At this time, Chen Xiaomeng's doghouse-like rental house had already been kept spotless, with things neatly arranged. He Xin was wearing a shit yellow jacket with a furry collar, and a pair of tattered jeans underneath.
But they were all clean. He was sitting on the steps in front of the camera, with several books such as "Self-cultivation of Actors" and "Basic Skills of Actor's Artistic Language" randomly placed beside him, and he also held a book "Fundamentals of Drama Performance" in his hand.
Watch it very carefully.
Suddenly, he raised his head, faced the camera and laughed without warning. The laughter was bursts, different from the steady and hoarse way he usually spoke, but like a river in early spring, clear and hearty, full of life. He
The tough lines on his thin face have also been softened, making him as friendly as the warm sun in winter.
If you observe carefully, you will find that he opens his mouth, lifts the corners of his mouth, opens his mouth, and resonates smoothly, all in one go, very natural. Then he uses the pushing force of the lower abdomen, the relaxation of the ribs, and the trembling of the diaphragm, quickly and
Use the breath dexterously to make the air flow concentrated and powerful, and the laughter will be continuous.
Just as the bystanders were being infected by his hearty laughter, suddenly his laughter suddenly dropped, the tune changed from high to low, the mouth was half-open, and with the ooh sound, the voice was no longer bright and sweet.
His bottomless pupils were staring at the camera motionless, and suddenly his eyes were moist. He lowered his eyelids and his eyelashes trembled slightly, which looked very heart-wrenching. A line of tears instantly slipped down, flowing through the drooping corners of his mouth, and finally condensed on his face.
The sculpted jaw looks like it will fall into a doomed state if you are not careful...
"Card!"
Ning Hao picked up the phone and shouted.
The atmosphere at the scene froze for a moment, and then the people around him clapped their hands in unison. Shen Teng, with a round chin and a tired look in his eyebrows, clapped his hands vigorously. The scene just now shocked him, the deep appeal
, letting his emotions follow him involuntarily.
It turns out that this is the performance level of a movie king!
At this moment, Ning Hao looked over with a smile, holding the microphone and jokingly said: "Feiteng, do you see that? What do you think we should do next for the two of you to play against each other?"
"..."
Shen Teng's excited expression suddenly turned into a look of resentment. If you have something to say, can't you say it properly? If you insist on shouting with the microphone and mouthing off fat, don't I want to lose face?
But he was speechless.
Because he knew what Ning Hao meant, He Xin's performance just now, and compared with his own level, it was obvious that he was not on the same level at all. If the two of them were to act opposite each other now, he would definitely be crushed and beaten by Teacher He.
Then I heard Ning Hao change the subject and say to He Xin: "A Xin, your performance is not good! Zhou Quan is a beginner, you can't be so experienced."
"Ah?...Oh, I'm sorry, please give me another one."
He Xin was quite arrogant at first, and he won a lot of applause for his small test of skills. Only then did he realize that he had neglected the characteristics of the character. This was a very amateurish mistake. So when it comes to this person, he can't be too arrogant.
It is easy to make mistakes.
It's like winning a 20 million lawsuit. Just calm down and insist on complaining. The result...
"Well, come again!"
With the machine lights in place, He Xin sat there, lowered his head to read a book, and then suddenly laughed. But this time he laughed, obviously without the support of breath. In a series of laughter, the sound was high and low, without the slightest contagion.
Immediately after the switch from laughing to crying, the change in facial shape could not keep up with the rhythm of the voice. There were no tears. The whole person looked not sad, but more like constipation.
"Stuck, okay, passed!" Ning Haote shouted simply.
The next scene shows He Xin holding a book "Basic Techniques of Artistic Language for Actors" and pacing around the room, muttering: "Eight hundred pacesetters run to the north slope, and artillery soldiers run side by side to the north..."
From being stumbling at the beginning, it gradually evolved into very smooth.
This scene consists of a total of eight similar shots. It tells the story of Zhou Quan who lost his memory and thought he was Chen Xiaomeng. He learned that he was an extra and his acting skills were very unreliable. He was so stupid that he couldn't even act on the set. So I started studying hard on my own.
