the distance with the audience.
The right way to open the villain
In recent years, more and more negative roles have appeared in the circle, and various actors are also eager to try and devote themselves to this track. However, the difficulty of performing negative characters in different themes is different, especially the relatively complex villains in realistic themes, which challenges young actors and traffic artists who want to use this as a springboard for transformation. Therefore, find the right way to open the villain in order to add to yourself.
When acting skills are not enough to master complex villains, choice is more important than effort. Starting from the matching degree of the role and themselves, it is the primary consideration that young actors and traffic artists should consider, after all, the psychological process of the dramatization of the villain is not easy to study thoroughly.
This means that before deciding to star, do not blindly pursue popular characters, but use your current acting skills to make trade-offs, otherwise you will fall into a word-of-mouth crisis because of blind risk. For example, a certain point of the negative character can be obtained, and it may be possible to amplify this empathy and try to act.
In "Who is the Murderer", Zhao Liying played Shen Yu, who was involved in the secret of her father's death, the performance is eye-catching, and the dark loli temperament of the character coincides with her. Luo Yunxi, who rose to the rank with the role of Runyu in "Xiangmi", Guo Xiaoting, who made a big mistake in Shunde Xiaohong because of love paranoia in "Acquaintance with Junchu", and Li Qin, who turned from a little white rabbit to an evil woman in "The Legend of Chu Qiao", are all successful representatives of young actors challenging negative roles.
In fact, whether it is a powerful person, an old actor or a young actor, all those who successfully shape the villain are all under their own advantages and follow a common set of performance methodologies.
That is: build the character from the inside out, grasp the core of the background color to enrich the character, give it a logical and self-consistent behavior motivation and integrate multi-dimensional emotions to show independent personality, avoid using diode thinking to deal with three-dimensional characters into black and white routines, let alone go evil for evil. Breaking the audience's preset of the villain can often achieve unexpected surprise effects.
The functions of negative characters in Chinese dramas are becoming increasingly diversified, and their faces are becoming richer and richer, containing human nature in the performance space. All participants in the creation of villains in film and television dramas hold the key to knocking on the door of human nature and opening up the emotional connection with the audience. Refusing to portray the villain as a tool person is not only the first step to gain public recognition, but also the key to the mutual achievement of actors and works and characters.