It may be the highest affirmation for an actor to make the audience indistinguishable from each other. In recent years, Wu Yue has left many classic roles in film and television works. From "Lingling" to "Beibei", from "He Ju" to "Ai Xianzhi", at the Magnolia Awards of the 28th Shanghai TV Festival announced not long ago, Wu Yuexi raised the honor of "Best Actress", A gift for viewers who have followed her visual footsteps for years.
Wu Yue, who won the Magnolia Award for Best Actress with "County Party Committee Compound".
Wu Yue graduated from Shanghai Theater in 1995 and has been in the acting industry for nearly 30 years. Looking back at her performance history of nearly 30 years, one can get a rich collection of Chinese female images. The roles she has portrayed cover various types, industries and classes, from sassy warriors to women in entanglements, from low-level mothers to high-ranking officials, from literary youths to grassroots cadres. Through performances, she reflects the trajectory of her own growth and social development. She has contributed forty or fifty kinds of professional images, and at the same time interpreted the most contradictory and tense emotional categories. She uses the depth and breadth of her roles to challenge and break through the experience of individual life.
Recently, Wu Yue came to the Reading Theater in the East Building of the Shanghai Library. Together with scholars Luo Gang, Ni Wenjian, Mao Jian, Zhu Kang, Luo Meng, Huang Ruijie, and Ding Xiongfei, they discussed the characters in film and television dramas she created and their cultural potential, sharing The era of "her". "Her contemporaneity and era are very strong," Mao Jian said as the host: "To pay tribute to an actor with a strong dramatic soul, we use 'her' era to look forward to a broader Chinese image horizon."
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"All actors who have the ability to expand their lives are good actors"
Film critic Ting Xiongfei used the movie "The Universal Universe" as a metaphor, referring to the attempt to reconstruct classic characters and myths from different perspectives. "Wu Yue has portrayed so many different female characters in her nearly 30 years of acting career, as if she shuttles in the multiverse and interprets different versions of her life stories. Wu Yue in different spaces presents us with different Chinese women. Variants." He cut into Wu Yue's acting career with two variants of female social identities, "ex-wife" and "little three".
In "The First Half of My Life", the "Ling Ling" played by Wu Yue was almost one of the TV drama characters that netizens hated the most in the year when the show was broadcast. But after a few years, the audience has become more and more understanding of this role. Wu Yue's interpretation has given this "little three" a different texture: she is a hard-working and tenacious single mother, an excellent and low-key employee, and a delicate and caring gentle woman.
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And in the movie "Love Myth", Wu Yue played an unusual "ex-wife". She is the wrong party in the marriage, but she can lightly say to her ex-husband: "I just made a mistake that all men in the world will make. "Mao Jian thinks: This sentence is revolutionary when it comes out of a woman's mouth. "Because a large number of our film and television dramas have men making mistakes, but women make mistakes, and dare to say 'I didn't make a big mistake'. The scene is very rare in domestic dramas. It is a bit revolutionary, but it is not the meaning of Western feminism. This ex-wife is "selfish" and confident, although it seems a bit politically incorrect, but it is also a rebellion and respect for the traditional Chinese female image in countless domestic dramas who are virtuous and virtuous, who stick to their husbands who change their hearts at home and change their minds. Yes, worth thinking about.
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Wu Yue injected a certain complexity into the labeled narrative of "Little Three" and "Ex-wife". The image of women is no longer distinguished by labels, black and white, but has become complex and difficult to classify easily. , real people. Zhu Kang pointed out that performance in the current era not only refers to theatrical performance, but also has been introduced into anthropological and feminist theories, "We are all our own role players in our daily life, and gender itself It is also a social effect formed by our acting." The scholars present commented that Wu Yue has the ability to expand life, she can expand the boundary and definition of the role of "wife", and can also expand the boundary and definition of the character "Xiao San". Definition, "All actors who have the ability to expand their lives are good actors."
"An actor not only needs to perform in the routine, but also to create a distance between his performance and the routine." Mao Jian said, "I think it is this distance that allows us, the audience, to project our different feelings into it. "
Huang Ruijie used "Ai Xianzhi" played by Wu Yue in "County Party Committee Compound" as a specific example to explain the "non-routine" of Wu Yue's performance.
In order to play the role of Ai Xianzhi, who is far away from her own life, Wu Yue went to Hefei City to experience life, held various meetings with two female district chiefs, and did petition inspections. She herself collected a lot of news materials about the county magistrates, especially the female county magistrates. In the end, the way she chose to perform did not include too many inner dramas, allowing Ai Xianzhi to present a documentary-like life state. A doer who is actively involved in life. "Ai Xianzhi in "County Party Committee Courtyard" is the county magistrate who is consistent in appearance and appearance, and is resolute and vigorous. Her subjectivity is not presented through inner drama, but held in specific actions, in dealing with large and small matters in Guangming County , presented in the process of dealing with all kinds of people."
