Great Artist

Chapter 27: Acting Research

Although the makeup this time was a little exaggerated, Richard Kelly was still satisfied, so if Mark Keyes was a little lighter, there would be no problem. On the contrary, the dark, twisted and coquettish style made Richard Kelly feel very close to the character. After that, Gu Luobei put on the already matched T-shirt and shirt, and a high school student in the 1980s appeared in front of him.

Before Gu Luobei and the crew chatted for a long time, they heard Richard Kelly’s call to “get into filming”. After everything was ready, there was no special ceremony, and the crew went directly to the official shooting, so there was no more time for Gu Luobei to ponder what the acting skills were all about. He could only follow his own understanding and method, put into shooting.

The shooting of the movie is completely different from the one on the screen. The placement of the camera and lighting is very particular, so how the actors move, where the eyes stay during the performance, including how to block the scene and pick up the scene are also required. rehearsed. In the case of an opponent’s play, the position of everyone standing, the stance and the card position when speaking also need to be rehearsed. Therefore, usually before the official start of shooting, the drama management will come to tell the actors how to move and the position of the camera, and the director will only go into battle when he needs to guide the acting skills.

All of this is a new experience for Gu Luobei. Even when he was an entertainment reporter in his previous life, he had seen the shooting scene on the spot. But seeing it and being in it is a completely different experience, let alone having to perform the scene.

After the filming started, the Broadway experience that I thought would be a help was unexpectedly a hindrance. A performance on the Broadway stage needs to be exaggerated as much as possible, so that the audience can see it clearly; but the movie is the other way around. Because of the close-up capture of the camera, every change in the expression will be particularly clear on the big screen, what is needed is moderation and control. In this regard, Gu Luobei did a pretty good job. During Richard Kelly’s interview, it could be seen that Gu Luobei’s expression and eye control were good.

But there is another point. Broadway is a large stage with countless audiences, so the actors on the stage usually glance at it, trying to make every audience feel the contact of eyes. Movies don’t work. What is needed is a small focus on the camera and on the characters. Simply put, it is to learn to capture the camera, even if you are not looking directly at the camera, you must understand where the camera is at this time, and how the eyes and expressions should be displayed according to the angle. For Gu Luobei, this is very difficult. To have a keen sense of camera orientation is not something that can be achieved in a day or two.

This led to the fact that the first scene of “Death Illusion” took a lot of time in the rehearsal process. After finally entering the shooting, but because Gu Luobei was too deliberately looking for the camera, he lost the focus of the performance, and the sense of agility that Richard Kelly saw during the interview completely disappeared. It’s not good to be a teacher, which makes everyone in the crew a little irritable.

“Stop!” Richard Kelly’s voice echoed clearly in the empty canyon in front of him. This is the first scene in the filming, the first scene in the film, and the audience’s first impression of the character Tony Dark. “Bell, do you still remember that feeling you felt during the interview? Sensitive and fragile, helpless and withdrawn, yet without losing the innocence of a young man. That’s what you want now. Of course, if you can, you can still participate in your smile. It’s a little weird, the kind of smug that only you know what’s going on.”

Although he has only NG three times so far, Gu Luobei is still very stressed. The main source of stress is that he doesn’t know how to act in front of the camera, or that he’s too restrained, or cares too much about the camera.

On the Broadway stage, although the eyes and expressions will reveal the feeling of communicating with the audience, the fact is that because the stage is too far away from the auditorium, the communication is not as frequent as imagined, and naturally it is not that difficult. But in front of the camera, every action and every expression of the actor is communicating with the audience through the camera. How to present the essence of the character naturally and without traces, this is a science.

Acting includes not only performance, but also how to make your performance resonate with the audience, and how to generate sparks with your opponents, which are all part of acting. Only then did Gu Luobei realize that he seemed to have found a big trouble for himself, but only when it was full of challenges would the acting become more interesting.

Before, whether it was Broadway or a band, Gu Luobei had always been full of fighting spirit in music, but today, for the first time, Gu Luobei discovered that acting is actually a challenging and charming thing, compared to music. Not to mention too much.

“Give me some time.” Gu Luobei said to Richard Kelly, then walked to the side and sat down.

