Director, please respect yourself

[Puppetry Exercises] is actually a series of exercises. The performance departments of major art schools in China have such courses, which include body stretching, control and relaxation combined with imagination, changes in body posture and necessary muscle tension, as well as psychological I feel like waiting...

It is a very useful training method for performance students.

Standing in Zhang Songwen’s international acting training class, the famous director Zhang Yimou clapped his hands and said loudly:

"Everyone is here. Next, you need to relax your whole body, hang your hands down, keep your feet shoulder-width apart, and straighten your cervical and lumbar spine. Squint your eyes slightly. Relax your face without any expression. Open your mouth slightly and relax your jaw.

Think of yourself as a puppet. There is a string on the top of your head, elbows, wrists, fingertips, knees, and ankles. Now this string is in my hand. After a while, whichever string I lift, you will Take corresponding action, do you understand? "

"Understood!" Ni Ni said loudly.

Recently, this beauty has been very positive. First, she feels that she has indeed learned something. In the past, she was still ignorant about performing, but now, Ni Ni feels that she is getting more and more happy on the road to performing.

Second, the filming of the movie "The Thirteen Beauties" is about to begin, and after filming this movie, I will be completely free.

If you want to live with Yang Hao, you can live together; if you want to participate in Yang Hao's movies, you can participate in any of his movies; um... Also, after the filming of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is over, I may be able to meet my mentor Zhang Yimou The director became an equal.

Because according to Yang Hao, if Zhang Yimou makes a movie in the future, Fei Qianshi Film Studio will be able to participate in the investment.

Then... when the time comes, if I invest in Zhang Yimou's movie, can I pat him on the shoulder affectionately and call him "Lao Zhang?"

Just when Ni Ni was suffering from hysteria, she saw Zhang Yimou standing in front of many girls, suddenly becoming serious.

"You are puppets now. How can the puppets talk?"

"oh…"

When Ni Ni heard this, she immediately stuck out her tongue obediently. Damn it, how could I have forgotten this?

After a dozen girls stood calmly for a few minutes, clearing their minds of distracting thoughts, Zhang Yimou began to give orders:

"Now, I lift up the line of your right elbow joint. Listen clearly, it is the line of the right elbow joint. Now your right hand is slowly lifted up until the arm is parallel to the shoulder!"

After hearing Zhang Yimou's instructions clearly, the dozen or so girls in the training class slowly raised their right arms until they were parallel to their shoulders.

During this process, Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo each held a black notebook and walked among the girls to check to see if everyone was relaxed.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yimou asked the girls to imagine that their wrists were lifted up by the thread, and then their fingertips were lifted up by the thread, and pulled upward so that the entire arm was parallel to the shoulder; next, through the same steps, they lifted up their left hand, so that the two The arms are fully extended.

If it were in the acting department of the film school, after the ordinary puppet training hands were pulled up, the acting teacher would break the strings and ask the students to restore it piece by piece, but Zhang Yimou did not do this.

The training method of this famous domestic director is different from that of ordinary acting teachers. He wants to let the girls continue to practice as much as possible:

"Don't be tense, everyone, use your imagination. Stretch your necks upward. The longer the better, oops... my head touched the beam, it hurt a little!"

Now, look to the left. There is a super large exhaust fan on the wall on the left. Do you see it?

Okay, you stick your head into the exhaust fan. Even though the exhaust fan is not spinning, you still feel scared!

Okay, your arms also extend out from the exhaust fan and reach into the sky. There are clouds in the sky..."

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If you want to perform a play vividly, you must clearly and thoroughly see all the images in the scene you want to act in your inner vision during the performance. This is called inner vision.

Now, Zhang Yimou, a well-known domestic film director, uses his own descriptions to guide more than a dozen girls to enter the described scenes through imagination, form visual images in their hearts, and feel what they imagined.

"At this time, there was an unpleasant smell in the air, a bit like rotten eggs, very unpleasant!

Do you smell it?

Everyone, smell this carefully! I saw that the noses of Ni Ni, He Jun, Li Xinru, Li Shun and others were all wrinkled.

This is good!

It smells really bad, it stinks like hell! Where does the smell come from? It turned out that this was an abandoned grain depot. There was a corpse hanging on a tree near the wall of the grain depot... The smell of the corpse was so unpleasant that it was unbearable!

Now everyone slowly take our heads back into the room, and then take our hands back into the room too!

Slowly, don't rush, don't touch the blades of the giant exhaust fan!

Now we're back in the room again! Okay, this is good. Please keep this state, relax, relax completely, empty your heart of all distracting thoughts, and don’t think about anything! "

After a dozen girls stood quietly for a few minutes to clear their minds of distracting thoughts, Zhang Yimou began to give orders:

"Now, I'm starting to loosen the thread in my hand, starting with the thread on the fingertips of my left hand!"

When Ni Ni heard the instruction, she was like a puppet with its strings cut off, and her left wrist automatically dropped.

At this time, Zhang Yimou continued: "Now, I have let go of the thread on my left wrist!"

When a dozen girls heard this, their forearms dropped neatly.

………

Although the intensity of the practice for about half an hour was not too high, the girls were still quite tired, especially when they were concentrating so much that they were always nervous.

Seeing their wonderful performance, Zhang Yimou smiled and applauded in the training class, and then let them rest freely, lying down, sitting or lying down, or like Ni Ni, he pulled Li Shun over and scratched her itch.

Li Chun, the director asked you to write a short story. Why did you name the male protagonist of the short story Yang Hao!

I think you are a nymphomaniac, right?

Haha..., Ni Ni, I was wrong, I was wrong, isn't that okay? !

Amidst the laughter and quarrels of Ni Ni and Li Shun, Zhang Yimou walked towards Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo who were already sitting on the sofa.

"How about it?

Do you have a clue in your mind? "

"Yes, director!"

In front of Zhang Yimou, Zhang Songwen did not dare to show off at all. He was originally sitting, but when he saw the director coming to ask, he immediately stood up respectfully.

"Well, let me take a look."

Zhang Yimou smiled and took the black notebook from Zhang Songwen's hand.

[Ni Ni plays Zhao Yumo;

Li Xinru plays Meng Shujuan; He Jun plays Hongling; Bai Xue plays Xianglan; Li Shun plays Cardamom...]

"Um…"

Zhang Yimou has a strong sense of purpose in everything he does!

It will definitely not be targeted.

Today, the reason why he personally came to teach more than a dozen girls how to act was because he wanted to take the opportunity to finalize the roles and see which girl was more suitable for which role.

He will also refer to Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo's opinions.

"Um...Momo, where's yours?"

After carefully browsing Zhang Songwen's suggestions twice and returning the black notebook to him, Zhang Yimou turned to look at his daughter.

But Zhang Momo took the opportunity to smile and said: "Dad, in two days, I want to go to Thailand, um... I just want to be the executive assistant director on Yang Hao's crew."