Comparison Of Performing Arts Between Sophie Marceau And Zhang Ziyi

The impact of consumerism and globalization of visual culture places movie actors who manufacture sensory stimulations a more and more over-concerned position; 'Movie actor'seems to be superseded by so-called'Movie star'. Sophie Marceau and Zhang Ziyi are such today's movie stars who become international super stars and also have aesthetic pursuit of performing improvement from natural performance to characteristic performance. Their performing arts reflected some characteristics of this era, and also reflected the development of local films.After analyzing their role creations in selected representative movies in different periods of their performance, it's clear that both Sophie Marceau and Zhang Ziyi present a poetic realism style of performance, but there're still some different details between them. At the early stage of performing formation, they created those roles with natural youths. Sophie Marceau treated 'poetry' as a romantic mood by her unique performance, while Zhang Ziyi treated 'poetry' as a rural mood by her natural performance. In their breakthrough periods, they created some roles with sharp conflicts. Sophie Marceau used a'micro-phase'performance to perform 'poetry', while Zhang Ziyi formed a poetic 'martial dance' style. In their ripening periods, they created sorts of characteristic roles. Sophie Marceau focused on lifelike performance, while Zhang Ziyi had an improvement from poetic body shape to poetic emotion.By analysis of two types of roles in Hollywood movies, it is showed that foreign actresses have to perform some symbolic and typical simple beauties first. In those co-production movies, creation of a foreigner required some kind of dramatic performance.At last, the reasons of their performing arts have been given. First, experience realistic Stanislavsky system leads their realistic performance style; the influence of Brecht's expressionist performance system differed Sophie Marceau from Zhang Ziyi who has been influenced by Mei Lanfang-represented system of traditional Chinese opera. Second, French melodrama performing style helped Sophie Marceau to form her poetic realism and the '5th generation' director add poetry to Zhang Ziyi's performing arts. What's more, the experiences of acting in arts films enrich their performing arts.