Chapter 114 [The Reality of the Performance]
Lucheng, the filming scene of the crew of "Murderer".
This movie is a story with a realistic theme, and is adapted from a real story. It is different from other film and television dramas when filming. It has a huge shooting scene and complex shooting difficulty.
For the drama "Murderer", Director Chen Mei starts from the true story. In addition to the actors' performances in the movie, the film's lens language and inner scenes are also the most critical part of the movie. This is why Chen Mei chose a newcomer to act in this movie, because the most important thing in this movie is the performance of the actors, especially the performance of the male protagonist Lin Dan.
If the character Lin Dan cannot hold on, the whole movie will collapse.
Chen Mei had nothing to say about Nan Minglang's performance, because her acting skills had completely exceeded her expectations, and she was really satisfied with every show.
Nan Minglang has completely entered the role of Lin Dan. Whether it is eyes, body language, the tortured tame in his body, and the constant suppression of hatred are shocking. There is no hysteria and conflict outbreak, but only depression and numbness, but no one knows how deep hatred is hidden under the repression and numbness that has been successfully transformed.
The theme of "Murderer" is life and death, but the deeper idea is love and hate, confusion and pain between adults and minors.
Director Chen Mei’s film style is very delicate, but this time it is delicate under the rational and serious style. For such a subject, especially the director who often enters the film festival, there is not much sensationalism. She knows that the film festival should not be deliberately sensationalism at all.
On the contrary, the movie story is very cold, with the gray tone being the academy that suppresses and symbolizes destruction, while the warmer picture may be the only colors of the children locked in the academy looking out the sky outside the window. As for family life, it is also cooler. The only thing that has the cool tone is the bright flowers placed in the cold living room.
Director Chen Mei is very serious about this movie and naturally attaches great importance to the requirements of the actors. If Nan Minglang's performance surprised her, then the performance of Guan Yuan in front of her now makes her dissatisfied.
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"Click!"
Guan Yuan felt that his condition just now was very consistent with the character's requirements. A boy who was tortured to the point of going crazy wanted to commit suicide.
"You have a very spiritual look. You are desperate now and want to seek death. Your eyes are too alive now. Have you not figured out the psychological state of the character yet?"
Chen Mei looked at Guan Yuan and pointed out without any mercy about the wrong performance just now, without any concern about Guan Yuan, a very popular young man on the Internet.
Guan Yuan was a little nervous, but after thinking about it carefully, nodded, walked back to his original position, ready to shoot again.
But--
"Click!"
"The movement is too fast, your steps are too fast. Slow down and you should be determined to die in an instant when you finally rushed over."
Another one!
...
Xia Guang, a young actor sitting next to Nan Minglang, suddenly felt extremely pressured as he looked at this scene. He looked at Nan Minglang just quietly flipped through the script, and recorded something from time to time. Thinking of Nan Minglang's performance, although he was also from a professional performance school, it was really much worse than Nan Minglang. He asked: "Minglang, why are you completely different when you perform? How can you do it?"
"Find out the role, believe in the role you play, and enter the inner world of the character."
This is simple, but it can be done differently, because everyone understands the truth, but not everyone can do it.
"Then how did you get into the role? Do you have any experience?"
Nan Minglang was stunned. He used to go directly to the role itself and didn't give him time to adapt. This time he had been preparing to understand the role before the audition.
"You read the script, have you read the news online?"
Xia Guang nodded. Of course, he had done his homework and learned about the Internet Addiction Center. After reading the news reports, it was hard for him to imagine that there was such a place.
Nan Minglang looked at the filming venue over there and said, "Those students who have experienced these said that we don't know what it is like... It's not a question of whether we want to die or not, but a question of not being able to die. As long as we haven't been in, we can't imagine it, and no matter how much we say, we can't imagine it."
"If you don't have such an experience, you can't imagine it, so you can only find similar experiences and similar feelings..."
Hearing Nan Minglang's words, Xia Guang raised his eyebrows and suddenly asked, "Have you ever experienced Minglang?"
After experiencing it, of course, although he has experienced it differently, he can't imagine it no matter how much he says...
Nan Minglang said: "If you really want to get into the show, but try to lock yourself in a small dark room. For a while, I think you will get into the show more easily."
The academy of the Internet Addiction Center is less than ten square meters, with all the windows sealed, with only quilts, pillows, urine basins, water cups and a bucket of water in a small dark room, and if you don’t obey, you will be beaten.
The students here have all suffered various abuses such as being beaten by rulers, dragon whipped, imprisoned in a dark room, and eating food that is difficult to swallow.
"Try the weakest torture, and after feeling it, you will know how far your performance is and the reality... and you can also find that kind of depressing feeling better."
"The performance should have a sense of reality, which is why teachers let us experience life more and feel life."
Zhang Yi, who was standing aside, heard Nan Minglang's words and said nothing, but his eyes changed when he looked at Nan Minglang.
Xia Guang was also shocked and was locked in a lockdown room. He looked at Nan Minglang in a daze and asked, "You, have you tried this?"
Nan Minglang said the truth: "I didn't, but I tried electric shock."
And more than once!
As soon as these words came out, the people next to them changed their expressions when they saw Nan Minglang. They actually experienced electric shocks themselves and were willing to suffer this. No wonder their acting skills were so good.
They thought that Nan Minglang went to the hospital to experience electric shock treatment, which was really unimaginable.
Zhang Yi even agreed and said directly: "Minglang is right. My favorite actor Heath, in order to play the role of "monster", he locked himself in a hotel room for a month without seeing anyone. He repeatedly practiced licking his lips, stroking his hair, speaking tone, etc., and finally the classic "monster" presented to us."
"The crazy pace, the neurotic laughter, and in Hiss' wonderful acting skills, we see like a living monster from hell."
Hearing Nan Minglang and Zhang Yi's words, Xia Guang didn't dare to speak anymore.
Such a performance is terrible, it is a completely crazy performance.
You know, that Heath finally committed suicide.
Chapter completed!