The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 558: Switch perspective

On the streets in the middle of the night, the world is quiet, the noise that remains in the night becomes more and more obvious, and a faint sound of dog barking and collision of beer bottles can be heard. Hearing and smell seem to be more acute. Lan Li can He clearly smelled the faint tobacco scent under his nose, mixed in the humidity and cold in the early morning, lingering at the fingertips. 【】

The thinking finally became clear, and Lan Li finally understood what the missing jigsaw was. But Lan Li was not satisfied with this, but went on thinking further: Why is this piece of puzzle missing?

Obviously, the thinking just now is not performance-based acting. If you follow the academy’s performance-based thinking and context, then Lan Li’s performance just now is a success. The details can be refined slowly, but the depiction and interpretation of emotions are correct and accurate. , Which is sufficient for movies.

But the biggest difference between movies and dramas is-

The depth and connotation of the drama are more reflected in the script itself, such as Shakespeare's plays, lines and plots. A large number of tedious and gorgeous sentences will reveal the history, philosophy, and culture hidden in the lines. This is mainly due to the limitation of the theater stage and the distance between the stage and the audience, which makes the performance details of the actors easily submerged in the entire space.

The depth and connotation of the movie are very complicated. The director’s shots, script text, actor’s performance, etc. are all components. In the final analysis, it is the director’s lens composition. How to make full use of the actor’s performance, the structure of the screen, the projection of light and the lines The depth of the story shows the core depth of the plot. There is no doubt that the director is the absolute helm of the whole work.

Lan Li’s performance just now was enough for the drama, and the details of those expressions were not captured, but during filming, especially Tony’s shots, every delicate change of expression was truly recorded with super close-ups. Then, following the previous performance, the core idea of ​​the script text will become blurred.

Therefore, Lan Li explored and pursued the character's context all the way, explored the character's life state, and then constructed the resonance between the character and the story, and even the connection between the character and the whole script idea. This is not expressionism, but methodism.

Of course, after re-entering the performance, the way of performance is still expressionism-the point is not whether Renly can resonate with Henry's experience in a methodological way, but that Tony's shots require Renly to stay in this state. Struggling on the desperate life and death line, from numbness to shock, sadness, despair, pain, avoidance, dodge, and then return to numbness, and finally shocked again, and then changed.

Tony's focus is to record the delicate changes of the whole emotion, and after recording it with a microscope, it reflects the depth and height of the whole work.

Therefore, expressionism is still the first choice of Lanli, but the emotional starting point must be slightly adjusted: the emotion of collapse because of sadness, the emotion of collapse because of despair, these are two very different ways of performance, eyes, expressions and actions. The change will give the character a different touch.

If you just follow the emotional drive of the method school, then the emotions that burst out are strong and ferocious enough, and at the same time they are on the right track, but the subtle differences cannot be distinguished. Not to mention the level and depth, even the inheritance and transformation will appear. Vague, the three-stage structure and two transitions of the whole play will never show up. Under Tony's microscope, such a performance will be slightly rough and deliberate, losing the realism of the pseudo-documentary.

Only performance-based acting can meet Lan Li's requirements and can withstand Tony's test.

However, what is interesting is that Lanly once again combines the two performance methods, and it is still a completely different performance method from any previous work. Does this work?

From the standpoint of a third party, whether it is method or expressionist, including experientialism, in the final analysis, performance or performance, the core meaning lies in the role, and the actor's own understanding, interpretation and interpretation of the role, and then for the movie service.

The advantages of the expressionist school are precision, level and control, the advantages of the method school are selflessness, playfulness and vividness, and the experience school has the advantages of integration, authenticity and freshness. Each performance method has its own advantages and disadvantages, as well as its own characteristics. So, can Lan Li learn from each other's strengths and put his own understanding into the performance? Instead of deliberately distinguishing between different performances.

This is a bold conjecture. But Lan Li also knows that he is too greedy to chew. He is still far from being a master in any single way of acting. He can only say that he is on the right track. He hasn't learned how to run. If you want to fly, the end can only be crushed. He can embrace the dream of flying, and then polish his walking and running skills down-to-earth, and one day, he can spread his wings and soar.

He took a deep breath, temporarily gathered the divergent thoughts, and started thinking about the scene again.

