Crazy after the peak, crazy actors who survive

This season's "I Am an Actor" has a suffix,"peak showdown". From "The Birth of an Actor" to "I am an Actor" to "I am an Actor", what has changed is not only the name, but also the progress in the program's logic. The program ranges from providing a platform for individual actors to showing the literacy and value of the group of actors. This year, we have begun to explore the highest level of performance and pursue the peak of actors.

For this season's show, the lineup has been fully upgraded compared to the previous one, and only real experts can get admission tickets. However, as the lineup level reached its peak, the program also raised the pressure level to heat up a pot of boiling water for the actors. Some viewers have also begun to question, just because they are top actors, do the reviewers fall into praise after every performance and turn into praise?

Under pressure, the search for a new peak

"I am an Actor's Peak Duel" invited top-level actors, but this peak duel is not about presenting master-level performances at all times. Li Bingbing said on the show,"Actors are people, not machines." Even top actors cannot maintain their peak creative state at all times. What the program hopes to present is not only the peak of acting, but also the peak of pressure. Under heavy pressure, the actors walked on the steel wire, showing a state of madness.

The first layer of pressure comes from the race against time. Each program is the ultimate physical and mental challenge for the participating guests. They need to integrate into the plot and interpret the characters as soon as possible within the specified time and situation.

In the latest issue, Zhang Guoli and Guo Tao performed "Father·King" based on the story of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin. The script has a dense number of lines and contains a large amount of historical background knowledge and ancient prose. They must be proficient in memorizing their lines in a short period of time before they can complete a more vivid performance. Li Yuchun and Guo Xiaodong collaborated to perform "The Spectator". When he first got the script, Li Yuchun had no way to appreciate the changes in the psychological state and level of the characters. She needs to mobilize her emotions in a short period of time, find the connection between herself and the characters, and find psychological support for the characters. In the end, she could only use a stupid method, which was to immerse herself in the character's state, so as to complete the externalization of psychology on the stage.

The second level of pressure comes from the confrontation with the safe area. In the atmosphere of the show, actors must step out of their comfort zones and climb unknown mountains. Tong Dawei was already a leader in the Mesozoic era, but on the show, he constantly challenged the fixed pattern of performance. He chose to star in the comedy "Charlotte Worries" in the first episode. Although the results were not as expected, he did not regret it. Instead, he humbly reflected on his lack of expression. Due to Li Bingbing's illness and absence in the latest issue, Tong Dawei could only take the lead alone. He chose the story of "The Tuner" to present a false blind person on the stage. This is a very difficult character and requires rich and delicate psychological presentation.

Ma Sichun frequently travels between the crew and the program recording scene. As an "experiential" actor, she needs to break her acting habits and quickly enter the characters, taste the characters, interpret the characters, and get out of the characters. Under such pressure, in the new issue, she challenged a spy war genre she had never encountered before, completed the integration with the character in a short period of time, and presented a highly completed performance.

Every time, the actors face the pressure of being pulled off the altar, but they do not flinch and regard this as the starting point of another peak.

The third layer of pressure comes from confrontation with expectations. A peak duel must have peak expectations. What the audience expects is a perfect performance, which makes the actors always seem to be chased by countless eyes and dare not and cannot take it lightly.

Li Yuchun is the one with the lowest acting qualifications among all the guests, but because of her release of nature during the performance, she became a big surprise on the show. In the show, she uses sharp power to cope with the greatest pressure, constantly challenging various characters in order to surprise the audience more. "The Unknown Man" shows anger and helplessness,"China Women's Volleyball Team" plays a blind woman who has a burning dream but leaves with regrets, and then challenges Li Xiaomei, a Sichuan village woman who is thousands of miles away from her image. However, after she amazes the audience with her performance in each episode, expectations will increase and everyone's judgment standards will become more stringent. At the same time, the pressure rose to a higher level.

Under the strong pressure of the program and the pressure of external expectations, actors must constantly break through themselves, making it difficult to predict the results of the competition. Li Bingbing, who staged the shocking "Attic" in the first episode, was troubled by the shortcoming of "Winter Light" that was not suitable for expression on the stage in the second episode, because the busy dressing affected the focus of the performance. But it was the results of these "narrow victories" and "narrow defeats" that created the suspense of the program. In this program, no one can crush it at a glance. You never know what kind of reversal the next competition will bring.

Is it brainless exaggeration or positive motivation?

When the audience directly sees a finished film and television through the screen, they do not understand the presentation process behind the actors and only see the results of the performance, and can easily point out the shortcomings. But even Shi Hang, who is as sharp as Shi Hang, bluntly said that when you know how hard the actors work and stayed up late to rehearse the day before, it is difficult to criticize without hesitation.

