Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 64
"Which of you has experienced life?"

Seeing very few people raise their hands, Zhao Yuning said earnestly, "I've been thinking about what kind of metaphor I can use to make you most intuitively understand how important experiencing life is to actors!"

"It's like traveling to a place you have never been to, looking up a lot of guides, looking at a lot of photos, and having a lot of fantasies about the beautiful scenery and food. But one day when you go there in person, set foot on the land, and see it with your own eyes. Local sights, tasted a variety of food...”

"You will find that everything in front of you is much more real than what you saw, heard, and imagined before. This is the difference between actors before experiencing life and after experiencing life."

Su Ze nodded secretly. Although he had only experienced it for half a month, actors had all kinds of fantasies and ideas about the character's image, personality, external actions, habits, and communication methods before experiencing life.

But those are just fantasies and guesses that stay at the rational level, to put it bluntly: talk on paper.

Only when you really go to the place where the character lived, walk into the living space of the character, eat the food that the character likes to eat, read the book that the character likes to read, play the game that the character likes to play, and do what the character does every day , the group of people that the contactor role regularly contacts...

Only by fully entering the life of the characters can we truly understand the characters, feel the characters, and start to become the characters.

Remember it's just the beginning!
In "I Am an Actor", Chen Chong talked about the process of creating his role in "The Last Emperor". He worked in the Forbidden City every day for half a year, stepping on bluestone slabs every day, and completed the long life experience process of the role of Wanrong.

It is this long-term and in-depth life experience that allowed her to subtly develop the habits and actions of the character, and possess the temperament and perspective of the character, so there is no need to deliberately design during the performance, and the subconscious will make correct actions and reactions.

In the eyes of the audience, she is Wanrong.

It has nothing to do with the talent of an actor, it all depends on hard work.

"Many students have asked me this question: How can I make the character appear on myself? How can I make the actor and the character merge into one? How can I truly be the character?"

Zhao Yuning returned to the podium and said in a deep voice: "My answer is to experience the life of the character!"

"Insist on doing what the character does, and truly experience everything the character has experienced. Only in this way can you think what the character thinks, do what the character does, be anxious about the role's urgency, feel what the character feels, and completely become Role."

"Wu Jing spent 2 months in the special forces unit for the filming of "Wolf Warrior [-]", which he directed and acted in. He ate, lived and trained with the soldiers every day, and finally completed a good movie that made the Chinese people admire."

"Who can say that his success is accidental?"

"I personally admire the British actor Daniel Lewis, who has won the Oscar for three times. He has starred in more than a dozen roles, almost all of which are classics, and none of them are similar. He is known as the man with a thousand faces and the chameleon."

"I spent several months in "My Left Foot" to experience the role. I can only use my left foot to take care of myself every day. Finally, I can pick up a needle on my left foot and put it down. The painting is almost the same as the character. The prototype is as good as it was drawn."

"The Last of the Mohicans builds their own canoes, hunts, skins their own skins, and refuses to eat anything they don't hunt for their family Christmas dinner."

"In "In the Name of the Father", in order to integrate into the role of a prisoner, I personally went to live in the prison for a long time, and became a prisoner with the prisoner. During the filming, the staff was required to pour cold water on him and insult him, so as to fully feel the prisoner's abused body and body. Mental state."

"In order to completely become an oil gold prospector in "There Will Be Blood", I spent two years studying the history of mining in California in the 20th century, and I knew the tools and techniques used by the gold prospectors back then."

"At the filming scene of the movie "Lincoln", every on-site staff was required to address him as the president, and he always insisted on resting and working in the carriage during filming intervals."

"Do you think the so-called talent of this kind of actor is still important?"

A sentence flashed in Su Ze's mind: If you are not crazy, you will not survive!
That's right, it's really not important for this kind of actor's talent, because their greatest talent is concentration.

The reason why Zhao Yunning said this is to let students establish correct values ​​and not be dazzled by the mess of the entertainment industry.

Any acting skill can be honed with time, as long as you are willing to work hard, you have seen too many talented people who can go to the end.These children are good seedlings, and as a teacher, I hope to go further and further.

Wednesday was another acting class. Like Zhao Yuning, Chen Gang was not in a hurry to teach the details, and began to criticize the actors again.

"Who do you think has better acting skills, Chow Yun-fat or Stephen Chow?"

Hearing this question, everyone began to chatter, some people said that Brother Ma was domineering, and there was still manpower to support Master Xing.

"Su Ze, tell me." Hearing Chen Gang's roll call, Su Ze said, "It seems that Dou Wentao from "Round Table" once asked Wang Jing the same question."

"At that time, Wang Jing said bluntly that Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow were incomparable, they were not on the same level at all!"

"Oh?" Chen Gang smiled and asked, "Why?"

"According to Wang Jing's words, Zhou Xingchi is the director and guides the actors to perform. No one can meet his requirements. Then the host asked why Zhou Xingchi didn't perform by himself?"

"Wang Jing said that Zhou Xingchi is getting old, and he can no longer be flamboyant and funny like he was when he was young. He can't pass his own level at this age, so he can only be directed by the director to teach young people to act."

"Master Xing is not old at all, is he?"

"That's right, how could my idol be old!"

"But it's true that Master Xing hasn't become an actor in recent years."

Chen Gang clapped his hands and stopped the students from discussing: "Evaluating the strength of an actor depends on the work in the final analysis."

"My opinion is the same as that of director Wang Jing. Stephen Chow is indeed more varied as an actor than Chow Yun-fat, and his role creation is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Comedy is not easy to control."

Su Ze agrees that no matter what era, comedians are rare.Zhuo Bilin, Bean, Jim Carrey, Stephen Chow, Shen Teng and Jia Ling who are now very popular.

Of course, the last two cannot be compared with the previous ones.

"Okay, last time we commented on Zhang Yi, let's take a look at Lei Jiayin today." Chen Gang turned on the screen. The profession of an actor is broad and profound, especially for these young students who are just getting started, it is very important to set a good example.

Human talent and energy are limited. If the goal of struggle is to be a great actor, even if you can only learn [-]% of it in your life, you can still be regarded as an excellent actor, worthy of the training of Chinese opera.

What if the target is just a parallel importer who relies on sensationalism to gain traffic?

Chinese opera can't afford to lose people!

"Have you noticed? Really good actors are a bit of a late bloomer." Chen Gang pointed to Lei Jiayin's iconic big head on the screen, and joked: "Zhang Yi has a small nose and small eyes, and Lei Jiayin has a big nose and a big head."

Everyone laughed loudly, they liked this teaching method very much, and of course they also understood the teacher's good intentions.

"To put it bluntly, Lei Jiayin is the only good actor cultivated in the last few years." Chen Gang said seriously: "Don't tell me what Brother Hu is."

"He was just lucky. He met Li Xiaoyao when he was young, and met Mei Changsu after a car accident. In my opinion, it's not him who created the character, but..."

"The role made him!"

(End of this chapter)