After the idea of ​​the whole performance became clear, things became relatively simple. This is what Lan Li is best at. The origin, development, transformation and end of emotions, and even the turbulent and boiling emotions, instantly start to become noisy in his mind. Lan Li didn't rush back to the crew, but went around in circles, rehearsing again and again, pondering every turn over and over again, and his brain gradually brightened.

However, arguing on paper is nothing but empty airs after all, and the specifics are still to be known through actual demonstrations.

Lan Li walked back to the crew quickly, and did not notice the low pressure that the crew had suppressed. Instead, he found Tony and exchanged a few words. Lan Li said that he would put into the performance and have a look. Not only Tony needs a taste, Lan Li I also need to reconsider it. He must examine his performance through the lens, only in this way can he have a more three-dimensional thinking space for the whole performance.

Tony nodded and agreed.

Sammy's gaze followed Lan Li's movement all the time, anxious, and seeing Lan Li returned to the bus, she ran over quickly, but after only two steps, the make-up artist's shout came over. "Stop, stop, you have to touch up your makeup!"

Unlike Lan Li, Sami must wear makeup on stage, and for the role, he must also wear heavy makeup. Sami was crying just now, and the makeup was already spent. She completely forgot about it and wanted to appear in the mirror. Naturally, the makeup artist would not make such a mistake.

In fact, Lan Li also needs makeup. Not applying makeup, but to wipe away all the tears left on the cheeks before, to ensure that I can put a fresh look into a new round of shooting. The makeup artist who belonged to Lanli also ran all the way into the bus and started to get busy.

Sammy's eyes kept turning, looking at the crew around him. Everyone exudes a breath of extreme fatigue and irritability, but they have to be suppressed, just like a volcano that is about to erupt, but it is firmly suppressed. If the wind is calm and the waves are calm, it may be silently suppressed. Go down, but with a little bit of wind and grass, the volcano will erupt completely with unimaginable power.

This made Sami even more nervous, his throat was terribly dry, and even his swallowing movements were a bit inconsistent. "Calm down, the protagonist of this scene is Lan Li, just follow him, don't worry." The makeup artist can detect that Sami's body is shaking slightly, and the uncontrollable tension is revealed in the violently shaking pupils. , In order to successfully complete the shooting, he had to give an exhortation.

Sammy nodded seemingly, not sure if she listened.

I stared blankly at the restless and depressed crew, the kind of turbulence and turmoil that the mountain and rain are about to come, everywhere, everyone’s eyebrows are stained with a trace of irritable impatience and contempt, Sammy’s The mood was tense, even after seeing Betty’s encouraging eyes, Sammy still smiled without a smile, and walked into the bus in a panic, hesitating whether to apologize to Lan Li, but after all, he still didn’t. Can muster up the courage, silently walked to the end of the bus, ready to shoot.

Soon, the crew went into shooting again.

For the first time, Sammy made a mistake and appeared in the close-up shot of Lan Li. The performance was interrupted before it even started.

The second time, Sammy made a mistake again and grabbed the beat ahead of time. Lan Li's first performance had just begun, and she had already begun to perform. As a result, the content of the director's filming was all misplaced.

For the third time, Lan Li made a mistake, the makeup artist's treatment was too heavy, and powder was applied to Lan Li’s nose ~lightnovelpub.net~ which made the lens look very weird.

For the fourth time, Sami made a mistake again. The previous shooting went smoothly and it was already in the second half, but Sami forgot the lines and got stuck directly, causing all the performances in the first half of Lanli to fall short.

After re-investing in shooting, it was simply a disaster. Not only did things fail to go smoothly, but it became even more difficult. Stumbled and stumbling, a scene has been repeated so many times, and even a complete filming has not been completed. The atmosphere of the crew could not help becoming more impetuous-why continue shooting? Isn’t it enough to take the entire scene from the previous time? In a blink of an eye, another forty minutes have passed, and they are still spinning around. What is this? Does the ghost hit the wall?

"Sami, calm down. We have been filming this scene for four days. We should know the process better than anyone else. After the brain is cleared, it is enough to follow the intuitive inertia."

Lan Li also noticed Sami's strangeness and couldn't help but comforted him, which seemed to finally calm Sami. The next filming made a mistake again, and then it was successfully completed. The whole performance went smoothly and in one go. It seemed really great. There was no reason to ask for more.

But this is just the thought of the staff, what about Tony? Where's Renly?