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Ai Xianzhi is the core clue for the communication between the entire county party committee compound and the key figure that enables the entire county party committee compound to operate. The county party committee compound is also the core thread that connects the entire Guangming County. "The most important link: what is top-down penetration to the grassroots? To understand this link, one must understand the particularity of the administrative level of the county." Different from townships, counties are a stronger As an administrative unit with autonomy, the city usually does not intervene in the specific affairs of the county. This autonomy is reflected in the governance method, which reflects the clear party-government relationship at the county level, and realizes the combination of decision-making level and executive level.
As the county magistrate, Ai Xianzhi is more of an executor of decision-making in the division of labor between the party and the government. As an executor, he needs to regularly infiltrate the grassroots society at the township level to handle specific affairs. As soon as Ai Xianzhi came out, she was about to face the problem of demolition. She immediately thought of using women as a breakthrough. Taking women as a breakthrough point embodies Ai Xianzhi's political wisdom in dealing with the relationship between counties and townships. "In townships, where customary law dominates, national laws must carry out their own intentions, and hard administrative measures often fail to work. The confrontation between the two at the township level is often dominated by grassroots male groups, while women It constitutes a buffer zone in the middle, and actors must be flexible in order to act, and only with this flexibility can we truly communicate between the county and township levels."
After "County Party Committee Compound" was broadcast, many viewers believed that this TV series lacked intense dramatic conflicts. Scholars believe that now everyone is too accustomed to seeing various extreme characters and events in film and television dramas. In this sense, film and television Dramas, like literary works, are daydreams to vent our emotions, but in fact, most of us don’t have so many shocking drama conflicts in our daily life. "The County Party Committee Compound is not without conflicts, but most of the conflicts It was all gradually solved in the process of trial and error, which is very true. But ordinary audiences like to watch cool dramas, and "County Party Committee Compound" seems unreal because it is real." Huang Ruijie said.
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Does an actor have to go through a certain experience in order to play a certain type of role?
After listening to the discussions of the scholars, Wu Yue behaved modestly and humorously, "I think Wu Yue's skin is so thick that I can sit in such a place", "I think my epitaph has been written", which attracted the audience laughing out loud.
When it comes to acting, Wu Yue believes that the success of an actor is inseparable from the cooperation of the editor, director, and Fu Huadao from a professional point of view. Whether a character can remain deeply in the hearts of the audience, in addition to the efforts of the actors, there is still the efforts of the staff in all links. "If a role is successful, the audience will only say that you played well. In fact, there are still many people whose contributions have not been seen, and you are left alone on the stage as an actor." Wu Yue said frankly, "The project that everyone does together In the end, it was you as an actor who showed up, so I can only wish you luck, because if you are unlucky, it will be quite a miserable thing."
"The audience is very direct when they watch the play. They even think that the role is you. At this time, as an actor, you can only bear this part." The actor tried to argue that the actor is an actor, the role is a role, or for some reason, the role What's the matter, Wu Yue hit the nail on the head: "Actually, it's not your turn to say that, because the mouth is on someone else's body."
Wu Yue has the right to speak about this, because she has a deep understanding of the tremendous pressure and vicious attacks brought by the villain. In "The First Half of My Life", she portrayed the wonderful Ling Ling, but brought her countless cyberbullying from people who don't care about the drama, the most typical of which are insults to Wu Yue's age and appearance, and two It's the bizarre reasoning of "acting as a mistress so well, I must be a mistress myself".
Wu Yue was depressed because of this, but later he was relieved: "Our actors will always be set in some prescribed situations to be scrutinized by the public. We all know that time is sometimes very cruel to actresses. Who doesn't feel youthful? Who wouldn't feel a little depressed when youth is passing by? But there is nothing more important than growth." Wu Yue said, "People say, what is a middle-aged person? From the beginning of knowing the four words of birth, old age, sickness and death, that is middle-aged people."
"Do actors have to experience a certain experience in order to play a certain type of role? My own answer is as long as I have love in my heart. If as an actor, you have no love in your heart, then you have a lot of love for the role. Expression is difficult to accomplish, acting itself of course requires experience, but of course it also requires imagination." Wu Yue said frankly, "The happiness of an actor is that he can express himself through other people's stories and lighten himself through other people's stories. For a moment."
