Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 41
"The approach is similar. Although actors can replace emotions, they also need to fully dig into their hearts. It is also very difficult to find parts that are similar to the characters."

"On the contrary, expressionism feels the most practical. Through various basic training to improve the level of actors, such as body, lines, movements, expressions..."

"Stepping into the role from the outside to the inside is also a process of developing one's own potential, and finally the quantitative change reaches the qualitative change."

"I don't know the way, right?"

Su Ze said seriously: "Anyway, it suits me best!"

Liu Tianyi listened, his eyes became more and more appreciative, and finally heaved a long sigh, and said with emotion: "Congratulations, you can become a teacher!"

Seeing that Su Ze didn't understand, he explained, "The reason why I'm asking you is that there has been a so-called genre dispute in Chinese opera for a long time."

"That's right, it's the experience school and the method school!"

"You are now following the expression school, which is also called the drama school in China. It originated from stage drama. The training process is what you say from the inside to the outside, using various details to shape the character."

"The genre dispute is not only in China, but it is the same for actors all over the world. After the 92nd Oscar for Best Actor was awarded to Joaquin Phoenix who played the clown, all supporters of experiential performances cheered."

"Throughout the history of the Oscars, a total of 132 statuettes for best actor and actress have been awarded. Do you know how many are awarded to experienced actors?"

"59 seats!"

Su Ze was not surprised. In his opinion, the selection of Oscars had a sense of neither madness nor Buddhahood.

Originally, Joaquin Phoenix, who won three mentions and zero, relied on the clown to lose 47 pounds to win the statuette.Not to mention that Wannian accompanying runner Wang Xiaoli also ended his 22-year escorting career by almost self-mutilating the performance of The Revenant.

"The experiential school I understand simply means starting from the self, living in the situation of the character, and prefers that the actor replace the emotions of the character with himself."

"Domestic actor experience school is relatively well-known, such as Ren Suxi who starred in "Donkey Gets Water", and Duan Yihong who starred in "Scorching Sun"."

"They often go through the process of experiencing the role itself before taking on the role. For example, the policeman Yi Guchun and Duan Yihong in "Scorching Sun" once stayed at the police station for more than ten days in a row, following the police to catch gambling, just to experience the real working state of the police .”

Liu Tianyi analyzed: "The experiential school does have the highest requirements for the quality of the actors themselves. First of all, they need the actors to have the ability to liberate themselves and believe in the situation."

"Liberating oneself is different from acting in the usual true colors. It emphasizes that actors need to dig deep into their inner feelings and expose the emotions that are common to the characters deep in their characters."

"For example, when playing gay men, the experiential school requires the actors to show all the good feelings they have for men in their hearts, and truly fall in love with this gender during the performance."

"Secondly, actors need to believe in the plot in the current scene and convince themselves that this is real life. Maybe there are only a few descriptive words in the script book, but the actors themselves need to build a real scene based on this information."

"What if there is only one sentence in the script called Fireflies Flying on the Country Road in Xiaye?"

"Representative actors need to construct a visual, auditory, and tactile scene for performance. From the virtual concept to the replication of life scenes, the filling content requires long-term accumulation of experiential actors."

Su Ze nodded. This is the main reason why the experiential performance is more touching. The actor's performance in the process is closer to a subconscious reaction.

This kind of reaction can have commonality with ordinary audiences. Performance is not how actors react, but how ordinary people react.

Can the sense of substitution be strong?

"The method school is actually born out of the realism performance system created by the former Soviet dramatist Konstantin Stanislavsky. It mainly digs out the complexity of human nature and human heart through the actors' external limbs and expressions. .”

Liu Tianyi continued: "The more famous actors include Natalie Portman who starred in "Black Swan" and Matt Damon who starred in "Life and Death."

"This faction emphasizes the reenactment of the behavior of the characters. For example, Portman has undergone a year of professional ballet training for the in-depth role. The high-intensity training and diet even made her feel sick."

"The advantage lies in lowering the requirements for the actors themselves. Other technical means can be used. Actors with ordinary qualifications can also achieve performance effects through long-term copying and imitation."

Su Ze listened quietly, also because the threshold was relatively low, and Methodism gradually became a common way of acting in Hollywood movies during the development process.Film shooting and drama performances also provide more room for the development of method schools in terms of presentation methods.

After all, a movie can be shot multiple times, and a good performance only needs one so that the actors do not need to maintain an emotional state from beginning to end, which also makes emotional replacement and emotional memory possible.

At the same time, it is also the main reason why stage actors claim to be better than film and television actors. No matter how many times they are NG behind, as long as there is one line that satisfies the audience through the lens, they are good actors.

Try changing it to a stage play or a drama?
Watch the audience beat you to death?
"The last is the expression school, which is also the path you are taking now." Speaking of this, Liu Tianyi paused for a moment and said: "If the actors of the first two schools perform from the No. Design the characters to be played from a third-person perspective.”

"He often pre-constructs the image of the role he needs to play in his heart, and then imitates the pre-set image to achieve the performance effect, right?"

Seeing Su Ze nodding, he said with a smile: "In the past two years, actor-type variety shows have been popular in China, such as "The Birth of an Actor" and "I Am an Actor" are well-known for their expressiveness, such as Teacher Dandan and Teacher Guoli."

"In China, it mainly comes from operas, such as Master Mei Lanfang. The most mature ones are TVB training courses. I don't need to talk about how many movie stars I have produced, right?"

"A lot of their training for actors is to extract the performance experience of the older generation into a book and formulate specific practice standards. When young actors need to express a certain emotion, they only need to imitate the designed practice standards."

"Of course, many Method School actors will also construct simulation objects through their own life experience and performance experience. When the actors themselves have a certain performance accumulation, Method School can also present very vivid performances."

Su Ze smiled and said something bluntly:

Whether black or white, a cat that catches mice is a good cat!

When watching a movie do you pay more attention to the actors?Or do you focus more on the characters themselves?

This may be just a matter of preference for individuals. Some people will fall in love with actors because of their roles, and some will go to a movie because of actors.

When the audience tries to go deep into a certain movie, and the selection of characters becomes the criterion for evaluating the movie, the so-called one-of-a-kind performance is likely to hinder the movie-watching experience.

For Tom Cruise, the handsome guy in the world, whether he is a partner of justice to fight against aliens, against mummies, or against the shogun...

I always feel that Brother Cruise is playing handsome, right!
(End of this chapter)