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Published at 3rd of November 2021 10:09:06 AM


Chapter 550: 550

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Lan Li eloquently explained his understanding of the role and presented all his preparations, watching Tony intently with both eyes, and communicating sincerely and devotedly.

Tony raised his head, and saw a focused look in those dark brown eyes, which faded away from the calmness just now, bursting out with unimaginable charm. This made Tony couldn't help comparing the Lan Li in front of him with Henry just now. The kind of smoothness without any movement, like a pool of stagnant water, with no light at all, and the image of Henry in his mind gradually became full.

"You mean, this is what you want to show? An effect that looks like stagnant water?" Tony said, finally understanding what Lan Li meant.

"To be precise, what I hope to present is a kind of peace. It is not the gloom and despair of stagnant water, but just the indifference that refuses to open up. The outside looks very normal, but the heart is dead still." Lan Li thought about it seriously. , Corrected Tony's statement, and then explained it further.

"Henry is the core of the whole movie. In my opinion, his emotions are not a straight line, but a constantly fluctuating curve. He thinks he is a straight line, but when he encounters different people and different things, his flaws are More and more, they are exposed little by little. Finally, they are presented naked/naked in front of the audience, step by step towards the end of the movie. This is a process."

In the previous life, Adrian Brody played "Transcendence". The whole emotional development is a straight line. His bursts and ups and downs do not have an accurate direction, but the despair and sadness rooted in his heart are more vividly displayed. , Nothing more. But after getting rid of those outbreaks, his grief still overflowed and became a daily routine, which made the image of Henry in the whole movie always stay in the sad and gloomy stage.

This can be said to be the shackles of his image, the melancholy and flimsy appearance is always lingering; it can also be said that his performance routines, from "pianist" to "transcendence", the temperament of the actor has always been implemented in it, which is also restrained. His field of performance. Even in comedy movies such as "Crossing Darjeeling", the performance routine has not been broken.

Of course, this is good. Adrian gave the film a relatively stable state: a state of despair and depression. This kind of emotion is endless. It fully makes the audience feel the creator's intention, and makes those who empathize with it.

But Lan Li didn't want that. He hopes that through his own understanding of the role, he can show the different depth, thickness and breadth of the role in the progress of the performance, not only to make Henry full, but also to make the promotion of the ending smooth. It still enriches the mood of the whole movie and deepens the core of the whole movie.

Because Lan Li knows that Tony’s original intention to make this film is far more than just telling Henry a role. His goal is education, society, and the entire blueprint. For this ambition, Lan Li agreed. He hopes to be a part of it. More importantly, he hopes that his performance can make further breakthroughs.

This time, Lan Li hopes to give it a try.

Tony's emotions gradually became excited, he could understand Lan Li's meaning, which made him chew carefully; but all of this was too abstract, and the language could not explain clearly and straightforwardly. After all, he is not an actor and has no talent for acting. He has only a vague understanding of the details of acting skills and the aura of the performance. He can't outline the corresponding specific image in his mind, let alone see the context and end of the entire performance.

This feeling is a bit like a math problem. The numbers and words in front of him are very clear and accurate. He knows that there is a formula that can connect all the numbers. He also knows that there is a law that can lead to the correct answer. The problem is that he doesn't know the formula and the law, so those numbers change. Become a bunch of meaningless garbled.

It's terrible! Tony rubbed his hair fiercely. The messy hair was now a mess, but his brain was still like a waterweed, unable to sort out a clear idea.

Suddenly, Tony pulled his hair abruptly, and the violent action pulled the knotted hair out, making people clearly feel the pain of the scalp, even Lan Li stood by and watched. Unable to feel the pain, Tony himself grinned even more, but he didn't care at all, and said eagerly, "Replay, let's watch the replay!"

He actually forgot the most important thing. He is a director, so naturally he cannot communicate with Lan Li in the position of an actor. He needs to re-examine the scene just now from the position of the director, and then digest Lan Li’s thoughts. . This is the correct way. "Look at the playback first, and then talk." After finishing speaking, Tony didn't wait for Lan Li, and ran all the way to the location of the monitor.

Lan Li and Tony stood on the school’s playground. There was no one on the front, back, left, or right. The nearest staff was also separated by more than fifteen meters. They couldn't hear the conversation between the two people at all. They could only judge from their facial expressions and try to guess. As a result, Tony ran back without warning, and the crew members who had been standing on the spot watching suddenly fry the pot.

