Chapter 1079: 1079
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Lan Li is an actor, no matter how the outside world commented, this has never changed.
For a long time, he has been trying to explore acting and research acting in his own way, hoping to take a path of his own and climb to a higher peak of acting, not to surpass a certain major or to create any record, but to constantly surpass Self and self-improvement, in the field of art, we are pursuing a "perfect state" that can never be reached or even does not exist.
This is not an easy road, it may be a road with no end in sight. However, Lan Li has no regrets or regrets.
Last year’s "anti-cancer me" was the first time he touched a breakthrough in acting. It really broke the barrier between methodists and expressionists, and initially merged the two performance methods. Give the character a more realistic, more delicate, and more three-dimensional texture, and integrate the performance with the character.
In the subsequent "transcendence", he went a step further and found the common ground of method and expressionism in the context of performance, gave the character more power with his own understanding, and integrated the core idea of the script into the character, truly He takes the role as a part of the movie, pursuing the overall harmony and harmony.
With the current "gravity", he has completely blurred the boundaries between the two performance styles, got rid of the constraints of the performance style, and examined the role and performance from a higher perspective.
Every actor should know that the performance method is just a medium. In the final analysis, the actor's task is to give vitality to the character, whether it is a method or an expressionist, as long as this can be achieved, it is an excellent performance.
For many talented young actors, they don't know any performance method at all. They just rely on their instinct/ability to perform, and then give the character a unique spirituality and texture. This is true of Jennifer Lawrence's performance in "Winter's Bones", and the same is true of Timothee's performance in "Please call me by your name".
However, if you want to make further breakthroughs in performance, only relying on talent, this is not feasible; methods and skills are indispensable, and spirituality and temperament will gradually become routine in the day-to-day performance. , And then lost the unique texture, you must use skills to make yourself to the next level. This is precisely one of the differences between Hollywood and Europe.
In Hollywood, actors with outstanding talents like Macaulay Culkin emerge in an endless stream, but they disappear too fast, like meteors, falling quickly, Hollywood can't wait for them to complete their transformation and evolution, and there are already a group of fresh faces. Replace it. As a result, acting skills are getting simpler and more rude, and the accumulation of blood for the new generation becomes more and more difficult.
In the European film world, whether young actors or mainstays, they must go through such a process: purely relying on talent to perform; learning and research, performing through skills; finally completing the transformation again, returning to the basics, and integrating skills into their bodies. , Gestures and smiles are all performances.
Expressed in the charm and mystery of Eastern culture, that is: looking at mountains as mountains and looking at water as water; looking at mountains but not mountains, looking at water not water; finally, looking at mountains or mountains, and water or water.
This time, inadvertently, Renly opened the door from the second stage to the third stage-not only the three stages of Ryan Stone, but also the three stages of the actor.
Although, in the second stage, Lanly is not yet fully mature, has no complete control, or even a complete understanding, it is too early to enter the third stage, but... the performing arts have never been mathematical problems, it is impossible to follow the formula Step by step, all development is a matter of course, and inspiration is the only key to progress.
At the beginning, Lan Li was preparing to reproduce the "buried alive" performance experience, using methodological and experiential methods to truly blend into the role and the environment, and feel the emotions and reality he had never experienced before.
Gradually, those fictitious facts, environments and emotions found a foothold and a point of borrowing in Lanly’s ego and self little by little, and then enlarged and expanded step by step, and finally completely evolved into “real”. ".
Whether it is a method or an experiential school, the performance itself has got rid of the frame structure and confuses the boundary between reality and illusion. It truly empathizes and re-examines the story, experience and perception of the character from my own perspective.
This statement seems to be too esoteric and academic, and can be simply illustrated by examples.
In the "buried alive" and "transcendence", the character's experience and story, through the personal experience of the method school, Lan Li is truly immersive, feeling the emotional ups and downs of Paul Conroy and Henry Bass. Mental activity, even at certain moments, confuses the difference between film and reality.
But in the final analysis, Paul is still Paul, and Henry is still Henry. Those feelings, those experiences, those memories, all belong to them, not Lan Li.
Now in the "gravity", everything that Ryan Stone has experienced is completely integrated with the story of Lanli-Hall and Chu Jiashu, as if the three characters are different independent individuals. But they were all shattered, rebuilt, and made into a brand-new character, which is the current Lanli.
