Our reporter Xu Yuzhe
Use body double for dangerous action! Take a long shot and use body double in the back! Take a close-up with body double! Pat roll, kneel, and use body double!
In the current film and television circle, the above strange phenomenon has appeared at the same time as the star’s pay has soared. "If you go to Hengdian Film and Television City, you will know how rampant body double is. More than half of some stars’ scenes may be completed by various body double." When the screenwriter Wang Hailin said this, his tone was somewhat helpless. Nowadays, the business of stuntmen is becoming more and more subdivided, and in contrast, the acting skills of "fresh meat" and "small flowers" have been repeatedly criticized by the audience.
Body double has many businesses.
There is a "substitute" for slapping a star.
In the process of filming, star actors will always encounter difficult or special shots. The director group is worried that the big coffee actors will be difficult to complete, so there are "Wu Substitute", "Wen Substitute" and "Light Substitute". "Wu Substitute" is mainly responsible for fighting or dangerous shots, "Wen Substitute" is for the back of the actor or the shots in the panorama, and "Light Substitute" is for the actor to stand still when the crew changes seats and lights up. Wang Hailin bluntly said that the previous stuntmen generally existed by emergency measures. "Many stuntmen in a play are often reserved, because there are not many situations in which the starring role is out."
In recent ten years, with the development of the film and television industry, various stuntmen have appeared. In "The Banquet" directed by Xiaogang Feng, the stunt double Shao Xiaoshan made the word "naked substitute" known to the public because he played nude scenes for Zhang Ziyi. Subsequently, there have been "breast replacement", "hair replacement", "foot replacement" and "hand replacement" in the industry … What is incredible is that there are also "slap replacement" for stars, and even "meal replacement" for stars.
The value of stuntmen is divided into three or six grades. Among stuntmen, "naked replacement" has a higher income, followed by "martial replacement", followed by "literary replacement", and the lowest salary is "bare replacement", which is only slightly higher than ordinary extras and basically has no technical content.
The needs of the market have also made some stuntmen stand out: Wen Xiang, a stunt man from Chow Yun Fat, Wang Yanan, a stunt man from Fan Bingbing and Li Ke, a stunt man from Zhao Liying, who were dug up by director Jiang Wen, have gradually stepped out of the limitations of body double and started making their own plays. But such lucky people are really few in the huge group of stuntmen. Jinlong, who has been working as a martial arts replacement for three years, is considering changing careers recently. "He has taken on a lot of scenes, but it is too dangerous, and his income is not as good as a fraction of that of a star. There is really no hope."
Star time is precious.
In addition to filming, all kinds of acupoints are not delayed.
The emergence of a large number of stuntmen has invisibly made many popular stars no longer pay attention to performances.
A netizen broke the news from the media "Caring for the Eight Diagrams Growth Association" that he had visited the class of "Solitude and Self-Appreciation" several times, and found that most of the time body double of Angelababy (Angelababy) was filming, including lines and frontal close-ups taken by body double. A person familiar with the crew revealed: "Angelababy’s activities are too many. May and June are all filming for half a month. Of course, body double will be used for the remaining half a month; Wallace Chung, the leading actor, only filmed in May and June, and went to shoot a new play in July, so the male and female protagonists filmed the scene at the same time for no more than one month. " Entertainment Superman, an observer in the film and television industry, bluntly pointed out that the brokerage company will not let the popular artists close their doors for several months, and all kinds of money is actually a process of excessive consumption.
A few young and popular actors abused body double and treated performances carelessly, which made many predecessors in the film and television industry sigh. Zhang Guangbei, an actor who played the role of Lu Bu in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms in 1994, revealed that in a certain drama, a "little fresh meat" who played with himself never appeared, and filming relied on body double. "It’s rare to appear. He shoots 70 scenes at will a day, and his daily salary is 1 million yuan." In that year, in order to shape the role of Lu Bu, Zhang Guangbei went riding first every morning, and after eating, he practiced with Fang Tian’s painting halberd, and learned the duet of Lu Bu in the Three English Wars thoroughly. "At that time, there was no body double, and the actor spent several years working hard in the role. What precipitated is self-evident."
Popular stars who shoot dangerous scenes by themselves have become scarce at the moment. Mr. Hu, who has worked in the crew for a long time, said that many actors have signed huge insurance when they enter the crew. Of course, their safety is the top priority. The use of body double can greatly reduce the risk. "If the injured is a popular star, the loss of the crew will be great!" Mr. Liu, who has been doing martial arts for many years, feels that the current industry holds some popular stars too high. "I can’t walk, and I have to roll in body double. This was incredible more than a decade ago!"
"Long drama" catches up with the progress
It’s very common for male and female protagonists to have multiple body double.
The emergence of a large number of stuntmen has something to do with the longer and longer TV dramas in recent years.
An industry insider who has been engaged in TV drama production in Hengdian all the year round introduced that in the past, the shooting cycle of a TV series with more than 20 episodes was three months, but now the TV series is always over 50 episodes, and the production cycle has not increased accordingly. "Many dramas are concentrated shooting and group shooting, and the schedule of actors can be coordinated through body double, and they can also catch up with the progress." He also revealed that in a costume drama, there are 3 to 5 body double for the hero and heroine, which is very common.
At present, there are few "small fresh meat" and "small flowers" that are expensive, and they can win with their performance skills. Many young actors are labeled as "facial paralysis" by the audience because of their single expression during their performances. Wang Hailin said with a smile, some young actors always ask for positive shots in TV dramas, while others ask body double to complete them. "This is not filming, it is a photo album!" In the eyes of Entertainment Superman, this is like two sides of the same coin. The more young stars can’t keep up with their acting skills or are overprotected by brokerage companies, the more stuntmen will appear, forming a vicious circle.
As a matter of fact, the common principle in international film and television circles is that performance is a creative process, and good actors do not want body double to appear in their own creations. In the movie "Cloud Map", Tom Hanks personally plays a dead body in the Woods, lying on the ground for hours; In recent years, in the series of "Mission Impossible" movies, although Tom Cruise, the main actor, is no longer as athletic as when he was young, he refuses to use body double in important action scenes. Wang Hailin emphasized: "The abuse of body double means shoddy work. The minimum requirement for an actor to act is to speak his own lines and perform his own scenes. You get such a high salary and don’t act and say lines. This is the decline of artistic morality."
Entertainment Superman believes that the abuse of body double can only create "fast food" works. "When the audience pays more attention to the actors’ acting skills, the’ small fresh meat’ can’t survive without transformation, and it is difficult to last for a long time after all. I believe this pattern will change in the near future." However, in Wang Hailin’s view, it is unrealistic to expect brokers and producers to reduce the use of body double. "We still have to rely on the influence of other laws, such as our actor award system, and refuse to award awards to actors who use body double a lot."