These eight shots, except for a low-level mistake in the first shot, were basically very smooth after that, with two or three shots, each with different changes. Director Ning Hao and the staff on site were not surprised. , after all, that is Teacher He, basic operation.
Only Shen Teng was stunned to see that it took less than a morning for all eight shots to be completed, but he had been filming for more than a week, over and over again, and even the hanging scene was not finished.
It was rare that Ning Hao was particularly kind today, allowing him to take a day off and free up time to shoot He Xin's movie. Of course, he didn't dare to lie down in the hotel to rest, and still followed the crew to the scene, just to see how the actor acted. As a result Naturally, it shocked him quite a bit.
Seeing He Xin finish the morning shooting task calmly, this fellow hurriedly approached and humbly asked for advice: "Teacher He, how can you switch so easily?"
"Of course I really listen, see and feel, otherwise what else can I do?"
"No, this is easy to say, but it is really difficult to do. I have been filming the hanging scene for more than a week. Not only the director is not satisfied, but I am also not satisfied with it."
This guy was troubled: "Maybe I have had a smooth journey here. I have never had money to eat or slept in a basement. No matter how much I imagine, I can't create a sense of immersion or understand the emotions of the characters."
"No, I think the Xie Xie you played in "The Count of Wulong Mountain" is similar to the character Chen Xiaomeng. You did a very good job! Why don't you have a sense of empathy now?" He Xin Surprised.
"Well, this is different. Maybe I didn't get into the character's emotions at first, but this is coherent, and there is a process of adaptation, especially when I see the reaction of the audience, see them applauding, and see When they laugh, I get very excited... Well, sometimes after the whole scene, I can't tell whether I am Shen Teng or Xie Xie... Well, Teacher He, do you understand what I mean?"
Although what Shen Teng said was a bit incoherent, He Xin still understood it. The stage play is coherent and has a high error tolerance rate, and he is a relatively slow person. He must have a certain amount of foreshadowing and cooperate with the audience's reaction before he can enter the play. .And once you enter the drama, you can reach a state of selflessness. No wonder his stage plays are particularly brilliant.
He Xin nodded and motioned for him to continue.
This guy was fussing over his scalp and said with a helpless look: "But the current situation is too fragmented, and the requirements are very precise. I can't always find the point at first, and then I have to do it again over and over again. I am a person who can easily get distracted. , often the more times I come back, the less I can find the characters.”
"Then are you still afraid of the camera?"
"Well, I'm much better now. Actually, it's not that I'm afraid of the camera, it's just that the camera is stuck there. I always feel that there are a pair of eyes looking at me, so I subconsciously look at the camera, just like I am on the stage, wanting to Feedback from the audience...well, I just got used to it, and I can't change this problem." Shen Teng said embarrassedly.
He Xin roughly understood what he meant, and he summarized it into three points: he was slow to warm up, not focused enough, and he habitually looked for feedback from the audience, making it easy to look at the camera involuntarily.
If the first two points are relatively common, then the last problem of treating the camera as the audience is really weird.
He had no experience in this aspect, so he could only think about it from the perspective of his own understanding and said for a moment: "I won't talk about the specific skills. You are also a professional, so you may be better at this than me. I will just talk about my experience in acting. Understanding is roughly based on three foundations: experience, belief and imagination. Experience, you must understand. You just said that you have not lived in this aspect, so you cannot understand the emotions of the characters. Then you can simply find the feeling of Xie Xie, you It should be okay to play Chen Xiaomeng as Xie Xie, right?"
"This... uh, I should be able to find it if I look for it." Shen Teng thought about it and then hurriedly said: "Then what?"
He Xin smiled: "Experience is the most basic, allowing you to accurately find the character's emotions, immerse yourself in the character, and make you full of emotions. The so-called belief is to go to a higher level to make your emotions more real. That's it. Like you just said, when you get encouragement from the audience on the stage, you will be so excited that you won't even be able to distinguish between yourself and the character during the whole scene. This is belief. And imagination is based on belief. Go to the next level and let your emotions sublime. In fact, I think you should have such an experience on stage, that is, you can completely integrate yourself into the character, and all the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys are closely connected with the character. That's it. To put it more simply, it probably means that you no longer feel that you are performing, and all reactions are subconscious..."
