The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 1061: Role analysis

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It is not an easy task to star in "Buried alive"; to star in "Gravity", the difficulty will be even higher.

Alfonso-Caron’s script completely implemented a minimalist strategy, basically cutting off all the branches of the actor, leaving only the key information, and then leaving all the gaps for the actor to fill in slowly.

In comparison, although "buried alive" is trapped in a small wooden box, there are actually many supporting points for the performance. The emotional explosiveness and emotional turning points are all clear at a glance; the current "gravity" is almost It is equivalent to removing all the performance brackets, relying solely on the actor's internal and basic skills to promote acting, and it still requires full devotion.

what does that mean?

This means that actors must do their homework in advance, assign acting skills in a way, and truly construct the entire character’s mental journey. Not only do they lie in the coffin and feel the pain of confinement as they did before, but they also need to conceive the background of the character. , History, and stories are almost equivalent to writing a biography.

Then when entering the performance, you must follow the director’s concept and framework, and use the performance-based acting to guide, dedicate more precise, more detailed, and deeper performances that complement the storyline and the core of the theme, and then fully integrate the characters into the story. In the story, a one-man show tells the entire universe, the entire nature, and the entire life, making the audience forget the character itself.

Really play a role, but need to make this role disappear. Such contradictory remarks are the best interpretation of "gravity".

First, the method-based acting, then the performance-based acting, and finally return to the method-based acting. This can be seen as the theoretical sequence in the performance of "gravity". Of course, in the actual performance process, it is naturally impossible to distinguish in such detail, but to be integrated, but before entering the performance, it is a crucial stage of preparation.

For Lan Li, this is not only a rigorous challenge, but also an excellent opportunity to polish his acting skills again. Especially after having just experienced the stage performance of "Les Miserables", it is definitely better to put into such a role performance now.

Otherwise, Lanly would not have just taken a one-week break after finishing the stage performance, and then came to the UK non-stop, ready to face the challenge.

In the previous life, Sandra Bullock dedicated the best performance of her career, even surpassing her "weakness" in her post-closing work, which really left a deep impression on people; but in this life, Lan Li must Take a different approach and interpret a different role from a male perspective.

For the male version of Ryan Stone, it is certain that after the space disaster, the first and third stages are consistent with the female version. The first stage is the survival instinct/ability, dying struggle, and the third stage is to wake up and refresh yourself.

The real difference should appear in the second stage, get rid of the shackles of gender labels, and further broaden the theme of the whole movie.

Lan Li once thought about setting up a family for Ryan based on the story of Sandra in the previous life, such as a divorced wife, or a seriously ill daughter, or even a daughter who passed away due to an accident, or an elderly person. Parents, and so on, their alienation and departure gradually cut off all the fetters of Ryan, and in despair, Ryan began to give up trying to survive.

However, after repeated thinking, Lan Li rejected such a plan.

It's not because of borrowing other people's settings, but because of the special nature of the work "Gravity", simple and crude copying and pasting is not effective. The female perspective applied to Sandra's version is placed above the male perspective, and the meaning of the whole theme suddenly begins to fall back.

If according to Lan Li's original idea, then what reawakens Ryan's vitality is responsibility and fetters, from his wife, his parents, and his children. This is feasible, but from a philosophical point of view, it has not reached the height of life and the universe, but has fallen behind.

The reason why Sandra's version of Ryan was able to sublimate the theme was first of all that it took advantage of the maternal characteristics of women and established the foundation for the bond between mother and daughter. After life and death, he gave up the obsession of **** and was no longer immersed in it. In the sorrow and numbness caused by the daughter's death, she returned to the original meaning of life, rejuvenated, and accepted the call of gravity.

So, cheer up and blaze a path of return.

However, the copy and paste version of Lan Li went against the evolution of responsibility into obsession, using family affection and family as concerns and motivation to awaken the hope of survival, but this was inferior and simple and rude.

Furthermore, after simply applying Sandra's story version to Lan Li, but the traits of nurturing life possessed by women are missing in men, it instead magnifies the differences in life perception caused by "gender differences". The profundity of the truth has become thin and superficial.