What is acting? This subject is too profound, and I am afraid that the actor of the actor and actress level cannot explain it clearly. But what is the role? This question is relatively simple. A character is a character, a living character. He also has a personality, network, advantages, disadvantages, and preferences. Each script is a world, a story, and the characters living in the script build the story together. Being able to play the characters well, being able to tell the whole story alive, and being able to make the audience feel immersed in it is acting.

Generally speaking, actors are divided into true colors and non-true colors. The acting skills of natural actors come from their most real feelings and experiences, while the acting skills of non-natural actors are more reflected in their own perception and understanding of the role. In fact, no matter whether it is an authentic actor or a non-authentic actor, the general recognition of acting skills is to perform what is like, or to challenge the so-called contrasting performance in oneself and the role, and strive to become an excellent authentic or non-natural actor.

But Gu Luobei doesn’t think so. He thinks that acting should be an in-depth perception and understanding of a character, and then combined with the understanding and application of the innate conditions of the self, and then find the best fit between himself and the character. Not only can it play the charm of the character itself, but also the charm of the actor itself. Of course, this is just his personal understanding of acting.

In the role of Tony Duck, in order to deduce the essence of the character, we must find out the root of his character. Gu Luobei sat on the ground on the sand and looked at the empty canyon in front of him. The clouds on the horizon changed into various colors under the reflection of the setting sun.

Why does Tony Duck have such a personality? How did his fragility, his melancholy and his sensitivity come into being? The personality of any person is traceable, not created out of thin air. Including family, school, friends, upbringing, and even some trivial things in the person’s life, can be a factor in the formation of personality.

In the script, it is impossible to write out the whole life of a character in detail, and it is impossible to analyze the formation of his personality one by one. The character in the script has already been formed, and some screenwriters will make some special annotations for the character, but most screenwriters will not. Then the source of the character’s character, the meaning of the character’s words and deeds, and the source of the character’s demeanor, actions and behaviors need actors to interpret, and show through the actors’ performances to make a character fleshy and three-dimensional. Simply put, this role requires the actor to plump up himself.

After realizing this, Gu Luobei realized that he was seriously inadequate in preparation, and thought that he would just go straight to the show, but in fact, it is impossible to have good acting skills and good drama. He should have written Tony Duck’s life into a script, and built up every bit of Tony Duck’s life from birth to the present in his own mind. If necessary, concretize his parents, his friends, including his experiences. In fact, it was to write an autobiography for Tony Duck.

If the eighteen years of a person’s life are put into words, then this autobiography should have at least 100,000 words, and if it is more detailed, it is possible to have 300,000 to 400,000 words. Although Gu Luobei couldn’t evolve into a text one by one through the tip of his pen, he could at least make an autobiographical film for Tony Duck in his mind, and interpret his life again. Since then, the characters have become vivid and full.

But the idea is good, and if you really have to put it into action, Gu Luobei knows that this is a super huge subject. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com Even if he has lived in two lifetimes, it is not easy for him to think about his previous life one by one, let alone build a stranger’s life. Acting is not easy.

Besides, now the entire crew is waiting for Gu Luobei alone, and he doesn’t have the time and energy to slowly write his autobiography.

Fortunately, Gu Luobei’s two worlds are still a bit of an advantage. After all, he has a lot of experience, so he quickly discovered the shortcomings of his performance just now. In addition to being overly concerned with the camera, he is still outside the character of Tony Duck. Tony Duck has been dealing with emotional problems, and has been seeing a psychiatrist. Even at home, he has his own protective shell and does not easily reveal his thoughts. Therefore, this mentally unstable child, his eyes are withdrawn, helpless, fragile, and at the same time living in his own world, this is what Richard Kelly said weird.

With directionality in mind, my head suddenly became much clearer. Gu Luobei also knew that he couldn’t waste everyone’s time because he was alone, so he sat for a while, and after his head completely calmed down, he pressed down the excitement and concern of his first performance on camera, and returned to the front of the camera again. .

Filming started again, although it was still NG twice, but it was obvious that Gu Luobei was getting better and better. The performance was not only a lot more natural, but also gradually returned to the level of the interview at that time, which made Richard Kelly feel a little relieved. loose.

“Card.” Richard Kelly’s voice was finally not so tight, and everyone in the crew was relieved, “Bell, take another shot, the smile on the corner of your mouth is already in place, but you need to close it a little more, the camera It will be better.”

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