He broke it open, crushed it into pieces, and explained to him bit by bit: "So, when you find the character's emotions, you must first believe that you are Chen Xiaomeng, believe that you are in a desperate situation, and then you can Imagine, do you have the courage to die? Imagine what it feels like to hang yourself? Will you lose the courage to commit suicide because of fear? You only need to express the character's thought activities and ambivalence through imagination. , I think it’s completely OK!”
Shen Teng went from being dazed to thoughtful at the beginning. After some daze, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said excitedly: "Teacher He, I probably understand what to do!"
He Xin smiled and said: "You should think about it carefully and you can give it a try tomorrow when the show is on. Of course, what I said may not be right. Anyway, I have been at the scene during this period, so we can communicate."
Shen Teng said hurriedly: "I don't want to communicate properly, I have to ask you for advice!"
Oops, you've used them all.
Then this guy actually looked shy, hesitated for a moment and then said hesitantly: "Teacher He, actually I have always had a question, why did you choose me in the first place? I know how much I weigh, and since I turned on the phone, I have also noticed that if you had not insisted, Director Ning Hao would have replaced me early in the morning."
"Do you really know how much you weigh?" He Xin looked at him with a smile.
"Well……"
This guy looked confused. Of course he knew himself best. He really didn’t understand what He Xin meant. He was still muttering secretly in his heart: Am I really that awesome? Is there any hidden skill that even he has not discovered?
?
He Xin smiled and said: "Actually, what I like most about you is your... um, that sense of relaxation on the stage. Maybe there's a lot of baggage that comes from improvisation on the spot, right?"
It turned out to be this. This guy said embarrassedly: "This is all because of the audience's booing, and as a person like me, to put it mildly, I get easily excited in this situation; to put it bluntly, I would be crazy. The more enthusiastic the audience's reaction is, the more enthusiastic I will be."
Getting more and more excited...hehe!"
"So, filming movies and performing on stage actually have a lot in common, and you can also use it boldly!" He Xin encouraged.
"Is it really possible?" This guy asked in surprise, "Don't movies emphasize accuracy?"
"It varies from person to person. I believe Director Ning Hao is very happy to see that you have more possibilities in acting. You have to fully demonstrate your comedy talent."
"Ah, I have a talent for comedy?" This guy couldn't believe it.
"No, otherwise how could you become your first brother? And the comedies you performed on stage are still so popular!" He Xin was also surprised that this guy hadn't realized his comedy talent yet.
"No, Teacher He, I came to Mahua by mistake. When I graduated, I passed the exams of many literary and art groups, but unfortunately I didn't pass the exam, so I got into Mahua. And when I was in school, I didn't know anything about it.
I'm not a comedy actor. Look at my thick eyebrows and big eyes, which look like Zhu Shimao's. They are all positive characters in the drama!"
"Isn't Zhu Shimao a comedian?"
"Huh? That seems to be the case, oh?"
This guy has a thoughtful look on his face.
…
"Hey, how was your chat with that guy? Did you feel enlightened?" Seeing Shen Teng leave as if he was worried, Ning Hao came over and asked.
"Take your time."
"Why don't you take your time? I've been grinding him down for more than a week. If it were anyone else, I wouldn't have the leisure to do so."
Ning Hao is right, actors are always passive and the chosen one.
But He Xin said with a confident look on his face: "Just wait and see, he will definitely not let you down."
Although He Xin had never set a blind eye when it came to selecting actors, Ning Hao was still a little unconvinced this time and said, "Then I'll wait and see."
"By the way, he is relatively slow to warm up, so you have to be a little patient. In addition, you have to give him a chance to fully display his skills. There are too many rules and regulations." He Xin asked again.
“This guy is not only slow to heat up, but also easily distracted!”
Ning Hao curled his lips and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I will do whatever you say. But we have agreed that if this guy still can't meet the requirements in half a month, then he must be replaced."
"OK!" He Xin followed the good advice.
If Shen Teng is really unable to help him up by then, a replacement will be inevitable. Even if He Xin is optimistic about him, the filming progress of the entire movie cannot be delayed because of this.