Hula la, the crew of the crew didn't know, so they dodged in a panic, and the set was suddenly chaotic, leaving all onlookers full of question marks, so they didn't know. Just now Tony and Lan Li were at a stalemate and stalemate. In a blink of an eye, Tony fled all the way? How is this going?

Tony still didn’t know about everyone’s defamation. Of course, even if he did, he wouldn’t care. He ran all the way to the monitor, bit the dead skin on his lip, gestured with his chin, and said eagerly, "Replay, replay. "His request did not receive the first response. Obviously everyone next to him was at a loss, but Tony didn't have a gap to explain, and said again, "Replay!"

This time, Tony's request was finally implemented, and the playback began.

While Tony was watching the replay, Roy hurried forward and asked in a low voice, "Is it all right?"

Lan Li waved his hand nonchalantly, "What about the script?"

Roy was stunned and didn't react; Nathan, who came afterwards, handed the script up for the first time. Then Roy saw Lan Li standing on the spot and started to flip through the script, which made Roy question marks all over him: Still reading the script? This script has been ripped apart by Lan Li——

Literally, it was really bad. The front and back covers were changed by Nathan, but the pages inside were turned up with raw edges, and some places were torn, leaving a lot of notes in the blank spaces. Roy thought that Lan Li had already memorized the entire script over and over again, and there was no line in the first and second scenes, so why continue to read the script?

Lan Li knows everything about the scenes filmed today, including all plot directions and line-ups. Not all scripts are worth reading repeatedly. For example, the script of "Speed ​​and Excitement/Love 5". Compared with the script, the communication with the martial arts instructor and the stunt instructor is more important, but the script of "transcendence" Every line and every part of the scene has a stage-like image, but it is definitely worthy of careful study.

However, Lan Li is now just a habitual action. When I was in the crew, reading the script was actually a kind of thinking, not really reciting the lines. Lan Li is also considering Tony's opinion just now.

Whether it’s the “detached” finished product of the previous life or the simple communication just now, it can be seen that Tony is a director who relies very much on the lens, but this kind of lens is not Paul Thomas Anderson or Darren Arrono. Tony’s lens captures the details of the performance through the change of light and shadow and the setting of the angle. Tony’s lens has a primitive sense of roughness, wide open and close, close to a documentary, or it can be said to be close to the audience's perspective of a stage play. , To record the original ecology of the performance, and then nakedly present the emotions in front of the audience.

This also means that in the process of cooperating with Tony, the performance needs to be put on the outside. This kind of external release does not refer to emotional outbursts, but emotional pauses. At each node of the performance, he needs to leave an instant pause of one or two milliseconds.

Such a pause is placed on the entire timeline, but it can't actually be reflected, and it has disappeared before even the blink of an eye. However, during the performance, the direction of the line of sight, the pause of the eyes, and the fine-tuning of the expression have magnified this millisecond time, giving more space for emotions, and making the performance full.

Intuitively speaking, Meryl Streep's performance in "Covered Bridge Last Dream" is like this. This is a silent film that moisturizes things, and the gentle emotions resound in the depths of the soul like silent thunder.

Meryl dedicated a seemingly ordinary but vivid performance ~www.novelhall.com~ Her small expression acting skills are undoubtedly a highlight, a stay of eyes, the moment of trance to loss of focus; a shift of eyes, panic At the moment of melancholy, such life-like but dramatic performance details have created a unique screen image.

However, Meryl is a representative of method-based acting. Her performances are full of spirituality and randomness, and her acting talents are brought to the fullest.

For the academy’s performance-based acting, this is the study and control of emotional depth. Lan Li needs to watch the replay and have a better understanding of Tony's footage in order to deduce his own performance scale. Then, Lan Li strode forward and walked towards the monitor.

Roy stared at Lan Li in a daze, feeling that the rhythm of his thoughts couldn't keep up. First, Tony, and then Lan Li, the two men's acting styles are completely confusing and shocking. In the last second, the two people were still arguing red-faced, and in the next second, they watched the playback side by side, and exchanged opinions in a low voice from time to time.

This, what the **** is going on? One madman, another madman, so this is the story of two madmen meeting?




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