Compared with the "anti-cancer me", this is a step further and explores a higher level of perception. It can be said that Ryan has experienced the ten years of Chu Jiashu lying on the hospital bed, and it can also be said that Lan Li is truly in a desperate situation in space. All these stories have broken the barriers of time and space and have completely become a whole.
People always say that art comes from life and is higher than life. In each artist's work, you can more or less glimpse his own memories, stories, and even thoughts. Even many artists' works are semi-autobiographical, or the evolution and derivation of autobiography. Painting, literature, music, performance, etc., all are like this.
During the performance of the actors, their understanding of the emotions of fear, happiness, fear, and joy in the role all come from their own experience and cannot be shaped out of thin air. This is also the source of the method of acting. Robert De Niro has never been a taxi driver, so in order to play a "taxi driver", he really experienced the life of a taxi driver for two months, so the inspiration appeared Up.
But what's the next step after this?
What if the actor has no way to experience reality in a way? It's as if it is impossible for Lan Li to actually be in space, become an astronaut, and be in a desperate situation, and so on, there are too many situations that actors can't experience in person.
So, does this mean that the actor can find resonance with the character and the story in his own body in a methodological way, and then generalize and extend it, turning himself into a role, and turning a role into himself, just like changing The soul is torn into countless fragments, one of which becomes a character—a character with the actor's personal experience, personal characteristics, and personal understanding.
Going back to the source, the role is a part of oneself, or in other words, a clone of the actor.
When the actor and the character are natural and integrated, the actor can re-interpret the story, re-read the script, and re-interpret specific plots and emotions from his own perspective and understanding. In such a performance process, expressive acting skills are undoubtedly The core, because the actor needs to show various emotions according to the director and following the drama, freely retractable and precise control.
It's like Renly now.
Through the experience of the method school, Ryan became Ranley, and Ranley became Ryan. Then during the performance, Ranley used the expressive way to precisely control every emotional node, and truly transformed the performance into Play as you like, and show the true feelings from the depths of the soul at your fingertips.
After leaving the stage of "seeing a mountain is a mountain", Lan Li has now left the stage of "seeing a mountain is not a mountain" and has a preliminary glimpse into the realm of "mountain or mountain".
At this moment, Lan Li could really feel the existence of Ryan, but his mind was very clear. He knew that he was not Ryan Stone or Chu Jiashu, but Lan Li Hall; but , If he is going to shoot now, he also knows what situation Ryan is facing and how he needs to perform.
This feeling is very vague and ambiguous.
To describe it in words, after a long story, he just became more and more rapported, and he stunned himself; but the actor was able to vaguely feel the difference and implement it in the performance.
Although Lan Li is not sure whether he is really enlightened, and he is not sure whether his understanding is correct, everything can only be understood, practiced, and truly integrated through the following actual shooting; but Lan Li started Seeing a different level and level ~www.novelhall.com~ For example, Meryl Streep.
Everyone says that Meryl is one of the greatest actresses in American history, but in fact, after entering the middle of her career, Meryl's roles are more or less similar, strong, independent, and independent. And women who are firm, but vulnerable and soft in heart, have followed the style that has been consistent since "Sophie's Choice".
With that said, doesn't Meryl keep repeating herself?
But now, Lan Li knows that this is not the case.
Meryl's seemingly uniform performance, each character can see her own shadow; in fact, each character is also different. The differences in the details of the eyes, expressions, movements, and voice are revealed. The inner and soul that come out are completely different.
Such a quality of performance gives each character the characteristics that belong to Meryl but not Meryl. This is the most special.
A similar situation can also be felt in old dramas such as Daniel Day Lewis, Judy Dench, and Maggie Smith.
When the same situation comes to Tom Hanks, there is no such texture. Although Hanks's roles seem to be different, their inner origins are similar, so that each character repeats itself. Hanks has never been nominated for an Oscar since "Legend of Life on a Deserted Island" in 2000, and that's why.
The quality of the performance, a professional vocabulary that is fascinating, and now if Lan Li has touched it seemingly, it also makes him look forward to the next shooting.