In "I am the Peak of Actors", the consistent characteristics of all guests are professionalism, rigor and seriousness. In terms of attitude, they are all fully committed and all-out. Especially in the face of peak pressure, it can show their persistence and polishing. The directors and commentators on the scene turned into praise, not brainlessly praising the actors, but affirming the professionalism of the actors.

Shi Hang said,"They are all experienced actors, so we need to respect them more. But respect does not mean love." In the fourth episode of the program, these actors have completed basic psychological construction. They came to this stage not to enjoy glory, but to stimulate the potential of acting through the stage and discover what they had neglected. As a guest commentator, he began to compete with actors more fiercely, using the method of directly attacking pain points to become actors.

There are in-depth professional discussions in the program. In particular, Li Chengru expressed his views sincerely and strongly on the program. At the end of "Father·King", Zhang Guoli and Wen Qi read out the historical records of Lu Buwei's death. Li Chengru questioned this design and believed that two people could not read it so accurately. Zhang Guoli explained the original intention of the design, which was to present the overlapping effect of film and television. When the level of acting reaches a certain height, judgment cannot be simply defined by good or bad, and more often becomes a collision of artistic concepts. There is no right or wrong, just a difference in interpretation.

Even an unsuccessful work will not be completely wrong. The actors all have their own breakthroughs and efforts in it, showing their professional brilliance more or less. The "praise" of the reviewers is to salvage these shining points so that they will not be buried by other failures.

At the same time, during the preparation process, almost every actor had heated discussions or even disputes with the director and screenwriter about the presentation of the play. They were deeply involved in every detail of the performance, and Zhang Guoli started to set the scene. Every play would constantly adjust the stage art personally, hoping to give the play the best space. Li Bingbing felt unwell, but insisted on rehearsing until early in the morning. After arriving at the hospital, she discovered that her condition was serious. Even so, at the end of each performance, they more or less exposed the regrets that they can still continue to polish until better.

The showdown is also a complete achievement. Only when the masters compete can you achieve the peak.

The program does not have a fixed guest collocation, but in each episode, the guest combinations are randomly arranged, stimulating diversified drama possibilities. Zhang Guoli and Li Bingbing were together a couple who single-handedly protected their compatriots during the Anti-Japanese War when the country was destroyed and their family was destroyed. Paired with Ma Sichun, he is a father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease but is waiting to untie the knot he has with his adopted daughter. This work and his superb acting skills have been recognized by the People's Daily. Together with Li Yuchun, they portrayed the village chief and Li Xiaomei, who were unknown without fighting. Then he worked with Guo Tao's man-to-man to play two fathers who tried their best to protect their close relatives in the political whirlpool.

When masters fight, they are not to compete for the best, but to fulfill each other's goals. Because of the partner's investment, it also inspires more possibilities for yourself. The first collaboration between Ma Sichun and Qin Hao was "Half Life" on a literary and artistic theme. The second collaboration broke through the type of self-familiarity and played a fake couple in the intelligence industry. During polishing and collision, they formed a tacit understanding of stimulating and trusting each other, achieving their peak state, achieving each other's peak state, and achieving the final performance.

A good horse is matched with a good saddle. Through self-innovation, the program is also helping actors reach the peak. The addition of top directors such as Li Shaohong, Lu Chuan, Xu Anhua, Guan Jinpeng, and Gao Xixi, as well as first-class screenwriters, stage artists, etc., forms a high-level team, allowing the actors 'acting skills to be nourished by an environment. At the same time, the high-level configuration also gives the actors pressure and motivation, inspiring them to break through their limits and give back to the stage.

The program not only observes the peak, but also looks into the distance. By establishing communication channels between powerful actors and newcomers, a healthy growth mechanism is not only to show the peak at the moment, but also to pave the way for creating a promising peak in the future. In this program, newcomers with traffic are willing to be in a green leaf position. Even Meng Meiqi only played a silhouette in "Winter Light". They all hold a humble heart and hope to be influenced by the skills of acting while watching the peak showdown. At the same time, the powerful actors are not stingy with their guidance and praise for the newcomers. Even the veteran actors will help the apprentices find the status of their lines word by word.

Above the peak, there is no cold at all, but only a peak confrontation can show the charm of a thorough acting. "I Am the Peak Match of Actors" brought performances into the public eye in the first two seasons, and then emphasized the professional value of actors. This season is the shock of leading the audience to the peak to watch the top. Similarly, the works displayed in the program, the status of the actors, and the successes and regrets of the actors can all bring more experience and touch to China's performance groups and even the film and television industry.