Previously, when Lan Li and Alfonso were discussing the character conception of the entire film project, they mentioned the work "The Tree of Life" and conceived the transformation of the male version of Ryan Stone. After lacking the characteristics of women, Then, he deeply abandons the characteristics of men, blurs the mystery of gender differences, and returns purely to the source of life——

The moment of the Big Bang.

Amidst the chaos, an explosion occurred, drastically opening up the world, and then signs of life were born.

In other words, the male version of Ryan should symbolize the source of life, the pure and primitive driving force for survival. As a result, Lan Li renewed the idea and conceived a purer motivation:

The origin is extended from the family, giving a person social attributes, which becomes the support and motivation of the person, encouraging the person to start pursuing the self; then further development, entering the person’s pursuit of self and the self in the dream process, and in the pursuit of the process In the middle of the world, it gradually began to cut off social connections and became a pure life body, giving up all social attributes.

But at the moment of life and death, it returned to the entire process of reshaping life and promoting higher life forms.

As a child, Ryan Stone, he is a genius and a model. He is good at everything, from learning to sports, from politeness to social interaction, and even self-management. He is perfect. With a happy and warm family, the love and support of their parents, and the admiration and admiration of their younger brothers, they have always been Ryan's greatest backers, and they support Ryan in pursuing his dreams bravely.

For Ryan, he yearns for the space universe and the unknown mystery. Therefore, he hopes to become a scientific researcher, leave the earth, study the entire huge galaxy in the universe, and pursue the origin of mankind. With the support of his family, he began to rush towards the goal without selflessness, and realized his dream.

Ryan became an astronaut.

However, in the process of running, Ryan gradually became alienated from the family.

On the one hand, because flying to the universe is not an easy task, even if he tries his best, he may not be able to achieve it. He is completely immersed in his dream, forgets about it, even forgot his own existence, and even ignored other things. Everyone.

On the other hand, because he is a genius, the way he sees the world is completely different, just like the group of otaku freaks in the "Big Bang Theory". His family couldn't keep up with his footsteps and rhythm. They didn't understand his world, and he didn't understand theirs.

In this way, drift away. Those expectations and cares slowly became pressure and fell heavily on Ryan's shoulders, so he began to learn to be independent and strong.

For ordinary men, society does not allow them to be fragile and sad, and they need to be strong and bear all the weight; but for Ryan, it is different. The attribute of gender is ranked behind, and it is more from the difference between genius and ordinary people. After stripping off gender, everything is arranged and combined in a numerical, logical, and regular manner.

In the eyes of Sheldon-Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory", gender is a social attribute, which he does not possess.

As a result, Ryan became more and more indifferent, and his contact with his family became weaker and weaker. When the accident in space happened, he had not contacted his family for many years. He was alone, and his social attributes gradually disappeared from him~lightnovelpub.net~ After the explosion, after the first stage of survival, life The fear of death and loneliness in the limit severely defeated all armors and defenses, which made Ryan re-examine the self and the id, accumulated for more than 20 years or even 30 years-the specific age setting still needs to be with Ah Fang Suo further discussed-the social attributes, reappeared, fear, worry, despair and other negative emotions began to erupt, so Ryan decided to give up.

Being in the environment of the space universe, like a child/gong, and like a cloud of chaos at the beginning of the universe, Ryan returned to the most primitive state, the state at the beginning of life.

Then, the whole long life was experienced again, like rebirth, but more like the process of the Big Bang.

In Lan Li’s conception, the entire process of returning to self and self, awakened the memory of the family, and awakened the dream and motivation under the support of the family. This gave Ryan the opportunity to examine himself again:

His dream is not to become an astronaut, but to study the universe, study life, and study the unknown after becoming an astronaut. But now that I finally become an astronaut, I have lost my original excitement and emotion, and at the same time I have lost the joy of success. It seems that everything is taken for granted.

Such an unchanging day will become numb after the regularity. Habits are so terrible.

Now, after an accident broke the inertia, I went back to my life again and found my goal again.

However, the problem lies in the fact that "retrospecting life" cannot be done in movies, because the time and space of movies are limited; all the above thinking content will not appear in movies, or even It can't appear, it's just Lan Li's self-conception. So, what entry point should he choose to bring such a huge and magnificent thought into the movie?