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Lan Li is an actor, no matter how the outside world commented, this has never changed.
For a long time, he has been trying to explore acting and research acting in his own way, hoping to take a path of his own and climb to a higher peak of acting, not to surpass a certain major or to create any record, but to constantly surpass Self and self-improvement, in the field of art, we are pursuing a "perfect state" that can never be reached or even does not exist.
This is not an easy road, it may be a road with no end in sight. However, Lan Li has no regrets or regrets.
Last year’s "anti-cancer me" was the first time he touched a breakthrough in acting. It really broke the barrier between methodists and expressionists, and initially merged the two performance methods. Give the character a more realistic, more delicate, and more three-dimensional texture, and integrate the performance with the character.
In the subsequent "transcendence", he went a step further and found the common ground of method and expressionism in the context of performance, gave the character more power with his own understanding, and integrated the core idea of the script into the character, truly He takes the role as a part of the movie, pursuing the overall harmony and harmony.
With the current "gravity", he has completely blurred the boundaries between the two performance styles, got rid of the constraints of the performance style, and examined the role and performance from a higher perspective.
Every actor should know that the performance method is just a medium. In the final analysis, the actor's task is to give vitality to the character, whether it is a method or an expressionist, as long as this can be achieved, it is an excellent performance.
For many talented young actors, they don't know any performance method at all. They just rely on their instinct/ability to perform, and then give the character a unique spirituality and texture. This is true of Jennifer Lawrence's performance in "Winter's Bones", and the same is true of Timothee's performance in "Please call me by your name".
However, if you want to make further breakthroughs in performance, only relying on talent, this is not feasible; methods and skills are indispensable, and spirituality and temperament will gradually become routine in the day-to-day performance. , And then lost the unique texture, you must use skills to make yourself to the next level. This is precisely one of the differences between Hollywood and Europe.
In Hollywood, actors with outstanding talents like Macaulay Culkin emerge in an endless stream, but they disappear too fast, like meteors, falling quickly, Hollywood can't wait for them to complete their transformation and evolution, and there are already a group of fresh faces. Replace it. As a result, acting skills are getting simpler and more rude, and the accumulation of blood for the new generation becomes more and more difficult.
In the European film world, whether young actors or mainstays, they must go through such a process: purely relying on talent to perform; learning and research, performing through skills; finally completing the transformation again, returning to the basics, and integrating skills into their bodies. , Gestures and smiles are all performances.
Expressed in the charm and mystery of Eastern culture, that is: looking at mountains as mountains and looking at water as water; looking at mountains but not mountains, looking at water not water; finally, looking at mountains or mountains, and water or water.
This time, inadvertently, Renly opened the door from the second stage to the third stage-not only the three stages of Ryan Stone, but also the three stages of the actor.
Although, in the second stage, Lanly is not yet fully mature, has no complete control, or even a complete understanding, it is too early to enter the third stage, but... the performing arts have never been mathematical problems, it is impossible to follow the formula Step by step, all development is a matter of course, and inspiration is the only key to progress.
At the beginning, Lan Li was preparing to reproduce the "buried alive" performance experience, using methodological and experiential methods to truly blend into the role and the environment, and feel the emotions and reality he had never experienced before.
Gradually, those fictitious facts, environments and emotions found a foothold and a point of borrowing in Lanly’s ego and self little by little, and then enlarged and expanded step by step, and finally completely evolved into “real”. ".
Whether it is a method or an experiential school, the performance itself has got rid of the frame structure and confuses the boundary between reality and illusion. It truly empathizes and re-examines the story, experience and perception of the character from my own perspective.
This statement seems to be too esoteric and academic, and can be simply illustrated by examples.
In the "buried alive" and "transcendence", the character's experience and story, through the personal experience of the method school, Lan Li is truly immersive, feeling the emotional ups and downs of Paul Conroy and Henry Bass. Mental activity, even at certain moments, confuses the difference between film and reality.
But in the final analysis, Paul is still Paul, and Henry is still Henry. Those feelings, those experiences, those memories, all belong to them, not Lan Li.
Now in the "gravity", everything that Ryan Stone has experienced is completely integrated with the story of Lanli-Hall and Chu Jiashu, as if the three characters are different independent individuals. But they were all shattered, rebuilt, and made into a brand-new character, which is the current Lanli.
Compared with the "anti-cancer me", this is a step further and explores a higher level of perception. It can be said that Ryan has experienced the ten years of Chu Jiashu lying on the hospital bed, and it can also be said that Lan Li is truly in a desperate situation in space. All these stories have broken the barriers of time and space and have completely become a whole.
People always say that art comes from life and is higher than life. In each artist's work, you can more or less glimpse his own memories, stories, and even thoughts. Even many artists' works are semi-autobiographical, or the evolution and derivation of autobiography. Painting, literature, music, performance, etc., all are like this.
During the performance of the actors, their understanding of the emotions of fear, happiness, fear, and joy in the role all come from their own experience and cannot be shaped out of thin air. This is also the source of the method of acting. Robert De Niro has never been a taxi driver, so in order to play a "taxi driver", he really experienced the life of a taxi driver for two months, so the inspiration appeared Up.
But what's the next step after this?
What if the actor has no way to experience reality in a way? It's as if it is impossible for Lan Li to actually be in space, become an astronaut, and be in a desperate situation, and so on, there are too many situations that actors can't experience in person.
So, does this mean that the actor can find resonance with the character and the story in his own body in a methodological way, and then generalize and extend it, turning himself into a role, and turning a role into himself, just like changing The soul is torn into countless fragments, one of which becomes a character—a character with the actor's personal experience, personal characteristics, and personal understanding.
Going back to the source, the role is a part of oneself, or in other words, a clone of the actor.
When the actor and the character are natural and integrated, the actor can re-interpret the story, re-read the script, and re-interpret specific plots and emotions from his own perspective and understanding. In such a performance process, expressive acting skills are undoubtedly The core, because the actor needs to show various emotions according to the director and following the drama, freely retractable and precise control.
It's like Renly now.
Through the experience of the method school, Ryan became Ranley, and Ranley became Ryan. Then during the performance, Ranley used the expressive way to precisely control every emotional node, and truly transformed the performance into Play as you like, and show the true feelings from the depths of the soul at your fingertips.
After leaving the stage of "seeing a mountain is a mountain", Lan Li has now left the stage of "seeing a mountain is not a mountain" and has a preliminary glimpse into the realm of "mountain or mountain".
At this moment, Lan Li could really feel the existence of Ryan, but his mind was very clear. He knew that he was not Ryan Stone or Chu Jiashu, but Lan Li Hall; but , If he is going to shoot now, he also knows what situation Ryan is facing and how he needs to perform.
This feeling is very vague and ambiguous.
To describe it in words, after a long story, he just became more and more rapported, and he stunned himself; but the actor was able to vaguely feel the difference and implement it in the performance.
Although Lan Li is not sure whether he is really enlightened, and he is not sure whether his understanding is correct, everything can only be understood, practiced, and truly integrated through the following actual shooting; but Lan Li started Seeing a different level and level ~www.novelhall.com~ For example, Meryl Streep.
Everyone says that Meryl is one of the greatest actresses in American history, but in fact, after entering the middle of her career, Meryl's roles are more or less similar, strong, independent, and independent. And women who are firm, but vulnerable and soft in heart, have followed the style that has been consistent since "Sophie's Choice".
With that said, doesn't Meryl keep repeating herself?
But now, Lan Li knows that this is not the case.
Meryl's seemingly uniform performance, each character can see her own shadow; in fact, each character is also different. The differences in the details of the eyes, expressions, movements, and voice are revealed. The inner and soul that come out are completely different.
Such a quality of performance gives each character the characteristics that belong to Meryl but not Meryl. This is the most special.
A similar situation can also be felt in old dramas such as Daniel Day Lewis, Judy Dench, and Maggie Smith.
When the same situation comes to Tom Hanks, there is no such texture. Although Hanks's roles seem to be different, their inner origins are similar, so that each character repeats itself. Hanks has never been nominated for an Oscar since "Legend of Life on a Deserted Island" in 2000, and that's why.
The quality of the performance, a professional vocabulary that is fascinating, and now if Lan Li has touched it seemingly, it also makes him look forward to the next shooting.
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Lan Li is an actor, no matter how the outside world commented, this has never changed.For a long time, he has been trying to explore acting and research acting in his own way, hoping to take a path of his own and climb to a higher peak of acting, not to surpass a certain major or to create any record, but to constantly surpass Self and self-improvement, in the field of art, we are pursuing a "perfect state" that can never be reached or even does not exist.This is not an easy road, it may be a road with no end in sight. However, Lan Li has no regrets or regrets.Last year's "anti-cancer me" was the first time he touched a breakthrough in acting. It really broke the barrier between methodists and expressionists, and initially merged the two performance methods. Give the character a more realistic, more delicate, and more three-dimensional texture, and integrate the performance with the character.In the subsequent "transcendence", he went a step further and found the common ground of method and expressionism in the context of performance, gave the character more power with his own understanding, and integrated the core idea of the script into the character, truly He takes the role as a part of the movie, pursuing the overall harmony and harmony.With the current "gravity", he has completely blurred the boundaries between the two performance styles, got rid of the constraints of the performance style, and examined the role and performance from a higher perspective.Every actor should know that the performance method is just a medium. In the final analysis, the actor's task is to give vitality to the character, whether it is a method or an expressionist, as long as this can be achieved, it is an excellent performance.For many talented young actors, they don't know any performance method at all. They just rely on their instinct/ability to perform, and then give the character a unique spirituality and texture. This is true of Jennifer Lawrence's performance in "Winter's Bones", and the same is true of Timothee's performance in "Please call me by your name".However, if you want to make further breakthroughs in performance, only relying on talent, this is not feasible; methods and skills are indispensable, and spirituality and temperament will gradually become routine in the day-to-day performance. , And then lost the unique texture, you must use skills to make yourself to the next level. This is precisely one of the differences between Hollywood and Europe.In Hollywood, actors with outstanding talents like Macaulay Culkin emerge in an endless stream, but they disappear too fast, like meteors, falling quickly, Hollywood can't wait for them to complete their transformation and evolution, and there are already a group of fresh faces. Replace it. As a result, acting skills are getting simpler and more rude, and the accumulation of blood for the new generation becomes more and more difficult.In the European film world, whether young actors or mainstays, they must go through such a process: purely relying on talent to perform; learning and research, performing through skills; finally completing the transformation again, returning to the basics, and integrating skills into their bodies. , Gestures and smiles are all performances.Expressed in the charm and mystery of Eastern culture, that is: looking at mountains as mountains and looking at water as water; looking at mountains but not mountains, looking at water not water; finally, looking at mountains or mountains, and water or water.This time, inadvertently, Renly opened the door from the second stage to the third stage-not only the three stages of Ryan Stone, but also the three stages of the actor.Although, in the second stage, Lanly is not yet fully mature, has no complete control, or even a complete understanding, it is too early to enter the third stage, but... the performing arts have never been mathematical problems, it is impossible to follow the formula Step by step, all development is a matter of course, and inspiration is the only key to progress.At the beginning, Lan Li was preparing to reproduce the "buried alive" performance experience, using methodological and experiential methods to truly blend into the role and the environment, and feel the emotions and reality he had never experienced before.Gradually, those fictitious facts, environments and emotions found a foothold and a point of borrowing in Lanly's ego and self little by little, and then enlarged and expanded step by step, and finally completely evolved into real. ".Whether it is a method or an experiential school, the performance itself has got rid of the frame structure and confuses the boundary between reality and illusion. It truly empathizes and re-examines the story, experience and perception of the character from my own perspective.This statement seems to be too esoteric and academic, and can be simply illustrated by examples.In the "buried alive" and "transcendence", the character's experience and story, through the personal experience of the method school, Lan Li is truly immersive, feeling the emotional ups and downs of Paul Conroy and Henry Bass. Mental activity, even at certain moments, confuses the difference between film and reality.But in the final analysis, Paul is still Paul, and Henry is still Henry. Those feelings, those experiences, those memories, all belong to them, not Lan Li.Now in the "gravity", everything that Ryan Stone has experienced is completely integrated with the story of Lanli-Hall and Chu Jiashu, as if the three characters are different independent individuals. But they were all shattered, rebuilt, and made into a brand-new character, which is the current Lanli.Compared with the "anti-cancer me", this is a step further and explores a higher level of perception. It can be said that Ryan has experienced the ten years of Chu Jiashu lying on the hospital bed, and it can also be said that Lan Li is truly in a desperate situation in space. All these stories have broken the barriers of time and space and have completely become a whole.People always say that art comes from life and is higher than life. In each artist's work, you can more or less glimpse his own memories, stories, and even thoughts. Even many artists' works are semi-autobiographical, or the evolution and derivation of autobiography. Painting, literature, music, performance, etc., all are like this.During the performance of the actors, their understanding of the emotions of fear, happiness, fear, and joy in the role all come from their own experience and cannot be shaped out of thin air. This is also the source of the method of acting. Robert De Niro has never been a taxi driver, so in order to play a "taxi driver", he really experienced the life of a taxi driver for two months, so the inspiration appeared Up.But what's the next step after this?What if the actor has no way to experience reality in a way? It's as if it is impossible for Lan Li to actually be in space, become an astronaut, and be in a desperate situation, and so on, there are too many situations that actors can't experience in person.So, does this mean that the actor can find resonance with the character and the story in his own body in a methodological way, and then generalize and extend it, turning himself into a role, and turning a role into himself, just like changing The soul is torn into countless fragments, one of which becomes a charactera character with the actor's personal experience, personal characteristics, and personal understanding.Going back to the source, the role is a part of oneself, or in other words, a clone of the actor.When the actor and the character are natural and integrated, the actor can re-interpret the story, re-read the script, and re-interpret specific plots and emotions from his own perspective and understanding. In such a performance process, expressive acting skills are undoubtedly The core, because the actor needs to show various emotions according to the director and following the drama, freely retractable and precise control.It's like Renly now.Through the experience of the method school, Ryan became Ranley, and Ranley became Ryan. Then during the performance, Ranley used the expressive way to precisely control every emotional node, and truly transformed the performance into Play as you like, and show the true feelings from the depths of the soul at your fingertips.After leaving the stage of "seeing a mountain is a mountain", Lan Li has now left the stage of "seeing a mountain is not a mountain" and has a preliminary glimpse into the realm of "mountain or mountain".At this moment, Lan Li could really feel the existence of Ryan, but his mind was very clear. He knew that he was not Ryan Stone or Chu Jiashu, but Lan Li Hall; but , If he is going to shoot now, he also knows what situation Ryan is facing and how he needs to perform.This feeling is very vague and ambiguous.To describe it in words, after a long story, he just became more and more rapported, and he stunned himself; but the actor was able to vaguely feel the difference and implement it in the performance.Although Lan Li is not sure whether he is really enlightened, and he is not sure whether his understanding is correct, everything can only be understood, practiced, and truly integrated through the following actual shooting; but Lan Li started Seeing a different level and level ~www.novelhall.com~ For example, Meryl Streep.Everyone says that Meryl is one of the greatest actresses in American history, but in fact, after entering the middle of her career, Meryl's roles are more or less similar, strong, independent, and independent. And women who are firm, but vulnerable and soft in heart, have followed the style that has been consistent since "Sophie's Choice".With that said, doesn't Meryl keep repeating herself?But now, Lan Li knows that this is not the case.Meryl's seemingly uniform performance, each character can see her own shadow; in fact, each character is also different. The differences in the details of the eyes, expressions, movements, and voice are revealed. The inner and soul that come out are completely different.Such a quality of performance gives each character the characteristics that belong to Meryl but not Meryl. This is the most special.A similar situation can also be felt in old dramas such as Daniel Day Lewis, Judy Dench, and Maggie Smith.When the same situation comes to Tom Hanks, there is no such texture. Although Hanks's roles seem to be different, their inner origins are similar, so that each character repeats itself. Hanks has never been nominated for an Oscar since "Legend of Life on a Deserted Island" in 2000, and that's why.The quality of the performance, a professional vocabulary that is fascinating, and now if Lan Li has touched it seemingly, it also makes him look forward to the next shooting.Dear, click in, give a good comment, the higher the score, the faster the update, it is said that the new full marks are found at the end of the beautiful wife!The new revision and upgrade address of the mobile station: data and bookmarks are synchronized with the computer station, and fresh reading without ads!
